Can SEO bring more web traffic to your website?
There are many online businesses today which are not making any money at all from the web. There may be a hundred reasons for that and the reasons may vary from case to case. But there are some general reasons for failure of most online businesses. Most common reasons include the lack of web traffic and the poor website. Both of them are actually interrelated. If you do not have a good website, you are not going to get a lot of web traffic. This means that you will have to work on your website to initiate the things. If you will work on your website, you will be working on search engine optimization in a way as well. You will have to make sure that you are optimizing your website for the search engines.…
Every website has its potential to become the next big thing. Everyone starts off equal and its what you do after, which makes a final difference.
Its how you approach your optimization which is a key factor in how your site ranks, in the long term. It might be great that you are ranked first after a few weeks, but after a few years, will you still be ranked first? Google being a prime example of patience.
Google was merely a made up word, and really had no international, let alone national stance. How did it become the biggest thing on the Internet? Patience, and many hours of dedicated, hard work from its creators and the team they formed. Your site needs to develop and mature and this can only be done over time. Realizing that your site needs this, or needs…
Error pages (specifically the 404 page) usually aren’t given much appreciation. You will most likely see a generic page with “Error 404 – Page Not Found” and that’s pretty much it. What you may not know is that these pages do receive a large portion of your traffic, and with sites having dynamic pages, 404 pages will be even more looked at.
As a part of SEO, internal linking is quite important. It is not only there to increase weight on other small pages, but to keep readers reading and not be bored of your website. This can be applied to 404 pages and so what we do is to keep it simple, but user friendly.
Error pages should tell visitors that what they are looking for isn’t there, or they may have mistyped in the link. The audience are real people, so user-friendly…
The top 4 search engines, as I know of, are Google, Yahoo! Search, Bing (MSN) and Ask. Together, they make up about 98% of total searches. This is a fairly significant figure as you should look at the portion of each search engine mentioned in comparison to the total amount of searches when added together.
Analysis
After further analysis, Google holds 71% of the search engine market, Yahoo! holds 15%, Bing holds 9% and Ask holds 3%, with some inaccuracies. During the year of 2006, the difference between Google and Yahoo! was about 38%, today it is around 57%. During June 2009, Google saw an all time high of holding 74% of the market share, and has steadily sat at around 71%. This is an overwhelming figure and should be taken seriously.
So what does this all mean?
As you can see, Google…
