Please Critique my site

[papierchasers]

http:edladd.mydollarshop.com

This is an online dollarshop. I have gotten 33 hits in the two weeks of being open. No one buys anything though. I have used the Trafficswarms and no more hits and freenetleads, autoresponders, and other advertising, but I have to see anything. What am I doing wrong and what can I do better? Any angle I will listen to. Co partnerships are welcome I am doing bad here and I really need to start making money.
Besides my internet attempts at business, I work three other jobs... I deliver newspapers, work in my side job construction business, and work at new club at night as a bouncer. I still have bills stacking up and I still need something more. Please help me before I drive myself into the ground.

[LoveNotWar]

Dude, it is hard to crit your site because it is not really a site, it is just a store. The site is taken care of by MyDollarShop, and all you have is the products, no? So lets talk about those, rather, because I see that as the more valid subject to be worrying about

you are selling quite a diverse group of products with, appartently, no defining link between them. So it must be hard for you to market, huh? How do you collectively market things so diverse?

You must find a niche.

For example, I see you sell a Lion King Soundtrack. How about a shop for soundtracks of movies? Personally I think that would be a pretty good nice store, and it would be easy to market. Focussed, you know.

Hope my 2 cents is worth somthing to you. Chin-up, man, you will do well ultimately if you keep up the hard work!

[sherwin101]

easy there fella... let's try to get you organized first:

-is lovenotwar correct about mydollarshop.com actually owning the site? I went to just mydollarshop.com and got re-directed to buyitat.mydolarshop.com; where I saw the exact same products I saw at the URL you gave. What exactly is the set up here? we need to know this as if you are bent on marketing via the web, you've got to get the basics down first.

tell us about the set up first and let's go from there...

[Electronic Perceptions]

In addition to what others here have said, it might help you to know that setting up an online shop, or business of any kind, is not going to start generating money in just a week or two. Some sites don't even generate income after a few months.

It takes a lot of time and dedication to make any business successful... even online ones.

[sriflcom]

Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks does not sound like a real business. Either you have it in stock or you do not. If you buy when you get the order & have someone drops ship that is still to long.

Have you tried registering products at http://froogle.google.com/ ?

[elearning]

A couple of things.

I've noted that sites where you're just "being fed" don't tend to do very well. Visitors know that mydollarshop.com is the primary site and will end up going there instead.

If you're trying to set-up an on-line business I would recommend setting up your own site with its own domain and joining high quality affiliate programs. With an affiliate program, you can really focus on certain types of products.

For example, I have several websites. I have a group of sites that does only fitness and fitness related products - they do well in sales.

I have another set of sites that deal with online prescriptions - and those sites are starting to increase in visitors and sales.

A third group of sites deals with "as on tv" products - and these generate some sales.

All sites make sales - and I get a commission of anywhere from 5% to 25% or more depending on the products.

You need to fill a niche or even a general area and build a quality site around that. There is no guarantee that you will make money though.

When building the site, you need to concentrate on proper search engine optimization techniques. If your site it built with this in mind, when the SEOs come and spider your site you'll get onto the engines for those keywords. As you move up in rankings - you get more visitors, and hopefully more sales.

BUT more visitors can also mean money. If you're getting 200, 400 -1,000 or more visitors per day then you may be able to sell banner advertising and make some money off of that.

Hope this helps.

Mohammed

Originally Posted by papierchasers

http:edladd.mydollarshop.com

This is an online dollarshop. I have gotten 33 hits in the two weeks of being open. No one buys anything though. I have used the Trafficswarms and no more hits and freenetleads, autoresponders, and other advertising, but I have to see anything. What am I doing wrong and what can I do better? Any angle I will listen to. Co partnerships are welcome I am doing bad here and I really need to start making money.
Besides my internet attempts at business, I work three other jobs... I deliver newspapers, work in my side job construction business, and work at new club at night as a bouncer. I still have bills stacking up and I still need something more. Please help me before I drive myself into the ground.

[elearning]

Another question - do you have control over the content and how it is displayed? If so, even personalising your store will help.

For example - Christmas is coming, and the products you sell may intrigue Christmas shoppers. If you could redesign the pages with a more "Christmas" theme and market it as such with proper keywords and keyword usage in the copy of the site then you could attract visitors once you're listed on the search engines.

Mohammed

Originally Posted by papierchasers

http:edladd.mydollarshop.com

This is an online dollarshop. I have gotten 33 hits in the two weeks of being open. No one buys anything though. I have used the Trafficswarms and no more hits and freenetleads, autoresponders, and other advertising, but I have to see anything. What am I doing wrong and what can I do better? Any angle I will listen to. Co partnerships are welcome I am doing bad here and I really need to start making money.
Besides my internet attempts at business, I work three other jobs... I deliver newspapers, work in my side job construction business, and work at new club at night as a bouncer. I still have bills stacking up and I still need something more. Please help me before I drive myself into the ground.

[egtrix designs]

Hello,
Business takes sometime to be in a well condition, so do not give up that fast. I visited your site, you have some empty spaces which can be used to benefit you, maybe by adding some banner ads. Also your site needs a logo.