Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

As I don’t have my comments on as default I occasionally get emails!
One such email in response to : What functionality to make sure you have when investing in an e-commerce platform…
was:
Hi Liz,
I really enjoy your blog.
I read your post today on e commerce platforms and I wondered if you knew
anything about goecart.com? Is it [...]

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Walking around the rag market in Birmingham this weekend, I spotted a familiar face on one of the stalls. Internet trading has taken her out of her shop and studio (she make alternative fashion) and she is now back on the market where she started 10 years ago. She has decided to go internet ready [...]

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Well the conclusion was that the URL with /ebaydesign did a lot better than the rest! It is hard to quality such results, but the url /ebaydesign/ was constantly higher in the rankings with 60 hits over the period 18th June to 18th July compared to the other formats /ebay-design/ at 28 hits and /ebay_design/ [...]

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I was reminded today of how Google Bots really work. They are not human, and they can only see what we want them to see!
Top tips from a European Expert:
1. Make sure you change the meta title of each page according to that pages content and don’t make it to long and fluffy! Google likes [...]

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Cybergoth:
Google UK: 4th, 7th and 10th with hairfreax.co.uk, gallery.hairfreax.co.uk and blog.hairfreax.co.uk
Google com : 9th with Google com
Still decent ranking for cybergoth
Cyber Goth
Google uk: 3rd with hairfreax.co.uk - up 27 places!
Google.com : 11th place, from 100th from June 7th
So the rankings are getting better or remaining consistent. Great stuff.

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Well as I have already added far to may tags to the ebay design pages I will see how optimised we can get for eBay Design in the main European languages!
French: conception ebay
Dutch: ebay ontwerp
Italian: disegno ebay
Spanish: diseño ebay
According to altavista, the german translation of ebay design is the same so we shall use ebay [...]

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Remember this post? Search Engine Friendly URLs Dashes or underscores? well…. it is quite hard to determin the ranking of said URLs, but lets just say for one this if you search for “ebaydesign” the url kidsontalks.com/ebaydesign/ turns up 5th.
Comparing the traffic for each URL:
First is http://kidsontalks.com/ebay_design/
Second is http://kidsontalks.com/ebaydesign/
Third is http://kidsontalks.com/ebay-design/
For their respective keywords /ebaydesign/ [...]

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Just reading an article about the link building mindset.
It lists 13 valuable points about the mindset to start a link building campaign:
1. Know your marketplace
2. Obsess about your customers
3. Understand the language that your customers use - this was a big one for when i decided to use cybergoth as a keyword for Hairfreax, and [...]

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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 [...]

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

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