09.21.2007 | 11:31 am | Getting Started, Search Engines, Site Building, Sitemaps, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
You have been creating this wonderful site with great unique content.
But nobody is there!
Now what do you do?
How do you get visitors?
Initially you are going to need to do a lot of foot work to attract visitors to your pages. It’s going to take time too. Ideally you would like your site to appear #1 for your sites main keywords in Google. This will drive free targeted visitors which means these people were looking for what you have or are talking about.
So you are going to need to do a little research on how to get this done and the first places I sugest stopping by is Google Webmaster Help Center. There is a wealth of information to read on the ideal practices to increase chances of your inclusion into Google.com’s Search Results, how Google crawls your pages, Ranks your pages, in addition there are links and tips on fantastic tools like Google Sitemaps, Google Anylictics.
- Have sites link to your site: It is best if these sites have similar topics as your site
- Submit your site to Google .
- Submit a Sitemap of your site. This will help the Google bot be able to crawl your site’s pages better
- Let other sites, people, directories know about your site.
- Follow Googles other suggestions given as Webmaster Guidelines
You should get tons of information from the Google Webmaster Help Center that you will be able to apply to your site and keep you busy for a while. :0)
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09.19.2007 | 6:14 pm | Beginners, Getting Started, HTML, SEO, Search Engines, Site Building, Tips, Traffic, Visitors
SEO is an acronym that stands for Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is various techniques used to improve the ranking of a website in search engines listings.
SEO can also be considered as a subset of internet marketing as it provides a valuable service for your business. Search Engines provide new targeted customers who are looking for you and are ready to buy.
Creating a new industry, many coperations as well as small business websites tend to hire SEO consultants who undertake optimization projects on behalf of clients’ sites. But so much of it is pretty straight forward stuff that you can do it yourself.
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09.17.2007 | 11:30 am | Blog Rush, Blogs, Site Building, Traffic, Visitors, freebies
I just found this new way to increase traffic blogs and the best part is its free! It’s called Blog Rush. And its a bit like a banner exchange program where you collect “credits” for showing the Blog Rush code as well as for clicks/visitors you send. The banner for Blog Rush contains links to blogs with topics similiar to yours. You can see an example down and to the right. I think this is a fantastic idea to be able to reach readers of other blogs like yours! They are saying that they are having a good amount of growth already & I just signed up so lets see how it goes.
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08.6.2007 | 6:07 pm | Getting Started, Income, PPC, Site Building, Visitors
For those who already have a site with some content and maybe even some traffic too should begin testing and gathering information on what ad programs work best for your sites niche. I personally have tried several programs and find that many are not going to work on my site at all or maybe just made a small amount. But there are a few that make a moderate amount as well as even performs beyond my initial expectations.
Don’t disregard programs that don’t make a lot because each little bit helps and multiplied by thousands of visitors this can really add up. And keep in mind that some times if you spend time investigating and customising ads to work better with your site this will increase your revanue as well. I found it to be benificial to find a select few programs and become very literate in how the programs work and keep work with them until you find the best fit for your site.
There are so many differant programs out there that you can use to make money from your website. There is Pay-Per-Click, Contextual, Affiliate, Direct and several others. All these programs are waiting for you to make money from why not give it a try!
AuctionAds
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08.6.2007 | 4:37 pm | Getting Started, Income, Site Building, Visitors
In order to make an income online you are going to need people. So traffic or visitors to your website is going to be your main goal for quite a while. In order to gain visitors initially as well as earn their return visit you will need to have a site with quality content that is valuable to your visitors. This is very important as we all hate to end up at a site that runs you in circles and gives you little or none of the information you are looking for.
So make sure to take the time to do it right. While it is possible to make money quickly online I suspect that your goal as a work at home mother is more of a long term stable income, right? Well then you are going to need to put some thought, heart, time and a lot of work into this but I garantee if you do this you will be on your way to financial freedom.
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11.14.2005 | 4:15 pm | Google, Site Building, Visitors
Guess what webmasters? Google wants you to attract more of the traffic you are looking for, and help you turn more visitors into customers. And even better it’s free!
What is Google Analytics?
Google Analytics is a free full-featured powerful set of statistics and reports that will help you understand various things about your sites visitors. There are over 80 different reports available to track your visitors.
- How a visitor found your site
- What pages they visited
- Identify common exit pages
- Identify navigation bottlenecks
- How you can make their visit better
- Drive targeted traffic
- Improve conversion rates and increase your sites profit (increase ROI)
- Track performance of AdWords Campaigns, Email Campaigns and various other marketing campaigns
- Track Keywords and SEO efforts
- Can be integrated with your AdWords if you have one
Are you sure it’s free?
Yep it’s free. Google recently bought out a program called Urchin. They are now offering this same or similar service, which others have stated cost quite a pretty penny to use($200 a month), for free for those who have up to 5 Million page views per month(per account) or if you are an active AdWords user with a campaign in good standing you will be provided this service free without any page view limitations.
I found the Google Analyticssign up process quite simple as I just signed up myself (I already had a google login). I have the code set up on several sites and am no waiting for the reports to start coming back!
Google Analytics
Google Analytics Support and FAQS
New York Times Google Analytics Article
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