|
|
Anger and Your Driving: Use Self-Talk to Create Safer Vistas
Date: January 28, 2001 Place: Fashion Island, Newport Beach, California The incident: Jane, a middle aged professional woman had an altercation with another woman who accosted her after she refused to give up her parking spot. Jane clearly...
Implant Dentistry – The Convenient and Safe Alternative to Dentures
If you are missing a tooth or a group of teeth, you may find that you are afraid to smile, you don’t like to speak because you think you sound funny, or you may not be able to eat certain foods that you enjoy. Until recently, your only option was to...
Innovations in Hair Transplant and Other Alternatives to Hair Loss
A full head of hair is associated with youthfulness, manhood and sex appeal, so when hair loss occurs it can come as something of a blow to the psyche. Depending on the type of hair loss, treatments are available.
Although many people do...
Successful Change Starts With A Shift In Perspective
Like so many in corporate America today, Susan needed more balance in her life-but she did not know how to get it. Faced with a 60-hour work week and a lengthy daily commute, Susan was left with little time for outside interests. Her job was...
To Hell In A Handbasket; Men Who Crash And Burn
What’s up with men? Why do we push our bodies to extremes? Why do we so often ignore our body’s signals that we’re doing too much, going too fast, trying too hard? Why do we indulge in excess, and constantly exceed our” envelope of tolerance”?
...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Multiple streams of traffic Search Engines 'n' such: Part I
You are free to publish this article online in your ezine website, ebook, or other online publication. The full resource box, including 'By line' must remain intact and be published with the article.
If you publish this article, please contact me and let me know where you are using it. Contact at: artpub@newbie-guides.com
--- **Article info** Word count: approx: 977 Hard-wrapped at 65 characters ---
Multiple streams of traffic Search Engines 'n' such: Part I
Not only do you want to get more traffic, you want to get more unique traffic! In order to achieve this, you need to create multiple streams of traffic for your site. Settling for one source of traffic is simply not enough for most small to mid-size sites, or home-based business sites. This is the first of four parts in a mini-series about generating multiple streams of traffic for your website. The remainder will be published here on newbie-guides over the next few days.
Considering the competition most people experience with Search engines, not to mention the ever increasing trend towards 'pay for inclusion' with the major search engines, it can be a real challenge to get decent traffic from SE's alone (not impossible, just challenging). Likewise, most net advertising and promotion has become much less effective, in particular banner style advertisements are now not really much more use than creating brand awareness, and unless you get massive coverage with your banners, you won't create much awareness.
This does not mean that you should skip these forms of traffic. That would be foolish. However, what it does mean is that you need to look for other, alternative, sources of traffic that can fill in the gaps, and provide additional traffic to your site. Two very good additional ways of increasing your traffic are 1) to make use of a variety of 'viral' marketing techniques, and 2) to promote your online presence in offline media (print, radio, TV, etc.).
1) Search Engines
Search engines are still a fantastic source of traffic - probably the most important - because they will simply keep on producing traffic forever once your site has been indexed. The problem is getting a good placement (first page) on good keywords (ones that are relevant to your site and get lots of searches). This is not always easy, especially if you are in a competitive field. Even if you have a poor search engine placement, you will still get some traffic, however, a poor placement will result in very poor traffic flow.
I won't go into the details of meta tags and search engine optimization here - there are literally dozens of sites that try to teach you how to do that. Check a few of them out. A word of warning however, be very careful with what you choose to believe when you read those sites. Unless they can prove they have produced many top 10 search engine placements on many different keywords, generally what they are telling/selling is rubbish. Remember what you are looking for is HIGHLY TARGETED traffic coming to your site because your site gives them what they need and want.
*** side note *** I know from personal experience that the techniques taught by Stephan Peirce produce top results every time. After putting the information to use, the next time my sites were 'spidered', all of the results were top 10 for the keywords I had focused on! They were not all #1, although a few were, but it
didn't matter, my traffic from search engines jumped significantly thanks to the information in his book. I also know that he himself uses these techniques to get hundreds of top 10 search engine placements for his own business and is approaching $1,000,000 in profits annually. ***
There are two additional things to think about when you consider search engines. Well actually, there are many more things to talk about when it comes to search engines, but I'm only going to talk about two more: mis-spellings, and smaller search engines.
Taking advantage of mis-spellings can be a great way to boost your search engine traffic. People frequently type too fast, and submit their search before they realize that they have mis-typed the word that they were searching for. As a webmaster, this can be quite good, as far fewer sites actually try to focus on the incorrect keywords. Of course the total number of searches made on mis-spelled keywords is much fewer than on correctly spelled keywords, but they can still generate a large amount of traffic with FAR less competition. Just as a quick example, as I write this, "web hosting" produces nearly 3.9 MILLION results, while "wbe hosting" produces 10,000!
GoodKeywords from http://www.softnik.com/ is a great tool that allows you to quickly and easily find out how many searches are done on any keywords you like (including mis-spellings). It's free, and an invaluable resource!
Lastly on search engines, is the importance of the smaller search engines. There are many benefits to the smaller search engines, but the most significant are that you get indexed more quickly, have fewer competitors, and can generate a solid amount of traffic for you. The huge engines (google, Lycos, inktomi) and indices (yahoo, DMOZ) can take weeks to add your site, if ever, and always put your site against 1000's of others.
While there is no guarantee that you will be included in a smaller search engine, you will be 'spidered' much more quickly. And while they may not have millions of searches a day, there is no difference between 1000 visitors coming from 1 source (say google) and 1000 visitors coming from 5 sources (200 from each of several smaller engines). An additional benefit of the smaller search engines is that some (not all) have agreements with the main engines so that their content is spidered by the main engines - in essence giving the webmaster a 'backdoor' into the main engines.
I hope that this gives you a bit of direction and hope as far as search engines are concerned. As I mentioned earlier, based on my own experience using the information, I highly recommend Stephan Peirce's book on traffic generation. He WILL make a difference in your website's success.
--------------------------- Eric Koshinsky: webmaster and guide at Newbie-guides.com We aim to provide useful tips and guidance for those who are new to personal online marketing. Learn more about programs, techniques, and software that can help you reach your online marketing goals. Come on by and have a look. http://www.newbie-guides.com/?aa Join our newsletter: news@newbie-guides.com
About the Author
Eric Koshinsky: webmaster and guide at Newbie-guides.com We aim to provide useful tips and guidance for those who are new to personal online marketing. Learn more about programs, techniques, and software that can help you reach your online marketing goals. Come on by and have a look.
|
|
|
|
|
The Alternative Dictionaries |
Includes a list of slang terms and phrases in various languages. |
www.notam02.no |
  |
Free-Codecs.com :: Download Real Alternative 1.51 : Real ... |
Download Real Alternative 1.51 : Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer/RealOne Player. |
www.free-codecs.com |
  |
Free-Codecs.com : QuickTime Alternative 1.76 final : QuickTime ... |
Download QuickTime Alternative 1.76 : QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to ... |
www.free-codecs.com |
  |
AlterNet: Home |
Syndication service and online community of the alternative press, featuring news stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and web publications. |
www.alternet.org |
  |
Open Directory - Health: Alternative |
the entire directory, only in Health/Alternative ... "Alternative" search on:. AltaVista - A9 - AOL - Ask - Clusty - Gigablast - Google - Lycos - MSN ... |
dmoz.org |
  |
Alternative Radio |
A weekly one-hour public affairs radio program that provides analyses and views that are ignored or distorted in most media. |
www.alternativeradio.org |
  |
The Alternative Medicine Homepage |
Information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies. Maintained by Charles B. Wessel, ... |
www.pitt.edu |
  |
Alternative Medicine, Home for Natural Remedies & Healthy Solutions |
Complementary and alternative medicine information about common health conditions, including natural remedies, holistic healthcare, healing foods, ... |
www.alternativemedicine.com |
  |
Alternative rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Alternative rock (also called alternative music [1] or simply ... The music now known as alternative rock was known by a variety of terms before ... |
en.wikipedia.org |
  |
EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page |
Provides information on alternative vehicle fuels and transportation technologies and related legislation. The center also distributes the newsletter ... |
www.eere.energy.gov |
  |
Alternative Comics: Publisher of cool comic books & graphic novels |
Alternative Comics, publishers of cool comic books, releases some of the most original and intelligent titles being created today. |
www.indyworld.com |
  |
Alternative Tentacles - Store |
Alternative Tentacles Records supplies the world with punk rock music from the Dead Kennedys, Nomeansno, and Jello Biafra. Featuring secure online ordering. |
www.alternativetentacles.com |
  |
Google Directory - Health > Alternative |
Related Categories: Health > Animal > Alternative Medicine (498) Science > Science in Society > Skeptical Inquiry (179) ... |
www.google.com |
  |
The Alternative Museum |
Free of physical restrictions, it presents online digital exhibitions, and live webcast events. Headed by international curators with cyber artist ... |
www.alternativemuseum.org |
  |
Centre for Alternative Technology Home Page |
CAT aims to 'inspire, inform, and enable' people to live more sustainably. A solutions driven organisation, offering practical solutions to environmental ... |
www.cat.org.uk |
  |
Los Angeles Alternative |
LA's only alternative weekly that is locally-owned and independent, bringing you the people, arts and ideas that make Los Angeles the center of the ... |
www.laalternative.com |
  |
NewsLink | Newspapers | U.S. | Alternative |
Updated links to all Alternative newspapers (US) from NewsLink Associates. |
newslink.org |
  |
|