{"id":19216,"date":"2022-10-10T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-content-marketing-how-to-optimise-your-website-for-increased-christmas-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T09:24:50","slug":"how-to-optimise-website-for-increased-christmas-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/content\/how-to-optimise-website-for-increased-christmas-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"How to optimise your website for increased Christmas sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m not usually one to start talking about Christmas before autumn has properly arrived, but Christmas is a key time for ecommerce brands – after all, it can be make or break for a number of websites, and in some cases just one month can be over 50% of some companies’ yearly revenue.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you think your website is \u2018Christmas ready\u2019, you may need to think again. From my experience in technical SEO, you wouldn\u2019t believe the issues I find across a number of sites – even the biggest of brands with huge digital budgets have SEO\/UX issues.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s dive in to how you can optimise your website for increased Christmas sales…<\/p>\n This is by far the least obvious thing on my list, which is why I\u2019m putting it right at the start. If you’re in a competitive market, the best thing you can do is branch out and create multiple categories for all the products that people are searching for at Christmas.<\/p>\n People\u2019s search habits change drastically during the festive season, with \u2018Christmas\u2019 becoming a core focus of their search, even when looking for mundane, typically everyday goods like new dining cutlery and accessories, household lights and clothing.<\/p>\n There\u2019s five first key points to our first task:<\/p>\n Brands large and small are STILL falling into the trap of not truely optimising their website speed. Pagespeed isn\u2019t just a ranking signal, it\u2019s an important aspect of the customer journey; influencing whether they’ll stay on your site and if they\u2019ll convert, but it can also impact how much they\u2019ll spend.<\/p>\n \u201cWalmart saw up to a 2% increase in conversions for every 1 second of improvement in load time. Every 100ms improvement also resulted in up to a 1% increase in revenue.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s important to check the speed of every page on your site, not just the homepage. Check each category page, product pages and even your blog\/news articles; people will drop out at all stages of the journey if your website is slow.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re still not convinced pagespeed is important, here\u2019s a great read on why pagespeed is important<\/a> by our Head of SEO, Laura Rudd<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are three main places that you can upsell to customers:<\/p>\nDiscover new products to sell<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nFix your website speed<\/h2>\n
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Identify upselling opportunities<\/h2>\n
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Add product reviews to boost conversion rates<\/h2>\n