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Getting Hits: The Definitive Guide to Promoting Your Web Site

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I was desperate when I bought this pink elephant. Our corporate web site had been up nearly a year, we weren't getting hits and the bosses were planning on pulling the plug on the whole operation, meaning my job. I bought this book and another called Producing Hits out of desperation but neither book did a thing for the web site and our hits even though I followed everything discussed to the last detail.

Thank God I decided to give this one more chance with an brand new book out of left field called Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend. I had never even heard of this book but with my job on the line, I decided to give it a chance. I followed everything the author discussed and waited with my fingers crossed. Thanks to Increase Your Web Traffic our web site traffic soared from 100 hits a day to 1,500 hits a day and I am continuing to see traffic increase!

This is a great book, and even in the year 2001 this book gives a lot of tips and tricks, however it is a 1997 book and Netscape is not the biggest browser anymore. Also some suggested search engines and recommended list which can be found in the book are not the best and only ones anymore (some do even no longer exist) This book needs an update and my advise is to wait for that or get another title.

I read this book at a bookstore and couldn't believe that it's still being sold. Just look at the publication date. The book was probably written in 1995 and the Internet was a very different place back then. The only section that is still valid is a brief few pages about the search engine. However, much better information is available at SearchEngineWatch.

I bought sixteen books on Internet Marketing and Web Design in the last four months, and this is the only one I couldn't finish. The style is plodding and dull, and the content offers nothing unique.

If you want a book on promoting your Web site, buy Greg Helmstetter's book, Increasing Hits & Selling More on Your Web Site instead.

Well, it's been nearly two years since I purchased Don's book and it's *still* a useful reference. If you're just starting out with a page on the Web, "Getting Hits" should be near the top of your list of must have books, right after any HTML 4 books.

The most recent figures I've read put the number of pages using META tags at less than 30%. That means at least 70% of the Web pages on the Net today are being constructed by people who DON'T get it! My own experiences, when looking at source codes for pages I visit, is that the number without META tags is closer to 95%.

Also, I find many don't take advantage of preparing a thoughtful description of their registered page, thus depending on the spiders and robots to post whatever, mostly gobble-dee-gook.

I could go on ad nauseum, but the bottom line is: If you are starting out in this business, get the book. And, if you're a Web genius with skills and powers that far out-distance mere mortals: Publish your brilliant wisdom in a book and see what we, the mere mortals, think about it, rather than bragging and bashing others.

I've spent far too many hours paging through the numerous Web-related books looking for useful information. The stack at Barnes and Noble gives me a headache. When I found Sellers's book and discovered that there was more inside than just the standard Brief History of the Internet, and How to Create a Web Page chapters, I was hooked. This book tells you _exactly_ how to get your site on the search engines (and high on their results lists), other tactics to get your site seen, and what to expect when you venture into the realm of online advertising. Getting Hits is the game-winning home run resource for everyone working on the Web

True, it may have been written a few years ago, but the basics described still hold true today.

As a novice netter, I found the information easy to understand, and relevent to what I need to know. For the price it is a good book that I refer all of my clients to look at if they want to know more about the web.

This book for me was a big help. First it explains how the search engines work. It gave an overview of each one and how they look for websites. One of the chapters was about How to get quality links. I really enjoyed this book. I highly recommend it if you are interested in promoting your site and you haven't figured out how to get listed in the main search engines.

     Success in any business or profession is measured by results. Take the game of baseball. A number of major league teams will sweat out a 162-game season with one goal in mind - making it to the World Series. To have any hope of getting there each team must have good solid pitching, excellent fielding capability, and have the ability to produce runs. To produce runs these teams need good hitting. The same logic is applicable to the online business world. To have any chance of scoring big with your business online you need a Website that will produce hit after hit!

     Don Sellers has written Getting Hits to assist Webmasters and business people alike to produce Websites that will attract the attention of major league search engines and keep people coming back. Sub-titled The Definitive Guide to Promoting Your Website, this book is entirely devoted to bringing the message home in an easy-to-learn manner. Attention is given to a number of specific issues that require consideration, such as tailoring Websites to specific search engines, linking Websites, working the newsgroups, using mailing lists, and offline advertising. The author calls upon the assistance of pinch hitters to offer their own contributions to the book

    The book devotes a considerable amount of time discussing the use of search engines. Rightly so because they offer the most popular means of scouting for information online. Detailed information about the most popular search engines is provided, including how they work and the best methods to employ to set up Websites to respond to them. Helpful coaching instruction is offered to make the best use of "META" tags and other programming to aid the search process. Factors to consider include word frequency, words in the Web page title, keyword selection, and page length.

     According to the authors there is more to Website promotion than just programming. Active participation in newsgroup discussions, posting press releases, submitting links to other Websites, the use of banners and other forms of advertising are essential to promote any Website. Chapters on defining and launching Website advertising campaigns are very helpful for rookies breaking ground online. This book will make a great business player out of anyone in no time at all!

     Before spending big bucks to have someone else promote your Website for you, add this book to your lineup of business tools! It is a great team player with much to contribute to the success of any field of online information sharing. Have Don Sellers and his team go to bat for you today! Highly recommended!

With 200 pages of mostly verbage this is hardly the definitive guide to promoting your Web site. Seller's mostlly covers common sense items that just about every publisher out there has already tried. A lot of the suggestions are as simple as you should register with search engines. Here's a list of them. Get for it. Wow, that's really useful? Isn't it? Sort of makes you wish you hadn't bought the book in the first place