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Here you go - https://springmerchant.com/bigcommerce/how-to-add-home-page-banner-your-mobile-templates/ I believe this should help

If it was two months earlier, I’d recommend you Bigcommerce. But since they’ve jacked up the prices like nuts lately (and people responded to that -- they’re leaving the platform), Shopify is a non-brainer. It easy to use and has absolutely astonishing, esthetically enjoyable and responsive themes, which is especially important for for a fashion store. Alternatively, if you’re on a tight budget, you could use WooCommerce too. It’s a bit more complex to set it up properly, but being an open source cart on WordPress, it’s extremely customizable and lightweight. If you have at least basic technical skills, you won’t get disappointed.

All of those factors are important. You should be determining the focus keyword for each page on the site, and then make sure that your url, page title, headlines, along with your meta description, alt tags, image names, and overall page content are working together to optimize the page for the chosen focus.

Hi Li. Unfortunately I've not found a way to do that. But I strongly recommend you using pro services like Moz RankTracker or some serptrackers. Personally I use SERPbook.com Free stuff usualy comes with time consuming actions. Hope it helps. GR

Hi Li! Are you able to provide any more information, or a screenshot? It sounds like that would help get you a good answer.

Don't get too caught up in jamming keywords into your titles. Chances are your competitors are already doing this, so use the opportunity to stand out and grab the users' attention; give them a reason to click your result over the other ~9 on the page. Page titles should be compelling so getting your keyword(s) in there is great, but try to avoid the clunk old [keyword] [keyword] page title style. Sometimes it makes sense and is about all you can really do but if you can avoid it, do so. I don't agree that you need to have the word Australia in the title either, Google looks at plenty of factors to determine what country you're in so no need to take up those precious pixels in your title with a long, redundant word! There are a couple of Whiteboard Fridays that cover this general topic which you might find helpful: Headline Writing and Title Tag SEO in a Clickbait World Keyword Targeting, Density, and Cannibalization I'd give you an example of a strong title but I just realised how little I know about wedding dresses! Basically, it should be something like Amelie Wedding Dress - [Something compelling; what do they care about?]. Remember, don't talk about yourself or your product, talk about the benefits these customers care about. If they're sold online, ship fast and this is your strongest selling point, maybe something like Amelie Wedding Dresses - Easy Online Store, Shipped in 48hrs!

In top 10 popular platforms in 2016 in LitExtension statistics, I think Magento can be a good alternative e-commerce platform for you. It is powerful. Moreover, you can consider many different platforms such as Prestashop, WooCommerce, Opencart, osCommerce. You can see full version at http://blog.litextension.com/the-best-ecommerce-platform-of-2016/ ecommerce-platform-popularity-1.jpg

Hi Kristen, Thank you so much for your help. Our website is run on BigCommerce - do you have specific advice regarding this platform?

I too also agree with the above. To me the best solution is serving images of different sizes and resolutions based on device and connection speed, this way the customers should get a balance between speed and quality. E.g. serve a x2 res image on retina or retina equivalent if the speed dictates that this is an option. alternatively, if it is a slow device connection, say via limited broadband speed, serve a lower resolution/file size to ensure at least something is delivered in an optimised speed. I would suggest playing and finding the right balance for your site and market. Finally, I find that using SVG images is the best for gaining a speed advantage. Cheers Tim

nailed it!

Going to respond to a couple points here, but the question of how many keywords can be safely targeted by a single page is a tricky one and has a lot of contributing factors. For example, for the category Wedding Dresses, the URL contains wedding dresses, so can we use " the best wedding dresses in Sydney" in the page title? The comprehensive approach would be to create a page for "best wedding dresses" featuring the most popular dresses and some unique copy, and separately create a page for "wedding dresses in Sydney, Australia" that is locally focused. These might even be separate from a category page focused on "wedding dresses", but it's harder to target head terms in that manner nowadays, since the search results will be unfavorable for an ecommerce category page. For the bridesmaid dresses (URL is /bridesmaiddresses/) can we use " buy best bridesmaid dresses online in Australia"? First off, use hyphens in your URLs like this: /bridesmaid-dresses/. It looks better for users, and historically is better for search engines which prefer to see hyphens when a space is intended. Second, "buy best bridesmaid dresses online in Australia" isn't really a keyword that you would ever integrate on a page, because it's not a real statement, and is also unlikely to be a common search term. For a page like /bridesmaid-dresses/, I'd prefer to see a title tag like "The Best Bridesmaid Dresses For Sale in Australia - Brand Name", or perhaps "Bridesmaid Dresses For Sale - Free Shipping in Australia - Brand Name". It's going to look bad if you try to cram keyword variations for "best", "buy", "for sale", "online", and "in australia" into the same title tag, so I'd prefer to see you focus on the 2-3 most important keyword variants. Can we use terms such as "buy best black dress in sydney", "buy online in australia" or "shop online in sydney" in the alt-tag, additional from the page title .i.e. adding extra keywords in the alt-tag that do not appear in the title? Would this be classified as keyword stuffing? Yeah, you'll certainly want to include other keyword variations on the page - but the examples you're giving are probably pushing the limits of what you can get away with. Also - "buy online in australia" and "shop online in australia" are pretty meaningless. You'd be better off adding phrases like that to product/benefit/feature copy on the page instead of trying to hide it inside of Alt tags. Use Alt tags to actually describe what is contained in the image. In our main categories .e.g. Wedding Dresses, can we add "best wedding dress store", "buy wedding dresses from best wedding store in sydney" in the alt-tag? Quit trying to stuff phrases in the Alt tags. Figure out a way to include it in the page copy, or in the website's tagline in the header, or in the footer, or something else. Hiding it in the alt tags just looks shady if someone inspects the page. Take a look at competitive shopping niches in America and look at what the top 4 people are doing. Those pages are probably the most aggressive approaches that you should consider for your own website. Also read these posts: https://moz.com/blog/7-advanced-seo-concepts https://moz.com/blog/visual-guide-to-keyword-targeting-onpage-optimization https://moz.com/blog/the-new-onpage-optimization-whiteboard-friday https://moz.com/blog/perfecting-onpage-optimization-for-ecommerce-websites

Ecommerce marketplace for local classes here. We have over 3K SKUs on the site and I'd agree with what Dimitrii suggested. As an add-on to what he said, I'd also strongly suggest that you ensure the site's overall SEO architecture is well positioned to rank on a variety of keywords (depending on what your keyword research says of course). For example, Our home page targets the broadest keywords (local classes etc.) Category pages targets 2nd tier keywords (baking classes, cooking classes etc) Product pages targets long-long-tail keywords (macaron baking class in the east) I find that this approach works very well for ecommerce sites with a broad range of categories. In your case, Evening Dresses might be a category of it's own, with each SKU page ranking for its own long-tail keywords. As Dimitrii mentioned as well, image search does contribute a fair amount of traffic on it's own, and we've even received backlinks from site-owners who found our image via image search, and credited our site with a backlink It's best to optimize the images you post up to be as descriptive as possible. Being an ecommerce site owner, I personally know your pain with hundreds if not thousands of SKUs, but cumulatively, it does make an impact and will help!

Ha, site: got me there eventually. http://4.1m.yt/dP0WCRhks.jpg

I think you can try with Tumblr or Weebly. I used two types. It is quite easy and beautiful. In case, you want to use WordPress, I suggest you to migrate from BigCommerce to WooCommerce. It is a WordPress's plugin. Experts say that WooCommerce is simple, easy to control but beautiful. It is suitable for small and medium business with low budget and less technical knowledge. BigCommerce to WooCommerce migration guide: http://litextension.com/woocommerce-migration-tool/bigcommerce-to-woocommerce.html

It's depends upon your SEO strategy. Search engines give much weight to the H1 Tag. I vote for your second option : Site Name + Some Important Keyword.

If you don’t know how to play around with code, I will not recommend you doing it yourself but this is exactly how you can add video to your product page: https://github.com/iamandrebulatov/BC-Product-Page-Demo-Videos My recommendation is to hire a developer who can get this job done for you! Hope this helps!

Same problem here on one side I get to few pages and on the other flag I get too many pages not enough links lol I have 19 pages crawled by google and my competitors have 5-10 and they do not have the flag ...

Hi Li, Moz will show you the linking page with their Open Site Explorer. If you are looking at your whole domain, just enter the homepage url and set the filter "target" to "this root domain". It will then show you the site.page linking to you plus the page its linking too. You can also download a CSV file to help you quickly sort. If your goal is to get rid of bad links, you can use the Open Site Explorer to see a sites "Spam Score". Any domain with a rating of 7+ is probably a good candidate. I do agree with Josh, in that removing bad links is not a high priority unless you know you have used bad SEO tactics to spam your site. Hope this helps, Don

Hi Li, You can use Moz Spam Score but you probably want to use a more specialized link-profile tool like Majestic or AHRefs. Majestic: www.majestic.com AHRefs: https://ahrefs.com These options are great for determining the value of links coming into your site. I personally use Majestic since it's easy to present to clients and help them understand link profiles, but AHRefs has a larger database. When it comes to disavowing, you just want to conduct a domain search through one of these tools, and the spammy websites will be readily apparent. Look for inbound links coming from sites that are irrelevant to your website. You may have to go through the link lists manually and judge for yourself whether they are coming from spammy sources. You will know based on whether or not the website uses the same language your website does, whether the link metrics are good (are there tons of links coming from a few referring domains, or are these numbers roughly equal?) and where are these websites hosted? Check into these metrics and you are well on your way to determining which links are worthy of removal/disavowal. Hope this helps! Rob