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Friday, July 08, 2005
Sunday, April 03, 2005
How To Use Pay Per Click Ads Without Ruining Yourself
Note from Sanjay Johari - Every time I read about pay per click, I find something new. This article is no exception. PPC remains the most target-oriented promotional method. Quite often it is the starting point for bigger promotional campaign because it is one of the most inexpensive testing tool to find out what really stirs people - headlines, keywords, benefits, punch lines and so on. Enjoy this article.....
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How To Use Pay Per Click Ads Without Ruining Yourself
Copyright © 2005 Torgeir Sunnarvik
Every Pleasures
http://www.everypleasures.com/
Pay Per Click Ads may seem to be a very expensive way of selling
your products. But if it's done the right way, it can be a money
making machine on auto-pilot.
Let's say that you have bought one of the many ebooks with
reprint rights that you can find online. Then you use the tools
that you receive with the ebook to set up your own web page on
your own domain. It's very easy and often done in just one hour
or two.
After your sales page is online and you have checked that
everything is working fine, you should go to Overture and open an
account. Then you start to make your keyword list. For that you
can use Overture's own keyword tool. It's quite good because you
can see how many times each keyword have been searched for the
previous month. That gives you a clue of how popular the keyword
is, and it predicts how many clicks you can get for that keyword.
When you search for keywords you should first look at your sales
page, for words that are relevant for the product that you are
promoting. Write all the words down or save them in a txt file.
You can also put in spelling mistakes in these keywords. There
are always a lot of searches with spelling mistakes. And these
keywords have often no bids. This site offer a tool to find
spelling mistakes.
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-typo-generator/
Now it's time to put all the words into Overture's keyword tool.
If you use the tools that are available when signing up for an
account, you should be able to see how high the bids are for each
keyword.
The words that have the highest number of searches are most
likely to have the highest bids, too. I have seen keywords that
have bids for $40 and even higher for each click. What you want
to find are the keywords that have high searches and low bids.
If you are lucky you can find words that have no bids on them
yet. Then you have the opportunity to have your ad on the first
position for only $0,10 per click. This is the lowest bid on
Overture. The minimum bid per click can vary among the company's
that offer pay per click ads.
By the way, that amount is what you should bid on all your
keywords. Try to find as many keywords as possible. It's better
to have 5000 keywords that you have low bids on, than to have a
few keywords with higher bids. That way, you will have a better
chance to earn money.
Remember that you get 1000 visitors for $100 if you bid only
$0,10 per click. So, if you are selling a product that costs $25,
and you sell around one unit per 100 visitors, you will have
earned $250 after getting 1000 visitors to your website. You
will have earned $250 for every $100 spent on your keyword ad
campaign.
You should also think about saving money when you write your ad.
Don't try to lure people into click your ad by writing about free
offers or any hype of that kind. You might get a lot of visitors
that way, but they will leave your site when they see that they
have to pay for your product. They are only using up your money
without helping you to make a single sale.
Instead you should write exactly what you are offering, and what
price you are asking for the product. That way you are getting
targeted visitors that know they have to pay the price you set
in the ad in order to get the product you are offering. To top
it off, you can offer them a test drive. If it's an ebook you can
put one chapter of it onto a auto responder in 5-7 emails. Then
send the messages once a day to the people that sign up for the
test drive.
Now you can sit back and see what results you get. Let the ad go
for a month and see how many clicks it takes before anyone buys
from you. If it's not bringing back enough money, you should try
to figure out what's wrong. Is it the ad or is it your web page?
Anyway, try to fix it and let the ad go for another month. When
you have a reasonable return of investment(ROI), it's time to let
the ad continue its run, without any more work on your part. Now,
your ad is running on auto pilot. Just remember to check it once
a month to see if the ROI is dropping. If it's not bringing in
enough money, you can then find another product, and do the same
thing all over again.
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Torgeir Sunnarvik, Norway
mailto:webmaster@everypleasures.com
Torgeir Sunnarvik is the owner and webmaster of
http://www.everypleasures.com/
His site offer free ebooks, ebooks with
reprint rights and marketing articles.
Would you rather hop around
like a rabbit, or soar like an eagle?
Stop hopping around and learn how to fly!
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
How to Turn Your Blog into an Income Generator
In this article there are some ideas on how blogs can be used for generating income. See how much you agree with the author....
How to Turn Your Blog into an Income Generator
By Ina Bliss
This is a simple Sequence for Success with Your Blog:
Choose a Hot Topic for your Blog that is not only closely related to your own utmost interest, but can be updated daily, even hourly.
Set up your blog with a place such as squarespace.com, blogger.com, etc. Blogger even permits you to ftp your pages to your own domain.
The easiest way to add content is downloading the Google beta toolbar, selecting the BLOG IT option, visiting a site carrying a message on your theme and instantly posting the highlighted text unto your Blog pages.
Write about your theme into depth, and research items that make your audience's life easier. Before you mention a link to the items in your posts, sign up for the affiliate program with the best and most progressive site that carries that item.
The keywords you use make or break your presence in the search engines and directories. However, top keywords are hot property. So, instead of just using CAR PURCHASE, mention favorite sports car for less, 4-door Chevy suitable for camping... Narrow it down.
Here is a way I have used to keep up with RSS feeds:
---Download FeedReader
---Sign up with MyYahoo
---Add Content to your page. Choose as many topics you would qualify for your subject and peripherals
---Go to every one you have added to your MyYahoo page and enter each feed URL in your FeedReader.
---Now the FeedReader gets you all that news directly to your desktop. You don't even have to leave home...
These RSS feeds are meant to support your choice in blogs, or topics for your existing blog.
In order to turn the traffic to your site into bucks, you enter code by Google adsense, clickbank ads and amazon ads into your post pages, avoiding them on your index page.
Submit your blog RSS feed url to as many Blog Directories as you can. If you write about a specific topic, it will eventually find its readers. To short-cut this, you search for feeds in certain subjects. If you discover that the search returns an insufficient amount of relevant answers, just fill the gaps with your fresh and specialized content.
In order to establish yourself in your niche, you submit articles, help people with their challenges in forums and newsgroups and post a fine-tuned message about your subject that applies to a specific different audience, with your link itself containing all your major keywords, to other blogs.
In order to stay in touch with the individuals that subscribe to your feeds in an additional manner, you subscribe to the RSS Autopublisher at rssautopublsher.com. This uses new RSS technology, giving you an edge over the antiquated use of email and its challenges.
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Monday, March 21, 2005
The Most Critical Strategy to Your Survival, and Prosperity, Online
Note from Sanjay Johari - Even in this age of automation and progress in technology, the personal relationship still counts. Building your business is synonymous with building relationship with your existing and prospective customers. This issue is dealt with in this article - see how much you agree with the author's viewpoint.
The Most Critical Strategy to Your Survival, and Prosperity, Online
Laurence Baker
For the sake of your long term survival and your short term
profitability online, you've got to think of your business
as more than just one or more products or services. Getting
customers is the hard part, so the best strategy is almost
always to gain their business long term.
Ask yourself or find out from your subscribers what wants
and needs they have in common. It's commonly known that the
online environment is especially suited to this because it
costs you nothing to keep in touch with them. When done
correctly, these contacts can be very profitable to you for
a long time.
What's not as well understood is that for this very same
reason, your survival may easily depend on how well you
execute this strategy. When online businesses get more out
of their traffic by doing this, they're willing to pay more
for the traffic and so the cost of traffic increases
overall.
And it doesn't matter whether the traffic is free or not.
Because when it's free, there will be more businesses out
there willing to put in the time to get this free traffic,
which leaves less of it for you, at least for the time you
put in. All other things being equal, if were to continue to
get the same amount of traffic, you would have to put in
more time.
And on-line businesses WILL be doing more of this as word
gets around that this kind of strategy is the way to go. So
your survival online will increasingly depend on how well
you do this.
For those reasons, opt-in marketing done correctly - where
relationships with your prospects and customers are a top
priority - becomes more important every day. These
relationships are not much different than any other. They
require time. They require the trust of your opt-ins. And
they require that the opt-ins see more value in what you
send them than most other things they run into online or in
their inbox.
That last part can be pretty tricky without the personal
element. As an individual, even if you do have people
working for you, you're able to use this to your extreme
advantage. When you throw this into the mix, everything you
do carries more value - both to you and your subscribers and
customers. It becomes easier for you to develop trust and
establish credibility this way. These are important because
as a marketer, the highest level you can attain is that of a
trusted advisor.
You personally become be most important element in your
marketing when your subscribers rely on you for your
recommendations and your guidance.
All of a sudden, the role you take on with your list allows
you to take on a whole new perspective in your daily life
because if you're tuned in, many things in your work or life
outside of that could be informative or serve to illustrate
a point to your subscribers. This is stuff your readers just
can't get anywhere else!
When the sight of your email in your subscribers' inbox
triggers the idea of you as a person in their minds, you'll
naturally get more of your emails read. which translates
directly to more sales. This happens naturally. Your
messages will have more of an impact because the readers
aren't putting up their defenses as they normally would. The
message can be taken at face value.
You might think you have to be an expert to attain this kind
of position. You really don't. You can still bring value
without overstepping the bounds of your knowledge. Anyone
can use these elements to build these highly profitable
relationships in their list.
================================================
I cover these things in more depth in my ebook "How to Win
More Customers That Buy More Product More Often," which is
completely FREE. Laurence Baker is the author of "How To Win More Customers
That Buy More Product More Often," presenting a solution to
the biggest obstacle in making more sales on the internet -a
lack of trust. To download a FREE copy, visit http://www.netmarkhome.com
================================================
Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
The Most Critical Strategy to Your Survival, and Prosperity, Online
Laurence Baker
For the sake of your long term survival and your short term
profitability online, you've got to think of your business
as more than just one or more products or services. Getting
customers is the hard part, so the best strategy is almost
always to gain their business long term.
Ask yourself or find out from your subscribers what wants
and needs they have in common. It's commonly known that the
online environment is especially suited to this because it
costs you nothing to keep in touch with them. When done
correctly, these contacts can be very profitable to you for
a long time.
What's not as well understood is that for this very same
reason, your survival may easily depend on how well you
execute this strategy. When online businesses get more out
of their traffic by doing this, they're willing to pay more
for the traffic and so the cost of traffic increases
overall.
And it doesn't matter whether the traffic is free or not.
Because when it's free, there will be more businesses out
there willing to put in the time to get this free traffic,
which leaves less of it for you, at least for the time you
put in. All other things being equal, if were to continue to
get the same amount of traffic, you would have to put in
more time.
And on-line businesses WILL be doing more of this as word
gets around that this kind of strategy is the way to go. So
your survival online will increasingly depend on how well
you do this.
For those reasons, opt-in marketing done correctly - where
relationships with your prospects and customers are a top
priority - becomes more important every day. These
relationships are not much different than any other. They
require time. They require the trust of your opt-ins. And
they require that the opt-ins see more value in what you
send them than most other things they run into online or in
their inbox.
That last part can be pretty tricky without the personal
element. As an individual, even if you do have people
working for you, you're able to use this to your extreme
advantage. When you throw this into the mix, everything you
do carries more value - both to you and your subscribers and
customers. It becomes easier for you to develop trust and
establish credibility this way. These are important because
as a marketer, the highest level you can attain is that of a
trusted advisor.
You personally become be most important element in your
marketing when your subscribers rely on you for your
recommendations and your guidance.
All of a sudden, the role you take on with your list allows
you to take on a whole new perspective in your daily life
because if you're tuned in, many things in your work or life
outside of that could be informative or serve to illustrate
a point to your subscribers. This is stuff your readers just
can't get anywhere else!
When the sight of your email in your subscribers' inbox
triggers the idea of you as a person in their minds, you'll
naturally get more of your emails read. which translates
directly to more sales. This happens naturally. Your
messages will have more of an impact because the readers
aren't putting up their defenses as they normally would. The
message can be taken at face value.
You might think you have to be an expert to attain this kind
of position. You really don't. You can still bring value
without overstepping the bounds of your knowledge. Anyone
can use these elements to build these highly profitable
relationships in their list.
================================================
I cover these things in more depth in my ebook "How to Win
More Customers That Buy More Product More Often," which is
completely FREE. Laurence Baker is the author of "How To Win More Customers
That Buy More Product More Often," presenting a solution to
the biggest obstacle in making more sales on the internet -a
lack of trust. To download a FREE copy, visit http://www.netmarkhome.com
================================================
Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
A Blog I would Visit often - http://kathleengage.blogspot.com/
Did you like the last posting on this blog? I'm sure you did. If you haven't seen it, go see it now. The author of the article maintains a blog - http://kathleengage.blogspot.com/. I visited this blog and was amazed to see that quality of information posted there. Moreover, the postings there related to business promotion, the same general theme which I follow in this blog. If you are interested in this subject you will do yourself a favour by visiting that blog.
Happy blogging.
Sanjay Johari
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Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
Happy blogging.
Sanjay Johari
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Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Reap Incredible Profit with This Simple Strategy
Note from Sanjay Johari - Here in this article there are some simple but powerful tricks for promoting your website and ultimately promoting yourself. Enjy this article........
Reap Incredible Profit with This Simple Strategy
Author: Kathleen Gage
Why is it some people are incredibly successful at utilizing the
power of the Internet in their marketing while others can't seem
to figure out the winning formula?
How often do entrepreneurs and salespeople look for that next magic
formula to build their business and increasing revenues, never quite
making any of it work? Many people make it much more difficult to
succeed than it need be while others know exactly what to do .
and they do it.
Ask anyone who has effectively integrated the use of the Internet
into their overall marketing strategy and they will tell you success
in building your business, both online and off, is about systems.
Simple as that.
Developing and utilizing systems is nothing new. Yet, the great
search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and getting rich
quick continues.
The place you'll find more gold than virtually anywhere else is
in doing something many people just don't find appealing. It is in
developing and maintaining a solid database. Unfortunately, many
people don't find database management sexy enough. So they
continually buy into that next secret formula.
Fact is, with a well-groomed database you can increase your revenues
and decrease your marketing costs. You can build customer relations
and keep your name fresh in the minds of your market by keeping in
touch. This establishes excellent position within your market.
Most people would be amazed at how simple it is to build an
incredibly profitable database by applying a few simple strategies.
Remember, simple is not always easy. It will take time, commitment
and focus.
Bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to your database.
Depending on your industry and what you sell you may be well served
to focus on the few dozen or few hundred who want to buy from you
rather than thousands who don't care about what you offer.
On the other hand, there will be situations where building a massive
list is exactly what you need to do. Especially if you have mass
quantity products you are selling at a very low price. Then you may
want to go for the numbers.
Driving traffic to your site is an ongoing process as is building and
maintaining your database. If you are serious about using the
Internet in your marketing you need to lay the groundwork to optimize
your opportunities.
-Develop a fully operational web site
-Have a way to capture contact information such as a sign up form
-Give people a reason for leaving their contact information such as
an Ezine, free report or ebook, an article of interest to your target
market or anything that is of benefit to the reader
-Develop a series of content driven messages that address your
customers' needs
-Keep your name in front of your market consistently without being
annoying
-Write and distribute articles to various online resources that are
pertinent to your market
-Create a byline that contains your web address
-Do not make the articles a hard sell. Rather, provide information
that positions you as a resource before you are a vendor
-Develop a list of forums and discussion groups you can participate in
-Commit to the long-term.
By focusing on developing a solid database and providing incredible
value to your market you can and will achieve success in your
business. Guaranteed!
-- Kathleen Gage is an award winning keynote speaker, author and
business advisor specializing in marketing and promotions. Join
Kathleen for a FREE live seminar Secrets to Making Money on the
Internet - Success Strategies to Using the Internet to Gain Position,
Visibility and Profits for your Business on March 14th
http://www.turningpointpresents.com/quickstartfreetraining.htm
==============================================================
Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
Reap Incredible Profit with This Simple Strategy
Author: Kathleen Gage
Why is it some people are incredibly successful at utilizing the
power of the Internet in their marketing while others can't seem
to figure out the winning formula?
How often do entrepreneurs and salespeople look for that next magic
formula to build their business and increasing revenues, never quite
making any of it work? Many people make it much more difficult to
succeed than it need be while others know exactly what to do .
and they do it.
Ask anyone who has effectively integrated the use of the Internet
into their overall marketing strategy and they will tell you success
in building your business, both online and off, is about systems.
Simple as that.
Developing and utilizing systems is nothing new. Yet, the great
search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and getting rich
quick continues.
The place you'll find more gold than virtually anywhere else is
in doing something many people just don't find appealing. It is in
developing and maintaining a solid database. Unfortunately, many
people don't find database management sexy enough. So they
continually buy into that next secret formula.
Fact is, with a well-groomed database you can increase your revenues
and decrease your marketing costs. You can build customer relations
and keep your name fresh in the minds of your market by keeping in
touch. This establishes excellent position within your market.
Most people would be amazed at how simple it is to build an
incredibly profitable database by applying a few simple strategies.
Remember, simple is not always easy. It will take time, commitment
and focus.
Bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to your database.
Depending on your industry and what you sell you may be well served
to focus on the few dozen or few hundred who want to buy from you
rather than thousands who don't care about what you offer.
On the other hand, there will be situations where building a massive
list is exactly what you need to do. Especially if you have mass
quantity products you are selling at a very low price. Then you may
want to go for the numbers.
Driving traffic to your site is an ongoing process as is building and
maintaining your database. If you are serious about using the
Internet in your marketing you need to lay the groundwork to optimize
your opportunities.
-Develop a fully operational web site
-Have a way to capture contact information such as a sign up form
-Give people a reason for leaving their contact information such as
an Ezine, free report or ebook, an article of interest to your target
market or anything that is of benefit to the reader
-Develop a series of content driven messages that address your
customers' needs
-Keep your name in front of your market consistently without being
annoying
-Write and distribute articles to various online resources that are
pertinent to your market
-Create a byline that contains your web address
-Do not make the articles a hard sell. Rather, provide information
that positions you as a resource before you are a vendor
-Develop a list of forums and discussion groups you can participate in
-Commit to the long-term.
By focusing on developing a solid database and providing incredible
value to your market you can and will achieve success in your
business. Guaranteed!
-- Kathleen Gage is an award winning keynote speaker, author and
business advisor specializing in marketing and promotions. Join
Kathleen for a FREE live seminar Secrets to Making Money on the
Internet - Success Strategies to Using the Internet to Gain Position,
Visibility and Profits for your Business on March 14th
http://www.turningpointpresents.com/quickstartfreetraining.htm
==============================================================
Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds
Note from Sanjay Johari - RSS is said to be one of the biggest traffic generators. Enjoy this excellent article. You will find several eqally informative articles by the same author on my website - http://www.sanjay-j.com/
Go to articles page: http://www.sanjay-j.com/articles.com
Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds
By S. Housley
Tips for Helping Your RSS Feed Perform!
In some ways RSS is very similar to HTML, the language
commonly used to create websites. Just as with HTML,
webmasters using traditional search engine optimization
tactics when creating an RSS feed will find that their RSS
feed receives additional exposure and interest.
Simple steps to optimize an RSS feed for search engines:
1.) The title should contain important search terms.
To state the obvious, the title should be relevant and not
misleading, while still emphasizing keywords. Ultimately,
the title should entice the reader to read on, not mislead
them.
2.) Display RSS feeds.
Most webmasters display their feeds as content on their
website. When displaying a feed be sure to use PHP, ASP or
HTML so that search engines will spider the contents of the
feed displayed. If using a template to display feeds, use
header tags to define the appearance of the Channel Title
and Item Titles. Many search engines weight header tags with
more importance. See Displaying RSS Feeds for additional
information -
http://www.small-business-software.net/display-rss.htm
3.) Internal & external Links.
Within a feed you should always use the full path of any
links, keeping in mind that other sites may syndicate the
contents of the RSS feed. Links that are not local to the
site should launch a new browser. While this is not specific
to search engines it will help keep visitors on your site.
4.) Link text should emphasize keywords.
It is no longer a deep, dark secret that the text used for
incoming links will help a site contextually define the
keywords that the site appears for in the search engines.
Keeping that in mind, be sure to use keywords in any link
text that points back to your website.
5.) My.Yahoo and My.MSN.
This is surprisingly simple to do but often overlooked by
publishers and webmasters. The fastest way to have an RSS
feed spidered by Yahoo or MSN is to include the feed on a
personal my.yahoo or my.msn home page. Simply create an
account on the respective search engines and customize the
home page to include your RSS feed. This is done by adding
content and listing the URL to the RSS feed. Typically,
within 24-48 hours the feed's contents will be spidered and
indexed by Yahoo and MSN.
6.) Theme feeds.
Feeds should be themed. This will help with themed links
back to a publisher's website from anyone syndicating the
feed's content.
7. ) Link popularity.
Increase link popularity by submitting the RSS feed, blog or
podcast to the appropriate directories. The following
directories allow submissions of specific kinds of RSS
feeds. Be sure to follow the guidelines of each site and
choose categories wisely.
Submit Podcasts -
http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm
Submit RSS feeds -
http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
Submit Blogs -
http://www.blog-connection.com/submit-blogs.htm
8.) RSS feed descriptions.
RSS feed descriptions are generally summaries or
introductions to other content. Often, feed creators will
provide additional information on an HTML site, enticing the
reader to click through for the full information if it is a
topic that is of interest to them. Provide enough teaser
copy that the reader can easily discern if the contents are
something that is important to them.
9.) Subscribe to feeds.
This might seem obvious, but a surprisingly large number of
publishers do not subscribe to their own feed. This is a
great way to visualize what your customers see, and
experiment with formatting and integrating HTML into feeds.
10.) Image ads.
Add your corporate logo to your RSS feed. Create a brand and
enforce that brand by including the image in the RSS feed.
The image will enhance your corporate identity and dress up
the look of your feed by adding your corporate logo.
11.) Alphabetical rank.
Many feed readers list feeds alphabetically in the reader.
Feed channels that begin with A will naturally appear in the
top of the feed list in most feed readers. If you wish to
appear in the top of list of feeds that a reader has
subscribed to, keep this tip in mind.
12.) Meaningful Links
Each item in your feed should contain a unique URL
associated with it. This will direct users to associated
information. Many find using target URLs with the "#" symbol
in the link to identify specific content useful.
Most marketers have a love-hate relationship with search
engines. Search engines have the abilitiy to make even the
most confident webmaster feel powerless . Let’s face it -
all of us have felt the wrath of the search engine
powers-that-be at one time or another, and while it may be
difficult to know what line was crossed or how we fell out
of favor, following some basic guidelines will be helpful in
optomizing feeds for search engines.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll
http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing,
publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon
manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a
wireless text messaging software company.
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Learn and earn from one of the oldest and fastest growing networking organization:
http://www.sanjay-j.com/empowerism.com
Go to articles page: http://www.sanjay-j.com/articles.com
Search Engine Optimization for RSS Feeds
By S. Housley
Tips for Helping Your RSS Feed Perform!
In some ways RSS is very similar to HTML, the language
commonly used to create websites. Just as with HTML,
webmasters using traditional search engine optimization
tactics when creating an RSS feed will find that their RSS
feed receives additional exposure and interest.
Simple steps to optimize an RSS feed for search engines:
1.) The title should contain important search terms.
To state the obvious, the title should be relevant and not
misleading, while still emphasizing keywords. Ultimately,
the title should entice the reader to read on, not mislead
them.
2.) Display RSS feeds.
Most webmasters display their feeds as content on their
website. When displaying a feed be sure to use PHP, ASP or
HTML so that search engines will spider the contents of the
feed displayed. If using a template to display feeds, use
header tags to define the appearance of the Channel Title
and Item Titles. Many search engines weight header tags with
more importance. See Displaying RSS Feeds for additional
information -
http://www.small-business-software.net/display-rss.htm
3.) Internal & external Links.
Within a feed you should always use the full path of any
links, keeping in mind that other sites may syndicate the
contents of the RSS feed. Links that are not local to the
site should launch a new browser. While this is not specific
to search engines it will help keep visitors on your site.
4.) Link text should emphasize keywords.
It is no longer a deep, dark secret that the text used for
incoming links will help a site contextually define the
keywords that the site appears for in the search engines.
Keeping that in mind, be sure to use keywords in any link
text that points back to your website.
5.) My.Yahoo and My.MSN.
This is surprisingly simple to do but often overlooked by
publishers and webmasters. The fastest way to have an RSS
feed spidered by Yahoo or MSN is to include the feed on a
personal my.yahoo or my.msn home page. Simply create an
account on the respective search engines and customize the
home page to include your RSS feed. This is done by adding
content and listing the URL to the RSS feed. Typically,
within 24-48 hours the feed's contents will be spidered and
indexed by Yahoo and MSN.
6.) Theme feeds.
Feeds should be themed. This will help with themed links
back to a publisher's website from anyone syndicating the
feed's content.
7. ) Link popularity.
Increase link popularity by submitting the RSS feed, blog or
podcast to the appropriate directories. The following
directories allow submissions of specific kinds of RSS
feeds. Be sure to follow the guidelines of each site and
choose categories wisely.
Submit Podcasts -
http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm
Submit RSS feeds -
http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
Submit Blogs -
http://www.blog-connection.com/submit-blogs.htm
8.) RSS feed descriptions.
RSS feed descriptions are generally summaries or
introductions to other content. Often, feed creators will
provide additional information on an HTML site, enticing the
reader to click through for the full information if it is a
topic that is of interest to them. Provide enough teaser
copy that the reader can easily discern if the contents are
something that is important to them.
9.) Subscribe to feeds.
This might seem obvious, but a surprisingly large number of
publishers do not subscribe to their own feed. This is a
great way to visualize what your customers see, and
experiment with formatting and integrating HTML into feeds.
10.) Image ads.
Add your corporate logo to your RSS feed. Create a brand and
enforce that brand by including the image in the RSS feed.
The image will enhance your corporate identity and dress up
the look of your feed by adding your corporate logo.
11.) Alphabetical rank.
Many feed readers list feeds alphabetically in the reader.
Feed channels that begin with A will naturally appear in the
top of the feed list in most feed readers. If you wish to
appear in the top of list of feeds that a reader has
subscribed to, keep this tip in mind.
12.) Meaningful Links
Each item in your feed should contain a unique URL
associated with it. This will direct users to associated
information. Many find using target URLs with the "#" symbol
in the link to identify specific content useful.
Most marketers have a love-hate relationship with search
engines. Search engines have the abilitiy to make even the
most confident webmaster feel powerless . Let’s face it -
all of us have felt the wrath of the search engine
powers-that-be at one time or another, and while it may be
difficult to know what line was crossed or how we fell out
of favor, following some basic guidelines will be helpful in
optomizing feeds for search engines.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAll
http://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editing,
publishing RSS feeds and podcasts. In addition Sharon
manages marketing for NotePage http://www.notepage.net a
wireless text messaging software company.
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
How to Increase Your Adsense Revenue
By Tim Ong
If you're a webmaster, you've probably heard about Google's Adsense. Perhaps you're even earning from it already. This article will show you a method to increase your Adsense revenue dramatically.
Google's Adsense allows webmasters to place links from Google's Adwords advertisers on their webpages by inserting a special code. When a visitor clicked on a link, the webmaster gets a cut of the profit Google made from the advertiser. The unique feature about Adsense is that the links it generates on your webpage are relevant to your page content. Thus, your keywords and topics become very important determinant for the type of links that will appear on your webpage.
There are only two factors that determine how much a webmaster can make from Adsense. The first factor is the number of visitors who click on the links. The more people who clicked on the links, the more you make. Naturally, this means that the more targetted traffic to the website, the more you'll make. This is where most webmasters focus their efforts on.
The second factor is the value of the links they clicked on. Here's where you can make a great difference to your earnings from Adsense and is our focus in this article.
Let's take a look at how this works:
Suppose you have 1000 visitors to your website and you get 2% conversion, that is 20 people clicked on your Adsense links. Let's assume that your Adsense links pay you only 50 cents per click. So you earn $10 dollars.
Now let's see how much this same traffic will make for you if your Adsense links pay you $5 per click. For the same number of clicks, you make $100 dollars. That's a ten-fold increased in revenue!
Well, that makes sense, you said, but how am going to determine what type of links appear on my webpages?
Good questions!
Here's where you'll need to do a little research and here's a tool to help you do just that.
Go over to http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/ and you'll get a tool that shows you how much each keyword is worth. While this tool is for Overture's keywords, we can safely assume that this reflects the keyword values for Googles Adwords as well. Once you've found the keywords with high monetary values, you can optimize your webpages for them. This will increase your chances of having these high value keyword links appearing on your webpages.
Some people have actually made extensive researches on Google's top paying keywords and found that one or two keywords are worth almost $100! However, generally most keywords are valued at between 50 cents and $5 dollars. Some keywords like "internet marketing" may fetch up to $7 dollars and "mortgage" pays up to $10 dollars.
These values may change from time to time but they generally hover around these levels. Naturally, this information is priceless and you'll have to pay to get it. I feel it is worth every cent you paid for it. You can check it out at http://theselfimprovementsite.com/links/top-paying-keywords.html.
And there you have it! A single factor that can radically increase your Adsense revenue!
Tim Ong is the author of "The Book of Transformation" and the "Build From Within" ezine. You can find more personal transformational and success articles at his website at The Self Improvement Site
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
If you're a webmaster, you've probably heard about Google's Adsense. Perhaps you're even earning from it already. This article will show you a method to increase your Adsense revenue dramatically.
Google's Adsense allows webmasters to place links from Google's Adwords advertisers on their webpages by inserting a special code. When a visitor clicked on a link, the webmaster gets a cut of the profit Google made from the advertiser. The unique feature about Adsense is that the links it generates on your webpage are relevant to your page content. Thus, your keywords and topics become very important determinant for the type of links that will appear on your webpage.
There are only two factors that determine how much a webmaster can make from Adsense. The first factor is the number of visitors who click on the links. The more people who clicked on the links, the more you make. Naturally, this means that the more targetted traffic to the website, the more you'll make. This is where most webmasters focus their efforts on.
The second factor is the value of the links they clicked on. Here's where you can make a great difference to your earnings from Adsense and is our focus in this article.
Let's take a look at how this works:
Suppose you have 1000 visitors to your website and you get 2% conversion, that is 20 people clicked on your Adsense links. Let's assume that your Adsense links pay you only 50 cents per click. So you earn $10 dollars.
Now let's see how much this same traffic will make for you if your Adsense links pay you $5 per click. For the same number of clicks, you make $100 dollars. That's a ten-fold increased in revenue!
Well, that makes sense, you said, but how am going to determine what type of links appear on my webpages?
Good questions!
Here's where you'll need to do a little research and here's a tool to help you do just that.
Go over to http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/ and you'll get a tool that shows you how much each keyword is worth. While this tool is for Overture's keywords, we can safely assume that this reflects the keyword values for Googles Adwords as well. Once you've found the keywords with high monetary values, you can optimize your webpages for them. This will increase your chances of having these high value keyword links appearing on your webpages.
Some people have actually made extensive researches on Google's top paying keywords and found that one or two keywords are worth almost $100! However, generally most keywords are valued at between 50 cents and $5 dollars. Some keywords like "internet marketing" may fetch up to $7 dollars and "mortgage" pays up to $10 dollars.
These values may change from time to time but they generally hover around these levels. Naturally, this information is priceless and you'll have to pay to get it. I feel it is worth every cent you paid for it. You can check it out at http://theselfimprovementsite.com/links/top-paying-keywords.html.
And there you have it! A single factor that can radically increase your Adsense revenue!
Tim Ong is the author of "The Book of Transformation" and the "Build From Within" ezine. You can find more personal transformational and success articles at his website at The Self Improvement Site
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
A Webmaster's Dream Come True - "Secret Money Generator"
Copyright © 2005 Willie Crawford
Profit Magician
http://ProfitMagician.com
You look at your beautiful website, getting a steady flow of visitors, and wonder how you can squeeze more money out of it. Maybe you're even getting a few sales, but you want an easy way to generate even more. You want a "secret money generator" if you will.
I was in the same predicament 3 years ago. I had my site at Chitterlings.com which was (and still is) selling a cookbook that I wrote. I had days when I was getting tens of thousands of visitors... mostly looking for seasonal recipes. My challenge was to find something to offer my visitors who didn't purchase my cookbook. My challenge was to find something else to offer my visitors who DID purchase my cookbook :-)
Somehow I came across a magazine jobber. He offered to allow me to sell magazines to my site visitors. This sounded perfect. There were literally hundreds of different titles that I could offer, and the profit margin was VERY high.
So I downloaded hundreds of images from a resource site, and set about building webpages describing all of these magazine. I logged into my affiliate program, and set up hundreds of order links. It took me almost 2 weeks, but I though that the webpages I created were true works of art.
I linked to those pages, and notified members of my recipe exchange list of this new site feature. I also posted teaser copy strategically throughout my website. Then the orders started coming in.
Then the headaches began! Two to three times a week I received an email from the jobber telling me that prices, or magazine availability, had changed. So I had to go change ALL of the affected pages. When I received an order, I had to manually forward the order to the jobber in a very specific format. He forwarded the orders to the publishers, and 4-8 weeks later, my customers' subscriptions started. In the interim, I'd get dozens of emails asking for an update on their subscriptions. It just wasn't worth it... so I stopped selling magazines :-)
Fast-forward 3 years, and it took me less than 30 minutes to set up another magazine shop on my website. It now takes me about 5 minutes to update the ENTIRE site which features over 1200 titles.
Why am I telling you this and why do you care? Well, YOU can now quickly and easily add a "store" to any of your websites... plugging in literally millions of affiliate products. Most major affiliate program managers offering more than a handful of products now offer webmasters data feeds. These are generally provided as Comma Separate Values (CSV) files... spreadsheet files. The webmasters uses various tools to extract this data and display it on their webpages.
Countless brick and mortar companies now have affiliate program. Everyone from Office Depot, to furniture stores, to clothing manufacturers, will now allow you to sign up for their affiliate program and offer their product to your website visitors. No matter what the topic of your website, there are affiliate products that are ideal for your visitors, and there's a good chance that there are also data feeds available for these affiliate programs.
The tool that I use to get data feeds onto my website is actually called "Secret Money Generator." Secret Money Generator is a program you install on your website. You design a few basic templates using either the built in capabilities of the software, or use your favorite html editor.
Next, with the click of a button... the software: 1) Uploads your templates to your server. 2) Uploads your entire database to your server. 3) Builds static html pages featuring the individual products.
The static html webpages are actually built right on the server by the software. You can see one of hundreds of such sites I own and profit handsomely from at: http://Chitterlings.com/mags/
After I designed the templates, which took me about 20 minutes to get them looking the way that I wanted them to, I uploaded them to my server. Then with the click of a button, the software built 1843 pages on my site in 14 seconds.
Site maintenance merely involves getting updates from the respective affiliate program manager, and then uploading the updated csv file at whatever frequency you desire. Then with the click of a button all 1843 pages are automatically updated...it takes about 10 seconds.
To update the look of your entire site, you just make changes to your templates, upload these, and... again, with the click of a button update thousands of pages in mere seconds!
You can plug "a store" like this into any of your sites, or dozens of your sites, in very little time. I spend a few hours on many of my sites getting them just the way that I want them. Once things are set up it's largely on autopilot. Since I now use affiliate programs I don't have the tracking or order fulfillment headaches I had years ago with that first magazine site. The magazine affiliate program that I showed you is even 2-tier, so I'm earning lifetime commissions on both my customers and those of other webmasters I set up with a magazine site... or any of a dozen other 2-tier programs I promote.
You don't have to market inexpensive products from your sites though. There are affiliate programs offering products selling for thousands of dollars EACH, and they provide data feeds too. When you get Secret Money Generator, you also get a list of lots of places that offer you huge data feeds. There are data feeds that feature over 1 million products :-)
Take a look at "Secret Money Generator" now at: http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=121605
It comes with a step-by-step video tutorial. The tutorials are very nicely done in Camtasia. The software developers also periodically conducts hands-on training workshops. I attended one in Orlando, Florida, January 28th - 30th,2005. There are others planned in Orlando and Las Vegas. The workshops aren't required, but they are an excellent way to see how other Secret Money Generator users are creating some awesome sites. It's a great way to get to know this powerful software inside-out.
Whether your site is on... training your gold fish, carpet cleaning, or raising perfect children, you can plug in a Secret Money Generator" profit stream very easily.
After you get your secret money generators up and running you only need to point your website visitors to them. You can also plug in lots of powerful site content and this will send you droves of organic search engine traffic. For example, the site I showed you above now gets as many as 27,000 unique visitors on a good day... all from free search engine listings. It literally is a veritable money machine.
I've just shown you "a webmaster's dream come true." Now you have absolutely no excuse not to turn your websiteinto "a secret money generator."
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Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author,seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host,retired military officer, karate black belt, master networkmarketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He showspeople how to actually generate substantial income on-lineusing very simple, easily modeled systems. An example ofsuch a system that you can study and duplicate is at:http://ProfitMagician.com
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Distribution Date and Time: Thu Feb 3 03:21:20 EST 2005
For more articles by this author, please visit:
http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/d/index.shtml#Willie_Crawford
Profit Magician
http://ProfitMagician.com
You look at your beautiful website, getting a steady flow of visitors, and wonder how you can squeeze more money out of it. Maybe you're even getting a few sales, but you want an easy way to generate even more. You want a "secret money generator" if you will.
I was in the same predicament 3 years ago. I had my site at Chitterlings.com which was (and still is) selling a cookbook that I wrote. I had days when I was getting tens of thousands of visitors... mostly looking for seasonal recipes. My challenge was to find something to offer my visitors who didn't purchase my cookbook. My challenge was to find something else to offer my visitors who DID purchase my cookbook :-)
Somehow I came across a magazine jobber. He offered to allow me to sell magazines to my site visitors. This sounded perfect. There were literally hundreds of different titles that I could offer, and the profit margin was VERY high.
So I downloaded hundreds of images from a resource site, and set about building webpages describing all of these magazine. I logged into my affiliate program, and set up hundreds of order links. It took me almost 2 weeks, but I though that the webpages I created were true works of art.
I linked to those pages, and notified members of my recipe exchange list of this new site feature. I also posted teaser copy strategically throughout my website. Then the orders started coming in.
Then the headaches began! Two to three times a week I received an email from the jobber telling me that prices, or magazine availability, had changed. So I had to go change ALL of the affected pages. When I received an order, I had to manually forward the order to the jobber in a very specific format. He forwarded the orders to the publishers, and 4-8 weeks later, my customers' subscriptions started. In the interim, I'd get dozens of emails asking for an update on their subscriptions. It just wasn't worth it... so I stopped selling magazines :-)
Fast-forward 3 years, and it took me less than 30 minutes to set up another magazine shop on my website. It now takes me about 5 minutes to update the ENTIRE site which features over 1200 titles.
Why am I telling you this and why do you care? Well, YOU can now quickly and easily add a "store" to any of your websites... plugging in literally millions of affiliate products. Most major affiliate program managers offering more than a handful of products now offer webmasters data feeds. These are generally provided as Comma Separate Values (CSV) files... spreadsheet files. The webmasters uses various tools to extract this data and display it on their webpages.
Countless brick and mortar companies now have affiliate program. Everyone from Office Depot, to furniture stores, to clothing manufacturers, will now allow you to sign up for their affiliate program and offer their product to your website visitors. No matter what the topic of your website, there are affiliate products that are ideal for your visitors, and there's a good chance that there are also data feeds available for these affiliate programs.
The tool that I use to get data feeds onto my website is actually called "Secret Money Generator." Secret Money Generator is a program you install on your website. You design a few basic templates using either the built in capabilities of the software, or use your favorite html editor.
Next, with the click of a button... the software: 1) Uploads your templates to your server. 2) Uploads your entire database to your server. 3) Builds static html pages featuring the individual products.
The static html webpages are actually built right on the server by the software. You can see one of hundreds of such sites I own and profit handsomely from at: http://Chitterlings.com/mags/
After I designed the templates, which took me about 20 minutes to get them looking the way that I wanted them to, I uploaded them to my server. Then with the click of a button, the software built 1843 pages on my site in 14 seconds.
Site maintenance merely involves getting updates from the respective affiliate program manager, and then uploading the updated csv file at whatever frequency you desire. Then with the click of a button all 1843 pages are automatically updated...it takes about 10 seconds.
To update the look of your entire site, you just make changes to your templates, upload these, and... again, with the click of a button update thousands of pages in mere seconds!
You can plug "a store" like this into any of your sites, or dozens of your sites, in very little time. I spend a few hours on many of my sites getting them just the way that I want them. Once things are set up it's largely on autopilot. Since I now use affiliate programs I don't have the tracking or order fulfillment headaches I had years ago with that first magazine site. The magazine affiliate program that I showed you is even 2-tier, so I'm earning lifetime commissions on both my customers and those of other webmasters I set up with a magazine site... or any of a dozen other 2-tier programs I promote.
You don't have to market inexpensive products from your sites though. There are affiliate programs offering products selling for thousands of dollars EACH, and they provide data feeds too. When you get Secret Money Generator, you also get a list of lots of places that offer you huge data feeds. There are data feeds that feature over 1 million products :-)
Take a look at "Secret Money Generator" now at: http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=121605
It comes with a step-by-step video tutorial. The tutorials are very nicely done in Camtasia. The software developers also periodically conducts hands-on training workshops. I attended one in Orlando, Florida, January 28th - 30th,2005. There are others planned in Orlando and Las Vegas. The workshops aren't required, but they are an excellent way to see how other Secret Money Generator users are creating some awesome sites. It's a great way to get to know this powerful software inside-out.
Whether your site is on... training your gold fish, carpet cleaning, or raising perfect children, you can plug in a Secret Money Generator" profit stream very easily.
After you get your secret money generators up and running you only need to point your website visitors to them. You can also plug in lots of powerful site content and this will send you droves of organic search engine traffic. For example, the site I showed you above now gets as many as 27,000 unique visitors on a good day... all from free search engine listings. It literally is a veritable money machine.
I've just shown you "a webmaster's dream come true." Now you have absolutely no excuse not to turn your websiteinto "a secret money generator."
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author,seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host,retired military officer, karate black belt, master networkmarketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He showspeople how to actually generate substantial income on-lineusing very simple, easily modeled systems. An example ofsuch a system that you can study and duplicate is at:http://ProfitMagician.com
--- END ARTICLE ---
Distribution Date and Time: Thu Feb 3 03:21:20 EST 2005
For more articles by this author, please visit:
http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/d/index.shtml#Willie_Crawford
Monday, February 14, 2005
3 Overlooked Ways to Get Hundreds of Links and Prospects to Your Blog
By Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Did you know that there are free ways that you can get links back to your blog overnight? That after a few days they can number in the hundreds?
No matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll face the issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site. What most people don't know is that there are literally hundreds of ways to get free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked ways to get additional traffic to your site using a blog.
The third most overlooked way to bring traffic to your site with a blog is to read and comment on other blogs.
Now, maybe you've done this before but stopped, because you'rebecoming concerned about being considered a link-spammer. Inthat case, leave a link to your site after your comments, instead of in the comment form that hot links it.
In the near future, blogmasters will be able to use special code to prevent spam in their comments section, so this will become less of a concern.
Besides, getting clicks from people who read comments, or visits from search engine spiders through your comments, isn't necessarily your direct objective, though it’s definitely a plus.
What you want to do via commenting is to enter the blog community that corresponds to your target market. Get to know who the players are and make agreements with them to cycle traffic between you.
Or lurk to find out where your target market typically hangs out when they're online – you’d be surprised at how many inexpensive and targeted advertising sources you can find through this method.
(If you're looking to get linked, there's another way that we'll go over next.)
This tip alone has earned me a few dozen links from prominent blogs in the past four days alone.
These links are worth ten times a reciprocal link because they send targeted traffic from established sources, and come from experts with records of proven results.
You can be sure these kinds of people will check you out before they linked to you, since they may be judged by the quality of the information they share.
The second method to more blog traffic is the most confusing for newer people, and this is probably the reason its benefits remain overlooked.
In the simplest of terms, Trackback is kind of a remote commenting system that incorporates linking. It allows the reader to follow a topic around the web to see other bloggers remark on the same subject. It enables the publisher to remotely cite references to the issue on which they've written.
Once you've made yourself familiar with the blogging community you have entered, you can often pick up the pulse of conversations within your site's theme. Then, when you see issues that you want to expound on, you can send the other site a notification to let them know you cited them on your blog. That link will appear on their site, and often draws visitors to you.Bloggers who use Trackback often enjoy greater control overthis function in their blogs than they do over linking, as they have the option to reject your reference - so there is a lesser incidence of fraudulent linking. That also gives your link a greater chance of being displayed.
So why don't more people use Trackback?
One reason is that what is arguably the most popular free blog system, Blogger, doesn’t have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this with their free service – it’s a cut and paste away.
Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting. And of course, the dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.
It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three times a week, by the end of the year you'd have almost 150 topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.
The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and submitting them to ezines or directories. Look especially for directories that ask for the direct link to the article on your own site, and input the permanent link to the post on your blog.
Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.
It's a shame this is the one of the least used traffic methods for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you have now.
These aren't normally the highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking to the site where they originally found the article.
To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings", the title of an article I submitted earlier this week.
That article was published within a week of this one- the results speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren't the ones where my articles are normally published.
There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage the content in your blog or RSS feed to increase the traffic to your site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outside the norm, but, as you’ll soon find, that’s part of the reason they are so effective.
Copyright © 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul
Still not blogging yet? Don't quite get RSS? Take the freecourse on RSS and blogging at
http://www.freetraffictip.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/
Did you know that there are free ways that you can get links back to your blog overnight? That after a few days they can number in the hundreds?
No matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll face the issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site. What most people don't know is that there are literally hundreds of ways to get free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked ways to get additional traffic to your site using a blog.
The third most overlooked way to bring traffic to your site with a blog is to read and comment on other blogs.
Now, maybe you've done this before but stopped, because you'rebecoming concerned about being considered a link-spammer. Inthat case, leave a link to your site after your comments, instead of in the comment form that hot links it.
In the near future, blogmasters will be able to use special code to prevent spam in their comments section, so this will become less of a concern.
Besides, getting clicks from people who read comments, or visits from search engine spiders through your comments, isn't necessarily your direct objective, though it’s definitely a plus.
What you want to do via commenting is to enter the blog community that corresponds to your target market. Get to know who the players are and make agreements with them to cycle traffic between you.
Or lurk to find out where your target market typically hangs out when they're online – you’d be surprised at how many inexpensive and targeted advertising sources you can find through this method.
(If you're looking to get linked, there's another way that we'll go over next.)
This tip alone has earned me a few dozen links from prominent blogs in the past four days alone.
These links are worth ten times a reciprocal link because they send targeted traffic from established sources, and come from experts with records of proven results.
You can be sure these kinds of people will check you out before they linked to you, since they may be judged by the quality of the information they share.
The second method to more blog traffic is the most confusing for newer people, and this is probably the reason its benefits remain overlooked.
In the simplest of terms, Trackback is kind of a remote commenting system that incorporates linking. It allows the reader to follow a topic around the web to see other bloggers remark on the same subject. It enables the publisher to remotely cite references to the issue on which they've written.
Once you've made yourself familiar with the blogging community you have entered, you can often pick up the pulse of conversations within your site's theme. Then, when you see issues that you want to expound on, you can send the other site a notification to let them know you cited them on your blog. That link will appear on their site, and often draws visitors to you.Bloggers who use Trackback often enjoy greater control overthis function in their blogs than they do over linking, as they have the option to reject your reference - so there is a lesser incidence of fraudulent linking. That also gives your link a greater chance of being displayed.
So why don't more people use Trackback?
One reason is that what is arguably the most popular free blog system, Blogger, doesn’t have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this with their free service – it’s a cut and paste away.
Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting. And of course, the dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.
It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three times a week, by the end of the year you'd have almost 150 topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.
The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and submitting them to ezines or directories. Look especially for directories that ask for the direct link to the article on your own site, and input the permanent link to the post on your blog.
Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.
It's a shame this is the one of the least used traffic methods for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you have now.
These aren't normally the highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking to the site where they originally found the article.
To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings", the title of an article I submitted earlier this week.
That article was published within a week of this one- the results speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren't the ones where my articles are normally published.
There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage the content in your blog or RSS feed to increase the traffic to your site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outside the norm, but, as you’ll soon find, that’s part of the reason they are so effective.
Copyright © 2005 Tinu AbayomiPaul
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Thursday, February 10, 2005
RSS Tools
Copyright 2005 Sharon Housley
Considering the ever-increasing support for RSS in onlinecommunities, we have compiled a list of resources andproducts that will benefit webmasters, web surfers andpublishers in their quest to understand the power of RSS.RSS has rapidly become an alternative communication venue.In order to understand the full benefits, considerutilizing some of the following tools and resources.
1.) RSS Tools - RSS feeds bring automatically updatedinformation straight to your desktop. You can monitor orpromote news, job listings, personals, and classifiedsusing RSS. The following tools assist webmasters in usingRSS to maximize their time.
RSS Readers - RSS readers are designed as tools to view RSSfeeds, making it easier for users to view and manage thecontent of a feed. Feed readers make it easy to mark feedsas read or flag items that are important. The following aresome of our favorite RSS readers:
FeedDemon - FeedDemon is a client that can retrieve andorganize RSS feeds from the Internet. It comespre-configured with several news feeds, and you can easilyadd your own by adding the URL for an RSS feed of yourchoice. FeedDemon offers an attractive and easy-to-useinterface with integrated web browsing. http://www.feeddemon.com
FeedScout - Feed Scout is a RSS/ATOM/RDF reader that can beused directly from Internet Explorer. Feed Scout enablesyou to view RSS/ATOM feeds from different sites directly inInternet Explorer. You can even set your Home Page to showyour favorite feeds. http://www.feedscout.com
2.) RSS Creation Tools - As RSS feeds have increased inpopularity and breadth publishers and webmasters havestruggled to find a solution to create RSS feeds. Thefollowing tools will assist webmasters in creating RSSfeeds:
FeedForAll - Desktop software used to create, edit, manageand publish RSS feeds. New RSS feeds can be quickly andeasily created with FeedForAll. Advanced features enableyou to create professional-looking RSS feeds quickly.Existing RSS feeds can be repaired and enhanced withFeedForAll. RSS feeds generated by other means can beautomatically repaired, so that they conform to the RSS 2.0specification. Existing feeds can be enhanced to containadvanced feed properties, and give them a more professionallook. http://www.feedforall.com
3.) RSS Articles and Tutorials - Articles and tutorialsbased on RSS and designed to demystify Really SimpleSyndication for users and publishers. RSS Specifications -RSS Specifications contains a collection of articlesrelated to RSS and news feeds that assist both publishersand users in deciphering Really Simple Syndication.
RSS Specifications - RSS Specifications contains acollection of articles related to RSS and news feeds thatassist both publishers and users in deciphering reallysimple syndication.http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-articles.htm or the articles can be read in an RSS feed.http://www.rss-specifications.com/article-feed.xml
Make RSS Feeds - Step by step instructional tutorialdetailing how to manually create an RSS feed.http://www.make-rss-feeds.com
4.) Ebay Monitoring Using RSS - Monitor online auctions forspecific items of interest. As eBay has grown it has becomedifficult to discern and locate specific auction items. Byusing RSS tools users can easily recieve instantnotification when a specific item is being auctioned.
Free Bidding Tools - FMonitor online auctions for specificitems of interest. As eBay has grown it has becomedifficult to discern and locate specific auction items. Byusing RSS tools users can easily receive instantnotification when a specific item is being auctioned.http://www.freebiddingtools.com/
5.) Web Monitoring - Monitor the Internet for specific newsitems or blog topics of interest. A number of free onlineRSS tools make web monitoring very easy.
PubSub - Monitor the Internet for specific news items orblog topics of interest. A number of free online RSS toolsmake web monitoring very easy. PubSub - Every day, PubSub'smatching engine performs billions of matches of new itemsagainst user subscriptions. The instant a match is made,PubSub alerts the user via RSS. PubSub monitors more than6.5 million blogs, as well as 50,000 USENET newsgroups, allSEC/EDGAR filings, press releases from major wire services,and FAA airport delay alerts.http://www.pubsub.com
Google News Monitoring Using RSS - This free online toolturns a Google news search into an RSS feed.http://www.justinpfister.com/gnewsfeed.php
6.) Other RSS Tools - Alternative tools for creativewebmasters.
RSS2Wap - The RSS2Wap site is meant for online conversionsof RSS feeds into WML for access on WAP devices (RSS2WML,RSS WAP or RSS-to-WAP). It's free and you can make a linkon your web site.http://www.rss2wap.com
7.) RSS Graphic Tool - Websites that have RSS feedsavailable use colorful graphics as flags to indicate to websurfers that RSS feeds are available for specific content.
RSS Graphic Tool - Websites that have RSS feeds availableuse colorful graphics as flags to indicate to web surfersthat RSS feeds are available for specific content. RSSGraphic Tool - Customize RSS buttons. If you have limitedtime and lack artistic abilities, use this free online RSSgraphic tool to create an RSS button. The button's colorand text can be customized to suit the look and feel ofyour website.http://www.feedforall.com/public/rss-graphic-tool.htm
8.) Displaying RSS - Many webmasters display the contentsof RSS feeds on their web pages as a fresh source ofcontent and information that changes on a regular basis.
Java Options - Using Java to display RSS feeds is a veryeasy way to provide dynamic content with very littleeffort. Unfortunately, when you use Java to display RSSfeeds, search engines do not see the feed's content, so thecontent is not spidered and ultimately will not help withsearch engine optimization.
Quick RSS Feeds - Free online tool that allows you tosimply enter the URL of the RSS feed, define the number ofitems you would like displayed, and the Java script will beautomatically generated. http://www.quickrssfeeds.com
FeedRoll -A free service for syndicating popular RSS andATOM news feeds on your website or blog. Select a feed,customize the design, then copy and paste the code providedonto your page. http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/
RSS to Javascript - RSS-to-JavaScript.com was designed toeasily convert any valid RSS, RDF or ATOM feed intoeasy-to-implement Javascript. No XML or programmingexperience is necessary. http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
PHP Options - The benefit to using a PHP script to displayRSS on a website is that the content dynamically updatesbut search engines see the content as static.
FeedForAll's rss2html.php - If you are technically savvyand wish to host the script yourself, check out FeedForAll,as they have a free PHP script available that will displayRSS feeds on a website.http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm
FeedRoll Pro - A fee-based professional service that tracksstatistical information for publishers displaying feeds.FeedRoll Pro incorporates a number of display options forpublishers wishing to syndicate their content, giving usersthe choice of PHP or Javascript. http://www.feedrollpro.com
RSS2HTML - Display RSS feeds by selecting layouts and colorschemes on this free resource.http://www.rss2html.com
9.) RSS BlogsStay informed about the latest RSS industry news bymonitoring RSS blogs. Daily posts bring readers currentnews, industry announcements and general RSS information.
RSS Specifications - Everything you need to know about RSS.The RSS Specifications blog contains daily posts and RSStidbits. http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm
KbCafe - Daily posts and editorials related to RSS and newRSS products that have emerged.http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/
10.) Publishing List / RSS NewsgroupsNew RSS-Publishing List for publishers. The list is focusedon marketing/publishing/operational issues rather thanhardcore technical details of RSS, meaning that codingissues and disputes over the merits of RSS vs. Atom are notthe focus. If you wish to participate in the list andreceive e-mails of posts, simply subscribe by sending ande-mail to: rsspublishing-subscribe@topica.com
RSS Syndication - Collection of RSS related news feedsdisplayed in an easy-to-read format.http://www.rss-syndication.com/rss-news.htm
11.) RSS Related Forums - Forums can be a useful for anyonedoing business online, both in terms of reading the contentand actively participating in the discussions. If you wantto learn more about RSS consider participating in thefollowing online RSS communities:
2RSS - RSS forum for feed and related RSS discussions. http://forum.2rss.com/
FeedForAll Forum - RSS forum for RSS and feedcreation-related discussions. http://www.feedforall.com/forum
German RSS Forum - German RSS forum for feed discussions. http://www.rss-forum.de/
12.) Locate RSS Feeds -
Syndic8 - RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety oftopics. Designed with a directory structure and searchfunctionality. Syndic8 also tracks statistical informationrelated to RSS feeds.http://www.syndic8.com
Feedster's FeedFinder - Use Feedfinder to search by keywordor by URL or a combination of the two in order to findfeeds on that topic or by that organization. .http://feedfinder.feedster.com/
RSS Discovery - The websites you already read may have anRSS feed. Use the BlogStreet's RSS Discovery tool and enterin a website. If there is a feed available BlogStreet willprovide the URL. http://www.blogstreet.com/rssdiscovery.html
RSS Locator - Directory and search engine for RSS contentincluding weblogs, newsfeeds, forum feeds and relatedcontent feeds. Locate topic-specific RSS feeds forsyndication. RSS Locator displays feed content in an HTMLformat so users can preview the feed's content.http://www.rss-locator.com
12.) Submit RSS Feeds - As more and more people getinvolved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs,news services and other online resources continue to growin number and variety, it becomes increasingly important tomaintain high visibility and exposure for the content beinggenerated by closely following the major distributionmedia. As a rapidly increasing number of content sources,new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distributionchannel, and as more people utilize RSS newsreaders andaggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability tomaintain high exposure and visibility is gradually shiftedfrom complete attention to major search engines and contentoptimization techniques to an increasing awareness of RSSfeed directories and search tools.
RSS Submit - Save time and automate RSS submissions withRSS Submit from K-Soft.http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html
RSS Specifications - Submit RSS files to the large list ofRSS directories and expedite your RSS content syndication.http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
RSS Submission Service - A fee-based blog submissionservice that will submit your blog or RSS feed to more than70 blog directories. Submissions are done manually, andthis service is primarily designed for blog feeds.http://rss-submission-service.notrivia.com/
RSS Top 55 - Top websites for RSS submissions. Premiumservice is available for a nominal fee that will prioritizethe RSS site submissions in the order of importance.http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Using RSS tools, publishers and webmasters can increaseproductivity and efficiency. RSS monitoring can oftenautomate many of the procedures that are time-consuming andmonotonous, freeing up time.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAllhttp://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editingand publishing RSS feeds and NotePage, Inc.http://www.notepage.net a wireless messaging softwarecompany.
Considering the ever-increasing support for RSS in onlinecommunities, we have compiled a list of resources andproducts that will benefit webmasters, web surfers andpublishers in their quest to understand the power of RSS.RSS has rapidly become an alternative communication venue.In order to understand the full benefits, considerutilizing some of the following tools and resources.
1.) RSS Tools - RSS feeds bring automatically updatedinformation straight to your desktop. You can monitor orpromote news, job listings, personals, and classifiedsusing RSS. The following tools assist webmasters in usingRSS to maximize their time.
RSS Readers - RSS readers are designed as tools to view RSSfeeds, making it easier for users to view and manage thecontent of a feed. Feed readers make it easy to mark feedsas read or flag items that are important. The following aresome of our favorite RSS readers:
FeedDemon - FeedDemon is a client that can retrieve andorganize RSS feeds from the Internet. It comespre-configured with several news feeds, and you can easilyadd your own by adding the URL for an RSS feed of yourchoice. FeedDemon offers an attractive and easy-to-useinterface with integrated web browsing. http://www.feeddemon.com
FeedScout - Feed Scout is a RSS/ATOM/RDF reader that can beused directly from Internet Explorer. Feed Scout enablesyou to view RSS/ATOM feeds from different sites directly inInternet Explorer. You can even set your Home Page to showyour favorite feeds. http://www.feedscout.com
2.) RSS Creation Tools - As RSS feeds have increased inpopularity and breadth publishers and webmasters havestruggled to find a solution to create RSS feeds. Thefollowing tools will assist webmasters in creating RSSfeeds:
FeedForAll - Desktop software used to create, edit, manageand publish RSS feeds. New RSS feeds can be quickly andeasily created with FeedForAll. Advanced features enableyou to create professional-looking RSS feeds quickly.Existing RSS feeds can be repaired and enhanced withFeedForAll. RSS feeds generated by other means can beautomatically repaired, so that they conform to the RSS 2.0specification. Existing feeds can be enhanced to containadvanced feed properties, and give them a more professionallook. http://www.feedforall.com
3.) RSS Articles and Tutorials - Articles and tutorialsbased on RSS and designed to demystify Really SimpleSyndication for users and publishers. RSS Specifications -RSS Specifications contains a collection of articlesrelated to RSS and news feeds that assist both publishersand users in deciphering Really Simple Syndication.
RSS Specifications - RSS Specifications contains acollection of articles related to RSS and news feeds thatassist both publishers and users in deciphering reallysimple syndication.http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-articles.htm or the articles can be read in an RSS feed.http://www.rss-specifications.com/article-feed.xml
Make RSS Feeds - Step by step instructional tutorialdetailing how to manually create an RSS feed.http://www.make-rss-feeds.com
4.) Ebay Monitoring Using RSS - Monitor online auctions forspecific items of interest. As eBay has grown it has becomedifficult to discern and locate specific auction items. Byusing RSS tools users can easily recieve instantnotification when a specific item is being auctioned.
Free Bidding Tools - FMonitor online auctions for specificitems of interest. As eBay has grown it has becomedifficult to discern and locate specific auction items. Byusing RSS tools users can easily receive instantnotification when a specific item is being auctioned.http://www.freebiddingtools.com/
5.) Web Monitoring - Monitor the Internet for specific newsitems or blog topics of interest. A number of free onlineRSS tools make web monitoring very easy.
PubSub - Monitor the Internet for specific news items orblog topics of interest. A number of free online RSS toolsmake web monitoring very easy. PubSub - Every day, PubSub'smatching engine performs billions of matches of new itemsagainst user subscriptions. The instant a match is made,PubSub alerts the user via RSS. PubSub monitors more than6.5 million blogs, as well as 50,000 USENET newsgroups, allSEC/EDGAR filings, press releases from major wire services,and FAA airport delay alerts.http://www.pubsub.com
Google News Monitoring Using RSS - This free online toolturns a Google news search into an RSS feed.http://www.justinpfister.com/gnewsfeed.php
6.) Other RSS Tools - Alternative tools for creativewebmasters.
RSS2Wap - The RSS2Wap site is meant for online conversionsof RSS feeds into WML for access on WAP devices (RSS2WML,RSS WAP or RSS-to-WAP). It's free and you can make a linkon your web site.http://www.rss2wap.com
7.) RSS Graphic Tool - Websites that have RSS feedsavailable use colorful graphics as flags to indicate to websurfers that RSS feeds are available for specific content.
RSS Graphic Tool - Websites that have RSS feeds availableuse colorful graphics as flags to indicate to web surfersthat RSS feeds are available for specific content. RSSGraphic Tool - Customize RSS buttons. If you have limitedtime and lack artistic abilities, use this free online RSSgraphic tool to create an RSS button. The button's colorand text can be customized to suit the look and feel ofyour website.http://www.feedforall.com/public/rss-graphic-tool.htm
8.) Displaying RSS - Many webmasters display the contentsof RSS feeds on their web pages as a fresh source ofcontent and information that changes on a regular basis.
Java Options - Using Java to display RSS feeds is a veryeasy way to provide dynamic content with very littleeffort. Unfortunately, when you use Java to display RSSfeeds, search engines do not see the feed's content, so thecontent is not spidered and ultimately will not help withsearch engine optimization.
Quick RSS Feeds - Free online tool that allows you tosimply enter the URL of the RSS feed, define the number ofitems you would like displayed, and the Java script will beautomatically generated. http://www.quickrssfeeds.com
FeedRoll -A free service for syndicating popular RSS andATOM news feeds on your website or blog. Select a feed,customize the design, then copy and paste the code providedonto your page. http://www.feedroll.com/rssviewer/
RSS to Javascript - RSS-to-JavaScript.com was designed toeasily convert any valid RSS, RDF or ATOM feed intoeasy-to-implement Javascript. No XML or programmingexperience is necessary. http://www.rss-to-javascript.com
PHP Options - The benefit to using a PHP script to displayRSS on a website is that the content dynamically updatesbut search engines see the content as static.
FeedForAll's rss2html.php - If you are technically savvyand wish to host the script yourself, check out FeedForAll,as they have a free PHP script available that will displayRSS feeds on a website.http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm
FeedRoll Pro - A fee-based professional service that tracksstatistical information for publishers displaying feeds.FeedRoll Pro incorporates a number of display options forpublishers wishing to syndicate their content, giving usersthe choice of PHP or Javascript. http://www.feedrollpro.com
RSS2HTML - Display RSS feeds by selecting layouts and colorschemes on this free resource.http://www.rss2html.com
9.) RSS BlogsStay informed about the latest RSS industry news bymonitoring RSS blogs. Daily posts bring readers currentnews, industry announcements and general RSS information.
RSS Specifications - Everything you need to know about RSS.The RSS Specifications blog contains daily posts and RSStidbits. http://www.rss-specifications.com/blog.htm
KbCafe - Daily posts and editorials related to RSS and newRSS products that have emerged.http://www.kbcafe.com/rss/
10.) Publishing List / RSS NewsgroupsNew RSS-Publishing List for publishers. The list is focusedon marketing/publishing/operational issues rather thanhardcore technical details of RSS, meaning that codingissues and disputes over the merits of RSS vs. Atom are notthe focus. If you wish to participate in the list andreceive e-mails of posts, simply subscribe by sending ande-mail to: rsspublishing-subscribe@topica.com
RSS Syndication - Collection of RSS related news feedsdisplayed in an easy-to-read format.http://www.rss-syndication.com/rss-news.htm
11.) RSS Related Forums - Forums can be a useful for anyonedoing business online, both in terms of reading the contentand actively participating in the discussions. If you wantto learn more about RSS consider participating in thefollowing online RSS communities:
2RSS - RSS forum for feed and related RSS discussions. http://forum.2rss.com/
FeedForAll Forum - RSS forum for RSS and feedcreation-related discussions. http://www.feedforall.com/forum
German RSS Forum - German RSS forum for feed discussions. http://www.rss-forum.de/
12.) Locate RSS Feeds -
Syndic8 - RSS and Atom news feeds on a wide variety oftopics. Designed with a directory structure and searchfunctionality. Syndic8 also tracks statistical informationrelated to RSS feeds.http://www.syndic8.com
Feedster's FeedFinder - Use Feedfinder to search by keywordor by URL or a combination of the two in order to findfeeds on that topic or by that organization. .http://feedfinder.feedster.com/
RSS Discovery - The websites you already read may have anRSS feed. Use the BlogStreet's RSS Discovery tool and enterin a website. If there is a feed available BlogStreet willprovide the URL. http://www.blogstreet.com/rssdiscovery.html
RSS Locator - Directory and search engine for RSS contentincluding weblogs, newsfeeds, forum feeds and relatedcontent feeds. Locate topic-specific RSS feeds forsyndication. RSS Locator displays feed content in an HTMLformat so users can preview the feed's content.http://www.rss-locator.com
12.) Submit RSS Feeds - As more and more people getinvolved with the Internet and as more Web sites, blogs,news services and other online resources continue to growin number and variety, it becomes increasingly important tomaintain high visibility and exposure for the content beinggenerated by closely following the major distributionmedia. As a rapidly increasing number of content sources,new and old, migrate or add RSS as a key distributionchannel, and as more people utilize RSS newsreaders andaggregators to keep themselves informed, the ability tomaintain high exposure and visibility is gradually shiftedfrom complete attention to major search engines and contentoptimization techniques to an increasing awareness of RSSfeed directories and search tools.
RSS Submit - Save time and automate RSS submissions withRSS Submit from K-Soft.http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html
RSS Specifications - Submit RSS files to the large list ofRSS directories and expedite your RSS content syndication.http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-submission.htm
RSS Submission Service - A fee-based blog submissionservice that will submit your blog or RSS feed to more than70 blog directories. Submissions are done manually, andthis service is primarily designed for blog feeds.http://rss-submission-service.notrivia.com/
RSS Top 55 - Top websites for RSS submissions. Premiumservice is available for a nominal fee that will prioritizethe RSS site submissions in the order of importance.http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Using RSS tools, publishers and webmasters can increaseproductivity and efficiency. RSS monitoring can oftenautomate many of the procedures that are time-consuming andmonotonous, freeing up time.
About the Author:
Sharon Housley manages marketing for FeedForAllhttp://www.feedforall.com software for creating, editingand publishing RSS feeds and NotePage, Inc.http://www.notepage.net a wireless messaging softwarecompany.
Tuesday, February 08, 2005
WINNING WORDS FOR THE WEB
By Oscar Bruce
Give Your Web Site The Verbal Advantage
Have you ever sat down to create that winning ad, publicity release
or newsletter and couldn't come up with the right words or phrases?
You will never make your fortune until you cure this dialog dilemma.
You must enlarge your powers of expression, acquire precision and
persuasion. You need a powerhouse of color, flavor and tone to
highlight your message. This applies to personal conversations,
writing promotional material or creating a productive web site.
The Internet Is A Money Maker
In many ways the Web is the ultimate medium, but only for those who
can deliver their message persuasively and convincingly. In the end
it will be your site's ability to create desire and compel action
that will bring real wealth. Those not possessing the necessary
verbal skills will experience perpetual disappointment. They can not
create the success they desire, socially or financially.
Winning Words
How do you make your web site dazzle, charm and seduce? For your
site to be truly distinctive and compelling it will rely on
successful semantics. Words and phrases carefully selected, then
orchestrated to create feeling, then desire, and finally "action."
In the end, the success of your site rests entirely on your
visitor's decision to purchase and do it "now." Great graphics can't
get that decision. Dazzling colors will not. Only moving and
inspiring words can accomplish that mission.
You may have magical powers when you are there in person...Think you
can charm a dog off a meat wagon in person...Then on the other hand,
perhaps not. In either case, your words and phrases must carry your
message without benefit of your presence. You can't rely on your
great smile or your winning body language. Only the site's words
will tell the world who you are, what you do and what you stand for.
So, expand your inventory of words and phrases, and then choose them
with precision. You will be amazed at the difference it will make.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oscar Bruce is considered the ultimate personal communications guru.
His dynamic books are considered the ultimate field manuals for
mastering conversation and confrontations. His website offers
several verbal strategies that can ad power to your conversations at
no cost.
HIS FREE NEWSLETTER and other products are available at
http:///www.oscarbruce.com
Give Your Web Site The Verbal Advantage
Have you ever sat down to create that winning ad, publicity release
or newsletter and couldn't come up with the right words or phrases?
You will never make your fortune until you cure this dialog dilemma.
You must enlarge your powers of expression, acquire precision and
persuasion. You need a powerhouse of color, flavor and tone to
highlight your message. This applies to personal conversations,
writing promotional material or creating a productive web site.
The Internet Is A Money Maker
In many ways the Web is the ultimate medium, but only for those who
can deliver their message persuasively and convincingly. In the end
it will be your site's ability to create desire and compel action
that will bring real wealth. Those not possessing the necessary
verbal skills will experience perpetual disappointment. They can not
create the success they desire, socially or financially.
Winning Words
How do you make your web site dazzle, charm and seduce? For your
site to be truly distinctive and compelling it will rely on
successful semantics. Words and phrases carefully selected, then
orchestrated to create feeling, then desire, and finally "action."
In the end, the success of your site rests entirely on your
visitor's decision to purchase and do it "now." Great graphics can't
get that decision. Dazzling colors will not. Only moving and
inspiring words can accomplish that mission.
You may have magical powers when you are there in person...Think you
can charm a dog off a meat wagon in person...Then on the other hand,
perhaps not. In either case, your words and phrases must carry your
message without benefit of your presence. You can't rely on your
great smile or your winning body language. Only the site's words
will tell the world who you are, what you do and what you stand for.
So, expand your inventory of words and phrases, and then choose them
with precision. You will be amazed at the difference it will make.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oscar Bruce is considered the ultimate personal communications guru.
His dynamic books are considered the ultimate field manuals for
mastering conversation and confrontations. His website offers
several verbal strategies that can ad power to your conversations at
no cost.
HIS FREE NEWSLETTER and other products are available at
http:///www.oscarbruce.com
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Website Add-Ons That Can Catapult Your Web Traffic!
1. Add a message board to your web site. People will visit your web site to ask questions and answer other people's questions.
2. Add a directory of web site links to your web site. People will visit your web site to find related web site links for the topic they're interested in.
3. Add an article section to your web site. People will visit your web site to read and learn new info related to their interests.
4. Add an archive of past e-zine issues to your web site. People will visit your web site to read past issues of your e-zine that they've missed.
5. Add a free ebook directory to your web site. People will visit your site to download, study and read new information.
6. Add a free classified ad section. People will visit your web site to place their own free classified ad and to read other offers.
7. Add a free link page to your web site. People will visit your web site to place their own link and to look at other people's links.
8. Add an "about us" page to your web site. People will visit your web site to read about your business and yourself.
9. Add a guest book to your web site. People will visit your web site to leave their opinions about your business and to list their signature file.
10. Add a free software download page to your web site. People will visit your web site to find new software that will make their life easier.
Warm regards,
Andrew Cantrell
http://www.zipzoombiz.com
Andrew Cantrell, the owner of zipzoombiz.com has helped thousands of ordinary people succeed with their online business. Let him help you! Visit his website and sign up for his free newsletter on how to make residual income!
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Saturday, February 05, 2005
Search Engine Optimization and Other Scary Things
by Francisco Aloy
Being a relative newcomer to the Web I decided to foray into
Search Engine Optimization to gain first hand experience and any
insights I could. My assumption was that it would have a basis
built on rational thinking and logical facts.
I pre-supposed a certain degree of agreement and transparency
from many of the established sources and opinion makers. My
starting viewpoint supported by my association of Search Engine
Optimization and the Web as natural extensions of common sense,
logical thinking.
In hindsight, I must confess I'm not more knowledgeable about the
subject than when I first started. I found very few opinions and
practices based on fact. What I did find - and it came as an
unexpected revelation - was general confusion and disagreement.
I found secret potion SEO, lurking-in-the-shadows SEO, ignorance
as dogma SEO, Voodoo SEO, witch doctor SEO, magical chicken bones
SEO, the 10 blind men and the elephant SEO, fancy and hearsay as
SEO!
In the minority, I found but a handful of opinions based on
cold hard facts and logic. How in the world can Search Engine
Optimization mean all those things?
OK, perhaps I did overdo the above paragraph, but the point I'm
making is this: With the infinite number of opinions, incorrect
assumptions and dead wrong practices; how do you know what to
believe? Imagine you're a small business looking for SE
optimization; how would you go about it?
The Search Engines, of course, won't reveal more than general
guidelines for optimization; other than that, they don't say
much. I realize they do things in that manner because they can't
explain much about their inner workings. If folks had the skinny
on the formulas and algorithms, nothing short of SE pandemonium
would ensue.
I'm sure you've seen the ads that guarantee a dominant position
for your choice of keywords. How can that be so? I think some
keyword phrases are so competitive, very few have the resources
it would take to acquire dominance. The cost of many of the
keywords and phrases are completely out of reach for most small
home based businesses.
Furthermore, I'm sure you've heard about websites getting banned
after hiring a SEO expert. I had this experience:
I remember reading about a well known SEO business and I wrote
them an email inquiring about why they didn't appear in the
search results dealing with their subject matter: search engine
optimization or search engine ranking. I received a short and
cryptic reply that didn't say much.
As time went by, I came onto an article that stated the
particular SEO outfit had been banned by the SE's during that
time frame. That explains the nature of the return email;
meaning: I don't want to talk about it!
The paragraph above implies that if they'll do it to their own
website, they'll do it to yours! Look before you leap should more
than suffice as the motto for your business decision.
I think SEO experts that are on the level won't guarantee you
dominance for ANY keyword phrase. Think about your competition
and see if it's feasible. For example, would you have the
resources to dominate for the word "business?" I did a search on
Google and came up with 695,000,000 results!
Before you make a decision and commit time and money, check out
any offer. Phone past customers and ask them about their
experiences; would they hire the same expert again? Ask for
quantifiable results and look for a positive track record; I
imagine SEO experts are not a dime a dozen. Investigate and get
answers to all your questions before you put money on the table.
(C)2005 Francisco Aloy
=============================================
About the Author
Francisco Aloy is the Editor of The
Newbie Business Guide. Constructive
and clear information to start your
Internet Business. For more articles
by Mr. Aloy, visit:
http://www.newbie-business-guide.com
=============================================
Visit my website for more articles, press release, e-books, business opportunities and more
Http://www.sanjay-j.com
Being a relative newcomer to the Web I decided to foray into
Search Engine Optimization to gain first hand experience and any
insights I could. My assumption was that it would have a basis
built on rational thinking and logical facts.
I pre-supposed a certain degree of agreement and transparency
from many of the established sources and opinion makers. My
starting viewpoint supported by my association of Search Engine
Optimization and the Web as natural extensions of common sense,
logical thinking.
In hindsight, I must confess I'm not more knowledgeable about the
subject than when I first started. I found very few opinions and
practices based on fact. What I did find - and it came as an
unexpected revelation - was general confusion and disagreement.
I found secret potion SEO, lurking-in-the-shadows SEO, ignorance
as dogma SEO, Voodoo SEO, witch doctor SEO, magical chicken bones
SEO, the 10 blind men and the elephant SEO, fancy and hearsay as
SEO!
In the minority, I found but a handful of opinions based on
cold hard facts and logic. How in the world can Search Engine
Optimization mean all those things?
OK, perhaps I did overdo the above paragraph, but the point I'm
making is this: With the infinite number of opinions, incorrect
assumptions and dead wrong practices; how do you know what to
believe? Imagine you're a small business looking for SE
optimization; how would you go about it?
The Search Engines, of course, won't reveal more than general
guidelines for optimization; other than that, they don't say
much. I realize they do things in that manner because they can't
explain much about their inner workings. If folks had the skinny
on the formulas and algorithms, nothing short of SE pandemonium
would ensue.
I'm sure you've seen the ads that guarantee a dominant position
for your choice of keywords. How can that be so? I think some
keyword phrases are so competitive, very few have the resources
it would take to acquire dominance. The cost of many of the
keywords and phrases are completely out of reach for most small
home based businesses.
Furthermore, I'm sure you've heard about websites getting banned
after hiring a SEO expert. I had this experience:
I remember reading about a well known SEO business and I wrote
them an email inquiring about why they didn't appear in the
search results dealing with their subject matter: search engine
optimization or search engine ranking. I received a short and
cryptic reply that didn't say much.
As time went by, I came onto an article that stated the
particular SEO outfit had been banned by the SE's during that
time frame. That explains the nature of the return email;
meaning: I don't want to talk about it!
The paragraph above implies that if they'll do it to their own
website, they'll do it to yours! Look before you leap should more
than suffice as the motto for your business decision.
I think SEO experts that are on the level won't guarantee you
dominance for ANY keyword phrase. Think about your competition
and see if it's feasible. For example, would you have the
resources to dominate for the word "business?" I did a search on
Google and came up with 695,000,000 results!
Before you make a decision and commit time and money, check out
any offer. Phone past customers and ask them about their
experiences; would they hire the same expert again? Ask for
quantifiable results and look for a positive track record; I
imagine SEO experts are not a dime a dozen. Investigate and get
answers to all your questions before you put money on the table.
(C)2005 Francisco Aloy
=============================================
About the Author
Francisco Aloy is the Editor of The
Newbie Business Guide. Constructive
and clear information to start your
Internet Business. For more articles
by Mr. Aloy, visit:
http://www.newbie-business-guide.com
=============================================
Visit my website for more articles, press release, e-books, business opportunities and more
Http://www.sanjay-j.com
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Getting a Google Page Rank 3 in Six Months
by Geraldine Jensen
I entered the world of website ownership in July of 2004. I did a Google search for “websites for sale” and found that e-Bay was a big seller. I had learned some web programming as the acting webmaster for a non-profit organization. My training consisted of reading, Learning Web Design: A Beginners Guide to HTML, Graphics and Beyond by Jennifer Neiderst.
Many websites are for sale on e-Bay. After watching the ads for a couple of weeks I decided to buy three sites: a diet site (www.atkinsdiethelper.com), a travel site (www.epictravels.com), and a web tools reseller site (www.webmastersprofitpak.net).
My choice was based on the domain names, the product being sold, and the sense they were good products to sell. I had read an article that said search engines were more likely to index and rank a website where the product or topic was part of the domain name. My total investment was less than $300. The diet site was a drop-shipping business and required the most time. The travel site was an affiliate so no web programming was needed, only advertising. The web tools site required some web programing. I decided that a few additional web tools to sell would be good, so back to e-Bay I went to purchase more software to sell.
Next came submitting the sites to search engines. I found www.addme.com where you can submit sites for free---this definitely fit my budget. I also hand-submitted the sites to Dmoz, Yahoo (free), AltaVista and any other directories I could find. I found www.directoryarchives.com, a directory of directories and submitted the sites to as many of the directories as possible. I also began to do searches based on the keywords of my websites and did add the url, or submit site, or exchange links to those who offered it. I figured that people searching for my product were likely to find the same sites I found.
Within about 3 months, my sites were listed on Google, Ask Jeeves, Excite and several others when the exact website name was entered--- a big step forward. I still had made only a few sales and noone had found my sites by using the search engines. I decided to focus my attention on only one site, www.webmastersprofitpak.net, because it was the only site that had any sales and the profit margin was highest on that site.
I began to experiment with advertising. I opened Overture, Google Adwords , Mamma, and Kanoodle accounts. I signed up for Adsense. I bought ezine ads, and visitors from Traffic Taxi, did a popunder ad and newsletter ad with bravenet.com. I signed up with companies that pay people to visit your site, I tried an adblast---all with little or no results. I found site-reference.com and bought ads for the software site in the newsletter. Finally, I began to make some sales..
But to stay in business long-term and to reduce advertising costs, I needed to be able to make sales based on search engine results. I bought some site submission software which I now sell and began to submit my sites page by page. I also signed up with Microsoft bcentral.com and began to optimize my website pages.
Now, after six months, one of my sites has a great Google page rank. www.webmastersprofitpak.net ranks 3. Website traffic is about a 2,000 hits/week. I have high hopes for 2005! I have learned a lot in the past six months especially about search engine submission, optimization, directories, and links. See http://www.webmastersprofitpak.net for Reseller Tips.
About the Author
Geraldine Jensen is the owner of several ecommerce websites. She is the publisher and editor of http;//www.familiesonlinemagazine.com, which was chosen as Hotsite by USA Today in October 2004 due to it diverse opinions and good content. She was Webmaster for a nonprofit organization for 10 years. Her newest project is Today's Family Forum.
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Visit my website to see many more useful articles for the benefit of home-based and small business owners :
http://www.sanjay-j.com
Sanjay Johari
I entered the world of website ownership in July of 2004. I did a Google search for “websites for sale” and found that e-Bay was a big seller. I had learned some web programming as the acting webmaster for a non-profit organization. My training consisted of reading, Learning Web Design: A Beginners Guide to HTML, Graphics and Beyond by Jennifer Neiderst.
Many websites are for sale on e-Bay. After watching the ads for a couple of weeks I decided to buy three sites: a diet site (www.atkinsdiethelper.com), a travel site (www.epictravels.com), and a web tools reseller site (www.webmastersprofitpak.net).
My choice was based on the domain names, the product being sold, and the sense they were good products to sell. I had read an article that said search engines were more likely to index and rank a website where the product or topic was part of the domain name. My total investment was less than $300. The diet site was a drop-shipping business and required the most time. The travel site was an affiliate so no web programming was needed, only advertising. The web tools site required some web programing. I decided that a few additional web tools to sell would be good, so back to e-Bay I went to purchase more software to sell.
Next came submitting the sites to search engines. I found www.addme.com where you can submit sites for free---this definitely fit my budget. I also hand-submitted the sites to Dmoz, Yahoo (free), AltaVista and any other directories I could find. I found www.directoryarchives.com, a directory of directories and submitted the sites to as many of the directories as possible. I also began to do searches based on the keywords of my websites and did add the url, or submit site, or exchange links to those who offered it. I figured that people searching for my product were likely to find the same sites I found.
Within about 3 months, my sites were listed on Google, Ask Jeeves, Excite and several others when the exact website name was entered--- a big step forward. I still had made only a few sales and noone had found my sites by using the search engines. I decided to focus my attention on only one site, www.webmastersprofitpak.net, because it was the only site that had any sales and the profit margin was highest on that site.
I began to experiment with advertising. I opened Overture, Google Adwords , Mamma, and Kanoodle accounts. I signed up for Adsense. I bought ezine ads, and visitors from Traffic Taxi, did a popunder ad and newsletter ad with bravenet.com. I signed up with companies that pay people to visit your site, I tried an adblast---all with little or no results. I found site-reference.com and bought ads for the software site in the newsletter. Finally, I began to make some sales..
But to stay in business long-term and to reduce advertising costs, I needed to be able to make sales based on search engine results. I bought some site submission software which I now sell and began to submit my sites page by page. I also signed up with Microsoft bcentral.com and began to optimize my website pages.
Now, after six months, one of my sites has a great Google page rank. www.webmastersprofitpak.net ranks 3. Website traffic is about a 2,000 hits/week. I have high hopes for 2005! I have learned a lot in the past six months especially about search engine submission, optimization, directories, and links. See http://www.webmastersprofitpak.net for Reseller Tips.
About the Author
Geraldine Jensen is the owner of several ecommerce websites. She is the publisher and editor of http;//www.familiesonlinemagazine.com, which was chosen as Hotsite by USA Today in October 2004 due to it diverse opinions and good content. She was Webmaster for a nonprofit organization for 10 years. Her newest project is Today's Family Forum.
-----------------------------------------------------------
Visit my website to see many more useful articles for the benefit of home-based and small business owners :
http://www.sanjay-j.com
Sanjay Johari
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
How To Submit Articles For Massive Traffic
Copyright 2005 Steve Shaw
As you perhaps already know, article submissions can drivea huge amount of traffic to your web site for months if notyears. The first step is obviously to get a good articlewritten, with a suitable resource box at the end containinga link to your site to drive traffic to your site. Butwithout submitting your article effectively, all this hardwork will be of little benefit.
In this article, you're going to find out exactly how tosubmit your articles in exactly the same way as people likeTerry Dean, Joe Vitale, and Jim Edwards have done beforeyou.
And there's no reason why you can't achieve a similar levelof success with your own article submissions.
There are three main distribution channels for yourarticles that you should concentrate on:
1. Ezine Editors
You need to find editors who publish ezines in the same'category' as your article - for example, if yourexpertise, and your web site, focuses on gardening, youshould be submitting your articles to editors of ezines inthe same genre (of course, only if they accept articlesubmissions).
To build up your list, you need to scour ezine directories(see the list at http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/ezinedirectories.php) for ezines within your genre, check each ezine to see ifthey accept article submissions, and then double check witheach editor to confirm that their details are correct, andthat they still accept article submissions - you willunfortunately find many of the listings are out of date,and some ezines are no longer published at all for whateverreason.
2. Announcement Lists
Another way to contact hundreds, if not thousands, ofpotential publishers, is through what we call articleannouncement lists.
An article announcement list is a type of mailing list thatconcentrates on article submissions. The subscribers of themailing list are either publishers looking for content,providers of that content (i.e. article writers such asyourself), or possibly both.
Every article you submit to these lists get sent to all ofthe subscribers of that list - by submitting to multiplelists, you're effectively sending out your article tothousands of potential publishers.
You can find a listing of suitable article announcementlists at
http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/announce.php.
3. Article Directories
There are numerous such article directories on the web thatallow you to submit your articles, and allow subsequentretrieval by publishers. I've located several of them, aslisted at http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/articledirectories.php
After submitting an article to some of these, I'm oftenamazed at the amount of instant traffic and sales it canbring, often because many of the directories display a'Recent Articles'-type listing which dramatically improvesthe profile of your article for a short period after yoursubmission.
I've now shown you exactly how to go about submitting yourarticle all over the Internet, exactly the same methodsused by people who are now considered to be 'gurus' on theInternet. Yes, it can be hard work - but who said successwas easy?
About the Author:
Steve Shaw develops systems and software to help yousucceed in your online business. The article above has beenextracted and condensed from his e-course on how to publisharticles to promote your web site - to receive the fulle-course direct to your mail box, and also discover a muchquicker, highly efficient way to submit your articles, signup now at:http://www.takanomi.com/publish-articles.php.
As you perhaps already know, article submissions can drivea huge amount of traffic to your web site for months if notyears. The first step is obviously to get a good articlewritten, with a suitable resource box at the end containinga link to your site to drive traffic to your site. Butwithout submitting your article effectively, all this hardwork will be of little benefit.
In this article, you're going to find out exactly how tosubmit your articles in exactly the same way as people likeTerry Dean, Joe Vitale, and Jim Edwards have done beforeyou.
And there's no reason why you can't achieve a similar levelof success with your own article submissions.
There are three main distribution channels for yourarticles that you should concentrate on:
1. Ezine Editors
You need to find editors who publish ezines in the same'category' as your article - for example, if yourexpertise, and your web site, focuses on gardening, youshould be submitting your articles to editors of ezines inthe same genre (of course, only if they accept articlesubmissions).
To build up your list, you need to scour ezine directories(see the list at http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/ezinedirectories.php) for ezines within your genre, check each ezine to see ifthey accept article submissions, and then double check witheach editor to confirm that their details are correct, andthat they still accept article submissions - you willunfortunately find many of the listings are out of date,and some ezines are no longer published at all for whateverreason.
2. Announcement Lists
Another way to contact hundreds, if not thousands, ofpotential publishers, is through what we call articleannouncement lists.
An article announcement list is a type of mailing list thatconcentrates on article submissions. The subscribers of themailing list are either publishers looking for content,providers of that content (i.e. article writers such asyourself), or possibly both.
Every article you submit to these lists get sent to all ofthe subscribers of that list - by submitting to multiplelists, you're effectively sending out your article tothousands of potential publishers.
You can find a listing of suitable article announcementlists at
http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/announce.php.
3. Article Directories
There are numerous such article directories on the web thatallow you to submit your articles, and allow subsequentretrieval by publishers. I've located several of them, aslisted at http://www.submityourarticle.com/course/articledirectories.php
After submitting an article to some of these, I'm oftenamazed at the amount of instant traffic and sales it canbring, often because many of the directories display a'Recent Articles'-type listing which dramatically improvesthe profile of your article for a short period after yoursubmission.
I've now shown you exactly how to go about submitting yourarticle all over the Internet, exactly the same methodsused by people who are now considered to be 'gurus' on theInternet. Yes, it can be hard work - but who said successwas easy?
About the Author:
Steve Shaw develops systems and software to help yousucceed in your online business. The article above has beenextracted and condensed from his e-course on how to publisharticles to promote your web site - to receive the fulle-course direct to your mail box, and also discover a muchquicker, highly efficient way to submit your articles, signup now at:http://www.takanomi.com/publish-articles.php.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
The Right Tool for Your Marketing Job
Copyright 2005 Foreman Enterprises
by Scott Foreman Build-Passive-Income.com
Time is money; undoubtedly one of the oldest clichés in
existence. Have you ever thought about what it really means
though? Is bending over to pick up a penny worth your time?
Maybe, but would it still be worth it to cross the street
for the same penny. Maybe not.
Your time has value. You can choose to use every minute of
every day in any way you wish. It goes without saying that
most of us would like to spend more time making money or at
least have our "money making" time be more profitable.
For those of you who do any type of mass marketing, you
already know about Ad Trackers, Autoresponders, and Shopping
Carts. You may or may not know that you can combine all
three (and more) into one service. This week we start our
first of a three part series on the many uses of a so called
`complete marketing tool' (we'll call it the Tool).
Every Tool has different functions, but there are a few that
are fairly universal and very necessary. This week, we'll
focus on the function often called Ad Tracking. Within a
Tool, an Ad Tracker allows the marketer to set up a tracking
protocol for any link on the marketer's web site.
What a tracking protocol tells you is exactly how many
people clicked on your link. If the link goes to a desired
location on your website, you can track your conversion rate
as well. In either case, it's invaluable information.
Here are two examples.
1) Let's say that you are promoting XYZ Shoe Polish on your
website. In the middle of one of your product comparison
pages, you put a hyperlink to XYZ's home page.
www.xyz-shoe-polish.com (for example). You can look at your
web logs to find out how many visitors that page received.
Then you can go to your Tool's Ad Tracker to find out how
many of your visitors clicked on your link to XYZ. You can
easily see how important that information is from a
marketing perspective.
2) Let's say you've just written an ebook on raising Tulips.
You website is all about flower maintenance and in one of
your spring articles, you put a link to your ebook sales
page. Because of your Ad Tracker, you know exactly how many
people got to your sales page through your article. And you
know how many of your ebook customers were as a result of
your well written article.
Just the Ad Tracking function alone is worth the monthly fee
paid to a Complete Marketing Tool service. With the
incredibly useful aspects of the Ad Tracker, you've already
saved time and marketing dollars. Nevertheless, there are a
ton of other functions that the Tool service provides. Next
week, we'll talk about the Complete Marketing Tool's ability
to track your mailing list as well as your affiliates.
In the meantime, if you can't wait to check out the other
Tool features for yourself, please feel free to check out
the very same Marketing Tool we rely on everyday. See for
yourself, how many of the great features could make your
business easier and more efficient.
http://www.build-passive-income.com/cmp.php?ad=120452
Remember, be good to yourself and never underestimate the
power associated with the intensity of your passion.
Scott Foreman
mailto:scott@build-passive-income.com
===========================================================
Wayne and Scott Foreman are co-owners of
http://www.build-passive-income.com
This Secret Book Made Terry Dean Rich!
You Can Get it Free IF you click below now
(you won't believe the simple techniques it
reveals that ANYONE can use)
http://www.Build-Passive-Income.com/secret
===========================================================
by Scott Foreman Build-Passive-Income.com
Time is money; undoubtedly one of the oldest clichés in
existence. Have you ever thought about what it really means
though? Is bending over to pick up a penny worth your time?
Maybe, but would it still be worth it to cross the street
for the same penny. Maybe not.
Your time has value. You can choose to use every minute of
every day in any way you wish. It goes without saying that
most of us would like to spend more time making money or at
least have our "money making" time be more profitable.
For those of you who do any type of mass marketing, you
already know about Ad Trackers, Autoresponders, and Shopping
Carts. You may or may not know that you can combine all
three (and more) into one service. This week we start our
first of a three part series on the many uses of a so called
`complete marketing tool' (we'll call it the Tool).
Every Tool has different functions, but there are a few that
are fairly universal and very necessary. This week, we'll
focus on the function often called Ad Tracking. Within a
Tool, an Ad Tracker allows the marketer to set up a tracking
protocol for any link on the marketer's web site.
What a tracking protocol tells you is exactly how many
people clicked on your link. If the link goes to a desired
location on your website, you can track your conversion rate
as well. In either case, it's invaluable information.
Here are two examples.
1) Let's say that you are promoting XYZ Shoe Polish on your
website. In the middle of one of your product comparison
pages, you put a hyperlink to XYZ's home page.
www.xyz-shoe-polish.com (for example). You can look at your
web logs to find out how many visitors that page received.
Then you can go to your Tool's Ad Tracker to find out how
many of your visitors clicked on your link to XYZ. You can
easily see how important that information is from a
marketing perspective.
2) Let's say you've just written an ebook on raising Tulips.
You website is all about flower maintenance and in one of
your spring articles, you put a link to your ebook sales
page. Because of your Ad Tracker, you know exactly how many
people got to your sales page through your article. And you
know how many of your ebook customers were as a result of
your well written article.
Just the Ad Tracking function alone is worth the monthly fee
paid to a Complete Marketing Tool service. With the
incredibly useful aspects of the Ad Tracker, you've already
saved time and marketing dollars. Nevertheless, there are a
ton of other functions that the Tool service provides. Next
week, we'll talk about the Complete Marketing Tool's ability
to track your mailing list as well as your affiliates.
In the meantime, if you can't wait to check out the other
Tool features for yourself, please feel free to check out
the very same Marketing Tool we rely on everyday. See for
yourself, how many of the great features could make your
business easier and more efficient.
http://www.build-passive-income.com/cmp.php?ad=120452
Remember, be good to yourself and never underestimate the
power associated with the intensity of your passion.
Scott Foreman
mailto:scott@build-passive-income.com
===========================================================
Wayne and Scott Foreman are co-owners of
http://www.build-passive-income.com
This Secret Book Made Terry Dean Rich!
You Can Get it Free IF you click below now
(you won't believe the simple techniques it
reveals that ANYONE can use)
http://www.Build-Passive-Income.com/secret
===========================================================
Setting your Business Up for Success! Six Essentials you MUST have in place for your online business
Copyright © 2005 Charles & Susan Truett
Partners In Success
http://www.partnersinsuccess.net
There is a common misconception that an "online business"
requires no investment...that you can make money online
without spending any.
When we hear this from people who are disparately trying to
build a successful online business it makes us angry!
We believe the misconception is primarily due to all of the
hype and false promises that arrive daily in our inboxes.
Emails promising us that we can make millions of dollars
with no financial output while we sit at home and do
nothing. It's insane and it's not the truth.
The truth is that you must treat an online business just as
you would a business in the conventional world. You must
plan on investing time, money and effort to ensure your
success. The good news is that your investment in an online
business will be MUCH, MUCH less than that of a business in
the conventional world.
With an online business, there are essentials that you must
have in order for your business to run smoothly and become
successful. You can literally run an effective online
business for $100-$200 a month. Later in this article, we
will show you how you can access many of these essentials
in one place for less that $10.00 a month!
But first...
Here are six essentials that you MUST have to run your
online business.
1. Your Own Website
This includes a domain name and web hosting for your site.
You must have a central place to send your customers, even
if you are selling multiple products or services.
2. A Professional Autoresponder
An absolute MUST for any online business. If you're not
using an autoresponder, you're losing money! That's the
bottom line. Your autoresponder should have the ability to
create subscriptions via email and web form and should be a
professional one with no ads! Fr~e autoresponders look
unprofessional and they are not reliable.
3. Ad Tracker
This is probably the most underused tool that we know of.
Consider this - most people who are NOT making money on the
Net have never used an Ad Tracker. Yet, ALL of the people
that we know who ARE making money on the Net - use one
daily. It makes no sense to spend money and time on
advertising if you're not going to be able to determine
which ads are producing and which ones are not. An Ad
Tracker will solve this problem and save you time and money
in the long run.
4. Products or Services
You must have something to sell! This can be a service such
as web or graphic design, an mlm/affiliate program or
products, tangible or digital. If you don't have a specific
product or service in mind, there are thousands of
profitable digital products that come with resell rights.
This means you can resell them and keep 100% of the profit!
5. You must know HOW and WHERE to advertise to bring
targeted prospects to your Website!
You can save yourself a tremendous amount of time, money
and frustration by learning the effective advertising
methods that are available online. There are countless
worthless ones that are simply a waste of time. If you're
new online, you won't know this unless you find someone who
is successful online and follow their lead. Find a mentor
or a membership site that offers step by step Tutorials on
online promotion. Make sure that the tutorials are updated
frequently to keep up with the changing times of the
Internet!
6. Leads
The lifeline of any online business! Just because you have
a website and products to sell, that doesn't mean you're
going to make money! To make money, you must drive targeted
visitors to your website. There are THOUSANDS of companies
on the web that sell Leads but if you just pick one out of
the blue, it's trial and error. Do some research and find a
good source for leads. Again, you can achieve this by
finding someone who is succcessful and following their
lead. Or join a membership site that includes Leads as a
part of their package.
We promised we'd tell you about a membership site that
includes many of these essential items in one place. Have a
look at http://www.viralprofits.com With your membership,
you get a professional autoresponder, ad tracking, Leads,
Digital Products with resell rights, step by step training
tutorials AND you can earn money by referring others to the
site. The tutorials are updated frequently and NEW products
are added each month so that you always have something new
to offer your customers!
So there you have it. With these six essentials, you've got
the foundation for a successful online business. Without
them, it's going to be a tough road ahead. Use them as a
"checklist" and make sure your online business is armed for
success!
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Charles & Susan Truett are experienced internet marketers
who have built a successful online business and are now
teaching others how to achieve the same success. For money
making ideas and their simple system for success visit:
http://www.partnersinsuccess.net
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Partners In Success
http://www.partnersinsuccess.net
There is a common misconception that an "online business"
requires no investment...that you can make money online
without spending any.
When we hear this from people who are disparately trying to
build a successful online business it makes us angry!
We believe the misconception is primarily due to all of the
hype and false promises that arrive daily in our inboxes.
Emails promising us that we can make millions of dollars
with no financial output while we sit at home and do
nothing. It's insane and it's not the truth.
The truth is that you must treat an online business just as
you would a business in the conventional world. You must
plan on investing time, money and effort to ensure your
success. The good news is that your investment in an online
business will be MUCH, MUCH less than that of a business in
the conventional world.
With an online business, there are essentials that you must
have in order for your business to run smoothly and become
successful. You can literally run an effective online
business for $100-$200 a month. Later in this article, we
will show you how you can access many of these essentials
in one place for less that $10.00 a month!
But first...
Here are six essentials that you MUST have to run your
online business.
1. Your Own Website
This includes a domain name and web hosting for your site.
You must have a central place to send your customers, even
if you are selling multiple products or services.
2. A Professional Autoresponder
An absolute MUST for any online business. If you're not
using an autoresponder, you're losing money! That's the
bottom line. Your autoresponder should have the ability to
create subscriptions via email and web form and should be a
professional one with no ads! Fr~e autoresponders look
unprofessional and they are not reliable.
3. Ad Tracker
This is probably the most underused tool that we know of.
Consider this - most people who are NOT making money on the
Net have never used an Ad Tracker. Yet, ALL of the people
that we know who ARE making money on the Net - use one
daily. It makes no sense to spend money and time on
advertising if you're not going to be able to determine
which ads are producing and which ones are not. An Ad
Tracker will solve this problem and save you time and money
in the long run.
4. Products or Services
You must have something to sell! This can be a service such
as web or graphic design, an mlm/affiliate program or
products, tangible or digital. If you don't have a specific
product or service in mind, there are thousands of
profitable digital products that come with resell rights.
This means you can resell them and keep 100% of the profit!
5. You must know HOW and WHERE to advertise to bring
targeted prospects to your Website!
You can save yourself a tremendous amount of time, money
and frustration by learning the effective advertising
methods that are available online. There are countless
worthless ones that are simply a waste of time. If you're
new online, you won't know this unless you find someone who
is successful online and follow their lead. Find a mentor
or a membership site that offers step by step Tutorials on
online promotion. Make sure that the tutorials are updated
frequently to keep up with the changing times of the
Internet!
6. Leads
The lifeline of any online business! Just because you have
a website and products to sell, that doesn't mean you're
going to make money! To make money, you must drive targeted
visitors to your website. There are THOUSANDS of companies
on the web that sell Leads but if you just pick one out of
the blue, it's trial and error. Do some research and find a
good source for leads. Again, you can achieve this by
finding someone who is succcessful and following their
lead. Or join a membership site that includes Leads as a
part of their package.
We promised we'd tell you about a membership site that
includes many of these essential items in one place. Have a
look at http://www.viralprofits.com With your membership,
you get a professional autoresponder, ad tracking, Leads,
Digital Products with resell rights, step by step training
tutorials AND you can earn money by referring others to the
site. The tutorials are updated frequently and NEW products
are added each month so that you always have something new
to offer your customers!
So there you have it. With these six essentials, you've got
the foundation for a successful online business. Without
them, it's going to be a tough road ahead. Use them as a
"checklist" and make sure your online business is armed for
success!
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Charles & Susan Truett are experienced internet marketers
who have built a successful online business and are now
teaching others how to achieve the same success. For money
making ideas and their simple system for success visit:
http://www.partnersinsuccess.net
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