Tag: Search Engine Marketing

Google Ban – How Not To Get Banned By Google!

Posted on Jul.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Given that Google now provides over 75% of all Internet search traffic, the last possible thing any site owner would want is to be banned from the Google index!
With countless search engine marketing techniques being employed these days, and contrasting advice available all over the web, it is well worth ensuring that you do not ‘over optimise’ your site or use any techniques which will result in Google penalising your site.
Although the main rule would be to create a site [...]


Search Engine Rankings for Beginners

Posted on Jul.16, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Search engine optimization is best left in the mystical land of the Intenet Marketing Guru right? Good Search engine rankings are tough to achieve. Understanding search engine marketing takes years of studying and only people with true insider knowledge and secret tools rank well in Google right? WRONG. Pure crap as a matter of fact.
Ranking well in the search engines is not difficult. In fact search engine optimization is relatively easy. What stops most people from ranking well in search [...]


Spamglish; A Search Engine Comedy With A Language All Its Own

Posted on Jul.15, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

When the movie Spanglish hit the screens in 2004, it was dubbed “A comedy with a language all it’s own.” I don’t think the producers even knew they were slipping a lesson for website owners who want better search engine listings into the movie.
In the movie, Adam Sandler’s household needs a housekeeper. Enter Flora – a Spanish woman who is unable to speak a word of English. They have to figure out how to communicate.
As website owners know, this is [...]


Higher Website Traffic Conversion Made Easy

Posted on Jul.15, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

In 1993, on a moon lit, warm summer night, I was surfing the Internet attempting to discover what successful sites had in common. I was really hungry to find out the secret ingredient of websites that were making it big.
You see, I was tired of traveling thousands of miles by plane and car. My mind was made up to stop living out of a suitcase. It didn’t matter that I had hit a peak in my marketing and sales career [...]


Search Engine Marketing (SEM) – Houses on Sand

Posted on Jul.04, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Do you depend on free search engine traffic for your livelihood?
I admit it. I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), keyword density, keyword relevance, KEI, incoming links and link text, and where my web site and web pages rank in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) for my targeted keyword phrases.
This afternoon I had a shock. I discovered my main web site was dropped from Yahoo! Not one page could [...]


3 Deadly Search Engine Marketing Sins

Posted on Jul.04, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

My inbox this week provided glaring examples of three all too common rookie search engine marketing mistakes. What you could call three deadly search engine marketing sins. Starting with
===> Inadequate Keyword Research
Hey! If you’re going to spend hours developing a web site, isn’t it smart to invest some time to insure you’re focusing on the most traffic laden keywords?
Especially when typically the plural form of a keyword phrase generates way more traffic than the singular form. For example “dog dishes” [...]


The Myth of Guaranteed #1 Ranking in Search Engine Marketing

Posted on Jun.28, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

You’ve seen the ads: Guaranteed #1 Ranking! There are no guarantees in search engine marketing and website promotion. If anyone tells you different, you should check quickly to make sure they don’t have their hand in your wallet.
Suppose you sell widgets. You want to sell more widgets, and the way to do that is to make sure that more people know about widgets, and that you are the place to buy their widgets. You might decide to buy a half-page [...]


Marketing Tourism Online, Part Two: Attracting Visitors to your Website

Posted on Jun.27, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

This is part two of an article series which will introduce some basic strategies, considerations, elements, and techniques for marketing tourism products online. We plan to update and refine these articles as situations change and when we have new knowledge to present. If you have comments or questions, or you are interested in Leave Home’s travel marketing consulting services, please visit www.leave-home.com or contact the author directly. You can also request to be notified when a new article in the [...]


1 Simple SEO Strategy To Get More Visitors To Your Site From Google

Posted on Jun.27, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Did you know that you can dramatically increase the number of visitors that come to your site on a daily basis from Google? And it’s not constantly improving your position in Google search engine result pages(SERPs) for your competitive keywords which can take some time after working on your search engine marketing campaigns.
I take this example from Google because I’ve experienced it some time back now. Apart concentrating on getting and maintaining a top 10 ranking in Google, there are [...]


Satellite TV, Google, and a Stamp

Posted on Jun.27, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Unless you’re building a baseball diamond in the middle of nowhere, the "If you build it they will come" principle simply will not work for your home business or online store. Driving customers to your store and visitors to your Website are essential keys to your success. This article explores some new and old ways of marketing your company. Let’s begin with Satellite TV.

Satellite TV: Halfway out with the old and partway in with the new

Advertising on satellite or cable [...]