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eCommerce Experiment

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What is the eCommerce Experiment?

If you search the Net for such terms as eCommerce, you will find enormous amount of information. Everybody is suddenly a guru and is willing to teach you for the small (did I said - small? sorry, my mistake) fee how to be a guru, too. And most of them are selling something.

Here is a problem! You want to sell something too! You too want to start an online business of your own.

But will it work? I mean - will it work for me and you and not for some guys from the success stories?

And is it possible to learn all the necessary tips and tricks and to get the "hands-on" experience BEFORE you risk your money, or your time, which is the same?

I hit this obstacle some time ago myself. I had a brilliant idea for the Web site (or I thought that I did, as later I learned that this particular idea was a time consuming disaster) and I was looking for some answers. How can I increase my web site traffic? The "gurus" suggested that I should move my site to the top ten search engine position - I still think that it is a good idea, but how can it be done?

So I have spent a lot of time researching and DOING things, making sure that I know what to do to get maximum efficiency from each and every little detail. How to increase web site ranking and what are the pitfalls of starting an associate program? Why some techniques work and some don't and how to find out which of the attempts to improve web page ranking succeeded? (it is called web site visibility analysis and I ended up writing my own software to improve search ranking to make the web site performance analysis much easier.

And then I came up with the idea of an eCommerce Experiment.


We are going to show you how to create a Web Business right here on this site, using this same Web site as an example. Here you will find all the necessary explanations of what and why I am doing. So you will have, on one side, this Web site, right in front of you, working and generating a revenue stream, and on the other side, you will have detailed explanations on why particular things are done in particular way. Everything, every little step, is going to be documented and available for our visitors!

Because you see, to become a successful ecommerce web site developer (and owner) you not only need to learn how to bring more traffic to web site or to learn tips and tricks of the online web site marketing... You also need to have a confidence. Otherwise you will probably never start.

And you need to have experience (which is almost the same as confidence) because otherwise you will be repeating all the typical beginner's mistakes (you think I didn't repeat them? Hah!)


That's what this site is about. First of all, this site contains information usefull for the "small folks". No large budget solutions, no corporate web strategies. Does it limit our choices? On my opinion - it does not. All we need to do is to consider free or inexpensive ways of building targeted web site traffic and making our web design efficient in converting visitors into customers FIRST.

Then, the concept. This example (this particular site) is going to be about the ways to improve site traffic with the main focus on the now popular aggressive search engine positioning (when you create your own site, you will use your own topic, of course, like "fishing", or "taking care of cats" - anything). Also - as the seo (Search Engine Optimization) by itself is meaningless, it will be about making an online profit.

I have already mentioned that, so I just want to make it clear. The eCommerce Experiment is about making a small profitable Web site IN FRONT OF YOU. I believe that from the point of view of a web developer, ecommerce is about traffic and conversion rate ONLY. Some time ago I had a different belief. It was costly ;)


How are we going to make profit? By offering our own products or someone else's products - for a comission (it is called partner associate program). We might also participate in the two tier associate program - it pays not only when YOU are making a sale but also when someone that you had recruited makes a sale (a referral associate program).

What exactly do we have to offer? Do I have my own goods? Yes. As the matter of fact I do. The search engine position optimization software that I mentioned above was created to help to boost web site traffic - and it does, successfully. But it can also be offered for sale!

What if you are not a programmer and have no software to sell? Not a problem. The same technique is applicable to selling "do it yourself" guides, "secret fishing places of Arizona descert" books, and any other (meaningfull) staff you have that you want to share with the world.

As the site evolved and the feedback had been collected - both from the visitors, sales and search engine monitoring tools, it became a valuable search engine optimization resource. At some point I moved the most valuable resources to the eBooks and they are also offered from the Web site as an additional merchandize. You can create and sell your own eBooks, using the same approach.


In addition to creating the eCommerce Experiment Web site, we are going to focus on achieving the high ranking on search engine for each and every keyword we used. It should increase search engine traffic and hopefully - the profitability of a Web site.

As this project was growing, we were making every little step of our seo strategy available online. Every search engine positioning tip that had been used was also documented and made available, on the same site. So the Web site now contains two sets of articles (two eBooks) - one with the theory, and one with the practical results of applying this theory.

After you read the corresponding articles and eBooks, you will be able to do the same with your own site, bringing it to SE "top ten".

Using the seo software that we have, the top 10 search engine position was achieved for many of the keywords the eCommerce Experiment Web site is targeting. Then the seo program was used to monitor the progress of our search engine optimization efforts. The results are presented on the Statistics page.

There are little things that should be done for the site to work for you, but these things are usually not explained properly. For example, you have the eBook, software or something else to sell - how do you receive money? Well... You will find this and many other answers on this site.

When you are done reading articles on this site, you will know how to turn any idea, dream or hobby of yours into the profitable Internet project.

In the same time, you will be saved from the need to go through the humiliation of the "first Internet project" yourself, you do not need to do all the typical mistakes and you don't need to "enjoy" the logical concequences of these mistakes. You will be walked through the experience, step by step.

To warn you in advance - it is NOT a "get rich fast" technology. There is some work involved, and there will be no six digit numbers, especially at the beginning. But... Imagine, that using this technology you can put up a site generating modest $15 - $200 per month (it is a reasonable estimation). Will it be a lot of work? No. Something between two days and one month, depending on the size of your project. And then you will have this revenue stream for a LONG period of time, growing slowly, while you are working on the next site...
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Terminology explained and FAQ:

creating affiliate web page
Affililiate program is the first and the easiest way of making an online profit.

seo ranking
To achieve high SE ranking is relatively easy. On this site you will find some important tips.

making affiliate web site
"Affiliate" means that you are selling someone else's goods for a comission.

start an associate program
You can easily start an associate program with many of the online companies. For this site, just as an example, we have selected Amazon.

all about affiliate programs
In two words: you will get fraction of what you could if you were selling your own staff.

theme based seo
This is a rather advanced concept, according to which the SE first combines all your pages together, and then is trying to figure out what the site is about and what keywords are relevant.

ecommerce web developer
You can become one, it is not difficult at all.

increase my web site traffic
There are few "standart" ways of increasing traffic to a web site, all of them are using knowlege of how the SE thinks.

top ten search engine position
As we will show at this site, it is possible to move your site to top ten position in any SE.

increase web site ranking
Increasing the web site ranking means that SE thinks, that YOUR site is more relevant (for a given keyword) then other sites.

starting an associate program
When you start an associate program, you often find yourself tempted to put on your site all links of all companies - DON't. You will do much better if you work with a single company, at least until you become comfortable.

improve web page ranking
To improve your web page ranking, consider cross-linking from other pages, from your and other sites.

web site visibility analysis
How visible is your web site? How high is it ranked with SEs? What to do to make SE list you in top ten (the first page with search results), and how to make sure the visitor will choose your link out of the "top ten"?

web site performance analysis
There are few usefull numbers, like a conversion rate: how many customets out of 100 actually do a purchase?

improve search ranking
Search Engines ranking can be easily improved. As a mater of fact, sometimes it can make all the difference between success and failure of the eBusiness.

affiliate partner and associate program links
Note, that when you place links to other sites on your page, it can either increase or decrease your SE rankings. Make sure you understand the themes in SEO and select affiliate parthers accordingly.

improve web site traffic
After you do first steps in improving your web site traffic, you need to ask yourself, if people are buying your merchandize, or are they just coming and leaving.

ecommerce web site developer
You can become one. eCommerce is an exciting area, and it does not mater what your special skills or knowleges are - you can try to sell it online.

more traffic to web site
Traffic... The web site can get that much of it from SE, then some more from the site's "social network", but then you will have to think about making your site "sticky", so that people keep coming back.

online web site marketing
Think about it - before going online, the Amazone had been a simple bookstore.

improve site traffic
On this site we will discuss building site traffic, so that you will get all the skills you need to start.

aggressive search engine positioning
This concept is based on knowing the weak points of Search Engines, and on systematically misusing them. Works fine though.

seo optimization
We need to think the way SE does, in order to perform an optimization of our Web site HTML code for better SE rankings.

targeted web site traffic
Here, "targeted" means "relevant". We need to bring not an abstract "traffic", but people who are interested in our goods. Not ones that came here by mistake.

affiliate web design
If you use affiliate program, it means that your web site has to work as a magnet for potential customers. Particualrly, the web site design is important, so that the site does not repell people.

partner associate program
As a "partner" or "associate", you need to create a site, containing interesting and valuable information about someone else's goods (that you are offering for a comission), so that people want to buy them. In the same time they should want to come back to your site - we will teach you what it takes.

two tier associate program
The first tier is your site. If you sell something, you get comission. The second tier is someone else's site, provided that YOU had referred this someone to the same affiliate program. If that site sells something, you get a sub-comission.

referral associate program
When you refer affiliate to an affiliate program, often you get part of their comissions.

search engine position optimization
On this site you will get both the information and tools to perform an optimization of a search engine position of your site.

boost web site traffic
It is possible to boost the traffic, using few approaches. But before doing it, make sure site is designed to sell, otherwise you will loose all potential clients.

search engine positioning assistance
There are companies that offer an assistance in SE positioning. I would suggest that you spend some time on learning the subject, and become an expert yourself.

search engine optimization resource
There are many resources online about optimizing your web site for better search engine position.

search engine optimization links
Links that you place on your web pages are an important part of your search engine optimization strategy. Make sure you read and understand corresponting chapter in our tutorial.

high ranking on search engine
By the way, one of the most popular page in the Internet is the "Sorry, your web browser does not support frames". Which gives us a lot to think about, as no one is probably searching for this keywords.

increase search engine traffic
The only sure (not to mention - free) way is to learn how things work in the world of SE optimization.

seo strategy
The SEO strategy should become part of your web design from the very beginning. It affects all areas, from the topic (why create web site that no one will visit?) to the way you draw tables.

seo promotion
There are many tools to automate promotion in terms of SEO ranking. I personally use only Google's "suggest a page", without spending time and money on third-party promotion tools. If your web site is designed properly, it will soon be listed by every major SE. If not - promotion tools will not help.

search engine positioning tip
The most important tip is to create a web site with the search engine in mind. That's right. The SE will be the first, and the most valued visitor.

top 10 search engine position
We did it for this site, and as we did it in our tutorials, "in front of you", you can do the same with your own site.

seo program
We recommend our own product, called Replacer. However, it will help, only if you follow all the rules of the SEO game.

search engine optimization
To perform site optimization for search engines, make sure you know what you are doing. There is no easy way, or at least, no easy and inexpensive one.

more traffic to my web site
The more traffic you bring to a web site, the better. However, you also need to focus on sales, not just on traffic.

cool web site design
"Cool" usually means inefficient. Of course, there are exceptions.

web site design strategy
The best strategy you can use for web site design, is to make sure both humans and SEs are comfortable with your creation.

web site design tip
The first and the most important tip: understand the concept of theme based web site design, and use it as a method.

web site design idea
The best way to get a fresh idea of the web site design, is to browse other sites, respecting the (C) of course.

web site design concept
The concept behind any design that has to do with eCommerce, is the same - bring traffic, and make sure people stay on the site until they are ready to make a purchase. On this site we will teach you how.

content design site web
From the concept, the design of the web site usually follows. Check out our Do it yourself in 9 days guide.

web site development planning
When you do web site development, you need to start it with some basic planning of course, but unless you are doing something REALLY big, the planning only means the basic understanding of what has to be done.

design and market my web site
After your web site is created (we assume you created it according to the rules outlined in our guides), you need to submit it to at least one major SE. That's it. The "market" part should happen by itself, at least if you did it right.

targeted web site design
The web site design should reflect the mindset of a targeted group of people. Just think about creating a perfect eCommerce site in pink color palette - it just wouldn't work!

meta tag optimizer
The Replacer web site optimization utility can give you an extensive list of keywords your site should target.

search engine optimization help
There are articles on this web site, about the search engine optimization. It is not that difficult, but can be time consuming, especially when you do it by hand.

associate program software
You will find some ideas and some results of our experiments with affiliate programs.

basic search engine positioning
After the experiment, we found that the absolute MUST is Google. The Ask is becoming more popular now, but most people use Google. Also, the SEs are exchanging the information, which is good - you list in one, and get listed in few.

seo web design
It is quite a challenge to create a web site that humans can read easily and SE can index without problems.

seo strategy
For now, the rules of this game are simple. They are outlined in the article about SEO on this site.

marketing online meta tag
Some SEs are ignoring meta tags, but most of them use the meta info TOGETHER with some other site information. We will show you how.

search engine positioning and seo
It is not difficult to bring your site to top ten, even in such a giant as Google. On this site you will find some information on how to do it.

search engine optimization and seo
The easiest way is to do SEO using some king of automated tool. The Replacer is one of them, and it does well. Check the SE ratings of this site.

more traffic to my web site
By the way, there are different kings of visitors. You don't want "tire kickers", as they only waste the bandwidth. So do not use unrelated keywords, unless you have a good reason.

traffic on web site
It is important to know where the traffic comes from, and what the visitor does, after he arrives. If your main page has 10000000 hits a day, and the rest of pages have 0, you probably are not doing a good job in convincing people. Check the links on NLP and persuasion, to get better.

web site traffic tracking monitoring
On the other hand, you probably don't need all the traffic info in the world. You can find a better use for your time.

ecommerce america
There are people from other countries, who have credit cards, too. Do not assume that only americans can visit your site.

affiliate partner associate program links
Check the links. Just keep in mind, that it is safer to deal with "recognized" companies, even if they offer less.