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How To Increase Traffic To Your Website By Adding A Gas Price Widget.
Gas prices are finally falling like a rock and it's about time. I know a lot of people who are scrambling all over town right now trying to get the best deal on gas. What if rather than drive around looking for the cheapest gas prices they could just visit your website and it would tell them? Wouldn't that be a great way to get visitors to come back to your site at least once a week? With WebStarts you can do this... and in this articles I'll tell you how.
1. Go to WidgetBox.com
Start by going to WidgetBox.com and typing 'Gas Prices' into the search box and then click 'Go'. WidgetBox is a site full of great little mini-applications called widgets that you can add to your website. Once you've performed your search you should see a list of results. There will probably be multiple gas price widgets. You can choose the top one called 'Local Gas Prices'.
2. Customize your gas prices widget
Now that you've clicked on and selected your gas prices widget you can customize the size on the far right side of the page. Some widgets may let you customize the local area settings for the gas prices widget as well. But the one I'm using for this example only allows you to change the size.
3. Copy and past your gas prices widget code onto your WebStarts page.
After you're finished customizing your gas prices widget click on the 'Get Widget' button to generate and display the code for your widget. Next you'll want to click on the 'Copy' button. Clicking on the copy button will save your code to your clipboard and allow you to paste it into your onto your webpage. You can paste it onto your webpage by navigating your way back to your WebStarts page editor clicking 'Insert' and then 'HTML Code'. Paste the gas prices HTML code into the area provided and then click 'OK'. Your gas prices widget will now appear on the page. You can drag and drop your gas prices widget wherever you would like it to appear on your page.
You've now give your website visitors another great reason to come back to your website time and time again. After all... Who doesn't need to fill up their gas tank at least once a month. Be sure to visit WebStarts each day to see more how to articles like this.
Gas prices are finally falling like a rock and it's about time. I know a lot of people who are scrambling all over town right now trying to get the best deal on gas. What if rather than drive around looking for the cheapest gas prices they could just visit your website and it would tell them? Wouldn't that be a great way to get visitors to come back to your site at least once a week? With WebStarts you can do this... and in this articles I'll tell you how.
1. Go to WidgetBox.com
Start by going to WidgetBox.com and typing 'Gas Prices' into the search box and then click 'Go'. WidgetBox is a site full of great little mini-applications called widgets that you can add to your website. Once you've performed your search you should see a list of results. There will probably be multiple gas price widgets. You can choose the top one called 'Local Gas Prices'.
2. Customize your gas prices widget
Now that you've clicked on and selected your gas prices widget you can customize the size on the far right side of the page. Some widgets may let you customize the local area settings for the gas prices widget as well. But the one I'm using for this example only allows you to change the size.
3. Copy and past your gas prices widget code onto your WebStarts page.
After you're finished customizing your gas prices widget click on the 'Get Widget' button to generate and display the code for your widget. Next you'll want to click on the 'Copy' button. Clicking on the copy button will save your code to your clipboard and allow you to paste it into your onto your webpage. You can paste it onto your webpage by navigating your way back to your WebStarts page editor clicking 'Insert' and then 'HTML Code'. Paste the gas prices HTML code into the area provided and then click 'OK'. Your gas prices widget will now appear on the page. You can drag and drop your gas prices widget wherever you would like it to appear on your page.
You've now give your website visitors another great reason to come back to your website time and time again. After all... Who doesn't need to fill up their gas tank at least once a month. Be sure to visit WebStarts each day to see more how to articles like this.
Watch Your Favorite Videos On YouTube Without Ads.
Did you know that WebStarts features it's very own video search engine powered by YouTube? You can search all your favorite videos on Youtube directly from WebStarts without all the clutter and advertising. You can even get the same links and embed codes for those videos to post them on your website and email the video links to your friends. To use the WebStarts video search engine just click on the 'Search' link located at the bottom of the WebStarts homepage or here.
You'll notice our simple search allows you to search the web, images, and video. To search video select the radio button to the left of the word 'video'. Next you'll want to type your keywords into the search box and click the search button. You can also search by entering the YouTube username into the search box. For example: If you want to see all the support videos for WebStarts you can simply type "WebStarts" into the search box and perform a search. All of the videos on our WebStarts channel will show as your results.
You can view anyone of the videos by clicking on the link labeled 'view'. If you like a video you may want to send it to a friend, post it to your free website, or share it on your MySpace and Facebook accounts. To do this you'll click in the box labled 'HTML Tag'. When you do this the code will be automatically copied to your clipboard. You can then paste that code onto your WebStarts website by clicking 'Insert' and then 'HTML Code' and pasting it into the area provided. You can use this feature similarly with your MySpace and Facebook accounts. To share the link via email click in the field labled 'URL Link'. This will copy the link to the video directly to your clipboard. You can then paste this link into your email and share it with your friends.
If you like to watch YouTube videos but don't like all the ads then be sure to visit http://webstarts.com/tools/search.php the next time you want to search for videos. There is a bookmark link in the top right hand corner of the page you can click on to bookmark the video search as well. For your enjoyment I've included a funny video with this article.
Did you know that WebStarts features it's very own video search engine powered by YouTube? You can search all your favorite videos on Youtube directly from WebStarts without all the clutter and advertising. You can even get the same links and embed codes for those videos to post them on your website and email the video links to your friends. To use the WebStarts video search engine just click on the 'Search' link located at the bottom of the WebStarts homepage or here.
You'll notice our simple search allows you to search the web, images, and video. To search video select the radio button to the left of the word 'video'. Next you'll want to type your keywords into the search box and click the search button. You can also search by entering the YouTube username into the search box. For example: If you want to see all the support videos for WebStarts you can simply type "WebStarts" into the search box and perform a search. All of the videos on our WebStarts channel will show as your results.
You can view anyone of the videos by clicking on the link labeled 'view'. If you like a video you may want to send it to a friend, post it to your free website, or share it on your MySpace and Facebook accounts. To do this you'll click in the box labled 'HTML Tag'. When you do this the code will be automatically copied to your clipboard. You can then paste that code onto your WebStarts website by clicking 'Insert' and then 'HTML Code' and pasting it into the area provided. You can use this feature similarly with your MySpace and Facebook accounts. To share the link via email click in the field labled 'URL Link'. This will copy the link to the video directly to your clipboard. You can then paste this link into your email and share it with your friends.
If you like to watch YouTube videos but don't like all the ads then be sure to visit http://webstarts.com/tools/search.php the next time you want to search for videos. There is a bookmark link in the top right hand corner of the page you can click on to bookmark the video search as well. For your enjoyment I've included a funny video with this article.
How To Get Your Web Listed On Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
Getting listed on search engines is critical to driving traffic to your website. A top ranked position for a particlular keyword or phrase can drive a ton of traffic to your website in a short period of time. With enough traffic any website is likely to accomplish it's goals and for that reason the competition over keywords and phrases is immense.
For that reason at WebStarts we've included a number of tools into our website builder that will help your site get better organic search engine rankings. With our most recent release of features we've included a tool called the SEO Wizard. SEO is short for "Search Engine Optimization". The SEO Wizard is a tool you can use to walk you through optimizing each page on your website to obtain good rankings on search engines. In this article I will cover the basic functions of the SEO Wizard but I encourage you to login to your account and try these functions for yourself. Pleae keep in mind the SEO Wizard is only available with a Pro Account.
1. Keywords
The first step to any search engine optimization process is determining the keywords and phrases your customers are likely to type into a search engine to try and find a site like yours. For example: if you're a dog breeder and you breed pitbulls you may want to show up for terms like 'pitbull puppies', 'pure bread pitbulls', etc. rather than just the word pitbulls. To get ideas of what people may be typing into search engines you may want to watch this video I made that shows you how to use the Google keyword research tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYn5G1QEZ0
2. Meta Description
Once you've determined your keywords and phrases people are likely to type into your website you'll need to create a paragraph about your website. This paragraph is called a meta description and it tells the search engine what your website is all about. On Google you can see the meta description for a website listed below the title of each search result. When creating a meta description you want to work your keywords into your paragraph in a natural way. If you fill up your description with your keywords and phrases in a way that doesn't make sense to a human reader the search engine may actually give you a lower ranking for that keyword or phrase. So take your time and write something concise that includes your most important keywords and phrases.
3. Page Title
Now that you've created your meta description you'll need to come up with a page title for your website. The page titlle is the information that shows up in the far upper left hand corner of your browser window window when you're on a particular page. If your using Internet Explorer you'll see the page title displayed directly to the right of the blue 'e'. Like with your meta description you want your page title to contain your most important keywords but make sure the keywords are relevant with the content on your page. Once again if your page title, meta description, or keywords are not consistant with the content on your page you may actually get ranked lower by the search engines.
If you have multiple keywords and phrases that you want to put in your page title it may help to separate them by either a comma or a pipe. I prefer a pipe. If you're not sure what a pipe is here is an example of a page title that separates keywords and phrases with a pipe.
Example: Free Webiste | Website Builder | Online WebSite Builder
4. Submitting Your Site To Search Engines
After you've chosen keywords for your website, created a one paragraph description, and entered a page title for each of your pages you'll want to submit them to the search engines. Submitting your site to the search engines let's them know your site is ready to be "crawled". When a search engine "crawls" your website it's gathering all the information about your site and decided how to include it amongst it's rankings. When you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account we automatically submit your website to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. So if you haven't already done so I suggest you upgrade your account to the Pro version.
If you do not submit your website to search engines they will most likely never get listed on the major search engines. Search engines only know your site exists from you telling them by submitting your site or by following a link from another website that it already knows about, to your website.
These four steps are really only the beginning of what you'll need to do in order to obtain top search engine rankings. The competition of top positions on search engines is fierce. But once a top position is obtained the rewards are great. For a complete guide to search engine optimization purchase our e-book. It's loaded with tons of valuable information you can refer to time and again. It's a must have tool for anyone who is serious about obtaining top search engine rankings, drving massive traffic to their site, and making a ton of money on the internet. You can purchase your downloadable copy at this link https://webstarts.com/cydec/cart/quickbuy.php?16_1
Getting listed on search engines is critical to driving traffic to your website. A top ranked position for a particlular keyword or phrase can drive a ton of traffic to your website in a short period of time. With enough traffic any website is likely to accomplish it's goals and for that reason the competition over keywords and phrases is immense.
For that reason at WebStarts we've included a number of tools into our website builder that will help your site get better organic search engine rankings. With our most recent release of features we've included a tool called the SEO Wizard. SEO is short for "Search Engine Optimization". The SEO Wizard is a tool you can use to walk you through optimizing each page on your website to obtain good rankings on search engines. In this article I will cover the basic functions of the SEO Wizard but I encourage you to login to your account and try these functions for yourself. Pleae keep in mind the SEO Wizard is only available with a Pro Account.
1. Keywords
The first step to any search engine optimization process is determining the keywords and phrases your customers are likely to type into a search engine to try and find a site like yours. For example: if you're a dog breeder and you breed pitbulls you may want to show up for terms like 'pitbull puppies', 'pure bread pitbulls', etc. rather than just the word pitbulls. To get ideas of what people may be typing into search engines you may want to watch this video I made that shows you how to use the Google keyword research tool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYn5G1QEZ0
2. Meta Description
Once you've determined your keywords and phrases people are likely to type into your website you'll need to create a paragraph about your website. This paragraph is called a meta description and it tells the search engine what your website is all about. On Google you can see the meta description for a website listed below the title of each search result. When creating a meta description you want to work your keywords into your paragraph in a natural way. If you fill up your description with your keywords and phrases in a way that doesn't make sense to a human reader the search engine may actually give you a lower ranking for that keyword or phrase. So take your time and write something concise that includes your most important keywords and phrases.
3. Page Title
Now that you've created your meta description you'll need to come up with a page title for your website. The page titlle is the information that shows up in the far upper left hand corner of your browser window window when you're on a particular page. If your using Internet Explorer you'll see the page title displayed directly to the right of the blue 'e'. Like with your meta description you want your page title to contain your most important keywords but make sure the keywords are relevant with the content on your page. Once again if your page title, meta description, or keywords are not consistant with the content on your page you may actually get ranked lower by the search engines.
If you have multiple keywords and phrases that you want to put in your page title it may help to separate them by either a comma or a pipe. I prefer a pipe. If you're not sure what a pipe is here is an example of a page title that separates keywords and phrases with a pipe.
Example: Free Webiste | Website Builder | Online WebSite Builder
4. Submitting Your Site To Search Engines
After you've chosen keywords for your website, created a one paragraph description, and entered a page title for each of your pages you'll want to submit them to the search engines. Submitting your site to the search engines let's them know your site is ready to be "crawled". When a search engine "crawls" your website it's gathering all the information about your site and decided how to include it amongst it's rankings. When you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account we automatically submit your website to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. So if you haven't already done so I suggest you upgrade your account to the Pro version.
If you do not submit your website to search engines they will most likely never get listed on the major search engines. Search engines only know your site exists from you telling them by submitting your site or by following a link from another website that it already knows about, to your website.
These four steps are really only the beginning of what you'll need to do in order to obtain top search engine rankings. The competition of top positions on search engines is fierce. But once a top position is obtained the rewards are great. For a complete guide to search engine optimization purchase our e-book. It's loaded with tons of valuable information you can refer to time and again. It's a must have tool for anyone who is serious about obtaining top search engine rankings, drving massive traffic to their site, and making a ton of money on the internet. You can purchase your downloadable copy at this link https://webstarts.com/cydec/cart/quickbuy.php?16_1
6 Things You Need To Know About Search Engines.
Get top rankings on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN isn't easy. Everybody knows if you can obtain top rankings on these search engines for keywords and phrases relevant to your products or services you're virtually guaranteed some level of success. In order to rank well with these search engines you'll have to have some basic understanding of what they are, and how they work. In this article I'm going to go over the basics you need to know about search engines. You'll then be able to use this information to make strategic decisions about your website that will lead to better rankings and more traffic.
1. Search engines are not people.
Although search engines demonstrate some characteristics of artificial intelligence they are limited to the way they interpret information. They are in fact computers and for that reason they interpret information quite literally. And because they're computers search engines only know what we tell them through our published content.
2. Search engines love text.
Search engines love text for a lot of reasons. Storing text requires less storgage and organizing it requires less computing power. In addition search engines cannot recognize or read images. When you see something like Google image search it only knows to return specific images for keyword searches because of the context of the image on a page, a tag, or some other input provided by human about that image. Another thing to keep in mind is that search engines cannot read text that is in an image. So if you want search engines to like your website or to know something about it make sure you have plenty of text on your pages.
3. Search engines need to "crawl" your page to know you exist.
For search engines to gather information on your web pages they have to "crawl" you site. This means they send out a software program to your site that gathers information about your site (primarily text) and reports it back to it's main computers. Once the main computer receives this information it decides where your information should rank and which keywords and phrases it should appear under. Often times this software that crawls your site is referred to as a "spider". This "spider" "crawls" the "web" by following links from one page to another to another. For this reason it's important to get other websites to link to your website. If you cannot get a link to your website from another site you need to tell the search engine you exist by submitting your URL to the search engine directly. If you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account your web pages are automatically submitted to Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
4. Search engines love it when you tell the truth.
Search engines love relevancy and for that reason they love it when you tell them the truth about your web page. If you try and trick search engines that your page is about one thing when it's actually about another it will consider you to be a less relevant result and rank you low. For this reason it's important your page title, meta keywords, and meta description tell about the actual content that is on your page.
5. Search engines like new stuff.
Search engines hate duplicate content. Duplicate content is any content on your site that can be found elsewhere on the web. A search engine figures "why would I want to waste my time and resources recording inforomation from your website that I alreay have found elsewhere." For this reason you should never copy and paste content from other websites. Natually this doens't mean you can't get ideas for your content from other sites. Just make sure whatever text appears on your website is in your own words. The best thing you can do is up come up with your very own original stories and ideas. Search engines are always looking for something new and interesting to report on.
6. Don't go stale.
Search engines like websites that are frequently updated. Search engines figure people are looking online for the latest information and for that reason give extra credit to websites that consistantly provide them with new data. In fact search engines will send their spider to crawl your website more frequently if they anticipate you will have something new for them. If each time a search engine visits your website there is something new it will want to visit your site more and more frequently. This will give the opportunity to get found for more and more searches.
When it comes to search engines these six things are just the tip of the iceberg. But by understanding even a few of these basic principles you'll be in a better position to get your website found on search engines. To find out everything you need to know to get top rankings on Google, Yahoo, and MSN download our ebook https://webstarts.com/cydec/cart/quickbuy.php?16_1 It's a must have resource for anyone who wants to make money.
Get top rankings on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN isn't easy. Everybody knows if you can obtain top rankings on these search engines for keywords and phrases relevant to your products or services you're virtually guaranteed some level of success. In order to rank well with these search engines you'll have to have some basic understanding of what they are, and how they work. In this article I'm going to go over the basics you need to know about search engines. You'll then be able to use this information to make strategic decisions about your website that will lead to better rankings and more traffic.
1. Search engines are not people.
Although search engines demonstrate some characteristics of artificial intelligence they are limited to the way they interpret information. They are in fact computers and for that reason they interpret information quite literally. And because they're computers search engines only know what we tell them through our published content.
2. Search engines love text.
Search engines love text for a lot of reasons. Storing text requires less storgage and organizing it requires less computing power. In addition search engines cannot recognize or read images. When you see something like Google image search it only knows to return specific images for keyword searches because of the context of the image on a page, a tag, or some other input provided by human about that image. Another thing to keep in mind is that search engines cannot read text that is in an image. So if you want search engines to like your website or to know something about it make sure you have plenty of text on your pages.
3. Search engines need to "crawl" your page to know you exist.
For search engines to gather information on your web pages they have to "crawl" you site. This means they send out a software program to your site that gathers information about your site (primarily text) and reports it back to it's main computers. Once the main computer receives this information it decides where your information should rank and which keywords and phrases it should appear under. Often times this software that crawls your site is referred to as a "spider". This "spider" "crawls" the "web" by following links from one page to another to another. For this reason it's important to get other websites to link to your website. If you cannot get a link to your website from another site you need to tell the search engine you exist by submitting your URL to the search engine directly. If you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account your web pages are automatically submitted to Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
4. Search engines love it when you tell the truth.
Search engines love relevancy and for that reason they love it when you tell them the truth about your web page. If you try and trick search engines that your page is about one thing when it's actually about another it will consider you to be a less relevant result and rank you low. For this reason it's important your page title, meta keywords, and meta description tell about the actual content that is on your page.
5. Search engines like new stuff.
Search engines hate duplicate content. Duplicate content is any content on your site that can be found elsewhere on the web. A search engine figures "why would I want to waste my time and resources recording inforomation from your website that I alreay have found elsewhere." For this reason you should never copy and paste content from other websites. Natually this doens't mean you can't get ideas for your content from other sites. Just make sure whatever text appears on your website is in your own words. The best thing you can do is up come up with your very own original stories and ideas. Search engines are always looking for something new and interesting to report on.
6. Don't go stale.
Search engines like websites that are frequently updated. Search engines figure people are looking online for the latest information and for that reason give extra credit to websites that consistantly provide them with new data. In fact search engines will send their spider to crawl your website more frequently if they anticipate you will have something new for them. If each time a search engine visits your website there is something new it will want to visit your site more and more frequently. This will give the opportunity to get found for more and more searches.
When it comes to search engines these six things are just the tip of the iceberg. But by understanding even a few of these basic principles you'll be in a better position to get your website found on search engines. To find out everything you need to know to get top rankings on Google, Yahoo, and MSN download our ebook https://webstarts.com/cydec/cart/quickbuy.php?16_1 It's a must have resource for anyone who wants to make money.
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