If your website has not been indexed by the search engines you will not come up in the search results. When you search the "web" using Google, Yahoo or MSN's search tools, you're not searching the Internet you are searching the search engines databases.

You read that right. I've told Google to push off. Stop spidering me. I no longer want my online business to depend on its ever changing whims as to what makes a good or bad ranking.

Landing pages have the ability to grab and hold us like fly no-fly paper or repel us like jumping on the trampling. The question is what impact does your landing page have on the people who visit your website. As I talk to people who are just getting into SEO (search engine optimization), all they focus on our rankings in traffic. We have to remember that "rankings" in "traffic" or not the end but a means to the end. That end is visitors to your site that take advantage of the solutions that you offer. We can have a lot of traffic to our website but if no one is sticking around long enough to see if our solutions can solve their problems then that traffic does not mean anything.

There is more business being done online than ever before. There are hundreds of thousands of new business web sites coming on every month. 70% of the US population (233 million people) are online. Over 1.2 billion people worldwide are online. The question is how do we find clients in an ocean of competitors?

Search Engines

The Point of Acquiring the traffic is to attract interested parties to your site so that you can convert them to customers.

Blogging is one of the best ways to reach new clients and prospective customers as well as maintain your existing readers and clientele

Most marketers lay out lead capture pages but only capture a first name and an email address. At best, they may get a last name (if it's isn't bogus).

Here is what you need to know in order to improve your ranking on Google

This is how I got ranked on the first page of the search engines and you can too