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Hi,

I have a Twitter account for the business, currently only got 100 followers.

Stuggling to understand how (apart from the obvious page promos and news about the site) I can increase 1) our followers 2) our site traffics and ultimately 3) increase sales (I know this can't be guaranteed).

What are peoples tips on the best ways to use Twitter to gain more exposure?

Same applies to Facebook really?

Would love to know peoples views.

Thanks

Will

ps. our website is www.designerboutique-online.com and our Twitter is https://twitter.com/#!/DesignaBoutique

Cheers. I agree with you. Only problem is when it was set up I wasn't involved in the project at the time. So trying to figure out whats best now.

Anyone else?

Thanks

Will

Hi.

We have a facebook profile called http://www.facebook.com/DesignerBoutiqueOnline but it is under the name Martin Webster. It has over 2840 friends and all our current advertising such as new stock, sales, discounts etc... get posted on that wall and customers can message us etc...

However I recently set up a business LIKE page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/DesignerBoutique-Online/112703805499507

Now that page on has 80 LIKE's so far and we post some adverts on there, maybe once a day.

Now my question is, is it more benficial to have the LIKE page and promote that on the site, so more people click LIKE or doesn't it really matter?

Basically, I have a facebook image on our site, do I link it to the LIKE page or the profile?

What holds the most weight?

Cheers

Will

Cheers. Exactly how I thought it would be.

Hi,

As I await my sitemap to go live, can someone tell me the main benefits of it? A Google sitemap that is .xml one.

I have a images sitemap also as the site is an e-commerce store.

Should I be expecting to see an increase in visitors when I implement it initially?

Thanks

Will

Hi,

I read somewhere that Google reads a page in a certain way.

All my product pages are listed (or most of them) in Alphabetical order.

Now say I am targeting brands named Cruyff and Money Clothing, should I put all the Cruyff and Money products above everything else?

See here for example...

http://www.designerboutique-online.com/jackets/

They are in Alph order, except the sales items at the bottom. So would it be beneficial to do this? To put my targeted brands at the top of the page?

And if not, is there anything I should be doing with the layout of the products to improve/help with SEO?

Thanks

Will

Basically no one wants to touch the site, so were stuck with them for now.

They have come back to me with £100 for an hours work of testing the script, because they do not know what it contains.

How long does it take to install on server and do what you have to do to test it?

They are ripping us off, I know they are.

Cheers

Cheers. Very interesting.

What would you advice be on sites like this: http://sixrevisions.com/css/30-exceptional-css-navigation-techniques/

One of our competitors have a link on this site, it is a PA of 69 and a DA of 88.

I always though guest replies would be ignored by Google, is this the case?

Our competitor sells clothing but has a reply on a CSS site?

Would this be worth doing like this or is it a waste of time?

If you look for the comment from Aphrodite, that links to their site.

Cheers

Will

Hi,

I am in the process of finding blogs to have a few articles published with a couple of links in each. Articles will all be unique and relevant to the link I drop in and relevant in someway to the reader

However I have a few questions.

My site is a designer menswear site, so I have picked fashion and sports sites first and foremost to have the articles published.

Now, I have a guy who owns about 30 different websites. 2 of them are sports based and about 10 are fashion based. Around $10-$15 an article.

I have ran them all through the Open Site Explorer Tool and picked out the best ranked ones.

Now my problem is, how do I know if its a good site to not only list an article on, but to pay for it as well.

The sites page ranks are around the 30-45 range, the domains are around the 35-45 range. What is a good range to have? I know the higher the better but is 30-45 good enough to pay for? (I don't mind paying the $10 each (£7 my money) for each one)

Also as he is quoted me in dollars, I assume there all USA based, so majority of users are USA based. Well I am UK based and only ship to the UK. Will this matter as much if I am trying to gain backlinks? Obviously a UK based site, would be ideal, but is it a case of getting more external links on the web for Google to find, as long as they are relevant to the user?

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Will

Cheers and I will post a new thread. Final Q in here though, how do I get the H1 tags onto the things I want? And what are the things I want it on? As we also have a H1 tag on the line...

Designer Boutique - The Best in Quality and Heritage Menswear

Should we be using only 1 H1 tag and should it really go on something more keywords specific like Designer Boutique - Official Stockists of Cruyff Trainers, Money Clothing and more?

As they are two brands we are targetting?

As much as I apprieciate everyones comments, why does it seem that only in the SEO world do people reply to beginners questions with unhelpful, snide comments that offer no input or knowledge what so ever.

Its like reading a crypic code trying to figure out what people mean.

What problems do you forsee? Do you have any advice, guidance etc... that will actually help me and others who read this post, or is it all just simple one liners that leave the user thinking, what am I doing wrong and what can I do to get better?

I do not simply use the colour, I was more stating that putting it at the beginning allows the duplicate title problem to be sorted in some way.

All product titles will include a colour, brand, model, style etc...

Any help would be great.

Thanks