To Sell You a Bar Globe I Have to Drown You in Social Media Internet Articles | October 26 Cheap Emmanuel Ogbah Jersey , 2011 In the old days retailers simply put a few ads in the newspaper to attract customers and expected the products themselves to do the rest. But these days successful retailers not only have to have good products and competitive prices, they have to sell their merchandise online and know how to do it well. That means being forced to play the social media game, which is, in my opinion, usually unfair.
You?d think an online retail store would be easier to run than a brick and mortar one. Dozens of e-commerce marketing and business courses advertise that for just a few thousand of your hard earned dollars they?ll teach you how to set up an online business that will make you lots of money and eventually run itself. Run itself? Utter nonsense.
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The problem is that what I think I should be focusing on in my online business Cheap Larry Ogunjobi Jersey , like the products I sell, their quality and prices, customer service, etc. have become minor factors. In actual fact, we online retailers spend most of our time trying to satisfy the demands of Google Cheap David Njoku Jersey , Bing, Yahoo and other search engines in order to get better placement in their search results. These days that no longer means having the right meta keywords on your website, it means gaining popularity through backlinks - other people, websites and social media accounts that link to you, share you Cheap Jabrill Peppers Jersey , bookmark you, Like you, Tweet you, etc.
I sell bar globes online. But instead of spending my work day finding suppliers to enhance my selection, planning promotions Cheap Myles Garrett Jersey , or taking other courses of action that would seem the logical thing to do to attract customers, I?m forced to spend my day playing a game that makes me feel like a fifteen-year-old (and it?s been a long time since I was fifteen).
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Here?s an example of what I might do on a typical day after taking care of order processing and other routine business. I write an article like I?m doing now and submit it to a few free article websites, hoping that the couple of links in the About the Author section at the bottom will create backlinks to my website. Then I publish a condensed version of the article on my blog, which automatically tweets about it on Twitter and posts it on the wall of my Facebook page. Then I click the Like button next to the post on my Facebook page so that it gets published to my personal profile page.
I do all of this, as do all online retailers Cheap Nick Chubb Jersey , to get backlinks and in hopes that someone will find the post interesting and hit the Like or Google+ button, or tweet it, or share it, or bookmark it on Delicious or one of the other social bookmarking sites to develop even more backlinks and slowly climb the page rank ladder on search engines. All the while I?m doing this I?m also hoping that I won?t lose any of my friends on these social networks who don?t want to be getting these posts. I?ll be honest, I dislike getting them from others. But as online retailers we?re forced to do it - that?s the name of the game.
After I?m done with that I may go to a site like StumbleUpon and save one of my web pages or articles to my favorites Cheap Denzel Ward Jersey , then stumble others? bookmarked sites that are relevant to mine in hopes that those stumblers may have a look at what I?ve got bookmarked and bookmark it as well so that I get, of course, a backlink. I may then create a lens on Squidoo and bookmark it on Delicious or other sites, and depending on how much time I have left I may find some users to follow on Twitter in hopes that they follow me too.
How Can Search Engines Determine Popularity If the Competition Is Cheating?
The initial motives for placing so much importance on backlinks through social media, blogs Cheap Baker Mayfield Jersey , articles and other means set out by search engines may seem logical - if people like what you sell and what you say they?ll probably link to you, right? Maybe, but the results don?t bring in a true picture unless the process happens naturally, and it often doesn?t. No matter how many times Google says it penalizes websites for breaking the rules, it happens all the time. And Cheap Odell Beckham Jr Jersey , as usual, it?s the small business owners who suffer because they don?t have the money to manipulate the system even if they wanted to.
I write articles and submit them to free article websites to get backlinks. I?d be very surprised if there were more than a handful doing it for any other reason. That in itself isn?t bad as long as the content is informative and true. But is automating the process fair business practice? I say no.
Those of us who play the game by the rules know that submitting articles to multiple websites is time consuming, especially if you take the time to fill out the account and profile information. But many others cut corners, especially the big companies that can afford it, by subscribing to one of many article marketing services that will submit an article for you to thousands of websites automatically and get you tons of backlinks. But that's just the beginning.
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