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Free Web Hosting Trial available at E Shop Hosts

By E Shops For Sale | March 21, 2011 | Resources | No comments

Looking to build a new ecommerce web shop?

It can take a while to design and build your ecommerce web site. To install the shopping cart script, then install all of the modules that you require and the template and its required tweaks and customisations. Then there is the time it takes populating the site with your product details and images along with all of the other custom pages you require such as your Terms and Conditions, Privacy policy and so on.

Here is a way you can build and populate your new e-shop without paying any hosting fees, by getting a Free Trial Hosting account with our eCommerce web hosting sister site E Shop Hosts.

Zen Cart modules to Integrate your eCommerce with Facebook

By E Shops For Sale | February 15, 2011 | Resources | No comments

Integrating your Zen Cart ecommerce shop with your Facebook business page is an ideal way to gain extra visits to your online shop. It is a well known fact that the number of Facebook users is in excess of 500 million and a large proportion of those are daily users so promoting your e-shop and the products that you are selling on Facebook makes a lot of sense.

There are a number of modules available from the Zen Cart Addons and Contributed Modules area that will help you in a number of ways to integrate your products on to your Facebook Business page and help promote your Zen Cart web site by other Facebook users.

Some Useful WordPress Configuration Tips for New E-Commerce Blogs

By E Shops For Sale | October 17, 2010 | Resources | 1 Comment

Over the past few months we have installed and integrated quite a few WordPress blogs with e-commerce stores, obviously online traders are realising the S.E.O. benefits that adding a blog to their site will bring.

We realise that whilst e-commerce store owners are quite clued up when it comes to administrating their shopping cart software and possibly already blogging using one of the many social media type facilities available on the web, when confronted with the WordPress administration panel for the first time it may be a little daunting.

We have realised that we seem to be sending out similar e-mails to clients explaining what each plug-in (module) is that has been installed to their new e-commerce blog and how to go about utilising it. Whenever E-Shops For Sale install and integrate a WordPress blog to an online store, we will also install some fundemental plug-ins that are usually to enhance the appearance of the blog along with other plug-ins that have been identified to be useful to the client in their quest to enhance their blogs’ SEO permance.

The Essential Modules for your Integrated E-Commerce Blog

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Online Directory Sites to Submit your New E-Commerce Store

By E Shops For Sale | October 11, 2010 | Resources | 4 Comments

So you have now got your new e-commerce web site set up, live and ready to do business. Hopefully you have carefully crafted your pages and product descriptions with keyword rich and informative text and descriptive pictures to entice those all important sales.

Your next step is to embark on your web shops promotional activities, which is part of that minefield exercise often referred to as SEO. One of the quickest and best ways to gain awareness of your new site at the launch, with the added bonus of some backlinks, is to submit the URL of your new online shop site to the search engines and some of the main e-commerce directories. Many are free to list within and these business directory sites can be great places for your potential customers to get focused results for their key word/phrase searches and seeing your e-commerce web site listing in some of the better known and trusted directory sites gives you credibility that search engine results don’t always offer.