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[Pritties]

Hiya
We have our website with WebEasyCommerce, but was looking to see if there were any better sites out there.
We sell hair and fashion accessories and have approx 1000+ products. We are struggling on the search engine side and would like to know if their was any other company better suited for us to get our name higher in the searches. We have google base and use it but if you search for hair accessories or fashion etc you will not find us, we seem to only be found through some specific items.
Also we can get reports etc to see how many customers have visited etc but one thing it doesnt seem to do is let us know who is on our site, where they are looking, how long they are there, what page they are on, on our site when they leave as we would like to see if there is any problems on our site that may make a potential customer leave.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance

[othellotech]

if you search for hair accessories or fashion etc you will not find us, we seem to only be found through some specific item

If you provide your domain name, as few of us could look at the page content, it *might* be something simple you've not setup that is stopping you being found, it might be a fundamental problem with the application, or it could be that you need some SEO/SEM work ...

[Pritties]

If you provide your domain name, as few of us could look at the page content, it *might* be something simple you've not setup that is stopping you being found, it might be a fundamental problem with the application, or it could be that you need some SEO/SEM work ...

Hiya
Yes it will not let me put the link on as I have not made 15 posts.
The site is called pritties accessories
Thanks again

[Zeal]

:edit:

For those who need the link: www.pritties.com (http://www.pritties.com/)


You need to make your content more keyword friendly.

Meta tags don't play a massive amount now-a-days... but you need to think about how many sites out there and how long they've been out there who have "hair clips, hair bands" as keywords.

You mention your specific keywords, have you done a test to see how many times a day these words are searched for? If it's a decent amount - build on this, use a PPC campaign to extend on this.

Post articles, write on blogs, maybe start your own - these all help with improving your rank.

There's loads of decent chaps on here who know about "SEO", check in the forum sub-section for tips & advice. (http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=83)

[Pritties]

:edit:

Thank you Zeal for putting the link :)
Also thanks for the advice will look at all this now.
Thanks again

[othellotech]

I'd suggest moving the description to next to the product above the add-to-cart stuff - took me a while to realise there was a description as it requires a scroll-down

- not seo related, but f"friendlier" for the visitors, which are the people that matter ...

[liams7]

Hiya
if you search for hair accessories or fashion etc you will not find us

This is all to do with SEO. you are trying to rank for something really competitive so it wont be easy to get to the top.

[Big Pete]

You have wasted your biggest area for hitting search terms in your opening page, also it looks bad the size of letters etc.suggest you work on that and push a search term hard , try and see if there is a niche search term you can push,as its a competitive market your in.....<b>Your online shop for all Hair, Jewellery and Beauty needs. We have a huge range of accessories ranging from celebrity inspired fashion accessories to a truly elegant wedding collection. We have a full range of accessories for all budgets. We pride ourselves on good quality merchandise at excellent prices, combined with a personal customer service ethos.<b>Not good..

[Pritties]

Hiya
Thank you everyone
othellotech - totally agree, never been pulled up on that but it is definately correct, unless they do scroll down they will not see it.

Big Pete - Thank you. Will look at the size etc, like you say needs to look better. Also yes our text on the front page could be used alot better. I put that there as it was from our old site, but think that needs scrapping and use it to our advantage, search wise.

Thanks again eveyone, like I say still learning with this so all advice will be taking on board. :)

[Raw Rob]

Also we can get reports etc to see how many customers have visited etc but one thing it doesnt seem to do is let us know who is on our site, where they are looking, how long they are there, what page they are on, on our site when they leave as we would like to see if there is any problems on our site that may make a potential customer leave.
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance

You get that kind of information from an analytics package. Google Analytics (http://www.google.com/analytics/) is the most popular as it is free and easy to use, although I personally use Piwik (http://piwik.org/) which is open source (free) and doesn't involve sharing your data with Google but is a bit harder to set up.

Rob

[Pritties]

Hiya
Thanks for that Rob.
Cant find the right part of the forum to ask this but looking at Linnworks for stock control betwen two sites. The only problem we have is under one item with have colour choice and from what I know they would not recognise this.
For example if I have a headband under id 2000 then the colours would be 2000R for red, 2000B for blue etc. Does anybody know of something like Linnworks that would do the stock control on the different colours or if you know that linnworks does this.
Sorry about this hope you understand the message. If this is not the right place to ask would you please can you let me know the best place.

Thanks again, Im so glad I found this forum :D