Comments on: Link Building for E-Commerce Site : It’s Not All About Paid Links

By: Ondrei

Ondrei — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:55:19 +0000

Hi Guys,

Interesting discussion.
I am relative newbie to ecommerce and I wonder what the truth is behind paid links?
On one hand I’ve heard stories about google being not too sympathetic towards the use of those (how can this be traced?) but as I can see Simon refers to them as “being fine” to start with.
I am trying to stay away from those but it would surely help as we are only just beginning, on the other hand I can’t risk any penalization.

Could you help me out ?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:54:12 +0000

Mark,

Like the idea of using free guides for link bait. Some retailers have this stuff just laying around printed, but don’t think to post it online or promote it.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:35:11 +0000

Its time to be creative and produce natural ways of creating links, paid are fine to get you going but are recurring costs.

The idea is to create something viral that people will link to, you will be suprised how effective this is(and how much money you will save)

By: Beth Iflorist.co.uk

Beth Iflorist.co.uk — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:59:57 +0000

Search engine the holds the key of success for every website.

By: ~nemo~

~nemo~ — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:18:34 +0000

Thumbs up to the thumbs up and down in the article. Link building for e-commere site isn’t easy. all these pointers are great, you may also add a bookmarking button on each of your product pages.

By: Yellow SEO

Yellow SEO — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:15:33 +0000

Ann,

I have to agree with you about e-Commerce websites and link building, which are primarily based internal linking strategies and internal and external content. On things that has helped in past pretty good is allowing customers to post product reviews.

By: Gidseo

Gidseo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:38:15 +0000

Sheeesh… if that’s your idea of a hint I’d hate to be on the receiving end when you decide to do some straight talking!
:)
Thanks as always Ms Smarty for the great posts.

By: Anton DePalm

Anton DePalm — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:07:09 +0000

Not to mention that Patridge “gets really annoyed at Lauren’s cats because they pee on her rug and on her bed.” A rep for Patridge said

By: sheeesh

sheeesh — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:27:26 +0000

@artikel well for one thing your site is full of annoying pop ups. I was going to check for you and got really annoyed with all the unsolicited actions your site imposes on me. Closed it right away and never going back. Maybe you can use that as a hint?

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:54:08 +0000

Article marketing is more than submitting to free directories. I should have taken this further. When you write a process for doing something and the manufacturer picks up your article and uses it on their site and references your site, it is different.

And blogs work wonders. Just installed magento. Now I am going to see what wonders they can work on a company site.

“The ONLY exception here is if it is a truly unique product that nobody else is selling online, which is very rare to find.” from Adam. We were lucky enough to find a niche full of these. Where conventional stores tell customers the product doesn’t exist, we have it on our site. That’s about 75% of the testimonials.