This is a quick follow up post about the changes made to the registration and check out to the site. We are seeing a substantial increase in our checkout conversion rates for both new and return visitors. Simplifying and speeding up the registration/checkout process appears to be working.
As always, I want to thank those of you who have [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2010’
We have improved our checkout process for buyers
Over the course of the last few weeks we have been studying and redesigning the check out process on the site.
Through buyer feedback and traffic analysis we were able to identify areas where buyers were experiencing some difficulties. By allowing sellers to put their phone numbers in their banners and [...]
More testing for the checkout process today
With the large increases in traffic we have been experiencing recently, we wanted to make sure new site users are able to navigate through the check out process. I personally had a lot of fun since I bought some really cool items during the final testing after changes were made. In a couple of days I will [...]
We added more search engine optimization today
We added more search engine optimization today. In this site update, we made what shows up in your browser title bar be the title of the listing.
(see highlighted areas)
This will also make the search engines display the same result once the site has been re-rolled by the search bots.
Tonight I am running a new XML [...]
Ahwooga.com Increased in Google page rank again!
Ok, what the hell is page rank?
Google ranks sites by strength and assigns a numeric number of 1 – 10. The short story is, the more links a site has coming into it from related content sites the stronger it is ranked. In our case we have gotten links from us informing the world about [...]
