Over the course of the last few weeks we have been studying and redesigning the check out process on the site. Through buyer feedback and traffic analysis we were able to identify areas where buyers were experiencing some difficulties. By allowing sellers to put their phone numbers in their banners and listings, buyers who may [...]
With the large increases in traffic we have been experiencing recently, we wanted to make sure new site users are able to navigate through the check out process. I personally had a lot of fun since I bought some really cool items during the final testing after changes were made. In a couple of days I will [...]
We added more search engine optimization today. In this site update, we made what shows up in your browser title bar be the title of the listing. (see highlighted areas) This will also make the search engines display the same result once the site has been re-rolled by the search bots. Tonight I am running [...]
Ok, what the hell is page rank? Google ranks sites by strength and assigns a numeric number of 1 – 10. The short story is, the more links a site has coming into it from related content sites the stronger it is ranked. In our case we have gotten links from us informing the world [...]
Ahwooga is quickly becoming the place. Our goal to build a sellers friendly place to list and purchase parts for “things that move you” is really taking shape. With the help of a lot of sellers combined with the power of search engines, visitors are engaging our site. Through out the day while monitoring our [...]
One of the cool features of the site that we keep posting about is Google Shopping. More than one customer we have asked, “What the heck is Google shopping? Google search results change depending on the search term you type in to a search. For a product search such as “87 Mustang GTX V-Fiber Body [...]
As of this morning, 95% of the products on the site are displaying inside of Google Shopping. I’m not going to run out and get a Google Tat just yet since I’m less than happy with what it took to redesign the process. What is very cool is the increased percent of products that now [...]
The I AM Ahwooga Episode 3 video is up! We had a great time with this one. A lot more random vehicles with a “Pet” feature. Thanks to everyone who has uploaded pictures to the group. It really is cool to see the diversity and then share a slideshow. We tried to get everyone we [...]
Before we launched Ahwooga.com, we knew we needed to first have parts for people to find so they could purchase items from our sellers. In order to make sales we needed items, in order to get people to list items we needed sales. We call this our Chicken-Egg Theory. It took some time for the [...]
Some more of many changes took today, here are some highlights. When viewing a stores product listings, you can now click the store banner to go back to the stores home page If you are in a products listing page, the link to the sellers storefront has been moved above the main picture to be [...]
Today some big changes to the overall site appearance went into effect. The staff here at Ahwooga HQ have been listening to what our growing customer base has been sharing with us. With just three and a half months under our belt, it has been very exciting to have so many people really engaging with the site. [...]
We are always looking for way to enhance the sites performance and we recently made some changes. 1) News Blog now open in a new window and is no longer wrapped in the site. 2) Forums have been relocated to never – never land since they sucked. 3) Forum information will be relocated to News [...]
Matt from Ponderosa Mustang called us and shared that he was going to Pensacola Mustang Show and wanted to know if he could pass out some Ahwooga shop towels to other vendors. Joe screen printed some up and UPSed them to Matt. Here is the video that Matt posted on Youtube. Thank you so much [...]
Here at Ahwooga HQ we can only track sales that are made through the system and we are very happy that we are approaching 200 sales in such a short amount of time. Yesterday, XtremeHids sent me a note that his customer who purchased a light set from him did the whole transaction over his [...]
Team Ahwooga spent last Sunday at the GoodGuys Spring Nationals in Scottsdale. We set up camp in the swapmeet (which is like home away from home for us) and we just handed out our shop towel business cards and our Ahwooga.com key chains and in the process made fools of ourselves….which really doesn’t bother us. [...]
