Reviewer, 2008-09-29 06:12:00

Attracting traffic to your website is often a tough ask owing to the myriad factors that are involved in the process. Amongst these factors getting a favorable search engine ranking is possibly the trickiest. This has proved to be a great challenge for the web developers and they try out several measures to ensure high ranking for their websites with different search engines. If you are also concerned about improving your website’s ranking, then try using Active WebTraffic 8.1.7. The application provides professional assistance for website promotion, and helps in submitting, positioning, and promoting the website over large number of internet directories and search engines worldwide. It includes systematic process for optimizing and securing high ranking for your website, by researching keywords, building and submitting your website, providing ranking report, etc. The interface of the program is very user-friendly, and the feature-set of the program involve all the required features.

Active WebTraffic 8.1.7 application includes options for Project Settings, Submission Tools, Analyze, Optimization Tools, Ranking Tools and Utilities. Open an existing one or start with the New Project and start exploring different features for optimizing your website. With the Project Settings, you can get the Project Info, use Spider and generate the Report relating your website. The ‘Submission Tools’ supports submitting the website automatically by scheduling, or manually. To optimize your website for better ranking, you’re given Analyze feature, which helps you to check Keyword Density, Spider Page and Site Statistics. For the optimization process, further you’re provided with Doorway Page Generator, Meta Tag Utility, HTML Validator, Ranking, Linkage and other features. Among the utilities, you can use the Monitoring tool to keep a check, use Google Sitemap and FTP Uploader, as required. In all these functions takes you through the research of keywords; building, validating and submission of your website; getting listed and to obtain a ranking report; optimizing the web pages as per requirements and finally analyze the conversion.

Active WebTraffic 8.1.7 supports website optimization to obtain better ranking and thereby assists in increasing traffic. The features of the program include- keyword analysis, Google Sitemaps module, Server Monitoring tool, Ranking Statistics, multiple project submission, Customization function, and much more. Taking all its attributes into account the application is deservingly rated with 4 points.

Reviewer, 2008-09-25 05:46:00

Active WebTraffic is a powerful and professional web promotion software that includes everything you need to submit, position and promote your web site to over one million search engines and internet directories worldwide.

Pros: Active WebTraffic is a valuable tool that automates the process of instantly promoting your web site to thousands of search engines. Marketing your online business isn’t as simple as hanging your name above the door or placing an ad in the Sunday paper. But if you play the game right, you can get closer to the Internet equivalent of a neon sign on a busy street. Most surfers go through Web portals and search engines at some point to find what they`re looking for. If you don`t have listings in search engines, you`re missing out. You could go to each search page, ferret out the link for adding your site and spend your whole day submitting away, ... or you can use Active WebTraffic which automates the process of submitting your web site to thousands of search engines and portals. This application aggregates all the necessary tools to submit, position and promote your web site. Listings in a huge number of engines and directories are provided by it. To effectively promote your site you need to research keywords, build, validate and submit your site to all possible locations that can direct traffic to your site, get listed and find the initial ranking and then optimize the pages. Your conversion rate would determine if the promotion is effective or not. Among other new features Active WebTraffic version 8 now includes a Google Sitemaps module to easily create a Google sitemap for your web site, a Server Monitoring tool, new Ranking Statistics in graphical format, a Project Manager to handle multiple project submission tasks from a single interface, a Customization function to generate web promotion reports with your own web styles, an Import function to incorporate web promotion projects from external applications or databases and much more.

Cons: Nothing problematic noticed.

Overall: How effective the end results are depends on how well one is able to target appropriate keywords and how good optimization can be done. But this application has all the tools necessary to do the job and is easy to use. This is a 5 star package without a doubt.