I would rather Hit The Target!

You may have seen some of the traffic  "gimicks" being pushed on anyone looking to advertise on the internet.  You know…. the ones that say Free Traffic!  or Easy Website Hits!  Well, these guys can get you hits. Some are only bots hitting your site and a few actually do send real people  to your page or ad.  The problem with the real people they send is they are people just like you, trying to sell their product or program and generally do not have the money to purchase anything.  Any of these sites are cool to get some traffic flowing to your site but do not do much but make you feel better about the work you have put in to your online business.  I have seen tens of thousands of hits without a single sale.  That can wear that good feeling off pretty quick!

Another problem with these sites is. When you stop working them….. (doing what ever you have to do for advertising credits) your advertising or traffic soon stops.

There are very few sites on the internet that actually work the way they are promoted.  The best way to be an online winner is to build your own web presence with good informative content  well linked together. There is no easy way, even the "automatic" ones take work or your web presence with lists and traffic already set up. 

Do your homework! Work for yourself, not some product, build your own traffic and hit the target!
 

I have known this for quite a while and have been teaching it in my online classes. It only makes sense. I always am looking for more information when I search online….

Well, it seems the search engines are heading that direction even further. I read today that duplicate content on your domain will kill your ranking. No real problem…. I always tell my students to use their own content on their blogs and to use duplicate content on other domains linking back. This still will work (so far). The problem arises in the blog template. I have heard from several sources that the template (header, footer, and sidebar) will count as duplicate content! I hear that if your post is enough larger than your template content, the post will over ride the duplicate content. I am not sure about that yet, but I am testing….. The problem I see here is all of the cool widgets, rss feeds, and even ads in the sidebar…. will have to go! This also means Google Adsense ads! (I wonder if Google thought of that? Maybe they figure if the pages are different enough, the ads will be different?)

Anyway folks. It looks like all that cool stuff you have on your sidebar so people can find it no matter what page of your blog they land on… will have to go, or you may suffer with a Google page-rank 1 forever….. Or will you?