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http://www.christianbooksmusicmore.com
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My site is a Christian gift store (Christian Gifts, Music, Gifts, and More) with over 60,000 products, but I can't seem to get traffic directed to it. I spent WAY too much on PPC and learned a lesson on those sites that promise thousands of visitors. One thing that may be holding the site back is that it is one of those sites that are redirected (but name is cloaked with my domain name) to a store that owned by deepershopping. The products are dropshipped under my store's name.
I do have the ability to tweak the mega tags and description, which I have done, but I've seen no changes. I have sold some of the products on Amazon and EBay, but their fees take most of the profit.
I'm up for any help you are willing to give. I am committed to building traffic to this site.
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Hello Sharon, welcome aboard.
OK, several first sight problems hit me within just a few seconds of viewing the home page.
No short paragraph giving me a description of what the site has to offer me. Instead you hit me with "lifetime savings offer" and "Become an affiliate" stuff.
If I were shopping for christian items and loaded your page these two things alone would make me close out and go to the next website. Tells me you are more interested in getting me to join up first and that you want me to become an affiliate than you are of giving me what I am really after. You need to gain trust before you put something like this in front of the visitor.
The lifetime savings issue would be a good thing to offer after I have placed something in my cart and am ready to check out.
Becoming an affiliate would be something I would offer in a followup email after a sale has been made.
Do away with scrolling stuff, this creates more of a distraction than it does an attention getter.
I would remove everything below the line "Earn Extra Money When Your Refer a New Customer". It is not related to the website and adds to the initial page display time.
You need to change the color of the link (select orders) in the blue banner, blue on blue can't be seen.
Do you need to have two search boxes?
To help a visitor out you might want to place links to the home page and to your contact page with the two other links in your footer.
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Thanks for your observations. I have removed the items at the top. However, I only recently added the savings program and affiliate program recently. So, I am wondering what else I can do to get people to the site. I know that the products are high quality. Maybe I am just competing with "Walmart" and will never get the visitors.
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Wow! I like it. You are right that you devide all the information into parts
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Nice improvement. 
Add a paragraph near the top that describes what your site is offering. Doesn't have to be very long,3 or 4 sentences should work fine. Include your main keywords in this paragraph. This will do two main things for you.
1. Let's a visitor know what the site has to offer.
2. Let's the se's know what the site is about.
Be sure to write it first and foremost for the human visitor and not the se robot.
When doing link exchanges remember that it is the quality of the link/site and not the quantity. Make sure the sites are related to yours.
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Hey ColoEagle
What can I say about you ? You have described each and everything with so calm and clearly. I hope that you will also review one of my client blog as well and let me know how can I improve that.
For the website ... I think these kind of websites also need some great layout and clear space where visitors can move freely. Seems to me that you want to put everything in the 1000 sq ft stores.
Make your website more attractive. Hire some professional who can add sparks to the looks of your websites.
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