All Pro Pools, Inc

It is possible spending just 10-15 minutes a day to increase traffic to your primary website using Merchant Circle. Merchant Circle has systems in place that trigger Google and Yahoo Web Crawlers to look at your site every time you add new content to your website or create links on other sites to yours. Your search engine ranking will climb and create more traffic to your website.

It can be a challenge on your primary website to update it on a regular basis especially if you are paying a webmaster to handle your site. Merchant Circle used properly can increase traffic to your primary website.

I am going to share my tips with you to increase traffic.

Set up your Merchant Circle Site

Make sure that you complete all the information and most importantly spell-check your work. You want to make a good impression.

Invite other Merchants to Join your Circle

Start inviting other Merchants to join your site. You can use zip codes in your local area to do a search to find even more merchants. Every time a merchant joins your circle you have new content added to your website. New content = Google and Yahoo Web Crawlers to move you up in the search engines.

Leave a Comment in the “Talk to Me” section on their site.

When someone accepts and invitation to join your circle you can leave a comment on their page. This will create a link to your site and Web Crawlers will see the link to your site on their page and create new content for them. You can also leave comments on pages of people who do not accept you in their circle. When someone leaves a comment you can respond and this also creates new content for the Web Crawlers.

Comment: Please, be professional in the comments you leave on another merchant’s site… this is not the place to sell your business. This is the place to welcome them and network with them. I like to welcome and send them to my blog for some useful information to help them build their business. Another great way is to leave a comment for them to contact you about what a good referral for them might be.

Reviews

Getting Merchant Reviews for your site is important and it is good to review other people’s site as well. Reviews also attract the Web Crawlers. Be creative in what you write on someone’s site. Remember you are reviewing their business, NOT pitching yours. If you want reviews on your site start by writing lots of reviews on other sites, if you help enough other people they will help you. That is what networking is all about. (Again this is a way to create new contact on your site as well) You can remove any reviews or Talk to me comments that you do not want on your site.

Coupons, Newsletters and Blogs

These are additional ways to get new content on your site for the Web Crawlers. Web Crawlers like content rich unique websites with good information. You can write on topics that relate to your products or services or on topics that will relate to other merchants.

Coupons can be used to promote your business in a variety of ways and also get a separate Google and Yahoo web address to give you additional exposure on the internet.

Newsletters can be used to target new customers and I like to use them to also promote others in Merchant Circle and their business.

Please take a moment to email me or give me a call and share what a good referral for you would look like and I will see what I can do to refer people to you.