New to website design and SEO

Hi All

I hope I'm posting in the right section and that someone can help me.

I'm a product designer and have designed a new product that is now licensed to be manufactured by a UK company. As well as it being sold in retail outlets I also want to sell it online through my own website. I've got a website up and running that I made using Google Blogger and although it's still work in progress i wanted it live to start attracting the search engines.

I've had advice to include Meta Tags in my html code and have got a Description and Keywords in there now.

What I haven't a clue about though is getting the search engines to visit my site and hopefully also give it a good ranking.

That's why I'm asking here and hopefully someone can offer some advice.

I believe I can't include my URL at this stage however the product is called garage-guard.co.uk and you may be able to find it.

Thanks in advance
Dave

 

Dave,

You should first focus on adding as much quality content to your website as possible- focusing around the type of search terms you would like to rank for in the future. Once you have done this (it's an on-going job, never stop!) you can start considering how you're going to generate links to your website. There are various methods both free and paid - and doing a little research on this and using the "search" function here at DigitalPoint will help you at first. Once you have a clearer understanding, you can begin to consider whether it would be worthwhile investing in some backlink services, like the ones we offer here.

WebDev

 

send me a email or a Private Message, I can help you but need more info.

 

Hi Dave,

You mentioned you built the site using Google Blogger. I hope you used your own domain as I don't think the free Blogger allows users to sell products on their blogsites.
Anyway, if you want search engines to notice your site then I suggest you set up a Google Webmaster account and submit the site so that Google can index it.

Hope that helps. Have a good day!

 

As information, I cannot see your website if I don't add www infront on your web address. About Google store on Blogger site, I think it is OK because I also have my own T-shirts stores base on blogger and it is still working well since I build it around March 2012. About getting SEO traffic, first you can focus on adding more contents. I only find 4 posts on your store.

 

It's not that simple to explain all the SEO and Web Design thingy here but I'll try to shorten things up in 2 points

1. Try to keep your website user-friendly as well as search engine-friendly. Make sure the links that your visitors wants to see are prominent and also ensure that the design is not too heavy. Your website represents the way you do business so make sure your design is also attractive enough to grab your audience.

2. Regarding SEO, all you need to get started is:

- add unique and quality content to your site on regular basis (after every 2-3 days)
- make sure you read Google SEO Guide (search in Google and you'll be asked to download a PDF file). It's a short ebook and I highly recommend you to read it before doing anything with your SEO
- get social. Make social accounts on Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and similar sites. Make communities and discuss your product.
- Most Important: Make sure you don't SPAM...

Good luck,