You finished your website and put it online. But you won't get any visitors even if you have the best website possible and spent a lot of money on it. Everything is set up, and Google, Yahoo, and other search engines can find your website. You also paid for Internet advertising and told all your friends about your website, but you didn't get many visitors and other sites related to your business came up much higher in search results. Why? Your website looks and works much better than others, but they still get a lot of visitors every day, their business is growing, the company makes a lot of money, and everyone is happy. If you've had any of these problems, you're in the right place to find answers to help you solve them.
If you haven't heard of SEO or if you have but don't know much about it, I'll start by telling you that SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization." Does such a thing exist? ...you may ask. Yes, and that's why search engines rank other websites higher than yours.
There are many rumours about search engines and their algorithms, which figure out where a website ranks in the search results. However, no one knows for sure how much each optimization you do matters (in percentages). Google and other search engines want to know how important and well-known you are on the internet. So, if your website's name and link don't show up on other sites, it means you're not very well-known, and you'll get a rank of 0 out of a possible 10. Ok, you might be right, but how can I get other websites to link to mine? I don't know anyone with a website that I could ask (if it's okay) to put my link on. Or it might be very expensive. There's a way to answer this. You can do it for free, and in just a few days, you could have thousands of links to your page. How? Adding your website to Web Directories and Article Directories. There are a lot of tools on the internet that can automatically submit your website to directories. Write an article about your business and submit it to an article directory, making sure to include a link to your website.
