Clickable keywords and SEO

A friend pointed out that our competitor websites have clickable keywords on the product pages. Well, I was going to add this feature some time ago anyway, so today I finished it. Now we also have clickable keywords, only better then our competitors. Besides, this seems to be a good thing for Search Engine Optimization. Especially, when keywords go to static pages instead of dynamic pages. Try this page 3D model of a car rim and click on keyword tire. What will happen is that you will be transfered to the page http://www.exchange3d.com/cubecart/3D_catalog_tire.html which looks like a static HTML page. Thanks to apache mod_rewrite tricks!

Should I be writing to the blog to up the traffic?

Well, I haven't had time to look at Google analytics for my online store since May. It's a shame, but yes, for the last 4 months I did not track the performance of the website. So, I decided to catch up with the analytics and examined at the graphs. To my surprise, I noticed that in the last month I had more traffic spikes then before. So, I started looking for the events that may have caused the spikes and they correlated 100% with posting to this blog and submiting the posts to digg. Duh! I guess, I have just discovered one of the basic axioms of webmarketing that all professional web marketers know by heart. But hey, I am just a software engineer with a hobby of creating online businesses! Digg it up readers!

Switching from DOJO to YUI

Thanks so much to Yahoo! for publishing their YUI library. I have been using Dojo in order to add some AJAX to Exchange3D.com website. Dojo generally worked, but boy, it is heavy and buggy! The best thing about dojo was that it could create dojo objects from existing HTML markup, which allows me to make search engine friendly pages and use AJAX at the same time. But now that YUI is available, I am switching everything to YUI. It is much faster, and much lighter, although it does not have as many features as Dojo.