Thread: So you want website traffic?

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    So you want website traffic?

    For those of you that are interested in developing traffic to your pages, you may find this to be an invaluable resource.

    www.selfpromotion.com


    Why did you build this site?

    This site was originally created because I got repeatedly spammed by some scam artists who promised they'd "register my URL at the top 500 search engines." The truth is that there aren't anywhere near 500 search engines. There are in fact about a dozen major english-language search engines that are of any value in generating hits for your site. There are also about 200 general and special-purpose indexes that are useful. The vast majority of the "search engines" the hype-artists will "promote" your site to are Free-For-All links pages that are at best worthless for generating site traffic, and at worst will get your email address on multiple spam lists. Not the kind of promotion you had in mind, eh?

    So, having been quite annoyed, and given that there is nothing more dangerous than an annoyed hacker (in the original, honorable meaning of the word), I decided to build a site that would let everyone properly register their URL to all the important search engines and indexes.
    Myths about Search Engine Registration

    Many people expect to instantly get a lot more hits after registering their site. This will not happen, and anyone who promises such results is what James (my 8 year-old) colorfully refers to as a "silly peanut-butter" (in other words, a liar).

    Registering your site will get you more hits, but it will take weeks or months for the increased traffic to become noticeable. After you register your site with a particular search engine or index, it can take anything from 5 seconds to 5 months for them to actually list you, if in fact they actually do. Registering at a particular index doesn't guarantee that you'll actually be listed; many indexes are very selective and only list a small percentage of the submissions they get. And the major search engines? Well, they're all taking months to add new listings. Furthermore, just because you are listed by a particular site doesn't mean that your listing will appear on any particular search. Even if you're selling something obscure, like, say, Polish Sausage, a search on AltaVista finds over 3500 webpages, only 10 of which get on the coveted "first page." So registration by itself isn't enough; you have to have web-pages that "rank highly" with the search engines. I've already mentioned my page on this topic, and there are also tons of great sites out there that can help you learn how to improve your rankings; I particularly recommend Search Engine Watch as a good place to learn about how search engines work.

    Finally, while registering your site (and getting good rankings on the search engines) is an important part of site promotion, it is important to understand that it is only one part of the process; there are other equally important things you should do (read The 500 Sites Fallacy for more thoughts on that subject).
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    Great site, Betazep. Lots of info...

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    You are very welcome...

    I use it and have seen tremendous results for my category. You only need to give him $25 a year for the advanced services. It is really worth it.

    number one in google for my main keyword (leaf painting)... google powers yahoo's website search.

    number three in msn search

    number five at lycos

    number two in overture

    number one out of four million on altavista

    etc
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    that seems impressive for so little money, im trying out the free services first and see how much traffic they attract. If its good ill use the advanced (if he accpets international sales)

    ps: are you on commision?
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    >>ps: are you on commision?

    Nope

    He has a lot of international search engines that require you to be submitting from foreign sites (like .de domains for example). Well foreign to me anyway.

    Some of my best traffic comes from australia (Matilda, et al).

    I am not sure what you can do with the free part. I think it is severely limited in comparison to the pay feature. He offers an unconditional money back guarantee. So I tried the full version right off, and I wasn't dissappointed.


    >>see how much traffic they attract


    It takes time, patience, and there is certainly a huge learning curve. You won't generate crap for traffic if your META tag information is bad. Small relevant example, some engines penalize you for having five or more repeated words in the 'keywords', etc. (Much like cprogramming.com has C++ listed too many times on the main index page keyword list. )

    Good luck...
    Last edited by Betazep; 01-19-2002 at 01:25 PM.
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