Tag: Web Surfers
Specialty or Niche Directory Submissions
Posted on Jul.18, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
You are an attorney or other service or product provider. You have built an excellent web site, it looks good, it is well optimized and it tells your clients and prospective clients or customers everything they need to know in order to do business with you or purchase your product. You have submitted your site to the major and many minor search engines. Now all you need to do is sit back and wait for clients or customers to come [...]
About Google PageRank
Posted on Jul.16, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
PageRank (PR) is Google’s way of measuring the quality and relative "importance" of your website to searchers. It’s purpose is to give web surfers an idea of the importance of a website
PageRank is measured on a scale of 0 to 10. Your PageRank depends on the amount of web pages that link to yours, and the PR’s of each of those pages.
It can take up to three months for a new website to be assigned a PageRank ? depending on [...]
Ineffective and Unethical Web Site Promotion Methods
Posted on Jul.12, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
In this article I discuss some ineffective and/or unethical website promotion tactics. I talk about them here so that you won’t waste your time and resources pursuing them.
Spamming
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired of receiving hundreds of spam messages in your mailbox every morning, and you would not consider buying anything they had to offer, even if it’s something you really wanted.
Needless to say, spammers are not the most decent people in the world, and it comes as [...]
Website Promotion Internet Marketing Will Keep You On Top
Posted on Jul.12, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Website promotion Internet marketing is perhaps the most important part of your Internet sales strategy. Without creativity, your website can get lost among the thousands of options awaiting surfers online. The first step in defining your website promotion Internet marketing plan is to set reachable objectives and make sure you know how to measure their success. Zero in on the customers that will most likely purchase products from you. Setting a target market helps avoid mistakes in your total marketing [...]
Links to Success
Posted on Jun.28, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Did you know that web linkage is responsible for a significant amount of web traffic?
Search engines are still extremely important but many of the most successful e-commerce sites claim that linkage programs offer a tremendous source of web traffic.
It makes sense. The nature of the World Wide Web encourages serious web surfers to navigate from site to site through the links to other related sites and resources “found” on the sites that are visited. People sometimes forget that the name [...]
The Power of Topic Specific Search
Posted on Jun.28, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
What are Topical Search Engines?
Simply put, topical search engines are search engines focused on a specific industry, sector or topic.
While many marketers are scrambling for links, any links, an area that is often overlooked is topic-specific search engines. What many don’t realize is that these engines do produce traffic, and they often contain traffic that is very targeted. Anyone who has taken the time to analyze weblogs and track sales sources will likely see that targeted traffic converts at a [...]
Finding the Right SEO Company
Posted on Jun.11, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
I often talk to people who have lost faith in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms because of bad experiences. Either they saw no results, felt that they were tricked into subscribing to a service that could not work, or that they wasted money on a firm that did them no good. Although I agree that there are bad SEO firms out there, I know that there are also many good ones. It’s your job to make sure you find an [...]
Generating Website Traffic with Sub-domains
Posted on Jun.06, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Sub-domains are websites that are located within a directory of your main site and have their own domain name. Because they use the same resources as the main website, they are normally much cheaper than getting another hosting account. Their low cost and flexibility make sub-domains a great device for directing traffic to your site without breaking the bank.
*Sub-domains as Portal Sites*
One of the best uses of sub-domains is portal websites. Portal websites are sites that link to your main [...]
Common Sense Approach to Search Engine Optimization
Posted on May.22, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Most web surfers start their sessions at a search engine or a web directory. There are a number of different methods you can use to capture their traffic and drive it to your site:
Stick to the big names: The two largest directories: Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) and the Open Project Directory (http://www.dmoz.org), and the two largest search engines: Google (http://www.google.com) and Inktomi (used by MSN search (http://www.msn.com) and AOL (http://www.aol.com) are likely to deliver 80% of your traffic, so concentrate on those [...]
Key Words to Build Traffic
Posted on May.21, 2009, under Web Traffic No Comments
Much has already been said about having a content rich website using your key words for search engines to find you then direct traffic to your site.
If you have your own web site, you will learn the importance of good key words to generate traffic to your website. Some are marketing their business without their own website so you may think knowledge of key words doesn’t apply to you.
Good key word text is relevant to every internet marketer!
You want your [...]
