dpd1
msg:4062702 | 8:54 am on Jan 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Umm... Are you sure that was it? I'm having a hard time seeing how removing a number from products could quadruple sales. Are you sure you didn't do something else?
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jsinger
msg:4062791 | 1:14 pm on Jan 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Are those standardized stock numbers that customers would find useful, even search for? We know that many of our customers search for a specific stock number to get to our site and to navigate within our site to the item. What you're saying seems hard to believe.
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RhinoFish
msg:4062821 | 2:03 pm on Jan 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
could be price checkers were leaving and searching via stock number, but now they don't have the info to search...
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ytswy
msg:4062887 | 3:43 pm on Jan 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| could be price checkers were leaving and searching via stock number, but now they don't have the info to search... |
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heh, as someone who sells commodity products to a niche market, I normally omit the manufacturer part codes for this exact reason...
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rocknbil
msg:4063058 | 7:51 pm on Jan 18, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| showed the stock number for each item |
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Just to clarify, we're talking about say, an SKU here, not number of items in stock, correct? Seems pretty clear, but I have a reason for asking. :-)
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George
msg:4063591 | 3:28 pm on Jan 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Tedster. Long time no see :) I was just browsing, and posting my own question. After not being about for a few years and I spotted this. Knowing you, you have done the analysis. It seems quite incredible though. Can you furnish some more details please? If we are talking about an sku, I find if it is on the page:
a) customers can search for them
b) If they phone up we can easily identify the product they are looking at. I show them in a "details" tab, so they are not clear on the first page, but are there if people want it. Perhaps that is an alternative?
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Rugles
msg:4063634 | 4:47 pm on Jan 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Tedster, are people searching the SE's for part numbers and you are now showing up in the SERPS? I see that all the time.
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Seb7
msg:4063641 | 4:51 pm on Jan 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I think its due to the effect the change had on its SERPs listing. Did visits go up? check keyword sources too.
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Mesozoic
msg:4065950 | 9:34 pm on Jan 22, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Well it goes on to show that you should test everything even the seemingly mundane.
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Essex_boy
msg:4066500 | 8:53 pm on Jan 23, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Strange ! I once found tripling the price of a product to way over what you could buy a 'similar' product for in the shops sales went upwards..... Funny old world
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philbish
msg:4067014 | 1:03 am on Jan 25, 2010 (gmt 0) |
We don't have part numbers, and no one seems to mind, although I remember one guy with an engineering background on the phone who was furious there were no part numbers.
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tedster
msg:4070200 | 3:33 am on Jan 29, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Some more detail - I'm talking about eliminating company specific SKU numbers, not part numbers that might be part of a search. And I'm also not talking about search traffic. This site's business model is not search oriented. What increased was two things: 1. The conversions percentage popped - from a very healthy 11 percent to an almost obscenely good (for this site) 21 percent of all page visits. 2. The average sale - which also nearly doubled. The page's usability was always optimized to make multi-item purchases easy, but taking away the SKU seemed to make that even easier. These numbers are staying steady. Seems clear to me that the product names are now just jumping off the page for visitors (it's a long list of sale items). The first thing you see as you scan the list is an English word - the product name - rather than a record-keeping, geeky, alphanumeric character string. There was some concern when we made this change, because phone sales are almost as high website sales, and the missing SKUs might lead to confusion about what exactly the persona on the phone is trying to order. That turned out not to be a problem at all.
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