Tag: Search Listings

The Ultimate Free Google Ranking Tool

Posted on Jul.01, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

The first months my website was online, I was constantly checking the search engines to see if my site was listed under the keywords that I was targeting. And always with the same negative results.
The truth is that the keywords that you are targeting are often not showing your site the first months at all on the first 200 search listings. OK,if you try to get your site listed for hoooohjgaagga or something like that, it could get you a [...]


Pay Per Click Versus ?Organic? Search Engine Listings – The Pros and Cons and Best Uses for Each

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

What’s the difference?
For those who aren’t quite clear what the term “natural” or “organic” search engine-listing means, they describe the “editorial” search results on any particular engine. These results are professed to be non-biased – meaning that the engine will not accept money to influence the rankings of any individual sites. This is quite different than the paid advertising (Pay Per Click) that appears in the “sponsored” or “featured” results, in which higher positions are awarded to the companies willing [...]


Meta Tags – An Important Part of Every Web Page

Posted on Jun.06, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Meta tags are an absolute must from a search engine optimisation perspective, there are many mistakes that can be made by not including these or even trying to ’spam’ the SE’s using them so heres a quick summary of the three main ones:
Meta Page Title Tag
The title tag is supported by all search engines and should be considered as the most important element in your optimisation process. Why is this you may ask? Well the page title is the first [...]


Yahoo!/Overture Site Match: A License To Steal

Posted on Jun.05, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Overture now offers the Yahoo! Search Inclusion under its own branded name–Site Match.
According to the page info from Overture, submitting your site to individual search engines is expensive and time-consuming. But with Site Match you can reach millions of users by submitting your pages through one program that powers search results for top web portals such as Yahoo!, AltaVista, AlltheWeb and other sites.
Summary of Site Match [...]


Generating Traffic to Your Web Site

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

When promoting any product or service every hit to your website counts.
So assuming your site converts a percentage of visitors to sales, the more traffic, the more sales you make!
I have read a number of articles lately on how to write good ad or sales copy and optimising websites.
What I have not seen is how to get consistent numbers of hits to your site. Well may be, that is not quite true as you are constantly blasted with email about [...]


E-commerce Web Site Design – How to Make a Killer E-commerce Site

Posted on Feb.15, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

The question is where do you start with the bewildering range of ecommerce shopping carts and ecommerce solutions available? Whether you are looking for corporate website design and ecommerce, business to business ecommerce build and development, or more modest affordable e-commerce web site solutions, you still need to apply the ecommerce golden rules. A good web development company (link to home page) will be able to help with these questions and more. But first what do you need to know [...]


Building eCommerce Websites that Work – Part 3

Posted on Jan.14, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

An interesting eCommerce success factor that isn’t precisely overlooked, but which is often thought about more in terms of being a way of feeding the search engine spiders has to do with providing content. In a very real sense the customer’s job is to consume. That’s why you’re in business.
Think in terms of providing the information your customers need to do their job of consuming. What does that mean? Consider what you sell. The content [...]


Is Your Business Fully Exploiting The Wonders of the Internet ? Part 2

Posted on Jan.06, 2009, under Web Design No Comments

There are many methods of increasing sales and brand awareness online, both expensive and inexpensive. If you are not visible on the web you are potentially losing out on additional sales channels.
Do you understand your target audience?
One of the most effective and increasingly popular ways of directing sales to your company is by ensuring your company appears at, or near, the top of the search engine listings. Despite many claims, by many on the Internet, this is not easy and [...]


The Ultimate Free Google Ranking Tool

Posted on Dec.19, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

The first months my website was online,I was constantly checking
the search engines to see if my site was listed under the
keywords that I was targeting. And always with the same negative
results.
The truth is that the keywords that you are targeting are often
not showing your site the first months at all on the first 200
search listings. OK,if you try to get your site listed for
hoooohjgaagga or something like that,it could get you a first
place in no time. But who wants [...]


The Ultimate Free Google Ranking Tool

Posted on Nov.16, 2008, under Web Design No Comments

The first months my website was online,I was constantly checking
the search engines to see if my site was listed under the
keywords that I was targeting. And always with the same negative
results.
The truth is that the keywords that you are targeting are often
not showing your site the first months at all on the first 200
search listings. OK,if you try to get your site listed for
hoooohjgaagga or something like that,it could get you a first
place in no time. But who wants [...]