What's New This Month
This is an exciting time to be a member of the Chamber of E-Commerce as we’re adding new tools and functionality to our website—and yours—as well adding new features to our easy to use website builder. Here’s what’s fresh and hot:
We added support for YouTube videos! Starting this month, you will be able to easily insert any video from YouTube.com into your pages to show off product videos. From walkthroughs of property for real-estate sales to showing off the craftsmanship of your hand-made jewelry, the power of video makes it vastly easier to drive home a sale. If you don’t have video of your product up on your website, you’re missing a bet, especially because it’s easy to get all of the tools you need to make quality video presentations for under a hundred dollars.
We now also support Google AdSense™! Earn more revenue from your website, while providing visitors with a more rewarding online experience. Google AdSense™ automatically delivers text and image ads that are precisely targeted to your site and your site content—ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful. And when you add Google WebSearch to your site, AdSense delivers targeted ads to your search results pages too. With AdSense you earn more ad revenue with minimal effort—and no additional cost.
Log in to your account at ChamberEcommerce.com today to make use of any of these great new features.
Building a Better Website Part I
Meta Tags – While Search Engine Optimization is an entire specialized field of marketing, you can help search engines find and rank you by adding relevant META tags to your site. What are META tags? They are data that tells search engines what exactly your site is about.
Unless you’ve paid to have the Chamber of E-Commerce design your site for you, you’ll need to roll up your sleeves, though, and go to www.chamberecommerce.com and log in to your account.
If you already have a site, click “Edit Site” after you’ve logged in and then select the “Site Design” button on the left of the screen.
Modify your keywords and description to match your online business. Bear in mind that specific keywords are more useful than general ones. “Business” is not a good META tag, but “Custom Neon Sign Creation” is. Getting this right will help search engines know to return your site when your keywords are searched for.
If you don’t have a website with the Chamber of E-Commerce yet, now is a great time to get signed up! Just make sure that you click the “Keywords” and “Description” boxes and enter your keywords when you use the site template to build your site.
Don’t worry, you can change your meta tags at any time, although it may take the search engines a few weeks to catch up.
Get the Word Out – How else can you increase your site’s search engine rankings? Search the web for blogs or forums that are related to your business and make a habit of joining the discussions there. Put a link to your site in posts occasionally, or in your signature if you are allowed, and make sure that your posts are well-written and contain a worthwhile comment. A comment on a blog like, “Great site! Visit my business at www.someplace.biz” will almost certainly be deleted by the blog moderator. A good comment with a link to your site will likely stay on the forums and help you generate traffic.
Pound the Pavement – This is a method that is best used when your business is just starting out: print up business cards, make flyers, put ads in the paper and get out and meet people. If you can drive local customers to your site and they like your product, they’ll tell their friends on the internet and you will begin to generate “buzz”.
Stay tuned next month for more ideas to build a better website!
Q&A : Just the FAQ’s, ma’am.
We’ve compiled a list of some of the Frequently Asked Questions about the Chamber of E-commerce in a list here for your convenience:
Q: I tried the "Test Drive Your Web Site!" on your Home page and I found that the template designs for the web site is not quite what I need. I'm thinking of starting an online retail specialty sports store, can you customize the design?
A: We now offer an add-on package for $299 in which a professional web designer is assigned to you to create a fully customized website. You can then use our Website Builder to update your page content and products.
Q: Who owns my website’s address, me or the Chamber?
A: You do.
Q: What are the fees for using the credit card processing?
A: The credit card processing is done through PayPal.
Q: Does the customer have to have a PayPal account?
A: No, they can simply just enter their personal and credit card information. Or they do have the option to use an existing PayPal account to pay, or free to open one as well, but it is not required.
Q: Do I have access to my site statistics such as traffic numbers and daily visitors?
A: Yes, you can view stats inside the Hosting Control Panel for your website.
Q: I'd like some background info like: Who are the owners? How long have you been in business? Do you have successful client testimonies? How can I get or find this information?
A: The Chamber of E-Commerce is owned by Web2 Corp. You can visit http://www.web2corp.com for more information.
Q: Can I add my own HTML?
A: Yes, you can easily add HTML to any and all pages.
Q: How large can the shopping cart be?
A: There are an unlimited number categories and products--as many different entries as your business needs.
Q: Does the website package include a streaming video presentation like the one showed initially?
A: A video presentation is not included. However, you can simply add audio/video to your pages using the Website Builder or by linking to a YouTube video that you have posted.
Web2Corp Welcomes:
Web2Corp is happy to welcome Trevor Longino, its new Communications Director. As part of his duties, he writes press releases, handles Investor Relations, and writes newsletters for all of Web2Corp’s properties including the Chamber of E-Commerce.
Trevor brings a wide and varied range of experience to Web2Corp. He has worked to produce marketing materials for University of Central Florida, where he graduated with a BA, as well as an additional experience in journalism in the Central Florida area, and comes to Web2Corp from EA Sports, the nation’s most popular video games company. His combined experience with writing and electronic technical industries will prove useful as he focuses on shaping Web2Corp’s message and drumming up interest on the internet and in print for a promising start-up company.
About Web2Corp:
Web2Corp (www.web2corp.com) is a web 2.0 technology company based in the heart of Orlando, FL. With a wide variety of sites and social applications, including 10-year-old award-winning free web host Web1000.com and innovative turnkey e-commerce solution Chamber of E-Commerce (www.chamberecommerce.com), Web2Corp has something to offer virtually anyone on the ‘net.
Web2Corp is continuing to launch new sites and services over the next few months, and specializes in rapid creation and adaptation of technologies to address new markets of users by creating and simplifying useful products, reducing the level of user technical skills required, and lowering prices for consumers.
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