This is my journey as an E-commerce Consultant
Archive for June, 2007
Is ebay getting all cute and funky?
They seem to have a playground!
eBay says:
We’re thrilled you’ve decided to check out the Playground. The Playground is a separate eBay site that allows us to experiment without changing the entire eBay site. Although a few features of regular eBay are not available on the Playground, bidding and buying are real. The main difference right now is how you find items. But, stay tuned–we may try out other new ideas on the Playground.
So, play around, have fun…tag you’re it!
eBay and Google seems to be a logger heads at the moment, Google cancelling their party at eBay live……eBay stopping their use of adwords for a week….
If you want more google v ebay news visit http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/
Certified eBay Consultant and E-commerce Consultant
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by Liz
in Consultancy
Well, as well as being a certified ebay consultant ( passed an exam and everything) my job title is now ‘E-commerce Consultant’ so my career journey has gone from being an ‘Information Scientist’ to a ‘Technical Scientist’ to an ‘E-commerce Consultant’ I am also a web master and waitress part time. I am a certified Jill of all trades!
My new specialisation is going to be ‘Search and Marketing’ and I am currently looking into affiliate marketing.
Re-cap on the best keyword ranking techniques…
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1. Place your keyword in the HTML title
2. Mention your keyword in your site text and meta keywords/descripion
3. Create ‘linked text’ containing that keyword or use a tagging/tag cloud system like ultimate tag warrior for wordpress.
4. Use a system like ebay to promote you link ( blog or about me page) using your keyword as much as humanly possible, no spamming now, only use where appropriate.
5. Wait – Patience is everything, this is all free you know!
6. Sitemap with google and yahoo.
Google Keyword Tool
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Want to find your keywords for your own experiment? Try the external keyword tool by google
SEO Keyword Ranking Experiment Results
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- 7th June 2007 Experiment Started 10th May
Yahoo:
cybergoth: 10th
cyber goth: 38th
Msn
Cybergoth: 2nd
Cyber Goth: 5th
Google.com
Cybergoth: 6th – Up 30 places to the front page!
Cyber Goth 100th – First time site is actually included
Google.co.uk
Cybergoth: 6th
Cyber Goth 34th up 11 places
As you can see the results are proving positive. Most section of the Hairfreax site being brought up in these listings have the keyword in the HTML title of the page and mentioned at least once in the text on the page. So within a month I have achieved suitable ranking for the keyword cybergoth, and my ranking for the more difficult keyword ‘cyber goth’ is improving as now the inclusions are not references to the site they are actual listings. Google as always is the beast to tame, but I think now I can leave it to time and a schedule of regular updates to the blog and gallery which have been the highest performers in the keyword ranking.
You should always have a gallery or blog on the main domain as it will optimise your website that sells your product. Movers and shakers in the world of SEO keep reminding us that google is going to put less emphasis on blog links, but its not about the page rank, its about your customers finding you in this mess we all love and hate at the same time.
Long live the hyper web! Updates to this experiment will be less frequent now on the cybergoth keyword, but I will keep track if time is more of a factor in the more popular keyword ‘cyber goth’
