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Search Engine Optimization to Improve the Visibility of Your Website
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You can increase the visibility of your website through search engine optimization. More visitors equals improved sales volume and higher profits. Use these tips to bring more people to your website and enhance your search engine optimization tools.Article Marketing
The content on your website should be well-organized, easy to read and informative. Make sure all the links are easy to find and working properly. If writing content is not your strong suit, you can hire someone to write content for you. Make sure all the content on your page is relevant to your business.Back Links
Link to other sites that are somehow connected, but not competing, with your website. Ask for a link back. This will help you increase visitors through other websites. It also helps the other site get more visitors so it’s fairly easy to build a network of links. However, you need to check out the other sites before linking to them to make sure they are high quality website. Don’t overdo the number of links because some visitors may get annoyed by that. Do not forget to link back to yourself, as well. >Build your website with keywords inserted into the title tag of each page. Although title tags and page headers are the most important places to use keywords, you can also use them to label images, URL’s and the content. If you are unsure of how to do that, hire a website builder. Tell the designer you want to increase your online visibility with search engine optimization. A well-qualified web designer will know exactly how to help you do that. However, if you know what you are doing, it does not take long to optimize your site for the major search engines.
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Besides using keywords in the building of your website, you also want to place keywords into the text of each webpages. The keywords should not be used excessively or pointlessly. The textual content needs to make sense. Avoid trying to use every keyword that could possibly be related to your business. Use just a few of the strongest keywords. Each page on your website should have separate, unique content. Search engines do not respond well to pages that have duplicate information on several pages. Too many keywords will also be ignored by search engine spiders.Engine Optimization Campaign
Once a website is built and performing well, you can’t just assume it will continue to do well. You must update your website regularly to keep it relevant. You should still follow the rules of including keywords, organizing your website in a logical way and ensuring that all links are working properly. Make changes to your poorest performing landing pages first. Continue to monitor your search engine rankings, and find out what keywords and links your customers use most often to find your website.Html Tags
Search engine optimization can have a huge impact on your website. Utilizing these techniques can help your improve visibility and make more money. Implement these tips immediately to start seeing results quickly. If you are having any problems accessing the feeds or updates in the email regarding our latest news about SEO, please feel free to let us know. We know you want to be in the know so we’d love to help you on that.
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What Would You Pay Per Month For A Professional Website For Your Business? Includes
looks great
hosting
flash
data entry (if applicable)
search engine optimization
no upfront fee, just per month.
View CommentYou are lucky. One of the best online business packages is being offered with a monthly payment plan option. (Before that, this was the only option: $299 for one year to be paid in advance)
For $ 30/mo you could get domain, hosting, SEO, keyword tool, autoresponder and more…
Check this site for more details…
http://build-a-profitable-website.net/sbifeaturespricing.html
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization Tips And Tricks? Hello,
I need some search engine optimization tips and tricks
Thank you.
View Comment1. Do a keyword research with Google Keyword Tool (search this on google and it’s the first result)
2. Find 4-5 long-tail-keywords (2-3 words long)
3. Create one post/page for every keyword, the article must be UNIQUE and at least 400 words long. Put the keyword in: the link name, the title, H1, H2, H3 tags, start the article with your keyword, put your keyword in bold/italic, end the article with your keyword and use you keyword as an anchor text to link to another article of yours.
4. Find website related to your niche and post valuable comments there and put a link to your website in the “Website form”
5. If you have an RSS Feed for your website, you can purchase a list of 300+ commentluv enabled websites, this is a WordPress Plugin that will detect your latest post/latest 10 posts and will add a link to it if your comment will be approved. Here’s the link: http://fiverr.com/mitzaswim/give-you-an-active-list-of-146-commentluv-enabled-websites
6. Submit your site to different article directories like: goarticle, ezinearticles, knol, hubpages, squidoo and so on.
7. Creat a video for every post and submit it to Youtube and try to make some views/comments/likes/favorites to it. I found a service that will do this for you very cheap: http://fiverr.com/mitzaswim/give-you-100-real-youtube-subscribers-and-50-comments-and-likes-to-your-video
http://fiverr.com/mitzaswim/give-you-300-youtube-comments-and-likes
8. Find .edu blogs and website to leave comment on in order to create high value backlinks because search engines love this links. Here’s a resource for you:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/86459750/get-100-edu-backlinks-to-skyrocket-your
This should give a great boost to your website and if you keep doing this for every post and even go deeper you’ll hit the first page of google in a few weeks/months.
Ps: don’t forget to ping the links where you left comments in order to get them indexed faster by search engines. Here’s a resource: pingfarm.com
Good luck!
View CommentHow Do Increase My Search Engine Rank For My Small Business? I have a roofing business that serves the Bay Area of California and I want to submit my website to search engines. How do I make it so that I show up at or near the top of the ranks when people search “roofs”, “bay area roofs”, etc.?
View CommentI would suggest a 2 part process.
Step 1, would be to look at your website to ensure that you have implemented basic SEO
Step 2 would be to submit your website to google local business and to directories.
Take a look at your website to ensure that you have implemented SEO (search engine optimisation)
Good SEO should help people or search engines find your information
So if you build a website that is about ‘roofs’, you should ensure that the web pages are optimised for the content displayed and information offered. This includes using “key words” (keywords) for the product.
Some of the basic steps and considerations for SEO would be the following:
1) Using relevant keywords within the website / page content, the content of the website pages is the top priority for SEO, your website pages should provide good information about the product / service or subject.
2) The website name, or domain name, it can help people or search engines find your information if your domain name includes the product / subject / keywords
3) The page names, you may have lots of information about that requires separate pages, using keywords for the page / file name is good practice,
4) Meta tags, these are parts of the html code that are used by Search engines to help identify the content of the webpage. The html code of the page is not visible to the user unless you select view page source within the browser. You can to add important information about the webpage and products on the webpage to the meta tags, this is where you can add keywords about the products on the webpage.
Important html tags include:
5) Images, you can use relevant keywords for image file names on your webpage. You can also add ‘alternate text’ to the image within the html code, this is designed to help users that may have impaired vision and use computer software called ‘screen readers’ which is an audio tool that provides audio description of what is on the screen.
alt tex html tag: alt=”This text describes the content / picture on the image and will be read by screen reader and search engines”
Basic Steps to Follow to help improve search engine listings for your website
If your site is for your ‘business’ then you should submit it to Google Local Business: this can help you can gain top search results in Google for your business products or services using the Local Business service from Google. You will need to register for a googlemail account then submit your website / business details to Google’s local business centre.
http://www.google.com/local/add
Marketing your Website using Directories and Website Links
The next step is to get links to your website. This is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results. To do this you will need to list your website on as many websites and directories as possible. Directories operate in one of 3 ways: Paid Listing Directory, Free and Reciprocal Link Directories.
Paid Listing Directory: for a listing fee your website is listed, often these are higher quality directories as only serious website owners and business’s will pay to be listed. These are usually the fastest way to get listed and get links to your website, as the paid listing directories are run as a business. There are niche/specialist and general directories.
Free Directories: it can take a long time to get your website listed. As the service is free, there may be little or no control of the quality of websites being listed.
Reciprocal Link Directories: these again can take time before your website is listed and your website will only be listed after you provide a link to them.
Website owners wishing to promote their new website in the search engines are often in a hurry to ‘get results’ so the listing service offered by Paid Listing Directories is the fastest way to get links to your website.
1. You should try and get as many links to your websites as possible (add your website to directories)
2. Try to get keyword links, these are links that use ‘content relevant keywords’ as the anchor text.
Good Luck
View CommentWhere Can I Find A Tool That Tells Me What Keywords And Phrases People Search For To Find Products? I am looking for either a website or some sort of tracking tool that can provide a list of keywords/phrases and the number of people who searched for those words. I would also like to find out similar Search Engine Optimization tools. Any information will be helpful. Thank you.
View Commenthttp://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
View CommentWhat’s The Best Web Design Software To Build An Online Music Store? I’m looking for software that has more bang for the buck. I need web design software that has the following; 1) Search Engine Optimization 2) Database Shopping Cart 3) Import/Export databases 4) Web Storefront Software tools 5) Retail, Wholesale at once. Please let me know? Thanks!
View CommentThere is none.
All you need is notepad.
SEO needs no special software – in fact, if you do try to automate it any, you may find yourself banned from search engines.
For the rest, there are individual software packages.
And you need knowledge. If there were such software available, you would still need to know what you’re doing.
View CommentWhat Is The Single Best Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tool To Help Position A Brand New Website On Google? In the next few days I am posting a brand new website that will primarly feature photography of a particular Canadian province. I am also planning to publish at least one photography poster featuring my work. With these elements in mind, is there a particular SEO tool that I really should work with(?) or is there a set of tools that are considered the absolute best and most valuable?
View CommentSprank was too harsh regarding SEO.
Well SEO is one of the best and cost effective things which you can do with your business and gain lots & lots of popularity.
First step you should do is to look out for keywords using the following tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Search for keywords and you will also find some similar words related to your keywords. Decide on keywords which are most related to your business and do the following activities:
Social Bookmarking – It means bookmarking your website on various Social Bookmarking websites like digg.com, delicious.com, jamespot.com, fanpop.com etc.
Question & Answers websites. Answers questions related to your business and get visitors to visit your website. There are many Q & A websites like Yahoo Answers, Blurtit.com, answerbag.com. yedda.com etc.
Above two will help you get referral traffic and some dofollow links from bookmarking websites will also help you in increasing website popularity.
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization? I have been reading about optimizing your pages for search engines. I am after the best program to use to optimize my site. Are there good free ones around and do they all be optimized for google. Are there some programs that optimize your site which google does not like.
Would optimizing a site help in search engine placement?
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization is essentially is a process you go about in order to increase your rankings in search results in order to build your website presence and increase the number of visitors to your sites through the search engines.
I would recommend reading a few blogs and their respective articles to increase your knowledge on the subject.
http://www.best-seo-blog.com/
http://www.immhub.com/blog.html
And participate in a few forums
http://www.immforums.com/
http://www.digitalpoint.com/
http://www.blackhatworld.com/
There are tools out there that will help but I would not recommend any that automate processes for you as those are likely to have negative long term effects on you websites. And don’t waste your time looking for a tool that will put you in the top 10 spot on a Google search term because none exist that will not get your site removed from Google altogether.
You will need to spend time writing content for your sites and building quality inbound links to your sites in order to reach the top spots and stay there.
View CommentCan Anyone Give Me Any Tips On Search Engine Optimization (seo)? I created a website and would like some traffic to it other than one a day ? and was wondering how exactly seo works.. Can anyone give me any tips on how to make my site ranked high in search engines using seo and explain search engine optimization in general??
Thanks ?
View CommentSEO Tools:
Google Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
Search engine submission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sitemaps#Search_engine_submission
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/webmaster/toolbox/article.php/3828801 (Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Getting Started)
http://seo.alleycode.com/freetools.htm
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
10 top SEO tips that you can use to improve your website’s ranking on the search engines. Read the full article here:
http://www.elated.com/articles/10-essential-seo-strategies/
Ron
View CommentI Wanted To Know About Search Engine Optimization?
View CommentRanking high in the search engines — and improving your rank from #238 to #5 or better — depends on various factors that determine the relevance of your website as viewed by the search engines. This is called search engine optimization (SEO)
You can do the SEO yourself, or you can outsource it and hire a company to do it for you. If you do it yourself, be prepared to spend countless hours in webmaster’s forums to learn of new algorithms and new ranking schemes by the SEs. Ranking high on the SEs can be done – but it takes a lot of effort.
Search engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:
– Age = the older your site, the more favorable search engines look at it
– Quality of Content = the more original your content, the better
– Keyword density = the keywords your pages are competing
– How it fares in the results = when your page shows up in the search engines, are users clicking it and staying on your page or do they hit the back button immediately (which conveys to SEs that your page is not relevant)
– Site structure
– Backlinks = how many, and more importantly, what are the quality of the sites that link to you. The more “authoritative” the sites that link to you, the better your rank will be.
If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s “Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day.” http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm
WebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there’s a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)
Other resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:
Google Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/
Matt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ (Matt is a Google software engineer)
Digitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6
SearchEngineWatch’s MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
As for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today
Total Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/
View CommentKeyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php
Google Sitemaps (to help Google index your pages faster) https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en
What Is Search Engine Optimization? I’m trying to get a site listed and someone told me that I needed to start by doing search engine optimization. But, I’m not sure where to start.
View CommentSimple and best way to start learn SEO(search engine optimization ) with
Google web master tools
SEO book
SEO Chat
Lots of more webmaster forum where you can learn step by step seo process
On page optimization as well off page optimization
i hope help you lots
Thank you
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization? On my site, i have some of the post ranked on pages 2,4,6,1,3,1 and two other post i cant even find what page there on for the main post keywords of the articles. First question is how can i improve on them to get page one ranking. Secondly when i log onto google profile and i search these same keywords, the short post linking to my site that i create in google pluse usually comes up on page 1 of google when i do a search for the keywords but then i am logged off google plus, i dont see those google plus short post listed again. Why is this?
View CommentBy the way the site is at http://getmymoneyout.com thanks in advance.
Great question. It happened to me as well. I saw my site ranking high when I logged in and ranking lower when I am logged out. I think Google knows to identify your site when you log in by IP address and shows you your pages when you logged in. That’s why if you want to know the real ranking of your pages, it is better to be logged out. Also there is a great free tool in Google Adwords to check the search results as they are. It is called Google Adwords Ad preview Tool.
You put in your keyword, choose the country you want to see the ranking in and get the search results. I love this tool very much.
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization Tools? Have any one know about the tools of seo, tell me if you have.or have experiance to use
View CommentHere’s a definitive tutorial on how to set up your SEO metatags as well as proper design of your webpages.
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?…… and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain “generic” keywords, then anyone using
such “generic” queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, “Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?” And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the “Title” metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the “Description” which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – “Keywords” are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
“Spamdexing” when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Good luck!
View CommentHow To Understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Give a broad idea about SEO. What is the activities of SEO. How can I understand about SEO.
View CommentSEO have 2 techniques –
1.On page optimization
2.Off page optimization
1.On page optimization – By doing good On page optimization you have done 70% of the SEO of your website.
In this techniques there are many points where should we focus –
1.1 choose appropriate keyword for your website by Google Adword keyword tool.
Choose less competitive but higher searching keyword.
Use those keyword in your meta keyword and write a very good meta description by using those keyword with the variations.
2.1 Put anchor text at page where you want to do Seo.
3. Use header tags h1 ,h2 in the page.
4. Use alt tags to the images for image optimization.
5. Create Sitemap.xml and Ror.xml by using site sitemap.com.
Submit these maps to your root directory of the website.
6. Create Robots.txt and upload to the root directory.
Robots.txt file allow and disallow search engine to check pages.which pages should be crawled or which page should not.
7. Use those keyword with variations in your website description.
Highlight those keyword in your site description.
8.Add 404 page not found code to the Htaccess file ,if any user put wrong url in url tab then by this 404 page not found code user will move to your website and will no divert .
On Page Optimization contains 70% part of the SEO of website and Off page contains 30% part of the seo of your website.
2.
Off page optimization have many techniques –
1.Directory Submission – Do directory submission with high PR.Do free and resiprocal directory submission.
2.Blog Commenting – Do blog commenting relevant to your website with prefer comluv blogs. And do follow blogs.Add your url by using HTML code.
3.Article Submission – Do article submission that is relevant to your website.
4.Social Bookmarking – Do social bookmarking by using do follow social bookmarking sites.
5.Press release – Do press release .
6.Link Wheel – Make bogs relevant to your site with different contents and puts
your website and other blogs url to that blog.
7.forum posting – Do forum commenting and forum posting to the do follow forums.
8.Video Submission -Create video related to your site and post to that you tube.
9.Search engine submission -Submit your website to most popular website like google ,yahoo.bing.
10.Photo sharing – Share photos to most popular photo sharing site like flickr,picasa
11.Social Markting – Cretae pages to social netwoking site like facebook ,TWITTER ,GOOGLE+.Ask your frends to share that page
I think this will help u.
View CommentS.E.O Search Engine Optimization Tools? Are there any free programs of software out there that make your SEO that much more convinient and help you organize your keywords and your work which lets your safe time & effort running your campaign?
View CommentThe most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?…… and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain “generic” keywords, then anyone using
such “generic” queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical SEO metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, “Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?” And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of SEO Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the “Title” metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the “Description” which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – “Keywords” are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
“Spamdexing” when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Good luck!
View CommentWhat Are The Most Popular Words For Search Engine Optimisation? I have no idea about search engine optimisation. What are popular words that drive people to buy your products or get them interested? Are there free things that can help me with this? Or cheap things? If anyone can help and list them please do, i am in limbo?
View CommentHi,
The words is called as keyword in search engine optimization.
you have to research your keywords, related to your product, service and market before you start search engine optimization.
The whole process of finding a good keyword for your website called as keyword research.
There are so many free tool available for the keywords research, one of the best tool for keyword research is from Google. You can find that link in sources.
There are plenty of other keyword research tools are available, you can search them in Google. One from them is keywordspy.com
I hope this will work for you.
Thanks.
View CommentSearch Engine Optimization? Search Engine Optimization The Most Powerful Search Engine Marketing Software On The Web! <<<=== has anyone ever used these programs?
View CommentHi,
If your Web site have lots of pictures, but hardly any text (also called content or information). the search engines ignore graphics. They use software robots called spiders that spider your Web site (crawl through the text). Because you have very little content, the spiders will not find your Web site very tasty and will virtually ignore it.
Which means you will get very little traffic to your Web site in the form of visitors, surfers, tire kickers, etc. When you went looking for a Web Site Builder, you should have made sure that they did search engine marketing (SEM) or optimization (SEO) – creating the Web site is only 10% of the project. The other 90% is SEM.
To check how your Web site ranks go to (http://traffic-test.sitesell.com/waltera1.html). No data means that the search engines don’t know you exist, you are invisible to them. Invisible means no traffic = no visitors = no sales = no money.
Hiring an expert to do SEM is expensive.
You can apply to DMOS for a listing in their directory (http://dmoz.org/help/geninfo.html). It takes a long time to get accepted because a real person looks at your application, not a software robot like the search engine spider programs.
If you are lucky enough to get listed, Google will index your Web site. You can also submit your Google sitemap to Google to get them to index your Web site. You have to go to Google and get the URL for the sitemap and then create a separate Web page for that sitemap.
I assume you want to get a low page rank in Google. If that is true you need to do search engine marketing (SEM).
If you had the right Site Build It software, Site Build it software would do all submitting for you automatically.
Here is a tool you can use to check on how your Web site stacks up against other Web sites – (http://searchit.sitesell.com/waltera1.html). Check for Popularity to get Alexa Rank.
There are only 4 or 5 search engines worth submitting to, the rest are a waste of time and money.
The best way to get traffic is via lots of pages with quality content for the SEs to spider.
Craigslist is just one arrow in your quiver of search engine marketing arrows. It’s free.
Hey! Did you know that the major search engines are going local? They are spending millions on local search. This is just another reason to have your own Web site, such as whatever.com. You should definitely have a dot com as part of your URL. This is what surfers expect.
SEO or search engine marketing (SEM) is critical for the success of your web site. Without it, you will get no targeted traffic.
If you own a Web site, the Web site building software should have included SEO. Otherwise, using the software is a waste of time; the Web site building software is useless. SEO includes Internet marketing and while articles posting, etc. is important, the most important thing is to select the right keywords that people use to find your Web site. You need to do keyword analysis to find the best keywords for your Web site.
Then, you need to sprinkle those keywords onto your Web pages so that the search engines will find them as their spiders crawl your Web site as well as putting them in your Title, Keywords, headings and description.
Why? Think about how the major search engines work. They key on what word or phrases the users enter. How do you find keywords that users want? Use Google itself at this URL:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Just enter your keyword and it will tell you what the demand is for that keyword and how much it would cost to advertise it on Google via Google AdWords.
Supply and demand is important for keywords. You want to find the keywords with a huge demand, but very little supply.
Let me digress here and explain Supply and Demand. Assume that bad weather wipes out the coffee growing part of the world. The supply of coffee world-wide drops. But the demand is the same or increasing. Because there is a disconnect between the demand and the supply, the price of coffee goes up. It becomes a scarce commodity. Scarcity drives up prices. Look at oil and gasoline. There is plenty of oil, but the oil cartel, the companies that control how much oil is pumped out of the ground, decides how much to pump. They make sure they don’t pump too much. This would increase the supply and drive down the price of oil and gasoline. Same thing happens to coffee. The growers will plant more coffee to offset their bad year and soon the price of coffee plummets.
Same with keywords, some are scarce. Those are the ones you want, high demand, little supply.
Another good keyword analyzer is Wordtracker.com. This will cost you money, but it’s the best on the Web.
This is a very good book for building traffic: Search Engine Optimization – An Hour A Day by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. Their advice is mostly free.
With this book you do not need any costly SEO services.
There are Web site builders that do most of this SEO for you. Most free web site builders do not include SEO. That’s why most of them are a waste of time. Creating a Web site is easy, but it is only 10% of the job. The other 90% is SEO and it is critically important.
Do you know about Alexa rank? Alexa is an Amazon company that ranks Web sites. It takes the most active Web site which total about 65 million and compares your web site to all of them. Here is how to get to the Alexa Point Test:.http://traffic-test.sitesell.com/waltera1.html
If you have a rank under 500,000 you are doing good, it you are under 100,000 you are fantastic. Google is under 10. (http://traffic-test.sitesell.com/waltera1.html) Most free Web sites get a rank of “no data”; that means they are invisible to the search engines; they get no visitors, no targeted traffic. No traffic = no money.
The Web sites that score high on Alexa have lots of content. Content is king on the Internet. What is content? Its information, information that visitors find interesting and relevant to your keywords. The more pages you have on your Web site, the better. If you have only 5 or 6 pages, the search engines will ignore you. Once you get to about 30 pages, the search engines will begin to take notice. At that time you should begin to link to other Web sites. The search engines love links, but you must avoid link farms.
Trying to game the search engines is a thankless task. They have computer science PHds developing their search engine spiders. Do you think you can compete with them? Not likely.
Sneaky techniques are called “black hat” optimization. Won’t work. The SEs are changing constantly. You cannot find out what they do or how they do it. When someone finds a crack, they seal it up.
Linking is important. SEs love links. Site build it software includes automatic link exchanging.
Work hard to create more useful sites, more Web pages Get great software for building web sites. One that does SEO for you.
The best way to get more traffic is to have lots of pages, 100s of them, thousands are better, with relevant content (information). SEs love quality content.
If you have the right Site Build it software, the software submits to search engines automatically, as I said above.
How did you build your Web site? I hope it wasn’t one of those free web builder sites.
You see, there are lots of Web sites that will build a Web site for you. That’s where they end. Building a Web site as you probably know is only solving 5% of the puzzle. The other 95% is search engine optimization and internet marketing. Most Web Site Build It software will only do the first 5%, then they nickel and dime you to death with add-ons that purport to do SEO and internet marketing. Unfortunately most of them are scams.
So what is one to do if there is no help from your Web site building software. Do you know about NVU? This is a free web site builder that emuilates Microsofts Front Page and did I mention that it’s FREE. Go here to download: http://www.nvu.com/index.php. However, like most free Web sites it does not do SEM.
Get better software for Site Building. One that has some keyword analysis. Getting search engines to spider your Web site depends on your keyword selection.
Listen! The SEs find Web site by searching for keywords. If a Web site has the right keywords or phrases, the SEs will find it and send you to the front of the class.
But how do you know which keywords are the best. Ahhh! That’s the question and I will give you a web site that does keyword analysis and it’s free.
The Google AdWords Keyword Tool is an excellent preliminary brainstorming tool. Let’s say that you have ten ideas for a theme or Site Concept. This tool gives you a superb “high level snapshot” of how profitable each of your Site Concept possibilities might be. Here’s the URL: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal – remember, it’s free
Here’s a book you might find helpful: Increase Your Web Traffic In A Weekend by Jerry Lee Ford, Jr and William R Stanek.
Then, there is Brad Tabke’s “26 steps to 15K a day”. It boils down to solid content thoughtfully put together can make more impact than a decade’s worth of tweaks that may or may not work such as fiddling with META tags. Find his 26 steps here: (http://www.frihost.com/forums/vt-2797.html).
Brad also created and runs one of the best forums for Web site building information at: (http://www.webmasterworld.com/).
This is the exact same plan used by Site Build It. See Ken’s blog: (http://blogit.sitesell.com/waltera1.html). I’m not saying Brad stole it from Ken Evoy, but Ken developed what is known as the C + T + P + M formula.
This is how the formula works:
Create in-demand content (information) – C
Attract Targeted Traffic (visitors) – T
Presell Those Visitors – P
Monitize Presold Traffic – M
Content
Web users search for information, for solutions. They are not looking for you – they don’t even know you (yet!). They seek what you know. Give it to them. Convert your knowledge into in-demand Content. (http://ctpm.sitesell.com/waltera1.html) To succeed online, start where they start – at “the search.”
Traffic
Your topical content ranks high at the Search Engines (ex., Google, Yahoo!, MSN), attracting free, targeted (i.e., interested), open-to-you visitors. Basically, these future customers “meet you” at your site. These visitors are known as “Traffic.”.
PREsell
Complete strangers develop trust and confidence in you. Why? You “PREsell” by OVERdelivering what they seek… relevant, original, information.
Deliver it in your own voice, in your own way. Go beyond merely instilling confidence… your visitors will like you.
Monetize
Convert warm, willing-to-buy (“PREsold”) visitors into income. Called “Monetizing,” this is the easy part. But “M” cannot happen if you fail to first execute C T P. This is where 99% of small businesses fail.
Kindest Personal Regards,
Walt Brown
Site Build It Certified Webmaster
http://results.sitesell.com/waltera1.html
capecod1@capecod-beaches.com
wab@theworld.com
P.S. Start a blog to promote your Web site. Word press is a good one. It you have the right Web Site Build software, it includes a blog feature so that every time you create a new page, it gets posted on the Web as a blog. Turn your blog into articles and submit them to article sites with your URL.
P.P.S. You flat out do not have enough content on your Web site. If you did the SEs would find you. You need more information, more Web pages with quality content, to attract traffic via the SEs.. One page Web sites have no no content. Create more pages. Use the content to submit articles to article Web sites. Make sure the articles refer back to your Web page. This will attract more visitors and the SEs.
P.P.P.S. Good articles on search engine marketing here – no hype – (http://www.jehochman.com/articles/).
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