How to be found online

[Antique Furniture]

Many antique dealers who sell online have nothing more than a simple website. More sophisticated dealers have online search to their inventory. But what I have found and I highly recommend to any dealer with any for of inventory is to take advantage of Google Product Search. This is one of the best search engine optimization techniques any dealer can take advantage of. Best of all, use of the system is 100% free.

Its simple to set up and if you have a large database of inventory, you can even take advantage of Google's API to get your inventory indexed in snap.

[Marianne Dow msdowantiques.com]

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I hope you've all had a look at AVCOSA's home page -- we recently added an article permanently to the front page about how sellers should make sure all their listings get uploaded to google -- some call it google base, google products, or google shopping - it's all the same.

Sellers would be wise to mention this to their buyers -- add it to your websites and blogs - I have it in my blog, too. Feel free to copy my text, if it suits you.

Here's a Google search results lists for HOW TO UPLOAD ITEMS TO GOOGLE BASE.

I believe this is something that we (AVCOSA) can and should do -- help educate sellers on how to list w/google, and to help sellers to educate their buyers to shop through google shopping.

--Marianne Dow msdowantiques.com
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