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Hi! This is part II of E-commerce: How to Start? (go to E-commerce: How to Start? part I)

Asking for quotations to get a company to make your website will take a huge amount of your precious time. It is time-consuming because you will need to explain exactly what features you will need in your website.

Creating your webpages all by yourself is quick and easy with Autoweb Creator free online tools. No need to learn any html language, it’s just user friendly and fun.

So let’s do it by ourselves! Let’s take this opportunity to make more out of life,  just like our grand grand fathers built their house, their shop, their farm in their own time and with their own hands.

What is the risk? What do we have to loose? Not much, really: A domain name costs less than usd 20. It only takes a few minutes to build your website from scratch with free templates at autoweb-creator.com

The difficult part, the one that you cannot buy (because nobody can guarantee such a thing) is the positioning of your website in the search engines results.

However they are ways to put Good Luck on your side:

- Choose a domain name that is keyword rich,

- Key in a quick description of your business.

- Make sure that your homepage is full of text with little code.

- Put a link from your website to an other (quality outbound link)

- Offer internet users to sign up for an alert, so that you can contact them as soon as your shopping website is fully functional.

- Submit your website to the 10 major search engines for indexation.

- Set up a Google Cost Per Click campaign with a very small daily budget.

Each single task above is simple. Just take it step by step. The good news is that you get online assistance from Autoweb Creator if you are stuck.

Smart Tip: Do the above early to gain a bit of profile history.
After that, just let your website’s homepage alone for a few months.

Now, you have time to:
- Become an expert in analyzing other websites titles, body text, bold text, Meta descriptions, H1 headings, links texts.

- Study your competitors’ websites and their link popularity in directories and search engines (Alexa, Google, and Yahoo) as well as in the social marketing websites (facebook, digg, delicious, YouTube).

If you want your shopping website to be amongst the most popular, then you need you website to be of the same caliber than these websites.

Do what they do and you will have what they have. Remember this: “It is possible if you work hard at it.”

Build your mailing list. Time is on your side: While your website is automatically collecting email addresses from your prospects as they sign up for an alert, you are setting up your shopping website in a secret sub page of your website.

Make it easy for yourself, choose a freeware such as OScommerce online shopping platform which is user friendly, easy to install and offers the right options for payments, products pictures etc…

When your website is completely ready, send an email to your email list to let them know the shopping season is opened.
That’s what I call a good launch for your line of products.

About the Author: L Lemaire is a internet business writer and partner of Ellen Clothing Manufacturer. ECM is a French clothing company with a factory in Vietnam. Related article: Start a clothing line from scratch.

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