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Every Good Webpage Jacks Up Rank and Receives Traffic
Elements of a Good Webpage
- Simple template and design add-ons
A good webpage just has a simple template and some design add-ons. Visits
be made to one's web site if the reader finds a web page that is simple in
design and gives more focus on content. If we make our template too
complicated in structure, one drawback is that a visitor may not be interested
to view our other pages and thus limit the traffic that we want increased
for our web site in order to gain readers, subscribers, clients or customers.
If we make our template plain and simple, and the colors are strong enough
to attract the reader's attention but not too strong to distract the visitor
from the content, then we will be able to get a revisit to our web pages.
Also, we can make our design add-ons bring light and life into the web page
but also retaining the principle of leading the visitor and reader to the
content of the web page. We will get traffic in terms of revisits and
more page views when we have pleased and satisfied our readers and visitors
with a web page template that they would find good content. And good
content in the method of this web site are good resource materials and
simple analyses to help them draw conclusions and solutions they wish
to have. This will help get traffic through "repeat business" in terms
of revisits, more page views, and greater hits.
- Focusing on one keyword
Many of us web authors want to use a lot of words in our writing. But for
obtaining more traffic, we need to have our flow of words as simple and as
plain as we can. One optimization techniques is to focus a keyword and make
web pages that use the same keyword get indexed by the search engines and
thus in combination, receive more visits to one's web site. As these web
pages using the same keyword receive traffic, then they will direct that
traffic to our other web pages that use a different keyword but are embedded
as links to the web pages that were indexed by the leading search engines.
Those other web pages that use another keyword will also receive traffic
if we work harder to optimize them.
Another strategy is to have web pages that use two different keywords that
are related to each other and have links with each other. When these web
pages get indexed by the search engines, then traffic will all the more
increase and generate.
- The contents provide a solution
A common problem for web site owners and for Catholic webauthors is how to
bring traffic to one's web site. Bringing traffic to one's web site involves
hard work and good optimization techniques. The importance of traffic is for
the purpose of making the content of our web pages more known in order to
serve our readers and visitors with information that they need for their
research. Also, if we have associate and affiliate programs, working to
increase our traffic by providing good content and good marketing techniques,
we will be able to receive clients and customers for our associate and
affiliate products and services. As we gain ground in the internet niches
that we have chosen to be engaged in, we will gain a better understanding
of how the search engines that index our web pages work so as to write our
content that would both serve our readership and subscriber base and also
be of good quality to make it to the top ten of the leading search engines
results pages. Writing good content is not easy but if we think more how
we can serve our readership and subscriber base, then we shall be happy
to discover ways by which we can write them. Good work, hard work, and
ethical work, always pays off. Once we learn the things that help us
particularly in how we can specifically generate traffic to our web site,
we ourselves will discover techniques of our own which we can utilize for
good and share it also with others through our articles and blogs.
When we do find the way to jack up rank and increase our web site traffic,
it would be good to make it a point to always share what we have discovered
with others through the content that we will write. Although competition
can be a harsh reality and indeed is very great, we need not always be on
the top all the time. We should share also our top spot to others. This
is the good Catholic principle speaking for all of us. However, we should
also not allow ourselves to get snowballed or trampled under foot. If we
find our web site dropping from the top ten of the leading search engines,
then we need to do something to get our positions back. Otherwise, all
those who have exchanged links with us will also go down in their ranks
and search engine results positions. When we think of something to be
able to get back our positions, then we will be doing good not only for
our web site but for all those who have been a part of our web site
network.
- Links embedded in web page have good traffic count and rank, good
PageRank and good results positions in the search engines
As we go on learning more and more about producing web pages in the Internet,
we will discover that not all of our webpages will be performing well in
the search engines. Only a few will really excel. So, to jack up that
traffic we need and get our good search engine results position, we can,
aside from ethically optimizing our web pages, track down which of our
web pages have good traffic count and good PageRank. We can also check our
Internet niche to find out which of our pages rank high in the search engines
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page of results. Then, one strategy is to get all these quality web pages
together and place them as links in our web page template. However, we
need to do this only with those web pages that are not performing well
in the search engines. The quality web pages that we will embed in our
links will help bring traffic to those web pages that are not performing
well in the search engines. This is a good way to capitalize on web pages
that have good traffic count and rank, and a good PageRank, in order to
better improve the traffic quality of poorly performing web pages. This
is an alternative strategy to optimizing a web page.
- Make navigation fun and playful
Sometimes, a web site's navigation can be really serious and formal that it
leaves no element of fun, curiosity, and playfulness. To get interest and
some form of amusement to some of your web pages you can try to place scripts
of navigation in your minor web pages to attract some youth to the web site.
This can have revisits and more page views since they can bookmark the page
and use this navigation system for their own purposes. The youth of the Net
may want to use this for their study and research purposes. However, so as
not to diminish the formality and seriousness of one's web site, it would
be good to have this web page not be indexed by the search engines. Let it
be just used informally and bring traffic through the links from your other
web pages. There are many of these free styles and form of navigation on
the Net. It would be good to make them aware of where the navigation comes
from because when they want to build a site for themselves, they can refer
to them also. This navigation will bring a bit of an adventure experience
for those who will discover it in your web pages. .
- Make writing style clear, simple and plain
Some of us may tend to write in an erudite and scholarly manner and use a
lot of fancy jargon and verbose terminologies that usually end up with an
article that is very wordy. For practical reasons, it would be important
to write in a way that would really serve the reader and visitor to our
web pages. Therefore, writing in a style that is clear, simple and plain
will truly help the readers understand the point and help them keep coming
back to the web site and its web pages for more information. As in the
sales industry, it is like getting repeat customers, repeat sales, and
continuous building a track record of "selling" our web site. Traffic
will indeed always flow in our webpages if people do not turn off visitors
by too technical words that are really not necessarily needed for the
purpose of a web page. In the event that we really need to use a technical
term, then we can always make it a point to explain what it means to the
reader as an added service. Remember, "service, service, service," brings
"traffic, traffic, traffic".
- Separate your article into short paragraphs with subheadings
An element of a good web page is that it does not present itself as one
whole block of text that appears like an iceberg before you. We will not
get revisits, more page views and more hits to our web site if there is a
big iceberg that presents itself before our readership and subscriber base.
So what we can do is to give the information to the readers in small chunks
like this web page constructed as an example. It is made of eight small
paragraphs of information and with each paragraph given a subheading.
When we make all our web pages written in this style, then the web page
will be a real traffic drawer and generator. Much more, on the part of the
reader, they can just scan which of the information they find interesting
and really need and just return to the web page whenever they have more
time to read again. It is not only the search engines that we write for;
also the reader is the focus of our articles. Remember our motto, "service,
service, service" brings "traffic, traffic, traffic!"
- We must not forget to edit well our writing
In writing blogs, we can afford not to edit our writing, unless one's purpose
is to make it a professional blog. However, in formal web pages like this
one, it does not seem right if we do not edit well our writing. For one thing,
we will not receive quality visitors. What is important also is that what
we target is good quality visitors - visitors who will need the information
that we provide as a service and who will be influenced to write also as a
service to their own readership and subscriber base. This is the type of
visitors we must target for the web pages of our web site. In order to make
this purpose successful, then we need to write quality content, then edit
them always, removing all our typographical errors, validating our web pages
so there are no broken links, check our spelling and especially polish up
on our English grammar. When we edit our web page excellently, then the
visitor traffic that we shall receive will find a piece of writing that was
written well for the reader's benefit.
Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
January 1, 2005
[revised: October 18, 2005]
Catholic Internet Mission:
Proclaiming the Gospel Online
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