Friday 17 October 2014

Mistakes you should Avoid Making while Working on Magento

Today, the trend of online shopping is on the rise, and people are embracing this shopping style with both hands open with bliss. While developing an Ecommerce store, the focus should be on customer satisfaction. A customer-friendly, rich in content, exquisitely designed and developed website should be created. Your website should neither be fuzzy nor too bright.

Your website should be designed to perfection leaving out all those grave mistakes which could be very harmful for your business. Your focus should be on minimizing those mistakes, so that you could offer a quality platform for the customers to shop.

Below mentioned are the three main categories of mistakes related to Magento websites:

SEO mistakes:

SEO mistakes in magento website

Not changing title of home page is one of the common mistakes. It is very important that you should change the title and turn it into something more relevant and useful.

One popular mistake that developers usually make is to leave the logo unchanged which appears on top left hand side of the webpage.

Making the sitemap using the sample products and categories, and uploading it on Google.
Not using the canonical URL’s and messing up the site with duplicity.

Having a layered navigation in a website, is a strict no-no for SEO.

Technical Mistakes:

Technical mistakes by magento developers

Changing the core files of Magento website in order to do speedy development. This alteration in core files can have adverse effect on a website.

Most of the developers disable the caching module while testing a module or plugin and during creation time. This should not be done, as it would prevent you from getting proper results.

Choosing a wrong hosting plan is also one of the frequent mistakes. The hosting plan should be selected in a manner which directly targets your audience.

Marketing Mistakes:

Marketing mistakes in magento website

Today, the social media has become very powerful. It is very important to promote your Magento website across all social platforms. Many website owners forget to use this medium.

The checkout process of your Magento website should be easy and comfortable so that customers could not leave your website in the mid-way.

Not providing proper and detailed information about products and services.


If you try to avoid these little and common mistakes; the quality of a Magento Ecommerce website can be improved very easily.

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