tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57590982950258247512024-02-06T22:32:48.695-08:00E-Marketing GuideThe proven ways of building your online marketing businessBroken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-36843255881823742202010-03-28T13:33:00.000-07:002010-03-28T13:33:34.134-07:00Link Building To Your Site<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphqaJkfi4okazaeoPCKUZcpL9eHIwEZ3Dzw03BiucBI6idos4p-hi7k0MuMELJc-h8cGCe91FIfgPmj9yXvkXXA5o26rXYO0a7o5k9DkIz5WkYqs9AFclNNr82CQpw_MTK3M8JDu54wM/s1600/link-building.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiphqaJkfi4okazaeoPCKUZcpL9eHIwEZ3Dzw03BiucBI6idos4p-hi7k0MuMELJc-h8cGCe91FIfgPmj9yXvkXXA5o26rXYO0a7o5k9DkIz5WkYqs9AFclNNr82CQpw_MTK3M8JDu54wM/s320/link-building.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Over the years there has been lots of discussion in the SEO community regarding link building to a web site. The debate is particularly heated at the moment, as Google rolls out its "Jagger" upgrade. <br />
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Let's start with what we mean by inbound links, also called backlinks. These are links from other sites to your URL, which direct the surfer directly to your site when the link is clicked. The basic premise is that if you have high ranking sites linking to you, then you must yourself be important and have valuable content, and hence you should rank highly. The way in which Google ranks sites is called Pagerank and can be seen as a green line on the Google Toolbar representing ranks 0 to 10. As Google states <br />
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PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." <br />
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Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query. <br />
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So, back to the question "Does having inbound links to your site help your site's credibility", and hence visibility when searched. The broad answer to this question is "yes", but with a number of very important caveats which we will cover in the other sections. <br />
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OK, so backlinks are basically good, especially from high ranking sites, so how do we get them? The first way, and best way, is by having such great content on your site that all these high-powered sites want to link to you. Downside to this method is that it is slow and takes lots of time and effort on your part. But don't worry, when anyone tries to build a level playing field there are always people out there that will provide work-arounds. <br />
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The first one was reciprocal links, whereby you say that you will link to a site if they also link to you. That's stretching the original idea, but it's not too bad because how many of these sort of links are you going to set up? Well, actually, some people have created thousands of such links between sites, maybe not what Google initially intended! <br />
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But then, due to the emphasis Google placed on link popularity, the concept of link farms was born. These are sites that link to other sites purely to increase the links to the site. Pay a few dollars and get thousands of links to your site. Too good to be true - you bet. Google hates link farms and sees these links as spam and will actively penalise sites that use such links. So, the first rule of linking is do not use link farms. The second rule is do not use lots of reciprocal links, Google can easily check this and the "Jagger" update that is currently rolling out seems to be particularly focused on penalising sites with lots of reciprocal links. The jury is still out on whether "themed" links will be treated in the same way. "Themed" links are links to sites that are very closely aligned to the same primary topic as your own site. If you think about this, it makes a lot of sense and is much more likely to be based on real content-based linking. <br />
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We believe another area Google is focusing on is how quickly your site gains backlinks. If your site is one month old, it is hardly believable for it to gain 100 real backlinks in that time. So, the third rule of linking is to ensure your links build in a realistic way. In all of these ways, Google is trying to ensure fairness and that's why new sites are often held back in the results pages. <br />
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Finally, we should mention the sites that will improve your ranking - the Directories. There are many of these, but the most important is DMOZ, also known as the ODP. DMOZ is the Open Directory Project and is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. It gets the name DMOZ from the acronym for Directory Mozilla, as it is administered by Netscape Communication Corporation. It's Pagerank is 9 and hence a link from DMOZ will help your site. We recommend that everyone visits http://dmoz.org and attempts to get listed, it's free. The Yahoo directory is also important and free for non-commercial sites, but $299 a year for business. <br />
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So, in summary, by far the best way of getting links is by having a quality site that other people want to link to. So again, we are back to content. If you provide quality information, over time, more and more sites will link to you, and if they are in the same business sector as you, so much the better. <br />
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And now a poem <br />
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Written by my partner, reflecting the Jagger update. <br />
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Just when you thought it was safe, <br />
To step once more into the water, <br />
Google throws in an undertow, <br />
For doing things you didn’t oughta, <br />
Just when the surfboard is glistening, <br />
And you're ordering champagne, <br />
Google has been quietly listening, <br />
And feels you need more pain, <br />
Those link farms you visited, <br />
Weren't health farms after all <br />
Reciprocal now is the term <br />
For what Big G's doing to you all, <br />
Your trillions of two way linkages <br />
Now millstones to make you stagger, <br />
Your new nightmare shrinkages, <br />
Brought to you today by Jagger, <br />
A strident voice proclaiming links, <br />
Are running quickly out of time, <br />
Under the boardwalk of history, <br />
Lying decimated all down the line, <br />
This will not be the last time, <br />
That your website is torn and frayed, <br />
That Google will paint it black, <br />
Or the devils sympathy card is played, <br />
Just shine a light on your website, <br />
Is it still under your thumb? <br />
Or is it hijacked like flight 505, <br />
By others who would become, <br />
Your link promoting partners, <br />
Who just ask your link return, <br />
And now you owe the reaper, <br />
And your harvest starts to burn, <br />
Simmering in the torrid glare, <br />
Of a Google bent on being cool, <br />
Where everyone should fight fair, <br />
Everyone obey the golden rule, <br />
And slowly and inexorably we move, <br />
Out of shadow and into light, <br />
With every upgrade evening up, <br />
The distance twixt wrong and right, <br />
And every route 66 drives towards, <br />
Eliminating devious spam-like crimes, <br />
And ever inexorably inches forward, <br />
Towards its own stated guidelines.<br />
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It’s thus no surprise to know that professional SEO today is big business and this industry is growing at a fast pace. There are however many different types of SEO firms out there and finding a reliable service can be a daunting task.<br />
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Search engine optimization firms employ varying methods to get high rankings for websites and not all of these techniques are considered ethical. With the increasing number of ‘black hat’ SEO firms, (companies using unethical and unfair methods and techniques to manipulate search engines), and the thin line between actual ‘black hat’ and ‘white hat’ SEO practices, it is crucial to be well informed of the methodology the company plans to use for your website before you decide to hire them.<br />
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Here are 8 simple tips to help you in your evaluation and selection of a trustworthy and professional search engine optimization service: <br />
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1.Educate yourself with the basics <br />
Make sure to do your homework carefully before you venture out to hire a SEO service. It’s imperative you understand in advance exactly what a firm can and will do for you to enable you to evaluate them. There are several resources online dedicated to search engine marketing and search engine optimization and taking the time to understand and learn the basics will go a long way.<br />
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2.Fee structures and your budget <br />
There are no standardized fee structures and most companies offer a range of packages instead. A package may in itself contain a variety of services like keyword research, optimization of a certain number of pages, directory submissions etc. Selecting a company should not be only about cost. A firm that charges more may not necessarily be better at SEO and likewise a firm that charges less may not necessarily be providing you the same services. Use prudence while understanding pricing models and the risks behind them. One way to go about deciding what your budget should be is to first identify your website’s and business’ unique needs, tailor a package to meet these requirements and then compare firms’ pricing models to decide a realistic baseline budget.<br />
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3.Size and specialty of the firm <br />
Depending on the size of your website and requirements of your company, it might be a good idea to check out whether the firm is adequately staffed and what their customer to SEO team ratio is.<br />
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Another important thing is to ensure that the company specializes in all areas of SEO and has a team of professionals experienced and accomplished in each of the areas including design, development and actual coding.<br />
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4.Location <br />
The location of the firm largely depends on your comfort level. You may favor a local company or one at least within your country or prefer to outsource completely to another country to benefit from their lower costs. There are also few companies using a blended offshore delivery model with marketing and client services offices in one country and the actual design and development work being done in another. With the combination of lower costs plus client servicing available within reach, this upcoming balanced model may be a good option to consider.<br />
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5.Client testimonials and references <br />
References are a great way to start and should be freely available. If they haven’t been provided, ask and make sure to use them to find out exactly how credible and trustworthy the company really is based on their past client’s experiences.<br />
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6.Guarantees <br />
Most firms won’t guarantee top position results and shouldn’t. It is justifiable for a company to guarantee increasing your traffic or rankings from its current positions; however if any SEO service is guaranteeing you a specific position/ranking in any search engine, make sure you read the fine print of the agreement.<br />
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7.Ethics / Spam <br />
Ethics is of paramount importance when it comes to selecting a search engine optimization company. There are a variety of unethical practices a firm can use right from while selling their services to you, to, the actual methods they employ while optimizing your site (keyword stuffing, cloaking, etc to name a few). Make sure to ask as many questions as possible and specifically about the methodology they use. If the firm does not offer you ready explanations of the process they undertake to optimize websites, you probably need to look elsewhere.<br />
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8.Reporting and success measurement <br />
Some of the key questions to ask – How long will it take to see results? What type of reports will the SEO firm furnish and how often? How will success be measured? Will a maintenance plan be included?<br />
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It is largely up to you to define the goal and success level of your SEO campaign. It may be an increase in the traffic to your site, potential leads from a mailing list subscription, or an increase from last years sales. Make it a point to discuss and articulate your goals with the SEO firm and come to an agreement before you hire them. It is however important to set realistic expectations. Unlike PPC and other forms of paid advertising, SEO is a time consuming process, both in terms of implementation as well as results.<br />
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To conclude, hiring a SEO services firm can have a significant impact on your company’s bottom line, however the decision to partner with a particular SEO firm should only ensue after a careful evaluation of the firm and after you have done the groundwork necessary to help you decide your own goals for the program.<br />
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Beginning this week, all ads leading to sites on hosted domains will need to have display URLs that accurately reflect their destinations.<br />
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Let's say I wanted to create an ad linking to this blog: <a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/">http://adwords.blogspot.com</a>. In the past, <a href="http://blogspot.com/">blogspot.com</a> would have been an acceptable display URL. Because there are so many independent blogs hosted on <a href="http://blogspot.com/">http://blogspot.com</a> however, we now require the display URL to reflect the specific blog reached upon clicking the ad– in this case:<a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/">adwords.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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Incorrect:<br />
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Destination URL: <a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/">http://adwords.blogspot.com</a><br />
Display URL: <a href="http://blogspot.com/">blogspot.com</a><br />
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Correct:<br />
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Destination URL:<a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/"> http://adwords.blogspot.com</a><br />
Display URL: <a href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/">adwords.blogspot.com</a><br />
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Going forward, ads that don't include this additional information in their display URLs will be disapproved. A suggested display URL will be provided in the disapproval email notification, but we encourage you to proactively adjust any ads that you think might be affected by this change.<br />
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If you'd like to learn about this policy in greater detail, please </span></span><a href="https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/static.py?hl=en-au&topic=23208&page=guidelines.cs&answer=47173&adtype=text&country=US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">visit the AdWords Help Center</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.<br />
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Thanks for your understanding, and for helping us to continue to improve the AdWords experience.</span></span><br />
<a dir="rtl" href="http://adwords.blogspot.com/2010/01/policy-adjustment-for-display-urls.html">Inside AdWords: Policy adjustment for display URLs</a>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-84816517370704280532009-12-18T19:38:00.000-08:002009-12-18T19:38:57.158-08:003 Tips For Building Traffic To Your Website<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"></span><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Doing business on the Internet is not much different from doing business anywhere else. If you are active and creative you will get success. If you have these two qualities it would be wise to use them to build traffic to your website. Getting traffic is not as easy as you might think. Although millions of people use the Internet, there are also millions of offerings out there. If you want to get a share of the visitors you will really have to work hard. To get you started here are some techniques that you can use to build traffic and also improve the search engine ranking of your site.<br />
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1. The best way to build traffic is to build an interesting website!<br />
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This doesn’t mean that we subscribe to the “build it and they will come” philosophy. However if your website has many pages of information, then each one of those pages will be packed with words and phrases that people will find when they make searches. On the other hand if you have only published a “brochure site”, a website that is a mirror image of an offline introductory brochure about your company, then there will not be much “spider food” on your site. That is, there will not be much for search engines to put in their data base, and you will not get much traffic from search engine queries.<br />
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Another consequence in building an interesting site is that other sites will link to you, viewing your site as an important resource. In fact, this is what Google had in mind when it set up its current ranking system. A site that is informative and filled with useful information will be noted and other sites will link to it. Each of these links is viewed by Google as a “vote” for that site. Make your site interesting, and people will link to it without you even knowing about it.<br />
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In addition, never underestimate the importance of word-of-mouth. If your site is interesting people will tell their friends and they will check out your site. A content rich site is the first secret of building traffic.<br />
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2. Publish some of your information on other websites<br />
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This is one of the most effective ways to build traffic. If your site is full of useful material, then other people will also want to publish it on their websites. Webmasters are hungry for content to beef up their sites and their newsletters.<br />
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Here are a few places where you can offer your content (but make sure that you put your url and contact information on each article, this is how you actually get the traffic).<br />
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You can first submit your article to article directories such as:<br />
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ZapContent<br />
<a href="http://www.zapcontent.com/">http://www.zapcontent.com</a><br />
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EZinearticles.com<br />
http://www.ezinearticles.com/<br />
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ArticleCity<br />
http://www.articlecity.com/<br />
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Or, you can use an article submission service such as http://www.isnare.com<br />
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3. Improve your search engine ranking with on-page and off-page optimization<br />
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While good content is an essential part of any traffic building strategy. It also helps to take steps to improve your ranking in search engines. If your content is not optimized it will not get the exposure that it deserves.<br />
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You can improve your search engine ranking by placing your important key search terms in the title tag, the description tag, in your site’s headlines, and in link text on your web pages. These are the on-page factors of website optimization. If you do this successfully your site’s search engine ranking for a particular keyword or keyword phrase will improve.<br />
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It is also important to work on off-page factors that are related to search engine positioning. Your ranking is partly determined by how many other websites link to you. If you have published your material elsewhere, then you will get a good amount of important links. If not, you may have to launch a reciprocal links campaign or place your site in paid directories in order to increase the number of incoming links to your website.<br />
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Creativity combined with activity is a good recipe for traffic building. Build your site as best you can, and then spread the word about it. Use these three tips and you are sure to succeed.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Early on, there were only comic books and video tapes that people brooded over to have a good laugh, but today there are so many websites available for the same. These websites are filled with funny crazy pictures, funny video clips and allow the user to surf through and watch any video they wish to. They can either watch the top rated ones or specify a search keyword and look for that one particular video. However, building a funny video website is not as easy as it seems. If an individual wants to create a website, they need to go through a rigorous process. And so, you can imagine the amount of details involved for a company to launch a website. Their main content would be based on humor and interactive flash games only.<br />
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Once a company decided to get into the funny video website category, they will need to assess the other websites already existing in the market and what they can offer that isn’t already there. As they discuss these issues with their team, they will also have to touch base with a good web hosting company to figure out if they can use their domain for the upcoming website. A funny videos website consumes a lot of bandwidth, so a dedicated server is usually required for hosting. The one thing to keep in mind is that every step of the way takes a lot of effort, so one must have a clear cut budget before delving into this pool. <br />
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A website needs bright appealing colors, simple easy to use layout and most importantly content that will catch the eye of the person browsing through the site. If they find it interesting, they will stop and spend couple of more minutes, else will move on to other websites. A good PHP or ASP programmer can do the customized coding and put in all the necessary links, but it is difficult to find someone who will understand your needs and create a site that satisfies your dreams. The funny images and videos that you put in your site should be unique and be humorous. Some also have the html code for the video to be embedded in other websites, like MySpace or Blogs. This will help your site stand out among the crowd and get people to notice it. Finding interested people to contribute to the funny crazy pictures, flash animation videos will take time for a start up venture. <br />
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Will there be categories to sort the videos into? For example, if a person wants to upload videos about his dogs, will your sites have a category labeled “Dog Videos”? This will come in handy when a new visitor is looking for funny videos related to dogs. This makes it easier for them to navigate through your site and find what interests them, making them stick around longer to browse the other features on your site.<br />
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Some of the crazy pictures and funny video clips on other sites have the option for the viewer to rate the video, and post a comment. These are added features that allow the user to feel important making them come back to the site. The company should therefore think through their plan and get their facts together before putting their site out to the public. And if it is not interesting, or the pictures aren’t funny enough, you will have lost a prospective member. It is therefore advisable for the company to spend time in doing their research to try and come up with an idea to outdo the other funny video websites.<br />
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</div>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-22500633050128248092009-12-09T07:49:00.000-08:002009-12-09T07:49:27.583-08:00An Easy Guide to Building Links to your Website<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;">Link Building is vital for a good placement in any search engine and most website owners are unaware of this or don't really understand how it actually works.<br />
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Apart from good Keyword research and the right meta tags, linking building is an absolutely must for the success of any website and is an on going process, so make sure your put some time aside for this on a weekly basis or pay some one with experience to do it for you.<br />
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Without it your website will certainly get no traffic.<br />
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There are 4 different types of Linking involved and each one is as important as the other.<br />
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If they are done correctly, they most certainly will give you a good ranking in the search engines.<br />
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They are :<br />
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Reciprocal Links <br />
Oneway Links <br />
MultiSite Links <br />
Directory Listings <br />
Reciprocal Linking<br />
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Quite simply - this is a link from your site to another and they link back to you. A bit of advise here is to only link to sites that are relevant to yours. i.e - If you are selling Cars - only link to Car websites, a link to a Health website will really do you no justice, and trust me I have seen hundreds of website owners make this mistake.<br />
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What's important here is not number of the links you have, but the quality and relevancy of the site your are linking back to. Be Selective and also take a good look at the sites linking to the site you want to link. It's really no good if this Car Site you want to link to has 40 reciprocal Links from Online Pharmacies.<br />
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How to Do this :<br />
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1. Pay a SEO Company to do it for you. ( recommended - but can be quite expensive )<br />
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2. Buy Them<br />
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3. Link Exchange Sites.<br />
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4. Search for them on your own <br />
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Important : Do not add to many reciprocal links to quickly, build it up gradually otherwise you will be penalized by the search engines, as it will be seen as un-natural. A good way to start is not more than 10 to 20 in one month. As your site gets older you can start adding more.<br />
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One Way Links<br />
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This is what the search engines call a natural link, and these links are given a far better ranking than a reciprocal link. The easiest way to do this is to write articles on what you are selling and then submit them to article directories with a link back to your website.<br />
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Website owners are always looking for content for their sites, and Article Directories are the easiest way for them to get content, with out them having to write them on their own. There are hundreds of these directories around and the more you submit to the quicker you will build up your one way links. It also is less time consuming than reciprocal linking and you will get far better results.<br />
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MultiSite Links<br />
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For this to be effective you need at least 3 to 4 websites to be involved in this. It is also seen as a natural link by the search engines and can be quite difficult to do if you only have one website. Although it can be done. You will just need to find 3 other websites that are interested.<br />
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How it works is this :<br />
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You link to site B, Site B links to site C, Site C links to site D and site D links back to you. This way all the sites get a link with out any of them creating a reciprocal link.<br />
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Directory Listings<br />
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This is also seen as a natural link as most directories don't require a link back. It's very simple and all you need to do is submit your site to as many directories as possible. There are thousand's of them on the Internet, so all it requires is a little bit of time and hard work. If you make it your goal to submit to one a day, the process won't become a tiresome.<br />
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Good Luck.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-16260936606283824962009-12-08T20:40:00.000-08:002009-12-08T20:47:19.373-08:00Blog And Ping Your Way To Traffic<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you have a website then you are certainly interested in having it do as well as it possibly can in the search engine rankings. However, did you know that you do have some control over getting good rankings and increasing your traffic? That is right; you can take your website’s success into your own hands and increase your traffic and income by blogging and pinging. Don’t know what blogging and pinging are? Read on to find out!<br />
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Blogging<br />
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A blog is just the short way of saying web log, which can be compared to an online journal or diary. However, blogs don’t have to be personal information. They can include news, thoughts, opinions, challenges, history, and anything the blogger wants. The most important aspect of a blog is that it is updated on a schedule and a regular basis with fresh new content. Some bloggers add new content once a week while others blog daily or multiple times per day. This is where increased search engine rankings come into play. Since there is always fresh new content the site is given heavier weight than if no new content were provided. This results in higher search engine rankings and increased traffic.<br />
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Pinging<br />
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A ping is simply a program that sends out a message to another server or computer in order to get a response. So, for instance, if you update your blog you want to ping the search engines so your pages are indexed and your site ranked higher. <br />
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Why Blog and Ping?<br />
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You probably know that if your website does not show up in the search engines you are unlikely to get a ton of a traffic, and if you have a website you want traffic. So, the best thing to do is write a regular blog, ping the search engines, and your site will get indexed significantly faster than it would otherwise. By putting in a little bit of extra work you are getting your site indexed with the search engines and inevitably more traffic.<br />
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There is a lot of free blog software out on the Internet that you can simply link to your site and start blogging. Including RSS feeds, which are the pings, means the search engines are going to know you are out there and as a result start indexing your site. So, if you want to increase your traffic start blogging and pinging and you will see a difference in traffic in a hurry.<br />
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</div>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-21141192597550193742009-11-04T13:50:00.000-08:002009-11-04T13:53:02.724-08:007 Strategies to Choosing an Effective Domain Name<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Your domain name is the beginning of the establishment of your presence online, The process of picking the "right" domain name takes some time and thought so that the domain name serves you well into the future. Here are 7 strategies you can use to pck an effective domain name:</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">A friend of mine calls me the "Domain Queen", since at one time I owned around 50 domains. I've let many of them go (I own only 22 now) as my business has changed and developed, or I've just simply lost interest in the project. I'm often asked how I go about picking effective domain names, so as the "Domain Queen", I'll share my thought process with you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">1.What's the purpose of the domain name? Are you planning on using this name as the main website for your company, as a one page sales letter site, or squeeze page site? If the domain name will be your primary company website, try and find the closest version to your company name that you can. If you're just starting out, choose your business name and domain name with care. When I started my virtual assistant practice, I chose the name SOHO Business Solutions, as I thought everyone knew that SOHO stood for Small Office, Home Office. I think I've run into 2 people in my 7 years in business who knew what that acronym stood for. If I had it to do over again for this business, I would choose a business name and domain name with virtual assistant in the title, like InternetMarketingVirtualAssistant.com, a name I just recently purchased.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">If the purpose of a domain is for a one-page sales letter site or a squeeze page, think ahead as to how you might promote this site. Because content is king in today's internet marketing world, there's little chance that either of these types of sites would be picked up by the search engines on key words. Therefore, your best promotion strategy is PPC, or "pay per click", where you're buying keywords for placement in search engines. If you're buying keywords from Google, for example, the paid listings appear at the top of a search in a blue box, or down the right-hand side of your screen. You want to be sure that the info displayed there is compelling enough to get someone to click and visit your site. So, for example, I've created a squeeze page, GetMoreClientsOnline.com, which has a compelling solution to a common problem that my clients have, as a side door gateway to my OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com coaching website.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">2. Brainstorm a list of ideas of the problem you're trying to solve or the solution that you have. A domain name that clearly indicates what you do, or a problem that you solve, or a solution that you have to a problem will give a visitor a fairly clear picture of what s/he'll find on your website. What I typically do is go to my domain registrar, www.UltraNetDomains.com, and just start plugging in the names I'm brainstorming until I come up with 3 or 4 that are available. If the domain name that you type in isn't available, the service will come up with 10 or so alternates for you to consider. I found this alternate listing quite helpful recently in picking the name of an article directory site that I want to create.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">3. For SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes, it helps to have your keywords in your domain name. Marla Regan, who's a professional organizer, has put two keywords in her domain name, OrganizedTime.com. Retirement Coach Lin Schreiber has her keyword niche in her domain, RevolutionizeRetirement.com. Consultant John Reddish has the desired outcome keywords in his domain, GetResults.com. I own a domain that I haven't yet developed for house sitters, BecomeAHouseSitter.com. Before buying your domain, make a list of keywords that someone might use to find you online. This list could include your industry, your target market or niche, a problem your target market has, or a solution that you can offer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">4. Shorter is better, if it's to be your primary domain. I haven't always followed my own rules here, as I tend to have business names that are quite lengthy. If the domain name is going to be your primary domain where your primary email address will be housed, you want your domain name to be as short, catchy, and memorable as possible. After a few times of spelling out your lengthy email address, you'll come to appreciate the beauty of a short domain name. Your domain name can contain up to 67 letters and numbers, although I would encourage you not to have one of this length, and can contain no special characters other than hyphens.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">5. Purchase your your given name as a domain name. I typically tell my clients not to try and brand their given name as their business name, as that takes many years, much money, and lots of hard work to have the name recognition of Oprah, for example. However, it still pays to purchase your given name as a domain name, as well as any common misspellings of your name. Many people think my name is Donna Gunther, with an "h" in the last name, but I've been unable to register that common misspelling of my name, as a photographer in Venice, CA, has owned in since 2000. Once you've purchased your name as a domain, you can redirect it to your primary website. This means that when someone types in a domain, they land at the website to which you pointed that domain. So, currently DonnaGunter.com redirects to OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com because I don't want to use my name as a website, although that might change in the future.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">6. Buy the .COM version of the name if it is available. When people hear a domain name, they "hear" .COM whether it's .NET or .BIZ or .ORG or whatever. So, it pays to find a domain name that you like that is part of the .COM family. If you just can't get the name you want, try a hyphenated version of the .COM name. For example, when I was seeking a domain name for my Self-Employment Coaching Gym, I really wanted SelfEmploymentSuccess.com, but it wasn't available. However, Self-Employment-Success.com was available, so I grabbed that. Many SEO specialists state that search engines like hyphenated names, and many online business owners use hyphenated keywords in their domain names to be more attractive to search engines. I don't have a clear answer as to the validity of this theory, so I just advocate going this route before having to resort to the .NET or .BIZ of the name you desire. Some domain name holders may be willing to sell you the domain name that you want. You can find out who owns a domain name by checking the WhoIs Registry at Internic, http://www.internic.net/whois.html. For info about country codes (two-letter) top-level domains (.UK or .CA, for example) visit http://www.uwhois.com/cgi/domains.cgi?User=NoAds</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">7. Consider owning other versions of your primary domain name. If you are registering the .COM version of a domain for your business, you may also want to secure variations of the name, alternate spellings, common misspellings, and the .NET and .ORG versions of your domain and repoint them to your main site to keep them out of the hands of your competitors. You can also go broke very quickly by purchasing all of these variations, so exercise some restraint in your purchases and don't go crazy with purchasing every single variation of your domain name. For my coaching company site, I own both the OnlineBizCoachingCompany.com and OnlineBusinessCoachingCompany.com and decided that was good enough.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Your domain name is the beginning of the establishment of your presence online, Take some time and put some thought into the process so that the domain name serves you well in the years to come, and is an effective tool for helping you get more clients online.</span><br /><br /></span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-37950547112760178592009-11-03T16:11:00.000-08:002009-11-03T16:12:53.726-08:00Changing Domain Name – The Best Way!<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Accept the fact that there are really some times that you need to change your domain name. Changing domain names is not in fact a very rare situation, but the fact that is widely common today. Many were now changing domain names for certain purposes, and along with that, many people were also encountering problems.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">The process of changing domain names, according to some veterans in the field of domain name, is somewhat very time-consuming and the potential for some mistakes is very huge. Well, every problem has its own solution, right? So a fairly simple solution and a safe alternative for a smooth and seamless switch in changing domain names is made possible through the application of the mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Now, what is a mod_rewrite and .htaccess file?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">According to certain studies, a mod_rewrite as it becomes important in changing domain names is an Apache module that grants the mode for the rewriting of the URL. Many considered this tool for changing domain names as transparent to the end-user and thus require no special software on the user’s end.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">In an instance of changing domain names, the user who applies the mod_rewrite in changing domain names will still see the old domain name in their browser address bar on the first page that they visit, but then will typically be seeing the content under the new domain name. By using the mod_rewrite in changing domain names will also provide you with a very user friendly search engine.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">On the other hand, the .htaccess file plays a role in changing domain names as containing particular Apache directives for specific requests, including security, redirection issues, and it also contains the answers on how to handle certain errors. Such function of the .htaccess file is very necessary in changing domain names for the reason that the Apache that it contains is a very common web server that helps a smooth and easy process of changing domain names.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">Knowing the facts about those two important tools, it is therefore important to note that before you do anything, you should consider some issues that surround such the domain name change. These issues must be considered for these will help for a smoother transition. So according to some experts for changing domain names, the first important move is to check the web host to make sure that they support the mod_rewrite module, otherwise the attempt procedure will not work. Then it follows that you must activate your new domain name. It is just necessary that you ensure that the file base construction and naming is accurately similar when it was under the old domain name.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;">After that, you create an .htaccess file. It is interesting to know that the .htaccess file in changing domain names can be done with a simple text editor like the notepad, and it should be noted that the file has no tail extension; the name should then be just .htaccess. If done, the syntax should then be inserted. Just be aware that when changing domain names, the old domain name will still appear in the browser window but you are viewing the content of the new domain name. Of course there are still some rules behind these steps for changing domain names, but unfortunately, that is beyond the scope of this article.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-6646362990112699662009-10-23T19:56:00.000-07:002009-11-03T03:52:43.428-08:00Internet Domain Name Registration Explained<div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >When we talk about the internet, we cannot escape the fact that one thing that is nice about the internet is that nobody really owns it. It is just a global collection of networks, both of those are big and small, that really link together in many various means just to create a certain formation or a single entity that we know today as “the internet”. Since the internet was born in 1969, it has grown from four host computer systems to hundreds of millions today. And due to such rapid growth, it is no doubt that there came a concept for domain name which ten opened up to the concept for the internet domain name registration.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So speaking of the internet domain name registration, you then should note that the term internet domain name registration has certain processes similar to a typical domain name registrations process. It is just termed as “internet domain name registration” since you are registering a domain name for the internet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So as it is commonly noted, the internet domain name registration is not a prolonged process. However, it is just important to know that for the internet domain name registration to become easy as it should be, the effort of those who are serious of obtaining a domain name is needed. It is in fact true that the success of the internet domain name registration depends on the level of effort that those wish to own a domain name exerted.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Since we are talking about an internet domain name registration here, you should be aware that the most suitable way of looking for a domain name registrar, since it is the foremost step that a domain name consumer should take, is by using the domain name search engines. In the world of internet domain name registration, domain name search engines are the most typical way of looking for a domain name registrar. So when it is done, or once the domain name consumer is in the domain name registrar’s site on the internet for an internet domain name registration, it is followed with an act of checking the accessibility of the desired domain name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Following to such move for an internet domain name registration, the domain name registrar will communicate with a certain domain name registry to ascertain if the requested domain name entered during the early process of internet domain name registration is accessible for purchase or the requested domain name is already bought by another party. So then it follows that if desired domain name is still accessible, then the registrant is then fortunate that he or she will be able to go through the process of internet domain name registration by of course registering the domain name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And in the internet domain name registration, you should be aware that you need to enter or to type the contact information and the Domain Name System information for your desired domain name. Such contact information needed in the internet domain name registration is then distributed with a certain registry for the top level domain purchased. Even more considerable is that in the internet domain name registration, you are basically inserting a record into an internet directory of the entire domain names and their equivalent computers on the internet.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-57582042806754606942009-10-23T19:41:00.000-07:002009-11-03T03:53:15.012-08:00Poker Affiliate Marketing And Blogs Give Your Business A Boost<div face="arial" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br />If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here’s how:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1. Consider your audience</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2. Pictures speaks a thousand words</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">5. Make it interactive</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">You can even place an area for comments or for some feedbacks. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-24488189923909908802009-10-20T17:02:00.000-07:002009-11-03T04:09:19.307-08:00Chalking Cash from Articles<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Malak/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Malak/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.jpg" alt="" /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chalking Cash From Articles </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Give a Boost to Your Business Exposure and Sales through Expert Use of Article Marketing!”</span><a href="http://linkbuzz.info/97"></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.1 The Expert Use of Article Marketing in E-Commerce Today In the history of Internet Marketing, which is indeed still a short history, Article Marketing has always been one of the most effective ways to market a business or website at little or no cost. This still holds true today, and will most likely be true for many years to come. Article Marketing is viral in nature. One article is written, and it travels from your computer to multiple article banks, providing back links to your website. From there other website owners copy the article, with the authors information in tact, and publish it in their newsletters or on their websites. They may even use your article as part of a compilation for an informative ebook. The important thing is that the article becomes viral – spreading far and wide. This accomplishes many things. As already mentioned, this provides you with back links to your site that help with search engine optimization. Since your author’s information, or resource box as it is called, is at the bottom of the article, this gives your website a great deal of exposure, and increased traffic. Article Marketing accomplishes a couple more things that are vital in ecommerce today. First, writing and distributing articles helps to establish you as an expert on the topic in question. Second, it helps to build a ‘relationship’ with people who read your articles, which in turn builds trust. Successful Internet business owners typically write and distribute at least one article per week to the various article banks. They may use articles that they wrote for their newsletters as well for distribution, after the newsletter has gone out to subscribers. If the business owner does not write well, or doesn’t have the time to write their own articles, they typically hire a ghost writer to create the articles for them. The articles that are distributed by successful people are informative and well written. They are not sales letters disguised as articles. They are informative vehicles that are used to get readers to visit their websites, providing helpful information, with the author’s information at the bottom, including a link to the website.<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div></div>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-38639954235231959982009-08-30T11:58:00.000-07:002009-08-30T12:05:52.370-07:00Download Adsense Revenue Exposed<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.bookrules.com/cartimages/adsense-exposed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 90px; height: 129px;" src="http://www.bookrules.com/cartimages/adsense-exposed.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ziddu.com/download/6282690/adsense-revenue-exposed.zip.html">Click Here to Download </a></span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Thousands of marketers really are making substantial incomes from Google Adsense alone. 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(Many have!)<br /><br />12 do's and don'ts for for your (long) journey with Google Adsense.<br /><br />The secret to using RSS feeds and Blogs to maximize your Adsense dollars.<br />And believe me, that's far from all.</span> <br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ziddu.com/download/6282690/adsense-revenue-exposed.zip.html"><br /></a></span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-20319085086101154122009-08-29T14:43:00.001-07:002009-08-29T14:43:35.705-07:00How to Boost Your Traffic and Profits with Content<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable CONTENT is to your online business? In fact, content can do more to build your business and profits than just about any other resource or service available.<br /><br />Following is a list of 5 key ways that content can help build your traffic, subscribers, and customers starting today!...<br /><br />1. Boost your search engine ranking and daily visitor count by posting keyword rich articles and content on your web-site. For example, if your business involves offering products and services related to fitness, posting fitness related articles and content will attract unlimited prospective customers on a regular basis!<br /><br />2. Generate double or even triple the number of newsletter subscribers you do currently, simply by offering content in the form of "special reports" or manuals as bonuses for subscribing to your publication. People love freebies, so give them what they want and watch as your results increase!<br /><br />3. Create an automated cashflow by using content to formulate multi-part email training courses with related web-site or affiliate links "sprinkled" throughout each course. Use an autoresponder service to automate the delivery of your training course (such as a 5 part training course delivered over a 5 day period).<br /><br />Training courses can also serve as excellent bonus offers for your prospective newsletter subscribers.<br /><br />4. One of the most important keys to a successful online business is not JUST having a mailing list or newsletter subscribers... It's about building a trusting relationship with your subscribers (ie, "cultivating" your list)...<br /><br />By sending informative articles (content) to your list on a regular basis you will establish yourself as an expert on your topic of business, as well as gain the trust of your subscribers over time. As a result, your subscribers will be EAGER to take advantage of your "paid" product and service offers. (Just make sure that you NEVER take advantage of the relationship you develop with your list by offering products or services of poor quality just to make a quick buck!)<br /><br />If there is one "constant" in Internet marketing, it's this: A cultivated list of subscribers is as good as money in the bank. Write that down and never forget it!<br /><br />5. Another excellent way to generate no cost traffic is by submitting ready-made articles to "content hungry" web-site and newsletter publishers with your "resource box" attached. A resource box is nothing more than a little 3-6 line "bio" about you and/or your web-site - including a link to your site (or even instructions on how to subscribe to your newsletter)...<br /><br />When submitting or offering your article(s) for reprint purposes, just make sure to specify that each article is to be reprinted "as is" with your resource box attached.<br /><br />...Even one article can go a LONG way towards generating no cost traffic and visitors for you. Just imagine your article being sent out to a newsletter subscriber base of 100,000 individuals - many of whom will be reading YOUR included resource box and clicking on your URL to learn more about what you have to offer!<br /><br />Well there you have it, 5 sure ways to build your online business exponentially with the help of articles and content...<br /><br />With the declining effectiveness of many of the online advertising methods that we've relied on in past years, content is only strengthening its position as the ultimate KEY to generating unlimited traffic, subscribers, and customers!</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-46414607199951746002009-08-29T14:41:00.000-07:002009-08-29T14:42:29.651-07:00Basic Techniques to Generate Traffic from Search Engines<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Traffic -- And lots of it! It is the dream of every netrepreneur. After all, without steady stream of visitors -- or should I say “potential customers” to your web site, how will you earn your e-fortune?<br /><br />The first place most e-business start-ups go when they need a quick traffic fix is the search engines. And rightfully so! After all, a top ranking position in one of the major search engines is an effective way to increase the traffic to your web site without spending your hard-earned advertising dollars!<br /><br />Statistics have repeatedly shown that anywhere from 20% to 80% of your visitors will find your web site via a search engine. However, you should also know that statistics show that most web surfers never search beyond the top 30 results they receive. With that in mind, it is clear that a top position a top position should be the goal of any savvy site owner.<br /><br />But top spots are no longer achieved by crossing your fingers and blindly submitting your web site to 900+ search engines and directories using a free submission service. Competition for top spots is getting fierce, so it is important that you learn the “right” techniques if you want to ensure that your web site is well ranked... and it is very important that you do so while this great advertising medium is still FREE!<br /><br />As I said before; for high traffic generation to your website, it is very important that your web site ranks in top spots in search engines. You may ask “What are the search engine looking for when they rank my web site?” Well, although each search engine uses different set of algorithms to rank web sites, but generally speaking, however, here are some of the main factors currently being considered by the search engines.<br /><br />1. Link Popularity<br />Alta Vista, Excite, Lycos, and the web pages search promotion of Yahoo! use a ranking system that involves measuring and ranking the number of links that are directed towards a particular web site. This is an extremely powerful traffic generation tools because:<br /><br />Reason # 1<br />Building a well thought-out linking strategy is a powerful way to attract large volumes of high targeted traffic! By putting your web site on every major web “intersection” where your target market meets, you will ensure that your web site receives a steady flow of qualified potential customers.<br /><br />Reason # 2<br />Links are equivalent to recommendations! They established credibility even before the visitor reaches your web site, dramatically increasing the likelihood that they will buy.<br /><br />Think about it... David arrives at his favorite web site and notices that they have posted a link to your web site. He knows and trusts his favorite web site and therefore assumes that, because they have a linked to you, your business must be credible too. He clicks through the link to your web site and is immediately open to offers you present him with. Why? Because your credibility was established before he even arrived at your homepage!<br /><br />Reason # 3<br />Since many search engines now factor link popularity into their ranking decisions, your linking strategies are all that much more important! If you want to be ranked as high as possible in search engines, you now need a factor in your link popularity – and, as you already know, earnings a top spot in the major search engines is key to increasing your web site traffic.<br /><br />Obviously, developing a linking strategy that generates a high volume of targeted traffic to your web site is not an overnight process. It will take you anywhere from two weeks to six months to secure quality links you need. However, I promise you that it is worth the effort! Once you have done the initial footwork, the links that are established will remain on these web sites for years to come. Your perseverance will pay big dividends in the form of a continuous flow of targeted traffic generation.<br /><br />2. Your Domain Name<br />A domain name plays a vital role in traffic generation to any web site. Domain names rich in keywords will rank higher in search engines because search engines love URL’s that are saturated with keywords! Brainstorm keywords and key phrases for your web site and then use them to create a catchy URL... or load the domain name with your best keywords to get ranked higher in the search engines.<br /><br />3. Key Word Density<br />Keywords definitely refer to the number of times your keyword appears throughout your site. Your keyword density is a factor that is heavily weighted by search engines, so it’s very important to make strategic use of your keywords.<br /><br />So, these are the golden facts and tactics through which you can drive high traffic to your web site. I should also mention that you do not expect to enter a couple of your top keywords into the search engines and instantly start making money through your web site--- that is very rare. But yes, you can really make high traffic through search engines without crossing the line into “keyword stuffing” and with a little time.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-86175713287258947132009-08-29T14:38:00.000-07:002009-08-29T14:39:53.360-07:00Amazing Ways To Boost Traffic To Your Website-And Make Sales<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >1. Design your web site to be a targeted resource center. Choose one subject and build on it. You'll gain repeat visitors that are interested in that topic.<br /><br />2. Offer something that is really free. If people go to your site and what you said was free really isn't, you'll lose their trust and they won't buy anything.<br /><br />3. Add a chat room or message board to your web site. People want to interact with other people that have they same interests as them.<br /><br />4. Entice people to link to your web site by giving them something free in return. This'll increase your ranking in some search engines.<br /><br />5. Trigger your reader's emotions in your ad copy. Example, if you sell a book on gambling tips, tell them the feelings they'll get when they win money.<br /><br />6. Make sure your site looks good in all browsers. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted in some web browsers<br /><br />7. Increase your sales by e-mailing full page ads to your e-zine subscribers. Remember to tell people before they subscribe or they may consider it spam.<br /><br />8. Ask people questions in your ad copy that make them think about their problems. For example: Do you want to be free of your debts?<br /><br />9. Magnify the size of your prospects problem in your ad; show how your product can solve it. The bigger the problem, the more sales you'll have.<br /><br />10. Invest a percentage of your profits right back into your business. Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, etc.<br /><br />11. When you make your first sale, follow-up with the customer. You could follow-up with a "thank you" email and include an advertisement for other products you sell. You could follow-up every few months.<br /><br />12. You could upsell to your customers. When they're at your order page, tell them about a few extra related products you have for sale. They could just add it to their original order.<br /><br /></span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-62274156236144666062009-08-27T12:04:00.000-07:002009-08-27T12:06:44.766-07:00Yahoo buys Maktoob<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2008/2/4/1_239790_1_5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 206px;" src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images//2008/2/4/1_239790_1_5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" class="DetaildSuammary" id="Htmlphcontrol1" > <p>Yahoo, the US internet company, says it has signed a deal to buy Maktoob, the largest web portal in the Middle East.</p> <p>The purchase will expand Yahoo's reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.</p> <p>The acquisition on Tuesday marks the first major buy by a US portal company in the Arab region.</p> </span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" class="DetaildSuammary" id="Span1" > <p>The acquisition, the terms of which were not disclosed, would be completed in the fourth quarter, Yahoo said in a statement.</p> <p>Technology blog TechCrunch.com, citing unnamed sources, estimated the value of the transaction at $85m.</p> <p>Maktoob was founded in 2000 and claims more than 16.5 million users in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.</p> <p>The portal "reaches one in three people online throughout the Arab world," the companies said.</p> <p>Through the deal, Yahoo will offer Arabic-language content for the first time and versions of its products and services, including instant messaging and email, in Arabic.</p> <p><strong>Emerging markets</strong></p> <p>Carol Bartz, the company's chief executive officer, said:"This acquisition will accelerate Yahoo's strategy of expanding in high-growth emerging markets where we believe Yahoo has unparalleled opportunity to become the destination of choice for consumers."</p> <p>Samih Toukan, a Maktoob founder, called the two companies "natural partners".</p> <p>The partnership, he said, "should help energise the internet market in the region as a whole".</p> <p>"We are excited about Yahoo building a stronger presence in the Middle East and bringing its compelling suite of services to Arab users in Arabic."</p> <p>After the acquisition is complete, Maktoob.com will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yahoo.</p> <p>The agreement does not include other Maktoob Group products, such as Souq.com, online payment website cashU.com and Arabic search engine Araby.com, which will operate under a new entity, the Jabbar Internet Group.</p> </span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-4417084439110930062009-08-27T11:53:00.000-07:002009-08-27T11:54:24.714-07:00Drive Tons of Traffic to Your Web Site<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >If you've got a web site then one of your biggest marketing challenges is how to generate traffic without spending a fortune. Whether you're trying to build your ezine or prospect list or get potential customers to contact you or buy your products or services, getting people to your web site is a must and can be a challenge.<br /><br />Especially if you don't have a big budget to spend on online marketing, and if you're having a tough time getting your site to show up in the search engine rankings. All of this was (and continues to be!) one of my biggest marketing challenges.<br /><br />Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm not one to back off from a challenge. In fact, give me one and I'll do whatever it takes to overcome it. I'm going to share with you one marketing technique I've used to immediately get my web site to the top of the search engine rankings and to triple my web site traffic in just a couple of months.<br /><br />Getting qualified traffic to your web site<br /><br />If you've got a web site then one of your marketing tasks is generating qualified traffic to that web site. What exactly is qualified traffic? Qualified traffic consists of people who are looking for what you are offering. They're in the market for what you're selling and they are actively searching for it.<br /><br />Does your site show up on page 10 of the search results, or perhaps doesn't even show up at all?<br /><br />If you're like many small business owners, you don't have the technical knowledge, expertise or time to do what it takes to get your site to naturally achieve a top-ranking in Google and the other major search engines.<br /><br />You can move your site to Number 1 in less than a day<br /><br />Take my web site, www.10stepmarketing.com, for example. There are tons of web sites on marketing. Achieving a number one Google ranking, or even a top 10 ranking could take a very long time to achieve even if I do everything right. But I want web site traffic NOW!<br /><br />I want people who are searching for information on "marketing plans" and "how to market" to find out about me now, not months from now or a year from now (well I want them then, too, I just don't want to wait until then!)<br /><br />I did it and it works!<br /><br />Did you know you can buy your way to the top? That's exactly what I did, and you can do it, too. A text advertising service available through Google, called Google Adwords, enables anyone to have a text ad and a link to their web site show up as the top-ranked site for their selected keywords (keywords are the words and phrases people type into search engines when they're looking for information on the web).<br /><br />These text ads show up on the right hand side of the results page when searchers type in your selected keywords. You'll see them on any page, under the title "Sponsored Links." Google even offers a keyword tool to help you pick the best keywords for your site.<br /><br />You can spend as little or as much as you want<br /><br />Depending on how much you want to spend, you can determine the ranking and page your ad shows up on. You can very easily garner the number one spot. You select your maximum daily budget so you'll never spend more than you can afford and you can easily test different ads to see which ones work best.<br /><br />You only pay for those who click<br /><br />And the best part is, you only pay when someone clicks on your link. The other plus here is you'll know if your ad is working by watching what percentage of those who see your ad actually click on it. And if its not working as well as you'd like, you can easily change it.<br /><br />It's all tracked so you know whether it's working<br /><br />Google offers excellent tracking reports so you know exactly how many people saw your ad and how many clicked on it. You can send them to any page on your web site (for example, you might want to send them directly to your products page, or the page where they can register for your free ezine or special report).<br /><br />The quickest way to boost your web site traffic<br /><br />I used Google Adwords to start generating web site traffic and ezine subscribers my second month in business. My results were so good I maxed-out my budget in a matter of weeks and had to put my ad on "pause" (stop running it for awhile). The way I look at it that's a good problem to have, considering all those clicks led to new subscribers and customers.<br /><br />3x the traffic in less than 3 months<br /><br />Between this technique and the one I'll tell you about next week, I was able to triple my web site traffic in less than three months. And you can bet I'll continue using both of these marketing techniques to keep growing my web site traffic. I love them because they're simple enough for anyone to do and they don't cost a lot.<br /><br />Get the qualified traffic you want<br /><br />If you want to generate qualified web site traffic quickly, Google Adwords is an excellent way to do it. If you want to learn more, visit https://adwords.google.com<br /><br /></span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-5772815781674238972009-08-27T11:51:00.001-07:002009-08-27T11:51:58.655-07:00Can Social Bookmarking Help Me?<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >You have probably heard a lot about social bookmarking lately. As a matter of fact, you can spend hundreds of dollars right now just to find out what it's all about. Well, not here. I am giving you this information.I did the research and found this to be a super way to get more traffic to your site. The best news is, it's 100% FREE.<br /><br />What is Social Bookmarking?<br /><br />It's a public list of your favorites. Not all your favorites, just the favorites you want to share with others. You can add any website to your public list and retrieve it from any computer. (This is done on someone else's server, not your computer)<br /><br />When you list a site in your bookmark list, anyone looking for that same type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the trash.<br /><br />When you do a search in a search engine, you get all the sites that have something to do with the keywords you typed into the search box. It is easy to get a bunch of garbage sites that are loaded up with keywords but have poor content on the actual site.<br />The great thing about social bookmarking sites is the only sites you will find there are sites that other people have looked at and decided were worth saving for future reference. Real people have decided to save (bookmark) the sites, not robots. Real people also monitor the sites so if trash does get added, it is soon deleted.<br /><br />The more people who bookmark a site, the more popular it becomes. As an example, lets say you are selling widgets for a really great price. You bookmark your home page on many public bookmarking sites. When someone is looking for a widget, they do a search at the bookmarking site and your bookmark comes up. They go look at your site and decide your prices are so good, they might want to come back later when they need another widget. So they add your site to their bookmarks for future reference.<br />When someone goes to one of these sites and types widgets into the search box, your site listing will come up in the search. If many people have bookmarked your site, you will be listed high in the search results. It's kind of like a voting system. If you site is good enough to bookmark, other people will want to see what all the fuss is about.<br /><br />Unlike search engines where all you have to do is good seo, the sites you will find in the Social Bookmarking sites are quality sites that other people enjoyed enough to save. You don't really have to have a good site to get listed in the search engines.<br /><br />How do you get started?<br /><br />Do a search for social bookmarking, many sites will come up. Go to each site and register for an account. It's FREE! Once you have your account set up, start listing your site. Make sure you add proper tags to your listing.<br /><br />Tags are the same as keywords with a twist. These sites will tell you what the most popular searches are on their site. You choose the tags that will work with your site or page and are also part of the popular list. Many of the sites will also offer a spot to write a small description of the site you are bookmarking. Add a description that uses some of your tag words for added benefit.<br /><br />Building popularity<br /><br />As with anything that is worth doing, this will take you a while to get it all set up and running smooth but the end result will be very well worth your effort.<br /><br />Start with one bookmarking site and one page from your site. (Start with your squeeze page and build your newsletter list) Set up your account with the bookmarking site and add your page to the bookmarks. Make sure you use the best tags and description you can. (Check the popularity list on the site) Doing this in itself will help you get more traffic. Now you can go one step further and work both sides of the system.<br /><br />Add a link to your site that will lead back to the bookmarking site that has your page bookmarked. Ask your visitors to bookmark your site on the social bookmarking site.<br /><br />My example is below<br />Bookmark my site at Blinklist.com and access it from any computer, anytime. Create a link to the bookmarking site so your visitors only have to click.<br /><br />You want to make sure the page opens in a new window so when your visitors are done setting up their account, they will still have your page handy to bookmark.<br /><br />Next Page<br /><br />Now move on to the next page. You will want to offer a different bookmarking site on each page. Why? So you can get as many bookmarks on as many sites as possible. Use the same information in the example above but change the social bookmarking site you are promoting.<br /><br />Won't this look odd to your visitors? No. Most people will ignore the suggestion once they have bookmarked your site. They won't even notice that you have changed the name of the link. They will see, Bookmark my site, and think, "I already did that", and they will move on.<br /><br />Final Note:<br /><br />Don't SPAM the sites. Make sure what you are listing is relevant and useful. You don't want to bring traffic to a page that has nothing but links, you will probably get banned form the bookmarking site. Only bookmark your pages that have actual content. Ask yourself if you would truly add this page to your own favorites list? If your answer is no then don't list it.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-35869749010023272262009-08-27T11:49:00.000-07:002009-08-27T11:50:40.745-07:00A Secret Way Of Getting Traffic<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >If you are reading this article, more likely than not you own a website that you would like to see be a success. To achieve that level, you need traffic to your site. But where does traffic come from?<br /><br />One of the better ways to get traffic for your site is to submit your site to the many directories that exist online. Online directories are similar to your phone book yellow pages: These directories are categorized (education, entertainment, health, etc.), and when you submit your website, you suggest a category for your website. Often, you will even be able to submit to a sub-category within a major category. For example, suppose your website is about aromatherapy.<br /><br />In your submission request, you would suggest "Health" as your main category, "Alternative Medicine" as your sub-category, and "Aromatherapy" as a further sub-category.<br /><br />Some of the leading online directories are Yahoo!, MSN Small Business, and the DMOZ directory. Unlike search engines, however, listings in online directories are usually not free. As of this writing, you can submit for free to the Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com), but there is not guarantee on how quickly your website will be reviewed for listing. If you need your site reviewed faster, you can pay Yahoo! $299 US for "expedited" service and they will review your site within seven days. However, this fee is a yearly recurring fee. Your website is subject to a yearly review, and is guaranteed neither initial inclusion or to remain listed year after year.<br /><br />The MSN service is $49 US, and it functions more like a search engine submit service. Their submission service includes inclusion in their own small business directory. DMOZ, on the other hand, is free, but because it is operated by volunteers, it could be awhile before your site is included. Your best options are to submit to DMOZ and pay for the MSN and Yahoo! services.<br /><br />But why should you spend money? Can't you just optimize your site for the search engines? You can, but not everyone goes to a search engine for what they are looking for. For example, if someone is searching for gourmet dog treats, they may not use a search engine. Instead, they might go to one of the online directories and look at the listings, much like someone would use the yellow pages in their phone book. Your investment in gaining inclusion in the online directories will pay off for you in a multitude of ways.<br /><br />1. You will increase traffic to your site. Your site will be included in the online directories, as well as the search engines, and this will help you gain traffic as people search directory listings and find your website.<br /><br />2. You will increase the number of backlinks to your site. If the directory pages are listed in search engines, the link they provide for your site will be listed in the search engines. This benefits you by creating more ways for people to find your site. Ultimately, this will provide more traffic for you.<br /><br />3. Submitting to directories is a quick way to gain links. Optimizing your site for the search engines is very difficult and time-consuming.<br />It can take a lot of time to learn how to write for the search engines. In the meantime, any links you can get will help you with the search engines, and submitting to directories will get you links.<br /><br />4. Submitting to directories is relatively inexpensive, and a good investment. As stated earlier, you can submit to Yahoo! and MSN for less than $350. DMOZ is free. If you run a search for online directories, you will find many more where you could submit inexpensively, or even for free.<br /><br />In short, submitting to online directories is one of the best ways for you to build traffic to your website. In the end, you need traffic to survive online. So get started!</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-52856836721233884702009-08-26T11:43:00.000-07:002009-08-26T11:47:38.610-07:00The Reason Why Backlinks Don't Work!<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Curious as to the reason behind why backlinks don't work? Well, it comes down to the degree of effectiveness of a backlink. Effective backlinks are those that give more authority to your site, helping it to achieve better PageRank, top positions in search engine results, while bringing in a flood of traffic at the same time.<br />If the backlink strategy that you are employing isn't netting you those kinds of results then obviously those backlinks aren't performing for you. So how do you manage to get the kind of backlinks that are effective both in the short and long term?<br />Firstly, let's take a look at the factor called backlink quality. It's obvious that not all backlinks are equal in terms of effectiveness. These days it's become more and more difficult to weed out link farming and scamming so it's not enough anymore just to have a high number of backlinks to your site. Google recently cracked down on sites selling links too by bringing down their PageRank, so getting quality links isn't as easy as it used to be.<br />Since links are judged by quality with search engines evaluating the content and PageRank of the site, giving the link, it becomes imperative to get links from sites which have related content. For instance, if your site is all about 'automobile repair' and your getting lots of links from kids birthday party or chicken recipe sites then those links will not have as much weight as links from an automobile related blog or website.<br />The authority of the site giving you the backlink also matters. Does it have a good number of quality backlinks itself? If so, then a link from such a well-established site, has more weight than a link from a site which doesn't have too many backlinks or isn't that popular.<br />So both relevance and authority of the site matters when you are building backlinks for your site. Otherwise your backlinks will not work for you the way you expected. Lots of new internet marketers plug away at getting backlinks without taking these crucial factors into account. At the end of the day, they are surprised by how little effect all their linking efforts have actually had.<br />Once you take note of these factors in your backlinking strategy then all your backlinks will perform well for you. Your site will rank higher in the SERPs, be more popular and will gain more PageRank over time. The search engines will bring targeted relevant traffic to your site provided your SEO is good and you will get a flood of visitors who will visit your site and be more open to purchasing more information or products.<br />Make your backlinks work for you by choosing an effective backlinking strategy from the start and you'll get the kind of results you want</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-87020525808395814442009-08-25T17:02:00.000-07:002009-08-25T17:05:00.144-07:00An Introduction Primer to SEO<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >The Internet provides the best place to market your business, ideas, services and products, provided your web page is optimized to be search engine friendly and geared towards attracting traffic. Websites compete with millions of other sites to gain a good ranking position with search engines and if your site is not Search Engine Optimized (SEO), you may just as well give up the domain.<br /><br />What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?<br /><br />It can be defined as the process by which a site’s rankings in the search engines are increased for the keywords it is optimized for. Good SEO keeps both the user and the search engine in mind. Things that look beautiful on your site may have a negative influence on your site’s ranking. Good content ensures return visits. Keyword enriched content ensures that people will find your site.<br /><br />How many people do you know who actually look at the fourth or tenth page of a search engine’s results page? Most people only look at the first ten to twenty search results. SEO can get your site ranked in the first bundle of results.<br /><br />Aspects of SEO: Content<br /><br />The web is indexed with keywords. The user types in a keyword string, exact phrase or a single keyword to find a relevant page. Information specialists make use of advanced searching techniques to find deep web content such as information imbedded in databases or dictionaries, but the average user thinks of the first thing associated with his query and types it in. That is why broad keywords on your site will not generate enough traffic because many thousands of pages have that exact keyword. You need specific keywords and keyword phrases.<br /><br />There must be enough content on the page. Too little information guarantees that the keywords cannot be repeated enough without keyword stuffing. Keyword stuffing is where there are too many of the same keyword on a page. Search engines will rank your page lower if they see your page as stuffed.<br /><br />Keyword density must be balanced with their relation to the rest of the page. This means that your main keywords must appear in certain areas of the page. They must preferably stand out from the rest of the text. There are a number of ways to do this but it is a new topic.<br /><br />SEO: Meta Tags<br /><br />There cannot be enough emphasis on Meta tags. Meta tags are in the invisible part of your page. It forms part of the source code. This is where the Title, Description, and Keywords, are placed for the search engines. Most engines will not be able to find your site if a Meta Tag is not present. This area is very important because this is where you place your main keywords and the description of your site. Once again, the relation to the title, description and content becomes important. Don’t stuff this area with long descriptions since the search engines will throw your page out if the description is too long, or the keywords repeated three or more times. Keep a balance.<br /><br />You must write a robot.txt file for the spiders to exclude certain parts of your page. The reason is that most of them cannot read Java, and CGI scripts. There are a number of extensions to pages that will lead to exclusion from search engines.<br /><br />Other SEO factors that also influence the way your page will indexed:<br /><br />- ALT, TITLE, and AUTHOR tags.<br /><br />- Number and quality of links to your site.<br /><br />- Links from your site.<br /><br />- Sitemap for search engines.<br /><br />- Names of links to your other pages.<br /><br />- Color and total number of links<br /><br />These are just a few of the online and offline factors that influence your ranking. SEO is needed to make your page visible on the Internet where you have to compete with other sites.<br /></span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-6184322228244509872009-08-25T16:39:00.000-07:002009-08-25T16:46:36.184-07:00A Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Technique That Will Work Miracles For You?<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >It is hard to imagine do-it-yourself search engine optimization actually working. It is even more difficult to believe that it can be done using mostly free tools. But then that is one of the really wonderful things about the World Wide Web - there are so many different ways of skinning a cat or doing the same thing and knowledge can save you more than just a fortune.<br /><br />Besides the truth is that so many web sites that are huge and popular today got where they are through the do-it-yourself search engine optimization efforts and skills of an individual.<br /><br />Before delving into the techniques that can be used for search engine optimization, it is useful to appreciate what search engines really look for and the reason why most web sites find it so difficult to deliver.<br /><br />What Do Search Engines Look For?<br />In most of the search engine articles you read these days, search engines are portrayed as being quite similar to some serial-killing monster with no clear motives other than to kill and destroy. For instance shock outrage and puzzlement are always expressed when leading search engines change their rules.<br /><br />The problem is that most people forget that the competition between search engines today is so keen, such that their main motive can only be one thing - to become the leading search engine, and when they get there. To retain that position for as long as possible. It is rather obvious that to achieve this objective they have to remain very focused on the customer. The search customer or client, is the person using their favorite search engine to seek all sorts of information. Everybody prefers to use a search engine that is as quick and useful as possible in getting them the information that they seek. It's really that simple. All changes in policies and rules can only be driven by one thing and one thing alone - to become better in the eyes of he customer.<br /><br />In deciding your page ranking, search engines will look for links to your sites and not just any links, but quality links meaning sites that have a higher ranking than you do. This tells search engines that other sites they rank highly are linked to you and therefore you must be a useful site and therefore deserve a high rank.<br /><br /><br />The Biggest Obstacle To Getting Enough Good Links To Please Search Engines<br /><br />Folks are often advised to submit their sites to search engines and high pagerank directories. The problem is that many of these sites will charge you dearly for the privilege of being listed with them. Yahoo for example charges about $299 annually for a site to be listed in their high traffic directory.<br /><br />The secret to bear in mind here and what most folks do not know, is that many of these sites that ask for so much money will list you almost immediately and for free if you have good quality links pointing to your site. It is that customer driven motive we were talking about again. Good quality links are links from sites that the search engine already ranks highly. The assumption here is that since you have received a vote of confidence from sites that are already held in high esteem by the search engines, then you are also bound to be a useful site that customers who use the search engine will find useful. The higher page ranking you will receive, as a result will mean better search engine visibility for you and naturally, much higher traffic.<br /><br />Another strategy used to try and gain quality links is to make an effort to submit your site to various directories for free listing, but it will usually take months for one directory to accept your site.<br /><br />A Powerful Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization Technique<br />The way to do it is to start off by creating a web page on your site with a list of links. The idea here is to be adding links to other sites on your links page in exchange for the sites doing the same for you. You will of course be careful to concentrate your efforts on getting links from high page rank web sites. It is advisable to find sites that are related to your product or service.<br /><br />Usually, to make search engines happy, you should limit each reciprocal links page to 50 links only.<br /><br />Most sites maintain their reciprocal link pages using LinkMan script from PHPJunkYard. You can download this php script from http://phpjunkyard.com. The really amazing thing about LinkMan script is that it allows a site's visitors to add their links immediately after they add links to the site on their own pages. What his menas is that using the LinkMan script you just need to find the desired sites, add their link to your reciprocal links page, and you can immediately add your link to theirs.<br /><br />Be careful to meet the requirements of the LinkMan script one of which is to place a notice on your links page stating: "Powered by Link manager LinkMan 1.02 from PHPJunkYard - free php scripts."<br /><br />The Easy Way To Find High Page Rank Sites<br />You can easily find sites using Linkman by searching on Google for the exact phrase; "Powered by Link manager LinkMan 1.02 from PHPJunkYard." You can also change the phrase to find sites using earlier versions of LinkMan.<br /><br />Visit the link pages on the sites with a browser showing their Google pagerank. As soon as you come across a site using LinkMan that has a high Google page rank, simply add their link to your reciprocal links page and then add your link to theirs and you are done. You can then move on to find yet another site that you would like to link to.<br /><br />It is difficult to beat this amazing, free and instant search engine optimization (SEO) technique that is quick, easy to use and extremely effective.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-21427331051385587462009-08-23T18:32:00.000-07:002009-08-23T18:34:53.562-07:004 Search engine type for your Internet business<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >According to research 80% of people searching website using search engine, therefore search engine still the best way for you to generate traffic. You need to put your website into search engine.<br /><br />One of the great advantages of search engine for your internet business, it can bring you a large amount of targeted traffic to your website. Some of them will not cost you a cent, but some of them will cost you a dollar. It is depend on what search engine do you use.<br /><br />Search engine will become very powerful for your business if you can put your website in the top 50, but it will be useless if your website listed further down. Because people will not see the result more than 50 result.<br /><br />In this article, I want to explain about 4 different search engines that you can use to generate traffic for your website. They are…<br />1. Directory<br />2. Crawler search engine<br />3. PPC search engine<br />4. Meta search engine<br /><br />Directory sometimes called a category database. This directory will list all website inside category. This kind of search engine will edited by human, it means there are some directory admin will check your submission to this directory. They may accept or reject your website if they feel your website is not appropriate to the category that directory has. <br /><br />When you submit your website to directory, you just need to enter your title, description and keywords. Some of directories will not ask you to enter keywords. You also need to select category you want it. The example of directory is yahoo.<br /><br />Crawler search engine also known as spider or robots. This search engine use small software that will jump between websites called as crawler. This crawler will look for new website 24 hour a day, 7 days a week.<br /><br />For crawler search engine, you do not need to submit your title, description and keywords. This crawler will index your website automatically. You just need to submit your URL and crawler will come to your site and index every thing they need.<br /><br />PPC search engine stand for pay per click search engine. This kind of search engine will ask you to pay them to use it. Mostly, they will cost you minimum 1 cent until 5 cent. However PPC search engine will list your website depend on how much you want to pay them in particular keywords. If you want to pay them more than other competitor that use the same keywords, you will be listed on the top.<br /><br />Before you use PPC search engine, you need to add some deposit. Then your deposit will decrease when someone click on your link.<br /><br />Meta search engine is search engine that collect result from multiply search engine simultaneously. You don’t need to submit to Meta search engine since they use result of the major search engine.<br /><br />Meta search engine will rank your website by calculated combination of ranking of all search engines that they use. So the key to have high rank in Meta search engine, you need to ensure that your website listed in all crawler search engine.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759098295025824751.post-41341267554883256592009-08-23T18:21:00.000-07:002009-08-23T18:23:44.303-07:003 Good Online Business Situations When It Makes Sense To Use Paypal<span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Copyright 2006 B Hopkins<br /><br />Every day, a growing number of people venture into the world of online commerce, or ecommerce, in order to sell their goods and services online. When merchants first venture into the online realm, they can get in over their heads by using solutions that are too costly, too complex, or just have way too many features than what the merchants truly need.<br /><br />The good news is that there are solutions that allow the first time online ecommerce merchant the opportunity to sell their products and services with much less committment and cost on the part of the merchant. Solutions such as Paypal offer the first time ecommerce merchant the opportunity to go into the online realm and get their feet wet without drowning. One must follow the standard safety precautions associated with solutions such as Paypal and they can be on their way to earning an online income.<br /><br />The next section will go over what you the merchant, will need to consider if you think a payment processing system like Paypal will be work for you or not.<br /><br />1. Low monthly business volume on your ecommerce website<br /><br />If you don't have a lot of sales on your ecommerce site, and especially if they are low ticket items, then you may want to consider using a pay-as-you go type of merchant account system such as Paypal. Usually these types of payment processing solutions have a higher percentage rate that they charge the merchant. Sometimes it can be as high as 15% of the price of the item being sold by the online merchant.<br /><br />Typical merchant accounts usually have a monthly charge associated with the account, whether you sell anything online or not. They also have a lower percentage rate they charge the merchant, so for higher volumes, the merchant will end up saving money with this solution.<br /><br />When deciding what type of merchant account you should get, you will want to determine the costs associated with merchant processing based on estimated monthly sales volumes. For instance, if you expect to sell 15 items that cost $25 each on average, then determine how much a third party processor like Paypal would charge you for that, and then how much a standard merchant account processor would charge you for the month based upon the same volume. You will find that in going through this excercise, you will discover a break-even point at which you will pay less using a standard merchant account as opposed to the third party processor such as Paypal.<br /><br />2. You are new to the whole ecommerce concept<br /><br />If you are new to selling your product or service online (ecommerce), then it may make sense to use a 3rd party processor, such as Paypal to handle your online payments. This way, you aren't forced into any long term contracts, and can discontinue using it if your business isn't working. In most cases you can do this without having to continue to pay additional fees, such as a monthly service charge, to the this type of merchant account processor. With Paypal, it is easy to start up the online processing again without any additional costs, if you choose to give your online business another try.<br /><br />3. You sell your items on Ebay<br /><br />Ebay is one of the largest selling platforms on the Internet today. Ebay became so successful, they even purchased Paypal. Ebay does accept payments through other means besides Paypal, but they set it up so that it is easier to perform your transactions through Paypal than other methods.<br /><br />If you are doing a huge number of transactions through Ebay, it may make more sense to use your own merchant processing account as you will save a lot of money. However the average Ebay seller usually doesn't have the volume to justify using their own online merchant account unless they are already using it for another online business.<br /><br />Different needs for the ecommerce merchant require different solutions. By no means is there a "one size fits all" type of solution. Merchant processing solutions that work well for one online merchant, may spell disaster for another. The best thing an online merchant can do is to determine their expected sales volume, and their needs, and then find a solution that best serves them. For merchants who are new to ecommerce, and don't expect to generate a lot of volume, Paypal can be a good solution to get them started.</span>Broken Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960327100664122642noreply@blogger.com0