POSTED BY admin on Oct 10 under Traffic Generation

As marketers, we are told that we should be article marketingArticle marketing is vital to Internet marketers. It is how you earn money affiliate marketing, it is how you promote your websites and it is how you add content to your virtual real estate empire.

A lot people find article writing hard to do as they haven’t had to do a lot of writing. This can be outsourced if you have the money. It is common to find people starting online businesses without a lot of money and so they cannot manage to pay for an outsourcer.

You can get articles created for a few dollars, but they are likely to be very low quality. For a decent 400 to 500 word article you are looking to pay around ten dollars, possibly more depending on the niche and the author.

Creating the articles yourself isn’t difficult if you follow a methodology. Many people are just not used to writing. It can be very daunting to sit down and write if it is something you are not used to.

Below is a method that works very well, it is one I use myself and you can be writing high quality articles shockingly rapidly with this method. It really isn’t that tricky and it enables even beginning writer to create high articles swiftly.

Step 1 : Decide upon the niche you are writing in.

Step 2 : Determine which keyword(s) you are targeting in your article.

Step 3 : Determine the subject your article will be about.

Step 4 : Type into Google some of your keywords and see what issues people experience in that niche. What do they want to know? What are their main problems? What solutions are they after?

Step 5 : Write a powerful, interest building title with your keyword at the start, if possible.

Step 6 : Create a half dozen short sentences about the problems people in that niche are experiencing (don’t give away too much information … you want your reader to click through).

Step 7 : Turn each sentence into more descriptive paragraphs, so much they do not need to click through.

Step 8 : Write a paragraph introducing the article to put at the start.

Step 9 : Write a concluding paragraph the main points presented in the article at the bottom.

And there you have a good quality, unique article that you could spin or just submit to an article directory or use on your website. Content is king on the Internet, and unique content will help you beat the competition.

This method will help you to swiftly write articles, and it won’t be long before you can write a high quality article in under ten minutes. After a bit of practise, you will be able to write them in five to seven minutes no problem!

And remember the more articles you have out on the Internet, the more you can potentially earn!

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POSTED BY admin on Oct 8 under Traffic Generation

Many marketers get so caught up in the stampede for traffic that they spend all their time building links. They forget that one of the most vital parts of SEO are the on page factors.

These are not difficult to do and should be one of the first things you do with any new website. An ideal SEO friendly piece of software is WordPress.

Firstly, make sure you have set a title tag. This needs to be no longer than 64 characters. Any longer and it will be truncated and this will look very peculiar in the search engine listings.

The title tag must show your visitors what your site is about so as to entice them to click through It needs to include the main keyword for each page. Every page on your website should have its own unique title tag. You should never use the same title tag on every page.

Next are your meta keywords and meta description. These tell the search engine spiders what your site is about. These are not vital to the search engines as the majority of them analyze your site to determine what it’s about.

These meta tags help determine the accuracy of the Adsense ads being displayed on your pages.

The meta description is of importance because it appears in the search engine results. This 150 characters is all you get to make people click on your link. You need to be brief and enticing in the same sentence.

These both should be unique for every page within your site.

All graphics on your web site have what is known as ALT tags. These tags provide an alternative description for the visually impaired. These are noticed by the search engines and can get your images ranking well. Make sure you do not assign the same keyword to too many ALT tags and add the word graphic, picture, image or something like it at the end. This will again help tell the search engines your website is appropriate for the keywords.

Your header 1 or H1 tag needs to also include your main keyword. This is another consideration in search engine rankings.

Your site will rank well if you use your keyword and related keywords in the body of each page.

Just don’t try and stuff too many keywords on to a single page as you may get yourself dropped by the search engines.

By performing some simple on page SEO optimization you can gain the advantage in the search engines. Remember that this isn’t done by all marketers this, and this can give you the edge over your competition, which is vital for your profitable success.

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POSTED BY admin on Oct 6 under Traffic Generation

Web 2.0 web sites are taking the Internet by storm. They have grabbed the attention of both marketers and their markets.

More and more people are using Web 2.0 properties to either connect to their friends and family or to create their own hobby or fan sites.

These properties can be particularly important in your traffic generation techniques because it allows you a method of direct contact with your target market. Do it well and Web 2.0 technologies can supply you with plenty of visitors as well as a valuable enhancement up the search engines.

There are plenty of of Web 2.0 technologies, with more being built every day in focused marketers. These sites are of distinct interest to you as you can directly access people who have an interest in your product or service.

It goes without saying that you can’t just join a Web 2.0 web site and begin promoting your products. Doing this will get yourself into lots of trouble. Marketers who do this rapidly find themselves leaving that market.

Using a Web 2.0 property means you have to work with them as you would work with a list. You have to establish yourself in the niche as an expert, someone to listen to and who knows what they are talking about. Sometimes this means being yourself, other times you may have a pseudnym.

Whichever the case, you must spend some time understanding the group and the market so that you can appeal to them in the best way. Be accommodating, make available valuable information and you will soon be considered as an expert.

Once you are well-known as an authority, it becomes much easier to promote your products. You can add to your earnings by promoting affiliate products.

One word of caution is to not get involved in too many sites. Establishing yourself as an expert on a social network takes a lot of time and doing so will mean you don’t succeed on any of the sites. You will find it easier to focus on a couple of sites, maybe one niche site and one general site.

Some of the other Web 2.0 web sites allow you to create unique websites. Some of these are against sites that are commercial, whereas others allow almost anything.

These sites will help enhance your search engines rankings.

You design web sites on web 2.0 web sites using keyword based unique content. You then create active links pointing to your own website. Using straightforward methods you promote these web sites (pinging, social bookmarking, etc) to give them them an advantage in the search engine rankings.

You may not get a lot of direct traffic from this, it will boost your organic search engine rankings. This helps boost your website visitors. Yet another benefit is each of these Web 2.0 web sites rank in the search engines themselves and will get traffic, further promoting your web site.

Web 2.0 web sites are an extraordinary means of receiving traffic. With proper use, these can get you plenty of free visitors!

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POSTED BY admin on Oct 3 under Traffic Generation

Yahoo Answers is a source of very targeted traffic that many marketers overlook. The time involved with it and the ease with which it appears Yahoo ban people puts them off.

The basic principle of Yahoo Answers is that people ask questions and other people answer them. Think of it as an advice board, if you like. Some questions are very odd, whereas others are normal.

The answer quality varies massively, with some being pretty useless. It goes without question that you will be providing these high quality answers.

Firstly, people are only banned if they abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers. So long as you stay on the right side of the terms of service and provide decent quality answers you will have no problem keeping your account. People have had the same account for a long time and have accumulated thousands of points, whereas others lose theirs in a few days because they break the terms of service.

To succeed here, you need to find questions you can answers which are relevant to your website.

The benefits of Answers are threefold.

1) People read your answers and come to your website
2) Your answer, if chosen as the best answer, will rank in the search engines and get traffic directly
3) You can get a backlink from your answer which will increase your sites rankings

As Yahoo Answers is considered an authority site by the other search engines, having links from it are considered highly relevant and very beneficial.

To find the best questions to answer you need to use the advanced search function. Search only questions opened in the last 7 days with your keyword. This will give you the most recent questions. You then need to look at each question and find which ones you can answer properly.

To keep your account open you have to give high quality answers and get chosen as the best answer. This means you have to read the question and ensure you understand it fully.

Begin your answer with a friendly greeting such as “Hi there” and include their name if you are know it This instantly makes your answer stand out from the crowd and will create rapport with the questioner.

Then write your answer and sign off with something equally friendly such as “Hope this helps you out” and then sign out with your name.

You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for. If you put your website link in every single answer, you are likely to get your account banned. You need to put your website link in the resources box below the answer box. It will still be seen and clicked, particularly when your answer is voted the best answer.

Yahoo Answers gives you a great approach of generating targeted traffic through to your website. It works well for most types of sites and some people earn decent money just from Yahoo Answers. You can benefit greatly from it if you use it properly.

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POSTED BY admin on Oct 1 under Traffic Generation

Traffic is the lifeblood of our online business. Generally, the more traffic the better.

For marketers though, this isn’t always the case. Marketers want targeted traffic and they need to know where it is coming from. Not knowing where your traffic is coming from means you don’t know which traffic generation methods are effective.

Only the successful marketers make any effort to track their traffic.

If you are paying for advertising and not tracking your traffic you are throwing money away! You must understand what advertising methods are producing income. This way you can do more advertising that is earning you money and less of that which isn’t.

Tracking your traffic doesn’t need to be difficult and can be done easily. You can buy scripts and services that will track your website traffic for you. These vary greatly in price and features.

A script or service usually makes it simpler for you to monitor your traffic.

A easy visitor tracking methodis to use Google Analytics. There is not cost for this service. The best thing about it is that it offers detailed statistics and can track nearly anything. The downside is that it offers detailed statistics and can track pretty much anything!

The complexity of it is a good and a bad thing because you can find out so much about your website that it will initially baffle you. After you have spent some time understanding the results it will prove very revealing.

You must first add the code to your web site. This code is unique for each of your websites and needs to be inserted at the bottom of each page in your website just before the closing body tag.

Once it is reporting data, you need to drive a decent amount of traffic to your site to get some good results.

All website activity is tracked and you can even see an overlay map showing where people click on your web site. By linking Analytics with Adsense and Adwords you can discover how well these are performing for you.

One of the biggest benefits of Analytics is that it can provide goal tracking to track sales and sign ups to lists. It can be a bit difficult to get working behind scripts and membership sites, but is worth the time.

The big appeal to most marketers is the fact that it has a lot of features, more than many scripts and is completely free. Of course, Google get to see exactly what happens on your website, but that is a small trade off for such in depth analytics.

Using Google Analytics will provide you with a good understanding of where you get your traffic from and what it does on your website. From this you can enhance your conversion rate, and in turn, your profits.

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POSTED BY admin on Sep 28 under Traffic Generation

Traffic is what all Internet Marketers want. If we are more precise about this, marketers want highly targeted traffic. Targeted traffic is more interested in what we are offering, which means they are more likely to buy or sign up.

Many marketers spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours getting visitors to their websites. Frequently, the cost of getting the traffic is much more than the tiny income the site makes.

There are further Web 2.0 techniques you can use to improve your visitors.

One site is able to generate large amounts of traffic very quickly.

This site is Stumbleupon.com. It has a substantial audience of people who are have nothing else to do. The basic premise is that you find a site you think is interesting (you Stumbled Upon it) and send it to Stumbleupon.

Visitors to Stumbleupon can look through the sites other people have found. They can vote to say they like a site, which gets it more views, or say they don’t like it, which gets them less views.

In many ways, Stumbleupon is very appealing to that voyeuristic, reality TV mentality. People can see what other people are doing and vote – something which is becoming ingrained into out culture.

In order for your site to do well on Stumbleupon it must be the kind of site that people will want to pass on and recommend. Sales letters don’t tend to do very well, but controversial or contrarian articles do. Anything that is cute, funny or entertaining will do well.

This can be an article, a video, or anything of a similar ilk. It must be something that has social appeal to your niche. You may have to think about how you can spin your content in order to give it wide ranging appeal. It can be done though, and will get you traffic.

It is better for you if someone else does the initial Stumbleupon. A friend, family member or outsourcer could do this. You will have to provide some space separated tags as well as a description and to know which category to place it in for you.

Once it has been Stumbleuponed, you need to get other people to say they like it through the Stumbleupon website. This will help to kickstart the viral effect. If you can, put a link to Stumbleupon on your website to make it straightforward for your visitors to say they like it.

Stumbleupon can send you thousands of visitors in a day with an article with wide ranging appeal. As a marketer, you should use this powerful site. By not using this site, you are missing out on both backlinks and traffic.

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POSTED BY admin on Sep 26 under Traffic Generation

Social bookmarking is one of the best ways to get your websites ranking well and for getting direct traffic. The search engines know that the social bookmarking sites are a direct indicator of what people are looking at. Sure, they know marketers use it, but they realise that the majority of content that is social bookmarked multiple times is real content that people are finding useful and interesting. 

You can take advantage of this and use social bookmarking to get your sites ranking well for their keywords. 

Firstly, you need to have accounts on the various social bookmarking sites. Adding manual social bookmarks will take a lot of time, so look at software such as OnlyWire which automates the submission process. This will make thingsa lot easier. 

Once you have your account set up, find some Internet marketing colleagues, friends or family who can set up an account themselves with Onlywire.Then you

simply exchange bookmarks. They bookmark your sites, you bookmark theirs. 

Most marketer’s sites are only bookmarked once, with the occasional one having more than one bookmark. The search engines are probably very aware of this and so pay more attention to sites that have multiple bookmarks on a single site. 

This straightforward method can easily get you many bookmarks and will give your sites a boost in the search engines. 

You can outsource the entire social bookmarking process. If you are creating a lot of sites this can get expensive. You will be able to find people to do reasonably inexpensively on any of the marketing forums.You can

apply the same method to sites such as Stumbleupon and Digg, both of which are potential sources of large amounts of traffic. The sites expect their content to be more newsworthy and interesting. With a well written article you can expect thousands of visitors in a day, quite literally with a well writtenarticle. 

It is possible for you to set up multiple social bookmarking accounts and bookmark your own sites. However, these sites are smart and will realise what you are doing unless you hide behind proxies. This can be done, but often the hassle isn’t worth it, particularly when it is easy to network with other marketers. 

Networking with other marketers and trading bookmarks also has a side effect of building your network of contacts. These could potentially turn out to be joint venture partners, product partners or more in the future.Social bookmarking is

a superb way for you to get traffic from both the search engines and social bookmarking sites. You can get a large amount of traffic from enhanced search engine rankings.

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POSTED BY admin on Sep 24 under Traffic Generation

RSS is the shortened form of Really Simple Syndication and is a way of taking content and distributing it out to several sites. It was primarily aimed at newsfeeds and dsitributing content from news sites to feeder sites.

As have so many other technologies, Internet Marketers have taken it over it as it is superb for promoting sites. It allows you to distribute your content to hundreds of other websites with a click of a button, which in turn will improve your site in the It syndicates your content to plenty of sites across the Internet, which improves your rankings.

To be able to use RSS syndication, you have to have an RSS feed from your site. The most effective way to do this is to use WordPress when creating your site. It is possible to make a static HTML site into an RSS feed. Frequently this involves a manual process and manual submission of files. There are websites which will do the conversion automatically for you.

Your RSS feed now must be submitted.

There are 2 types of site you want to find.

The first step is to find RSS directories. Google will provide you with a long selection of possible directories to submit to. There is software available you can buy which will automate the submission for you.

When you have established your directories you want to submit your RSS feeds to them. It isn’t the fastest process and can be outsourced. Get your keywords, title and description prepared in advance.

By making the description and title different you can make each submission unique. The jury is out on what difference this makes, but it does appear to have some effect.

If you are manually submitting RSS feeds then you need to keep track of which sites you have submitted where. The reason being you don’t want to submit the same site more than once. Plus, you are may want to submit other sites in the future.

The second type of site is the RSS Aggregator. This combines multiple RSS feeds into a single feed or webpage. You can then submit this feed to the RSS directories.

This is useful to mix up your own RSS feeds with those of news sites. You can frequently get more content and/or authority from this.

You can also get RSS feeds from sites such as Squidoo Submitting these to RSS directories and aggregators will contribute to your search engine rankings.

Every time you update your web page, your RSS feed will be updated. Therefore, if you are regularly adding new content, you can find it distributed out to many websites very quickly, gaining you backlinks to your site.

RSS feeds are a brilliant way to get other backlinks and to assist your sites in ranking for their keywords. Use them, enjoy them and see the links flooding in.

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POSTED BY admin on Sep 22 under Traffic Generation

Video marketing is the next big thing online. It is underused by many marketers and extremely profitable for those that do use it.

Many marketers do not use video marketing just because they don’t know how to get started on it. As you get the hang of it, you will find it shockingly easy to do.

You can get a vast amount traffic if your videos go viral. Plus, the search engines love video because it is very popular at at the present moment. You can often see a selection of videos in the top five ranking for any search term in Google.

Creating the videos doesn’t have to be difficult. You can create a live action video using your mobile phone or digital camera, or if you live in the dark ages, a webcam.

Using a tool such as Camtasia you can capture the screen and demonstrate a website. These are very effective videos for the reason that people can see the end result of their purchase.

Promotional videos can be created by Windows Movie Maker, which is a component of most Windows XP and newer computers or with a website such as Jing or Animoto. You can swiftly record some great videos to use as adverts.

Your video must be something people will look forward to watching. You want your viewers to be entranced so they want to get further information.

You must know your keywords prior to submitting your video. This requires some keyword research. You can either use the Google External Keyword Tool or any other keyword research of your choice.

Manual submission of your videos will consume a lot of your valuable time. You could outsource the submissions, which will get costly, or you could use a tool to do it. The Tubemogul website provides a free alternative.

This provides an automatic submission of your video articles to some video directories . When you have produced a number of videos and are established on their site you can increase the number of video directories.

Some of your videos will be turned down, but those that are accepted will spread all across the Internet. Your video will be picked up by the many websites which get content from the video directories.

Set up a Google Alert for your video name and you will be astonished to see how far a single video will get you. With your URL in the description and video you will get traffic from it.

Video marketing is seeming to be a very effective method of getting traffic. It is an underused approach that you can use to increase your rankings in the search engines.

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POSTED BY admin on Sep 19 under Traffic Generation

Submitting articles to the article directories is a time honored strategy for improving traffic. It has been used since the early days of the Internet and even in our modern times is an effective traffic generation strategy. 

People are always thinking about the easiest technique of submitting articles for the quickest results. Which are the most effective techniques? 

To begin with, you can submit your articles to the mother of all article directories, EzineArticles. It has a well earned reputation of being the finest on the Internet. Both Google and marketers love it for this very reason. 

A lot marketers get very irritated due to the strict submissions guidelines and long approval times. 

If you read the submission rules and stick to them, then it isn’t a problem. 

Once your articles are listed in EzineArticles you immediately get benefits from it. Articles accepted by this directory tend to rank high in Google, even without backlinks atthem. 

Get a few backlinks and suddenly you find your articles are ranking in the top ten for moderately competitive keywords. Often you don’t even need backlinks to rank well. 

Once your article has been published you need to do some quick backlinking to it to assist it up the search engines. 

First of all, take your EzineArticle author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories. There are tools to do this for you, or you can do it by hand. If you are doing it manually, just choose the top ten directories in a Google search and that will be good enough for now. You can always submit to more later on, so make sure you keep track of which ones you have added your feed to. 

You can ping your article at one of the many ping sites. This gives EzineArticles itself a boost as well as getting your article noticed. 

Finally, social bookmark your article. This can also be done manually or with a tool. A well written article could be submitted to Digg or Stumbleupon to get extra links and traffic. 

There are loads of other article directories you possibly will use, but none of them are as effective as EzineArticles. The biggest contender on the block is Google Knoll. Presently, these don’t appear to be ranking as well as Ezinearticles, but it is a excellent means to get the Big G to take note of your web sites. 

For the other article directories it is not worth submitting articles manually to them, except maybe the top few big directories. Many of the rest get a tiny amount of traffic it is not worthwhile, except for the backlink. So you should either outsource or automate these submissions to free up your time to concentrate on building your business.If you are

submitting articles then you need to make sure they are on Ezinearticles for maximum traffic. With a little bit of backlinking to your article and you will be ranking well and getting traffic.

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