why is no one buying?

DormGear.net · #1 (**permalink**) 12-16-2003, 04:45 PM

HI! I was wondering if some of you helpful people could mabye enlighten me regarding the reason why no one is buying from my site. www.DormGear.net I am using (don't laugh) a itctv templete with there merchant account as well. When i try to use the shopping cart, it works great! Can you find a error or glitch that i am unawhere of?

How can i make this site better and get more sales?

thank you!
Ben

Corey Bryant · #2 (**permalink**) 12-16-2003, 07:39 PM

It does not seem you have had that much traffic. Have you had any sales? I see that you have had about 8,000 hits since the beginnning of the year. Not really that much.

Google does not have you ranked & no one is linking to your site. Do you look @ your stats to see how people do find you?

DormGear.net · #3 (**permalink**) 12-17-2003, 12:49 PM

I have found it very hard top get google to even see me. msn search finds me occasionally. What would u mean by links? Sorry i am new to this tyoe of talk, but am very ancious to learn.

thank you

ben

Corey Bryant · #4 (**permalink**) 12-17-2003, 03:07 PM

Well for example, you have other websites that link to yours. That will help boost your rating with Google (unless those web sites are spamming).

Try to add more words as well - content. Remember - search engines cannot read images. You might also consider creating static pages for your items. Some search engines do not follow links with question marks.

DormGear.net · #5 (**permalink**) 12-17-2003, 03:55 PM

Static, i have seen that before. Do these static pages have to part of the site, or can they be just behind the sceens? And where should i add the content? On homepage, or all pages, and should the content be in sentence form by way descriptive manner?

thank you
ben

Corey Bryant · #6 (**permalink**) 12-17-2003, 04:51 PM

They can be behind the scenes. Just make sure there is a link to them so the Search engine robots can find them.

Put the content on the main page. And then when you create the static pages - put some content there. Since more than like the robots are not following the majority of the links on the home page because of the question mark.

jeraman · #7 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 04:07 PM

[quote="Corey Bryant"]It does not seem you have had that much traffic. Have you had any sales? I see that you have had about 8,000 hits since the beginnning of the year. Not really that much.

A question to Corey -
What tool did you use to check on DormGear's traffic to determine the hits?

Ron

Corey Bryant · #8 (**permalink**) 12-18-2003, 04:13 PM

I just looked at his counter for starters. I am not a big fan of Alexa but I did just now look @ that one.