What Can You Do To Beat Your Competition?

In many cases when you start a new website you are really starting at the bottom of the barrel.

Your competition probably has more money than you, they certainly have better rankings and more repeat visitors. How can you compete with that when you are on a shoestring budget?

First off, you need to get one idea out of your head that has been beat into it by countless marketing sites, E-books, and "experts."

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE SUCCESSFULL OVERNIGHT!

However, you can make regular and weekly progress and overtake your competition, both in rankings and sales. There are a few things you are going to have to do though.

1.) You will need to track your statistics, website visitors, and keep track of the Search Engine Bots. If you need to learn more about statistics, may I reccomend http://www.track-it-now.info . Statistics and paying attention to them are one of the important things that successful webmasters all do. You should know at the end of the week what each visitor to your website was worth.

2.) Work harder at your important tasks. Many webmasters started a website because it's perceived as an easy way to make money. It's not, so get that idea out of your head right now. Start managing your time smarter. If you spend 20 hours per week surfing the Internet, chatting, or just goofing around, stop and divert that energy into something productive like link building. I'm a professional freelancer and I still get stuck in the old habit of just sitting in front of this computer and getting nothing done. I recently got so frustrated with myself I actually made a blog post out of it. I will be adding tips and tricks to be a little more productive and how I cut some of the "fluff" out of my day. It would be great if others contributed as well. http://stmadeveloper.com/blog/?p=7

3.) You are working harder, but are you working smarter? I don't mean you have to be smarter than your competition. I mean that you need to become smarter on a certain subject. For example, there are 1000s of programmers like myself who can work with PHP. I have made myself a niche working for Internet marketers who don't want to explain terms like "downline builders", "2 teir affiliate programs", etc. It doesn't matter what subject matter your website is, you just need to know more about one aspect of your content or service than other people.

4.) Make sure you are productive and earning at your real potential. Chances are if you are keeping track of your statistics (see step one) you know that every visitor is worth X dollars or cents. If your really tracking, you can tell how much value you are getting from traffic to certain pages or from certain advertising methods or SE keywords. If you have a method that is just sending you visitors that never purchase or stay just stop using it and put more effort into those things that are returning a value. If you have set your value at $30 per hour to meet your income goals, you better not be concentrating on things that return pennies per hour, right?

5.) Make sure you have the tools and services you need to communicate with your visitors. It might be live help ( http://track-it-now.info/helpcenterlive_tutorial.htm ) or it might be something like an autoresponder ( http://emaileasy.info/7.html ), but you better have some way for your visitors to contact you and ask you questions.

6.) Don't expect overnight success. Growing a site takes time and effort. However, don't get discouraged. Daily effort turns into weekly growth. One day you will wake up and find that your efforts have paid off.

7.) Use your expertise to help others. Did you know that if you have something you are knowledgeable about that you are being looked for right now? There are thousands of forum's, newsgroups, and communities on-line that would benefit from your advice. If you spend the time to help them, you will see an increase in traffic and of course revenue. Many forums allow a signature which is similar to the resource box for this article. People do click on those signature links when you help them. Since you have already taken the first step and built some trust in your knowledge don't you think they will be more likely to use what your website provides.

8.) Do not be afraid to get some help. There are 1000s of freelancers and other helpful people that make their living on the web. Farming work out to those freelancers may just be worth your time. Here is an example: You are running a finance site. You need to get a new layout, new graphics, and Search Engine optimization done. You could spend days working on all of that, and since you are not an expert you end up with an inferior website both in looks and functionality. Your two days of effort cost you money in lost sales, but the poor website will cost you thousands over the next year. A few minutes with a competent designer would have cost you a few days pay, but you end up with a great functional and attractive website. Which way is better?

Edward Charkow is the lead programmer and copy writer for Stmadeveloper. Stmadeveloper provides top notch niche sites that focus on high paying keywords. No technical knowledge is needed since they do the creation, content, and promotion. Visit Stmadeveloper at http://www.stmadeveloper.com

---

Website Promotion: 10 Power Secrets To Keep Your Profits Rolling

Here are 10 power secrets to help your website promotion... Read More

3 Steps To Increasing Your Web Traffic For Free

You own a website and you want more traffic. More... Read More

Hunting For Online Directories - The In depth Strategy

Directory marketing can help boost your companies performance a great... Read More

How To Make Your Online Testimonials More Believable

In order to have more trust in your visitors' eye,... Read More

Top 10 Tips to Make Your Web Site A Hit!

Professionals in tend to under-estimate the power of the web... Read More

(3) Three Traffic Boosting Strategies for Your Website!

Every day, on line marketers are dreaming up new ways... Read More

Website Promotion: 10 Uncommon Bonuses That Can Triple Sales

Website promotion is no longer easy to do.But if you... Read More

Search Engine Friendly Ways to Build Link Popularity

Acquiring relevant backlinks to your website is one of the... Read More

Internet Directories to Improve Link Popularity

Description: one way of jumpstarting you link campaign is to... Read More

Link Cheating On The Rise

Website owners and webmasters who are trying to improve their... Read More

One Way Link Building Campaigns

This article explains in detail the various issues related to... Read More

Marketing Tips for Your Web Site

Here are some simple and easy tips on how to... Read More

Hit the Target with Bullseye Marketing

Let's see here... as of today Google states it has... Read More

Free Traffic From Articles ? Plus A Big Hidden Bonus

Writing articles for submission and distribution on the internet is... Read More

Not Common But Effective Free Marketing

We all know the many "free" traffic producing avenues. We... Read More

Criteria For Selecting Good Directories!

Directories are the best means for getting related links and... Read More

How To Turn Your Clients Into Raving Fans

So, you don't have a multi-million dollar advertising campaign? You... Read More

Outsourcing Website Services - Can Your Business Benefit?

Would it surprise you to know that Compaq Computer? outsources?... Read More

Fight For Online Visibility

Would you like to prevent Internet users from visiting your... Read More

DMOZ - Is it Still Worth the Submission Time?

DMOZ is known all over the internet as being the... Read More

10 Magic Ways To Multiply Your Orders

1. Use reward programs to keep people revisiting your web... Read More

Website Promotion: 10 Sure-Fire Tactics To Sell Your Back-End Products

A back-end product is a product that you attempt to... Read More

Ten High Powered Ways To Increase Your Traffic

Once you have finshed designing your website, you want to... Read More

The Link Swapping Trap

If you want to make money on the web, you... Read More

How To Promote Your Online Store

OK. So you took the leap and started your online... Read More

How To Get Your Visitors To Tell A Friend

Does your website offer visitors a quick and easy way... Read More

11 Ways to Promote Your Blog

1. Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. When you ping... Read More

To The Next Level With Google Groups 2

If you haven't visited the Google Labs lately, they have... Read More

How Building a Fanbase will Make You Sales

If you've ever been to a popular forum hosted by... Read More

Get Listed at DMOZ

When you are deciding on the major search engine directories... Read More

Freebie Promotions - How Giving Away Free Stuff Can Boost Your Business

Everybody Loves A Freebie!It's true! Who doesn't like to get... Read More

Internet Promotion: 10 Incredible, Intriguing Ways To Increase Your Profits

Are you making money from your website?Will you like to... Read More

Web Site Marketing Techniques Rated

There are many ways to market your web site, both... Read More