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SEO Tips For Walmart.com

By: Lee Odden
2006-06-13

I was perusing DM News in anticipation of a new article coming out that I've submitted recently and came upon this one from last year:

Link: DM News
Search Engine Guide Case Study: Walmart.com and What's Missing From Your Web Site Team?

Many blue-chip companies allocate incredible budgets to their Web site development projects. It takes a top-notch, interdepartmental team to create a successful e-commerce site. Even with a crack team of Web designers, Web and database programmers, user experience professionals, content developers, quality assurance and project managers, an important component is often missing.

Though most do a great job at emphasizing usability for visitors and technology for performance, many of them miss out on usability and performance for search engines. Full article
I think most of the suggestions made are more or less still accurate which is not always the case in the search marketing industry: Make search engine friendly urls, use header tags and keywords, move JavaScript to external files and use text links or single images instead of image maps. I don't think it's critical to have HTML that validates though. Most search engines are pretty good and indexing some pretty crappy code.


About the Author:
Lee Odden is President and Founder of TopRank Online Marketing , specializing in organic SEO, blog marketing and online public relations. He's been cited as a search marketing expert by publications including U.S. News & World Report and The Economist and has implemented successful search marketing programs with top BtoB companies of all sizes. Odden shares his marketing expertise at Online Marketing Blog offering daily news, interviews and best practices.


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