Darren

Getting Your First Sale

by Darren

Are you planning your first ecommerce site? Maybe you’re bogged down in the day to day process of running your site and need a lift? Here’s a little post to give you some inspiration or a fond smile of remembrance… It was winter 2008 and I was sat in front of my computer tinkering with [...]

My Ecommerce History

by Darren

Obviously if I’m writing and publishing articles on an ecommerce blog then I guess it would help if I knew something about ecommerce really… My first encounter with ecommerce came in 2005 although I had been developing websites in other fields for a few years before that. It was through my local SEO consultancy business [...]

5 Easy Link Building Tips for eCommerce Websites

by Darren

Here are some link building techniques with my take on them and how you could apply them to your eCommerce website. 1. Directory Links There are many website directories which are basically pages of links to other websites categorised together, examples of some directories are: Yahoo Directory Best Of The Web DMOZ – Open Directory [...]

How To Stop Google Analytics Recording Your Own Visits

by Darren

If you have recently launched a new ecommerce site (or any website for that matter) you will no doubt see your own website visits heavily skewing the reported results from analytics. Time spent on the website updating products and checking out other functionality can all be recorded by analytics programs. Similarly if you have an [...]

Where to locate your blog?

by Darren

If you run an eCommerce website, or any type of business website for that matter, and have decided that you want to run a blog alongside then where is the best place to locate it? You have 4 real options to choose from: Free blog hosting via WordPress.com, TypePad.com or some other free hosting platform [...]

SEO – In More Depth

by Darren

We have already established what SEO is and why it is very worthwhile for pretty much any type of website. Let’s now drill a little further down into some of the main areas of SEO and begin looking at how we can relate this to our eCommerce websites. I like to split SEO into 2 [...]

Customers Don’t Always Know Best

by Darren

I had this guy who wanted to buy a computer from us however he wanted it customised, which is totally fine, we do this all the time. He gave me a computer spec detailing a full set of parts that he claimed was quoted to him at slightly over £2,000 and asked us to prepare [...]

What is Search Engine Optimisation?

by Darren

Search Engine Optimisation or SEO as I will now refer to it is a term which describes the various methods and techniques you can apply to a website in an attempt to get it ranked higher on the search engines. Search engines like Google are the first port of call for a massive percentage of [...]

Starting Up? Think about your products carefully…

by Darren

NOTE: This post was originally published on a different blog of mine in 2007 which no longer exists, I have transfered it here as I feel the content is well suited to this new home. From time to time I visit an Internet forum for business owners and start-ups. One of the areas available for [...]

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