Webmasters: The Power of Topical Search Engines

The Power of Topical Search Engines

Written by S. Housley

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Advertisers will also flock to search portals that are industry-specific, as they appreciate repparttar unique benefit of reaching a very targeted audience who have a higher likelihood of purchasing their product or service.

Consider repparttar 135702 niche search engine, Alarm Tools - http://www.alarm-tools.net . The traffic this portal attracts will be of significant interest to manufacturers of security equipment or emergency supplies. Imagine repparttar 135703 targeted traffic that an alarm company could receive from a link in repparttar 135704 above search directory.

Comtemplate repparttar 135705 quality traffic a financial planner could glean from an RSS search directory focussed on finance and investing at http://www.finance-investing.com .

Locating topic-specific search engines is not all that difficult. Consider using repparttar 135706 resources provided by Search Engine Watch, Web Search Engines, and Search Engine Guide to locate engines that are topic-specific:

Search Engine Watch - http://searchenginewatch.com/links/article.php/2156351 Web Search Engines - http://www.web-search-engines.net/directory/topic-specific.html Search Engine Guide - http://www.searchengineguide.com/searchengines.html

Qualified 'clickers' or interested buyers is what it is all about; whether you are selling a product or advertising, repparttar 135707 more targeted repparttar 135708 traffic repparttar 135709 better repparttar 135710 fit. As an advertiser, consider topic- specific search engines. As an online marketer, consider creating a niche search portal, as repparttar 135711 market is ripe.

About the Author: Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing, publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a wireless text messaging software company.

Top 10 Ways To Irritate Your Visitors

Written by David Bell

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hit-counter responds. This is possibly repparttar 135634

best way to keep visitors from stealing from you as it keeps them from even reading your content and possibly typing it into their site from memory. For this to work reliably, you must avoid putting repparttar 135635

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effectiveness of this technique by inserting not only a hit counter button, but a long string of banner exchange banners. 7. For repparttar 135639

occasional visitor that inadvertently makes their way to your ezine subscription form, fear not. All is not lost. You can still rid yourself of them by asking lots and lots of personal questions. Don't just ask for their email address. Ask for their mailing address, phone number, sex, age, hobbies, religion, race and some other things best not discussed here. This technique works equally well when applied to your order forms and minimizes your trip to repparttar 135640

UPS office to ship products. 8. Splash page. You gotta have a Splash Page. Lots of slow loading animation. If you can combine this with repparttar 135641

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first word of content. Stunning! Brilliant! 9. Reconfigure repparttar 135645

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Location Toolbar, 10 Finally, an oldie but goodie. Make your background dark and your text just a shade or two brighter. This makes it impossible to read your text and will rid you of visitors before they have a chance to clog up you server logs. If this is not possible on your site, use repparttar 135651

alternate technique of putting most of your content in PDF files so that repparttar 135652

visitor has to download them and launch another application. Very effective. Did I mention that all of these cool ways to irritate visitors work even better at driving away repparttar 135653

people reviewing your site for places like Yahoo, LookSmart and other directories to whom you've paid large sums of money to review your site and add it to their directory? I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.

David Bell is Manager, Online Marketing, at http://www.wspromotion.com/ , a leading Search Engine Optimization services firm and Advertising Agency.

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