eCommerce Shopping Cart Comparison Chart

There is no better time to start online shop than now, whether you are thinking of starting an online shop from scratch,adding shopping cart facility to an existing website or just researching available ecommerce solutions.
The economic climate is quite gloomy for high street retailers but online traders large and small continue to see significant rise in sale, its time to take a serious look at ecommerce if you have not already done so.
The table below brings you brief information on some of the well know shopping basket software on the market today.

	Virtuemart	CubeCart	osCommerce	Zen Cart
Details	Free open-source shopping cart. It works as a stand alone but its at it own when combined with Joomla.	Free and paid options, robust and tested.	One of the most popular if not the most popular free shopping cart	A fork of osCommerce project.It has some features it parent does not like downloadable goods.
Advantages	Quite simple to install, may need to install Joomla to get the full benefit of some functions	Cube Cart is easy to install, support is said to be efficient.	- Easy to install, some hosting company bundle it with their control panel software.	Support is easy to access, quite nifty.
Disadvantages	* May have to trawl the web to find support. Prone to Joomla’s shortcomings.	Product review module still in development.	Does not support downloadable good, support can be difficult to access.	Can be made to be more user friendly. Said to be resource intensive.
Use it for:	A basic online shop.	Small shop, supports unlimited products.	Robust and reliable, has been around for some time.	Small online store.

There are many other shopping cart software apart from the above, perhaps in due course reviews of other shopping cart will be posted. One particular shopping cart to be mentioned at this juncture is Boss Cart, it is one of the fastest growing ecommerce shopping cart software , it support unlinited products for merchants that sell products. For online traders who sell items such as MP3, PDF files and other digital gooes, there is a module that caters for this too.

Long tail keywords and textual content

The guys at Boss Cart have been doing an excellent job on long tail keywords in installments, the latest installment called Long Tail Keywords and textual content was posted to their blog today. You can find the full article on one long tail keywords and textual content here.

Excerpt from the blog post follows:

What to Write

How do I know what to write about? How do I fill the pages of my website with
the useful and unique content that will keep my visitors coming back for more? If you
are selling products, then this might seem a moot topic to you, but pay
attention, this affects all who wish to retain loyal customers as well as bring new
visitors from the search engines.

Textual Content
Textual content is the written word. Textual content is one of the most important
aspects of website marketing. Textual content is like bait on a fishhook. You
wouldn’t  throw an un-baited hook into the water and expect to catch anything.
you might get lucky and pull in some debris, but you likely won’t be catching that
trophy fish. The same is true for website content. It is very difficult to market a
website that has little or no textual content.