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How To Write A Landing Page Dear Mr. DIs there a difference between writing a landing page and any other web site page? Yes and no. But mainly, yes. You still have to work within the fundamentals of ..... I have heard that to make it on the Internet, a business must have a high ranking on the search engines. I have submitted my site to several of the top ones, but I never get a high ranking. In fact I don't even think I get ranked at all on most of them. 10 Tips To Become An Affiliate Champion What can I do'Affiliates programs are one of the easiest ways to make money in the internet. Small fortunes have been made for smart people who have taken advantage of this powerful marketing technique. This tips intend to help ..... Signed, frustrated _________________ Dear Frustrated, I know how frustrating it can be trying to get a decent ranking with any of the major engines. You submit your site, then wait weeks for the search engine "gods" to render their decision. More likely than not, their decision is to either not list your site at all or to give it a ranking so low that a surfer needs deep diving equipment to find you. It's enough to sent you running for a giant size bottle of Prozac. Your first reaction will probably be to throw your hands up and say the heck with those search engines, who needs them' Don't make this mistake. We all need our sites Use Feng Shui Techniques To Design A Harmonic Website For Your Business listed on search engines. More visitors can be By following feng shui guidelines and techniques, you can build and design a business website that is not only visually attractive but also attractive to wealth and prosperity. The elements that are part of a business website are ..... gained through search engines than all other marketing venues put together. Nobody can ignore this vast source of potential customers. So what can a poor beleaguered Webmaster do' Most of us turn to the search engine gurus at Yes, Please Do Come In, But Better Watch Your Step! this point. We follow their advice on how to make This little parody, and the comments that follow, were written nearly six years ago. In my opinion, they're even more appropriate now than they were then. Let me know what you think. You are sitting in your house one ..... our web sites search engine ready. We insert META tags into our site code. We struggle to add just the right description and keywords so the major engines will find us worthy of a high listing. When all the i's have been dotted and all the t's crossed, we submit again and wait. Five or six weeks later we discover that once again, the "big boys" have found our site lacking in some way or another. It's back to the drawing board. We read somewhere - to get approved for a decent listing we need to build some "gateway pages." This only takes a few days to a few weeks to figure out and accomplish, but then, at last it's done and we submit once again. And once again, five or six weeks later, we find that we still can't be found on any of the major engines we have submitted and resubmitted to and we feel totally defeated. Now what' You have three options at that point. Number one - You can keep on trying. Who knows, maybe eventually you will get it right. Stranger things have been known to happen. Number two - You can hire a search engine specialist. They do exist and I have heard that some of them are very, very good. These high priest of the search engine world can get you a nice high ranking and keep you there. I have also heard that their fees are very, very high. Of course, it may be worth the money. Number three - You can turn to the pay-per-click type of search engine. The frustration of trying to get a decent ranking on the traditional engines has given rise to a new breed called the pay-per-click. It only takes a few minutes to get listed on these guys. You open an account, make a deposit of from $10 to $25.00 ($50.00 is now the required amount on GoTo.com) and then you list your keywords. Your ranking under each keyword is determined by how much you are willing to bid on each listing (bids can be as low as 1 cent on most of these sites, 5 cents on GoTo.com). The great part is you only pay for results. Plus, all of the pay-per-clicks I have seen, have a members area where you can log in and check on the amount of traffic each keyword is delivering to your site. If any of your keywords are not producing, just change it to what you think will be a better choice. As you can see the pay-per-clicks do cost a little money, but it is money spent on results, not on speculation. Here are the URLs of a few you should check out if you are thinking about exploring this avenue. http://www.GoTo.com http://PowerSearchExpress.com http://www.SearchFeed.com http://SearchHound.com Regardless of what you decide to do about your quest for a high listing on search engines and to rid your life of those search engine blues, don't ignore them. They are too important to keep out of your marketing mix. If your decision is to keep on banging your head against the "big boys," God love you, I admire tenacity. I just don't have the time for it. But, let me know how you do. About the Author Bill Daugherty. Do you have an advertising or marketing |
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