Archive for February, 2010

Traffic Equals Money – Targeted Traffic Equals More Money

Friday, February 19th, 2010

If you put ads on your website and have enough traffic you will make some (small) money. There will be someone who occasionally clicks on an ad, and these clicks will add up. If you have enough traffic you will pay your hosting and domain name expenses. If you have more traffic you will, perhaps, make a little money.

Targeted traffic will enhance your earning potential. Targeted traffic is more likely to click on the ads that you offer. Adsense does a good job of matching the ads to the content. If you choose to use affiliate ads or banners you will need to present offers that will be of interest to your visitors. If your site were about women’s fashions automotive parts ads probably would not work for you. You want to present ads that may be of interest to those most likely to visit your site.

You can get targeted traffic in many ways. Most of the ways fall back to proper use of keywords and on page SEO. You need keyword rich content presented in a search engine friendly manor to get organic traffic. If you choose keywords that your target audience is likely to use as a search term many of your visitors will be well targeted to your offers. The use of keywords applies  both to organic traffic and any form of paid advertising. This is why some people have great success with PPC advertising like Google Adwords.

Are you using keywords on your pages, in your headings and titles, and in your off page campaigns? Tell me what has worked for you by leaving a comment.

Keyword Power?

Monday, February 8th, 2010

This post is intended to be both informational and instructional, but the true instructional part may come a bit later for me. I am in the process of updating my Pennies for Wink site. The site was my first foray into a promotional site. I had little knowledge and several misconceptions when I put the site up.

I have added a few pages (none live yet) that every proper site should have. I am adding some content in the form of additional catalogs. I am using several Amazon stores integrated into my pages with iframes. The catalog pages work well and look like they are actually part of the site, but all of that content is actually on Amazon servers. That means that there is nothing for the search engines to index.

As a start to getting some possible search traffic I am building a directory page. The catalogs will all be accessible from my left nav pane, but the directory page offers an opportunity to produce a paragraph of content for each catalog that I write up. There are also links directly from the blurb paragraphs to the catalog pages.

I have been researching low competition keywords that have a reasonable amount of search traffic for these descriptions, and having moderate success in finding terms. The next item is to work the keywords into my paragraph in a natural sounding, flowing sentence. For the most part this is working as well. Of course, the test will be if I actually get any traffic that is directed directly to the directory page. If I see that kind of traffic then I will be able to proclaim that keywords do, in fact, command the respect given them.

I will need to support this site with more content locally and also some articles syndicated through the article directories. It will be interesting to see the result.

What do you do to promote traffic to your site? Leave me your wisdom in a comment!

Announcing Web Basics on Sister Site

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

There is a sister site to Selling on Your Website called Before You Buy a Website. There was some good content, but only a few articles on the site. I looked the site over and decided that in view of the target audience for the site perhaps some information on Web Basics would be in order. I started with five or six topics that I wanted to cover, but the list kept growing. As I was writing the articles I kept thinking of other topics that should be covered. There are over a dozen new articles in the new section.

The site was originally intended to give some information to those who run across a for sale sign on a site or see an auction for a site. I suspect that many of those people might not know a great deal about the workings of the web or websites. The information that I have offered there might help to clear some of the mystery for some people.

I also added some other features to the site to make it a more worth while place. I hope that you will check it out.

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