Optimizing your site to get better organic search results. This is one of the most important marketing stragtery to an longterm successful dropshipping site yet I find it’s one of the most neglected form of advertising many beginners put effort into. In my experience I have noticed that there are lots dropshippers out there that think. “Hey, I’ll just find some cool products, put them out research on some nice keywords and use Google Adword pay per click program.” A person that thinks like this is most likely dreaming. In most cases PPC program will not be able to generate the sales needed for your business. When you are paying like 30 cents per click, there’s only so much traffic you can afford. And most of the time due to inexpierence I see dropshippers just throwing away money with Google Adwords. How do you determine if your Adwords program are worth the money, I will go into that some other day but today lets talk about SEO basics.

Now, optmizing your site to get a better Organic Search result on search engines is one of the best way to advertise since its free and its long term. How do you do this? Well, Search Engine Optimization is a very complicated issue and there are lots of debates going on in different aspects of this even amongst experienced SEO experts. But there are some basic things you can do to better optimize your site that is generally agreed upon by all SEO experts. I will now list a few things you can make sure you do to improve your chances for success. If you don’t understand what is listed below because you are a beginner you can research elsewhere to find out. I will not be explaining every single thing listed below in detail today because the article would be too long, but I will eventually explain each one in further detail in future articles, so keep updated. This list below will simply act as a basic checklist for things you can and should do whether now or in the future to improve the chances of success of your business.

1.)Carefully select the keywords of your HTML Title
2.)Selet relevent targeted keywords for your metatags
3.)Submit your site to all major search engines. (Google, Yahoo, MSN)
4.)List your site in niche directories
5.)Build up more backlinks from other related sites
6.)Build quailty content on webpages that reflect the keywords of yoru HTML Title

If you have been around as a webmaster or dropshipper, you’ll probably see this stuff as pretty basic but it is still good reviewing this list. On the other hand, if you are just a beginner than check out our other articles on optimizing your site for further in depth detail on how you can do this.