Archive for the 'Web Traffic' Category
This is actually a spin off of something I posted on a forum online. Someone had started a thread regarding looking for other ways to get traffic other than Google. They were frustrated with Google’s constant changes and loosing their high rankings.
Here’s an enhanced version with a little more detail for your benefit:
If you want to start competing with other search engines, I would probably start hanging out in other search engine areas in the forum and start asking questions. There is more to life than Google. I would HIGHLY recommend that no one puts all of their advertising in that one place. Just one Google Change could bring your whole business crashing to the ground.
You could also ask some questions about Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. This is a way to get targeted traffic from the Search Engines. Google Adwords is one that I concentrate on. You only pay when someone clicks your ad.
There are a lot of different ways to get traffic besides Google. A couple more might be: Continue Reading »
Something about Google’s constant algorithm change
The following are some ways to get repeat web traffic to your site
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Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.
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Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
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Allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
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Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.
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Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
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Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
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Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
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Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.
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Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.
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Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.
Does your website offer visitors a quick and easy way to recommend it to a friend? If not, you’re missing out on a potential gold mine of free traffic.
The benefits:
Just asking your visitors to recommend your website isn’t enough. You need to make it easy. Offer a form on your website your visitors can fill out to recommend it to a friend. Either put the form on every page of your website, put it in a pop-up window, or link to it on every page. Continue Reading »
How to Get Your Visitors To Tell A Friend
by Aiden O’Neill
Have you have ever checked to see how much of your site Google has indexed by using the site:www.domain.com command? If so you may have been puzzled to see results that said ‘Supplemental Result’ after the website URL.
What is a Supplemental Result? Well, briefly it is an index of web pages that Google has determined do not belong in the regular search index. Wait a minute, not showing in the regular Google search results? That is a lot of potential visitors to your site just lost because your pages are no longer showing up in regular Google searches. What can be done to get yourself out of Supplemental Hell? Continue Reading »
What is Google’s Supplemental Search Result and How to Deal with It.
By Matt Jackson
Your link profile is potentially the most powerful aspect of your SEO efforts, especially in the eyes of Google. Quality counts over quantity, but it is important to get a good list of well-balanced links pointing to your site. Diversification really is the key. Try not to concentrate all of your efforts on gaining links from one source, and similarly try not to gain them using a single method. A number of tactics should be avoided wherever possible because they either offer you no benefit whatsoever or your page may be penalized. Continue Reading »
SEO Basics - Good Link, Bad Link
By Jinger Jarrett
Although the internet is bombarded with articles, how many of those articles really get read?
It’s not enough to write what you think is a good article, you have to want to write articles others want to read. Continue Reading »
4 SEO Mistakes That Cost Your Articles Rankings
Wouldn’t it be great if your website was listed on the first page when your potential customers look for what you sell?
What if you had the very top position when they typed “your product category” into MSN, Yahoo or Google?
If you’ve had your website up for even one week, you’ve realized that getting to the top of the search engines is no easy task. The competition is fierce, isn’t it? And you have to constantly keep up with the search engine rules and regulations to keep your listing. Continue Reading »
Targeted Traffic - How Will You Achieve It?
Our Story
A few years ago, we were struggling to drive traffic to one of our websites. We were immediately overwhelmed with the amount of knowledge and skill it took to successfully drive traffic to our site. We had assumed that if we created a site that was worth seeing, it would be seen. We could not have been more wrong.
We ran into a number of companies who offered to take over this daunting task for us. We decided to try out a number of them to see how our competition stacks up.
They offered many packages of visitors. I remember my first purchase. I bought 5,000 targeted hits from them for $10. My product cost $15 at the time, so I figured at least 1 person out of 10,000 would purchase. The days went by, and my counter went crazy. Continue Reading »
Traffic Secrets - Secrets of the Guaranteed Traffic Companies Exposed
By Carolyn Clayton
Have you paid lots of money for a cool website design? Is your site looking all flashy and professional? Has it got cool a cool flash intro with lots of images? Have you spent lots of money developing a new site only to realise that you’re not getting any extra hits or business. It is hardly surprising with the amount of websites on the internet; this number could be in the region of 300 billion. So it is hardly surprising when you do a search on Google for something and you get thousands of results and you spend ages looking through the sites. Continue Reading »
Nice Website, Shame No-One Can Find It!
By Kevin Bidwell
Each week my articles are read by TENS of THOUSANDS of people. I would like to tell you that it is because I am such a wonderful writer. I would like to tell you that it is because my reputation as an Internet Guru compels people to listen to everything I say (kinda like those old E.F. Hutton commercials here in the US). I would like to say that it is because the things that I say are so profound that no one else provides the information that I do. Continue Reading »
How to Start a Business from Home: Writing for Traffic
