• The Challenges Of Content Marketing For Ecommerce Brands

    Creating great content has many benefits. However, keeping a successful content strategy is a different challenge. This is especially true when resources are limited; your position in the business can also be tricky if your responsibility is broad and spread thinly across verticals. Gathering focus, momentum, and cadence is key, as is making time to…

  • Building An Ecommerce Content Strategy For A Shopify Website

    A well-structured article for your customers can be a powerful tool for ecommerce teams. Beyond just driving traffic, it can help to establish brand authority, engage customers, and boost conversions. However, creating a successful content strategy for a Shopify website comes with both opportunities and challenges. This area of digital has always been important to…

  • Plasmaide Joins The blubolt Fold!

    Welcome aboard Plasmaide. We’re excited to announce that Plasmaide – a human movement company focused on blood health – has joined the blubolt family! Plasmaide: about the brand. Plasmaide is at the forefront of blood health innovation, offering a cutting-edge plant-based liquid adaptogen designed to support circulation, endurance, and recovery. By leveraging natural ingredients, including pine bark…

  • 7 Core Technical SEO Challenges For Shopify Websites & How To Fix Them

    There’s no doubt Shopify is a powerful ecommerce platform, but it comes with its own set of technical SEO challenges that website owners must address to improve search rankings and user experience. Many of these limitations are inherent to a Shopify website’s structure, making it essential to understand and work within these constraints to ensure…

  • 7 Common Mistakes To Avoid In Ecommerce CRO – Learnings From My Experience

    Over the years, I’ve seen countless CRO experiments deliver underwhelming results, not because the ideas were lacking or unjust but because the wrong metrics were measured or critical insights were missed during testing. It’s a tough lesson, but one that highlights why measuring micro and nano conversions is just as important as tracking the final conversion rate.…

  • What Is A Good Ecommerce Conversion Rate? Industry Benchmarks For 2025

    Understanding ecommerce conversion rates is essential for businesses looking to benchmark their performance and identify areas for improvement. While the overall UK ecommerce conversion rate stands at 3.4% (Sources: VWO, Shopify), industry-specific benchmarks vary widely due to factors such as purchase intent, product type, and price sensitivity. Industry-specific conversion rate benchmarks. The list below provides a breakdown…

  • Micro & Nano Conversions – The Hidden Drivers Of Ecommerce Growth

    In my career, I’ve had conversations about heatmaps and scroll depths shut down by executive teams. For example, the nuances of a landing page or the intricate details of a customer journey are often dismissed in favour of broader business objectives like Gross Profit and Revenue and heavily influenced by marketing budgets and stock availability.…

  • Which Off-Site Factors Affect Ecommerce Conversion Rates?

    It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when I first started thinking deeply about customer behaviour and the patterns that influence website performance. I believe it was sometime around 2007-2008, during the onset of the UK recession. At the time, there were widespread discussions about government funding cuts in various sectors – one of which was the…

  • CRO Agency – What Should You Expect?

    Ecommerce is an increasingly competitive space, with businesses investing heavily in acquiring traffic. Yet, many fail to convert more than two in every one hundred visitors. This is where Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is important. Partnering with a CRO agency can change the game for an ecommerce business. A CRO agency can improve your website’s performance. They…

  • Top 7 CRO Platforms For Shopify Ecommerce Websites

    Choosing the right Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) platform is critical for ecommerce businesses aiming to increase conversions and enhance user journeys. These tools empower businesses, their teams and supporting CRO agencies to experiment, personalise, and refine their websites based on actionable data and evidence. We’ve outlined our top seven CRO platforms for Shopify ecommerce websites,…

  • How To Create A Data-Driven CRO Strategy: 7 Essential Steps

    Creating a data-driven Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) strategy can feel like a daunting task, but it doesn’t need to be. A solid conversion optimisation strategy empowers businesses to align efforts with user data, driving impactful changes. At its core, a data-driven CRO strategy is about leveraging evidence, both quantitative and qualitative, to inform decisions and…

  • Unlocking Revenue Growth – Introducing Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) To Your Ecommerce Business

    Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) is often one of the most underestimated strategies for driving revenue growth in ecommerce, influencing metrics like website conversion rate, ecommerce conversion rate, and overall user engagement. Many businesses focus on ad spending and getting more traffic. However, CRO looks at a key question: how can you get the most value…