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This article will show you how to run a simple promotional marketing campaign that has an unusual side effect; Top placement on Google for your most important keywords. With one quick and easy task you can:

1. Get top ranking on Google,
2. Build incredible brand or company awareness
3. Earn an additional passive income while doing it, if you wish.

The concept is pretty straightforward. You post a piece of software (along with a simple PAD file) to shareware download sites like Download.com. They provide inbound links to your site. Simple right? Definitely! But that’s only part of it. If you know a couple inside tips you can have the link to your site contain your most important keywords as anchor text, which will skyrocket ranking on Google. And you can have your links point to any page you want using that keyword rich link! By the way, there are well over 1,000 well known download sites there for the linking!

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Tags: inbound links, one way links, seo

Here in part three of “Linking Practices” we will cover how to maximise the benefits of those links we discussed previously (check out part 1: “Links Defined” and part 2: “Links Applied“).

This section could also be classified as: Tips, Hints and Cheats. While I recommend and try at all times to adhere to ethical and honest practices there are many webmasters out there that do not. While PageRank still remains a prize in eyes of many webmasters there will always be a handful that will do anything to try and game the system. These are some of the usual ways in which they do this:

Robots.txt

The robots file is a little plain text file that resides in the root directory of a website. The purpose of this file is to notify the search engine spider of which pages should be indexed and which should not. After all you wouldn’t want the backend to your website indexed in the search results. This file stands alone and you cannot know its contents by looking at a standard webpage on that site. I know many webmasters have now started using the robots.txt file to exclude their link pages from the search engine spiders. By doing this they are effectively preventing the search engine from seeing the link to your page. This in turn makes your link back to them seem like a valuable one way link.

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Tags: linking practices, Linking Strategies, links

In this article we want to talk about how to get traffic to your website. More specifically, we want to talk about how to get targeted traffic meaning visitors that want to be there. If you have been on the Internet for any amount of time, you understand the importance of getting targeted traffic.

1. First of all let’s talk about blogging. Blogging is extremely simple to do yet can be a very important way to get targeted traffic. The key is that you create an informative blog that people want to read.

You do this by keeping it updated on a constant basis and providing quality information. Quality information can also include offering free things such as reports, software, e-books, and valuable tips that a person can use and would be meaningful to them.

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Tags: traffic, Website Traffic

Many small businesses start their websites and put a “Links” page up as one of their first few pages thinking that this will help them rank better.

While it’s a nice gesture to link to your vendors, associates, resources, and products you like, and your customers may even find this page helpful or interesting having a links page alone won’t help your website to rank better.

Instead, You Want Your Website to Be Like A Prom Queen

That’s not to say you want your website to wear a sparkly dress or a shiny tiara or make a sappy acceptance speech.

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Tags: search engine optimization, seo

You have a website and now you’re ready to start marketing yourself…who do you go to for help? Who do you trust? Finding a knowledgeable, time-tested and honest SEO firm is a challenging, and at times, daunting task. Ask the right questions and educate yourself on the criteria for a good SEO firm. There is a lot of stuff out there on the web, but if you gain the right information and hire a great SEO firm, you can breathe easy and watch as your website soars in the search engines! Is your hired SEO firm a true fit? Check out these criteria on a good SEO firm.

Steer Clear of “Just Trust Me…”
Have you heard this line before? If so, you might want to reconsider this type of SEO Firm. Good SEO Firms not only explain what they are doing, but why they are changing your website. Whether it’s tweaking content, adding links, or creating a new page - there needs to be an explanation for changes made to your website. A good SEO firm will act in an honest and professional manner when optimizing your site - keeping those lines of communication open! If all you hear is, “Just trust me” or “In 2 weeks, you’ll be #1 in Google”…that’s a red flag! Don’t waste your time, or your money with these fly-by-night, so-called SEO Firms.

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Tags: seo firm, seo tactics

Here in part two of “Linking Practices” we will cover the application of those links we discussed previously (check out part 1: “Links Defined”).

As with all marketing practices the best place to start is always with a plan.  In this case we will need to establish what the purpose is of building these links.  With links being a major factor when ranking a website many webmasters use links to try and gain higher rankings in search engine results.  Sometimes links are valuable simply as they drive traffic to your website.  As we all know traffic is very blood that powers your online business.  Consider links the veins.

Reciprocal Links:
These links often offer very little aid when it comes to ranking highly in the search engines.  While these links usually reside on a page that is no more than a long list of URL’s occasionally these can be of great benefit.  A reciprocal link simply means a link exchanged.  Usually you can request the anchor text and description you wish the link to display as well as the URL this points to.  This makes sense as this is supposed to be a beneficial exchange for both parties.

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Tags: linking practices, Linking Strategies

Good customer service can make all the difference - especially in ecommerce where there is no face-to-face contact.

By offering excellent service you have the opportunity to turn happy customers into loyal customers. What’s more, business studies have shown that happy customers tell 4 people about their positive experience. Unhappy customers on the other hand tell 10 people how unsatisfied they are with your company.

Do the math… If you are able to offer excellent service, your bottom line will thank you for it. But in ecommerce this is easier said then done. Customer support requests can be inundating and highly time-consuming for many growing businesses.

How do you offer excellent customer service that creates growth - without sacrificing your time and sanity? What is Customer Service?

You can’t build a good e-business without solid customer service. This means responding to customer enquiries, dealing with lost packages, payment problems and returns - and finally answering questions from customers.

Good customer service is all about bringing customers back to your site and turning them into repeat buyers. You want to send them away happy and impressed enough to tell their friends - who may also become repeat customers - about your business.

The good news is that a customer service system that’s fast, efficient and delivers excellent value to the customer can be set up with very minimal cost, technology and time.

You’ll notice that few books on ecommerce deal with customer service.

After all - can customer service really boost sales and increase the bottom line? We believe it can and it should.

The key to good customer service is responsiveness. This doesn’t just mean responding to your customers demands, try to anticipate them. Good customer service exceeds your customer’s expectations.

A website with 100,000 subscribers and turnover of close to $1 million a year only needs ONE customer service rep working 20 hours a week if the proper systems are set up well.

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Tags: Business, Ecommerce, growing onilne

It is easy enough to figure out who occupies a dominant search position with a clear competitive advantage for a number of pivotal phrases in your industry. What may not be clear is how they got there or how they maintain that position.

It is important to know your enemy, and it is not always the competition.Those who blindly base their existing marketing campaigns on ghosts from the past are facing a harsh online reality (dwindling sales, a minuscule online presence & mounting tension and frustration).

The mere thought of your competitors dominating prime online real estate unchecked is enough to light a fire under companies still entrenched in traditional marketing channels (Television, Radio, Print).

The time has come for off-line giants and small businesses alike to embrace internet marketing and what intrinsic value it provides as an alternative, or at least hire an SEO company to represent their interests online. Success in one arena does not guarantee results in another.

Colossal corporations that thrived in the past using traditional marketing channels are now seeing many of those wells run dry. Faced with opportunity and the potential to hone their wares online, many are jumping into internet marketing with both feet.

Unfortunately, not all off-line efforts translate into online success stories, as appeasing the new breed of target consumers is not as easy as their predecessors. This can be a challenge for larger enterprise clients, who are more likely to spend more to brand, rather than create content that bridges a gap to engage their target audience.

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Tags: Marketing

Roughly a year ago, local search engine optimization was all the rage - the new frontier in search engine marketing.  For a while, it seemed that everyone was interested in the local search angle - even multi-national companies.  However, for many companies selling products or services to the entire United States, or even globally, it seemed like a non-starter. Companies that counted on people looking for certain products or services that did not require close proximity to the company’s location were unaffected. As far as local search engine optimization goes, things have changed a bit since then - at least for some.

Some time ago, Google introduced a “geographic box” at the top of its search results.  This is tied in to its mapping feature, and, when it was first introduced, the engine would display three results at the top of its search results whenever somebody entered a geographic modifier into the search box (”Atlanta widgets,” for example).  The Google algorithm then has the intelligence to determine whether the query calls for results that are primarily local in scope.

Since that initial trial, Google has obviously found that its users appreciate the feature.  The engine now displays ten local search results at the top of the listings for certain queries, provided that they have a geographic modifier attached.  For example, if you type in “Atlanta gyms” in Google, you will see ten results alongside a map that shows the location of ten gyms in Atlanta.

It should be noted that you will not see local search results for all queries that contain a local modifier.  In certain instances, it almost seems as if Google somehow “knows” when a geographic modifier really means that you only offer services in a particular area.  Yeah, those guys are pretty good.

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Tags: local search, local search engine optimization, Website Promotion

When you are trying to develop your backlink strategy it is important to understand the different ways to gain links to your site. The easiest way to get links to your site is by doing a link exchange.

Link exchanges are done with similar sites with both sites placing a link to the other. Link exchanges have been penalized by search engines because of heavy spam but there still benefits to doing a link exchange, so don’t be afraid to try.

The best links to get our inbound one way links. These links are sometimes difficult to get because there is no exchange. It requires the other web site to link to you without you linking to them. Gaining one way links should rank near the top of your off-page optimization strategy.

In order to get one way links you have to get noticed. Getting noticed online is not a whole lot different than getting noticed off-line.

In order to get other sites to link to your site you have to provide unique original content on your site. One way to develop this content is to add a blog, Forum, or other method to regularly add content to your site. If you have a static web site it will be much more difficult to gain links.

Applying SEO techniques such as the above can bring great benefits. As an example if you are trying to optimize a site that sells vitamins. The first step would be researching highly ranked competitors. After analyzing their sites you can use their blog or forum to determine what topics are hot. Typically in these community sites hot topics will draw quite a bit of traffic and comments from readers.

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Tags: inbound links, Linking Strategies