Since I read this tread last week I went out and tried the 30 day trial of AOM. After 4 days of playing around with the trisl I upgraded to the FULL paid version! This is what I come up with http://holisticcorp.com I also plan on making many other sites with this script. let me know what you think of my first site built with AOM! Guy
Looks good, I just hate all the tabs. ugh. If you have that many categories to cover, might as well create another website. But I dont' really know anything, so just ignore me.
Yes, I know that there are a lot of tabs, but in holistic's there are a lot of different categories to consider. If I was to use less categories I would have to then resort to sub-categories, and that would end up using the same amount of tabs "in a different manner" than I had in the first place! Any ideas on how to tackle all those tabs and still end up with good content? PS: I am fairly green at this also, so any tips would be appreciated ... Guy
What I would do? I would do away with all the tabs and instead create a new homepage, with links to the specific or most popular items. It's easy for a customer to get lost in the categories, so keep it simple, and point them in the direction of the most popular and where your search bar is.
Thanks for the info but that is where I get lost, as like I previously said, I am not very good at this, so designing a home page would take me a very long, LONG time, editing one of these scripts enables me to get this done in very little time! I have a graphics background so creating images is simple, but the HTML part of it, I know very little about. Maybe later on I will have to learn to create custom pages..... I guess.... Ps: Thanks for your input. Guy
I feel the whole structure of AOM is destined to fail from an SEO point of view. It is easy for Google to get a footprint, you cannot replace the product amazon content and consequently your pages won't rank. If your using it to monetise other sources of traffic then maybe, but it aint exactly well designed...
yeah view the html source of an aom demo site. you will see something from the 90's, tables nested inside tables and tables, more tables etc... you get the point. i'd love to know what their code 2 content ratio is if i could be bothered to look it up
I know I tried AOM and I started getting a lot of hits to my website after a few months and then my website got banned from google after running AOM for a few months. I would stay away from it if I was you guys.
Most likely due to duplicate content. The act of running AOM is not by itself a bannable offense, just if you plan on throwing up a crappy store without proper marketing. I've operated an AOM store on my website for several years, without any issue of ever losing ground in Google, or any other SE for that matter.
see the 1st post in the thread (1,361 days old) and it says AOM stands for there. It's an amazon shop script.
I have a few apparel stores and I get some decent results on google when people type in specific brand products. Not all of my AOM sites do that well, but all of my clothing sites get a nice little slice of traffic from google.