SEO and E COMMERCE

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by seo.vijay, Mar 22, 2011.

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    Hi guys,

    If i want to promote an e commerce website then what strategies should i go for?
    Doing an seo for a website n doing an e commerce for a website is different things or same?

    This is my first e commerce project so i am a bit confused...
     
    seo.vijay, Mar 22, 2011 IP
  2. tjsocr22

    tjsocr22 Active Member

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    E-commerce simply means that you sell products or services online. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is a totally different thing. SEO is a way of editing your website to rank higher in search engines link manipulating keywords on your page, meta data and generating more links to your site from others.

    I would focus on SEO, article marketing, video marketing, social bookmarking and as you get more established move on to Pay Per Click advertising such as Google Adwords.
     
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    Create an e-commerce website to sell products/ services on and then SEO it so that it will be ranked high when people search for the items you are selling. Include articles, images, videos, links, backlinks, RSS Feeds, comment sections, blogs, etc.

    Hope this helps!
     
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    utahseopros Peon

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    A good tip for your ecommerce site when it comes to SEO. Don't copy product descriptions from other websites. Write your own, with unique content. Google loves this and will place your products higher in the SERPS.
     
    utahseopros, Mar 23, 2011 IP
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  6. Kiranraj

    Kiranraj Well-Known Member

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    Yes, You can go with SEO for your website..It will help you to get ranking, traffic & leads for your ecommerce website
     
    Kiranraj, Mar 28, 2011 IP
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    danmon Active Member

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    if you really looking to monetise it, i would suggest you to do a ppc campaign.. you may have to spend a little bit in the beginning but it will catch up..
    and side by side start doing seo slowly.. you should catch up soon :)
     
    danmon, Mar 29, 2011 IP
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    seo is very useful for ecommerce websites. If people search for particular product/ service & that service u r provided., then optimize ur website with the help of both on page & off page optimization. Your keyword ranked then u will get good traffic n revenue.
     
    kmkv_princess, Mar 29, 2011 IP
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    At the end of the day there isn't much of a difference between optimising for an information based website and an ecommerce website. The same principles apply.
    As pointed out earlier write your own unique product descriptions. Use decent product titles. Have a SEO friendly site structure. Clever use of internal links (don't use 'next', 'previous', 'more' - use product names if possible). Optimise your product images properly.
     
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    SEO friendly url structure, unique title and description of each and every page, use canonical tag for duplicate content issue, alt tag of images and more.
     
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    Well, Ecommerce always needs SEO, I have been working on many ecommerce websites , specially on their SEO, its bit hard to do that but PPC plan helps alot in this..
     
    shiwak22, Mar 29, 2011 IP
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    SEO is same for each and any type of site theres no diffrence ...
     
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