Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

So searching for my favourite keyword ‘eBay Design’ and my eBay blog that I created while the experiment was under way is still going strong!
Second position on google.co.uk:

and fifth on google.com

So my eBay blog with one post focusing on the keyword eBay design, has kept far up the rankings in Google. You can not pay [...]

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Did a bit more on this page:
Choosing a starting point - Your e-commerce platform.
In general there are three options:
1. A site hosted and created by a company for example Shopify
2. A site created for you but it is hosted on your own server space for example Cubecart
3. An Open Source Shopping Cart such as Oscommerce
Pro’s [...]

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Daintyfeet is a small niche seller of small shoe sizes. Currently her inventory is split into shoe style and size. The titles currently include the 3 size conversions which are imperative for search as the new website produces dynamic HTML titles based on the item title.
Example: http://my.frooition.com/050014/product_info.php?cPath=73&products_id=279
However, to tidy up the website I can use [...]

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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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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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OK, I had to answer my own question!
Using the SEO Book again (I think I might have to add these guys to my blogroll) the closest keywords/phrases that would fit a company selling ebay design are:
make money on ebay - 22,614 apm
ebay business - 27,090 apm
*apm = average search volume per month
and in order to [...]

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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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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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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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