Have you thought about an Ecommerce store?

Increasingly we are seeing more and more of our customers opting to either add an ecommerce store to their existing website or create a full implementation from scratch.

Having your own store is opens up a whole new sales channel for your business, you can sell your products outside of your area and can operate 24/7 hours per day, 365 days per week. These days having your own store is not necessarily as expensive as you might thing.

Here are some of the benefits of your own Ecommerce store

Open 24 hours - no working time directive limitation or overtime rates of pay needed!

Easy of use - Once setup stores are easy to maintain, you just need to manage your prices and keep an eye on products that might be out of stock.

Global coverage - A store can reach anywhere in the World where there is an internet connection, and it is easy to program in different carriers rates and currencies meaning that you can readily serve a global customers base.

Extra sales channel - If you sell offline, your customers will expect you to have a web sales channel also, if you don't then potentially you can loose business to competitors who appear in your place on search engines.

Relatively low costs - When compared to a physical store, a virtual or Ecommerce store is low maintainence and surprising affordable to create in the first place.

OK I've built more store, how do I get traffic to it

That is the most common question our search engine team gets asked, the answer is hard work!

In much the same way as an offline store needs to be marketed, so does an online Ecommerce, here are a few pointers:-

Unique content - the search engines love unique content, if you are copying your product descriptions and text from third parties, then you will have a number of issues as duplicate content is now pushed down in the Search Results or worse still excluded completely.

Add links from quality places - if you are in a competitive market, you may need to find, 100,000's of quality links, low quality links build using automated software are not liked by the search engines and if these are detected, your site can be pushed down in the Search results or as with the Unique Content issue mentioned above excluded entirely.

Build up your social presence - Facebook and other communities are a huge potential market and increasingly social signals from these are similar places such as Google + are signals to the Search engines that your site is of interest, this then turns into better prominence in the Search Results. Again its real interactions that are needed, so avoid the pay for facebook follower services as these don't bring members with a proper interest in your product.

How can Discount Domains Help?

Here at Discount Domains we have been building Ecommerce stores for our customers for more than 10 years, and as one of only 13 UK based ICANN accredited registrars we are well known and respected amongst the UK SME market. At the last count we had over 16,000 active UK customers.

We also specialise in Prestashop which is an excellent Ecommerce platform, combining features that you would normally only see on much higher end platforms with easy of use and the tried and trusted nature you would expect to see with more than 100,000 stores live worldwide.

If you would like here more about how we can help, call us today and our customer service team will be delighted to put together a bespoke quote for you.

Adrian Lawrence is the author of this article and is one of the webmasters at Discount Domains https://plus.google.com/u/0/106088322856862782725/posts

Have you thought about an Ecommerce store?