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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
From extra sales and higher conversion rates to increased average order values and improved customer loyalty, there are lots of reasons to implement eCommerce popups.
However, if you add popups to your store without a plan and just start deploying them for the sake of it, you could end up hurting your business.
In this guide to eCommerce popups, you’ll find out how to use this website feature effectively. You’ll learn about the different types of popups you can create, the essentials of popup design, and the practicalities of adding popup functionality to your eCommerce store.
Learn About Implementing eCommerce Popups
This was one of the most informative tutorials I've ever seen on the WordPress block editor, and how to code custom layouts with it.
Brian Coords recorded it as a response to Kevin Geary's: "I Tried Building a Layout With the WordPress Block Editor & It Didn't Go Well".
In it, he builds the demo layout using core blocks and a few lines of CSS and discusses alignments and widths, semantic elements, flexbox tools for layout, and custom CSS.
He also wrote a blog post on the result and embedded the final result within it, which is easy to do if you're using blocks.
Learn How to Build an Example Layout in Gutenberg
Google is capable of crawling pages that utilize infinite scrolling to a certain extent.
However, there are limitations to how much infinite scrolling Googlebot is able to handle.
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller replied to a series of questions about paginated content.
The full response is available in this time stamped video.
In it, he also states that the best way to find out how much of the page Google can crawl is to use the URL Inspection tool.
Discover How Google Crawls Pages with Infinite Scrolling
Ahrefs have a totally free broken link checker tool, and you don't need a subscription to use it.
You can check your site for broken inbound and outbound links in seconds. You can instantly see every broken link on your site and sort and filter the list to prioritize fixes.
It's also possible to run daily, weekly or monthly crawls to check for new dead links — both internal and external.
Check out the Broken Link Checker from Ahrefs
Designer Junhan Sim stumbled upon a design trend of using small graphical elements within the homepage’s hero section.
These small graphical elements are often used to compliment the website’s hero message, and when done right, it can help setting the tone, and further amplify the look and feel of the website.
He has collected 10 excellent examples of how it’s being applied.
Explore the Latest Web Design Trend
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