This site is now a little over a week old. I don't expect much in the way of traffic in that time period but we have been trying a few things. We have already submitted some articles (two actually) to get our name out there and we will continue to do that. We also have submitted in various directories and placed links on sites that have a decent page rank (my own sites). We also uploaded 5 videos to YouTube, created a YouTube channel for Build-a-Web-Shop, created a facebook business page and opened a Twitter account.

We've been busy!

Anyway, most people will tell you that it can take months to show up in Google. So I've been trying to make it happen faster by taking the steps above. And it seems to have worked too, but not exactly what I expected. I went to Google today and typed my domain: "www.buildawebshop.com" in the search box. Three pages showed up. OK, I'm indexed! But here's the thing. My home page is NOT indexed yet. I checked the Google Cache to confirm this and got the same result. The following pages have been indexed:

1. Things to sell online
2. Ecommerce Market Analysis
3. Order Processing

Other things that showed up included the videos that I uploaded to youtube last night and reference to the two articles that I'd written. This is kind of exciting. Now admittedly, nobody is going to type www.buildawebshop.com in the search box so we still have a lot of work to do. We know that internet marketing is a slow and steady process and we have sheduled at least two hours per day for this. As I get into this blog, I'll begin to shed some details and results on exactly how the marketing of this site is progressing.

Bye for now.