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Christian InTech Articles - Link Popularity
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An "Outside The Box" Way To Get An Extra 108,160 Hits A Year
Copyright 2005 Ronald Gibson As webmasters, we are always looking to boost link popularity and get extra traffic to our websites. Here is an "outside the box" method that will accomplish both of those goals at the same time. Most of you have seen...
Are you using forums to promote?
Forum Marketing is perhaps one of the best free
promotion tools available on line... and yet most new
marketers have never posted a single "hello I'm here".
If this is your case, my friend, you are losing a lot
of potential free traffic...
Free Traffic Programs and How to Use Them
I try to use as many free traffic programs as I can to increase traffic to my web sites. But does this traffic actually make sales for me? Probably not directly but indirectly they can. So what are the benefits of free traffic programs? Well the...
Google and Jagger's Aftermath
Copyright 2005 Jason OConnor
Starting this past 2005 fall Google launched a major update to
their search algorithm which shook up the search engine
optimization (SEO) community and millions of website rankings.
The update has been named...
Search Engine Strategies for Mini-Sites
Search Engine Strategies for Mini-Sites by Dan Thies One of the most popular marketing concepts today is the "mini-site." A mini-site is essentially a one-page sales letter, linked to an order form, specifically designed to sell a single ...
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The (Not So) Shocking Truth About Getting A High Search Engine Ranking
I have seen my site hit #3 at Google, and some of my fellow entrepreneurs are wondering how I did it. Well, it's no big secret, and it won't cost you anything but your time. Here's what I did:
1. I searched online for information about the title and description tags to get a better idea of what they should say. http://www.selfpromotion.com is a great site for this kind of information. It's all about search engine positioning, and it's free to sign up. However, your account only stays active for 4 weeks, after which the webmaster asks that you donate money to his site to keep your account active.
2. I used Overture's free keyword tool at http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/. Just enter keywords that are relevant to your site, and Overture will generate the most popular search terms that people are using. I picked the most popular terms (making sure they were relevant), and made a list of keywords for each page of my site in Notepad.
2. Next, I visited http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html. This handy tool will check your meta tags and tell you if there are too many characters in your title, keyword and description. The above site is just one of many meta tag analyzers available on the net, so beware - every analyzer says something different when it comes to how many characters your meta tags should have. My advice? Pick one and stick with it, at least for a while. Otherwise, you will just get
frustrated.
3. As soon as I uploaded my pages with their new meta tags, I resubmitted to the search engines using (the former) World Submitter - http://www.worldwidepromoter.com/?strategy. Note: there are some search engines that require you to submit your site manually in order to get listed. Selfpromotion.com has great information and articles about how to properly submit to these engines. I wouldn't suggest submitting to the search engines more than once or twice per month, unless you want to run the risk of being accused of spamming them.
4. If I see the opportunity to add my link on a relevant site, I go for it. The more links your site has to other sites, the higher you will rank in the search engines. However, you will want to avoid linking with sites that are your direct competition.
You may just find that selfpromotion.com is the only place you need to go for information about search engine positioning. I did quite a bit of research and found several sites with great information, so I just tried to combine them all. Am I a glutton for punishment? Probably ;) But even though it took hours to redo all of my meta tags from scratch, it was well worth it to see my site in Google's Top 10!
Elizabeth Piotrowski ------------------------------------ Powerful ad copy is the key to producing the visits and sales you want. Drop by http://www.strategyadservice.com/?alp for low-cost, effective solutions!
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