votrechien Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I used to use a bit of a 'lacking' shopping cart program for my website so I switched to OSCommerce. However, as soon as I switched to OSCommerce, my sales dropped significantly (like over 50%). This has been going on for about 5 months now. Could anyone take a look at my site and provide any feedback and why you think this may be. I used to have some problems from the SSL, but it all appears rectified now. Before: http://www.northstar-marinesupplies.com/cg...hors&pid=39 After: http://www.northstaranchors.com I think the problems are more on a technical end rather than aesthetics end, although I do appreciate any feedback regarding the look and feel of the site :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I used to use a bit of a 'lacking' shopping cart program for my website so I switched to OSCommerce. However, as soon as I switched to OSCommerce, my sales dropped significantly (like over 50%). This has been going on for about 5 months now. Could anyone take a look at my site and provide any feedback and why you think this may be. I used to have some problems from the SSL, but it all appears rectified now. Before: http://www.northstar-marinesupplies.com/cg...hors&pid=39 After: http://www.northstaranchors.com I think the problems are more on a technical end rather than aesthetics end, although I do appreciate any feedback regarding the look and feel of the site :-) Everything I tried to look at/add to cart showed out of stock. Is it always like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danjt Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Yeah, I found the same, everything is out of stock so people simply aren't going to order things, just go in and set the quantity for everything to 100 if stock levels aren't an issue to you at your end of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
votrechien Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 Yes, the 'out of stock' thing has been temporary for the last couple of weeks. The sales dropped well before then. Any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spooks Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Are both domains the same age? Google prefers established sites, new sites enter a sandbox for some time limiting search position. If 2 sites were to have very similar content the older would appear first. If you have same content on both sites google will see a duplicate content issue & ignore the newer. How does traffic compare between sites? What does analytics show? Sam Remember, What you think I ment may not be what I thought I ment when I said it. Contributions: Auto Backup your Database, Easy way Multi Images with Fancy Pop-ups, Easy way Products in columns with multi buy etc etc Disable any Category or Product, Easy way Secure & Improve your account pages et al. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmonem Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I used to use a bit of a 'lacking' shopping cart program for my website so I switched to OSCommerce. However, as soon as I switched to OSCommerce, my sales dropped significantly (like over 50%). This has been going on for about 5 months now. Could anyone take a look at my site and provide any feedback and why you think this may be. I used to have some problems from the SSL, but it all appears rectified now. Before: http://www.northstar-marinesupplies.com/cg...hors&pid=39 After: http://www.northstaranchors.com I think the problems are more on a technical end rather than aesthetics end, although I do appreciate any feedback regarding the look and feel of the site :-) This may be an issue un-related to your actual shopping cart and more of a website recognition issue. I noticed you changed your domain name which can cause problems with your customers due purely to unfamiliarity with the new website name. By this, I mean if I am used to going online to buy my books from "Amazon-books.com" and the site changes to "Amazon.com" I am suddenly buying from a brand new site. All the bookmarks, links, blogs, etc. to your old site do not transfer to the new site automatically when you change the name. You can try re-directing the old name to the new name for a while, but overall you have to do the work to "re-introduce" your company to your public and the rest of the online world. I would recommend you put some $$$ into some form of SEO activity and emailing your previous customers just to make sure you haven't overlooked this aspect. If you do need some SEO guidance, I can help you there. Good Luck with better business. Sam PS. I hate to say it, but this could also be due to a bad economy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimol Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I used to use a bit of a 'lacking' shopping cart program for my website so I switched to OSCommerce. However, as soon as I switched to OSCommerce, my sales dropped significantly (like over 50%). This has been going on for about 5 months now. Could anyone take a look at my site and provide any feedback and why you think this may be. I used to have some problems from the SSL, but it all appears rectified now. Before: http://www.northstar-marinesupplies.com/cg...hors&pid=39 After: http://www.northstaranchors.com I think the problems are more on a technical end rather than aesthetics end, although I do appreciate any feedback regarding the look and feel of the site :-) What shopping cart did you use before OsCommerce? Steve I appreciate all the help that everyone on this site has given me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I'm not sure if it is an issue with most people, but with me if I cant click to verify an SSL I wont shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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