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Hey thanks a lot, that was very informative and helpful. I don't know that I "Love" RC Vehicles but I do know that I love to make money and run a business, and RC Vehicles have a nice markup value for a good profit. That is actually how I am doing business right now is drop shipping through eBay. My plan is to succeed selling RC Hobby products so that I will have the experience to be able to expand and sell other products as well. I think of drop shipping as advertising for a company and I think that once I am more successful with this product I will have the knowledge to move onto the next. Maybe 10-20 years from now I will own 8-10 different websites selling different companies products. Maybe even have some employees by then. I don't know exactly where I am headed but I do know that I do have a huge passion for all of this because I sit here 8-10 hours a day doing research and trying to better my current business. So what would you say a good budget amount would be to start out having my first website built? Also, something else that was confusing me, will the website builder I choose do the SEO as well, or should they be separate people? Thanks so much again, your information has really helped me.

So just to verify, your recommending Joomla + Virtuemart if I want to do it myself and Wordpress if I want to pay someone else to do it?

I guess I am kind of confused what you mean by "Low Quality" as well. Right now I am using Bing SEO Toolkit to correct the

Do you think it would be a better quality site if I switched it to Magento Go? It seems like a lot of what is making it "Low Quality" is out of my control with 3DCart. The only thing I can really change myself is writing better content.

Thank you for all of that information. One thing that is bugging me though is that its not even showing up in the top 1000 for that keyword. Even with the problems I feel that it should atleast be in the top 1000? Am I correct?

Is there any tools that provide information on how many results there are for a given keyword? Also, would this be a good way to do research for which keyword I should optimize my page for google SERP, basically to find a less competitive keyword. My thinking was that if the search results were lower it would be easier to rank for that keyword with SEO.

In summary, if you wish to start ranking your website pages it will require a much more serious effort. From a SEO perspective, the site needs a tremendous amount of work, or to be redesigned. From a content perspective, you need to be willing to take the time and write unique, compelling content for each product in order to rank well. I define "ranking well" as landing on page 1 of Google results. If you are satisfied with ranking in the top 50, you can simply put effort into the existing site and it can happen.

I do realize it is going to take a lot more work and I am willing to put the work into it. I am just trying to get the right information on what I should be working on to make the site better. I am taking one step at a time and this is the first product I have attempted to change and optimize for SERP. I figure once I can get this page at least in the top 50 that I would better understand SEO and would be much more effective when trying to optimize the rest of my products. Do you think this is a good strategy?

presently your site does redirect the non-www version of URLs to their www equal, but it takes an extra hop. Check your redirects to make sure they can happen in one hop

I am not sure how to test this or how you knew about this, but I disabled the canonical URL through 3Dcart control panel. Does that make it any better? How can I test this myself? After disabling the canonical URL and I run the page optimization it gives me this error in the optional field:

Canonical URL Tag Usage

Moderate fix

<dl style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">

<dt>Number of Canonical tags</dt>

<dd>0</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic today.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>Add a canonical URL tag referencing this URL to the header of the page.</dd>

</dl>

The "related items" and "accessories" content is available on many pages throughout the site.

Is this a bad thing or were you just pointing out that the content wouldn't be unique?

The "video" section has no content at all other then presenting a YouTube video.

So should I write a paragraph above it related to the video?

a major concern is cannibalization and duplicate content within your own site.

So this is basically referring to copying the manufacturer's website content? I am confused on what you mean by duplicate content throughout my website. Each product is different.

What's left is the Description section. This area is your best opportunity to show something unique, but that does not happen here. I took your first sentence and performed a Google search including quotes: "The Nitro Monster Truck RTR Volcano S30 replaces the Volcano SV. "

So would it be a good rule of thumb to not copy content from the manufacturers website since it will basically be the same content as everyone elses that are selling the same products? Does it hurt rankings if your content is not unique?

Thank you so much for taking the time to review my page and give me good advice. I really do appreciate it. I am looking for any help an advice I can get. This stuff is extremely hard to learn and very time consuming I have noticed. Right now I mainly sell on eBay which I do pretty well, but I would like to start moving my sales to my website. I have only received 2 sales in the last year on my website and about $80,000 in sales on eBay so I know it does need a lot of work.before I will start getting anything even a quarter of what I am making on eBay. I have actually even considered hiring someone to build my website, but I enjoy doing this and would actually like to learn this stuff anyhow.

So I found a keyword that is labeled as "Low Competive" on Google Adwords. About a week and a half ago I optimized the page using the SEOMOZ On-Page optimization tool. It says that I am 100% with everything. My website is new but it has been around for about a year. I haven't gotten into linking and the more in depth SEO. After doing some searches though I noticed a lot of other new website that are atleast ranking in the top 50 for certain keywords, so I figured I could get my page to rank atleast in the top 1000 for this "Low Competitive" keyword. Could someone take a look and see if maybe I over optimized it or did something that would make this keyword not rank even in the top 1000 on google? Any advise is appreciated. I am obviously very new to SEO, but I am someone that likes to do and learn everything for myself. Thanks in advance!

The keyword is: Nitro Monster Truck

The web page is: http://www.rcnitroshop.com/nitro-monster-truck

It will not let me change that part. I wish I could. It would look a lot better.

I didn't really think about hiring someone to do it. Is there anyone you would recommend talking to about doing something like that (Switching over to Magento).

Well in 3DCarts control panel I noticed that in Settings>Store Settings all the way at the bottom it says Store URL : The URL was "rcnitroshop.com". I just added "www." in front of that. BTW after listening to what you told me about my website I did some redesigning if you want to check it out. I added a phone number at the top, decreased white space, added some images on the sidebars to gain some trust, overall I feel I made the site a little more trustworthy and hopefully will be a little more efficient. I'm just going to stick with 3DCart for a little while until I feel like putting a week into switch all of my products over. I will just try to make the best of it for now lol. Still got a lot of work to do though.

From You:

Conversions

• Design is not fluid.
• Too much whitespace.
• Everything just appears in one wide column, needs to be split into easily digestible sections with call to actions.
• There is nothing catching my attention and no existing call to actions.
• Ask yourself - Why should people buy from you?

Do you know if Volusion is a better option than 3DCart? I noticed a lot of other competitors using Volusion.

I figured it out. Thanks for the response!

I changed the template to something that leaves a lot less white space. Does this look any better? There is not to many templates to pick from with 3DCart. I might end up having to have someone build me a site that looks better.

Great site! That site has some great tools for SEO. Thanks a lot!

Ok, so let me give you the breakdown here. So I have recently optimized this product and am trying to focus on getting this product to sell a couple times a week before I move onto the next product with SEO. Google has not updated my title and description yet to see if my SEO has been even somewhat successful, so I am waiting on that. While I have been waiting, I started a PPC campaign. I would say over the last 7 days I have had about 250 visitors to this page, however, none of them resulted in any questions about the product, no account signups, no orders that are incomplete and worst of all, No Sales.Here is a copy of the add.

RC Nitro Truck 60MPH $219Buy Now Remote Control Nitro RC Truck. Redcat Racing Volcano S30 60 MPHwww.rcnitroshop.com

Can someone look at the page and tell me if it looks fishy or if there is a reason you would not buy from this page? Any advice would be appreciated. Also, if you notice any critical SEO errors that would also help! I ran the on-page optimization through SEOMOZ and i got a letter grade of an A with everything 100%. Thanks in advance. I have been working 5-10  hours a day on this website and on eBay and would love for it to actually pay off someday lol. The links to the page are in that add above. Just click on that to take a look.

Someone has had to run into this before : /

Whenever i enable Canonical URL through the 3DCart Control panel I get this Critical Factor error when running the on page report card:

Appropriate Use of Rel Canonical

Moderate fix

<dl>

<dt>Canonical URL</dt>

<dd>"http://rcnitroshop.com/Nitro-Monster-Truck"</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>If the canonical tag is pointing to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. Make sure you're targeting the right page (if this isn't it, you can reset the target above) and then change the canonical tag to reference that URL.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>We check to make sure that IF you use canonical URL tags, it points to the right page. If the canonical tag points to a different URL, engines will not count this page as the reference resource and thus, it won't have an opportunity to rank. If you've not made this page the rel=canonical target, change the reference to this URL. NOTE: For pages not employing canonical URL tags, this factor does not apply.</dd>

</dl>

Now if I disable Canonical URL then run the on page report card again the critical error goes away but I get this Optional Factor error instead:

Canonical URL Tag Usage

Moderate fix

<dl>

<dt>Number of Canonical tags</dt>

<dd>0</dd>

<dt>Explanation</dt>

<dd>Although the canonical URL tag is generally thought of as a way to solve duplicate content problems, it can be extremely wise to use it on every (unique) page of a site to help prevent any query strings, session IDs, scraped versions, licensing deals or future developments to potentially create a secondary version and pull link juice or other metrics away from the original. We believe the canonical URL tag is a best practice to help prevent future problems, even if nothing is specifically duplicate/problematic today.</dd>

<dt>Recommendation</dt>

<dd>Add a canonical URL tag referencing this URL to the header of the page.</dd>

</dl>

So basically I disabled it because obviously a Critical error is much worse then an optional error. Is there a way I can get rid of both errors?