SEO for Ecommerce Websites

I normally try to keep SEO separate from the realm of credit card processing, but this is a great article written by Bill Hartzer that details the importance of optimizing ecommerce websites. Ecommerce websites are often cookie-cutter OsCommerce and other dynamic shopping based sites, and this article can greatly help those sites to rank in the search engines. Even if you don’t run an OsCommerce website, this article is a must for anyone involved in ecommerce.

Bill Hartzer manages the Search Engine Marketing division of MarketNet Inc http://www.marketnet.com. He is also a fellow moderator of mine at the webproworld forums http://www.webproworld.com/forum.php.

If you run an ecommerce site, then you know that it’s important to make sure that your products show up in the organic search results ahead of your competitors-especially if your competitor is selling the same products. Optimizing your ecommerce web site for the search engines can be tricky at times, so we’ll examine what’s really required in order for your products to rank better than your competitor’s products in the organic search results.

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