| |
| |
|
Traffic Building Information |
|
|
|
Optimizing Your Dead Links!
I have been reading, with great interest, all the online advice about how to optimize a website. We have a financial planning business in Victoria, BC. Like most towns, there are lots of financial planners, investment advisors, insurance agents, brokers, dealers, and Starbuck's locations here. Somehow we needed to find a way to stand out, perhaps by getting our meta-tags in order. For a time, we were looking fabulous in searches on Google, but our site couldn't be found on Yahoo! Then we got the Yahoo search engine figured out ? but promptly disappeared off of Google. Now I thought this optimizing thing would fix it once and for all. The strategy made sense. You have your title designed, and it ties in with your meta-tags and content. You have your meta-tags match your content. You think about what content you actually want to have. I spent an hour or three on several of our site's pages optimizing like crazy. Poof! We were nowhere on Google and now I had successfully torpedoed our site on Yahoo! There were old (really old) dead link pages cropping up in searches for us on Yahoo. The brand spanking new, optimized pages were nowhere to be found. Huh? Perhaps I needed to wait for the spiders and robots to visit. Day after day I would check. Financial Planning Victoria? Nope. Financial Planner Victoria? Nope. CFP Victoria BC? Nothing. And then, today, I checked Yahoo and there we were #1 or #2 on Yahoo for all kinds of different search terms! It works!!! We were top ranked for at least three dozen different search terms! Financial Planner Victoria - #1! Retirement Victoria BC - #1! Tax planner Victoria - #1! And so on. I was thrilled. I sent an email to everybody in the office bragging about it, and then set about creating our e-newsletter which tells clients about our website updates each month. I uploaded the new articles. One was about the wonders of technology. I encountered some weird loading prompts. I checked the website. It was extremely slow in loading. I checked it again. The main page was a dead link this time! I checked again, and while the main page loaded, the navigation bar only loaded partially. Dead link. Slow load. Nothing! Here I had spent all this time optimizing pages and on the day it works, people will be clicking through to dead links! So I am now leaning out the second storey window, holding the computer by the cords in one hand, whilst finishing this article in the other. Should I drop the computer on the street? Come on! Lemme do it! Please! I'm swinging it around now like a lasso. I think I can hang it up on the telephone wires like an old pair of sneakers! About The Author Rick Hoogendoorn is an 'associate' and 'pessimistic optimizer' with Cheri Crause & Associates Inc. in Victoria, BC. Cheri Crause is a certified financial planner in the same town. www.chericrause.com
MORE RESOURCES:
Traffic-Building - Google News |
|
|
|
RELATED ARTICLES
Using Traffic Exchange Programs Part 1 I have an ingenious concept in store for you!I am sure that you have heard of Traffic Exchange programs such as Traffic Swarm, No More Hits and Hit Pulse. If you do not what they are just yet, quite simply, Traffic Exchange programs allow you to surf for credits in exchange for traffic to your web pages. Website Traffic: 10 Blazing Secrets To Increase Your Sales The more traffics you get at your website, themore your chances of making a sale increases.Here are 10 blazing website traffic secrets to helpyou succeed:1. Ethical Link Exchange, You be the Judge Webmasters understand that quality and relevant inbound links can increase site visibility; your search engine rating; and with any luck increase your traffic and revenue.While working to locate relevant links for our site, we discovered a disturbing practice apparently being used to increase link popularity and search engine ranking. 5 Illustrious Strategies To Explode Your Web Site Traffic Are you spending hundreds of dollars on advertising campaigns, only to find out that you have earned a very small profit or none at all? Here are 5 illustrious strategies that will help you explode and create viral traffic to your web site.1. Jump-start Your Link Building (without Getting Sandboxed) Link popularity has been written about ad nauseum, but most articles address the subject from a perspective circa 2001. The available information usually focuses on topics such as reciprocal linking or the current price of a PR6 link. What is One Thing a Home Business Entrepreneur Should be Constantly Working Towards? We will begin this topic with one assumption, that our home business comprises selling through a website. Meaning we are website owners. My Website Needed More Targeted Traffic - Guess Where I Found It? There's nothing new about using joint ventures to get traffic to websites. And good information is freely available from many internet marketing sites on how to set up JVs. 7 Top Ways to Avoid Link Theft If you have a link directory on a website, how do you stop link theft by sites that don't link back, or trick you into thinking they do?Whether link theft is anything to get concerned about depends on how many links your website has, the quality of those links (Google Page Rank) and how many of those links you lose. Search Engine Ranking is certainly something that's becoming more dependent upon the links to your website. Free Traffic Course - Day 7 When you work with web site traffic, you must have the tools that show you the real picture about this traffic. You must know for sure how targeted your visitors are, what they want, what offers they like more, what offers cut down their motivation to use your product/service. Reciprocal Linking Techniques Building a successful web site is a process that works best when done in a deliberate, logical step-by-step manner. The first step is to build a top quality web site that is packed with interesting and useful content. Secrets to Free Website Traffic You have just uploaded your web-site and it looks great!You feel good about it and you're ready to make some money!There's only one problem, you need some Customers, or Traffic!There are a few ways to do this, that are free, but will take some time and work.First you will need to set-up some link pages on you web-site. No Follow Illustrates Need For Good Linking Plan The blog explosion created a great opportunity for savvy marketers--they could post their URL's in the comments of blogs and reap the benefits of links back to their sites as the search engines crawled through.Some undertook blog-marketing responsibly. Traffic Generation Tutorials - Article 1 of 10 Bi Weekly Articles This article will be continually updated with your feedback and updates will appear http://www.its-brilliant. My Top 12 Web Site Marketing Strategies - Part 1 If you don't create a successful strategy for marketing your website, you can't build a profitable online business. It'stherefore imperative to drive thousands of visitors to your website, then convert them to paying customers. Site Link Popularity (Site Poularity) Just imagine .. Use eBay as Cheap Traffic! Did you know that according to alexa, www.eBay. How to Get Great Organic Search Engine Listings All too often I find site owners are confused (or in denial) about how to achieve the search engine rankings they desire on the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). So, I am pleased to offer you my version of "Organic Listings 101. Linking Strategies That Bring Results Website link popularity is used to indicate how many other web pages link to your web page. It is calculated by counting the number of web pages that contain your link, also known asinbound links. 8 Steps for Getting Free Traffic to Your Website Want to Make Free Money on the Internet?One of the biggest problems with starting an Online Business is getting traffic to your website. One of the easiest ways is to pay for it via search engines or pay-per-click and pay-per-exposure ads. The Basics of Asking for a Reciprocal Link Asking another webmaster for a reciprocal link is standard practice on the Internet. Webmasters have been asking other webmasters for reciprocal links since the beginnings of the Internet.
|
  |
| © 2007 |