07 June 2011 ~ 7 Comments

WordPress Shopping Cart Options

Most new website customers or pickup webmasters will know how to use Wordpress and resist learning complex newer website applications. The use of an app like wpStoreCart is also a safe recommendation to make for any new or startup enterprise business user that had a catalogue or extant products to utilize the database plugins. This enables any Wordpress blog to become a shopping cart, with varying functionality on the back end.

The concept that a blog can be used as a sales tool is a common one, but many of those entrepreneurs who might most benefit from their domain hosting a blog based shopping cart. The website hosting account that has installation options for WordPress can also integrate its workings with the saved database information resident in the web hosting account. This transforms any historical blogsite into a content rich network on deep linked content that continues on to product listings. MarketPress,  RapidExpCart and QuickShop work too.

For diet-sized websites, the FatFreeCart allows instant creation of the “View Cart” and “Add to Cart” buttons right in your WordPress blog posts. This make affiliate reviews very readable content.

The Cf Shopping Cart application is an option for those who want a more customized look to their shopcart without sacrificing plug and play adaptability with Wordpress uses. Some Wordpress blogs can be started and compiled, publishing daily to garner new fans and new bookmarks.

These content rich posts can be historically embedded into the SEO machine online as soon as possible. Only later, when the fine tuning of the web catalogue and the more stringent social network strategy gels, can the website user become more proficient at administrating the more complicated functions within the shopping cart administration.

Many new vendors, Ebay  sellers and other online vendors believe they have to developed a full fledged custom website for a sales portal. This is neither true nor time efficient. A simple solution to how to sale items online with pictures, descriptions, shipping details and specifications is to install a shopping cart software application. But the unfamiliar names of these shopping cart applications will seem strange to the very people who need them.

Avactis, CF Shopping cart, MiniKart, Duka, and others provide options for Wordpress users to form an entire sales platform inside a Wordpress installation.

Beginner WordPress users will be looking for a shopping cart plugin that they can install and understand the use of easily. The complexity of the offerings of many shopping cart softwares aren’t even needed by most users. But the advanced know-how required to evaluate the Wordpress software is more than beginners can muster. They must know the ease of use values in relationship to the business uses the Wordpress shopping cart  is for, which only comes with the very experience that takes away the need for a cribbing.

Beginner uses looking to adapt a Wordpress into a shopping, or add shopping car functionality to an existing website have choice beyond Amazon.com and Ebay plugins. These work with custom fields in a database used currently by the business owner. Since any spreadsheet can be made into a database using Access, the import of the item number fields, inventory information, and financial transactions can be implemented into an existing WordPress blog.

MiniCart is another WordPress compatible shopping cart for integration with blog engines.
Allows embedding items into posts and can be used for donations. Avactis Shopping Cart uses sales affiliate widgets for discretionary application within WordPress. One basic tip when merging databases is to create a unique record identifier that will always the shopping cart administrator.

Using DukaPress is another way that Wordpress blog users can customize the way their cart looks when incorporated into a Wordpress. For more advanced users, the DukaPress plugin creates the backend inside the Wordpress architecture for those who don’t want to read a huge manual. If the domain name is also one with the word “store” in it, additional content can be quickly added to that site if it is installed as WordPress or has a wordpress directory on the file tree.

For hand on data users, posts mentioning certain products can also incorporate the post ID as the product code. This happens automatically with YAK, a funny word for a workhorse open source e-commerce plugin.  YAK is a WordPress Shopping Cart that supports posts and pages as products, allows multiple purchase options and supports item categories.This makes an excellent addon for xisting sites where the webmaster does not want to tinker with existing architecture too much.

FoxyShop is one option if the domainer is looking for something a little different. The application for FoxyShop is actually a  WordPress Shopping Cart owned plugin. The free Plugins can be easy to install or nightmares, depending on the template. FoxyShop is one that connects to the FoxyCart shopping cart service.  With FoxyShop you can user WordPress for inventory management. This plugin offers a full API that allows developers to create a custom ecommerce solution.

Wordpress Simple Cart is just what it sounds like. Items from a resident worksheet or online file app can be combined using the utility of a Wordpress interactive menu. If you or a domain owner, or website client want a massive utility for vending wares added or linked to from another site. A simple WordPress installation will also enable a shopping cart that supports WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress.

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14 September 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Outswimming the Bulklinkers

I was speaking in consultation with a colleague today, and while going over the ideas for a new website I noticed a particular emphasis on the site design. I realized it had been so long since I had heard anyone fret about using a public template, or develop using overly customized code, or even properly launch conjunction sites, I was moved to mention it aloud.

It seems obvious to me by now that the whole dimension to designing a website has almost vanished as an aesthetic art and been wholly replaced by the architectural need to build an SEO capable site first and foremost. The site plan Google submission, the DMOZ listing, and the bots traveling over the site every day has become an outsize priority for every site.

Webmasters can see how link building, paid link exchanges and article submission have taken over the web. They can see this especially well when administrate the polyglot mixture if spam comments that flood the WordPress that are neither relevant nor grammatically formed into real sentences. The mechanized manual submission software many non-English speakers are using has a lot to answer for.

Bulklinking is the new sport of domainer kings. The bulk of a domain’s launch expenses and the main thrust of its establishment on the Internet frontier is a loud neon sign proclaiming its existence. Being able to seed your link in as many directories as possible has long been an SEO goal, but one of questionable theoretical relevance. i recognise this as afact of current web site commerce and many others do too.

My problem is the manner in which many mechanized software programs slam my websites with useless comments daily. I am not a machine and I have to delete these manually. I have one blog which has over 3,000 pointless links that make no sense with comments that are gibberish. The sentences are just random words. This is practically more time consuming to eliminate from my administration interface than an actual site hack.

What I believe should happen is that these linkers should be judged as the equivalent of spam and be treated as such. Their web hosting companies should be contacted. Spam sites and remailers and emails where spam email originally comes from is regularly reported to the site engines from downranking and eventual discounting of the site data. Spam commenters utilizing random assignment of comments to blogs and websites should suffer the same fate.

There should be a bulklinker database just like the universal spam list and the same sites who pay Rupees to cement innocent websites with layers of nonsense. Most of these comments have no relationship to any of the keywords for the sites concerned.There ca be no benefit whatsoever to their site and the link makes my site anonymously supporting junk site urls and seem relatively discounted form an SEO perspective.

Since I know which link directory websites I have added my sites to and which I have done nothing with, I can see how universal and inconsiderately applied some of these list additions are. Some of my websites have been targeted simply because someone thought I would be spending a fortune on affiliates or fraternal sites links and thought they’d hitch a ride on my site.

But all these suppositions rest on my ability to weed out my spam. Er, (cough) the comments area. That’s a lot of work my spam folder is dragging down my day with. My worry used to be that there might be a genuine comment and now it doesn’t matter. The sheer time necessitated to be spent on deleting junk comments from my blogs makes me want to report these spam comment sites somewhere. But where?

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12 July 2010 ~ 41 Comments

Developing Video Content For Your Website

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Domaining an app is the hottest web development move out there. A happening domain needs Tube support. Youtube.content can be developed and produced using simple tools online. The video media format can be packaged by a multitude of resident system applications, freeware obtainable online, and custom retail video editing software.

Domainers can try their hand at helming projects which a wide variety of users will see. Endorsement of the material can lead to word of mouth and end user referrals. New apps are churning out like wildfire right now for new devices like the Ipad and portable handheld and gaming sites too. Video slices or “tubes” can be embedded easily with tags and captions to create an interactive site that gives visitors something to do.

Domains can hold whatever custom content their webmasters decide upon. these can be coaching tutorials, screenshot by screenshot demonstrations, videos, narrated audio slide shows and other media. The affiliate offers can be blended into demonstrational material that encourage visitors to click on ads. Domain keywords can be emphasized with video images and image tags reflecting actual content.

A website authored by a domain holder can be optimized for site SEO and traffic statistics. The content can be tagged as a how-to video and also as educational, occupational, and promotional. This type of material is readily discoverable and very searchable. The ease with which these types of videos can be made and uploaded is a result of the viral video phenomenon sponsored by YouTube’s popularity. Desktop microphones make any webmaster a narrator.

The domainer who promotes their website using coaching video, how-to methods, tips and tricks, shortcut techniques and screenshot demonstrations has many advantages. The webmaster can decide what words and narrative text and captions get featured, presumably keyword-rich and SEO optimized. The domainer can set up complementary sites and link them together.

A site plan which concentrates a density of words and themes in the content around the site domain keywords will be successful in aggregating visitor traffic. Referrals to the coaching material will also get linked to from forums, online bulletin boards, and member communities of the subject topics. The site plan can outline the key steps in each “lesson” and provide yet another spoke in the SEO discoverability wheel.

Beginners making videos and slideshow media can sketch their plan using Powerpoint outline view notes or slides printed out for jotting down ideas. Screenshots can be defined into surgical coaching material by making highlighted areas using Paint and the selection tool with the colored outline box delineating the referred-to area.

Webmasters should provide how-to content by asking and answering questions about the process or technique involved. What kinds of people will be viewing this presentation? What kinds of language and images will they respond to? What general references and specific details will they expect to see? What kinds of action need to be demonstrated, and how does this fall in with the overall site goal?

Uploading video concoctions to YouTube assist in server hosting costs and allows the domainers to build a site channel that refers YouTube surfers back to the target web site. One key draw for site visitation is to allow continued searchability of the video at YouTube and then cover the video space with a link to the destination website. This brings fulfillment oriented site visitors.

But by hosting exclusive video,  a webmaster can originate valuable content. By authoring original programming they turn their domain name into a brand and their website becomes an advertising portal that turns into a channel. And video channels quickly become very sticky websites with a ton of buzz, just the thing a domainer likes.

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