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5 Simple Steps to use your Content for Better SEO Rankings
By SEO Sapien in Featured
A motto that is often heard in the online world is that “content is king.” If asked what they would do with an extra million dollars, many SEOs may answer that they would invest that money in developing new content. Link building is incredibly important to SEO but some SEOs believe that if you provide great content, the links will come naturally.
The truth is that it can be difficult to get people to link to your content that easily, no matter how great your content may be. Google indexes more than a trillion pages of content so the chances that people will link to your content are slim.
In SEO, not only is it essential to create great content, you must be great at getting that content linked to. You’d have to be pretty lucky to expect to put content out there and attract a bunch of links without any effort on your part. You have to create content with the latest topic trends in mind. This is not to say that the priority of creating great content should take the backseat to your traffic and link-building efforts. You simply need to approach content creation holistically to ensure that your content gets seen and gets a sufficient amount of links. Here are 5 steps you can follow when creating and distributing content to ensure that it increases traffic to your website, your search engine ranking, and brand awareness.
- Use Google Trends to find keywords in your niche that have been receiving a lot of attention lately. Target these trendy keywords aggressively in your content to attract more traffic NOW. Keyword trends are usually based on seasonality or other special events.
- Once you have chosen keywords to target, you should use the Google Adwords keyword tool to find related keywords to write about. By targeting several related keywords in your content, you can increase traffic to your website.
- Use Twitter to search for all of the keywords you are planning to target in your content. This will help you get ideas on what you can write about with the keywords you are targeting.
- Create content based on the keywords you found and the ideas you got from searching on Twitter. You can also browse popular content on social voting sites like Digg and StumbleUpon to get ideas on how to write your article titles and the body of your articles to make them enticing.
5. Once you get your articles written, you need a distribution plan. Set goals for each piece of content you have created. For example, you may want to syndicate your articles to receive highly relevant backlinks and increase targeted traffic to your site. You may also want to add the content to your website to improve user experience. Market your content to bloggers and customers via social networking sites to increase traffic via word-of-mouth.
Follow these simple steps in order to create great content and leverage it. As an added benefit, you will be able to increase awareness of your brand and improve your search engine ranking through the creation and distribution of great content.
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Shaping Web Audience Preference
By Jerry Bader in Featured
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had the power to convince people that your product or service was exactly what they needed, and as a consequence your in-box was filled with inquiries and your e-commerce site was stuffed with orders. Wouldn’t that be great? And isn’t that exactly what you want to achieve with your website?
The problem is you are part of a giant online bazaar called The Web; and just like your local weekend flea market The Web is filled with crap, conmen, and contraband. Without understanding some of the underlying psychological principles involved in shaping audience preference you are in danger of being regarded as just another mangy flea market hustler, even if what you offer is the greatest thing since sliced bread. .
How Glossaries and FAQs Can Improve Search Engine Rankings
By Ross Dunn in Featured
A large part of my time at StepForth as a search engine optimization consultant is spent conducting competitor research on behalf of our clientele. This service is focused on deconstructing the marketing campaigns of each competitor while identifying the tactics that appear to have fundamentally contributed to their search engine success. As you might imagine I come across many intriguing techniques that work and many that don’t. In this article I will account for a couple of techniques that appear to be overlooked by many but have proven time and time again to work; the creation of an on-site glossary and frequently asked questions (FAQ) section.
Etiquette for Social Media Sites and Blogs
By Enzo F. Cesario in Featured
Social media is social. Social, an adjective that one definition gives as pertaining to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club. That’s what social network sites are – social clubs. Where people with the same interests get together and learn, teach, grow, and bond.
Hopefully you were taught social etiquette while you were growing up. You remember, elbows off the table, shake hands when you meet someone, send thank you notes, say please and thank you. Just as there are proper ways to behave in the world, there are proper ways to behave online. Here are a few ways to make your online experience a pleasure for everyone else.
Be Nice
This is the big one. Everything after this is icing on the cake. There is nothing wrong with being nice; it doesn’t mean that you’re weak. Making enemies on social sites gets you nowhere, so drop your hatred and e-rants. It’s okay to have an opinion, even an extremely opposite opinion from everyone else. What’s not okay is to call other people names. If you’re trying to make a persuasive argument, use persuasive language and prove your point. It doesn’t help your cause to call someone an idiot. And, if you use the Internet to rant and rave, people eventually tune you out.
Just like in real life and business, we get what we want by knowing people, networking and building quality relationships. It’s the same for online relationships. And, as the old saying goes, “you can catch more flies with honey…”
You should value relationships over transactions. Gaining links from commenting on blogs should not be your main objective. Blog comments are just that – you are commenting to join the conversation. And you are joining the conversation to build a relationship.
Be Accountable
Just because you sit at your computer, anonymous, doesn’t mean you are not accountable for your actions and words. Don’t believe that there are no rules to social media. Don’t believe that you can do or say whatever you want without consequences just because you can hide behind your computer. People are smart and if you are a shameless, self-promoting jerk, they’ll figure it out and you’ll be done. By being accountable for your words, people will respect you, whether they agree with you or not.
Be Respectful of the Community
You are there to add value to the community you join, not to push your agenda and make sales pitches. The thing that will bring you relationships is making sure that when you add to the community, it’s with quality content. You may want to sit back and just listen for a while to learn about a community you’ve joined instead of just jumping in, maybe being ineffective and wasting everyone’s time. Before you submit anything to a social site, ask yourself if it will add value to the community. If not, don’t.
If you are commenting on someone else’s blog, don’t just promote yourself. If you have a post that refers to that conversation, then it’s okay to post that link in your comment. However, if you do it too often, you’ll get ignored or thought of as just a spammer.
Be a Listener
Yeah, sure, you think you know everything, but, if you listen to what others are saying, you might learn something. Listen to people that comment on your blog and see if you can understand where they are coming from. Your first reaction does not need to be a rant telling them how wrong they are.
Be a Giver
You know this one – you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. This saying applies to online relationships as well. If you want attention, you have to be willing to give it first. Do the people who burst onto your site or group and think that they should be at the top immediately annoy you? And how about the ones that constantly ask for your help by commenting on their blogs or always push their content on you. We all try to avoid “users.” Don’t be like them – you have to earn respect by giving more than you receive and by making sure that what you give is useful.
Remember to link to posts that you find interesting or informative. Chances are that if you’ve found it interesting and related to your group, someone else will too. This is a great way to get involved in social networking sites.
Be Nice
I know, this was the first suggestion, but it’s important so it bears repeating. You can’t get away from it, The Golden Rule concept can be found in cultures and religions all over the world. That’s probably why it’s the “golden” rule. And if we all lived by it, in real life as well as online, we’d all be a little better off.
Enzo F. Cesario is a Copywriter and co-founder of Brandsplat, the only online marketing and advertising company employing Brandcasting, the most effective way to brand your company on the web. Brandcasting uses informative content and state-of-the-art internet distribution and optimization to build links and drive the right kind of traffic to your website. The approach is simple, highly effective and affordable. Learn more at: http://www.Brandsplat.com/
Article Marketing: How Your Google Ranking Impacts Your Business
By Steve Shaw in Featured
When you submit your article to an article directory, you may be thinking that the source of traffic (visitors to your website) will be from the article directory itself.
That is actually not the case.
Although people can end up finding your site by going to an article directory and then reading your article and clicking the link in your resource box to get to your website, that is not the main way that Article Marketing generates traffic.
INCREASED SEARCH ENGINE RANKING IS THE KEY:
The most dramatic changes to your website’s exposure comes from a change in search engine ranking. Search engine ranking refers to where your website shows up in the results list when someone in your target market does a Google search.
The words the searcher types into Google are called ‘keywords’, from the website owner’s perspective. If you can make it so that your website ranks highly whenever someone types in keywords associated with your website, then you can dramatically increase your website traffic over the long term.
HOW HIGHLY DOES MY WEBSITE NEED TO RANK?
Put yourself in the shoes of the person who is searching for information on the web:
You type in your search terms and then you let Google generate a list of results for you. The results go on and on for pages, but most of us usually only look at the first page, and most likely just the first few results.
We regard the top result as having the best chance of providing us with the information we’re looking for, so we will click the #1 result first. If we find what we’re looking for there, then the search is over.
So, this gives you a clue when you’re trying to get your website listed higher in the rankings–the higher the better.
When I start an article marketing campaign for a new keyword term, my goal is always the #1 spot. Of course any improvement is positive, so if you can make it onto the front page, you will be better off than being five pages back. The goal, however, is always to be #1.
SEARCH IS BIG BUSINESS:
Even a difference between a #1 ranking and a #5 ranking for your keyword terms can be astounding, multiplying your unique visitors many times over. For internet businesses who are depending on search engine traffic for customers, every visitor represents a targeted lead for a sale.
Now, imagine that you start out with 5,000 unique visitors a month, and you elevate your search engine ranking so that you’re now receiving 42,000 unique visitors in a month.
And let’s say you’ve figured out that for every 1,000 page views you can count on making 30 sales.
In this scenario, by elevating the search engine ranking just a few crucial notches, you move from making 150 sales a month to 1,260 sales. That’s quite an impact!
This is why people with internet businesses, small businesses, and money making websites are so gung-ho about their search engine ranking.
Just a few jumps up the rankings can make a huge difference in your business’ performance.
THIS IS WHERE ARTICLE MARKETING COMES IN:
- You submit quality articles consistently every month.
- The articles should be on the topic of your niche and written around your keywords.
- A link to your website goes in your resource box, and every time your article is picked up for publication, you receive another backlink to your website.
- Over time, as you build links, Google re-evaluates your website. Usually this happens every 3-4 months. So, every few months Google recalculates your backlinks and various other data about your site, and adjusts its idea of your website’s importance.
- As your website gains authority in Google’s eyes, your site gets a higher search engine ranking for your keyword terms.
CONCLUSION:
It’s as simple as that–just write articles on the topic of your niche and submit them consistently month after month.
Article marketing is all about getting suitable prospects to your website. Elevate your search engine ranking for your keywords, and your business can be dramatically impacted over the long term.
Build quality links faster and with less effort by using an article submission service. Steve Shaw created the web’s first ever 100% automated article submitter, SubmitYOURArticle.com, which distributes your articles to hundreds of targeted publishers with the click of a button. More publishers means more backlinks and more traffic to your site! For more information go to=> http://www.SubmitYOURArticle.com
How To Increase Link Popularity
By Nelson Tan in Featured
Search engines are the gateway to the Internet; they are the first tool that potential customers use to find the products and services they need. This is why link popularity is so imperative. If the customers do not find your website, you have no possibilities of making any sales.
You’re probably wondering what the blazes is popular about a link! Well, in a word—plenty! Link popularity refers to the ranking assigned to your website by the search engines, and it determines the ranking your page gets when keywords are entered into a search engine. So, you’re probably wondering, how do I make my link popular?
5 Secrets to Creating a Powerful Google Profile
By Donna Gunter in Featured
I often want to find out more about someone before I decide to do business with that person. To get the information that I need, I Google the person’s name and see how well-known they are online and what they have to say. What I discovered in my search is that their social media profiles, like those found on Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook, show up high in the search results. Google, however, has started giving these well-known social networking sites a run for their money by creating their own online profile option.
Google Profiles are simple web pages where you can list general information about yourself. Anyone who can create an account on Google and verify their real name through a screening routine can now have a personal profile page on Google. The most powerful aspect of this system, however, is the ability to include links in your profile, which can pack a powerful search engine optimization (SEO) punch for you. Best of all, Google provides this service at no cost to you.
Profiles are public and include your actual name and/or a nickname. You can list your occupation, where you are located (your profile will be used for Google Maps), a list of links, your photo and a short introduction. Google even provides a way for visitors to click a link on your profile to contact you directly.
Here are 5 secrets to creating a powerful Google Profile:
1. Upload your photo. One of the keys to creating relationships online is to let others know you’re a real person. The easiest way to do that is to provide a visual cue, like a photo, to help them remember you.
2. Include keywords in bio. The “About Me” section is where you can use outbound keyword-rich links to your advantage. As you compose this section, be sure and include several keywords others might use to find you, and link those back to your web site. For example, if you’re a divorce attorney in Houston, you might have the keyword phrases, “Houston divorce attorney” and “family law attorney” as links back to your primary web site.
3. Link to your sites and profiles. You can link to any number of sites from your Google profile. Just like in your bio, use keywords to your advantage here as well. So, if you run a cleaning business and have produced several videos demonstrating what you do, instead of listing your link to your YouTube videos as “YouTube.com,” you might instead use “Professional Cleaning Videos,” which links to your YouTube stream instead.
You should add the following links to your profile:
–web site(s)
–blog
–all of your social networking profiles (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Linkedin)
–YouTube.com or UStream channel
–Squidoo lens
–Social bookmarking profiles (Delicious, Reddit, Digg
–Article syndication page
–Free giveaway sign up page
–Products page
–Services page
4. Showcase your products and services. The page editor allows you to upload images through photo sharing sites Flickr and Picasa. Upload images of your physical or information products or shots of you in action delivering your service.
5. Take care when choosing your profile URL. If you have a Gmail account, Google will ask you if your want to use that username as part of your profile URL. Be aware that if you choose that option, you are inadvertently giving away your Gmail address. I chose instead the longer profile URL with the long string of numbers. I don’t like my email address appearing anywhere online, so even though this profile URL is longer and more difficult to reference, it beats filling my inbox with spam.
If you don’t use Gmail, you can select any available username to be part of your profile URL. If later on you sign up for Gmail, you can choose this username as your Gmail username. Once you’ve selected your customized URL, you won’t be able to change it or delete it. However, you can make it private at any time by selecting your old URL on the “Edit profile” page.
Take a few minutes today to claim your name and create a powerful profile for your business. It costs you nothing, creates powerful one-way inbound links back to your site, and will help you get found online.
Online Business Coach Donna Gunter helps baby boomers create profitable online retirement businesses by demystifying the steps needed to successfully market a baby boomer business online. Would you like to learn the specific Internet marketing strategies that get results? Discover how to increase your visibility and get found online by claiming your FREE gift, TurboCharge Your Online Marketing Toolkit, at ==> http://www.OnlineBizU.com
Twitter’s Private Docs Become Public
By Wendy Davis in Featured
Seems like Twitter is experiencing firsthand the pitfalls of cloud storage.
“Hacker Croll” apparently gained access to Twitter documents by hacking into an employee’s personal account and then downloading papers that had been stored in Google Docs. Hacker Croll then sent 310 formerly confidential documents to TechCrunch, which is now publishing some of them.
TechCrunch’s decision to publish is proving controversial, but the move isn’t surprising. It also appears to be lawful. News organizations have a well-established right to publish any information that they come upon lawfully, regardless of whether the person who gave them the information was entitled to do so. In other words, if someone steals documents and then decides on his own to hand them to a publisher, that publisher is free to print or post them.
That’s why news organizations were free to publish former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s emails last year, after a hacker got into her account and distributed the messages.
Journalists and others can debate whether distributing this type of material is ethical, but there’s no question that many reputable news outlets routinely publish material that company executives didn’t intend for outsiders to see.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone blogs that the documents don’t contain anything all that juicy. “We have a culture of sharing and communication within Twitter and these stolen documents represent a fraction of what we produce on a regular basis,” he writes. “Obviously, these docs are not polished or ready for prime time and they’re certainly not revealing some big, secret plan for taking over the world.
Meanwhile, TechCrunch has already posted one document — a pitch to Twitter from “Through the Eyes Production” for a new reality TV show, “Final Tweet.”
It’s not clear whether Twitter liked this pitch, but TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington would have passed: “Frankly, it looks like a big loser. I hope and assume Twitter turned this down, and fast,” he writes.
Wendy Davis – MediaPost
Writing and publishing a successful newsletter to promote your business
By Gino Mazzenga in Featured
Writing and publishing a successful newsletter is perhaps the most competitive of all the different areas of mail order and direct marketing.
Five years ago, there were 1500 different newsletters in this country. Today there are well over 10,000, with new ones being started every day. It’s also interesting to note that for every new one that’s started, some disappear just as quickly as they are started – lack of operating capital and marketing know-how being the principal causes of failure.
To be successful with a newsletter, you have to specialize. Your best bet will be with new information on a subject not already covered by an established newsletter.
Regardless of the frustrations involved in launching your own newsletter, never forget this truth: There are people from all walks of life, in all parts of this country, many of them with no writing ability whatsoever, who are making incredible profits with simple two-, four-, and six-page newsletters!
Your first step should be to subscribe to as many different newsletters and mail order publications as you can afford. Analyze and study how the others are doing it. Attend as many workshops and seminars on your subject as possible. Learn from the pros. Learn how the successful newsletter publishers are doing it, and why they are making money. Adapt their success methods to your own newsletter, but determine to recognize where they are weak, and to make yours better in every way.
Plan your newsletter before launching it. Know the basic premise for its being, your editorial position, the layout, art work, type styles, subscription price, distribution methods, and every other detail necessary to make it look, sound and feel like the end result you have envisioned.
Lay out your start-up needs; detail the length of time it’s going to take to become established, and what will be involved in becoming established. Set a date as a mile stone of accomplishment for each phase of your development: A date for breaking even, a date for attaining a certain paid subscription figure, and a monetary goal for each of your first five years in business. And all this must be done before publishing your first issue.
Market research is simply determining who the people are who will be interested in buying and reading your newsletter, and the kind of information these people want to see in your newsletter as a reason for continuing to buy it. You have to determine what it is they want from your newsletter.
Your market research must give you unbiased answers about your newsletter’s capabilities of fulfilling your prospective buyer’s need for information; how much he’s willing to pay for it, and an overall profile of his status in life. The questions of why he needs your information, and how he’ll use it should be answered. Make sure you have the answers to these questions, publish your newsletter as a vehicle of fulfillment to these needs, and you’re on your way!
You’re going to be in trouble unless your newsletter has a real point of difference that can be easily perceived by your prospective buyer. The design and graphics of your newsletter, plus what you say and how you say it, will help in giving your newsletter this vital difference.
Be sure your newsletter works with the personality you’re trying to build for it. Make sure it reflects the wants of your subscribers. Include your advertising promise within the heading, on the title page, and in the same words your advertising uses. And above all else, don’t skim on design or graphics!
The name of your newsletter should also help to set it apart from similar news letters, and spell out its advertising promise. A good name reinforces your advertising. Choose a name that defines the direction and scope of your newsletter.
Opportunity Knocking, Money Making Magic, Extra Income Tip Sheet, and Mail Order Up-Date are primate examples of this type of philosophy – as opposed to the Johnson Report, The Association Newsletter, or Club-house Confidential.
Try to make your newsletter’s name memorable – one that flows automatically. Don’t pick a name that’s so vague it could apply to almost anything. The name should identify your newsletter and its subject quickly and positively.
Promoting your newsletter, finding prospective buyers and converting these prospects into loyal subscribers, will be the most difficult task of your entire undertaking. It takes detailed planning, persistence and patience.
You’ll need a sales letter. Check the sales letter you receive in the mail; analyze how these are written and pattern yours along the same lines. You’ll find all of them – all those worthy of being called sales letters – following the same formula: Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action on the part of the reader – AIDA.
Jump right in at the beginning and tell the reader how he’s going to benefit from your newsletter, and then keep emphasizing right on through your “PS”, the many and different benefits he’ll gain from subscribing to your newsletter. Elaborate on your listing of benefits with examples of what you have, or you intend to include, in your newsletter.
Follow these examples with endorsements or testimonials from reviewers and satisfied subscribers. Make the recipient of your sales letter feel that you’re offering him the answer to all his problems on the subject of your newsletter.
You have to make your prospect feel that “this is the insider’s secret” to the success he wants. Present it to him as his own personal key to success, and then tell him how far behind his contemporaries he is going to be if he doesn’t act upon your offer immediately.
An acknowledgment letter, in an envelope, will cost more postage to mail than a simple postcard; however, when you send the letter you have to opportunity to enclose additional material. A circular listing other items available through you will produce additional orders.
Thus far, you’ve prepared the layout and copy for your newsletter. Go ahead and have a hundred copies printed, undated. You’ve written a sales letter and prepared a return reply subscription order card or coupon; go ahead and have a hundred of these printed, also undated, of course. You’ll need letterhead mailing envelopes, and don’t forget the return reply envelopes if you choose to use the coupons instead of the business reply postcard. Go ahead and have a thousand mailing envelopes printed. You also need subscription order acknowledgment cards or notes; have a hundred of these printed, and of course, don’t forget the imprinted reply envelopes if you’re going along with the idea of using a note instead of a postcard. This w ill be a basic supply for “testing” your materials so far.
Now you’re ready for the big move – the Advertising Campaign.
Start by placing a small classified ad in one of your local newspapers. You should place your ad in a weekend or Sunday paper that will reach as many people as possible, and of course, do everything you can to keep your costs as low as possible. How ever, do not skimp on your advertising budget. To be successful – to make as much money as possible with your idea – you’ll need to reach as many people as you can afford, and as often as you can.
Move slowly, start with a local, far-reaching and widely read paper, and with the prof its or returns from that ad, go to the regional magazines, or one of the smaller national magazines, and continue plowing your returns into more advertising in different publications. By taking your time, and building your acceptance in this manner, you won’t lose too much if one of your ads should prove to be a dud. Stay with the advertising. Do not abandon it in favor of direct mail. We would not recommend direct mail until you are well established and your national classified advertising pro gram is bringing in a healthy profit for you.
Do not become overly ambitious and go out on a limb with expensive full-page advertising until you’re very well established. When you do buy full page advertising, start with the smaller publications, and build from those results. Have patience; keep close tabs on your costs per subscriber, and build from the profits of your advertising. Always test the advertising medium you want to use with a classified ad, and if it pulls well for you, go on to a larger display type ad.
Classified advertising is the least expensive way to go, so long as you use the “inquiry method.” You can easily and quickly build your subscriber list with this type of advertisement.
We would not recommend any attempts to sell subscriptions, or any product from classified ads, or even from small display ads. There just isn’t enough space to describe the product adequately, and seeing the cost of your item, many possible subscribers will not bother to inquire for the full story.
Gino Mazzenga – Writing and publishing a successful newsletter to promote your business is one of the best ways to build your business. I use these everyday in my business and they are very rewarding.
16 Things Every Website Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Website Legal Compliance
By Chip Cooper in Featured
I talk to a lot of owners of small websites — entrepreneurs getting started with new businesses or re-doing existing sites on the Web — and most of them have a profound lack of understanding regarding the scope of legal regulation they face.
What’s worse, most don’t have any idea of their exposure to legal liability.
Why Aren’t Website Owners Aware of Website Legal Compliance Requirements?
I believe the lack of awareness and understanding is due to several factors:
- most small website owners don’t have an Internet attorney; most don’t even feel the need for one, and the ones who do, don’t know how to find one they can trust;
- most website developers don’t inform their clients of the need for website legal compliance;
- website regulation developed without fanfare; to date, there is no federal privacy statute of general application that would have been highly publicized at the time of passage;
- privacy and data security regulation has developed in piecemeal fashion in the form of state statutes (with California leading the way); federal jurisdiction was not created by any Internet-specific statute – the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) assumed jurisdiction for enforcement of privacy and data security violations by claiming jurisdiction (successfully) resulting from its authority to regulate false and misleading claims under Section 5 of the FTC Act; and
- despite press releases by the FTC regarding claims filed against websites, the message is just not getting through to entrepreneurs; for example, in the last 3 years, the FTC has settled with fourteen businesses over inadequate data security for personal information with substantial fines levied in some cases, and the FTC’s aggressive enforcement has continued into 2009 with two new actions filed in the first two months of 2009.
So, given the factors listed above, it’s understandable why most entrepreneurial website owners aren’t aware of the need for website legal compliance. However, website owners won’t be able to plead ignorance. The cliche you’ve heard before is true – “ignorance is no excuse”.
16 High Risk Activities That Indicate The Need For Website Legal Compliance
There are certain website activities that are now very high risk – and indicate the need for legal compliance measures. They include:
- collection of any single element of personal information; for example, if you collect merely an email address for a sign-up form for product information, a newsletter, or a downloadable report, you have entered an area that is highly regulated – and which presents a very significant exposure to legal liability;
- collection of credit card information;
- failure to operate a secure server that stores personal information;
- failure to identify and assess internal and external risks to the security of personal information;
- failure to monitor the effectiveness of security of personal information and update security measures as indicated by changes in website operations;
- offering monthly subscription or membership payment models, or any payment scheme where payment is made over time after the delivery of the product or service;
- sharing of personal information with others for purposes of direct marketing;
- permitting third party service providers such as website maintenance and SEO service providers or hosting service providers to have access to the internals of your server;
- transmission of personal information outside the website’s secure system or across public networks; Nevada and Massachusetts both have statutes regulating these activities;
- operation of a blog or forum that permits users to upload text or files;
- operating a website that targets children or at least by virtue of graphics, text, and products or services would be attractive to children under 13;
- serving third party cookies (e.g. Google Analytics);
- serving behavioral ads (e.g. Google’s AdSense);
- appointment of online resellers or affiliates;
- use of a competitor’s trademark in keyword-triggered ads; and
- “borrowing” someone else’s privacy policy without detailed analysis of how it fits your own specific business and marketing practices.
Make Website Legal Compliance a Top Priority
If your website engages in any of the risk factors listed above, website legal compliance measures are required — and compliance should become a top priority ASAP.
The legal liability for failure to comply can be significant.
Leading Internet, IP and software lawyer Chip Cooper has automated the process of drafting website documents for small websites with his MyLegalFirewall website documents drafting service. Discover how quick, easy, and cost-effective it is to determine which legal compliance documents you need and to draft them online, and claim your FREE Special Report, Determine Which Legal Documents Your Website Really Needs, at ==> http://digicontracts.com/
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