| 111 | Is Your Company Name Killing Your Online Business? Preview: Ahhh...your company name. Your identity. What separates you from everyone else. I would be willing to bet that you spent a good deal of time coming up with the perfect name for your company. Am I right? Something catchy, easy to remember, and unique. How am I doing so far? What if I were to tell you that your company name is possibly the singl... (more) Published By: John Buchanan Submitted: 21 January,2002 |
| 112 | Ask Mr. D - On Search Engine Tactics Preview: Dear Mr. D, My question is about getting a website listed on the major search engines. For the past several months I have been submitting my website to several of the major search engines. But, I don't think I am listed by any of them. At least I can find my site when I do a search for my keywords. Can you take a look at my site and tell me if... (more) Published By: Bill Daugherty Submitted: 12 February,2002 |
| 113 | Test Your Search Engine IQ Preview: The year 2001 saw dramatic changes in the search engine world. Major players have either folded or stopped crawling the web, pay-per-click services like Goto/Overture have become much more prominent, and "theme-based indexing" has firmly taken root. Website owners who don't understand what these changes mean for them are missing out on tremen... (more) Published By: Dan Thies Submitted: 13 February,2002 |
| 114 | THE FIRST STEPS TO GETTING NOTICED IN "THE VAST AND UNCHARTERED WORLD OF CYBERSPACE" Preview: "To win, you first have to be noticed" Thought I'd share a few hints, based on our experiences over the past five years... In listing our various web sites, we only concentrate on the major (12 or so search engines) and directories, like Open Directory, who supply their database to many of the big search engines. We've found that we check our... (more) Published By: Craig Lock Submitted: 13 February,2002 |
| 115 | SEARCH ENGINE TIPS Preview: How to get Real Prospects Directly From Search Engines And How to Find What You Want With 100% Relevancy Introduction The new Pay-Per-Click Search Engines provide two breakthrough benefits for both Home Internet Businesses and Customers. Customers can search and find what they are looking for with no clutter because only up-to-date 100% rele... (more) Published By: Stan Narusiewicz Submitted: 13 February,2002 |
| 116 | Search Engines- the World’s Yellow Pages Preview: Whatever your product is or your service offers, you need to show it to the world in order to sell it. We all need advertising and the more, the better. But how to reach all those potential customers? Conservative estimates indicate there are at least 70 Million(!!) Internet users online today and over 100.000 new websites being created each mont... (more) Published By: Jan Hordijk Submitted: 15 February,2002 |
| 117 | Essential Guide To Pay-Per-Click Advertising Preview: Which Engines Should You Use? Following Goto.com's (now known as Overture) phenomenal success with pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, more than 160 PPC startups have sprung up. Out of these 160 PPC engines, only a few may actually have the search volume to generate a respectable number of clicks for your site. Most PPC startups require between $1... (more) Published By: Michael Low Submitted: 16 February,2002 |
| 118 | How To Get Free Visitors To Your Web Site Preview: There are many ways to promote your site. One fantastic way is to use pay per click search engines that will give you money to test their services. These pay per click search engines are new and very slow. The free offers will disappear once their traffic picks up. It may take a long time to use your free clicks. However, with a keyword or two... (more) Published By: Jerry Robertson Submitted: 08 March,2002 |
| 119 | 8 Tips To Get More Traffic From Yahoo! Preview: © 2002 By Vishal Rao. All Rights Reserved. With the new Yahoo! "Pay-For-Review" model it might be relatively easier for sites to get into the directory but getting traffic from your listing is altogether a different story. And now with it's new annual recurring payment policy you have to be extra careful while submitting your site for a review. ... (more) Published By: Vishal Rao Submitted: 03 April,2002 |
| 120 | How Can You Learn How to Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings? Preview: How Can You Learn How to Achieve Top Search Engine Rankings? By Robin Nobles If you're serious about having a successful online business, you need to spend some time studying the search engines and how they operate. Why? Because comparatively speaking, search engine marketing is generally much less expensive than traditional forms of advertis... (more) Published By: Robin Nobles Submitted: 07 April,2002 |
| 121 | Ask Mr. D - Search Engine Keywords Preview: Dear Mr. D, My partner and I have a website that puts together all kinds of tours of Mexico for people. I think we have great products at great prices. We have a great website that cost us a lot of money to have designed. There's just one problem, we are getting very little traffic. So, I'm sure you can guess that we aren't making any mone... (more) Published By: Bill Daugherty Submitted: 09 April,2002 |
| 122 | Seven Search Engine Similarities Preview: It's true -- search engines are a royal pain when you try to optimize your web pages for them but you can reduce the pain by analyzing their similarities. ==> Similarity #1 Search engines do not like frames so don't use them or put in the < no frames > tag. ==> Similarity #2 Titles should have key word in it and not be longer then 75 characte... (more) Published By: Judith Tramayne-Barth Submitted: 13 April,2002 |
| 123 | Search Engine Predictions For 2002 Preview: Never try to predict the unpredictable. That’s advice I have been given and advice I am going to completely ignore this month, by attempting to predict the movements of the volatile search engine industry over the next 12 months. Here they are, my personal predictions for 2002: 1. Increase in Pay For Performance (PFP) Options - when you consider... (more) Published By: Kalena Jordan Submitted: 24 April,2002 |
| 124 | How Compatible Is YOUR Site With Search Engines? Preview: Remember those little quizzes you used to see in magazines with headlines like: 'How Compatible Are You and Your Partner?' or 'Are You Dating Mr Wrong?'. Well, we thought it might be fun to create a 5 min quiz for you to test the compatibility of your site with search engines. Your total score will give you an idea of whether your site is destine... (more) Published By: Kalena Jordan Submitted: 24 April,2002 |
| 125 | New Meta Tag Driving Targeted Traffic to Websites Preview: The Aesop Meta Tag is a new standard that is dramatically changing the way we search the Internet. This new Meta Tag not only returns highly targeted search results, but it also provides website owners with highly targeted traffic. The concept is simple. The Aesop Meta Tag provides website owners with a standardized method of classifying thei... (more) Published By: Shelley Lowery Submitted: 06 May,2002 |
| 126 | "Google Enters 'Pay Per Click' Arena!" Preview: Google, which is used more than 150 million times per day to conduct searches has announced its entrance into the pay per click arena with the recent introduction of its new "Ad Words Select" program. The old "Ad Words" Program was based on paying per impressions of your ad, not clicks thus the addition of the word "select." The ads paid for ... (more) Published By: Merle Submitted: 07 May,2002 |
| 127 | "Secrets To Using Keywords!" Preview: Once upon a time, not so many years ago, if you needed to find something all you had top do was to let your fingers do the walking for you. And the Yellow Pages are still are great place to look for a specific type of business or service. But that was then. Now we have the Information Super Highway. Finding information, or anything else for th... (more) Published By: A.T.Rendon Submitted: 21 May,2002 |
| 128 | LookSmart Not Small Business Friendly Preview: There is a firestorm of negative press regarding LookSmart's recent marketing stumbles via numerous discussion groups, including two of the oldest and most influential, I-Search and I-Advertising Digests. Most of the critiques center on LookSmart's inability to develop viable programs for SMB/SME ("small to medium business or enterprise"), the... (more) Published By: Lee Traupel Submitted: 21 May,2002 |
| 129 | Search Engine Ranking: The Real Truth Preview: There are perhaps more myths and urban legends about how to get your website ranked well on the search engines than any other subject on the Internet. In this article, I'm going to tell you how you can tell the fact from the fiction. After reading this article, you will know how to get the current facts about how any search engine ranks sites. It... (more) Published By: James D. Brausch Submitted: 23 May,2002 |
| 130 | "Who's In, Who's Out in the Continuing Saga of the Search Engine/Directory Wars" Preview: There have been a lot of changes on the search engine front in the past year. So many that it's hard to keep track of who's still a major player and who isn't in the search engine game. With so many turning to "Pay for Submission and Pay per Click" models, there aren't a lot left that still accept free submissions. And of those that do,it's ha... (more) Published By: Merle Submitted: 23 May,2002 |