With the increase in
online buyers, almost retailers are shifting to eCommerce platforms. Today,
creating a new fully functioning WooCommerce website has become very easy,
thanks to WooCommerce support and tutorials.
But most of the time
while creating or managing the WooCommerce website, store owners commit small
mistakes that affect their online selling experience. Managing every aspect of
a WooCommerce website is a bit of a complex job.
If you want to know
more about how to set up a fully functioning WooCommere store then check our
blog on How
To Set Up A Fully Functioning WooCommerce Store Using WordPress?
Remember WooCommerce
mistakes have affected many online businesses. In Today’s online world where
you are trying to grab people’s attention using online channels, there is no
space for mistakes.
Therefore to overcome
the problem, we have listed some common WooCommerce mistakes done by almost
every retailer while creating eCommerce websites for their business. Rectifying
these WooCommerce mistakes will help you to optimize your website for SEO, gain
more customer’s trust and outrun your competitor business.
Here are the mistakes carried out by many WooCommerce store
owners:
1. Ignoring Staging site
Today most of the
newbies don’t have any idea about what a staging site is and what is the
importance of creating a staging website?
So, Before understanding why you should create a staging site for your
WooCommerce store. It is important to know what a staging site is?
In simple words. A
staging site is a clone of a live
website that is created to run various tests to identify errors on the
website. A developer creates a staging
site to avoid issues and downtime that can affect your reputation among the
audience. If you are using WordPress then you can create a staging site to test things like plugins, theme, code
status, etc.
Today, updating
WooCommerce to the latest version without testing it on a staging site can
create lots of problems. Most of the time websites face issues when the plugins
don’t fit with the updated version of WooCommerce or vice versa.
Our team has come
across many cases where the retailers have lost many orders due to issues
occurring after back-end updates. That’s
why whenever we deliver our website we create the staging site that can help
them in testing the updates before making it live for the audience.
Many online retailers
compare their website with blogging or standard websites. Due to that, they
ignore creating a staging site of their website. If you’re using a WooCommerce
website then remember an eCommerce website is complicated compared to a blog or
standard website.
So, before making your
website live in front of the audience check your eCommerce website working in a
staging site to make it more effective and error-free.
2. Neglecting to update plugins
If you want you to
optimize the buying and selling experience of your eCommerce website then keep
your plugins up to date. Most of the WooCommerce website owners neglect to
update their plugin but they forget that small ignorance can create large
issues.
There are times when
plugins provide updates to prevent a
website from security threats. If you fail to update your website then
there are chances that your website may face issues related to security.
Before updating your
website you can test it in the staging environment to check the effectiveness
of the plugin. There are other factors like avoiding plugin updates that can impact your website speed and there are
chances that your website payment and
shipping option may stop working which can affect your e-commerce website
sales.
So, always keep your
website plugin updated. If you think plugin update can affect your WooCommerce website then you can check the
website in the staging environment. Read
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