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More Info On puresilva
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your site hosted on a dedicated server, with careful server management. None of our dedicated servers has a Peak Hour Load of more than 60% of the server's capacity (in terms of RAM, CPU, bandwidth). This ensures fast-loading pages and reliable hosting overall |
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unlimited webspace |
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your website backed up daily on a separate server in a separate location to your website server |
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unlimited e-mail addresses (anything@yourdomain.com) along with your own email control panel |
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uses purity.net email spam filter. Spam isn't something puresilva website owners have to worry about. The purity.net facility costs $59.40 (USD) per year per domain if you bought it by yourself - it's included in our hosting fee of £99 per year! |
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No software to install - nothing to 'set-up' - you just need an internet connection to run your website. Runs on ANY computer (Mac or PC). |
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Live Updates to Software
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You will receive live updates to the puresilva software for life - see full list of updates made so far here |
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Content-Managed Pages |
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Add unlimited pages to your website - you can add unlimited images and attach unlimited files to each page you add, ANYWHERE on the page. You can easily format text too as well as easily add website links onto your pages. Ability to add HTML titles and META tags for search engine optimization. Images are automatically resized intelligently depending on placement on page. Fully WYSIWYG editor. |
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Create unlimited web forms (example musical survey here) - allowing you to capture data from your website visitors - each form is emailed to a user-defined email address. The forms themselves are 100% customisable. |
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Customisable navigation - create your own navigation bars on your website - easily link to anywhere on the site - it's up to you |
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Organize your pages into unlimited sections (categories) |
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Search-engine friendly URLs of all your content-managed pages (as well as other on-page optimziation making your pages easy for search engines to index) |
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News/Blog/Articles |
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Categorise your news/article entries |
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Add images to each news story you add. You can easily format text too as well as easily add website links onto your pages |
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RSS feed for your news/blog making it easy for people to read your latest info from other websites. |
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Users can leave their own comments about each news story. This feature can easily be turned off if you don't want it. |
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Option to display 0-7 latest entries on the front-page (complete with thumbnail image) and/or in the sidebar navigation to make sure your visitors are alerted to the latest news |
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Visitors can search your news/blog entries by keyword search, month or category. |
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Search-engine friendly URLs of all your news/blog entries (as well as other on-page optimziation making your articles easy for search engines to index) |
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"Recommend to a friend" facility allows website visitors to let their friends know (via email) about your news/blog entries |
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Social website links at the foot of each and every blog/news entry makes it easy for people to share your blog/news entry:
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Facility allowing you to easily import news from around the web as a means of generating new articles for your own website. This can be used as a means to find topics for your own articles (recommended) or even simply as a news digest whereby you create articles that simply features news headlines/comments from your chosen news sources. |
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"Events Calendar". It's similar to the blog/news section except it separates entries into two sections : past and future. Future events are highlighted and promoted, past events are held in an archive. You can also group event entries under one date. It's suitable for sites running events like pubs, DJs, hotels, businesses running training courses etc. You can alternate between running the blog OR running the events calendar. |
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E-commerce Shop |
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add/edit/delete unlimited categories, products and information pages on your site, as well as add unlimited number of images/files per page - you control 100% of the content |
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Dynamic categories - based on keyword matches you can create alternative categories such as search by brand name, size, colour etc - allowing your website visitors to browse your products using alternative category structures. These dynamic categories can be set up in literally a minute or so, and allow you to effectively add your products to multiple categories. |
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Your entire product range will enjoy the benefits of our search engine optimization facilities - all automated - all you have to do is add your products and categories! |
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Flexible payment options for your shoppers - allow your user to choose how to pay - from using eWay, PayPal, Noxchex, Protx, Google Checkout and WorldPay, by cheque, BACS or even phone. You choose how they can pay.
  
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Easy-to-use
product navigation; search by category (up to 3 levels deep)
or by keyword. Visitor immediately sees items relating to their
search as they click through the category levels. |
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Sophisticated shipping & handling facility allowing you to make up your own shipping rules; base shipping on weight, gift-wrapping, next-day delivery, recorded delivery, areas like UK, Europe, rest of the World, or any locations you want. You make up the rules! You can use as many rules as you want so your customers can choose their preferred shipping & handling for their products. |
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Product
detail page; User can select quantity of items required, select a size and/or a colour if the item requires
such user choice (you can define the ranges of colours/sizes yourself). |
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Add up to 4 high quality images per product, as well as a supporting file per product (e.g. PDF, MP3, Word DOC). |
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No need to make your own thumbnail images - your online shop will make those automatically for you, as well as dynamically resize your product images on the product detail page so users always see your products at their BEST - with an elegant layout of images - no images that are TOO BIG breaking up your page! They appear as a reasonable size, with a link below them so the user can view the actual, large size. |
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Related items (with thumbnail images) can be listed on a product's page so
users don't miss anything. |
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"Best
Sellers" facility; allows you to highlight items that
will be displayed prominently on your site. |
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"Selected Items" feature shows random products on the front page giving individual products a chance to be 'in the spotlight'. This is also very good for search engine optimization as these products will be indexed much faster as well as giving search engine spiders a good impression that your content is constantly updated. |
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Special
Offers; A sophisticated facility allowing you to select
products and set a discounted rate for them. Entice people to
purchase by setting a special offer deadline; eBay style, customers
can see when offers expire, down to the last minute! |
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Shopping
Basket; User can change quantity of items in the basket,
or delete items. User can empty basket. Shipping total + Product
price total, with overall total shown. User proceeds to payment
page from the shopping basket. |
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"Subscribe
Here" facility so an e-mailing list can be built-up. |
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You're immediately notified by email when an order arrives; customer gets receipt email with full details of order. |
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Order
tracking for users to see the status of their purchases. When an order's status is changed you can automatically send an email to the shopper notifying them of the change of status AND also have an option to enter tracking codes too so they can see where their item is. |
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Full details of each order made on your site - see monthly sales totals, date-based reports, what time of day people order most, day of week, day of month. Revenue forecast facility based on recent trends. |
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Automatic invoice generator for each purchase. |
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Export orders to CSV file - great if you are doing your accounts in another software package. You can export depending on date range too, so great when doing your yearly tax return. |
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Email
enquiry facility; if your product range often requires close
customer care, our e-mail enquiry system will allow you to capture
those customers and start-up a sales dialogue. It's also another
channel for users to opt-in to your e-mailing list. |
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E-mail notifications. Online shop administrator is notified by e-mail
of any new orders. Customer gets confirmation e-mail when they
register or buy items. |
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Customer
feedback survey. Give your new, potential customers peace-of-mind
from your existing customer base. |
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Syndicate your products on other websites such as Froogle, Dealtime and Kelkoo using the Manage Feeds facility; you can make up your own export rules so you can export to ANY price comparison site |
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Stock control facility allowing you to disable purchasing of items out of stock - just enter the initial stock quantities and your website takes care of the rest - deducting quantities when items are purchased. Items out of stock are still displayed on the site and users can enquire about them - but not purchase until they are back in stock. This facility can be activated on a per-product basis. |
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VAT/Tax support - this facility (if selected) will show all product prices excluding and including Value Added Tax |
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Multiple currencies - your shoppers will see all your items displayed in their chosen currency as well as your chosen base currency; currency conversion rates updated in real-time. |
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Unique bidding system (purely optional) allowing your website visitors to bid prices on your products for sale. You can choose to accept or reject each offer. If you accept an offer, the shopper can easily buy the item at the offered price. More on the 'make an offer' facility here. |
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Product reviews - your website visitors can leave product reviews of your listed items. They may have bought this item before from you, or even from another vendor, and want to let people know how good/bad(!) it is. |
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Digital products/downloads - you can sell e-books, mp3s etc. Your shopper buys the product as normal (add to basket, pay for items) - upon verified payment, they can login and download their purchase. |
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"Recommend to a friend" facility allows website visitors to let their friends know (via email) about specific items you sell |
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Allow your shoppers to view your products by price range categories (you can set these price bands yourself)
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RSS Feeds and "Latest Additions" page for your product range so regular visitors can view your new products easily |
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Basket summary - shown in sidebar whenever a shopper adds items to the basket |
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Ability to see which products are being viewed LIVE (right now) on your site, and the path each visitor takes on your site when browsing your pages |
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"Upsell" feature allowing you to sell multiple items together e.g. selling an electric bike with additional front light, back light and battery (these are optional extras to the electric bike). You can also change the prices of these additional items to give shoppers a "deal" if they buy all the items together; this facility means shoppers can buy multiple items in one go, and you can promote extras to any item. It's quite a powerful new facility that can be used in many different ways. More info on upselling can be found in this Wikipedia entry (click here). |
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Affiliate selling facility allowing you to sell other people's products on your site and make commissions if they click through from your site to the selling site and a sale results. You can even mix up your products with affiliate products or create a special category for affiliate products - up to you; ability to import affiliate products |
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Showcase your products with two types of slideshow - slideshow 1, and/or slideshow 2 |
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Option allowing your shoppers to make special requirements for products. This is basically a text box that will appear in the product detail page (if activated). Useful if you're selling items with personal messages attached (e.g. cakes, ceramics, t-shirts) |
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Two variation options per product (e.g. "Material", "Length" or "Size", "Colour") - these variations can be re-labelled to anything you like. Allows you to sell one single product with many variations of colours and sizes for example. |
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"Customer discovery" facility that records referals which went on to becomes sales. This is a great way to find out how paying customers found your website - and so you can target particular keywords for link building if you're finding certain search engine keywords are leading to more sales than others. |
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Ability to export/import product stock levels as well as prices. Useful if you have offline sales and sweeping price changes often. |
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Product display options. You can make product listings look like this or this, and product details pages look like this or this! |
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Ability to send automatic messages ("tweets") to Twitter (if you have an account) whenever you add a new product or article - this is yet another way to get extra visitors to your site as they can be alerted to your new product/article via Twitter. |
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Whenever you add a product or an article, it is indexed by the puresilva.com spider and listed here, as well as submitted to our twitter streams (http://twitter.com/pureitems and http://twitter.com/purearticles). |
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Forum |
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Fully integrated into the design of the website - not a 3rd party plug-in; means your users only have to register once to your site |
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Create unlimited sections for forum |
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Search facility so users can search topics and replies |
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Login/Register facility - easy & quick for users to join the forum |
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Unlimited topics/replies can be added |
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User statistics |
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Photo Gallery |
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Add unlimited photos to the gallery |
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Podcasts/Radio Station |
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Allow people to hear your own podcasts; you can create playlists of messages. |
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Customising the Website |
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Add/remove blog, shop, forum, pages, podcast, subscribe function, rss feeds, photo gallery as well as many other facilities |
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Fully customisable design - choose from a number of CSS/XHTML website templates |
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Create your own metatags and descriptions for search engines |
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For those with some HTML / CSS skills, there's a CSS editor built into the backoffice so you can tweak the CSS file, as well as the ability to upload your own design images too - allowing you to create your own custom templates. |
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FREE use of the puresilvabannermaker.com web tool - upload unbranded banners to your website for FREE (saving US$8). |
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Upload your own favicon |
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SEO Tools installed in the backoffice of your site |
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All items listed below report in REAL-TIME, no delay (like the 24 hour delay you get with Google Analytics!) |
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Keyword suggestion tool - allows you to find keywords related to the keyword you've entered |
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Conversion keywords - find out what keywords your shoppers used when they actually bought products from your site |
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Find out the most popular keywords used to find your site |
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See the keywords people are using to find your site IN REAL TIME. Great for tracking Google Adwords effectiveness (again, even Google Adwords control panel is delayed by many hours, costing you time and money if a campaign is not effective). |
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Search engine keyword analyser - see where your website lies in the search engine rankings; this facility checks Google and Yahoo's top 100 results in under 1 second; imagine how long it would take you to manually check your rankings for all the keywords! This facility also allows you to view your rankings historically so you can see if your rankings have improved over the last few days, weeks or even months. Very useful tool. |
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Free link-building: 100 Free one-way links to your website when your site goes live (with report confirming links) |
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Other Features |
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Advertising module; make money from allowing text ads to be published on your site (this is puresilva's very own service, it is not Google Adsense, though we support Google Adsense too). |
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Security; your visitors can buy your items securely via 3rd party payment gateways - you don't store their sensitive credit card information on your site at all (a concern for most online shoppers). Shoppers trust big payment gateways far more than bespoke payment systems. |
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Every page across the entire website (using the template) is search-engine friendly and following W3C guidelines in regards to (X)HTML; in plain English that means every page is easy for search engines to index (giving you an advantage over many competitors who have over-looked this), as well as being accessible to the disabled and cross-browser compatible. |
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Video help - just watch and listen how it's done, then copy the steps yourself! Video Help enlightens you on the trickier areas of the website template backoffice, and also lets you get the most out of the template very quickly. |
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Run Google ads on your website easily - just enter your Google Adsense account user ID in the backoffice (e.g. ca-pub-9105782325606428) and instantly you'll see Google ads on your site, all in appropriate colours that match your website's colour scheme. Choose "normal" or "aggressive" modes. |
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Mailing list facility - send professional looking emailshots to your subscribed members |
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Site stats - check all your visitor stats and sales stats - very comprehensive - see when people visit your site and buy from it (hourly, day of week, day of month), check your monthly revenue, projected yearly earnings, return on investment per visitor. |
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Sophisticated links directory manager - very easily add links to other websites (this is the best way to get links BACK to your site which aids in your search engine rankings) - add a link in literally a few seconds in an appropriate category. Also check that ALL your link partners are linking back to you in a single click. Also, get link partners without doing a single thing - they'll add their links to your directory while linking back to you (facility verifies this) - you approve their link with a single mouse click - link building made easy, while you get to control who you link partner with. This facility aids natural, relevant reciprocal link exchanges with real websites on a one-to-one basis. |
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Support for both Google Analytics and SiteMeter (very easy to plugin - no need to copy and paste javascript to your pages) |
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Sitewide keyword search - allow your website visitors to search ALL of your pages (including products, forum, articles/news, and other content managed pages) in one convenient keyword search facility |
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Cached pages - this means your pages are light and fast-loading as it requires less work for the server. Despite caching, your website visitors will ALWAYS see the latest updates you've made to your site immediately after changes are made. |
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Customisable backoffice - choose fonts/colours for the backoffice |
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