Silverado05 Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 Hello :thumbsup: Just curious about this and I know this will varify, but how long did it take for you to start getting business after your store went live. Also how long has your store been live and how much business have you got since it went live. Just curious as to what to expect when I open my store to go live. I know I will have alot of SEO work to do and I am aware of that. -Thanks Search the forum and contributions before posting. If that doesn't work, keep looking, then post. The forum is for seeking help and advice NOT for someone to do your work for you. Try to do something on your on, if you are going to run a shop then learn how it works.
richandzhaoyan Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 Depends on whether or not you are prepared to wait on "organic" search engine traffic. If your prices are right and your site is up to scratch - google adsense and possibly froogle - could get you sales almost instantly. With regards to the search engines - you could be in for a slightly longer wait. It is possible to get your site listed within about a week - (sure plenty of others will have their own ideas on how long this takes) - but to rank well for conversion hitting terms depends alot on your product range/competition/prices/ - ahh well, the list is endless. Personally, my site has been live for just coming up to 2 years - How much business? - Enough to keep me busy (very!) - How much work do I still have to do? Lots - To be successful you got to keep plugging away. I thought when I started that after the couple of months setting it up, I was all done! No chance, my list of things to do is longer now than ever before. Good luck and let us know when that first sale comes through - it is allways the most exciting. Cheers, Rich Only Dead Fish Go With The Flow......
custodian Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 Hello :thumbsup: Just curious about this and I know this will varify, but how long did it take for you to start getting business after your store went live. Also how long has your store been live and how much business have you got since it went live. Just curious as to what to expect when I open my store to go live. I know I will have alot of SEO work to do and I am aware of that. -Thanks I opened my first shop about 4 months ago. Half my links were incomplete and some features still did not work and I was already getting orders and they haven't stopped. That was my main reason for upgrading to osCommerce, just as I finished the other shop I had already out grown it's ability. That traffic was all from a $2.00 a day budget to AdWords, which is now a $30 a day Adword budget, $10 day Overture, printed mailers , Froogle, Google Base and more. It was all my wife's idea - she laughs that I get to tell all my friends that I sell dolly's lol - well not exactly just dolls, but we do sell some. I knew I should have taken Sewing in high school :) My Contributions Henry Smith
Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Posted March 15, 2006 My sites been up about a month and only has 500 of the 25000 products I have to sell listed. Google hasnt really indexed the site properly yet. Its done the first page and the bot visits often but I think there some issue I need to look at. So far I've had a small amount of sales, half from Froogle and the other half coming via my eBay shop. If I could get the rest of my products uploaded and work out why google hasnt indexed the rest of my pages then I think I'll be okay. I will use adwords, but there's no point until the entire range is listed. The next steps would be to invest in some traditional adverts in relevant magazines, etc. Its quite an exciting stage now and its taken a long time to get here. I will be giving it a year from now to see what sort of realistic turnover it can expect. Good luck with your site and keep plugging away!
Guest Posted March 15, 2006 Posted March 15, 2006 We are seeing good traffice from MSN and Yahoo now (since Jan/06), much better than our first store. On top of all the things above it is also based on the keywords you choose. If the keywords are competative, it will take longer. If your keywords are not searched for, then you are wasting your time. Our keywords are "coffee, bean coffee, and coffee shop" which are all popular keywords. With our old site the keywords were "java roasters" which is only searched by my mom and g/f and niether pay for coffee so the sales were really slow, but we had almost the whole first page for "java roasters". Yesterday was our best day and our site did about as much in sales as it did in the first 6 months. We tried adwords but got no results from it, I think was more my ads than adwords. We are doing some print advertising coming up also. SEO work never ends, your store might one day be optimized to a point where you like it but getting the name out there and generating links back, posting in forums (ones which allow links in footers), posting on google groups with links back, submitting to directories, writing articles, etc. will never end. You should spend an hour a day on this every day. I heard a great line once that your web site is complete the day you close it, otherwise it is and always will be a work in progress. I agree with Rich that the to do list just grows longer.
khoking Posted April 12, 2006 Posted April 12, 2006 I heard a great line once that your web site is complete the day you close it, otherwise it is and always will be a work in progress. I agree with Rich that the to do list just grows longer. I agree whole heartly! I searched for new contribution every few days...making my site more and more user friendly. Just installed the stock updater few mins ago, very useful! Did a froogle feed few days ago... Modified and added shipping to a few more countries... this is never going to end... :D Best regards, Koh Kho King
Guest Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 My store is on-line since 3 weeks and I alpready received over 1200 hits. Unfortunately no sales and only one sign-up. Is this normal or did I made something wrong that sends people away from my store? Could you pls take a look at www.verysexyroxy.com
Mediajuggle Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 My store is on-line since 3 weeks and I alpready received over 1200 hits. Unfortunately no sales and only one sign-up. Is this normal or did I made something wrong that sends people away from my store? Could you pls take a look at www.verysexyroxy.com 1200 hits in 3 weeks is not really a lot of traffic... that only works out to an average of 57 a day.... the standard is that only 10% of the people that visit will make purchases... so you need to get your traffic up... when you get 1200 hits per day, you should start to see some sales... My Contribution Music Download Store Template http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4275
kitchenniche Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 1200 hits in 3 weeks is not really a lot of traffic... that only works out to an average of 57 a day....the standard is that only 10% of the people that visit will make purchases... so you need to get your traffic up... when you get 1200 hits per day, you should start to see some sales... The standart is actually around 1-3%. 10% would be great though :P HIM - Dark Light - Out on 26/09/05
Mediajuggle Posted April 25, 2006 Posted April 25, 2006 The standart is actually around 1-3%. 10% would be great though :P thanks for the correction... I'm using Amazon numbers My Contribution Music Download Store Template http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,4275
AntiqueStoreBuilder Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 Also, don't confuse "hits" with visitors. A single visitor may generate hundreds of "hits" to your server (a page loading several images will count as a hit). If you've had 1200 visitors in a week - that's fantastic! If you've had 0 sales on 1200 visitors then likely there's something preventing them from converting - i.e., prices too high, not giving people "confidence" about their purchase experience (no SSL, bad User Interface, etc.) If, on the other hand, you've had 1200 "hits" from 50-100 customers, the fact that you haven't sold anything isn't all that bad - yet - again, at a 0.5% conversion rate, that means for every 200 visitors you have to your store, one will purchase.
AntiqueStoreBuilder Posted April 26, 2006 Posted April 26, 2006 Also, don't confuse "hits" with visitors. A single visitor may generate hundreds of "hits" to your server (a page loading several images will count as a hit). Hrm, can't seem to edit my own post. :( What I meant to type was: "A single visitor may generate hundreds of "hits" to your server (a page loading several images will count as several hits. And while I think about it... "Pages viewed" (PV's) can also be confusing sometimes. Again, one visitor may generate several page views - again, you may be counting those as seperate "hits" but that doesn't correllate into unique visitors. Best to make sure you're looking at the # of visitors you have coming to your site - and where they're coming from. Our site (cottagepast.com) is brand new, our biggest referrer right now is oscommerce (since we listed it in the directory and have asked for feedback here). As much as I like this community, they're not really "qualified audience" for buying our antiques and collectibles and therefore, even though I might have had 100 visitors referred to us from oscommerce, none (so far :blush: ) have purchased.
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