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Auction Website Development 5 Points to Remember
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Index
Introduction
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Points to be remembered while developing an auction site
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Few Leaders from the Hood
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Contact Details
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Introduction Even in the year of 2002 almost 30% of the total ecommerce industry was ruled by auction sites as per Wikipedia. That was just the beginning era of ecommerce industry and then the demand of this type of website was huge. An interesting statistics shared by ibisworld shows that in last five years up to 2013 the industry of ecommerce has been blessed with a rise of 10.8% of auction sites whose number is approximately 122,261. This trend is not going to keep the pace and is expected to touch a number of 198,72 in the year of 2018. In the year of 2016 the ecommerce and online auction industry revenue is going to touch $163.6 million dollar. All these confirm once very solid fact and that is the auction portals are still poised for great altitude gaining. Those firms which deal with website development services often seek the project of auction sites as the project worth is sweet, but few points are always to be covered by them in the development lifecycle process.
Points to be remembered while developing an auction site 1. Wordpress the favorite pick: Owing to the flexibility and SEO friendly features Wordpress is often considered the prime choice while developing an auction site. The CMS offered by Wordpress is easy to handle and for any auction site it’s
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Follow Us: @Facebook #Twitter @Linkedin befitting the need. Also, the WordPress is compatible with any browser making it reach to wider user base and this complies with the target of a standard auction site. 2. Use of flexible plugins: The WordPress plugins are best known for flexibility and are very much made for custom auction website development. While development process one can make use of them and without even high-end technical knowledge can benefit from these. 3. Choosing the right auction scripts: The customization level of general auction scripts are very much poor compared to that offered by WordPress. Level of programming knowledge needed to customize general scripts is huge and so one must make sure to opt for WordPress option. 4. Setting languages & currency: More than 60% of the global internet users comprise of English speaking people whose mother language is something different. This makes is very much essential to set the target and currency as these two points confirm the success rate of your site. With a multiple language and currency option available in the portal the reach of the user base gets much higher offering the portal bigger exposure in the web space. One can target people who speak English outside the English speaking demography at less than $1 per bid which is highly advantageous. 5. Security: The security part is a strong deciding factor when someone visits your site, and so from the very development phase this needs to be crafted strongly. Leave no stone unturned while selecting quality of the hosting server and platform on which the auction site is being developed. Covering all these above points will surely keep you in a better position while deciding about the site development lifecycle.
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Few Leaders Under the Hood There are leaders in every domain and so is there in the auction arena. As the above pointers are essential from development perspective one also can get good deal of idea over the field from the leaders themselves. With a global market share of more than 20.4% Amazon is the top name when we think about auction sites and ebay follows that with a market share of 16.2%. This means sheer authority and the rising number of websites following their footstep means popularity of the concept among general mass. The growth rate shared in here had been presented by Digital Strategy Consulting in the year of 2011 and so has scaled much more height in this years. Make a note of their dominance parameter and employ them in the development process.
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