What makes the eCommerce website successful? Answer is obvious – CUSTOMERS!!!! The more customers you have, the more products or services you sell.

The next question is how to get customers? There are few answers to that question. First of all, your website should be submitted to the search engines. You can do it using Free Submit option on our Free Online Tools section.

When you query a major search engine using a keyword related to your site's products or services, does your page appear in the top 10 matches or is it your competition? If you're listed, but not within the first 10 to 30 matches, you lose, no matter how many engines you submitted your site to. Ranking near the top on the major search engines is the real key to bringing free, targeted traffic to your Web site.

WebPosition Gold is the first product to combine all the following features designed to launch your Web site to the top of the search results.

1. Generates HTML pages designed to rank near the top of the search results.
2. Analyzes your existing Web pages and gives plain-English advice on how to improve them.
3. Includes a simple, built-in HTML editor for fast and easy changes.
4. Uploads your new and changed pages.
5. Submits your pages to the major U.S and International search engines.
6. Reports your positions on each search engine for each keyword you are targeting.
7. Tracks the number of visitors to your site, where they came from, and what keywords they used to find you.
8. And much, much more!

Next step is to start advertisement. There are many different programs. Free and expensive. You can join the banner exchange program or exit exchange program. The programs have the same goal but use different strategies. We offer 2:1 banner Exchange program and also Exit Exchange program that guaranteed you to have 60% increase in traffic instantly! This is easy. Join a growing network of professional websites by exchanging traffic through FREE banner Exchange or Exit Exchange advertising. By advertising other member's websites on your website, you earn credits toward your own website to be displayed on other members' websites.

There are a few more solutions to find the customers. You can create your own affiliate program. Empower your visitors to sign-up as resellers and let other people to promote your products and services for a commission.

Also you can use any one of many affiliate networks to find Affiliate partner sites for you. This can be expensive. Some of them charge a few thousands of dollars just for joining. That is something that you do not have to do. But if you want to do this, join Shareasale.com merchant program. The prices are very generous:

Service Description	Fees	Notes
Software Access Fee For a limited time, the setup is only $150! Start your affiliate program today, and have it running in only a few hours.	$150	Includes free setup on your server - No Technical Requirements, and your money back if we can't get the software to work with your site within 2 weeks. (Usually takes only an hour)
Minimum Deposit Amount	$50	This amount is used to pay the affiliates and shareasale.com for sales and other qualified leads that you define.
Transaction fees	20%	Fees are based on the payout rate. For example,if you pay an affiliate $1 per lead, you pay shareasale.com 20% or $0.2 (Minimum of 1 cent per transaction)
Monthly Minimum	Included	shareasale.com does not require a monthly minimum in commissions.
Check Processing and Paying of Affiliates	Included	shareasale.com processes and writes your affiliates' checks free of charge each month.
Affiliate Approval	Included	shareasale.com will pre-screen all of your affiliates for you.
Professionally Designed Banner Ads	Optional	You can provide your own ads, or shareasale.com will professionally design banners for you at $150 per banner. Alternatively, you can utilize text and email links.
Affiliate Help Desk	Included	Your Affiliates may contact our help desk at any time for the life of their membership, without any cost to you.
Ad Serving Charges	Included	shareasale.com serves all banners, buttons, and text links for you.

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