As you all know, alibaba.com is an online trading platform (so called lead generation website) for B to B activities.    Users may find products, manufacturers, suppliers,  exporters,  producers, buyers and  traders there.    Despite that fact that most traffic are from China region, I encourage you to find opportunity on this up-and-coming platform, take into account there’s no cost for posting your items there!

The website are segmented into different catagories:

• Consumer electronics
• Hardware
• Lights and lighting
• ….

As there’re so many catagories and records, you may question:  “How to optimize our page in alibaba.com?”

Try to do a search in alibaba.com and I experienced quite a lot of false drops from my search.   Thus it is essentially important to choose the best suit catagory and to optimize it.  I talked to a salesman from alibaba.com, he mentioned that if we want to rank best in search engine, probably I have to paid for my placement.  There’s no difference in organic and sponsored search from the search result page!   I received an offer from that salesman but I found the price was simply unacceptable.  Hence I focused on organic search only.

Okay, I am sure you want to know how to rank first in organic search.    The alibaba on-site search engine sees the important of timely, which means that if you keep updating your record, you will probably rank first in your catagory.  Of cause, you can’t ignore the relevancy of the titles, keywords, descriptions and content.  I didn’t mean that the said search engine sees the relevancy, but you should know that the individual pages would be indexed by popularly search engines like Google and Yahoo!.  I have posted some our my products there and my alibaba pages got ranked first in Google!

Written by Eugene Wong on May 10, 2009.
Last revised by: Eugene Wong on April 2, 2011.