Traffic Nightmare!

[gadgy-tronix]

Hi,

I currently own .gadgy-tronix.co.uk but am looking to get more traffic each, day currently i have around 3-4 visitors a day & currently have seo going on it, i pay $30 a month for seo, i have paid in advance for 6 months, its been going on for 3 months so far & my seo guy said that by the end of the 6 months i should have around 50-60 visitors a day, is this good & does anybody have any suggestions about getting more traffic for free or for minimal costs.

Thank you
Charlie

 

[TheSlackers]

It's really very difficult to say what's good and what's bad, every market is different. $30 seems like peanuts to be honest and 50 - 60 visitors is very little, however if your conversion rate is 25% you might be happy with that?

 

[david64]

The title tags (which is the part of web pages which Google uses most to influence search results) of all the pages haven't been optimised in any way and there is only 3 links to the site. My guess would be that nothing has been done on this site.

The site also look half finished and doesn't have good usability.

 

[TheSlackers]

The title tags (which is the part of web pages which Google uses most to influence search results) of all the pages haven't been optimised in any way and there is only 3 links to the site. My guess would be that nothing has been done on this site.

The site also look half finished and doesn't have good usability.

To be honest i've not even looked at the page but $30 wouldn't even buy half an hour of a good SEO's time so I'm hardly suprised.

Charlie - the major thing to remember is that it doesn't matter if you get 20 hits a day or 20,000 it's sales you need.

 

[gadgy-tronix]

To be honest i've not even looked at the page but $30 wouldn't even buy half an hour of a good SEO's time so I'm hardly suprised.

Charlie - the major thing to remember is that it doesn't matter if you get 20 hits a day or 20,000 it's sales you need.

Yes, but traffic = sales & if i start making money on this current website then i am going to upgrade it to magneto or oscommerce, but so far i've only made 000000000 money so if theres any of you that can help me with this i will be willing to pay you if you can get me results.

Thank you

 

Yes, but traffic = sales & if i start making money on this current website then i am going to upgrade it to magneto or oscommerce, but so far i've only made 000000000 money so if theres any of you that can help me with this i will be willing to pay you if you can get me results.

Thank you

No a good product that people want to buy = sales.

Traffic increases the amount of people who buy.

Earl

 

[TheSlackers]

Yes, but traffic = sales

Nope, sorry it doesn't! There are loads of factors which will influence the customers impulse to buy. Good product as Earl says but price, call to actions, perceived trustworthiness of the site, design, images, delivery times, how "qualified" the visitor is etc etc etc!

Why else do conversion rates between sites (or even pages on sites) vary so greatly ?

 

[fisicx]

As earl and slackers say, if nobody is buying then increasing the traffic isn't going make the slightest difference.

The site as it stands has got so many things wrong with it that likelihood of you actually selling anything is nil. I tried to buy something and paypal said you were unable to receive money. so even if I wanted a product, I can't buy it from you.

 

[gadgy-tronix]

Hi,
My paypal account got limited, as my website designer, who lives in pakistan went on it & apparently you are not allowed to have other countries accessing it, so im guna just probaly get it upgraded or with a new paypal account & give him the codes insted of him creatin them himself
thanx

 

[skyhi2]

Was just following the thread out of interest.

But your last post was alarming to say the least.

Why are you allowing anybody,let alone some dude half a world away,to access your account ?

He just put you out of business,as fis just pointed out.

That`s barmy.

Skyhi2

 

[TheSlackers]

I mean good luck with it all Charlie and I don't want to put you off but it seems you are at the bottom of a huge learning curve. You probably don't understand fully yourself how much more work you are going to have to put in over the coming years before you start to see results in terms of $.

 

[gadgy-tronix]

Was just following the thread out of interest.

But you last post was alarming to say the least.

Why are you allowing anybody,let alone some dude half a world away,to access your account ?

He just put you out of business,as fis just pointed out.

That`s barmy.

Skyhi2

Hi,

I allowed him to access my paypal account, it had no money in it, i changed the password to something different after he had finished & it had no bank accounts/credit cards or any other details on it. so it was fine.

 

[skyhi2]

OK,fair comment.

But you still can not sell anything on your site because of it.

You need to get it sorted as soon as possible though,so anyone who wants to buy,can.

Skyhi2

 

[david64]

I mean good luck with it all Charlie and I don't want to put you off but it seems you are at the bottom of a huge learning curve. You probably don't understand fully yourself how much more work you are going to have to put in over the coming years before you start to see results in terms of $.

Would very much agree with that. I've seen plenty of eCommerce site working on all sorts of budgets and the amount spent on the site is without doubt the main factor in how successful the site will be. So long as you're not doing anything stupid.

£5,000 is what you need to get a fairly good eCommerce site that just doesn't look like its belched out, but even that isn't much investment in the site. Then in most cases, there is constant need for investment in the site on an on-going basis.

The succesful eCom sites I've seen have all invested quite serrious money into them and they all also had someone who is knowlegable about servers, dev and SEO in-house.

 

[gadgy-tronix]

i know but the problem with paypal is there crap, i meen if they don't let you look at your account on holiday then whats the point & i'm somebody who likes his holidays!

 

[eprint]

Hi,

Firstly, I think your SEO guy is having you over, stop paying him!

As ever Earl is correct, but having seen your site a couple of things would deter me from buying from you.

1) No landline number only a mobile, why are you on the move are you gonna be on the move with my cash?

2) Email address ... live? do you not take your business serious because if you don't customers wont.

You can run your own ppc campaign and use google tools to promote your own site, just takes a little bit of effort.

And also Google ads .. would never advise a business to run random ads you could advertise your competition.

Best of luck

 

[fisicx]

i know but the problem with paypal is there crap, i meen if they don't let you look at your account on holiday then whats the point & i'm somebody who likes his holidays!

I've never had a problem accessing paypal from different locations. It seems like sombody is telling you porkies.

You really need to take stock and consider your online future. The site as it stands isn't going to survive so as David suggests you will either have to invest a lot of time and money to make it work or find another enterprise.

Don't forget, that it is going to take you at least a couple of years to become established so you aren't realistically going to make a profit until year 3.

 

[gadgy-tronix]

actually i sold 2 things today from the site, so im quite pleased with that & i have arranged to get the site upgraded to oscommerce & pumping in $150 a month into it for seo for 7 months.

Thanx guyz

 

[eventdomain]

The title tags (which is the part of web pages which Google uses most to influence search results) of all the pages haven't been optimised in any way and there is only 3 links to the site. My guess would be that nothing has been done on this site.

The site also look half finished and doesn't have good usability.

Agreed, 3 links is nothing eg: my company has 1000's of links pointing to it, so you must get more links just like everyone else is trying to do.

But its definetely getting tougher to do now. Suggest getting 'any links' to begin with, then on-target links and sticking with that mostly, even if it means buying links, do it!

 

[fisicx]

...i have arranged to get the site upgraded to oscommerce & pumping in $150 a month into it for seo for 7 months.

Pleased you sold some stuff but spending $150/month right now is just barmy. OS commerce is the wrong platform to use (even if it is free), you will be much better off paying for a good quality e-commerce platform because of the long term benefits.

 

[TheSlackers]

actually i sold 2 things today from the site, so im quite pleased with that & i have arranged to get the site upgraded to oscommerce & pumping in $150 a month into it for seo for 7 months.

Thanx guyz

Great news on 2 sales, that's better than some of my sites did yesterday Seriously though Charlie you need to do a lot more reading and learning before uping your budget in my opinion. Why not try to develop a plan for the next couple of years and shop around for designers and SEos?

 

[Stampy]

How are you making sales if you can't accept money? I just tried and it said that you couldn't accept payment.

It doesn't actually look that bad as a site, but I wouldn't buy an expensive product with the limited details that you're providing, and I also wouldn't feel comfortable purchasing from a site that doesn't have a checkout process to take my details. Unless I've missed something.

I disagree with the posts that you have to spend £5000 for an ecommerce solution. I run several relatively successful sites that use open source shopping carts (Magento, Zen and Prestashop). They may take a lot of work to get going and tweak, but I'm happy to put that type of work in.

 

[directmarketingadvice]

I'm no SEO, but I find it interesting that the adsense ads on the homepage have nothing to do with what you're selling.

(the ones I'm seeing are for "free email templates" and "motivate staff")

So, I reckon Google might be having trouble figuring out what the page is about. And, if that's the case, I'd guess the onpage SEO isn't up to much.

Steve