Get More Hits on your Reptile Website
by Mark Perkins
Are you not getting enough visitors to your web site ? When you do a search on the internet for important keywords, does your site show up on page 4 or 5? Do you need some Free help finding out what to do to improve your site so that you get noticed? Well you have come to the right place. Also, if you have suggestions or other helpful hints, please email me at mark@moreptiles.com and I will check them out and include them when appropriate.
This site gives step by step instructions that I have found helpful to find out what is missing on your site and then instructions to make your site more important to search engines and drive more customers or visitors to your web site. Although the instructions are general and could be applied to other types of web sites, they are specifically designed for all types of reptile web sites, from commercial sites to instructional sites to just personal pages. So, to get started, let me first clear up a few misconceptions regarding your web site.
Common Misconceptions Regarding Reptile Websites
Advertising a competitors website on my website will make me lose customers. Although this may seem logical, it is in fact the number one mistake that people make on their websites. Actually, the opposite is true. If you exchange links or advertising banners with a competitor, you both win. Click Why Exchange Links to find out why.
You have to pay to get good advertising While paid advertising on just the right site may help get you noticed, there are many other ways to accomplish the same or more for free. You just need to find out how.
I don't have time to update my Website Actually, you can't afford not to take the time to update your website to keep it current. Not only will customers recognize your lack of attention, but the new web browsers will catch you and degrade your importance, and your page ranking.
Guide to Improving Your Website
The following are tried and true ways that I have found to get more attention from your website and get more customers and visitors. Note that this is all just free information and helpful steps, and there is no intention to try and sell you something. Since most of the links in this guide are not part of my website, you should add this page to your favorites list so you can easily return here. Note if you find any errors in this guide, or have some suggested corrections or additions that will make this guide more factual or useful, please email me at mark@moreptiles.com
Analyze your Webpage This analysis page gives you instructions and web tool links to check your website and compare it to other (competitor) pages to find out how well you are doing and what you need to do to improve.
Improve your Webpage Name, Keywords, and Description. Click for suggestions and helps to make your site better. Having a good name, keywords, and description is probably the simplest way to improve your reptile website and to increase the traffic to your site. All of the major internet search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AOL, msn, hotbot, etc. have sophisticate web crawlers that analyze the web sites and rank them for importance. Those with a higher ranking score will get listed higher .
Exchange Links with Other Reptile Websites An extremely important element in the ranking score with Google, AOL, and Yahoo and most other search engines is the number of other web sites that link to your site. Links by more important sites count even more. So add a links section if you don't already have one, and contact other webmasters and ask to exchange links. But don't be surprised if you don't get many responses. Apparently most webmasters just don't realize the benefits of links exchange. Better yet, email me at mark@moreptiles.com and I will add your name to the list. You can also use this list to contact informed webmasters that will return your email request. Also check out the Favorite Links at my home page MoReptiles.com
Add your site to Reptile TopSites These sites provide a source for customers or visitors to find your site, and they also provide a link back to your site. In addition they give you statistics regarding the number of visitors to your site. Check out all the ones that I am aware of by looking at the bottom of my main page at MoReptiles.com or this page. If you know of other reptiles topsites, please email me at mark@moreptiles.com and I will add them here and to my homepage.
Banner or Link Exchange sites. There are numerous banner exchange and link exchange sites that you can sign up with. I have listed the ones that I have found useful.