Feeling Disillusioned - how can I attract customers?

11 Aug 07 7:35 am

How many links have you been getting? Have you just been getting them from link market or do you have links coming in from all over the place?

I imagine this is going to be the problem, as well as perhaps targeting the wrong keyword phrases.

11 Aug 07 12:41 pm

hey Zoe,

Some directories and a few links from link market isn't really going to cut it as far as google is concerned.

Especially if you're not just targeting low competition keyword phrases.

12 Aug 07 5:39 am

hey Zoe,

I'd submit to as many directories as you can get your hands on. You should have the free software to do that with, so make good use of it.

Also, continually add articles to tons of article directories.

Some reciprocal links are also handy, I find that they work much better in msn than google.

I'd send most of the links to your home page, but I'd also get some links to your inner pages, especially the product reviews. This will make it look more natural to google.

12 Aug 07 1:26 pm

Yep, SEOing a site is a frustrating a long process.

If you're not already doing so, I recommend getting plenty of links with your product names as the anchor text. These words aren't as hard to rank for and you'll find that they convert SO much better.

29 Jan 10 12:47 am

I've never used link market, nor have I ever taught you or anyone else to use it for building links.

Although I have noticed that most of your pages have a positive pagerank, so that is a positive sign that google is trusting your website.

4 months isn't very long given that this is your first website and you possibly have made mistakes along the way, you've made good progress thus far with your pagerank.

When there are low sales with any of my websites I first ask the question, what are people looking for when they find my website? Am I getting enough visitors per day? If not, is there enough demand and have I done my research correctly? If there is demand, where am I ranking in the search engines for each of the phrases that I am trying to rank highly for? (it's important you track your rankings, I use traffictravis to do this).

If I'm getting lots of visitors but no sales, I look at what people are typing when they find my website and try to see if what I'm offering is what they are looking for. If I'm really stuck and just can't seem to convert sales, I opt for inserting google adsense in obvious positions and see how that goes (e.g. www.haircutadvice.com).

I hope this helps, keep perservering as this is all a learning curve and is well worth your time when you do break through. The other option is you experiment with pay per click, e.g. via google adwords, to see if the products you are promoting actually convert well to sales when people are searching for them.

All the best,
Mark