Team Ahwooga is constantly looking for ways to not only improve the site but also improve the user experience. We feel that these 2 things will improve the seller performance and increase seller visibility.
To that end we have created a web based portal of information we call the Ahwooga Warehouse. The warehouse combines a full [...]
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I Am Ahwooga: Episode 5 – Head Shots
Episode 5 of I Am Ahwooga. The theme was Head Shots, straight on but as always there are a few twists and lots of fun. Enjoy
The I Am Ahwooga Facebook group is now over 1100 members and over 1800 user submitted photo’s.
If you are not yet part of the I Am Ahwooga Facebook Group, please [...]
Live support chat now available on Ahwooga
Today we installed a Live support chat feature on the site. With 85% of all visits to the site being first time visitors, we knew there was a need for more support than a contact form or an e-mail address.
This is a very simple program to use for the person requesting the chat and [...]
Managing Multiple Social Media’s – Tip. Hoot Suite
Managing your social online presence can be very time consuming and with multiple ID’s and different sites to post on, just the time to navigate to the sites can become a chore. We know this first hand here at Ahwooga HQ, because we had to find a way to become more effective with less available [...]
Aviation parts are now on the site
As of last week we added aviation parts to the site.
We got a call from a very nice gentleman in Texas that sells parts and manuals for planes that was interested in our site. Originally we had not offered this category when when we launched the site. So the staff sat down to discuss if [...]
We have really been picking up speed at Ahwooga
As always we have been keeping a close eye on the progress of our young site. Ahwooga just turned 7 months old and is continuing to pick up speed and momentum.
In previous posts to this blog I have shared things that our team has done to improve the site. As always, I want to [...]
We have never been known to toot our own horn.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Where to Buy Parts for New and Used Cars?
Ahwooga is quickly becoming the place. Our goal to build a sellers friendly place to list and purchase parts for “things that move you” is really taking shape. With the help of a lot of sellers combined with the power of search engines, visitors are engaging our site. Through out the day while monitoring our [...]
What the heck is Google Shopping you ask?
One of the cool features of the site that we keep posting about is Google Shopping. More than one customer we have asked, “What the heck is Google shopping?
Google search results change depending on the search term you type in to a search. For a product search such as “87 Mustang GTX V-Fiber Body Kit” [...]
Google Shopping feeds are back up!!!!
As of this morning, 95% of the products on the site are displaying inside of Google Shopping. I’m not going to run out and get a Google Tat just yet since I’m less than happy with what it took to redesign the process. What is very cool is the increased percent of products that [...]
The Facebook Group I AM AHWOOGA Episode 3 video.
The I AM Ahwooga Episode 3 video is up!
We had a great time with this one. A lot more random vehicles with a “Pet” feature.
Thanks to everyone who has uploaded pictures to the group. It really is cool to see the diversity and then share a slideshow.
We tried to get everyone we had missed before [...]
The Chicken and the Ahwooga Egg.
Before we launched Ahwooga.com, we knew we needed to first have parts for people to find so they could purchase items from our sellers. In order to make sales we needed items, in order to get people to list items we needed sales. We call this our Chicken-Egg Theory.
It took some time for the site [...]
More sites changes went into effect today
Some more of many changes took today, here are some highlights.
When viewing a stores product listings, you can now click the store banner to go back to the stores home page
If you are in a products listing page, the link to the sellers storefront has been moved above the main picture to be at [...]
More changes on the way to Ahwooga.com
Today some big changes to the overall site appearance went into effect. The staff here at Ahwooga HQ have been listening to what our growing customer base has been sharing with us. With just three and a half months under our belt, it has been very exciting to have so many people really engaging with the site. [...]
Ahwooga went though some changes
We are always looking for way to enhance the sites performance and we recently made some changes.
1) News Blog now open in a new window and is no longer wrapped in the site.
2) Forums have been relocated to never – never land since they sucked.
3) Forum information will be relocated to News Blog.
4) About Us [...]
We thought this was awesome
Matt from Ponderosa Mustang called us and shared that he was going to Pensacola Mustang Show and wanted to know if he could pass out some Ahwooga shop towels to other vendors.
Joe screen printed some up and UPSed them to Matt.
Here is the video that Matt posted on Youtube. Thank you so much for helping [...]
