The "Number One" -- Most Fundamental and Essential Question --
We pose here the ultimate question for all Webmasters:
"How to attract visitors to your web site and keep their attention longer than a mere 60 seconds?"
Because that is all the time you will have to get your message across. That essential problem is fundamental, whether usage is at home or in an office environment. Internet users are impatient, and focused upon immediate gratification. How well you solve this nagging problem will have significant impact on your corporate bottom line.
Proof for the 60 second time limitation is provided below.
This two-part question reiterated and restated for absolute clarity is:
Once again: "How to attract visitors to your web site ?," and, more importantly,
"How do you keep their interest for more than one minute?"
The Answers:
This Biz Page provides information on registering your web site with search engines and how to design your Meta Tags to encourage more visitors.
The answer to the second part of the question is "content." Ultimately, your marketing content or the information you provide is the driving force that generates more visits. The term "visits" means people who "hit" your site and chose to stay more than 60 seconds rather than moving on. The bottom line: More true visitors, spending more time on your web site, translates into more $ales.
About Making Good Use of this Biz Page:
On this page Newspundit.net provides free Internet marketing information. We recommend that you read this page in detail and then sample some of our links. Please study the left column carefully. We have links to access top rated marketing and business research sites that provide free information. Many provide free data bases. Some of these sites now may charge a small fee to access information and reports. This Biz Page has been on the Internet in one from or another for over eight years. Things happen quickly in cyberspace. Especially, because people are making millions on the Internet. Take a test drive for free. Spend some time here. Links to some of the best business schools are provided. Over 850 free business and marketing research sites may be accessed right here.
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About the Search Engines:
Register your web page on the "top 20 search engines" for free by hitting the banner link below. You may also register your web page for free with more than 1,500 search engines on the second web site shown below. Scroll down for the magic words "Submit Free Webpages." There are links for quick
and easy submission to all the major search engines with one click. You may also submit your site by country, by state and by worldwide listings:
Search Engines Worldwide
About the all important "META TAGS:"
All search engines require Meta Tags. Meta Tags are special HTML source code that search engines like Google require to list your web page. Designing Meta Tags is Marketing Function rather than a web site design function.
Most web sight designers do not understand how to create Magic Words that will attract visitors to a web site. They know how to make wonderful gateway pages that dazzle they eye,
but they do not know how to attract "hits" via the Search Engines. You must perform marketing research to select the best "key words" to use for your web site's Meta Tags.
However, you can get lost in cyberspace:
There are Millions of Free Marketing & Biz Research Sites
To avoid confusion, we suggest starting with the basics. Converting "hits" into true visitors is a more daunting challenge:
Top 15 Meta Tag Tricks
General Information on Meta Tags
The reference site below has quite a bit of helpful information on Internet Search Engines:
Search Engine Watch
The Meta Tags for NewsPundit.net were designed to attract visitors from a world wide audience. We must have performed very good marketing research, because in April, 2003 we had visitors from 58 countries.
Those statistics show our Meta Tags must be working, because this site was not listed with the major search engines until March 12, 2003. Today NewsPundit.net attracts
visitors from 74 nations. Each day we have as many as 20,000 visitors
that log onto this web site for our news reports and commentary. Frankly, we are amazed by how popular the web site is becoming.
We suggest that you retain the services of an established marketing consultant to help you design your Meta Tags.
About "Banner Exchange" Advertising:
We attempted to use a free "banner exchange" to attract more visits. After many months of running their free banners we finally gave up.
The banners did not work to attract visits and we did not receive a single donation for our efforts.
Banners do not attract true visits. Visitors are only attracted by the content on your site.
About "Push-Marketing" and "Safe Lists:"
Using Safe Lists is an established "guerilla marketing" tactic. Safe List Email is not considered spam because people volunteer to receive solicitations from other Safe List members.
Some providers of this service make extravagant claims that they send out two million or more Emails each day under strict operative guidelines. Some providers may actually send out as many as '30,000' or more solicitation letters each day.
Using these services may be an inexpensive way to build an Internet business. Just do a Google search for the term
"safe lists" and enter the new world of underground marketing. A word of warning is necessary. Scroll to
the bottom of this web page.
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Statistics proving a 60 second time limitation for web site visitors:
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The average activity for a Web user in January 2003, as reported by
Nielsen//NetRatings Inc.
Average Internet Usage, January 2003
at Home, U.S. |
| Number of Sessions per Month |
24 |
| Number of Unique Sites Visited |
53 |
| Time Spent per Month |
13: 17: 47 |
| Time Spent During Surfing Session |
33: 13 |
| Duration of a Page viewed |
00: 57 |
| Active Internet Universe |
110,938,313 |
| Current Internet Universe Estimate |
172,062,014 |
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, January 2003 |
The reported Internet usage estimates are based on a sample of households that have access to the Internet and use any of these platforms: Windows 95/98/NT and Mac OS 8 or higher.
Average Internet Usage, January 2003
at Work, U.S. |
| Number of Sessions per Month |
55 |
| Number of Unique Sites Visited |
98 |
| Time Spent per Month |
31: 06: 53 |
| Time Spent During Surfing Session |
33: 49 |
| Duration of a Page viewed |
00: 60 |
| Active Internet Universe |
43,830,491 |
| Current Internet Universe Estimate |
47,831,064 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings, January 2003 |
The reported Internet usage estimates are based on a sample of at-work users that have access to the Internet.
You may compare the current usage for NewsPundit.net to the 60 second Internet average set forth above.
We are breaking all the records for first time visitors, repeat visitors and returning regular visitors. We have
real "fans."
Our Web Site Statistics:
During the past year, visitors to NewsPundit.net spent an average time of 5:15 minutes on this web site. We have had more than 4 million visits.
Most of our visits (84.3%) come from search engine referrals. People all over the world find this site every day.
Site Ranking Means Everything: NewsPundit.net has a very high ranking by
Google and other search engines. We are highly ranked for "world news reports." Our current ranking places us near the top out of 150 million news sites. First-time visitors to NewsPundit.net spend an average of 245 seconds on their initial page view. Then almost all of
of them stay logged on to view other pages for another average of 190 seconds.
Many visitors to this web site are spending over 35 minutes here reading reports, exploring our international news links and using our
language translation links.
NewsPundit.net has become a favorite of many readers who work for the United States and Canadian
governments. Each day we get more and more visitors from government workers, from the C.I.A. and the U.S. military. One week in January, 2005,
over 2,700 visitors from the White House, NIPR Military, Naval Intel, CIA, FBI and read reports on
Newspundit.net. Visitors from these government sites often spend in excess of 15 to 35 minutes reading news reports that are posted here.
Most people are becoming regular readers who come back again and again.
We now have people from 74 different countries logging on every day and our international readership is growing rapidly.
The average amount of time spent by first-time visitors is currently in excess of six and one-half minutes.
Over two-thirds of our readers (67%) visit us during their work day. Each day we have as many as 20,000 visitors
that log onto this web site for our news reports and commentary.
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