Sunday, April 15, 2007

Using a free source to submit your website

I use WebCeo mainly to monitor my sites rankings in the search engines. Here are some of the things that it can do:


  • Get the list of keywords and keyphrases that will bring most targeted visitors to your site.

  • Optimize your Web pages for top-10 positions and superior visibility in major search engines all over the globe.

  • Submit your site to search engines that bring so much traffic to your competition.

  • Analyze and build links by performing a profound link research and then finding and contacting the best of potential link partners.

  • Manage pay-per-click campaigns from a single unified workspace.

  • Track your positions in search engines and know for sure how effective your Website promotion efforts are.

  • Get a ground-breaking insight into site, its visitors, and the origins of traffic. Who are they? Where do they come from? And 100 more reports!

  • Easily edit your Web pages in Visual and HTML views. Get instant access to important tags without striving through HTML. Change anything on your pages with one click.

  • Upload any file or folder to your host without getting through sophisticated FTP routines.

  • Monitor the availability of your website to know when your server or host goes down to immediately react.

Web CEO comes in a free version that is completely full featured and ad free. The paid edition is even better and has no limitations at all.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Web promotional tools that WILL help you.

I have been using many tools over the years that help to promote my websites, and receive the traffic that we all wish for. Imagine having thousands of visitors to your site everyday, yep that's right imagine.

But there is no need to to that it can not be done, IT CAN!

Every now and again someone somewhere creates a new promotional product that will help you get better rankings , more traffic and help you make your web site TOP of the SEO world within your category.

Now not every product works and many are a scam but none the less i buy them and try them out, the ones that do not work , well lets just say "Trash can" , but there are a few that have proven very worth while.

So in this post i am going to give you a short list of products that i have bought and DO really work.

1: Michael's traffic videos This is a series of video tutorials and great advice and ideas that absolutely rock, if you watch listen and do you will not go wrong, trust me buy the videos and see the turn around in no time at all.

2:Adwords 180 Looking At Google Adwords From A New Angle. Probably The Most Revolutionary Adwords Guide In The Last 4 Years.

3: Social Book marking software. Have you ever wondered if there was an easy way to add your links to all those top social book marking sites? Yes then here is your answer New Software! Bookmarking.com - Tagging With Social Book marking And Get Targeted Traffic And High Pr Back links Automatically.

Anyway there are just a few of my top products so far in 2007 if you do end up taking my advice and buying one or all of these products i would love to here how you got on, and how you managed to turn your website around in just a few days or weeks.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Free Ways to Generate Traffic

To put it bluntly, you need capital to start up a company. Making money means spending money as well. However, with the flexibility and versatility the Internet offers its users, there are many ways of optimizing the potential of your business site in gaining traffic.

Traffic flows can be jump started in many ways, but many sites don’t have enough capital to generate tons of traffic to their sites. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to generate traffic. All you need is the right mindset and a careful discipline. In addition, drive and perseverance must come naturally to you to bring more traffic to your site.

Paying nothing for site traffic is a topic dwelled upon by many SEO and self help sites with articles. Since it is possible, I’m going to just tell you that paying for your advertisements is the best way to go as far as traffic is concerned. These free methods only serve to reinforce or giving you a chance against the big guys, while paid advertisements can put you over the top.

The first step is to make use of online forums and online communities. These communities consist of people who compose of a special demographic that might be the target of your web pages. Through posts and threads, you can act as an informed subject on the niche at hand.

With message boards, you can establish yourself as an authority and build a solid company reputation. Your range of expertise should be presented here. By being helpful to other members and making use of the signature feature, you can build a reputation and earn trust amongst the people who belong in your niche.
In addition, you can use newsletters to present people with a catalog of your products and services which can be complemented with highly informative and entertaining articles. If your articles are full of zip, more people will be encouraged to sign up for your newsletter and visit your site – which boosts traffic.
Another trick of the trade is to trade links with other websites. This does not require any capital. Just contact other webmasters and come to an agreement over a link exchange to benefit both sites. Every person that goes to the other person’s site with your link attached stands a nice chance of visiting your page as well. This trick is especially promising when both sites discuss the same niche.

Writing articles and submitting them to article directories is another way of piquing interest in your products and services. Write articles that are chockfull of information and be well written enough to be readable and attract other aficionados. Your traffic flow can be greatly helped by this strategy. Take advantage of article submission sites like ezinearticles.com and articlesarea.com, where your signature line to every article can contain a link to where the article originates. This signature should include a small description of your company along with the article.

One last bona fide trick of the trade is to write excellent content for your website. Search engines are supposed to track down keywords and keyword phrases appearing in your content to index it correctly. Content does not always have to be written by a professional freelance writer or Pulitzer Prize winner. All you have to do is make sure that an article can hold a reader’s interest enough to take action. Generally, in the freelance writing world, you get what you pay for. Stay away from freelance writers that charge abysmally low rates, such as $3 for every 500 words.

Generally, internet users use search engines to check out what they’re looking for. In return, search engines use keyword searching to help the search

Why Should I Hire a Designer?

For someone who has started up a website with no money, you might feel tempted not to believe a web designer could do a better job than you. However, hiring a designer means a lot more than finishing a job you’re not capable or willing to do. By hiring a web designer, you transfer annoyed feelings to that designer that always leave the main picture and coming barging in right in the middle of the job.

Here, your actually business strategy can be paid more attention to.
On the flip side, make sure the designers you hire are complete professionals. By outsourcing your work to them, they can be in charge of troubleshooting and fixing any problems that might arise. Professional web designs are more adept at locating and fixing problems, perhaps faster than you can spot them. In addition, you can expect professional work coming from people who do this for a living. Remember, grow your business as well and focus on the business strategy.

Search Engines is a Mini-Science

Search engines are the No. 1 means of introducing new, prospective clients and visitors to a website. Therefore, it is savvy to know how search engines operate and how they present information to users conducting a search.


For starters, there are two main kinds of search engines. One is by robots known as “spiders” or “crawlers.” Search engines use these trademark spiders to index websites by “crawling them,” or looking for what’s most relevant. When pages are submitted to search engines through required submission pages, the spider will proceed in indexing your whole site. In essence, it is a automated program that is used by the search engine to read the content of a site, follow with its Meta tags, and follows the links appearing on the pages. All of this information is sent back to a central depository where all of the data is index. This spider will visit each link on your site and index those too. Many spiders are only capable (or willing) to index a few pages on a site, so don’t focus on making a 600 page site!
It doesn’t end here. The spiders return periodically to the sites to check for any changed information. Moderators of the search engines decide how often spiders crawl through a site.


Spiders almost act like books where it holds a table of content, the content, and the links and references for each website linked on the pages. Search engines are capable of indexing close to one million pages daily. These search engines include AltaVista, Google, Lycos, and Excite.
When a search engine is asked to target information, it is actually going through its created index and not searching the actual Web. Many search engines have varying rankings because of the different algorithms involved with searching through the indices.

Search engine algorithms are responsible for scanning the frequency and location of keywords on a page. In addition, it has an eye for spamming by detecting keyword stuffing or “spamdexing.” After this, algorithms get to work analyzing how the page links to other pages on the Internet. By checking for how many pages link to each other, search engines can guess correctly the site topic and if the keywords of the linked pages match the keywords on the original page.

Search Engine Optimization Explain It to Me!

Search Engine Optimization – Explain It to Me!

Search engine optimization is a mini-science that involves choosing the right set of keyword phrases pertaining to your site and making sure that this lists your site highly in search engine page results so that when a user searches for phrases, your site appears on the first search result landing page. Search engine optimization, or SEO in Internet lingo, means configuring the written content of your site and HTML/meta codes to do this – along with link building. Some of the most widely acclaimed search engines out there include the mega power Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Aol and Ask Jeeves.

Search engines keep sophisticated algorithms that are crafty enough to find the most relevant search engine results and to prevent spam pages from appearing on these results pages. A search engine may incorporate tons of criteria when coming up with listing rankings where the criterion themselves and the weight each carries may change every day. Algorithms are very customized, so customized that a site appearing #1 on Google may appear as #125 on another search engine. New sites don’t need to be submitted to search engines to appear. One simple link from a reputable, well established site will encourage the search engines to target your new side and begin to index its contents. Indexing is a process that may take as little as a few days to even weeks.

If keyword research to appear well on search engine rankings is not your area of expertise, there are SEO professionals available to work with you on this problem. There are tons of search engine marketing and promotion companies on the Internet doubling up as consultants who look after your site’s content plan and make recommendations based on what you already have to improve your search engine listings and traffic conversion.

If you want, these SEO consultants will provide consultations and periodic reporting to keep your website ranking high and offer editing and improvement suggestions to keep site traffic flowing normally. Basically, your web designer should work closely with your search engine optimization consultant to exercise an integrated plan from the get-go so that all design components are fully compatible and practical.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Webmaster Forum UK

Hi and yep i am back after quite a time away from my blog, sorry about that folks,

Well I have been busy setting a new forum called Webmaster Forum UK that can be found here http://www.webmasterforumuk.co.uk

I have set this up in the hope of getting some UK webmasters and beginners to get together and chat about the world of SEO and web site design over here on the little green island i call home.

The site has started of quite well with 40 members already signed up and over 150 posts, so within time i am hoping to get quite a community together, and some good info.

I find that alot of the big forums are State Side (USA) but we have quite a big web community over here as well, i know there are other forums here in the UK like webmaster-talk.co.uk but there is not alot going on, mmm am i looking in the right place ??

Any way here are some new tips for you to get repeated traffic to your website hope this may help some of you out there, speak tyo you all soon

cheers

Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. You can 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.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.