How
do we make your Web Site more Search Engine friendly
and Increase WebSite Traffic? Most
search engines now use high-order algorithms to assess
on page factors and off page factors for a web site.
On page factors include things like keyword density
and the html coding of your pages.
Keyword
density is very important to search engines and each
search engine may utilize an optimal density (ie. more
is not always better). The number of keywords within
the keyword meta tag may also be detrimental to various
search engine algorithms by causing a dilution of your
main key words. Off page factors include things like
a web site's popularity. Web sites that are more popular,
ie linked from many different outside web sites will
generate a much higher ranking score. An increased search
engine ranking will naturally translate into more people
finding your web site and thus you will experience a
significant increase in the amount of web traffic coming
to your web site. More traffic ultimately means more
revenue. A recent study found that more than 80% of users
stopped looking past the 3rd search engine result. This
illustrates just how critical a high ranking within the
search engines is.
As
of December of 2003 Google powered over 78% of all searches
on the internet and performs about 200 million searches
per day (according to the marketing research firm comScore
Media Metrix). Googl'e web sites handled 35 percent of
all web searches. Besides their own search engine, Google
also powers Yahoo, AOL, and Netscape as well. Microsoft
sites accounted for 16 percent of all searches. It is
safe to say that your Google ranking now has the power
to either make or break your business. If you're not
listed there, than you will not be found by 80% of users.
Although Google's ranking algorithm is very complex,
there are techniques to enhance your score within the
Google ranking algorithm. We
can help you...
- Do
you know that Google is now filtering out and blacklisting
web sites from the search engine indexes that are not
in "compliance" or are trying deceptive coding
techniques like stealth keywords to fool the search
engine algorithm into achieving a higher ranking in
the search results? The search engine AltaVista states "If
being found via search engines is important to your
business, be very careful about where you have your
pages hosted. If the hosting service also hosts spammers
and pornographers, you could wind up being penalized
or excluded simply because the underlying IP address
for that service is the same for all the virtual domains
it includes."
- Do
you know the difference between having your web site
hosted on a dedicated IP address versus a virtual shared
host? Do you know why you should know this?
- Do
you know how to correctly submit your web site to the
search engines? Did you know that submitting incorrectly
could significantly penalize your ranking?
- Do
you know the keyword position secrets and how to perform
search engine optimization for your site?
- Do
you know how to establish a pay-per-click advertising
program (PPC)? Do you know when and why to use one?
- Did
you know that various studies have shown that online
marketing programs can attract far more "targeted" visitors
to your site for pennies on the dollar compared to
traditional print advertising like magazines, journals,
and newspapers?
- Do
you know what the terms algorithm, data mining, text
mining, and business intelligence mean?
These
are just some of the questions you need to know about
your web site and your web site promotion program if
you hope to use it as an effective marketing tool for
your company or hope to attract viewers to your site
from the various internet search engines. We
can assist you in offering search engine advice, meta
tag advice, keyword advice, and optimizing your web site
to significantly generate more traffic to your site and
achieve the most marketing bang for your buck. We can
also perform web traffic analysis using sophisticated
techniques to determine search engine ranking deficiencies,
click through rate deficiencies, and navigational deficiencies
within your site.