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The Complete Checklist for Optimizing Your Ecommerce Website

Your ecommerce website is your digital storefront, and just like a brick-and-mortar store, it needs to be optimized to maximize sales and revenue.

Just like grocery stores place milk at the back of the store to entice customers to walk through and buy more products along the way, your ecommerce website can also benefit from the smarter placement of products and useful calls to action.

However, unlike a physical store, your digital storefront can rearrange the complete store layout for every new customer and show them products that are the most relevant to their interests and behaviors!

This is where LimeSpot’s dynamic content personalization and product recommendations come in. 

Now imagine each customer lands on your ecommerce site and is immediately shown products they’re interested in. This not only enhances their experience but increases the likelihood of making a sale.

In this article, we’ll be discussing the key elements to optimize to improve sales and conversions for your ecommerce store using intelligent, data-driven tools such as LimeSpot to optimize the total ecommerce shopping experience. 

Create personalized product recommendations for every visitor using smart algorithm suggestions 

LimeSpot uses the power of intelligent algorithms to provide personalized product recommendations based on customers’ browsing behavior, past purchases, and shopping data.

Using LimeSpot, this information is gathered and analyzed to create a tailored shopping experience for every individual customer in real time! 

To set up LimeSpot’s personalized recommendations, download and install the LimeSpot app, configure your settings, and select the desired “recommendation boxes” to display on your website.

Creating a unique browsing experience for each customer with dynamic content personalization

Imagine that every customer who visited your online store saw a completely different storefront that reflected their favorite products and values. 

It used to be impossible, but thanks to data-powered tools like LimeSpot, now every customer can have a unique browsing experience.

This means the content displayed on the website, such as images, products, calls-to-action, and new suggestions, are updated in real-time to cater to each customer’s preferences and browsing behavior.

These product suggestions automatically appear at various touchpoints to enhance the shopping experience and encourage shoppers to explore more products during their session.

The following are some of the most common placements for including your content personalization and dynamic collection recommendations.

Homepage

Recommendations can be displayed on the homepage to greet visitors with a curated selection of products based on their preferences, or popular items.

Product pages

When customers view a specific product, LimeSpot can display related items, cross-sells, or upsells that complement the product to increase average order value (AOV).

Category pages

Recommendations can be integrated into category pages to show relevant products that might interest the customer.

Checkout page

Last-minute deals and product recommendations can be presented during the checkout page to include complementary products.

Post-purchase

After the purchase, you can send personalized follow-up emails with more product recommendations based on the customer’s shopping history to encourage them to come back and shop again.

Unique calls-to-action for every different customer

Your calls to action (CTA) are the prompts that tell your customers the next step to take. 

They’re a crucial step in the customer’s journey because without them your customers might forget to add items to their cart or finish checking out. 

Imagine running an online shop that sells furniture. This store has a diverse customer base that includes homeowners, decorators, and designers.

With dynamic content personalization, this store can create different calls to action (CTAs) for different customer segments based on their behavior and shopping history.

For example:

  • Emily, a homeowner, visits the store to buy furniture for her new home. LimeSpot’s data-driven personalization will recognize her preferences for modern furniture and offer a CTA like “Get 10% off on modern furniture for your new home!”
  • John, an interior decorator, visits the store for inspiration. Based on his history of eclectic furniture, his CTA might be “Discover our exclusive collection of designer pieces for free shipping on your next order!”

Mobile-friendly website optimization for improved shopping experiences

By 2025, about half, or 44.2% of your sales will come from mobile shoppers.

Imagine your customer is browsing your online shop on their lunch break, and they find the perfect pair of shoes. But when they try to add them to their cart, the website is slow, or displays incorrectly, causing your shopper to abandon their cart and look elsewhere later.

This scenario is still too common for mobile shoppers, illustrating the importance of mobile-friendly website optimization. 

Luckily, LimeSpot enhances mobile responsiveness and friendliness in eCommerce websites through:

  • Adaptive design to adjust layout, images, and content to fit different screen sizes and devices
  • Touch-friendly navigation that includes buttons, menus, and interactive elements that are easily accessible and properly sized
  • Fast loading times for better content delivery for mobile devices
  • Mobile-specific merchandising to create mobile-specific promotions and content, or to target mobile-only users

Identify abandoned carts and follow up to win back the sale 

Imagine a customer browsed your store and added a few items to her cart before leaving the store.

Using LimeSpot’s analytics, Shopify store owners can segment customers and view data-driven insights to identify that this customer has a high likelihood of purchasing items in her cart based on her previous purchasing behavior.

With this information, the Shopify owner can create a personalized email campaign targeting customers who have abandoned their carts to include product recommendations to re-engage and encourage the customer to complete her purchase.

Get them to the checkout page by offering relevant product suggestions

While LimeSpot doesn’t directly modify your website’s checkout page, it plays an important role in optimizing your customer journey that leads them to the checkout.

By providing relevant and targeted product recommendations, upsells, and cross-sells, LimeSpot can increase the average order value and encourage customers to complete their purchases by offering a seamless and intuitive shopping experience.

Social proof and reviews

Third-party review apps can be used to collect customer ratings and feedback for the products in your ecommerce store. While LimeSpot does not directly handle social proof or reviews, it integrates with review apps to enhance the shopping experience.

For instance, LimeSpot can use customer ratings and feedback on items to prioritize highly-rated and positively-viewed items as personalized product recommendations. This way, LimeSpot helps your store leverage social proof and show well-received products to customers.

Email marketing and segmentation for post-purchase follow-up campaigns

Stay in touch with your customers in the post-purchase phase to send them targeted product recommendations and keep them updated with relevant updates from your store through dynamic segmentation and email marketing campaigns.

The following are a few ways to stay in touch through email marketing and segmentation.

Personalized email content 

Continue sending product suggestions through transactional emails to include product recommendations and cross-sells for your email campaigns.

Offer dynamic segmentation

Group similar customers together to form segments based on behavior data, browsing history, and purchases for more targeted mass email campaigns.

Improve email performance

Because the content will be personalized through segmentation, your emails will receive higher open rates, click-through rates, and conversions for promotional email campaigns.

Improve customer retention

By delivering relevant and personalized content, you’ll build stronger relationships with customers leading to higher customer loyalty and repeat purchases.

Reduce unsubscribe rates

Personalized and targeted email content will reduce the chance of customers unsubscribing from your email list since they’ll find more value in the emails you send them.

Download LimeSpot today!

LimeSpot is an data-driven personalization platform that offers customers advanced product recommendations and dynamic content personalization for an improved ecommerce experience.

LimeSpot can help personalize every step of the customer’s journey from the homepage to checkout using product recommendations based on the customer’s own browsing and purchase history.

Download your free 14-day trial of LimeSpot to increase conversion rates by up to 28% and average order values by 5% today!

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