I need advice & possible assistance in upgrading my website to include a shopping cart function like Magneto or Word Press e-Commerce

I need advice & possible assistance in upgrading my website to include a shopping cart function like Magneto or Word Press e-Commerce

I currently use PayPal buttons & they have limited functionality as I can't deal automatically with overseas orders & changes of billing addresses from customers

I am in process of trying to install Magento with the help of my server administrator. I have got the user guide downloaded & printed out & was going to start to work with it when I get the install correct

My main concern is that I do not affect my SERP rankings for my keywords if I change over my website to Magento platform

I have thought of keeping the existing CSS/PHP design of my website (with a some user friendly redesign & navigation updates)
and wrapping up the Magento cart (possibly as a separate site with a link/s to it from my existing site) so it wouldn't effect my SERP keyword rankings for my existing site?

Moreover I currently sell less than 30 or so products so I am also thinking about going with WP eCommerce plugin for WordPress

I thought if I did an exact word for word mirror template of my site in WordPress I would not lose any SERP rankings & then use WPeCommerce to take the orders.

My main need with my website is to be able to upgrade my Paypal button functionality to allow me to auto charge the customer overseas shipping rate based on his overseas address & allow the customer to elect to change of the parcel delivery address from the credit card billing address.

(Also it be better if customers could select Royal Mail recorded or special delivery options for parcels from a default & change some of the colour choices of the products ordered).

Hence my main short term consideration is just changing the postage & delivery options when I take orders via paypal gateway

But I would in future also like to grow my website in future with cross or up shopping options & more products and make it more Web 2.0 functional so it allows cross postings to other social media

Hope this makes sense

Any advice would be appreciated & am prepared to pay for assistance if applicable


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