How do I generate sales from my retail website at no cost.?
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1) Submit your URL to major search engines.\nFor google go to \nhttp://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=\nand\nhttp://base.google.com\nfor yahoo go to\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htm\nfor msn it is \nhttp://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx\n\n2) Add meta tags..i.e. keywords describing your website in meta tags.\n3) add more incoming links to your website from other websites.\n4)Share your website links with similar sites.\n5) do have a sitemap.\n6) prefer static html wherever possible.\n7) One tip, which is less known that make a lot of pages like your index or default page and have hidden links to them all over your website
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You can add these in your site at no cost. I made USD 400 plus in my last 60 hours. Download this FREE ebook now and start to make money. Please check this out if you are in internet marketing. 'The Death of Internet Marketing': \nhttp://latest-info.blogspot.com/2006/11/death-of-internet-marketing.html\n\nHave you heard of Google Adsense program? It's the easiest program to make money and free to sign up. You can make some legitimate money if you have a blog at Blogger.com of a \nfree website like Google pages which will allow you to publish Google Adsense with no cash investment. This is a self explained page: \nhttp://tashi.web.design.googlepages.com/website-sponsor\n\nMore opportunities at http://entrepreneurs-link.blogspot.com
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What you need to do is pick better terms. The more specific a term the better the conversion rate will be. For instance, the term jewelery will bring alot of traffic but not alot of sales however the term discount 14k gold bracelet will most likely generate users who are ready to buy. \n\nThe trick is to find as many low cost, highly targeterd terms as you can to target in your ppc campaign and stop using broad un qualified terms. Here are some sites that can help you find better words. \n\ninventory.overture.com\nwww.wordtracker.com\nwww.keyworddiscovery.com
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Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:\n\nCraigslist http://www.craigslist.com\nGoogle Base http://base.google.com\nClassifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...\nText Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/\nRecycler.com http://www.recycler.com/\nYahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/\nUS Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/\n\n"If you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.\n\nHere are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible: \n\n1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!\n\nRecommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nBig Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml \nCGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nHostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html\n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. My website (see my profile) accepts free press release submission (no strings attached!)\n\n5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.\n\nHere is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481
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1. You can sell products and run an ecommerce website like Newegg or Amazon\n\n2. You can publish information earn by advertising (through contextual advertising like Google Adsense and Yahoo Publishers Network; banner advertising such as Fastclick, Tribal Fusion and Burst Media; or your own ad sales)\n\n3. You can create members-only website and earn money throough monthly or yearly subscriptions such as most adult websites or Economist.com\n\n4. You can sell information products such as downloadable ebooks or CDRoms\n\n5. You can bring buyers and sellers in your portal such as eBay\n\n6. Sell services such as search engine optimization, graphics design, web design, online incorporation, domain broker, etc. \n\nOne article that I found very useful is "7 Steps to Successful Web Site Development" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol142/website.htm as it takes to you all the decision steps that you need to take when starting an online business. Like any other business, startup period is full of "should I do this" or "should I do that" questions. The article is useful because it helps you think through every step of the way - from why do you want a website to who is your audience to how will you create your website to how you will market your new website.\n\nHere are the steps you need to take when creating your online business:\n\nSTEP 1: Set Your Goals - Why do you want a web site? What is the size of the online market? What are the goals for your website?\n\nSTEP 2: Develop Your Web Site Strategy - Who is your website target audience? What typically appeals to your target audience? How are the other websites (your competition) reaching out to this target audience? How will you measure your performance?\n\nSTEP 3: Set-Up Implementation Plans - What name will you give to your site? How do you envision the design of your web site? How will you create your website? How will you create your content? How will you maintain your website?\n\nSTEP 4: Start the Ball Rolling - Do you have a logo? For e-retailers, do you have the critical components needed to run an e-commerce site? How are you going to host your site?\n\nSTEP 5: Create and Launch Your Web Site - Have you uploaded your site with your chosen web host provider? Are the scripts and application you need for your website functioning well? Have you tested your website? \n\nSTEP 6: Promote Your Web Site and Measure Its Results - Do you have a plan in place to market your website? Do you regularly review your traffic logs and web site performance tracker? How are you going to get sites to link to you? Do you know the search engine keywords that you rank well? If your site is not visible in the search engine results pages for its keywords, what strategies do you intend to do? \n\nSTEP 7: Maintain Your Website and Grow Your Web Business - Continue to find ways to grow your web business. How do you intend to continue your education on web development?
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Try getting an affiliate program. MyAffiliateProgram.com has a low cost version, for instance. Then you can sign up people to promote your site and only pay them when they drive a sale; you get the associated banner impressions/branding for free. Affiliate programs are the most cost efficient way to get your brand seen and drive traffic, and many affiliates will even take the risk and buy keywords on your behalf to drive traffic to you.
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Getting traffic, especially with your type of website, is not that easy. The key is to analyze your customers and know how they purchase your type of products. Hospital equipment is not something one buys on a whim; it requires a lot of planning and even decision making/approval from several people in your target customers' hospitals.\n\nHere are some ideas:\n\n1. Make every visit count. Getting visitors is one thing; getting visitors who are interested in your product is another. Analyze your website from a visitor's point and view and see whether it is something that will make them buy. Many online marketers think about getting traffic, forgeting the conversion aspect of it all. If they are not buying, ask yourself why and what can make them buy your products.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. \n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. \n\n5. Do direct mail. There are many products that are best marketed offline, and I think this is one of them. Rent mailing lists of hospital administrators and property custodians and send them a mailing about your business, making sure to direct them to your website.\n\n6. Review your PPC strategies. PPC can be very expensive, and you need to track and measure the performance of your keywords. How are your competitors bidding? For some products that require longer term thinking before purchase (unlike products that can be bought on a whim), you may want to bid high on the main keyword (e.g. "hospital equipment") so you generate high top of mind awareness, and bid lower for your secondary keywords.\n\nI have included below some articles that may help you
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The totally easiest way in the WORLD is ebay.com, all you need is to set up an account, upload pictures of your item, describe it and tell people what you would charge for shipping.  Ebay only charges a $.30 listing fee and 5% overheard fee when you sell the item.  Not much when you consider an e-commerce website is about $50 a month on average. \nAuctiva.com is a free site that helps you make a listing look awesome.\n\nIt's easy and cheap!
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I wouldn't recommend ppc, it's too expensive and everyone knows you are a sponsor, here are some ways to advertise online for less.\n\nInternet advertising doesn't have to be about how much budget you have for online marketing. I always ask people do you have more time or money when it comes to marketing. Start off with of course submitting your url to all the search engines you can (for free) optimize your website by loading your content with keys words that you think people would search for your product with such as phone services (careful not to turn your content too search engine friendly and not user friendly) start making conncetions to other sites that you think people might need in conjuction with your products. set a site for  companys you think will go well with your product and those you trust. This will start a legit link farm that search engines will like. make sure you update information on your site regularly so that they know you are not stale site that never changes, think about have an rss feed on your site to help you keep content fresh. Start putting yourself in every (free) directory online that you can. include all your contact information as well as linking your website. Some directory's will ask you to put a link the their site and the will list you for free. \n\nDO NOT FORGET ABOUT OFFLINE MARKETING\nsend postcards, make flyers, drive traffic to your website, Make your marketing webcentric (your website is your focal point on your marketing materials) business cards, cards that you put with baskets make your website known on those. if you dont' already have it find a website tracker to watch your traffic coming into your website. this is vital to know which marketing efforts are working and which ones need work. Also gives you insight on when you up and down seasons are.
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If you want to sell your products with a free web-store, goto http://www.ebay.com\n\nIf you want to advertise your products for free, try http://www.MyCashJunction.com Its good, you just add your products, fix the price and set the commission for the product. There are many affiliates promoting your products, so huge sales, huge income, share your profit with your publishers. Hope this helps you.
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If you host a web show for me I give a portion of the sales back to you in free product.  Email me if you are interested.  \nwww.MaryKay.com/MeganHill\nMeganHill@MaryKay.com\n\nMegan
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Try http://vstore.ca\n\nThey offer a FREE ecommerce website you set up and operate yourself. It's a really great service.
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building such a website from scratch, would be a tough as well as time consuming task..to make it professional and secure, and to debug, it will take a months to build a website like e-bay..\nthe easier way would be to use CMS desinged to handle online shopping.. some of CMS are free while some are available for purchase.
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Go to www.struif.com and try Site Builder, for a free trial website that you set up and design by yourself - It's fast (10 minutes) and cheap (if you decide to keep it it's only $249 (payable in 2 installments) plus monthly hosting. Very user friendly for nearly any business or personal website. Plus it has the best shopping carts I've seen for ecommerce.
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http://makemoney.yacam.altervista.org here you can find information and start your online marketing without one cent and no credit card require.\nHow does it work? \nYou can earn money by placing ads on your website or in your emails. For this there are various commission models. For instance your receive a commission if a sale is being made via your ad.\n\n\nSo, how do you get to take part?\n\n\nRegister\nApply for partnership with the partner-program of one or more merchants. The merchant will email you when your application has been accepted\nAfter the successful application you place the html-code of an advertising media like a link or banner on your homepage or in your emails and can immediately earn commissions with it.\n\nWhat are my earning options? \n\n\n\n\nYour earnings are generated by:\nView, pay per view - for the display of advertising materials (banner, logo, product image, text link)\nClick, pay per click - when somebody clicks an advertising material\nLead, pay per lead - when you acquire a new customer\nSale, pay per sale - when you broker a sale\npay per lifetime - recurring sales commission (e.g., subscription renewal)\npay per period - a fixed fee which is calculated for an individually defined billing period (e.g., fixed monthly fee)\n\n\naffiliate merchants can offer you a range of condition models, for example,  €0.15 per click,  €10 per lead and an additional 25% of the sale brokered. The visitors to whom the sales are being brokered have a period of 30 days to decide on their purchase. During this time, you are entitled to all leads and sales resulting from the visitor's activities.\nEvery merchant offers all four condition models (view, click, lead, sale). These may also be combined and allocated individually for each affiliate. \n\nWhen and how will I be paid? \n\n\n\n\nAs a rule, only confirmed transactions will be paid out. Any pending transactions first need to be confirmed by the merchant in question. At the point of billing (end of the month), the confirmed transactions need to total  €25 or higher (up to the payout limit) for a credit note to be generated. In "Profile" > "Account information" (login section), you can authorise this credit to be paid out before the 10th of the following month. For further details, see the question "How do I authorise payment of my credits?" below. All authorised credits are booked for payment on the 9th of each month. Even if you miss the deadline, you can still authorise the payment. In this case, the payment is booked in the next month. Bank transfers are the only payment method available within Germany. If the payout threshold is not reached at the end of the month or if you did not authorise the credit, your existing credit will be carried over to the next month.
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You seem to have thought out your online business. What strikes me though is your statement "earning almost immediately."\n\nSure, you can achieve that -- IF AND ONLY IF you have pre-marketed your site. It means that your target market is aware that your site will be launching so they are ready to go there and order as soon as you have launched. \n\nOne of the realities of the Web is that there is no truth to what they say "If you build it they will come." They won't; unless you are extremely proactive in your marketing. But to expect people flocking to your site as soon as you launch if you did no prior marketing is nothing but foolish hope. It just doesn't happen that way. For one, it takes time for search engines to pick up your site; and it even takes a longer time for your site to be in the top 10 of your keywords.\n\nOne article that I found very useful is "7 Steps to Successful Web Site Development" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol142/website.htm as it takes to you all the decision steps that you need to take when starting an online business. Like any other business, startup period is full of "should I do this" or "should I do that" questions. The article is useful because it helps you think through every step of the way - from why do you want a website to who is your audience to how will you create your website to how you will market your new website.\n\nHere are the steps you need to take when creating your online business:\n\nSTEP 1: Set Your Goals - Why do you want a web site? What is the size of the online market? What are the goals for your website?\n\nSTEP 2: Develop Your Web Site Strategy - Who is your website target audience? What typically appeals to your target audience? How are the other websites (your competition) reaching out to this target audience? How will you measure your performance?\n\nSTEP 3: Set-Up Implementation Plans - What name will you give to your site? How do you envision the design of your web site? How will you create your website? How will you create your content? How will you maintain your website?\n\nSTEP 4: Start the Ball Rolling - Do you have a logo? For e-retailers, do you have the critical components needed to run an e-commerce site? How are you going to host your site?\n\nSTEP 5: Create and Launch Your Web Site - Have you uploaded your site with your chosen web host provider? Are the scripts and application you need for your website functioning well? Have you tested your website? \n\nSTEP 6: Promote Your Web Site and Measure Its Results - Do you have a plan in place to market your website? Do you regularly review your traffic logs and web site performance tracker? How are you going to get sites to link to you? Do you know the search engine keywords that you rank well? If your site is not visible in the search engine results pages for its keywords, what strategies do you intend to do? \n\nSTEP 7: Maintain Your Website and Grow Your Web Business - Continue to find ways to grow your web business. How do you intend to continue your education on web development?\n\nHere are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible: \n\n1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!\n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click).
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Try a few of these methods and watch your sales soar! \n1.   Launch a Web site. Web sites provide your company with worldwide exposure and give your customers convenient access to your services and products.  \n  \n2.   Host a grand opening or open house. Invite local business owners and residents from surrounding neighborhoods. Provide refreshments, drawings for door prizes, free merchandise samples, and have plenty of business cards and company brochures on hand.  \n  \n3.   Monitor the quality of your services and products constantly. Satisfied customers who spread the word about your business are the best source of new customers. Pay attention to pricing, customer service, product availability and prompt delivery.  \n  \n4.   Explore various types of traditional advertising methods such as classified ads, yellow page ads, television and radio spots, and display ads in magazines and on other Web sites. Go with what meets your budget and best reaches your target group.  \n  \n5.   Support a local charity by sponsoring a fundraising event such as a food drive, toy drive or walkathon. Arrange for a formal presentation of your donation with cameras at the ready and try to get a local newspaper to publish the photograph.  \n  \n6.   Distribute fliers and business cards door to door, place them under car windshield wipers and tack them to local apartment, college and community center bulletin boards.  \n  \n7.   Maintain a visible presence within your industry. Participate in trade shows, attend community events and offer to speak on your area of expertise at seminars.