One of the most important first steps for an ecommerce business is choosing a domain name. Your domain name is one of the first things potential customers will see in search results. It's what satisfied customers will pass on to their interested friends. It provides a quick way to tell searchers what your business is all [...]
When you're on the ecommerce side of things, trying to improve your site's ranking in search engine results, it can be easy to forget the purpose search algorithms are created to serve: giving searchers useful, relevant, trustworthy results for their queries. You get caught up in SEO concerns like counting keyword occurrences, optimizing META tags and [...]
Late last week, Google announced a major algorithm update. "Major" means that a hefty 12% of US search results are impacted by the change. Just how is Google hoping to improve their results with the update? The official blog post states: This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for [...]
Product pages are obviously very important to your ecommerce site's well-being. You really ought to set aside some time (or better yet, hire us to set aside some of our time) to work on your product descriptions in order to improve your site's rankings and conversion rates. Therefore, today Marketplace Earth brings you 5 simple tips [...]
So you've come to the realization that adding web videos to your ecommerce site will bring new eyeballs to your site and, more importantly, increase conversion rates. You've even had some videos made already (by Marketplace Earth, of course!) and have begun implementing them on your site. Awesome! The SERP rankings should take care of themselves, [...]
As an ecommerce entrepreneur, you may well own several websites. Whether the sites all sell similar products or items that are completely unrelated, you've probably considered interlinking them in order to boost those sites' rankings in Google and other search engines. Perhaps you have one site that ranks exceptionally well and another site that could use [...]
Estimates for marketing expenditures for 2010 are in, and it looks like companies spent about $20 billion on PPC (that's pay-per-click advertising, those results that show up on the top of your SERPs) this past year, and only about $2 billion on SEO (that is, on making sure their sites show up in organic search results). [...]
If your ecommerce business doesn't already have a blog, you should get on top of that right away. A blog is a great way to add fresh, unique content to your site, and we all know Google loves that stuff. By adding blog entries to your site on a regular basis, you can make sure that [...]
Your company's SEO and PPC campaigns should both be aiming to bring more quality traffic (i.e. eyeballs that convert to sales) to your site. Why, then, is there often such an envenomed struggle within a company when it comes to deciding how much money to allocate to each? SEO and PPC both have strengths and weaknesses, [...]
We can't stress often enough how important fresh, unique content is to eCommerce SEO. Search engines do not like stale, duplicate content. Google's algorithm in particular is sensitive to how recently content has been posted as well as whether or not that content can be found in several places across the web. For this reason, it's [...]