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Sara Flay
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 18:09 Quote
I hear this question asked over and over again so I thought I would ask it on here for you all to chip in.

If you have a website, and especially an ecommerce website, what would be your top advice for driving visitors to it?

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Michelle Burgess
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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 18:14 Quote

Hi Sara,  I am sure the SEO guys will be on here shortly.  In the meantime I would recommend that you set yourself up a google account and check out the webmaster guidelines -  loads of good advice out there.  And look at setting up a google merchant account with an RSS feed from your website.

If you are considering doing the SEO work yourself, check out Gareth's website because he does online courses on SEO (clickwork media).

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 19:09 Quote

PPC is the fastest way to drive traffic to the site, and if it's a good ecomm site, and you setup a decent PPC campaign with relevant negative keywords.... then maybe, just maybe there'll even be a  + ROI

But further than that, it's a 32 volume answer.

It's the $64,000 question.

It's a symphony of lots of different mechanisms....

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 19:10 Quote

Hi Sara

Use Twitter and Facebook plus include a blog on the site with regular content and optimised for keywords and phrases.

Feel free to give me a call for a chat about how I get traffic to my sites.

Roland 

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 22:23 Quote

Twitter/Facebook - tweet and post your products.  Guest bloggers writing good content about your products also works. If you want some proper advise and google search SEO tamworth we're no 1

 

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 22:40 Quote

I'm #1 for sales training hampshire... doesn't mean there's any traffic though!

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2012 - 22:42 Quote
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I'm #1 for sales training hampshire... doesn't mean there's any traffic though!

This - why is SEO full of people trying to sell services based on false indications of ability?

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OP: if you're looking for LOT'S of advice, just read my previous posts - Michelle: thanks for the recommendation as always :) 

 

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2012 - 07:36 Quote

Top tip: targeted traffic is your true aim - look at Gareth's examples and then apply them to your market.

Focus on buying keywords - the ones where people are typing one-handed because their credit card is in their other hand (it was burning a hole in their pocket).

With things like electronics, they've drilled down to the model number, same applies to other markets.

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2012 - 10:56 Quote
You get Gareth Mailers number and you orders package from him. #justsaying

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Posted: 24th Jun 2012 - 18:43 Quote

ppc..

But consider youtube. Alot of people go there to see products in action and get reviews. Plus it ranks on google fast.

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