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For every online business to live you need to get traffic. Not only regular traffic, but targeted traffic. I’ll show you the best 3 ways i personally use to increase traffic and boost my websites income.After setting up you website or blog, you have to get some internet traffic, real people to visit your site, and hopefully click on advertising or buy something from you.But this requires some hard work. Our goal is to get targeted market traffic, driving interested consumers to our website. Below are three ways that you can employ.

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If you run an online website or business you have probably already heard about Google’s Supplemental Index. You may have even heard it being referred to as Google’s Gulag, Google’s Digital Dungeon, or the moniker that seems to have stuck: Google Hell.
Hate it or love it, webmasters are passionate about the big G. There’s no argument on that point for one good reason: Google simply delivers the most search engine traffíc on the web. For any webmaster with at least a few white SEO connected brain cells Google can supply 60% or more of their traffic.

Therefore, suddenly getting the majority of your pages thrown into Google’s Supplemental Index can result in a correlating drop in business. A few examples of this were reported in a recent Forbes article by Andy Greenberg entitled “Condemned To Google Hell“.

It recounts how two online jewelry businesses lost traffíc and salës by having their pages falling into Google’s Supplemental Index. They speculated on what had caused this to happen: duplicate content? buying links?

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The following black hat SEO techniques should always be avoided. Why should you avoid these techniques? Well because they can get you banned from all the major search engines, and because they are also very very easy to detect ( increasing the chances of getting banned from the SERP’s) … (see them after the jump)

• Keyword Stuffing - don’t put the same keyword again and again and again…and again. It is very easy for search engines to spot automatically, and even easier for an employee of theirs to spot. Try to use different forms of words, for example if your subject was search engine optimization, include SEO, Optimizing for Search Engines, etc…
• Invisible text - Very easy to spot by search engines (how hard is it to see if the background is #FFFFFF and the text colour is also #FFFFFF (or even something like #FDFDFD…). Don’t do it.
• Doorway or fake pages - sometimes these are harder to automatically detect, but you will still get caught.

I am not in any way just discouraging all of black hat seo - some can work (for a while, at least…) and if you are lucky you may not get banned or removed from Google, Yahoo or MSN. But just don’t be stupid if you are going to do black hat seo. This techniques can get you banned for life.

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo will all begin using Google Sitemaps in an attempt to standardize and improve the website indexing process. Sitemaps are XML files describing the layout of the site with associated metadata. Those files can let web spiders know the last time a page changed and how important a changed page is so that the indexing process is streamlined. With sitemaps, only pages with changes are visited, which saves bandwidth.

Sitemaps was originally created by Google in June 2005 and released under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. Yahoo began using it within a couple of months its release. Combined, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have an 85.3 percent search engine market share as of July 2006 according to comScore.

In a joint statement, Windows Live Search general manager Ken Moss said, “the quality of your index is predicated by the quality of your sources and Windows Live Search is happy to be working with Google and Yahoo! on Sitemaps to not only help webmasters, but also help consumers by delivering more relevant search results so they can find what they’re looking for faster.”

“This is a great development for the whole community and addresses a real need of webmasters in a very convenient fashion,” according to Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Watch. “At industry conferences, webmasters have asked for open standards just like this.”

If you want to learn more about Sitemaps, information—including the XML schema for the Sitemap protocol—is available from the Google Webmasters Tools page.

Source: arstechnica

Now you don’t need to be a programmer to develop a search engine. With the new google service you can build a search engine that focused specifically on your own interests. The search engine you can create will be based on the topics and web sites you choose. Users of your custom search engine will benefit from results that are much more relevant to their needs than what they can find at Google itself.

First of all, you need to have some kind of Google account. Assuming you have one, you can go to the Google Co-op link for new search engines where you’ll see a number of things to do, before you have your SE.

Building a search engine with Google is free, and it can make you money with adsense! Perhaps this is the real reason Google is offering customization; it’s another way for Google to deliver a highly targeted audience to its advertisers.