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One of the main goals of a webmaster is to try and attract as much traffic as possible via low cost or free methods. One of the strongest sources of free traffic is what is known as organic traffic, that is, traffic that comes from search engines.

Generally, this traffic is generated by people searching for some sort of information and then being directed to your site from the search engines. If you can manage to get your site listed in the top positions for various common phrases you can drive a large amount of free traffic to your site, a wonderful result for any webmaster. Read the rest of this entry »

Of course, every webmaster knows that in order to draw traffic to their site they need to have compelling content, and in particular they need to have content that ranks well in the search engines. However, a problem occurs when webmasters forget what traffic is, and begin to only think of it in terms of raw numbers and conversion ratios.

Remember this as doing so will set you head and shoulders above most webmasters out there. Traffic consists of real people.

That’s right, real people. Read the rest of this entry »

Usually, as webmasters and as entrepreneurs, we are always interested in trying to beat out our competition in any way that we can in order to get the upper hand and become more successful. However, is this really a sound strategy? Is it possible that being on friendly terms with the competition is perhaps more profitable? Let’s examine this question.

It is standard practice in business to try and out do the competition and to view them as the money but this style of thinking is like trying to paint the world black and white, it rarely ever works in practice. In fact, most of the time your “competition” isn’t really offering a replacement product to yours but rather a similar product that could possibly enhance your product. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the duties of a webmaster is to keep on top of new developments in the web and technology industries in order to remain competitive in the online arena. In order to really get an advantage, however, it is important to not only keep on top of new developments but to actually ride the wave and stay just ahead enough to have an advantage without getting into treacherous territory.

One of the newer developments in the search engine industry that you may have heard about recently is called latent semantic indexing, or LSI. LSI is used by search engines to provide more relevant information to the search engine customers, the people doing the searching. Read the rest of this entry »

In today’s online world of flashy websites and big promises it can be very tempting to join what feel like the rest of the world in exaggerating your product’s results or the results of an affiliate product in order to impress a prospective customer. The problem is that the policy of being up front with your customer and telling them the whole truth about your product has become a bit old hat. Fortunately you can take advantage of that to great benefit!

As a consumer online it can be more than just a little overwhelming. It seems that the internet is filled with far more advertising then we are used to encountering on a day to day basis, the problem being that virtually all of this advertising is very over exaggerated. Read the rest of this entry »