Thursday, April 30, 2009

Bum Marketing - Powered by You Not Google

By Steve Wood Full time Affiliate Bum Marketer.

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Bum marketing is a poor mans way to wealth, not over night, only time its self can make that happen and hard work of cause. Its free to do and what you earn is yours no splitting your money between different companies for their advertising services or paying out for web sits and hosting. It just takes a little time to learn if you go it alone.

Anyone can do it, dont matter what part of the world you live in so long as you can write articles, Write a thousand articles on one product or subject that promotes a product and sit back and wait for your money to come in, Dont want to wait 3 months minimum for your articles to make their rounds in cyberspace.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

eCommerce SEO Tips

By Brent Sweet

According to Nielsen net ratings, every month, about half of all search engine queries are unique. This statistic, although vague and seemingly insignificant, is actually the greatest factor behind why eCommerce Soltuions fare so well in search. We interpret the statistic like this: Half of all searches cannot be predicted, the other half can be. Great. So what does that have to do with eCommerce?

The reason why eCommerce and SEO are better for each other than Forrest was for Jenny is due to the massive amount of content contained within the average eCommerce solution and that content's ability to target both predictable and unpredictable (long-tail) search phrases. eCommerce solutions have a major advantage over any other database driven site for a number of reasons.

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Abundant Content: Unlike a blog, article directory or content managed site, thousands of search engine friendly pages can be literally uploed and indexed by the search engines.

Easy Unique Content: A product or category page needs a few tech specs and a brief description. As long as that content is unique to the site, a webmaster can litter the search engines with products and categories. The time it would take for a blog or content managed site to reach that same level using unique content is staggering.

Targeting the Predictable & Unpredictable: Category pages can be targeted for predictable searches like "red widgets." Product pages can capture the unpredictable ones like "red widgets with tassels"(provided they contain keyword-rich descriptions). So how can you make the most of your eCommerce solution in the search engines? As promised here is a list of 25 general tips. Most Importantly:

Pick the right solution: Get an eCommerce provider that allows you to do everything we mention in this list. And hey, what do you know? Bridgeline's eCommerce Solution lets you do all of this... Crazy how that works out, no?

Onsite eCommerce Optimization Tips

Unique title tags: The content contained within should not be repeated verbatim within the site.

Put your site name after the product or category name in the title tag: Use your site to Brand, use your search engine listing to get clicks.

Unique meta data: Take the time to make your meta data (description & keywords) unique for each page. Obviously, that can be tricky if you have 10,000 skus, so try and get your developer to populate that area with the product description.

Use H1 tags: And put your keywords in them. Go to your source. Search for '

Use more than manufacturer data: If your product pages only contain the specs and descriptions that your manufacturer provides, the search engines will lump that product page together with the hundreds of other ones out there with the same specs and descriptions, meaning it won't find its way into the search engine result pages (SERPS).

Take the time to add unique copy to your product and category pages

Link to other products and categories from that copy

Use alt tags: I know. I heard too. They're useless. Use them anyway. SEO is about a conglomeration of variables, not a single supreme one.

Have a clear category tree: Search engines like that.

Use a search engine friendly navigation: Text links are best. Don't like text and want to use images? Make sure you use alt tags. Using flash or doing postbacks? Stop that!

Create an XML based sitemap and put it in Google webmaster tools

Offsite eCommerce Optimization (Link Building) Tips

Link building is incredibly difficult for eCommerce sites because no one wants to link to your drop shipping site when they can link to the real thing or Target.com. Here is what you need to know:

Build domain authority: Domain authority is basically a measure of the number of high quality sites linking to yours. The more the better. So how do you get those?

Buy them: The quickest, easiest way to get Domain authority is to buy it at Text-Link-Ads.com. Unfortunately, it ain't cheap.

Take your nique products and promote them in the online community: Get out into the online community, target some top bloggers in or around your industry and try to get them talking about your unique product. Again, this doesn't really work for drop shippers because no one is going to link to your site when there are more reputable ones out there to link to so...

Put Something On Your site worth linking to: Compile a great list of resources, make how-to videos, develop a calculator, or other custom tool. If your products aren't unique and link-friendly, you'll need some site content that is.

Submit to directories: If you go to the forums they'll tell you to submit to hundreds or thousands of directories. Don't. Those are not high quality links, they don't transmit domain authority, and they'll only waste your time... What you need to do is find lists that bloggers or independent webmasters have made. If you must, submit to the directories, but be certain they are specific to your industry.

Submit articles: Again, the forums will tell you to submit as many articles as humanly possible. What I'm telling you is this:

o Write 3-5 quality articles on topics that people are talking about in your industry (like what I'm doing here).

o Submit the articles to a bunch of article directories.

o Link to those articles from your homepage.

o Link to your homepage from those articles

o Link Sculpt: Place a nofollow tag on any link that doesn't point back to your homepage.

o Go to relevant blogs and forums where topics pertaining to those articles are being discussed, and drop links back to them.

Link exchanges: Despite popular opinion, still work... just don't go overboard.

Deep link: Meaning, repeat 1-6 for your major categories.

Buy blog reviews: Go to sponsoredreviews.com or payperpost.com and buy some reviews from RELEVANT bloggers and point them back at your category or product pages. You'll see a boost. It won't last forever, but it will leave you in better standing than you were in to begin.

Answer questions on forums: And link back to your site in the signature

Outsource to India: There are plenty of Indians looking to make a buck on forums like Digital Point. They'll generally do everything that I just mentioned from 1-10 and they'll do it for cheap

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Adsense Keywords

By Peter Roberts

I don't recommend the process of chasing the keywords with Adsense and thinking that creating a site around these high paying keywords will result in high Adsense earnings.

Often, only end up disappointed - as were hundreds of publishers and has created a site on the famous "M" or the word "mesothelioma" - when it was reported that AdWords advertisers are paying $ 110 + per a click for this keyword. Therefore, websites that focus on the keyword M appeared outside the Web.

And what was the comment of AdSense publishers hoping to cash in with this high paying keywords? That can not even get more than $ 1 per click for the keyword - definitely not the $ 110 or even $ 50 per click keyword they were waiting.

Why? Because Google is smart and can smell those who seek to profit from these so called high paying keywords to a mile away. On the one hand, smartpricing - the big unknown in Adsense. Nobody knows how it really works. However, it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $ 0.50/click - but its site is smartpriced - then the cost may be lower discount rates (eg $ 0.25). So you can try to develop a site based on high paying keywords smartpricing but when it reaches you, then you can not get as much per click as what is expected of your keywords.

To have success with Adsense, you will require to have a website with the right topic, the right audience, the right traffic. It is important to offer value to visitors, otherwise you can't get decent traffic to the site.

So what is the right topic:

- Track which attracts a lot of advertisers - Advertisers are competing hard to reach this audience - Public respond to ads - The public is looking for ways to spend money - His knowledge and interest in creating content for this topic

Ghosts/horror writers are not going to earn well in Adsense because advertisers are not competing to tap this audience ,few advertisers mean cheap keywords. The audience is also not looking for ways to spend money, just to be entertained.

Compare that to a camcorder review site. The audience this site attracts are those who are looking to buy a camcorder. They read the reviews from the site, and they see the ads where the camera can be purchased.

The rule is: whenever there is money to be spent, then that's the best keyword for Adsense

Of course, having a good topic is useless if you can not even write anything decent on the subject.

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Monday, April 27, 2009

The Priorities For Determining A Blogging Platform

By Mike Taylor

One of the most significant choices you will make as a blogger is deciding what kind of blogging program to utilize. The right program can make blogging easy, and the wrong platform can make blogging a chore. The experience you have while blogging is dependent on which program you use.

Knowing what is happening, spending time with this will be worth it for the fact a nice platform gives you good balance between a interface and a adaptable framework which will make your blog look great and feel special. Finding the right platform isn't always simple, but with a little bit of contemplation and a little bit of study, you will be on your way to finding the perfect blogging platform.

Deciding what your priorities are in terms of ease of use versus customization. Forms of blogging such as moveable types, are a little difficult to use than automated platforms, such as wordpress. If you are new to blogs and to web technology, you might want to sacrifice the ability to create a custom background design or to incorporate a particular font into your template in order to discover a program that will be easy for you to use. But if you are a very experience web designer who knows a lot concerning HTML and java, you'll probably be frustrated with traditional user-friendly platforms.

All bloggers have different needs, so there is nothing known as the best blogging platform. Because the blogging movement is focused on self-expression, it's natural that there are a lot of different platforms out there. They are all designed to satisfy the needs of many sorts of people with different project requirements. This diversity is a good thing, because it means that you will almost be able to find a program that suits your level of technical ability.

Having different choices for a blogger can lead to the right program. When you are reading reviews of different platforms, attempt to keep your priorities in mind and do your best to take into account the position that the reviewer is coming from. Beginners bloggers have tendencies to write in limited platforms. Which platform is ideal for you will depend on what your exact goals are.

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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Learn How To Generate Traffic

By Darren Olander

You need to be able to generate traffic to your website, otherwise how do you expect to be able to sell your product or service? We discuss some ideas for you to generate traffic.

At first you need submit articles to Ezinearticles - if they are written well, and researched well, they rank high in Google, for that particular search term. And placing anchor text in that article's footer induces the reader to visit the website - this in turn helps you generate traffic. Ensure your participation in Yahoo! Answers and Linked In Answers, you can show your expertise, and make your name a trusted name in your niche. This will also help you generate traffic.

Remember to participate in forums; this will help you get loyal readers. Add your link to your signature, add it to all your offline content (like letterheads, pamphlets, envelopes, etc.), and if you post great quality advice and tips, you will be able to generate traffic of a decent nature. Participate in group-writing projects, find the best blogs in your niche, and contact the authors. Tell them who you are, and send them a link of their blog. This will help to generate traffic; they might even link to it.

While trying to generate traffic, you must realize that it can't happen overnight. No way. Fast solutions usually don't work, you need time to prepare. You need to take the time, and make the effort to be able to generate traffic to your site, and you know what else? You have to be smart about it. Make a plan, and follow it. Don't walk away the second you feel frustrated, or if you feel like you aren't reaping any benefits. Like everything else, this too, being able to generate traffic, too, takes time.

Write articles, ones with eye-catching headlines that are informative. Give people what they are looking for. Exchange links with other websites, keep it relevant and simple, this will also help you generate traffic. Ensure your participation on forums and other blogs, exchange you're URL, and make yourself publicly accessible. Staying aloof never did anybody any good. Also, a good tip to generate traffic on your website is to have the option "Tell A Friend" - this is a simple function that will allow your visitors to send the link to their friends or associates. Great publicity!

Also, trying Pod casting is a must. The number of people using Pod casting is much, much higher than it was a very few years ago. It's a great way to control your message, and bring it to your target audience quite quickly. You must try blogging too - this gives your target audience a face to put behind your product. There are popular blogging services like Technorati that can deliver high traffic. Also, don't forget to actively comment on other blogs related to your business.

To generate traffic, let your audience see videos - this makes you much more accessible, sells the product or service that much faster, and you know what else? There's a sense of interaction. For example, YouTube, which is a video community, is a huge source of traffic. Try to submit your website to a few web directories - you'll get back links from them - this technique works!

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SEO Efficient Solutions

By Brent Sweet

Search engine optimization is considered by many the most efficient way to attract more visitors onto a website. The two major things that affect the rank of a website in the search engines are : the grade of relevancy of the content to a given search and also the number and quality of incoming links , in other words, the links from other web pages to your web page.

One of the best solution that SEO ( search engine optimization ) has to offer is article marketing. With this you provide your own articles to websites, ezines, blogs and many more for free. In return to this you will have the possibility to include a short bio and also links back to your site. Article marketing has proved its efficiency in the last few years due to the fact that by doing this, the traffic will certainly increase not to mention that the search engine rank will go up.

When it comes down to tips on how to write an article, there are several things a writer should consider; one of these things is that a good article has to be focused and easy to understand without complex sentences and phrases that can confuse the reader. A big mistake lots of writers do is that they write self-promotional articles where they promote products or all sorts of things; these types of articles are most likely to be refused by reviewers. The only place where a writer can promote a product or something else is in the author box where he has the possibility to add a link to a certain web page. Links in the body or summary are not permitted; also in the title, you mustn't have names of brands, firms, abbreviations and other similar things.

Although it is obvious, a spell check is in order every time you write an article. The best way to do it is to send the article to a couple of friends or relatives and see if they spot some grammatical mistakes. Articles with such problems are usually refused or if by any chance they are published their chances for success are minimal due to the lack of professionalism.

The most important part of the article is the resource box. This is the place where all the money comes from. It is advisable to keep things simple and clear in order to get the expected results. Many writers have the tendency to include lots of links in the resource box. By doing this, they usually decrease their chances for success because most publishers don't accept such articles. An efficient author box must include the following: name, business and last but not least a wisely thought description of the services provided.

Unlike other methods of marketing, this form of promotion has the advantage of being cost-effective and also you don't need help from a web developer, not to mention that you don't need to know HTML or other similar codes. All you need to do is follow the mentioned rules and write a well-thought article without falling in the trap of including lots of links.

All in all, article marketing is a cheap method for increasing the page rank of a web site, an ideal solution for traffic generation; all this by doing something rather easy without having to know complex internet promotion techniques.

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Know A Confidential Traffic Secret

By Hass67

Internet marketing success depends on learning how to generate a lot of traffic to your website. Without massive traffic, you wont make any money. You need a lot of visitors to your site to make a few sales.

Many people fail to understand this basic stuff. Traffic is the lifeblood of internet marketing. There are many ways to get traffic to your site.

One way is to pay for it. If you have heavy pockets, you can always pay to get traffic. But day by day, online marketing is getting competitive. There are big players involved in it. You cant compete against them.

Over time, if your passion for internet marketing survives, you will learn that there is no substitute for free traffic. How do you get lot of targeted traffic free? By getting your website ranked on the search engines.

So you will have to learn search engine optimization (SEO). So again you will be competing with big players.

There is a sort of entry barrier for newbies in internet marketing. Nobody will ever tell you that it is almost impossible to get your new website ranked high on Google. Google takes the age of a website into account before it starts giving the site importance.

Google does not want a few page sites on its search engine result pages. Google likes authority sites on a particular niche! Your website should have hundreds of optimized pages and thousands of backlinks before Google will rank it on its search pages.

Again stuck! Dont know what to do? Cant compete with big players who have years of experience doing this! How about using these same authority sites to get traffic for your site?

How? I give you an example, EzineArticles is considered to be an authority site by Google. Submit good articles on it. You will get targeted traffic to your site as well as quality backlinks that counts with Google.

There are many article directories, forums, blogs, social bookmarking sites that can give you lot of traffic and quality backlinks. Use them to generate traffic for your site.

You focus on learning how to generate free traffic for your site in the beginning. If you can learn this trick, you are on your way to your long term success in internet marketing.

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