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How To Keep Your Website Visitors Coming Back For More

By Jimmie Leonguerrero in Featured

Driving great quality traffic to your website can be a pretty tough task, but getting those visitors to come back is even tougher. The worse thing you can do is let your visitors come and go without attempting to intervene. What are the odds of them returning? Not very good at all. That’s where opt-in lists can be a big help and make a huge impact on your sales.

For those of you who don’t know, an opt-in list is a collection of emails that have been obtained by permission. Unlike spammers, you have the consent of these people to send them offers, messages and information relating to your Internet marketing business. Because they opted in, they also have the ability to unsubscribe to your list at any time.

You’ve undoubtedly heard of how important list building is in the world of online marketing, and there’s very good reason for it. It’s been said that it takes a potential customer an average of 7 times to see something before they make a purchase on the Internet. The best way to capitalize on this is through your list. By sending several well-written promotional messages over a period of time, you build their trust in you and increase the chances of making a lot more sales.

As your valuable list increases into the hundreds or thousands, you’re developing an extremely powerful resource that you can tap into every time you want to promote something new. You have already gained their trust and selling to them is a lot easier than selling to anyone else. Can you imagine having the ability to exclusively broadcast to your own email list of thousands at anytime? It’s a pretty big advantage that can really boost your income online.

Creating an opt-in list isn’t a difficult thing to do. There are many websites offering tutorials on how to do it step by step. You can even invest in an autoresponder which you will eventually realize to be a necessary tool as your Internet business grows. Autoresponders make it easier to capture emails and are a great way to manage your list especially when it becomes to large and complicated to handle by yourself.

Once you’ve got your website setup to build your list, you need to offer some sort of an incentive for them to sign up. People aren’t just going to hand over their email addresses to you. Most marketers online offer free Ebooks, newsletters or any type of valuable and useful information in exchange for visitor’s contact info.

It’s important to continually build and maintain the trust of the people on your list. Don’t jeopardize that by selling their emails to anyone and resist contacting them too much as all of this can be seen as spamming. There’s nothing that will shrink your list faster than being accused of practicing spam. Developing a trusting relationship with your subscribers is key to maximizing your income with them.

If you’re not attempting to capture emails on your website, you are letting money flow rapidly down the drain. An opt-in list allows you to build a relationship with your visitors over a period of time. That’s extremely hard to do with a website alone, especially when you only have one chance to impress your visitors enough to return again. A nicely maintained opt-in list has the potential to generate a substantial portion of your income online.

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Jimmie Leonguerrero – Creating an opt-in list for your website is one of several vital tools necessary for success in today’s Internet marketing world. Visit www.LegitimateCashFlow.com now to discover more powerful resources to help build your legitimate home based business.

How To Use The Q.S.E. Process To Create And Sell High Priced Programs

By Glenn Dietzel in Featured

How would you like to be able to increase each and every sale by a factor of 10 times to 100 times? As a leader in the field of creating high end programs, an important key is to strategically position yourself among your ideal clients as their only option.

The Q.S.E. Process is an important method to ensure that you are drawing your ideal clients to you. First know, that there are only two ways to compete in the market place: price or value. A friend and client of mine found out the hard way that not competing on price requires some strategic thinking.

Write Articles Faster with this 5 Step Article Writing Process

By Steve Shaw in Featured

If you’re doing article marketing for any length of time you’ll find that you’re doing a lot of writing, writing, and more writing!

After a while you start to wonder, “Is there an easier, faster way to write articles?” I think there is.

The goal is to write an article of excellent quality with minimal time and effort. Coming up with a standard writing process that you’ll use each time is very helpful at side railing procrastination and jump starting the writing process.

Here’s an effective writing method that I use that will help you write articles more efficiently:

1) What will your article be about?

I encourage you to think about writing articles that teach your target market something. The free reprint articles used in article marketing are educational articles (rather than sales pitches).

So, when you’re trying to think of an article topic, think in terms of teaching. ‘How to’ articles are great, and so are ‘Top Tips’ articles.

You might ask yourself, “What are the top 10 questions that customers frequently ask me?”

Or, “What are the top 10 areas of misunderstanding or problems that customers ask me about?”

From there, you’ll likely be able to pick out an area that should be covered in an article. If you’ve come up with 10 ideas, then each idea can become a separate article.

2) Make your notes.

After you’ve determined your topic, start writing notes on the points you’ll cover in your article.

These are just quick, brief notes–no need to try to craft an amazing sentence or paragraph (you’ll be doing that later).

What are the points you need to cover?

How many points do you have?

Is this topic generating too many valuable points to cover in the space of one article?

If so, you can always save some of the points for another article.

Note: If you do create 2 or more articles out of this same topic, please resist the urge to title your articles Part 1 and Part 2. Each article needs to be able to stand on its own, as a reader won’t necessarily be seeing all of your articles–they may be seeing just one of your articles. So, you shouldn’t mention Part 1, etc or say in your article body “This is Part 1 of my 3 part series”. Just treat each article as if it were your only article, so that it makes sense even if a reader stumbles across just that article.

3) Organize the order of your article.

After you’ve got all the major points you’d like to cover jotted down in note form, it’s time to get them in order.

If you’re doing a Top Tips article, then you might try the strategy of including 2 of your strongest tips as the first two items in your list, and one other of your strongest tips as your final item in your list. This is a little trick for leading readers through you article–by starting off strong you lure them into the body of your article. By finishing strong you lure them into reading your resource box (and leave them with a positive impression).

4) Create a rough draft.

After you’ve got your list of the points you’d like to cover and all the points arranged in the proper order–write!

Don’t over think things. This is your first draft, and you’ll have time later to polish things up. Right now you’re fleshing out your content and seeing how much valuable information you can provide in the limited word count of the article.

I always shoot for a 700-800 word article because articles of that size are most attractive to ezine publishers. That’s also long enough for a decent amount of information to be conveyed.

After your first draft is complete, take a word count and make adjustments as necessary.

5) Step away from your article.

Yes, that’s right–I know you’re eager to submit it, but patience has it’s rewards.

Put the article away for at least 24 hours and then read it over with fresh eyes. By giving your mind a break from the article, you’re better able to see any errors or awkward phrasing.

Make your edits, and then you’re ready to submit!

It may sound like extra work to do all this pre-arranging, but believe me it cuts down on the overall writing and editing time. This is how professional writers work–why not learn from the pros? By following a writing process such as this one, you’ll save yourself time, and you’ll produce quality articles more quickly.

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In addition to using a writing process to craft your articles, you can save even more time by using a high quality article submission service like SubmitYOURArticle.com. Steve Shaw created the web’s first ever 100% automated article submission service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, which distributes your articles to hundreds of targeted publishers with the click of a button. For more information go to=>
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4 Reasons Why Most Internet Marketers Fail Miserably

By Willie Crawford in Featured

An often-quoted statistic is that that 95% of all Internet businesses fail. The reality is that the vast majority of businesses in the offline world fail too, so the picture is not bleaker online. In-fact, it’s better online since most aspiring Internet marketers could never even find sufficient capital to start a business in the offline world.
The sad part is that many of these failing online businesses fail for readily identifiable reasons. Often the business owners are even aware of the reasons but do nothing about them.

Let’s look very briefly at four of these reasons:

1) Selling The Wrong Products
Once you have identified a profitable niche, one in which customers happily spend money to solve their problems, then the next step is to identify what is it that they really, really want.

If you offer your customers what they tell you that they want, and what they are already buying, then they will buy it from you.

If you try to convince your customers that they want something that they’ve already told you that they DON’T want, then you’ll soon be out of business.

Many failing marketers simply need to drop “a loser,” and start marketing something that is WANTED!

2) Trying To Do Everything Yourself
In “Think And Grow Rich,” Napoleon Hill taught nearly a century ago that “specialized knowledge” is a success essential. You need to find one or two things that you do really well, and that people are willing to pay for, and then you need to do only those things.

Everything else involved in operating your business should be done by someone better at doing those tasks.

The disconnect we run into there is that, as a business owner, your job is to grow and manage the business. So what if that’s not what you’re good at? Then you may need to find a way to market whatever it is that you ARE good at. You may also need to hire a business or operations manager!

In a recent mastermind call with Rich Schefren, where he interviewed a dozen top Internet marketers, most earning over $1 million a year online, we all shared that our greatest business growth started when we stopped trying to do everything ourselves.

If you’re still trying to do all of your own programming, copywriting, graphics, customer service, database management, script installations, article writing, video creation, traffic generation, product creation, audio/video editing, pay-per-click management, etc., then you are so bogged down in the minutiae of “working in your business” that it’s impossible for you to even identify which things are essential for “working on your business.”
This is a tough decision for many of us, but you absolutely have to identify the things that you MUST do, and then you need to outsource most of the rest. As an example, my talent seems to be copywriting, so copywriting is really the only thing that I focus on aside from planning and managing business growth.

I do plan product launches for client, but that still falls under planning and managing business growth.

3) Very Poor Time Management
Dan Kennedy once observed “You will never finish all of the things on your to do list.” That tells me that I shouldn’t try to, but should instead frequently ask which things I personally need to do, which things I need to get others to do, and which things don’t really need doing at all.

For the online marketer, good time management is really just establishing some new habits, and breaking some old bad ones. Common habits that need changing include:

• Don’t let email dominate your time. Many online marketers spend many hours each day just digging out from under the deluge of email. For help in that area, I highly recommend that you checkout http://TamingTheEmailMonster.com
  • I spend about 30 minutes per day on email. The course at the url above is what allowed me to take back control of my life.
• Turn off the television during work hours. If you were working for someone else, say in an office, I’m sure that you wouldn’t expect to be allowed to sit in front of the television all day with your laptop perched on your lap.
  • Unless you are VERY different from me, you cannot focus on your work while watching television. Not only that, but watching a lot of negative programs (news included) will completely zap your energy and shift you out of a productive mindset.
• Establish work hours. Tell your family and friends when you’ll be working, and let them know that when you’re really focused on work, you shouldn’t be disturbed any more than you’d expect to be disturbed if you worked at a regular job.
  • Explain to them that you can get more done in one hour if you really concentrate that you can in five hours with frequent interruptions. Explain that letting you really focus at designated times gives you MORE free time to spend with them… and you’ll have more money to spend on them too.

4) Too Many Projects That Are Never Completed.
My friend Mike Filsaime likes to point out during seminar presentations that if you have a dozen projects started but not completed, you’ll make less money that having just ONE project completed and on the market.
CHOOSE one project that you want to get completed and on the market. Focus exclusively on that one until it is finished before doing anything else.

Since you are an entrepreneur, and probably come up with a new idea “once every five minutes,” keep a note pad handy to jot down new ideas. When you get a new idea, jot it down on the note pad, and then knowing that it won’t be lost, go back to what you were working on previously.
Another option if you’re an idea person, or great at starting projects, is to partner with “finishers.” Instead of letting projects bog down, and never reach the market, partner with someone who will push it through to completion, splitting the profits with them.
If you don’t like that idea, consider how much those unfinished projects are making you. Would you prefer 50% of whatever that finished project makes, or 100% of nothing (which is exactly what most of your unfinished projects earn).
We’ve just looked very briefly at four reasons why most Internet marketers fail miserably. Now that you have acknowledged that these ARE problem areas for you, the question becomes what are you going to do about them.
Sadly, many people will read this article and then choose to do absolutely nothing about these problems. Nothing will change! However, you’re different, and therefore destined for online success.

Willie Crawford is founder of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle a membership site where he frequently brainstorms solutions to problems such as those discussed in this article on the discussion forum. Join that discussion now http://TIMIC.ORG

Making Digital Video A Profitable Business

By Steve Robinson in Featured

As we begin 2009, the opportunity for major media and entertainment companies to make digital video into a profitable business effort has never been as promising, or important. Online consumption of top programming is expanding exponentially, digital video content management and media rights management (also known as DRM) are widely available and maturing, and CDN distribution costs for high quality and near-HD content are continually decreasing.

Today’s economic climate, if viewed properly, actually makes moving new business opportunities, such as digital video, toward profitability simpler. Why? During periods of free-spending economic conditions we have the tendency to spend money on anything that sounds plausible. During tighter economic times, however, budgets are reduced and options are fewer, so resources need to be focused on achievable and profitable goals. If new businesses and their teams focus on the basics of achieving profitability in stringent economic conditions, business units will be positioned to accelerate profitability through sound expansion as economic conditions improve. Solid business practices built around simplified operations, sustainable revenues, low costs and a positive ROI approach with limited investment capital typically win and sustain long-term.

So if the goal of a major media and entertainment company is to build a sustainable, profitable digital video business unit, then how should management approach this challenge? First, it’s critical to develop strategies that can be achieved and measured in just a couple of quarters that build profitability with relative straightforwardness. Strategically, this means shooting for wins that may seem basic but in fact create a successful foundation upon which expansion can be built. An example of a strategic goal might be to develop an ad sales operation flush with a rich (but not unlimited) number of ad products, avail capabilities and avail types that can be sold against all content on a fixed number of properties. A tactical execution plan that pursues a simplified approach for allowing different teams (ad sales, ad ops, player engineering) to function cohesively yet autonomously will create that solid foundation for future growth. As profitable results are achieved, ad products and avail successes can be measured and fine-tuned, allowing immediate expansion to more properties with a cohesive offering and streamlined low-cost operations.

Syndication will naturally follow — and, similarly, developing a strategy that becomes tactically repeatable is the key. Instead of focusing on fewer syndication points, the plan should be to concentrate on tactical ease that becomes “clone-able” and immediately profitable for each partner rather than trying to distribute everywhere. If your syndication strategy doesn’t take on a cloning feel after completing three to four syndication deals, step back and determine what you need to do to develop a turnkey process. If the tactical execution of your syndication practice can’t become turn-key, then your syndication business won’t become profitable.

Often it is said the best time to pursue new business opportunities is when your only option is to focus on achievable, profitable business milestones. The time to turn digital video business units into profitable foundations for growth is today. Building a longterm, sustainable business through multiple short-term successes and profitable measurement points is the right approach in today’s business environment.

Steve Robinson is CEO of Panache, which offers an ad-insertion platform that provides major media and entertainment companies with the infrastructure to generate and increase revenues in their movement of video to the Internet.

10 Essential Onsite SEO Tips for your Website

By Kevin Gallagher in Featured

It is well documented that building links is a very effective way for your website to gain increased exposure in the search engines. However many people overlook the importance of the many onsite factors that should be implemented into your website to gain strength in the search engines. Below I have detailed the top ten that you should implement.

Does Your Web Site Have Trustability and Credibility?

By Maria Marsala in Featured

Summary: Want someone to purchase your terrific product or service? In addition to the quality of what you sell, offer them a trustworthy web site, too.

Have you ever visited a web site and been attacked by screaming pop-up ads, gotten lost in a clutter of banner ads, had things flash and go boom? And have you ever visited a site that was informative, easy to navigate and generally pleasant to peruse?

Which site gained your trust? Which site would you revisit? The more user-friendly building tools you use on your site, the more trust will be developed with your viewers. With this in mind, here are expert tips for making your online store trustworthy…

• Purchase an appropriate domain name Paying for your own domain name builds trust and is professional looking. Your own domain name will be – free of all advertisements (except products you sell or recommend). You want to sell your visitors on the content of your site – not the products of other advertisers.
• Use your domain name email addresses When searching for a host for your site, look for packages that include POP3 accounts and NOT alias accounts. This will enable you to send email from your site (you@yourbusiness.com), which looks much more professional than you@freeemailaccount.com. It is easier to trust someone who has evidently made an investment in his or her business.
• Include contact information Provide phone numbers, hours of operation (including time zone), a business mailing address and an email address. PO Boxes are not considered addresses. Many companies won’t deliver to PO Boxes, and many visitors won’t purchase from you if you use one. Work from home? Add a suite or building number to your home/apartment. Or use a mail forwarding service for a real address.
• Add contact links Place at least one way for your visitors to contact you on each page and place your Webmaster’s contact information on at least the bottom of the front page. This way your visitors can request information from you, and if there is a problem with your site, they can write to the Webmaster. Even if you and the Webmaster are the same person, place the Webmaster’s email address on the site.
• Watch your dates. People prefer to see a current copyright date on the bottom of sites. Some web sites also carry a “last updated” dates. Are your dates current?
• Include a personal touch Provide an “About Me/Us” page. Provide the names of the owner, president, executives, and staff on the contact page. Include individual and group pictures, small biographies if relevant, and email addresses where they can be quickly contacted. Don’t make it look as though your site’s owners want to be anonymous, which obviously generates suspicions.
• Avoid “enter”, “enter here” and splash screens Do you have an “Enter page” or splash screen on the front of your site? If so, delete it now! You will lose visitors who want information quickly because they’ll go to a rival site instead. Worse than an enter page is an enter page that forces someone to download a program such as Flash. If you want to use the option of Flash pages, fancy pointers etc., give visitors the option of
  viewing them. Don’t force them to download any programs.
• Cater to everyone Include alt = ” ” tags with your images to assist those with sight disabilities and the hundreds of thousands of people all over the world who use library-based text-only computer software and Web
  browsers.
• Make it quick Ensure that your pages load in less then 20 seconds with a 56K modem and 7 seconds using DSL. Most visitors will not have the patience to stick around much longer than that and will simply move on. A site that loads quickly and is neatly designed, will show that you are a professional company. It will also boost confidence in your potential buyers.
• Get recommendations Ask your clients for testimonials and permission to use their whole name on your Web site. If they don’t feel comfortable doing so, find others who will.
• Link it Make sure that all the links within your site or to other web sites are working. Download a links checker and use it monthly. Sometimes you’ll find that you’ve linked within your site to a page you’ve moved
  or removed. Other times you’ll find that pages outside your site have disappeared or are changed. Ask your Web Designer to design an interesting “error” page that will allow your visitors to get back on track if a page they bookmarked no longer exists.
• Spell it right If you want your site to be as professional as it can be, put each page through a spell checker or hire an excellent proof reader. Don’t underestimate the value of a properly spelled site.
• Provide guarantees If you have a money back guarantee on your service or product, say so. If you don’t, say what you do provide. Do guarantees include or exclude returning the shipping or handling fees? How about a privacy policy for your newsletter ailing list or code of ethics? Clearly place any type of guarantee on your site.
• Secure purchases The best sites provide the most secure purchase program available. This includes a secure server, secure gateway, and information that informs you that your purchase is as secure as is currently possible. Make sure you offer your customers secure purchases. If you don’t they will (and should) shop elsewhere.
• Don’t clutter the site. Use lots of white space to “break” up the text. It’s easier on the eyes that way. The only place to NOT use lots of white space is on the top of your pages.
• Watch your fonts. Save the fancy font types for special items or graphics. Arial and Veranda work well on sites, Times Roman does not.
• Drop it Eliminate the pop-ups, pop-unders, banners that wave or go blinkity-blink all the time.
• View it Ask people to go to your site. Now without scrolling, ask them how they know what your business is about. If they can’t figure it out, fix this.

Maria Marsala. As founder of Elevating Your Business, Maria helps professional service CEOs, presidents, practitioners and executives build better companies as they increase sales, improve productivity and work smarter. Receive MORE Business ezine and your free business tools at ElevatingYourBusiness.com

Social Networking Etiquette – 6 Crucial Tips for Quality Online Relationships

By George Fourie in Featured

Do you know what’s tarnishing social networking etiquette and giving internet and network marketers an appalling reputation? Social networking is perfect for MLM lead generation, but not like this.

How many times have people visited your internet network marketing website purely for the purpose of collecting your email address to ‘counter-pitch’ their home business opportunity?

Or, you get spammed the second you accept a friend request?

Even worse, you get MLM Business Opportunities and affiliate links posted on your wall on first contact (Facebook, etc)?

What do you do? Jump out of your skin with joy, get all excited, rush over to their opportunity and hand over your credit card?

Or, do you reach for the delete button, build up a wall of resistance and make a mental note to ignore all future messages?

If you haven’t earned the right to talk business, you have just shot yourself in the foot.

Stephen R Covey from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says it best: “Seek first to Understand, then to be Understood.”

No one cares about your opportunity until they know how much you care. (not sure who to give credit for that last statement!:)

Here are 6 important Social Networking Etiquette tips that will help you become a respected internet and network marketing professional, boost your MLM lead generation and build quality online relationships with ease:

1) Relationships first.
Social networking sites are all about establishing quality relationships on a more professional level. Nine times out of ten people will do business with those they know, like, and trust. Learn about that person, check out their website, take time to really see if they are the kind of person you want to connect with anyway.

Building trust comes before giving a sales spiel, and the quality of relationships you build are superior to the quantity of friends you make.

2) Expand your thinking beyond yourself.
Make the change from thinking that you can work your business successfully on your own, and shift toward the mentality that you can accomplish greater things when you work effectively with others.

Don’t limit your outreach and effectiveness as a network marketer.

You are a valued source of resources and contacts.

You have a unique store of connections and life experiences that provide an unlimited wealth of knowledge and opportunities.

Share those with others and draw from the experiences of others as well. Everyone brings unique value to the table.

3) Practice the power of praise.
Praising others brings people to a higher level of energy and awareness. We all thrive on positive reinforcement. Focusing on the strengths of others develops winners and leaders.

Send notes frequently that say:

Thanks for the support. Thanks for your friendship. Thanks for the referral. For the words of encouragement. For the opportunity to learn about your business. For the opportunity to do business with you. For taking the time to….”

Specifically tell people how they influence your life in a positive way. There is much power in praise!

Don’t forget to Wish your friends happy birthday. Facebook makes this real easy with the newsfeed.

4) Give your full attention.
Listening is the heart of communication; don’t view this important tool as simply a matter of not talking. Listening is all about being mentally engaged in what the other person is saying, giving your full attention to create a connection that goes beyond the words being spoken. Listening is where people develop rapport and trust.

Even when there is nothing in it for you, listening and responding accordingly to people will help strengthen those relationships and will reap rewards that will come in the future.

5) Develop a complete profile.
Give people something to establish common ground with; consider putting a summary of your resume or bio on your profile, or list professional associations you’re involved in. Bottom line: make sure you have at least one picture and some common sense background information. It’s important that others see your profile as valuable.

6) Follow them across many social platforms.
Make your friend invites personal by complimenting them on their profile or work found on their sites. When you start building rapport and following them across various social networks, it shows that you are interested in their work.

If you find quality in their published blog posts for example, Stumble, or Digg their content and share them with your network. You begin promoting them and they will likely do the same for you.

Social Networking is the most cost-effective network marketing tool for reaching an endless stream of influential contacts and growing your network marketing business. Daily interactions and forming the habit of building your online web presence will bring results over time.

Make a commitment to yourself and your relationships to put these powerful social networking principles into action and you’ll be attracting a vast number of new team members and business partners.

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For more free information about Online Social Networking Sites, visit our blog at http://thatMLMbeat.com. Expect Success from Katie Liljeberg, George Fourie and the team at http://thatMLMbeat.com

Utilize Forums to Gain Focused Customers

By Diego Norte in Featured

I have noticed a new round of spam showing up in online forums. It seems that there are applications used by so called internet marketers that help to automate or semi automate the spamming of forums. These software applications try to create numerous accounts and profiles, and then try to make posts or follow up comment posts automatically.

The idea behind this wayward strategy is to amass incoming links through their forum profiles or signature links. This may help to get some low value links back to your website, but what will the reader of your off topic, and often nonsensical, post think of you and your website? Quite often, webmasters will recognize your efforts as spam and happily notify your web hosting company of your activity. This can lead to suspension or cancellation of your hosting account.

I would also like to point out that a forum post about weight loss in a drag racing forum will not count for much in the search engines eyes, nor send any meaningful visitors to your web site. Links that come from forum post are best when surrounded by related content. Search engines recognize this and will count those links as having more weight.

The logical and ethical approach to marketing in online forums is to focus your efforts on forums that are related to your websites’ topic.

Here are 6 tips to getting laser focused visitors:

1. Create an online persona for your website or blog. If you are afraid of using your real name create a pen name and use that name as your forum nickname. Use it in multiple online forums if possible and people will come to recognise you, and hopefully your expertise, across multiple forums.
2. Only post in forums that are related to your websites’ topic. The more closely related the better, but you can sometimes find forums that at least revolve around the keywords of yur topic.
3. Start interesting post by asking questions. These post can be a little controversial to attract attention. “Is Squidoo better than Hub Pages?” for example
4. Be helpful. You will grow your reputation as an expert in your field by really helping people. In time, people will seek out you and your opinion.
5. Be respectful of others in the forums. Avoid creating disagreements and long drawn out arguments. These can be very big time wasters and detract from your reputation.
6. Offer special pricing on your products to forum members. I usually make these offers close ended. Post can be around for a long time. You don’t want to offer a discount forever, but it can still attract visitors long after it has expired.

You will find that forum post can rank very well in search engines and also last for years. By focusing your effort on meaningful post in forums related to your niche, you can drive quality visitors to your blog or site for a long time to come.

Diego Norte is the creator of MuVar, the world’s most effective multivariate testing solution.  MuVar completely automates the task of optimizing your sales letters for more sales.  Check it out here:
http://www.MuVar.com

The WHY of Search Engine Optimization

By Ben Kemp in Featured

There are many articles written on the HOW of SEO, covering the many and varied aspects of the art of improving your site’s position in search engine ranking pages (SERPs). Whilst most people have heard the term “search engine optimization” and have a vague appreciation (or apprehension) of the hoped-for outcome, surprisingly few people seem to really understand WHY it is absolutely essential.

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