My web site is www.themutualfundhelper.com. I have good positioning on the Yahoo search engine. I am working on positioning on Google. I answer many questions on Yahoo Answer - Business and Finance - Investing. I have been voted best answer many times. I refer all askers to my profile which also lists my website. Any suggestions to help me help these folks and do business.
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It's nice to see a fellow Farmingdale Business!
Anyway, I think your going after too many fish in the ocean. Pinpoint where your customers are and go network. Face to face meetings are better than the internet for your type of business.
You're one of thousands who have the same or similar information, so narrow your search and you will be more than busy with clients.
Long Island has plenty of rich people, so you need to figure out how to gain trust for someone to hand over their retirement fund.
Good Luck!
munch munch
Well, first of all, I don't really know what the website is conveying. Is it just a portal for people to call your business? I think you should put some unique content on the site such as answers to people's questions about investing, how YOU invest, the actual performance of your investments (VERY IMPORTANT!!) and the like. I for one don't like contacting the webmasters for questions that I might have, but instead prefer to see them already asked and answered, so I guess you could say that I'm lazy, but so is everyone else. The website by itself, has no useful content, so people just browsing through won't stop to check it out. I also think you should put some case studies of previous clients you have had so that people can get an idea how your business runs. Do you invest for your clients? Do you simply provide advice? Do you tell your clients which stocks they should invest in? Do you specialize ONLY in stocks, or do you also do Forex, futures, blah blah blah. So basically, PUT MORE STUFF!
Good luck!
Ego
I looked at your site, but don't understand your model for making money. How is your business supposed to work?
You need to determine if your business model is fundamentally flawed, or if you simply aren't executing properly.
If you're in the business of selling advice, then don't give it away for free on Yahoo!. Come up with a marketing plan to drive people to your door, then use the website as a tool for doing business.
goodgirlabout2gobad
It's probably going to be like any other business, it's advertising. Maybe you should find more ways to get your site out there. Get different affiliates or something. You have to spread the word and let everyone know you are out there. Good Luck
Anonymous
First of all, the <title> is not localized, i.e., city, state, country. The <keywords> metatag entries are excessive since entries are normally limited to no more than 15 words in plural or compound variations, and in some instances, repetitive [spamdexed] entries. The excess non-repetitive entries could very well be moved within the <description> metatag which, unfortunately, as itself is no where to be found.
The following article may prove helpful to you in streamlining your SEO metatags in order to attract more Net traffic by higher search engine placement.
The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.
Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.
You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one's goods and services. It is not merely a list.
And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google's spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.
Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It's on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!
Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google's publication guidelines.
Good luck!