looking for e-commerce solution can you help?

[alexjim]

Hi all, I have launch an online shop however it not bringing much traffic, the system used is an eshop which is not very search engine friendly and I think the overall website need to more content. Can you tell me what solution will best to used for my ecommerce lot of people talk about zen cart, oscommerce and the like which one would you recomend you can see my shop at claude-celeste.co.uk. I am open to any comments bad or good. I want to make this business work the products are brilliant its just the website who is letting me down, Thanks

Alex

[quikshop]

Hi Alex,

A good idea is to list all of the must-have features you want your shop to have, i.e. comprehensive search page, customer accounts, built-in newsletter feature etc and then see which of the Ecommerce solutions fit the bill.

Open source is a great choice if you are happy to get your hands dirty with customisation and coding - I've heard Zencart is one of the best open source products at the moment.

If you prefer focusing on running your business rather than tinkering around with open source, perhaps a hosted Ecommerce solution (http://www.internetretailer.biz) such as our own, Open Mind (http://www.openmindcommerce.co.uk) Commerce or a managed solution such as Paul's AWebApart (http://www.awebapart.com) might be a good choice.

As always, if you have a bucket of money that you absolutely must spend then it might be worth having a custom online shop created for you by a web design agency.

[PointandStare]

And so the flood gates open with all the "what you should do is use me!" posts!

:)

[openmind]

And so the flood gates open with all the "what you should do is use me!" posts!

:)

Don't need to, Dave did it for me :)

[quikshop]

And so the flood gates open with all the "what you should do is use me!" posts!

:)

/jumps up and down waving arms around "use meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" :D

[business9amuk]

I use 123reg's package for ecommerence, no problem and its great.

[geckorouge]

I use 123reg's package for ecommerence, no problem and its great.


I use 123 aswell but I think my customers dont like it. Well I say customers when I should say visitors.

[geckorouge]

I use 123 aswell but I think my customers dont like it. Well I say customers when I should say visitors.


So is AlexJims site claude-celeste.co.uk by the looks of it!

[alexjim]

Thanks I use an eshop system the problem is that it isn't very flexible when it come to make it search engine friendly to find do you find that with the 123 reg package. if you look at the products url on my website it is not the best search engine.

[geckorouge]

Thanks I use an eshop system the problem is that it isn't very flexible when it come to make it search engine friendly to find do you find that with the 123 reg package. if you look at the products url on my website it is not the best search engine.


The system you use is the same as the one that 123 use. If you have a look at my site geckorouge. com you will see that its the same system but different template. I have worked out how to get it indexed by google - every product i have put for example Birthday Cake - Original Cross Stitch kit. That way every product i have listed says Cross stitch kit in the title. So that now when someone types birthday cake cross stitch kit my one comes up to the top of the search out of 76,500 listings. Still I have goodish search rankings and have a pagerank of 2 and my site is only 4 months old. my trouble is converting them in to sales

[bluecm]

If you're looking for a simple solution quick to set up and no initial fees try http://www.shopify.com. If you're looking for a fully customised ecommerce system then feel free to contact us for a chat.

A few of the sites we've produced on behalf of clients.

http://www.thebassbin.com/
http://www.boutiquebabylon.co.uk/
http://www.hellobeads.co.uk/

Hope this helps

[edmondscommerce]

use me :-)

[acumenInfotech]

Dear Alex,

I hope this may find you helpful. If your aim is to maximize sales through online channel you can have multiple webshops. You can host your products on our on-demand ecommerce solution wihtout investing for designing, development.

Regards
Frank
Acumen Infotech