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SEO and advertising my webstore?

I am wanting to start up a webstore selling products. I am very good at creating websites but have never really dabbled with search engine optimizing (SEO'ing) them, and if I were to create a store I think it would be vital to make it optimized for search engines. Also, I have never included a shopping cart on any of my websites apart from a paypal cart, which is very simple to include. I was wondering what books/software I should read to learn to SEO my website effectively and learn to advertise it on the net etc?

9 months ago - 8 answers

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If you have time, Digital Point forums is the best place to go. If you don't have time, the best way is to hire a professional team to do the job for you. You can try Wagg team (wagg ... They are the best team with affordable price ever IMO -Michael

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I know of 2 great forums related to SEO so check them out. Also you can check out squidoo.com Its a free and BRILLIANT source of online information. There are hundreds of free ways to get your webpage out there some of them are 1. social bookmarking 2. article writing 3. commenting on forums 4. writing a blog and linking it to your site 5. pinging and the list goes on and on You will have to sign up and become a member on the 2 forums below - they are GREAT for learning for FREE about SEO. plenty of gurus hang out there. all the best

by Lee- 9 months ago

First set appropriate meta keyword for it, Then do on page optimization of your site in off page optimization, do social bookmarking, link building of it, for more information for SEO,contact here, www ...

by Mr.K- 9 months ago

SEO does sound simple but is very complicated indeed. If you are good at programming and development, then I think you should concentrate more on the same and better leave the task of doing seo to an seo expert. This will also save you lot of time. BTW, you can get to know what seo actually is, and the various aspects of it at one of the sites I know, www ... Also you can read these blogs on seo, they are quite informatory. seotraffic ... www ... www ... moretargetedwebsitetraffic ...

by guitarists- 9 months ago

Try use : AddWeb Website Promoter (www ... All-in-One Submission Tool (www ... You can place your signature in forum, email, etc. www ... www ... dwkphotogallery ...

by Kafedaun- 9 months ago

You may want to consider talking to an agency to help. I know you may think this will be expensive, but seeing as you know how to create websites, you will more than likely be able to make the on-site changes yourself and therefore, all you would need is some consultation and recommendations. I'd recommend checking out this website to at least get some ideas of the many different types of online marketing tactics you may be interested in. www ...

by Terri S- 9 months ago

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at www ... and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages. Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using such "generic" queries will not be able to discover your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website, in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable. You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo. Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the Internet audience and their incoming setup. For example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages take too long to load up and therefore analog users will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users for maximum marketability, then select analog users since 80% of most resident users are still analog Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages is best for them. A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots. Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material. Placement of Metatags: A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name. The second metatag is the "Description" which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services. And the very last category - "Keywords" are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory. Good luck!

by vicseo- 9 months ago

Here are the list: 1. Post blogs about your website. 2. Submit articles 3. Social Bookmarking 4. Submit your website manually to search engines 5. Use keywords liberally on your site, so long as they are used in the correct context of your site topic and content. More of information in the website below. I hope this helps. Also, try the SEO book author Kristopher B. Jones and Jerri L. Ledford.

by July S- 9 months ago