Time to move on - building a website

[GreenBean]

We'll have a web christening party for you!

Nice swan. Best of luck

[RomexTM]

Godaddy.com is great

Good luck with your website.

[paypalpains]

Thanks, ill upload a screenshot when its done

[okzune]

bluehost.com is great!

[paypalpains]

maybe my next project

I am thinking of making a proposal to this guy i got working for me, and giving him 5% of the profit i make, if the 3000 odd emails I have to do yeild anything.

Still better then giving e/b p/p 20%

[JRYAN34]

this website will fail in 5...4...3...2...1...

[paypalpains]

My website is up and running now.

I have done minimal SEO work to it thus far. However am reading and learning about it very very slowly.

Funny thing is , I made a sale even before I had done ANY SEO on it whatsoever, god knows how they found the site.

Have made two more sales since. Even though I have not been able to process them, Due to merchant problems. I am reluctantly going to add paypal , i have a business account from 2009 which is still active so will make the most of it.

Site is still a work in progress and am making , all be it small, sales, which is a good sign at such an early stage in development.

Is a great incentive to see a sale being made to work that little bit harder on SEO and adding more products, better descriptions etc.

Hope this update helps

[Thankful]

Just read through all the posts, nice to see the steps which you have taken and your overall progression overtime, great work!

[paypalpains]

Hey tanxful, thanks for the support. Were many twists and turns along the way, and still a few unexpected dips here and there.
Still a work in progress, but getting there slowly but surely.

Problem is , when you are on a budget, and relying on help from others, which has been promised, those promises rarely come to fruition

[soopadudette]

What merchant problems did you have?

I'm in the process of designing and completing my prestashop now. I can also design and install them for others, so if you get problems with your current person give me a shout.

[paypalpains]

Originally Posted by soopadudette

What merchant problems did you have?

I'm in the process of designing and completing my prestashop now. I can also design and install them for others, so if you get problems with your current person give me a shout.

I used nochex, and they closed my account after one transaction. A transaction I was unaware of, the buyer got their money back, however nochex made no contact with me, and just closed my account. Didnt even tell me they were going to do it. Didnt ask for my side of what went wrong or happened. And they will not reinstate their gateway for me after speaking with them.

How much do you charge for your completed shop ?

Do you have a preview ?

[paypalpains]

Paypal website payment pro now in place on site at £20 a month .

Now just working on generating traffic to my site.

Hard as hell learning SEO , there is too much bollox out there, not enough concrete instructions, why do idiots have to be long winded. Annoys the f*** out of me.

Well at least the no-chex saga is behind me, and no thanks to them I am back up and running, and sales can be taken.

[paypalpains]

I made two sales , however due to the no chex debacle , neither was processed.

Today I made my first sale, which has been paid for and is being processed . The item sold has nothing to do with what I sell on Feebay, so that is a plus too.

Nice to know, even though its not regular, people are finding my site.

This always a plus, as it can be quite consuming and quite repetitive working on it with no reward. Making a sale, makes me want to work that much more harder in getting the website out there and accessible easier.

[they_screwed_me_too]

ive got 2 sites about 3 year old running on zencart

do about 10 sales a day each give or take

not as search engine friendly though because of the URL structure

nice and easy to use and play with and make a decent looking site if youve got a bit of creative flair

[they_screwed_me_too]

is there a particular reason your using PP payments pro ? £20 a month if your not doing sales is alot

try express

[paypalpains]

Express , is that with paypal too ?

[they_screwed_me_too]

yes it is indeed, easier too

[paypalpains]

Just happy to have a payment processor for now Am sure it can easily be changed. But you are definitely right.

[paypalpains]

Originally Posted by paypalpains

Just happy to have a payment processor for now Am sure it can easily be changed. But you are definitely right.

They screwed me, I got an email from PP about policy compliance, do you know what i need to do ? something to do with PCI DSS , any help be appreciated

thanks

[paypalpains]

Sorted it , joke having to pay £30 to trustwave.

[they_screwed_me_too]

if its to do with your payment module, PM the email they sent and ill have alook

had some experience with this

although im sure there are people on here much more experienced

[crow]

Originally Posted by paypalpains

Paypal website payment pro now in place on site at £20 a month .

Now just working on generating traffic to my site.

Hard as hell learning SEO , there is too much bollox out there, not enough concrete instructions, why do idiots have to be long winded. Annoys the f*** out of me.

Well at least the no-chex saga is behind me, and no thanks to them I am back up and running, and sales can be taken.

SEO isnt too hard to learn in opinion, might be worth trying to start off learning whitehat ways with all the trouble from Google udpates recently.

Reading sites such as seomoz and searchengineland has provide invaluable for me.