by Carrie Hinkel on February 22nd, 2008
As an eBay retailer, getting traffic to your store and auctions is critical to your business’ success. The most successful eBay businesses use search engine optimization (SEO) tips and tricks to get their eBay store and auction listings to show up in the natural listings of search engines like Google and Yahoo. An increase in traffic to your store and listings gives more people the opportunity to purchase your items, thus increasing your sales and profits.
The best SEO tips and tricks for eBay sellers
Make a keyword-rich listing title – The title of your listing is the number-one way... Read more »
by Veronica Stone on February 20th, 2008
One of the most important factors in any business’s success is the visibility they have to their potential customers, especially online. Whereas local newspaper and trade magazine advertising is a little easier due to the format only allowing a certain amount of advertising space, online advertising is a different story altogether. With thousands of competitors, your business will disappear unless you have a strong presence.
Once of the ways of doing this is by using Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. This is a multi-faceted process where your website is optimized with keywords related to your business, therefore pushing you up... Read more »
by Carrie Hinkel on February 13th, 2008
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is the format that is used for syndicating news, updates and other web content. It is a way to give your customers more of what they are looking for, without the need for them to have to go into your website and search for it. RSS allows people to get website information by way of a “feed”. In order to receive an RSS feed, you need a newsreader – these are available all over the web; some are free (Pluck , Google Reader ) and others charge a fee (Newsgator ).
Now you... Read more »
by Larry Slusser on January 15th, 2008
You have a website and you’re generating some traffic and some interest, but you’re reading about how to improve traffic and have been given advice to put some keyword articles on your site. How hard can it be to write an article or two of 500 words? You can get that done in an evening.
Suddenly, before you know it, you meet with your advisor again and he/she asks about the keyword articles you have on your business plan. Oops, they weren’t that easy to get done. Your advisor mentions outsourcing or buying into a content service that will provide... Read more »