what are the best ways to generate hits on my website from your search engine?
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You need to optimize your site for the search engines. Read the excellent free tutorial here http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php
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Some ideas:\n\n1. Create the best content you can. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. \n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.\n\n5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; educate potential customers; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website.\n\n6. Carefully track your conversions. Getting traffic is one thing; getting them to buy your products is another thing. Watch how well you are converting your traffic to sales. Look at your website from a customer's point of view - does it encourage sales; does it encourage confidence; does it have a strong call to action? Sometimes, simple things can do wonders for conversion such as putting the BUY NOW button above the fold and using eye catching red color. Experiment and see what works for your site
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You need to get a good ranking in the search engines and establish a network of other sites that link to yours.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.\n\nThere's lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way.  This seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's millions of results found.  A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG --\nOne of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" is much better than "All about flying to the moon and back".  Why?  Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines including Google support this tag - others don't.  \n\nCompare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ...".  Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- USE THE ALT TAG --\nSome search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site.  Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.\n\n-- FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML --\nSpiders are unable to follow these linking systems.  If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won't follow the links and your pages won't get indexed.  If you're designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.\n\n-- SPLASH PAGES --\nThese are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a 'Skip Intro' link.  Spiders don't like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.\n\n-- DOORWAY PAGES --\nThese are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere.  Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.  \n\nSpiders have wised up to Doorways and there's nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.\n\n-- HIDDEN TEXT --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site.  Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style and not simply use bold and underlined text.\n\n-- REPEA
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First make sure you have meta tags on your webpages that reflect the content on your site. This site has great info on how to optimize your webpages for search engines http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/search-engine-optimization.htm This is where I learned how to use my meta tags, keywords and content to get my website the best possible results.\n\nThen submit your URL to Yahoo, Google, etc. Its better to go to each individual search engine and do it yourself than to use a quick submit website. That way you can be sure that it goes through for each search engine (Some search engines do not allow automated programs to submit URLs). You can also improve your visibility on Google by making a sitemap https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login. Yahoo also uses sitemaps.\n\nYou can also improve your rankings by your link popularity. Try submitting your website to directories. Some that have been useful in improving my rankings are: http://www.limerex.com , http://www.tatet.com/ , http://www.slackalice.com/ , http://www.lookdirectory.com/ \nAlso look for websites that have similar content as yours that are willing to trade links with you. Searchbliss has a neat tool called a backlinks finder that helps you find websites that you can submit your link to: http://www.searchbliss.com/seo-tools/back-links-finder.asp\n\nI did all of these things and my website has really good rankings for my targeted keywords.\nBelow is a list of links to a few search engines to submit your URL
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The first step is to submit your site in the search engines. But that will not make your site appear high in the search terms you want because search engines look for several factors in giving top rankings to sites.\n\nSearch engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:\n\n- Age of the Content \n- Keyword density \n- How it fares in the results \n- Site structure \n- Backlinks\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nWebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there's a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)\n\nOther resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:\n\nGoogle Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/ \nMatt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/  (Matt is a Google software engineer)\nDigitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6\nSearchEngineWatch's MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\nAs for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today\n\nTotal Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/\nKeyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php\nGoogle Sitemaps (to help Google index your pages faster) https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en
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If your on a tight budget\nstart with the Penny Per Click engines first. These are the biggest\nand the best for immediate results. Your traffic will start in only\nminutes!\n\nPenny A Click\n————–\nGo Click\nEpilot\n7 Search\nSearch Feed\n\n3 Cents A Click\n—————\nAh-Ha/Enhance\n\n5 cents a click\n—————\nhttps://adwords.google.com/select/ \nhttp://www.content.overture.com/d/  (now Yahoo owned)\nhttp://www.miva.com/index.asp\nhttp://www.search123.com\nhttp://www.kanoodle.com\nhttp://www.mamma.com\n\nAlso you can get traffic with traffic exchanges.\nThere’s nothing to lose by incorporating them into\nyour web site traffic strategy & Everything to gain.\n\nHere’s a free report I put together.\nhttp://www.webmasterautomation.com/TrafficExchangeReport.pdf\n\nHere's a post on it:\nhttp://webmasterautomation.com/blog/2006/10/12/the-best-free-targeted-web-site-traffic/
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Here are a few tips to get you started to doing it for free.\n\nPublish quality content, regularly. No garbage, personal nonsense, ramblings or rants.\n\nDon't think you'll get rich with stupid pages full of ads at the top, left, right, bottom like yours.\n\nUse proper grammar and punctuation. Don't overload your page with your keywords.\n\nDon't host on a free hosting site. \n\nIf you are serious, Invest in a real, relevant domain name.\n\nPick a topic you are knowledgeable about and stick to that. That way everything in your site is relevant to the topic and keywords associated with that topic. People will respect you if you produce good content and they will become loyal readers.\n\nRead everything you can about Search Engine Optimization.\n\nGood luck!
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The best thing I can recommend is Google Adwords. They let you advertise your website alongside search results of relevant terms relating to your website.\n\nStarting is easy and you have to pay $5 to register. Even this money you can use for paying for your ads.\nYou are charged only when someone clicks to your website. The amount you pay per click is also determined by you and can be as less a 1 cent.\n\nTry http://adwords.google.com
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There's several criteria that determine how much traffic your website gets but by far the most important things are to have a good ranking in the search engines and some good links to your site.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings (the results returned by a search engine) and these algorithms are a closely guarded secret.\n\nThere are various articles on the net to do with 'Search Engine Optimization' (or SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way - this seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's up to 40 million other results found.  A site I created just a few days ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo (the only major search engine to have indexed the site so far).\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE --\nOne of the key things a search engine looks at is the title of the page. When you're giving the page a title use the same words that people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if you're going to create a page about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" would be far better than "All about flying to the moon and back" because the first phrase includes many keywords that people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines also look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name luch as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines supoort this tag - others don't.  Google is one of those that does.  What it means is that the details of the site that users see when your site shows up in the search results are the details yopu want them to see and not random snippets from the page.\n\nFor example.  Compare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ..." whereas Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style and not simply use bold and underlined text.\n\n-- REPEAT THE KEYWORDS FREQUENTLY --\nYou need to include in the text of your page several instances of the different keywords people may key in when using a search engine.  Using the space travel example your page should include words such as space, travel, fly, moon, space-tourist and so on with each of these words repeated several times.\n\nAt the same time don't overdo it - if you keep repeating the same thing ove and over and over again the search engines don't like it.\n\n-- USE OF THE KEYWORD TAG --\nThis is something that's falling out of favour with search engines and in my experience could be detrimental to page ranking.  Keywords are added to the page itself but aren't visible to people browsing the page.  This was a useful 'tag' for ensuring your page contained varients of words, particularly those that are often mis-spelled (e.g. Britney, Britany, Brittany, Spears, Spiers etc).  Personally I don't use keywords any more.\n\n-- DON'T TRY TO 'CHEAT THE SYSTEM' --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases.  The hope is that som
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You could start with a Blog of your own and start building traffic. \n\nOnce you've reached a certain level of viewership, get a website designed and add great visuals, interactive features like newsletters, email alerts etc..and get it search engine optimized.\n\nAll the best!
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There are some ways:\n\n1. Post in forums. If your site is about link exchange, search for link exchange forums in Google, get a forum account and post actively there. Include your signature with a link to your site.\n\n2. Submit your site to Google Sitemap. This way, Google will crawl your site faster increasing your chances of appearing on Google Search Engines.\n\n3. Join TrafficSwarm to get some traffic by reading other people's website first. In return, they will go to your site. Check out http://www.wanginternet.com/traffic\n\nFor various ways to make some money from your website, see http://www.wanginternet.com
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Post a link to your site for free where it is allowed (always read the Terms of Use). Examples are:\n\nCraigslist http://www.craigslist.com\nGoogle Base http://base.google.com\nClassifieds for Free http://www.classifiedsforfree.com/...\nText Link Exchange http://www.txtswap.com/\nRecycler.com http://www.recycler.com/\nYahoo Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/\nUS Free Ads http://www.usfreeads.com/\n\n"If you build it, they will come" is not necessarily true on the Web. Putting a website up is one thing, but getting visitors to come to your site is another. The process becomes even more difficult if you have limited resources to market your business.\n\nHere are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible: \n\n1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement - if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.\n\n2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important -- and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more - that's additional traffic that you get for FREE!\n\nRecommend Site Scripts (various) http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nBig Nose Bird Recommend this Site http://bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml \nCGI Resource Index http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Website_Promotion/Recommend_Site/\nHostscripts http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Site_Recommendation/index.html\n\n3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\n4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News. My website (see my profile) accepts free press release submission (no strings attached!)\n\n5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.\n\nHere is a comprehensive list of where to submit your articles http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhzreGmnCUicOoyedqypscUjzKIX?qid=1006022407481
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Most search engine sites have a free submit your site page. Once you have registered with a few, they will crawl your site and index it. Once that happens the others will follow! Of course where you show up in the engine rankings will be based on your actual content and the amount of links to your site from similar sites.
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As well as submitting to search engines, try listing with advertising companies.\n\nhttp://www.inetgiant.com/ is one.  They say "Promote your website using our free classifieds, bulk email advertising, targeted website traffic, free advertising and free classified ads submission services. "\n\nBpath has heaps of free web tools that can be helpful in different ways.\n\nMarketing Tools at Bpath include \n \nHyperSubmit \nSearch engine submission and optimization services for your website \nmore info \n \n  Pay Per Click Advertising \nCreate and place text ads on sites of your choice and pay only for clicks. \nmore info \n \n \nHyperTraffic \nDrive a steady flow of targeted visitors to your web site each and every day. \nmore info \n \n  QuickBanner \nCreate your own professional animated and flash banners in three simple steps. \nFree! more info \n \n http://www.bpath.com/\n\n\nTell-a-friend \nLet your visitors recommend your web site to their colleagues in one click. \nFree! more info \n \n  Banner Exchange \nTurn your visitors into more visitors and get free advertising for your web site. \nFree! more info \n \nhttp://www.google.com.au/ads/ has heaps of info about their advertising programs \n\n Hope this is helpful.  More links in sources
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Most search engines offer the advanced option to display a greater number of hits per page. In case of Google, 100 hits rather than 10.\n\nSince you know your page address, use text search to find it.
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Try these things\n1) Submit your URL to major search engines.\nFor google go to \nhttp://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=\nand\nhttp://base.google.com\nfor yahoo go to\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htm\nfor msn it is \nhttp://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx\n\n2) Add meta tags..i.e. keywords describing your website in meta tags.\n3) add more incoming links to your website from other websites.\n4)Share your website links with similar sites.\n5) Do have a sitemap.\n6)Prefer static html wherever possible.\n7) One tip, which is less known that make a lot of pages like your index or default page and have hidden links to them all over your website \n8) Create Error-free and static HTML as far as possible\n9) Submit your site to good directories like Yahoo, DMOZ.org, zeal.com\n10) Write a blog for your site\n11) Make a robots.txt file and put it in the root , containing name of all the searchable web pages i your website.
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Okay this is easy and free.\n\nWorks EVERY time.\n\nGet a free GMAIL account which has nothing to do with your name or your web site name.\n\nNow, go to Google GROUPS and search for communities which are related to your web site.\n\nFor example if your site is about art, find groups about art.\n\nNow everytime you add a page or make a change, post that link to that art group, even if it is in a different language.\n\nIf you really have something to offer on your site, people will start linking to it, thus building your page rank.\n\nYou can also start a Google blog at blogger and blog blog blog your updates.\n\nShameless, but it works  very fast.