It’s traffic war!!

And if you are smart you want to fight with the right weapons.

There are millions of webmasters out there interested in getting their websites just in front of yours. Would you like the bad or the good news first?

The bad news is that most of those webmasters are very experienced and have lined up hundreds, if not thousands of links to their websites. They’ve been all over the web,,, twice.

The good news is that one webmaster or even a small team of them can only work very efficiently on a small selection of keywords. The combination of words is (almost) infinite, that’s the good news.

That means that there are unused great keywords or expressions relating to your business that will attract the targeted traffic to your website.

Get on with the job, read http://www.riches.com.au/choosing-keywords.htm this website seems to be a good starting point:

A part of successful search engine optimization of web-pages is working out what keywords your targeted visitors might type in to a search engine to find your site.

You need to find the right balance. It is somewhere between:
- the very popular keywords that you can not compete on (yet)
- the keywords nobody uses that will bring no traffic.

Feel free to ask any questions related to the choice of keywords here in the comments section.

Note: Anything can be changed on a website, except its address. So, make sure to study the market and study your competitors before you choose a keyword rich URL.

Related: Introduction to keywords. Why choose keywords at all? Key phrases versus keywords. How to research keywords? Keyword brainstorming. Keyword density of my web-pages.

Ever been to a market? A fish market or a street market selling such things as vegetables and fruit? It’s a very special world, lively and busy where all market players are pushing each others in order to get the best spot.

Internet is very similar to a street market in many ways. There are a couple of keywords that really would work very well for your business.
Type your favorite keywords in Google and heck the number of results sitting there: MILLIONS!

You are only the new guy. You had no idea you’d have to queue behind millions of already-existing websites standing there, in front of your customers and proud to be in the first pages of Google results.

Are you going to queue? No, it’s Traffic War!!!

This is the best topic ever discussed on internet: Moving your shop from a back alley to the main street.
These are exciting times, things happening now could never have happened before, at least not that fast.

Why be in the yellow pages when 10 competitors are on the coverpage?

It all starts with words, so we will definitely talk again about words in the next post: Choose the right keywords for your business.

Thanks to the followers of this blog. It is new on the block and we really appreciate your comments.

Feel free to ask questions, they will only help us to identify your concerns.

Related search: Business, basics of traffic. Launch a website, start a website. Create a website, marketing online. SEO, search engine optimization. Make a webpage.

How to successfully launch online a new line of products? Yet another one million dollar question!

In this article, the author shares his personal experience in launching Ellen Clothing Manufacturer (ECM) online catalog: www.wholesale-clothing-supplier.com

This article is not targeted solely to business people in the clothing industry, it may be of interest to anybody getting started in the online shopping business.

Various references to the clothing business are made here, if you are not in this industry, simply ignore the references and pay attention to the method used by ECM and approved by Autoweb Creator.

How to start a shopping website successfully?

L Lemaire about the launch of ECM shopping platform.

Here we go again with all these logo drawings you’ve made and those shattered dreams of being your own boss. And apart from these drawings? What do we have?
The thing is these services, products and the way they are designed might be very popular with a certain population and not so popular with another.

So the designs, logos, colors and all aspects of the products (or services) are not in my mind the most important part of the business.

Here we are talking of launching a business. From the day you start your business, it may take a couple of years to become a solid, fully operational, self standing money making machine.

Focusing on the product may result in neglecting the other important parts of the business, the cash flow, the composition of your dream team, the way you lead the company.

Let’s start with the cash flow, without it the business won’t start.
The day you run out of cash, you are out of business.

Therefore, pay special attention to the following and make sure:
- To keep your customers happy and returning to you for more products or services.
- To find new customers who will enjoy a pleasant buying experience at a competitive price.

You are a customer too. Just take inspiration from the successful business and businesspeople of this world.
If you are running a manufacturing business, why not read about Henri Ford, the most successful manufacturer ever.

When it comes to advertising your products and selling them, reading Zig Ziglar or listening to Nightinggale Conant will make a difference.

At the time of writing this article we are in May 2009, and internet has definitely taken its place in our everyday life. If you are selling your products in Ebay, you are probably surrounded by competitors, same goes if you are one of a million showing products on a large shopping website.

My feeling, and also the fact that I have tried such platforms as a way of advertising my products, is that it is difficult to stand out of the crowd on someone else’s website. The reason for this is that you are not in control of the design and the general structure in which your product is presented.

Since running a business from a concrete and mortar shop would mean higher entry and fix costs, and because doing so might result in focusing on a limited location, why not avoid these pitfalls by owning your own shopping website?

Sounds brilliant, no? Right but, how will making my website stand out of millions of websites will be easier than making my products stand out in the middle of EBay?  Well, here, we are talking about taking control of your website and its ranking. This can easily be achieved by getting education.

By getting education I mean obtaining the power of using useful organized information which you actually apply to make your website come up in the best results of the search engines’ research. Start with Autoweb Creator webpages templates to make sure the fondation are sound.
Because of the huge benefit of a good ranking / good qualified traffic (with the credit card at hand), you can imagine that outsourcing this website optimization will be equally big a budget. With Autoweb Creator you can easily get started in seconds and get your webpages online within days.

A good website structure such as the one provided by Autoweb-Creator.com and interesting content (which may be a presentation of your business) is the best way to get started. Read part II of this article very soon and check the To Do List to see how you can successfully launch your online catalog with our step by step guide to online success.