There are quite a few factors involved in having a profitable online store, as you have to know what items to sell and you also have to know how to treat your prospects in such a way that they’ll want to return. How you manage your online store will not only have an impact on your income, but it will influence how others perceive your company and brand. You should, therefore, always think of ways to make your online store more convenient, secure and attractive to the people who visit it.

When potential customers visit your online store, they’ll feel much more confident if they see you have a digital certificate. Many people who shop online have anxiety about giving their personal information and credit card info to vendors. Your job is to convince them that their personal data is safe with you by using digital certificates. Customers will feel much better about buying something when they can see proof that the data they enter on your site can’t be accessed by hackers. VeriSign would be a good choice for this, as it’s one that almost everybody has seen before.

When someone visits your online store and is ready to make a purchase, you want to make this as easy as possible; you surely don’t want to make it hard or impossible for them to complete the transaction. What we’re talking about here is the number of payment options that you give to your customers. By offering them a variety of alternatives, you increase the number of potential sales you can make. If, for example, you only accept credit cards, you’ll be excluding customers who don’t have them or prefer not to use them online. Allowing people to send you a physical check or money order is always a good idea, as well as accepting credit cards and Paypal orders.

Building customer confidence is not just about getting the above factors right, but it’s also about winning their trust by specific means such as using a strong privacy policy. You should have a strong privacy policy in place even before you launch your online store so that there is absolutely no confusion regarding the privacy issues. If you need help with the wording, there are some templates you can find online, but if you use these, be sure to fill in your own specific information about your site. Details like this help to give your whole site a more polished and professional look as well.

Every single online store owner understands that they have an uphill battle to fight if his market is a competitive one. It is important, if you want your web store to succeed, you need to focus on making sure that all of your efforts are focused in the correct directions and know for a fact that you are working toward the right things. When you begin to use this information, you will see just how much the simple things can really help you out and increase the way people think of your store. Increasing your sales ratio and building an effective business with an internet based store isn’t exactly rocket science as long as you take regular action.

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Most people think that the power of the web is in a great website design, but they are far from the truth…

What is the first thing that you do when you build your BANS / amazon or ebay store (this may through build a niche store or simply a blog plug-in)? Most people think ‘aha time for an ezine article’ or ‘time for a squidoo lens’ to promote my new site!!

Whilst these are effective ways to create your back links back to your site and should be encouraged, there are much easier way to gain high authority back links to your site and they are simple. They don’t include any sort of back link or blog spamming and are all truly white hat.

Let’s start of by showing you an easy way to find high authority ‘edu’ and ‘gov’ back links that ‘google’ , ‘yahoo’ and ‘bing’ just loooove… This should be part of your linking strategy i you want to get ranked fast and stay ranked.

Let’s start off by opening your web browser and going to our old trusted friend ‘www.google.com’

What we want to do here is find some themed blogs that have similar content to ours. Note that this isn’t as important as lot’s of the ‘gurus’ make out and back links from ANY high PR ranking site will raise your rank in google.

Now take your main keywords for your site. I will use the keywords from one of my stores ‘handheld ds’ (note the number 1 site thats mine).

Now take the keywords and add the following to them.

<<Keywords>+inurl:blog site:.edu

Note here we are searching for ‘blog’ sites with an extension of .edu.. So for this search I have

handheld ds+inurl:blog site:.edu

You now have a ‘Powerful’ List of .edu sites to build some back links from.. Note that the secret here isn’t to simply SPAM the sites (this will just get your link removed and waste you time). Leave a quality comment related to the topic.

ie. Don’t just leave a comment such as –> great post.. OR interesting read .. find more at <<blog.com>>

A good comment will keep your backlink for ever…

But you may want more links.. So what do you do?? Well your in luck here because I’m going to show you

In the google search your simply replace the inurl tag ie.

+inurl:wordpress

+inurl:vbbulletin

If you want to find other powerful site types then you simply replace the ‘site:.edu’ with the following

To find ‘gov’ sites use – site:.gov

To find ‘mil’ sites use – site:.mil

It’s a simple as that..

This is the techniques I use to build my list of sites to use within my link building strategy.

But what about the time taking to create all of the links?

You 2 options here… the first is to manual create each back link to your site by hand..

The second (and the way I create them extremely fast with minimal typing) is to use automation software..

I been using an excellent tool called ‘SEO Link Dominator’ and it’s a private tool that was released into a linking service group of which I am part of. We test different link strategies and software products to see what works and basically what is a pile of pooo.. and not worth the time of day.

This is one of the tools that is easy to use and has produced unbelievable result for all sites it was tested on. Unfortunately for the like of myself and the group I belong to the developer has decided to release this to the public for the time later this month.

This is a tool that saved me hours of time a month and a tool that your need to check out. SEO Link Dominator

Check out this video I’ve found on this tool

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How would you like some Super Web Site Trafficfor your Build a Niche Store?

This is a minor strategy that will give you a major increase in traffic but it MUST be followed for a SET period of time.. It would also be prudent to track your traffic using google analytics by simply adding the javascript that google provides to your BANS Footer of your site.

You will also need a set of article to use for your content. For this I would suggest using an article spinner like ‘jet submitter’, so head over to their web site and signup for a free account. There is no cost involved and it allows you to use the free content ‘article spinner’. this can be used to create up to 100 spun articles based on your content.

The following mini strategy is part of the ‘Traffic Mystic Secrets 2.0 – Google Mystify‘ web traffic strategy  that I have beta tested on 3 of my Build a Niche Stores and it increased traffic for my new BANS sites from zero to  2000+ in just over 4 weeks. Don’t under estimate what is to come next, it yield’s exceptional results.

The first assumption I’m making is that you already have your ‘Build a Niche Store’ setup and have it optimised for keywords or at least have you main keyword/s to target.

The steps are as follows:

1) create a squidoo lens and link it back to your main site using your keyword as anchor text
2) create a hub page and link it back to your main site and your squidoo lens (using your keyword as anchor text)
3) create 3 articles (maybe take 1 and spin it) – they must contain your keyword phrase
4) submit one article to ‘ezine’ and link it to your squidoo lens via keyword anchor text
5) submit one article to www.articlecat.com and link it to your hub page via keyword anchor text
6) submit one article to www.articlemotron.com and link it to your main site via keyword anchor text

Do this over a 5 day period. carry out 1 action per day. Rinse and repeat this cycle for 3 weeks. make sure you start your cycle on the same day.. Ie.. create a squidoo on a monday then the next monday etc.

Next you must Socially bookmark each of your sites and articles with the following sites.

• Propeller.com
• Furl.net
• Digg.com
• Technorati.com
• Del.icio.us
• Stumbleupon.com
• Twitter.com

Now ping each of the sites after the content has been created and published.

Do this using http://www.feedping.com/

An example of one of my test sites I’ve used with my full strategy ranked at number 3 / 4 (indented) within 2 weeks and that was in early testing (october 2008) and it still in the same position and here is the search traffic:

Results 1 – 100 of about 4,570,000 for

I’m above wiki / amazon and all the other big guys apart from 1 major brand who has like a million links it will take longer to over take them.. and basically that is it for this part of the strategy. It seems very very simple but yields tons and tons of traffic.

Now go off and implement this strategy for your own ‘Build a Niche Store’ or ‘PHPBay‘ site and please email me with your results.

For a full article strategy go to here

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