I've been asked for some tips on how to start driving traffic to a new
online store, whilst writing the email I thought it best to share this
with the rest of you I hope you can all benefit from some of these
ideas - often the simplest steps are over looked.
There are a few things I would suggest for you to do which should move you forward in search optimisation and traffic generation.
There are a few things I would suggest for you to do which should move you forward in search optimisation and traffic generation.
XML Sitemap
Create and submit a XML sitemap to the tier 1 search engines, this will ensure that the site and all its pages are indexed (included in the search engine) as this is often a major battle for large ecommerce sites.
Create Sitemap
Submit Sitemap
Search Engine and Directory Submission
Create a free NeedMoreHits.com account and complete a full search engine submission (this will cost you either USD $25 once off or USD $125 for 12 months). These submissions help increase your long tail traffic from the tier 2 and 3 search engines as well as build back links from directories.
Product Feeds
Product feed sites are a great way of capitalizing on traffic from popular product feed sites at the same time getting exposure for your site and products and driving sales.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/
http://www.shopbot.com.au/
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/
http://www.bizrate.com/
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/
Local Business Listings
I'd also look into doing a local business listing with Google, Yahoo and MSN. We offer a local business optimization and listing service with our local business listing product they will manage this for you, else you can do this for free at each search engine.
http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter
http://local.yahoo.com/
https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
Follow the above points and getting selling.
Create and submit a XML sitemap to the tier 1 search engines, this will ensure that the site and all its pages are indexed (included in the search engine) as this is often a major battle for large ecommerce sites.
Create Sitemap
Submit Sitemap
Search Engine and Directory Submission
Create a free NeedMoreHits.com account and complete a full search engine submission (this will cost you either USD $25 once off or USD $125 for 12 months). These submissions help increase your long tail traffic from the tier 2 and 3 search engines as well as build back links from directories.
Product Feeds
Product feed sites are a great way of capitalizing on traffic from popular product feed sites at the same time getting exposure for your site and products and driving sales.
http://www.pricegrabber.com/
http://www.shopbot.com.au/
http://www.kelkoo.co.uk/
http://www.bizrate.com/
http://www.pricerunner.co.uk/
Local Business Listings
I'd also look into doing a local business listing with Google, Yahoo and MSN. We offer a local business optimization and listing service with our local business listing product they will manage this for you, else you can do this for free at each search engine.
http://www.google.com/local/add/businessCenter
http://local.yahoo.com/
https://ssl.bing.com/listings/ListingCenter.aspx
Follow the above points and getting selling.
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Hi milkaveronica,
Thanks for the feedback - always nice to know we can help!
I enjoyed your article and will begin using the suggestions immediately.
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I agree that google sitemaps is very important. For bloggers using self hosted wp themes I recommend the google xml sitemap plugin. Hands down! As far as link building is concerned isn't it important to link build with the most relative sites and not linkfarms?
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I enjoyed your article and will begin using the suggestions immediately.
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