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    Revamped site - no sales. Why?

    Don't worry about not having many (if any) meta keywords Google and the other major search engines dropped support of that tag in 2002. The main places to concentrate on for search terms are title tag for each page and visible text content. You should also have a different meta description for...
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    Revamped site - no sales. Why?

    Hi Gercam, I've just caught up with your thread and looked at all the comments and advice you've received so far. I can see you've altered the 'add to bag' to 'buy now' as suggested. There are no prizes in e-commerce for being different, the only metric that really counts is a sale and...
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    Is SEO all about Google?

    SEO is as much about understanding your target market as which search engine to optimise for. If your website is technically optimised, i.e. coded to be as search engine friendly as it can be, then it's all about the search terms your prospective customers are using to look for your products...
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    Paypal Rant!!!!

    I think that it's little things like that event which continue to cause PayPal to still not be considered as a 'proper' online payments provider for business. I reckon PayPal is really good when you start off an internet business so you can dip your toe in the water and build up a customer base...
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    Protx or Datacash or stay with epdq ?

    You need to be sure that Streamline have quoted for internet sales rather than Cardholder Not Present (CNP). Rates and terms are different for each and contravening them can mean you lose your merchant account - if you do you are at risk of being black-listed from ALL merchant account providers...
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    No Sales but why???

    "nothing to do with locality" Hi Geester, I assume you're referring to my example of our client in Oxford. That was just an example of what was relevant to his business, he doesn't want people from Caithness ringing him up all day because it would waste his time. We're both in...
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    No Sales but why???

    Hi Rebecca, Apart from the look and feel letting your site down there are fundamental problems with it for ongoing indexing by the search engines. This means that it's unlikely you'll ever get decent ranking and therefore very few buying visitors. As has been mentioned in another reply you...
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    Anyone Involved In An E-Business

    If you want something that can be used as a professional mail/phone/online order processing system then try looking at http://www.newbroomsoftware.com/ Most of the e-commerce software systems include some form of order processing and tracking as standard, so that may be sufficient for your...
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    anyone w/experience of www.nochex.com for taking payments?

    Hi Carolyn, I assume you've directed your question to me? The simplest way to proceed if you're planning to add a new shopping cart is to use one that is already integrated into Nochex. This will make the process very easy in that you won't need to add any buttons and your customers...
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    Choosing an Online Payment Processor

    Hi Nick, This is something that we have addressed recently. We're phasing in new payment pages etc. which include all the information that you're looking for. This will be well underway soon so if you decide you'd like to take another look at Nochex please feel free. There is a large...
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    Choosing an Online Payment Processor

    Hi Stuart, The reason the website only says 'get in touch' is because we tailor the service to suit your needs rather than providing a prescribed level of features. We will be rationalising our product offer soon, however, in the meantime I can tell you that we can be flexible on a number...
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    Accepting Credit Cards for startup businesses

    I understand your point of view, Ozzy, and I feel its something that a lot of new entrants to e-commerce often overlook when deciding which store-builder package to use. I would urge anyone who isn't using an internet merchant/psp such as NOCHEX to ensure that any credit card details are...
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    Accepting Credit Cards for startup businesses

    Hi Neil, Currently, the NOCHEX payment page works in a similar manner to PayPal's UK system. However, we have introduced a much more streamlined and flexible payment page. This can be tailored to match your own site's look and feel, allowing header, footer and left and right columns to be...
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    Accepting Credit Cards for startup businesses

    Hi Mark (and everyone else), I don't mean to be picky, but our rates at NOCHEX are only 2.6% plus 20p compared to 3.4% plus 20p. In fact you have to be processing over £15,000 per month before PayPal's rates are lower than our standard ones. By that time we'd expect you to have start to...
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    Choosing an Online Payment Processor

    Interesting thread and it highlights that there many differing views about online card processing. We at NOCHEX are keen to work with internet vendors to provide merchant accounts that are equivalent to Worldpay's World Direct account (i.e. combined merchant account and payment gateway)...
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