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The thing about Shopify apps is that they're "just" web apps that you engineer/host/manage yourself. Shopify authorizes your web app to connect to a store so it can then act as an app. In reality it's a huge, multi-disciplinary effort.

I would recommend https://www.freecodecamp.org with these certifications: - Responsive Web Design (300 hours) - Front End Libraries (300 hours) - APIs and Microservices (300 hours)

And after 900 hours he still won't know enough to start building his app.

As far as UpWork, I can speak as someone that has worked/hired on that platform in the past nine months. You get what you pay for. His app should at least cost him thousands of dollars, not hundreds.

And if you're concerned about someone stealing your friend's idea, then only hire a legal resident from your country and have them sign a legit contract.

If you don't want to change services from Mailchimp, there are a number of workarounds to keep Mailchimp and and Shopify connected. Mailchimp has some suggestions here. ShopSync looks most attractive by the way Mailchimp lays out the options but I've seen some people express problems they've had with that app on the corresponding Shopify app store page. I suspect they are having some growing pains from their increased number of users. That said, they have overall favorable ratings. I do wonder what the app maintainers get out of it, though. It's a free app that seems to be doing nothing but providing help to another service. Are they getting a kickback from Mailchimp, maybe?

Great places to start are WebPageTest and PageSpeed Insights. Just enter your URL and look at the recommendations. Then you can go very deep with Chrome dev tools. Let me know your store URL if you need help, happy to give you some ideas.

Options twofold.

1. Use a 3rd party app such as ShopSync to integrate Mailchimp to Shopify.
2. Switch email marketing provider. Some suggestions are Klaviyo, Omnisend, AWeber, Convertikit, Drip, Sendlane, Constant Contact to name a few.

A few more details here that I wrote up. Mailchimp have more details too.

I don't know if it is allowed or not but Stripe has made it extremely easy to add payment without coding, it is as easy as putting a link on your html page.

https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links

Ok my suggestion would be to get branding and a professional logo to represent your company. No one will buy a product from a store if they can’t trust the company. Since you are simply “reselling” a product you can’t take the same sells approach as others. For example you charge on your site $245 for premium set and on Amazon the company themselves only charge for $184. Link

You have to be more creative selling a already branded product. You need to contact company directly and request wholesale pricing so you can have competitive selling rates or if you don’t have the funds just request a referral link and make small commissions selling the products via affiliate marketing.

However if I was you I would contact the company for tester sizes for sale. And then I would contact other company’s that I like for testers for sale. Then I would gather all tester products into one product on my site called like “Tester Beauty Kit” that comes with many different testers of the same type products but different company’s and help the buyers see which one is good and not for them selves and then you get a affiliate link on site to the original product sites. Typing this out it makes sense to me sorry if it doesn’t when reading it back. This is just some free advice so I’m not going to try to sell you on my suggestion lol but good luck!!!

One thing to consider is it's possible that it is Stripe making the call based on the product type being something on their prohibited business list.. you can see this list here: https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses

Shopify seems to be doing this house cleaning of late, if you offer vitamins, for example, you get tossed out of Shopify Payments since they are not approved products to Stripe.

The official Mailchimp app for Shopify will stop working. But there are other apps that can sync your Shopify data with Mailchimp and vice versa. ShopSync is a free app that a lot of people seem to be flocking to. I'm personally waiting a little while to switch to ShopSync since it looks like they are maybe having some growing pains with the large influx of new users (see the reviews on the app store page). ShopSync and some other apps are mentioned here along with Mailchimp's take on this whole mess.

You can see everything they use on their domain here (and as Bernardusa pointed out, the Icon Shopify Theme): https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fmaverickbyloganpaul.com%2f

I grabbed this one

Super Deal PRO 12" X 10" Digital Swing Away Heat Press Clamshell Transfer Sublimation Machine https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075L6K1KM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_cgDlDbTRAZ2TC

It’s $132 on amazon. If you search “shirt heat press” on there, they’d all work. Main difference is the size of the heating surface. This one is 10x12”. I’d recommend larger if you’re using it for professional purposes. It takes a little testing to get your press times/temps on point for different materials so it may be worth picking up a pack of shirts for dialing it in. All in all, the cameo on woot and this press would net you $330 ish? Plus a few rolls of heat transfer vinyl. Just remember to flip the image backward before cutting the design on the cameo ( I made this mistake a few times >.< )

Tillful has a Funding service that acts like a SMB loan concierge for you - helps you avoid inquiring and getting denied by one lender bc they have a network of all the online lenders and ones that offer similar short term loans/merchant cash advances https://www.tillful.com/apply-funding/ https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tillful.com

Sure, start here: https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo?utm_campaign=sitelinks&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw5uWGBhCTARIsAL70sLIyo8axiQpafEBMYkSIeCmHMWkHthZF4Iban_n0hsIYBVB5yRg_nCkaAjAMEALw_wcB

Are you new to web development?

Codecademy, Code School and /r/learnprogramming are all great resources to get started.

The Shopify documentation for code assumes an existing knowledge of HTML, CSS & Javascript.

For specific help with your problem, I would need to see your actual shop. There is no universal solution.

I've used a few embedded form options but the last one I used was Wufoo because the client already had an account and was using it for other things. In this implementation I hid the form until you click the Request Item form and then the form is shown below.

https://imgur.com/a/2IsoFMx

Even though the form is in an iframe you can pass values into the form fields so that they're pre-populated. In this case, I'm passing information about what product page the form was submitted from into a field that is hidden. https://www.wufoo.com/guides/parameter-passing-to-wufoo/

there are tons of online tutorials I'm sure you will find if you Google. the thing is that SEO takes time. if I'm not mistaken you need to have an abundance of back links and have your site optimized and product descriptions worded in such ways so Googles crawlers will easier pick em up.

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

I usually replace Shopify's signup form it with Klaviyo's (in your case Mailerlite) sing up form to prevent this issue.

If you already tried syncing your shopify list with mailerlite and the tag is not beign pushed to mailerlite you could either, use mailerlite's signup form/pop-up or setting up a zapier to push new subs to mailer lite ( see here and here).

I hope this helps... let me know how it went.

Does a significant portion of your userbase know about or use Bitcoin? Chargebacks aren't possible.

The marketplace OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin and doesn't charge fees. It's new so there aren't a lot of users, but if you bring an existing customer base over you save the fees and can use Bitcoin instead of credit cards or PayPal.

It's best to transfer the domain to another registrar.

Tip: never purchase a domain directly from Shopify. Instead, purchase your domains from Google Domains ($12/y) or Namecheap ($12.98/y). They are cheaper (since domains from Shopify cost $14/y) and include built-in privacy protection, as well as many other features.

Coming from an Omnisend user...

1: Agreed, more bang for your buck with Omnisend

2: Agreed

3: Never used klaviyo, but Omnisend is super easy and intuitive

4: Forms: shows up automatically on the selected pages according to the timing option you've chosen: after spending some time on your store, after scrolling, on exit, etc.

5: Agreed

6: Omnisend provides you with the ability to test your campaigns in three different ways:
a: Testing subject line
b: Testing the Sender's name and Sender's email address
c: Testing the email content along with the Subject line and Sender's name

7: Agreed

8: Customer service is 100% far better with Omnisend, its 247/365 days- Klaviyo is mon-fri working hours only

9: Bonus points for Omnisend international SMS

10: Not sure if Klaviyo has updated this or not, but Omnisend offers web push notifications, whereas Klaviyo doesn't

Final point from me would be this....

Klaviyo has a huge marketing budget and is more visible in the tech space due to this. IMO, Klaviyo users are like apple users...

I would also review independent review sites such as G2, capterra to also get a real feel. I have added the link to G2 Omnisend Vs Klaviyo for you here: https://www.g2.com/compare/klaviyo-vs-omnisend

Hello zorflax,

We are glad to announce that Cart2Cart supports ProStores and you can easily perform ProStores to Shopify migration. For more details you visit our page

Best Regards, Cart2Cart Team

I tried to start on Etsy, had an absolutely terrible experience, and pivoted to Shopify. I don't regret it and if I had a time machine, I never would have bothered with Etsy in the first place! However, Shopify means you have to do a lot of legwork with advertising and directing traffic to your site. Etsy really can be a pain and their fees are high, but you're putting up with them to get access to their customer base.

If you're open to a third website option, I would highly suggest checking out Big Cartel. You don't have to put up with Etsy's nonsense but you also don't have to pay as much as Shopify. They use Stripe for processing their payments.

Lastly, if your next craft fair rolls around and you haven't found a good platform yet, you could use Paypal's invoicing feature to invoice your customers right there on the spot. :) Provided they have Paypal accounts, this would be pretty easy! You can add tax to invoices, you just need to know your tax rate and Paypal will add it to the total.

(Also, if you do decide you want to give Shopify a whirl, I'd be happy to chat with you about the setup process over PMs! Some aspects of it have not been as intuitive as I'd like, but overall it really hasn't been too bad.)

Wave + Integromat to connect Shopify to Wave.

You can use Integromat for free, but most likely you'll need a plan (don't panic, as plans start at $9)

Links:

- Wave

- Integromat

Just be aware Mailchimp pulled their app from Shopify and I think you have to use a 3rd party app to connect them now:

https://mailchimp.com/help/connect-shopify/

Shopify has its own email campaign app now after Mailchimp pulled their app. It’s called Shopify Email. I was already fully invested in Campaign Monitor before switching to Shopify so I stuck with them.

Curious about whether Mailchimp is any good. They say they do everything and more but does anyone have a personal experience?

https://mailchimp.com/resources/mailchimp-vs-klaviyo/

Here’s a comparison from another source. https://ampjar.com/blog/klaviyo-vs-mailchimp/

I’m currently working on a client store that uses Sirv to host and generate their 360 spinners. They have a Shopify app that pulls in the right spinner, I’ve yet to use it though.

You can run large images through a compressor like this https://tinyjpg.com. For faster load speeds use smaller images, not every image needs to be 3500x3500px. If it’s not a full page image or a product shot shrink it down. Even with large images using a compressor will remove unnecessary data.

Looks good!

Change the second slider images to the same height x width as the first image to keep consistency (and it's bugging me). Grab some free commercial use images from www.pexels.com and replace some of the low-resolution images like the plane and family banners.

The most important thing while posting on Facebook groups is to find relevant groups where you can find your target audience. If you are promoting a watch on a group about excavators, you will definitely annoy the members as they are less likely to be interested in buying a watch. But a group about shopping, maybe about collectioners will get you more interested people.

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Another way is going live and sharing it in groups. With this, you will both spread awareness about your product and get views, also interested people will watch your live video, like your page. For doing this more effectively, you can pre-record a video and set it as live. I am using Restream for this and having a live video but not being live actually, is worth it. Now they offer 70% OFF on restream + scheduler bundle so it's a good deal.

On posting Facebook, you can think of a strategy, choose groups, choose different messages for promoting your product.

Alternatively, you can comment on relevant posts. There are lots of ways of promoting Facebook without annoying the members.

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I haven't heard of the theme before but the filenames sound like they're probably related to an app so if you do have any apps already installed you could try disabling or removing them temporarily.

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Alternatively, you can try and use this chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/domain-blocker/ggdcjplapccgoinblmidpkoocfafajfa) and when you launch the theme editor open up domain blocker and block any URL that's not shopify. This will hopefully help what scripts and stuff get loaded in.

Finally, if the theme has inner pages with a lot of sections or the homepage is suuuuper lengthy and section filled this could also cause theme editor slowdowns

Here is the way I used for my videos on the front page, it's a bit hacky but it works really nicely. It will also always keep the 16:9 aspect ratio not matter how much you change the padding.

HTML:

<div class="outer-wrapper"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="h_iframe"> <!-- a transparent image is preferable --> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"/> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2iObySa91b0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div>

CSS:

html,body {height:100%;} /* remove this if it already exists in the theme, it probably does */ .yt-wrapper {width:80%;height:100%;margin:0 auto;} .h_iframe {position:relative;} .h_iframe .ratio {display:block;width:100%;height:auto;} .h_iframe iframe {position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%; height:100%;} .outer-wrapper{ padding: 5% 5% 5% 5%; }

You can set the padding of "outer-wrapper" to 0% if you want the video full width of the page or theme div you put it in. Let me know if you have any questions. Just note this will have to go in your theme.liquid file or possibly another file depending on the theme.

That shouldn't be too difficult to create using just HTML/CSS. The example is just using a content editable div.

I mocked up a quick one in CodePen - https://codepen.io/jlarson/full/VWNOQv/

From there, you can add line-item properties to process and fulfill customized items. https://help.shopify.com/themes/customization/products/get-customization-information-for-products

It would be a combination of line-item properties and a small amount of markup/styling.

I strongly disagree with the Dymo recommendations. I had nothing but trouble getting their driver to work. I ended up returning it and getting the Rollo Printer, and have not had an ounce of trouble with it. In addition to the printer itself being much cheaper, the Rollo is compatible with fanfold labels which are less expensive.

Check out the Ibotta and similar,

It's a cash back app, with mostly big retailers, were you thinking of something like this for Shopify merchants ? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ibotta.android

I wrote a practical guide for Shopify owners that walks through the most important parts of SEO specific to the Shopify platform. It’s mean to cut through the noise and just focus in the most important things that increase sales and set you up to rank well for yrs. It also can help you eval consultants/agencies like myself https://www.amazon.com/B-S-Guide-Shopify-SEO-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B0BNW9P22Z/ref=sr_1_1_nodl?crid=1GMRVRN06BKYA&amp;keywords=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo&amp;qid=1670473409&amp;sprefix=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo%2Caps%2C636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;dplnkId=...

I just wrote a guide for Shopify owners that explains SEO for Shopify and it and shows you how to do it. https://www.amazon.com/B-S-Guide-Shopify-SEO-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B0BNW9P22Z/ref=sr_1_1_nodl?crid=1GMRVRN06BKYA&amp;keywords=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo&amp;qid=1670473409&amp;sprefix=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo%2Caps%2C636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;dplnkId=...

I just created a practical guide for owners just like you: https://www.amazon.com/B-S-Guide-Shopify-SEO-Entrepreneurs-ebook/dp/B0BNW9P22Z/ref=sr_1_1_nodl?crid=1GMRVRN06BKYA&amp;keywords=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo&amp;qid=1670473409&amp;sprefix=no+bs+guide+to+shopify+seo%2Caps%2C636&amp;sr=8-1&amp;dplnkId=...

I suggest MyRevue App, It's a video review app where users share their real experiences about the product and service. They do have a subscription model for brands to get genuine reviews & It is better than Trustpilot for me. This is the app link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myrevue.app&amp;hl=en\_IN&amp;gl=US

Video reviews play a most important role to take the right decision, my recommendation is MyRevue App, users share their reviews in short video format. You can download the app from play store Link : MyRevue App

I agree. Shopify's public image is to be careful with store information, I can't see this being worth the risk. Additionally, OP may not have set up whois guard when registering domain, etc. There are so many ways for information to be scraped these days.

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If you think your information is out there, it probably is. You can check https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see if and how. I'd personally like to thank my local hospital system and university for storing my private information in plain text format.

For a beginner I would recommend this course: https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Shopify-Theme-Development-Build-and-Customise-Your-Own-Online-Store/1756809856/projects

Also when I started working with Shopify Themes, this book really helped me, (although in 2022, it may now be a bit outdated): https://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Shopify-Themes-World-Class/dp/1484226402

If I can get a 6 pack of infinity pencils for £9.99 from Amazon, why would I pay £7.99 for one from a brand/site I never heard of before?

Amazon link

IMO, this is the essential problem for "general stores" like yours. You can spend all of the time/money you want improving the copy, CTAs etc. but the problem related to the actual products will remain. If you can figure out a way to brand the products and then explain the value of the brand, you will do much better. Of course, just my opinion.

Why should anyone buy from your store? You have no brand recognition and a lot of your tactics are a little offputting and don't do anything to build trust. The pulsing add to cart button, fake (or copied) reviews, and haphazardly customized Shopify theme make it look like just another of 1,000 dropship-from-China sites.

I feel like if I bought a piece of jewelry from you it would take 4-6 weeks to get it, and it would probably not even be worth the cost. Not to mention, I can find the same thing on Amazon, get it in a couple days, and know that I can get my money back if I'm not satisfied: https://www.amazon.com/sloong-Sunshine-Engraved-Necklace-Sunflower/dp/B07XCKCMXD

Your about us page says you "cut out the middleman." How? YOU are the middleman. You are obviously not manufacturing these, so you're buying them from somewhere and selling them to the consumer. That's the definition of a middleman.

Your contact page only has a form. No email. No phone. No address. Your refund page has a gmail account - not very professional to not even have email at your company domain.

There just isn't anything there that does anything to build trust. And there's absolutely no reason to buy from you when I can find the same products elsewhere on sites I DO trust.

If you haven’t bought a domain already, gandi.net offers 2 free email accounts with it. Very easy and good to deal with (even amazon aws buys the domain names through them, so they are not as “small” as one might assume looking at their humble website).

I'm launching a free app that does exactly this in about 2 weeks, you can sign up to be notified when we're live on the Shopify app store (100% free forever, it's a small piece of our delivery promise app also launching soon)- https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/pinkypromise-checkout-magic/

You could use a service like Cloudinary: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations.

Basically on your store you upload an image, send the image to Cloudinary with what transforms and filters you want to apply, and it sends back the modified image for you to do what you need with.

I had the same problem, what i did is optimise the gif on this website (https://ezgif.com/optimize) but sometimes this method did not work so what I did i upload the gif on giphy and then re-download it!

Hi u/harmonious_fork
Congrats on the great website. I recorded a video to share a few tips to several stores asking for feedback in the thread. I start covering Senderisto at 9'20:
https://www.loom.com/share/3411ce6ea515405ca8ce3453fac6f6e4

Hopefully you get something valuable out of this :)

Hi u/Flaky_Ratio_7403
What a wonderful story :) Happy New Year to you too, wishing you a lot of joy and success!

I recorded a video to share a few tips. I start covering your store at 4'30:
https://www.loom.com/share/3411ce6ea515405ca8ce3453fac6f6e4
I tried to provide a few tips, and I show you in the video with my store how to simply fix the favicon problem. Hopefully, that helps!

Wishing you all the best!

There is no elegant solution for 1. You just need an artist/graphic designer.

For 2. I'd be surprised if shopify is not working on something inhouse, possibly can get soon through an app. There are also other platforms built on/for web3 but you would likely then have to custom build the ecom on top of it, they may have it already. Something like https://webflow.com/

Thank you :)

Are you also willing to schedule a time for the interview? https://calendly.com/farout-io-/30min

Would love to hear your thoughts so I can build a better product. Appreciate your time.

Thank you :)
If you're willing to schedule a time for the interview, please pick a time here: https://calendly.com/farout-io-/30min

Looking forward to speaking with you and learn more about what your ideal product looks like.

Thank you :)

Are you also willing to schedule a time for the interview? https://calendly.com/farout-io-/30min

Would love to hear your thoughts so I can build a better product. Appreciate your time.

Thanks for your comment. I wonder if you've scheduled a time, that works best for you, on my calendar: https://calendly.com/farout-io-/30min

Looking forward to speaking with you.

Thank you! If you’re also willing to schedule an interview, please pick a time at: https://calendly.com/farout-io-/30min and I’ll pay $30.

If not, you can still get the app for one year free. Just either DM me or shoot me an email:

99% sure you matched on this list. Stripe is specifically not a high risk processor, their fees don't support it.

https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses#:~:text=Financial%20institutions%2C%20money%20transmitters%20and,owed%20to%20the%20firm%20for

Why not use plain-old PayPal? AFAIK In-order to use Stripe, you would either require a local US based company or be located in a Stripe supported country, looks like Chile isn't supported yet - https://stripe.com/global

Have you tries using an exit-intent popup?

Yes, popups are annoying, but they also convert very well.

Basically, as soon as someone moves their cursor to the edge of their screen it will trigger a modal window that offers the shopper an incentive if they finish their order (I prefer the one with a 15-minute timer for the shopper to get the offer if they complete their order).

It's free to try, download OptiMonk (free option) or Privy (free trial) and see if it helps.

I created a video showing how to set this up here: https://www.loom.com/share/26760a34adfd4211bc89284c1dced830

I can’t imagine all your other records are helping. The other TXT records with their own DKIM, and a bunch of MX records for Zoho, are you using them? - https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3aOnjintea.com&amp;run=toolpage - I would clear out everything you absolutely don’t need, then get a different ConvertKit rep in the LiveChat to assist and be very clear you aren’t trying to do a landing page, but email.

There's already Next Commerce for React based Shopify store fronts, so I suppose there is an actual demand (whether it makes sense or not for the company owning the shop). I guess Shopify is trying to stay ahead of the curve and offer a superior solution, because they can monetize it (with hosting, for example). And if hydrogen is really superior, it's a stronger incentive to stick to Shopify, since someone picking a React based solution might also decide to look for another headless e-commerce solution.

I am selling my store for 550$

This ecosystem is ready to launch. We have already set everything:

Domain (1 year) Store created with premium Prestige theme ($ 250 theme) Perfect home page Perfect product page Variants Bundle with free eBook included with product (already set up and ready to download) Bulk discounts Description Gif Size chart Reviews Perfect order tracking page Perfect FAQ page Perfect Privacy Policy page Perfect Refund Policy page Perfect Terms of Service page Perfect About Us page Perfect Contact Us page Checkout page done at its best. Customer notifications made at their best. Company email (info@….com) SEO of product pages to appear in search engines. Persuasive copyrighting Facebook page already boosted for social proof Already 2 examples of creatives that we know are successful for Facebook ADS Set of 3 posts prepared ad hoc for advertising on instagram pages Instagram page boosted in detail for branding and social proof. (9 posts, 21.5k followers, average of 1.5k likes per post).

The only thing you have to do is correct some grammatical errors on the site due to the fact that I am Italian and not a native English.

Product price: 2.89$ Shipping price 4,50$ Resell price: 24,99$ It is a trending product?: Yes! Niche: Women but also men if they arrive in the organic. Estimated CPP: 9.2$

https://exchangemarketplace.com/shops/restfulring

I have been using this email application for a long time and it meets its functions and my needs, I hope you download it too

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.correo.yah.best.gratis

Agree 100%. Another reason is related to a google update that we're benefiting from. https://moz.com/blog/google-e-a-t (E=expertise; A=Authority; T=Trustworthiness). We've made a blog part of our marketing strategy for over 5 years to do two things: 1) establish ourselves and trusted experts in our field; and 2) get "free" seo traffic. This has led to our organic search (non-branded) to always be on first or second source of new users.

Make sure you're adding alt text to your images. It will help you rank better for image searches and it makes your store more accessible for the visually impaired - win-win! Here's a good guide: https://moz.com/learn/seo/alt-text

If you've got more any more than 20 products on your store, it's going to be way faster to edit SEO information with a spreadsheet import. Google Docs and Excel both have concatenate functions to help you add [Product Name] and [Business Name] and maybe a keyword if you have space in your page titles. You can do the same with a couple sentences for your meta descriptions.

Page title guide: https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag

Meta description guide: https://yoast.com/meta-descriptions/

As for that number 1 searched keyword, you're going to find that in a few places, but the easiest is in Google Search Console. If you've got Google Analytics set up, Search Console should be an easy extra step.

Let me know if you've got any follow up questions - keeping it brief while I'm sitting and waiting at the vet's office lol

Thanks for this guide! I'm an SEO who works with a lot of Shopify sites. Step 5 is crucial as I see a lot of unoptimized Shopify product pages. Often times, these pages will use duplicate on-page content as other product pages on the site.

I also wrote a guide to optimizing Shopify sites that might be helpful. This guide breaks down optimizing Shopify stores from both a content and technical SEO perspective. For instance, one of the most common things I see missing in Shopify sites is the lack of a blog. This makes sense as site owners may want to rank their product pages. However, often times, the client that owns the Shopify store wants to rank for keywords where Google is showing article/blog content and NOT product pages. This is a huge opportunity missed by Shopify sites as often times they don't contain the informational content they need to in order to rank for their target keywords. You can read the whole post here: https://moz.com/blog/shopify-seo

It is not possible to check estimated revenue of another site, yes but you can check their marketing strategy and monthly traffics by Semrush, Moz, etc with the help of marketing strategy you can take an idea about their revenue and conversions. Some companies publish blog related to revenue but not all.

The best option if you have little budget is to teach yourself and hunt out useful resources. You'll probably want to focus on Facebook marketing and Content marketing as two keywords to search for.

Fivrr is going to each up a lot of time and effort, especially if you don't have the budget to get someone good.

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Start with Moz's guide to SEO

https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Maybe take some of the Facebook Blueprint courses too?

It depends on what strategy you want to implement.

There are actually two major questions you have

1. What ad format should you run
2. What products should you focus on

For the first question:

Facebook tends to boost videos because of their ability to engage their audiences so I would opt for that if possible.

If you already have lots of data in your Facebook pixel, create a retargeting campaign for products that were added to cart but not bought (these products should be dynamic to the audience)

For the second question:

Conversion rates are generally always higher when it is a specific product page for a couple of reasons

1. The ad copy clearly resonates with the buyer
2. Time to value is much faster (found what I'm looking for)

If you have no idea which products to focus on, just pick 3 that seem like they would do well based on sales, social shares, comments, product page traffic, add to cart rate, the keyword search term volume (Google search console) and purchase rate.

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I'm actually building an app to help with the second question. It's meant to help with product selection and attribution for product marketing because there is so much anxiety around:

• Which product should I pick...
• How should I decide...
• Does this fit the channel...
• What copy/ messaging should I use...

Basically product marketing isn't really a skill that many talk about in the e-commerce world.

If you want updates on the product- you can check us out on

• Product Hunt
• Our own site

1. What are some useful tips on generating better SEO for my store? (Do product tags actually work ?)
   1. Yes they do, they help with internal site search with help inform Google about how users are navigating
   2. The short answer for this
      1. Put in effort in your descriptions, titles, tags
      2. Monitor your Google Search Console
2. What are some useful marketing methods to drive traffic and sales?
   1. SEO is a slow game.
   2. Advertising is fast and you pay with money
   3. Community building is average but you pay with time (e.g. Youtube Channel)

So, pick your own adventure haha!

I'm actually working on an app that can help with product marketing (Still in beta)
Sign up if you want to be notified.

Honestly, we've done quite a few big imports like this and they are nearly awlays quite painful to do manually, we have however used these guys a few times and they've been brilliant every time http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/provided-services

We've only used them for the cart2cart services but they do offer from csv / database services as on the above link

There’s several different payment resources you can use such as PayPal and Coinbase(Cryptocurrency).

Check out this link to see if you can find the reason your store was blocked.

https://stripe.com/blog/why-some-businesses-arent-allowed

The difference is stripe is the API, Shopify payments uses the stripe API

And no, dropshipping is not banned, they ban what they consider high risk businesses, products, services and practices

https://stripe.com/restricted-businesses

The benefit is you are not limited to Shopify with stripe

I think you kind of missed the point of this post, checkout this page...

https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses

Shopify Payments is Stripe. If you read the above TOS for stripe they consider dropshipping to be high risk and don't allow it.

My question therefore is does SHopify have a special agreement with Stripe to allow dropshipping or do they purposely leave that part out of their TOS?

Ultimately Stripe says dropshipping is high risk and even shopify payments at the end of the high risk category while they don't specifically call out dropshipping it does say...

"any businesses that we believe poses elevated financial risk, legal liability, or violates card network or bank policies"

Now at the end of the day if your dropshipping in the proper way nobody is even going to knwo your dropshipping so its a non issue, however if your dropshipping from Ali Express and likely getting some chargebacks and returns due to shipping times that could get your account shut down real quick

You can change the currency of your shop from Settings=>General.

But his won't make Stripe process your payments. Your business must be founded in one of the 25 countries supported by Stripe: https://stripe.com/global

I am inclined to agree, that was my first thought. possibly exacerbated by charging and capturing funds before the items got flagged as shipped.

Combine that with Shopify Payments being based on Stripe, which prohibits drop shipping ( https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses ) and I would suspect it was a combination of factors and them being gunshy and stomping on a potential problem instead of nudging to get an alternative payment method first.

Prices will vary wildly depending on the designers ability and reputation. Expect prices from 3 digits to 5 digits. Graphic designers will tell you it's worth it - my opinion is that it depends....

If you are just starting out, I'd say go with something cheap at first (unless you are investing tens of thousands or more into the business upfront anyway). Put you initial money into solid products, a usable website, and work on traffic. Look at stock graphic sites like https://creativemarket.com/ to see if they have something that will work. Once you are growing and have confidence the business model is solid, investing in high quality graphics becomes more worthwhile.

Hii,
You can use any image from google because these images are paid if you want to use free images please visit this link.
https://www.pexels.com/
This is a free images tool.
Thank You.

I recommend https://pixabay.com/

They have over 1 Million high quality images and videos for free.

Definitely don't use Google. Watch out for Getty Images as they will find you.

Best of luck

if the items have barcodes you can scan them with a barcode scanner in google you can scan the barcode directly to google and google should have images and descriptions. if not you have to look up the item on google

don't use your phone because you still need descriptions, images... you can hire someone just to scan in all your products as a starter job (some teenager or someone off the books wink wink)

A) for picture resize Shopify offers apps that will fit and resize everything for you! (this will depend on your budget) you can do it in photopea for free but it will take months if you have 1,000 products or more

b) get software like skuvault to manage all your products... this will prevent from stealing and easy to learn again to hire some kid who wants to learn E-commerce also this will have you manage all your categories and the warehouse items sit in... example teacups sit in warehouse 1 in aisle 5 section I-333 or teacups sit in wearhouse 1 in aisle home goods section 5... depends how your currently set up

c) Shopify is much easier to learn than Magento and you will have to get a full-time dev to do Magento work and dev's right now are about 100k -150 k a year just for dev work and trust me you will need him on staff full time in case someone messes things up.

I just recently helped a client put his story online and he had 14,000 different products.. he had to hire 2 warehouse workers, 1 scanner, 1 data entry into shopify and myself as shopify Dev because he wanted a custom Shopify but typically you don't need Shopify dev starting out.. just pay for shopify 2.0 theme on Shopify not on themeforest!

With regards to your DDOS angle, cloudflare is not exactly prone to being DDoS'ed either. They do some pretty incredible work and have a great product and team.

https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/under-attack/

What more likely happened is that they got rate limited by shopify as they were burning through a lot more than $80 a month in resources. The circuit breaker was probably for transactions per second against their database backend.

Just double-checked: on your site time to receive the first byte is around 361ms for me. On their site, it's around 530ms. That additional 160ms is when they are getting your content from your site + potential caching via Cloudflare. As they are using Cloudflare I would report abuse via https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/

So all the data is sourced from SimilarWeb. And they give you a percentage for how much of the traffic from social: https://www.similarweb.com/website/fashionnova.com/

I use that metric to estimate facebook ad spend (which is an estimate but should be in the right ballpark)

Use one of several tools provided by Google such as page (speed) insights to get objective value scores of any page.

Ensure that your site functionality works reliably, e.g. don't miss a lead or sale by ensuring your contact form or checkout works well on all devices etc.

Less is more.

I'd work on the mobile version more.

A large portion of your traffic will be through mobile. The menu not being at the top annoys me, and I'd try and streamline what's on the front page. There is a little too much for my liking. The first shop pages would be better in the menu, or combined together.

Another thing to consider is loading speed:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.drwoofapparel.com%2F&amp;tab=mobile

Mobile version isn't ranking well, the slower it loads, the less google will rank you SEO wise, which will slow organic traffic. They give some suggestions on what's slowing you down. I'm fiddling with cloudflare to see if it improves speed.

Bumbyboo nailed the majority of it though.

Good to see another small Aussie company, you did well with the pictures. They are eye grabbing.

Your speed is faster than the MVMT watches Shopify store.

The desktop site is 47, and their mobile speed is just 12. Roughly 60% of their sales are from mobile with sales close to $100 million a year.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mvmt.com%2Fhome&amp;tab=mobile

If you are making sales, then the site speed metric does not matter.

If you have a product that nobody wants, then the fastest site in the world won't make a difference to your bottom line.

Good luck!

Is it good or bad that my socks are white? Answer is no one cares.

Reddit has a 'bad' speed of 31 and it does not matter
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=reddit.com

Nice website redesign. But be careful with the speed. This one was so slooooww to load. Check the results: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.onlysalt.co%2F%3Futm_source%3DReddit%26utm_medium%3Dr%252Fshopify127%26utm_campaign%3Dhowwerebranded

after testing shopify i can say :
- You really don't need a book just read the docs (you can learn as you go)
- it really debends on your frontend/devops skills to create high optimized stores .
- I've checked a nice store asdasd which it invested heavily in development but his score is really bad (32/100) and it can be done better
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The entire website loaded in 1 second for me. Unsure why it is so bad.

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshopnocturne.com%2F&amp;hl=en

Go to the Opportunities and Diagnostics on the page and fix those issues.

• 1) Compress images and implement 'Lazy Load' (google it)
• 2) Enqueue javascript/scripts so the website isn't waiting for them to load
• 3) Research your theme on google and see what others say about it, chances are it's a slow ass theme
• 4) Test your site on Google Page Speeds to see what it recommends https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

https://zapier.com/blog/updates/1079/apifier-integration

So I found this with a quick Google search. Gonna have to see how it works and maybe test it out on a product or two.

If it works as I assume it should then I should be able to input a product code or product title/name and get some data.

Why reinvent the wheel? There are many proven Amazon research tools available in the field. AMZScout has a huge product database that you can also filter for the best results.

Might be worth having a look at https://swiftype.com/pricing - they do have a free version as well, we have a few clients using it and really like the customisation side of things with it (we've not had anyone move up to a paid version of it yet so can't comment on that side of things)

Not OP, but using a tool like Hotjar for heatmaps, recordings, & polls is a great place to start. We run polls on pages we want feedback on (Ex: "what information is missing that would make your decision to buy easier?").

Also check out Baymard for UX case studies on leading e-commerce brands.

(both are freemium)

I use hotjar for my Shopify store, it lets you see a heat map of what users are clicking, how far they are scrolling, and it records user movements too. I find the ‘funnel’ feature particularly effective because it lets me see what page my users drop off at, so I can then implement changes and test new variations in content/images or prices.

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Also, in addition to all the useful comments here, you may want to reconsider your targeting strategy. You may be aiming your ads at the wrong audience. Try to do some audience A/B test and you might just hit the bullseye...

Shopify is by far the best. No other vendor has the same partner channels, languages, country nuance accommodations, ancillary services, and merchant solutions as Shopify does.

G2 does a good independent review/rating of the top players...

https://www.g2.com/categories/e-commerce-platforms#grid

It's a little more expensive I think to do it via the file rather than the shop but they do still do it http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/support-service-plans how many products are you looking at moving?

I did the research on this a few months ago for a company I was consulting for (they ended up not switching).
This is a service I found that does migrations: http://www.shopping-cart-migration.com/shopping-cart-migration-options/1066-magento-to-shopify-migration

I can name at least 5 great help desk systems for Shopify, except Zendesk. They are (with no particular order):

1. Freshdesk (essential set of features are available in the free plan, paid plans start from $19 per agent per month with a free trial)
2. LiveChat (Starting from $16 per agent per month with a 30-day free trial)
3. LiveAgent (starting from $9 per agent per month + free trial for the first 14 days)
4. Help Scout (starting from $25 per agent per month with a free 15-day trial)
5. Kayako (starting from $15 per agent per month + free for 14 days)

They all offer email, live chat, and even more channels for customer support, and the integration with Shopify is excellent. Try them out!

Chat bots are good, but you have to be really methodical with how you configure them. Just having an automated bot that offers a coupon or something doesn't work very well. It gets ignored like other popups do over time.

We run 24/7 live chat and CS teams for a ton of stores, and have seen some solid ways to blend bots with a human team. For example, (1) predicting if someone is going to abandon (Via combining GA data and live activity tracking) (2) and then trigger a chat invite to offer help. If the bot can't answer the question (it often can't), then move to a human agent.

If you're looking to experiment a bit, ChatBot.com (by LiveChat.com) is great.

Have fun nerding out ; )