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[JoJoH]

Hi all,

I've put my site up for review a little while ago and I got alot of constructive critism/comments from my fellow tek-tips-ker , I've made alot of changes to my site, but I know there are definitely more things I could improve on, please give me your honest advice, thanks to you all in advance!

1) Site overall design

2) User Friendly-ness

3) Speed

4) How I could increase sales(I thought of adding more pictures and description, the picture part is fine but for description wise it takes up too much time to write...advice please) - The reason I asked this was because in my traffic report it showed that I have almost 2000 visitors a day but I don't have as much sales as I've expected!! Please advice.

5) Improvements I could make for increasing rankings in search engine visibility for compatitive keywords.

http://www.jadeboutique.com

Thank you!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[RISTMO]

Of course this is not safeproof, but at least it will stop most of the automatic bots that scan thousands of websites at a time from automatically getting your email and spamming you. Use this:

<script language=&quot;text/JavaScript&quot;>
<!--
var first_part=&quot;ristmo&quot;;
var last_part=&quot;ristmo.com&quot;;

print('<a href=&quot;mailto:'+first_part+'@'+last_part+'&quot;>'+first_part+'@'+last_part+'</a>');
//-->
</script>

Rick

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[Wullie]

Rick,

This is something I would also avoid doing.

You want your contact details to be shown to all, not just those who have javascript disabled.

Imagine the scenario - John Doe arrives at the site looking to purchase a great deal worth of products. He tries to purchase and because he has javascript disabled, he can't go any further.

John has the idea that he will e-mail you to find out what the problem is. Now, John can't see an e-mail address, so what does he do? He goes elsewhere.

3 options here.

1) Show a <noscript> saying that you must enable javascript, problem is that search engines also read <noscript> tags so index the message and could use this as the description for your site.

2) Add a mailto in a <noscript> tag. Problem with this is that it defeats the purpose, the e-mail harvester would get it from here anyway.

3) Show the e-mail but try to avoid spammers while doing so.

Easiest solution - use an image. If you really wanted to do this the best way for your customers, you could use the JS above and also put an image containing the e-mail address in a <noscript> tag.

Hope this helps

Wullie

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[RISTMO]

You have a [good ;-)] point there...I never thought of using an image.

Rick

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http://www.ristmo.com/

RISTMO Designs

http://www.arabchurch.com/

Arab Church

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Reference Guides

 

[JoJoH]

Hi all!

Good morning! I've never thought of using an image either! That indeed is a great idea, but one thing though, usually people have their email as an active link, so even if I use an image, I still have to put &quot;mailto:&quot; around them... I guess I could use an image for displaying purpose and link them to my &quot;Contact us&quot; form? Please advice, thanks again!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[JoJoH]

Thanks to all of you for taking your time to review my site!

If any of you have any more comments, don't hesitate to provide them, I have email notification turned on so I'll know immedietly

Thanks again!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[ChrisHirst]

Hi JoJoH.
Of your visitor traffic, do you know how they are finding your site and are they genuine searchers or just general browsers.
What your site really need is some search friendly copy to get the visitors to like and trust your site take a look at the pages as the Google describes them

http://www.google.com/search?q=alli...hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&filter=0

Now does that really make you want to buy something,
Ask yourself what makes me buy something is it

Gucci Style:STIVALETTO SUO GOMMA/101851 • Composition:Suede leather

or would it be:
Gucci Suede Leather Stiletto boot. These boots are [more description] and are at an a amazingly low price of $420.99.
(and it makes a better keyphrase and page title)

You need a bit of sales time style hyperbole and interesting copy. As you have found out traffic is just traffic, you need to drive the qualified searchers there.
Do you know how visitors are finding your site? You need to look at the site logs and check the SE queries that find your site then target the ones that don't! and look for the referers so you know where the traffic is coming from. You've got the SEs there now you need to use them to drive buyers and the only thing that can do that is good interesting copy.



Chris.

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[JoJoH]

Hi Chris!

Thanks for the reply! I agreed with what you've just said, although writing copies for my items would be a time consuming process, but it will be well worth the effort if it could drive sales! (I've just borrowed &quot;The online copywriter's handbook&quot; from the library! )

Thanks again Chris!

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[lebisol]

along with your books do some reading on:

http://www.lawgirl.com/webcopyright.shtml

and r e a l y follow the link above from Chris - google and then look at your pages....
and this one:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=80063&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

All the best!

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[JoJoH]

Hi Lebisol!

Thanks for your reply! I love the second link, now I am begging my web host to install it on their server!(Hope they would). If they don't, is there anything I can do on my site to manipulate my URL strings to be more SE friendly? As for the first link, I was reading it part way and my eyes started to get heavier... then the repeating graphics on the side starts to bug me...then I began to wonder why in the world did Lebisol showed me this? Please advice.

Thanks again Lebisol!

Cheers,

JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[lebisol]

LOL sorry about the 1st link...I think it was meant for the post &quot;copright-your-site&quot;...which is not the issue here.....her site is rather &quot;grpahically imapared&quot; but the content is great...IF u need your site copyRighted!
All the best with those ISAPI filters!
p.s. my host denied installation of that DLL...how sad!



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[grtammi]

Hi JoJoH,

Out of curiosity ... when you do a keyword search, do you parse the string for content before continuing? A hacker, anyone really, could type in &quot;something&quot; (I won't give you the exact code ) like the following in your keyword search field:

boots &quot;DROP TABLE products;&quot;

and POOF! There goes your products table, since your SQL statement goes from your intended goal:

SELECT * FROM products WHERE productName LIKE 'boots'

to something more potent, such as:

SELECT * FROM products WHERE productName LIKE 'BOOTS' DROP TABLE products ...

Just a thought for you ... I'm big on securing code and &quot;stupid-proofing&quot; anything that I write (since my user like to dabble in things they don't know about. ).

Greg


Boss quote from an office meeting: We're going to continue to have these meetings until we figure out why no work is getting done ...

 

[lebisol]

hm...but if the &quot;web user&quot; assigned to the DB has no rights to &quot;DROP or delete or....&quot; ....then it will 'never' happen.
If u use &quot;admin&quot; aspect of....well use IP sec and filtering to allow only yourself to access admin section of the DB...better yet tag your Mac address....and all the good DB security stuff...u should be ok......
anyhow
All the best!

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[JoJoH]

Thanks lebisol, grtammi for the replies! Good thoughts both of you, yes I probably should do more to secure my db, any good tutorial or books you guys have read that you could recommand me to?

Please advice.

Thanks!


JoJoH

http://www.jadeboutique.com

 

[lebisol]

write up your system's config and perhaps we can shift the thread to DB related forum.
All the best!

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