It's been a long time in the making - mainly due to the large number of products, and it's my first site with a IceTheme Template.

It's an adult orientated site with 'novelty toys' and lingerie !

http://www.more4playuk.com

Extensions:

VM
VM Affiliate
JD Testimonials
JD GateKeeper
AlfContact
AlphaUserPoints
CSVImproved
JomComment
Member Care System
MyBlog
Xmap
SH404SEF
JW Simple Image Rotator
S5 VM Accordion

....to name but a few.

Think we may need to revisit some of the graphics, but as we're all on broadband it's not been to much of an issue - yet.

Let me know what you think. I can handle criticism

Hi,
Congratulations on the modifications that you have made. As far as i have viewed our members sites build on TheStore template, yours is the best one.

Thanks Alvini...

I bet you say that to everyone... ha ha.

Any bnad points though ?

Thanks

Lee

PS. We had our first order within 3 hours of being on line - not bad at all me thinks. Still need to tweak the SEO stuff, so any top tips for Joomla SEO would be great.

Well, if you have seen my comment anywhere else on this forum let me know Really great job.

Try to remove the index.php? from the url. That's the only thing which you can do for SEO on your site. Try a service like this www.rankpay.com for getting better results on the Search Engines.

Also try to remove the date on the top right, is useless for your site.

Again good luck.

Hi,

Thanks for the update.

Does the inclusion of index.php? in our URL's really impact our SEO that much ? We'll have a couple of days work changing some of the links but if it's really worth while we'll give it a shot.

Will also trawl some of the VM / Joomla forums to see what else is of benefit to a shop, and I'll report back here if there is anything else more useful. We're targeting an already competitive area so it's key that we get some good SEO results.

Thanks

Lee

Nice site.

b]klever1 wrote:[/b]

We're targeting an already competitive area so it's key that we get some good SEO results.

This is the really important bit. This makes a big difference how you should approach SEO. It should be considered at every SEO step. Sometimes people forget the impact of competitors on your own SEO ranking.

Be careful with the forums for this stuff. Be selective. There's a lot of stuff said that is not always accurate as a lot of poeple think they understand and it's not always the case. I'm curious why you ask about the URL's being important, yet you have sh404sef installed. That is exactly what this component does. If it is functioning correctly you should have better URL's than the standard. And yes they do matter, it is the first search point reference. Be careful to make sure sh404 has sensible names for the URL's (as this is not always the case).

Depending on the importance, this area is well worth outsourcing on. Not everyone needs it. For example, in non-competitive markets it's rarely necessary to go overboard with it. However, if you think page rank will really make a big difference, and all the competitors are doing the same, look at getting extra help, or recommending that to the clients.