Maria Pirzada Ansari, Author at CommerceGurus

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From C++ to PHP, the language Maria thinks in is code, and translates it to English for humans to understand. She has a degree in Computer Science and is the writer of choice for many organizations. She is also The Big Boss at BloggInc., calling all the shots and personally supervising every word and piece of content.

In her spare time, you can find her playing GTA V, lounging at the farm, or trying to beat her husband at indoor badminton.

Best Single Product Gallery Plugins for WooCommerce

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With the right single product gallery plugin, you can enhance the visual appearance of your online store and make your product pages look pleasant and appealing. It’s also a great way to help customers make an informed buying decision.

Here’s why:

If you sell products that need multiple images to best showcase them such as t-shirts (you want to show the front and back), shoes (different angles), and computer mice (you want to show the top view and side views), you need a good single product gallery plugin to help you display WooCommerce product galleries on the single product page in a user-friendly way. This way, you’ll be able to make your products look more attractive.

Best Single Product Gallery Plugins for WooCommerce

Core Web Vitals

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Google will roll out its Page Experience update algorithm in 2021 that will factor in page experience as a ranking signal.

As of now, Google uses more traditional and objective signals like on-page targeting and PageRank. However, the upcoming change will include page user experience in the SERPs.

To stay on top of these upcoming changes, you need to understand the different aspects of page experience and take measures to optimize your website for them.

Product Addons for WooCommerce

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If you sell products that can be customized or personalized then you’ll need a quick and easy way to let customers provide additional details with their order. The easiest way to do this is by using the free Product Addons for WooCommerce plugin.

You can add fields to your product pages that customers can use to add notes, make special requests, or let you know how they’d like to have their product personalized. It’s a simple way to enhance your product’s value for buyers and, potentially, increase sales.

WooCommerce Support

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If you’ve decided to use WordPress for your business website then, chances are, you’re also using WooCommerce to power your online store. WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress that’s designed for small to large-sized businesses. In addition, there are hundreds of free and paid extensions that online sellers can use to grow their business.

According to BuiltWith, over 3.8 million websites use WooCommerce. However, since the WooCommerce plugin is open-source, it’s difficult for store owners to get support for the plugin.

WooCommerce Variation Swatches

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If you sell products that have different variation attributes such as size, image, or color, you need a WooCommerce variation swatches plugin to showcase all of the product variations you offer in a professional and visually-appealing way.

There are a number of WooCommerce variation swatches plugins available on the internet that can help enhance the customer’s shopping experience and improve your online store’s usability.

WooCommerce vs. Shopify

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If you’re planning on launching an eCommerce store, you might have a hard time deciding between WooCommerce vs. Shopify.

For those unfamiliar, WooCommerce and Shopify are the two most popular eCommerce platforms on the internet. In fact, studies show that, of the top one million websites, 29% are powered by WooCommerce while Shopify follows closely behind with a 23% market share.

Building a Multivendor Store With Dokan and Shoptimizer

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Here’s a question for you: what do Amazon, eBay, and Etsy all have in common? They’re high-earning multivendor stores.

Multivendor stores are all the rage these days and it’s easy to see why. They provide tons of benefits to both businesses and consumers and are an excellent way for store owners to earn a commission. According to Statista, 37% of online shoppers would prefer to shop at an online marketplace for a repeat purchase.

WooCommerce SEO

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Businesses big and small need to optimize their content for SEO if they want organic traffic from search engines like Google. For online store owners, this means implementing WooCommerce SEO best practices to optimize their product pages for search engines.

You might be wondering how all of this works.

Here’s the deal: search engines – like Google, Bing, and Yahoo – direct users to the most relevant websites and pages based on the user’s search query.

So, by implementing SEO best practices from the outset, you can make sure that your product pages rank in search engine result pages (SERPs). As a result, you get better visibility and are able to generate organic traffic. Makes sense, right?

The good news is that implementing WooCommerce SEO best practices on your online store is actually pretty easy!

Visual Marketing: Why Customer Submitted Photos Are So Effective

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Brands invest a lot of resources to design and publish visual marketing content on their website and social media pages. And you probably do, too.

What if I told you that you could reap the benefits of visual content marketing without adding to your budget?

Sharing user-generated content or customer submitted photos that feature your brand and promote your products and services helps you easily reach out to your audience and build credibility. Most importantly, you can save on the marketing budget!

How to Find and Fix Rich Snippet Errors

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Rich snippets are aesthetically-pleasing and richer search results that display extra data along with the title, description, and URL in SERPs. This additional information is taken from structured data included in a page’s HTML.

Now, you might be wondering why it’s important to have rich snippets for your website or online store.

Put simply, rich snippets help you improve your click-through rate by increasing visibility in SERPs. In other words, they make your search results stand out among other results on the same page.

In addition, rich snippets help you establish trust with site visitors and give them a “sneak preview” of what they can expect to get before they actually land on your website.

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