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5 Simple Search Engine Optimization Tips 2007-04-23 10:17:22 SEO (search engine optimization) is one of the primary goals of any website owner. Once you’ve designed and published your site, you want to get as much traffic to it as possible. More traffic = more sales = a fatter wallet. Outlined below are five simple steps to take to help your site rank higher in the search engine listings.
1. Keyword Optimization
Keyword optimization refers to the process of “tuning” your website so that the words and phrases used on your site, when queried in the search engines, bring in the largest amount of traffic. This one of the most important aspects of optimization as you want to draw in traffic from your target niche, i.e., those seeking out your site’s particular content, products and/or services.
One way to optimize your site with keywords is to place site-specific words into the title of your web document as this will be the first thing someone searching for your content or similar will see. For example, far too often people make the mistake o Read more:Simple
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Don’t Become an Expert Internet Marketer! 2007-04-21 14:03:24 It seems that everyone wants to get their slice of the money to be made on the internet. Problem is though that most people choose the internet marketing niche (if you can really call it that) and then profess to be an expert internet marketer seemingly overnight.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen is someone posting a topic in an online forum with a title such as “Help – How Do I Make Money Online?” when they are promoting an ebook in their signature that supposedly shows you how to make money on the internet. I don’t think I need to point out the irony.
What’s even funnier is another person who complained that their sales page wasn’t working. They’d had over 3,000 visitors and only made 2 sales. I checked it out, and there were 6 spelling / grammar mistakes in the main and sub headlines alone. Turns out they were selling a series of ebooks on how to help your child read and write well which included a series of worksheets designed to help with correct grammar u Read more:Become
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, Internet
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10 Tips to Increase Your Sales Page Conversion Rate 2007-04-21 13:57:28 Is your website getting tons of traffic but little or no sales? If you’re struggling to sell your products online or your sales page isn’t converting as well as you would like, don’t worry, there are things you can do. Here we’ll look at the top 10 things you can do to increase the conversion rate of your sales page in no particular order.
1. Change the headline. The headline is one of the first things people see when they get to your site and undoubtedly the first thing they’ll read. Try and test different headlines, it could increase your conversion rate by 100% - 500% or more. If people are leaving your page because the headline sucks, the rest of the copy and offer doesn’t matter.
2. Hire a professional copyrighter. I know they’re expensive, but they know what they’re doing on levels you probably can’t comprehend, and if your site receives a decent amount of traffic, it’s worth the money – big time.
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What Are the Benefits of Internet Marketing? 2007-04-21 13:51:50 As the internet continues to grow in popularity, more and more people are enjoying the freedom of being on-line. Nearly a billion people today have the ability to get connected, which, ultimately, means more exposure for the product you are trying to market.
With such a prominent tool like the internet and an unlimited and diverse audience, it may seem obvious why so many more businesses are turning to online stores every year. Here, I will share with you some of the secrets of marketing on-line, and how you can produce more revenue with less effort.
Some of the inherent benefits include: (more…) Read more:Internet
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What The Heck Is Web 2.0 – Definition And Explanation 2007-04-21 13:46:50 Everyone’s talking about Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that, but in reality, most people don’t really know what Web 2.0 is. If you ask 10 different people to define it, I’d bet my left shoe that you’ll get 10 different answers.
The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined in 2004 by Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly and refers to the second generation second generation of internet based services.
As defined by O’Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform. Chief among those rules is this: Build applications that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.”
This article may be a little late in its coming, however the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon is exploding like never before and I thought it time to address it.
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50 Tips On Getting More Traffic To Your Website 2007-04-21 13:40:54 The success of any website is dependent on 3 factors.
a) The product it is selling. This could be an electronic product, physical goods, services or even advertising.
b) The amount of traffic it gets.
c) The ability to monetize the traffic,
For a website to be truly successful all three of the considerations mentioned above must be met. A website with targeted traffic is no good if the product it is selling is crap and vice versa. As traffic is so important and probably the things many website owners spend the majority of their time on, here are my 50 top ways to generate traffic to your site:
1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.
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Internet Marketing the Street Smart Way 2007-04-21 13:30:46 There are many approaches people take to marketing on the internet, some work but most don’t and probably never will. There are strategies taught for this and that, but how do you know what works and what doesn’t unless you make a full-hearted go at making it work. That takes time, effort and a hardened dedication which most people don’t have, or won’t give, and therefore fail.
That is where real-world experience, known by some as street smarts comes into play. According to answers.com “street smart” is defined as a “shrewd awareness of how to survive in an often hostile urban environment.
Why “street smart?” Because street smart entails that someone has real world experience and knows how something will play out in real life when put into action. Not how it might work or should work, but how it does actually work. Call if a gut feeling, or an educated guess if you want, but a street smart player will outplay a book smart one every time when it comes to business.
(mo Read more:Internet
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Welcome… 2007-04-21 13:24:13 Hello, and welcome to the new blog for my recently released internet marketing book, Street Smart Internet Marketing. I’ve spent over a year writing, researching and perfecting the information that’s just barely contained in the 300+ pages between the covers, and I’m super excited to share it with you.
from the back cover…
In his new book, Justin Michie reveals a rare compilation of the powerful strategies and techniques used by many of the top internet marketers to make a fortune on the internet.
If you have a product, service or idea that you want to turn into a cash generating system, the internet is full of effective, affordable, low-risk online marketing techniques for small business owners. In a simplified, user friendly format this how-to book will clearly guide you through the complete development of your own unique online marketing strategy.
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Don’t Become an Expert Internet Marketer! 2007-04-21 14:03:24 It seems that everyone wants to get their slice of the money to be made on the internet. Problem is though that most people choose the internet marketing niche (if you can really call it that) and then profess to be an expert internet marketer seemingly overnight.
One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen is someone posting a topic in an online forum with a title such as “Help – How Do I Make Money Online?” when they are promoting an ebook in their signature that supposedly shows you how to make money on the internet. I don’t think I need to point out the irony.
What’s even funnier is another person who complained that their sales page wasn’t working. They’d had over 3,000 visitors and only made 2 sales. I checked it out, and there were 6 spelling / grammar mistakes in the main and sub headlines alone. Turns out they were selling a series of ebooks on how to help your child read and write well which included a series of worksheets designed to help with correct grammar u Read more:Become
, Expert
, Internet
, Marketer
What Are the Benefits of Internet Marketing? 2007-04-21 13:51:50 As the internet continues to grow in popularity, more and more people are enjoying the freedom of being on-line. Nearly a billion people today have the ability to get connected, which, ultimately, means more exposure for the product you are trying to market.
With such a prominent tool like the internet and an unlimited and diverse audience, it may seem obvious why so many more businesses are turning to online stores every year. Here, I will share with you some of the secrets of marketing on-line, and how you can produce more revenue with less effort.
Some of the inherent benefits include: (more…) Read more:Internet
, Benefits
, Marketing
, Internet Marketing
What is Pay Per Lead Marketing? 2007-05-05 12:23:51 Two of the most popular internet marketing have, up to recently, been PPC (pay per click) and PPS (pay per sale) or PPA (pay per action). However, becoming increasingly popular among online marketers, is PPL (pay per lead) marketing.
Pay per lead marketing is an online marketing model in which an advertiser pays for leads instead of paying per sale or per click. The amount paid out per lead is the CPL or cost per lead.
On the PPL model, a lead is considered an actual signup for information about a product or service, or the collection of demographic information from qualified individuals (highly targeted potential customers). Generally, there is no actual monetary transaction involved in obtaining the lead. A lead can consist of as little information as an email address or it can be a more thorough set of data such as the lead’s email address, mailing address, phone number, age, annual household income, etc. Generally the more information which is collected, the more which is paid pe Read more:Marketing
The Benefits of Reciprocal Linking 2007-05-15 10:06:01 There are many benefits of reciprocal linking, however the two most prominent to the are: increased, targeted traffic to your website, and a higher ranking in the search engine results. Both of these are integral aspects of search engine optimization (SEO).
A reciprocal link is, essentially, a link exchange in which two parties agree to swap links for mutual benefit. You find a website that shares similar content to yours (a quality link) and then email the webmaster of this website, offering to post a link to his or her site and asking that they reciprocate with a link back to your site.
Reciprocal
linking is an important strategy in the generation of traffic and in optimization of your search engine ranking. Link exchanges should be sought as early in the developmental and implementation stages of your site as possible so that, when your site is submitted to the search engines for indexing, the links back to your site will be taken into consideration in the initial page ranking algor Read more:Benefits
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10 Must Use WordPress Blog Plugins 2007-06-13 16:39:45 Everyone’s always asking which plugins they should be using for their WordPress blog — what’s best for seo, visitor retention, spam, social bookmarking and so on. While most of my blogs have anywhere from15 – 20 plugins installed depending on what I want it to do and how I want it to look, there are 10 must use plugins that I automatically install on every single one my blogs that anyone else with a blog needs to be using — or they’re seriously missing out on the full potential of WordPress.
What Plugins
Should You Use?
1. Akismet – captures most of the comment spam you receive and has a learning capability when ever you mark a comment as spam.
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Internet Marketing Is Not A Niche! 2007-10-17 15:48:26 One thing that anyone with experience in the phenomenon that is internet marketing, would tell someone who is just starting out it, is to find a profitable niche and start there. What’s a niche and how do you determine if it’s profitable?
A niche is defined as a targeted subset of a larger overall market.
A profitable niche is defined as a subset of the larger market whereas there is a need or a problem that has been relatively unsolved and it’s important enough that people are willing to pay for a solution.
As such, sports is not a niche. Neither is basketball. Wheelchair basketball is, but is there a market for it? Maybe, maybe not – I don’t know and it’s something you’d need to research.
One problem far too many people make online is that they want to market to marketers. Big mistake.
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A Quick Tip To Save Money On Your Taxes 2008-02-22 04:08:08 Let me preface this by saying that I’m not an accountant and can’t guarantee this will work for you as tax laws are different all over the place.
Before taking any sort of action, I would recommend talking to someone who actually knows what they’re talking about and has a recognized certification of some kind [...] Read more:Money
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How To Get Traffic To A New Website 2008-01-04 19:22:54 One problem many thing new internet marketers are looking to find a solution for is how to get traffic to their newly created website.
When you’re experienced in IM and been around the block like many big internet marketers, all you need to do is send out an email to your list, ask a few of [...]
What’s The Best Way To Build Your List? 2008-05-05 13:57:44 That’s a question that I get asked all the time. While there can be many different answers, in this post I’m going to share the method I use that I find works best.
Some people might argue that email JV’s are the best way to build your list. They might be one of the fastest, but [...] Read more:Build
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