Graphic/web designer who can work within Volusion - Page 5

[CawMama]

Originally Posted by dogmom327

My biggest frustration these days is with Google. I'm really glad Carrin warned me that it could take 6-8 weeks for our SEO stuff to settle where it's going to land. I'd be pulling my hair out (okay, I'm still pulling my hair out).

Has your rank improved yet? Mine is still pretty horrible, and I'm beginning to panic a little now that the Christmas season is approaching. I've lost quite a bit of traffic!

[dogmom327]

No but on further analysis my keyword density was too high on some of my main pages. We finally figured out the other day how to add more text to our pages without pushing the products down. I'm trying to decide whether to pay for a change to the CC software that will allow me more flexibility but they aren't doing any upgrades until January...

Honestly I'm extremely frustrated with the whole thing. I'm trying to work on a page every day but at this rate it might take the rest of my life

I do have one product that is well ranked (Greek Yogurt Starter--we're #2) and we're doing well for that product. Thankfully we get a lot of referrals from blogs, etc. and we do get a decent amount of search engine traffic for really weird searches but whatever.

I guess I'm lucky because we aren't a holiday type site. We actually slow down for the two weeks around the holidays which is an amazing blessing and then things pick right back up January 1st.

[HipGal]

Thinking of moving hosts/carts, but a little afraid right now!

[CawMama]

HipGal....don't be afraid, just make sure that you are aware of what's going on and that you have someone competent help you with transferring your site over (the person who did mine really didn't know what he was doing).

My stats are still low....today I was looking around at my Awstats, and was noticing a 404 Error code when robots were trying to access my robots.txt file. I think that is what has been causing my issue. So, I reported it to my host, hopefully they can re-index my files and fix the problem.

I'm learning way too much about website operations.....the hard way!

[dogmom327]

Originally Posted by Carrin

HipGal....don't be afraid, just make sure that you are aware of what's going on and that you have someone competent help you with transferring your site over (the person who did mine really didn't know what he was doing).

I completely agree. If it's any encouragement, my average sale jumped 30% overnight just switching to a new site. Also despite traffic being down a bit, my sales are up (so overall increase in conversion rate). The pain in worth it (or so I keep telling myself).

On an unhappy note, it's been 6 weeks since we switched and Google has only managed to index 167 of my 264 URL's.

Carrin...as soon as I remember my Facebook Login, I'll head over

[CawMama]

Originally Posted by dogmom327

On an unhappy note, it's been 6 weeks since we switched and Google has only managed to index 167 of my 264 URL's.

Go into "tools---->sales and marketing tools----->SEO" and see if it says something like this "PHP max_execution_time: 120 seconds. This is the time your server will allow the SEO rebuild to run before timing out.
NOTE: Many products & categories may require you to increase this setting if you receive a blank white screen or the rebuild is incomplete.
(Please contact your host to change this setting)"

Mine was defaulted to 30 seconds....I had my host switch it over to 120 last Friday, and it made a HUGE difference!

I can't believe your sales have taken such a huge jump. What aspect of the cart do you attribute that to? You can pm me if you want.