Hi league of ordinary men,
I agree with a few things that have been said here, especially in regards to the load time associated with the pages. With the large amount you got going on, it doesn't matter what speed my internet is, it is also down to the hosting company. What I would very strongly recommend is that you upgrade your package with your web hosting company to no longer be "shared hosting". It will probably cost in the region of R600 pm, but what it means is your site will have its own server, and not compete with other websites your hosting company has, in regard to accessibility. It is actually a rather quick fix, and I know you can do it in a very straight forward manner on Afrihosts Clientzone. It should propagate within 2-48 hours, and your load time will be a lot faster. This can be especially important as Google likes to give users the best possible experience, and it tends to (albeit slightly) demote sites that have a long load time.
From a purely SEO point of view, I am afraid I am going to have to (in the nicest possible way), fail you miserably. I see you have a very limited back link profile, with no substantial high quality links to your site that Google / Bing can feed off of. I Googled "Buy Samsung products online South Africa", and variants of that; and gave up after a few pages (Which is more than a potential customer would go through). I have repeated this with a few of your products, and I am afraid you aren't ranking
I can also assume you have a rather low RFT (Return from traffic), as your site interface, while quite cool and technically challenging to build, doesn't appeal to "web morons" as I like to call them. These are the people who use the internet for Facebook and the odd purchase. When designing something like this, you need to ensure the ultimate in simplicity and functionality. Not every one is capable of designing things like this, and those who can tend to "show off" which detracts from the user experience and lowers your RFT. I have been guilty of it myself, so no judgement is being passed :P...
Spelling is also impeccably important. Not only does it show to a client that you are capable, meticulous and worthy of their money, but Google and Bing rely heavily on it. Why would it rank you if you have the same spelling and grammar as cheap Viagra sites (Excuse the crassness)? Also, if you view your website with Google Chrome, and push "Ctrl and U'', you will see that your HTML coding is a disaster. This needs to be sorted out as soon as you can. This is what a SE reads, and it is akin to the handwriting of a dyslexic blind kid. I can only presume you used a WYSIWYG program to create it? These are a disaster, and I would recommend Wordpress or Pretsashop for the build (Make the template yourself if you can. Artisteer is available for about R600 on their website, and it is effectively WYSISYG, but offline and produces some beautiful code).
Lastly, WHY ARE THERE NO SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS ON YOUR WEBSITE ?!?!?!?!?! Sometimes people need that extra push into buying! If you have a column that shows your 3000 likes and 13 000 Twitter followers (I don't know how many you actually have), then people are going to ease into it; with a small possibility of being angry that they didn't hear about this sooner! People aren't going to put their credit card information into a site they don't know or not sure if others know. Instead of researching you etc, they are just going to use your competition, as clicking "back" is a lot easier than spending 15 minutes checking out your legitimacy. In my opinion, I think the end of the day you have to take a deep breath, look at it, and realize that sometimes design can be sacrificed to increase profit. It can be painful, but sometimes you just have to cry while holding a pillow over its head, hoping it is reincarnated into something better. I also won't go into your metadata or keywords too much, just please sort this out if you can. I'm running out of metaphors.
I have had clients in the online shopping industry before, with testimonials you can check out on my website at
http://www.webvitality.co.za. I have increased PAYING traffic by nearly 900% pm in less than 6 months in some cases. If you would like to know more, send me an email at
Kyle@webvitality.co.za and I can send you a quote if you are unable to do it yourself.
Good luck with it all,
Kyle
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