When you are looking to boost conversions for your ecommerce site, it can be so easy to overlook the most seemingly obvious, but also simple details. Certainly, many website owners don’t put enough effort into ensuring their product images are truly conversion-worthy.
Here are at least five things that you can do to make sure your product images play their own part in boosting sales from your ecommerce site.
- Make your images relevant and high quality
This might seem to be very generic advice, but there are certain ‘conventions’ followed by the big ecommerce stores that are worth following for your images. Amazon, for example, sets out a list of requirements for images, including that they must be professional images of the actual product being sold, as well as in focus, in frame and with no confusing additional objects.
- Include several angles
For many products, your ecommerce store will be competing with physical stores that give the customer the luxury of handling the item and examining it from several angles. While the former is not possible with online product images, you can give your customers a measure of the latter experience by simply showing photos taken from multiple angles.
- Give a sense of context and scale
When a product is shown against a white background, it isn’t always obvious what size the product is, or how it would look in context – so why not show at least one image that gives a sense of this? While a depiction of your product against a neutral white background is probably still the best choice for your main image, an in-context image – such as a TV on a stand in a home setting – could make a great second photo.
- Show each colour or option
This is an especially relevant option for items of clothing, where it may not be clear how the given product actually looks in a certain colour when being worn by someone. Show your customers a separate image of the product for each colour in which it is available, and they may well be surprised by how that product truly appears.
- Make materials and details clear
Does the product that you’re selling have certain features, finishes or detailing that may influence the customer’s buying decision? If so, don’t leave them struggling to zoom in on your image to examine such aspects of the product – just take separate close-up images of those areas so that they don’t need to make the effort.
As we are well-placed to realise here at Piranha Designs, even the finest details can make a big difference to the impression made by your ecommerce site on the people that matter. Learn more about our ecommerce website design solutions today and what they could mean for your firm.
