LimeSpot has some built in placements for specific Shopify themes that we have pre-loaded to match the look and feel for your store's theme. However, we also have done some market research studies that focuses on the placements of the recommendation boxes.
The findings show that with the increased use of smartphones over the last decade, human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in 2000, around the time the mobile revolution began, to 8 seconds, 1 second less than that of a goldfish. To adapt to these changes, many eCommerce stores today achieve/maintain high levels of conversions by keeping a customer-friendly layout and “eye-catching” placement of the most relevant product recommendations category.
Home Page
Most Popular - 2nd or 3rd section of the page
Featured Collection or You May Like - 4th or 5th section of the page
Recent Views - above the footer or last section of the page
Collection Page
Most Popular - below the collection title, above the product list
Recent Views - below the product list, above the footer
Product Page
Related Items/Frequently Bought Together - below the product description, above the reviews section
Recent Views - below the Related Items/Frequently Bought Together
Cart Page
Upsell - above the cart items
Related Items/Frequently Bought Together - below the cart items
Recent Views - below the Related Items/Frequently Bought Together
eCommerce industry leaders such as Amazon, eBay and Walmart are successfully applying these placements of the recommendation box described above and achieve great results for their shops. On our end, we have tested this strategy with many of our app users and achieved great test results as well.
Sample A: Collection pages have Most Popular Items at the top of the page before the product lists
Sample B: Product Pages have the Related Items/Frequently Bought Together/Recent Views above the reviews and right below the product description
We highly recommend you to try the suggested recommendation box placement applied by our team for 2 weeks and compare results. However, if you still would like to revert these placements please let us know and we would be happy to make the necessary adjustments for you in your Box Designer. (chat with us or email us at [email protected])
Tip: Learn more about how to change the placements of the recommendation boxes on this article.