Dejunkit Review service for http://www.cactusrose.com.au

1. Home page – Images are rotating way to fast, slow them down by about 4 seconds so customers can actually see the images and the items and can take in the products you have to offer.

2. Get rid of the categories that have no products in them, if a customer gets a page with no product, they will assume that other categories they might be interested in will have no products. So make sure you always show categories with products in them. Customers are very fickle and it will frustrate them if they click on a menu tab expecting to see something but end up with nothing to look at and consequently have to go back to the previous or home page.

3. What are the colored squares next to the prices under the product pictures in the categories? If they are important, tell people exactly what they represent, if they are not important, remove them, they just add confusion and seem to be unnecessary. (assume it has something to do with the color choices for the items) Read more

Press This is a very handy feature of WordPress blogging, but the problem is, it has a tenancy to show up a 404 page error when you click it. After a bit of searching around I found a fix for the 404 issue and it is a very simple to implement and involves changing the bookmark code.

In the bookmark coding find the following code part

u='+e(l.href)+'

And change it to

u='+e(l.href.replace(/\//g,'\\/'))+'

Props to qvprof for the fix which was found at the following link - Press This 404 issue.

Dejunkit Review service for http://Rebelliousaddictiontwo.com/

1. Meta Title has no keywords which means no seo ranking at all for the website – Need to fix this for traffic. Currently your meta title is Rebellious Addiction Two Home. The Title carries the most weight SEO wise for your ranking and it needs to have a keyword or two ( I do SEO, SEM, and Marketing analysis for many clients who run successful e-commerce websites ). If you need help with your keywords please let me know, if you are managing your seo or someone else is, please alert them to fix it ASAP.

2. When you enlarge product images you have to double click to get out of it, click the x, then click again to close the secondary image that comes up. The secondary image is massive most of the time. Example link – http://rebelliousaddictiontwo.com/hot-lips.html – This is happening in chrome and firefox.
    

3. The pink buttons are too big design wise and need to be brought down to about 2/3rd of the size. You will be able to fix more categories above the fold and you will be bring them closer together. Read more

The E-commerce team at Howbits.com is now offering our professional e-commerce traffic to customer conversion service.

We have had so many people ask questions related to why their website is not efficient or productive and why traffic is low with no purchases. This has lead the team at Howbits.com to go to people's website and find fundamental errors and flaws within the website in graphic design, programming and on-site SEO.

In response to the demand we are now offering our “De-Junkit” service to help our followers from around the world with their websites. This service has been offered at a nominal fee on Fiverr for a few months now and the response has been amazing, so we have decided to expand this service and offer more in-depth tips and advice than the fiverr gig which offers a quick 10 tips and nothing else.

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Ah the most recent dreaded message of Google Webmasters – “Google Webmaster Tools notice of detected unnatural links to … enter your website address here”. When you receive this message you're essentially notified that Google believes you are gaming the SERP results with use of highly optimized backlinks. As a result, Google will slap on a penalty to your website that will take approximately 3 to 5 weeks and will kill your ranking for the keywords they believe you have been building links for.

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Found this image when I was looking on information about how the panda update has affected long tail keywords. Thought it was very insightful and decided to put it on howbits. Enjoy.

Infographic by SEO Book

A few hours ago one of my zencart e-commerce websites was hacked and a new re-directing virus code was added to the website. After a bit of research I found out that this little redirecting malicious code has been causing problems on numerous other websites around the internet, mainly e-commerce websites.

So I thought I would do a post to help out other webmasters that might be dealing with this little piece of annoying code. Read more

I am a business consultant for e-commerce websites for over 7 years now. I can tell you with certainty that obtaining traffic to your website is easy to do, the hard part is converting that traffic into customers and clients. I would like to share some unique tips that can improve your website's conversion rate.

1. This first tip is often overlooked and goes unnoticed. The tip is quite simple. If you do not offer any discount codes or coupon codes or vouchers do not display the box for possible customers to input these codes in your cart or checkout area.

   I have seen time and time again, customers, leaving the checkout area to go surf the Internet for coupon codes. Some of the more aggressive shoppers have even contacted the website owner for coupon codes, going as far as to cancel their order and wait until there are coupon codes available before purchasing. Read more

This is a list of things to do to cover your own professional interests whilst ensuring smooth business operation with customers. I wish someone had given me these bullet points when I was starting out, it would have saved me a lot of time, frustration and money.

1. Have a detailed contract, with all the work outlined in a bullet point format and make sure it's agreed upon by both parties and signed and dated.

2. In the contract between the yourself and the customer, always put a note that copyrights will be transferred upon full payment of services rendered.

3. Always take a deposit – 50% is a good figure, it commits the client to finishing the job with you and working through any fixes required rather than just bailing on you because they change their mind, and trust me…they can! When you have spent countless hours working on a project only to find they change their mind continuously till your quality race horse has been turned into a camel and then they decide they won’t go ahead with the project it is exasperating at best, and money and time lost at worst – not to mention the frustration involved. Read more

1. Don't buy large backlink packages, it is best to do backlink building in a steady manner. If a search engine sees 5000 or more new backlinks coming to a website, they will know these are unnatural backlink growth and will not give you a boost in ranking. Slow and steady link building and growth is considered by search engines to be the normal / natural way a website should grow on the internet. I recommend doing at least 100 solid backlinks but no more than 500 backlinks per month.

2. If you are hiring someone to do backlinks for you, ALWAYS ask them to show examples of the backlinks and make sure they are not submitting to directories. Directory backlinks are all but worthless. It sounds nice to have 200+ new backlinks coming to your website, but if these are directory backlinks they are worthless – 100 backlinks from directories is equal to about 1 good link from a relevant website that is linking back to your website. So avoid directories for backlink building.

   If you still feel like you want to get your website into as many directories as you can, just make an account with submitterbot.com and do the directory submissions yourself. It's easy to do and you just need to sit at your computer and select categories and submit. Read more