By: Imanuel  | Source: selfseo.com

Here are some ways you can get web traffic to your website. Getting traffic to your website is not easy. A new website might get 10 - 20 vistor’s daily. If your blog is good and improved frequently it will give you up to 100 - 200 vistor’s daily. Some websites will have up to 1000 vistors daily. However if you just want your website to be visited by an international visitor, then its essential you promote your product or service. Below is 12 ways I find the most efficient in generating traffic to your site:

1. Pay Per Click. The Fastest way to get exposure online in world is by advertising with PPC (Pay Per Click) programs. Ads start running within minutes after you submit your billing information. You bid on relevant keywords and pay the bid amount each time someone clicks on the link through to your site.

2. Traditional Website Optimization. The factors that you must know for getting the top rankings: title of the page, description META tag, keyword META tag, in your headline, use HTML Tag, your first line of text, once or twice per paragraph, once/twice in bold, in the text of a link.

3. Weblog Optimization. Blogs are short for weblogs which is just an online journal where you can post articles, news and just comment on anything you want. You can set blogs up for free by using blogger which is also run by Google.

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Source: googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com

Google’s Vanessa Fox has announced on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google has added four new tools for webmasters

1) Googlebot Activity Reports shows a 90 day backlog of the number of pages Googlebot’s crawled on a site per day, the number of kilobytes of data Googlebot’s downloaded per day, and the average time it took Googlebot to download pages.

2) Crawl Rate Control lets webmasters change the frequency that Google crawls their sites by slowing down the Googlebot or have it visit more often… which could lead to bandwidth problems:

“If we feel your server could handle the additional bandwidth, and we can crawl your site more, we’ll let you know and offer the option for a faster crawl.”

3) Enhanced Image Search lets webmasters opt into or opt out of enhanced image tools such as the Google Image Labeler, which associates images included in a site with labels that can improve indexing and search quality of those images.

4) Number of URL’s Submitted lets webmasters view the number of URL’s which are could in the Sitemaps submitted to Google.

More information visit Google Webmaster Blog.

Spread the word:bookmark it/ readit

By: Stoney deGyter | Source: isedb.com

Not everybody is able to implement a full-scale SEO strategy. The reasons for this may vary; time, budget, technological barriers, etc. For those that find yourself limited by what you can do now, here are the essentials of SEO:

Quality Content

Let’s not confuse this with lots of content. Filling your website with content is a great idea, but its not about the volume of the content but the quality of the it. People get caught up in adding pages and pages of content and end up with lots of pages of useless or repetitive junk. When adding content to your website here are a few questions you need to ask yourself:

• Will my current visitors/clients/customers find this information useful?
• Will new visitors find this information helpful?
• Is the content something that others would want to bookmark, link to and/or share with others?

If you can’t answer yes to at least one of those questions then you’re adding content for all the wrong reasons and its simply not anything worth having on your site. Think of your visitor and the overall value your content is providing them first.

Of course, once you’ve got great content on the site, it doesn’t hurt to optimize it for keywords!

Title Tags

We signed a new client recently that came to us and didn’t have any title tags on their pages. I’ve seen many content management systems in my day and the worst I’ve ever come across is those that duplicate the company name in the content across all the pages, but never have I seen one that wasn’t even programmed to do that. This wasn’t just a blank title tag (< title >< /title >), there was nothing here at all.

Can we all agree that awareness of the importance of the title tag is a minimum requirement to be considered a web professional?

Look, the title tag isn’t just important for SEO, its important period. But for SEO, heck, this is what the search engines display as the clickable link in the search results. No title means there is nothing to click.

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