My Shopify store stopped selling all of a Sudden. Advice please!

Hi there, :slightly_smiling_face:

My store is based in the UK and mainly target customers from the UK. The store link is: https://missandtrendy.co.uk/

It has been almost a year now, since launching the store. Mindset that my marketing strategy is based on SEO, therefore customers issued from organic search only. Well, after 3-4 months of launching the store, I started receiving orders. I would then monitor the analytic stats to understand my customers’ behaviours. I realised that 1 out 5 customers from the UK visiting my store from Google search would place an order on their very first visit and I would actually get 5 visits max/per day, which is very little but satisfying for a start as the store was converting very well. 1 out of 5 is a 20% conversion rate, meaning, ( Appealing products, good UX design and customer service) from my understanding. Correct me if I am wrong please. I’ll appreciate it.

By the way, I have to mention that, I never received a single complaint inbox or by phone from my converted customers or even a returned item. The only case is a customer that bought an out of stock item from the store. I issued the refund straight away, explained the situation to him by mail and apologised. The customer then visited the website again by own initiative the next day, chose and bought a different item from the store successfully. Great!

Now the issue is that. All of a sudden. After almost 4 months of receiving few visits and converting high (1 out 5 customers placing orders). My store stopped selling on the 15/07/2022. I have not received a single order since then, besides that I am getting almost no traffic from the UK.

I have been working hard on SEO and can find my store on google with several decent long tail relevant niche keywords such as:

affordable aviator sunglasses for men london - Google page 1
shatterproof sunglasses London - Google page 1
shatterproof sunglasses sport - Google Page 1
sunglasses gooddies ladies - Google page 1

sunglasses gooddies - Google page 1

unisex aviator sunglasses london - Google page 1
aviator sunglasses for men london - Google page 1
aviator sunglasses london - Google page 1

classic sunglasses london - Google page 1

classic sunglasses London UK - Google page 1

bamboo sunglasses London - Google page 1

wooden sunglasses London - Google page 2

shatterproof sunglasses UK Google page 2

women’s aviator sunglasses london - Google 1st position page 2

sport sunglasses london - Google page 3
classic sunglasses UK - Google page 3

men’s aviator sunglasses london - Google page 3

unisex sunglasses london - Google page 4
unisex aviator sunglasses - Google page 4

affordable aviator sunglasses London - Google page 4

affordable aviator sunglasses - Google page 5

Actions taken:

  1. I have tried to be calm and monitor the situation, but I still can’t find where the issue comes from. I contacted Shopify to double check my store. They could not find anything weird either.
  2. I have even reverted my store version to 1 week before the last order happens. Still nothing has changed.
  3. Double checked the checkout. Everything is on point.
  4. Looked for bad reviews. Nothing showing up

My question is: Since, I am outsourcing my store developer from India. Should I be worried about this? I have always used the same developer since day one.

The second question: Any advice out there?

Sorry guys for the long message.

Please let me know
Thank you! :folded_hands:
Mathieu

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Did you ever get to the bottom of this? I’m having the same issue. Getting loads of sales, then it’s like someone flicked a switch. Then randomly had a great weekend of sales, then on the Monday the sales stopped again?

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Same Same, what theme are you using? Flicked the switch is the exact wording I would agree for explaining this same situation with my store.. have you had any changes or solved the issue ? My store also dropped out of sales from July onward

I’m using Debut. Strange as my store stopped working 15/8/22…then oct 21-24 went crazy, 24th someone hit that switch again??

I’m now speaking to a shopify expert. Lets see if they can help. If not, over to woocommerce

I have contacted shopify almost every day lately for answers and still nothing, good luck hopefully some news of technical issue solved because there seems to be a an obvious glitch in the system somewhere

Just had first reply, didn’t know what the issue was. They didn’t login and check logs??? So i’ll look at moving my site…great!!

Oh dear, how long you have been running your store

This one, since june. But i have another site on woocommerce that’s been running for 10yrs.

Have you got google ads running?

I have google and facebook ads with no sales :disappointed_face:

not paying for any ads no, but do have a steady flow of site visitors, that is what is surprising this time of year usually the biggest but honestly down 100%

What SEO app are you using?

Not using any SEO apps

Bang goes that theory then :disappointed_face: