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E-commerce is a cut throat business. You have to arm yourself with the proper know-how and the tools to make your site a cut above the rest. Each day, more and more sites are clambering to optimize their rankings in search engines and if you lose your

guard, you may just get trampled on and be left in the abyss filled with so many failed e-commerce sites.

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a term widely used today by many e-commerce sites. For the past few years and the next ten years or so, search engines will still be the most widely used internet tool.

Most people that use search engines only click on the top ten search results in the first page. Making it to the first page or even to the top three is a barometer of a sites success in search engine optimization. You will get a higher ratio of probability of being clicked on when you rank high, resulting into more traffic (thousands of visitors per day) for your site, implying more leads or sales. The best part of SEO is, you get all this immense traffic and high sales volume for free.

So just what is search engine optimization and do you have to use it? The answer to why you have to use it is an easy one. You need search engine optimization to be number one, or may be at least make your site income generating.

Search engine optimization requires a lot of work to be fully realized. There are many aspects you have to change in your site or add as well to be search engine optimized. These will include getting lots of information about the keyword phrases that are popular in regards to your sites niche or theme. You may also need to rewrite your sites contents so that you could get the right keyword phrases in your site without making it too commercial but light and informative. There are certain rules and guidelines to be followed with making your site’s content applicable and conducive to search engine. You will also need to collaborate with many other sites so that you could get link exchanges and page transfers. The more links you have pointing to your sites from other site or domain the higher your site ranking in search engines.

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES

Insert keywords or key phrases in your title tag.

Avoid linking to link-farms or irrelevant sites. In other words if your pages do not contain any words that reflect the content of the site you are linking to, do not link to it.

Make sure that the text within the title tag is also within the body of the page. Use H1 and bold tags on your keywords once or twice especially at the top of the page.

Do not use the exact same title tag on every page on your website. This is viewed as duplicate content by search engine robots.

Design your page titles to be simple and descriptive, making it easier for search engines to know what each page is about and visitors scanning through search results can easily determine whether your document contains what they are looking for.

Try to add fresh content to your site daily, if possible. Search engine robots like fresh content.

If your site contains plenty of links (pages), you must create a sitemap in XML format (according to Google guideline) and submit it here http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login. As a matter of fact you must do this if you want all your pages indexed in Google, and on time. For those of us that might be wondering how to create a sitemap in XML format, you can have your site map created using software, visit the link below http://www.walmol.com/bestbuy/secretspidergenerator.php

Avoid dynamic URLs. These are links with question mark (?). Spiders can’t read these links; instead try using human readable URLs.

When using images, use ALT tags to describe your images. Search engines robots can’t read images but can read ALT tags.

Do not use a submission service; most of them are nothing but spam machines. If you must use submission software, I recommend you use Trellian Submit Wolf. Visit the link below to learn more.

http://www.walmol.com/bestbuy/submitwolf.php

However, if you’re not internet savvy you may optimize your web sites using software; your best bet would be SEO ELITE. This is one of the best search engine optimization software available on the net, for more information on SEO elite visit the link below. http://www.walmol.com/bestbuy/seoelite.php

Search engine optimization if done right is the most powerful

form of generating traffic available on the internet.

All the best,

Chris Ogunor – http://www.walmol.com

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If you have a website you need traffic, that’s obvious. But how do you get it? In the next few paragraphs I will outline a strategy that will help you to achieve tons of the best traffic – targeted search engine traffic – and all for free!

Let’s first of all look at some ways in which you can approach the subject of obtaining traffic for your website.

1. You can buy visitors. There are hundreds of websites out there who will sell you visitors. You can have 100,000 visitors delivered to your site in 30 days. The trouble with this is that the visitors haven’t asked to see your site and will probably leave immediately and it costs money.

2. You can pay to have your site optimised for the search engines. This can help but it can be very expensive.

3. You can use pay-per-click advertising. This can be effective but if you are in a competitive category it can be work out very costly.

The methods above all have two things in common – their effectiveness can be doubtful and they cost money.

What if there was an alternative? A way to obtain a high search engine ranking and have hundreds, if not thousands, of other websites send you traffic by the ton, all for free?

Well, such an alternative exists.

Before I tell you what it is, let me say a few words about link popularity. It is well known that the major search engines will regard your site as being more important and your rankings will therefore increase, if you are seen to have large numbers of incoming links from websites that are themselves regarded as important.

Now, some websites have thousands of pages of keyword-rich content. They have high rankings and are favoured by the search engines. Just the sort of sites that you would want to get free traffic from and have your links on, am I right? Well, you can!

What’s more, these websites will allow you to hitch a ride off their massive traffic, top search engine placements and let you advertise on hundreds of web pages, all for free!

What are these wonderful philanthropic, traffic-generating websites and how can you take advantage the opportunities that they offer?

These websites are Article Directories. There are around 100 of them containing thousands of articles in dozens of different categories. How does this help you?

It’s a two step process.
Step 1. Pick a topic and write an article about it. Choose something that is relevant to your own website.
Step 2. Submit your article to all the top online article directories, announcement lists and to other ezine publishers and webmasters.

What happens next?

You will get links to your site by the article being posted by the Article Directory sites.
You will get more links as other sites pick up your articles and reprint them.
You will get direct traffic from the Article Directory sites.
You will get indirect traffic from sites that pick up and reprint your article.
The search engines will find links from your article to your website. These are contextual links and are given more importance than links from unrelated pages.
The inward links should boost your site’s rankings, resulting in yet more traffic.

All this from just one article! And why stop there? Write an article a week or a month or whatever you can manage, and you will soon have your links spread all over the internet, bringing in more and more traffic.

Submitting your articles to Article Directories can be done but it is time consuming. Time that would be better spent writing more articles! Not only that but there is a good chance that you would miss out on several good sites for your article. I would suggest and recommend that you automate this part of the process. A good place to start is to visit http://www.articlemarketer.com?a_aid=3160c42e Here you will be able to submit articles in the knowledge that you are not missing out any important sites and also that you are complying with their submission policies.

I hope you will give this strategy a try. You have nothing to lose but could gain a great deal!