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    Not On The High Street

    If you're going to put your products on there, make sure you have some unique content to go with it.
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    Not On The High Street

    One of the reason that google panda update came out last year was to re-address the balance because ecommerce site duplicating content everywhere, hence alot of them lost alot of ranking over it. Pete
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    Not On The High Street

    If they are appearing on page 1 , it's because they are using all your products to do it. Google thinks they are growing naturally, whilst in fact its all you lot maintaining the listings that is doing it for them . They then get a large number of items on the page for a product/theme thing add...
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    0800 and local number/s wanted - who is the best ?

    Well if it's good enough for the Likes Mothercare, HSS , Hirestation , Sky , Virgin Holidays ans every other large online business etc etc, it's good enough for me. They all sell online . I see your point but most online business want a non geographical location . 01, 02 is of no benefit to...
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    0800 and local number/s wanted - who is the best ?

    It depends what type of business u are. If you've got a physical entity like a shop etc, then yes I would agree but if you're online, I would argue it doesn't matter. Most large e-commerce sites all use 0844 or 0871 as does many of the large FTSE 100 retailers... My point was if you're...
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    Ecommerce Web Build Brief - Help?!?

    Coming from an It background , Quoting for work can always be tricky. On one hand , u don't want to spend to long on the quote because u may not get the job and. On the other hand if u don't ,u can be way off the mark. Some companies charge to quote and this is where they spend their time...
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    Starting a ebay business

    If ur doing an eBay business. I remember there's some software u can get which will tell u what's the best selling items and the average prices they go for and how cheap u can buy them to. People basically use this to work out what to buy and sell on eBay... Very clever but unforuneately I...
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    0800 and local number/s wanted - who is the best ?

    I am currently looking for 0844 numbers and like u there are so many companies offering their services. What I have found is such variation between them with regards to contract lengths , call charges , hidden fees, costs for the numbers. Basically... Do ur home work . Have u not considered...
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    Is google loosing the plot?

    The last panda update did a lot to readdress the balance and get the relevancy back up there. However from what I am reading bing are hot on their toes and in cases returning a better result set. Bing and yahoo are also more fussy with how many pages they index as opposed to google.
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    Free Business Seminar & Networking : Bristol : SEO

    Looks good, I will check this out Pete
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    Need a new developer

    Look on peopleperhour .com . I get my link building done on there. Basically u submit the job and freelancers bid for the work . It's pretty good. Money is held in escrow account until the work is done and u are satisfied with it. Pete
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    Not On The High Street

    The way they work is that by u uploading products and selling through their site, u are In Fact building their site up in google and improving their ranking. Google sees they are constantly growing and crawls their site more. They are far to diverse and not niche enough, the keywords they are...
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    SEO for my website

    I have a similar issue with increasing the number of inbound links to my website. Basically , it's just the number of links u have , it's the number of domains they come from. You can 1000 links but if they come from the same address then I think google counts it as one. You need quality links...
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    Is paid for backlinks worth it?

    My opinion would be it would entirely depend if the paid back link is of relevance to your business. Some niche directories offer a paid listing with do follow tags and I would think this would ok if it suited your business. Also the anchor text would the very important so make sure u get that...
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    E-commerce newbie in need of advice!

    Have you looked at having an Ebay Shop ?. That's free , eCommerce etc all set up to take payments etc. It would also test your business model to . However, If you're going down the standalone shop , there are products you can get to bolt on to your own website but the integration can sometimes...
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