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Congratulations! You've Gotten Visitors to your Site!
...... features that would help me
tremendously with my work.
For example:
* FreeFind will automatically create a What's New page, after
you've any changes to the site. Just think of how much help that
will be for me with my training material' Between my two programs
(beginning and advanced), I have over 1000 resource pages to
update every single month, and I've been creating the "What's
New" page by hand. Now, it's automatically created for me.
* FreeFind is the only onsite search engine that enables your
visitors to find the page they're looking for, then keeps an eye
on it for any changes. Their ChangeDetection (tm) monitoring
system lets your users monitor a page for content changes, then
notifies them when the page is changed. If you set up this engine
on your own site, it will build traffic by turning casual, one-
time visitors into repeat and loyal visitors who return again and
again to look at changes made to the page that are of particular
interest to them.
* FreeFind will automatically create a Site Map of your site.
This Site Map is an alphabetical listing of the pages on your
site. The Site Map will be even more valuable to you if you have
a regular, non-password protected site, because it will give the
Web search engines a page of links to spider.
* FreeFind will search across several domains. So, if your
company has numerous domains, your onsite search engine will
cover each of those domains, without having to set up separate
engines.
In Conclusion
Look closely at your site. Is it time to add an onsite search
engine' Is it time to make sure visitors can find exactly what
they're looking for when they land on your site' Are you losing
customers who get lost and can't find what they want'
FreeFind (http://www.freefind.com) is an excellent onsite search
engine that met my exact needs. However, to be fair, and because
this article isn't meant to be an advertisement for FreeFind,
here are some other onsite engines that you may want to consider.
Look closely at their features, and find the one that works best
for you.
Other Onsite Search Engines
Atomz: http://www.atomz.com
PicoSearch: http://www.picosearch.com
SiteLevel.com: http://www.sitelevel.com/
FusionBot.com: http://www.fusionbot.com
A listing of numerous onsite search tools:
http://www.searchtools.com ools ools.html
About the Author Robin Nobles, Director of Training, Academy of Web Specialists,
has trained several thousand people in her online search engine
marketing (http://www.academywebspecialists.com) training
programs. Visit the Academy's training site to learn more
(http://www.onlinewebtraining.com). She also teaches 3-day
hands-on search engine marketing workshops in locations across
the globe with Search Engine Workshops
(http://www.searchengineworkshops.com).
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