What is the best way to bring traffic to a website appart from SEO?
I have a website that is only very small ( 4 pages ) and there isn’t that much text on each page so I suppose SEO wouldn’t be very effective with this website.
What other alternatives do I have? What is the most effective thing you have ever done to your website?
Ok, time for the truth. Content is not king, no matter what someone tells you. That was a gimic by content writers to sell their services. As long as your pages are targeted and some good onpage is completed, quality links will get you top positions in the major search engines.
I have always said that "king content" has no kingdom online without a throne of links.
I have argued with the so called "guru’s" over the years and called out many. Let’s compare traffic and bank accounts of the "king content" crowd against my throne of links and we can settle this dispute once and for all. I have never had a taker, not one! because it is lies and deceptions.
You have 2 options for traffic that will convert, that is SEO or PPC. The reason for this is because it makes YOU the target, not the other way around.
Would you rather be looking for money, or money looking for you?
When you do banners, social and other marketing, you are looking for money in the general population of the internet. With PPC and seo, you are in the right place at the right time every time, so they are looking for you "by keyword search".
When you place an ad on the radio, you are betting that a small precentage of people are interested in what you have to say or offer. This is mass marketing and has a very low return on investment. This is the same as "other" marketing plans online, like banners , social and all of the other crap these other people are telling you to do.
Now, PPC and seo are like having the first ad in the yellowpages for what you offer, and that is HUGE because they are hunting you.
So when you have an active potential customer that is directly interested, your conversion rates will go through the roof.
I would rather have 200 keyword specific visitors thn 2 million non keyword visitors.
Your title is the most important onpage factor for seo, and you can have limited content and gaine some great traffic that will convert. So don’t buy the lies.
Originally posted 2010-01-14 17:47:24.
8 Linking Strategies That Work
When it comes to linking strategies for your website you need to concentrate on one word. Backlinks! A backlink is defined as having your website address on another website. This creates a link pointing your visitor or a search engine back to your website. If you were in a game and were keeping score every backlink gives you a +1. An outoging link is the link of another website on yours pointing back to theirs. You would score this a -1.
If you were playing a game to win you would want the most pluses you could get. So it is with linking strategies. Here are some basic ways to get backlinks to your website.
1. You can buy a text link. Websites that get high amounts of traffic and are ranked high with the top search engines will let you pay them to put your website link on their site.
2. Forum marketing is a way to get a backlink. If the forum let’s you create a signature file you can hyperlink you website to a keyword phrase pointing back to your website. You can also list your website in your online profile and get a backlink that way,
3. Writing and submitting articles is a quick way to get alot of backlinks. Create a bio box at the end of each article with a link for your website. Then submit your article to as many directories as possible. Or even better yet use a software of article marketer to submit your articles for you.
These articles can be picked up by other directories, webmasters, or online newsletters and spread all over the internet giving your website a viral marketing benefit.
4. Place classified ads with popular directories like USFreeAds or AdlandPro. Upgrade to paid member and you can place unlimited ads with links pointing back to your website.
5. Blog and ping. In each blog post include a sort resource box with your website address. If you archive you posts this gives you backlinks for years to come.
6. Trade links with quality websites. We are not talking about reciprocal linking to directories with thousands of worthless links. A better strategy is to trade a link with a website that closely mirrors your site without being in direct competition to it. Also look to place their link on one of your pages that has the same page rank as the link they are giving you.
7. Post comments on other peoples blogs. Take the time to read the post before you make a comment. Don’t write something worthless like ” I like your blog.” Make your comments informative and relate to the blog post you just read. Then include your website address along with your name.
8. Internal linking can bring valuable backlinks to your home page. This would be when you put your website address in a hyperlinked keyword phrase and point it back to your home page. This is a great way to build keyword relavancy along with building up your backlinks.
These are a few linking strategies that work. There are many others. Just keep it simple and remember this simple formula.
Jeff Casmer
http://www.articlesbase.com/link-popularity-articles/8-linking-strategies-that-work-102059.html
Originally posted 2009-02-26 13:54:59.
What are the best social bookmarking sites for search engine optimization?
I’m trying to promote my website by social bookmarking the content on my site? Which social bookmarking site should I spend my time on? And does anyone have any tips on the best practices or strategies for this type of search engine optimization?
List of best book marking sites is here >http://webisgood.blogspot.com/2009/04/best-321-social-bookmarking-sites-list.html
This list is enough to drive sufficient traffic .
Tips to improve traffic
1) remember content is king
2) Stick to quality guidelines from search engines ,refere googles webmaster guideline
3) Make unique page content,title,description etc ,don’t use same title or description for pages
& try to compare top ranking websites
Originally posted 2009-12-11 02:02:14.
Advantages of Search Engine Optimization (seo)
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the best way of preparing a website for marketing to the search engines, such as Google,
Yahoo and MSN. This enables it to attracts a high volume of visitors by securing top page rankings for the websites most relevant
search Key words or terms and phrases.
Benefits of Search Engine Optimization can be achieved only by forming some of the SEO campaign. It is very essential for your
company’s marketing strategy over the web. Search Engine Optimization is the only most beneficial and fruitful way of reaching the
high profit margins by marketing on the web. As the survey shows that 85% of Internet users find websites through search engines. To
make your business more successful online, you need to start a search engine optimization campaign.
If you aren’t in the top 10 for your market, you are unlikely to get much traffic from any search engine. And Google is the most
important search engine in the world today. Here are some facts to illustrate why:
Top search results in major Search Engine provide you with a world wide and global exposure with just some of the SEO promoting
techniques. Our customers have realized the benefits of SEO after getting our SEO Expert’s marketing service. This SEO Promotion
increases visibility of your website. A Top 10 ranking on the Google search engine can generate a substantial amount of daily traffic
to your website at minimal cost.
Getting listed at the top of search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, and staying in the top positions for the keywords that
are most relevant to your business requires a professional search engine optimization strategy that has been designed specially for
your website.
Search engine optimisation can be performed on virtually any websites and is one of the most powerful ways of advertising for any
business wanting to secure a stable online presence.
Almost everyone that uses the internet use search engines and website directories as a starting point to find what they are looking
for. Over 90% of people online use the top search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Only the websites that appear on the first few pages of the search engine results attract a larger number of visitors and potential new
business. Mostly results in the top 30 are considered and viewed, anything after that is generally dismissed. Search engine
optimization is an extremely cost effective way to market your website. Rather than PPC (Pay-Per-Click) campaigns as you are
charged charged a set monthly fee rather than paying for every click to your website.
Achieving search engine positioning, just does not gives better Page Rank, but it increases web traffic on your site. This traffic may
be some times fruitful and may help you in achieving better goals and Increases leads,Targeted Traffic , Increase brand visibility ,
High ROI , Higher Sales , Long term positioning , Cost-effective ,Accessibility , Cross-browser compatibility , Navigable by the
engines , Usability , sales and profits from your website. Search Engine Optimization improves your online presence and the SEO
strategies also help in increasing your company’s reputation. And this reputation can also help you achieving customer confidence.
deep raj
http://www.articlesbase.com/seo-articles/advantages-of-search-engine-optimization-seo-93205.html
Originally posted 2010-08-07 01:17:27.
Live From Madison Square Garden, SEO Vs Sem!
A great evening in Manhattan, a fantastic atmosphere in Madison Square Garden. Web business people is waiting this match for a long time. One side there is Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing on the other, both seems fit and there is desire to win on face. Last years both sides challenged to other but they never came to face to face. Before the match starts, lets take a short look to their career, strength and weaknesses.
Called SEO is short term of Search Engine Optimization. A milestone in web business since the search engines are the main source for web users before they buy services or products online. Finest and most trustable data source with their high indexing capacity and different logical algos working on the back round may depend on your rankings while results are listed. As most web users do not look much after the 3rd pages of results, web business owners are directly influenced. A web surfer can be your client if your web site is ranked at the top of search results but how you get listed at the top of a major engine? Even there are different algos powering the search engines the main theory is mostly same, simple algo stands on location and frequency. A crawl base search engines use spiders a web site and classifies with different principles to define the ranking. A fact about algo can be changed or improved for search quality. I’am sure all professionals will remember Florida Update on Google. Indeed it was an earchquake more than an update, many results were changed or disappeared on Google, some high rankings even lost from the index. Actually general Google algo is formulated as Relevance Score , PageRank , Local Score with other tweaking , tuning or filtering aspects. Main development point of a search algo is how much off page factors are important and their degrees take part in your algo. The theory on here is not giving much control to webmasters with on page factors .Other search engines do not use Page Rank since Page Rank is a trademark which belongs to Google. Avoiding any spamming , manipulation trials, over optimization or even cloaked content, engines are modifying or changing the degrees ,adding new variables on their algo time to time but all work done is to provide higher search relevancy and quality for users. (Relevance score is SEO efforts, Page Rank is Link building efforts for Google and Local Score is links from expert documents) As seen from the formula, SEO efforts only work on relevance score and vary your ranking 10% if you hired a SEO professional but this can increase 18% if your SEO is master level. I would like to talk about Yahoo and Live search engines’ secrets either but as mentioned they are my professional secrets for now, if you don’t know these, its impossible to get top results on Yahoo or Live.
Search Engine Marketing (Pay Per Click) is paid inclusions as seen Sponsored Results on engines based on pay per click. This marketing tool has been increased enormously in these years, even with expensive per click rates. In some keywords or phrases a click may cost 10€ ( online dating industry) whether visit converts to a lead or not. Ads buyers are ready to pay these high per click bills because SEM efforts bring more revenue than they spent. How this technology works while displaying the ads? Lets say few words about Google Adwords. Google has 2 different networks such as search network and content network. Search network means Google powered search results that you may see on any website with a search bar using Google’s search technology. Content network is different spidering technology and matching the search query and web site content. If you have a web site with high quality and useful content, you may apply and get involved Google’s Adsense network to make money. Google will classify your content and display related ads when a search query is matched as you have probably seen Ads by Google on web.
If SEO and SEM are powerful marketing tools which is the best and effective on sales conversion rates? This is the fatal question, both have advantages changing to the case, then lets compare:
A)In SEM, your web site does not need a change in most cases. If you want high conversion rates, a SEM professional should prepare high quality landing page is necessary only, not your entire design. On the other hand SEO may require some major design changes to get good spidering by engines.
B)PPC Ads charged when clicked only, displaying your ads will not cost you anything but poor Click Through Rates will increase your minimum per click costs. SEO visits are free of charge as visitors comes by clicking the natural search results from a search engine. Most visitors likely to trust a site they find on a search engine, they feel like natural results have been approved by the search engine.
C) SEM brings very quick results to analyze your campaign while SEO effects can take long time on ranking. On Adwords, just 15 minutes is enough to display your campaign on screen but SEO results may take up to 3 months on engine’s ranking.
D) ROI and Conversion rates are higher in SEM because you may design different landing pages according to your major products or services with price charts, feature comparison tables .However in SEO, you can not make these much because your most powerful PR page is your homepage so your sub pages which includes your product specification will not get listed higher than your main page.
E) Targeting is easy in SEM with campaign settings option. You may target national ,regional or international geographical areas depending on your shipping options. Google has features to promote your local business with accessing your business address or just selecting distribution area on Google Map. Another useful tool is matching options are enables you to select broad ,phrase,exacxt or negative matches while displaying your ads.When you prefer SEO, you can not prepare different target pages as they will be sub pages and will not get listed higher than your main page as above.
F) SEM limits you with your budget because your ads campaign will stop displaying when your daily, keywords or monthly budget is reached while SEO results longer even months after optimization work is done.
Finally who wins this match? Well, this depends on your expectation, budget and targets from your campaigns. As long years professional , I dont have a preference . Each business needs different campaigns, you may select to attract new clients in both tools while achieving your corporate targets.
Ladies and Gentlemen, unforgettable match is about to start in Madison Square Garden, please sit back and watch this.
Erkan Meydanlioglu,Mr
http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/live-from-madison-square-garden-seo-vs-sem-120682.html
Originally posted 2009-12-15 00:44:16.
Making a Career in SEO — An Industrial Revolution
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the successful methods of advertising today. Anyone can learn, practice, and gain experience from optimizing technique. As Internet today, is the most convenient and cost effective means of communication, online advertising, especially through SEO means can work wonders for those vying to remain the cynosure in the business world.
Traditional Vs. Online Advertising – Which is the Best?
Earlier, traditional advertising was the only way to promote a product. It was costly, time consuming, and laborious. However, an expert in online advertising, such as SEO, Pay-per-Click (PPC), etc. would be able to quash all these factors through apt SEO methods – making it the viable, affordable, and quick way to promote a company or product.
A career in conventional advertising is stereotyped and requires full attention from those who pursue this option. On the other hand, an SEO expert does not have to invest in large amount –either money or time. The return would however, be unexpectedly high.
So, while you are making a career choice in advertising, why not choose a medium which appeals to the global market and is measurable as well? SEO can be the best medium to satisfy incumbent professionals who want to make it big in the market.
SEO marketing also allows professionals to communicate with the customers to understand their needs. While an ad in a billboard would be a passive way to reach out to the mass, the same is not true for SEO marketing. Through SEO, an expert would be able to charter a customized product or service for a customer.
SEO – What’s the USP?
The Unique Selling Proposition (USP) of SEO means of advertising is that a website can be right at the top of important search engines without spending money. An SEO expert would be able to attract target audience in large numbers without having to invest in passive promotional means.
SEO has opened a new vista to professionals from all walks of life. For instance, a techie, graphic designer, content developer, sales executive, team leader, etc. can make their mark in SEO field. It is also highly lucrative and satisfying.
Why Choose SEO?
A graphic designer would perhaps be content with web designing. However, designing the page or writing interesting content is not the only way to be successful. An intelligent thought in providing correct keywords and phrases, or clever animation can help the website attain top ranking in search engines.
Once the website gets a high rank, traffic would flow and potential customers would be generated. For this reason, many companies look for professionals with SEO knowledge when hiring people.
SEO – A Revolution Today
It is really incredible to find out how many jobs have been created with the introduction of SEO and other online advertising modes. Not only direct SEO marketing helps people earn money, commissions and referrals have also made their way in this market.
There is complete freedom as there is no client to report. There is flexibility in time and effort. In other words, as you deal with customers directly, there can be innumerable ways to express benefits and USP of a product. Nothing would be wrong.
SEO – Rise of Affiliate Marketing
Today, SEO has given rise to different forms of marketing. Affiliate Marketing is one such way. Here, marketers who are experts in a field can earn huge commissions even when he is holidaying or sleeping. An expert can work on this own, create a beautiful website with apt content, and earn huge amount of money.
Earning is unlimited. In fact, the projects can be developed one after the other and each would generate “passive cash”.
The Success Mantra
The SEO success lies in sincere effort from a professional who truly knows his subject. With rankings changing rapidly and everyone trying for that key spot, SEO skills need to be pursued at all times. It is also important that you don’t fall prey to link spamming, Black Hat SEO, and other illegal ways to promote a website.
A website blacklisted by a search engine loses its prestige it had earned all this while within minutes. Learn the correct, legal, and efficient ways of SEO skills and master them intuitively through constant practice.
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Originally posted 2010-06-30 15:19:00.
