Friday, August 29, 2008

#4 - 25 Things Your Webmaster Will Not Tell You

#4 - Your Flash Website Is Making It Nearly Impossible For Brides To Find You!

Are you aware that if your website is build entirely in FLASH or uses a FLASH "enter here" or "splash" page, you are making it is harder (if not impossible) for brides to find your website on major search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, or MSN? The fact is that a website designed entirely in FLASH is almost invisible to search engine spiders. Few webmasters will tell you this.
If you don't care about traffic from search engines or if you have a huge pile of cash in your advertising budget - because that's what you'll be using to drive people to your website - then your FLASH site is fine.

But 80% of the people who log on to the Internet start at a search engine. They are SEARCHING for something.

Many of my clients get 60-80% of their traffic from search engines. That quickly translates into thousands of dollars in new business each year.

One caterer who signed up for my ADVANTAGE program attributes over a million dollars a year in sales to inquiries that have come in from Google.

Experience will show that if you're top ranked in a competitive keyword position it can easily translate into tens of thousands of dollars in new business monthly.

If you're stuck because you have an all FLASH website, my advice is to build a more search engine friendly html static site and start a blog based on your current website. The investment is well worth it.

Marketing to brides online will become tougher in 2009. Don't let the competition eat-your-lunch, join my ADVANTAGE program today.

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