Website Optimization
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Website Optimization?
What does that even mean? To the thousands of new bloggers and webmasters come online daily, terms like website optimization must seem like they belong to a foreign language.
It’s not enough to just build your website, no matter how informative or attractive. You need to make sure you have a firm handle on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as well. Where do you get your traffic? How high is your site showing up in the search engines? If you have a keyword or a set of keywords that pertain to your website, how close to the top of the list will your site appear if someone types those keywords into Google, or Yahoo, or any other search engine? Do you want to attract visitors from a specific country or region?
Paying for traffic cannot always guarantee you get the kind of traffic you want. The best kind of traffic to attract is organic traffic, or those visitors who find your site through natural venues like the search engines or links on related sites. Therefore, you need for your site to be properly optimized to attract the traffic you want.
Now, when people ask me about website optimization, I often have a few well-worn tips and time-tested techniques, but I am absolutely not a guru in this arena. I always suggest that if you are serious about your traffic, especially if you are trying to get a small business of the ground, that you hire a website optimization company. Work with someone who drives the industry.
Yes, you probably could figure it out on your won, but it would probably takes untold hours of research, trial and error, and picking out tiny hints here and there on hundreds of industry discussion forums. I say just go right to the top and have someone who knows the game help you.
this was great information for me. as you know…i have no idea what i’m doing on my blog.
i just write and post comments on other blogs.
that’s about all i do. my traffic is going up but i’m not getting many comments.
Traffic moving up — good thing indeed. Comments are something I enjoy, but when it comes down to it, you just want to make sure people are finding your blog, coming back and reading.
Be concerned with SEO, but don’t get yourself into trouble. Try an online website grader and see how your site stacks up and then try optimizing to get a higher score.