Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

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 [...]

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Want to find your keywords for your own experiment? Try the external keyword tool by google

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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 [...]

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Using other high ranked sites is great to get you a glimpse of the top rankings. I set up an ‘ebay blog’ at blogs.ebay.co.uk/efreax called ‘eBay design’ with one ebay design related post. After 3 weeks the blog is 53rd on google.com for the keyword ebay design and 66th on google.co.uk.
Go me, so why [...]

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Well:
Google UK - Cyber goth - Listing 45
Cybergoth - Listing 6
Google (US) - Cyber Goth - Listing 88 (eBay Blog)
Cybergoth Listing 36

Now I introduced a Gallery about 2 weeks ago and this has cybergoth in the HTML title. The HTML titles seem to be winning the race. Are HTML titles more effective that keywords or [...]

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Text URLs are great for optimisation, but if say you are looking at the keyword ‘ebay design’ as you are an ebay design company, would the URL http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebaydesign, http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebay-design or http://www.kidsontalks.com/ebay_design work better?
Matt Cutts of Google Fame says that:
So if you have a url like word1_word2, Google will only return that page if the [...]

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Here are a list of claims from a random SEO site and my opinion:

specific advice direct from our experts - Are you an expert really?
monthly submission to 400+ search engines - Why? When really you only need [...]

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Channeladvisor is a great listing tool for larger companies who need an automated solution for eBay and Amazon (and Overstock in the US). To add value it also has a store/website attachment with cname capabilities so you can run a website and ebay all together. Channeladvisor also provides feeds to shopping comparison sites such as [...]

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I have increased the number of keyword text on both the home pages of both sites after I checked how my site would look to a search engine. Homepage keywords are very important and also how a search engine spider views your website.
Check yours out now!

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Design a clear and simple navigation system.
According to Web usability expert, Jakob Nielsen, a good navigation system should answer three questions:

Where am I?
Where have I been?
Where can I go?

 
Keep it constant: Navigation system should be in the same place on every page
Make the content easy to scan – most users only [...]

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