Lead strategist for Netconcepts, P J Fusco writes in an article for ClickZ, that the “Long Tail” principle works contrary to how most online brands prioritize their search engine marketing (SEM) strategies. While online retailers tend to optimize their sites for the 20 most popular keywords and keyword phrases that drive the most traffic, they would also do well to target the millions of unbranded niche phrases at the shallow end to complement those high-traffic branded search referrals. PJ goes on to say…
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The firm that built the site for Wild Planet believes they have done a pretty good job of optimizing ShopWildPlanet.com. Let’s see if their confidence is well founded…
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The clock is ticking. Holiday shopping season is just around the corner. More customers will turn to your Web site than ever before. That means it’s time to tune it up for maximum search engine visibility. Here are nine traffic-building tips that’ll make your site sing “Happy Holidays” long after the season is done.
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Meredith Bright of Yarnware writes: â??I used to have much better organic search rankings, but they have been dropping recently. I canâ??t figure out what is wrong.â?? It wasnâ??t hard to see why. The site is running Lotus Notes Domino â??â?? not a platform that is very friendly to search engines because of its long, complex-looking URLs. However, the issues with the site were much more fundamental. The www.yarnware.com site has broken some cardinal rules of SEO.
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In many ways this site was a breath of fresh air. From an SEO standpoint, Kayak Fishing Stuff is doing a number of things right, and it shows in their No. 1 rankings in Google for â??kayak fishing,” “fishing kayakâ?? and “fishing kayaks.” Of course, there is still room for improvement, but it is more a case of finessing and fine-tuning than throwing away the whole site and starting again.
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Zearth.comâ??s staff operates a blog at zearth.blogspot.com, although they are relatively new to the concept. They signed up for a free Blogger.com blog, which wasnâ??t ideal as youâ??ll soon discover. The traffic into the blog is only a trickle, but they have received a couple thousand dollars in sales because of it, so itâ??s a start.
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Even though Iâ??ve received dozens of requests for site gradings, this month I’ve decided to pick a site that didnâ??t ask for it. Why? Because this month Iâ??m going to air some poor, unsuspecting black-hat SEO’s dirty laundry in order that you might learn from their mistakes and indiscretions, rather than subject a loyal Practical eCommerce reader to potential intense and unwanted scrutiny by search engine reps reading this article. There are so many sites out there committing search engine sins, it was really hard to settle on one.
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AirTroductions (www.airtroductions.com) is an ecommerce-enabled matchmaking service for road warriors (currently over 11,000 of them) who are looking for someone interesting to sit next to on their next trip. It could be for companionship, a date, business networking, or just shared cab fare. What a great business idea! And theyâ??ve got a solid website to back it up.
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Golf equipment seller Golfgods.com was undergoing a site revamp â?? with numerous SEO and usability improvements, along with a shift in ecommerce platforms. Jason Mischel, President of Golfgods.com explains: â??We currently receive about 5,000 – 6,000 unique visitors per day to our site but much of it is of very poor quality because of the search-engine-optimization tactics employed by the previous regime.
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Stayleaner.com, the ecommerce site for J & J Health Foods, sells vitamins, herbs and supplements for sports nutrition and body building. Fred Evaristo of J & J Health Foods states: “I rely heavily on pay-per-click advertising as I can’t get ranked in the natural searches no matter what I do.” We feel your pain, Fred! Let’s see if we can’t help Fred and his team…
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