let's talk about search engines.

[KDW]

so I'm trying to make my store as high-profile as possible. I've strategically placed keywords in the main page's text, the site's title, and I've installed Chemo's SEO URLs and XML sitemap contributions, as well as a dynamic meta tags contribution. (I have also, of course, striven to carry excellent products that people would be interested in purchasing in the first place.)

 

What more could I be doing? What steps have YOU taken to make your store search engine-friendly?

[FalseDawn]

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[KDW]

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showforum=40

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aha! my apologies.

[Jack_mcs]

so I'm trying to make my store as high-profile as possible. I've strategically placed keywords in the main page's text, the site's title, and I've installed Chemo's SEO URLs and XML sitemap contributions, as well as a dynamic meta tags contribution. (I have also, of course, striven to carry excellent products that people would be interested in purchasing in the first place.)

 

What more could I be doing? What steps have YOU taken to make your store search engine-friendly?

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There is more to SEO than just going through the steps. Have you investigated your keywords to ensure they are even being searched for? Is there an adequate amount of text on your home page (usually a minimum of 200 words is recommended)? Does your page titles match your page headings? Is your keyword density around 6%? Is your PR at least a three (determined by number of backlinks)? Have you limited your keywords for the page to 2-3? The list is long and most, if not all, have been covered in the forums. You just need to search it out and apply it.

 

Jack

[KDW]

There is more to SEO than just going through the steps. Have you investigated your keywords to ensure they are even being searched for? Is there an adequate amount of text on your home page (usually a minimum of 200 words is recommended)? Does your page titles match your page headings? Is your keyword density around 6%?  Is your PR at least a three (determined by number of backlinks)? Have you limited your keywords for the page to 2-3? The list is long and most, if not all, have been covered in the forums. You just need to search it out and apply it.

 

Jack

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You raise a couple things I hadn't heard or thought about, hope you don't mind answering some questions:

 

1) Just two or three keywords? Does that apply to metas? I always thought the longer the metas the better.

 

2) How do I get backlinks?

 

3) How do I investigate the keywords? I haven't really launched the site yet, so I can't analyze traffic for the best keywords.

[wizardsandwars]

1) Just two or three keywords? Does that apply to metas? I always thought the longer the metas the better.

 

2) How do I get backlinks?

 

3) How do I investigate the keywords? I haven't really launched the site yet, so I can't analyze traffic for the best keywords.

 

1.) Yes, each page should be *optimized* for no more than 2 or 3 key 'phrases'. Sine the first step in optimizing any page for search engines is always meta titles (not meta keywords), and the recommendedmaximum length for a title is 9 words, it's going to be hard to optimize for more than 2 or 3 key phrase anyways.

 

2) You ask people for them, or sometimes, for a really good link, you buy them. Start with DMOZ, that'll give you a really good, high PR backlink that should get you to a 3 all by itself. Also, if you hae the money, spend the $300 on a yahoo directory listing. Those two links by themselves should give you a 4 or 5.

 

3.) Try here...http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

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