webcosmo

Few days ago I got an email from a reader saying "you should rethink of proudly showing your feed counter on the site". I replied back "every time I visit the site, it reminds me how hard I have to work".

In today's internet world websites are growing and dying like fungus. Even kids know of the internet before they are 5 years old. Everybody wants their site known to others. And that makes marketing efforts very difficult. You have to highlight a needle in a haystack.

In todays internet you can have success in three ways:

- A unique killer idea that will spread like a virus.

- Lots of money for advertising, building a good site.

- Work hard.

I prefer the third option. To mention as an example, in February 2007 I launched a website webcosmo.com. When I launched the site I knew nothing about marketing, nothing about SEO. I requested many of my friends help me post an ad on my site. To my surprise none of my friends post a single ad. One person who supposed to be my partner turned his back on me. That made me even more determined. I learned. With lot of sweat I have made that site quite popular now. And that's a good beginning.

I hear lot of people in different forums want instant success, asking for the magic. People opens a new website, and start thinking visitors will flock to their site. Unfortunately its not the case. If you can't come up with a unique idea, you have to have money to back up your site on marketing and other aspects. If you don't have any of those two you have to work hard, there is no alternative.

Source: http://cosmocentral.com/post/2008/01...d-Counter.aspx

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Bisje

I think you are absolutely right...but in my opinion those facts are also reality in the "real" world... Only difference is indeed the accessability of the internet that makes people think il will be more easy...

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Coles Sports

Does anyone have recommendations on how to improve our organic search results? We are a newly formed Ecommerce site and have already spent a great deal of advertising money on the PPC and various other shopping networks.

Any help is much appreciated:

Sincerely,

Bryan Cole
Info@ColesSports.com
Http://www.ColesSports.com

Dantistic

You can do that by adding content to your site.

sheena

That was a nice information on the success of website. The success of the website is to create a good site with valuable information and content and knowing the needs of the audience. But the best is to work hard as to achieved the best result for a site.

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ActiveVision

"Working Smart" goes a lot further then just working hard

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Bisje

Yes...but every success is 5% inspiration and ideas and 95% hard work

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jigolo

yeah you must digg more until you reach the crust...

enigmavaldez

I agree, working smart is much better than working hard. Lots of good folks are working hard, but hardly getting anywhere on the Internet. SEO is not a straight line, things change overnight. Even people with money are still facing the same issues mentioned earlier. I think that's because we're still dealing with people and human visitors, and it's people not bots buying stuff.

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romioaa

Don't look for the search engine be the search engine" , By that I mean that you don't have to look for a good ranking on the search engine, just make your website in a way that everyone finds what they are looking for on it,

If you are selling a product make sure visitors find what the product they ae looking for...

If you make your site in a way that everyone that is looking the product that you are selling in an easy way you will get success...