Please list tips and advice on how to be successfull on Alibaba. Thanks all for helping me aswell as the readers.

Replying to [CongoUK]:
# 1 tip to be succesful in Alibaba is to Avoid scammers.

Replying to [AcePC]: Yes avoid scammers and research the supplier as much as possible!!! And come one here and discuss it first to be absolutely sure!

Replying to [CongoUK]:
I am surprise that more FREE MEMBERS and scammers here in Alibaba know how to propagate themselves and none of those Gold Trust Pass Members know it.

You just have got to know and learn about how the Internet works, how to build webpages and how to make them Search Engine Friendly. Two key words for effective websites: LEAN AND MEAN.

Want to know more? You can pick up some books on Webpage designing, how to make them browser friendly, how to market your product through the internet and park of Affiliate Markets.

Alibaba is an excellent platform because of the tremendous volume of traffic - hit rates. The success of a Internet portal is measured by these two factors, hit rates and staying period. Alibaba has over a million hits and It is good to use it as a platform to advertise your product/s or services.

Replying to [Street Smart]:
For example, when I want to post a Selling product.
Open http://us.my.alibaba.com.offer/postsell.biz

Subject ...............
Keywords ..... ................................ ...............
Try to enter as many keywords as you can on your product/s in the keyword columns. They will be exposed to Search Robots of Googles and most types. These keywords are automatically embedded in a META File at top of the HTML page, in between the title and the body text.

Replying to [Street Smart]:

The words LEAN and MEAN are for websites to open within a very short time on a slow modem, and at the same time to be attractive to the casual browser.

These days most Website designers use software tools like FRONTPAGE, or DREAMWEAVER, and these softwares give you an indication of the time for the webpage to open at a set speed of the browser modem.

Pictures are very attractive to websites, and animated gif or macro program modules with Java programs and Flash program. However, these are the speed breakers, and it will be a trade-off between getting an impressive website and quickening the download speed of a browser. Some pictures may be trimmed, and some spliced up into bits like a jig-saw puzzle, with the important part taking more emphasis on the bytes and lesser on the non important portions.