EGuides

A free monthly publication for Texas saltwater fishing guides, brought to you by

Steve Purcell Consulting, publishers of The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides Web

Volume 2, No. 4 Apr. 1^st, 2004

Publisher’s Comments

Steve Purcell Consulting continues to add new services. We are now a full-service web design and maintenance organization, providing web site hosting, domain registration, web site statistical reporting, web site design and maintenance. We are now your one-stop business for all of your web related needs. This month’s edition also continues a discussion of links and why they are so important. Don’t miss next month’s copy of eGuides because we will be discussing Search Engines.

Steve Purcell

TSFGW Achieves High Ranking in Yahoo

The Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides Web is now ranked 11^th out of 70,900 results when you search for “texas saltwater fishing guides”. Our web site is on the first page of the rankings! With a subscription to the TSFGw costing only $80/year, you get an even better value for your money. Our ongoing search for higher rankings continues.

Credit Cards Now Accepted by SPC

Steve Purcell Consulting is now accepting Master Card and Visa Credit Cards. You can purchase your membership to the Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides web using either a credit card or check by clicking here. You can purchase Web Site Hosting on either a monthly payment plan of $12/month, or a yearly payment plan of $144 using a credit card by clicking here.

A Hearty Welcome to Our New Guides

We are pleased to announce the following new customers:

Claude Ward at http://www.cowboyssaltwaterfishing.com has purchased a new domain name, web site, and hosting. Please feel free to visit this web site.

Don Miller (Miller Time Guide Service) at http://www.millertimeguideservice.com has purchased a web site and hosting. Check out his new web site.

Buddy Coker (Sandpiper Guide Service) at http://www.sandpiperguideservice.com has also purchased a web site and hosting. Be sure to check out his new site, too.

How many Hits, Visits, and Referrals did YOUR web site get last month???

If you can’t answer this question, then you should change your web site hosting to Steve Purcell Consulting. Let’s face facts. Your web site is out there to bring in customers. But most people just don’t know how well their web site is performing. If you don’t know what the problem is, you can’t fix it. Our reporting will tell you what is wrong and what is right with your web site. When you host your web pages with us, the reports that you receive will detail the following:

How may hits, visits and referrals did I get last month, last week, or on a certain day. A hit is anything, including a search engine, that listed your site. A visit is an actual person who visited your web site. A referral is a person that visited your web site and was referred to you by someone linked to your site.
What pages on my web site are being visited most often, or least often, and how many visits are there for each.
Who is referring visitors to my site, and how many visitors are they referring.
What keywords are visitors typing into the search engines, like Google and Yahoo to find my web site. What new keywords were used to find my web site and should I add these keywords to my web page.

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All About Links (Part Two)

Last month’s article on links covered the definition of a link, and gave the reasons for establishing reciprocal links on your web site, and the value accrued from doing so.

Good candidates for establishing reciprocal links are boat marinas, bait shops, restaurants, hotels and motels. If you are a member of a fishing guide organization, then you should request a reciprocal link with them.

When you establish a reciprocal link with someone like the Coastal Bend Guides Association, you are becoming visible on a site that gets far more hits than your individual site. The CBGA got over 11,000 hits in February. Some of that traffic could come to your site, if you have a reciprocal link. Another good bet is the Texas Saltwater Fishing Guides web. We got over 10,000 hits in February. Just call us at 210.710.4258 or email us at steve-purcell@sbcglobal.net to get set up with either of these organizations.

The bottom line on reciprocal links is the more you have, the higher your visibility on the Internet. If you have your hosting through us, you will see exactly how many visitors were referred to your site by each link, during a reporting period specified by you. Now that’s accountability.