Building a Successful Ecommerce Website
Building a successful ecommerce website is far beyond the old days of slapping up a pay pal button and performing simple search engine optimization and calling it a day. You need to build trust and have strong branding and trust factors in order to create and build a stream of daily customers. If you want your ecommerce website to function how it is supposed to in the search engines you are going to have to make some real improvements to how they function for the end user. Ecommerce websites need to create a stimulation in your audience and make them want to act and create an action your website. Let’s take a look at a Website like Wal-Mart. Why do you think they are so CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO and Software Don’t Mix
I understand in today’s marketplace the need for automation grows and grows as companies seek to cut costs across the board. Streamlining a process down to a science and eliminating as much human interaction seems to be a growing trend but does it work for marketing a website and for SEO? Manufacturing yes, internet marketing to humans? No. There is not a SEO software program on the planet that can successfully step into the shoes of your audience and try to anticipate what their online behavior or patterns might be at that given moment. There is something that will always require a human touch, search engine optimization and internet marketing equally requires the human marketing touch. When optimizing a website you need to stop and think CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Break Into the SEO Clique
If you are in the search engine optimization industry or you are trying to break into this incredibly saturated industry to make a name for yourself you might have a difficult time getting accepted into the circle of friends at the top of the food chain. The “elite” group that has been in the industry since day one and think they are the all mighty of the industry. The SEO industry leaders have become a tough group of individuals to become friendly with and it doesn’t seem to be getting any easier. All the “gurus” at the top that think they know every about everything seem to feel that they run this industry like they own it. The SEO industry is kind of like an CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Lead Your Audience Down the Right Road!
Whenever you start to put together a marketing plan for your website you really need to take a step back and start by asking yourself if your website is ready for more traffic. What good is all that new SEO traffic if your audience doesn’t have a clue what to do when they make it to your website? Conversion aspects and search engine optimization should always go hand in hand. If you are not sure about what elements should be where on your website ask a professional to take a look before you spend a great deal of time figuring out how to drive more eye balls to it. This step is vital to the growth of your business. Not only does it help the CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How to Write Meta Tags and Descriptions
Have you ever visited a website and seen the home page meta tag just jammed with keywords that runs the entire length of the top of your computer monitor? If you have that is a great example of how you don’t want to construct your meta tags and descriptions. There is a lot of argument in the industry on the importance of meta tags and how valuable they are. Meta information alone might not increase rankings but once your website has the power to rank well the keywords in your meta information will steer your website towards the right audience you are looking for. Your meta tags should always be created tastefully. Each page should target 3-5 keywords for your content and your meta information and CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Marketing and Technicalities Go Hand in Hand
If you are making website changes or launching a new website you want to make sure the technical redirects and webmaster related pages are being used correctly, things like when to use a 301 redirect or when to use a 302 redirect. It might sound like not a big deal but the reality is if you get it wrong and the search engines assume you are trying to do something different than what you really are you might find yourself getting slapped on the wrist by Google. If you own and operate your own website and you rely on its performance for your livelihood than you will have to play the role of your webmaster on more than one occasion. Google recently had a webmaster quiz CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
An SEO Recipe is a Recipe for Disaster
I saw a funny forum post this morning about a person asking the community in a an online marketing for the best SEO recipe. That person is already dead in the water right from the start. Let’s take a step back and emphasize how important taking a marketing approach really is when conducting a search engine optimization campaign for your business or website. When you start off asking for a recipe for your search engine optimization program, you are really setting yourself up for disaster. Your search engine optimization should never look like a science project. The search engines have been evolving since their birth many years ago. When they first came on the scene, instantly many highly technical “marketers” started manipulating the algorithm to get CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
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