The three option you suggested above are okay cos but it comes with a big price…though it worth t because the income it will generate after will outweigh the amount spent in kick-starting the eCommerce. Thanks for this eye opening rich post.

SEO is one of the best traffic generation methods that all websites should harness.

The involvement of blogging, article marketing and building a community alone has seen a significant rise in sales over the years and a great reduction of advertising costs.

What’s great about doing this kind of work is it teaches you amazing skills to take away toward your own business in the future.

thank’s for this information yaro, you are the real entrepreneur

I would like to add more on reducing download time of your site by compressing images without deteriorating their quality, getting back links from authority and trusted sites, sell unique products and services, write convincing sales copy, use easy payment options, give out free bonuses but quality ones and not rubbish ones.

Great article, that still holds true

You are probably better off buying links ‘under the rader’ so to say. Paid links work like a charm if you know how to get them without being out in the open.

For poorer ecommerce owners who cannot afford to buy links the option would be to first get listed in as many local business directories as possible, join a few forums (use signature links) and work your ass off to optimize the site for ‘long tail traffic’

The more content and links to that content you can generate, the more traffic you will attract and thus the more affiliate sales you can make.

It really depends what your resource allocation is like and what strategy your are following.

Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks

Consider that a top ranking for an e-commerce site might mean an extra $100,000 in sales per month, it’s worth making the effort – e-commerce is BIG business people!

I don’t know of any examples of such neighborhoods because obviously the owners are not broadcasting the fact that they are implementing this technique for fear of losing rankings.

It’s hard to second guess what Google might do, so it’s best to disassociate sites.

And yes of course you could monetize your niche sites, I think AdSense is a common choice, but you just have to be careful you are not driving people away from your e-commerce site to a competitor’s site – kinda defeats the purpose.

This really is a system for a serious e-commerce business to set up. The cost doesn’t have to be extravagant but the energy required to organize it is. Then again you could just hire someone to handle it all for you – even the part about outsourcing the marketing.

It’s not something I would do, but I bet a lot of e-commerce site owners would if it meant a number one ranking for their top phrases.

I have looked into a similar idea such as the one you laid out here, the problem being that the amount of effort it would take to build up the niche sites outweighs the gain that you might see from 10-30 links that they produce.

Here is the solution I cam up with.

1.) Build two or three niche blogs
2.) Gain traffic and page rank like you suggest.
3.) Find suitable link partners
4.) Offer a three-way links exchange where your link partners get a write-up on your popular SEO-authority blog in exchange for one measly link somewhere on their site.
5.) Rotate between the 2 or three blogs to make the linking structure look natural.
6.) Repeat the process using the same blogs with pages on your site that need deep links.
7.) Watch the rankings come rolling in.
8.) Drink a beer.

I know that the three way links exchange works. I have ranked competitive keywords with it before, but getting link partners to exchange links with you for a link on a third party links page doesn’t have the same impact as the traffic a site may get from a write-up on a popular blog.

There is a problem, though, in that not all clients are willing to pay for the effort and time to be spent implementing this approach. But I suppose I could ask them to do it themselves!

Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for the great tips. I’m helping my 7 year old son grow a lego business. His ecommerce site is an aStore at http://www.buy-legos.com , and his niche lego blog is at http://www.LegoAdventures.com . We’ve had the site up for about 2 weeks, and have over 1500 video views. The challenge now is to convert people to the astore, where we have yet to make a lego sale.

Your tips are helpful. So I think right now, I should create links that go directly to buy-legos.com from related toy sites.

I have read quite a few neighbourhood/network site ideas recently.

Are you planning to produce a more in depth article as I have a few questions.

The hosting of these niche content sites:

All on the same server? Unique IP’s?

Surely this would work out expensive, is the expense worth it in terms of Rankings in your opinion considering some networks host and interlink to each other on the same server/ip.

Do you have any examples of such a neighbourhood?

I think notepage have a bit of a thing going on, they have a small network. For example rss-specifications.com (more links at the bottom of the page) all point to notepage. They seem to be buying up related sites.