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Creating Grill Auction Category Tree

October 18, 2007 | Author: Mark | Filed under: Build a Niche Store, Everything Else

Since creating the categories is a key element of success with your Build a niche Store, I am going to pause the tutorial series to a small extent over the next few days as I work to not only develop all the main and subcategories for the Grill Auctions website, but also to try and explain the process just a little better to those who may be having a hard time with it.

Today - my only goal is to get all categories populated - I am not even going to optimize the categories at this point, other than a quick copy/paste of some generic keywords., and placing the sub categories below the respective main categories.

Later today, I will record another short video clip of how I have done this.

Under normal circumstances, once you have the categories created, even before you have optimized them, you can open the store for the search engines to start indexing.

It should only take about 1-2 hours to get all categories and subcategories created, then I will spend 5 minutes posting just one or two links to the store on the web.

Once the categories are live - you will be able to optimize with keywords, descriptions, and text above your listings, in less than 5 minutes per category. I will visit that process beginning again tomorrow.

Mark

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Mark,

You stated, “Under normal circumstances, once you have the categories created, even before you have optimized them, you can open the store for the search engines to start indexing.”

I’m confused by this statement. It seems to me the moment the BANS software is installed the store is technically open as it can be found if you know the link. How do you keep your store closed (inaccessible), so to speak, until you are ready to go live with it?

Rochelle wrote on October 18, 2007 - 4:39 pm |

Rochelle -

You are correct! The minute you install BANS, it is able to be typed into the browser and located.

Chances of a search engine spider finding it and indexing it however, are very slim until you provide an inbound link somewhere on the web.

In most cases… this entire process will be done within just a few hours of activating the domain and installing BANS onto a server. Alot of folks don’t want to “open” their site to the public until it is a ready state for visitors though and don’t start to promote the site until everything is completed.

Once I have my categories populated, I will post a link from another site to begin the search indexing portion of the process. GBot and Slurp etc, will only grab a few pages a day when they come… why not get them started early. :-)

Mark

Mark wrote on October 18, 2007 - 4:47 pm |
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