So, I need me a salez website!
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Its gone reasonably well. We are now looking at getting a dedicated website. What are my options for setting up a sales-focused website.
I have looked at Wordpress and that seems easy enough, and I know there are plugins for SEO tools etc... but then I have also seen things like Shopify, which also seem to offer a complete sales website, SEO etc.... as part of an "all in one" package, but you also get your own URL which I prefer (e.g www.wordswithlove.com, rather than shopify.wordswithlove.com)
So, oh sage PH, what do you think? Shopify (or another, and pay a commission) or build from scratch and work hard on on/offpage SEO?
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Its gone reasonably well. We are now looking at getting a dedicated website. What are my options for setting up a sales-focused website.
I have looked at Wordpress and that seems easy enough, and I know there are plugins for SEO tools etc... but then I have also seen things like Shopify, which also seem to offer a complete sales website, SEO etc.... as part of an "all in one" package, but you also get your own URL which I prefer (e.g www.wordswithlove.com, rather than shopify.wordswithlove.com)
So, oh sage PH, what do you think? Shopify (or another, and pay a commission) or build from scratch and work hard on on/offpage SEO?
It has a lot of certification, PCI-DSS is a good one if it comes to the point where you're wanting to take payments instead of using a 3rd party payment gateway, their security measures are generally higher than what most people would set up themselves, unless they're a security expert.
Shopify is a target for some acts because of it's size, I guess there's quite a lot of kudos in finding a way in and using exploits then extracting details, probably more interesting to take Shopify as a whole instead of just some random Wordpress website on a cloud server somewhere. But ideally there's a range of measures in place
Shopify is a target for some acts because of it's size, I guess there's quite a lot of kudos in finding a way in and using exploits then extracting details, probably more interesting to take Shopify as a whole instead of just some random Wordpress website on a cloud server somewhere. But ideally there's a range of measures in place
I would strongly recommend a hosted e-commerce solution, I started off with one then went to open source software but this is a bit more complicated and more costly at times. I would recommend you check out www.ekmpowershop.com (where i started but they seem to have come a long way since then) and www.volusion.co.uk.. both are good. Shopify is undoubtedly good, but they take a 1% transaction fee as well as a monthly fee which is a bit rubbish when most others don't do this.
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