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While the Shoppe Pro cart is designed to be search engine friendly, search engines may not index your site right away. It often can takeup to a few months for your site to get crawled by the search engines. There are some things you can do to speed this up and further optimize your site for search engines. 1) Make sure you completely fill out the Meta Keywords, Meta Title, and Meta Description fields of all your pages, products, and categories within your store admin area. Separate keywords or keyphrases with a comma; (i.e. hairbows,hair bows,hair accessories,boutique clothing) 2) Manually submit your site to search engines (Do not pay a company who promises you you'll be listed at the top of search engines. Most of these companies are out to scam you). My best advice is to start manually submitting your site's url to Google and Yahoo. Those are the biggies. 3) Sign up for Google Base (Formerly Froogle). http://www.google.com/base/help/sellongoogle.html. Your store admin has an exporter built in for froogle. (right side of your store admin). You can submit your products to show up in Google Product Search. 4) Link Exchanges - Exchange links with a friend, sign up for link exchanges, top site lists, directory listings, or anywhere you can get your url listed. The more search engines see a link to your site, the higher up on the list you'll get. 5) Put a link to your site in your email signature. You'd be surprised how many referrals you can get this way. Whenever you send email to family, friends, acquaintances, customers, etc, with your signature, you're helping spread the word of your existence and naturally your site will see more traffic that way. 6) Change your site's content often. When googlebot starts crawling your site, it's going to be looking to see if it's different than it was the last time it was crawled. If your content is fresh, the googlebot thinks your site is more important, it will visit your site more often, and your site is more likely to move up a notch in the rankings. Not to mention your visitors... They're going to want to see something new and exciting on your site as well! 7) Blogs - blogs are a great way to help increase your traffic, especially if they are updated often. I recommend Blogspot.
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