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How the Web is like McDonald's

The world wide web is HUGE. You probably already knew that. But did you ever stop to think about just how big it really is? Let's compare it to something else that's had lots of visitors. You know how McDonald's has their sign that says "Billions Served"? The web's sign would be "Trillions Served"; a survey from Google in late July last year found there to be over one trillion unique URLs out there. That's like every person in the US deciding to make 3300 websites each. It took McDonald's nearly 51 years to say they had received that many visitors. The web's first official http address was born in late the late Nineties. Nineteen years later, we have 1,000,000,000,000 websites out there. Imagine what it will be like when the web reaches its 50th birthday! So what's that mean to you? Remember that "every person in the US" part above? You need to stand out in that sea of pages! If you want to see where you rank with your current SEO method, check out this website: http://website.grader.com How's your rank? Not liking it? Maybe you need to head to this website now. http://www.xanfar.com Don't have a website at all? Well, we'd love to help everyone acchieve their 3300.

The lazy man's way to bring in hits to your website.

...And I'm doing it right now. This post will make its way to at least 50 people by midnight tonight. After that, it will probably reach another 50 and their friends by midnight Thursday. How am I doing that? I have a Twitterfeed going that plants a link back to all my blog posts here on Merchant Circle. All of my followers get to see what I've written, and they can pass it along as they wish. (Another great example of that Viral Marketing I was talking about in last Thursday's blog!) Sure, 50 is a great number. But you can't rely on Twitter alone.  How does your company fare on the big name search engines? Go ahead, give it a try in another window. I'll wait. ... Well? If you came back with numerous hits on the first page that are actually relevant to you and your business, congrats! You've got a great start on SEO marketing. Not too much pointing back in your direction, or have to go a few pages into the results to find yourself? That's not so good. Most consumers stop their search after the first page of results, and if you're not there, they don't see you. Give "Xanfar" a try in that search engine. Most likely found the 3 and a half pages of nothing but us, right? There's SEO marketing working in our favor! Now, SEO marketing payoffs don't happen overnight. Sure, you'll see a significant growth in hits when something definitely "clicks" with your target audience... but is it bringing in the big numbers? And how may of them are actually looking to buy what you're offering, not just meandering through? You want to call out to those hunting your services down; to wave the big banner in the air and yell "Hey! Over here! I do that and I do it well!" It's easier than you might think. It takes a little effort, but nothing horrifying. With a few months of well-tended SEO work, you can be driving in the traffic your looking for- and all the people looking for you! Want to know more? Then give us a call, or email us! We'd be happy to work with you to bring in the traffic and great Seach Engine results you deserve.

Steelers won! But we already knew that was going to happen.

If you didn't catch the Super Bowl Sunday night, you missed one incredible game. For a little while there, it almost looked like the Cardinals were going to actually take over... But we had a feeling the Steelers were going to make a comeback, and not just because of a fan's hopeful wishing. Call it more faith in the "test run". Our post from last Tuesday has a little more explanation on that; how the Madden NFL video game was used the weekend prior to try and predict who would win. This Steelers win has given the video game a track record of 5 correct outcomes and one incorrect, its only mistake being last year's game. Sure, the score that Madden's version predicted was 28-24.. but the 4 point difference was true! In fact, in most of the correctly predicted outcomes given by the video game, the point differences were either spot on or very close. It just goes to show that using a computer mock-up of an event can really help you see what may happen when it comes to the real thing!