So what is a web site page rank anyway? The ranking system is nothing but a way for Google to assign a level of importance to your website. When someone searches for something the ranking determines what’s most relevant and what’s the most important information on that specific search term. Think of the entire internet as one big library of information. The search engines act as indexing systems that helps you to find information in this big library. Just like in a normal library, certain books are more important and more relevant than others. Instead of you having to go to every website to find the most important and most relevant information, Google assigns a page rank that predetermines the importance and relevance of your website. When someone searches for something specific online, the page rank of a website will largely determine which site is most important and what the specific web site traffic ranking is for that search.

If two websites contain exactly the same information, the one with the highest page rank will be the one that gets shown in the search results. One of the easiest ways for Google to determine whether your website is important is to see whether other websites value your website. In other words if other websites link to your site it means that your site has something that other sites think is important. Google likes this, and if other sites like you then it is very likely that Google will also like you.

Getting links to your website is one of the best strategies for improving your web site traffic ranking. But it’s not as simple as that. To make some more refined distinctions between important and unimportant websites, Google will also check the traffic ranking of the site linking to yours. Getting one link from a website with a page rank of 6 will mean more than ten links from websites with a page rank of 2. So, it’s not just about getting links, but it’s about getting quality links from high PR websites in the same niche as yours (must be relevant information). Always try and keep the human factor in mind search engines provide a service and that service is to serve people with the best information for their needs.

With web site traffic rankings it is important to distinguish between importance and relevance. Relevance is determined by standard SEO practices of your content, your keywords and the actual information on your website. Importance is determined by your page rank. Doing the one without the other won’t be of any use if you want a high web site traffic ranking with the search engines.

When the whole ranking system became important, several marketers got smart started building what is known as ‘link farms’ or ‘link exchanges’ where different web masters exchange links and by the sheer amount of links they were able to boost their web site traffic rankings significantly. Google quickly caught on to this and now distinguishes between one-way and reciprocal links. A one way link is worth much more than a reciprocal link. These types of link exchanges are becoming less effective and you will be much better off spending your time and effort building quality links from high PR and authority sites in your niche preferably one way links.

One of the best strategies for building one way links from high PR websites is to write articles and submit them to article directories. Your links within the article is a one way back link and many of the article directories have very high web site traffic rankings. This can be very time consuming but well worth the effort. Many authority sites with very high PRs offer the opportunity for you to exchange links with them or to post comments or list your website in their directory. These are worth gold and getting one way back links from these sites will help you greatly in working your way to the top of Googles ranking.

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So unless having your own private viewings of all your online business’ wonderful features rocks your world, you need to find ways to let the rest of us know what we are missing.

If we don’t find you, you wont have the opportunity to let your website do its persuasive best, by offering us your products, to separate us from our money. Until business comes your way, in other words, you don’t have any, and for how long will that be fun?

But doing a web traffic promotion may not be not as hard as you may think. Thousands of Internet entrepreneurs spread the word about their ventures through article submission. Article directories, which abound, will be happy to offer your efforts to newsletter and e-zine editors, who are always on the lookout for content.

You can write, or have written, as a means of web traffic promotion, an article related to one of your individual products, or one on the general topic under which your products fall. If you sell jewelry, you can wax poetic on the history of engagement rings and great romances; if you sell vitamins, you can discuss the increasing rate of diet-related diseases in the U.S.

But the great thing about article submission as a web traffic promotion is that you will be given space, in your article, for a resource box, in which to place your link and make your final creative sell. If you are convincing enough, web traffic will be on its way!

And even more web traffic, should your article be picked up, will be generated because where your article goes, so goes your resource box and your link. Your website traffic promotion, link included, will be showing up in the e-mail boxes of targeted audiences. There is no better way to increase your sites popularity.

Roses, however, always have thorns; using article submission as a web traffic promotion can be very time-consuming. Writing ten 500-word articles on a subject as dear to your heart as your website is a labor of love, but submitting those ten articles to the hundreds of article directories will test even the most dedicated webmasters.

To help you maximize your web traffic promotion, there are article submission services and article submission software. Some article submission services offer article writing or re-writing services as well; and some charge you a lower fee if you provide your own articles.

Article submission software will send your articles to over two hundred article directories, and in some cases, to E-mail lists. Good software will be updated regularly as new directories come online.

Web traffic promotion done by article submission is the most effective way to get your website, presented in your own words, with your link, before thousands of people. Just respect you potential customers enough to give them professionally written articles, and let the article submission system do the rest!

Author: Matt Garrett – 2007 http://www.dominoseo.com

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But you are not alone. One of the most important questions in the entire webmaster community is; “how do I generate targeted traffic to my website”.

First you need to realize that driving targeted traffic and pre-qualified potential buyers to your website requires a consistent effort.

Consistent = coherent and uniform.

Effort = The use of physical or mental energy to do something.

At the start, it can feel like you are pushing a snowball up a hill. But don’t quit and you’ll wake up one day to discover the beautiful truth that ‘Traffic begets traffic’

It stands to reason that you must publish useful, relevant, information for your site visitors.

Next you have to use the right tools.

A good idea is to ‘automate’ what you can, where you can, whenever you can.

Next you need to write articles – LOTS of articles. I Suggest 3 a Day.

Writing articles for webmasters and ezine publishers is a great way to attract targeted traffic to your website. By getting others to publish your articles, search engines will start to index and rank your website more prominently.

Your increased web presence will make it easier for prospects in your target market to find you online.

Just by submitting 3 articles a day to the major article directories, you can see an extra 1,000 -5,000 targeted visitors per month and more – depending on the quality of your article.

That might not seem like a lot but the thing to keep in mind is that we are talking about ‘Targeted’ traffic.

3 Proven Benefits Article Writing Can Bring You

1) They Can Bring Targeted Visitors Who Are Actively Searching For Your Niche.

2) They Can consistently Improve Your Search Engine Rankings.

3) They Can Build Your Credibility by Making You An Expert in People’s Eyes.

Now – just in case you are sat there wondering if writing 3 articles a day is worth the effort, consider this:

Many webmasters get caught up in the concept of driving traffic to their website without giving even the slightest thought as to whether or not it is targeted web site traffic.

And that is one of the main reasons why they always struggle to make any progress.

But imagine if the majority of visitors to your website arrived already ‘pre-qualified’ because they clicked on an ad or resource box in an article that accurately describes you and your site had to offer them.

If you have decent sales copy and a product or service worth owning, targeted traffic will change your world.

If that is not worth 3 articles a day then just stay ‘working for the man’ The choice is yours.

I personally think it is a small price to pay to get a better life.

Chris Bloor is an Internet Marketer who loves getting more links and targeted traffic. Read more of his ideas at http://www.GettingMoreLinks.com

This will be our web form.

<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<?php
$status = $_GET['status'];
if($status=="1") {
   echo '<div class="successAlert"
   style="width:560px; margin:auto">
   Message successfully sent!</div>';
   } elseif ($status=="0") {
   echo '<div class="warningAlert"
   style="width:560px; margin:auto">
   Your message was not sent. Please check your input!</div>';
   } else {
   echo"";
   }
?>
<div class="container">
<div class="content">
  <div class="shape">
    <div class="header">Contact us</div>
            <form method="post" id="form1" class="form" action="send_email.php">
              <table align="center" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
                <tr>
                  <td><label for="name"><span class="pintext">
                  Your name</span></label></td>
                  <td><div align="left" class="string">
                  <input class="name" type="text" name="name" id="name" size="32" />
                  </div>
                  </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><label for="email"><span  class="pintext">
                   Your email</span></label></td>
                  <td><div align="left" class="string">
                  <input class="email" type="text" name="email" id="email" size="32" />
                  </div>
                  </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td><label for="message"><span  class="pintext">
                  Your message</span></label></td>
                  <td><div align="left" class="string_textarea">
                  <textarea name="message" cols="24" rows="5" class="textarea" id="message">
                  </textarea></div>
                  <div align="right" class="footer_textarea"></div>
                  </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td colspan="2"><div align="right">
                  <input class="buttons" type="submit" name="Send message"
                  id="Send message" value="Send message →" /></div>
                  </td>
                </tr>
              </table>
            </form>
     </div>
  </div>

You will notice that we some css classes already defined so what we miss in this form is the css file. We also have some lines of PHP which will tell the visitor if the email was sent or something was wrong. We will create a new stylesheet and call it “style.css” and place it inside a new folder called “css”. It’s good to keep all things organized and place everything where it should be placed. Our site will get bigger and bigger as time goes by and it will be harder to edit and tune up things if we’re not organized. Paste the following css code into our styles page:

.container {
  border:1px dashed #cfcfcf;
  margin:auto;
  margin-top: 20px;
  line-height:18px;
  background:#fff;
  padding:4px;
  width:580px
}
.content {
  background-image:url(../images/b.gif);padding:10px;
}
.shape {
  margin: 0px 6px 6px 6px;
  border: 10px solid #fff;
  background: #fbfaf8;
  line-height: 1.2em;
  filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow
  (color='#e2decd', Direction=135, Strength=9);
}
.header {
  font:bold 12px trebuchet ms, lucida grande, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
  color:#fff;
  font-size:18px;
  padding-top:4px;
  padding-bottom:4px;
  background-color: #EDCC9A;
  margin-bottom:10px;
  text-align:center;
 }
.pintext {
  color:#666;
  font:bold 16px trebuchet ms,lucida grande,verdana,arial,sans-serif;
}
.buttons {
  background: #e3e3db;
  font-size:12px;
  color: #989070;
  padding: 6px 14px;
  border-width: 2px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: #fff #d8d8d0 #d8d8d0 #fff;
  text-decoration: none;
  text-transform:uppercase;
  font-weight:bold;
}
.name {
  background-image: url(../images/name.png);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position:left;
  padding-left:19px;
  background-color: #fffff0;
  margin-top: 7px;
  margin-left:15px;
  border:0px none #F11F1F;
  font:normal 18px Arial;
  color: #999999;
}
.email {
  background-image: url(../images/email.png);
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  background-position:left;
  padding-left:19px;
  background-color: #fffff0;
  margin-top: 7px;
  margin-left:15px;
  border:0px none #F11F1F;
  font:normal 18px Arial;
  color: #999999;
}
.string {
  background-image: url(../images/big_searchbg.gif);
  width: 346px;
  height: 38px;
  border:0px;
}
.textarea {
  background-image: url(../images/bg_textarea.gif);
  margin-top:10px;
  background-color: #fffff0;
  width: 341px;
  border:0px none #F11F1F;
  font:normal 18px Arial;
  color: #999999;
  padding: 15px;
}
.footer_textarea {
  background-image: url(../images/f_textarea.gif);
  background-position: bottom;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  width: 346px;
  height: 12px;
  border:0px;
}
.string_textarea {
  background-image: url(../images/top_textarea.gif);
  background-position: top;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  width: 346px;
  border:0px;
}
.warningAlert,.successAlert,.errorAlert {
  text-align:center;
  font:italic normal 100% georgia,times,serif;
  padding:9px
}
.successAlert a,.warningAlert a,.errorAlert a {
  font-weight:700
}
.successAlert {
  color:#333;
  border:3px solid #8fc15e;
  background:#edf9d9
}
.successAlert a {
  color:#360 !important
}
.warningAlert,.errorAlert {
  color:#000;
  border:3px solid #cd6531;
  background:#ffe6cd
}
.warningAlert a,.errorAlert a {
  color:#b46131 !important
}

We’re almost done. We have the page that our visitors will use to submit data so what we need right now is a script that will validate this input and process it. Let’s create a new file and call it “send_email.php”. Paste this code inside it:

$site_name = "your site name here";
$admin_email = "yourEmail@whatever.com";
function check_email_address($email) {
  if (!ereg("^[^@]{1,64}@[^@]{1,255}$", $email)) {
    header("Location: index.php?status=0");
  }
  $email_array = explode("@", $email);
  $local_array = explode(".", $email_array[0]);
  for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($local_array); $i++) {
     if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-][A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~\.-] {0,63})|(\"[^(\\|\")]{0,62}\"))$", $local_array[$i])) {
       header("Location: index.php?status=0");
    }
  }
  if (!ereg("^\[?[0-9\.]+\]?$", $email_array[1])) {
    $domain_array = explode(".", $email_array[1]);
    if (sizeof($domain_array) < 2) {
         die ("Invalid email address");
    }
    for ($i = 0; $i < sizeof($domain_array); $i++) {
      if (!ereg("^(([A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])|([A-Za-z0-9]+))$",
      $domain_array[$i])) {
         header("Location: index.php?status=0");
      }
    }
  }
  return $email;
}

function escape_val($string) {
	$string = str_replace(array('"',"<",">"), array(""","<",">"), $string);
	return $string;
}

$check_email = check_email_address($_REQUEST['email']);
$name = escape_val($_REQUEST['name']);
$message = escape_val($_REQUEST['message']);
$time = date('l dS \of F Y h:i:s A');
$email_subject = "New contact message from ".$site_name."";

if(mail($admin_email,$email_subject,$message,
"From:$check_email,Reply-to:$check_email")) {
header("Location: index.php?status=1");
exit;
} else {
header("Location: index.php?status=0");
}

This page will grab the data that was submited via our form and return to our index.php page with 2 possible statuses: 0 for “something’s wrong” and 1 for “ok! email sent”. If you go back and study “index.php” you will notice this php code which will tell our visitor if the email was successfull or not:

$status = $_GET['status'];
if($status=="1") {
echo '<div class="successAlert" style="width:560px; margin:auto">
Message successfully sent!</div>';
} elseif ($status=="0") {
echo '<div class="warningAlert" style="width:560px; margin:auto">
Your message was not sent. Please check your input!</div>';
} else {
echo"";
}

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Please note, the demo does not send any mail, as it is just to show how it looks.

It should be fairly obvious to you why free search engine traffic is so important, particularly if you are running a website for the purpose of making money. Free traffic means that for every sale you make, you have much higher profits, or potentially infinite profits if you are selling affiliate products or you are monitizing your traffic through advertising programs such as adsense or yahoo ads.

When generating free traffic, if you only make $1 per 10,000 visitors, that’s ok, because those are 10,000 free visitors, and the beauty of 10,000 free visitors is that because you will have grown to these numbers organically, you can ramp up that traffic by repeating the processes you went through to get to this level in the first place.

Another beauty of having 10,000 free visitors is that you can tweak your site to see what results you receive without worrying whether your revenues will go down, because at the end of the day, your traffic is free.

When I talk about 10,000 visitors, the time frame you aim for is up to you. When I create a new site, I aim at some basic mile stones. For example, I aim to initially gain enough ligitimate and ethical incoming links to get my site crawled by the big search engines, particularly google. Once this has been achived, I aim to push my page rank up using some simple techniques and we will look at these now.

Optimize Your Site

You need to ask yourself two very important questions:

What market are you aiming at?

Is your site optimized at this market?

The market you decide to aim at is your choice and really is something you need consider based on your own personal research.

As far as your optimization is concerned, this is something I can offer my advice on. Firstly what do we mean by optimization? Well, optimization is a fairly simple subject. When you look at a website selling holidays, look at the contents of the site, what you will see is content (or writing and text) about holidays, travel, travel destination and methods of transport that their holidays use. What you won’t see is content about say buying cars. The content and text on your site needs to be relevant to the market you are aiming to penetrate.

If your website is loaded with graphic, remember that search engines bots that rank your site cannot see these graphics and have absolutely no idea what the graphic is, so in the tag that tells the web browser to display the graphic, you need to include in that tag an alt (alternate) tag so that firstly if the graphic fails to load visitors can see what the graphic is supposed to be, and secondly it enables the search engines to see what the graphic is related to. So it is important you include in this alt tag an important keyword for your site. For example, alt (equals symbol) relavant keywords description of image

So now you have learnt the importance of including the relevant keywords you are marketing towards in the text and image tags on your website. What we will look at now is your linking strategy.

Linking Strategy

Now that your website is optimized for the keywords you are targeting at your next goal is now the most important marketing skill you will add to your portfolio. Generating incoming links.

Incoming links are like a little spotlight shining on a part of your website making it visible to the outside world, and if you are able to generate enough RELEVANT incoming links pointing to the various pages of your site, you will start to build a good page rank for your chosen keywords. It is important to remember that generating incoming links from link farms and sites that do not rank highly for the keywords you are aiming at is completely counter productive and may infact hurt you to the point where search engines may potentially ban you. You want to build your site using only good incoming links. There are a couple of ways to do this. The first is through forums, the second through blogging, thirdly via e-zine articles and fourthly and most importantly link sharing.

Forum linking strategies Perform a search using the keywords your marketing strategy is aimed at and find the relevant forums focusing on topics you believe are within the scope of your site. Sign up to these forums and in your profile place your URL. That is one link the search engines will see. Also while in the profile page, in the signature box, add a text link with your URL as the destination. Now join in the forums and make sure you add relevant comments and genuinly join in with the forum. This is important otherwise you will be flagged up for spamming. Initially you should not include your signature until you have becoming stablished in the forums and once you have, then you can start placing your signature on your posts. Very effective strategy.

Blogging By blogging on your site about the products or area you are marketing, you will generate relevant comment for search engines to order your site by. Also you will create information for visitors to your site to consume meaning they are more likely to stay on your site. You can also list your blog with blog registers, creating even more incoming links.

E-zine Article Writing E-zine article writing is similar to blogging. A good technique is to turn your blog entries into e-zine articles and post them on e-zine sites with your link at the bottom. This enables people to use your articles on their website and they are obliged to place your link at the bottom. This not only creates incoming links from the e-zine directories, but also from people who use your articles on their websites.

Link Sharing Link sharing is a simple process. Once you have built a blog with good content, look for similar blogs and contact the webmaster and ask if they would be willing to share your blog. They can either place a link to your blog on their site and your return the favour, or they can post blog entries on your blog with a link back to their blog at the bottom, and you place an entry on theirs with a link to yours. If you repeat this process several times with relevant blogs and they are marketing their sites aswell, their page link will be increasing, your page link will be increasing and you will all boost each other page rank.

Now implement these strategies and watch your traffic grow. Remember this is not an instant fix, but it will increase your traffic and page rank, and you will see your traffic grow substantially.

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There are at least three benefits of reading Mike’s report, which incidentally, is available for free.

To begin with, every reader who has got any experience with Internet marketing, and especially those who have been burned at the hands of so-called Internet Marketing Experts (they liked to be called gurus), will get that warm feeling deep inside as their opinions about these gurus are vindicated. The book will reinforce the image of these gurus that many people already identify with. An image of cold, uncaring, callous, and totally immersed in self interest kind of people who will do anything to take your money and leave you with nothing in return. Mike himself is a thought of as one of the gurus and what he clarifies in this report is that the JV launch was a major mess through the very people launching the product.

The second benefit is getting an insight into what the Internet marketing industry in general is planning to unleash on the public. The new strategies, possessing colorful names like Latent Semantic Indexing (sometimes misspelled as “symantic”), Folksonomy or Social Network Tagging, Silo Structures (also known as Themeing), and so on, are about to be implemented on a large scale. For those who know anything about these strategies it must be clear that this development too will bring problems with its advantages. The advantage is that the present gurus who have mastered techniques that are often labeled Black Hat due to their exploitive properties will have to change their tactics to survive under these new marketing methodologies. The problem is that like previous methodologies, the time to live for this new one will not be much longer. Once the content of this report and its implications become widespread, there will be a collectively move to adopt the new marketing techniques and pretty soon we will be in the same mess that we are now.

Also included in the report is a reinforcement of the impact of vision and self-improvement on everything one does. While everyone may or may not agree with Mike’s personal vision of what he perceives as success and the means he has adopted to achieve it, the personalized message is still worth the time spent reading it. I must admit that whether one grants any merit to his vision or not it has to be observed that it has worked well, for him at least even if fails to achieve a similar success for all those who choose to implement it in their own endeavors.

Of course, you have to remember that the whole report is one big and bold paradox because one of the well-recognized gurus of marketing is trying to tell the world how his own field of work has expired. What is more is that the book tends to offers a glimpse into other aspects related to the future of Internet marketing and the current trends like Google AdSense which are also, apparently, doomed to the same failure as Internet marketing in general.

About the e-book

For those who are already familiar with the whole Internet marketing industry and its recent trends, the e-book might also seem like reading material already included in your thought patterns. After all, things have been pretty much obvious for a while now and Mike comes across as stating this obvious.

However, as I mentioned in the beginning, the obvious is often the most difficult thing to see and reading about it along with explanations of why it happened is a good experience.

The title is a bit misleading because marketing will continue as long as the Internet exists. What it really means is that the currently popular methods and trends of marketing are either dead or will die soon. The e-book offers a decent explanation of what is happening with Internet marketing and a good idea of what we can expect.

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So, you have your product all ready to go and your organization completely geared up to selling it, how can you be sure of generating enough traffic for everything to succeed?

Here are 7 ways to increase your website traffic:

1. Although you might be tempted to try to save some money by choosing one of the lesser known search engines, think again. Google’s own AdWords and Yahoo’s equivalent, Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture), will be the best value for money in the long term. The most trustworthy method of increasing the traffic to your site is to use one of these search engine advertising methods. Other search engines might be less expensive, but they generate nowhere near the amount of traffic.

2. Familiarize yourself with the ways in which search engines go about compiling their results. They try to discover certain keywords or phrases in text and then exhibit these on the results page. If you can correctly identify the important keywords and phrases connected with your product, and incorporate them into your own content, then this will maximize your search engine results. This kind of content can often be written for you by specialists if you are hesitant about your own writing expertise.

3. The more sites that you can arrange a mutually beneficial exchange of links with, the better. When two sites both work hard to generate their traffic from an exchange or trade link, then it is perfectly feasible for them to feed off each other. The more links you can form with other sites, the more traffic you can anticipate.

4. Viral marketing techniques are not as immoral as the term might at first suggest, but they do provide a means of advertising your product or services with minimum expenditure. By attaching your link or your advertisement to something such as an amusing video, an engaging article or piece of gossip or even a challenging puzzle or game, people will be drawn to your product. This type of material is often passed along chains of contacts, each of whom will see your ad – generating more traffic.

5. Make an effort to submit articles to sites that deal in content that is associated with your own particular field. If you deal with garden furniture, then send articles and press releases to sites that deal with gardens, garden design and home landscaping. By attaching your site details and describing your services at the foot of each article, and linking to your home site, this is a sure-fire success.

6. You need to become a member of as many forums and online communities and message boards as you can that are associated with your product. In this way, you can display your expertise and knowledge and build up your reputation as a reliable, credible authority on the subject. Again, by linking to your site, this will generate considerable traffic as people will be confident that you are a knowledgeable, competent source.

7. Finally, providing your customers and potential clients with regular, well-produced newsletters, full of relevant and up-to-date material, will develop customer loyalty and trust. You will demonstrate sustainability to your readers, which is more likely to attract new customers, and also encourage people to pass on your material to others.

Tom Duong has been actively marketing on the Internet since 2006 and currently owns over 30 successful income generating websites. Visit his blog at http://TomDuong.com to learn how he can help you build a successful online business.

1. List your URL in major web site directories.
   These include Yahoo, DMOZ, Best of the Web and Business.com. And don’t just stop with the free directories. There are many with a minor charge between $20 and $100, and Google values their links because of the barrier to entry. However, you must always consider the quality of your links as well as the quantity so determine and limit yourself to the most popular ones.
2. Send out online press releases over PR Newswire.
   Releases sent out over PR Newswire generate very strong links because they are picked up by major publications such as Forbes.com, Yahoo! Finance, etc. And each time they are added to a new web site, your contact information and URL are included, thus a new inbound link.
3. Submit articles to content provision sites.
   Such as this one. Content provision sites serve as a clearinghouse of material for other web sites. And each time an article is chosen, the author’s name and URL must be reproduced.
4. Join professional organizations.
   These organizations will provide an online list of members with contact information. Because the URL is in your field of specialty, Google gives it even more emphasis.
5. Start a blog and contribute to it at least once a week.
   Each blog entry is published on a new web page with all your contact information in the blog template reproduced. Blogs are considered one of the most powerful ways to generate a plethora of inbound links. You can also get your blog and URL listed in specialized blog directories.
6. Contribute to local search listings.
   There are a number of online local directories that will list your company name and URL. These include Google Maps, Yahoo Local, Live Search Maps and several Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs).
7. Get links to interior pages of your web site.
   These links, known as “deep links,” tell Google that there is interesting information on your web site besides just the home page. Ideally, up to 30 percent of your links should be deep links. There are a number of ways to create deep links such as inbound links to content provision articles, press releases or newsletters added to your web site. In addition, if you create a blog on your web site (wordpress.org allows this), then any links to your blog will be deep links.
8. Exchange links only if absolutely necessary.
   Because of the importance of inbound links, some people created “link farms,” pages and pages of links to various companies. Google’s algorithm recognizes the structure of links, and if you have a large number of reciprocal links, your web site’s ranking could be penalized rather than helped.
9. Publish articles in prominent industry trade magazines with an online edition.
   Again, inbound links from publications in your field are valued much more highly than links in general.
10. Obtain links from .edu or .gov domains.
    Because of their non-commercial nature, inbound links from .edu or .gov domains are particularly valuable. Sometimes, schools or government agencies can be approached through auxiliary organizations such as the PTA or veterans’ organizations.

Willy Gissen founded Cut-It-Out Communications http://www.cioediting.com a full-service public relations agency, in 2003. Previously, he served as Vice President for a PR firm with international clients and on a gubernatorial communications staff. A Harvard graduate, he has published many articles on PR – see http://www.cioediting.com/media_content_provision.asp

As per the research, if a page doesn’t load in 8 seconds, 1/3 of the visitors move away. With over 110 million websites on the internet, nobody can afford to keep their visitors waiting for web pages to load.

Here are the few things that directly impact the load time:

• The file size of the HTML document
• The file size of other element in the document including scripts, images, and multimedia elements
• Level of HTML complexity
• Poorly written code
• Poorly nested tags
• Table based design
• The connection speed at the user end
• The server speed where website is being hosted

To improve the page load time, consider the following while coding your page:

1. Flash Content- Flash takes time to load so if it is not required, then avoid flash in your website. If used, always make sure that it is optimized and must have pre-loader.
2. Image size – Images should be optimized. Never use large size images unless absolutely required.
3. Markup Language- It should be w3c validated to avoid any coding errors, broken links, and unwanted tags. Website should be optimized for load time.
4. CSS – Use CSS to define style and formatting. It helps in reducing the HTML page size and browser can cache all the formatting and styling which results in faster load time.
5. Shorthand CSS – For best result, CSS should be validated and optimized properly.
6. Scripts – Like CSS, always try to define JavaScript externally. 7.Hand Coded code – Try to avoid any WYSIWYG software like dream-weaver, they usually add useless code in the page. Always keep your code clean and validated by removing extra space, code, tags etc.

Conclusion:

When 70-80% of traffic drives from the internet, no one can afford to loose client just because of load time. A faster download speed leads to increased usability, which, according to a study by Jakob Nielsen from useit.com, can increase your web site’s sale/conversion rate by 100%.

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Don’t Make Usability An After-Thought:Of course when you are new, you would want instant results of fame. This would drive you towards building an SEO-friendly website to be the top priority in search engines. This is a great thing, but don’t ever let go of your website’s usability. You are new and what you mostly need is the user’s attention and trust. In whatever manner you design your website, be sure to make it user-centered. The gains of planning usability into your website increases end-user satisfaction and reduce long-term development costs (costs of fixing and maintaining poorly designed websites later on)

Create To Sell:Your website’s main purpose is to sell what you offer–whether products or services. If your site fails to do that, there’s no point of having it at the first place! Make your visitors comfortable and compel them to buy. What you can do is give them full details about yourself, probably on your “about us” page. Address to them in a communicative language and give them an option to contact you back for any suggestions or any other reason. Be concise, you don’t want to bore them with petty details.

Make Your Site Speak For Your Business:The home page of your website should be neatly organized with having a good design and solid meaningful content. Tell your visitors what your business, products, and services are all about. Enlighten the features and plus points your business in detail. Remember, your website is your sales person and business spokesman, don’t let this opportunity go to waste. Emphasize Your Competitive Advantage: There is always something that makes you unique from your competitive market. The key is to acknowledge that “something” and bring it forward to the visitors. There is an ideal chance that your small business may give the visitors exactly what they want and didn’t find it anywhere else. Tell them how they can make the best choice by choosing you.

Don’t Forget Your Brand Identity Is Important:

Don’t forget to place your logo and colors on your site. Colors and logos are important in determining your brand identity and they connect your site to your other marketing materials. Use a consistent and simple design for each of your website pages. Position your logo and navigation elements at the same place on every page; this will divert your visitor’s attention towards the content entirely, saving you from designing complexities.

Your Site Should Provide Solutions:Remember, your visitors have many questions to which they want effective and reliable answers. Don’t confuse them but explain how you can solve their issues by providing successful solutions. Be as much supportive as you can, this will enhance your credibility and make your visitors deal with you without hesitation. It is also good to include any experience you have had in solving problems of your earlier clients. Include client testimonials for verifications if you can; nothing is more effective than showing what actually the reality is. If you choose a professional web designing firm to build your website, make sure they are aware of these tips while creating your website. As you are new, they should understand your business requirements and how it can be given maximum exposure through your website. You need a Web designer that is capable of producing a site that will work well for you.

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