Help More Shoppers Find You Faster
Location, location, location. It’s the golden rule in retail. Business on the Web is no different. Customers won’t buy your products if they don’t know they’re there.
Nearly 40% of online shoppers begin their shopping at a search engine. But registering with a search engine won’t always get you noticed. Like posting one billboard on a highway, you may catch the eye of travelers on that road, but you won’t attract eager customers from across town – let alone across the globe.
What’s worse, search engines have trouble crawling deep into merchant sites, which are usually dynamic and database-driven. Therefore, search engines often exclude these sites. Trying to circumvent exclusion can cost far more than it’s worth.
So how can you overcome these obstacles? With Index Connect – the cost-effective solution for securing your spot on the Web’s most popular search portals.
Index Connect enables you to include your products in the Inktomi search engine – the largest on the Web – which handles 53% of all Web searches. Via one vendor, your products will be indexed on portals that field approximately 60 million queries a day. You’ll reach more motivated shoppers than ever before across such favorite starting points as AOL, About.com, iVillage.com and MSN, to name a few. In essence, registering with Index Connect is like posting your homepage and product-specific billboards on every highway, avenue and alley available – all in the same effort!
One Vendor, One Price, Multiple Benefits
Index Connect not only increases your exposure, it saves you time, effort and money. You’ll enjoy the convenience of dealing with a single, established vendor. e-centives will repurpose your data for the Inktomi search engine to assure the best possible relevance during a search – and to drive the most qualified traffic to your site. We do this by normalizing all your products to a taxonomy and format that Inktomi knows and understands. No other Index Connect reseller offers this capability.
If you already participate in the e-centives Commerce Network, you only need to sign a contract to start taking advantage of this highly effective search engine indexing. We do the rest and consolidate your Commerce Network and Index Connect tracking and billing.
Unlike most search engines, Index Connect gives you complete control over your content. You decide which categories go into the index, how many products to include, and when they’re available to shoppers. In addition, Index Connect:
- Refreshes your information every 48 hours – not once a month
- Checks the validity of URLs
- Notifies you when your content comes online
Better yet, you receive all of these services and benefits for less than what it typically costs to register with most single search engines and directories. And because Index Connect is a pay-for-performance product, you always know you’re getting the best return on your investment.
Get in the Game
As an online retailer, you have two options if you want increased exposure for your products:
- Pay dearly to be indexed on a single search engine or directory
- Easily reach millions of motivated shoppers across a network of the most popular portals using Index Connect
It doesn’t take a marketing genius to see which solution works best for your business. If you want the most cost-effective way to reach more shoppers who are ready to spend, contact our sales team today. Call 1-877-ECENTIVES, e-mail us at sales@e-centives.com, or visit www.e-centives.com/corp today.