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Originally Posted by Website Virgin  Hi Guys,
New to this and the whole world of websites but i thought i might pick your brains for some info. Recently had a oscommerce website completed and at the moment my programers are working on the seo work. I have been told that it will take approx 3 months for all my products to link themselves and appear in the natural listings in google, does this sound right? |
Pretty much a standard response most people will give you. This isn't exactly true. How fast your pages are indexed and how fast they appear in results has more to do with the age of your website's domain, its history (has it been blacklisted before?), the frequency the pages are updated and visited by Google and probably most importantly the page rank of your site (higher = better).
This applies mainly to Google, but is pretty much the same concept for MSN live and Yahoo!.
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Originally Posted by Website Virgin Am not entirely happy with this as you can expect so i am looking for ways to get up the google ladder and appear in the natural listings without having to wait such a long time.
Does anyone know of any software or tricks that will allow my website to appear more frequently in the search engines? I have over 291 products and woudl like for when somebody types a product type like for example toaster, my website to appear. |
There arn't really any "tricks" other than black hat techniques which often result in more harm than good.
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Originally Posted by Website Virgin Are there tricks to achieve this without having to pay the specified google advertising? |
Google Advertising can be extremely effective, provided you use Google Analytics or similar stats program. Use goals and funnels to measure your checkout process and monitor your return on investment. There is no free lunch.
SEO will cost you anyway. In the time it takes to rank and the amount you pay your programmers for changes across your site.
I have not used OSCommerce for a long time, but last time I looked at it, it wasn't very
SEO Friendly and I imagine not much has changed. I don't remember the last time I stumbled upon a commerce site through natural listings on Google that was running OSCommerce.
I hate to say it, but best bet at the moment is probably Google Adwords.
Others should feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Cheers,
Gavin.