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Nov 29 2008

Analyzing the Competition - Check Indexes

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The beauty of the Internet is the inherent open nature of competition. It is so open, you can check indexes when analyzing the competition to improve your site.

Analyzing the Competition

A key step to any search engine optimization effort is to analyze the competition. The simplest way to do this is to simply go to their site and look at the code. Most browsers let you do this by clicking the “view” tab and then selecting “source.”

You competition isn’t stupid. Many sites will bar browsers from showing source code using the above technique. If your competition takes this step, is there anything you can do? Yes, there is.

Indexes

Almost everyone knows how to check if his or her site is indexed in a search engine. Simply go to the engine and search for “site:yourdomainname.” This technique can also be used to see what your competition is up to.

If you want to see a glimpse of how a competitor is pursuing search engine optimization, check how many pages are indexed in the relevant search engine. Do a search for “site:competitorsdomainname.” You’ll be presented with a list of their pages, the meta title and meta description. This works particularly well with Google.

The resulting list of pages can be analyzed in a couple of different ways. First, you can isolate the particular keywords being pursued by the site. These should then be compared to your site to ascertain whether you’re missing anything. You almost always are missing a key niche. Second, you can analyze the meta description to see both the layout and particular formation of sentences and keyword placement they are pursuing. Again, compare it to yours. Using this process, you can get an idea of how your efforts differ from a competitor.

Importantly, this approach should not be overvalued. It is only a glimpse of the competitor’s site, not a thorough review. It will tell you nothing about how pages are arranged, keyword density approaches and so on. You’ll have to hunt and peck around the site for that information. Still, the meta information gained from this approach makes it worth a go if you are shut out from the code of a site.

Halstatt Pires is with the Internet marketing firm - MarketingTitan.com - an Internet marketing company in San Diego, which offers online database solutions through BusinessCreatorPro.com for ecommerce.

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Nov 27 2008

Getting Traffic to a Website is Difficult - But Not Impossible

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The internet is the only place in the world where more traffic is not only considered beneficial, having more of it is readily welcomed. In fact, today’s internet marketing campaigns are centered at ingenious strategies (and sometimes downright sneaky tactics) to channel traffic onto websites.

Traffic is defined as the movement along a thoroughfare or a given point on the thoroughfare. It is the most elementary variable or statistic in gauging the success of a website. For a website traffic is the number of people who pass by your website. These are the internet surfers who open up your link, and dropped into your website. The more traffic you have, the more popular your website. Traffic translates to page and banner views and clicks on links and ads.

But there’s traffic and there’s quality or targeted traffic. This is the difference between window shoppers and regular shoppers. Non-targeted traffic are like window shoppers, they are just browsing with no idea what they are looking for. Targeted traffic are the shoppers who are looking for something and are checking out your website if you have what they want.

The top three ways to drive traffic to your site is via Search Engine Optimization, Article Submissions and Viral Marketing.

Sure, there may be other ways to drive traffic to your site, and that includes targeted advertising to traffic sites where you pay on per view, or per click. But when it comes to making it work without a budget, driving traffic to your website could be done for free, and quite successfully at that!

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Nov 27 2008

The No.1 Method to Get Free Traffic to Your Web Site

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The easiest and most powerful method to get free traffic to your web site at zero cost is writing and submitting articles. It is commonly known as articles marketing. There is an author resource box after every article which directly links back to your web site. The articles that you submitted to the articles directories are a simple yet very effective way to build up that targeted traffic to your web site. If your traffic is highly targeted, most likely you will convert your traffic into sales. That is what you wanted. Isn’t it?

Writing articles are very effective because of its viral nature. Articles that are published on web sites or in newsletters will bring traffic to your web site. If your articles are really informative and provide value to readers, most likely they will share the articles and post in onto their blogs too. In such case, people will also brand you as an expert because of the knowledge that you have in a particular field. This builds up your credibility.

By submitting your articles to directories, you are also likely to increase your web sites’ page rank. Many directories have relatively high page rank and when you have your web sites linking to these directories, you will also have a higher page rank for your sites too. A higher page rank can lead to a higher search engines ranking as they regard your web site as an authority site. In the long run, there is high chance that you may rank well for your web sites and thus enjoying free organic search engines’ traffic as well too!

The only real disadvantage of article marketing is that you need time to write your articles. And don’t expect you will get tons of traffic by just submitting a few articles. You may need to submit many articles before you can see the full effect coming in. If you don’t have the time to write the articles yourself, you may consider outsourcing your article writings by hiring a ghost writer to do the job for you.

As you can see, there are many benefits in writing and submitting articles. If you are looking for traffic in the long run, article marketing is the still the no.1 method to get free traffic to your web site.

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Nov 26 2008

Make Your Own Twitter Traffic Machine

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Twitter is a fast growing “micro-blogging” service and social network all wrapped into one. After some bumpy roads & strong growing pains the free service that allows hyper-connectedness & an interesting way to express “what you’re doing” at any given time, seems to be on the fast track now to becoming the next mega success story online.

Twitter was founded by Evan Williams, who is no rookie to bringing creative ideas to multi-million dollar reality. Evan was a blogging pioneer and has created & grown web properties that have attracted the attention of the big dogs, including Google.

One of Evan’s past web projects grew to be so huge, in fact, that Google bought him out for a multi million dollar price tag.

Rather than reclining on a beach chair & sipping Coronas for the remainder of his life, Evan decided to try his hand again, when he thought up the concept of “micro-blogging.”

In all our modern day internet hustle & bustle there’s come a need for brevity… short, to the point, yet meaningful messages.

Evan’s idea for Twitter was a service that not only allows people to post short “micro-blog” entries (by enforcing a self-created parameter that only allows users a maximum of 140 characters per post), but also helps people stay connected through the use of followers, text messages, and @replies.

The Twitter faithful are even coining their own new lingo to describe some of the everyday actions that take place on the site. “Tweets,” for example, are the term used to describe each of your short, 140 character or less, posts to update your Twitter profile.

In this article the aim is to go over a simple overview of the everyday things you’ll need to know in order to get started on Twitter & set yourself up for maximum exposure using this free service.

First off, you’ll need to go create an account by visiting the site and following the easy to follow prompts for creating a new account.

Once you’re all setup, be sure to visit the “Settings” tab and customize your profile and also enter a short bio, along with the URL to your website.

In order to double the chances of getting a click, I’d also recommend including a hyperlink within your bio, in addition to the hyperlink you’ll enter in the box for your web URL.

The next thing you’ll want to do is visit the “Devices” tab and get your account setup so that you can send tweets on the go from your mobile phone.

The steps for confirming your mobile device to work with Twitter are easy to follow and you’ll be up and rolling in no time flat.

Once you’ve got your new account created and have configured your settings & mobile, it’s time to start tweeting.

Remember, you’ll be limited to 140 characters per message so choose your words wisely. If you’d like to include a hyperlink with your Tweet you should consider shortening it down using a free tool like Tiny URL, or Snip URL.

Be careful not to come off as too spammy by including links in every Tweet… get involved with the Twitter community and share some of your daily activities with your followers so you can get a real feel for what it’s all about before sucking traffic out… its got to be a give-give relationship!

Now, to really get yourself on the fast track and start adding new followers fast, the best advice is to follow people who you find interesting, and single out those who already have a large followership. Tweet regularly and often using your mobile, the Twitter site, and even handy third party applications like “Twhirl.”

Anytime you see a new Tweet from someone you are following send them an @reply by including the “@” sign + their Twitter username in a message responding to their original tweet.

By sending users an @reply you’ll get their attention, strike up conversations, and best of all - put yourself in the public spotlight so that all of their followers will take notice of you.

Before you know it, you’ll be addicted to Twitter and will have a massive followership as well!

Once you’ve built a followership it’s easy to get visitors to your site by using services like TwitterFeed anytime you post a new blog entry, TweetLater to automatically direct message new followers, and other little known tips & tricks for putting it all on auto-pilot.

Twitter is a new revolution in communications and may be the first glimpse at Web 3.0. I recommend getting setup on Twitter today so you can ride this new wave into the future and enjoy it for all it’s worth!

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Nov 24 2008

10 Web Design Mistakes

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1. Pages that are too large and take too long to download.
If a page from your website takes more than a couple of seconds to display, then it’s too big. There is nothing worse than clicking on a web address and waiting, waiting, waiting…

2. Navigation (menus) that are confusing or inconsistent.
Few things are as frustrating and will turn off an audience faster than a confusing navigation system.

3. Absent or hidden contact details.
If you want visitors to buy something (either from your website or directly) they will need an address, email and phone number as a minimum. These should be easy to find, all in one place, on the ‘Contact Details’ page of your website. Generally, people don’t trust companies without basic contact details included on their websites. Banks also don’t generally approve businesses for Internet Merchant accounts if full contact details are not displayed on the website.

4. Background Music.
The fastest way to get someone in an open-plan office, surfing the net at lunchtime to leave your website is music! Other viewers also often find it extremely annoying.

5. Flash Animation for the sake of it.
Do we really need that thing blinking all the time? It might be clever the first time, but after that, it’s just annoying!

6. Websites which don’t match your other marketing material.
A website might look great, but if it doesn’t match your business card etc (uses a different colour scheme and style), it doesn’t represent your business properly. All marketing material should present a united image.

7. Pages designed only for one screen resolution and/or browser.
Currently most users view websites with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, but other resolutions are frequently used. Remember those website which said something like “this website is best viewed using 800×600 resolution” - sorry, but what users actually understand that! Your website should be about the user’s experience.

8. Complicated or busy backgrounds that make text difficult to read.
You do want people to read your website don’t you?

9. Misspellings/typos/poor grammar.
These don’t add much credibility to your business.

10. Text that is difficult to read. Practices like centering everything on the page or typing all text in CAPS make the information very difficult to read.

Vicky Hamilton-Gibbs is the Director of Abacus Design, a Sydney based web design company. Abacus Design specialise in websites for small businesses.

If you have any questions, please contact us at http://www.abacusdesign.com.au.

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Nov 24 2008

Outsourcing Web Design & Redesign Work

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Not too long ago being an all encompassing website builder was not only possible, it was pretty common. You could put together a site with just a few scripts and a basic ‘design’ and it was job done. These days, with the explosion of ‘Rich Internet Applications’, the ‘Web 2.0′ movement and the average website vastly increasing in both size and complexity, it is more common to find a large project divided into two; a design project and a programming project. Although the work flow will still include some overlap between areas, this enables each person or each team to concentrate on what they are best at.

Although it is not impossible to be both a great programmer and a great designer, most of us are not so lucky or gifted. Even within the field of web programming, simply trying to keep pace with the rapid evolution of so many different technologies is hard work on its own. Many sites incorporate a mixture of technologies to provide a richer experience for the user, such as Flash, Ajax or Silverlight, interacting with a SQL database via object-oriented PHP or ASP.NET. Design is also a demanding field, with aspects of traditional print design making the move to the web, and with users demanding innovative user interfaces, intuitive navigation and a more vibrant and exciting (not to mention accessible and standards-compliant) world to explore.

Outsourcing web design and redesign work to a freelancer can free up your time to work on the areas you specialise in and let a design specialist work on his. It can help to alleviate the pressure of a tight deadline and result in you becoming more productive and producing better work for your client. Even if you have both designers and programmers on staff, there may be times when the workload becomes too much to manage as lots of projects arrive at once.

You may find that some freelancers are able to work for extremely competitive rates, so as well as saving you time and stress it can also save you money, and since most freelancer websites utilise some form of review system, it can be really easy to check the reputability of a freelancer you are thinking of hiring. Many freelancers will also have a vast portfolio of work for you to assess before giving them the job, meaning you will know in advance if they can handle your kind of work and how closely their design work matches what you’re looking for to fulfill your client’s brief.

The benefits of outsourcing work don’t stop there. Hiring freelancers can also be a great way to give your company’s portfolio a boost and raise its profile as you take on more challenging projects. If your company has not previously been involved in web design work, a freelancer can be used to take care of the occasional web design request from a client, preventing that client from taking his business elsewhere and helping your company to expand into new areas.

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Nov 24 2008

SEO for Firefox

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Researching a market on the search engines is hard, but important if you want to rank well. Why waste your time trying hundreds of SEO techniques? Save yourself time and effort and do research to find out what works in the niche market you are targeting.

How do I research a niche market?

Go to google.com and enter keywords for your niche market. You want to be on the first page, but how do you get there? SEO research involves looking at each website on the front page and figuring out how they got to the front page. Once you know what they did, you can apply what you learned to your website and watch your search engine ranking fly to the top!

But wait!

Don’t waste hours researching each of website on the front page of Google. There’s a wonderful tool called “SEO for Firefox”. It’s an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that gathers invaluable information on all the Google search results.

First, get Mozilla Firefox if you don’t have it already:

http://www.getfirefox.com/

After you’ve installed Mozilla Firefox install SEO for Firefox, available here:

http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html

Make sure you visit that page using Firefox. Follow their installation instructions, it takes no time at all.

After you’ve restarted Firefox you should see the new SEO for Firefox icon in the status bar of Firefox. It says “SEO” and should be in the bottom-right corner.

Now go to the menu and select Tools->SEO Options… Change every option to “Auto” and the delay to “1 sec”. Click the Ok button.

SEO for Firefox should now be configured and ready to use. Go to http://www.google.com and perform a search. You’ll see that below every result on Google is a list of information like PageRank, Links, Age, and much much more. If you don’t see this make sure the SEO for Firefox icon at the bottom-right is colored blue and red. If it isn’t, and is instead gray, click it once.

That’s it! With this wonderful extension you can do all your SEO research in a manner of seconds!

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Nov 24 2008

Getting SEO Copywriting Services to Enhance Online Visibility

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Are you a website owner and looking for SEO copywriting in order to enhance online visibility, ensure that you get a hold of best yet most affordable company. A reputed and reliable search engine optimization and copywriting company can help you to increase online visibility. Why you’re recommended the reliable one?

In order to enhance your online visibility, you need to promote your website. It’s all about improving your website’s search engine rankings. To make our website attract the maximum targeted traffic, it’s very important that the content of your web pages is written by a professional company. The matter of the fact is that without the optimized content and quality information, it’s not possible to get targeted traffic.

The professional and reliable services can add flavor to your keyword-oriented content. Since search engines work on the basis of keywords that are used by web searchers, a well written- keywords rich webpage is very important to ensure better online visibility.

Since search engines algorithm is heavily depends upon the keywords and the web searcher uses certain word or word phrases to find information of his choice, the content of your webpages plays a very crucial role in enhancing your internet visibility.

A professional SEO copywriting is the principal aspect of every search engine optimization process. SEO is all about making your website search engine friendly and it’s crucial in promoting your website.

Apart from writing and rewriting viewable content for your website, a professional company or individual also optimizes other on-page aspects such as title, description, headings, keywords tags, and alt text etc. They also prefer an recommend writing articles for directory submission. These blogs and articles play very important role in link building and enhancing your web presence and ultimately attracting targeted traffic towards your site.

Now question arises: If these services are so important than how to find the best copywriting agency? Here are a few aspects you need to consider before hiring one.

Professional SEO copywriting services you are going to hire should be able to create web content that can achieve higher rankings across all the search engines. Besides the body text, well qualified copywriting services also include slogans and headlines in your web content and promotional articles while targeted your most important keywords.

The professionals should be able to ensure you web content is informative and search engine friendly. The content should communicate your strengths that in return will ensure high conversion rates.

Make sure that the SEO Copywriting services you hire are able to adhere to these aspects that lead to higher online visibility.

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Nov 23 2008

How To Get A Traffic Explosion Using Traffic Exchanges!

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If you have experience in generating visitors to your website, you might have come across people saying that traffic exchanges are a poor way to get traffic. Nothing could be further from the truth! TE’s still remain an awesome way to drive free traffic to your website. Here’s how:

1. Drive visitors to an opt-in page, not a sales page

People surfing on traffic exchanges are not looking to buy anything. If you promote a sales page, you will get zero results. Instead, promote an opt-in page that collects subscribers so you can market to them over and over again in a marketing funnel. Provide a no-cost report as your lead generator to capture leads.

2. Surf many traffic exchanges at once

Download Mozilla Firefox and use their Tabs feature to surf many traffic exchanges all at one go! This allows you to maximize your time and increase your traffic credits at different TE’s at a much faster rate! Simply spending 30 minutes a day doing this will give tons of free traffic daily.

3. Refer others to the traffic exchanges

Whenever you join a TE, you want to refer others to it so you can leverage off their efforts. When you refer others, and they receive credits from surfing the exchange, you will also get free credits. The more people you refer, the more free credits you will receive on autopilot. This is perhaps the most important factor of TE’s together with opt-in pages, so start referring people to the programs you are using.

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Nov 22 2008

Importance Of Backlinks

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As a SE Optimizer or someone building your business website yourself, you are sure to have come across the term “backlink”. Backlinks hold an important place in the field of Search Engine Optimization. It is one of several criteria considered by search engines when indexing and driving traffic to your site. We will concentrate on importance of backlinks here.

Building quality backlinks is very crucial for Search Engine Optimization, and it should be given the importance it deserves and therefore necessary efforts should be made to optimize the site. Understanding importance of backlinks and its application can make or mar your efforts to drive traffic to your website. Now let’s understand why you need good quality incoming or inbound links to your site.

Search Engine Optimization is a technique with the help of which websites’ position in the search engine is decided. If your next question is “how does ranking higher on the search engines help?” let me answer it for you. The higher you are positioned in SEs the more traffic you will generate. The more the traffic, better are the chances of sales and profitability.

There are many factors that decide your position on the search engines. Backlinks are one of them. In this article I will try to explain the role and importance of backlinks in Search Engine Positioning.

Backlinks are the links that point towards your site. These backlinks to your site could be found on forums, blogs, other sites of similar or dis similar nature anywhere across the net. backlinks are also known as Inbound Links.

Link Popularity and number of backlinks are directly proportional to each other. The more the backlinks, the better the popularity of a site. Backlinks are very crucial for Search Engine Optimization and Ranking. Some Search Engines, especially Google gives a lot of importance to the number of backlinks a website has. Google considers website more credible that others on the basis of number of quality backlinks it has and considers them more accurate and relevant in their results pages for a search queries.

Please note that quality backlinks and relevant backlinks are two very important considerations. A backlink from a site that has quality content plus content related to the theme of your site will hold you in a much better stead than a back link coming from a poorly designed or optimized site. Or from a site that has nothing to do with the theme of your site.

Building backlinks is a continuous process. And it should ideally happen over a period of time. Sometimes webmasters or search engine optimizers do try to tweak or manipulate the search engine but the bubble bursts sooner than later. Organic backlinks building is the only legitimate way to rise up the search engines.

Webmasters or search engine optimizers should keep a few things in mind. Internal linking helps only to the extent of facilitating navigation for the visitor. It doesn’t help your position is search engines in any way as it is sometimes claimed. Reciprocal linking with substandard or irrelevant sites does not help. It has also been observed that people who operate say 6 websites link them with each other but the same IP number that all these sites share nullifies the effect. Linking too many websites from the same IP number may harm. Few, say one or two can work. These are very important facts that you should always bear in mind.

Simplest techniques are best to follow and get results. Try getting lots of quality sites link to your site. Build them over a period of time. Don’t be in a hurry to build backlinks lest search engines develop doubt. Avoid a bad neighbor at all costs.

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