SheIsCheap.com Is Launched
Sep 1st
About 10 days ago, I wrote that I ordered my first e-commerce Amazon Affiliate website from SiteDepot. As I said before and saying it again, their work on SheIsCheap.com exceeded my expectations.
Here were the sequence of events that happened leading up to the launch of SheISCheap.com.
1. Mike Cohen of SiteDepot wrote me an email to confirm that I wanted them to host the website for me. If so, have me goto my Domain registrar account that happen to be GoDaddy and set the name server to the names provided by SiteDepot. With Godaddy, it is simple. Just login to your account and select the domain name by placing a check mark next to the name and click on the Nameservers icon located on the top towards the center panel->Set Nameservers->Choose “I have specific nameservers for my domains”->key in the names provided into field 1 & 2. Click okay and you are done!
2. SiteDepot starts developing the website. A couple days later, I get an email notified me to check the website and let them know if I needed any changes. Here is the first iteration of SheIsCheap.com:
Well, lets just say I wanted a few changes. I wrote back to Mike requesting for the following changes:
Hi Mike,
Thanks for all your hard work. It’s looking good. But, I would like to request for a few changes if possible.
1. Can you get rid of the widget on the center page?
2. Can the page be re-size depending on the user’s computer screen size? Your other website, Mens-Razors.com, is able to fit on both standard & wide screen.
3. Can I have a BRIGHT RED (sales sign red) and blue color scheme?
4. Change Tab description – Instead of “For Her Husband”, can you can it to “For Him”,
b. Change “Games & Toys For Her Kids” to “Toys”
c. Change “Handbags & Purses for Her” to “Handbags”
5. The Top Right Widget – Can you change it to Best Selling Toys? I like the one in Mens-Razors.com. It doesn’t have the annoying “get widget” text..can you do it just like that?
On left column – In place of “Best Selling Toys” change it to “Best Selling Shoes”.
I don’t care for search box widgets.
6. Lastly, can you add 2 more Header Tabs – Electronics, and Computers? I would really like this.
I think that’s about it.
Thank you very much for your help.
Now that was quite a quite of changes. Don’t you agree? A few days past while I was anxiously waiting and having doubts that whether SiteDepot can deliver. At this point, my expectations were pretty low. I was just hoping that they didn’t screw up what they delivery to me on the first iteration. Finally a simple email arrived from Mike.
We made the requested changes. Hope you are satisfied now
I took a look at the website…it fits my screen, the annoying center widget gone, the color changed to bright red, the incorporation of the right box with “Best Sellers” products tie to each top category tab. Man I couldn’t be happier. I was one happy camper!!
Please visit SheIsCheap.com and let me know what you think. Buy some stuff just in case you were planning on making a purchase with Amazon anyway.
Today, SiteDepot zip up the site for me into a folder which I downloaded and have it in my possession in case I choose to self-host in the future. It’s all done now. Thank you, SiteDepot!!!
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Aug 30th
A few posts back, I announced that I placed an order with SiteDepot to help me develop an e-commerce-like Amazon affiliate website. It is nearly completed. SiteDepot did a great job. They have exceeded my expectations and I am very happy and grateful for their hard work. You can check out the website here. Please comment and let me know what you think.
Christmas is just right around the corner. I am researching to see whether I can get another deal website created before Christmas is here so that I have more products to market. I finally received a response from Epik tonight that they have reviewed the few domain names I submitted and would like to work with me to get them tested for possible website development for a price of $20/domain name. I am grateful for the response and is excited for the opportunity to work with them. More on this later.
Tonight, while I was researching for a few more “product” domain names to buy I came across a website that peak my interest. I did a search on the key words “New Purses” because I own the name HotNewPurses.com and wanted to see how it is rank. I saw a sponsored ad on the side panel by Best-Deal.com. I got creative and thought that I would solicit the owner to buy HotNewPurses.com. The website happen to be a full blown deal site. It looked really clean…exactly like something I’d love to own. Dig a little bit deeper, I found a sister site, Best-Price.com. These websites seem to be own by a Germany company who also own News.de and Cheap-Hit.com.
Although, I am a web newbie, I have done enough research to know that having multiple websites in the same niche category is a great way to built traffic, but what amazes me were the amount of traffic these websites have. I would love to know who these guys are, and whether I can buy a website just like it. Probably can’t afford it though.
Traffic based on Compete data:
Best-Deal.com - 327,000 Unique Visitors for the month of July. This site just came alive this year. Top referrers include: yahoo, seekquest.net, local, pronto, and google. A total of 266 referring websites.
Best-Price.com – Almost 9 millions!!! Unique Visitors for the month of July. Top referrers include: google, yahoo, ebay, ask, and shopzilla. A total of 3,700 referring websites.
Anyone know who they are? I think they are very talented. Would love to learn from them.
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Aug 29th
With the wife and kids gone on vacation for a whole week, today is the first time in quite sometime that I get to have my nose against my laptop screen and tried to monkey around with my website. My blog is powered by WordPress as you can tell from its ubiquitous blog layout and features. I use a FREE theme call Mystique. I remember a couple of months ago, I spent hours trying to look for a simple FREE WordPress theme that I can use for my blog. I couldn’t find anything that I thought was simple and clean. I ended up going to WordPress.org and installed the first theme I saw listed. Luckily, it was sorted by the most popular. So I think this theme was suppose to be the most popular at the time I install it a couple months ago.
I never paid for a “premium” theme before so I don’t know whether Mystique has most of the features that a paid premium one would have. My guess is that you probably get a lot more features and flexibility if you pay for it. As for me, this theme is good enough. Though, I think Mystique is quite nice, the point of my post was to let you know that I spent the whole day (hmm..like 8 hours) just trying to make a few adjustments. Which would have taken a WordPress/PHP programmer a few minutes to do. So perhaps, it is worth paying someone to do the web development work for you (assuming he/she is good).
The things I tried to do with my blog today were:
1. Insert a logo to the blog header. I created the logo all by myself. I did a search on Google for “free logo design” and found LogoMaker.com. It has a simple web interface to let you create your own logos. It said that it is FREE to use for your website. But, they don’t make it easy for you to download. I think they really wanted you to pay. But the ad said it’s “FREE”. I actually try to pay, but they don’t tell you how much, until you fill in your personal information. Kind of a strange way to do business. Oh well.
2. Reduce the length of the header – this took me at least 3 hours to stumble onto a solution all by myself.
Solution: Goto Mystique settings -> User CSS -> and paste the followings:
#site-title{padding:0em 0 0.0em 0;}
3. Insert a banner Ad next to the logo. This took me another 3 hours to figure out with the help of digitalnature (Mystique creator) supporting notes. I still haven’t figure out how to move the banner next to the logo yet. Oh well…I guess this will do for now.
Solution: Goto Mystique setting -> Advance -> User funtions -> and paste the followings:
<?php
function my_header_ads(){
echo do_shortcode(“[ad_code=N]“);
}
add_action(‘mystique_header’, ’my_header_ads’);
?>***Remove the under score in “ad_code” and replace “N” with a number. I have to do this, otherwise, it is thinking that I tried to insert an ad on this post.
Goto Mystique setting -> User CSS -> and past the followings to adjust the banner position. (I still can’t get the banner to display next to the logo).
#header .ad{
position: absolute;
right: 5px;
top: 10px;
}
Hope this help some of you. Share your favorite free or premium WordPress themes, techniques and tips on improving our WordPress blog looks and functionality.
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