Have just built my website, but there's no traffic going to it – I can't see it in search engines? What do I
7 Responses
Kick Start
28 Feb 2010
Work Smart
28 Feb 2010
Start building back links. (inbounds) http://homebizseo.com/SEO/Backlinks.html Building backlinks is the number one way to get indexed and increase rankings.
Michael ManfromU
28 Feb 2010
Backlinks are excellent. Especially if the website linking to you is already listed in the search engines and doesn’t use "no-follow" tags. One-way backlinks are even better.
gunachin
28 Feb 2010
1. First and foremost step is to do the xml sitemaps for google, yahoo and submit them. Look for any crawl errors and fix them.
2. Submit the website into as many directories as possible. Importance should be provided to related niche directories and regional shopping directories if you are selling something online. This may take time but it is very effective.
You can find those directory by <keyword> + directory, <keyword> + add url, <keyword> + add website,
<keyword> + submit site, <keyword> + resources etc.
3. Some of the directories have a paid link option starting from $1 for a permanent link. You can buy some links depending on the quality of the directory.
4. Do a press release on launch of your website and distribute it to as many PR sites as possible. There are some sites which charge a little amount to distribute your PR into the print media. Establish links from the keywords on the Press release to the website or related urls.
5. Write some informative and unique articles on the subject and distribute them to the article directories. Establish links from keywords to the home page or inner pages. A good article drives lot of traffic and increase the link juice. A quality article submitted by 2004 and published at ezinearticles.com by http://www.submitinme.com/article-submission/article-submission-service.aspx have received 100,000+ views and still counting. 60% of the visits would have converted into clicks to the website which means 60,000 targetted visitors from a single article. So it is important that you distribute quality articles periodically.
6. Social bookmarking- Bookmarking the urls with social media sites and making the link public.
7. Google Base – This is one source tapped by very few people. When you search for http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=kona+coffee&spell=1 You will find some results for the products submitted with google base(froogle). These results are taken from Google Base. http://base.google.com/ . You have to register there and upload the products there. There are options for multiple product uploading, image upload etc and it is free.
8. Video ads. Distributing inline ads with any related, interesting video.
9. Posting at related forums. Forums are a great way to promote the site. Many of the forums offer signature links, where you can have a link back to your website or any url. Also some of the forums allow direct links at forum posting.
10. Posting comments on blogs. Post comments on related blogs with backlinks to site
11. Yahoo answers- Yahoo have a no follow attribute so there will not be any link juice, but certainly there will be lot of traffic to site. All you have to do is find coffee related questions and answer them with a link back to your site.
12. Provide testimonials wherever possible.
13. Have your product / service reviewed at http://www.epinions.com/, http://www.consumersearch.com/, http://www.mouthshut.com, http://www.product-reviews.net/ etc.
14. Hire bloggers to start and write frequently on several blogs at different class c ips.
15. E-book syndicate – Create an e-book on 101 coffees or something like that and distribute it for free from your site and other sites. Links have to be established from the ebook to the urls of your site.
16. Register with B2b sites, wholesale sites like http://www.alibaba.com etc.
We have used the services of http://www.submitinme.com who provide the services mentioned here at very affordable rates. Our site http://www.recycleinme.com ranks on first page for the keyword "scrap" which has 30,700,000 results. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=scrap
Honey Bush
28 Feb 2010
The free ebook here: http://www.LemonadeHere.com
lists 247 different traffic generation methods.
It’s more of a listing than a detailed how-to, but it
did spark a lot of ideas for me, and I do recommend
that you grab a copy.
Honey
comps
28 Feb 2010
Write articles about your website or ideas.
Share your knowledge, use keywords.
Go ahead, advertise yourself.
Make your article Famous!
Invite others to read your article!
There are no rules.
It’s free to join!
vicseo
28 Feb 2010
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.
And the very last category – "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It’s ranked No. 1!
Again, Nazos.net’s high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google’s publication guidelines.
Good luck!
Have you registered your site with search engines? If not you need to…. the three big ones are
http://www.google.com/addurl/
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
If it’s a business website, have you considered placing online classifieds with a link into your site? Search engine crawlers will pick up on these.
Web directories can also provide links into your site. There’s a list and more information at my blog
http://kickstartursite.blogspot.com
Also consider answering questions at forums and including your url link in your forum signature and also within your e-mail address.
You may want to review your metadata of your site and your links
try this free tool http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html