Many coaches put up web sites with the hope of getting clients from the Web. What usually happens is they get nothing.
Heres the reason.
A web site isnt an ad. No one peruses web sites in some web site newspaper. In fact, no one will go to your site unless you specifically invite them. A web site actually needs advertising.
You need to build traffic to your site.
There are a lot of great ways to do this and one terrific way is with backlinks.
What is a backlink?
A backlink is a link FROM another site TO your site.
For example, if you are a member of Coachville, and someone is looking for a coach, then it is possible that this person sees your listing in the Find a Coach section and clicks a link to your web site.
This is a backlink from Coachville to your site.
Backlinks are also referred to as in-bound links and sometimes can be called reciprocal links.
Many of the links that coaches have on their web site are designed to take visitors from the coachs web site to other web sites. These are usually located in a link section or a resources section. These are also called forward links or outbound...