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Email Marketing - Get More Subscribers and Keep Them

2010-07-26T21:32:00.000-07:00

All successful online marketers have one thing in common; they all have an email list. The larger the list, the more money you can make. Makes sense but sounds a little simplified doesn't it?

After all, you need to get people onto your list in the first place AND you need to keep them there AND make sure that they click the links you want them to click.

So how do you accomplish all of this?

Getting People On Your List

In order to get people to sign up for your list you must offer them something of value. This "value" can be something free such as a free report, a free e-book, a free trial version of some software...whatever the case is, you must offer them something.

After all, no one signs up to an email list without knowing what benefit it is to them.

Next, use a pop-over form to get them to subscribe to your list. There are many ways you can add your opt-in form to your page; either within the sidebar of your website or embedded within a single web page. However, according to a test performed by MarketingSherpa.com, they were able to increase their subscriber rate by 1,000% simply by using a pop-over opt-in form.

Use social proof. Aweber, a well-known auto-responder company noted that using social proof; that is, showing potential new subscribers how many people were already subscribed to the newsletter, boosted a landing page's conversion rate by 32.4%. This is accomplished by showing a "subscriber count chicklet" provided by Aweber.

Getting People to Open Your Email

People are bombarded with emails all day long so you must make yours stand out from the crowd.

First, within the "from" line of your email, add in some special characters around your name. For instance, if you send your information from "How to Tie Your Shoes", use dashes, dots or spaces in front of and behind that name. For example; "-- How to Tie Your Shoes --", or "...How to Tie Your Shoes..." or even "___How to Tie Your Shoes___". This will differentiate your email from the dozens of others that people receive.

Next, make the headline compelling. Instead of just sending out promotional emails like everyone else, put a twist on the topic. One way to do this is to suggest how they might use the product you're promoting.

Keep it short and use "power words". These are words such as "Surprising, Unexpected, Ultimate, and Crazy."

Getting People to Perform an Action

Instead of making people read all the way down your page to get to a link, make it easy for them by placing this link towards the top of the email. Additionally, use alternatives to plain links; these would be things such as buttons that they could click on or even a click-able image.

Don't forget too that you can also incorporate a video link into your emails. You can do this by choosing the video you want to promote, taking a screenshot of that video and adding that as an image to your email and then making it a link that goes directly to the video.

Whatever you do, don't forget to test, test, test. Each person's email list is different and you never know how well your list will respond to a different version of your email; without testing you could be missing out on a double-digit increase in subscriber rates.

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She has helped thousands of people understand how to create websites, use social media tools, and get their head around difficult concepts such as affiliate marketing and SEO so that they can grow a successful online business.

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Implementing Internet Marketing in Today's World

2010-07-22T18:58:00.001-07:00

Anyone who owns a website that doesn't seem to be getting enough traffic will want to find more ways in which to promote it online. Regardless as to whether this means implementing internet marketing or SEO techniques, the one thing that you can't afford to miss out on is article marketing. This is because articles are the best way in which to promote a business. You can actually achieve a lot through this type of marketing. Even with all of the new marketing trends that have come onto the scene, there still isn't anything that has worked as well as article marketing.

Article Submission Websites

An article submission website is a place where you will be able to submit your 300 to 500 word articles for free. These articles will be seen by millions of people online, so you can imagine just how big of an impact this can have. It can be so powerful, in fact, that there are a lot of people who view article marketing as the only way in which to build one-way links to their websites.

Article Submission

Unfortunately a lot of professionals will submit the same article to numerous websites, thus having repetitive content being displayed within the Search Engines. This is seen as unprofessional. So, while article marketing is an easy form of web promotion, you will have to plan out your articles to make sure they are unique quality. Plus if you make sure you have an article of high quality, others will publish your article. This will result in more backlinks to your sites. Focusing on quality verses quantity will give you a huge advantage over your competition. Many people are concerned with the number of backlinks they get. If you stick with quality, the quantity will take care of itself.

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Home Based Business on the Internet - What's Next?

2010-02-23T18:32:00.001-08:00

How many times have you read about someone or, better yet, have seen someone on TV that has invented this little doodad that has made him or her a millionaire. Then at that moment, you said "Why can't I do that?". We all have done that. The one that comes to mind is the Intel commercial with this guy who helped invent the USB. As he walks through the room everyone is falling all over him for an autograph.

Well, we all wish we could do that and the truth is, we can. It just depends on what you call an invention. The doodad can be anything, even a website. We all can be inventors of our own unique websites and businesses. Many people think about "inventing" their own business but think that it's impossible, too hard, too involved, or too much work.

It's none of those things, especially impossible. If you take the time to think it through, you may realize at least one important thing. If you are reading this, then you already have the most important tool that you need. A computer. They call it the World Wide Web for a reason - it is world wide and the computer puts you, literally, in touch with the world. And you have the most important asset you will ever need - you.

Not that long ago, I was afraid to even touch a computer. I couldn't even play a game on one. I thought surely that I would hit the wrong key or button and kaboom, the thing would blow sky high never to be put back together again. Then I had a job where I had to learn how to use and work with a computer. I found out that it wasn't that scary after all and it was downright hard to blow one up. It's like everything else in this world, it takes time to feel comfortable with something new, especially technology. And when you're a baby boomer, it's even a little tougher.

When I was finally fed up with working for someone else, I bought a desktop with the sole idea of starting my own business. Then the question "What's next?" How do I go about starting a business and what are the first steps I need to take? I found that I needed to decide what I was going to sell. I don't care what anyone says, if you're going to do business, you're going to be selling something, mainly yourself. So, was I going to sell a product or service.

I decided to do both. Sell a combination of rel=nofollow [http://hibzzusa.com]products and services. The services would be mostly free as an aid to the products I would offer. Great, now next on the agenda would be creating a name or domain for the business. It should be short, easy to remember, and most of all, available. It should also relate to my products or services. The domain name, or URL, has to be registered, so I went to GoDaddy to check the availability of the name I'd chosen and then register it. I went with GoDaddy because of their reputation, customer support, and pricing.

Now I had a domain name (URL) and it was time to find a server or hosting service. You have to have a host or you won't be on the web. All of these services have machines out there somewhere that are awake 24/7 so that when someone types in your URL in their browser, your website pops up on their computer. There are several services out there, but I chose HostGator for the same reasons I chose GoDaddy. And they have several upgrades available so I can add-on domains down the road.

After about 24 hours, I typed in my brand new URL and there it was, my very own website. Now it was time to really get busy and it turn into a money maker.

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2010-02-16T23:31:00.000-08:00

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It is a 2x8 forced matrix with a monthly membership fee of $29.95 that pays out 96.8% in the following format:

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I don't think I need to explain to you how revolutionary and unprecedented this is. This is something that has never existed in the MLM and affiliate marketing world before, and in all honesty, can't be beaten, therefore making it impossible to happen again.

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What Search Engine Marketing Solution Should You Be Using?

2010-02-11T20:16:00.001-08:00

When you have an online business, this means that it is important to find a good search engine marketing solution to get good traffic from any of the major search engines. There are a couple of different solutions available. You just need to know what these solutions are and then figure out the best option for your business.

Here are the best solutions available that you can use for a solution to search engine marketing.

One: Learn how to do SEO marketing yourself - This is one solution that many people decide to do because it provides them with vital knowledge for building a successful business online. The more time that you take to learn about SEO marketing and how to do it effectively, the better you will understand it and be able to implement it for the best search engine placement possible.

There are many different things that you need to learn how to do correctly if you plan on doing your own SEO marketing. Here are some of the most important things that must be learned and implemented correctly for good results.

-Building incoming links to your site.

-Using keywords effectively on your site and in marketing.

-Effectively setting up the Meta tags and ALT tags on your site.

These are just a few of the things that you will need to take the time to learn. Using this solution will definitely help you gain a lot of knowledge that will be very useful for building a successful business. Just decide if this is something you want to do or if you want to have help with SEO marketing instead, which leads to the second solution.

Two: Hire an SEO company to do your search engine marketing for you. There are many companies available that will do a good job of marketing your business with the search engines for you. It is important that time is taken to find the best one for your business building needs. Research is definitely required before making your final decision about what company to hire.

Many people choose this option for a few reasons. One of the reasons is that they don't want to learn or don't have the time to learn to do the SEO marketing themselves. Another reason is that the professional companies have a lot of experience and knowledge that allows you to get fast results from their help.

These are the best solutions possible to get good search engine traffic. Now it is time for you to decide which search engine marketing solution would be the best for you online business. You can even use a combination of the two for even better results, which is always a smart move to make.

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Internet Advertising Market Uses Search Engine Optimization

2010-01-28T20:27:00.002-08:00

Lots of people from all over the world are trading in their old full-time jobs for new "online jobs." Why is this? People can make up to six-figures while working fewer hours and days than most regular jobs with the assistance of the World Wide Web, or Internet. How can this be? If you want to know the answers to these and other exciting questions, it is imperative that you understand key terms like "affiliate marketing" and "article marketing."

First, let us quickly list the various methods using which one can earn money online. Date-entry jobs are perhaps the most common online jobs in the world. However, most of these jobs are not as simple as they seem. One can also generate a decent income by writing blogs (also known as 'blogging'). E-learning, which is the short for 'Electronic learning', is another wonderful method of making good money.

Promoting products and/or services, however, is one of the best ways to tap the unlimited wealth that can be generated using the World Wide Web. I know most of you would be frowning by now, thinking of 'online marketing' as another irritating form of door-to-door or word-of-mouth marketing. The truth is that 'online marketing' is an unbelievably simple concept.

Unlike other forms of marketing, 'online marketing' does not make use of 'face-to-face interaction' with the consumers. Online marketing is governed by a unique concept that is known as 'article marketing'. Affiliate programs, which help generate a lot of money using the multi-level marketing approach, are by far the most successful 'online programs' in the world.

Article marketing is a type of advertising in which businesses write internet short articles related to their respective industry. These articles are made available for distribution and publication make money using the internet in the marketplace. Each article contains a bio box internet and byline that include references and contact information for the author's business.

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility. According to the Professional Organization,the methods include: paid placement, and paid inclusion.Other sources, including the New York Times, define it as the practice of buying paid search listings.As the number of sites on the Web increased in the mid-to-late 90s, search engines started appearing to help people find information quickly.

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The Difference Between Web Hosting and Domain Registration

2010-01-28T20:27:00.001-08:00

The process of creating a website and getting it online can be a tricky one, especially for the non-technical community. And this surely isn't helped by the common misconception that domain registration and web hosting is one and the same thing.

So let's clear things up. Domain registration and web hosting are two separate processes, both of which need to be completed in order to create a website and make it live on the internet.

Put simply the process is as follows: a domain must be registered by a domain registration company and then that domain name must be hosted on the internet through a web hosting company.

And here's where the confusion comes in. Many companies will offer both domain registration and web hosting, whereas others will only offer either web hosting or domain registration. Therefore you can choose to register your domain and host your website with the same company or register your domain with one company and host your site with another.

It really as simple as that, but is something that causes a great deal of confusion and unnecessary stress to many people wanting to set up a website.

Domain Registration
To use the Internet to communicate with others or to look up information, you have to type an address into your computer. These addresses are a name or a number and are more commonly known as domain names. Every domain name has to be completely unique so that the internet knows the correct website to bring up for the user.

If you wish to create your own website, you need to devise a name you wish your website to be known as. This name then needs to be registered with a domain registration company to ensure that it is unique and that you become the legal owner of that domain name.

You also need to pick a domain extension to attribute to your domain name. By this we mean.com,.co.uk,.org,.net etc. You should give careful consideration to the domain extension you choose to ensure that your full domain name best represents that of your business or project. For example if you are a UK business and are only selling to the UK, it would be most effective to choose a.co.uk domain extension - especially for achieving good UK search engine rankings.

It is imperative that before registering a domain name with a domain registrar that you check that they are a credible domain registration company. One method of doing this is to check that the domain registrar's website is featured on the ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Accredited Registrars list

Web hosting
Once you have registered your unique domain name with an accredited domain registrar, you need to get your website live on the internet. To do this, you need to buy a web hosting package from a hosting company.

The process of putting your website on the internet is completed by the web hosting company you sign up with and will involve placing your website on a web server which is then linked to the internet. The type of web server your site is hosted on will depend on the requirements of your website. The most common web hosting plans are Shared Web Hosting and Dedicated Server Web Hosting.

Shared Web Hosting
If you have a simple website which requires a regular amount of web space and bandwidth, then it is likely that your hosting company recommend you choose a shared web hosting plan.

With this plan your website will be placed on one of the web hosting company's shared web servers. Here your website will reside alongside a number of other similar sized websites where it will share all the server's resources and features.

Each hosting company differs in the hosting features they offer with their shared hosting plans. With many companies you will receive as standard:

• A specified amount of web space depending on your chosen package
• Easy to use web site control panel
• Online account management facility
• Full 24/7 ftp access to upload your web files
• Free domain transfer
• Unlimited domain aliases
• Webmail
• Send and receive emails using Microsoft Outlook or other email programs

Dedicated Server Web Hosting
If your website has grown to a size which cannot be accommodated on a shared server or if you require the flexibility to add software or other features to your site, then your web hosting company may recommend that you purchase a dedicated server.

With a dedicated server, you own the rights to the whole server; thus giving you complete control over what is installed and run on your server. Space and bandwidth usage will also no longer be a problem as there will only be your site (or sites) using the servers resources.

With a dedicated server you also have peace of mind that your site(s) won't be at the mercy of other websites and their potentially corrupt code - which could cause downtime and other problems to your site.

When choosing a dedicated server you can opt to have your server managed or unmanaged by the web hosting company. With a managed server, you may receive services such as site administration, certain software installation, maintenance and upgrades. The major plus of having your dedicated server managed is that you have an expert on hand should your server suffer any failure - guaranteeing your site a high uptime percentage. Although significantly cheaper, unmanaged server hosting is only really recommended for those with a high degree of technical knowledge in server administration and management.

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Email Marketing Revealed - The Golden Rule of Email Marketing That Every Marketer Should Know

2010-01-19T22:53:00.001-08:00

When formulating an email marketing strategy, you should take heed of one of the biggest tips and rules that is too often overlooked and ignored by email marketers. This is the simple tip and rule of: "get permission." Too often, many companies and individuals who are putting together an email marketing strategy will make the crucial mistake of purchasing email addresses from other people, or simply adding people to their mailing list who never asked to be added to it.

This is not only a surefire way to build a bad reputation for yourself and your company but it is also a sure fire way for you to have your company marked. Additionally, this type of underhanded adding of people to your mailing list is completely ineffective and is a complete waste of your time. When putting together an email marketing strategy you will want to target specific groups of people who will actually have interest in your products or services.

If you go about blindly emailing people and adding them to your mailing list, you will not be successful and your email marketing campaign will quickly fail! That is why you should never add anyone to your mailing list unless you have their express permission to do so. Additionally, if a member of your mailing list asks to be removed from your mailing list you should do it immediately.

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Cheap SEO Services

2009-10-28T21:25:00.000-07:00

We're headed for a recession (some would say we're already experiencing one, depending on where you are & what industry you're in) so you're likely to be looking for new ways to sustain & increase sales, and SEO is certainly a great way forward - the best way forward, in my experienced but of course biased opinion, for generating targeted traffic to websites.

Due to the financial climate, you're also likely to be watching your marketing budget very carefully - and as a result you will may well be looking for low cost SEO services.

While cheap is always preferential, especially in times like this when there is uncertainty & instability - the cheaper option is often not the best option, for a number of reasons, and this is especially true when it comes to SEO services.

Why Cheap SEO isn't the most effective SEO

Real SEO services are based on time & effort, as safe & effective SEO can not be automated - if it's cheap, it probably means it involves little actual human time.

If an SEO service does not involve much actual time & effort - then it may mean that simply very little work is being done, if any - or it may mean that short cut, automated tactics are being used - which at best could mean not much positive impact, but at worst could spell disaster!

SEO consultants & companies, offer a very valuable service - and earn well as a result of the value they provide. If a company can provide the valuable results that they're telling you they can - why would they offer them cheap?

The truth is - you just cannot offer real, safe & effective SEO services at budget prices, as it involves a lot of time & effort - starting with keyword & market research, on page optimization, backlinking, quality content creation - all of these are parts of an effective SEO service, and they all take time & effort.

If you're being offered a cheap SEO service, what you're probably being offered is one of or a combination of the following :

Search Engine Submission Service. Many of the cheap SEO packages are just search engine submission services, they will use software to automatically submit your website to hundreds of search engines. Completely pointless. Firstly you only really need to be concerned about the major search engines, the other hundreds of obscure search engines are just not going to bring targeted traffic. Secondly, you do NOT need to submit your site to any search engine. Your website will end up being indexed via the backlinks that are gained for you by an SEO consultant, the better quality the backlink, the quicker your site is likely to be indexed on the major search engines.

Automated SEO services. These are risky, shortcut orientated approaches which will not work for long, if they work at all. they're risky because many search engines (especially Google) do not like cheats & shortcuts, and may penalise your website once they discover the shortcut being used - in some cases they will remove the website from the search engine completely!

Other quick fix cheats & shortcuts. There are many quite well known tricks & cheats that used to work slightly & temporarily. In most cases these shortcuts I'm referring to just aren't effective any more - but, this will not stop the search engines from penalising for it, or even de-indexing your website if they discover that you're using one of these tactics, which will be mentioned in the search engines terms of service.

If you spend £99 (for example) on SEO, this may seem cheap - and you may be under the impression "oh well it's only a hundred quid, worth a punt, if it doesn't work nothing lost" but this may not be the case. If a website that you have already spent hundreds, or even thousands (including taking into account your time & effort invested) ends up being penalised by the major search engines - or even de-indexed, then cheap SEO could work out to be very expensive indeed!

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How To Get Traffic For Your Internet Business Without Going Crazy!

2009-10-28T00:24:00.000-07:00

As an internet based business owner, you can easily become a bit overwhelmed with the options and costs associated with gearing people toward your web sites and/or products. Advertising on the internet can be a very confusing, not to mention expensive adventure. There is potential for lots of failure at first, especially if you don't start out with a marketing plan.

When I first started my internet business, I was terribly afraid I would go in the wrong direction and waste unlimited amounts of time and money. To be perfectly honest, I did lose a small fortune while searching for ways to get my information out to people who would benefit from what I offer.My problem was...ZERO GAME PLAN! I went in too many different marketing directions all at once and I spent money where various guru's and guides told me to. In the end, I didn't see the profits coming in and I was completely confused about what was going on. My business and website both suffered.

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I'm going to show you how to start an online campaign to primarily focus on using your strengths while improving on your weaknesses. I will give you five different marketing strategies and your job is to re-rank the internet marketing techniques 1-5 with 1 being most able to succeed at - in the order that is right for you:

1) If you have the ability to express yourself through writing, you will have tons of success article writing, blogging, reviewing products, and ideally making money online through these efforts. While you probably won't see instant money by just blogging and article writing, your long term profits will be wonderful. If you are good at it, people will trust you. In turn, you will gear them towards products (i.e. e-books, programs, information packets, affiliate products, etc) that will advance your online earnings. #____

2) Social marketing is where you use Facebook, Twitter, Squidoo, forums, etc. to post informative articles geared toward your product niche. You will then network with people by commenting, befriending, and sharing information. People viewing your 'pages' will increase and you can promote yourself and your product to them as you gain their trust.#_____

3) Classified online ads can further promote your internet based business. These are shorter, structured ads that are meant to quickly lure prospective visitors to your website. While there is very little writing involved, you must learn to use provocative, luring words to quickly capture people's attention so they click on your link instead of the other guys. #_____

4) Google AdWords is the mega giant of marketing. You have to pay for the traffic you get, but you have some control over how much you pay. You still need to focus on being able to produce quick, attention grabbing ads that will lure people to click on your link over the next guys. With AdWords, over classifieds, you have more exposure due to picking keywords where your ad will display. If you need help with keyword research, you can use Google's free keyword tool. AdWords is a going to get you traffic if used right, so check it out.#_____

5) Forums are ripe for the picking and they are usually free to join. You just need to look at the product you are selling and search for where your customers are hiding online. Most groups have a gathering place, or Forum. Just join the forum, create a signature with a link to your web site or affiliate, and join in the discussions. This is fun because you just have to talk to people and show you can help them in some way. People will get the sense that you know a lot about their interests and they will in turn click on your signature link. #_____

Just number the internet marketing strategy you like the most down to the least.

For the next week you are going to spend as much time as you can on learning how to develop your favorite strategy. For example, I love article marketing so I will spend the next week writing an article a day pointed to various niches in my market that I would like to impact. Once my 7 articles are done, I will submit them to an article directory like goarticles.com or ezinearticles.com and get them published.

Once your first week is over, review your successes and failures. Fix the failures and then try your second favorite internet marketing method. Just because you are now implementing marketing method 2, don't forget to continue doing method 1. For example, week 2 you focus on getting involved in forums. While doing so, take a quick break and write an article about an issue discussed in the forum. Now, you are advertising in multiple spots online and people are soon going to flock to your website for more information.

Don't feel like you will be spending endless hours advertising every day. I only spend about 2 hours a night writing articles and pursuing my marketing strategy. If you take your time and focus on the steps, you will increase your website visitor list and your business will boom. If you feel overwhelmed with method 3 on your list, go back to method 2 for a day. As long as you are doing 'something' you will see positive results.

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The Easiest Proven Way to Make Money Online - Beginner's Guide

2009-10-01T09:38:00.000-07:00

Maybe you have heard or seen people earn money on the internet, but for once in your life you have never earn a penny online. But you know that money can be made online. If so let me show you an easy to follow treasure map to how you can get started when it gets to making money online.

The main reason why most people are online is to seek for information, therefore before you can make money online you need to sell an information product. You do not need to create your own information product before you can make money online. But rather, you get get your own slice of the large "profit pie" of millions made annually from the information marketing empire by promoting other peoples product. This type of online business model is called affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is the number way to get started with internet entrepreneurship. It is a proven way of turning the skill you already have into millions. Even the most successful information marketers today start with affiliate marketing before proceeding to becoming a product owner.

Before you can get a piece of the action, you have to first of all sign up at sites know as affiliate centers. This websites provide the technology and platform for those that has product to make available for those that want to promote for a slice in profit. After signing up with them as their affiliate, they will provide a unique affiliate ID for you that you can use to promote any product listed in their marketplace. Examples of these website are ClickBank, amazon, commission juncktion etc.

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3 You take ownership of the product and promote with your whole heart as you would if you are the owner.

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2009-09-28T22:01:00.001-07:00

The difficult thing to understand about internet marketing is that this industry is huge. In fact, it is bigger than huge! There are millions of people who live and die with internet marketing because this is how they make their money. And when it comes down to it, a great internet marketer has the chance to really fill up their bank account. After all, the sheer number of people who use the internet on a daily basis gives anybody the chance to cash in on this way of doing things.

As a newbie, you may be wondering what internet marketing is, right? When it comes down to it, internet marketing is a way for you to get your website, product, or service in front of other people. Just like any type of marketing, your main goal is to eventually sell something in the end, or at the very least make money. The only difference is that with internet marketing you will be doing all of your work online.

For instance, one of the most popular internet marketing campaigns stems around buying advertisements on high traffic websites. The thought of doing this is quite simple. If a lot of people see your ad they will eventually head to your site. And if you offer something they like, they will stick around. If they do, it is safe to say that your internet marketing campaign was successful.

If you are having a hard time grasping this technique, you do not have to any further than the professionals who are sharing their secrets online. Seek out one of the many internet marketing sites or blogs, and then read as much as you can.

To make money with internet marketing you need to learn the ins and outs of the many techniques that the professionals use. Make the most of your learning experience. Once you have latched on to the knowledge of internet marketing find a great opportunity to make you money utilizing your learned internet marketing skills.

How to Earn Extra Cash Using Social Networking

2009-06-19T00:54:00.000-07:00

Social networking can be an excellent way to not only increase the number of visitors you get to your site, but it can help improve your page rank and it can generate some serious extra cash into your business. Every day millions of people log into their social networking sites. It is been reported that social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn among many others see user numbers as high as 60-100 million people monthly.

That is a lot of people all gathering together on similar sites, so obviously it makes sense to find ways to cash in on such massive communities. There are already quite a lot of savvy business people making great profits from social media marketing. Let us look at some ways you can earn some extra cash from social networking.

Sign Up
Most of the people first impulse is to sign up for as many social networking sites as they can find, create a sales spiel and wait for the money to roll in. Obviously, this tactic is not going to work. Before signing up, take a little time to look around at some of these social networking sites. You will need to research a little into how they work and which ones are likely to be the best possible use for your time if you are going to create a proper market growth strategy.

Profile
There is a reason why this form of income generation is called social media marketing and it is all about being social and making friends. People do not want to hear your sales spiel about your great product. They join these sites to meet people who might have similar interests to theirs and they want to learn from people.

This means your profile needs to contain links to potentially helpful information and information about you as a person. Take a little time to describe yourself. It is fine to add in your particular area of expertise here, because once people begin to know you and trust you, they will want to ask questions and visit your sites. Remember to set your profile so that it can be viewed easily by everyone. You want them to take a look at who you are!

Make Friends
The point of social networking is to meet people who have similar interests to yours. When you are working on social media marketing, you will want to make friends with those people who show an interest in what your product is about.

With social marketing, you are developing a market development strategy here designed to bring more income into your business, but you still want to be seen as social and friendly. Join in, be helpful, and leave comments. People just love those who are givers, so give positive feedback and make sure you try to honestly help people with questions they have.

Contribute
Even though your main priority is to make more sales and sell your products, you should not be actively trying to sell to anyone on a social networking site. People do not like to be sold to, but they will happily buy products from people they know and trust.

Be a part of the community. Join the forums and submit your own blog posts. Make your communications fun and light-hearted but above all else helpful. Your website link is already showing in your profile and you might even be able to add it to a signature line on some social forums. Once people begin to know who you are and appreciate your input into their community, they will automatically be drawn to check out your website. Once they have clicked and arrived at your site, it is up to your website sales page to convert those new people into sales that mean extra income into your business.

Social BookMarking
Social networking is a great opportunity to develop a serious global marketing strategy, especially when you add social bookmarking sites into your market growth strategy. Bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious allow you to bookmark your own websites. You should add a keyword-specific tag to each bookmark that is an accurate reflection of your site product or topic.

Search engines seem to love bookmarking sites at the moment, so if your site or blog is bookmarked at a few of these by several people, you can be sure the search engines will notice. If you are keen to develop a truly global market strategy for your online business, then you cannot go far past social networking as a great way to draw traffic, make friends, and create a reputation for yourself and best of all is to earn extra cash from social networking along the way.

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Using your Skills to Make Money Online

2009-03-25T19:17:00.000-07:00

A lot of people are relentlessly searching on search engines with keywords like “How to make money online”, “Work from home” and all that. This just shows the demand for such freelance home based jobs. Making money online can either be an impossible task or just an easy one. It all depends on your approach in using the internet as a money making tool. Successful online money makers know exactly what they are doing and they plan for it. While the unsuccessful ones just do something and expect something to happen by itself. Earning money online is all about identifying your skills, focus, perseverance, patience and hard work.

Use your Skills - The best way to make money online is to use your existing skills. There is definitely something that you can do better than the others. You have to identify such skills and brush them up. You can sell any skill that others can use through the internet. It can be your skills in programming, design, writing, marketing, problem solving, or anything similar. You also have other ways of making money online like you can start a small website and add some content and relevant adsense ads. You can also make money by doing affiliate marketing for somebody else’s products on your website.

Following are some of the skills that you can use to make money online:

Web designing skills - Those of you who are good in web designing can use it as a great way for making money online. As a freelance Web designer, you will save a lot in terms of the money you spend on conveyance to your workplace on a daily basis. Hence you will be in a position to sell your coding skills at a lesser price than those who are in regular web design jobs. Owing to the lesser cost, you will have a good demand for your work. Once you establish yourself and get a few loyal clients, there will be a regular inflow of work orders and income.

Design skills - If you are good at graphic designing, you can sell it via internet. This could be a wonderful way of making money online. The first step in finding a freelance graphic designing job is to get a mini website ready, to add your portfolio for others to see. This can be an easy way to get your prospective clients to know your abilities and achievements in graphic designing. You can also add some of the testimonials that you received from your previous clients to improve your credibility.

Content writing skill - Do you have the ability to write creatively on any thing and everything? If so, you can very well sell your content writing skill to make money online. All you need to have is a reasonable typing speed and a love for reading Internet content, along with the ability to frame interesting and grammatically correct sentences.

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Free Search Engine Optimization Online Tools

2009-03-01T22:22:00.000-08:00

Free Search Engine Optimization OnliFree search engine optimization tools are the way to go for the do-it-yourself person who wants to get top 10 Website rankings on the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Why purchase these Website optimization helps when they are free. You can spend hundreds of dollars to get your high rankings or you can use the many free SEO tools available online that will get the job done. Save your company or individual Internet business some money and try a few of the many complimentary online tools that are obtainable.

Free Website ranking online tools will take your Website to the Top on the Major Search Engines and this is all you will need to get your Website ranked in the top ten. You can purchase SEO ebooks and other Internet optimization services but from my experience these free tools will accomplish high rankings on the search engines. I'm telling you the truth that free Website ranking tools is all you need. Anyone can use these helps and achieve a high search engine position with a little effort.

How many free Website optimization tools will you need to perform the task of high rankings that will produce Internet traffic? It will only be necessary for you to use a few of these to get the high ranking you desire. Many of these free online optimization tools will give you detailed reports and free trial usage of ranking software. There are hundreds of complimentary online helps available so you will want the best ones that have positive feedback from previous customers.

These free SEO tools are all self-explanatory so that you can accomplish this work with ease. All of these tools come with online instructions in order for you to do each task correctly. Many of these free search engine optimization tools and software will have online help if you are unable to find your way to navigate through them. You will not even need to use all of these free SEO tools to get your Website ranked in the top ten, but only a few. You simply choose the tools you desire most and only use a few of them that will get the ranking you want.

Realistically you could find all of these free online SEO tools yourself but you may want to locate a good resource that has complied many of these tools into an ebook or online document to make it easier for you to use. Finding all of these resources will take many hours and days but the choice is yours. If you want an ebook or edocument that has over 100 free SEO tools then you will not have to look far to find free Website ranking tools. Explore the search engines and look for an expert in this field who has provided search engine optimization helps.

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Adsense Is Important For Comfortable Sites

2008-12-16T01:06:00.000-08:00

To understand the importance of Adsense to your content site, you must first be familiar with how it works. If you really think about it, the concept is quite easy to comprehend. A java script is inserted into a certain website by the publisher or the webmaster. Each time the page is opened, the java script will access advertisements from the Adsense program. The ads that are targeted should therefore be related to the content that is contained on the web page serving the ad. If a visitor clicks on an advertisement, the webmaster serving the ad earns a portion of the money that the advertiser is paying the search engine for the click.

All of the tracking and payments are handled by the search engine, thereby providing a simple way for webmasters to show content-sensitive and targeted advertisements without the administrative headaches of marketing and so forth. For help visit www.freeearningtips.com. It would appear that there is no shortage of advertisers in the program and this allows webmasters to focus on making cash from these search engines.

Because Adsense has already come a long way in understanding the needs of publishers and webmasters, this is the first reason for having it on your site. It has also continued with updating the appearance of a more advanced system, allowing full customization of the advertisements. Webmasters are given the chance to choose from many different types of text ad formats to better complement their website and fit their webpage layout.

There is also a possibility of more than one click through when the visitor is not aware of what they are actually clicking on. It may also appeal to the people visiting and they may take the next step of finding out more information. This way the people behind the Adsense will get their content read and making profit in the process.

Reason number two is that Adsense publishers can track not only how their sites are progressing but also the earnings based on the webmaster-defined channels. The recent improvements in the search engines gives webmasters the ability to observe how their ads are performing using customizable reports that has the capacity to detail page impressions, for more details visit to www.marketers-traffic-course.com

clicks and click-through rates. Webmasters and publishers can now track specific ad formats, colors and pages within a website. Trends are also easily spotted.

Because of real-time reporting, the efficiency of any alterations can be assessed quickly. It will be apparent what people are making the most clicks on, therefore allowing the webmasters the ability to meet the changing demands while generating cash. Webmasters are also able to group web pages by URL, domain, ad type or category, which will provide them some accurate insight on which pages, ads and domains are performing best.

The third and final reason is that the advertisers have realized the benefits associated having their ads served on targeted websites. This increases the possibility that a prospective web surfer will have an interest in their product and services as a result of the content and its constant maintenance. Unlike those who are not using Adsense in their sites, they are given the option of having other people do their content for them, giving them the benefit of having successful and money-generating web sites.

Adsense is all about targeted content, the more targeted your content is, the more targeted the search engines’ ads will be. There are some web masters and publishers who are focused more on their site contents and how best to maintain them rather than the cash that the ads will generate for them. This is the part where the effectiveness is working its best.

There was a time when people were not yet aware of the money to be achieved from advertisements. The cash generated only came into existence when the webmasters and publishers realized how they can make Adsense be that generator. In those days, the content was the most important factor and was taken quite seriously. It still is but its importance has increased with the allure of money.

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Blogging: Internet Marketing’s Superstar

2008-11-17T22:20:00.000-08:00

Blogs are a serious way that Internet marketers can drive a significant amount of traffic their site. In fact, blogs dominate the marketing market, because blogs can significantly boost anyone's Internet marketing campaign.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts use blogs to drive people to certain websites. In addition, blogs serve as a hub of discussion and information. They are also used to promote certain services or products. People have fun at blogs, so they can strongly garner a huge amount of web traffic. In fact, blogs can sometimes enjoy this popularity overnight. However, there are a few good tips to optimizing your blog so that you getting the most out of your Internet marketing campaign.

Look Into The Past

Blogs were always a network where people who shared similar interests or had related business would convene to discuss various matters. In this way, blogs connected people to each other. However, whenever something skyrockets in popularity, its value goes down. This has happened with blogs. So, many bloggers can't find the visitors that they need. This seriously affects people who are working in Internet marketing. A great amount of businesses have popped up that offer bloggers all sorts of gimmicks to increase popularity. However, the best way to increase traffic is also the most established. The best way to increase traffic is to link to other blogs and to earn inbound links. When another site links to your blog and you don't provide a reciprocal link, you have just received an inbound link.

A Fractal of Links

The more links that you exchange and receive, the more people will link to your blog. As a result, you will enjoy a huge increase in traffic. The more links you have, the higher search engines will rank your blog. So, you will not only get a lot more visitors, you will be strengthening your web visibility. This is great for anyone who is involved in internet marketing of any sort. Here's a good strategy to gain these links.

Discuss, Converse, Exchange

You need to exchange in a substantial discussion with other bloggers in order to create a strong network of links. Blogs are about creating a network of people who are connected to one anonther. So, you need to entrech yourself within a conversation. This is a great Internet marketing strategy. It is fundamental that you create this atmosphere to get links.

Keywords Will Lead The Way

Search engines calculate the relevance of a blog web page by analyzing keywords to determine where they should rank the blog. So, it is useful to use very specific keywords in your blog in order to gain more web exposure. It's also very useful if you can pinpoint some less competitive keywords, and then populate your blog with these keywords so that you can drive a lot of traffic to your site. Internet marketing is partially based on finding less competitive keywords and then designing content that uses these keywords frequently, prominently, densely, and in close proximity to one another.

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Marketing Online With Blogging

2008-11-09T19:45:00.000-08:00

Did you know that blogging, which was once considered a way for like minded people to get together and talk about their life, is now becoming one of the most effective online business marketing tools out there? To date, the blog has transformed online business marketing faster than any other introductory online business marketing tool on the internet. Why? Because blogs allow for options, directive communication between you and the client or potential associate, and are fun and very user friendly.

You can use blogging for all sorts of online business marketing. Today, we’re going to explore the effectiveness of specific blogging tactics in order to give your website a serious shot in the arm. No matter what type of online business you are in or how long you have been participating, blogging can absolutely enhance the quality and the amount of business you transact every day. For more recourses www.building-blog-empire.com

Installing a feedback blog on your website not only helps you understand the client base and how they think you are doing, but it is also one of the most tempting blogs for new visitors to use. Who doesn’t like to know they are heard? Feedback blogs allow the consumer a chance to be heard, and people love them. You can always retain your right to remove offensive material or material that has the potential to be damaging, but don’t just take it off because it is negative. Leaving it there in all its ugly criticism might be uncomfortable for you, but it will encourage others to participate as well as draw in those with opposing opinions. People not only like to be heard, but they also like to debate. It is human nature and encouraging it can only benefit you in the long run.

When maintained, updated, and administered to regularly, your blog has the potential to reach more people every day than banners, opt in lists, and low ranked pay per click advertising combined. Once you get your blog up and running and promote it and link it appropriately in order to pull the necessary traffic to it, you will have not only a fabulous advertising forum, but also have an effective method for building trust and business relationships with a wide expanse of users.

When you are ready to start your own blog site, remember this little rule of thumb that has worked well for others in the past. Design and graphics are very cool, but content is more important. Bloggers are rather forgiving. While they may initially be impressed with some fabulous graphic design, they will stay because the topics and content are really much more powerful than anything that can be totally visual. Your blog should be designed well, but with content in the forefront of everything. For more details go on www.greatblogbox.com

Never directly sell on your blog unless you are specifically asked to. If a user wants to know how to get their hands on your product, of course you want to answer that question. However, blogging is a method of passing on information which in turn generates sales and the financial gain you are seeking. The fastest way to turn bloggers away is to try to sell them on your material just because they posted a comment or a thought. Use the blog as a method of communicating all kinds of information but resist the urge to sell to every user personally.

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Choosing A Writer For Your Content

2008-10-28T02:20:00.000-07:00

If you want to gain a more prominent web presence, you should work to gain more links to your site from other sites online. One of the best ways to accomplish this is to write and release articles that are closely connected to the topic of your niche and then submit those articles to article submission websites.

If you feel nervous about writing these articles yourself, you can always hire a search engine marketing specialist who will find and manage writers to get your valuable information on the web in article form.

Here are a few tips in selecting the best writer for the job:

1) Find a writer who can put your passion into words.
Make sure they can write in your voice. The best way to ensure that your article takes on the tone and theme that you are looking for is to give the article writer lots of your own words to work from. If possible, have the article writer only write the articles using the content that you provide from your own teleseminars, ebooks, or video presentations--unless they have done through research on the topic and you feel they have the necessary knowledge to get the job done satisfactorily. Only have the writer write your articles using content you provide via teleseminar, video presentations, and the link unless the writer has already thoroughly researched your topic and you feel confident that they can represent you effectively.

2) Keep it shirt and to the point.
Make sure your writer is not too wordy. The ideal article would be about a page long using a 10 point font, ranging between 400 and 700 words long. Any longer or shorter and you run the risk of the article submission sites rejecting your content. If you have so much info that it can't all fit into one or two articles, that's a good thing because you can use it to create more articles...and the more articles you write, the more links you gain that point back to your site.

3) Use valuable information in your articles.
The main focus of your content pieces is to teach the reader something new or to help them solve a problem. You always want to the article to include a call to action. Give the reader a task or project to complete. Bullet points and numbered lists are always a winner because they leave the reader with a "checklist" of what to do when they walk away from the article.

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Tips to get the higher position in search engines

2008-10-13T19:00:00.000-07:00

Enter a simple word in a search engine and you will find hundreds and hundreds of different sites providing you various types of information on that single word. This is how the internet has changed the complete meaning of searching, reading and also learning. Today, there are thousands of websites providing you different type products, facilities and services to their various customers or users. Each of these sites are scanned thoroughly by the search engines and then ranked accordingly. The sites with the best page ranking are positioned higher in the search engine results. It is very easy to make a site on the net, but to make a site with higher page rank in the search engine is equally difficult.

There are numerous sites on the internet, why should the customer come looking for information in your site? To make it attractive and also get higher rank in the search engine, you have to make sure about a few things. Thus to help you increase your position in the search engine result here are a few very basic but important tips.

1 Select a proper keyword rich title: In any post, the title is the most important part as it is the title that attracts the readers towards your site. Thus, while finalizing the title make sure that it contains the keyword in it. This will help to increase your page ranking.

2 Select the appropriate tags and keywords: Use the best tools to select the best keywords or the tags, to enrich your site. The google adwords keyword tool is one of the best tools that will help you to select some of the best tools for your site.

3 Intellectually use the trailing keywords: the keywords should be used properly for increasing its search engine ranking. You should include your keywords in the post just after the title and also in many other places in the post. Use trailing keywords to make your site keyword rich.

4 Use keywords in the post body: In a post, the body or the content is the most important part after an attractive title. People will visit your site only if the content in the site is informative and not some scrap.

5 Highlight the keywords: in a search engine optimization, the search engines are more attracted to the highlighted keywords. Thus, to increase the search engine ranking, highlight the keywords or the tags.

6 Use keywords in URL's: Select a proper URL for your site. Make sure that it contains the keyword.

7 Navigation menu: the navigation menu used in the site should possibly include the page's title.

8 Don't put irrelevant links: just as a search engine marketing strategy, don't put irrelevant tools in the site.

9 Update regularly: update your site regularly without fail. Update it manually everyday with one post. The search engines don't like the automatic updating of the site.

10 Be alert about the SEO news: Always be alert about all the new SEO news and other highlights. There might be changes in the techniques which might be very important for your site.

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Search Engine Optimization: The Top 3 Mistakes Website Owners Make

2008-09-12T01:07:00.000-07:00

It's estimated that about 50% of most any website's traffic can be attributed to links from a search engine results page (SERP). In other words, half of a website's traffic comes not from people who are deliberately searching for that site.

Instead, it results from a keyword query of a search engine. Knowing this, many web-business owners try to boost their rankings by creating websites that will catch the attention of search engine robots. Yet try as they may, sometimes what seems like a good plan for search engine optimization doesn't achieve the desired result.

This is often because web owners and designers make one or more of three common mistakes:

1. Too little text. Search engines are partial to written text. 'Robots' scan the Internet and pull out and evaluate blocks of text. If a webpage contains too few words, or if words are broken up and scattered about the page, they may get overlooked. Therefore, they will not be indexed.

If, for example, a particular website sells t-shirts, it may have several pages of thumbnail pictures of t-shirts, with short captions or descriptions. Even though it may be very apparent that the subject of the website is "t-shirts," robots cannot index a site based on pictures. Even though the pictures may be accompanied by descriptions, there are probably too few words to catch the attention of search engine robots.

Solution: Make sure every single web page contains a short, continuous block of text, preferably at the top of the page. It should describe what the page is about. Make sure there is a link somewhere on the page pointing back to the home page.

2. Too few key words. Obviously you are looking to attract web surfers who are in the market for your particular product or service. This is why choosing keyword based on a target market is so important. If your business is installing backyard ponds, then 'backyard ponds' would be a natural choice of keywords.

But if they do not appear in your text frequently enough, your page will not get a very high ranking for the words 'backyard ponds.' Where you place those keywords is also significant. For example, robots assign more 'weight' to words which appear in your title (or header tag) or within the first paragraph of text. They assume that words which are placed here strongly indicate the subject of the text.

Solution: Make sure your title and your first paragraph contain your keywords. Those words should also make up about 1.5% to 5% of your entire text.

3. Too many keywords. Expert opinion is divided on how much keyword density a block of text should have. However, it's generally agreed that more than 5% is too much. Sometimes web owners make the mistake of trying to insert too many of them into text. Search engine robots may simply overlook text that appears 'stuffed' and won't index it at all.

Solution: Stick within the 1.5% to 5% formula. Try different ratios within this frame until you hit on the one that gives you the ranking that you're looking for.

It may take practice getting the right balance of keywords to text. Remember, it may take anywhere from several hours to a few weeks for a web page to get scanned. Don't panic if your page doesn't get indexed right away. After posting your text, check back once a day for 2-3 weeks by doing a keyword query with your search terms.

If your site isn't showing up on the first page of the search results in that time, you may need to go back to the drawing board. Or, if it isn't ranking as high as you would like, try tweaking your text a bit by adding and moving keywords. See what the top three ranking sites under your keyword query have done to place them in those spots. See if you can identify what they're doing differently. Then aim to do the same. Soon you may find your site ranking in the top three.

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Search Engine Ranking - Guaranteed Top Search Engine Rankings - Beware Of Fraud

2008-09-02T23:37:00.000-07:00

Search engines are considered the prime source of traffic for any website. Higher your search engine ranking will be, higher will be the number of visitors to your website, thereby leading to significant increase in sales, apart from gaining strong web presence as well as brand recognition.

Search engine ranking, otherwise known as search engine placement, simply refers to the creation of a website in such a way that it ranks as high as possible in the given search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. In other words, search engine ranking is a yardstick to determine the online promotional success of a web page or website. A high search engine ranking is regarded as a more effective advertising tool than paid advertising.

Among the plethora of strategies adopted by SEO specialists to ensure top search engine ranking are preparation of pertinent content, selection of the most appropriate keyword or key phrases for your product or service, implementation of meta tags, HTML validation and link building.
Nowadays, a lot number of SEO specialists are in the scenario to offer search engine ranking services. Many of them guarantee top search engine rankings. However, search engine ranking proves effective and beneficial only when it is done by professional and knowledgeable SEO personnel. Hence, before approaching a SEO firm or SEO specialist, make a through analysis regarding its professionalism and Ethic.

Be sure they prepare content-rich information and adopt the most sophisticated SEO tools to optimize your website. There are certain SEO firms that offer search engine ranking services for low rates. Hence, before choosing such firms, their quality of service must be checked. Further, make sure that the SEO firm that you have chosen solely engage in SEO-related works, and does not treat it as a secondary.

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Page Rank 10 Experiment

2008-08-15T18:38:00.000-07:00

How would you like to own a web site with a Google page rank of 10? I know that I sure would. This all mighty rank would almost surely guarantee that you could achieve high rankings for keywords that you targeted.

Additionally, the highly sought after page rank would have potential advertisers flocking to your site wanting to get a link to their site so that they could get their share of the page rank.

Well, you may just have that opportunity present itself to you. There is an experiment going on right now to bring a particular website to a page rank of 10 in 730 days. This is starting from a page rank of 0.

As I write this, there are 472 days left and this site has reached a page rank of 4 so far. They are predicting a page rank of 6 on the next Google update.

The kicker is this. If the site does reach the page rank of 10, the site that has referred the most traffic to it will win the page rank 10 site for free.

Not only that, but the top 10 referring sites are currently listed on the front page of the experimental site. This can send a good share of page rank back to your site if you are one of the top referrers.

Will this site ever achieve the coveted PR10 status? I don’t know the answer, but I have a feeling that the people at Google will certainly have a say in this.

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Higher Search Engine Ranking to Improve and Increase Traffic

2008-08-08T19:23:00.000-07:00

If you own a business or have a website on the World Wide Web then consider a higher search engine ranking for your information, service or product. It is unfortunate that many business owners are under the misconception that having a website live on the Internet will get their site found properly on Google, Yahoo or MSN. This is not true. If they have not invested in any Internet Marketing to gain higher search engine rankings and increase target traffic. What would it mean to your overall bottom line if you could improve your company's rank and increase legitimate traffic that is precisely targeted toward your audience?

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Due to the billions of websites on the Internet today that the engines have to crawl, you should not delay. To improve search engine ranking and increase search engine traffic takes longer than it has in the past so you will want to get a quick start on correcting the website foundation mistakes. The reason for this urgency is to allow the engines to properly index your site over the coming months. Once the website mistakes are fixed and your changes are published live you will start to see the R.O.I.

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Search Engine Marketing - How Search Engines Rank Web Pages

2008-08-01T18:39:00.000-07:00

Getting your webpage ranked as high as possible on a search engine results page is one of the goals of search engine marketing and using search engine optimization on your website. But do you know how the search engine actually ranks and indexes web pages? Most search engines use a complicated process to index and rank the web pages that the search engine spiders find when they are scanning the web. Using search engine optimization and putting articles written with search engine marketing in mind will get the search engine spiders to your site but once the search engine spiders find your site they have to index your site and then assign your site a ranking within the thousands of other sites that contain information on the same topic that your site has.

Different search engines use different methods to assign a weight or rank to each web page that the search engine's spiders find so using different methods of search engine marketing and using different percentages of search engine optimization is a good idea. If you do several different types of search engine marketing and utilize more than one kind of search engine optimization tool then it's more likely that a search engine spider will find your web page and assign it a higher weight or rank.

One of the ways that search engine spiders determine the weight or rank of a particular web page is to index the number of times that a particular word or key phrase appears on a site. The search engine spider will assign a weight or rank to the web page based on how many times that word or key phrase appears within the web page. This is a very common method of assigning rank to web pages that is used by a lot of the most popular search engines so it's important to use search engine marketing and search engine optimization to make sure that those search engine spiders give your site a high ranking or weight.

Another way that search engine spiders assign a weight or rank to a web page is to take note of where in the web page a particular keyword or key phrase is located. For search engines that use this kind of ranking system just using standard search engine marketing or traditional search engine optimization techniques might not be enough to get your website noticed by the search engine spiders. In order to draw the spiders of search engines that rank web pages based on the location of the keyword or key phrase on the page it's necessary to use those words to tag your page. Tagging a page is putting that particular keyword or key phrase in the meta tags of your site, using them in the heading or home page of your site and using those words or phrases systematically through the rest of the site. If you think of your website as a tree in order to get the attention of spiders from the search engines that use this type of ranking system you have to have a particular key word or key phrase on every branch of the tree in order to get a higher ranking.

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6 Steps to Make More Profit With Search Engine Optimization

2008-07-25T23:53:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization efforts to do a little hard work for meeting the challenge of getting visitors to your web site by optimizing your web pages according to search engines. Employing search engine optimization helps the people searching for your pages, to locate your pages easily via search engines. Here are six steps to make more profit with search engine optimization

Step1: When you use search engine optimization, it is important that you choose a target phrase that explains your entire web page. The target phrase should be a popular phrase and something that you think that your consumers will use to reach your product.

Step2: To make best use of search engine optimization, it is important to make proper analysis of your competition first. Work on the optimization of a page instead of thinking of the theme of entire web site.

Step 3: To make more profit with search engine optimization is to write you page, which is rich in keywords. Use keywords in title tags as well as Meta tags

Step4: It should be kept in mind that unnecessary and excessive use of target phrase or keywords should be avoided. This may result in discounting your page by many search engines.

Step5: Promoting your page along with search engine optimization is adds to the profit. Use the target phrase employed in search engine optimization in your links as well as in blogs.

Step 6: Once you have employed search engine optimization, test your results by entering your target phrase on search engines. If you do not get good results, you can submit your page to these search engines.

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What is Search Engine Optimization

2008-07-20T20:27:00.001-07:00

You might be asking yourself, what is search engine optimization? Search engine optimization is improving your website so that when someone does a search in google, MSN, or other popular search engines, your website is a top return. It makes your website more accessible and improves the amount of clients who see, and therefore, visit it. Search engine optimization is a great way to help your business grow.

Search engine placement and optimization can do wonders for your business and website. You'll me amazed at how much your website traffic will improve in just a short time. But what is search engine optimization? It is a way of placing your website at the top of the list of all the popular search engines. A better search engine ranking will mean better business and a better bottom line.

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Search Engine Optimization On Page Techniques

2008-07-16T19:10:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization on page techniques are incredibly important for natural and organic search results. On page techniques are simply search engine optimization techniques that are used on the webpage itself to let the search engines know the purpose and keywords of the site. Although search engine optimization on page techniques probably only account for approximately 10% of the search engines’ ranking of your website, if you do not use on page search engine optimization techniques the search engines won't know for which keywords your website should be ranked.

So what are search engine optimization on page techniques and which are most important to use?

1. The first search engine optimization on page technique that you should be using is including your main keywords in your title tag, and your description tag on your website.

2. The second search engine optimization and on page technique that you should be using is including your main keywords in your keyword tag, and not stuffing your keyword tag with any other keywords.

3. The third search engine optimization and on page technique that you should be using is using your keyword or keyword phrases naturally in the content of the webpage at least once in the first paragraph and at least once in the last paragraph.

4. The fourth search engine optimization on page technique that you should be using is bolding italicizing and including your keyword in at least one heading tag.

These are the basic search engine optimization on page techniques and should be used on all of your webpages. In addition to on page search engine optimization you should also be doing extensive linking and off page optimization techniques.

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Search Engine Optimization – SEO Techniques and Basics

2008-07-08T19:56:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization may be defined as a technique of making your web site optimized so that it easier for the search engines to find it. Promotion via SEO perceives what Internet visitors may look for, to assist them with sites giving what they are engrossed in finding. Search engine optimization is the best way to drive traffic to your web site. Search Engine Optimization does not have to be complex. The basic point is to keep in mind that each and every page of your web site is an exclusive unit and has to be treated aptly for search engine optimization.

Search engine optimization can be easily applied to any web site. Search engine optimization is to make proper changes in your web site such as adding noticeable text so that the search engines are able to see them. In the last few years, the web sites are using latest technologies such as flash, java etc that hides the content from the search engines. Search engine optimization makes sure that the search engines do not overlook your web site.

A quality search engine optimization is a mix of good design, proper content and user friendliness. Using a content that is rich in keywords, using keywords in the page titles as well as title tags are some of the few basics to make a web site search engine optimized. Search engine optimization is the best way to improve your rankings on search engine results pages and boost traffic to a web site.

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Email Marketing - Creating the Perfect Incentive Offer

2008-06-27T19:39:00.000-07:00

If you are planning on building a list for your new internet business, one of the first things you will need to figure out is what your free offer (usually a free report or ebook) is going to be. In an ideal world, I would suggest writing this yourself. If your report is written in your own voice your subscribers will get a much stronger feel for who you are as a person and a much stronger bond will be developed.

That being said, if for any reason you do not wish to write the report yourself, You can easily hire someone to do it for you or purchase the private label rights to an ebook or report that is appropriate for your list.

The most important thing here - and I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to this - is to CREATE VALUE. If your free report is just recycled junk, there is little hope of building any kind of real relationship with your list. Many people tend to think that giving away all of your valuable information will just deter a customer from purchasing. The opposite is true. If you can engage a persons mind, sense or emotions, they will generally want more of what you have to offer. It's the same reason companies offer free samples in grocery stores. It costs the companies money in the short term, but if the product is good, people will buy more down the line, in many cases, when they otherwise never would have.

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How to Optimize My Website For Google

2008-06-16T19:35:00.000-07:00

Optimizing your website for Google is a very good idea, after all they account for about 50% of all the search engine traffic online and that percentage continues to grow as more people come online. There are a couple of factors that you would need to keep in mind when optimizing your site for the super successful search engine.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is "what does the search engine want". They are looking to supply their clients with the content! So if you want to be properly optimized to enjoy targeted traffic in your niche, you want to have great and preferably unique content on your website.

The second factor you need to know is that Google also looks at how frequently your website is updated, they want to know that you update your website more than once a year. This factor is actually for your benefit as well. Think about it...if you update your website regularly your prospects will return to you time and time again. The more they return, the more likely they will respond to your offer.

The last I will go over in this article would be your "backlinks". A backlink is simply your url that is placed on a website that is related to yours and the link is a clickable link. Google looks at these links as a good think and they help your website optimization of your website.

Optimizing your website is one of the best traffic generation strategies, mainly because the quality of traffic you will receive will be the most targeted. The only downfall to this method is that it can take some time to begin to see the results.

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Strategies For Reciprocal Linking

2008-06-10T20:37:00.000-07:00

Reciprocal linking strategies have been used by webmasters for a long time. This style of linking is still an important strategy and, when used properly, will increase the search engine rankings for your website. There are some unethical reciprocal linking strategies out there, but these should be avoided at all cost. Do not let yourself be drawn into any "quick fix approach" to marketing your website.

Reciprocal linking is like a joint enterprise between two or more websites. The basic premise is that you communicate with another website owner and agree to provide a link to his or her site, as long as they agree to link back to yours. The philosophy here is that, "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours".

There are essentially four strategies used for building reciprocal links.

1. The first method is the long way. With this first strategy, you send emails to the webmasters of any sites you are interested in linking with. The webmaster will either agree or disagree to do the exchange (or they may just ignore your email altogether). If the webmaster agrees, then you just exchange links and you are done.

2. Method 2 would involve using one of the many software programs out there which essentially semi-automate the reciprocal linking process. I certainly recommend the software method as it will save you a huge amount of time. Also, the software should be able to check that the links coming back to you from your partner sites remain active. If you had to continually check for active links manually, it would prove to be extremely time consuming. If a partner site link becomes inactive for some reason, then there is no benefit for you to remain linked to them. Remember that websites come and go, so you need to have a way to accurately monitor your exchanged links.

3. A third method involves purchasing reciprocal links (By the way, you can also purchase one way links). I would urge caution with this method. The search engine crawlers are becoming very clever these days. Search engines such as Google tend to frown upon purchased links.

4. A fourth strategy would include using a reciprocal link exchange service. These consist of networks of hundreds of webmasters with sites on a variety of topics. With these services, all the member websites involved will trade links with each other. The trouble here is that you will end up with a lot of unrelated reciprocal links. The search engines really don't like these services and they have sophisticated ways of detecting them.

One very important consideration when gathering reciprocal links is that you only want to hook up with sites that are related to yours. For instance, if your website is centered around affiliate marketing programs and you exchange a link with a web site on cake baking styles, then that link exchange is simply not relevant. If you start linking to unrelated sites, the search engines will consider this to be "link spamming". Do not link spam, as this will destroy your credibility in the long run and possibly get your site banned.

In summary then, reciprocal linking is still a good SEO strategy if done properly. It should be carried out in conjunction with other SEO marketing tactics such as one way linking, key word optimization, blogging and article marketing, just to name a few. Good luck with your reciprocal linking campaign.

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How To Own Google's Top Spots!

2008-06-01T23:35:00.000-07:00

Ranking well on Google takes two things, good content and great links. But it's not an even split. Because Google assumes only a page with good content would get great inbound links it puts about 70% of the importance for ranking on links and only about 30% on content. That little tidbit alone will put you head and shoulders above all those competitors still messing with META tags and spamming keywords. But if you want a huge advantage over the rest of your competition, keep reading. I'm about to show you how the pros do it and win every time.

Part 1: Perfect Your Anchor Text

So just what is anchor text and why is it important? Anchor text is the clickable word or words that make up the hyperlink. You've seen anchor text a million times (the underlined words that are typically blue.) Google figures any words special enough to be used as a guide in a link are extra valuable, which makes anchor text extremely important for you to use properly.

Just how powerful is anchor text? More than most people dream. Try an experiment. Go to Google and search for "click here" (without quotes.) The top match for years has been a page for Adobe Acrobat Reader. So does that Adobe page have "click here" copied 50 times in the text? No. In fact "click here" does not even appear on the page a single time! Does it have "click here" embedded in its META tags. No; again, not even once.

So how can it possibly rank number 1 on Google for a term it never even references? Because of the thousands of Webpages that use "click here" as the anchor text linking to Adobe's free download of Acrobat Reader.

By the way, did you happen to notice how many pages Adobe beat out for a term they never optimized themselves for? Almost Two Billion! So yes, I have to say anchor text is extremely powerful.

Part 2: Build Linking Consistency

Most people don't realize that even though http://www.Wikipedia.com and http://Wikipedia.com lead to the same Wikipedia homepage, they are seen as two different links by Google. Let's take it a step further. If you keep the "www" and lose the "http" you have another link that goes to the same place but is treated as unique by Google.

All that said; be as consistent as possible when requesting links. Find one format and stick to it. One hundred inbound links to the exact same URL is much better than 25 links each, using four different URLs that lead to the same place.

Part 3: PageRank Leads to Page Rank

Google's PageRank algorithm can make or break your search engine optimization efforts and plays a big part in your eventual Webpage rankings. So PageRank and page rank? Here's a tip to end the confusion. When you see the single word "PageRank" it is referring to a trademarked name that Google owns. PageRank is a unit of measure that Google developed, and uses to determine the value of a Webpage. When you see the words "page rank" we are merely talking about how a Webpage ranks, or is positioned on a search engine for a given keyword.

So how does it work? A page with a GPR of 6 is considered very important by Google, while a page with a GPR of 0 is not so much. If you get links from pages with high GPRs you will build your own PageRank. If you get links from pages with no GPR, they can still help you but do not lend any additional PageRank credibility.

Higher GPR leads to more credibility with Google and possibly becoming what they consider to be an "authority" which can double your top placements, literally. To see what I mean, search for "cats" on Google (without quotes.) The number 1 match is Wikipedia.com and references furry little felines. The number 2 match is also from Wikipedia but is about a Broadway musical.

So what? Notice how that second match is indented? That means it was not meant to be number 2 and might have actually been number 10 or 16 or more. But since Wikipedia.com is what Google considers an authority, it gets little bumps like this. Pretty nice huh? And trust me, you don't have to be Wikipedia to become an authority. Everything you need is in this article. I've done it many times.

There are different ways to see a page's GPR. If you don't already have it, visit Google and download their "Google Toolbar." It will show you the GPR of any page on the Web.

Part 4: Use the Best Tools

Last but not least, SEO is like anything else, if you use the best tools for the job your results will be faster, better and longer lasting.

Back in the day, search engine optimization professionals and do it yourselfers had to do everything by hand. It took forever and one simple mistake could mean weeks of work down the drain. Today however, there are plenty of software tools to help get the job done in a faction of the time. Just find the BEST one for what you want to accomplish.

For our particular needs, were looking for an app than can help with linking and build our "authority" status and check ranking progress. Over the past six or so years I've used nearly a dozen pieces of software claiming to be the best. Some were pretty good. Others were a waste. The one I most often recommend to my SEO seminar students is SEO Elite (http://www.SEOeliteWeb.com) because it gets amazing results and is one of the most affordable options at $167.

Even if you're not ready for a tool, you might want to check out the above link and go through some of the video tutorials. They show you how to find "authority" link partners, get special insights on anchor text and how to best spy on your competition.

That's it for now. Good luck and keep at it!

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Website Optimization New York - Generate Higher Traffic

2008-05-26T01:05:00.000-07:00

Internet is probably the best medium to reach out to a huge section of users and for this reason only, it has also gained the popularity with the concept of promotion and advertising. Nowadays, almost every firm and organization is making efforts in conducting a qualitative promotion for their services and products, through the intelligent use of Internet facilities, but unfortunately very few can actually accomplish this task. Therefore, it is advisable to seek the assistance of a qualified and experienced hand, when it comes to publicizing your product through the medium of Internet, as only appropriate website optimization can serve a client with the benefit of remarkably effective promotion. Hence, if you also wish to get a good ranking on all the popular search engines, then immediately opt for the very qualitative website optimization in New York.

Numerous providers of website optimization New York are surviving in the market and all claim to offer best of their services, which will leave no stone unturned in gathering the biggest number of visitors. However, to select the perfect service provider is ultimately your decision and thus, to ensure the best, you must have good information about the concept and work strategy of a proper website optimization program. Website optimization services actually accomplish the job of making your website popular among the people, who would be interested in purchasing your products and services. They basically control and manage the traffic to your website and thus, allow your website to secure the top position on all the leading search engines. An efficient website optimization New York service provider can manage to draw heavy traffic to your website.

The main main advantage of taking services from the New York based website optimization company is the surety of receiving quality work and assistance at affordable rates. Their charges are highly reasonable and affordable for many of us. In fact, they have special economic schemes and programs for budding and fresh entrepreneurs also, who wish to have good promotion but lack sufficient monetary resources. Hence, nobody has to loiter around the market in search of a competent set of online promotion services, as you now know the absolute destination.

Nowadays, website optimization in New York is not just limited to the standard facilities of good and informative content, captivating captions and enticing profiles. In fact, many new techniques have been discovered and are efficiently incorporated in the mechanism to bring more and more number of visitors to the websites of the clients. One such amazing technique is thematic website optimization. It is basically a blend of keyword analysis and linguistic theme approach, that will surely optimize a website thoroughly by offering search engine experts an absolute signal of keyword relevance and therefore, giving the best search engine result placement. Another kind of such recent advancement in the field of website optimization is linguistic theme approach, which in turn is a way to create keyword listings. All these tools will help the customers and potential clients in spotting your website easily in the extensive and convoluted network of countless websites.

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2008-05-20T01:35:00.000-07:00

1 - You can generate your sales leads through the free subscription on your website.

2 - It's essential that business blogs are written in inviting tones that welcome customers rather than turn them off. Avoid corporate rhetoric and jargon in your business blog.

3 - A cheap price does not necessarily mean more sales coming in.

4 - Get involved in the dialogue with your customers be it from your blogs, social networks, from what you read, surveys or FGDs.

5 - Knowing your product life cycle and by keeping records of customer feedback will facilitate your marketing decisions.

6 - Let staff know about your corporate goals as well as short and long term plans.

7 - Blogging can educate the market about your products and services and increase your sales.

8 - Build blogs that mirror your business and personality.

9 - Always have a subscription button in your website.

10 - Be on constant look out for you to improve your product before your competitors would. The trick here is to be always ahead of the competition. Being able to think of grand, new ideas first gives you a big cut on the market share.

11 - Having more than one domain name pointing to one website will increase your ranking.

12 - Increase your network unbelievably. Social networks give you an overwhelming audience.

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Why You Need an Article Marketing Strategy Before Posting a Single Article Online

2008-05-17T01:53:00.000-07:00

First, Define your Bulls Eye
If you’re going to write and post articles on the Internet, be unambiguous about what you expect them to accomplish. Don’t start writing just yet. Think beyond the mechanics of writing an article or deciding where to post it.

It’s one thing to spin out an article or two. It’s quite another to incorporate them into a strategy that builds your website traffic, reputation, and business. All your marketing methods should work together - online and off.

Your Strategy Clarifies:
- Who you’re trying to reach - How to find them
- What you want them to do next (does your website support that aim?)
- Your primary goal and message
- How articles (with particular titles and keywords) mesh with your other marketing

Article marketing is nothing more than a way to get information (not advertising) broadly distributed on the Internet. It can’t compensate for a muddled or dull message. And it won’t build your site traffic unless it connects to readers in an interesting way.

Write Articles that Trumpet a Unique Business Message
A frequent business error is treating each customer- attracting activity as though it stands alone. Yet each method works better when echoing a common message that links to the others.

To quote Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads,
http://www.wizardofads.com "It’s hard to tell a powerful story badly. But it’s easy to tell a weak story well. I’ve never seen a business fail because they were "reaching the wrong people." But I’ve seen thousands fail because they were saying the wrong thing... It’s amazing how many people become the "right people" when you’re saying the right thing. Believe it or not, it’s advertising third, customer delight second, strategy always first."

Maximize your Customer-Attracting Methods
Last year I wrote an ebook showing how to make the business website and Yellow Page ad work together to bring new customers. It made the point that each promotional method has its own strengths, and reaches different groups http://www.yellowpagesage.com/smarts.html By them working together, each approach does a more persuasive job.

As an example, the directory ad should display a website address. A recent study found that over 60% of people surveyed only call Yellow Page ads that show a website (even if they don’t intend to visit it). Besides, the website lets the business provide information that won’t fit within the dimensions of an ad.

A single approach can’t cover all your bases. The same applies to article marketing.

Article Marketing Strengths
- Ability to deliver an interesting "sample" of your expertise
- Long enough to be informative (600-800 words)
- Reaches and speaks to tightly focused interest groups
- Quickly delivers the message throughout the Internet
- Long shelf life - some websites keep articles posted for years
- Builds on the keywords that your website uses
- Incoming-links from websites that post your articles

Plan More than One Article at a Time
You can’t develop much momentum with one article. That’s like shooting a gun with a single bullet, or a PPC (pay-per- click) campaign for just one term. The odds of hitting your mark aren’t too good. Several articles written to reinforce each other generate more mileage. As you get more articles out there, people start paying attention, and you can target more keywords. Repeated publications develop a personality that readers recognize.

Plan a number of titles in advance, with a theme building from one to the next. Keep each one tightly focused, but related to the others. In that way, you develop the in-depth "voice" of an expert. And your information won’t lapse into ho-hum generalities. Write first-rate articles when you rely on the extensive free resources http://www.promotewitharticles.com at Article Marketing Academy.

Try writing some in a series (like, Part 1 of 3 parts) to build anticipation for future segments. Also, your message won’t be confined to the 600 to 800 word article limit. Since each article in the series resides on your website, readers needn’t wait to read them all (giving them an incentive to visit your site). Later, the whole series can be offered as a special report or ebook (once related material is added).

Write with your keywords in mind.
Maintain your primary message, with a different twist for parallel niches. Go to the extra effort to say something new. That’s easy when you provide stories, examples, case studies from your own experience. As you dish out practical assistance in your
articles, readers will be eagerly watching for your next ones.
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Getting A Solid Internet Marketing Foundation

2008-05-02T01:38:00.000-07:00

As we look at building our online businesses, many of us acknowledge, early-on, that we don't know it all. Those who don't, are almost certain to fail because they often attempt to apply techniques that simply don't work online - to their online businesses. The quickest way to online success is to model those who are already successful at what you want to do. It' s that simple.

Of all of the chores involved in building your business, marketing is usually the most critical. Poor marketing is also the reason so many businesses fail. You need to learn to properly market your business or hire someone else to do it for you. I'll give you a few recommended resources to help jumpstart your education in a minute.

A second extremely important skill that goes hand-in-hand with marketing is generating publicity. You can have the greatest product in the world, but if no one knows about it, it may as well not exist. If no one knows about you, then you won't make any sales!

Let's look at generating publicity first...

Publicity can take many forms, and they often overlaps what many would define as marketing. For today, I want you to focus on the most effective, and often cheapest, publicity. In fact, this great publicity is often free. What we're talking about here is publicity generated by getting the media and others talking about you and your business. We're talking about the publicity typically generated through tools such as press releases and doing media interviews.

Why is the above type of publicity so powerful? It's so powerful because people believe what others say about you MORE than they believe what you say about yourself. So when you can get magazines, newspapers, television and radio personalities, and even online ezines talking about you, those hearing this buzz believe it more and are therefore more likely to go check you out.

A second reason this type of publicity is so powerful is because you can literally generate millions of dollars in free publicity if you know what you are doing. You may not be able to afford a full-page ad in a major magazine or newspaper. However, let the right person know about your story and that same publication will be all to happy to tell the world about you... and give them your website url and/or your toll-free phone number.

Learning to get media attention is not hard. To make it even easier, I've arranged for my friend, Annie Jennings, who runs a top PR agency, to help you a little. Her site is at:
http://www.anniejenningspr.com/teleseminars.htm

I gave you the above url because it is the page where she tells you of upcoming telesemianrs she's hosting on various promotion and sales-related topics. These teleseminars are all free.

While at Annie's site, sign up for other goodies she offers including courses in generating press releases, creating a platform, getting on top radio shows, etc. She'll give you all types of freebies like audiotapes and coffee cups. When I first met her, and she sent me an intro package, it felt like Christmas.

So we'll let Annie turn you into a "media darling." Then you can focus on learning marketing. This is where most online business people should probably spend 80% of their time - not on all of the busywork that you can get someone else to do. The highest and best use of your time is probably in marketing your business, not making webpage updates, writing or even creating products. You can get freelancers to do this for you very inexpensively at places like Elance.com

Marketing is nothing more than communicating the benefits of your products or services effectively to your ideal customer. It all hinges upon effective communications, and your communications can be greatly improved if you understand how and why we interact the way we do with each other. To get a firm grasp on that topic I recommend that you read the book, "Influence, The Psychology of Persuassion," by Dr. Robert Cialdini.

You'll never be the same after you've read and digest this book. If you're like me you'll find yourself reading it over and over! You can find this book at online bookstores.

Another solid book on marketing is Jay Abraham's "Mr. X" book. This 376 page book distills several decades of the marketing know-how of Jay Abraham. The full title of the book is "Money-Making Secrets of Marketing Genius Jay Abraham And Other Marketing Wizards - A No-Nonsense Guide To Great Wealth and a Personal Fortune." This book is so good that you could devote six month just to studying the one book, and you'd understand more about marketing than 95% of your competitors.

This book is marketed by the Abraham Marketing Group, but Internet marketers working with the group run specials from time to time. Just watch your email for one of these specials.

A course that I recommend that isn't just on marketing but on developing the proper mindset is by Dr. Robert Anthony. It's called "Know How To Be Rich." In order to run a really successful business, you need to properly train your mind. Many people actually need to give themselves permission to be successful. Dr. Anthony's course was a big "A-ha" for me and many of my clients.
You can find it at: http://TheInternetLifestyle.com

You'll notice that none of the resources just recommended were specifically Internet-marketing-only resources. That's because internet marketing is just an offshoot of marketing, and most of the principles are the same. Most Internet marketers who are struggling, don't have a good grasp of the over-riding basic marketing principles. That's what the above resources will provide.

Two Internet marketing resources I will recommend are a private membership site I've set up, and a course on how to generate website traffic. You can find my site at:
http://TheRealSecrets.com The webpage does a great job of explaining why you need to be a member :-)

Without website traffic, your website basically has the same results as a billboard on a highway that no one travels. It produces no results because no one sees it. So you do need to learn how to generate traffic. For that I recommend the very indepth, crash course offered by John Reese's Traffic Secrets. I've personally gone through the 13 CD's and DVD ROM's, and 3 manuals - TWICE.

You can check out this course at:
http://TrafficSecretsByJohnReese.com
It's a little expensive, but well worth it if you USE what he teaches. If you aren't going to use it, then you should save your money.

If you work your way through the above resources you'll be well on your way to building a massively successful online business. None of these resources are something you give a quick glance and then the magic happens. They all require effort. Put in the effort now and you'll have a very solid foundation upon which to build your Internet marketing business. By understand basic marketing, and then how the internet differs, you'll possess some very powerful, rarely mastered knowledge.

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Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired military officer, karate black belt, master network marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income on-line using very simple, easily modeled systems. An example of such a system that you can study and duplicate is at:
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How To Track All Your Website Traffic For Free

2008-04-21T18:54:00.000-07:00

Do you know:

* Exactly how many people are visiting your website?
* How long they're staying on your site before they move on?
* Exactly where those visitors are coming from, each day?
* How much of your website traffic is repeat visitors?
* The exact paths people take as they click their way through your website?

Here's what I'm getting at:

If you don't know your visitors, it makes it *very* difficult for you to improve the performance of your website and turn more visitors into customers - AND - get more quality traffic. For the simple reason that you're effectively working blind.

Without knowing how people visit your site and what they do on your site, any attempts at growing your traffic and improving the profitability of your website is working with one armed tied behind your back, at least.

And unfortunately - the web stats that come with your web-hosting are generally not enough these days.

Depending on your web host, chances are you've either got Webalizer, Analog Stats, or AWStats installed on your server. Here's how that software works:

It takes the "raw" (unreadable to the human eye) information your web server stores of everyone that visits and presents this in an easy to understand way.

Unfortunately, due to a number of technical reasons, this information is often presented in quite an inaccurate way.

And in my personal experience, these software packages don't present this information in a particularly helpful way either for someone trying to improve the conversion ratios and profitability of their website.

What I personally do, and what I would suggest you do is use a "Tracking Solution" that accurately tracks and reports all your visitors in an easy to read and understand way. These solutions come in two forms: Software & Services

Both these options have their pros and cons, but what they both do very well is present exactly what's happening on your website right up to the minute, and in a way that's very helpful to you for making good (and profitable) decisions for your business.

To start with here's a software solution you can install and use for free on your website:

Now before you go and install it, you should of course be familiar with installing software on your server. If you're not comfortable installing software on your website, a tracking service (which I'll come to in a moment) would probably be best for you.

And it's also important to note that installing software on your website can often put more strain on the server. This is particularly true if you're on shared hosting.

I've personally used the following free tracking software and it works well. See what you think. Go to http://www.curve2.com and look for "TrackPro". As I write this, version 2 is in Beta and is downloadable from the site at the following address: http://www.curve2.com/trackpro.php

You'll also find many further free tracking software solutions at http://www.hotscripts.com.

But personally speaking, what I've found works very well and avoids putting any increased strain on my existing websites is using a third party tracking service.

The only things really to worry about when using a third party service are:

* How long will this service be around? (If they stop their service after a year, you wouldn't be able to access your past data and will have to change all your tracking codes on your pages too.)
* What is their privacy policy regarding my web stats? (Are they honest and trustworthy in other words. You don't want the service owners studying and then duplicating your successful business plan.)

Over the past month I've been using ecommStats (http://www.ecommstats.com). Now, this service isn't free, but at this time they give you 50,000 free page views per domain, and depending how busy your site is those page views can last you a very long time.

The service works great and is very easy to add to your pages -- simply add three lines of code at the bottom of each of your pages (you can easily do this with Server Side Includes if you're comfortable with that) and all your visitors get tracked accurately and in great detail.

Alternatively - an entirely free (at this time) and very established service is StatCounter (http://statcounter.com). It even has a rave review from Tucows.com (one of the largest download sites on the internet) which speaks for itself and adds a lot of credibility to the service.

And just in case you're wondering how a free service like StatCounter makes money, well - since it's such a popular service with many webmasters logging in every day (and many I'm sure even more than once a day just like me) that it's made it very easy for them to sell a lot of advertising on their site. They also offer an upgrade to their advanced paid service.

But thinking beyond free services, as your business grows you may choose to upgrade to high end paid services that provide even more in depth information about your visitors...

Services like Urchin (Urchin.com - owned by Google) or Deep Metrix (DeepMetix.com). However, to help you grow your business to that point you need to keep a close eye on what your visitors are doing and where they're coming from, and free tracking software and services is a great way for you to start to do this.

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How To Get Traffic To Your Site

2008-04-13T19:19:00.000-07:00

Today, the biggest problem that new website owners have is: “How they can get traffic to their website?” Significant amount of time and energy is spent today on this single task. You or your webmaster needs to commonly focus on:

- Get ranked well on the most important search engines (Google, Yahoo, Msn, Ask.com, etc.)
- Pay Per Click (PPC) programs
- Cost Per Click (CPC) programs
- Link Exchanges
- Directory Submissions
- And more…

All of these methods are valuable for getting traffic to your website. If you are not competent enough to rank well your keywords, you can obviously hire a SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) for this work. From search engines you can get a very large portion of traffic to your website.

Today, everyone wants to know the big secret to driving traffic to their website. Every day I see an article or an ad talking about driving people to your website; driving traffic to a website has become the “holy grail” on the Internet. People are realizing that if you build it, they won't come... unless you give them a reason. Website traffic just doesn't happen by itself. Your website is just one of many millions on the web and people rarely just stumble upon your site by accident.

There are many ways to drive traffic to your website. You can buy traffic from vendors that will pummel your website with hits from automated programs. This will increase your hits but will it increase your bottom line? Probably not. You can set up blogs that spider (connect to) your website increasing your traffic count. Does this drive users to your website? Only if your blog is so interesting that people are reading it. There are thousands of blogs posted on the internet and your blog is just a needle in the internet haystack.

Another trick is to create RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for your website and subscribe to other RSS feeds. This again will increase your hit count but will do very little to drive potential customers to your website unless you're providing valuable information. Tricks will increase your hit count but do very little todrive potential customers to your website.

People often turn to traffic exchanges. Quite simply, a traffic exchange is a program where you sign up and agree to surf sites in exchange for some credits. These credits are then used when other members of the exchange surf to your site. This traffic is not highly targeted traffic. In fact, if this were your only method of advertising your website, you'd probably fail. BUT it is a great method of getting traffic to your site in addition to the other methods listed above.

So, why do people use traffic exchanges? Here are a few of the benefits:

- Increase your Alexa rating! Did you know that some search engines factor your Alexa rating into their algorithms? More traffic means higher search engine placement!

- Increase your branding awareness. Any marketing expert worth his salt will tell you that branding is extremely important to stand out amongst the billions of websites out there.

More traffic equals more sales. A percentage of people surfing will be enticed by your ads and click on them to find out more information. Another source of revenue. Many traffic exchanges will actually pay you money to surf. More importantly, as you refer other people to the network, you'll earn a percentage of the money that they earn! It may be small amounts but if you work the system it could amount to a lot of money.

Now, before you head over to Google and search for Traffic Exchange, I'd recommend knowing a few facts:

- Some traffic exchanges are simply out to get money from you and will refer very little traffic to you.

- Some traffic exchanges have poor systems in place to stop cheaters from running programs to increase their credits faster.

Finally, some traffic exchanges will allow popup, active x controls, site rotators, etc. in their network. Any of these can stop your auto surfing from working, or even worse, allow your computer to be infected with a virus.

The best part about Traffic Exchanges is that you really have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The worst thing that could happen to you is you get a little bit of traffic which increases your Alexa rankings and you don't get any money.

Of course, for the system to work, you've got to make sure that you do some surfing yourself. The makers of the exchange programs realize this and some of them even have an auto surf feature where you get a reduced number of credits while your browser happily loads page after page every 10 seconds or so.

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Search Engine Keyword Selection

2008-04-03T18:21:00.000-07:00

Search engines are the vehicles that drive potential customers to your websites. But in order for visitors to reach their destination - your website - you need to provide them with specific and effective signs that will direct them right to your site. You do this by creating carefully chosen keywords.

Think of the right keywords as the Open Sesame! of the Internet. Find the exactly right words or phrases, and presto! hoards of traffic will be pulling up to your front door. But if your keywords are too general or too over-used, the possibility of visitors actually making it all the way to your site - or of seeing any real profits from the visitors that do arrive - decreases dramatically.

Your keywords serve as the foundation of your marketing strategy. If they are not chosen with great precision, no matter how aggressive your marketing campaign may be, the right people may never get the chance to find out about it. So your first step in plotting your strategy is to gather and evaluate keywords and phrases.

You probably think you already know EXACTLY the right words for your search phrases. Unfortunately, if you haven't followed certain specific steps, you are probably WRONG. It's hard to be objective when you are right in the center of your business network, which is the reason that you may not be able to choose the most efficient keywords from the inside. You need to be able to think like your customers. And since you are a business owner and not the consumer, your best bet is to go directly to the source.

Instead of plunging in and scribbling down a list of potential search words and phrases yourself, ask for words from as many potential customers as you can. You will most likely find out that your understanding of your business and your customers' understanding is significantly different.

The consumer is an invaluable resource. You will find the words you accumulate from them are words and phrases you probably never would have considered from deep inside the trenches of your business.

Only after you have gathered as many words and phrases from outside resources should you add your own keyword to the list. Once you have this list in hand, you are ready for the next step: evaluation.

The aim of evaluation is to narrow down your list to a small number of words and phrases that will direct the highest number of quality visitors to your website. By "quality visitors" I mean those consumers who are most likely to make a purchase rather than just cruise around your site and take off for greener pastures. In evaluating the effectiveness of keywords, bear in mind three elements: popularity, specificity, and motivation.

Popularity is the easiest to evaluate because it is an objective quality. The more popular your keyword is, the more likely the chances are that it will be typed into a search engine which will then bring up your URL.

You can now purchase software that will rate the popularity of keywords and phrases by giving words a number rating based on real search engine activity. Software such as WordTracker will even suggest variations of your words and phrases. The higher the number this software assigns to a given keyword, the more traffic you can logically expect to be directed to your site. The only fallacy with this concept is the more popular the keyword is, the greater the search engine position you will need to obtain. If you are down at the bottom of the search results, the consumer will probably never scroll down to find you.

Popularity isn't enough to declare a keyword a good choice. You must move on to the next criteria, which is specificity. The more specific your keyword is, the greater the likelihood that the consumer who is ready to purchase your goods or services will find you.

Let's look at a hypothetical example. Imagine that you have obtained popularity rankings for the keyword "automobile companies." However, you company specializes in bodywork only. The keyword "automobile body shops" would rank lower on the popularity scale than "automobile companies," but it would nevertheless serve you much better. Instead of getting a slew of people interested in everything from buying a car to changing their oil filters, you will get only those consumers with trashed front ends or crumpled fenders being directed to your site. In other words, consumers ready to buy your services are the ones who will immediately find you. Not only that, but the greater the specificity of your keyword is, the less competition you will face.

The third factor is consumer motivation. Once again, this requires putting yourself inside the mind of the customer rather than the seller to figure out what motivation prompts a person looking for a service or product to type in a particular word or phrase. Let's look at another example, such as a consumer who is searching for a job as an IT manager in a new city. If you have to choose between "Seattle job listings" and "Seattle IT recruiters" which do you think will benefit the consumer more? If you were looking for this type of specific job, which keyword would you type in? The second one, of course! Using the second keyword targets people who have decided on their career, have the necessary experience, and are ready to enlist you as their recruiter, rather than someone just out of school who is casually trying to figure out what to do with his or her life in between beer parties. You want to find people who are ready to act or make a purchase, and this requires subtle tinkering of your keywords until your find the most specific and directly targeted phrases to bring the most motivated traffic to you site.

Once you have chosen your keywords, your work is not done. You must continually evaluate performance across a variety of search engines, bearing in mind that times and trends change, as does popular lingo. You cannot rely on your log traffic analysis alone because it will not tell you how many of your visitors actually made a purchase.

Luckily, some new tools have been invented to help you judge the effectiveness of your keywords in individual search engines. There is now software available that analyzes consumer behavior in relation to consumer traffic. This allows you to discern which keywords are bringing you the most valuable customers.

This is an essential concept: numbers alone do not make a good keyword; profits per visitor do. You need to find keywords that direct consumers to your site who actually buy your product, fill out your forms, or download your product. This is the most important factor in evaluating the efficacy of a keyword or phrase, and should be the sword you wield when discarding and replacing ineffective or inefficient keywords with keywords that bring in better profits.

Ongoing analysis of tested keywords is the formula for search engine success. This may sound like a lot of work - and it is! But the amount of informed effort you put into.

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Increasing Your Search Engine Ranking

2008-03-24T22:06:00.000-07:00

The methods employed to increase your search engine rankings may seem like rocket science to you, so you have probably avoided dealing with this issue. I am here to tell you - the time has come to face your website! A high search engine ranking for your website is so essential that if you have the slightest desire to actually succeed in your business, there is no way you can continue to avoid this issue.

At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the Internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages
for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted customers to your site who will be more than likely to make a purchase. The higher your page comes up in search engine results, the greater the traffic that is directed to your website. That's what search engine optimization is about.

You can immerse yourself in all the technical information available online to figure out how to optimize your web pages to achieve higher rankings. Or you can look at a few simple items on your pages, make some small adjustments, and most likely see improved rankings quite rapidly. The first item you should examine is the title bar on your homepage.

The title bar is the colored bar at the top of the page. Look at the words that appear there when you access your home page. To increase search engine rankings, the words on your homepage's title bar should include the most important keywords or phrases, one of which would include your company name.

Then click on all your links and examine the title bars on the pages you access. Each title bar on every single page of your site should contain the most important keywords and phrases taken from the page itself. However, avoid very long strings of keywords, keeping them to six words or less. Avoid repeating keywords more than once in the title bars, and make sure that identical words are not next to each other.

The next item to put under your microscope is your website content. Search engines enerally list sites that contain quality content rather than scintillating graphics. The text on your site must contain the most important keywords - the words that potential customers will be typing into search engines to find your site.

Aim to have around 250 words on each page, but if this is not desirable due to your design, aim for at least 100 carefully chosen words. If you want to achieve a high ranking on search engines, this text is essential. However, the search engines must be able to read the text, meaning
that the text must be in HTML and not graphic format.

To find out if your text is in HTML format, take your cursor and try to highlight a word or two. If you are able to do this, the text is HTML. If the text will not highlight, it is probably in graphic form. In this case, ask your webmaster to change the text into HTML format in order to increase your search engine rankings.

Next we come to what is called meta tags. I know this sounds like something out of science fiction, but it is really just simple code. Many people believe that meta tags are the key to high search engine rankings, but in reality, they only have a limited effect. Still, it's worth adding
them in the event that a search engine will use meta tags in their ranking formula.

To find out if your page is set up with meta tags, you must access the code. To do this, click the "view" button on the browser menu bar, and select "source." This will pull up a window revealing the underlying code that created the page. If there are meta tags, they usually appear near the top of the window. For example, a meta tag would read: meta name="keywords" content=. If you do not find code that reads like this, ask your webmaster to put them in. This
may not do much for your search engine rankings, but any little boost helps.

Lastly, we come to the issue of link popularity. This is a factor that is extremely important in terms of search engine rankings. Almost all search engines use link popularity to rank your website. Link popularity is based on the quality of the sites you have linked to from your
links page.

If you type in "free link popularity check" in a popular search engine, the search engine will then show you what sites are linked to your site. In the case that there aren't many sites linked up to yours, or that the sites that are linked up have low search engine rankings, consider launching a link popularity campaign. Essentially, this entails contacting quality sites and requesting that
they exchange links with your site. Of course, this requires checking out the rankings of the websites you want to link up with. Linking to popular, quality sites not only boosts your search engine ranking, but it also directs more quality traffic to your website.

Search engine rankings are extremely important for a successful Internet marketing campaign. Before you go out and hire a search engine optimization company, try taking some of the simple steps listed above, and see if you can't boost your rankings yourself. Don't ever ignore this
all-important factor in Internet marketing. Remember, the higher your search engine ranking, the more quality customers will be directed your way.

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How to save money on the Adwords network

2008-03-13T19:44:00.000-07:00

Over the years I have had many accounts with Adwords, spending a small fortune with the Adwords service. So naturally I have picked up many cost saving tricks. I am aware that most people feel Adwords costs too much and delivers little results, this is completely untrue. Adwords is a service that is here to help us, so I have written this article to help web developers make the most out of the service.

1) Set your currency
First and foremost, select the currency of which you locally trade in. You may think its wise to start your Adwords account in USD, but if you do not live in the USA you may get a shock when you find how much you have been charged.

2) Use negative keywords,
You are using the Adwords service to generate website traffic, so obviously you want the right traffic to generate revenue. Start by using negative keywords for people whom you do not want to click on your advert, the best place to start is the keyword “free”. As I doubt you want to waste money on traffic that will not generate revenue.

3) Make a strict daily budget
Make sure you have set out a daily budget, Adwords generally advise a way out of proportion budget. After all most new Adwords customers have no idea how effective the advertising will be. Do not start off with a bang, your pocket will feel it.

Just as important as the budget, be careful with the CPC rate. I advise you to start with a low number, each click soon adds up very quickly. I actually found that by lowering my CPC rate by 50% I doubled my visitor count…

4) Check those clicks!
One of the most talked about problem with Adwords is, click fraud. There are two main types of click fraud: the first is when any one starts clicking away at your advertisements trying to waste your money. It is very hard to stop this kind of fraud, if you are a victim stop your ads and file a report to Google ASAP.

The second main issue is now that google allows Web Developers to earn money off their websites by placing ads (Adsense) .some Web Developers try to cheat the system by clicking on their ads as much as possible. The best way to stop this kind of fraud is check your page log, Adwords allow you to block out websites that you do not want your advert to be placed on.

Adwords does not have many protections against Click fraud, although they do disable Adsense accounts who cheat. Google are very hesitant to refund the victims, if at all. Reports tell many organisations are actually suing Google to get their money back, so be careful.

In this article I have illustrated some of the most beneficial ways to save money when advertising with Adwords. My main advice to you is, do not go crazy with your spending. You may not see the results you are after, it does take a while to get to know Adwords. I have had many successful ad campaigns using the Adwords network. However I do advise to look around, with the ever growing popularity of MSN search you may actually find it much more affordable.

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Why You Need an Article Marketing Strategy Before Posting a Single Article Online

2008-03-02T22:05:00.000-08:00

First, Define your Bulls Eye
If you’re going to write and post articles on the Internet, be unambiguous about what you expect them to accomplish. Don’t start writing just yet. Think beyond the mechanics of writing an article or deciding where to post it.

It’s one thing to spin out an article or two. It’s quite another to incorporate them into a strategy that builds your website traffic, reputation, and business. All your marketing methods should work together - online and off.

Your Strategy Clarifies:
- Who you’re trying to reach - How to find them
- What you want them to do next (does your website support that aim?)
- Your primary goal and message
- How articles (with particular titles and keywords) mesh with your other marketing

Article marketing is nothing more than a way to get information (not advertising) broadly distributed on the Internet. It can’t compensate for a muddled or dull message. And it won’t build your site traffic unless it connects to readers in an interesting way.

Write Articles that Trumpet a Unique Business Message
A frequent business error is treating each customer- attracting activity as though it stands alone. Yet each method works better when echoing a common message that links to the others.

To quote Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads,
http://www.wizardofads.com "It’s hard to tell a powerful story badly. But it’s easy to tell a weak story well. I’ve never seen a business fail because they were "reaching the wrong people." But I’ve seen thousands fail because they were saying the wrong thing... It’s amazing how many people become the "right people" when you’re saying the right thing. Believe it or not, it’s advertising third, customer delight second, strategy always first."

Maximize your Customer-Attracting Methods
Last year I wrote an ebook showing how to make the business website and Yellow Page ad work together to bring new customers. It made the point that each promotional method has its own strengths, and reaches different groups http://www.yellowpagesage.com/smarts.html By them working together, each approach does a more persuasive job.

As an example, the directory ad should display a website address. A recent study found that over 60% of people surveyed only call Yellow Page ads that show a website (even if they don’t intend to visit it). Besides, the website lets the business provide information that won’t fit within the dimensions of an ad.

A single approach can’t cover all your bases. The same applies to article marketing.

Article Marketing Strengths
- Ability to deliver an interesting "sample" of your expertise
- Long enough to be informative (600-800 words)
- Reaches and speaks to tightly focused interest groups
- Quickly delivers the message throughout the Internet
- Long shelf life - some websites keep articles posted for years
- Builds on the keywords that your website uses
- Incoming-links from websites that post your articles

Plan More than One Article at a Time
You can’t develop much momentum with one article. That’s like shooting a gun with a single bullet, or a PPC (pay-per- click) campaign for just one term. The odds of hitting your mark aren’t too good. Several articles written to reinforce each other generate more mileage. As you get more articles out there, people start paying attention, and you can target more keywords. Repeated publications develop a personality that readers recognize.

Plan a number of titles in advance, with a theme building from one to the next. Keep each one tightly focused, but related to the others. In that way, you develop the in-depth "voice" of an expert. And your information won’t lapse into ho-hum generalities. Write first-rate articles when you rely on the extensive free resources http://www.promotewitharticles.com at Article Marketing Academy.

Try writing some in a series (like, Part 1 of 3 parts) to build anticipation for future segments. Also, your message won’t be confined to the 600 to 800 word article limit. Since each article in the series resides on your website, readers needn’t wait to read them all (giving them an incentive to visit your site). Later, the whole series can be offered as a special report or ebook (once related material is added).

Write with your keywords in mind. Maintain your primary message, with a different twist for parallel niches. Go to the extra effort to say something new. That’s easy when you provide stories, examples, case studies from your own experience. As you dish out practical assistance in your articles, readers will be eagerly watching for your next ones.

© Lynella Grant, 2005
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Generating Traffic On A Budget

2008-02-25T18:25:00.000-08:00

Most webmasters keep their prized web traffic generating systems to themselves or charge an arm and a leg. I am one of the guys in the trenches. Before I share with you the simplest and easiest methods to generate website traffic I will begin with a little background information.

I have several websites and in the past ten years I have worked with gurus that promised to deliver traffic to my sites. In fact I have paid from $200 to over $2,000 for traffic to my sites. I had one person that charged a reasonable fee and my traffic went from 500 visitors to 8,000 visitors. Three years later his fee wasn’t that reasonable, but I decided to go ahead and try another website. After three months and two thousand dollars I saw no results.

As many people know the search engines create algorithms so nobody can beat the system. The gurus figure a way around this and charge lots of money to drive traffic to your site. Then the dance continues and the search engines create new algorithms. Next thing you know you are going back to the guru or searching for someone new.

Many of us have been sold a bill of goods about generating traffic to our websites and the lure of getting on the top ten. I can tell you from personal experience that I have been in the top ten and it wasn’t that big of an impact. The hook the gurus use to charge a higher fee is the number of keywords you need to get in the top ten. After a while you’ll realize that ONE keyword may have over one hundred variations.

Working with gurus creates a roller coaster of traffic to your website. Your traffic and sales are dependent on the gurus and the search engines algorithms. When you stop working with the gurus, or their magic isn’t working, your website traffic and sales hit bottom.

Yes there are rewards working with gurus, but you better have a hot site that sells. Start with methods that cost less and allow your traffic to build. Check your status reports to learn more about your visitors and the keywords they used to find you. A good hosting provider will offer this with your hosting package.

A wise marketer once told me that it was best to get off the roller coaster and put my money into methods that build steady website traffic. As an owner of a website, you learn how to update your own pages so you are not dependent on someone to update your website. The same goes for generating website traffic. When you take the time and invest in building traffic on a regular basis, then you will be free from the gurus and the search engines algorithms.

The simplest and time proven techniques that take very little time are your best answers. One method I know you have heard over and over is submitting articles. Let me give you the WHY submitting articles is important. When you are found in the search engines you are just another listing on all those pages. When submitting articles, I get a loyal audience that reads my articles each week. In fact, when they visit another website and see other articles I have written on other topics, it builds more credibility, rapport, link popularity and traffic.

Generating website traffic is using a combination of methods. Submitting to the search engines is still important, but it is only a part of your overall traffic building strategy. With most search engines it may take one to three months to see results.

Now here is the INSIDE INFORMATION most gurus won’t tell you. I am using a traffic generating system that is available to anyone at no cost. In fact it is simple to implement and takes only ten minutes of your time to set-up. This system is instant and you will see an immediate increase in your traffic and it you can verify your results with your own status reports.

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3 Ways To Swarm Your Website With Highly Targeted Traffic For FREE!

2008-02-18T16:54:00.000-08:00

Targeted website traffic is the lifeblood of any website looking to generate revenue. While FREE traffic from the search engines seems the most logical way to go, actually staying ahead of the game can be tough. Here are my top 3 ways to send your traffic counter spinning without the headaches.

1. Trading Links With Other Webmasters:

By mutually agreeing with another webmaster to trade link exposure on each others site, you're expanding your market reach significantly. Not only does this generate instant traffic from the link partner, but you'll also BOOST your Google PR and link ranking with other search engines as a bonus.

This helps you rank better in the listings, generating even more FREE traffic, without doing any complicated SEO.

There are some great tools to help you get started trading links. Some of them are even free. I don't recommend them personally because annoying banners or other types of ads compete for the same space, doesn't look very professional.

Alternatives to FREE software worth checking out are...

The ALMIGHTY Zeus - The one I use. Tough to get used to, but an excellent piece of kit. The darn thing learns and just keeps getting smarter the more you use it. (And a FREE trial so you can become a master before you buy)
http://www.cyber-robotics.com

Reciprocal Link Manager - Not as sophisticated as Zeus but much easier to learn if you're pressed for time.
http://reciprocal-manager.com/

Axandra's Arelis - Lots of great reviews for this one and more in the Zeus mould.
http://www.axandra-link-popularity-tool.com/index.htm

2. Writing Articles to Publish Online:

This technique is a very close second to my favourite one which I'll share in just a moment. The amount of exposure you can get from writing a simple article is astounding.

After you've written it up, you submit to the major article directories, then just sit back and watch the traffic stream in.

As an added bonus you start to gain more respect within your industry. Articles have this uncanny knack to create an aura of expertise around the writer.

You also benefit yet again with search engine ranking, as other webmasters with mailing lists publish your article on their site. Creating yet another link back to you.

Articles are a VERY effective pre-selling technique too.

How much more targeted would a prospect be arriving at your website after reading one of your articles in an email or on another site?

Not only did you get the recommendation from the publisher, but if they enjoy reading your article and get some value from it, you've already broken down one of the main barriers of selling...

TRUST!

Here are some cool resources to get stuck into:

Editorial guidelines:
http://ezinearticles.com/editorial-guidelines.html

Some great "How To" advice:
http://www.promotewitharticles.com/howto.html

And a nice BIG list of directories and announcement lists:
http://www.marketingchick.com/howto/article-marketing.shtml

3. Viral Marketing:

Viral Marketing is defined as “Any advertising that propagates itself the way viruses do”; E.g. When Hotmail users send e-mails, they “infect” the recipients with the tagline at the bottom of their messages.

If you UNLEASH a 'Viral Marketing' campaign, it will just keep on multiplying, spreading your message around the web like wildfire. I absolutely LOVE this method of sending quality traffic to my website for FREE.

Generating free traffic with 'Viral Marketing' is easily the most rewarding use of your time. Taking good steps to craft the right offer and layout of your 'Viral Marketing' message is essential. But get it right, and not only will a truck-load of qualified visitors come to your website, but an air of respect and expertise is generated around you and your business.

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How Do I Drive Traffic To A Brand New Website?

2008-02-11T18:33:00.000-08:00

Every single day, more and more people upload brand new websites to the Internet. I don't have any figures but there must be hundreds of thousands of new pages being added daily (if not considerably more!)

The one thing that all of these new websites need in order to make their existence worthwhile is traffic, which leads me to one of the most common questions I am asked and the subject of this newsletter:

'How can you generate traffic to a brand new website?'

Of course, there are a number of different answers to this question and what I would do myself is probably very different to what a completely new Internet entrepreneur would do. The reason I say this is that the first thing I do when launching a new site is make use of my existing website traffic by advertising the new site on my other established sites. In addition, I have the luxury of a large mailing list which I can use to drive traffic to the new site.

I appreciate that anyone starting out in online business won't have these options open to them (and in fairness, neither did I when I first started), so let's look at things from the beginning. Day one of your first website.....

It is a fact that the quickest and probably most effective way of bringing targeted traffic to your website is by paying for it. Now before you rush off and sink $50 into one of those '50,000 hits for $50' schemes, DON'T, this isn't what I mean. Those schemes are largely a complete waste of money. Even if you get the traffic that you are promised (as opposed to some software script visiting your site and pretending to be a visitor), it will not be targeted and therefore there is a very low chance that the traffic will generate sales. When I talk about buying traffic, I mean by using the pay- per-click services offered by most of the big search engines.

You probably already know the sort of thing I mean - for example, Google Adwords. Pretty much any search on Google will display a list of adverts down the right-hand side of the page and these are all paid adverts. Every time you click on one of them, the advertiser pays Google a fixed amount which could be anything from 5 cents upwards (depending upon how competitive the keyword is).

Pay-per-click allows you to be very selective about which keywords your advert is shown for and this allows you to target your advertising perfectly. Other big names in the pay-per-click market include Overture, Espotting and Findwhat.

Now, before you all start emailing me and saying that you already knew about PPC let me just say that I am well aware that people know about it. The problem (as I see it), is that people aren't using this type of service because of the fact that they don't want to spend any money on advertising. That's all well and good but the fact is that the Internet is getting more and more competitive each day and the chances of you building a successful website business from scratch without investing any money are tiny to say the least.

If you want to attract a decent level of traffic to a brand new website in a short period of time, it is almost a necessity that you use pay-per-click on one of the main search engines. If you don't, then the growth of your traffic levels will be painfully slow and inconsistent at best.

When I launched my very first websites I invested heavily in pay-per-click advertising. At one point, I was spending over $6000 a month on Google Adwords alone!!! Seriously I really was spending that much money. It was a constant battle to tweak the website sales copy and continue to test the advertisement text just to make sure that my sales were covering the advertising payments each month. At the time I was probably just about breaking even but buying traffic in this quantity meant that I was able to fine-tune my sales pages and start to build up a list of mailing list subscribers.

Once you have got to the stage where you know your sales pages are converting visitors into buyers, then you can start to gear up with other methods of getting traffic to your site - writing articles, linking strategies, viral methods (ebooks etc), using your eBay 'About Me' page, using your link as a signature when you post on forums etc. All of these methods will win you traffic (and in most cases it will be completely free) but it will take time for the traffic to build to a worthwhile level. If you rely solely on free traffic, you really will be building your business one hit at a time.

Of course, once the free methods of gaining traffic start to pay off, you can begin to wind down your paid methods, though you may not want to - after all, if you are earning more in sales than you are paying for your pay-per-click traffic, why stop it?

As your portfolio of websites grows, you will also be able to share the traffic around a bit by linking to your own sites and of course, if you are capturing your visitors email addresses, you will be building a mailing list of people interested in the products you are offering.

Like I say, I appreciate that the above may not be the ground-breaking secret that you were hoping for but as with so many things online, there really is no secret. Achieving success is simply about taking action and whilst you can succeed online by spending very little money, the chances are that you will succeed a lot quicker by making a bit of an investment. You don't have to be spending thousands of dollars a month as I was but any new business owner should be prepared to invest a few hundred dollars a month in order to get things off the ground....

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Get More Website Traffic

2008-01-30T16:46:00.000-08:00

If you’re an online marketer and own a website, you know the key to making sales is getting more traffic to your website. You also know all website traffic is not created equal. You not only need lots of web traffic, you need lots of targeted traffic. That’s the key and once you have it, your sales will increase exponentially.

The best way to get targeted website traffic is to use Pay-per-Click (PPC) services such as Google AdWords, or Yahoo or a host of other pay services. You also need to know what you’re doing or you could find yourself spending lots of money, getting poor results and losing money very quickly. Also, when you’re first starting out, you have a limited budget, and starting with PPC campaigns may not even be an option for you at this point in time.

That’s where free traffic exchanges come in. Free traffic exchanges can be a great way to get traffic to your website. You should also know there’s really no such thing as free because you must spend your time surfing through other websites to earn credits. Free traffic exchanges are a great way to get lots of visitors to your site however, so spending an hour a day surfing, is not a lot to ask if you’re making sales from your efforts. And isn’t this why your in this business to begin with?

Free traffic exchanges are a great marketing tool for a many reasons. The best reason is that you get lots of people looking, and hopefully clicking on your website or promotional pages. But there are hidden benefits to free traffic exchanges you may not have even considered.

Search engines love free traffic exchanges because of all the incoming and outgoing links they generate. Plus the rapidly changing content is another reason the search engines love traffic exchanges. Exchanges that have more content also generate a higher page rank, and therefore more traffic, and increased memberships. The key is to find exchanges that are very active and have lots of members. The more members they have, the more potential customers you get looking at your offer and your chances for sales conversions are that much better. But bigger isn’t always better.

Some free traffic exchanges may do very well for one marketer, and be a complete waste of time for another. If everyone were promoting the same website or affiliate program in the same traffic exchange for example, then chances are you would not make many sales. Even if you were promoting the best product or service on the internet, if everyone promoted the same thing, your chances of someone purchasing through your website or links, are slim to none. Also, when people see the same ad over and over again, they get desensitized to it. Don't fall into this trap. It's one thing to try and sell a very popular product/service/ebook etc, but it's another thing when a million other people are trying to do it too. Competition is a good thing, because it validates your market, but too much competition is tough and it's time to move on to something else.

We all know clicking on ads in a free traffic exchange can be very boring, monotonous and can take a lot of time. That's why you need to make the best of your opportunity or you will just be wasting a lot of your time and effort on something that just isn't working. If you have your own niche website, then you already differentiated yourself from the pack. If you are an affiliate marketer, then you need to find products/services that everyone else isn't promoting, especially within that particular traffic exchange.

One way to use free traffic exchanges to your advantage is to join a few at first, and see if your sales pick up. If your sales aren’t doing well, then test out a few more. When you do find a few traffic exchanges that appear to be generating sales for you, then narrow those down until you find the one, or two that are working. Now concentrate your efforts on those because they’re the ones you want. At least for now anyway. Things may change, so keep an eye on your campaigns and if sales seem to be falling off, then it might be time to change your offer or find another traffic exchange that could pick your profits up again.

As I mentioned, your individual promotion is everything. If you're trying to promote something everyone else is, I don't care what traffic exchange service you're using, your sales conversions are going to be very low, or nothing at all. You cannot always blame the exchange. Sometimes you have to look at yourself and think if you're doing all you can to make sales.

If you're going to use multiple free traffic exchanges, and I recommend that you do, you should get yourself a multi-tab web browser. Many of these browsers are free and run on PCs and MACs. The tabs feature allows you to have one web browser open with multiple tabs each going to a separate website. You could easily put 5 or 6 of your free exchange sites in these tabs, and earn credits for all of them at the same time. So instead of surfing for 1/2 an hour or an hour earning 200 hits for one exchange, you could earn 200 hits for 5 exchanges in the same amount of time. This is a huge time saver and multiplies your earned hits by 5X or 6X.

Getting free traffic to your website can be a lot of work. If you don’t have the money to spend on full blown PPC (pay-per-click) campaigns like Google AdWords or Yahoo, free traffic exchanges are a great way to get the traffic you need, for Free!

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Andrew Daigle is owner and creator of TrumpTraffic.com, a Free Traffic Exchange http://www.trumptraffic.com, DXInOne Free Training Site and Forum http://www.dxout.comand Google AdWords Training http://www.adwording.com

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2008-01-25T17:55:00.000-08:00

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2008-01-25T17:48:00.000-08:00

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- When a searcher types one of your keywords into a Yahoo! search box, your ad appears.
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