E-Commerce: How Do I Make Money On Products?

For years I’ve been challenged with trying to figure out how to attract customers to an e-commerce website selling video games. First challenge was building the site (based on Drupal and E-Commerce) and the second issue was marketing the website.
After consulting firms told me “how” and “what” I need to do to get my site [...]

Competing For Organic Search Hits

If you ask any consultant how to rank on the first page in google, they’re going to probably tell you its a combination of effort, luck, some google “magic sauce,” relevance, patience and targeting a niche market.
No matter how great your writing is, no matter how awesome your site looks, you may still have issues [...]

Market Yourself Slowly To Google

When working towards great back links, referrals from other sites and social bookmarking, it’s important to work slowly and build up to it. It it said that Google likes a young site to grow over time, sites that show up in the google index and have thousands of back links may be suspicious to a [...]

Blogging On E-Commerce Sites: Marked As Spam?

Many SEO consultants will tell you the easiest way to get your companies site in the market, for free, is to advertise through organic search. However, most e-commerce sites have a fairly static set of content. If you’re selling widgets but don’t get a new widget brand every day you’ll probably have a bunch of [...]

Cross Linking To Yourself

Internal linking to yourself is important for a number of reasons. First, you can reason it helps your readers find related topics quickly, much like wikipedia does, it references to itself whenever a big topic or keyword shows itself. Wiki isn’t out to get huge page rank, it comes naturally to wiki, but it helps [...]

Google Analytics Too Slow? 103Bees!

Although I love to use Google Analytics for historical graphic and trying to drill down through my website content to see where users are coming from and what they’re doing when they are reading, it’s pretty slow to update. Their are other tools out there which you can apply to your webpage footer to get [...]

Get Personal: Podcast

Twenty years from now this will be the age of the ipod, a time when everyone could afford a hand-held compressed audio player. Audiophiles know a typical music track encoded into a standard MP3 file is not the best of quality unless the bit-rate is right, but high bit-rate songs require high capacity storage.
A podcast [...]

Make Yourself Important or Fake It

It is amazing to see just how many press agencies and PR firms want to talk with you, the simple blogger. If you show interest in a topic and love to write about it, you’re the person they’re looking to find. How do you get PR firms to pay attention to what you have to [...]

Living And Dying By Organic Search

You’ve built a website, google knows about you, but you are getting very little search traffic? If you’re site has been set up in the last three month’s you’re not alone, things will get better if you keep at it.
If you write one blog a day about a given topic you’ll give google an idea [...]