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On my Ecommerce i've just added it in robots.txt

You should be able to do something similar. Below is what I have but I use x-Cart as my ecommerce site.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /printable=Y
Disallow: /js=
Disallow: /sort=
Disallow: /sort_direction=
Disallow: /product.php
Disallow: /home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /catalog/
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /cart.php
Disallow: /help.php
Disallow: /giftcert.php
Disallow: /product.php
Disallow: /orders.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /icon.php
Disallow: /image.php
Disallow: /error_message.php
Disallow: /offers.php
Disallow: /product_image.php
Sitemap: http://www.domainurlhere.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Hi guys, I've focused on building my domain authority for a while now, it's stll low but i'm sure it'll increase.

My competitors have 0 backlinks to most of there products which is good, i guess. However they have a domain authority of around 70-80. Which is really high.

There product pages get a page authority from 60-70+ which means they rank very high with no backlinks. I can easily out rank them by getting backlinks but it's a very time consuming and costs quite a bit of money to out source it.

My question is... is it really all about page/domain authority? I can't see any other factors that allow them to rank high for the products. Also my mind is blown as you can create a blog with a high Domain authority such as Wordpress but that doesn't mean your blog will instantly rank high right?

Is there something i'm missing with there website? I'm so confused right now! Any help would be great.

Main competitor is: http://www.stinkyinkshop.co.uk along with http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk (Stinkyink to be a member here actually)

Hi guys,

I have a question, for high quality backlinks apparently you go to these article websites where you submit your site such as Ezine etc etc, however is it just one article you submit to these as it'll look like duplicate content? Also can I have it on my site first?

How does it work?

Also I run an ecommerce website, how can I build backlinks to each product, theres over 200+ products and 1.6k subcategories.

I would like to rank for as many as possible but getting an SEO company to do this would cost to much. Any ideas on how I should go about it?

I'm an x-cart user, CDSEO is a must; period.

I think my site has 3000+ links but only 500 seem to show, it's so confusing and annoying.

How can I increase my Ecommerces Domain and Homepage Authority? My competition have 60-70 page Authority and it's time I try to compete.

Great responce Shane, thank you for the information. Also it's not a few each week, it's each day that's why I'm trying to figure this out.

I think i'll try to dominate my niche the wrong way and then go whitehat once i'm raking in the money. (We can all dream, but I don't see why I can't try this)

Again thank you.

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Well said sir.

Russ right now I would high five you. I agree 100% with you.

Does anyone have experience in ranking E-commerce sites? I'm trying to rank 1000+ subcategorys and 300+ products. All less than 1k Exacts some are just 20ish some go up to 1k. I've used Traffic Travis all keywords are ranked as [Easy] along with the tools here.

My competition have 0 backlinks to there sites. Some sites have PR1-4 (only 2-3 per SERP rest are 0 so should be quite easy.

However I'm up against Amazon and Google shopping for the products.

Anyways what would you guys recommend me do?

Hi guys, it seems Google is going crazy as always, basically sometimes i'm ranked first page sometimes i'm not there, not sure if it's because of my link building and Google is indexing the links. At the moment in IE i'm top 3-4 for this keyword however the Title tag is not what I set it to be it's basically taking the product name then adding something after it. (I know google sometimes changes to what they want if they feel its more relevant but it isn't in this case)

Not sure if this is normal for my keyword to keep appearing then dissapearing in Google. I noticed in FF my keyword isn't there but in IE it is. I've logged out of my Google account deleted all history/cookies etc. Even checked on my friends computer.

Hope this makes sense and i'm not going crazy!

Was somewhere on http://www.blackhatworld.com/ worth a look!

The main reason for 301s is so you dont lose traffic as SERPS sometimes dont update for a while. It carrys your Link Juice to the URL you re-direct it to which can improve your SERPS so you don't have to start your SEO from scratch. So it is quite important if you've done backlinking etc, if it's just a basic page I would still 301 it to keep Google happy.

I'm no expert, i'm sure someone will give you a more detailed answer.

Get higher quality content, blog more high quality content, get higher quality links, make sure your onsite SEO is done correctly, remove any spam/copy content.

Although if you have thousands of spammy links you maybe stuck a bit... (I've read on another forum (BHW) that a few people have 301'd there way out of the penguin update!

I never went that far to check that but I believe you.

I love how everyone thinks people use blackhat to get ranked above other people. Anyways he probably just has backlinks for your phrase, thus Google have ranked him there.