How to Increase Traffic with Domain Names ?

This time I'm going to talk a little about how to select a domain name that is right for your business.

If you already have a busy website and you like your domain there's no need to change it but as soon as you set up a new website or if you are going to rebrand your business with a new business name you need to consider carefully what domain name to choose.

For those of your who don't know the domain name is the base part of the address you type into the browser address bar to open a website. Like "google.com" or "cnn.com"

First of all you need to know what you are going to use the domain for. It could be any of the following.

• The website of your business.
• A niche website to make money from ads or selling a ebook
• A SEO website, like a feeder blog, that exist for the sole purpose of helping your business or niche website rank in the search engines.

Considering the different purposes a domain and website can have your might want to optimize your domain for some but not all of the following

• A short name that is easy to spell and that people will remember after they have heard someone mention it on the radio or if they read about it two days ago.
• A name the is built from the nr 1 keyphrase your are targeting with SEO
•  A name that does not conflict with trademarks or business names already in use in your target market (or you could lose your domain to a trademark holder)
• A name you want to live with for many years (a lot of your marketing is tied to the domain name)
• A name without hyphens if possible
• A .COM or country specific domain for your business
• A .ORG or country specific domain for your organization

Your Business Website

When your select a domain name for your business, most of the time your want the domain name to be the same as the name of your business.

If you have a long or complicated business name it's usually best to select a domain name that is a short version of your business name, the name of a popular product you sell or a completely new name 

Branding is important here and you want a short and memorable name that you remember from the radio or from a billboard.

Always go for a .COM or a country specific domain extension, like .CA or .CO.UK,  for your business.

Use a country specific extension if the large majority of your customers are from a singly country. The country specific extension will help your search engine rankings in that country, but will reduce your rankings in the rest of the world. Many times a country specific extension will make your look more trustworthy in the local market.

Use a .COM extension of you sell to many countries and especially if you sell to the US. The United States country specific extension .US is not popular so avoid it and use .COM

There is a reason to not use .NET domains. Most people only remember the name part of the domain and automatically adds .COM when typing it into the browser address bar. This means you lose a percentage of visitors that go to the .COM domain instead, and if there is something interesting (perhaps a competitor) on the .COM domain they may never return to your hidden .NET business.

If you really want to have a .NET domain make sure to also register the .COM domain with the same name and redirect it the your .NET website. That way you don't lose the type in traffic that uses dot com by mistake.

The same goes for hyphens. Many times your visitors will not remember the hyphen when they type in your domain and you'll lose some visitors again.

Lets talk about domains for SEO and niche websites in a later newsletter.

Also remember to check out my list of best domain name registratin sites if you need a safe place to register your domains.

How to Get More Traffic from Delicious ?

The social media websites are the source of alternate traffic that helps us to increase traffic and business. A social bookmarking website allow us to save our favorite news and share useful and interesting information with other users. Building a large network and participating regularly will give you lots of traffic with similar interests. Some of the popular social bookmarking websites from where you can recieve hundred and more traffic depending on the topic. Some of the social media websites with lots of users are delicious, digg, stumbleupon, reddit, propeller, etc. I want to share some tips helpful if you want traffic from delicious. For this, you must spend few minutes and participate in delicious. Below are the useful tips mentioned :

Make Friends Regularly : Regularly add few friends in your network. Login in your account and click "See more Popular bookmarks" to see the popular stories. Watch the profile of the person submitted the news or link in the delicious, you will find lots of people added in his network. You can add friends from his network.

Spending Sometimes Will be Beneficial : Regularly spend 30-40 minutes here and soon you will have a good network of friends with hundred or more bookmarks. Try to add two, three or friends and 4-5 links to your favorite sites. Now calculate, if you add 4 friends and 4 favorite links then within a month then you will have 120 friends and 120 favorite links.

Bookmark Daily : You should be active regularly else people will not add you in the network and even not vote your link. It is important to get traffic daily. If you bookmark something regularly, you will be active and people will notice your regular activity and they will add you in his network.

Bookmark Others Links : Add the links of others in your favorites if it is interesting and helpful to the others. This is the best way to attract the others and these members regularly visit your profile.

Bookmarklet Save Time : Add the one-click add on to your browser to save bookmark in just one click and it is the time saver and no need to login again and again. This option is provided by social media websites and it is time saving option.

Tags are Helpful : Don't forget to add tags relevant to the link you have added. The more tags means better to increase traffic but should not be unrelevant. Suppose if you want to submit seo tips for the beginners then your tag should be seo, internet marketing, seo tips, beginners seo tips, best seo tips, seo techinques, etc.

You can also use look up a URL option to check how many people save the page you entered in the box. If you want to save your favorite pages, click on "Save a new bookmark" and enter the URL including title and description and save it in your favorite list.


I hope this article will be helpful for the beginners. Delicious is very popular social bookmarking website and it can be a very beneficial tool for you to increase more and more traffic.

What is Google Adwords?

With Google AdWords you can create and display ads for your company, quickly and easily. Post your ads on Google and our advertising network, whatever your budget, you only pay if people click your ads.

AdWords ads appear alongside search results when a user searches on Google using one of your keywords. Ads appear under "Sponsored Links" in the sidebar of the search page or above the free search results. In this way, your advertising will be aimed at an audience already interested in your business. You can also post their ads on Web sites to display the Google network growth. And you can select the locations in the network display exactly where you want to display or you can let the role of contextual targeting your keywords relate to the content of web sites.

You can choose from a variety of formats for your ads (eg ads, text and video) and easily monitor their performance through the reports available in your account.

With AdWords there is no minimum monthly charge, only one activation fee symbolic. Learn more about the cost of advertising with Google AdWords.

For more information about Google AdWords or to begin creating ads, visit the AdWords homepage .

If you want to start running your ads and looking for an agency or professional to help you, you might consider using a Google Advertising Professional certified by Google. Learn more about Google Advertising Professionals or visit Google Advertising Professionals Search for a list of professionals that are suited to your requirements.

Google +1 button and SEO

Google, the internet giant based in California, has had a strangle hold on much of the online market for the past decade. Most would struggle to find a single person in the Western World who is not yet familiar with the Google Search Engine. In fact the search engine is so popular that the phrase 'Google it' has been adopted by many Gen-Yers.
In addition to their massive presence in the search marketplace, Google also commands a large percentage of the online advertising industry, generating revenues in the region of US$35 billion per annum.
Facebook, a relatively new comer to the internet, and center of popular film The Social Network, is quickly closing on Google's market. Currently Facebook ranks as the 2nd most visited website online globally and holds over 750 million member accounts. Facebook is beginning to threaten Google's market dominance in online advertising due to the huge volume of data that the social network holds about its members. While Google's advertising model focuses around what people are looking for, specifically using search queries, Facebook's model allows advertisers to utilize behavioural targeting. A Facebook advertiser can select very precise advertising audiences by focusing on: - Age - Gender - Location - Employment Type - Education Level - Likes and Dislikes
By selecting a narrow cross section of the global audience by one or all of the above variables, an advertiser can see significant improvement in their ROI when compared with search or conventional marketing.
This is where Google Plus enters the scene. In May Google released a limited Beta of their new social network, to approximately 10 Million users. Google Plus, similar to Facebook, allows users to create profiles, enter personal details, connect with friends and join a global community online. The Google +1 button is the equivalent of Facebook's Like button - allowing users to show their approval of an idea, concept, website or product and broadcast this to their network.
It's not a new concept that Google uses a number of user specific factors to influence their search results. These have historically included the user's location, past search history, bounce rate from certain sites, browser setting and a host of other signals to indicate whether or not a search result is likely to fit the user's specific requirements or reason for search.
While not officially announced as yet, the Google +1 button will affect the manner in which search results are returned to users. The very nature of a social network suggests that people who are connected will share similar likes, beliefs and ideas, and consequently are likely to be interested in the same websites, resources and search results.
It follows then, that the connections of a user who have historically +1ed any given search result will have these sites promoted up the list of future search results due to perceived validity and relevance of that result.
So, when will this new ranking factor, or as Google now refers to them signal, start influencing search results?
That's a tough question, and it's likely only to be once the Google Plus and +1 button programs reach a critical mass. That is where the number of +1s reaches a volume and velocity that indicates considerable adoption by the searching public.
You can already see the impact of +1 within your own search results, i.e. complete a search; navigate to page 3 of the results and +1 a single result Google returned. Now complete the same search again, it's likely that the result you +1ed will be elevated within the new set of results. This is exactly the same behaviour we expect to see once Google brings +1 and Plus into full swing.
We expect that this will become a ranking factor around the end of the year, likely in time for Christmas shopping season.
What can you do to gain the maximum benefit from +1?
At present the +1 signal is only being used to influence a user's personal search results, but this is likely to change late this year so it's time to get started on a strategy to make the most of this opportunity. This way when Google flicks the switch you will receive all the benefits of being +1ed and you will surge ahead of your competitors within specific market segments.
By now your web developer or SEO firm should have already contacted you offering +1 integration; it's a good idea to get Facebook Like done at the same time. If not, get in touch with the team that manages your website and request them to place the +1 button prominently on your site. The button is pretty funky and modern and is not likely to do any damage to your branding or design. Make sure you are communicating with your clients, visitors and connections to ensure they +1 your site. The earlier you start work the sooner you will see results.

18 SEO Myths Unleashed

SEO is no more a hidden art. It has developed well in past 10 years and many things have changed around in the working of search engines and SEO techniques. Best as well as Worst thing about SEO is that techniques in SEO changes quite frequently but the goal remains the same to get Quality traffic from search engines. In these advancements there are few old or say outdated stories related to seo that are there on Internet which are no more then a myth. So in this article we will be discussing over them.

1. Myth: “Using picture links instead of text link is bad seo” Fact: Many people compromises on that and spoils their website design just to change picture links into text link as they believe on this myth but the fact is that it's wrong. Search engines equally gives preference to image links just you have to make sure that you have used proper alt tag in the image links.
2. Myth: "I can secure my web page from search engines by adding that web page link in Robots.txt with disallow tag" Fact: Again this is a myth that in this case you have used Robots.txt and have used disallow tag for the web page but still if search engine bots find external link to that web page then bots may crawl to your web page making it insecure . So, the best way to protect you web page from bots is to make your web page password protected as bots can not bypass password security.
3. Myth: “My website will only be indexed in search engines if I will submit my website in them” Fact: No, this is a myth as your website can also get Indexed from the external incoming links to your website from other websites. In case of SEO, getting indexed from external incoming links is preferred way of getting indexed then submitting site in search engines.
4. Myth: "SEO is an easy job" Fact: Well in todays world of Internet, SEO is not that easy as it used to be in past years. Now search engines have gone clever and can even punish you for using shortcut tricks.
5. Myth: “SEO is all about getting higher PR (Page Rank) ” Fact: If you are thinking that SEO is all about PR then you are wrong. SEO is to get Quality Traffic on your website. It can be in terms of Faithful readers or Potential Customers. If you are not getting Quality visitors on your high page rank website then page rank of your website is of no use.
6. Myth: “Web Sites that uses JavaScript gets penalized” Fact: Search engines are not that dumb that they will ban you for using standard technology. However their bots won't be able to follow the links via JavaScript , So it's always a better idea to use a simple HTML hyper-links along with JavaScript so that bots can easily crawl your website.
7. Myth: “All visitors lands up in the front page of my website” Fact: Search Engines gives merit to each page on the website individually and give them credit on the basis of content on that page. So visitors will directly land on the page that have corresponding information that the visitor is searching for in the search engine.
8. Myth: “A flash website have no chance of getting good SEO” Fact: Well this is a pure myth that flash page can't get a good SEO. However you will get less options of promoting that but that doesn't meant that you can't do good SEO for that. There are over 100 factors where you can still work on for getting good SEO for that flash page.
9. Myth: “Using Meta Tags with lots of keywords helps in getting higher page rank” Fact: Although Meta Tag have played a dramatic role in the past for SEO but now search engines are more clever then before , So you should only use relevant data in Meta Tags instead of filling it with keywords. In case your Meta Tags are not appropriate for your content then your website can be punished by search engines accordingly.
10. Myth: “Positions in Search Engines are guaranteed” Fact: It's not true that once you have achieved a high position in search engine then that position will never go down but still if you have done good SEO then it will alway give you some good results.
11. Myth: “SEO companies guarantee that web page you want to promote will come first in Google search result” Fact: Nobody can guarantee that which ten website will come up in google top 10, this is a sales strategy of SEO companies that they try to get more customers. In Google Help Center it is clearly stated that “No one can guarantee rankings in Google.” . Google has over 200 rules to determine results.
12. Myth: “Repeating keyword in your web page content will get a higher rank of web page for that keyword in serp (Search Engine Result Pages)” Fact: This is absolutely wrong, Search engines have gone smarter . In case you repeat the same keyword in your content then you will not only spoil the content of your web page but you can also be flagged as Spam site via search engines.
13. Myth: “When our website will get enough visitors then we will think of doing it's SEO” Fact: Isn't that funny ? But it's true i have dealt with many clients who have reacted in this way when i gave them the proposal for SEO. They might be suffering from the disease of “Chicken before the egg” syndrome.
14. Myth: “Trading link with any website will help my website to rank higher in search engine” Fact: If you are getting the back link from the website that doesn't belong to your website then the visitors coming to your website won't be interested in you website content and that will only increase the bounce rate of your website and links that you will be placing on your website for another website that doesn't belong to the content theme of your website, then you might even loose visitors because of that.
15. Myth: "Sitelinks only appear for the websites with high PR (Page rank) Fact: Sitelinks are automatically generated by search engines on the basis of traffic that the websites are getting. Sitelinks are auto generated and only show sitelinks for results when Search Engines think they'll be useful to the user. You can't do anything in sitelinks except blocking them from being displayed in search engines.
16. Myth: “I should always consider another sites's Page-rank before i link to them or ask that website to owner to link me” Fact: will that help your visitors ? Link to sites that your website visitors might be interested in and only ask for those website owners to link you back whose website visitors might be interested in content of your website.
17. Myth: “Website with higher PR (Page Rank) will always rank higher in SERP (Search Engine Result Pages)”. Fact: You should always keep that in mind that Page Rank is just 1 criteria for SERP there are more then 200 criteria for that . If search engines think that the website with lower PR (Page Rank) have more relevant content for the keyword then the website with higher PR (Page Rank) then the website with lower PR (Page Rank) will rank higher in SERP.
18. Myth: “We should place our all keywords in H1 tags” Fact: Using Header tags is always helpful in SEO but if you are using H1 tag multiple times on your web page then search engines can punish your website for that.

Now these were the few myths that we have discussed in this articles. I am sure that you will be able to over come these myths and making your website better for visitors of your websites as well as for Search Engines.