Tf's Website To My Own Website

[SEHLeas]

Currently freelance wedding florist but buying a shop that provides wire service. the current store's website it's hosted by TF but cont racts with Ftd. I have my own website and love it and unsure how to integrate the 2. My current website is www.cozyposies.com. any feedback or leads on where I can get more info on integration would be most appreciated.
thanks!!

 

[SEHLeas]

Currently freelance wedding florist but buying a shop that provides wire service. the current store's website it's hosted by TF but cont racts with Ftd. I have my own website and love it and unsure how to integrate the 2. My current website iswww.cozyposies.com. any feedback or leads on where I can get more info on integration would be most appreciated.thanks!!

 

[blumen]

The way we do it:

Our site, blumen.com, has been around forever. It is all about us, has a description of our services, lots about weddings, etc. I work on this myself for SEO. It links to our other site ludwigflowers.com to enable online ordering. That site is from Media99. I highly recommend them.

The first thing you should do is loose one of the wire services. You only need one at the most. And if you don't have a lot of outgoing, you probably don't need either. Limit your incoming wire orders in order to be profitable.

 

[theRKF]

We very strongly advise our florists and other small business customers to have one website for one local business. Having multiple sites creates problems for both users and search engines. This practices comes from a couple old problems:

1. It used to be hard to set up your own ecommerce site, so people opted for WS-provided sites.
2. WS sites and older ecommerce sites were difficult to customize and lousy for SEO, so people set up secondary sites.
3. Some people figure that they can just keep adding sites until they find success ... but that's like opening more stores to try and grow business. Unless you can really invest time developing and marketing each one, you're only hurting yourself.

Since your current Cozy Posies site is a blog format you could work with subdomains to combine the sites.

Scenario 1: Cozy Posies as Blog

1. Host the TF website on CozyPosies.com
2. Host the blog on Blog.CozyPosies.com subdomain
3. 301 redirect the old TF site's domain to CozyPosies.com
4. Use 301 redirects for all the old CozyPosies.com pages to the new blog subdomain

Scenario 2: Ecommerce on Subdomain

1. Host the TF website on a subdomain like Shop.CozyPosies.com
2. 301 redirect the old TF site's domain to the new subdomain
3. Make sure you have 301 redirects for all the old TF site pages

Hope that helps!