It was compiled way back in March and since then a lot has changed. You’re question has prompted me to update so this weekend I will release a new one.

I do use the SEO plugin on all the other WP installations on all my other sites but had overlooked rolling it out to this one – it was my first WP-reskinning effort and frankly the template files are a bit of a mare under the bonnet compared to my newer sites, so plugins are a lot harder to use. Actually, very little of the site is run through WP, only the news section – the static pages are hand-coded and the XML site map is therefore also handwritten and probably out of date… damn. Bit of work to do there, methinks!

Pinging I rather thought could be left to WP’s own automatic function – currently have that configured to pingomatic and Google blog search. Will go and read the article you mention.

Thanks again for the feedback.

All discount codes are obtained from Affiliate Networks, Agencies or the Merchants directly. Not to sure about the Italian market but suspect there are a few Affiliate Networks out there that could help you.

I noticed that your website is also a wordpress blog so you should have any problem with attarcting visitors. As for sales then a number of factors creep into play such as prices, seasonal changes etc etc.

If you aren’t getting many visitors then checkout additional ways of improving your SEO such as making use of a pluggin called “All in One SEO Plugin”.

Also, when you write posts (more regular the better) who do you ping to tell them your website is up to date? Might be worth looking at James Littles post;
http://www.3wdl.co.uk/2007/01/22/wordpress-seo-tips/

Another addition I would make would be to create a sitemap.xml that can then be used by search engines to help spider your site.

HTH

You set up a site and it’s making sales on natural search in a week.

Our longest-standing site, mybathroomfinder.com, is 11 months old and we jump around for joy if it makes two sales in a month.

Sometimes I suspect there’s an ‘on’ switch in my webhosting control panel that I forgot to flip…

*scratches head and wanders off again looking puzzled*

I am an Italian reader of yours.
I would like to start a similar blog to your shopping one.
I have just one question, how can I get discount codes?

Sorry for the silly question.

If you want reply to my email, s.francesco@email.it

Thanks,
Francesco

The new site, as I say, will be purely SEO and not a penny spent on link building, ppc, advertising… absolutely nothing. The existing site will continue to hammer PPC but I am also trying, for the first time, some offline advertising to see how this goes. Should be a an interesting few weeks ahead.

The WordPress pluggins really do help, and there are a few manual adjustments that can also be made, to further help with titles and such like.

Keep us posted on how your WordPress site goes over the next 6 weeks or so.