Thursday, December 27, 2012

Web Site Monitoring Tools And Building Traffic

By Robert C Webland


When I started launching on-line websites, like most people I was expectant that they would soon be inundated with traffic and I would be making lots of money. Regrettably that seldom happens; more often, you'll get a trickle of guests unless you implement what you should do to bring in visitors to your site.

It is possible you previously built a website that received stacks of visitors, but now attracts very few.

Thousands of new web sites and pages are being added to the net each day. So, to compete effectively you have to take action to make sure that yours not only remains pertinent, but also excels beyond rival sites.

You should use any of several web analysis tools to analyse what's happening on your site as well as the competition's pages.

There are various things you can and should monitor, when you create a website but let's consider only 3 of them:

1) Monitor and fix all broken links:

Any link on your website that doesn't lead to the intended destination is said to be broken. Sometimes this occurs because you link to another website's page and they change the location of the destination page; or simply be due to a mistake in typing in the link.

If you don't repair the broken links on your web site, you may lose visitors because they may decide your website is amateurish and depart.

The more pages visitors can reach on your site, the greater the prospect of them interacting with it. Broken links mean less chance that guests will click on one of your adverts so these links can lose you money.

However, you can monitor the efficacy of your links by employing free link testing software to scan your web site so you can attend to your links.

2) Links pointing to your web site:

Traditionally, search engines evaluate and position web pages (partly) based on the number of other website pages that link to them.

As much as possible try to get people and websites to link to your web pages, as well as observe what they link to so you can make improvements to your site. You can add a social networking plugin to your pages so visitors can link to interesting material on your site.

You can find out where your competitors get links from - information you can use to boost your own page ranking.

3) Keyword search phrases:

It is important you know the keywords used by web surfers to reach your site. Optimise every page on your site for relevant keywords if you want search tools to send you traffic.

Knowing this helps you find out what search tools think your site is about, knowledge you can use to change your pages so that search engines send you profitable clients.

To clarify, if search engines think your web site is about sports bats i.e. cricket, baseball etc., when its about the bat as a mammal, not only will you receive visitors who aren't interested in your site, visit and leave immediately, but interested visitors may be served completely wrong advertising which means you won't make money from your adverts.

Using free analytical tools you can easily check what phrases visitors used to find your website, which pages they visited and how often.

Summation:

As the Internet gets more competitive, you should monitor what searches reach your site, ensure your site works correctly, fine-tune it's material and keep it interactive and professional so that other web sites find it increasingly relevant and link to it.




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