How can one get a good ranking in the major search engines ? This is a question, I'm sure, agitates the minds of every newbie as well as professional webmaster. Even those that are doing well are fighting to keep their place. But isn't there a way to consistently appear in a good position at the major search engines? I think there are ways to achieve this enviable position. One of the ways is what this article is all about. That is, consistently build one way inbound links to your site. Getting other webmasters to link to your site without you linking back.
Link Popularity, link prominence or link reputation is one of the most important elements search engines use to know if a site is an authority site. That is a quality site. However, like all other search engine ranking criteria, webmasters have found ways to beat this hurdle of link popularity. This they have done by exchanging links with one another. This is called reciprocal linking. You link to me and I to you and both of us have increased our link popularity by one.
Webmaster have realized the importance search engines attached to link popularity for top search engine positioning and have therefore resorted to reciprocal linking. However, in the near future this strategy will become obsolete, because these links are artificial links. Not generated voluntarily. And so they do not indicate a site as being an authority site.
The purpose of reciprocal linking is to increase link prominence for top search engine positioning and not necessarily for the benefit of web surfers. The search engines will recognize this. I predict that they will start taking this into account when they are changing their algorithms . The webmaster that will survive is one that consistently builds one way inbound links to his site. These types of links are the best. It portrays a site as being an authority site because the site is linked to naturally by other webmasters. Without reciprocal links.
Webmasters would not like to link to just any site unless there is some benefit for their site or site visitors. In this modern world nothing goes for nothing. A webmaster will only link to your site if there is some benefit for his site.
Why webmasters would link voluntarily.
Now in order for you to succeed in this one way inbound link building strategy, you need to know some of these benefits that lead webmaster to link voluntarily. If you like, call it the carrot. In accepting and eating the carrot the webmaster is led to link to your site. Let's look at some these benefits before we look at how they can be used to entice webmasters to link to you.
1. Webmasters would want to provide good, important and timely information for their visitors. If your site has this information, they will readily link to you. They could for example, point their visitors to a free resource at your site. 2. Webmasters recognize the fact that providing good information creates a good image for their site. Visitors will get to know that the site is a good resource site even though the resource might not be located there. This keeps visitors coming back again and again. 3. There is also the benefit of linking to an authority site. Search engines do award some points for linking to an authority site. Contrary to popular belief that this reduces the overall link popularity of a site, it actually benefits that page . This is my practical experience.
Now how do you acquire these one way inbound links?
1. Provide some useful resource at your site. This is a very powerful incentive for webmasters to link to your site. More so, if this resource is free. It could be a free tool , free software download, free content etc. This gives an incentive for webmasters to point their visitors at this resource. Some the resources you could provide are:
(a) Link popularity check tool
(b) Meta tag generator
(c) Search engine page analyzer
(d) Free CGI scripts
(e) Search engine page ranking check tool etc.
For free and paid scripts go to Hotscript.com or Searchscripts.com. There you will find all kinds of scripts that perform specific functions. Or you can hire a programmer to write a custom script for you. You will find programmers at many sites such as Elance.com.
2. Write good articles and submit to article sites, article syndicate sites and ezine announcement sites. Your article will be published along with your byline with a link pointing to your site. Make sure that the text link has your keywords in it and not your domain name. For example, < a href=" http://www.ebizstartups.com"> home base business ideas and not www.ebizstartups.com
Webmasters are always looking for good content for their websites . Stating in your article that your byline be left intact you will have many one way inbound links pointing at your site in no time. If you cannot write, hire a writer to write your articles for you. There are many places on the net where you can hire a writer for as little as $5 per article. This depends on the number of words per article. One of these places to hire a writer is Elance.com.
Writing in your area of expertise is better. Then you can present your own unique perspective to the topic. If it is not your area of expertise then be sure to research the topic very well . An incisive, well-written article will be snapped up and published by other webmasters, thereby increasing your link popularity considerably.
3. Another way to build your one way inbound link is to participate intensively in newsgroups and discussion forums. By making good and valuable contributions (postings) you establish yourself as an expert. Always try to be different and stand out. Others will see this and check out your profile. This will lead them to check out your site and eventually link to it. If signature files are allowed in the forum use a well-crafted signature file that will pull forum members to your site
4. Enter your site for an award at award sites. If your site is selected for an award, a link is placed to your site and this increases your one way inbound links.
5. You could also acquire one way inbound links by offering to provide testimonials for products you have purchased. Send the manufacturer of the product or service an email offering to provide a testimonial at his site or sales page in return for a link back to your site.
6. Submit your site to directories. Especially, niche or specialist directories. Regional directories are also okay. Submitting your site to specialist directories gives your site a greater chance of being picked up by the search engines than when you submit to a general directory. Also consider paying for submission to some important directories. For a fee, these directories will index your site in their database within two to five business days. For a list of search engines and directories you can submit to for free and for a fee go to add url to directories. Consider hiring a link building company to do your link popularity campaign for you. One of such company is linkexpress.com For a fee they will guarantee a certain number of quality one way inbound links to your site. This might be expensive but the investment will surely pay off with traffic from free search engines.
8. You can offer a discount to webmaster on services you provide at your site in return for a link from their sites.
9. If you have goods or services for sale consider setting up an affiliate program. This is a very good way of rapidly building your link prominence. Make sure your affiliate software is hosted on your server. This ensures that your affiliates' links point back to your site . Using an affiliate service will most likely mean affiliate links will be pointing at their server, thereby depriving you of links. One very good affiliate software is ASSOTRAC.
Some points to note when building one way inbound links.
Your link popularity increases as websites link to you. However, it must be said that it is not the number but the quality of the links that is important. That is, emphasis should be on quality and not quantity. Not all links are equal. Some are more favored (carry more weight) than others. Some of the things to keep in mind when carrying out inbound links are;
1. Look for quality sites to acquire links from. A link from Dmoz or Yahoo has more weight than one from a small private web site. Submit to free or paid listings in important directories.
2. The way other sites link to you is very important. Try as much as possible, to see that your keywords are in the text link that is linking to you and not your domain name. With your keywords in the text link it portrays your site as an authority site for the keyword.
3. Acquire links from complementary sites. Sites that are in the same industry as yours, but are not your competitors. Links from these type of sites have more weight than from those that are not related to your site.
4. Links from specialist or niche directories also carry more weight than those from less important general directories and your links are easier to find by the search engines. When submitting to directories, especially for a fee, be sure to choose a relevant category that is not deep down in the directory. Your listing should be at most three clicks away from the home page of the directory. Some engines will not spider deep down.
5. If you have several websites, link them together in such a way that the links are one way inbound links, and not reciprocal links. Also don't share the same IP address for the sites. All the sites should have unique IPs. This you can ensure by using a different host for each web site.
Conclusion.
Acquiring one way inbound links is the future of link popularity. Sooner the search engines will recognize the artificial nature of reciprocal linking in judging authority sites and will discount this in their algorithm or award less points (weight) to reciprocal links. The methods listed above in acquiring one way inbound links are basic, must do actions for every webmaster wishing to stay long at the top of the search engines.
The author has been earning his living online since 2000. For comprehensive home base business ideas check out one of his sites at http://www.ebizstartups.com There you will find solid, easy-to-do strategies for building a successful home base business.
The author has been earning his living online since 2000. For comprehensive home base business ideas check out one of his sites at http://www.ebizstartups.com There you will find solid, easy-to-do strategies for building a successful home base business.
To begin with, Article Marketing has increasingly assumed a lot of importance as an effective and indispensable SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategy. Seasoned Search Engine Optimizers are recommending as well as practicing this strategy extensively in order to promote the business interests of their clients. And they are not doing it as a matter of beating the line. They are actually creatively promoting their client's website, bringing in potential business and consequent optimized turnover.
Seriously speaking, the web marketers face a dare devil job of promoting a website out of a flood of other websites promoting identical products and services. The direct fall out of anonymity of a website is the flat defeat of its purpose, which is to make profit. The web presence of any website is largely determined by how the website fares in the SERPs (Search Engine Rank Pages) at Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines. The fact or rather the objective, in turn, emphasizes on quantity of quality inbound links to the website in question. And Article Marketing presents itself as a competent answer.
In Article Marketing, a website submits informative articles that revolve around the basic subject or business of the website. The articles contain a resource box which contains a short bio of the website and a link to the website. As the websites to which the articles are submitted, are basically established forums, blogs and e-magazines, they have their own faithful following of readers. Further, Google and other search engines search out these web articles for their informational value and closely matching keywords. These articles hit many birds in the bush with a single stone.
Article Marketing helps build up brand equity for the website, which is a domino effect of link popularity and high esteem enjoyed by the website as an expert. The articles serve as confidence building measures that reinforce the creditability and utility of the website in the minds of its customers and prospects. With strengthened publicity, the website gradually becomes a name to reckon with in the business sphere.
What's more, Article Marketing is incredibly economical in nature and has the least toll on the marketing budget of any website. To undertake article marketing, all the site needs to do is write quality articles on subjects relevant to the business of the website and submit these articles to maximum of web based forums, blogs and ezines. These websites are always seeking informative articles free of cost. Some of them may charge a nominal amount to further the articles to other forums/ blogs/ e-zines.
Article Marketing also saves the website from some major ordeals that are otherwise required by regular sales and marketing strategies. No website enjoys making cold calls or face-to-face sales appointments to sell their products and services. Article marketing comfortably rescues the websites from indulging into these hard-to-do marketing stunts, as well as, saves financial resources in the process.
As the option of article marketing is open to all, the quality of articles finally dictates the value of the articles and the magnitude of exposure. So, it is important to pay attention to the quality of content submitted through these articles. With consistency in quality of content, the website is able to establish itself as an expert author. This in itself translates the website getting maximum readers and that too instantly upon posting. Moreover, the overall reputation as an expert author adds prestige to the website's articles when they are submitted to various blogs, forums and ezines.
Jonathan White has been involved in article and other online marketing for over 4 years. He owns SimplySearch4it Articles Marketing Directory & AffiliateSeeking.com - Affiliate Programs Directory
Marketers prefer article marketing over other promotional tools because of numerous reasons; it is hassle-free, cost-effective, and it delivers! It is currently the best internet tool in augmenting your website's traffic, establishing yourself as a key person on your chosen niche, and improving your page ranking.
Here are the 4 responsive methods to accelerate your article marketing:
1. Articles. Your articles are the key factors in this marketing campaign. You need to make sure that they are well-written, optimized, content-rich, informative, short, direct to the point, interesting to read, and relevant to your target niche. By doing so, you are increasing the chances of your articles being read, picked up, and republished by other online users. This can lead to numerous inbound links for your website that can improve not only your traffic but also your page ranking.
2. Submission. The other equally important aspect of article marketing is the submission. In order to strengthen your online presence and realized your other marketing goals, you need to consistently submit your articles to publishing sites. In doing so, you need to create an article summary, keywords that you have used on your content, and a powerful resource box.
3. Tracking. You need to monitor the performance of your articles to identify which ones are bringing quality traffic to your website and which ones need revisions. You can simple log on to your accounts on various publishing sites to see your clickthrough rates. Identify the strong points of your performing articles and apply them on your other articles to increase their open rate.
4. Redo the whole process. The success in article marketing cannot be achieved overnight or after a couple of submissions. In order to succeed in this technique you need to continuously write, submit, and monitor the online performance of your articles until you realized your marketing goals.
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Sean Mize is an internet marketing mentor who teaches people to generate over $15,000 per month online via automated systems and product funnels.
Article marketing cannot be more popular these days. Marketers from across the globe agree that this is the most reliable method in generating traffic to their websites, pulling up their search engine rankings, establishing their expertise online, and building trusting relationship with their potential clients.
1. Create an interesting author's bio on leading article submission sites. If you want to build rapport with your potential clients, you need to offer them more than information about your target niche and your products. You also need to impart with them some personal information so they will be able to connect to you on a personal level. Make your author's box compelling by indicating your hobbies, the reason why you write articles, your desire to help, etc. You can also post your most friendly-looking picture so your readers will be able to incorporate the information with a face.
2. Plan ahead. When you sink your teeth into article marketing, you need to understand that this marketing method requires more than writing and submitting your articles. Create a workable plan where you can effectively schedule all the tasks associated with your marketing efforts. Have specific days for writing articles, submitting them online, checking on your progress, and learning advanced tips to help you excel in this field.
3. Write more. Just like any other marketers, I am sure that you are eager to increase the traffic on your website and would be happy to see that happen soon, right? You can easily realize your goals by multiplying the number of your articles. As you know, the number of your inbound links and your online exposure largely depends on your output.
To learn more, download my free guide, "How to Generate $15,000 Per Month Online" here: "How to Generate $15,000 Per Month Online"
Sean Mize is an internet marketing mentor who teaches people to generate over $15,000 per month online via automated systems and product funnels.
There are a exciting few ways to make money online from articles. In this article, we are going to look at these methods a little closer and how they can help you create instant profits on demand...
Method #1 - Freelancing Profits
One way to make money from articles is by writing them for other people. Many business owners on the Internet need articles created for them. It's easy to post a bid for these services: go to Elance or GetAFreelancer to make your bids!
Method #2 - Bum Marketing
Ok the name might sound a little corny, but exactly IS Bum Marketing? Well, it's a term coined by Travis Sago referring to the promotion of affiliate programs via articles. The basic principle is: write articles with your affiliate link in the resource box, submit them to article directories, and wait for the cash to flow in! Affiliate programs are a great way to get started earning money online because you get to promote other people's products for a cut of the profits, without actually creating any products yourself or maintaining any websites.
Method #3 - Website Content Creation
Alternatively, you can write articles and post them to your own website and then "monetize" your website by including Google Adsense ads, affiliate links and offering paid advertising to other website owners.
I'm sure you might be thinking: "Hey, why not do all three to increase my income?" And indeed you should! Do one method first, and once you are making money with that, move on to the next method until you build your article empire.
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If you want to start achieving the success you want, then start setting mega goals. What exactly are mega goals? Well, they are goals that force you to stretch your potential to the limit and make full use of all your resources to achieve your results. They might not be 'realistic' goals, and 'realistic' goals are often goals that don't excite anyone, leading to inaction or complacency.
If you want to get excited and passionate about your dreams, set a mega goal. This will cause you to operate on a different level from most people. You will instantly become laser focused and start doing almost whatever it takes (as long as it is within legal and moral boundaries) to get there!
It's important that you set a goal that you are excited about. Maybe you have been constantly been dreaming about driving and owning that dream car of yours. Or maybe it's some other goal that you want to have. Well, make that your ultimate goal now.
Once you do this, you will immediately start doing things differently. You may take more risks, but you'll also take more calculated risks. You will definitely stop procrastinating and start taking huge action towards your goals. You will wake up everyday feeling energized, knowing that you have a key focus in life and that everyday; you are getting closer to your goal.
So do this now. Set a goal that is 'unrealistic', get yourself excited about it, and start taking focused action to achieve it on a daily basis. Don't delay! There is no time to waste.
Fabian Tan is the author of the free 51-Page Report:
"Murder Your Job: How To Build Cash Sucking Autopilot Businesses In 30 Days Or Less!"
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Give marketing is all about using your generous nature to bring you good fortune. It's "fortune" rather than reciprocation because you may be rewarded from someone other than you gave to - sometimes just the right person with the connections you need.
Of course, the best reward of give marketing is that it feels good to do the right thing...
Give Marketing Tip #1- Giving a Private Phone call
Meeting online is great. But some things are better discussed on the phone. If you have a lot of international friends, cut down your calls with Skype, an app that lets you make calls on a hi-speed connection through your computer. All you need is a headset and their free software. For a small fee you can even get an incoming phone number.
Give Marketing Tip #2- Giving a Teleseminar
Not all Give Marketing is about giving without knowing where the reciprocation will come from. Hold a free teleseminar where you discuss just a few tips as a demonstration of your knowledge, then upsell to a starter item. Add an affiliate program and you'll never be without visitors.
Give Marketing Tip #3- Giving a Webinar
While you can get free service for a teleseminar of up to 100 people if you're stateside, most webinars with more than ten guest will cost you a bit of change. To overcome that, record the webinar and sell it as a starter package to those who couldn't make it.
Give Marketing Tip #4- Giving a Video Demo
If you've got a way to capture screenshots, next time you have a tip to share, try creating a video instead. Once you get the hang of the software, it can sometimes be faster and more effective than a written tip. Of course, some things are better left in print, so choose wisely.
Give Marketing Tip #5- Giving a Screenshot
Almost all computers have an easy way to capture the screen, or freeware you can download to do it. Say it in pictures.
Give Marketing Tip #6- Giving a How-to
It can be in text, pictures, audio, video, or all of the above.
Give Marketing Tip #7- Giving Your Friendship
Everyone needs help or a shoulder to lean on sometimes. Make friends. It's lonely online.
Give Marketing Tip #8- Giving Thanks
Yeah, it seems obvious, but we all forget sometimes. By the way, thank you for reading my article. :)
Give Marketing Tip #9- Giving Use of Your Resources Share and share alike. And probably get tons of links too.
Give Marketing Tip #10- Giving an Interview or an Interview Opportunity
Just because giving an interview benefits you, don't think it's not important to the other party too. And if you're the one asking for the interview, remember to be respectful of the other person's time, and be patient if something goes wrong. Just because we're online doesn't mean folks don't have lives, get sick, or have mini-disasters of their own.
Being understanding pays off way more than being a prima donna.
Give Marketing Tip #11- Giving Content or a Place to Publish Content There will never be too many quality resources that provide or publish content.
By now, you see how this Give Marketing Thing works. You make yourself an indispensable resource, and your knowledge and service does the marketing for you.
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Article writers cannot be more in-demand these days. With millions of webmasters constantly seeking for articles that they can use in their article marketing campaigns, they can indeed keep millions of article writers busy for a while. With it's proven ability to generate traffic and communicate the webmaster's knowledge and abilities, article marketing is fast becoming the most sought-after traffic-generating tool.
Here are the latest 3 persuasive steps to excel in article marketing:
1. Determine the use of your articles. Article marketing isn't just about submitting your articles to publishing sites. It also pertains to the distribution of your written materials in the internet using other different avenues. Thus, in writing your articles, you have to determine its usage. Are you going post them on publishing sites, on your blogs, on your website or perhaps you'll send them through e-mail marketing. In doing so, you can effectively plan the elements that you will incorporate and other add-ons that you will strike out. You would not want to use your articles with resource box on your own website, do you?
2. Be specific. Explain your ideas by giving concrete examples and specific information. For instance, if you would like to teach your readers on how to make money online, cite specific methods like blogging, article writing, and affiliate marketing, instead of telling them to google search certain terms to get the information they want. If you already have the information, why not just give it upfront? It will not only help your readers but it can also be your effective way of getting your potential audience's trust.
3. Be original. Don't be just another writer. Be different by exhibiting a new level of creativeness in your articles. Develop unique methods that can easily be associated with you so you can make a huge mark online.
Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, 'Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide'
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Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 1574 articles in print and 11 published ebooks.
Have you ever been able to get something for nothing? Some might say, "Yes, I have received gifts from people and that was something for nothing." Others might say, "I found ten dollars once, and that was something for nothing." Another example that might come to mind is when a person steals something. You might argue that they got something for nothing. I want you to really think about this for a moment. Do you ever really get something for nothing?
I think it is probably a matter of perspective. If you look at a single moment in time, it could appear that it is indeed possible to get something for nothing. But, if you look at it from the perspective of your lifetime, and what brings real value to your life, I think it doesn't take much effort of thought to realize that we don't ever really get anything of value for nothing.
Still have some doubts? Let me add this then: sometimes the price we pay is before we receive something, and sometimes the price is afterwards.
The reason that I write this is because I am often amazed at the endless supply of headlines that promise something for nothing. I guess the thing that amazes me about these headlines is that they would not be so prevalent if they were not successful. I guess I shouldn't be so surprised; the truth is that I have spent most of my own life looking for some magic pill of a sort.
I guess that is why article marketing has such appeal to me now. I hope I have finally given up on the idea of the magic pill. I am more interested in what I can grow and develop. I see article marketing as the type of business opportunity that I can use to not only build and develop my business, but myself.
What if Dan Iverson could show you how to write about any topic on earth and make money? He'll teach you how to better understand human nature as it relates to e-commerce; how people, from their perspective, come to make a purchase on the Internet. I am talking about learning how you can pick a topic of interest, write about it, and with the right tools and a little research find connections between your readers and real products and services, of which you can become an affiliate and make money. Here is the best part. I will teach you all of this absolutely free. That's right, click on this link and you'll get the full Affiliate Masters Course Free. This is no joke, I promise once you start to read this course, you will see and learn the logical system of affiliate and information marketing. It will open your eyes to the greatest and most versatile opportunity in known history: the Internet. Even if you have a website, you can use these techniques. http://aggressiveinternetmarketing.net/free-tool.html
I often wondered about online publishing and how to submit my article. There were numerous text submission sites, but which one will work to my benefit was still looming my mind. I kept searching through months, probably because I wasn't that much geek as you are; or for that matter, other people who have liking for surfing on net. However, once I got the track I found to be thoroughly into it.
Through continuous reading about the process over the Internet, I came to know, that for submission, it was important to have a well-documented article ready on my desktop. Now, what is that? I questioned to myself. Therefore, before I actually went ahead to submit my article, I searched for an attractive title, which could fetch me a good reading traffic. Friends, it wasn't so easy. Grilling, that's the right fit here. At last, I was there. I got the topic of my choice, which was most visited over the web and to which very little information was available out on Internet.
Once I was through with my content, it was time for next daunting task, which called for real time action. And the question was how and where I would submit my article. Besides, who would read it and how would I come to know about the total volume of people who will actually read my document. Now this is important for me. I got the information from one of search engine optimization website and there I was, ready with my rucksack with around a bunch of eight content pieces.
You know, I did submit my article one by one to top 10 online directories. Moreover, with fingers crossed I was madly waiting for the ranking figures. To my amazing surprise, my text was tracked successfully. I was hats off that spiders did liked my food -My content. My page rank was 5 and it was a great thing according to me, when your page rank jumps to level 5 on the very 3rd day of putting the text on article directories out there.
Now, I would say that the decision to submit my article was a calculated one and it worked against my tantrums. This is great!
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The process of writing and publishing articles online is currently the most profitable way to make money over the World Wide Web. This effective promotional tool, which is commonly referred to as article marketing, is proven to easily augment website's traffic and help marketers earn the trust of their potential customers as they can showcase their expertise through their article content.
Here are the 4 amazing secrets to breakthrough with article marketing:
1. Use effective titles. Your titles can either make or break your article marketing campaign. If they are well-written and attention-grabbing, your articles will surely get the exposure they need as they will be more likely to be opened, read, and widely republished.
2. Your articles must be informative. Make your readers happy by filling up your articles with valuable information that are targeted to their needs and demands. Never leave any stone unturned and strive to dig deeper so you can give your potential clients more in-depth side of your stories.
3. Lay down your objectives. When you know your goals in writing and distributing your articles online, adjusting your marketing efforts and techniques will become a lot easier. For instance, if you would like to drive more traffic to your website you must be willing to multiply the number of your articles to increase your inbound links.
4. Make your resource box compelling. I can't still believe that there are marketers who are not taking their time in creating their resource box. Some of them are just leaving their websites' URL. If you aim to improve your conversation rate, this is not the way to go. You must make your resource box enticing and interesting to compel more people to check on your website.
To learn more, download my free guide, "How to Generate $15,000 Per Month Online" here: "How to Generate $15,000 Per Month Online"
Sean Mize is an internet marketing mentor who teaches people to generate over $15,000 per month online via automated systems and product funnels.
It's a common complaint among many people that they 'don't have time'. That's nonsense, if you ask me. We all have time. We are all each given 24 hours a day. The exact number of hours, minutes and seconds. Hence, the only reason why we might not find time to do something that will make a difference in your life is only you yourself.
The only way you can make time for yourself is to take action. Eliminate the fluff from your daily activities and you will suddenly find you have an abundance of time. It's all about self-control and discipline. Tell yourself, how badly do you really want success? If you want it badly, you would sacrifice a few things to get to where you want. Or you will prove to yourself you are not cut out for it.
Here is how to 'siphon' some time to work on your business:
1. Wake Up One Hour Earlier
The time before dawn is one of the most productive times to work on your Internet business. Nobody is awake at the time, there is no traffic on the roads, and it is quiet. It's perfect for working and there are no distractions to move you away from your tasks. Try waking up one hour earlier and see how much more work you are able to put in.
2. Sacrifice Some TV Time
Sacrifice some of your TV time to work on your business. I enjoy watching TV but I try to limit my time to spent on it to no more than 2 hours a day. If you spend just 5 hours less time watching TV every week, that's 20 hours of more precious time (almost a day more!) to work on your business every month.
3. Focus On One Task At A Time
Multi-tasking is over-rated. Sure, sometimes you will need to multi-task. But focus is always better. Do one task at a time, and do it well. Imagine if you were writing an important email while instant messaging and listening to music all at the same time, would you be able to make a good job out of it? More likely than not, it will take longer for you to complete that task and it will be a poorer effort. Do one thing at a time, and make it excellent.
Fabian Tan is the author of the free 51-Page Report:
"Murder Your Job: How To Build Cash Sucking Autopilot Businesses In 30 Days Or Less!"
Head over to http://www.MurderYourJob.com to get your free copy now before it's gone!
Devising correct marketing strategies are important for expansion of all the businesses. Only those products that are marketed well sell in the market. They sell because their promoter has done his groundwork well. He has found out answers to the basic questions that determine the success of any business. He has found out who he is, what is he doing, which is his market, who are the potential customers, and when does he want do product launch and how does he trap customers.
The marketing plan document developed by the promoter will have answers to all these queries and lay the foundation of the business success or failure, depending on how cautiously it has been planned. A marketing strategy must be written and communicated in a very simple way so that it conveys in a nutshell what it intended to.
Professional business consultancy services come to a promoters rescue in this area. Such professionals help the promoters in developing a vision for the company by identifying the business strengths and areas of improvement. They also gaze loopholes in several business related strategies and modify them to achieve the set goals.
View Your Consultants as Marketing Partners:
Consultants can offer you relevant advice on necessary business tactics after studying the market trends. Their suggestions are based on their market analysis that views various market related facts under the microscope. Some factors that consultant consider while compiling a market report include preferences of the consumers, consumer habits and their buying power, and the competition that the new business is likely to face in the targeted area.
Thus, the consultants help you in determining the feasibility of your business, and therefore act as your marketing partners. They weigh pros and cons of business strategies and advice you accordingly. Besides, they offer a variety of services including business start-up advice, operation analysis, formulating marketing strategies, making business plans, management consulting, and much more.
How Do Consultants Help In Marketing Business?
Expert consultancy services are available in the market. They can increase the productivity of your business manifold, allowing you to concentrate on management or other services related to the core business. Such services are personalized and customized for user satisfaction. Besides developing marketing strategies, consultants also undertake the work of marketing them. They do it in many ways propagating through advertisements in public places, creating catchy television ads, or by simply offering incentives to the buyers when the buy a particular companys products. E-commerce marketing strategies are also gaining a lot of popularity, since they are low-cost ways to advertise. There are specialized business consultants who develop websites for companies and implement effective strategies to create traffic that generate revenues for the company. So, go ahead hire a personal marketing partner to show you the right direction.
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Articles get really high page rankings with search engines. By just spending no more than a month writing articles, you can use them to create residual income. That means that the articles that you wrote, that only took 10 minutes to make, will be making you income even though you haven't even been on the computer. So how can you make some money from articles? Here are some easy ways that you can make money using article marketing.
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Article marketing offers a lot of benefits to marketers who care to do the process right. Aside from the fact that it can boost your website's traffic and sales, it can also help you establish your expertise online to promote rapport and trust among your target market. This can lead to bigger and more responsive email marketing list and more fruitful relationship with your potential audience.
Here are the 4 new secrets to excel with article marketing:
1. Submit your articles to leading publishing sites. When posting your articles online, pick the sites that have great page ranking and steady traffic as these sites are frequented by marketers who are most likely to read and republish your articles should they find them useful and well-written. Don't waste your time and effort to sites that are not even indexed by major search engines as these cannot help you realize your marketing goals.
2. Optimize. Make it easier for search engines to index your articles and for online users to find your content by incorporating relevant keywords on your articles. Strike a good balance between your article word count and the number of your keywords to avoid being tagged as keyword spammer.
3. Use article submission software. Submitting your articles to publishing sites can be tedious, time-consuming, and downright exhausting. Save some time and energy by using software that can automatically distribute your articles to your chosen publishing sites.
4. Write more. To get more quality inbound links for your website, strive to multiply the number of your output. You can easily increase the number of your articles by picking topics that are quick to write like "how-to's" and "10 tips" types of articles. You can also hire ghostwriters who can provide you great content for a minimal fee.
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Articles have been flooding all over the Internet promoting goods and services. These cluster of words that forms a paragraph have variable impact on the marketability of an online business. Writers and SEO specialists have special techniques to rise the page ranking of an Internet page, which can generate traffic and put you on top of Google and yahoo's podium. Articles have profound definitions on how you can access the world of affiliate marketing where online marketing strategies will get you to compete with the growing areas of e-commerce.
Every article has its corresponding topic that entices the reader to be endeared with the information and facts that correlates with the business involvement of a company. In SEO marketing the target market must be updated with the latest news about the business trends and the process which are shared for common motives of increasing traffic. Generally articles are submitted via submission sites that are available throughout the cyberspace. These links allows the writer to input their articles that are placed for moderation before visibly posted online.
Online marketing has vast regions to go though, businesses posts their services like ads that are usually seen on newspapers. The world wide web is composed of interactive clusters of codes where search engines built its empire to authorize business emissaries venturing their writing skills using the most marketable keywords encoded in each paragraph, constructed to hit Google and yahoo's page ranking. Then comes the affiliate marketing where substantial partners participates on one objective, promoting goods and services as you exchange marketing strategies that eventually put both of you on the banner. Writers have put to much interest on every word they arranged in a single sentence, each of the constructed sentence is like a code embedded invisibly where keyword generation comes naturally on each article.
A writer must be technically have extensive research skills in submitting the articles. Submission sites need to have high page ranking to allow the document placed in its most marketable location. Joining forums related on online business would be a huge help, this way you can scatter the link which directly extends to your website or any network linking back to your services.
Articles have structures that are constantly remains unnoticed, once you build up an article and goes online, search engines will crawl the keyword and directly displays the link towards the page. Another common example in generating traffic to an article is using free online blog sites, these sites allows the writer to post their articles freely and by registering on multiple blog sites the writer is able to scatter the in-links of your site without the headache of moderation. The advantage is the writer is the moderator which means they can post as many articles as they want as long as it is viable and supports the readers ideas.
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People who want to learn about something will strive to learn more about it through any means regardless of whether what they are interested in is learning how to treat cancer, how to play golf or play the piano. Sharing what you know in any field through the use of informative articles is an excellent way of marketing any services and products that you have to offer people.
Expert articles can often be written in a manner similar to an advertorial or they can be written like a paid placement advertisement which looks somewhat similar to other real articles which are featured in a publication. They can also be written like a press release which may be used to announce new products, new services or any other event that is seen as newsworthy.
Articles shouldn't be written like a typical sales pitch but they should be written in s similar form. They should also be written in the same professional manner that every other article is written in. The reader should be in a position where they are unable to tell that the article in question is a marketing tool written by a professional copywriter rather than an unbiased state of events written by a journalist. The simple thing to do is to avoid looking like a paid advertisement.
You can do this in a number of ways, by delivering expert advice or by offering a unique how to approach on a number of subjects.
The Expert Says: In this sort of article, the writer uses the know-how of an experts or a client on a particular subject in order to update the reader about any new trends that have come up in that particular subject area. A fashion designer can offer any opinion that they have on items for the new season. A dermatologist may highlight the benefits and disadvantages of the different sorts of treatments for acne that are on offer. The essence is to introduce the user to whatever it is that you have to offer by looking like an expert in the field which you offer your products and services.
The How-To Article:
This sort of piece still takes the position of an expert but it is written in a very consumer friendly manner. A dentist may offer an article like: "10 Ways You Can Get a Brighter Smile" or a number of other things that can be avoided when you go to them for treatment. What this article should do is to prove the reader with an article that provides the reader with information that they can use for themselves.
Writing in the marketing sense needs a special skill for presenting information in a manner that is interesting and which entices readers to want to find out more. All this must be achieved without looking like an overt sales pitch, rather it should be disguised in a manner that educates the reader to learn more about that subject.
When writing either of these types of marketing -style articles there are a few things to remember:
Find The Right Angle:
Find whatever it is that your readers relate to and you can offer them information on any subject.
Doesn't Sound Like A Salesperson:
Articles shouldn't sound like sales pitches. Offer your readers some practical advice that should be of use to them regardless of whether they purchase your client's products or use their service or not.
Darren Williger is an over-caffeinated, low carbohydrate eating, winemaking enthusiast who writes for Williger.com, RareStamp.com, and MarketingSuccess.biz.
Article Marketing has the flexibility to embed links alongside with its contents. The beauty of this is that you can actually embed numerous links you want as long as they do not disrupt the entire content. The purpose of injecting links on the site is primarily to direct visitors to the website where you want him to go. This is done because you would like to generate traffic on the site that you linked with.
When an article writer submits his material to other links, he is cognizant of the fact that this link is capable of generating enough traffic on its own. This is the reason why you wanted your article to be published on that site in the first place. Along with the article that you have written are the inbound links that can lead to your own website or a link that will capture the visitors e-mal address to be stored on your list. In which case, you are able to generate a way with your article to further promote your product or your service.
The issue that goes along with this is that more often than not, the articles that are being submitted and published on the site does not yield much visitors because the article does not have the proper content to capture visitors attention. Now to remedy this, the article writer must be able to re-design or re write the article material that can best fit the needs of the prospective clients. The inbound links on the article must properly worded or phrased so that they would not look like too much of an advertisement that consuming public hates.
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It is true that customer is king. If you want to make them feel that way, then you need to ensure that you have the right set of tools to make this possible. Implementing CRM software has become the core to the success of a business today.
Most CRM models today focus on marketing matrices. In CRM, the matrix is a sequential marketing plan that will help you to generate several new customers whilst focusing on retaining the old ones.
It lets you create annual strategies for your complete customer database by creating a matrix. The matrix only needs minimum adjustments each month.
Steps
In marketing matrices, the target segment is identified and plans are sketched out accordingly. Usually, it relates with creation of mailing lists, specifying the frequency of contact etc.
The target market is then approached with custom plans that suit them. Further classification of the target market according to demographics is also possible with a matrix.
Once a potential customer is turned into a customer, then the matrix automatically removes them from the list.
There is a separate set of strategies for existing customers who will be targeted with newer offers and plans. The proper design of the matrix is crucial for the success of the matrices.
Questions
There are several questions that you need to ask yourself before you plan, design and execute a matrix.
When you have the answers to these questions, the planning and implementation will become a lot easier.
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Gift giving is prevalent in any culture. So what makes Cash Gifting different and what are some considerations that you should know?
What Is It?
The information age has brought on the idea of Cash Gifting online. It is literally what it sounds like. One person sends a "cash gift" to another person, and so on and so forth.
Rather than having a legitimate product to sell and distribute, Cash Gifting programs eliminate the product entirely and just exchange the money. They claim that this is the whole reason that someone gets involved with internet marketing in the first place. They are looking to make a substantial online income and aren't as interested in the products that they are promoting. What they are really after is the money. That is a rather broad assumption I believe.
Is It Legal?
The Cash Gifting programs claim that they follow the stringent laws designed by the IRS to protect consumers. However, when you are exchanging money with people, what if something goes wrong? The likelihood of running into problems with litigation is increased dramatically when you do not have a tangible product.
One thing that is very concerning is the fact that whenever you go to a Cash Gifter's website, you will never see anyone's faces. This is concerning for the fact that with a typical website, you want to brand yourself. You accomplish this goal by including pictures of yourself with audio or video messages welcoming people to your site. The fact that you do not show your face on a Cash Gifting site, leads me and most anyone to believe that there is something to hide. Possibly that there is even something illegal about the process.
What Should You Know?
Cash Gifting is just like any other online business. The way that marketers become successful is by driving large amounts of traffic to their websites. This can be done online or offline, with advertising dollars or without. The highly successful Cash Gifters will be those that are proficient at marketing.
In conclusion, whether or not Cash Gifting is a scam or legal is up to you. There are definitely some red flags that go up in my mind, but it is up to you to make your decision for yourself. There are some people who have done very well with this business model. However, it seems rather risky to me.
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I know a lot of you HATE to act like salespeople or HATE to push your product or service, but if you don't do it and you don't have a sales team - WHO WILL DO IT??
That's why I recommend you learn the most effective ways to write a sales letter or email. This way at least you'll have effective copy working for you.
So, what is a sales letter? What do I mean? Its that long, scrolling page that you see on many websites these days that you sometimes don't even know what they're selling until you get to the bottom and you especially don't know how much it is until you reach the bottom but you'll soon find out that you've been 'hooked' when you're halfway down the page and 5 minutes have gone by.
Not a lot of people you see really do this well. After all, don't many small business owners complain that they're marketing isn't working well if at all?
This is mostly due to the copy or content in such a marketing piece. I don't care if we're talking about an ad, postcard, flyer, door-hanger, webpage, email, printed newsletter or brochure. The content is what makes or breaks it; it's what sells or doesn't sell.
Of course you have to place your ad or promotion in the right place, targeting the right people but using the 'right message' is critical.
I coach small business owners and entrepreneurs on a daily basis about these strategies when I work with them on creating their marketing materials, websites or email newsletters. Coming up with creative, fresh marketing ideas and solutions to bring entrepreneurs more business without breaking the bank is what I specialize in!
This is a great checklist for you to use when you're creating your own sales copy or promotional materials no matter what the industry, product or service.
1. It's important to do your market research and know your target market.
2. Draw them in with a killer BIG AND BOLD headline.
3. Use engaging subheadings, phrases and statistics.
4. Be reader-centered, not writer-centered.
5. Be conversational.
6. Ask for the order!
7. Offer bonuses & a guarantee.
8. Include a P.S.
9. Have your copy proofread!
Now, if you still feel like you can't get it down or write it in a way your readers will respond easily, then you can delegate this.
(c) Copyright 2008 K.Sawa Marketing. Katrina Sawa is an Award-Winning Relationship Marketing Coach who's helped hundreds of small business owners take dramatic steps in their businesses to get them to the next level in business, revenues and life. She offers one-on-one coaching, group coaching and do-it-yourself marketing planning products. Go online now to get started with her Free Report and Free Audio at http://www.jumpstartyourmarketing.com!
If you are doing any kind of article marketing now, you might be doing one of the following:
- promoting affiliate products to make commissions
- promoting your own sales page to sell products
- promoting a so-called Made-For-Adsense blog
- posting articles on your own blog to generate content
And I'll probably get 'killed' for saying this, but your articles are getting wasted.
Very few, and I mean very few, use article marketing solely to build a list. And lots of money is being left on the table, I'm afraid to say.
I basically do all the steps in Bum Marketing (the term created by Travis Sago to describe article marketing) but the difference is I promote a squeeze page to collect leads. The only way anyone can get extra information from me is if they enter their name and email address. I figured, if someone is not willing to give me those details, what more actually paying me online? Let's face it: we are running a business here, not a charity.
The reason why this is effective is because someone who likes your article is 'warmed up', he will want to get more information from you, and an email newsletter is the perfect way to do that.
So go and build a list with your articles. Write and submit multiple articles daily to top directories, and you will see floods (and I mean floods) of traffic and leads. Your lead generation will practically receive an instant boost. Your business will be given a positive kick up the rear from the results you get.
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Postcard marketing is one of the most, if not the most, effective promotional strategy you could ever use to market your products and services. Postcards are very popular marketing vehicles because of their capability to do repetitive marketing that helps in having your target audience recognize and retain your brand in their minds.
With postcards, you have the opportunity to add to your current list of customers which would mean more possible sales for your business. But what if you could multiply your sales? Wouldn't it be wonderful if you can do that?
You can with these killer strategies:
Follow-up. This is the common mistake that most sales agents make when they get a sale - they keep forgetting to follow-up on a client. The very first time you make your sale, you have to follow it up with a thank you note maybe or even a token that shows you appreciate the business that your customer brought to your company. It doesn't take more than a few minutes to send an email or postcard printing piece just to let your customer know that they are appreciated.
And while you're at it, why not include an ad for your other products. Who knows, your customer might just be encouraged to buy again after your show of gratitude.
Upsell. When marketing to your target customers, you just don't sell your main product, you also have to 'upsell' by telling them about some of the related products in your list. Take your postcard printing pieces to a new level and show your target audience even those products that are not very popular. Add a few discounts here and there for good measure. Your prospects may just add more items to their original order.
Referrals. Getting referrals form a satisfied customer is a sure way to boost your sales. But don't just ask; motivate your customers to refer your business to others by giving them incentives that they couldn't resist. How about a full rebate of their purchase price when they give you a referral? Or a special discount on their favorite product when they give you more?
Affiliate. This is how one cosmetics company was able to turn itself into a conglomerate known the world over. They sell a product to their customers and then they recruit their customers into their affiliate program by giving them discounts and commissions every time they were able to sell a product. You make your customers your very own sales agents. This sure can multiply your sales rate faster than you can think about it.
Cross-promote. This is the trend nowadays: small businesses cross-promote with other credible businesses to keep them going. Let's face it. Marketing your business is very expensive that small companies can have a difficult time with very limited budget to work on. But if you cross-promote, you are able to have the opportunity to market like a large business enterprise that has money to spend. You could have a package deal with your partners. You can include their products and services in your postcard marketing, and vice versa.
We hope we have helped you multiply your sales. Till the next postcard marketing strategy. Godspeed!
Lynne Saarte is a writer that hails from Texas. She has been in the Internet business for some years now, specializing in Internet marketing and other online business strategies.
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When we design and build our websites we work hard to make sure our site looks great, the font matches throughout the page, the colors work together rather than competing with one another. We want our readers to enjoy our website and come back. Most importantly we want our sites to make money. It's amazing how little thought we often put into actually getting visitors to our site in the first place.
There are many options for driving traffic to your site. Some of them are quite costly and some of them are surprisingly cheap. You have probably heard that writing good quality content is necessary in order to achieve good page rankings and obviously to receive repeat visitors, but did you know that by writing unique articles and submitting them to content sites with your byline and website address you are accomplishing two very important advertising strategies?
First by doing this, you are presenting yourself as an expert in the field. Whether you built your website as a one stop shop for any kind of widget on the planet or if your site is about a very specific widget, writing unique articles about widgets and distributing them to the various content sites that can be found all over the internet will gradually establish you as an authority in the field of widgets. You are also creating links to your website. It's always a good idea to have several incoming links to your website as this information gets picked up by the little bots that decide what your site is worth.
The important key to remember is that you need to write unique articles. This is critical to your article marketing success. Submitting the same article to many article sites, ezines, newsletters and article directories will destroy your page rank as you fall prey to the "Duplicate Content Filter" Google has implemented, and how other search engines view duplicate content. The more unique articles you can submit, the more they will be accepted by search engines and counted positively towards your inbound links which drive your page rank up. So how can you write hundreds of different unique articles you ask? Through article submission software that can randomly produce unique articles from your original draft. An excellent article submission software resource can be found at: www.articleprosoftware.com. It will randomly submit hundreds of unique articles to it's built in list of real publishers, and you can add your own favorite list later too.
Second, free advertising. These free content sites are actually quite widely read and the more people that see your article with your byline, the more potential visitors you have to your site. These are much better than going to one of those surfing sites in order to generate traffic and it is much less expensive than beginning a pay per click campaign.
Ultimately, the more your name is seen in association with widgets, the more credibility you gain in the great big world of widgets. Using a content site to drive traffic to your widget sales site is actually a very intelligent business decision. It's also a good idea to branch out beyond the world of widgets in your content writing. It could be that by writing an article on something that appeals to a broader market will lead to the selling of even more widgets.
It's really amazing the way things work out. There have been business cards that have made it around the world and finally resulted in a sale. Your sales page is essentially your business card on the web. The more you get people to see your page, the more opportunities you have to make a sale. Putting out unique articles where ever you can think of to do so will result in your article being seen and conversely your website address being seen by a much broader audience. Also by establishing yourself as the quintessential widget expert in many circles, you've 'branded' yourself, and people will think of your name when they think of widgets. Way to go!
-Craig S. Andrews
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