Internet Marketing Pitfalls

1. I heard that PageRank is important in getting good position in SERP!

The Google PageRank Bar is just method for measuring importance or relevance of a page in the past. Having high PageRank does mean you will have more visitors to your website. Just put your time in more important place: getting real traffic.

2. Keyword Search Position is important!

You can have website shown in the search engine result page using hundreds of keywords but what is the point if those keywords hardly searched by the human? Don't simply pick some keywords and fight for the position, analyze the keyword search volume in your targeted market in advance.

3. I submitted my website to hundreds of Web Directories.

Stop wasting your time. All you will get is spam. Most of the web directory run automatically without any monitor, information is outdated and hardly has anyone visit it. Your website should appear on reliable and updated web directories like Yellow Pages, Super Pages, Alibaba.com and so on which actually will drive human traffic and business to you.

4. My Website looks fine, thank you.

Even your website is bug free and can easily be indexed by search engines, have you ever think of how your visitors respond to your web pages? How long did they spent on your page, where did they go after that, where are they from etc. Having traffic is not enough, you need to convert traffic into money!

5. Blog and Social Networking Sites!

Well, having a blog and joining social networking sites does help a lot in getting more traffic to your website. Yet, you have to invest your time building the relationship between your and the crowds. Make sure you know the correct method in network building and blogging before doing that.