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How to Start An Online Store In 6 Simple Steps

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Get Your Free Online Store Stater Pack Here: http://www.effectiveecommerce.com/starterpack/ Affilates Links (If you use these to start your online store I will help you set it up): Shopify- http://EffectiveEcommerce.com/shopify Volusion-http://EffectiveEcommerce.com/volusion BigCommerce-http://EffectiveEcommerce.com/bigcommerce Notes How to Start an Online Store:Get a Domain Name Getting a domain is easy You want your url to be short and easy to spell Bonus if your url contains the keyword your trying to rank for For example if you want to be on the front page for peanut butter, its a good idea to peanut butter in your url though its not mandatory. For example peanut butter.com or peanutbutterlovers.com To buy your domain you can go to godaddy and get 99cent domain names by typing in 99 cent domain names in google How to Start an Online Store:Pick A Shopping Cart If this is your first time with a ecommerece store I recommended having a hosted cart, A hosted cart means less work for you and you won’t have to deal with the technical side of things Three of the best options are Big Commerece, Shopify and Volusion I recommend Shopify because its probably the easiest cart out there to use And if you are serious about starting an online store no excuse you should at least sign up for there free trial. You can click here or go to the show notes below to get a free 14 day trial of shopify. That is enough time to go through this tutorial and see if you like it. You can also try out Volusion and bigcommerece, and although I actually currently use Volusion, if I had to start over again I would for sure use Shopify. How to Start an Online Store:merchant services Merchant services allow you to get paid, and you need to set this up before you launch your store. There is different ways to go about this, and if you use shopify like I recommended in the last video you don’t need to worry about this step. However if you use most other carts you will need to get a merchant services account and set it up. Call around to get the best rates Lots of different companies do this including authorize.net, beanstream and more No matter what should also set up paypal as a lot of people prefer to use paypal How to Start an Online Store:Keyword Research Keyword Research is the foundation of your ecommerece business. What Should you name your products, well lucky for you google has the answer Example: Fold Over Shorts or High Waist Shorts Every aspect of your store should be targeting a keyword Two components keyword planner How much traffic and Compeitivness (just look, majestic etc How to Start an Online Store:SEO - On Page SEO If you watched the last video you already know you need to do your keyword research before even worrying about SEO. SEO means search engine optimization which is just a fancy way of saying tactics for getting your store higher in google Google isn’t great at figuring out whats on a site, its not that smart...okay well it is getting pretty darn smart but Google rewards people who makes its job easier. There is two main categories of SEO on page seo and off page seo On Page SEO is what you should focus all of your time on in the beginning. This is the ascepect of making it easier for google to read your website There are 5 main areas we are going to focus on Using Keywords H1 (and 2,3,4) tags Meta Title and Meta Description (which also sounds fancier then it is) Alt Image tags