Shopcreator understand the importance of maintaining an online presence in an already cluttered and vast market and as a result, we have integrated an array of fantastic, FREE tools to help expand your online business and drive more sales. Shopcreator's free ecommerce website has been integrated with various tools to help you market your site and improve visibility in major search engines like Google.

Integrated tools include:-

• Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a free web analytics tool that provides rich data on traffic reporting, campaign tracking, industry benchmarking and much more. Shopcreator have simplified the process of using Google analytics and removed the need for you to edit any web pages or provide us with any HTML code.


• Email Marketing

Shopcreator offer a comprehensive e-marketing suite that will allow you to create targeted email campaigns whilst tracking click-through in real time and managing your subscriber list's with regards to bounced back emails and opted out subscribers. To view the web templates available and create a campaign visit our website.

• Search Engine Submission

Shopcreator automatically submit your website to the 4 key search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask as soon as you advise us when your ready to trade online ensuring prompt indexing of your site and faster search listings.

• Google Webmaster Tools

Google Webmaster Tools are a powerful set of tools that can audit your site and identify opportunities for you to optimise your store to drive traffic.

• Product Keyword Management

Allows you to manage your product keywords per product and per page to increase page rank and as a result improve your search engine rankings.

• Marketing /SEO White Papers

These white papers will provide you with top tips on improving traffic to your site, maximising sales conversions and other guides to help you realise the potential from your online shop.

• Newsletter Subscriber List

Each Shopcreator store has newsletter subscriber functionality on the homepage. You can use the subscriber list to send e-communications such as monthly newsletters, store announcements or a new line of products available.

• Google Products

Shopcreator will automatically upload all of your store products to Google Products(formerly known as Froogle) as soon as you advise us you are ready to trade online.

• Link Building

Link building is a valuable 'off-page' SEO technique that accounts for approximately 75% of your search engine listing. The link building section will direct you to the most important directories for registration within the UK market so customers can find your store more easily.

To open a free online store and take advantage of the free tools made available with the Transact ecommerce website, create a store now

29 April – From Get Elastic

The use of colour in delivering additional traffic might seam like an odd principle but Linda Bustos has been examining ways of using multiple colour options to boost search engine ratings and site traffic. Read more here.

24th April – Grokdotcom

One of the common reasons people abandon a purchase in the checkout is "sticker shock". If you tease customers with low prices and then hit them with high tax and delivery rates they are likely to abandon right at the final hurdle. Read more in Robert Gorell's post here.

2nd May – Practical Ecommerce

Many of our customers use Google Analytics to better understand the traffic that there site gets. Michael Stebbins has written a nice quick post on getting more out of your keywords using these tools. Read more here.

22nd April – Sitebrand

If you watched The Apprentice this week our friend Kevin Shaw might have convinced you that not being green is like the American government refusing to sign the Kyoto Agreement. With this in mind we thought we might link to Carolyn Gardner's great post on Green Shipping Options. Read more here.

29th April – Jack Loechner

Want to know what narks your customers? Well in summary: finding out products are out of stock after you have tried to buy them, payment failures, rubbish return policies and shipping information and lack of purchase confirmations. Get more detail here.