One way to get better rank and positioning in the search engines is to allow your website to grow over time. This is, obviously not for a mini-site (created solely for the purpose of selling an ebook) although I have certainly taken a mini-site and grown it into a larger content site behind the sales letter in the past. Building Value into Your Website If you are redesigning your website, or growing it for search engine boost and traffic, don’t just add more content on the same topic. Spin off your topic to something closely related and incredibly useful to your visitor. A few ideas are: Add...

If you’re brand new to website ownership, your site is launched and you’re not getting any visitors or website traffic… It’s time to tell the search engines your website exists. These numbers are not exact by any means, but depending on your market, 40-60% of all search engine traffic that is sent by any website will come from Google. Yahoo will send another 30-40% and MSN will follow closely behind Yahoo. There are a number of smaller search engines that both humans and the search engine robots use to create listings and links, but these are the big three. Perhaps the easiest...

Submitting your website to search engine directories is an on-going task that should be revisited bi-annually at least – no matter how well established or aged the site may be. If your site is new, set aside 20 minutes per week to submit to a few more directories. Most of the directories I’ll point you to are reviewed by actual humans so take care with your submissions and make sure your site is in top shape before you submit it. If you can afford the time and care, your website will see plenty of traffic for years to come. If you’re short on time don’t buy into software...

One of my regular readers wrote about her troubles with getting indexed and included over at DMOZ. DMOZ is a great ’search directory’ to be listed in – it almost ensures 100% google inclusion! Can’t Get Listed on DMOZ – Ask Laura (December 2, 2004) Dear Laura: I don’t think this (has much to do with) you, but in case it does: I submitted my website

This email writer is asking how to make money online with free articles and a Google Adsense account. Although this may have been a great way to make some decent cash a few years ago – too many competitors exist now and the work getting any site established in the search engines using duplicate content is very difficult. Earning With Adsense and Free Articles – Ask Laura (May 22, 2006) Hi Laura, I have a question that never has been answered clearly by others so I thought maybe you might be able to enlighten me. My daughter and I are working together …edited location… and...