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Important Steps for Increasing Website Traffic
Jan 7th
Increasing web or blog traffic is the focus of many bloggers or website owners. They need the traffic to increase their page rank, and with high page rank, it means that they will earn more money from their sites. You will find many tricks and tips to gets more traffic for your site and make many visitors come to your site. Many people do not memorize site’s name when they need to get information. They usually use search engine like google, yahoo, msn, aol etc. to find the website which contained the information that they want.
There is one simple trick which can be said as marketing method or free advertising act. You should publish your link to your website everywhere you can, so that everyone can be redirected to your website. The first act is to contribute yourself to Yahoo answers, and put a link to your website in your name or below your post.
Next, you can join an online forum or discussion, make your own signature and a link which will go to your site, and start participating in the forum. You can also browse to some website or blog which have similar topic with yours. You can also write a comment and leave your back link there, make sure that you are allowed to do so by the owner of the website or blog.
Next, now a days twitter, Facebook, Orkut are very popular social networking websites and its my general observation that if you regularly tweets, scrap etc with your url in tweets and scraps then it will help in boosting your web site rank.
You can also create press release and publish on web site here are some press release examples for you if you are not aware. Press Release are also very powerful tool to drive traffic to your site. PRlog.org, Free-Press-Release.com, WorldPressRelease.org and many more.
You can also submit your web site to directories. If you don’t know from where you can find directory list just check DirectoryCritic.com it provides categorized list of directories accepting web site. Number of back links pointing to your blog or site also plays a vital role in driving traffic to your site or blog.
Common URL Problems
Dec 15th
Here are 3 of the most common URL problems that I have seen on different websites. If your site has one or more of these problems, take a look at these solutions and get them fixed as soon as possible.
Problem #1: Non-www and www Versions of Site URLs
If your site has a non-www and www version of all your URLs, you’re going to be splitting link value for the same content between two URLs. Rather than capturing 100% of the link value on the page you want to rank in the search results, you could be doing a 50/50, 60/40, or some other kind of split between the two URLs.
There are a couple of things you need to do to fix this:
1. Decide which URL style you want to use, www or non-www.
2. Set up a 301 redirect so that any links to your non-preferred URL style will go to the right style. This way you don’t waste link value by splitting it between two URLs.
3. Set your preferred domain in Google Webmaster Tools so your search result listings are consistent with your style preference.
4. Make sure whenever you build links to your site that you use the preferred URL style.
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Want to get Incoming links?
Dec 13th
Want incoming links?
Incoming links for a website are the best way to build page rank and get more traffic for a site. While link building is important, it’s more important that it’s done from the word GO, so your hard work gets the credibility it deserves.
Important : To use this guide effectively, don’t try to make all suggestions work for you at the same time. Take a few suggestions and apply them. Once you are comfortable with them, come back and try a few others. Trying a lot of new things at once usually don’t work out well.
Matt Cutts from Google, talks about how building a unique product, offering free services and generating interesting data can usually get you tons of incoming links. But what if your website’s niche is not unique? What if there are a lot of other websites that have more or less the same content as you?
Link baiting is a technique that can get you more links than the competition. Link baiting has been criticized in the past for being a black hat technique and an unethical way of building links. There are ethical ways to link bait as well, and some work very well, but this will be discussed in detail in a future article.
Here are some tips to help you get incoming links for your website :
Do not focus on pagerank alone! Here’s why
Dec 13th
Do not focus on pagerank alone!
Since Google announced it’s patented ranking system for webpages, Pagerank, there have been a lot of discussions regarding pagerank and how to get more of it for your website. So much so, that webmasters have been completely focusing on this holy grail of web development and placing less important on other factors.
Google has now started telling webmasters that there are a lot of other factors which affect SERP (Search engine results page) placement than pagerank.
Matt Cutts, Google’s voice for search quality, has made consistent efforts to educate webmasters about this for a long time now.
How Google’s Social Search Works
Dec 8th
Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn’t always very easy to find in one simple place. That’s why today we’re rolling out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle. It should be available for everyone to try by the end of the day, so be sure to check back.