Online sales

This blog aims to help you make more money from your website. Lead blogger Chris Thomas heads www.Reseo.com, a search engine optimisation and marketing company. Chris has been an online retailer since 2001, and realised early on that if he didn’t pay attention to online marketing systems he was going to go out of business. His research and SEO efforts shot his website to the top of Google for targeted key phrases, then a few years later was penalised by Google for over optimising!

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Domain names, misspellings and SEO

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Buying a keyword rich domain can give you an incredible boost in the rankings without having to do very much at all.

Should you advertise on iPhones?

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I get it that not everyone owns an iPhone or smartphone, but there are a lot of people who do, and they're using their smartphones for business and pleasure (as well as making the odd phone call).

What kind of offers should I make on my site?

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Offers help you sell more stuff. They're most often used just to get people to put something in a shopping cart.

How to make online videos that sell

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Creating online videos is a very powerful way to help sell your products or services online. The reason is, that more than anything else, it creates an emotional connection with your products and helps people get to know, like and trust you.

How to make money from your conversion page

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Someone asked me recently how to wring every single last little drop of revenue from their website. So it got me thinking about every page on a website and how it could be monetised.

Does page load speed affect my search engine ranking?

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Is your site slow to load? Have you checked it lately? How would you even know?

The best way to find out is to create a special URL which is unique to your Newspaper Ad, which people will type in directly in response to seeing it.

What’s the best way to spend my link building budget?

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Let's face it, for most of us, link building is a time consuming and (sometimes) soul-destroying past-time (I have to say though, I actually really enjoy it, but I'm a bit weird like that).

Is using Pingbacks for link building a good idea?

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Personally, I really like “pingbacks” as a link building strategy, simply because done properly it genuinely adds value to your own blog and other people’s blogs and it isn’t a spam technique.


Google Local Business Centre tips

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Claiming your business through Google Local Business Centre is one of the simplest and easiest ways to get on the front page of the Google search results. With a little optimisation you can be 'almost' guarantee a spot next to the map.

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