I have been using it for 2 weeks now and I actually think its great. Thank you for your feedback it helps me.

Regards

Emma

Wow, I could only hope some day to have that kind of income breakdown. If I may ask(and assuming you actually read this), what inspired you to work for yourself and get into the industry?

Anyways, great post for me to stumble upon as I am beginning to start an online business of my own, I’ll be sure to check back for more!

Other than that, they’re great.

I’ve struggled with this for at least two years. You can look at about fifty different items, and then the website loses its mind. First it can’t zoom in on the images. Then it doesn’t load the pictures at all. (Tiny little color swatches, yes, but not the item pictures.) Then it requires you to pick a color to order the product, but it won’t give you any items in the menu past “Pick a color”.

Right now, after trying two different browsers (Firefox and Safari), clearing the caches repeatedly, restarting, and otherwise trying every trick in the book, I have finally retrieved my saved “shopping bag”…sort of. It says that I have zero items in the shopping cart, which will cost me over $100. Since then, I’ve “added” two more items (supposedly successfully), without either the item count or the dollar value changing.

Now, when I click on things, six times out of seven it redirects me to the front page. Searches produce no results, just a refresh of the main page. Even clicking on “contact us”, which ought to be a hard-coded plain old link, reloads the main page.

When I click on the shopping cart, in an attempt to pay for the items I need (and can’t get elsewhere, or I would have), nothing happens at all.

Oh, and the reason I saved the shopping cart earlier and decided to come back to it is because the online coupon didn’t work: they offer free shipping on sales of more than $69, but more than $100 is somehow less than $69 according to the idiot computer.

This is my NORMAL experience with this website, not a special busy-during-the-holidays problem. I’ve had this experience during every month of the year and every time of day. It works okay if you know exactly what you want and go straight to that page. If you want to look around, it dies after a while.

My most effective strategy so far is to make a text-only list of the names of items that interest me most, send it to another computer, and go to a completely separate computer with a completely separate IP address to place the order. Alternatively, I can wait two or three days and try again. That *sometimes* wins me a temporarily functional experience.

JC Penney needs new web programmers.

And in the meantime, if any other customers are out there, then let me point out that your favorite web search engine can find the phone number (which you won’t be able to get from them, because clicking on “contact us” will only earn you the front page again), and a polite but detailed complaint about their busted website at the customer service person on the phone can win you a 20% discount. Perhaps if they have to give away enough of those discounts, then some stakeholder will decide that they should fire the idiots and hire some competent web programmers.

I have been looking for ways around the Google Panda update and I conducted a whole bunch of experimenting on my own websites.
Right here are a couple of tips to consider:

1) reduce bouncerate on your web sites
2) remove/nofollow/noindex thin and poor quality pages
3) boost Click Through Rate in the search results (E.g implement crazy call to actions and things inside your page titles)
4) give more value with your site (maximize visitors onpage time)
5) interlink your site with optimized anchor texts
6) use a privacy policy, bulletpoints, paragraphs, subtiles, images, address/phone number, SSL, google maps location, contact us, about us etc etc (every “achievable” added quality factors you can think of)
7) Achieve more quality backlinks with good anchor text variation.

Link-building has to be done in a very diverse and consistent fashion.

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