{"id":4703,"date":"2018-05-28T23:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2018-05-29T00:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T19:15:41","slug":"one-weird-trick-to-increase-ecommerce-conversion-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/one-weird-trick-to-increase-ecommerce-conversion-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"One Weird Trick To Increase eCommerce Conversion Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my clients&#8217; hired me to improve the eCommerce conversion rates for their site. This is not something I normally do, but with a long-standing relationship with this enterprise client \u2014 I gave up (I sometimes take up weird projects if the budget is better than good enough).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13After doing lots of front-end optimization, site speed improvement, my team and I \u2014 we were able to improve the conversion rate by 3.3x times. That took a loooot of work.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 But the one small weird trick that I discovered with A\/B testing, had a good amount of effect on general sales\/conversions\/views everything at least 2x to 7x difference depending on the category (tech category had the best results) \u2014 and it took the least amount of effort.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcaf I&#8217;m sharing that weird trick, with you folks, I hope it helps. After discovering it, I see it being used by all the major eCommerce stores if not everywhere then in particular categories \u2014 especially Tech.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfaf Remove the titles of products from every other page except the product&#8217;s own page. E.g. On homepage\/category\/archive\/listing pages \u2014 just show the pictures and prices without the titles of what that product is.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 It&#8217;s counter-intuitive.<br \/>\n\u2705 I personally hate the UX of a site using this.<br \/>\n\u2705 But goddamn it works. It really does. Don&#8217;t be too aggressive with it, if you decide to follow through.<br \/>\n\u2705\u00a0Make sure you invest in making really good product feature images (that should never contain any text).<\/p>\n<p>Peace! \u270c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my clients&#8217; hired me to improve the eCommerce conversion rates for their site. This is not something I normally do, but with a long-standing relationship with this enterprise client \u2014 I gave up (I sometimes take up weird projects if the budget is better than good enough). \ud83e\udd13After doing lots of front-end optimization, site speed improvement, my team and I \u2014 we were able to improve the conversion rate by 3.3x times. That took a loooot of work. \ud83d\udc49 But the one small weird trick that I discovered with A\/B testing, had a good amount of effect on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>One Weird Trick To Increase eCommerce Conversion Rates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of my clients&#039; hired me to improve the eCommerce conversion rates for their site. 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