From: Vladimir Vasyagin <vasyagin-AT-hotmail.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 08:54:15 -0400
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] A tip or two on increasing web traffic to your site



Thank you, Donald.

This could be used!



 
Vladimir
 
 


 

> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> From: ddevet-AT-aol.com
> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:09:24 -0400
> Subject: [Puptcrit] A tip or two on increasing web traffic to your site
> 
> I thought I'd pass along a couple of tips to all those puppeteers 
> wishing to see more visitors to their web sites.
> 
> As Web Master for the HTTP://WWW.UNIMA-USA.ORG web site, I've learned a 
> few things over the years through trial and error about luring eyeballs 
> to the site. For one, I use Google Analytics to track the numbers. This 
> is a free service and I would encourage everyone to install the code on 
> their pages. There's no better way to really gauge the effectiveness of 
> your site then by looking at hard cold statistics.
> 
> The other trick to increasing the odds that your web site will show up 
> on a web search is to always label any images on your site with 
> alternate tags, often called alt tags. Alt tags were first used to help 
> the visually impaired "see" images on the web. But there's an even 
> better advantage to alt tags. When you type in your company's name in a 
> search engine, that search scans all web text, including alt tags. If 
> you have labeled your image with your company name, the odds are more 
> in your favor that your web site will rise to the top of the heap. I 
> know this is a proven fact, because Google Analytics shows me that lots 
> of visitors come to the unima-usa.org site through image searches.
> 
> One more bit of advice...
> Don't confuse the alt tag with the name of your image. You can name 
> your image something as innocuous as "0001.jpg" but make the alt tag 
> contain descriptive text that will steer visitors to your web site. 
> There's no limit on the size of alt tags, but don't go crazy and make 
> the tag the length of "Gone With the Wind!"
> 
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