Learn How To Make Traffic
May 20, 2008
Blogs And WebsitNeed Traffic? Virtually YES! Without Traffic, NO GAIN… Learn How To Generate Traffic To Your es You need traffic to let people to know about what you are selling assumming if you just open a shop and you did not tell any body you open a shop how will the the people what to know what you are selling Millions of web site owners face the same challenges in marketing their web sites. Read more
5 Ways to Create or Convert into Mobile Phone Website
May 5, 2008
People hooked to internet via their mobile phones is on the rise but only few
websites offer mobile compatible format of their websites. Do you want to offer
mobile version of your website or blog? Read more
How to Get Repeat Traffic To My Web Pages ?
May 5, 2008
If you already have a site and you want think that you’re not getting the traffic that you’re supposed to be getting, then its time to reconsider. If you are contending in these very competitive business, you should always be a step ahead of your competition, increasing your traffic and your online profits. You have to arm yourself with the proper know-how and the tools to make your site a cut above the rest.
It doesn`t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don`t know that you exist, it doesn`t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.
To help you out in generating more traffic for your site, here are some surefire ways to increase your traffic
***Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
***Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you. People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service.
***Motivate your customer to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page. By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.
***When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer`s experience fast and easy. When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
***Invest in good advertising with search engines. Google`s Adwords and Yahoo`s Overture provide great advertising schemes that are very truly popular and assures great traffic. Although with this surefire way to increase your traffic would cost some money.
***Exchange or Trade Links with other sites. With exchanging links with other sites, both of you will benefit from the efforts both of you do to enhance your sites traffic. When one site features another sites link, they could provide one another with the traffic one site generates. The efforts are doubly beneficial because it would seem like both of you are working to generate more traffic. The more links traded with more sites the more traffic could be expected.
***Use Viral Marketing. Viral marketing allows you to spread the word about your company and product without any costs or if ever low costs only. This is a marketing method that can be quite sneaky; you can attach your company`s name, product or link to a certain media such as a funny video, entertaining game, an interesting article or a gossip or buzz. With this method, people get infected with the creativity and entertainment of the medium that they will pass it on to many people. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.
***Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc. Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
***Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark. Search and use proper keywords or keyword phrases for your sites content. Search engines look for certain keywords that they would show in their results page. In doing so, having the right keyword and keyword phrase is a high requirement in ranking in high in search engine results. You could write your own content or you could hire someone to do it for you.
***Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
***Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a “Contact Us” link on each page.
***Write Articles that can lead traffic to your site. Submit articles to sites that would contain the same subject that your site deals in. If you sell car parts write press releases and articles about cars and car parts. Attach your sites description and services at the end of the article as well as the link.
***Join forums and online communities. Capture a market and show your expertise and credibility. When you found a good foundation for your site, people will trust you and your site and will pass on to many people their trust. Traffic will certainly increase because they know that you can provide what they need.<1–More–>
***Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc. If many people know what you are about and your existence is shared with many others, you will find a loyal traffic that can provide you with more traffic by recommendation. If you arouse the curiosity of your customers they would be pushed to help you with your traffic. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ˜opt out” of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list.
by Anne-Marie RONSEN
Maximize Traffic With 10 SEO Power Tips
May 1, 2008
How do you know what type of content is really going to attract the right searchers?
In this article I wanted to cover a few very basic tips that you can keep in mind when building high-performance strategies. Remember that good search engine marketing is not about trying to manipulate or “fool the search engines.” Good SEO skills are more about creating genuine relevancy for well-written content that deserves to be found because it is truly the most relevant and useful to your audience of readers.
What students quickly discover in the 5-Day classes is that the optimization skills are not nearly as hard as many people make them out to be (even for the most competitive phrases,) once you’ve been trained and understand the full scope of influences that are at work. The biggest advantage that we have had is all about the “accuracy of information.”
1. Write content that your audience is already looking for within the last 90 days.
True keyword research is not about “guessing at keywords†but its all about researching actual data. How are your SEO research skills using Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery? At the SEO Workshops we teach much more than the traditional “keyword research” methods. We help students learn “Keyword Forensics” and how to quickly tap into the hidden niche trends that 99% of most Webmasters never even notice.
2. Does your Web copy speak to the reader or does it speak about yourself?
Remember that your Web site should be focused on your audience first and appeal specifically to a niche interest. When writing your Web copy, you need to dialog in an appropriate tone and format for the right audience. Some of the most interesting content will have more appeal if it speaks to your audience in terms of “you.” You can, you might, you will, yours, your and you’re INSTEAD of we, ours, we’re, we will, we can, etc.
3. Focus on writing for the human audience first and search engines second.
While search engine optimization is important to your visibility, try writing your content first. Most people don’t write their best when trying to optimize and create content at the same time. Focus on creating highly useful content that is extremely focused on one topic per page. Once you have completed your writing so that you are pleased with it, then go in to do a mild re-write for the search engines.
4. Tips for triggering idea generation and giving your strategies a unique twist.
While many people seem to spend time exploring their competitor’s Web sites, we encourage you to lead the way with new ideas. Try not to be obsessed with what the competition is doing, but be creative and start your own new trends. Spend just a little more time working on your projects this week than you did last week. Setting yourself apart from the competition is easier than you might think and gives you a huge advantage over others.
5. Creating your content so that it “speaks” to a specific audience of visitors.
Think of how your Web copy reads and ensure the dialog flows smoothly. Read your work out loud and see if you can improve the tone of your message With natural expression. Keep your specific audience in mind. How you write for senior citizen (in tone and in format) may differ considerably from writing for an audience of for example “new parents.” Always ask yourself “what is important to these readers?” Rely on researching accurate data to eliminate guess work.
6. Remember strong calls to action
Without a firm call to action, don’t expect the reader to naturally guess at what you want them to do next. Plain ordinary dialog that asks the reader to take the next action will usually work best. Dialog that is written for voice (similar to the way a broadcaster writes to project their personality.)
7. Build your search engine optimization skills in the beginning with the “stress free” approach.
If you are new to SEO, you may want to focus on the long tailed niche phrases since most searchers are doing fairly descriptive and intelligent searches these days. Ideally You want to attract those who already know what they are looking for and just need to find your pages more easily. With practice and the right training you can go after highly competitive phrases too but you’ll find that the best conversions nearly always come from the niches. Also remember that it is the basic SEO skills that carry you through and must come before any of the advanced strategies. The result will be stable top rankings that stand the test of time with minimal fuss.
8. Give your readers a non-threatening reason to respond right now.
What is the objective for your page and does your Web copy work effectively at fulfilling that objective? It may not always be about trying to sell a product or a service. It should not be about fulfilling your needs first but it should be about meeting the needs of why that searcher first conducted a search. Meet their needs and deliver up something that satisfies their search first and then give the visitor a non-threatening reason why they might respond to you. Do you want their e-mail address? or do you just want them to pick up the phone and call? Never lose sight of the fact that the Web is a marvelous two way interactive experience, if you want it to be. Make your Web site a vehicle for relationship building and remember that many readers may actually have the desire to interact and participate through Blogs or other “User Generated activity.” Give your visitors something that involves their participation.
9. Remember that your readers always want to feel like they are in control of their Web experience.
People often use the Web for researching topics of interest or doing preliminary price comparisons or for looking up information. While most people explore the Web for their own purposes, the more that you put them in control of their experience the better. If appropriate, you may want to consider adding addition tools or functionality to your Web site in order to enhance its usability for your specific audience.
10. Did you know that if you write your content so that it naturally “reads very well.”
You will naturally gain some bonus for having created content of quality. By this, I mean content…that reads well to a human being. Don’t stuff keywords all over the place. Instead, use moderation in everything you do. One of the things you need to understand is that “theme based” search engines like Google, are actually using a measure of artificial intelligence (AI) to measure how well your article “reads” based on all of the overall context of your body text (other than the keywords) based on data that a search engine has gathered concerning a specific topic. This is great news for writers because if you are making a transition to writing for the web, you’ll find some search engines are literally rewarding pages that are “well written.”
by John Alexander
Get Increased On-Line Traffic With These 3 Article Marketing Secrets
April 30, 2008
Article marketing has been an effective way to generate increased on-line traffic to websites for a long time. Although it will continue work, the competition is getting fiercer, so it’s good to know the latest techniques that can improve your article marketing results. Here are three tips any webmaster can implement now to stay ahead of the game.
Tip #1: Stop Submitting To Multiple Directories
Mass submitting your article to hundreds of article directories at the same time use to be a great way to get a lot of incoming links fast and raise your rankings in the search engines. It also created a mass of duplicate content clogging up the web. Because of this the search engines starting cracking down and began giving less relevancy to articles submitted in this manner.
By writing quality articles and submitting them to one or two relevant and high authority sites, you’ll find you get much better results than mass submitting.
Tip #2: Take Advantage Of RSS Feeds
If you are submitting your article to top authority directories such as EzineArticles.com, you will be provided with an RSS feed of the articles you submit. Be sure to submit that feed to top RSS feed directories. Doing so will help people who use feed reader find your articles more easily. It will also further encourage the search engines to swing by for a look.
Tip #3: Make Your Bio Box Effective
You already know that the main body of the articles you write to market with should not blatantly promote your own site. Instead, make sure they inform and answer questions people in your market are searching for. Then, use your bio box, not to brag about yourself, but rather to introduce readers to the benefits of visiting your site.
As you have already provided them with useful information in the body of your article, they’ll be much more likely to consider visiting your site for more information.
by Margaret Sandker
Separating 7 SEO Truths from 7 Common long held Misconceptions
April 15, 2008
I wanted to review 7 long held SEO misconceptions and discuss the truths. In order to separate the SEO truths from traditional misconceptions or errors, you always must first examine the truth.
For example, if an expert is trying to determine a counterfeit $100 dollar bill from a real $100 bill, he only gains insight by examining the real bill first. You could examine many different counterfeit bills for a long time and never gain any ground at all. But once you know and understand the real government issued bill, then you can spot the false things much more quickly.
A Word about Hats: White, Grey or Black
First let me say that most SEOs are not all bad people. They are not all schemers who are just out to get your money. Like anything else, there are people who are good and bad in every area of life. When it comes to practicing SEO skills, there are many people doing many different things, but it all comes down to the intent of the individual person.
People pegged for being “black hats” usually think quite a little bit differently than the SEO professional. The Black hat is more prepared to lose the domain and knows that they are always on the run and they often view the search engines as the enemy. Search engines MUST be “outsmarted” or so they are convinced. Some tend to enter more like a game with throwaway domain names that they’ll purchase in quantity knowing that they’ll have to do the same types of things over and over again each time they get penalized.
White hat SEO professionals are more focused on creating high quality, useful content that serves a purpose and satisfies the reason why the user searched. They are not on the run, because they have nothing to fear being caught at. They tend to do the job once for long term stable rankings that can last for years.
Black hat technique tends to relate to “tricks” and little “short cuts” to try and fool the search engine.
Okay so this fits in part, with the first misconception or idea that was first pitched years ago. However, this first misconception is a major misconception. Here it is…
Misconception 1. You are at war with the search engines to gain top rankings. Therefore you must learn to do sneaky tricks to outsmart their algorithm. Therefore you must learn ways to beat the search engine to gain top visibility in search results. Have you heard this story before?
While this whole concept (probably dreamt up by a marketer years ago sometime) it cleverly appeals to a human beings somewhat carnal side of being “sneaky” or being able to beat the search engines at their own game by using “secrets” and “tricks.” Even though the pitch may appeal to some people, the only trouble is that the concept is 100% FALSE from beginning to end. Some of you may be disappointed to hear this because for years, you thought you were at war with the search engines. Think a little bit more and let’s separate marketing pitches from the real truth.
Truth 1: The truth is that you have never been at “war with the search engines.” You are not required to “outsmart” or fool” the search engines at all to gain top visibility for your Web pages.
Listen up now. The only one you are truly competing with for visibility is your competitors, NOT the search engines. The whole idea that you must “beat” the search engines or “outsmart” the search engines is a completely false concept.
You never need to compete with any search engine. You never need to trick it or even try to “fool it” in order to get excellent visibility. A search engine does not really care whether you rank number 1 or not. They are fine with it, so long as you are offering relevant content that is useful and satisfies the reason why the user searched. Obviously any search engine does not want junk showing up in the results.
The only competition you have now or you have ever had, or will ever have in the future is with other competitors pages, not the search engines.
Being “sneaky” may appeal to some emotionally in a marketing pitch. It may make you even feel like the service or the course or publication will ultimately “make you smarter” somehow. But people need to learn to distinguish truth from error and you’ll be blowing far less money on e-books, tool sets and memberships that appeal to the emotion but are founded on untruths.
Many marketers come across with this anger or emotion in their messages using words that are planted to trigger your emotions.
You can be sneaky… I am angry because… I am so embarrassed by what happened… You are going to learn a secret… I am going to show you something exciting! etc…
Don’t let your emotions be exploited.
Learn to recognize a marketing mailer that is attempting to exploit your emotions. Recognize these types of messages. Separate them out from communications that offer advice based on truths. I’ll do an article on this in the future.
Misconception 2: You must submit your Web site to the Search Engines, therefore you need to buy our services and we will submit your site to 30,000 search engines for only $29.95 per month. The misconception here is that a submission to a search engine is beneficial.
Truth 2: You are far better employing strategies that allow search engine robots to find your pages on their own (without submitting.) Any company that bases their whole concept of traffic or SEO on submitting does not understand how search engines work themselves. If you are using this type of service, save your money. There is no valid reason to be using a submission service for search engines. It is still being offered today widespread because there are always new people coming online to be exploited.
Misconception 3: If a Web site has been banned, the person must be an evil or unethical person.
Truth 3: Search Engine Workshops reject anything related to Spam or short cuts or tricks that are outside of the search engines guidelines, but we do not believe people are “always evil.” Many people that get banned or penalized by the search engines, are not even aware of SEO best practices. The only thing they turn out to be guilty of in the end, is of never having had any real structured SEO skills training.
In other words they were listening to some bad advice or perhaps were not even aware that each search engine has guidelines. In some cases it’s their Webmaster that may have gotten their site banned. Every situation is different but ultimately it’s far better to gain your skills sooner than later. It is not always about good and evil but there most definitely is always a story behind the story and it boil down to user intent.
Misconception 4: SEO is a nightmare to try and learn.
It is extremely important to measure each SEO influence and get each factor exactly right. Therefore you need to research how many characters go in a title tag, keyword density, keyword prominence, keyword placement, how many keywords can go in a Meta tag plus all of the other factors for each individual search engine. This concept is what people seem to talk about because it’s what some people are selling, but it is also completely false.
Truth 4: Sure you can spend your days measuring these types of things, but chances are you will be burning out after a while and getting very few success stories. This is because there are for more important things to understand that have an extraordinary impact in the results. SEO influences all affect one another, plus each search engine grades on a curve based on each specific industry.
Any researcher that tells you he is giving you the latest criteria based on these old fashion units of measurement will not make much impact. These days you are looking for the big picture, not individual influences one at a time. We have seen cases where people spend hours working on one page, when they could have dozens of pages performing for them in minimal time with much less stress. Yes I mean all 100% white hat strategies too, because these are all that we teach our students.
Misconception 5: You need to spend hours tweaking your source code each month to keep those top ranking positions. Therefore you cannot possibly manage your own in house search marketing. False again.
Truth 5: There are advantages to having your SEO handled by a professional firm that has been structurally trained. But don’t buy it if someone says they must continually “tweak your code” to keep you in top place. It is just not true. Yes, you may want them creating fresh new content. Yes, you’ll want continued practices if you’re Blogging maybe for example. But if a page is ranking in top spot, leave it alone. If you do look at making changes, make sure you are grabbing a look at the entire search landscape for your industry.
Misconception 6: SEO is Dead. This myth makes a great attention grabbing article headline although in my opinion it has been a little bit over-used and rather gimmicky. If you’ve read it, it is completely false.
Truth 6: SEO is merely more competitive these days but SEO is far from being dead. SEO is alive and well!
It may feel like it is dead if you are relying on old second hand advice or listening to some marketers who are pushing their next big thing. Most Webmasters have access to all of the same old common tools that everyone else has, so there feels like there is less advantage than a few years ago.
Misconception 7: There is only one correct solution to solve a specific SEO challenge. If it is not my way, it is the wrong way. Needless to say this is also false.
Truth 7: For any specific SEO challenge there are often multiple solutions to choose from. In many cases there are alternative strategies that are all white hat and yet very solid solutions. Don’t let anyone tell you that there is only one way. Every Web site is different with different challenges and you need to be equipped with the full range of solutions.
To gain a real significant advantage, the answer rests with building your genuine SEO skills and less reliance on tools.
* If you are interested in building genuine skills or managing a team overseeing SEOs then the surest why to close the gaps in your learning time is with a focus on live skills training and ongoing mentoring at a workshop or else study a course that focuses on teaching you the genuine skills. It is safe to say that you will be far less likely to ever be taken advantage of again, once your own knowledge is up to speed. * That being said, there are many who do not feel they can learn the skills. Maybe you’re looking for hiring an SEO firm instead of managing your own projects. One of the easiest ways to separate the trained experts who have had good structured training from the hit and miss individuals (or worse,) is to simply examine the evidence of their work. Examine it closely so you can determine that behind them, the results show the evidence of their skills. - Ask them for a list of their recent client’s phone numbers. - Ask them for a list of their oldest client contacts and their Web sites. - Dependable SEO services will never have trouble providing you with the evidence of their success although they may want to offer you client contacts in a different business category than the one you are in (out of respect for their clients.)
* While many SEOs will offer you typical proposals, try and watch for those who also have alternative approaches that will serve your best interest at reasonable cost. Optimization is only one aspect of visibility these days. It is not just about how many pages show up in the top rankings for specific keywords anymore. There are a lot of additional things that a well trained graduate can bring to you that are beyond SEO.
* Beware of any service that builds their whole success platform for SEO on “search engine submissions.” Submitting to search engines is one thing you don’t need to do and you don’t need to do certain things over and over to get results. * Due diligence is the word of the day when hiring an SEO firm or seeking SEO skills training.
by John Alexander
How To Generate Low Cost WebsiteTraffic Using Only Free Methods
April 1, 2008
Have you ever wondered where you can find low cost website traffic? You can find all your answers amongst the following resources. First of all make the best use of life by learning and reading as much as possible. Read about things unknown, and more about things known, like about low cost website traffic.
Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating low cost traffic.
While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.
How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to spend a single cent, it may take time, honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.
Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.
Using the intuition I had on low cost website traffic, I thought that writing this article would indeed be worth the trouble. Most of the relevant information on low cost website traffic has been included here.
With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.
You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.
Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.
Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.
Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.
Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.
Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.
All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.
The more you read about low cost website traffic, the more you get to understand the meaning of it. So if you read this article and other related articles, you are sure to get the required amount of matter for yourself.
I never knew how interesting writing about low cost website traffic would be, until we got to write this article. Hope you felt the same too.
by Christina Lang
How to get Best Ranking In Search Engine
March 25, 2008
The internet tool that
would be wildly used is the Search Engine. There are a lot of methods to get the quality traffic with out having to pay the money. Read more
How To Structure Your Site To Please Search Engine Spiders
March 15, 2008
Search engine software that visit your website are called spiders. These notice First of all remove unwanted code in your website html source. Spiders read This code is most often javascripts. You can learn how to open javascripts Do not join a bunch of traffic counters since all of them give you a piece There are also tools that allow you to clean your html code, usually fix errors One thing you should not do is create several folders, which are almost all So here is some of the common mistakes. Linking to your linkspage from your homepage like Links 1, Links 2, Links You only need one linkspage, which has categories and subcategories. Then Linking to several articles from your homepage. Again you just create on page Too many menus on your website is another mistake. Two is enough. One for All pages will get indexed, if your website is properly organized. Spiders Now Google also have the google webmasters tools, and there are software that You should make sure your website has no 404 error pages. All links should You can also submit a similar sitemap to Yahoo. There are software once again You should be friendly with these software because ultimately they will determine by Karl Sultana
how your website is structured. Here is how to do it in a way that spiders will
fall in love with it.
content not code, and too much code distracts them and they find it less interesting
and it is not easy for them to read through your website. You want to make
it easy for them so they like it.
from an external file. That method allows you to have less code in your html
code while still performing all javascripts you want.
of script to put on your website. Use one only is enough, or else it gets messed
up with too much code.
in the code itself. Meta tags must also be unique for each webpage. That is
more organized and makes more sense that each page has its own title, description
and keywords.
identical. For example put all your articles in one folder called Articles.
Put all your images in only one folder called Images. Keep your website files
and folders organized not only it is easier for you but also for spiders. They
quickly scan throughout your webpages. It is much easier for them. Pages will
get indexed faster and all of them will be included in the index.
3 and so forth.
link to that one page from your homepage.
and put links to all your articles on it. Then link to that one page called
Articles or whatever only from your homepage, or from your sitemap. You do
not need to link to every page from your homepage, you can put them on your
sitemap. Spiders will find them still when they visit your sitemap.
visitors giving them the most important pages like support, sitemap or maybe
products page, download page and so forth. The other menu lists other less
important pages like legal information or articles page or a link to your blog.
visit a webpage and also visit each of the links on that webpage. So they will
visit your entire website by following links. If you create a webpage and do
not link to it from anywhere then obviously it will not be seen.
allows you to create a google sitemap. You put that special sitemap to google
webmasters tools. It helps your webpages to get indexed faster. It also monitors
which webpages return the 404 page not found or other erros.
be working well, if not simple fix so called broken links that return error
messages.
that will create this special sitemap. When we refer to spiders, we refer to
all search engine spiders because every search engine has its own spider.
your rankings. It is the spiders that crawl your site and check how many backlinks
you have and so forth.
How to Cloak Affiliate Links
March 10, 2008
One of the best ways to promote a product as an affiliate is to learn how to cloak affiliate links. This is a process and a technique that can greatly improve the traffic and click through rate of your landing page or product page. Read more
Ways To Use Articles To Expand Your Online Business
March 5, 2008
So you created or have hired someone to create some articles. Did you know there are several ways you can benefit from these articles not just one or two ways? Read more
Targeted Traffic and How To Get It
February 29, 2008
If you have a website, you know that traffic is essential, especially if you
have something to sell. Not just any old traffic, though - you need targeted
traffic.
How is targeted traffic defined?
Article Marketing Secrets and SEO Techniques
February 25, 2008
Article Marketing Secrets and SEO Techniques You don’t get much given away free online that is of great value, especially
article marketing secrets.
Create Mobile Version of Wordpress Blog with a Plugin
February 20, 2008
We have already seen 5 Ways to Create or Convert existing website into mobile
friendly website. Now here comes specific alternative for Wordpress Blogs in
the form of a Wordpress Plugin ‘WordPress Mobile Edition’. Read more
Top Five (5) Best Non-Criminal Hackers of All Time
January 5, 2008
White Hat Hackers
Hackers that use their hacking skills for good are referred to as “white hat” hackers. Often referred to as Ethical Hackers, these non-criminal hackers are hired by companies to examine and test the integrity of their systems. Read more
Top Five (5) Best Criminal Computer Hackers of All Time
January 4, 2008
The Black Hat Hackers - Criminals
These hackers are the ones that you’ve seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun. Read more
Forget The Hype I Can Advise You On Web Promotion Techniques That Work
April 30, 2007
I have been promoting websites for the last eight years. In this time I have made many mistakes and have also wasted a lot of money in an attempt to market my own and other peoples websites. Read more
Five steps to geting indexed
April 27, 2007
Getting Indexed in the search engine five simple steps
Are you kidding me? that’s probably what your thinking right now how can I get indexed in the search engine with only five simple steps. Well to your surprise it’s really true. When ever people mention Google, MSN, and Yahoo as being the top search engines, the first thing they might think is it must cost a lot of money or how in the world do I compete with all of the millions of websites out there. Well by the time you get done reading this you will be well on your way to getting indexed and indexed really fast.
Organic Search Engine Marketing is the trick to be successful
April 26, 2007
Publicity of any product or thing requires huge efforts on the part of the owner or the person who is involved with the business. You must understand that there are different ways for doing most of the things. The trick for you to be successful in this is through finding out that method which is just perfect for your work. Organic search engine marketing is one such marketing method on the web which has been found to be immensely successful in helping businesses earn huge profits. After all, the purpose of any business is to earn profit and if by implementing certain strategies like organic search engine marketing helps you do well in your online business, there is no chance why you should not implement this for your business.
Underground SEO Secrets
April 25, 2007
Bob Mobino is the man who exposed all the underground SEO tactics responsible
for seven figure incomes for tens if not dozens of entrepreneurs.
Niche Marketing: Rise To The Top With Niche Marketing
April 24, 2007
Getting your website to the top of search engine listings is an important key to bringing more traffic to your website and more traffic means more money. One of the easiest ways to do this is via highly targeted niche marketing. Highly targeted niche marketing can be attained either through marketing to your niche by using longer, less searched for key phrases or by marketing to sub-niches within your niche.
Incorporating LSI Into Your Web Site Marketing Strategies
April 23, 2007
If you want your web site to be a success, your web site marketing strategies must keep up with the changes made by various search engines. Search engine marketing is constantly evolving, and webmasters need to evolve with it.
How to setup a blog to promote your website
April 20, 2007
Blogs are websites that are easy to update. They are also loved by search engines like Google because they usually have fresh up to date content. One way to promote your website is to start a blog about your website. In this article we will look at different options for starting your own blog.
5 Tips To Automated FREE Traffic
April 19, 2007
5 Tips To Automated Free Traffic
Most people turn to the net to look for the information or solution to the query or problem that they may have. It is also true that when these people search for their information and/or solution to their inquiry, the natural search listings always take predominance. The visitors coming to your site through these organic search results are always highly targeted and are more likely to convert… and this is free traffic.
The REAL Secret to Internet Marketing Success
March 26, 2007
Those of you familiar with my previous writings on Internet marketing are well aware of the fact that I am a big proponent of the idea that the only “secret” to successful Internet marketing is this–there are no secrets! The very use of the term “secret” is a marketing ploy (and a very successful one I might add, and one that I utilize myself on occasion) that has been utilized since the primitive times of advertisement and marketing. (And the odds are excellent that this particular word is going to be found in advertisements and marketing campaigns of all sorts until humanity is no longer around to take advantage of it.)
Internet marketing, while having the potential perhaps to pay off in much bigger ways than other forms of marketing and business, still involves work, and lots of it. In fact, it has been my experience that Internet marketing is NOT a quick and easy path to “easy money.” Rather, just the opposite! Generating a sustainable income via Internet marketing, more often than not, does not happen overnight. Success is fleeting, especially early on until you establish your niche market(s) and slowly begin to dominate them.
Internet marketing takes much hard work, persistence, knowledge, creativity, and, above all else, time. (And don’t forget to throw in a little bit of luck for good measure!) Internet marketing is not the quick and easy road to riches that some would have you believe. It is much easier just to go out and get a “regular” job and get paid to make someone else rich.
Internet marketing also has a very high learning curve. It takes time to master. I have been involved with Internet marketing for quite a while now and have enjoyed some major successes of my own, but, even with my experience I still manage to learn something new about the business almost daily. Success in this field particularly requires that you become a student. You have to learn much about technology, marketing, sales, product, and so very much more. And all of these change almost daily! Educating yourself and staying abreast of developments is no easy task but it is a prerequisite to Internet marketing success.
Now, the above having been said, I want to say this–I love Internet marketing! I enjoy the difficulty, i.e., the challenge involved in Internet marketing. It is fiercely competitive and I happen to like the competition–no, I love it! In no other forum do you constantly have to evaluate and reevaluate your tactics and strategies as you do in Internet marketing. A competitor with a similar or same product is always trying to one-up you and you have to, in turn, one-up him or her! This cycle goes on and on, ad infinitum. More often than not, the most creative individual is the one who wins the customer and, subsequently, the paycheck.
Ok, so the title of this article is “The REAL Secret to Internet Marketing Success,” so you want me to go ahead and give you that “REAL secret” right? (Hey–you weren’t expecting this to be a piece on the difficulty of Internet marketing after all!) Remember though, I have already said that there are no secrets, unless the secret to Internet marketing success is a mixture of hard work, dedication, perseverance, patience, creativity, time, knowledge, etc. Of course this isn’t a secret that would sell very well now is it? No one wants to hear something like that for free, much less pay to hear something like that! But I guess if there is in fact a secret to Internet marketing, then that would have to be it, in my humble opinion at least.
My parting advice is this, especially to those of you presently pondering “getting into” Internet marketing and those of you just starting out. Success is there for the taking, if you make up your mind from the beginning to see your endeavors through. Despite the claims of “easy money” being made by thousands of Internet gurus the world over, you WILL have to work hard and persevere. You can’t do “nothing” and watch the cash roll into your PayPal account. It just doesn’t work that way.
Study, absorbing all that you can. Find a niche and exploit it. Be creative–find something that hasn’t been done before or find something someone else is doing that you could do better. Persevere. Success doesn’t happen overnight but in increments. Set goals, small ones at first then becoming progressively more ambitious, and accomplish them. If you are serious about Internet marketing, no one can make it happen other than you yourself. Here, like no where else, you get to see the fruits of your own hand–whether bountiful or otherwise.
by M. Shane Huey
Copyright 2007 by M. Shane Huey. All rights reserved.
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