Properly using SEO to optimize your site can be a frustrating, time-consuming process. However, if you want your site or business to take flight, learning the SEO ropes is essential to your success. One technique that is often overlooked is directory articles. Most people focus on building their site, optimizing it using keywords, META tags [...]
December 4, 2005 – 11:32 pm
If you are considering launching a website for your business or entering the lucrative world of e-commerce by starting an online business, there are a few things you need to keep in mind in order to assure your web site’s success. Without taking the time to understand how the Internet and search engines work you [...]
How many years did you register your domain name for?
If it was only one then Google could hold that against you.
Why?
Because the majority of Spam websites only register a domain name for one year. A domain name registered for a longer period implies that the owner is more likely to be legitimate and serious about [...]
August 24, 2004 – 12:15 pm
9/10 times your web site visitors won’t stay for more than 15 seconds. This is how you get them to stay, or should I say, get them to come back!
Don’t make the mistake of ignoring website promotion. Every website is selling something, be it a product or a service, or maybe simply trust or a brand. This means you need visitors; the more targeted, the better. Simply creating a great site isn’t enough, although it’s an excellent first step. You need to be out [...]
What is web hosting? Whenever you visit a website, what you see on your web browser is essentially just a web page that is downloaded from the web server onto your web browser. In general, a web site is made up of many web pages. And a web page is basically composed of texts and [...]
Most people feel that optimizing is to target the search engines alone. In my opinion, this is not the only case. Optimization requires a balance of traffic enhancements and a user friendly atmosphere that provides clear navigation. Most will agree it would be much better to have people accept offerings from a Site, rather than [...]
In order for your online business to succeed you must get targeted traffic to your website. No matter what product or service you are selling, if you don’t make sales you won’t be in business for very long!
Every business needs to know how it is doing. That’s the idea behind exit surveys, customer feedback forms, suggestion boxes and other devices. Without feedback from the customer, monitoring inventory, expenses, revenue and other benchmarks, a business can take a quick slide down a slippery slope, without the owner ever seeing it coming – or [...]
What is SPAM? Why so many people hate it and yet so many people do it? SPAM is actually known as Unsolicited Commercial Email, it’s just like the junk postal mails you receive everyday in your mailbox. The only difference is that sending junk mails online costs almost nothing and it can reach the recipients [...]
February 25, 2004 – 10:57 am
In this article I will show affiliate managers the mistakes
they should avoid if they want to build a successful affiliate
[...]
October 31, 2003 – 10:25 am
Mark sits at his desk with his eyes closed, pen in hand,
apparently deep in thought. Or is he dozing? Actually, he’s
about to take a crucial first step in winning a new account.
Holly is on her way to see a potential client when a flash
of insight radically changes her strategy for the meeting.
An hour later she [...]
October 31, 2003 – 9:48 am
If you are like me, you receive a daily onslaught of email and invariably you will receive such email from “so-called Search Engine Optimization services”, making claims to “guarantee” you top placement in some or even all of the major SE’s.
Information taken from Google’s SEO guidelines:
Be wary of SEO firms that send you email out [...]
October 17, 2003 – 10:31 am
Jamaica.And it is crunch time for online marketers.This country
is a hell of a place to be in if you are an online marketer.Even
having access to the Internet is beyond most of us.
Living in a “Third World” country is very challenging for an
online marketer.Survival is the order of the day for a lot of
us.There are some [...]
October 17, 2003 – 10:17 am
Anyone with an online business, whether for auctions,
services, or virtually any type of product, has asked the
same question at some time during their quest to create
the ultimate online business - “How do I accept credit
cards?”
October 16, 2003 – 12:07 pm
If you are one of the 98.6% of affiliate members that
never make one cent from affiliate sales or make small
$5.00, $10.00 commissions, then this article is for
you. Even if you are making nice checks, this will
interest you.
You really can start to make affiliate sales in 15
minutes with Google Adwords. [...]
September 12, 2003 – 10:29 am
How does a online marketer gets his site to rank high in the
search engines ? That’s a question alot of marketers ask
themselves everyday.Online marketing is successful when tackled
from several angles.You may be asking yourselves , what are some
of these strategies that I can use ? Well here are some that have
been proven to work [...]
September 12, 2003 – 10:25 am
Many businesses stimulate their market round the clock. Whether sales literature, web sites or advertising, prospects are reached frequently overnight and on weekends.
What do you do when your customer is ready to buy and your doors have closed for the day?
Have you experienced a situation when you’ve called after hours and get an answering machine [...]
August 16, 2003 – 10:13 pm
After achieving both success and failure in marketing, it became evident to me that best results are produced when marketing is developed and implemented strategically and at the same time integrates all key marketing areas.
For strategic marketing to work, all of its elements must work as well. The failure of just one element might result [...]
August 16, 2003 – 10:11 pm
1. Invite your visitors to add their articles, ebooks,
affiliate programs or resources and make your site into a valuable directory.
2. Keep your site regularly updated with useful content including your own articles.
3. Create a mailing list that tells your visitors when your site has been updated with more resources, articles, or ebooks.
4. Provide polls [...]