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Website usability is the ease with which a User Interface can be used by its intended audience to achieve defined goals. Usability incorporates many factors such as design, functionality, structure, information architecture, etc. People head to the Internet for several reasons, to research, compare and purchase products, or find and interact with other people. What is common among most online users is that they begin their online usage with a focused purpose, and that focus then bleeds over into surfing for things that interest them throughout the Web.
If you are into small ecommerce business online, then always keep in mind that you're trying to sell products.
Putting product demos on your website has a tremendous impact on your prospective customers. What's visually attractive to you may be just as attractive to your customers . Always test product shots on friends, family, or co-workers to see what they think. If you happen to run out of ideas about how to display your products, look around at other successful retail Websites to see how they do it.
An overlooked reason for their success may be their product shots.
Optimizing your Website for both search engines and people needn't be a price to pay. There's significant overlap between the tasks required to reach these two objectives, and this overlap can be used to your advantage. It shouldn't be too challenging to create a Website that users can find easily via the search engines, and use once they reach it. Just remember, no one wants to buy or invest in any product that
doesn't look attractive or poorly demonstrated on your website. Therefore make sure your products are well documented with appropriate demos to back them up and worth buying.
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