As a wholesale clothing buyer, you know that making truly good fashion choices takes time. Like aging a fine bottle of wine, putting together all the pieces, from hair and makeup to shoes and jewelry, a chic look takes time. Now, think about your website and your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts. No matter how effective your SEO processes are, they take time to come to fruition. Recognizing this and understanding a few basic SEO concepts can help you weather the wait more patiently.
Choosing a Hat
Did you know that SEO experts choose a hat? They do – and you have to, too. When you set out to market your wholesale ladies apparel website, one of the first decisions you have to make is whether you are willing to put the time into creating a marketing program based on ethical SEO practices. The thing is, you can get really fast results from your SEO program if you don the black hat. Black hat SEO practices offer faster results through techniques such as hidden keywords, link buying and erroneous landing pages; unfortunately, these results will eventually be wiped out when the search engines discover these unethical methods – your site could even get banned. “White hat,” or ethical SEO techniques take more time to show results, but they will be effective over the long haul.
You Can Wear White Year Round
Unlike traditional fashion standards which used to ban wearing the color white during fall and winter, white hat SEO is a practice that
you can engage in every day to improve your search engine rankings. Let’s consider a real world example: marketing wholesale plus sizes. If you prepare a list of effective keywords such as plus size blouses and plus size dresses and use them according to industry standards in your blogs and website content, you will attract the attention of search engine spiders and will be indexed and ranked for those search terms. “Hiding” these keywords or salting your content with nothing but a string of keywords is a sure way to get banned.
Just remember: slow and steady will get you where you want to be – don’t fall into the trap of using unethical techniques for more immediate results.
