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The site is http://jimstradersshop.shopping.officelive.com.  I would appreciate if some of the community would check and test drive my site.  Your feedback will be most appreciated

fantastic website and selection of merchandise you might consider changing the title of your homepage from "Home" to something more descriptive about your website since the Title of the page is what is displayed in the header of your search engine listings also many search engines consider Home as a place holder and is ignored. You can use this same procedure to make all your webpage titles more descriptive of the content of the pages.

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

You've done a good job marketing your items on your site. I like the specials and the way you post events. The main problem I see is with all the grammar and spelling errors, it makes you look way too much like an amateur, which is not good in online retail. I know how much work you had to have put into that, since you apparently have the same supplier I do, but you'd be better off slowing down a little on putting up items and take the time to spellcheck what you are doing. Otherwise, it's great.

Gary:  Thank you for your comments regarding my website.  They are most appreciated. 

As for the title of my homepage, do you have any suggestions of an alternative name?  I suppose I could burn out what is left of my brain cells and try to think of a new title, but at this point I am now 'brainfried', from working on the site.  I still have more to do in order to make the site more user friendly, and that is going on the second burner for a couple of days.  I hope to just sit back, relax a little, and get re-charged.

 If you can suggest a different name for the homepage, or if you know of a website that would be of assistance with the selection process, I would be most thankful for the help.

So at this juncture, my brain and I are going to rest, relax and hopefully recharge so that I can continue with my quest.

Again, thanks Gary for your help.

Jim

Hello Jim:

You pick a title of your webpage by what Heading you want to appear in the search engine listing, here is a example

 "Jims Traders Shop Home Page". In the navigational bar you can still have it called "Home"

Gary
New Mountain Tavern		Silver Moon Furniture

I like your website and agree that you need to change to home to sumething different, like your title and toys, games,home decor,garden after it.

will show up on tab to what you change it to.

it looks like there is three buying from same seller.     my site www.jbsfamilystore.com and www.josephs-gift-shop.com

Shopping at JBs Family Store offers a variety of high quality gifts like: home décor, kitchenware, candles, apparel, games, toys, jewelry and much more.

jev896

take homepage out of your title. it should be   Jim's Traders Shop   only.   then go to page manager and change the properties for home page to set page title you want to show up on tabs for your site and then set the search engine optimization for that page. will help in search engines so people can find you.     joeb

Shopping at JBs Family Store offers a variety of high quality gifts like: home décor, kitchenware, candles, apparel, games, toys, jewelry and much more.

I buy stuff online and I could see myself shopping on your site. I guess that means that for me your site functions pretty well and you come across as a legitimate online retailer. That said, here are a few site upgrades to think about.

Get your own domain name. Avoid using the officelive.com domain for your business.  It looks like http://www.jimstradershop.com/ is available.

Work on your header. If you have time or money to hire professional help, work on upgrading your header and logo so that it looks a little less homemade.

Newsletter sign up. Your Home page leads with the invitation to sign up for the newsletter, but you need a link that drops the visitor to the bottom of the page where they can do that.

Back to School link:  Your “Special Events now going on - Back to School” also needs a link to the Back to School page.

Slow loading pages: I’m not sure why your pages are so slow to load. Have you compressed your images files?

Finally, and this is a small thing, you leave out all the question marks where you need them in your copy. Home page examples:

• Haven't signed up to receive first hand information on new products and special events.
• Not registered with PayPal click on the following link. (Not registered with PayPal? Click the following link.)

If you know somebody with good copy writing skills, ask them to read over your site and look for errors. They might take an Elvis Guitar Clock in trade!