Friday, October 31, 2008
Website Traffic
If, for some reason, you haven't realized this little tidbit of information you soon will. When I started my first website, I thought that traffic would somehow magically appear. I'll give you one guess as to what happened? No traffic appeared.
I quickly figured out that you had to literally go out and get it. That is unless you have a big advertising budget. And if you do have a big advertising budget, get ready to waste some money figuring things out because there are a ton of unscrupulous companies making unrealistic claims about bringing traffic to your site.
The traffic puzzle is a tough one, there's no question about it. If you're attempting to generate money on the Internet, traffic is the key. Not just traffic, but quality traffic and lots of it. So if you have a website, and have the intention of generating money, start researching ways that you can drive traffic to your site. By the way, one of those ways is through writing articles. Just remember: you can never have enough traffic and traffic is harder to come by than you may think.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
4 Steps to SEO Success
1:Choosing the right keywords: - There are a number of useful tools available that can tell you what search terms are being searched form, including Keyword Discovery and Google's Traffic Estimator. There is little point in guessing what people may search for and you don't want to appear for what you think people will search for without knowing that others are using those same phrases. For example, if you are a Web Design company how do you know which search term is the most used? It could be any "Web design company",” Web design services", " Web design companies", etc. Knowing which keywords are the most used is absolutely critical.
2.Competition Analysis: - Using your keyword analysis the next step is to check the level of competition for each of the keyword. Here you need to know the number of competing pages which is shown at the top of the results page on Google. Generally the higher the number of results for a search term, the more difficult it will be to appear towards the top of the listings. Then you can use a back links analyzer to see how many inbound links each of the top 10 search results have to their site. This will give you an idea about how many links you will need to build in order to obtain a top 10 placement for that search Engines.
3:Web Site Optimization:-Having determined the most used keywords and analyzed the competition levels you should now have a prioritized shortlist of search terms under which you would like to position your website. Now we need to build these phrases into your site content. These terms need to appear in your page title, description, keywords, around three times within the descriptive text on the page and should also be within your site's link anchor text.
4:Link Building:-Once you have optimized your site it is time to begin the link building work. it is under the off page optimization of the website. One way link Building or you can say one way link Exchange is the best way to increase the traffic of your website Directories such as dru.com, splut.com and hotfroguk.co.uk are ideal for this type of work. If you have your own links page it is recommended to establish some reciprocal links with related businesses. For example, a bed & breakfast provider could exchange links with local attractions, restaurants and activity providers. Link building does not improve your site's placement overnight, but it is an ideal short-medium term strategy for ensuring a high placement on Google.

