Backlinks Test: Build an online shop
Introduction
I am currently working on my internet venture : iwebshop.co.uk. After spending a few years using the various free cart software I decided to take that knowledge and actually make a career out of it. The site will be properly launched on the 1st November so I am still putting in content / products etc. Alot of it at the moment is placeholder things.
My favourite cart software is Zencart. Ive found it ticks all the right boxes when your looking for shopping cart software. It is ideal for search engine optimisation, and have felt this is one of my strongest areas in web site development.
I have started to implement the tools needed to make my website noticed and ranked well with search engines such as google. Infact, I make the point of optimising my sites for google specifically and then adjust when required for other search engines (yahoo/msn (now live search)).
I decided to start some tests, to attempt to find the best ways of getting your site to the top of the search engines.
Day 1 (28th Sept 08):
Keyword phrase: Build an online shop
link to my site would then be : <a href=”http://iwebshop.co.uk”>Build an online shop</a>
The test is to get lots of link backs to my site using that keyword and see what effect it has with google. i have set a target of getting 20 links to my site per day. I have made sure my index page has the words ‘build an online shop’ in the title and also description/keywords and content of the page.
Google is visiting my site (deep searching) every day, and my domain was only registered on the 21st August 2008. I also submit my sitemap every few days, depending on how much it has changed.
I trawled the internet for ecommerce type blogs and added a comment to them, a suitable comment and not just some spam, something worth while posting and reading.
Alot of the blogs were ‘moderation comments’ so in the end, i posted 12 links that appeared immediatly and will be about 20 links that need moderator approval.
Part 2 is here: Build an online shop