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First of all, great site. But unfortunatly making drastic changes to your website affects your already placed rankings on Google, and Yahoo!. As far as your keywords go, you will not be getting hardly any hits with general keywords because of the other 50 million or so people who want the same keywords. To drive traffic to your site in the shortest amount of time is to do SEO. Your business relies on Holiday traffic which is up 22% online this year. It will be costly if you were to try and do it all yourself, which is why you should hire someone who is affordable and will get you placed somewhere on the first page of the search engines during the next month or so. This really goes for any and all new business' that are trying to make money by the end of the year, but online line sales are up, and you definatly want to take advantage of that.

I think the new category is a great addition -- it directly addresses one of the comments I made initially in your earlier post (the need for some items under $30 to build your business). So, yes - a "good thing."

You say that you eliminated shipping charges on all items. Does that mean all items ship for free? If so, I'd splash "FREE SHIPPING" somewhere near top, and perhaps remove the shipping choice drop-down (if only one option is available anyway) and replace it with "FREE Shipping (Arrives 3 - 5 Business Days)". I think if a visitor sees "free shipping," the basket prices that are there now are much more realistic. So, yes - a "good thing."

Even "on special," the florals may a tough sell just because of the competition. The prices compare to complete arrangements (i.e., WITH a vase) from FTD and other on-line providers, plus every local grocery and chain drug store seems to have a flower shop now (not to mention street vendors in metro areas). There's nothing wrong with what you're offering -- there are just so many other places to get fresh flowers these days. So this one is not a "bad thing," but I wouldn't expect it to boost sales much.

Hope this helps. Again, I think the site is well-organized and very pleasing to browse. Good luck!

I still am being charged shipping charges :\

On the checkout of the thinking of you items I am getting "OVERNIGHT SHIPPING" which is the same cost as the item making it cost double. Look at any of those items, they all did it for me.

It was yesterday afternoon with my client.
Regards.

Thank you sincerebaskets. I am going to speak to him tomorrow and see if I can draw up some business for you. No matter what, i will place an order with you soon. Thank you for your response and best wishes this holiday season.

Your baskets are adorable. Everybody take the chance to look at them. It is a great alternative for some of your client's holiday gifts.