osCommerce Webmaster’s Guide to Selling Online: Increase your sales and profits with expert tips on SEO, Marketing, Design, Selling Strategies, etc.

• Turn your e-commerce site into a money-making enterprise
• Full of practical tips and tricks to improve profit with osCommerce
• Professional advice on choosing the best contributions

In Detail

If you have an osCommerce-based online business, you need this book. Packed with expert guidance on all aspects of building a better online, this book will make your store stand out from the crowd.

All approaches and techniques described here are proven to have worked well for successful osCommerce-based online businesses among the, over 650, all around the globe with which the author has been actively involved as developer, project manager, or online business consultant.

osCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution written in PHP and MySQL that can be set up on various platforms. More than 10,000 businesses and sole traders all around the world benefit from its features and flexibility. The importance of the osCommerce community consisting of over 100,000 can not be stressed enough as this is where both online merchants and web developers can communicate and find solutions. There are many "contributions" -- modules for osCommerce that further extend its functionality -- making it suitable for almost every business's requirements.

What you will learn from this book?

• Calculate and monitor profits
• Monitor and track efficiency of advertising campaigns
• Optimize your osCommerce online store for search engines
• Internal and External Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
• Getting popular on search engines
• Web page optimization
• Structure and dynamic content
• Keyword selection
• Back-linking strategies
• Make your SEO campaigns pay off
• Superb ideas for appealing store design
• Reach profitable new markets by fine-tuning your product catalog
• Best practices for product listing and product information pages
• Build and maintain customer confidence
• Run a properly planned promotion campaign
• Use and extend the reporting facility of osCommerce
• Practical insights on creating custom reports
• Improve your process and efficiency while maintaining business profitability
• Convert customers into repeat customers

Approach

Packed with expert advice and practical examples of effective store design and report creation to help you make better decisions, formulate more effective strategies, and measure your success.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for anyone administering an osCommerce site, including webmasters, content managers, store owners, and marketing managers, who do not need to understand PHP or MySQL to benefit from this book. The tips and techniques described in this book can be applied to any small, medium sized e-commerce site.

This is not an implementation guide; developers implementing osCommerce-based e-commerce sites would benefit from reading Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook.