Are Your Alpacas and Llamas Search Engine Friendly?

Lama Market now supports search engine friendly website URLs and pages for all listings. So how does this affect you? It means more traffic for all listings on Lama Market. Google, Yahoo, and all other top search engines look for Meta Data and search engine friendly URLs to determine what the page is about.

Not Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs look like this mess:

http://www.lamamarket.com/index.php?option=com_hotproperty&view=property&id=80

Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs look like:

http://www.lamamarket.com/llamas/medium-wool/the-abbots-judith.html

Right off-hand, you can see that the SEF URL is for a llama that is medium wool and the name of that llama is The Abbots Judith. We haven’t even visited the site yet! This location makes sense to the common user and to the search engines.

Search Engine Optimized For Success

Meta tags take time to fill out. Sometimes, you are at a loss for words at what to put in them? Well, we have come to the rescue! All meta tags are filled out for all new listings on Lama Market automatically. If your current listing does not have a SEF URL or META TAGS, then login to Lama Market, edit that listing and just SAVE it. Now it is optimized automatically. Viola!

Make sure that you are marketing your animals effectively by using Lama Market’s Professional Plan.

How To Add “Llamas For Sale” To Your Website

If you have a llama website, then you have it for several reasons. You want to showcase your llamas, farm, photos, and most importantly sell llamas. Unfortunately, as a single farm website, you are at a disadvantage when it comes to web traffic. If you are trying to sell some of your llamas, then you need them listed where you will get the most exposure. That makes sense right?

Instead of posting long information pages about your llamas on your own site, create profiles of your llamas on Lama Market. You will then have access to tools such photo galleries, a visual pedigree with links, a contact form, and more. You listing will be automatically search engine optimized for the search engines to index and list your listing in search results.

How do I add “Llamas For Sale” to my website?

Even though you are not listing you llamas that you have for sale directly on your website, it is essential that you link to them. Here is how we do it:

Use this image as a guide to completing steps 2 thru 5

 

1. Advanced Search: Go to Lama Market’s Advanced Search Engine

2. Select Section: Select the Section as “Llamas”

3. Select Seller: Find your name under the Seller drop down selection box and select it.

4. Select Category: Select the Category as “For Sale”

5. Search: Click the SEARCH button at the bottom of that search form.

 

6. Copy Website Address: Once you have completed all the above steps, the results that load will be the current list of llamas that you have for sale. Go ahead and COPY the current website address in the URL box at the top of your browser.

Copy this URL and link to it from your own website.

7. Link From Your Site: Link to this copied website address from your website. You can use this HTML CODE below as a guide. Just replace the red text with the copied URL web address from the search results and place the HTML on your own website. If needed, contact your webmaster and direct them to this tutorial.

<a href=”REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_COPIED_ADDRESS” target=”_blank”>Llamas For Sale</a>

The end result will look like this:

Llamas For Sale

This step-by-step guide can be used to integrate your website with Lama Market. If you have questions about this tutorial, please comment on this blog.