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Old 03-08-2007, 07:16 PM Please review. - My client is not happy
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I developed this site here: Decorative Fancy Feathers.

We are also doing some simple SEO for the client and her site is getting some traffic, good for only working on it three months. But the client gets only about 1 sale a month.

We could use some help on this site. Recommendations or whatever.

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Old 03-08-2007, 08:57 PM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Not exactly a large target market, is it? That's the first thing that comes to mind. I'm not even sure that if you were to fix the design/content errors that you'd generate a lot of sales.

Seriously, does anyone actually buy this stuff offline? I'm sorry, but I grew up in farm country...if I want a rooster feather, I'll go back to my hometown and get one for free.

First problem: the code of the layout. This is a layout that could quite easily be done without tables. This would help reduce your code (thereby loading faster for users). Get yo' azz to steppin' on some tableless code!

Next problem: Conditions of use. "Put here your conditions of use information." Does that mean I get to make my conditions of use up?

Next: your home page links. Point them to http://www.continentalfeathers.com , not index.php (not typed here to avoid any duplicate content issues on your part.)

301 index.php to http://www.continentalfeathers.com , in case it has any backlinks or accidentally gets some in the future. This avoids the issue above. Do the same thing with http://continentalfeathers.com , to avoid any potential canonical issues.

Your title and meta description tags are identical in a lot of spots. You should have a unique title and description for each page, and it should be something a user would be able to read and easily determine what the page itself is about.

This is especially important for the title page: what happens when a user bookmarks it? The title tag should reflect what they should see when they see the bookmark.

Contact Us: Where's the address? I wouldn't buy anything from anyone without a physical address, just in case I needed to return it.

Returns policy: you don't have one. You have a shipping policy, but not a returns policy.

The "Affiliates" page. Besides not matching the look and feel of the rest of the site, it looks like a whole bunch of reciprocal links with a cheap SEO trick at the top of the page. This won't do you any good whatsoever. This is just a low-grade trick. Get rid of the page, and to heck with anyone who links to you as the result of it. Your site should generate natural organic links because it's a useful place to buy bird feathers or because it gives out some useful information, not because some idiot wants to raise his PR because links are the universal SEO solvent.

The XML sitemap: you don't need to link to it on your site. You can just submit it to big G and it'll crawl it fine, just fine.

And now the big one...you're using osCommerce, which has to be the single biggest bane in terms of e-commerce on the Internet. Just develop a skin, load some products in and away you go, right?

WRONG.

You need to ensure that your site has crawler-friendly URLs. The silly osCsid session hashes (which do absolutely NOTHING that session variables don't do) need to go. Fix this problem. Fix it now. Fix it right now. In fact, fix it five minutes ago. The sooner, the better.

In other words, the reason your site is failing is because you have too many reasons for it to fail. Sorry if I came off harsh...I'd rather give someone a straight answer than sugar-coat it. I think it looks okay (although I'm not convinced white on brown is the right colour scheme personally, that's aesthetic and I don't judge on that), but there are too many logic flaws in the design.
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Old 03-08-2007, 09:09 PM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Adam touched on everything I was about to tell you -- also, please take his advice and, while you're at it, fix your code warnings:

Code:
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 76 column 87 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&osCsid"
line 76 column 134 - Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &amp;
line 76 column 221 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&osCsid"
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line 273 column 442 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&osCsid"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginwidth"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "marginheight"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "topmargin"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "bottommargin"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "leftmargin"
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <body> proprietary attribute "rightmargin"
line 19 column 49 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 20 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 20 column 81 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 21 column 37 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 24 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 24 column 53 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 35 column 21 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 38 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 157 column 311 - Warning: <input> proprietary attribute "border"
line 197 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"
line 197 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 199 column 7 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 303 column 27 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 325 column 3 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 325 column 52 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 328 column 26 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 329 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 329 column 72 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
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Old 03-08-2007, 11:49 PM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Many of those warnings (particularly the osCsid) warnings come from the osCommerce software. So if he can just fix the URLs that way and make them spider-friendly, he solves most of that (not all of it, but most of it.)
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Old 03-09-2007, 12:32 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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You're right Adam; I should've mentioned that -- thanks for catching it!
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Old 03-09-2007, 01:39 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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No probs, dude. I wouldn't have thought of it if you hadn't posted the validation errors.
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Old 03-09-2007, 04:02 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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I developed this site here: Decorative Fancy Feathers.

We are also doing some simple SEO for the client and her site is getting some traffic, good for only working on it three months. But the client gets only about 1 sale a month.

We could use some help on this site. Recommendations or whatever.

Thanks,

GR
It's good looking, it's quite heavy, it's need a long times to get in, and the pink bar isn't match with other color you use.
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Old 03-09-2007, 07:27 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Wow - ADAM really got to the bottom of this one already!

But the only thing I'd disagree with you on ADAM is the advice to change to a tabular layout - stick with divs. I prefer them sooo much more and they are so much easier to work with.
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Old 03-14-2007, 01:38 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Hey thanks people for all the constructive remarks. I really appreciate the effort Adam.

Now one more question...

Who want's the job to fix all the issues? I can pay and if you can do a good job, I can promise a lot more work.

I have no problem landing the deals. Please PM me.

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Old 03-14-2007, 01:40 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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I know I'm the one who gave the most criticism in this case, but if I'm one of the eligible parties, I'd have to politely pass. I've got enough on my plate as it is (today was my first "day off" in about 4 weeks.) That, and...well...I dunno PHP. Other than that, no problem.

Did you ask in the Freelance Jobs forum?
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Old 03-14-2007, 02:09 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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the design is okay I think, however the poor markup and mash up of content with presentation makes seo harder for you than it should be. clean markup is the waaiiii (pun intended)
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Old 03-14-2007, 02:31 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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I'll focus on the human side of it (since the search engine part has been well covered by others).

The site looks good, but I wouldn't want to spend much time on it. The white text is not completely readable on the background, the grey text of the menu has even less contrast. There's also not enough differentiation in text size and style to separate different levels of importance.
Also, "Shop the best prices..." text on the banner is poorly done and too small.
You need to take at least something that you want to impress upon the viewers on the front page and make it bigger.

On the product pages, use larger images. If I click on an item in the catalog, I get a page which shows the same (thumbnail) size picture of the item. The one on the product page should be larger.
For the future - product reviews should follow under the product description on the same page, not on a separate page.
And the business logo should link to the homepage.
Bad writing is also a deterrent to human shoppers. Take the extremely short shipping page, for example:
"ContinentalFeathers.com uses UPS for there shipping. All freight paid by buyer at time of purchase."
I'd like to find out how the feathers will be packed for shipping and how much the shipping cost is likely to be before I keep shopping.

On the Contact page,
it would help to put the geographic location of the business, not just the phone number. It gives the business more credibility if it has a physical location.

I'm not interested in fixing the php side of the site, but I can put your client in touch with a professional writer who would be a perfect fit for this (he writes for major nature and food-related publications and is a birdwatcher). PM me if interested.
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Old 03-14-2007, 11:53 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Ok, check out the URLs... http://www.continentalfeathers.com/s...ddle-c-29.html

Is that better for that? That should make an SEO difference, right?

I agree the aesthetic is not the best. I will work on that next after i get the structure errors fixed.

Thanks again people.
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Old 03-14-2007, 01:57 PM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Personally, I preferred the first page's layout (minus all those errors). As far as it not selling, just thinking about what Adam said:
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Not exactly a large target market, is it? That's the first thing that comes to mind.
Maybe you can include famous people or fashion trend links which people use or wear these types of feathers.
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Old 03-14-2007, 02:55 PM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Either site will work, although I do prefer the 1st one -- on the 2nd site, most of your meta tags are in the wrong location and here are your code warnings for the 2nd site:

Code:
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 9 column 1 - Warning: <meta> isn't allowed in <body> elements
line 76 column 97 - Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &amp;
line 76 column 943 - Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &amp;
line 184 column 92 - Warning: unescaped & which should be written as &amp;
line 19 column 49 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 20 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 20 column 81 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 21 column 37 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 24 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 24 column 53 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 35 column 21 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 38 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 157 column 235 - Warning: <input> proprietary attribute "border"
line 197 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"
line 197 column 1 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 199 column 7 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 371 column 27 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 393 column 3 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 393 column 52 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 396 column 26 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 397 column 9 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 397 column 72 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 398 column 26 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
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Old 05-16-2007, 03:32 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Travelagent, You still up for helping me out a bit?
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Old 05-18-2007, 04:45 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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Perhaps you should push the decorative ideas a bit more? It seems like the front page doesn't have a lot of content anyway except for the short text. Some great looking photos should sell this somewhat odd product
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Old 05-19-2007, 07:54 AM Re: Please review. - My client is not happy
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