help people find your website
Writing great content, that is useful to your customers, is the #1-best way to get your website noticed by the search engines (i.e., Google). Here are some other great ways to get noticed, as you launch your website and start to build traffic.
- Write good, useful content
Give away your expertise, your experience, your knowledge. People appreciate others who give them useful information. It's a great way to build a sense of rapport with your customers.
- Pump up the volume
Write a lot of content -- that means at least 20 pages of content and better is 200 pages of content. Keep writing. Add new content every week.
- Stay fairly specific
If your website is all about how to write a compelling resume that will get you the interview, don't start drifting off into how the job market is changing and what degrees are in demand today. This will lessen your score with the search engines unless you have enough content to support all of your keywords and areas. It's usually best to specialize your site.
- Use keywords and descriptions in the <HEAD> section of each HTML page
Change the content in italics to reflect your own site's description and keywords. Do this on every single HTML page.
<meta name="Description" content="Fast Website design, copywriting and consulting..plus tips/tricks to create your own website"/>
<meta name="Keywords" content="website design, copywriting, how to build a website, how to add photos, where to host my website, how to build traffic, make money on the internet, writing for the web"/>
- Help the search engines find you so they can send customers to you
Submit your sitemaps to Google and Yahoo -- devour the oodles of information they have available on their sites to help you e succeed in driving customers to your site.
These are some of the key basics to initiating and improving your traffic. But if you get the basics right you are on your way. Implement all of these steps and then see how to increase your traffic even more.
Sep 30, 2007:
Site redesign complete and published to the web.