The integrated WordPress eCommerce shopping cart has many advantages. Users gain all of the SEO advantages of using content management software including increased visibility for products by making the shopping cart website show up better in the natural search. In addition, with a WordPress front end to the shopping cart, users can easily make changes themselves. This is a big advantage to retailers who change out their home page frequently with sales, specials and new products.

“By building the website in WordPress, users can easily add content and change their websites themselves while maintaining the functionality of the OrderStorm e-commerce software in the back end”, says Dan Sallis, lead application architect at OrderStorm. “This is a major advantage for retailers that want to change and update their websites frequently for season promotions, sales and special features”, says Sallis.

The OrderStorm WordPress e-Commerce shopping cart has built-in automation features to run both a business based on drop shipping for web only retailers as well as options for running a dealer program for manufacturers and wholesalers. It also offers expanded order management functions making it a much more powerful program than the WordPress e-Commerce plugins currently available.

About OrderStorm

OrderStorm, a Denver WordPress eCommerce and WordPress website design company, builds websites with a fully integrated WordPress e-commerce shopping cart. OrderStorm is also a WordPress hosting company in Denver, Colorado. The OrderStorm WordPress eCommerce platform excels in functionality for drop shipping, order management and dealer programs. Unlike other SaaS platforms that have limited options for customization, the OrderStorm platform can be completely customized for each website and shopping cart. The ability to customize helps retailers create the unique shopping experience they want for their customers and gain competitive advantage over their cookie cutter competitors. OrderStorm also offers groundbreaking Denver SEO services not offered by any other firm. Visit http://www.OrderStorm.com.

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Once the sitemap plugin is installed, any changes made to the site are sent out to the search engines by the software. The search engines know that they do not have to re-index the entire site but can follow the sitemap to index only what has changed. This makes re-indexing sites much, much faster which makes all the search engines happy withDenver WordPress sites that use the sitemap plugin.

Contact OrderStorm for Denver WordPress to convert your old site over into the WordPress software, add a fully integrated WordPress blog to your existing website or set up your e-commerce site using WordPress with an integrated shopping cart.

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Our Denver shopping cart also integrates with WordPress as the front end of your website. By building the website in WordPress, customers can easily add content and change the content to their websites while maintaining the functionality of the OrderStorm Denver e-commerce software on the back end. This is a major advantage for companies that change and update their websites frequently – particularly content where fresh graphic design is not needed. Call OrderStorm at 720-939-8467 to find out how to integrate your website with WordPress.

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Content Marketing is all about giving customers the detailed information they need to be comfortable with making a buying decision. Its also about providing the content the search engines want to display when a web surfer types in your target keywords. Content marketing done right will build your brand, increase your traffic and create inbound links to raise your website in the natural search results across all search engines.

OrderStorm makes Content Marketing available to companies of all sizes and budgets.

OrderStormoffers several unique Content Marketing programs and is the first SEO company to offer Content Networks. The OrderStorm Content Marketing programs will build your brand, improve your rank in the natural search, bring more targetted customers to your website, increase your leads and increase your sales. Rank and traffic are generated by a combination of content types, both on and off your website, and inbound links.

A Content Network of private encyclopedia style microsites for your products and services
Article and press release syndication to include your content in news feeds
Blogs where expert writers blog on your products and services

OrderStorm SEO Rank & Traffic Builderprovides SEO off your website – the purpose of off-page SEO is to build one-way links to your website which increase your page rank in the natural search. These links also send you real traffic and real customers to build your business and your brand.
A Content Network of microsites drives highly targetted traffic
Article and press release syndication send inbound links to your domain
WordPress websites and blogs for maximum spidering efficiency and sitemaps
Directory links generate fast indexing for new sites
Social Network marketing for the viral spread of links using friends
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Woohoo, after a 2 week crash course in web security and learning how to lock down WordPress, it’s finally time for me to get back to blogging again!

As another ‘How To Guide’ for securing WordPress, this post is an attempt to summarize some of the things that I learned about web security, the methods that I used to identify malware was on my website, and the many resources I currently use to secure my website from future malware attacks.
About 2 weeks ago I realized that several of my websites were hacked and some malicious code had been inserted into them. I know I’m not the only one who has dealt with or is currently dealing with website hacking, viruses, malicious code injections, and overall blog security…so hopefully summarizing my experience will help someone out there get a handle on any problems they are having.

HOW I DISCOVERED THAT MY WEBSITE HAD BEEN HACKED:
The first thing that brought to my attention that I might have a problem with my website is that someone mentioned to me that when they went to one of my websites that their virus detector warned them that my site had malware. Since this was the first time I had heard of any problems with any of my websites, I was surprised and at first I didn’t believe it, and thought it might just be some tracking code that I use from Google Analytics or Quantcast(which was not the case).

Then next thing that clued me in to the fact that I had malware injected into my website was that my RSS feed for my blog under WordPress would no longer validate.

So after searching the WordPress forums I ended up shooting an email to WordPress Support, and I was pleasantly surprised that they responded quickly with an answer, but unpleasantly surprised when WordPress Support advised me that my website had been hacked! They noticed some JavaScript code stuck at the bottom of my index.php in the root WordPress directory that didn’t belong there since it was apparently injected outside of the closing html tag < / html > at the bottom of the page.

I found validating the site’s RSS feed to be one of the best methods for quickly determining if a website has been hacked and injected with malware.

To see if your website contains malware, go to feedvalidator.org and test your RSS feed to see if your feed validates. If your RSS feed doesn’t validate then you probably have some malicious script injected into your web page which creates a malformed RSS feed which prevents it from validating.

For WordPress users the URL for your RSS feed should be like this: http://your-wordpress-domain.com/feed

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PRLog (Press Release) – May 04, 2008 – San Diego, CA — Top bloggers have long heralded WordPress as the superior blog platform for its ease of management and for the vast selection of open source social and SEO plugins designed for integration.

Now, a growing number of website developers and Internet marketers are leveraging WordPress as a platform for ecommerce websites – and for a whole new set of reasons.

According to online entrepreneur and Internet marketer Tim McGuiness, the WordPress platform offers search engine optimization components that are not present in traditional website platforms. By effectively utilizing these powerful components, e-commerce websites built upon the WordPress platform achieve high visibility in search engines in a very short span of time.

“I set up an entire WordPress based website in less than 5 hours and made a $115.96 sale from a Google search within 24 hours of launch. In 5 days, the site was already ranking on page one, two, and three in Google’s natural results for several of my primary keywords,” said Tim McGuiness, Internet entrepreneur and founder of Orovo Weight Loss.com (http://www.orovoweightloss.com).

McGuiness used a WordPress e-commerce theme developed by website designer Cory Miller to transform the look of WordPress from a traditional blog into an e-commerce style website.

Miller says that he created ecommercethemes.com for WordPress after realizing the benefits of using the platform in his own online ventures. “With just a few tweaks, WordPress, an open source content management system, can be a powerful way to both maintain your website while optimizing your site for search engine marketing,” Miller explained.

McGuiness says that his total costs for the theme, hosting, and payment gateway cost less than $75. Within a few days, McGuiness recouped his initial investment through product orders on the website from shoppers searching online to buy Orovo.

“When creating the Orovo Weight Loss website, my goal was to find a platform that was search engine friendly, inexpensive, and easy to implement. WordPress exceeded my expectations in all areas,” said McGuiness.

About Orovo Weight Loss.com: Orovo Weight Loss (http://www.orovoweightloss.com) is a WordPress powered e-commerce website offering the popular Orovo and Orovo detox products made with Super Foods featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The company offers same day order fulfillment and shipping to the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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Making it easy for your customer to buy from you is a mantra most online retailers know well. Just as important for many small business owners is finding an e-commerce solution that is easy for you to set up and to run that e-commerce storefront.

Reminder: Many of the top web hosting companies offer e-commerce tools and storefronts, so before you switch it is worth taking a look at your existing host’s capabilities.

More than any other category that I’ve worked on so far, there were so many e-commerce or shopping cart companies offering solutions it was tough to organize. I tried to triangulate on the best known or popular (by comments I’ve read or ratings) services and list the top three in a category. Also, I’ve left a fair number off this list mostly because they either didn’t look to be keeping up with the marketplace or they didn’t make pricing easy to find. But if you have a favorite that you want to tell us about, please share the company and website with everyone in the comments.

Let me start with the easiest and best known mechanisms to enable e-commerce by many small businesses: Paypal, Google Checkout, and Amazon Checkout all let you add Buy Now buttons to your site and enable a purchase of both physical and digital goods. There are people building their own electronic stores using these one of these tools and the main reason is they are well known trusted brands. A person with a Paypal account (or Google or Amazon) does not have to share his or her info with you directly, but just log on to their own accounts and send you a payment.

Open Source

Free appeals to just about all of us and open source e-commerce solutions can give you just that. But it comes at a price, you need to hire someone or be more technical yourself. Most open source solutions also have premium versions that include support and service.

Magento is one of the market leading open source e-commerce solutions and has won many awards. The community edition is free (which means there is no support) and the professional level starts at $2,995 per year.

osCommerce has built an impressive customer base of 230,000+ online storefronts. They have a strong community and Live Shops directory where you can see what others have built.

Prestashop is a rapidly growing open source solution with an active user community. They have a good site with good demos and feature explanations. They have a bug tracking tool that shows they are responsive to customer input.

Zen Cart promises a very easy user-friendly install. Often open source is viewed as more difficult for the end user, but not according to Zen as they explain anyone with basic website building skills can do it.

Open Cart as the name implies offers an open solution. It sounded like one of the easiest to install, out of the box. But, there is no box. They offered some great features like search engine optimization (SEO), auto image resizing, unlimited products and more.

Spree Commerce is an open source flexible commerce platform built on the Ruby on Rails programming language. Completely free to use.

SimpleCart(js) is an elegant open source solution. If you can write basic HTML, they promise this lightweight (in terms of program size of only 20k) app is for you.

Blogging Platform (CMS) Storefronts

Since many small businesses run their sites on popular open source CMS’s (content management systems), I’ve included the top three: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla and all offer free plugins or add-ons to create online catalogs and storefronts.

Ubercart and Lite Commerce for Drupal

VirtueMart for Joomla

These next five e-commerce options just for WordPress, one of the most popular and user-friendly blog platforms. As an aside with no affiliate link, I heartily recommend Thesis for WordPress for a robust theme and blog design management tool.

Get Shopped is probably the market leader for a bolt-on storefront. Here are a few more:
Shopper Press
Fat Free Cart for WordPress
E-commerce by Instinct
Shopp plug-in comes highly recommended.
Premium Hosted and Standalone E-commerce and Shopping Cart providers

BigCommerce is one of the top hosted e-commerce and shopping cart players. They were one of the first to offer social commerce tools (selling via Facebook, for example) and have a well laid out site. 15 day free trial, then starts at $24.95/month.

Volusion is also one of the top hosted e-commerce players on the market today with over 100,000 customers. Their plans start at $24.99 per month with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required. They have a really cool VZoom feature that lets a user zoom in and around your product image.

Infusionsoft is regarded as an email marketing 2.0 leader, but they also offer a robust shopping cart and e-commerce solution bundled into their software-as-a-service. Of course, you can integrate all that customer data, your email marketing, and your customer’s purchases into one dashboard, too, so it is pretty powerful. It is best for small businesses that have a solid revenue stream to afford the $299/month.

Shopify has been in our small business contest listing for a long time with their $100,000 prize offering (ending June 2010). They have a 30-day free trial, then starting packages at $24/month. They do a nice job of showcasing how they are an easy-to-use e-commerce provider.

3d Cart offers a free trial with no credit card required. They also have 80 payment gateways supported (Paypal, Amazon, etc) which makes it pretty easy to make a switch if you’re using someone else. Plans start at $19.99/month and go up in smaller increments than others.

NetSuite is a powerful system that includes e-commerce, but is much more of a complete business suite of software from ERP to CRM to Inventory control to a Financial System. One of the more robust options listed here. No pricing available.

FoxyCart is built by web designers for web designers, according to their website. While you must be more techy, they appear to be feature rich and robust. The service is free while you are in development, then $19/month.

ShopVisible stands out because of their many integrations to companies like eBay, Craigslist, Overstock and many others. No pricing available.

Hey Smart Guy is a pretty sharp company with ecommerce, CRM, and content management system starting at only $39/month.

CS Cart is a standalone shopping cart solution that sells for $285 for a site license. They offer a 60-day free trial, however. From dozens of included templates (or design skins) to one-page checkout, this software offers many features.

Fortune 3 is a hosted e-commerce solution with a 30-day free trial and plans starting at $29.95/month. Like others, they are SEO-friendly and offer many designs/templates for the new user.

Avactis is a fully hosted e-commerce player with a unique difference: They allow developers to white label their solution as their own. This means you can sell your own e-commerce offering, if you choose. They offer the standard feature-rich list of shopping cart functionality starting at $19.95/month. They also have an open source free version.

X Cart is a standalone application built in PHP. They offer a more traditional pricing structure which starts at $115 as a one-time fee, but you can add support “points” and other options to make it fit your needs (at a higher cost). 30-day money back guarantee.

Instant e-Store offers a fixed price of $49.97 per month with discounts for longer subscription. One of the features that stood out for me was they offered a loyalty points program so your customers could redeem earned points (by way of purchases) for other merchandise.

Cube Cart differs from many other carts in that they are hosted, not open source, but offer a free unlimited trial. The paid license comes with a bunch more features, but you could run a store on the free version for quite a while.

CRE Loaded is more than your average shopping cart because it is fully compliant with all Payment Card Industry (PCI) security rules. It starts as low as $10/month with a free trial.

Zeus Cart is an open source e-commerce solution, however, you can’t download it without entering your email and contact information. It looks incredibly rich in features and easy to use. It may be that you need to use their other services like SEO to get it for free.

Interspire offers a separate shopping cart for purchase for those who want to own their software. BigCommerce is their Hosted solution.

SunShop is a turnkey, search engine friendly shopping cart. A basic site license starts at $249 and climbs to $549 for what they call “owned” which gets you lifetime upgrades. They had a cool iPhone app that lets you view reports and orders.

SquirrelCart starts at $129 for the Acorn version (light) and goes up to $289 for the Pro version. You can then customize a theme for an affordable $105 or buy various add-ons, if you need them.

ShopFactory looks and feels like it is as simple to set up as a blog. It is a hosted solution at $19.95/month or you can also purchase outright for $499.

ViArt Shop offers a free trial and hosted solution at $49/month, but you can also purchase a light version for $149. They had a fair number of customers highlighted on their site and I found myself wandering around from store to store checking out the many features.

Pinnacle Cart is a combination of a shopping cart and website builder application. The home page talks about it being “built from a marketing perspective” which appeals to me because the biggest challenge for most sites and stores is traffic. So it looks ideal for web-based businesses. Starts at $25/month with a free trial.

Wix is a flash-based free website builder that has an upgrade e-commerce option. They promise that no tech skills are necessary. Starts at $4.95/month for just the website portion, but with e-commerce it is $19.90/month.

OXID looks very much like a corporate, professional e-commerce solution. The site appears to be aimed at the Fortune 500, but then you see that it offers a community open source version! It starts at over $4,000 for the professional version.

Live Cart is one of the other e-commerce solutions that offered a private label option (see above) that starts at $149, but they also offer a community level for free. I like that their testimonials were tied to real people with real sites.

DPD stands for Digital Product Delivery and if you sell downloads of any type, this service is worth looking at. Flat pricing starts at only $5.

Just for Artists: Big Cartel offers a great and simple and fast option for the artist community. Smart niche approach. What’s amazing is they have a completely free option (small store, but free) and then plans start at only $9.99/month.

Just for Photographers or Designers:

PhotoStore is the market leader for photographers wanting their own photo store or if you are looking to build a stock photo service. They have a feature rich software solution for $249 for a site license.

CMS Account offers a PHP-based Photo Store Script that you can load onto your webserver/host and run your own media files store. Starts at $99.

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Xpoze is a newly launched stock photo storefront solution. Pricing is from $90 to $225 per licence.

Let us know about your favorites and what you’re doing to power your e-commerce storefront or why you like or don’t like one of the solutions we have listed.

About the Author
TJ McCue is the founder of SalesRescueTeam.com, a group of volunteer advisors sharing advice to help companies with their online sales and marketing efforts. Each week, they conduct free private and public reviews of a wide range of small businesses and startups. They just posted a list of 195+ Social Media ROI and Measurement Tools to help your Small Biz.

WordPress is the perfect platform for Internet Marketers to use in their business to monetize their sites.

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PRLog (Press Release) – Mar 18, 2010 – Packt is pleased to announce WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce, a new book that focuses on the integration of WordPress with the WordPress e-Commerce plug-in. Written by Brian Bondari, this book provides an easy to understand, step-by-step approach to installing, configuring, and using WordPress e-Commerce to run an online store.

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for content management. First released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog, it has many features including a workflow, a plugin architecture as well as a templating system. Used by over 2% of the 10,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular blog software that’s in use today.

WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce provides a simple approach to developing an effective online store. It guides developers through the initial stages of planning, plug-in installation and configuration, building product catalogs to sell, accepting payments for orders and dealing with taxes and shipping. Readers will also learn how to promote and market their new stores, handle customer accounts and staff roles, as well as deal with essential store security.

This book serves as a practical, step-by-step guide packed with screenshots to ensure one’s store is created and deployed successfully. By transforming WordPress into an intuitive and capable platform for e-Commerce, this book serves as a gateway to earning huge profits. In addition to this, readers can also create their own customizable shipping rates and connect to shipping companies such as USPS and UPS.

Those interested in using WordPress as the basis for a store that can sell physical items, downloads, or services will find this book beneficial. This book is out now and available from Packt. For more information please visit: – http://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-2-9-e-commerce/book.

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