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May282010

Setting up a Shopping Ecommerce Website with Yahoo Merchant

I didn’t realize how easy it is to set up a ecommerce shopping site using Yahoo Merchant and the interface that is used in order to get your own site up and live within literally minutes.

The plans are as low as $25.97/month. The beauty about it is you don’t have to spend hours of farting around with programming and css files. Just upload your products you wish to sell, upload logo and choose colors and template and away you go. Of course you can then choose your preferred payment type and it contains an easy to use admin to monitor sales and track inventory.

It’s a great system to use if you just want an all in one solution. If you already have a website and just need to use their payment gateway this is also possible. It can be a very useful alternative then using paypal carts or other pain in the butt platforms.

The great thing is they are currently waiving the setup fees, if you click this promotional link – Yahoo Merchant Promotion you will benefit from this waive.

One thing I must say is also great is the fact that if you have lets say 10,000 images it will all be stored on their server, so you also don’t even have to worry about the hosting and website speed and quota and to have your whole site stored on the Yahoo Hosting account extremely secure.

Here again are some store examples:

This is my favourite bit when signing up you instantly get all of these marketing benefits:

* Search engine-friendly pages
* Automatic submission to Yahoo!
* Automatic submission to Google
* $100 credit with Yahoo! Search Marketing**
* Free Yahoo! Local listing
* $50 credit for Google AdWords
* 20% off Yahoo! Shopping default minimum bids in all categories
* Free trial on Shopping.com-$50 value
* $50 free traffic from Shopzilla
* 1 month trial with Campaigner by Got (email marketing)

That in itself is almost worth the money!

If you are already using Yahoo Merchant please share with me what you think about it, I would be happy to hear from your experiences.

Oct62009

7 Top Shopping Ecommerce Sites

Tags: Ecommerce

When choosing the right kind of ecommerce platform for your shopping website business it is important you try a few different sites before you get exactly what you need.

Recently launched Big Commerce are offering a great new affiliate program that allows users to create their own shopping site through their interface. It’s really a whole new step forward into the future, where getting a website up is easier then ever before.

I have been an affiliate member with Amazon for quite some time and feel it might be worth while to give Big Commerce a try out. One thing they claim which has brought my attention closer is they say their system is great for SEO.

Big Commerce
One thing I must admit I like about it after watching their demo video is you can drag and drop modules and edit or delete things really easy. Everything also seems to be run in Ajax too which is good for me as I don’t like waiting for things to load. I would say though the downfall is it seems like you can not take the code away from their server, you are more or less bound to their service. I guess which shopping application isn’t?
Ebay
One thing about ebay is they really get you alot of hits to your product, the problem is it is not like the old days where you can just list an item and it will sell no matter what. Now there are many competitors and other sellers trying to outbeat each other on price. One thing that is good about ebay though is you can add your website url underneath your item. This is a good way of leading them from there to your website
Amazon
Amazon have really done a wonderful turn around in the recent months and year or so, offering a whole range of different platforms to add to your own existing website including widgets, add ons, and astore product wich allows you to add code directly to your webpage. You can gain commissions on the products you choose to sell that are set by them. If you have your own product and you want to sell directly through their website, that is another avenue and will take some consideration on their behalf if your product is worthy enough.
Cafepress
Cafepress is great if you are just starting out or perhaps don’t have your own product but perhaps have your own design, you can submit your design and set a price above the average item cost anything that sells above this price you collect the rest in profit on. The platform is very easy to use and theme to your liking.
Overstock
Overstock is a very well known shopping search engine that has loads of quality items for sale, If you would like to use their site to sell your products then it is only good if you can list your item in the auction area. To have them list your own item in the general categories are pretty difficult as they have certain expectations and requirements similar to amazon.
Yahoo Shopping
I have heard some great things about Yahoo Shopping although I am yet to try them out. If anyone has had experience using them please let us know about it.
Kaboodle
Is also quite user friendly and allows you to list your products and tag your products so that they some up in the search engines. Quite a nice platform. You can set pricing and have your items also link directly to the source.