new website

[weasel]

how u doing hello everyone im not new to collecting but im new to selling low grade coins and a few better at very cheap prices so if everyon would check out www.uk-coins.tk i would be greatful

the site is currently being updated all the time and more and ore coins are being added any comment on the website please post here or email me at

anthonyhickman18@hotmail.com

you can also pm me i am normal active everyday cheers

anthony

[kuhli]

a proper link to the site would be most helpful.

UK Coins

[Emperor Oli]

You may like to rethink some of your prices. Nobody would pay £40 for a fine 1967 half crown.

[kuhli]

You may like to rethink some of your prices. Nobody would pay £40 for a fine 1967 half crown.

LOL. I was thinking that 40p wasn't a bad price for a '67 halfcrown in F. Perhaps we need to get some clarification on whether those prices are in £ or p.

[weasel]

lol all the prices are in pence not pounds lol i think im trying to be good on my prices so thing hapened to the website and all the links have been lost for some reason but i saved them hopefuly they will be coins back up tonight

anyone wanna give me some feedback please all would be good cheers anthony

[Emperor Oli]

anyone wanna give me some feedback please all would be good cheers anthony

Convert to pounds

[weasel]

ill try my best but im doing all my coins on a exel program i kinda fiddled around with and wont let me put a (.) a full stop ill see if i can geta pound sign up there cheers

also do you think the domain name www.uk-coin.co.uk would be better cheers anthony

[mitch91]

How do you pay e.g paypal cheque

[Chris Perkins]

ill try my best but im doing all my coins on a exel program i kinda fiddled around with and wont let me put a (.) a full stop ill see if i can geta pound sign up there cheers

also do you think the domain name www.uk-coin.co.uk would be better cheers anthony

For search engine rankings, a .co.uk website hosted on a server that doesn't paste pop ups all over the place, would be much better.

Not to mention better for the visitors.

[weasel]

right then were can i get a server from then on the net as i dont want a pay that much and also it aint going to be very big site

that a good one about how do i pay

il plonk that one up

i willexcept paypal and would have to pay fees due to small amounts of money

and i would excpect cheque

and buy would have to pay for p&p ill get that all soted out cheers

anthony

[weasel]

right im gonna try put the site on a new server today with a new domain name

for 4.99 a mouth and server and co.uk name what aint to bad i think

then ill fee it in loads a websites cheers anthony

[weasel]

also they are changing eg to £0.50 so makwe the price more clear

[weasel]

right i have changed domain name to

www.uk-coin.co.uk

that sound loads better dont it also

there 2 pop up that i have on tk

the tk will be gone now as i chagd the domain

also the other is for the hit counter ]

i will ahve to remove it so i can have no pop ups

i will keep the hit counter untill i reach 100 hits

update wil take place very soon

[Chris Perkins]

It sounds like you're all over the place Anthony. Here are some tips:

Think about what you want your website to contain, think about the URL, the webspace, plan things, perhaps on paper first, then launch something. Importantly too; learn about how to promote websites, keywords, search engine optimisation etc. You cannot simply create a website one day with no idea about the direction or the niche. To be a serious coin dealer you need to provide a website that coin collectors will find useful and want to re-visit. It doesn't necessarily need to contain many coins for sale, but it really needs to be well thought up, and have a direction.

Yours doesn't, and it should never even have left your head until it did. The few people that visit your website in the early stages are among the most important....Any first time visitor is the most important type, because you want them to keep coming back. After about 100 visits, you've changed the domain name, so now the people that had taken the time to visit you will never find you again unless they read this thread....If I was one of them I wouldn't bother coming back! Any decent hosting package should include in depth statistics without the need for a pop up generating counter.

To do it seriously you have to outlay money and be prepared to learn a lot. If you want to start any business you really cannot do things by half, you have to give it your all. The website contains broken links, you don't want any of those, get rid of them. The price structure is not clear (as previously mentioned), and I really don't mean to be rude, but your grammar and spelling is awful (as we have previously discussed). If you type too fast that's ok in an email, and even in a forum (to a degree), but on a published web page there is absolutely no excuse. You need to check things through before you save the page. Errors should never get to be seen by the visitors if you can avoid it.

If you don't know how to puctuate very well, or spell properly, I would suggest that the most important step, before you even try to sell any coins, would be to learn. Use free info from websites, or do an English GCSE evening class. Whatever that costs it will be an asset for your whole life and will help people take you and everything you write more seriously.

It isn't easy at first. In fact it's bloody difficult to build a popular website on anything. And you have a very long road ahead before you can give up your day job!

[weasel]

yo chris right i had a big blast at the website today

as u may be awars its now

www.uk-coin.co.uk

also the pop ups have gone ( i hope)

all links work properly now

i have a couple things i have still left to do

1. get my paypal picyures working

2. have a few more links on history of coins

3 pictures of coins eg what they look like eg example of like a farthing etc eg the size and stuff

chris i see you have that on you webiste am i aloud to borrow that please my mine please

4. add more contects to the site more writing and always double check spelling

5. when i had my first customer if i get one a feed back link saying how i delt with them

can u please revist the site please chris and tell me again is it any better

im trying so hard with my spelling but i hate writing so slow

[mitch91]

Ant it looks like you have put in a lot of effort i will put a link to you on my site and forums if you could do a link to my Webpage and Forum thanks alex

[weasel]

sure thing they will go up in a day or 2

[TomGoodheart]

OK - I'm being lazy here! This one's for Anthony, Alex and James!! (Sorry I didn't post in each of your respective threads guys!)

Anthony and Alex's forums first - a word of caution. Most of the time I'm on the web to search for new material for my collection not to chat. I found Chris' site either because I was looking for accessories (coin tickets I think) or because it had a link to Vale coins (hammered coins, my interest).

I did some business with Chris and at some stage thought I'd look at the forum and found a thread I wanted to reply to. I occasionally "pop round" to catch up 'cause I find it entertaining.

Your forums both look much like this one and I doubt I would spend much time there. Then, maybe I'm not a 'Forum' person - I have noticed the same 'faces' at other forums I've visited and nothing new in the threads to interest me. I stick with Chris' forum because it's active and varied even though there's not much chat on Charles shillings that's ok.

My point is that I agree with Chris - if you want a succesful site you may need to think more about what you want out of it first - who do you want to visit and why? If you are happy to have all of these guys that's fine, though I suspect that, as with too many similar treads people eventually settle on one site and favour it. If on the other hand you want to attract new blood (newbies or otherwise) you need to offer something unique. Seems to me there's no point trying to replicate Predecimal.

In summary then, my preferences for sites (and initial impressions) are:

#1 - James' - a straightforward beginners site run by an enthusiast

#2 - Alex's - a perfectly start for a site though I could do without popups!

#3 - Anthony - a good start but I worry you're getting carried away with what you CAN do without planning WHY. There are plenty of UK coin sites out there and yours doesn't yet stand out for me. Speaking for myself, I like sites that have pictures of coins (or at least some, so you can get an idea of the seller's grading). Here are two examples you may like to look at: Coincabinet and Timeline You decide which is more attractive and easier to navigate. (Don't want to be mean Anthony, but it's a tough world out there!)

I hope you take my comments as intended, as friendly advice and good luck to all of you!

[mitch91]

Thanks for that good advice

[weasel]

cheers that really help thanks alot mate

[Master Jmd]

Yup, I agree with that too...good advice.

[mitch91]

I have noticed a minor error on your site on the left hand side sixpence and shilling are in the wrong order only minor though