eCommerce Tycoon

**pushtiu_c** · 01-04-2011, 05:12 PM

Hello everybody,

I`ve been away for some time, but I`m back now!

I have question to ask you all. I need help in making a decision.

So, I decide to get into this kind of online business, and I decided to make an e-shop for selling mountain gear, like skis, snowboards, clothes and stuff like that. Now, the problem is that I need to chose the best e-shop engine right ?
Basically, what I`m interested in when making this choice would be as follows:
- I need the best one on SEO of course. From your experience, as I beleive some of you used more that one e-shop software, which one is the best on SEO ? like short loading time, combining css files, and js files... meta tags and everything...
- I need ease of use of course... but I also need to be able to chose, select, and use lots of stuff maybe, I don`t know yet

..
- I want something customizable with templates, but something that can be made stilish of course, as I want to make the e-shop look good aswell.
- I want the e-shop to be very easy to use by my future clients of course, and I want easy communication with my clients, I want them to return and buy more from me

, I want them to be happy buying from me... so I want them to be able to comment on the products, rate them, have their accounts on my e-shop so when they return they don`t need to write all their information again and stuff like that, I want them to feel like home, if you can say that

...
- I want lots of payment options of course, like paypal, visa, mastercards, and payment on delivery also. And also billing stuff would be needed. and choices for shipment... things like that...
- Control of the order, I don`t know how to say it in words, but something like the client should be able to see the situation of his order...

there might be more needs than I wrote, but I`m just starting on this one, I`m sure you know better so help!

Now, I`m on the internet for a long time now, and I did try many things as I`m sure many of you did... so simple as it is: I saw Zen-Cart a few years ago, but it didn`t seam very interesting to me... maybe I was wrong back then or maybe it changed

... I heard about osCommerce as being good, but nobody explained me why

)... e-Commerce or something like this,don`t know anything about it... "shopify" ??? - what`s that

... and I heard people talking about the virtuemart from joomla...

About the virtuemart I heard many things, like it`s great, it`s easy to use, simple to modify, simple to control and things like that, but nobody talked to me about it`s SEO capabilities... now, this might sound a little bit strange

, but I use Joomla on one of my website and I`m not really satisfied

. Let me tell you why:
- Of course I made a template for it... so it would look good and everything, now that was not really hard, and it was done properly, you can say it met my expectations...
But, my website loads very hard from what google webmasters tools, or alexa says

thing that I don`t like... and it`s not because of the template, and it`s not because of the images from my articles... it`s simply because of the complexity of joomla, lots of css, lots of js and stuff like that...
I wanted to use a forum on this website, and chose to use something that could be integrated with the same DB, so the forum is kind of not good it you can say so...
Profiles and accounts for the members are poor on options and it doesn`t seam that I can do much about it...

Meta data and SEO options, I used some plugin for easing this, but I tried lots, and none seamed to be working fine...

So basically my Joomla website, is not performing as I would like... and it seams google doesn`t seam to like it either

)... so I have doubts about the virtuemart because of this.

On the other hand, I used wordpress on some website a long time ago, which seamed to be very simple and very liked by google, and laltey I heard they have some kind of e-shop posibility, but I saw an e-shop made on wordpress and it kind of sucked if I may say so

... I mean it didn`t seam very attractive to me, even though it might have been attractive to google

, but as a client let`s say I would not buy from a shop like that

)...

So cutting all the long stories and everything, I need a good, simple, search engine optimized, loved by google

, stylish, beautiful, client oriented, customizable, eshop

... You know... I want clients to come to my e-shop and think "Wow, I will never buy from somewhere else again!

"...

Any suggestions ?

thanks,
Cristian

**poojatomar** · 01-05-2011, 03:02 AM

I would recommend you to go ahead and give MAGENTO a try.
As with this E-commerce solution, you can easily implement many SEO practices which are present there by default like:- URL Rewriting, Categories and sub-Categories different MetaTags, Description and Keywords...

I would suggest you to try it on.
Regards.

**pushtiu_c** · 01-05-2011, 02:44 PM

thanks poojatomar,

I`ll give it a try installing it on xamp... what about it`s size ? does it make big script files? how does google see the pages in an e-shop made on Magento ?

Thanks,
Cristian

**Mokshikapoor** · 11:29 AM

Hi,

My suggestion is to spend some time writing a list of all the features you really need and those you would like. You've mentioned a couple already but I'm sure there are more. Then when you have the list try and get to test as many ecomm storefronts as possible before you decide.
Before I launched my first store I did a similar exercise. To be honest it took me about 3-4 months to decide. I would spend quite a while investigating a particular solution until I decided a particular flaw was simply not liveable.
To give you a feel, for me some requirements were, as a UK based store: support for non US$ currencies, support for UK postal systems, and UK payment providers. More generically, I wanted total flexibility over the look-and-feel and the comfort factor that if I needed to achieve a certain bit of functionality that didn't come out of the box, I could still achieve it somehow at a later stage.
I chose osCommerce in the end. Your list might lead you somewhere else

Thanks

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**pikoy** · 01-18-2011, 06:42 AM

is this for real.. hope i could get this!

**Caitlyn** · 01-19-2011, 07:20 AM

Use megnota . this is best software

**georgerogers** · 11:17 AM

I have never used magneto will give it a try now you could give virtuemart a go it is the prefered choice of my boss for all our e-commerce sites.

**webpark** · 01-22-2011, 02:19 AM

Magento usually works best on a vps or dedicated server. I personally like zen cart which works good with us.

**danceo0** · 01-24-2011, 01:32 AM

i can't image, World is changing so fast, I am going to keep up with him

**che09** · 01-24-2011, 10:44 PM

Magento is highly recommended,but you can try others. You can search it online!

**genelia** · 01-27-2011, 04:45 AM

Magento is best software.

**poojaji** · 01-27-2011, 05:47 AM

Magento is highly recommended,but you can try others. Mangento is best software.

**markmax** · 01-27-2011, 07:43 AM

In my opinion ShopFactory is one of the bestand most powerful e Commerce solutions.

**marcellus_udrea** · 01-28-2011, 11:47 AM

I personally got along very well with virtuemart. I also use the SEF add on for joomla.
I generally get a good number of visitors directly to the different product page.

Cheers!