Showing posts with label internet business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet business. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Good Seo Gets Affordable

Good Seo Gets Affordable

Search engine optimization or SEO is the most red-hot method to drive targeted hits to your website. Increasing the benefits of a well optimized website will bear heaps of profits for the marketer. Yet, optimizing your web site may cost you thousands of bucks if you're not expert in this field.

Simply put, you may find info about cheap SEO anyplace on the Internet. But few actually reveal to you how to shape a low-cost SEO effort. Among those few is this report.

1. Link exchanges

One affordable SEO technique that may bring you top results is through link exchanges. Depending upon the sites that you'd care to exchange links with, this tool could be a freebie. Contact the WebMaster of the site you would like to exchange with. You'll be amazed with the ultimate spiking of your page ranking by practicing this way of website optimization.

2. Write or find key word rich content

Writing genuinely revealing and keyword-rich content is one surefire technique to make your Internet business more viewable than ever. Either you pen your own articles or you acquire them from article directories that permit you to post them on your website as long as you retain the resource box . But don't choke up your articles with keywords that even idiots would get bored reading . The readability and novelty of your content will be the foundation on whether your visitors will continue returning to your site or not.

3. Attention-getting Domain Name

What more effective way to get your target visitors to remember your website but with a really easy-to-recall domain name. Something short and sweet will prove to be invaluable. Registering your domain name is very inexpensive. But the value of creativity is priceless.

4. Engineer your site navigation

Furnishing simple steps to navigate your site is one way to help your visitors become at ease at your site. This will improve the flow of traffic to your website.

Inexpensive SEO is forever developing as is any other approach in information technology. There are plenty of methods that could very well land you in the top ten rankings of Google or on other search engines. Some could cost a lot but there are techniques that could yield similar results at a low cost or you may do yourself with little effort. These easy, yet very powerful techniques, outlined in this article are worth your time to get good at using on your websites.

By: Bob Kimball

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Free Advertising On The Internet For Your Direct Sales Business

Free Advertising On The Internet For Your Direct Sales Business

Over and over again I see both women and men asking how they can advertise for little or no cost. Advertising does not always mean “an ad”. I advertise constantly but almost never use an ad.

Here are several forms of free advertising:

1. A signature line in outgoing emails. I send and receive emails every single day. While some emails are from my kids or from mom and dad, many emails are from those who might benefit from visiting my website. I never email out an advertisement, but I always put my first and last name and my URL. I do know some folks use a one line advertisement in their signature. I choose not to, but one line is great.

2. When you join an online community, use the profile and introduction board to tell folks who you are. Do not use this space for an advertisement. Use this space to let folks get to know you. I always let folks know I live in Santa Barbara. I can not tell you how many times I’ve gotten emails from others who have told me they have visited Santa Barbara and just loved it. By simply letting others know where I live, I have formed relationships and made sales. I also use this space to list my hobbies. How can someone make a connection with you if they don’t anything about you? I happen to have two dogs. I almost always let folks know I have dogs. This too has started conversations with strangers. We tend to buy from those we know and if we find something in common with someone, we feel like we know them.

3. Start a blog. A blog allows you talk about any topic you want to talk about. I know many people who have both a personal blog and a business blog. I have very often searched the web for something specific and been taken to someone’s blog entry.

4. Post comments on other peoples blogs. Not all blogs allow you to put your URL. I choose to post comments on blogs that allow me to put my URL. One of my favorite blogs to comment on is whatcanimakewithit.com This blog lists one food ingredient and asks you what can you make with that particular ingredient.

5. Article writing. This is one of my favorite forms of marketing. Every person who reads this particular article will see a link to my website. Some will click, some won’t. Of those who click, some will make a purchase, some won’t. If a publisher sees my article and likes it, he/she will use in their ezine, or on their site. This gives my link even more exposure. I wrote an article almost 10 years ago about passwording children. I still occasionally get emails from moms who tell me that my article has helped them. I wrote this article over 10 years ago. That’s an awful lot of free advertising for my sixty minutes of time to write the article. The more you write the less time an article will take. This article you are reading will take about 30 minutes to write. If you invest 30-60 minutes per day and write one article per day, you’ll have 365 articles online in a year’s time.

Try some of these forms of free advertising and watch both your web hits and your sales go up.

By: Audrey Okaneko

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Internet Marketing: 5 Secrets For Writing And Selling

Internet Marketing: 5 Secrets For Writing And Selling

hank goodness online writing is so different from compositions that we had to do when we were in school! Lucky for us, our reader is not a critical schoolteacher, red pen in hand, grading our work. Instead, our online readers are real people, just like you and me, who want to learn something and get inspired.

Years ago, I practiced at writing "corporate speak." My proposals and reports where carefully crafted to keep out EVERY aspect of my own personality, thoughts, and feelings. I got so good at it I could have been dubbed the "Stepford Writer."

The great thing about writing is that “it's only words!” You can change them. (I love that!) Words give you the power to persuade, influence, and inspire your clients. Word power is an unbeatable way to get prospective clients to hire you, attend your next teleseminar or buy your information product!

So, how do you write from the heart AND sell your message online? The following internet marketing tips were derived from the years that this marketing coach has been doing just that!

Here are five secrets that will get you clicking away at the keyboard in no time at all:

Writing Tip #1: Just write.

If I try and edit as I write, I quickly find myself under the thumb of my inner critic. (After all, we all have one!) Why not send your inner critic on a coffee break? How? Get rid of him by just writing; leave the editing for later. Getting those first words out is the toughest part of writing internet marketing pieces, so just get to it.

Writing Tip #2: What are the emotions you want to evoke (or provoke?)

Before I start writing ANY internet marketing piece (even a simple email announcement for an upcoming teleseminar,) I take a moment to focus on the key emotion that I want to evoke. Is it inspiration? Excitement? A hunger for more? Don't try and rein in your natural energy or personal viewpoint of the topic. Believe me; people go online to read something that is strong, even provocative. If you find yourself saying, "Oh, I can't say that on the internet," then please, say it. It's you, it's authentic, and people want to hear it!

Writing Tip #3: Just say it!

As my Jewish grandmother would say: "Quit trying to be so perfect already!" Whenever I'm stuck, (I can tell I'm stuck when I have re-written the same sentence for the information product three million times,) I call my mom, an incredible writing coach. The one question she always asks me is, "What do you want your cyber audience to know?" After I'm done telling her she follows up with, "So write THAT!"

Writing Tip #4: Keep it conversational.

You know that voice inside your head that is busy chattering all the time? Now is the time to put her to use! Try having a conversation with that voice about the topic you're struggling to put online. Then just type up the conversation. I know this tip sounds a little wacky, but it's what I use to keep my internet marketing fun, upbeat and very personal.

Writing Tip #5: Don't be your own judge.

Just a few weeks ago a business coaching client emailed to me her website home page. "I don't think it's very good but I can't stand looking at it any more. Can you tell me what you think?" It was brilliant. It was strong, crystal clear, and engaging. Unfortunately, she was her own harshest cyber censor. (Like we all are!) Better to be brave and send your internet marketing piece to someone else for feedback. Just be sure that they understand YOU, and your business, so that the feedback you receive is meaningful.

Maybe you love to write, or maybe writing seems daunting to you. Either way, online writing is nothing more than speaking from your heart. Rather than worrying about your cyber writing, spend your energy telling people what you REALLY think. Do it in writing and you'll make a lasting impression that is certain to pull more business from the internet.

By: amitvj2007

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