| 131 | Keyword killer Tips Preview: Though there may be more than a thousand ways to generate traffic to your website, keywords are extremely critical to blasting your website into the limelight. Stats prove that almost 90% of targeted ready to buy traffic comes through search engines. So here are a few more killer tips that will have a dramatic impact on your e-business: 1. Optimi... (more) Published By: Shahnaz Rauf Submitted: 03 June,2002 |
| 132 | Search Engine Optimized Site Maps Preview: If you want visitors (and search engines) to be able to find your whole site, the easiest way to do this is with a site map. The more content you have on your site, the more helpful this is, both for visitors and for search engines. Unfortunately, a lot of folks miss out on a big opportunity when creating their site maps, which is to ensure t... (more) Published By: Dan Thies Submitted: 07 June,2002 |
| 133 | Pay per click search engine guide Preview: Pay-Per-Click Guide What are pay-per-click search engines? Pay-per-click search engines (also called pay-for-performance, paid listings among other names) are engines which allow site owners to determine their sites ranking in that particular search engines results by bidding on keywords. Usually the first 3-5 search results are used by a networ... (more) Published By: David Callan Submitted: 10 June,2002 |
| 134 | How to Get FLASH Indexed by the Search Engines Preview: How to Get FLASH Indexed in the Search Engines by Robin Nobles Note: The example portions of this article have been removed. However, you can view the article in its entirety at: http://www.academywebspecialists.com/newsletters/0702.html Perhaps you can relate to the involuntary groan elicited by search engine optimizers when a client present... (more) Published By: Robin Nobles Submitted: 07 July,2002 |
| 135 | Add 500 Targeted Keywords to Your Site in Three Minutes Preview: How often do you visit the search engines looking for the information that you seek? Twice a week? Every day? According to SearchEngineWatch.com, seven of the top search engines process over 300 million searches a day! Additionally, Search Engine Watch documents an item called the GVU Survey Results from the Georgia Institute of Technology wh... (more) Published By: Bill Platt Submitted: 17 July,2002 |
| 136 | FFA's are a waste of time..........or are they? Preview: According to a new survey carried out by Alliance & where ID_NUM=9270; Leicester, one in five small business owners view tax as their greatest concern. The Chancellor has announced in his last budget that companies with profits below œ10,000 will not have to pay any corporation tax with effect from 1 April 2002. The question to be asked is: d... (more) Published By: Cas Amato Submitted: 18 July,2002 |
| 137 | Google Wealth Pyramid Preview: The absolutely fortunate thing about the Internet is that you can guarantee yourself a certain level of traffic, and certain profitability. This is usually impossible with many other businesses – but not the Internet. Here, we shall look at one sure-fire way of not only guaranteeing your profits, but pyramiding them, starting right now. We shall ... (more) Published By: David Cameron Gikandi Submitted: 18 July,2002 |
| 138 | Are The Search Engines Censoring The Internet? Preview: Every single day I surf through about a dozen sites, looking for interesting articles and message board posts. I do this for many reasons: for my job, which requires that I stay up-to-date on current technologies, and for my hobby, which allows me to write articles about the internet and the web. A big portion of my daily routine involves vis... (more) Published By: Richard Lowe Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 139 | Link Popularity Explained Preview: Link popularity is becoming hard to understand. It is different for many different search engines. And the whole concept is still relatively new, in internet terms. Let's look at three search engines that factor link popularity into their overall search term rankings. AskJeeves.com and their new search engine, Teoma, consider what they term gene... (more) Published By: Shannan Hearne-Fortner Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 140 | Introduction to Keywords & Meta Tags Preview: Keywords are the words and phrases used by people when they search for web pages. For example, if I am looking for free web editing programs, I would type something like "free web editor" into a search engine. Those are keywords. Meta tags are descriptive words and phrases that you attach to your web pages and are invisible to the visitor to your... (more) Published By: Shannan Hearne-Fortner Submitted: 22 July,2002 |
| 141 | YOU'VE GOT TO PAY TO PLAY Preview: You design a killer site, submit to all the major search engines and directories, and you wait...and wait...and wait... Submitting to search engines/directories is a smart idea, but it seems like an eternity before you see the results of your efforts. Meanwhile, you're anxious to get traffic and make sales, right? I have just the site promotion ... (more) Published By: Jennifer Johnson Submitted: 30 July,2002 |
| 142 | How to Improve Search Engine Rankings Preview: You finally got your web site listed in the major search engines, however it is buried amongst millions of others and you still have not seen an increase in traffic to your web site. Why not? You need to improve your search engine rankings. Here are the steps to increase your search engine rankings: 1. Check your listings If you are going to s... (more) Published By: Herman Drost Submitted: 02 August,2002 |
| 143 | Increasing Profits For Small Businesses Through Search Engine Marketing Preview: Increasing Profits For Small Businesses Through Search Engine Marketing The Problem: Increase Profits As a small business owner or manager, you have one principal goal: increase your profits. Whether you are a sole proprietor looking to increase your own income, or a corporate manager looking to increase shareholder equity, your bottom line is t... (more) Published By: Dale Goetsch, Search Engine Marketing Consultant Submitted: 09 August,2002 |
| 144 | Search Engine Basics Preview: Search engines and directories are one of the best ways to round up some targeted traffic to your website. Here are the basics of search engines and directories. Search Engine Vs. Directories The main difference between engines and directories is the way they index sites. Although search engines vary in the way they index, they all basically us... (more) Published By: JC Anderl Submitted: 26 September,2002 |
| 145 | DOES SEARCH ENGINE TRAFFIC MATTER? Preview: The short answer is, "Sure." And it likely always will. But the amount of free traffic search engines now deliver to many small online businesses doesn't amount to much. And what there is of it continues to decline in importance. Pay-for- submission models are rapidly eliminating free options. These trends will continue. And many have been aware... (more) Published By: Bob McElwain Submitted: 16 October,2002 |
| 146 | Google's Groundbreaking AdWords Select Program Preview: One of the absolute best online marketing processes available to any business today is Google's AdWords Select advertising program. It produces immediate results within minutes after being setup, drives highly qualified traffic via selected keywords and can be monitored and modified on a 24/7 basis via Google's excellent online interface. Ther... (more) Published By: Lee Traupel Submitted: 18 November,2002 |
| 147 | The Web's Secret Traffic Source - the Open Directory Project Preview: The importance of having targeted traffic can't be understated, and search engines can be a great source of this traffic. The first search service covered in this series of articles is a directory known as the Open Directory Project, or ODP (http://www.dmoz.com/). First, a little background on the Open Directory Project: The ODP is a Web director... (more) Published By: Alan Grissett Submitted: 24 November,2002 |
| 148 | How to Submit to the Open Directory Project (ODP) Preview: The ODP (http://www.dmoz.org/) is organized into categories and subcategories, and as simple as it may sound, the key to submitting is finding out where your site should be listed. There are two good ways to determine where your site belongs. You can perform a keyword search, then "drill down" to find the category that sites returned by the search... (more) Published By: Alan Grissett Submitted: 24 November,2002 |
| 149 | Should You Submit your Web Site to Yahoo! ? Preview: By even the most conservative estimates, Yahoo! is the single largest search directory in terms of overall quantity of searches. This is due to a number of factors including its early entrance onto the Web (1994), the popularity of its value added services (e.g. Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, and My Yahoo!), and the overall quality of its director... (more) Published By: Alan Grissett Submitted: 24 November,2002 |
| 150 | A new Web Marketing ROI Calculator - Part 2 Preview: (Continued from Part 1 -- an interview with Chris Genge about KeywordTool.) Question: What if you have a lot of clients? Chris: "Each client would have their own account. You would want to keep the information separate and private. You can have multiple accounts under your main account. There is no limit to the number of accounts or the number o... (more) Published By: Robin Nobles Submitted: 26 November,2002 |