You Have a Great Design, Now Bring in the Traffic
You are about to launch your website. Your designer has created a great design for your site or you decided to use a free XHTML template and customized it to your liking. You think you are ready to start making money from your site. If only it was that simple.
So what do you need to do to get that all important traffic to your site? How can you be sure the Search Engines will spider your site and index you?
Here are 3 things you absolutely must do right away:
- Include relevant keywords in your main page content. So if you are selling a service, describe your service, describe the benefits of your service, using targetted keywords throughout your description. Make sure your content is clear, grammatically correct, and spelled correctly so that visitors to your site will perceive you as a professional.
- Use normal HTML/XHTML inner links so that the Search engines can spider your entire site properly. Avoid using Javascript or Flash for your main site navigation because the spiders cannot see those elements and your site won’t get crawled.
- Get incoming links from reputable sites that relate to your service. If other sites are linking to you and they are already established as an authority in your service industry, that gives your site some credibility and your ranking will slowly improve as you continue to acquire more inbound links.
If you focus on the above 3 strategies and make them a priority, you will get the desired results. Here’s to your successful website launch!
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May 11th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Karen where are your relevant words? Do the categories and menus count?
May 12th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
hi Sloan,
right now I’m using the 2 keyword phrases: free XHTML templates or free XHTML template and I have 3 spots in the top 20 in Google…I dropped off the top 10 because I’ve been unable to post daily or every other day like before because of client projects and commitments. I use the “free stuff” to bring in the traffic and incoming links because a lot of people leave the credit links intact in my free templates and themes, which is always appreciated.
Categories and navigation links count for deep indexing mostly and that is why I have a Google sitemap file as well so search engines can read/spider that XML file as it gets updated.
June 22nd, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Erm… you spelled perc(ei)ved wrong, but I like your site anyway.
June 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
oh my gosh! Corrected..thanks Brent