Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334
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Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010.
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334
Do you want sustained traffic, or a one-time increase? Is there a goal associated with this traffic (increase signups for a newsletter, increase number of comments, sell products, etc.) or is the goal just pageviews for a specific page?
How large of a site do you want to audit? What type of information do you want to get out of it?
These two SEOMoz posts are a starting point if you want to perform a quick audit yourself, for free.
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-checklist-in-a-hurry-audit-list
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/a-step-by-step-15-minute-seo-audit-a-sample-from-seo-secrets
Last Year, SEO Book wrote a detailed post showing what the Alexa SEO audit for their site looked like, and discussed if it was worth the money. You can view that post to see what the audit will give you and help determine if it will meet your needs.
Google Toolbar is another means that Google has to collect user behavior after a user leaves a Google search result.
Hi Vijay,
SEOMoz has several blogs posts that talk about good ways to build links, and how to write emails asking for links. Ideally, you want relevant links from relevant sites. I get requests on our RC boat site for link swaps for hair style businesses or real estate companies, and it's obvious they've never even visited our site. They receive no response.
Some good resources:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-are-your-best-tips-for-link-builders
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/good-seo-how-to-request-links-from-picky-sites
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-not-to-request-a-link-via-email
Paulguy, I think this blogpost addresses both what you are seeing how to fix things. http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2010/12/17/cleaning-urls-google-analytics/
Does this answer your question?
Thomas, double-check if that stat is for users without Java, or users without javascript.
Just the name makes me wary. When I searched on "free mass traffic software" on Google, I couldn't find a site with the software -- only affiliate sites promoting the software, offering little information about the software, and offering a cloaked affiliate link. All of those are warning signs to me.
"Mass traffic" is not the same as "targeted traffic that helps me meet my goals". I run a site that sells products related to RC model warship combat. If I could somehow magically redirect 1% of all queries for Lady Gaga to my website, I'd have mass traffic that would likely not result in a single sale.
I don't know the size of your company and its policies, but first make sure that it is OK with your legal department to put the documents out on the web for the public to view. You don't want the articles to be getting a ton of great traffic then hear that they were expressly created for one customer and now that customer is very unhappy that everyone else is getting that content for free.
See what MythBusters and Dirty Jobs have done regarding these subjects and see if that offers inspiration. MythBusters has at least once done an episode on exploding water heaters. Enough people like how Mike Rowe can clean a dump truck and recycle toilets that he (and Discovery) can make a nice living. Here are a bunch of his episodes http://www.dirtyjobsmikerowe.com/dvds/. Maybe see how he treats topics in your subject area for ideas?