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		<title>Different Ways to Promote Your Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew  Butler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your Web site, now active, is how you want it to be. Now you ask yourself how to get people to visit the site. You can do so much other than optimization to get people to come to your site. Your business clientele could increase dramatically through these simple methods]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your Web site, now active, is how you want it to be. Now you ask yourself how to get people to visit the site. You can do so much other than optimization to get people to come to your site. Your business clientele could increase dramatically through these simple methods. </p>
<p>It is recommended that all stationery materials include the Web site address. Make a search of all available stationery in which your URL could be written. Business stationery would include business cards, product packaging, and sales literature. </p>
<p>Deals on wheels and elsewhere includes the following. A company can use their vehicles to advertise something. The business name and Web address of your company can be written in stickers that can be placed on your cars. This not only lets people know about the Web site, but it also expresses the fact that the business is technologically updated. Work clothes can be designed to also carry the Web address. They can range from protective gear to casual clothes and from work items to heavy equipment. </p>
<p>Directories can also contain your Web site. The funny thing is, not many advertisements in newspapers and Yellow Pages include a Web address. Before contacting the company, people will often refer first to the Web site. Advertisements in newspapers, magazines, on billboards and on TV can easily carry your Web address. Since you are already paying to advertise your contact details, you might as well give everything that you have to be known. </p>
<p>Take advantage of the value of business contacts by establishing links. Keep an eye out for businesses that can tie in with yours and see if you can come to an agreement regarding your request to add a link. Naturally you would agree to reciprocate if asked. If a person makes hot dog buns and you make hot dogs, work together to help one another&#8217;s business. </p>
<p>You can find ways to market something through newsgroups. Considerable amounts of important information may actually be found online because of newsgroups. Thousands of newsgroups that talk about any subject under the sun may be found in the Internet. Simply searching just one product of Microsoft will deliver to you a vast number of newsgroups. Newsgroups make available to users knowledge regarding program features and troubleshooting. </p>
<p>After contributing to a discussion in a newsgroup, you may want to leave your Web address for those involved in the discussion. You should also look into taking calls. The script in an answering machine may contain the Web address. Your Web address may be advertised on your voice mail. XYZ Industries is now where you are. Leave a message as we are now not available to take your call. </p>
<p>Your site would get attention if you also get attention for yourself. A medium with no satisfaction is one way to describe the Internet. It is where much information is taken and also given. Budding authors have the privilege of letting others read their work without spending on ink and paper. Experts will be provided a discussion group in which their knowledge could be shared.</p>
<p>Our article discusses search engine optimization and is further explored at <a target='_blank' href='http://www.orangeline.com.au'>seo sydney</a>. If you enjoy search engine optimization articles like this one, visit <a target='_blank' href='http://www.orangeline.com.au'>search engine marketing sydney</a> for other resources.</p>
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		<title>Powerful SEO Techniques: Dramatically Improve Your Website Search Engine Rankings</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2011/01/31/powerful-seo-techniques-dramatically-improve-your-website-search-engine-rankings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry Spangler</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to seo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Simple Way To Use S.E.O Methods To Optimise Your Internet Site For The Best Search Engine Listings]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Simple Way To Use S.E.O Methods To Optimise Your Internet Site For The Best Search Engine Listings </p>
<p>Much has been made of S.E.O strategies in the last 1 or 2 years. For all that previous attention, &#8220;the right way to S.E.O&#8221; remains one of the newest subjects online, and it also remains a very important element of facilitating success for your web endeavor.  How do you use S.E.O strategies and systems to make certain that your net site is able to generate the best attention? There are several vital areas where these systems can prove handy. </p>
<p>Identify ( and Use ) Your Keywords in the right way. </p>
<p>If you have got a website, then you&#8217;ll definitely need to utilize keywords in your web site content. You should additionally have those keywords in place all though other areas of your website. Nonetheless you have to 1st identify which keywords you would like to target. These have to be words that real folks would use to find products or services like yours, although not so highly used as to put you competing with the heavy hitters of the industry.</p>
<p>You need to ensure that those keywords are employed in all areas of your net site. Doing otherwise will mean that your site is essentially invisible to consumers. Keywords are the great outlining tool of the web without them, search internet site spiders really don&#8217;t have a clue what your website is about. </p>
<p>Navigation for Spiders.</p>
<p>Your website will actually use some kind of navigation menu, whether or not it is basic text links, HTML, Flash or something else. However, you want to use those to your benefit. One of the first things that you must do is offer a basic text navigation menu for your site ( usually at the base of the page ). This is as spiders can&#8217;t navigate some other menu options and having that text-based menu in place implies search site spiders can visit all your pages. You may use title attributes in your navigation menu to add more keywords to your site, without it looking as if you are just stuffing them into your content. </p>
<p>Accurate Meta Descriptions are also Important.</p>
<p>Another crucial facet of S.E.O is by using your meta outlines in the correct way. Your meta outline is displayed in the search site results, just beneath your title tags. You can use these areas to provide more keywords as well as an outline of what visitors will find at your website. The topic of correct S.E.O implementation for your website goes far deeper than the few subjects mentioned above.  Nonetheless these are wonderful places to start. </p>
<p>All the Best! </p>
<p>Jerry Spangler<br />
904-233-2452.</p>
<p>Jerry Spangler  assists serious entrepreneurs in building profitable <a target='_blank' href="http://www.meetjerryspangler.com/internet-marketing/677/">internet businesses</a> with many streams of income.  His guide, &#8220;Internet Secrets&#8221; is an insiders look at online marketing is available for FREE at his site, <a target='_blank' href="http://www.onlineincomeprofessionals.com">Online Income Professionals</a> for a limited period.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Ranking</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/09/28/search-engine-ranking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janine Balfour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Link Building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backlink generator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the vital things to do to enhance the search engine ranking is for you to use the proper keywords in the content of your post articles. Every articles or page in your site must be targeted for you to rank in a certain keyword phrase. It is the major keyword. And it is best if you choose the keyword that will surely increase your rank in the search engine]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the vital things to do to enhance the search engine ranking is for you to use the proper keywords in the content of your post articles. Every articles or page in your site must be targeted for you to rank in a certain keyword phrase. It is the major keyword. And it is best if you choose the keyword that will surely increase your rank in the search engine.</p>
<p>One of the habits for you to verify this is by searching the keywords in Google. And if the top three or four results are all in PR4 or lower, subsequently it will probably not be too tough to hit them. With the employment of the LSI keywords in articles it can assist you as well to advance your search engine ranking. This shows that the web pages integrate the great number of the theme keywords connecting in the central keywords which tend to level higher. </p>
<p>You can find tools online that can help you identify the top words and phrases used by the website which already rank highest I the keywords you target to. Including this will also help you rank your site in the search engines. Though keywords are greatly important, the number of link may have come your site from the other site is possibly even more vital. And these are the backlinks and then you get them through posting articles in the article directory site.</p>
<p>These sites let you include links back to your own site from the article. Posting articles on sites with a high page rank will get you moved up in the search engine results faster, but every link counts. There are other things you can do to improve search engine ranking for your website.</p>
<p>However, if you have to spend for about 20 percent of your time making quality keyword targeted content for your site. And 80 percent of the backlinks and the posting in some article directories will help you. You will be guaranteed to see a level of advancement in your page ranking and have a success in the search engines. If you can, follow a 80/ 20 rule and then focus your time in the things that creates the biggest difference.</p>
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		<title>Nuclear Affiliate &#8211; Do You Want To Get High Search Engine Ranking And Make More Money?</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/07/14/nuclear-affiliate-do-you-want-to-get-high-search-engine-ranking-and-make-more-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexa Sherton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization is the technique that internet marketers and online business owners use to make their website ranked on top ten of Google search. The trick is to modify certain parts of their website, like content, title, source code and then build several backlinks]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search engine optimization is the technique that internet marketers and online business owners use to make their website ranked on top ten of Google search. The trick is to modify certain parts of their website, like content, title, source code and then build several backlinks.</p>
<p>Search engine optimization, or better known as SEO is one great alternative to PPC advertising, banner ads, social media and lots of other promotion methods. By getting top ranking on Google or Yahoo, one website will receive customers for free in years to come.</p>
<p>Actually, there are two different parts that you need to work with in order to achieve high Google ranking. The first part is your own website. You need to modify the content and certain tags to make Google know that your site is relevant to the keyword. The second part you need to work with is building links. That is to make other sites link back to yours. This article will tell you some important aspects of SEO. If you want more details, read <a target='_blank' href="http://nuclearaffiliatereview.net">Nuclear Affiliate</a> course by Andrew Fox.</p>
<p>There are several places you need to adjust in the website so Google will see it as relevant. The first part is your own domain name. You need to use the keyword itself as your domain name. For example, the-keyword.com or thekeyword.com.</p>
<p>Then, you need to create a website. For several reasons, using CMS like WordPress or Blogger is strongly recommended. For one thing, blogs doesn&#8217;t contain bas scripts like you might get when using other site builders.</p>
<p>Then, blog also has the ping feature, which allows your website to get indexed quickly. You can easily update the content and pages quickly by using blogs. Plus, there are lots of developers that create powerful WordPress themes that allow you to make your blog looks like a real website.</p>
<p>There are several important plugins that you need to install in the blog. If you are using WordPress, install and activate Platinum SEO and Google XML sitemap generator plugins. After that, use the options inside Platinum SEO to insert title, meta description and meta keyword tags. This will boost your search engine ranking.</p>
<p>For most keywords, on page SEO and content alone is not enough to get your website ranked high. If you want others to find your site in Google, you need to build several backlinks as well. Search engines today calculate backlinks as well to determine relevancy and improve their search results.</p>
<p>One simple way to get lots of backlinks is by adding your website to blog post to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon, Reddit and more. All these sites are important for Google because they contain news, stories and important information that is shared by internet users from all over the net.</p>
<p>Web 2.0 sites are good sources for strong backlinks. There are several sites that allow you to publish content and link back to your domain. This includes Blogger, Squidoo, Hubpages, Live Journal, Wetpaint and Tumblr.</p>
<p>Do you want to boost your search engine traffic? Nuclear Affiliate will expose the exact techniques to you. If you want more details, log on to this <a href="http://nuclearaffiliatereview.net">Nuclear Affiliate review</a>.</p>
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		<title>What Is Search Engine Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/05/10/what-is-search-engine-optimization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 08:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing probably the most suitable targeted keyword phrases based on your own site and ensuring that this ranks your own website highly in search engines so that when someone searches for particular phrases it returns your site on tops. It mainly involves fine tuning the content of your own site along with the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building procedure. Probably the most well-liked search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL and Ask Jeeves]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search Engine Optimization is really a process of choosing probably the most appropriate targeted keyword phrases relating to your site and ensuring that this ranks your site extremely in search engines so that when someone searches for particular phrases it returns your own site on tops. It mainly entails fine tuning the content of your own site along with the HTML and Meta tags and also involves appropriate link building process. Probably the most popular search engines are Google, Yahoo, MSN Look for, AOL and Ask Jeeves.</p>
<p>Search engines keep their techniques and ranking algorithms secret, to obtain credit for finding the most valuable search-results and to prevent spam pages from clogging these results. A search engine might use hundreds of elements whilst ranking the listings where the elements themselves and the weight every carries may change regularly.</p>
<p>Algorithms can differ so widely that a webpage that ranks #1 in a specific search engine could rank #200 in an additional search engine. New sites require not be &#8220;submitted&#8221; to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a well established website will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such an established site for all the primary search engine spiders to commence visiting and indexing the new site.</p>
<p>If you are unable to research and select keywords and work on your own own search engine ranking, you may want to hire someone to work with you on these problems.</p>
<p>Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will study the plan for your own site and make proposals to improve your search engine ranking and web site visitors. If you wish, they will also deliver continuing consultation and reporting to keep track of your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your own website traffic flow and your own search engine ranking high. Normally your own search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated strategy without delay so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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		<title>Website as Storefronts</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/05/09/website-as-storefronts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 07:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A customer walks into the store, browses through products and shelves, picks up items, inspects, considers the prices, chooses a product and takes it to the cash register to pay. Now if you want to sell your products online, then your site must be enabled for e-commerce, where you must have the following features]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A customer walks into the store, browses through products and shelves, picks up items, inspects, considers the prices, chooses a product and takes it to the cash register to pay. Now if you want to sell your products online, then your site must be enabled for e-commerce, where you must have the following features:</p>
<p>You need to provide plenty of content and product description like sizes, dimensions, colors and comparisons with other similar products. It must allow the customer to choose a product, get a clear pricing and shipping costs on the product, complete the transaction and get an order number, and/or invoice confirmation via email. Allow your customer to choose a shipping method.</p>
<p>You must tell the customer if the item is in stock or delivered against order. Ideally, you should have an email contact or live help if the customer has a question. Most importantly you must respond immediately! If you want to provide your own live chat and help desk services on your website, specialized softwares are available for purchase.</p>
<p>Be sure your customer service links are large and clearly marked, so your client does not have to dig around to find information.</p>
<p>Provide an &#8216;about us&#8217; section or a section about your policies. If you have privacy statements and customer satisfaction policies, your customer will feel better about shopping in your store.</p>
<p>You probably want to have customer quotes and references on the storefront page, as well, to let your prospective client know that others are happy with your service. Provide an FAQ with information about your return-back policies, guarantees, shipping prices and insurance charges if any.</p>
<p>If you are so inclined, you can offer a print catalogue if the customer prefers to order one from your storefront and shop in the privacy of their homes.</p>
<p>Do not annoy your customers by presenting products that are marked &#8216;sold&#8217; or pages that say &#8216;under construction&#8217; or &#8216;coming soon&#8217;.</p>
<p>Do add new content frequently, so your returning customers will not be bored by seeing the same products they saw four months ago.</p>
<p>If your site has got a date tag or has current references, be careful to change these references frequently so you don&#8217;t give the perception that nobody is attending or reading your site.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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		<title>Use Keywords In Page Titles</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/05/08/use-keywords-in-page-titles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 08:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is recommended to use keywords in page titles itself. This title tag is different from a Meta tag, but it's worth considering it in relation to them. Whatever text one places in the title tag will appear in the title bar of browsers when they view the web page. Some browsers also append whatever you put in the title tag by adding their own name, as for example Microsoft's Internet Explorer or ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is recommended to use keywords in page titles itself. This title tag is different from a Meta tag, but it&#8217;s worth considering it in relation to them. Whatever text one places in the title tag will appear in the title bar of browsers when they view the web page. Some browsers also append whatever you put in the title tag by adding their own name, as for example Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer or OPERA.</p>
<p>The actual text you use in the title tag is one of the most important factors in how a search engine may decide to rank your web page. In addition, all major web crawlers will use the text of your title tag as the text they use for the title of your page in your listings.</p>
<p>If you have designed your website as a series of websites or linked pages and not just a single Home Page, you must bear in mind that each page of your website must be search engine optimized. The title of each page i.e. the keywords you use on that page and the phrases you use in the content will draw traffic to your site.</p>
<p>The unique combination of these words and phrases and content will draw customers using different search engine terms and techniques, so be sure you capture all the keywords and phrases you need for each product, service or information page.</p>
<p>The most common mistake made by small business owners when they first design their website is to place their business name or firm name in every title of every page. Actually most of your prospective customers do not bother to know the name of your firm until after they have looked at your site and decided it is worth book marking.</p>
<p>So, while you want your business name in the title of the home page, it is probably a waste of valuable keywords and space to put it in the title line of every page on your site. Why not consider putting keywords in the title so that your page will display closer to the top of the search engine listing.</p>
<p>Dedicating first three positions for keywords in title avoiding the stop words like &#8216;and&#8217;, &#8216;at&#8217; and the like is crucial in search engine optimization.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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		<title>Tips to Increase Ranking and Website Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 09:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is worth cataloguing the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.</p>
<p>Create a site with valuable content, products or services. Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.</p>
<p>Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers. Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.</p>
<p>Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services. Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.</p>
<p>Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.</p>
<p>Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.</p>
<p>Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you. Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.</p>
<p>Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.</p>
<p>When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer&#8217;s experience fast and easy.</p>
<p>When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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		<title>Submitting Your Website to Search Engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 08:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.</p>
<p>Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.</p>
<p>Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t submit websites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.</p>
<p>Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors.</p>
<p>One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like Google hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.</p>
<p>Apart from the Google there are thousands of search engines and directory companies, where you can submit your website to as many companies as possible.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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		<title>Must Have Features Your Web Site</title>
		<link>http://www.smfseo.org/2010/05/02/must-have-features-your-web-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 07:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Young</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just don't focus on the home page, keywords and titles. The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can't keep your customer on your site or make them buy]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just don&#8217;t focus on the home page, keywords and titles. The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine optimization and better rankings can&#8217;t keep your customer on your site or make them buy.</p>
<p>The customer having visited your site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary information about this, may be by keeping the information at a different page.</p>
<p>By providing suitable and easily visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages and get the details.</p>
<p>Understanding Your Target Customer If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you don&#8217;t really know who your customers are and what they want to buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an extension or replacement for a standard storefront.</p>
<p>You can send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices consistently lower than others? Is your shipping price cheaper? Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better than your competitor&#8217;s? To know your customer you can check credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they purchase a product.</p>
<p>Does your website give enough contact information? When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other states that are thousands of miles away. Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number and an email address that reaches you.</p>
<p>People may need to contact you about sales, general information or technical problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to another email address if you do not check your website mailbox often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options like credit card, PayPal or other online payment service.</p>
<p>Lastly, you got to check out the <a href="http://www.lifegateway.com/uaw/traffic/">Traffic Bot</a> that help my website to get page rank 3, not easy though, but it really works. And it consistent bring in 50,880 visitors in the past few months.</p>
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