The key to selling anything online is to get noticed – if you can get potential customers who may be interested in what you are selling to see what you are selling, then you have a great chance of them buying your product.
Equally, you may have a fantastic product, that people will definitely want to buy – but if they don’t know that it exists, then they are not going to buy it… and that’s the bottom line.
The heart of any online business is it’s website… that’s where people will see your product and eventually buy it.
In this article, I will be discussing how to set up a website and how to maximize the exposure of your website to enable it to be seen by thousands of your potential customers.
Where Do I Start
Setting Up A Website
If you are new to selling online, then the first thing that you are going to need to do is set up a website – this will be your very own piece of virtual real estate on the internet and will be the start of you setting up your own brand.
Search Engine Optimisation
Once you have got your website set up you will need to start understanding about how to get your site ranked in search engines – this is called search engine optimisation or SEO – this is arguably the most important aspect of getting your website noticed by potential customers.
If you can effectively learn how to rank high in search engines, then you will get noticed when people search for products that you are selling.
But How Do I Do All This???
Now you’re probably thinking that it’s all well and good me telling you that you need to have a good-looking website and that you need to learn how to rank in search engines… but I haven’t told you how to do all this…
Well there’s one place where you can learn how to do all of these things, even if you haven’t had any experience in them before and that place is called Wealthy Affiliate.
Several years ago I knew absolutely nothing about setting up a website or SEO, but then I joined Wealthy Affiliate and since then I’ve set up a number of websites from scratch and I have many of my articles ranking on the first page of google and other search engines.
The image below shows one of my articles from a website of mine thecampingequipment.com at the top of page one in google.
Wealthy Affiliate will teach you everything you need to know about setting up an online business and how to get your product noticed by those who are looking for what you are offering
So What Exactly is Wealthy Affiliate?
Wealthy Affiliate is described as an online training platform and community that helps people to learn affiliate marketing.
You may be thinking that you don’t want to set up an affiliate marketing business – you may have physical products that you want to sell or even digital products that you have developed or written such as eBooks…
The principle is the same – you need a well setup website and you need the pages of your website to rank high in search engines and Wealthy Affiliate will teach you how to do this and how to do it well.
And although Wealthy Affiliate is described as a place that people can learn affiliate marketing – it’s actually much more than that… it’s a platform, at the heart of which is a 5 phase (50 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and growing a business within absolutely ANY niche that you want.
The training is very in-depth – it covers everything you will need to know, from setting up a wordpress website from scratch to writing high quality articles and getting your website ranked in search engines.
Whatever you are selling, you will need to learn to write about that product effectively to get people to want to buy it and you’ll learn how to do this at Wealthy Affiliate.
You will also learn how to effectively leverage social media to get more traffic to your site… and much, much more…
Conclusion
The world has become a lot “smaller” since the advent of the internet and, therefore, a business’ potential customer base has become a lot larger.
People are searching for everything… if it exists under the sun then you can safely say that someone is searching for it online.
So any business that can effectively reach its target audience will be ahead of the game and will have the potential to reach tens of thousands, if not millions of potential customers.
At Wealthy Affiliate you will learn how to reach these potential customers, how to get them to see what you are selling and how to entice them into buying your product over your competitor’s product.
You can read our in-depth review of Wealthy Affiliate here – where we explain the platform in more detail and how to sign up to it for FREE.
I hoped you’ve enjoyed this post – if you have any questions or comments, then please post them below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Mohammad
Hi Mohammad,
Thanks for the well presented article. And congratulations on your websites that are ranking in the search engines.
When I started looking for things on the internet using search engines, I never thought that one day I would be on the other side, that is, churning out the content that people would be reading! I did notice that the search engines has pages of articles for a search. But I did not understand that those pages are based on Ranking.
When I joined Wealthy Affiliate this year, it was amazing to see how easy they can make creation of a website. When I eventually reached the lessons about SEO, I began to have doubts about whether I could reach the top pages. But now, I have more Page 1 articles than I can keep record of! I recommend Wealthy Affiliate.
Regards
Hi Teboho and thanks for your comment – agreed, before I joined WA, I had no idea how relatively easy it is to get noticed in search engines if you know what your are doing.
Thanks for taking your time to write an article on how to sell products online, Internet been of the fastest growing platform, and linking the world together, makes it easy for product to be exchange online, and this post, help’s people who have products to sell get it sold easy and makes marketing activities easy as well.
Agreed, the world is a lot smaller now… it’s all about knowing how to do something that is the key to success.
I have definitely been amazed at how easily and quickly a person can set up a worldwide business that operates 24/7 on every day of the year (including holidays). Thanks for sharing these easy steps to getting up and running.
It’s good to have this type of guidance to walk beginners through the steps they’ll be taking. It’s also helpful to have realistic expectations while still setting goals that you’ll enjoy working to achieve! Thank you for all the info and helpful links.
Hi Aly, glad I could be of help. If you learn the steps to take and then implement them systematically, then it really does work…