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Five Free Methods For Generating Website Traffic

While there are a number of paid ways to jump start traffic flow, many site owners don’t have the capital resources necessary to generate the needed traffic. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a willingness to roll up your sleeves. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site. There isn’t anything more satisfying than not spending a single cent for good quality traffic and knowing that your hard work has paid off.  You may have heard of all of these methods before and you are so adverse to putting yourself “out there,”  for something that may work that you have avoided it for a long time.  I am here to tell you that these methods work and produce goo old fashioned quality traffic.  There is a catch [...]

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Posted by HomeBiz - March 27, 2009 at 9:25 pm

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Optimizing Tips From Google Adsense

One of the major benefits in using Google as a partner on your site is the amount of information they provide to you in support of their programs.  A good example is a recent blog post on the Google Custom search box. Google recommends using their search box for added revenue on your site.  A few weeks back Google announced improvements in their search feature allowing greater control over site customization.  Utilizing the custom search engine is a sure way of increasing total revenue on your site.  Their recommendations for maximizing your site revenue are: 1. Always place search boxes in highly visible or easy to find locations.  In this way your readers will have quicker access to finding information on your site. 2. When possible add two search boxes to long pages to provide easy access to search functionality.  This works particularly well with pages that need to be [...]

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Posted by HomeBiz - February 27, 2009 at 10:32 am

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Site Listings Vs. Indexing, The Truth

Every once and a while I get a little bugged about the difference between site listings versus indexing. The difference is not just the nomenclature of the English language but far greater than that. The simple reason is that many marketers would have you believe that they are one in the same, but they are definitely not. I bring this up because some marketers actually sell you on getting your site “indexed within 48 hours,” when in fact it will be indexed almost automatically within the same period of time by Google, Yahoo and MSN Live.  Site indexing is the process of having your site “crawled” by a search engine spider.  In the case of Google it’s Googlebot.  Most times you can see the spider visits in your site logs.  If your hosting account doesn’t provide log stats you should consider getting a better hosting account. Site indexing is very [...]

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Posted by HomeBiz - January 27, 2009 at 9:39 pm

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Is Your Domain Name SEO Friendly?

The selection of a domain name has become very important in the bid for search engine placement. This article discusses the reasons why. Search engine optimization and domains When you first start an Internet business one of the first items on the list, after you’ve written your business model, is getting a domain name. In years past it wasn’t as difficult to find a decent name for your site. Today however, it’s not as easy to get your dot com name. The process of registering a name has improved substantially but the availability for descriptive names is far more difficult. Why is this a problem you may ask? It’s more of a problem for small and home business sites than it is for larger companies. The reason is simple and I can sum it up in one word: money. Larger companies, especially public companies have the funding to advertise their [...]

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Posted by HomeBiz - January 15, 2009 at 8:20 pm

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