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[Blog.exclusiveconcepts.com] The Online Marketing Blog: Yahoo Store: The Best E-commerce ...: If you’re a small business with a goal of doing between$500,000 and $15 million in annual e-commerce sales, you need tolearn more about Yahoo Merchant Solutions. And to answer your firstquestion… no, Exclusive Concepts, Inc is not in anyway affiliated with Yahoo. I’ve simply been persuaded over the past6 years that Yahoo provides the most powerful and scaleablee-commerce solution for the small business that cares about searchengine placement. Why should you care about search engine placement?Search engines are the single most powerful and cost-effectivemechanism for driving qualified traffic to your site.

[Blog.exclusiveconcepts.com] The Online Marketing Blog: Yahoo Store: The Best E-commerce ...: If you’re a small business with a goal of doing between$500,000 and $15 million in annual e-commerce sales, you need tolearn more about Yahoo Merchant Solutions. And to answer your firstquestion… no, Exclusive Concepts, Inc is not in anywayaffiliated with Yahoo. I’ve simply been persuaded over the past6 years that Yahoo provides the most powerful and scaleablee-commerce solution for the small business that cares about searchengine placement. Why should you care about search engine placement?Search engines are the single most powerful and cost-effectivemechanism for driving qualified traffic to your site.

[Blog.exclusiveconcepts.com] The Online Marketing Blog: March 2005 Archives: To me this is telling us that people "Read" pictures. They process the picture not as a whole, but instead take in various parts. You can use this effect to benefit your online marketing efforts by making your pictures relevant to the message, as opposed to just putting up a photo of three people staring in amazement at a TPS report behind a computer monitor (stock photos are generally the early signs of a cancerous online marketing campaign). Instead, you can use a relevant picture to get the users attention and then insert a short text phrase on the photo.

[Blog.exclusiveconcepts.com] The Online Marketing Blog: Search Engine Optimization Archives: Sure, like many situations there are always short cuts and quick fixes that purport to let you "game the system." Instead of partnering with the search providers you compete with them. By "compete" I mean all the effort (and dollars) expended to chase their constantly evolving algorithms and artificially increase your site's rankings. These techniques may get you short-term results but many are considered the equivalent of "spamming" and could get your site de-listed. From a search engine providers point of view, anything that gets better results for sites with inferior content (and fit) is compromising their product and is temporary until they tune their algorithm so that it correctly ranks your site (down).

 [Goarticles.com] Article Search Engine: GoArticles.com: I’ve evaluated dozens of alternatives, but I’ve found nothing that can hold a candle to Yahoo Store. That said, I remember years ago, before I understood the power of the Yahoo platform, a prospective client asked me about the Yahoo solution. No offense to the folks at Yahoo, but I figured it was a Mickey Mouse, template-based, mass-market solution that was not worth considering. It’s a good thing that I’m an open-minded person, because once I took the time to properly evaluate the software, I recognized its true potential.

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