We only service osCommerce shops - that is why we are so good at it.
Take a look at some our services.
I. osCommerce Shop Install and Setup
II. osCommerce Modification
III. Contribution Installation
IV. osCommerce Search Engine Optimization
V. Template Installation
VI. Troubleshooting
Having trouble getting your osCommerce shop installed or just don't have the time to be bothered with it?
Let us do it for you.
osCommerce installation includes:
- Transferring all files to your host via FTP
- Configuring the script to the settings of your web host and website
- Correctly configure all necessary file and folder permissions
- Create MySQL database that osCommerce requires
- Test osCommerce for proper and complete installation
Before order installation please check that your web host meets all of the minimum requirements needed to run osCommerce.
We can modify osCommerce for you to fit the functionality and style that you like.
We are ready to custom design mod specifically for you, also can install or create templates to improve the style of your website.
Contributions are provided by the community of osCommerce users and are available in the contributions section of the osCommerce website. There are only limited restrictions on adding a contribution, so the quality does vary.
If you do not see the one you are looking for, just contact us and we will try find it for you. Or, if there is not a current contribution to handle the job for you, we can build one for you. Just supply us with the details and we will take it from there.
Search Engine Optimization, commonly referred to as SEO, is one of the hottest topics currently on the Internet. It refers to optimizing your site so that the search engines will rank you higher in their index of sites. Ranking high on these lists is one of the best ways to increase traffic to your site.
The next step is to integrate your keywords and key phrases into your normal product descriptions. Once you have the page content right, you then have a base to apply other optimisation techniques such as Meta tags, session IDs, a site map and inbound links.
- Meta Tags - Meta tags alone will not give you a high search engine ranking but a coordinated effort to integrate your Meta tags to the content of the page and to your products can improve significantly your search engine ranking for relevant keywords or key phrases.
Meta Tags (also known as Header Tags Controller contribution) allows set unique Header Tags for:
Title,
Keywords,
Description
on a per page basis.\
- Search Engine Friendly URLs (Ultimate SEO URLs contribution) - This feature replaces the stock osCommerce method of creating URLs by passing the parameters (products_id, cPath, etc.) by creating static HTML file URLs. Having your main keywords in the URL for each product and category page can significantly help your search engine rankings. Search Engine Friendly URLs use a server feature called mod_rewrite to rewrite the URL so that the outside world sees only the URL generated by the database from the product name and category name information.
- Spider Session Remover ( SID Killer ) - osCommerce, together with many other e-commerce packages, uses Session IDs to store and track information about customers. The session ID is the long collection of random characters located at the end of the shop URL:
http://www.domain.com/product_info.php?products_id=33&osCsid=f255b7...3db6436432b7dc
However, session ids can cause problems for some search engines. osCommerce gets round this problem by using logic, to check if the visitor to your store is a search engine spider or a potential customer (spider is the name given to the search engine robot which visits your site because it crawls all over your pages and through your links). If a spider is recognised, session IDs are not given to the spider thus enabling your pages to be indexed correctly.
- Google Sitemap - As Google is the world's most used search engine, the Google search engine spider could be your most important visitor. Google have recently implemented a program where site owners can submit a Google specific sitemap for indexing. This is a great way to keep your site constantly indexed and updated by Google. Google Site Map contribution for osCommerce generate a sitemap containing urls to product pages for Google sitemap service. http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
- Site Map - An 'All Products' index page or site map (see our demo) gives a helping hand to the search engine spider. Ideally the page should contain a list of direct links to all your products and categories. This page can be useful for your customers also.
A link to the 'All Products Page' should be located on your home page. This way, no matter how many categories and sub-categories you have, a link to every product is available within two steps for the search engine spider when it visits your site. If the spider is limited in resources (either time or the number of links it can follow) this means your products are more likely to be indexed than not.
One of the most common complaints about osCommerce, is the appearance of the shop. Anyone familiar with the package can quickly identify a site as being osCommerce. There are a number of things that can be easily changed to improve the look of the shop. But to truly make it one of your own, a template will need to be installed.
A template is a set of files and images that totally change the appearance of a site. There are three ways to install a template into an osCommerce shop:
Simple Template System (STS)
Basic Template System (BTS)
Hard coded
The first two options are contributions that can be installed into an osCommerce shop. They each have their own advantages. However, they cause other problems in the shop and should not be used, in our opinion. The best way to improve the look of your shop is by making the changes to the actual files (known as hard coding). This is a more difficult procedure but provides the best results.
Not all templates will easily work with osCommerce. They can all be adapted but more work is required for some. We can install any of them, of course. Just provide us with the template package and it will be installed in short order.
Making changes to an osCommerce shop is a part of the life of an osCommerce shop owner. Whether it is installing required changes to keep the code operating properly, adding the latest new feature to make the shop the one with the most gadgets on the block or simply changing the appearance, code changes are required.
Of course, with code changes, there is always the possibility of failures. All osCommerce shop owners have had the "pleasure" of seeing an error message after installing a code change to their shop. Many times, the problem is easily found. However, occasionally, the problem is very difficult to locate. That's where we can help.
If you have a problem in your shop that you haven't been able to locate, let us fix it for you. With our reasonable rates and low prices, most problems can be found quickly and at a surprisingly low price. |
