Online Business - Monitoring Your Progress
- Date: 2007-04-26 - Word Count: 403
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Okay, so you've decided on your keywords, inserted your links and submitted your sites. Now all you have to do is open your offshore account and wait for the cash to pour in, right?
Well, not quite. You might get lucky with your first shot, but it never happened to me. Once you've submitted all your links, you need to keep a close eye on them, and see which need improving and which can be dropped.
The crucial factor here is to keep track of your Search Engine Statistics. These will tell you how many people have come from the various search engines and how many of those became customers.
But it's not enough to know how much traffic you're receiving, you also want to know how you're doing in the rankings. There are two ways to do that:
Manual Searches
Dead easy, simply log on and look. First enter your URL to make sure your site has been approved and listed. That can take a little while. Once you can see that you're online though, you want to see how you're ranked in each keyword. To do that, you can simply enter each keyword into the search engine and browse the pages until you find your listing. Works, but takes a while.
Computerized Searches
I'll be honest with you: it's been a long time since I did a manual search. If you've got just ten sites and you want to check ten keywords for each once a week, you're going to lose at least a day's work a month. That's too much for me. I use WebPosition Gold. I tell it which keywords to check where and it gives me an automated report. Simple.
When you look at your statistics, pay particularly attention to which keywords are bringing in the most traffic. In general, the higher you are, the more traffic you receive and the more sales you make. But that isn't always true. It might pay more to be fifteenth on a keyword that gets a million searches a month than first on a keyword that gets just a thousand. And if you're fifteenth, you've still got room for improvement.
And it's the improvement that's the key. If you see that your link is stuck at the bottom of a list somewhere, try adding more links, putting that keyword in more pages or adding keyword-rich content. If you can see where you stand, you can figure to where to go.
Well, not quite. You might get lucky with your first shot, but it never happened to me. Once you've submitted all your links, you need to keep a close eye on them, and see which need improving and which can be dropped.
The crucial factor here is to keep track of your Search Engine Statistics. These will tell you how many people have come from the various search engines and how many of those became customers.
But it's not enough to know how much traffic you're receiving, you also want to know how you're doing in the rankings. There are two ways to do that:
Manual Searches
Dead easy, simply log on and look. First enter your URL to make sure your site has been approved and listed. That can take a little while. Once you can see that you're online though, you want to see how you're ranked in each keyword. To do that, you can simply enter each keyword into the search engine and browse the pages until you find your listing. Works, but takes a while.
Computerized Searches
I'll be honest with you: it's been a long time since I did a manual search. If you've got just ten sites and you want to check ten keywords for each once a week, you're going to lose at least a day's work a month. That's too much for me. I use WebPosition Gold. I tell it which keywords to check where and it gives me an automated report. Simple.
When you look at your statistics, pay particularly attention to which keywords are bringing in the most traffic. In general, the higher you are, the more traffic you receive and the more sales you make. But that isn't always true. It might pay more to be fifteenth on a keyword that gets a million searches a month than first on a keyword that gets just a thousand. And if you're fifteenth, you've still got room for improvement.
And it's the improvement that's the key. If you see that your link is stuck at the bottom of a list somewhere, try adding more links, putting that keyword in more pages or adding keyword-rich content. If you can see where you stand, you can figure to where to go.
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