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How to Predict Traffic from Google

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:43:34 +0000

Google gives you plenty of really good tools at the moment to predict the traffic to your website from Google rankings. In this post I will show you how you can make a guestimation of the %age of traffic that a particular rank will give you, this is something that I have been trying to figure out for a long time now, and with Google’s wealth of tools available we can use these to get quite fair estimations (Well I think so anyway.). So what do you need to do this: Google Adwords Keyword Tool Your Analytics Package Daily Rankings Reports Google Insights for Search Firstly some caveats, This is an estimation tool remember this and make no promises based on the results, Results can depend on many other factors other than just this such as how appealing your result looks to the searcher, Results do not take into consideration the number of sponsored listings on the page or local search results and the maps with them, real time search box and Shopping results. Collecting the

How to Aggregate Google Analytics Stats with SEJ Tools

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:48:08 +0000

The best thing about the SEJ tools is that you can have all aspects of your website promotion campaign and performance tracking under one combined login. Using one tool you can create and publish content , track links , monitor and compare rankings , do on-page diagnostics and also view your traffic stats. Traffic monitoring is based on Google Analytics: SEJ toolset allows to import all your Google Analytics accounts into your SEJ tools account to view your stats. To activate Google Analytics, you should first login and authorize a specific Google Analytics account so the system can access the data. This process is secure , and you can revoke access at any time. So to start: Go to ANALYTICS tab and click the link saying “Authorize Google Analytics”. Then click “Grant access” link and select the Google Account profile you want to import; You will then be taken back to your SEJ tools account where you will be able to instantly see the imported stats. The software will fetch and display the following data: The Dashboard view:

Should You Be Marketing Yourself Online?

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:35:08 +0000

I can’t tell you how many jobs I’ve landed just by coming up in searches for my own name in Google. Since I am an Internet marketing professional having a web presence is a must. What if you’re not a marketing professional, is a web presence something you should work on and will it benefit you? The answer of course is…Yes! As with any business your brand is what people identify with. If you are a freelancer or a consultant you are your brand. When you Google your name what comes up? How many results are of you? How many are of someone else? If someone wanted to hire you and learn more about you what would they find? These are important questions. It should also be important to you that when a search is done on your name that information pertaining to you and your area of expertise shows up. Why? The top reason “people searches” are done on the net is to establish ones credibility. Not having anything is almost as bad as finding something bad. Does your Myspace page show a picture of you flipping off viewers? That could be damaging and costly to your image and reputation. You can keep your personal profiles private, just don’t have damaging content or photo’s showing in your limited profile. How To Brand

Amazon is the Most Visited Website on Black Friday

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:08:03 +0000

Now that Black Friday is over and everyone is in the U.S. are probably busy finding the best Cyber Monday deals online , it’s interesting to note which online retailers made it to the top of the charts during Black Friday’s shopping craze. And according to Experian Hitwise data it was none other than Amazon – their second in a row. As this year’s Black Friday traffic to retail websites went up by 9% compared to 2008, Amazon received 13.55% of U.S. visits among the top 500 Retail Websites monitored by Hitwise. Walmart followed with 11.8% of all visits, followed by Target.com getting 5.65%, Best Buy with 4.64% and Sears with 2.95% Meanwhile, the Apple Store got the largest increase in visits from Thanksgiving Day to Black Friday 2009. It was actually a 110% increase. Staples on the other hand got a 47% increase while Dell saw a 40%. Amazon which topped the most visited site list only managed to get a 9% increase in traffic. Looking into the traffic from Black Friday sites, Wal-Mart got most of the referred traffic with a 32% increase this year compared to 2008. Best Buy and Target follow as the second and third to get the most traffic from Black Friday sites. So, which of these online retail websites do you think would get the most traffic this Cyber Monday? Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Amazon is the Most Visited Website on Black

Your Site Is Badly Indexed? What Can This Mean?

cgseo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:54 +0000

So you appear to do everything right: you have a fair amount of unique content and you seem to update your site regularly and Google seems to often visit your site… but there appear to be much fewer links in Google’s index than there are actually on your site. So what may that mean? 1. Are there really few pages in Google’s index? You might be wrong about how many URLs are actually in the index as there appears to be no definitive way to tell this. SITE: command may be inaccurate and Google Webmaster Tools reports may be unreliable. ! To make sure a URL isn’t really indexed, use your traffic analytics tool to see if there are no Google search referrals to this page. If the page is ranked, there should be nothing wrong with it. 2. Evaluate your content quality Google may keep visiting but failing to find pages useful enough to store them in the index. By “useful” content I mean unique text content longer than one or two sentences. 3. This may be just seasonal / temporal We’ve discussed this before and here’s a helpful forum thread about that: during some (”busy”) periods of the year Google may hold off indexing new URLs: …the “holiday search results” you know. While Google is in this mode (at least what we’ve seen in the past) the basic spidering, especially for young websites, continues but their indexing is often in a holding pattern. 4. Your site is too young: wait a bit Google treats new sites with suspicion. It doesn’t want to store data of the sites it doesn’t trust (or it may be storing the URLs already but not telling you to watch the trend). So just keep adding quality and relax. 5. Check for some stupid mistakes I’ve seen quite a few people coming to me for SEO diagnostics complaining of bad indexing rate and having Noindex meta tag all over the place. Conclusions? Looking back at the post, I can’t help noticing that there’s only one “true” issue listed (the content quality) – 2 of five points describe a perfectly normal situation and one is about improper diagnostics. So is bad indexing really not an issue most of the time? Sadly, it is often an issue. But to diagnose it, you’ll need more information: like cache rate of your site pages, possible Webmaster Tools errors, low rankings, etc. Like I said, the indexing rate is too hard to diagnose to signal of anything… Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal . Your Site Is Badly Indexed? What Can This

Affiliate Marketing And The Internet

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:26:30 +0000

by Ron Cripps Affiliate marketing is an increasingly popular way to promote businesses on the internet. An affiliate is rewarded for each visitor or subscriber found through their efforts. Essentially, this is the modern adaptation to the finder’s fee. No commissions are paid to the affiliate unless there is a result such as a sale, making this a great option to online marketing online for the vendor. With the many advancements in software development it is now practical for many e-commerce sites to have their own affiliate platforms to manage their army of affiliates. There is also the option for vendors to use third party services such as Clickbank, Commission Junction or Shareasale as just a few examples to manage the affiliates and track their traffic and sales. This service usually entails paying a percentage of the sale to the third party for any sales made by the vendors site. Affiliate marketing has been the vehicle of success for many companies and the increase in revenue is usually 15-20% of a vendor’s online revenue. There is also the added benefit for the vendor of having many affiliate marketers linking to their websites talking about their products and services in forums and logs which is actually the best form of advertising they can get and it all comes to them for free. Affiliate marketing is usually only one level but as of late you can find some programs such as PPC Web Spy that allow different levels taking on the form of the network marketing vehicle.There are numerous affiliate marketing strategies available that can be offered by online merchants. A number of of the scenarios include your own software, online shopping carts that have affiliate functions, hosted services, and third-party affiliate networks such as Clickbank, Commission Junction or Shareasale . As the conception grows, a lot of merchants opt to change their terms and conditions to prohibit the affiliates from spamming or cookie stuffing and numerous other “Black Hat Marketing” practices. Previously, affiliates would often resort to spamming techniques sent through email.These not only irritated consumers, but it clogged the Internet with computer-generated mail. Many affiliates are now on board and create large volumes of generated web pages that are devoted to keywords and keyword phrases. This permitted the search engines to target their sites for the very keywords and products they were selling. After a number of months and many thousands of generated websites this also started to fill the internet with what is called junk sites and was later known as “Black Hat” tactics however… In February of 2006 Google had seen enough and released what was called the “Big Daddy” algorithm update which was designed to combat these generated spam sites. This update permitted Google to take out a large amount of duplicated content from the master search index. As a result of this Google update affiliate marketers had to become more proactive by ensuring their content was updated regularly and as unique as possible to hold a good listing in the search engines. Affiliate marketing is responsible for creating a lot of new businesses from corner to corner of the globe and is expected to evolve greatly. It offers an affiliate the chance to hitch on to a company that is already well established in the online world, and it becomes a win-win situation for everybody involved. The hopeful affiliate still has to realize that the adventure has to be taken seriously. While the merchant can offer training in the way of articles, emails, banners and even youtube video promotions as well as some timely advice, promoting the website or business/ service is left up to the affiliate, and this means understanding the policy of engagement. About the Author: Before commencing your Affiliate Marketing Campaign, Make sure you check out Affiliate X Files for all the best and up to date tutorials on promoting your products and avoid the pitfalls that cause many Affiliates to fail. Get our free affiliate marketing course while your there.

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Want To Know The Benefits of Article Marketing

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:41:10 +0000

by Dirk Andersen Online marketers and affiliate campaigners find it difficult to adopt a proper way of marketing their businesses. Article marketing can be boon for them. Advantage is that it needs to be created only once and then it can be submitted to various article directories and syndication sites who normally pull traffic. Blogs can be another huge segment where article can be published to attract bloggers. Article marketing is a great way to generate traffic on to the website or to the blog. It can actually benefit the marketer in two ways. As these articles are published in various article directories and the blogs, it brings in crowd from both the sources. Some of these directories has a significant customer base and thus you can have access to them. This generates web site traffic. Also article marketing generates search engine traffic. Both should be used in most effective manner to get maximum benefit. Article marketing can result in web traffic if marketing is done properly across the net. However, to be more effective, it is important that key words are selected carefully. It should describe the niche or content of the article so that persons interested in the theme can actually flow in to the web site. properly done, article marketing create large amount of inbound traffic which is essential for the internet business. Article marketing is a promotional tool. Like any tool, it has to be used in the right manner to derive the best possible result. Important is to understand the hidden need of the customer and then to understand how the article is going to solve that need. Once this co relation is correctly done, job is done. This then will create steady flow of certified leads for generation of business. The benefits that article marketing brings in, makes it an attractive tool for any internet business and it is here to stay for long. The tool combines various benefits in its offering. It creates a niche for the marketer as a specialist. It creates substantial web traffic. As these articles are posted in article directories, they create search engine traffic. Thus it improves search engine positions and helps in serach engine oplimisations. About the Author: If you want to explode your traffic and really start moving up in Google then you need article submission on your site. Click the link to see an extrodinary tool.

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Article Marketing: Unique Articles Only

cgseo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:34:50 +0000

by Dirk Andersen Do you want to get more traffic into your sites? Well, a good way to do that is by embedding back links to your pages in articles that you write and submit to various online sites. Before you get too excited, you need to realize that this approach works spectacularly when done intelligently. You don’t have to spend a lot of money, but you will have to spend a great deal of time writing up and submitting your articles to the multitude of accessible article directories and e-zine lists. A good piece of this burden can be relieved if you use an article marketing submission tool, which can be had, gratis or for a fee, from online sources. Write an article with a high degree of quality in mind, and use all the knowledge you have accumulated about search engine optimization strategies to come up with a set of keywords that will effectively represent your particular bailiwick — and don’t forget that you want your article to be viewed as a rich resource for other authors. Once you have the article edited to your satisfaction, then insert the text into your article marketing tool, and launch it away Is there a problem with this? Oh, yes. If you submit the same exact article text to every existing article directory site, you may not get the plethora of back links you were expecting to get. The top search engines are designed to detect duplication of content and to back link only the “original”. The Solution: Continue to submit articles regularly. But don’t submit any single unique article more than once. That way you avoid duplication, and you are assured of getting a back link to your website in all your articles. If you can manage to publish at least one article each week, then over a few years, you will accumulate hundreds, possibly thousands of back links to your venues. Alright! Now, you are champing at the bit to write those articles and begin to reap the rewards of increased traffic through your website. And, well you should. Just the same, you need to keep some perspective. First of all, you are liable to wait a long time before you see any uptick in your traffic. Secondly, for those who have had some experience with this approach, you may remember it working well for you then gradually tapering off in its effectiveness. Let’s face it: the Web changes how it operates over time, and such changes can affect a lot of things, even your particular back link strategy. About the Author: If you want to explode your traffic and really start moving up in Google then you need article submission on your site. Click the link to see an extrodinary tool.

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Blog Traffic Stats

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:59:20 +0000

1. Blog Weekly Search Traffic 2. Blog Monthly Search Traffic

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Using Internet Marketing to Help Your Business

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:26:40 +0000

by Winson Yeung You can learn how to successfully use Internet marketing to benefit your business. Internet marketing is a growing advertising field that can access markets around the world. It is possible to create marketing for specific markets or for large general markets. Internet marketing is specifically useful to small businesses as long as they know how to use Internet marketing effectively. You need to understand which services consumers are interested in and how you can use Internet marketing. Keyword searches and understanding how to use keywords efficiently. First you should investigate the types of words individuals are using to perform searches. Keywords are associated with popularity and percentages are generated to display how much each word is used. Your chosen keywords should be relevant to your provided service or product. Key word information can be found from the top Internet search companies on the net, Yahoo, MSN and Google, which comprise about 95% of the market. Yahoo has its own keyword search tool that you can us for free. To gain the popularity of the keywords you need to multiple the percentages by 4 to get a representation of the entire Internet. The amount of keywords you have on your list the more access points you give consumers to your website and opportunities for purchasing your product or service. Keywords all are associated with prices and you don’t need to use all of the most expensive keywords but have a variety of words that span many markets. With a good key word list you can then begin a pay-per-click campaign. Pay-per-click attracts even more to your website as other individuals then are putting up marketing for you. You should also try to incorporate as many sub divisions as you can, a national, sub regional and with local marketing campaigns. You need to design your web page to list of your services and products. You should also include which cities or area you will ship or provide service to. You also need to be aware of all of your competitors and what areas they service to see what service, products or areas are not being provided. It is also important to make sure your prices are competitive with other similar products and markets. Internet marketing is largely ignored by most large organizations and they ignore over 80% of any Internet requests from their Internet campaigns. Studies have displayed that a well-optimized web site can increase the traffic to your site. Small businesses may not have the funds or people to do traditional advertising and they can easily use Internet marketing to benefit their company. Most companies use article marketing as Internet marketing. The best articles are between 300 to 500 words in length. Incorporate as many as your keywords as you can so many different searches will access your articles. You can create a chain that all ends at your website. If you are unsure of how to incorporate Internet marketing into your business then do a little research. There is a lot of information available. About the Author: Visit my website on link building service that builds high authority incoming links to improve your search engine ranking. You might also want to check out this free backlink checker .

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