Getting More Sales From Your Website

by warner on August 15, 2010

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Getting more of the people who come to your site to buy , or join your list, or download something is called conversions. It doesn’t mean you have to join a new religion but it is something we can all learn to do better.

You want your visitors to get a few messages clearly and right away; Above the fold so they don’t have to scroll down to see all this:

• Who you are, your company name or blog name and logo.
• Why you are cool; why they should listen to you; why they should choose you: like, Over 3 Billion Served, or 10 years serving happy customers, or Our Many Reviews
• Why We Are Better: Your USP (Unique Selling Proposition). A benefit only you can provide.
• The 1st Step: What do they do to start falling into your sales funnel? Download a free report? Answer a Poll? Spell it out.
• Show them how they can buy right now. This is especially important for the returning visitors who have come back to buy, they do not want to be run around or have to search to find what they want.

Questions to ask your website:

• Is it confusing to follow and find places?
• Are there a lot of distractions?
• Are there too many ads going to other websites?
• Do the colors and layout create tension?
• If you have a shopping cart, is it easy to use and work in all browsers?
• If they want to contact key company people or customer service is that clearly visible and easy to find or do people have to search around?
• If you have forms, are they asking too many questions or difficult to fill out?
• Are user instructions available and connected to tasks?

One very important part of SEO that will lead directly to sales is taking a second look at your Title Tags and your Descriptions Tags. This is the information shown in the search engines. First of all I hope you are using well researched keywords in your Title and Description, but, do the “Sell The Click”? Is what people see in the search results result pages (SERPS) grabbing their interest and enticing them to click the golden link that takes them to your wonderful website? Do the words speak to the needs and wants and desires reflected in that search phrase you showed up for?

Of course it is crucial that page is relevant to what that person is looking for not only for the visitor but for SEO because they are analyzing for relevancy as must as possible.

Making your site easier to read and making the navigation easier to follow can give you a quick boost in conversions.

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What Makes a Quality Link?

by warner on August 2, 2010

What Makes a Quality Link?.  The Quality of the website that is giving it to you, mainly.

Links given by people who chose to is number one. Relevant to your site, high PR, trusted by search engines, recently cached. older is better, a site that is themed similar to the keyword you most want.

The quality of the links to your website often has more to do with where you rank then the quantity.

One high quality link from a trusted authority in your niche can be worth hundreds or even thousands of blog comments and forum posts.

Guest posting is one of the easier ways to get high quality links. Another tried and true method is researching the links to the top 10 websites appearing in Google for the keywords you most seek to rank for.

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The Squidoo Lens called Dofollow is one of the best resources I have found for a list of a variety of sites that will provide dofollow links.

Many of the sites listed are places where you can put your content. I like to use content on sites like mentioned here because they often have the ability to get found and send traffic by themselves. When I do that I want links too.

Checking my backlinks I recently discovered Articlebase is nofollow. So why waste time posting there when many other high PR article directories are readily available.

I like some of the other sites like vox.com too. I use them much like article directories.  I recently posted What is Link Spamming there.

There are 2 quick tricks to think about when you do use what some call “satellite blogs”

  1. Build a few links to those pages, some bookmarking and drop the feed into your RSS Directories at least. I use onlywire for bookmarking because I can run it to several bookmarks right away.
  2. Write in a way to entice the reader to want to learn more by visiting your blog or site. Have a call to action, offer some additional related resource.

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Easy Analytics for your best Keywords

July 30, 2010

I think the most important keywords are the ones the search engines are showing me for. At a minimum I want to track the rankings. I usually still have some keyword I am developing ranking for, some choice ones I feel will convert well, however the terms sending traffic and getting shown are really the [...]

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Are You An Inadvertent Link Spammer?

July 25, 2010

Link Spam means a building a bunch of links thrown around to all kinds of places that are not relevant to what Google sees when it looks at your website. This can be blog farms, some forum posts, profile links, and pligg site link spamming. That is all you get from many SEO services out [...]

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Syndicating Content for Links AND Traffic

July 21, 2010

We all need links but why not build links that will get traffic directly from where they are placed? A couple good ways and places to make that happen are document sites, podcast sites and video sites. Since a lot of people will search for content while at these sites and because many of them [...]

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Getting More Data And SEO Leverage from Google Analytics

July 8, 2010

Here I am going to simply  refer to read this excellent post by Ann Smarty. She is such a smarty! 10 Hacks to Mine Your Google Analytics Data Deeper

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The Best Kinds of Links According to Google

July 8, 2010

From reading this post “Quality Links to Your Site” at the Official Google Webmaster Blog they cite these type of links as the best. Participation. “…get involved in the community around your topic. Interact and contribute on forums and blogs.” Which means real and quality participation in relevant forums and blog commenting. Content. “If you [...]

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Links and Visibility- Issuu.com – Good Resource

July 8, 2010

I like this site. It offers a chance for a company to post many different types of documents and make them highly visible online. The way pages can be flipped and the use of the term Library for where you put your stuff makes it all easy to navigate and use. That is very important. [...]

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Selling The Click

July 8, 2010

Selling the click means getting someone from the search engine results pages (SERPS) to click on your site instead of any of the others. You can quickly test this for yourself. Go search nearly any term and read the titles and descriptions showing in the results. Some yell click me and some make you wonder [...]

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