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What Is “Targeted Traffic” - How Can It Improve Your Sales?

One thing all webmasters need is traffic to their website, without it your site may as well not exist, but all too often webmaster concentrate on all other expects of running their site and the actual marketing of the site takes a back seat. It doesn’t matter if you have the best widgets in the world and you’re giving them away for free, if no one is seeing your site, then you wont give any away, never mind sell one. There are many ways to market a website, some free, some inexpensive and some very costly, one method is to “ buy ” visitors, but not just any visitors will do, it’s no good people looking for cheap flights seeing your snowboarding site as it’s just not relevant to them. For traffic to be effective it needs to be “ targeted ” i.e. people who are looking for your product or service right now when they’re ready to make a buying decision, but how does this work? How do the companies supplying this traffic know its “targeted”, well what they do is buy up lots of expired domain

What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow?

If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building , then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings. But, to the person who is new to all of this, it may be kind of confusing. I am going to help break it down for you. When creating a link on a webpage using HTML, the standard code for that link includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag. You are able to add more HTML to the code above, in order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website. You may be thinking… “Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?” This is a very valid concern, which I will address further down. First, I am going to show you h

Understanding what the “No Follow” tag can do for you

Learning to implement “nofollow” tags is fairly easy. Learning how to apply them in the proper way does require some skill. This post was created in order to educate the average webmaster, or website owner, on what “nofollow” tags can do for your site. The use of “nofollow” tags can serve many different purposes. They can be used to limit the amount of link juice that flows out of a page to external pages of different domains, or they can be used to control where the link juice will flow to within a site and its internal pages. Today, we’ll talk about the use of “nofollow” tags to control the amount of link juice flowing within a site and its internal pages. To better explain this I came up with an illustration that should help the “not so technical” crowd understand this process. If you would, please visualize your homepage as a bucket, and the subpages as sub-buckets. See the Image 1 . Now, imagine that every link you have, in every page of your site, is a hole in the bucket. Once t

What are Squeeze Pages and Why Do You Need Them?

There are many terms that are used in the Internet Marketing world. Some are confusing, and some are simple. Some are simple but made to sound confusing. Name squeeze page how to information is a relatively new term, but it’s a technique that has been around for quite some time. Name squeeze page how to information is one of the first steps used by successful marketers for lead generation. Without leads, sales cannot be made – but getting good leads these days can be hard work – unless you know how to use a name squeeze page. You’ve surely heard of opt-in lists. If you haven’t, an opt-in list is an email list of people who have agreed to receive information from you in their email inboxes. If you send them commercial email messages without that permission, you are spamming them – and that is against the law now. However, if you have their permission, you are not spamming them. They have the option of unsubscribing from your list anytime that they want to, and you must honor any remove

Tips for Meta Description and Keyword Tags

Keyword and description meta tags optimization tutorial for better search engine rankings. Have you ever wondered why some web pages get higher search engine rankings than others? Of course you have, if you are a web developer. You may have read or heard of a hundred ways to improve your page ranking and tried them all. Only to see dismal results and wonder what the heck went wrong. Been there and done that . So I thought I would let you in on the secrets I use to get my pages to rank high in the search engines. Once you read these tricks you might think that is so obvious I should have thought of it. Here are the 10 rules I use to search engine optimize a page for keywords and description meta tags. 1. First let's assume that you already know what the page is about and have already created it. This is not a tutorial on how to write web pages. Rather guidelines for search engine optimization using your meta keywords and description tags. Depending on the type of

13 Tips to Keep in Mind When Writing Your PPC Ads

1. Heading. This is the most important part of your Ad. The heading is what potential visitors see first when looking at various search results. The better the visitor can identify with your heading the more likely they are to click on your ad and visit your web site. Keep in mind that your headline MUST give them what they want. It must give them the answer they are searching for, if it doesn’t they won’t click. On the opposite side of that. The headline is a good place to qualify your prospects. You don’t just want “lookie loos” on your web site wasting your money by clicking on your ad and not signing up for your product. 2. Use keywords in your title. Use keywords that people are searching for in your ads. By using the keyword in the heading it captures the searcher and subconsciously they think that your as answers their search because you have the keyword in the title. 3. Benefit. The first line of the ad should describe the benefit of what you’re offering. Buyers

32 Most Important SEO Tips

Following these simple tips will definitely boost your traffic and search engine rankings for free. 1. Make sure your site is not under construction, incomplete, with little or no unique content. 2. When your site is ready, submit it to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com. Consider also submitting to other search engine but most of them are powered by these four leading search engines. Submit also your site to reputable high PR web directories, open directories, yellow pages and social bookmarking sites such as del.icio.us, furl, etc. 3. Submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com (sitemap for search engines usually in XML format) 4. Offer sitemap to your site visitors for easy page navigation. (sitemap for visitors in HTML format) 5. Create unique and rich content sites. Avoid duplicate content. Do not create multiple pages, sub-domains, domains, mirror sites or sites with different domain names but same content. 6. Check your keywords and make sure they ar

Improve Website Visibility in Search Engines Yourself

Do you drive yourself crazy trying to keep up with the latest SEO trends ? If so, Stop! Please. You have enough to worry about already. Quit running yourself ragged or spending a fortune trying to keep up with the latest and greatest SEO tricks and tips . The truth is search engine optimization has not changed nearly as much as experts (trying to sell you something) might want you to think. To be perfectly honest getting to the top of Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine is largely dependent on the quality of your Web pages. There’s no magic formula you must follow to the letter but there are a number of simple things you can better understand and do to help get you to the top of ANY search engine. It’s a lot easier than most people think. First and most importantly, remember that search engines only care about your Web pages, NOT the whole site. If you end up with enough high ranking PAGES from a single site on Google, you can become a what it considers to be an

10 Most Useful Free Google Marketing Tools

Google has become the dominant search engine on the Internet. It would be hard to imagine a web without Google. For that matter, it would now be hard to imagine a world without Google. As frightening as that may seem to many people, it is none the less true. For better or worst, Google has permeated into almost every aspect of our everyday life. Being Googled is now a common expression and an act carried out by millions of users around the world each day. New Google products and services are coming on stream at a staggering pace, further increasing Google’s impact on our lives. Despite this dominating presence, many people still don’t realize Google offers some excellent free marketing tools for marketers and webmasters. Marketing tools which can prove extremely valuable to any webmaster or marketer trying to promote their sites or products online. Useful tools that will make your promotions easier and much more profitable. Don’t be fooled by the ‘free’ label, these marke

Social Media Optimization - How to Drive Traffic

SMO, or Social Media Optimization , helps build website traffic by using social media based websites. The dawning of web 2.0 has seen many different social media websites crop up in an equally large number of different guises. Content sharing, social bookmarking, and collaborative websites form the basis of this initiative and it is these types of website that you need to use in order to leverage the power of the social web. SMO As Guerrilla Marketing The nature of Social Media Optimization is such that it could be considered form of guerrilla marketing. Website owners and blog owners have the choice of either investing money or their own skills and time in order to generate traffic from social sites. As long as your efforts are directed appropriately, the more work you put in the more reward you will reap. SMO As A Link Building Technique Social optimization also has a happy side effect - it helps to build your link profile so you will usually gain search engine traffic in

Blended Search Optimization

Apparently, “blended” search results are becoming all the rage. That is, search results containing images, videos, and news, Blogs, and reference results on the same page. As with New trends coming upstream and heading there way right on the target to get good results. Thus 2007 saw some interesting developments with the search engine results pages. Google in fact introduced their Universal Search incorporating things such as video, image results, book results, news results, blog results and the like. Recent Study : The study found that 31 percent of users are now clicking images, with twice as many searchers aged 18–34 clicking them compared with those over 35. 17 percent are clicking on videos. The most frequently clicked vertical within blended search is news. While Google kicked off the blended results craze nearly a year ago, and MSN and Yahoo followed suit later in 2007, newbie’s Askx.com and searchmash.com are among the blended search engines trying to find a toe

Search Engine Ranking Factors, Google Ranking Factors

Search Engine Ranking Factors can be categorized in four different sections: Keyword Use Factors Page Attributes Inbound Link Attribute Negative Crawling/Ranking Attributes A) Keyword Use Factors The following components relate to the use of the user's search query terms in determining the rank of a particular page. I) Keyword use in Title Tag - It means placing the targeted search term or phrase in the title tag of the web page's HTML header. Of all the tags, Title tag is definitely the most important when used correctly. When calculating your web page's relevance to a search, most search engines consider the content of the title tag as one of the parameters and display that content in search engine results pages (SERP). Including the keywords in the Title tag increases the relevance of your web page, when someone searches the web with that keyword. Title tag therefore needs to be carefully constructed in such a way that it increases your website's position