Getting customers to my site and purchasing

Read and Buy

[Smith Roberts]

I have spent many hours attempting to register with various search engines and relared web sites. After months (about two) of investing in a new (hopefully better) web site, I find that it is just there. Yet, it is very professional, user friendly and has products and services that eight out of ten people need. What is a better recourse?

[oldpro]

Smith welcome to Webmaster World. Is your problem specifically that your site has yet to be indexed by the search engines? If so, you will need to fetch their bots to your site...there are several ways to do this.

[DryFire]

Forget about registering and submitting your site to the search engines… it’s a waste of time. Get some links from other sites to your site and the search engines will find you. If the links are from quality, related sites they will also provide you with targeted traffic. Also do some reading up on search engine optimization. And last of all, be patient it typically takes a lot longer than 2 months worth of work to start doing well in the search engines.

[jsinger]

has products and services that eight out of ten people need.

Hmmm. Our successful site sells things that 2% of people need and that may be too broad. LOL. Web commerce is about niches

[oldpro]

More to the point...

Being that it is a new site you will need a text link with your keywords in the copy of that link. This link needs to be on a website that gets crawled frequently. The bots will follow the link and find your website...hence "fetching the bots.

You don't need to go on a link trading rampage. Just a couple of quality links to your website will do the trick. Site submittal is a total waste of time.

Definitely consider Adwords, YSM and Adcenter. You will need to pay for exposure if you want to maximize your potential sales. Searchers are now of the mind if looking for info, go to the organic listing...if looking to purchase something, they click on the sponsored listings. It may take several months to reach your best organic ranking. In the meantime, you will have to pay to play. Our website consistently ranks on the first page of the serps for every targeted keyword, but we still use PPC and CPC.

If you decide to try this option, begin with one of the programs to learn the tricks of the trade. YSM is the most straight forward system...simple auction/bid type thing. Adwords will bring the most traffic, but you will need to bid very high to get a good position. Once your CTR is up, you can lower your bids and maintain position while costing less. Adcenter still has too many bugs to be worked out at the moment

Link building with other relevant websites is an over rated tactic. Search engine traffic will be the primary traffic generator, especially for a new site