Computer Dropshipping

How many people now own a computer? 90+% of the modern world now has access to at least one computer, and printer. Surely it makes perfect sense to start a business in a market that can only go up? Computer Dropshipping is that business..

Ok, so you are obviously interested in the dropshipping industry, and what the business model of dropship can do for you. But, what product ranges should you be interested in? Think about this another way. Let’s imagine that you have a few hundred pounds left in your bank account, and you NEED to start a business that will give you the most potential. What product range would you think about using?

Computer Dropshipping almost encapsulates the perfect product range. Why? The reason being, that 90+% of the modern world has access to at least one personal computer. Most households have 2+ computers, and printers. Why does this equate to the perfect business, and product range? Well, consider the fact that computers are now a serious part of our life. Not just working life, but on a personal level, computers are now an essential part of living. Bold statement, but try switching off all your computer equipment for a week, your internet, and just assess the impact this will have on what has now become a way of life.

The Perfect Product Range – PC Dropshipping

The computer industry is only going to get stronger. Technology will actually force people to upgrade, educate, adjust and PURCHASE the very latest products, advancements, and speed acceptance that computer products are now bringing to the table. Consumers actually LOVE spending on technological advancements.

This is why using PC Dropshipping, and running a computer business is an ideal home business for you. As mentioned, consumers will now always need to buy replacement products, new monitors, increased memory as the latest games increase their PC’s resources. Hard drives that have the annoying habit of failing, graphics cards that need upgrading to keep up to date with the latest desktop publishing software, and much more.

If you can think of a single reason why using computer products are your core range of inventory, has any downsides, then we would be very surprised. Some PC products can be bulky, or awkward to ship, and this is where using the services of a computer dropshipper comes into it’s own, because no matter what products you sell, and what orders you receive, all the hard work of shipping is taken care for you, leaving you free to concentrate on make sales, and more importantly  – profits.

Very many reasons to start a Computer Business, Today.

You can sell computer products anywhere you like. Sure, there is competition, but there is competition for a REASON. The reason being, that the market place for such products is GIGANTIC, which is why you will see auction venues almost to the point of saturation with pc products and accessories. Such products sell by the bucket load.

The opportunity to start a computer business is a huge one. By starting your dropship computer business, and website, you can then tap into the unlimited resource of the internet, and start attracting custom directly to a website, containing products and computer components that people are actively searching for – to make a purchase.

Imagine, owning your own computer website, containing the very latest technology products, that people WANT to buy, to increase the speed of their pc, to increase the performance of their considerable investment, to upgrade to the latest PC monitors, and printers. There really are no limits.

Computers are without doubt, a fantastic, and exciting business to start – and you can start TODAY.

The following website offers you the opportunity to start your own Computer Dropshipping business in minutes, ready to start promoting these exciting and highly saleable products – and great prices.

You can also have your very own Computer Dropshipping website business installed inside 1 hour, giving you the ultimate, and winning combination of being able to promote on all the auctions venues, as well as from a professional website to hold all your valued customers.

Click The Following Link For Full Details:

http://www.computer-dropshipping.com

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dpbuk.co.uk

dpbuk.co.uk  have been providing website solutions for well over 6 years, and were one of the first UK companies to provide XML feeds via a populated website. A great business opportunity

Options include a wide variety of website online businesses, including Lingerie, Adult, gadget dropship products, inks, and much more besides. You choose, you install, then you promote. Is it that easy?

Once you have decided on the product range of your choice, to populate your website, then your dropship website will be installed inside 30 minutes – a fantastic feat. Where many other companies in this sector HAVE to manually install websites for their customers, dpbuk have perfected the art of the automated installation, for perfect convenience.

Once your new business website has been installed, then simply by adding a few details, like your paypal email, and profit margtins you wish to attain, then you will be in the position of being able to promote your new work from home business.

Online Businesses – With Multiple Options

Owning an online business has never been easier. Cost effective, including a free business pack, will enable you to get your venture off to the best possible start.

Think of it this way, if you are seriously looking to create an online retail presence, without the will, or desire to hold physical stock, then dpbuk can most definitely help here. No matter which product range you choose, they will also furnish you with complete wholesaler supplier details.

Your new dropship business is then born. You can start marketing your freshly generated website, and when you do start making sales, then the wholesale suppliers will ship the products directly to your customers = 100% cashflow, from day dot!

dpbuk have created an ecommerce platform, and custom created their own software, which is absolutely specific to what you are looking to achieve. The website software includes all the modules you could, and should need. And this, together with the other sales tools provided will ensure the best way forward when entering the online business market.

Visit dpbuk today: http://www.dpbuk.co.uk

Website SEO

Big mistake..

We will show you why!

Unlike other marketing channels, for example display advertising, web users who click on your search result are actively looking to make a purchase (hence qualified) and best of all, it won’t cost you a penny (hence cost effective). Now that you understand how important seo is for your e-commerce site, here are a few tried and tested tips for 2010.

1. Get Singular Keyword Vs. Plurals Right – If you’ve red a bit about seo for e-commerce sites you know that every page (and in particular product pages) must have unique page title and page description which includes your keywords. The search engines use this information to determine how relevant or not the page is to the user search query. Despite this, most e-commerce sites miss the connection between singular and plural when choosing the keywords and optimise around one or the other. My tip is to include both terms in your metadata, based ‘product title [singular] order product title [plural] at store name’ e.g. ‘blue iphone cover – order blue iphone covers at store name’.

2. Use HTML and XML Product Site Maps - For many e-commerce sites, especially sites with many product SKUs, the battle is sometimes getting all the products into the search results index. If the product is unique for your site and isn’t blocked from the search engine crawlers, there’s no reason why it should not appear in the index. Unless the search engines could not find the product when visiting your site. To ensure all the products are accessible and found by the engines, consider using two sites maps. HTML site map which is placed close to the root, for example www.sitename.com/sitemap.html will ensure it will be found. While XML site map will require you to submit it via Google Webmater tools, which is a simple and free service from Google.

3. Intelligently Deal With Out of Stock and Discontinued Products - Unless you know better, in most cases you’ll take those products off the site and web users reaching the page will receive an error message. The missed opportunity is that those pages have some seo value, maybe some back-links pointing to them and possible high ranking. To save some of the value from those pages, consider redirecting them to a more appropriate product page. To maximize this, use a 301 server header from the old product to the new product so the seo value will be transferred from one to the other. Here’s a useful how-to redirect guide.

4. Always Rewrite, Refresh and Reinvent Content - Great content is an essential long term seo strategy. Content in the shape of product descriptions, products guides and even products reviews will include your keywords which will go hand in hand with the keywords in the page title and page description making the page appear even more relevant. Quality content will also make the page more sharable thereby increasing the likelihood of sites linking to the page and fresh content will ensure the page gets crawled more often by the search engines. For e-commerce sites, getting new fresh content is easy by simply encouraging customers to leave reviews.

5. Don’t Forget On-Site Optimisation -  This type of search engine optimisation relates to on-site improvements which will contribute to the seo mix. e-commerce sites should pay extra attention to:

A. Image naming – use the product title as the image name to gain web traffic from Google image search.
B. Image alt text – populate the alt field for all your images, in particular for product images.
C. Title as H1 – turn the product title into an H1 HTML tag.
D. Link internally – Link between relevant products to increase their relevancy.

I hope you find my e-commerce optimisation tips useful. Good luck for 2010.

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Guest article by Michelle Strassburg, head of sales and marketing at hardwood flooring store Wood and Beyond. The online store which was re-launched in 2009 offers timber products from worktops to decking.

This the second article in a series about protecting your website, the first article published was about stopping content stealers who damage your website with duplicate content issues.

Stopping the hackers getting into your website is obviously hugely important. Here are a few methods to protect yourself and keep your website secure.

Passwords
Change them often for the login to your website. Make them strong so use lots of letters, numbers and symbols. It may be a pain but for something so simple and important it must be done.

Index.html In All Folders
For every folder on your server make sure it has a blank index.html, otherwise if a hacker visits the folder directly they will be able to see all other files inside the folder.

Monitor Error Log
Check your stats, or 'Error Log' and keep an eye on it. You may spot hackers trying to find web based programs on your site to later attempt to use them. Alternatively you may also find missing files, images not loading etc which is good to locate to improve your users experience.

Htaccess File
Use the .htaccess file on your hosting.

Stop kiddie hackers with this code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} libwww [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)=http: [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]

Stop other people viewing the content of your htaccess file with this code (do the same for any other file just change the name):

<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

Block IP addresses with this code:

Order Deny,Allow
Deny from ENTER IP HERE

Robots File
Use your robots.txt file to prevent indexing of important folders and files on your website. Here is the code, change folder names to your own. Learn more about this at robotstxt.org

User-agent: *
Disallow: /folder-name/
Disallow: /folder-name1/
Disallow: /folder-name2/

Chmod Permissions (Unix servers only, not Windows)
Change the permission of your files to 644 when possible. This basically means the owner gets 'read and write access', but all other users only get 'read' access preventing programs from running. Obviously if you have a shopping cart script and other functions it may not be possible to have all files 644. You don't want to leave files unnecessarily vulnerable so have the right chmod in place when possible.

SSL
Try and use SSL on your whole website, not just during payments. You may need to pay extra for this so enquire with your web host provider about whether it is possible and for how much.

Backups
Remember to also do regular back-ups of your website should anything happen to it.

Your PC
Make sure it is free of viruses and well protected. Always update and run anti-virus software as often as possible. If your computer is hacked they could get the details to hack your website as well.

Surfing the web on mobile phones continues to grow in popularity. With the rise of smartphones such as the Apple iPhone, Blackberrys and devices from other brands such as Nokia the ‘mobile web’ seems to have become more and more in use.

Worth Becoming Mobile Friendly?
No doubt this is one market that will continue to grow over the coming years, and potentially rapidly, so ignoring this opportunity would be madness. It improves your reach to potential customers, means you are more accessible and also being involved already means you are ready for the future as mobile web develops even further. It also acts as another promotional method as there are directories specific for phone surfers.

Is Your Site Mobile Friendly?
Most websites aren’t automatically suited for use on phones, the formatting can end up all over the place. Get your website up on your phone (if it is internet enabled, which most new ones are) and take a look. Chances are it is isn’t.

Do Any Companies Yet Have Special Websites For Phones?
Yes. Lots of major companies, and much smaller ones, are now creating specific mobile-optimised websites. Amazon, Travelodge & Swiftcover are just a few of the companies already live – test them our on your phone to see what they look like. Another site is DropshipBog.co.uk, that’s right (see image on right), you can read all our content on your device, check us out on your phone now!

What’s The Difference Between The Sites?
Sites for mobiles have to be much ‘lighter’ so they load a lot quicker – compressed images, stripping out design elements and removing scripts are just a few of the changes. A script on your website means it detects the browser a visit is using and shows them the website as appropriate.

How Can I Make My Website Mobile Friendly?
You can either install a script yourself, search in google for things like ‘mobile friendly’ and there are lots of blog posts and articles with advice. Alternatively you can use a service to create one for you (it is free for basic services or paid for a more premium service). One I have tried out is MoFuse.com which is very easy to do and a quick solution. The benefits of doing it yourself are; you have complete control and your content doesn’t get redirected to another domain (like it does with services like MoFuse). However the services are a quicker and easier.

Conclusion
The web really is going mobile, and it is an area you can attack now before other ecommerce sites get in on the act. Be one step ahead of the game, it should pay off!

During the month of September LCN.com, the UK web host and domain registrar, are providing a new promotion code each day giving you ways to save lots of money! All offers are valid for 24 hours so you have to be quick, you can check daily the offer on THIS PAGE.

Current Deal
At the time of writing the offer is 99% off 1 years web hosting (1 years hosting for 21p!), but it expires in about 12 hours so by the time you read this I guess there will be another offer on.

What’s The Catch?
At first I wondered “Whats the catch?”, for the offers to be as ridiculous as this. But then realised that they are doing the offers simply to try and get as many new customers as possible, and then hope in a years time you renew your hosting (or domain name, or whatever offers you take advantage of) at the full price. As it happens, there prices are quite reasonable anyway, hosting starts from just £21 per year up to £56 per year, the monthly cost works out decent value for money for UK hosting.

How To Take Advantage Of The Offers
Simply visit this page each day where they provide the promotion codes and copy it. Then you checkout as normal and paste the promotion code during the checkout process and the discount is applied, very simple to do.

Who are LCN?
On their ‘About’ page it says they were established in February 2000 and currently hold 350,000 domain names and host 50,000 websites. So they are an established company. If you want to be sure about their customer service before you take up any of their offers do the usual test of contacting them (via phone or email) and seeing how friendly they are, how quick they respond and quality of response.

These offers are only on during September 2009 so don’t miss out, it is a great chance to save quite a bit of money on your overheads. Visit the LCN homepage now or check the latest offer available now.

Here is a very good video I found on YouTube this morning. It is titled Optimizing Ecommerce Product Images. Although the video features two American marketers, what they talk about isn’t region specific so is good advice if you are in the UK.

Because of how dropshipping works you may be thinking “well I can’t do that because I don’t have the products to take photos of!”. Good product images can really help sell items, so spending money on buying the products yourself direct from a dropshipper to take photos of them is an investment. And once you are done you can then sell them on to recoup your expenditure anyway.

If you sell hundreds of products then it may become a slight issue. So perhaps only do it with your best sellers to begin with. You could clearly see in the video what a difference it makes so don’t underestimate the use of product photography.

Here is a very good document titled User Experience Activities which should help you with various aspects of your own ecommerce website and business as a whole.

The points are only short so you will have to research more into a lot of them. Other points have the ability to just make you realise something (the penny drops) instantly. I especially like the 4th point down under the ‘Analyse’ section which says “If the company sells tangible products, get your hands on them and use them. To think like a customer, you must be a customer.” Short, sharp, and so true.

With regards to web design, in the past I thought about whether it was best to:

• Method 1: Record all plans and ideas, and then do lots of updates all at once. Or;
• Method 2: Each time I get an idea or find important info on web design issues make the changes straight away

The second method means rather then spending a lump amount of time (say every 3 months) doing upgrades to your website, it is more of a continuous ongoing process.

Types Of Sites
The method you choose should be based on your type of website. If it is purely an ecommerce website then I think using method two is much better. It is a lot more flexible and if the issues will improve your sales, such as these tips, then can you really afford to wait until your next round of upgrades? Best to just get the changes done to start benefiting straight away.

Alternatively if the site in question is a blog for your business, or a related minisite you use as a feeder to your main site then I think method 1 is better. The nature of these sorts of sites means waiting to do a whole round of updates would be more beneficial as you could continuously build up ideas, and then carry them all out when you have a set amount of time available to you. And unlike with ecommerce sites the web design changes you make to these sites probably won’t have as big an impact on sales/profitability.

Conclusion
Given the points made above I think for a main ecommerce website it is definitely best to have continuous website development, because then you can be more flexible (IE when sales are quiet work on the web design) and also take advantage of the improvements right away.

I’m sure other people will have differing opinions on this but I’ve found this way best, and alternative opinions are the beauty of business

This is a guest post by Ran Nir, the founder of online marketing agency Conversion Counts and a Google Analytics Consultant.

Google Analytics offers free enterprise level analytics software for everyone which just a few years ago would have cost an arm and a leg. Google Analytics will be an important tool to achieve your business goals provided the initial configuration is carried out correctly. Although Google Analytics offers some very complex solutions, the 10 benefits below are my favourites to increase conversion rates and revenues. They all require a basic understanding of Google Analytics and in many cases no additional configuration.

1. Track your website revenue: The Google e-commerce module is very comprehensive, in fact it can be used as a simple stock management system. Both online and offline orders can be tracked using Google Analytics which will provide your business with a complete picture in terms of revenue by category, revenue by channel, revenue by keyword, conversion rate, average order and many more important measurements.

To enable e-commerce reporting, follow these steps:

- Log in to your Google Analytics account
- Click ‘Edit’ next to the profile you’d like to enable
- On the Profile Settings page, click ‘edit next’ to Main Website Profile Information
- Change the E-Commerce Website radio button from ‘No’ to ‘Yes’
- Get a developer to install the tracking code available from Google
- Schedule a daily email e-commerce report so every morning you can start the day with a smile

2. Analyse and fix your sales funnel : You can use Google Analytics in many ways, but the most straightforward is to analyse and optimise a sales funnel. If the goal is set correctly then each stage in the sales funnel can be analysed and optimised to increase conversion. For additional information on how to set goals, visit the Google Analytics support page

3. Locate website errors and fix them : Having broken links on a site is bad news for user experience, site revenue and for your search engine optimisation efforts. Using Google Analytics to find error pages (404s) is really a breeze.

To locate error pages, follow these steps:

- Make sure you have a custom 404 page (you should have one anyway)
- Customize the page title of your error page, for example ‘Sorry Page Not Found :: SiteName’
- Visit your Google Analytics account >> content >> content by title
- Paste your unique page title in the free text under ‘containing’

4. Improve content by analysing the bounce rate : For online retailers, a high bounce rate hits where it hurts – the bottom line. Bounce rate is the percentage of entrances on the page that result in the visitor immediately leaving the site = missed revenue. There are a number of ways to reduce the bounce rate, my favourites are:

- Get rid of low quality traffic if you’re paying for it
- Improve the page content and address some basic usability tactics
- Ensure accurate metadata descriptions so you’re not promising something you can’t deliver
- When selling a product, ask yourself is the price competitive?

5. Track the effect of SEO metadata and content optimisation : If one of your SEO goals is to increase organic search CTR (if not, never too late to start!), Google Analytics can help. Once your changes have taken effect and are visible in the engines, head to Google analytics and follow those steps:

- Compare two dates, before and after your changes, taking into account seasonal and weekly fluctuations
- For site wide analysis, head to traffic sources

6. Track revenue sources : Best practice is to track and report on every channel which can turn into revenue. Using Google Analytics URL Builder it’s easy to assign a unique trackable URL or Tag URL as some people call it. Once the URL is tracked, you can analyse revenue, bounce rate, page views etc and start spending more cash where it matters. 

7. Track outbound links : If you link out from your site or blog, make sure you add onClick=”javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview(’/link/linkname’); “ It’s nice to know where your users are going to.

8. Compare historical data : One of my favourite features in Google Analytics is the ability to compare historical and seasonal trends. With e-commerce websites I use this information to better understand customer behavior and shopping habits so the right offer is always available at the right time. New offers can be compared to historical offers so your business can see what’s working and what’s not. Great for comparing seasonal keywords, traffic sources and more.

9. Manage sub domains and directory separately : This feature makes it easy to analyse and report, especially for websites with large folders and many pages. If you run a large website, this might be the only way to really turn raw data into actionable information. For additional information on tracking sub domains, visit the Google Analytics support page 

10. Reports by email : A great feature for businesses who like to stay 100% on top of things and get involved as much as possible. Using Google Analytics you can configure different reports to be sent to different people in the company, resulting in less manual work for yourself and happy customers.