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How To Increase Your Web Site Traffic Starting Now

07 2008 Monday

By Elke Houghton in Featured

Online Home Business, Internet, Profit, and Residual Income. To successfully merge these words you will need another word: Traffic. Every article out there about making your site or product successful has to do with the crucial importance of generating traffic. We all are aware, that when it comes down to it all, traffic is the most essential thing for a successful online business. Once you have a great product to sell and everything is set up for success, itâ€^TMs time to generate traffic.

Once you have a site and you are not getting the traffic you are supposed to have, itâ€^TMs time to reconsider. You need to be determined to make it in this very competitive business. You have to always be a step ahead of your competition. Increasing your traffic is the most crucial thing to do after your product is launched and everything is set up to go.

Timing is essential, especially with traffic generation. You should always be ahead. Never tell yourself that you can start tomorrow. Start right now and go step-by-step from launching a product, setting up your web site and then continue all the way to optimize your site for traffic.

Apply the ideas below to increase your traffic by starting right now and you will be well on your way to a successful and profitable online business.

1)Generate traffic with search engine advertising.

Google Adwords and Yahoo Overture are very popular advertising systems that generate optimal traffic. The drawback is, that it can add up to become quite costly. Still it is money well spent. Adwords and Overture are the top traffic generating tools available on the Internet today.

These search engine advertising methods have made some awesome profits for many Internet entrepreneurs. Countless webmasters feature these advertising systems on their sites and many have realized the benefits by signing up and subsequently enjoy the wealth it can produce. Donâ€^TMt miss out on it. Use it wisely and you may not have to spend a lot of money.

2)Use Link Exchange.

By exchanging links with other sites, each of you will benefit from the efforts of enhancing the traffic of your sites. If you put a link from another site on yours, you could also provide each other with the traffic each site generates. These efforts can double your benefits. The more links you exchange with other sites the more traffic can be generated.

3)Viral Marketing.

Viral marketing helps you spread the word about your product or online business without any or very low expenses. This is an absolutely powerful marketing method. By writing articles or small reports you can add a resource box with your name and product promotion. Forums are a fantastic way to promote your site by adding some useful ideas to the discussions. Starting your own blog and add a lot of articles with sought after information can bring you tremendous traffic.

4)Use search engine friendly keywords or keyword phrases for your site.

Search engines are looking for keywords that they can show in their results pages. By using search engine friendly keywords and phrases you can rank high in the search engine results. You can write your own keyword content or hire someone to do it for you. There are good and inexpensive services to choose from.

5)Writing Articles will lead traffic to your site.

Submit articles to article directories for free traffic and profits. It is the most profitable Internet marketing strategy of all, and it will generating loads of traffic over time. Submit at least four articles per month. By submitting to directories, your articles will be published in other peopleâ€^TMs blogs, websites and email newsletters as well as ezines for free. If you think you canâ€^TMt write hire a ghostwriter. But by all means start submitting articles. With each submission you have a resource box where you can promote your product and web site for maximum exposure, which will generate huge traffic and profits.

6)Join forums.

Add comments in forums of your product market and earn credibility by showing your expertise. At the end of each comment you can add your signature line which should have your name and website in it. The more forums you join with useful comments and your signature line added, the more targeted traffic you will generate. You will build trust and people will start to notice that you can provide what they need, which in return will quickly turn out to be very profitable for you.

7)Publish your own newsletters.

By having your own newsletter people will appreciate your expertise and become loyal readers. They will start sharing your newsletter with others. This will generate loyal traffic to your web site and again generate traffic by recommendation. Keep your subscribers interested by maintaining their curiosity and it will generate huge traffic and build you a high targeted email list as well.

You can see, that generating traffic isnâ€^TMt that hard. It only asks for some effort and if you stay focused and put in the effort necessary, traffic will come to your site and huge profits will follow.

Elke Houghton is an affiliate marketer and writes articles on a variety of subjects. To learn more about how to launch 6 automated income streams in just 24 hours - the step-by-step program to online wealth and to apply article marketing to this program http://www.explosiveincomebuilder.com

Search Engine Optimization Secrets Of A #1 Google Ranking

07 2008 Monday

By Willie Crawford in Featured

It doesn’t matter how great your product is, what a bargain your price is, or how beautiful your website is - Without traffic none of that matters.

So at its most basic, the biggest determinant of your web businesses success is “getting eyeballs looking at your webpages.”

When looking at where the traffic comes from, it begins with others linking (or pointing the way) to your site. Since most people automatically turn to the search engines when looking for something online, that naturally tells me that the most important links that you can easily get are probably from the search engines.

Since Google is currently the search engine getting the most use online, and therefore the one that generates the most traffic, that also means that you need to focus on getting a front page, or ideally a number 1 listing, at Google.

However, your search engine optimization efforts should involve structuring your site, and your other search engine magnets, so that it bring in BUYERS from Google.

At its most basic, and simplest, getting a number 1 ranking at Google that leads to an endless stream of sales boils down to three parts. They are:

1) Targeting The Correct Keywords

2) Optimizing A Page For Those Keywords

3) Getting Links From Sites That Google Loves

Let’s look at each of these.

First, you absolutely have to target the correct keyword. Your webpages and everything that you do needs to incorporate the keywords that your buying customers are actually typing into the search engines.

You don’t want to target the phrase digital camera, or printer cartridge. Instead you want to target a specific model of digital camera or printer cartridge, and you may even want to target people in a specific location looking for a specific model of printer cartridge.

That kind of targeting means that the people who find you are searching for something very specific, and when they find you by typing in that very specific search term, they click through and buy.

Next, you need to optimize your webpages for those keyword phrases. That generally means that you need the target keyword phrases sprinkled throughout your webpages. It also means that you want to use your target keyword phrases in your title and description “metatags.” You also want to include your keyword phrases in anchor text on your webpages (the blue underlined text in hyperlinks).

You basically want to include your keyword phrases in all of the parts of your webpages that tells the search engines what your webpage is about. This includes places such as italicized or bolded text, your menu items, and even alt image tags.

Finally, you need to get sites that Google thinks are important to link to you. Ideally, these sites include your keyword phrases in the anchor text when they link to you.

Many who study search engine optimization full-time are convinced that the external links pointing to your website are THE part that makes the biggest difference in most cases.

Having an authority site link to you is like having a respected authority in your community give you an endorsement. They are telling the search engines, and the rest of the world, that they recommend you. By using your keywords in the anchor text, authority sites are also telling Google (and other less important search engines) that that is what they consider your site to be about.

This factor is so powerful that I have personally often gotten a number 1 position on Google for my most important keywords by just tapping into one free website optimization tool… one authority site! In fact, I recently did an interview with David Preston, an expert at teaching offline businesses to tap into the web in ways that most of their competitors never even dreamed of. In the interview with David, we discussed in-depth, how I easily get free front-page listings at Google in a day, and how I often get #1 listing for my ideal keywords in just hours. You can get the MP3 audio of the interview that I did with David at: http://WebsiteSearchEngineOptimizationSecrets.com

I mention David and that interview because he taught me another CRITICAL part of effective search engine optimization. He taught

me how to focus my efforts on the buyers with lots of money to spend… customers who have already budgeted that money for what I have to offer.

So there you have my very simple three-part search engine optimization formula for getting a free number one ranking in Google in as little as a few hours. That fourth part, focusing on the buyers actively looking to spend money is a bonus

Willie Crawford is an Internet marketer with over 12 years of experience at generating massive website traffic, and sales using viral marketing techniques. One of his favorite traffic generation tools is rebrandable PDF’s which he creates using the software at: http://ViralDocumentToolkits.com

Turn A Phrase To Turn A Head

07 2008 Monday

By John Clark in Featured

There in front of me sat the unusual “tip” jar, with a twist. I stood at the new coffee shop in town ordering the usual concoction to quench my caffeine craving when I noticed the sign on the jar. The sassy and delightful gal named Nadean went to fix my brew and there was, left to consider the tip offer. Instead of the usual jar for leaving tips that you see in nearly every coffee joint from Starbucks to the local hang outs, there sat this jar with an offer facing me. Instead of the of the everyday sign with “Tips” printed on it, this one said, “Tips Make You Sexy!”. I nearly laughed out loud.Of course I had no newly found delusions that my key to renewing my sexiness hinged on whether I threw a buck in the pot or not. Still, I liked it. It turned my head, made me notice it. It was also a quick lesson in great marketing that is so often forgotten. Sticking the unexpected in places where the expected is, well… expected.