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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Choosing your keywords


Most of the rest of the recipes in this chapter talk about entering metadata, writing meta descriptions, writing articles containing your keywords, and so on. But which keywords should you optimize your website to perform for?

The short answer is to choose the same words your customers will use to find the information or products you are selling. But they will be many and varied. This recipe will help you decide and get you started on finding the absolute best keywords for your business.

Getting ready

Before you start, you need to consider your strategy. Do/will you have a vast site that has hundreds of articles and thousands of products? If you do then the task ahead is vast too. You will need to focus on one category of products or articles at a time when you work through this recipe.

If your range of products and articles is more niche, then that might save you a fair bit of time when it comes to keyword research but it makes the decisions around which keywords to optimize...