http://momtycoons.com/blog Small Business and Internet Marketing Blog Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:00:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Web directories are effective ways of building PR (page rank) that helps websites get good rankings in the Google search engine. Google uses page ranks to grade the results based from the searches that visitors are making. Having a higher PR is having a better search result listing compared with others. PR ... http://momtycoons.com/blog/2007/07/18/submissions-to-web-directories/ Social bookmarking websites like Orkut, MySpace etc. are very good places to bring traffic to your website as long your website suits the general favor of these websites. And keep in mind that people are really sick of MySpace bulletins announcing dozens of websites. So, unless you have a really ... http://momtycoons.com/blog/2007/07/18/posting-in-forums-and-social-bookmarking-websites/ Regular distribution of newsletters is an essential tool to bring back visitors to your website. Your Newsletter or ezine serves as a reminder to your visitors and gives them an active link to click and visit your website instead of typing in your URL. You should send out newsletters only to ... http://momtycoons.com/blog/2007/07/18/newsletter-distribution/ Search Engine Optimization is a continuous process but here is a very basic checklist when launching a new website: 1. Relevant Keyword-Rich Titles for each page 2. Keywords 3. Description 4. Using Heading Tags in the content - e.g. H1, H2, H3 etc. 5. Keyword rich anchors for in-site links. 6. Use ALT tags for every ... http://momtycoons.com/blog/2007/07/11/a-basic-10-point-seo-checklist/