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12 August 2009

Do You Still Get Free Website Traffic These Days?

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By Gill A Taylor

Have you heard of these superb yet economical ways to get free website traffic? When you want to get your website off the ground, try out these four simple strategies that will get free traffic to your newly constructed website. No worries about cost, because their all free, hooray! So let's cut some financial corners and look at the best four strategies.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) robots are also popularly known as search engine spiders are creatures you want to befriend. And you know what, I know that Google loves us so don't make it hard for them to love us more. Lead these spiders to where they want to be and in return you will get free website traffic. SEO basically has 2 sides:

On site SEO: this is what the spiders see on YOUR site. Make sure you have all the right keywords and relevant keyword phrases on all the right places. I like to think of this as a pyramid, I start at the top and include EVERY brick all the way to the bottom. The page title is your highest point, then all the headings, main body text and finally the meta tags. And of course remember to include Alt tags for all your images too, search engines don't care for graphics all that much. If you feed the spiders with keywords you'll get free website traffic.

The second type is called off site SEO. It is a good thing if other people link to your site from their websites, and even better if they use your keywords in their links. It will help a lot in getting you ranked in the search engines. When you have many important sites with the same theme link to you with good anchor text lines you are on your way to get free website traffic on demand.

Social Marketing: Social marketing is a very effective way of creating followers for your website and getting people to remember you. Get people to follow or befriend you by first offering some quality info and advice. Once people know and trust you and get free website traffic by being the good guy and offering something on your website for free.

Try to give and be something unique to distinguish yourself from the crowd and be creative when you promote your own business branding. You should also update regularly. Your friends and followers want to keep updated so keep on posting new ideas and events on your Twitter, Friendster and MySpace accounts.

Forum marketing: It's a lot like social marketing, only forums are discussing exactly what you want to promote or sell. You should start off slow, become part of the community and offer some advice and ideas to people, not just spamming or blandly promoting your products, everybody hates that. Remember to get free website traffic you have to put a link in your digital signature and entice people with something valuable, entertaining or interesting to visit your site.

Article writing: I really like this one, and it works like a charm. Write high quality content articles and distribute it to the masses by submitting them to multiple article directories. You will get free website traffic from the backlinks in the article or in your resource box. Keep your articles highly targeted and get your audience to go to your site. Remember that your article will stay on the web, so do some keyword research, just like the SEO we discussed, and include it in your title and body text.

Go ahead and start to apply these four steps discussed when launching your website and see the difference in your bank account when you don't have to pay to get free website traffic! We'll talk more about certain things and discuss it in detail later. See you soon!

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03 July 2009

Can You Save Time and Money by Outsourcing Your Pay Per Click Campaign? Part 1 of 2

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By Christopher Ulrich

One of the largest challenges with Internet Marketing is operating a successful pay per click advertising campaign. Competition is fierce and the costs to advertise at Google are steadily climbing.

In this article we are going to review several of the factors that you should look at when deciding whether or not to outsource your pay per click campaign.

1. Search Marketing Expertise

(It should be stated that you are|Obviously you are an expert in your industry. You are growing your company based on your knowledge and skills and have achieved a certain level of success. That, however, does not make you an expert at search engine marketing. While you may know your business inside and out, the marketing strategies required to successfully promote on Google are a totally different issue.

Search Marketing/PPC advertising is a very specialized form of advertising. Strategies that worked justsix months ago are no longer effective. The search engines change as fast as the stock market and if you lack the knowledge to create a profitable pay-per-click campaign, you will overpay for clicks and amidst tremendous opportunities.

2. Keyword Selection

For years, our company has run campaigns with large amounts of keywords. All the way back in 2001, we developed campaigns with up to one million keywords. No one had heard of "long-tail keywords" and no one was developing large keyword lists. Today, the industry has changed. Many people have built tremendously extensive campaigns to the point that long-tail strategies had to change.

Due to search restrictions you can no longer bid on every keyword you can imagine. To be successful in search, you need a strategy that casts a net that is surgically targeted to specific services, products and audiences. Unless you know what to do to develop these keyword lists, you will very likely put yourself on the highest cost, high traffic, low converting keywords that are out there. To be able to research and locate the right keywords at the right cost is a critical skill in developing a successful campaign.

3. Tracking Capabilities

Prior to search, companies used newspaper, print, radio and TV ads that were hard to track. The Internet changed all that, making most actions highly accountable. To be successful today in search you have to implement a system to track all actions; otherwise, how will you know what worked? Let's say you are tracking, what will you do with that data?

4. Optimization Algorithms

Optimization systems / search optimization algorithms are the computerized systems that analyze the data you capture, evaluate the actual success on the individual keywords, and make determinations as to which keywords should be bid higher, lower or eliminated completely. This needs to be a systems driven task to analyze the number of keywords required to maximize the results of your search campaign.

In the next part, we will be examining development costs, ROI analysis,how much time it takes to be successful and the learning curve involved in operating a successful PPC program.

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20 June 2009

Get Jobs As A Writer

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By Leigh-Ann Lemire

In order to create for yourself a steady flow of work and income as a writer, you need to get your name out there consistently. You have a lot of competition out there from staff writers, commissioned writers and freelancers. Unless you are actively getting the word out about your writing ability, you will not be known or get work.

The only two things that you need to do as a writer are write and market your works. You already have the talent and the purpose to be a good writer, so this article is to give you some tips on marketing yourself and your works, as follows:

Create A Website To Be Found

Creating methods to be easily found online are vital which is where a professional website comes in. You do not have to hire a programmer to create your site, you can do it yourself. The way to do this is to get your free download of a web page editor called Komposer. Just do a search online and you will find it. The next place to go to is free-css.com to find a website template that you can use. Using both, you will be able to create a professional website.

On your website, include the information that a potential client will be looking for such as the services that you offer, references from previous customers, samples of your works - give a variety, the cost of your services, and as many ways to contact you as possible so as to make it easy for your customer.

Post Articles Online To Become Known

This is an online marketing method that you can utilize to get the word out about yourself. Article marketing effects last a long time on the internet - you put up an article once with your site link and the information stays online able to be found.

When writing articles, include a variety of styles that you use as a writer. Once written, submit the articles to articles sites, directories and blogs for inclusion. Once it is posted, your article has the potential of being read by lots of people and also to be re-published at other sites.

Article marketing builds up and creates more opportunities for you to be found and get work. A person will read your online article, follow the link to your website in order to find out more about you writing and services.

You can search on Yahoo and Google for article submission groups to submit to. There are also great article websites to submit your articles to such as Qassia, Ezine Articles, Author Connection, Writers Write, Squidoo, Hub pages and Idea Marketers. The main point to remember is to submit an original article to each, don't send duplicate articles because it is not going to be as effective as fresh content.

Promoting Your Site

There are literally hundreds of methods to get the word out about your website and to get yourself known. There are new-fangled methods online that you can find out about such as networking and twitter. But, don't forget to use the old ways to promote that have been time proven such as business cards, brochures, flyers, networking and so on.

Word of Mouth Will Get You Business

When you have customers, treat them like gold. Answer questions quickly. Take extra care to ensure your customers are happy. Listen to your customer and deliver what was asked for - do it professionally and rapidly. Be courteous and handle any situations fast. Doing the above will create happy customers that will return for more work and who will tell others to go to you.

Keep track of what you are doing to promote your writing business and keep in the actions. You will create a good business that will go clackity-clack, running smoothly and successfully along.

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18 June 2009

Finding The Correct Customers to Grow Your Business

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By Leigh-Ann Lemire

You may have heard about locating the correct niche or target for your business or how marketing to the correct public will make your business grow.

The instructions on how to research and find your niche come in many forms such as how-to's, guides and advice columns. Entire websites and blogs have been started that are completely dedicated to speaking about the subject of niches. When you search on Amazon for books on the subject you will find over 100,000 books to select from. Searching on Google for information on the subject of niches will give you 32,000,000+ selections.

Here's a different take on the subject that you may feel relieved to find out about. What if your niche market came to you instead of you trying to chase the potential clients down?

This tactic really works! One only need to understand one important datum about the internet to see how it works, people turn to online sources to find information. You wold only need to deliver what is being looked for in order to get the correct people to find you.

Getting your name out there on the internet on a consistent basis while supplying good, informative information is the key to your success. Press releases, blog posts and articles are the main items to focus on.

The main part of your promotional actions should be speaking about the subject that you know the best - your products, services and company. Creating and getting the knowledge you have out on the internet wherever you can will create for you the consistant traffic to your website.

Many internet marketing actions come and go with changes occurring rapidly. One moment a method is acceptable, the next it is an action that is not okay anymore and if you use it, you will be doing your site a disservice which means that you need to find yet another way to promote.

There is a much better way to market online instead of a racing around to find new marketing methods or speculating on some new promotional idea. Spend your time wisely by creating a foundation of information for your online business. Building your business in this manner makes your website simple to find with long term traffic results.

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14 June 2009

Six Reasons Why an Affiliate Marketing Program Can Be For You

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By Sven Makowal

When it comes to starting a business quickly and with low overhead its hard to beat a good Affiliate Program. Many are FREE to join. After you've selected the Affiliate Program just right for you, there are only a few key actions you need to focus on if you are truly interested in being successful. When you set up your Affiliate Website just make sure you optimize your content so that it is SEO friendly using the Key Words you need for your niche. Next, set up your Affiliate Marketing Plan and your ready to go. Well, there may be a little more to it than that but that really does cover the major items. After you've completed these steps, not much more than a program of fine tuning the Affiliate Website is necessary. This is required to ensure that it continues to draw and convert the traffic your Affiliate Marketing Plan is attracting.

Affiliate programs can be very profitable with good programs earning over $5,000.00 monthly. As long as you remember that it will not happen overnight. Again, the good programs offer a commission based on the life cycle of the prospect youve brought in. Lets say you start modestly and sign up two new affiliate customers a week and they each bring you $20.00 in affiliate commissions. At the end of your first year running this business from the comfort of your home you will be receiving a monthly Affiliate Residual cheque for $2,080.00 or almost $25,000.00 per annum. Now don't forget, this business is running in the background for you while you pursue your main occupation or pursue other affiliate opportunities.

Working from home is certainly a strong incentive for people to consider affiliate programs but the rewards are far greater than that. Most people start their business careers working for and reporting to others. The fortunate ones have managers and supervisors with interpersonal and management skills that can make the relationship a good one. One reality is that no one starts at the top so there can often be disconnect in terms of understanding how you are rewarded based on your contribution and the company's performance. This is not the case when you have your own business. The affiliate programs available today provide the opportunity, for the first time for many people to see the direct correlation between their hard work and the affiliate commission check that arrives each month. You control the engine that drives affiliate revenues and you can turn it up or back it off as it suites you and your lifestyle. Its as close to instant gratification as you can get while working.

Computers have been integrated into everyones everyday life for a number of years now. Unless you possess an absolute fear of technology, most people are familiar with the Internet, Google and some social networks such as Face-book. With this background most individuals are more than competent at embarking upon an affiliate business. Because of the way affiliate opportunities have exploded there has been a corresponding explosion in the amount of FREE materials dealing with affiliate programs and affiliate training. What this means for the affiliate newcomer is the opportunity to use all of this material to solidify their understanding of the industry and how it works and hit the ground running. These same freebies like affiliate newsletters, articles, Tele-seminars and more will all serve to keep the newcomer up to date with the latest news and techniques being used by other affiliate marketers to be successful and to stay current.

The economic conditions today mean that a number of people are looking to other options to supplement a faltering income or to just be able to enjoy life more. There is no reason to feel there may not be a good fit in what one did in the past and their interest in affiliate marketing. Many individuals have been incredibly successful and have made their money with an affiliate program. And now they are making more money teaching others aspiring to get into affiliate marketing, how they did it. An entire industry in affiliate training has emerged to keep pace with the ever increasing opportunities. The programs available span everything from formal in-class settings to computer based home training programs with books, DVDs and Tele-seminars. No matter what an individuals preferred learning method is there is an affiliate training program available.

The growth of internet marketing and affiliate programs means that there are literally untold opportunities available. A good recommendation in life is to do something you like and thats why its nice if you can match something from your background with your new venture. The shopping list of affiliate programs spans everything from model trains to medication so its worth spending the time doing your research. Find the affiliate opportunity that matches an interest you may have, brings the type of support you want and provides the affiliate commissions you need to reach the financial objectives you have set for yourself, and get started.

A very appealing part of any kind of affiliate marketing business is the opportunity to work within your home and to leverage all of the benefits that come with it. You get to claim office space and percentages of other utility costs and such. Your home affiliate business means you save time not driving to an office and answering to someone else. Most appealing is that you get to create your own hours. The thing to pay attention to though is regularity and consistency, two things important in any operation. If you're a morning person and find yourself most creative at 5:00 A.M. then thats when you should work. If you prefer to start at noon, that works as well. If you need to break up your schedule with a run at mid day or a short nap then make that your regimen. Just stick to that regimen and maintain the same consistent approach to business that would be expected from you if you did work for someone else. Regardless of your schedule, running an affiliate program means you get to pick and choose. And at the end of every month when you cash your affiliate commission cheque you get to take satisfaction in the financial success you and your schedule have generated from your own business.

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01 June 2009

Google Adwords for your Advertising Success

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By Sean Galusha

Whether a small business wants to venture into marketing their product in the internet or an existing online business wants to be successful, they both need to work on increasing the traffic to their websites. The more site visitors they have, the more chances that the business will be successful.

Letting people know that the business exist is crucial to be successful in this business venture. There are different ways to increase traffic to a website and one of them is known as search engine optimization.

What this means is that the keywords related to the website should be properly placed all over the web pages so that it can gain a higher ranking in search engine results. This can however, be a bit expensive. A cheaper and sometimes better way to increase a website's traffic is to make use of Google Adwords.

Google is one of the most popular web search engines in the world. By placing links here, the small business or internet business website will increase traffic in no time.

This allows businesses to bid for keywords and post links to Google. When these links are clicked, the online surfer then will be redirected to the business' website. It is only when an online user clicks on the link that businesses will pay for the advertising cost. This is the pay per click arrangement. This is not only done in Google but also done by other websites too.

In Google Adwords, the business can determine how effective are its keywords, or how effective is its campaign in getting traffic to its website.

When placing links in other websites, one should be careful and choose wisely. He or she should only go with websites that are also related to the business because if not, the chances are the people who visit that website are not interested in your advertisement. This is the beauty of using Adwords. The link or advertisement to your website becomes available to the internet surfer if that person searches for your keyword.

PPC advertising like Google Adwords indeed is a cheap and reliable way of getting traffic online and this could be what small businesses need in making that business successful.

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20 May 2009

How to Use Online Video Marketing to Make Money

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by Alexis Jameson

Thanks to sites like YouTube and others like it, we all know how beneficial online video marketing can be in a variety of areas. From viral videos to advertisements, the possibilities are endless. Online videos get a lot of viewers and they get around very quickly. Contrary to popular belief, the subject matter does not have to be outrageous or weird. If your video is well made, it can still become viral no matter what the content. That can really be good for you in terms of marketing.

In this day and age, it really is not an option to go with any kind of internet marketing campaign. Money is tight and people are constantly looking for a better way to market their website or their company in general. What a lot of people do not know is that video marketing is actually free and that means more money in your pocket.

One of the main reasons this type of marketing can be so beneficial is because it is available twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. The sites which allow for online marketing are always available. People all over the world can see them every hour of every day.

Now, you are probably curious what this marketing will do for you specifically. Firstly, there are tons of answers to that question and they are all different. It will first help you build business relationships all over the world and it really will help you become an expert in your field and in your skills. It will also be a teaching session for you to show people exactly what you are offering. All of the business that is produced from this particular type of marketing will be free and you can absolutely use it to generate all kinds of traffic to your website.

You will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it really is to get started with online video for marketing. You can even put quite a few videos up yourself so that way you can ensure you know how to use it and you can really get yourself a feel of it. There are however, quite a few things that you need to know before you start using video marketing.

First of all, you need a web cam. Most of us have these already. You do need to make sure that the camera you choose comes equipped with 1300 px, at the very least. That way, the videos you make will be very clear and they will look more professional. They typically do not cost more than one hundred dollars and many of them go for fifty dollars or so.

You will also need movie making software for your computer, so that is something that you need to make sure of too. This will ensure that your videos are professional looking and that you can edit them.

Finally, you need to be yourself - you are promoting yourself and this is the person that you want all of your potential customers to see. Also, it will serve you the very best in the end.

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10 May 2009

How To Locate People On The Internet

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by Dana Goldberg

Ever wondered what happened to that old crush you had in high school? Trying to locate that guy who still owes you $10 in lunch money? Looking to hook up with the people who used to mean something in your life, or you've lost touch with? Here's a few methods describing how to find people for free, just a little effort on your part.

These days one of the best places to find people online for free is by searching one of the big social networking sites such as Myspace, Facebook or Friendster. In case you are trying to find a former co-worker have a look at Linkedin.

How should you start searching on the big social networking sites? You will find a search box on every site. So all you need to do is enter the person's name and click search. You will get results within some seconds. Please keep in mind that if you are looking for a woman,she might be married and changed her last name. You could also try searching only using the firstname. However, if you are looking only for "Susan", then this might take months to find the Susan you are looking for.

The second method that works great on huge social networking site is creating an acount yourself. It's free, so you can join as many social networking sites as you wish. Put your whole name up there and add as much information as you can: where you went to school, where you lived, where you worked. It is a good idea to upload a photo.

If the social networking sites did not give you any results you might want to try a straight Google search. Go to Google, type the name of the person you are searching for into the searhc box and wait for the results. In case your lost friend or relative has a very common name, it is advised to include hometown or high school name in your search. Very often this will bring up class reunion results. Class reunion results are a great way to find old school mates.

The last method is checking phone listing sites, like whitepages.com. This can be best if you know first and last name as well as the city they're located in, but there will be little detail to go on to verify that you've got the right person. But it could give you clues to help you track the person down.

What is the reason why you should stay away from dating sites? There are three reasons: first of all there are thousands of dating sites out there. So chances that you will find your friend are low. Second: most dating sites charge a fee if you want to view profiles or contact someone. And third: most people use pseudonyms. This is why it will be hard to find someone.

In case the methods described in this article to find people online for free did not give you results, I highly recommend joining a People Search service. These services cost around $20, however, you will get comprehensive results with some mouse clicks. Reports will include phone, address, previous addresses, marital status, criminal history and a lot more.

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09 May 2009

Internet Marketing Can Improve Web Presence

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by Michael T Cain

Internet marketing is also widely known as online marketing, web marketing, or e-marketing. Internet marketing primarily involves marketing of manufactured merchandise or a firm or even yourself over the internet. Examples of this enclose a company having a website, a writer with a blog, or other way of marketing.

One of the foremost proceeds of internet is that it is very cost-effective. You can market yourself or your product at a lot of websites and services at very petite charges. Even if you do give out a small fee to have a website of your own, this website makes it feasible for you to pull towards you clientele from all over the world compared to any advertising you would do on TV or through hoardings.

There are many things you can perform to develop your web presence, and all of these are either very little in price, or entirely free. While many companies have departments that are responsible for internet marketing, but because of the effortlessness and no difficulty it is now possible for even those people who don't have a lot of resources to market their work all over the world through internet marketing feature.

To commence with, a website can serve as your online office. It can offer all the information about your product to the person understanding it, as well as talk about your industry, its history, and how you make the specific product, its prices, and even have a customer hold up page where people can steadfastly contact you if they have mess or any concurrent queries.

After you have a website, you need to start making this a more visited page. You can do this by creating additional elements and making it more interactive. One of these is a newsletter. You can send out a monthly newsletter that gives all the news from last month to all the subscribers who have signed onto your website. This way, people can forward this to their friends and bring more business to you.

Another thing you need to have is RSS. This allows people who frequently visit your website to receive updates from the entire website on their RSS reader without having to worry about spam filters. Also, you can have multiple RSS feeds (news, product updates, blog), and this way people can sign up for the one they are more interested in.

If probable, you should have a blog where you can keep posted and write appealing things for your customers every day or after each few days. It is specially a great way for your employees to interrelate with the customers. A lot of companies have blogs, (like Google) where latest updates and growth regarding the company and its services are frequently posted.

Finally, generate profiles for your company on public media sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Like a website, this improves your web audience and markets you across the globe to your viewers. You can make it as interactive as you wish and can respond to questions people may have asked and raise benefit from the free sponsorship they will present you.

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08 May 2009

What's Popular: iGoogle Meme Generator

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by Haven Frbiz

In the iGoogle page, the user can add more than N pieces of the window (gadget), e-mail viewer, games, or a Twitter client. Through Steve Rubel's blog Micro Persusion, called What's Popular of the Google window pieces, causing us some concern. Steve believes that it could become a competitor Digg.

However, we think that a little bit overestimated, but it is indeed very interesting.

Visit the gallery page, click "add" button, you can add pieces of the window to your iGoogle page. Default mode, What's Popular from Google sites such as News, YouTube and hot information Reader to view. However, users can submit links.

The article is very simple to vote, scroll the list to see you want to read the article, click the up or down vote on the arrow icon. Scroll down with the drop-down list will automatically display more information. Pieces of the window the user can record all votes and the number of URL addresses to vote. Pieces to maximize the window to see more options, such as the arrangement.

Fast loading, unlimited hot link, users vote, looks like Digg; but also the lack of a critical function: comment. Only through the user's point of view reflected in voting; and can not add additional network resources, views or other information. We do not see how this matter may be defeated windows Digg, it should be noted StumbleUpon.

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24 April 2009

Getting More Traffic From Search Engines

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by Brent Sweet

Attracting Visitors To Your Site From Search Engine Results Page (SERP)

Per Comscore Market Research study, 60% of average website's traffic comes from search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search. Google, Yahoo, and MSN control 90%+ of the search market share. Google organic search alone drove an average of 41% of all traffic to the websites in Comscore study. In short, Google search is by far the single most important driver of traffic to the average website, twice as large as any other source, ie: Yahoo, MSN. Almost 80% of the top 500 online retailers in North America buy or rent text links directly or indirectly through SEO agencies to optimize their organic search ranking.

Incoming links (also known as inbound links and non-reciprocal links) have gained unprecedented importance in high ranking of your website. All major search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Baidu rely on off-page factors such as Link Popularity to determine how important your site is in order to rank it high. Now web site optimization, no matter how nicely it is done, is not sufficient to get you good rankings. A sufficient number of good incoming links helps your website beat the competition to rank high in Search Engines Result Pages (SERP).

For most websites then, one of the most important things to do to increase traffic is to optimize for search engine's organic search algorithms and create content that speaks to relevant search terms. One crucial way to optimize for search engine's organic search algorithms is by building inbound links to your website.

Getting Inbound Links From Relevant Websites

If you have a website, the fastest and easiest way for it to get in all the major search engine indexes is to do link exchanges or buy static HTML text link ads from authoritative and relevant websites. Even ten strong text links from relevant websites will get your site in the major search engine indexes quicker than promoting it on your own and this will save you a lot of time.

When you buy text link advertising or rent links or exchange links you can quickly add multiple inbound links to your website from other authoritative relevant websites to help increase your organic search traffic and targeted traffic.

Search Engine Optimization Primer

In a nutshell, there are two major categories of search engine optimization: Onsite (on-page) optimization and Offsite (off-page) optimization.

Onsite optimization means building website that is rich with content and your relevant keywords, proper H1 and Title tags, clear site structure, and getting a good domain name.

Offsite optimization means getting relevant websites to place links to your site with relevant anchor text or keywords.

Did you know that Search Engine Optimization consultants and companies (SEOs) can get search engine rankings to jump with barely a change to a website's text? How do they get their client's websites in the major indexes so quickly? Well, search engine optimization experts learned long ago that SEO is all about "offsite optimization" and the key to a successful offsite optimization campaign is the proper utilization of inbound text links to a website.

In addition, text link ads provide more ways for customers to find your website: to click and navigate to your site. Text links boosts your search engine position, which is a key factor in driving potential customers to your site.

Inbound text links to your website is one of the most important factors in SEO (search engine optimization). Text links ads are plain static HTML links that can help you get more traffic and increase your organic search traffic.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) offers you continual traffic beyond your initial investment dollars. You also only pay a flat price for each text link that you buy, so you don't have to worry about CPC( cost per click) or CPM (cost-per-impression) rates.

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23 April 2009

Offpage Optimization Basics

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by Brent Sweet

What is offpage optimization?

Well, they are techniques you can use to help improve your Search Engine rankings but is done off your site. Which means it is done on other sites and not your own. Onpage requires you to do optimization on your own webpages, offpage requires you to do it off-site.

Ok, what does it all mean?

With Google, offpage optimization has became more important as they place a lot of emphasis and relevance on links. The simple lowdown for offpage optimization is LINKS. LINKS from other websites to yours or BACKLINKs or INBOUND LINKs. Links with anchor text(keywords) from other websites to yours. And seriously, that's about it - getting others to link to you with the proper anchor text. LINKs are also important because they provide a way for the search engines bots to find your site.

The more links you have pointing to your site, the more important the search engines rate your site. Anchor text provides a way to rate the keywords for your site. And more links with anchor text to your site, the more important the Search Engine rate your site for those keywords. It's as simple as that.

If you properly plan your offpage optimization and what a bit of luck, you can rank better in the Search Engines.

Firstly, you have to pay attention to :

1. How many sites are linking to you. More the merrier.

2. What kind of sites are they and whether their topics are related to yours (titles, keywords and so on).

3. The Anchor text used.

4. Trustrank and Pagerank of the sites linking to you (whether they are trusted by Search Engines or have been blacklisted)

Anchor text is the hyperlink text. It is usually used to tell the reader the subject matter of the page that it links to. Like a link here - SEO Articles, you can see that the anchor text here is "SEO Articles", pointing to http://www.seochat.com and this is like telling the reader that the subject is SEO Articles and this site "http://www.seochat.com" has information related to it. So if someone searched for the words "SEO Articles", this is helping the site http://www.seochat.com to rank for that term. So use this anchor text to your advantage by using keywords in them. Although it is not always possible to use keywords you want, you should not use "click here" as your anchor text.

Remember to optimize your internal pages as well. DO not try to link your main page with all your keywords. For example, if you have a site selling orchids(the flower) and one of your internal page is about flower delivery, is it better for you to optimize your main page for "flower delivery"? No, optimize your main page for the keyword "flower orchids" and your internal page for the words "flower delivery" or "orchid delivery". This way, at least your site will rank for more terms and get better results for different searches. And not to mention, your onpage optimization would be more effective and easier without too many keywords on one page.

How do I go about doing it?

You should start off with a link building campaign. I will divide them into two major parts.

The first step is where you get links by direct posting.

1. Link exchanges - Link with other websites, preferably with related sites. They are two-way (they link to you and you link back) links. You can email webmasters and request a link exchange with the proper anchor text. Link exchanges can be very effective if done with sites of the same topics or subjects. But beware of who YOU link to. Linking to "bad" sites can get you into trouble with Search Engines and even get you delisted or banned.

2. Article submission - Submit articles you have written to article directories. Usually they have an author's bio, where you can place your site's URL in it with the appropriate anchor text. And not only that, writing articles can help improve your reputation in your field of interest as well. You know, your readers may think that you are an "expert" or something.

3. Directory Submission - Submit your site to various directories. There are free and paid directories. It would be advisable to submit your directories to free directories(especially DMOZ) and choose which paid directories you would like to submit to. It's hard to say which paid directory is best, so use your common sense if you want to do paid inclusion. Please avoid link farms (directories with tons and tons of links in their categories and subcategories) because they don't work to your advanatage and a lot of them have already been blacklisted or devalued by Search Engines.

4. Forum posting - Signatures allow you to place links and anchor text to your site. If you are posting in a forum related to your site( and with a lot of keywords), you can get better results in your rankings from these postings. However, do note that there are some forums which have the nofollow tag which tells Search Engines not to follow the link. This makes the link useless in SERPs.

5. Blogging - Nowadays everyone likes to leave comments in blogs. You can do it as well. And add your link with the comment. However remember not to spam blog sites, if you add a comment make sure that comment has something to do with the topic. It is also wise to post in blogs which you have some knowledge about.

6. Purchase links - Pay other webmasters to link to you. This method is a bit like a paid directory, just that the site isn't a directory but could be a informative site or even a blog. You get a link or links with a proper anchor text. There have been reports that some Search Engine devalues such a technique, but it is difficult for Search Engines to know whether that link is a legitimate link or a purchased link. I would also recommend you to buy links directly from other websites than through a "links broker". You can do this by directly contacting the webmaster and negotiating a price and where your link will be placed. The placement of your link is important as you don't want your link to be in very page of the site. For your link to have maximum exposure, it would be best to be in the first page(or the main page) and to reduce the spammy effect, confine to 2 to 3 pages at the most. Avoid site-wide links if your own site has very few pages!

The next step would be link baiting and this step is very highly recommended because these links are natural. However all these link baiting are very much related to onpage optimization(what you do on your site).

1. Although this is considered onpage optimization but it would be appropriate to mention this again - content. The biggest and most effective offpage technique is related to your onpage optimizaton. Good, useful and keyword rich content. This way, you are "baiting" other webmasters to link to you. Some of them even provide you with a good anchor text as well. These are what is termed as "natural links" because others linked to you without you directly asking for a link and is very much encouraged by Search Engines.

2. Software/script - Writing a script or software which a lot of people use is a good way to generate links. If you look around forums or blogs or just normal sites, you can see people recommending this and that software or script. Some scripts like forum scripts have a small link back to their site with the appropriate anchor text included, just imagine, if a lot of users use those scripts, the amount of backlinks will be enormous! Do a Google search "link:www.phpbb.com" and see the amount of backlinks! Phpbb.com is the official site for the free Phpbb forum script. And if you provide the software or the script at no charge, the number of grateful users with the link back will surely help your site. Simply put, it generates links for you.

3. Tutorials/How-to articles - Very related to content. Write useful tutorials like those photoshop tutorials or howtos and this will encourage other web designers or webmasters to link to that. Having useful and unique content is one of the best way to get natural links and traffic. If it is useful to a webmaster's visitors, he will surely want to tell his visitors about it.

4. Service/Knowledge Sharing - Yes, even if you don't write good content or tutorials or articles, you can provide a valuable service to others. Like script installation, colour matching service for web designers, technical support for Operating Systems and so on. Something like sharing your knowledge or helping others with their problems can very well get you the links because it is useful to webmasters and useful for their visitors as well. You can see some of the most popular sites are actually sites which help others like those webmasters forum or those technical support groups. You can even be selling some unique product or service to the public and let it generate links for you. Unique, valuable and useful service is just as important as unique, valuable and useful content.

5. Freebies and contests can attract links from other sites as well. Who doesn't want freebies or who doesn't want to join a contest to get prizes? Everyone does and because it is such a good promotional tool, you can attract a lot of visitors(and links) from these contests even if it is for a short period.

What all this being said, it is important to note that links from high quality sites are better for rankings than links from low quality sites. A few links from reputable sites is worth more than a lot of links from unknown sites. So if you can, try getting links from these sites instead.

There are a lot of SEO experts who say that offpage optimization is more important than onpage optimization. While that is not completely wrong, it is very difficult (but not impossible) for a good offpage optimization to work without excellent content. And that is ultimately what is on your web pages.

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