I Need Help Increasing Traffic to My Site - Do You Have Any Suggestions?

Hi Sassy,

It sounds like you could benefit with some search engine optimization (aka SEO). There is an entire industry for this type of work but I can refer you to two sites with great resource centers if you want to learn to do it yourself.

The most important factor in getting better rankings (which means coming up in google searches when someone searches for what you sell) is getting "in bound links". That basically means that other websites post a link from their website to your website. Isn't there a place for mom owned businesses on this site? If there is, add your URL!

If you want to email me your site, I can take a quick look and see if there are any other obvious tips I can pass on specific to your site.

M.

Links:

http://www.highrankings.com
http://www.seomoz.com

You might want to try some of the charity shopping sites. If you can donate a small percentage of your proceeds, they'll list you on their shopping search engine by category. Check out goodshop.com and others.

Start a blog about your business. My friend is looking to increase her online business also and she found out from another online business woman that she grew her company just by bloging about it. Her business has now gone world wide and she did it all by blogging.

Hi Sassy,
My name is Barb Pabst. I am in a networking group called BNI - Business Networking International. We have a guy in our group who helps with search engine optimization. The BNI members do a really great job. His company is called Technology Force and his name is Steve Ettel. His phone # is ###-###-#### and his email is ____@____.com may be able to help you.

Have you considered joining a BNI Group - it is a great networking group with many chapters.
Call or email me with questions. ###-###-####
____@____.com

Craig's list is a free way to get people to your site. I don't know what you have. Just make sure that you put it in the right category so that you don't get tagged.

Do you have a MySpace or Facebook page where you could put a linnk? You can create events and groups, as well as whole pages on Facebook. We are doing this for my singing group.

What are you selling?