MY SEO SECRETS

Tutorial No. 3.8

Title: Recovering from a Previous Bad Link Campaign

Description: If your search engine ranking starts falling it may be because you have some links from bad sites. This explains some things you can do to recover.

Tutorial No. 30.23

Description: A comprehensive Glossary of SEO and Marketing Terminology. If you don’t know the language, how can you walk the walk?

Find it in Shopping Cart Elite Help Section

Tutorial 15.11

Description - Learn how to become the elite Craigslist Seller. Secrets and Tips are included.

See it inside Shopping Cart Elite Help Tutorials

Release Notes – (November 1, 2011 Release)

Major Highlights in V 2.9 Release

• Inventory Module has been released
• New User Interface for Back office Menu
• Visitor Generated SEO for Websites (Enabled for all)
• Intelligent Search for Websites (Elite Package and up only)
• Custom Submenu for Header Buttons
• Dynamically watermark website images
• Add vehicles ACES database and Create custom Product Mapping Databases
• On Demand Search Engine Submitter (First submission free - $10/mo afterwards)
• Third Party: Subuno Fraud Prevention (First 10 requests free - $25/mo for 50 requests)
• Google Shopping API Enhancement with Categorization

What are we working on this month?

• Full Visitor Analytics
• Traffic ROI Calculator
• Recommended Products
• Multi Lingual Support
• Multi-Currency Support
• Australia Pre-Release
• Sweden Pre-Release

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Website

• Product Page: Hide “Get Quote” anchor link if quote is enabled on product page
• Checkout: Guest will not be able to save credit card for the future
• Applied canonical meta tag on dynamic similar URLs
• Header Buttons can have a Sub Menu with Custom Links
• Dynamically watermark product images
• Enhanced 404 pages when reaching wrong URLs
• Deleted Image will not be deleted for up to 60 days and if there was no impression made on it
• Blacklist users who are not allowed to hotlink to your images
• Upload your own Fav Icon
• Enhanced Shipping Calculator, you must select the state if you are in US
• Added US Military states
• If Vimeo video is on the homepage, play it once every 30 minutes. Record the enter time in the cookie
• Enabled Vehicle Search on all non aps vehicle related articles
• Tweaked Robots.txt file for Googlebot
• If regular price = sale price it will not display the sale price in checkout
• If you allow different shipping address step 2 should be default to new address
• It is now a radio between between Billing Address | New Shipping Address | Dropdown
• You can now hide the shipping estimator from the shopping cart

Website – Search Results

• TIRE: search now has 3 drop down to select a size on the side menu
• TIRE: Title now includes the speed rating and tire type and load range for tires
• TIRE: Fixed Load Range Sort Filter
• WHEELS: Fixed Diameter Sort Filter
• Warning notes now should in search results
• Product setup has a new rule to create a universal product to show up for vehicle specific applications has been created
• If you remove a car you searched for from the side menu it will redirect you to the homepage
• Visitor Generated SEO
• Intelligent Search
• Fixed search cache to synchronize faster when changes to a product is made
• If you have a wheel product and it doesn’t have the following words in its title “Wheels | Wheel | Rims | Rim | Rimz | Wheelz” … inject it on the website. If you have a tire product and it doesn’t have “Tire | Tires | Tyre | Tyres” inject it in the title on the website
• If you are mouse over anywhere in the whole single row with your mouse make the whole row flip thumbnails
• Made flipping images half a second faster

Website – User Interface

• Removed SCE Logo from Footer on all the websites to get a cleaner look
• Made the menu smoother during scrolling
• Fixed auto align when vehicle is selected
• Any title that has duplicate has a brand contained in it will have brand removed
• Changed add note to edit note in checkout
• Product Page: Wrapped tabs in JavaScript
• Homepage: Wrapped external links in JavaScript to avoid SEO PR Leak
• Redirect: default.aspx redirects to www.domainname.com without default.aspx
• Aligned the checkout steps

Email Server - IMAP

• Revamped the complete IMAP Exchange server for performance (Still in Beta)
• IMAP works on iPhone, Android and Blackberry

SEO

• On Demand Search Engine Submitter improves your web page indexing. If you check in Google Webmaster Tools that only half of your webpages are indexed, try using this tool.

Wholesale

• Added more options to synchronize discounts for dealers
• Product Setup Module
• Direct a user to a custom URL with either a Add to Cart or Get a Quote Button
• Add to ACES database and Create custom Product Mapping Databases
• Wheels: Added new bolt patterns 4x98, 4x101.6, 5x101.6, 8x210
• You are able to put cents in for the shipping flat rate amounts

Customers

• New button added to invoice order from order details and ship it
• You can delete CC even if it has history on it
• Passing Order Number to merchant processor to avoid duplicate charges
• Implemented a new weight formula if live shipping will not calculate shipment
• Improved taxation on discounted products
• Improved Legend on Order Search
• Process will be disabled if full amount is not selected
• Improved how deposits work
• Improved cash transactions
• Improved order sorting
• Improved the processing of abandon orders
• Revised the customer order screen and improved the user interface to easily process and track orders
• You can now enter Zipcode 5 + 4
• Improved the assignment of orders
• Wheels: Bolton pattern will show up when orders wheels
• If the invoice was paid via Credit Card on the bottom of the invoice it should say “Your credit card statement will show a charge from ~legalname or ~dbaname. Please note this for future references.”
• Improved user interface for automated UPS shipping
• Subscription orders do not require shipping address
• Created extra validation to trigger shipping on process order

Discounts

• Adds Coupon to All Products if it’s a site wide discount
• Adds Coupon Automatically on Checkout
• Adds Additional Product Title - “5% OFF COUPON - “couponname” – optional
• if you create a discount which will make the product less than cost … give them a warning

Effiliate Marketing

• Viglink Integration allows you to trigger a custom affiliate URL on add to cart
• If Viglink is enabled it will display a Viglink image disclaimer on the footer

Data Mapper

• You can now customize your spider URL
• When image can’t be retrieved a friendlier error message will be given
• Improved wheel data mapper validation

Data Audit

• Price sync will trigger the same formula as you had in the previous product and only use the new prices that do not contain a formula

Data Sharing

• If an item is set as quote in data share, it will be transferred as quote to the other store
• Improved Loading Speed

Settings

• Added Setting for Intelligent Search
• Added Setting for Analytics

General

• Made it easier to customize the submenu homepage buttons in general settings

Reports

• Added right click to jump to order in Money Transactions
• Themes
• a.sideMenuSubCat - text-transform: lowercase;
• Converted all .gifs images to .png

Link Exchanges

• You can bulk add, modify and delete
• Admin can recover deleted links

Inventory

• You can import inventory based on Supplier / Warehouse / Brand / Part # / Inventory Count
• You can set rules for Live Inventory –
• Hide if Inventory Not Available
• Quote if Inventory Not Available

Back office User Interface

• Revamped the locations of all the apps
• In Data Share Setting it is not clarified that you should only choose vehicles that you want restricted on the website
• Revamped the order assignment screen
• Improved Announcement screen

New Third Party App

• Viglink has been integrated in Shopping Cart Elite
• Enabled Amazon Search box if visitors searches for something and it’s not found. We defaulted this to on, you must enter your Affiliate ID in back office or sign up for Viglink

LIST OF BUGS THAT HAVE BEEN FIXED AND ARE NOW OPERATIONAL

Dashboard

• Enhanced Created a new filter to see “Yesterday” new orders
• Fixed PayPal incorrectly showing as enabled when it is really disabled

Customer

• Fixed the removal of hidden characters in copy and paste of emails
• Fixed If you have two items with different shipping amounts on the same order … in order search when you look at details the total shipping will show up for both. The invoice shows accurate number though
• Fixed the refresh when refunds are issued

Marketplace

• If you have flat rate - free = Amazon export puts weight 0 … since it takes flat rate 1lbs = $1. Fixed to take real weight if greater than 0, If weight is also 0 … put 1lbs.
• Completed FTP export app
• All images will end with .jpg when exported in marketplace
• TheFind submits once every 10 days
• Enhanced Google Shopping API

Website

• Fixed quick view to show up when you searched for a part number
• Fixed welcome email when guest checkout makes a purchase
• Fixed Quote only issue on search results
• Fixed issue where flat rate shipping would charge domestic, international rates
• Fixed Google Sitemap dates issue
• Fixed enter key when you typed something in search on the website
• Fixed descriptions no longer show up in horizontal view
• Fixed wrong make models vehicles getting pre-selected in sessions

Product Setup Module

• Revamped Application Synchronization option
• Fixed drag and drop from category to category
• Fixed Data mapper automotive rules not saving

Support Desk

• Fixed when Searching by specific employee would show all employees
• Fixed Order state was marked shipped incorrectly
• Fixed when a ticket is reported it says Service Task is required, it’s now optional. If I select it I still can’t close it without saving it first
• Fixed When Service Board is set to all, none of the tasks show up
• Fixed when deleted one of the task but it still show up in tickets

You are trying to start an online drop shipping business to sell auto parts. You are passionate about cars and all you need is a good functional car parts website, accurate car parts data and a great drop ship supplier that can offer you competitive prices.

Does this sound like you? Well that is not all that you need. In fact even if you were to get all of that right (website, data, and discounts), you will still hit some major frustrating, time consuming and pricey road blocks ahead. You even risk failing altogether if you don’t know about everything else that you need to do.

Here is a bigger picture of what you need.

Now the chances are you had no idea that you needed to do extensive marketing on your website to even smell any kind of success. When I say extensive I am talking about a few thousand dollars per month in advertising on top of all the other work. If you can comprehend the image I shared with you above you will realize that it is impossible to start an online business by yourself with no help and little capital and actually succeed in the first year. You will be spinning your wheels for the next two years minimum before you realize the big picture for yourself and take action.

So here are your options on how to start your online business:

OPTION A: Starting a Self-Sustained Online Business

You need to budget a minimum of $1000 per month plus 10 hours each day of your time for the next six months to see something happen. When I say something, I am talking about having the profits pay for the expenses for the company (instead of your own pocket) while the company continues to grow.

You need to be prepared to hire and invest even more than $1,000 into the operations and marketing as soon as you can understand the full picture and create a marketing plan that you will feel confident about. It is not a coincidence that all successful companies have very high advertising budgets each month. These companies went from a startup to where they are today, and it wasn’t irony, luck or coincidence. You will not get where you want to be by dreaming or wishing for it to happen. You will also not get there by thinking you know everything without actually knowing much. You will have to take risks and EXECUTE them.

If you think this is for you, than let’s talk. You can visit www.shoppingcartelite.com to see what our platform is all about and I will be more than happy to consult with you on how to go about and succeed with your online business. My email is igor at shoppingcartelite.com

OPTION B: GO TO EBAY / AMAZON / CRAIGSLIST, etc.

You can solve all your traffic problems and website problems by selling on eBay. Sure they are expensive but you know what? Traffic is expensive and you will pay for it one way or another. The only problem is that when you sell on eBay, you are competing with some heavy players in the same arena. This is like having your own website with other competitors showcasing their low price right next to yours, except their price happens to be much lower than yours. This is why many new eBay sellers have such a hard time selling on eBay unless they become the #1 seller.

Can a business make money on eBay? Absolutely. The question is can you make money on eBay? If you are relying on drop shipping, I will probably say the odds are against you. You see out of 100 sellers that sell the same item as you on eBay, only three of them will do well and capture 90% of the sales because of their prices, availability, feedback and sales copy. Then 10% of the remaining sales will be the left over for you and the other 97 eBay sellers that you will be fighting over. I have three videos for you to watch if you are interested in selling on eBay.

Tips on How to Sell on eBay

Secret to Selling on eBay

Research Tools for eBay

All I can say is Good Luck.

OPTION C: CREATE A JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP WITH ANOTHER BUSINESS AND BUILD UP YOUR STARTUP CAPTIAL TO FUND YOUR OWN OPERATION

After building a three million dollar a year retail online business and working with new startups for the past three years, I finally have a solution for a startup entrepreneur that only has $200 per month to invest and can be on the right path to building his own successful online business. The program below is a description of how this joint venture would work.

OVERVIEW

I’ve asked the current owner of Auto Accessory Store, Tom Schenk to participate in this program with his website www.autoaccessorystore.com. Auto Accessory Store invests $150,000 plus per year in advertising. Now you can have a small piece of the pie.

There are eight turn-key eCommerce independent stores available to start. What makes these sites different from others is they are sub-domains of a multi-million dollar retail operation Auto Accessory Store (Ex meganracing.autoaccessorystore.com which specializes in the Megan Racing brand).

This means that you get to tap into the Auto Accessory Store traffic from all the advertising and marketing they do by being a part of their parent domain name. If you have no idea what I just said, here is a good blog post on what Authority Domain means.

Here is how this joint venture deal will work, since these online stores are sub-domains of AutoAccessoryStore.com they are independent from one another even though they share the same domain name. These sub domains have all the benefits of the marketing campaign that Auto Accessory Store does on a monthly basis. 

The most important fact that you need to realize is you have the option to actually utilize Auto Accessory Store resources

Suppliers

Discounts

Merchant Accounts

Customer Service Staff

Sales Staff

Marketing

And more.

Depending on your availability if you are doing this part time or full time, you can either run the whole thing yourself and if you took more than you can handle or you realize that you can’t do all of it yourself, Tom will be right there at your rescue to help you with traffic, marketing, customer service, sales and more.

Will Auto Accessory Store sell the same products as you do? NO! … Any products on the main website will actually have redirects to your sub domain if you are selling them. If you decide to sell a specific brand, then there will be no other sub domain competing against you and that includes the main Auto Accessory Store domain as well.

Since each subdomain targets a specific niche you really don’t have a whole lot of work to make this website profitable. Tom took additional steps to make sure this succeeds by extensively researching the niches for you and he chose eight of the most lucrative niches in the automotive industry and already created the independent sub domain stores for you to choose. He even added the product data and got the drop ship suppliers into this deal.

OPPORTUNITY

This is an amazing opportunity for:

ENTREPENEURS WHO WORK FULL TIME

ENTREPENEURS WHO ARE INTERNATIONAL (outside of US)

ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE BEGINNERS TO ECOMMERCE

ENTREPENEURS LOOKING FOR SIDE INCOME

NOTE: You will not get rich from having one subdomain store. The goal is to either make enough to fund your own online business that will be separate from Auto Accessory Store or make enough profits to pay your personal expenses such as your car, mortgage, etc. You should also consider this venture more of a learning opportunity while making side cash which can eventually take you to the next level of having your own successful online business.

PROFITS

Gross Monthly Sales will range from $1500 - $10,000 depending on the niche you choose. The NET Profit Margins range between 20% - 40%.

JOINT VENTURE DEAL

-More Work, More Profits- You can completely run the business under full control and keep all the profits. This requires your own merchant account to process credit card payments as well as all of the customer service and sales perks that come along with running an online business. There is a 2.5% royalty charge on all sales (excluding shipping fee) if you will do this deal. Auto Accessory Store will cover the organic marketing that will send you traffic to your new website. 

-Minimal Work, Less Profits- Partner with Auto Accessory Store to split the daily tasks and split the net profits 50/50.  Auto Accessory Store will handle all customer services, sales, accounting day-to-day tasks (customer services/sales/order process).  You won’t need a merchant account or even a business to do this as Auto Accessory Store will be using its own company bank account and company name to process everything. 

If you are unable to answer phone calls during business hours, or simply want to avoid having more overhead this is an ideal solution. This is PRICELESS for entrepreneurs who are outside of the US. Auto Accessory Store will cover the organic marketing that will send you traffic to your new website.

RISK FREE CONSULTATION

These will not last long.  There are literally eight available online sub domain stores available on first come first serve basis.  

-Shopping Cart Elite Software Suite Included

-Hosting for the website Included

-Graphic Design / Logo Design Included

-Niche Brand Research Included

-Drop ship Supplier with discount Included

-Sell the same products on eBay / Amazon without royalty

-No contracts or Commitments

-Merchant Account, Customer Service, Sales Staff Included

-Traffic is included

The price for this joint venture deal is only $200 per month which is billed quarterly ($200x3) and it includes everything above. Depending on the deal you will negotiate with Tom Schenk there will be a 2.5% royalty fee or 50/50 net profit split on any successful sale.

COMES WITH A SIX MONTH GUARANTEE

If the online store does not cover itself by the 6th month, your monthly payments will be frozen while you keep running the online store until the profits start to cover the $200 per month.

FILL THIS FORM OUT RIGHT NOW

TO SPEAK TO TOM FOR FREE ABOUT YOUR NEW ONLINE BUSINESS