Traffic on a Website

February 22nd, 2008

One of the biggest problems that new webmasters have to face is how to get more website traffic as soon as possible – and keeping it. Actually, even a lot of veteran webmasters with several years of website and/or blogging experience have to contend with this problem as well. It’s no wonder that a whole new industry was born out of a single, concentrated need: getting more traffic to your site. Indeed, it seems that getting more and more traffic has become sort of a “Holy Grail” or a quest for webmasters.

I am not sure when or how it actually happened, but people have realized that just because you built it doesn’t mean it automatically counts. With the growth of the World Wide Web that has exploded into over a million websites and blogs, Internet users need a good reason to visit your site, and even more reasons to keep coming back. Without any idea of how or where to start, a newbie webmaster will definitely be lost before he can even get started with this task of generating traffic.

There exists a lot of solutions to this traffic generation problem, actually. You can do it the easy way and buy traffic from online vendors. This will result in your website being hit from all angles with automated programs. However, keep in mind that you’re only getting hits from machines, not real people. Your stats will jump, but your sales probably won’t.

A lot of people try setting up multiple websites or blogs that connect to your main site. This is actually a very effective way to build up your hit count, but only if your site’s content makes for excellent reading or viewing. Without quality content, your site will soon stagnate, and all the other connecting sites and blogs with it. If your site has quality content, then this should be no problem for you.

Another popular technique is utilizing the power of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Create an RSS feed for your website and subscribe to others as well. Make sure that these other feeds are somehow related to your site’s niche, to get better results. However, this method has the same caveat attached to it as that of the multiple sites technique I have mentioned above, and that is to make sure that your site’s RSS feed provides interesting and quality content to your subscribers; otherwise, it’s pretty useless.

Although I haven’t used this next technique, I should mention it for the sake of variety. Traffic exchanges are another good source of traffic for sites, but although they can pile up the hits on your counter, most of the time the people visiting your site cannot be considered as targeted traffic. They are just there because of the credits they are getting from the traffic exchange program. If you are running an e-commerce website and this method is your only way of getting traffic, then I’m telling you now that you are doomed to fail.

There are a few side benefits of traffic exchanges, though. It can increase your website’s Alexa rating, which is factored in by some search engines when ranking your site. Thus, a higher Alexa rating may produce higher search engine placements, which in turn could translate into more targeted traffic this time around.

My results of ProjectWonderful

February 20th, 2008

Hi and Ho

After a litle break im starting again..

Now im going to tell u about my results after about 2 weeks using “ProjectWonderful”

To make money you need visitors..

They say that you pay for one day and that you ad stays there for on day.

But that realy dipends on if you get many clicks… no clicks mean no money..

and for 0.02 per click i think that is a verry low income when you maby make 0.08 a day.. :(

Besides that i think that Projectwonderfull is a OK “project” ..

I have made about $1.20 and have advertised for about 0.30 for that i got 3 days of advertising.

I will keep the ad on my site.. that is becaous as i get more visitors i have the posibilety to make mutch more money..

How to Make Your Web Site Work For You

February 5th, 2008

How to Make Your Web Site Work For You

 

Internet surfers have a very short attention span, roughly ten seconds, and this is the only time you have to capture their attention using your website. With hundreds of millions of websites online, and the three biggest search engine companies tightening their ranking regulations, competition has intensified and it is imperative that a website not only be attractive but ìstickyî i.e. able to attract repeat visitors. A website should also have the necessary qualities to attract not only unique traffic. For a website to be truly memorable, it has to encompass the following:

 

1. Good design

2. Usability-logical navigation

3. Fresh and unique content

4. Search engine optimization

 

Good design

A truly memorable website will incorporate good design. Many websites offer great content but forget that the majority of web surfers are actually less than 25 years old. Good design also means that the graphics are optimized and therefore the site downloads fast regardless of Internet speeds. To do this an expert graphics designer should be employed who should create graphics that are light (e.g. gifs). Care should be taken when adding animations such as flash which require viewers to download additional software in order to view the site.

 

Usability

A site should have a logical navigation. This means that it should be straight-forward and the surfer should not spend a lot of time trying to decipher where to go next or how to get back to the home page. A navigation system that works is one that is consistent across all pages and clearly points the way back and to all the other pages.

 

Fresh and Unique Content

In order for a website to truly be a success, it has to offer value to the viewer. That means it must contain information that is relevant and that meets the needs of the surfer. Many websites have valuable information but it is never updated on a regular basis. Regularly updated content is also very important as we shall see, for a site to obtain good search engine rankings.

 

Search Engine Optimization

Search engines employ special software (ìspidersî) which search the web for fresh and relevant content including links. This is what determines search engine rankings. When designing a website, extra care should be given to keywords that not only describe the site but the product or service you are offering.

How can I create a Google-friendly site?

February 1st, 2008


     How can I create a Google-friendly site? 

Things to doOur webmaster guidelines provide general design, technical, and quality guidelines. Below are more detailed tips for creating a Google-friendly site.Give visitors the information they’re looking forProvide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage. This is the single most important thing to do. If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract many visitors and entice webmasters to link to your site. In creating a helpful, information-rich site, write pages that clearly and accurately describe your topic. Think about the words users would type to find your pages and include those words on your site.Make sure that other sites link to yoursLinks help our crawlers find your site and can give your site greater visibility in our search results. When returning results for a search, Google combines PageRank (our view of a page’s importance) with sophisticated text-matching techniques to display pages that are both important and relevant to each search. Google counts the number of votes a page receives as part of its PageRank assessment, interpreting a link from page A to page B as a vote by page A for page B. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”Keep in mind that our algorithms can distinguish natural links from unnatural links. Natural links to your site develop as part of the dynamic nature of the web when other sites find your content valuable and think it would be helpful for their visitors. Unnatural links to your site are placed there specifically to make your site look more popular to search engines. Some of these types of links (such as link schemes and doorway pages) are covered in our webmaster guidelines.Only natural links are useful for the indexing and ranking of your site.Make your site easily accessibleBuild your site with a logical link structure. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.Use a text browser, such as Lynx, to examine your site. Most spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Macromedia Flash keep you from seeing your entire site in a text browser, then spiders may have trouble crawling it.Consider creating static copies of dynamic pages. Although the Google index includes dynamic pages, they comprise a small portion of our index. If you suspect that your dynamically generated pages (such as URLs containing question marks) are causing problems for our crawler, you might create static copies of these pages. If you create static copies, don’t forget to add your dynamic pages to your robots.txt file to prevent us from treating them as duplicates.Things to AvoidDon’t fill your page with lists of keywords, attempt to “cloak” pages, or put up “crawler only” pages. If your site contains pages, links, or text that you don’t intend visitors to see, Google considers those links and pages deceptive and may ignore your site.Don’t feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service. Some companies claim to “guarantee” high ranking for your site in Google’s search results. While legitimate consulting firms can improve your site’s flow and content, others employ deceptive tactics in an attempt to fool search engines. Be careful; if your domain is affiliated with one of these deceptive services, it could be banned from our index.Don’t use images to display important names, content, or links. Our crawler doesn’t recognize text contained in graphics. Use ALT attributes if the main content and keywords on your page can’t be formatted in regular HTML.Don’t create multiple copies of a page under different URLs. Many sites offer text-only or printer-friendly versions of pages that contain the same content as the corresponding graphic-rich pages. To ensure that your preferred page is included in our search results, you’ll need to block duplicates from our spiders using a robots.txt file. For information about using a robots.txt file, please visit our information on blocking Googlebot.

None of this is mine.. Every thing is from google 

 

How To Buy Links And Avoid Google Detection

February 1st, 2008

Let’s take two sites:

 

  • Site A is an established authority site in its niche with page 1 rankings for almost all of its target keywords. Rich in content and links out only to quality resources. Site A is highly trusted by Google.
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  • Site B is a new website in the same niche, has Directory links from bCentral, Yahoo! Directory, BOTW and a handful of organic links based on a press release they did on launch. The site is now 2 months old.

Site B wants to buy a link on Site A. Their webmaster uses the following process:

  • Searches Site A for a set of pages that are most relevant to what Site B offers.
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  • Prepares two options - a new page that ‘builds’ upon this set of pages (with links to Site B along with links to authority sites in the niche), and updates one page from this set, adding almost 50% more information as well as links to Site B (and other authority sites in the niche).
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  • Contacts Site A, presents both options, makes an offer, and waits.

Welcome to the world of buying links ‘under the radar’

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Finding websites such as Site A is hard but not impossible.

Does this work?

Yes, because webmasters love the idea of making money from their website.

Yes, because an in-context link:

  • with proper co-citation from a website that is trusted and has a ‘reputation’ of editorial citations only
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  • to a website that DOES NOT have a bad link profile
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  • is topically related to the first site

Cannot be distinguished from an editorial citation.

We know that Google says otherwise, but what Google says are guidelines for providing the best service to Google’s users as Google sees it, not law and definitely not the only way to do things.

Your comments and thoughts are welcome.

Hope for some responces