Tag: Search People

Getting Your Site Seen By Search Engines

Posted on Jul.17, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Is your website listed on search engines? When people search for you, does your site show up on page 1 or page 20 of the search engine results?
Optimizing your site to get it ranked highly on the search engines can be a complicated subject. To simplify things, it’s helpful to first understand how search engines add sites to their database. Then we’ll cover some tips that you can put on your own website that will help you to get listed [...]


Costly Link Exchange Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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

When you are trying to promote your website, you want to make sure that you make as few mistakes as possible. However, there are a lot of mistakes people commit when making link exchanges that can be costly for their websites. Read the following ways to avoid making those costly link exchange mistakes:
1. Avoid Long URLs
If your URL is really long and wraps to another page it will be broken and essentially useless because people will not be able to [...]


13 Tips For Good Search Engine Placements

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

When used properly in combination with other basic search engine tactics, these tips can help to dramatically improve your placement with the search engines and increase the traffic to your web site.
1. USE KEYWORD FILE NAMES: By naming your html file relevant to your keywords, you can gain a slight advantage. This is a relatively minor aid so don’t go overboard with it.
2. AVOID USING ROBOTIC SUBMISSIONS TO THE TOP SEARCH ENGINES: When submitting your web page to one of [...]


How to Improve Your Search Engine Rankings

Posted on Jun.25, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

When people think of search engine optimization, they immediately think of time consuming very tedious tasks that are way beyond their capabilities. That might be true if they put no time and effort into it. I do agree that improving search engine rankings in competitive niche markets require a good deal of knowledge and expertise. It’s TIME to learn the basics of how to improve your search engine rankings. There is huge need for search engine optimization experts, but most [...]


The Search Engine Secret That Is No Secret At All

Posted on Jun.21, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

It’s common knowledge – we all know that it is important to rank well in search engines. Doing so can bring qualified, interested visitors to the web site you create. And, those visitors come to you believing that you know what you are talking about, since you showed up in the search engine results.
All the time, people ask “How do I get my site to show up first when I type ‘whatever’ into the search engines?”.
Here’s the secret:
Create a great [...]


Importance of Keywords in Links to Your Website

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

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a very complex process. It is a long-term process that will usually never produce results that you can see in days or weeks. By now you probably heard about the importance of getting other websites to link to yours so that you can get a higher ranking in search engines. You listed your websites in some directories and also received a few other links to your website.
But stop right here. How is being linked to [...]


The (Not So) Shocking Truth About Getting A High Search Engine Ranking

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

I have seen my site hit #3 at Google, and some of my fellow entrepreneurs are wondering how I did it. Well, it’s no big secret, and it won’t cost you anything but your time. Here’s what I did:

I searched online for information about the title and description tags to get a better idea of what they should say. http://www.selfpromotion.com is a great site for this kind of information. It’s all about search engine positioning, and it’s free to sign [...]


Optimizing For Visitors Not Search Engines

Posted on Jun.08, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments

Most people feel that optimizing is to target the search engines alone. In my opinion, this is not the only case. Optimization requires a balance of traffic enhancements and a user friendly atmosphere that provides clear navigation. Most will agree it would be much better to have people accept offerings from a Site, rather than masses of people who do nothing. Here are some general tips and thought to make pages user-friendly.
Focus on the Offerings
Is something being offered? Make it [...]


Search Engine Keywords – What Do People Search For?

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

Do you ever wonder how people search for things on the Internet? What if you knew exactly what words they typed when using a search engine? If you’re marketing a product or service it’s extremely insightful to know what are the most popular search terms relating to whatever you’re marketing.
The Overture Company
Overture.com is a Yahoo! company that supplies the Pay Per Click infrastructure for Yahoo! and other websites on the Internet. If you do a search on Yahoo! you’ll see [...]


What are My Chances to Get the First Place in Search Engine Listings?

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

You must have heard the stories how people became rich and famous with their websites. How could they achieve this? Their websites took a first position in search engine listings targeting popular keywords. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! To be honest, chances for a regular small business website to get to the top of the search engine listings are close to zero and each day they become smaller and smaller as a number of new and old websites grows.
Let’s examine the [...]