Here are some companies offering shopping carts. ·1Shopping Cart.com http://www.1shoppingcart.com - They charge a monthly fee. ·CCNow - See their listing under Billing Companies. ·Miva http://www.miva.com - This is a very powerful shopping cart. ·PayPal - See their listing under Billing Companies. ·Yahoo www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/merchant - They offer 3 different packages, charge a monthly fee and take a percentage of each sale. They will also drop ship your orders, so you never have to ship anything, Yahoo does it all.

The above companies have cart on their site and you send people to them during buying process. You can also download shopping cart software onto your server for your visitors to use. Be sure to check with your hosting company to be sure software you want to download will work on their server. The following link lists free shopping cart software. However, know that you often get what you pay for, and that technical support may be poor or nonexistent with this free software. So check out Online Orders http://www.onlineorders.net/links/Free/ . They have a section on their site that, as of this writing, lists thirty-nine free shopping carts.

Many billing companies also offer a shopping cart, usually for free. For example, I use PayPal on my site and they have a free shopping cart that works in conjunction with their billing service. The purchase process is easy and I can even change look of their shopping cart to be similar to my site.

Some website hosting companies also offer billing services and shopping carts. You may want to go this route so that everything for your website is done through one company. However, if your hosting company doesn't do a very good job hosting your site, I don't think you'd want to trust them with your billing and shopping cart service.

Here are a couple of website hosting companies that offer shopping carts and more. ·ValueWeb http://www.valueweb.com/ - They offer shopping cart and credit card processing. ·Westhost http://www.Westhost.com - They have Miva Merchant storefront and shopping cart software and Payquake for payment processing.

As with most things on Internet, you have a lot of choices. To make a choice that's right for you, know what you want and consider points I've mentioned above. When you have a billing and shopping cart company that meets your needs, and your client's needs, it will make everyone's life easier and make you more money.

Effective copy Again there are numerous articles on writing effective copy. The key point to remember is that it provides customer with information about who you are and what you sell whilst containing a reasonable amount of keywords. If copy reads well, number of keywords should be acceptable. Always remember to update regularly as customers and search engines love up to date content.

Feedback forms Feedback forms are a useful way to get ideas for improving your site in a way that benefits your customers. Once implemented conversion should start to increase, meaning you get a greater return on advertising investment.

Contact details Having a phone number and an address where you can be contacted gives customers confidence that you are an established business and are happier to transact online. Don’t hide away your contact details in hope no one will use them.

Links Links in and out of site should be for benefit of visitors as well as search engines. Remember you can be selective when obtaining links and make sure all links are relevant to product you are selling and industry you operate in.