Using Pay-per-Click Search-Engine Services

One of the best methods of increasing your site traffic is to use the pay-per-click services offered by many search engines. Most of them allow you to bid on key words or phrases that users are likely to search for. The highest bidder gets the highest ranking in the search results, and pays the search engine every time someone clicks on their link. Here are some basic guidelines:

• Choose your keywords carefully. Pick terms that apply to your site's content or your visitors' interests. It is vitally important that you understand what your customers are looking for, or what problems they might be trying to solve, when you generate keyword lists. Now, it's true that the most obvious and popular keywords tend to be the most expensive. You can benefit by thinking of more specific, but less obvious, search terms that will convert higher for you at a lower cost, but only if they match your site's content. For help in picking keywords, you can use tools like those offered by Overture and Wordtracker. You should also look at what terms your competitors are bidding on, and monitor referring URLs to your Web site.

• Closely track your ROI. Most search engines allow you to group similar keywords and monitor their performance at either the group or individual level. Additionally, Associates tracking tags allow you to track your Web site's performance or that of different keyword campaigns at a greater level of granularity. (For information on how to obtain tracking tags, see our FAQ.) Consult your Associates reports to see how many visitors to your site ultimately made a purchase. If your average conversion is 1%, then bidding 5 cents per click for a placement in a search engine's listings will cost you around $5 per sale. If you're making over $5 per sale, you're in good shape. If you're not, you'll need to continue to optimize your site. It is important to track your results at a level that allows you to easily understand what is working, and if you are making money. This will allow you to eliminate unprofitable keywords quickly.

• See where the traffic is. Search engine traffic has become greatly concentrated over the last couple of years. These sites all offer pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion services and are widely used by consumers: Google, Overture (a Yahoo Company), LookSmart.

Finally, it's often a good idea to start small and test a handful of keywords before you invest too much money and time in pay-per-click campaigns. While they can be a lucrative way to drive traffic, they can also be risky if your traffic isn't ultimately converting into. For some additional tips, click here to read how fellow Associate Art World Chicago successfully used paid search results to make money.

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Optimize to Get the Most from Search Engines

One of the most cost-effective ways to drive traffic to your Web site is to optimize it for search engines. Many of them use automated programs called "crawlers" or "spiders" to create an index of the Web, which they use to determine what sites are most relevant to users' queries. These programs essentially visit Web sites, read the pages' content, and follow any links to other pages, repeating the process on the sites where they end up. By also retrieving information on link destinations and frequency, among other things, the search engines are able to better "understand" Web sites than if they only took site text into account. Therefore, the key to better placement in search results is making sure it is easy for crawlers to gather useful information about your site. Search engines particularly take into account the location and frequency of keywords on your pages in determining your site's relevance. Here are some specific things you can do to optimize your Web site:

• Get yourself a good domain name. Not surprisingly, URLs containing clear keywords generally perform better than those that appear random or are excessively long. And in addition to getting you higher placement in search results, having its own domain name gives your site added credibility. You'll want to make sure the name you choose logically pertains to the subject matter of your site, isn't too long to remember, and isn't easily misspelled. Use keywords that a crawler will understand, and try to avoid numerals or abbreviations.

• Choose keyword-rich titles for your pages. The [TITLE]; element that appears in your page headers is often used by search engines as the text for their link to your Web site. (As an example, the title of http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/?node=11091801 is "Amazon.com: Musical Instruments.") When you just use "Home Page," your company name, or something similarly uninformative, you are missing an opportunity to drive traffic to your site, since search engines weight [TITLE] elements heavily when determining the relevance of a page to a user's search. Therefore, try to make your titles easy to understand and rich in the keywords that your customers will be searching for.

• Add META elements to your site. Make use of description and keyword properties in your headers' META elements. META name="description" content="[a brief description of your site]" is often used by search engines to determine what your site is about. META name="keywords" content="[a list of relevant keywords]" is used less frequently by search engines, but can also help boost your site's relevance in their eyes. In writing a description and choosing keywords, think about how customers will be looking for information on your site, and choose specific terms that will attract traffic. You may want to use research tools like Wordtracker to help you in this. Avoid using the same set of keywords on every page of your site, however--they should be tailored to each page's specific content.

• Content matters. You will also benefit from providing rich content on your site. It is important that you include at least a few paragraphs of copy that is visible to crawlers and full of keywords, which will enable search engines to better classify your pages. Use the keywords you included in your <META> elements, and don't be afraid to use them many times within your copy. But, of course, what you write should make sense and be easy to digest, as readability is vital. You should also display text on your site as text, not as images, which crawlers cannot read. Use <ALT> tags for pictures you do use, so that crawlers can get some information out of them, and incorporate HTML navigation wherever it is possible, even if this means adding redundant navigation at the bottom of your pages.

• Leverage links. Web sites that are linked to from lots of other sites are often deemed more popular and get a higher ranking in search results. However, more important than the number of links is the quality of those links. Contact owners of other Web sites that score highly for key phrases related to your content, and ask them if they will provide a link back to your site. Make sure, too, that the content on your own site is properly linked together. Crawlers will often start with your home page and then follow links from there to other areas of your site. Therefore, if you fail to provide working links to all your pages, some of your content may end up unindexed.

• Register your site. Once you've built and optimized your Web site, it's best to manually register your site with major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, the Open Directory Project at DMOZ.org, LookSmart, and Ask Jeeves, or have a partner like Submitnet to do it for you. Registration doesn't take long, but do be careful to follow the instructions provided by each engine, as they are all a little different. Careless mistakes could keep your site from being indexed properly, or at all.

• Avoid pitfalls. Your goal is to increase your search-engine rankings, not to decrease them, but there are some things you can do that will accomplish just that. For example, some search engines don't index dynamic content on framed pages. If this applies to your site, therefore, think about ways to modify it so that it can be more easily indexed, or create alternate, crawler-friendly versions of your pages. Also, keep in mind that many search engines are familiar with common spamming techniques, like hidden text and irrelevant metadata, and will take appropriate action when pages using them are detected in their indexes.

• Be patient. Above all, remember to be patient! There's no magic bullet for getting the top spot in search engine indexes. If you've spent a lot of time optimizing your Web site and you still aren't seeing results, it may not make sense spending more time tweaking it so it will surface higher. There are other ways for you to drive traffic to your site on which your time would be better spent.

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10 Ways to Brand Your Blog or Website Efficiently

On the latest State of the Blogosphere report, Technorati claimed that they are tracking over 133 million blogs. That is a freaking lot of them. If we take into consideration standard websites as well, this number will be even bigger. The result? Hundreds, if not thousands of blogs and websites on virtually every single niche on the web.

You can also bet that a good percentage of those will be offering outstanding quality content just like you do, so the competition is fierce.

Under those circumstances, how can you make sure that your blog or website will stand out of the crowd and attract visitors?

In one word: branding.

Bricks and mortar businesses have discovered the importance of branding decades ago, but on the web this is a relatively new trend (just five years ago you didn’t have that many websites around after all).

Below we are going to cover 10 ways to brand your blog or website efficiently.

1. Having a Clear Purpose

You must have a crystal clear vision about the purpose of your website, and you must communicate that to the visitors as well. They must know why they are visiting your website. Why it is worth their time.

“I am going to write about tech” ain’t going to cut it. What part of technology you are going to write about? Gadgets? Web 2.0? What angle you are going to have? Breaking news? Deep analysis? Where will the value to your readers come from?

You need to be able to answer to those questions easily.

Your aim is to make people associate a concept or thing with your website. If I say online video, you are going to think YouTube. If I say funny pictures of cats, you are going to think I Can Has Bheezburger. If I say gadgets, you are going to think Engadget or Gizmodo.

You get the idea. Now you must make this with your own website. It is not easy, and it takes time, but you should always keep this principle in mind.

2. Being Consistent with the Writing Style

There are many studies confirming that the writing part of a blog or website is one of the main parameters that readers use to determine the overall quality of that site.

You need to be consistent with your writing style if you want to strength your brand with it. It does not matter if you write bringing your personal experiences aboard or if you try to keep a more neutral tone, the important thing is to be consistent with it.

If you read tech blogs frequently, I am sure you would be able to tell a post from TechCrunch and one from Mashable apart just by looking at the writing style right? That is what branding is all about.

This point is particularly important to blogs that have more than one author.

3. Sticking with Your Tagline

Using a tagline is not mandatory, although it can help if you come up with a really catchy and descriptive one (check The Best Website Taglines Around the Internet if you need some inspiration).

The important thing, however, is that you stick with it. It got stick in people’s heads. If you change your tagline every other month, people won’t remember it, and they might even get confused about it.

If you are going to use a tagline, you could also consider adding it to the title tag of your website. This will make sure that the tagline will be displayed on search engines when users come across your site, reinforcing the message that you want to pass.

4. Investing Money in a Good Logo

Just like medieval castles used to be identified by their flags, websites are identified by their logos. If you have limited money to spend on design, make sure that the logo is your top priority.

These days you can get good looking logos for as low as $100 (obviously though that the more you spend the higher the quality you should get).

The logo is important because it is the first thing that visitors pay attention to, and usually it is also the image that will stick on their mind once they are gone.

Additionally, whenever people mention your website on blog, they will consider using your logo as an illustration on the article, meaning that the logo itself will characterize your site even on external places. The image on top of this article is an example.

5. Using a Favicon

Most modern browsers support favicons, therefore you should make use of them. Try to adapt your logo, or use the initials of the name of your site, and put them on the favicon.

Favicons are also important because they will appear on the bookmark section of your users, enabling them to recognize your website more easily among the hundreds of others.

If you are not sure how to create or implement a favicon, read How to Create a Favicon.

6. Making the Design Match the Content

The overall look and feel of your design must match the content. If you plan to talk about stock markets, it would be weird to have flowers on the background image right?

Identify what your core audience is going to be, and design around their perceptions and preferences. If you are going to write for professionals or older people, perhaps a traditional newspaper look would be a good choice. If your readers will be younger, a more colorful design could be used. And so on.

7. Being Consistent with the Colors

Make sure to choose a color palette and to stick with it. Colors and moods are very easy to be remembered, so use this in your favor.

You could use the main color on the links, on the favicon, on the footer and so on. If you are going to create special images or badges for the website, make them match the overall color pattern.

Through out the years it is probably that you will need to give a face-lift to you design. That is fine, as long as you keep consistent with the color readers will still feel at home, and your brand will be kept intact.

You can get more information about color palettes and suggestions on ColourLovers.

8. Using Your Website’s Name on Social Media

Are you going to use Twitter? FriendFeed? Facebook? If you are, you could create an account on each of those services specifically for your website.

Social networks are a big online trend, and probably one that will last. If you manage to get your site inside those networks, your brand will rejoice.

Here is a good example: Michael Arrington is a web celebrity, but instead of creating social networking accounts on his name, he always create them as “TechCrunch,” reinforcing his brand across those platforms.

9. Spending Money on Advertising

If branding was easy, companies around the world would not spend billions of dollars every year on advertising right?

It is possible to create a strong brand without spending money on advertising, but paid promotional efforts can certainly make you reach this goal easier and faster.

If you don’t have a big budget, you could consider spending money only during the launch and on the first few months. Use the money to kick start your brand, and after that work with the content and free methods.

One advantage of paid advertising is that it allows you to deliver a specific message to a specific audience. If you purchase a banner on a popular blog, for example, you know who will be reading that, and you can tailor your words to pass your brand to those readers.

10. Spreading it Everywhere

Branding is psychological, meaning that you will need to get inside people’s heads. Sometimes this will inevitably be a numbers game. That is, the more exposure you manage to give to your brand in front of the web users, the longer it will stick with them.

Practically speaking, use your website name and logo in a many different places as possible. Put the link on your email signatures. Write guest articles for popular blogs and put your website name on the byline. Talk about your website in online forums. Purchase advertising banners. Stamp tshirts with your website logo on it and so on.

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SEO secrets to make money online

Googles analytics data shows that more than 50% of the traffic for their sites comes through the search engines. Search engines are very important and the number 1 way to get high quality free traffic to your website. Below are some of things I do to get a high ranking in the search engines.

Unique Fresh High Quality Content

You need to find ways to target your readers. If your site is about printers, have pictures of the different types available in the market, the advantages and disadvantages of having one at home, the cost factor etc. It is also good to have links of pages with relevant content pasted on your page which will provide more information to the reader. If you wish to promote this as an online business opportunity, the content of the page plays a very important role. Many of us get an idea about the page based on its content. You can even have other sites linking your website to their webpage if they find the content informative and useful.

Make the Best of your Website

You need to make the best of your website if you plan to make money online. The webpage should contain keywords or phrases which people commonly use to search for some material. Usage of too many keywords will also cramp your site and will give a confused output. It is also believed that meta description does not add any extra value to your site. Just ensure you use the relevant keywords which will help you make your extra dollars.

Link to other pages

Having links in your webpage can help you make money online. You can even paste links to lead you to other web pages in your text page. Having an internal link means you can link the other pages of your site to your homepage. This will help the person browse the complete website. By doing this internal linking, you get a higher search engine ranking and this is very useful for your online business opportunity. This is a good marketing technique which many of us fail to adopt.

There are different ways you can use SEO to make money online. You can really succeed in your business by making good use of link building and SEO. Your aim should be to place your site in the top few pages of the search engine and this can be done with good amount of knowledge, time and effort. Keywords are the key to success in SEO.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Optimizing your website is not really that difficult, there are many search engine optimization techniques, or SEO techniques, that can be employed even by a novice webmaster with limited html skills and the will to learn new things.
This article will deal with the on page search engine optimization techniques, or seo techniques that you employ on your website to make it more search engine friendly. While off page search engine optimization, or SEO that is performed through the use of other websites, such as with link building; is vitally important. Proper optimization of on page elements of your website should be considered the foundation which you build all other search engine marketing (SEM) methods on.

Page title optimization

all of the seo techniques that you can employ on your website, the title tag is largely undisputed as being the most important element of on page optimization. The title tag should be different for every page of your website and it should be keyword focused with the most important keywords at the beginning of the title.
It's somewhat disputed amongst professional SEO's whether there should be multiple keyword phrases within the title or only the two or three that directly relate to the page that the title represents; as of this moment in time there seems to be proof that either of these methods can be beneficial.

Use of heading

the headings tags are considered an important aspect of your website's optimization. These start out at <h1> and continue down in order of importance to the <h6> tag. While the content contained within headings tags are not weighted as heavily as the title tag, headings still have considerable power for keyword focusing of your content in the eyes of many search engines.
Headings tags should be keyword focused, and as with the page title, important keywords should be kept towards the beginning of the heading tag. Your most important headings should be used with the <h1> tag and the less important headings can be used with the <h2> tag, the <h3> tag and so on. An important note, however: your page title and headings should not be identical. Mixing and matching of keyword phrases is the recommended practice when employing our search engine optimization techniques with the title and the headings.

Content is king - website content optimization

Maybe the phrase "content is king" is slightly overdone, and often times it's used out of context, however, creating keyword focused and optimized content is one of the more important search engine optimization techniques that you can employ for your website.
Keyword focusing is a big factor when optimizing your website content. For instance, this article is about search engine optimization techniques. If you'll look back and read though this article you'll notice the phrase search engine optimization techniques purposely being placed throughout the article's body. This is the keyword focusing aspect of creating optimized website content.
Search engines are pretty smart, and they're getting smarter every day. What this means for website content optimization is that keyword focusing isn't enough anymore. In order to help improve the relevancy of your website's content for certain keywords and phrases, you should also work to incorporate related keyword phrases as well into the content. Taking our example of this articles keyword phrase focus � search engine optimization techniques, you'll notice that phrase as well as SEO techniques and SEO being used in lieu of search engine optimization. Basically, when you're looking to optimize your website content, you'll want to use natural substitutions of your main keywords and phrases that you might find on other websites about the same topic.

Use of sitemaps / link directory

, but not least on our list of search engine optimization techniques is the use of a website sitemap. There are actually two types of sitemaps that you can use for your website, and we'll touch on both of them here.

Sitemaps for search engines

Sitemaps built for search engines, such is the case with Google sitemaps, help search engines to easily find all of the pages of your website so that your pages can be indexed. While the use of Google sitemaps is pretty popular amongst a certain sub-culture in the webmaster world, the need for this type of sitemap really isn't needed. In fact, you can get the same results or even better results from using a different type of sitemap.

Sitemaps for people and search engines

Let's say you have a fairly large website; some 30 pages, maybe more. It's generally recommended that every page on your website is no more than two clicks from your homepage. Maintaining a link to every page of your website on your homepage simply isn't an option when you have a large website for cosmetic reasons, let alone overall user friendliness. In order to achieve the "two clicks" recommendation, you absolutely need a sitemap.
Not only will a sitemap help users find the less popular pages on your website, in terms of search engine optimization techniques, the use of a static sitemap is just a good idea. You also have the ability to work on keyword focusing for the anchor text used to link to your internal pages, another one of the many search engine optimization techniques that will help you improve your website for SEO.
While the search engine optimization techniques listed on this page are not exhaustive, the seo techniques listed here will give you a much needed advantage in improving the overall search engine friendliness of your website. All things considered, using the techniques outlined here will give you a solid foundation for any off page search engine optimization methods that you choose to employ.

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Doing blog topics General Blog Vs Doing Special topic, Where to?

How do your holiday yesterday? I'm sure is fun. Together the family may return to your home and enjoy having missed the sate goat or cow. Oh yes, although late, harmless if I congratulate Hari Raya Idul Adha is celebrated for.
Hopefully this important moment able to strengthen our belief that to achieve a goal, we must be brave and want to sacrifice. To be successful in business, internet, we should like to focus sacrifice, devote energy, thoughts, time, and the funds that we have.
Last week we had with the discussing about the blog platform of choice: blogger or wordpress. Extraordinary response from you all. Many who choose the idea, but not a few select bloggers. Now, let's obrolkan back on the blog. This time, the topic on the blog. In general, there are two topics of a trend of election blog: Doing blog topic and the general topic of special Ber.
Doing blog is a common topic of a blog that the contents are not restricted in a certain field. But some areas can be at once and not related to one another. For instance, a blog that contains about culinary, attractions, and software.
Usually this blog manifold personal blog or personal. That is, this blog is intended for fulfilling the desires of the personal blogger. If the owner has a myriad interests, from business, political, economic, computer, and various other matters, all included in a blog is.
Do choose a topic for public blog?
    1. The target readers are very knowledgeable. Or in other words the possibility of visiting the blog is very large. Because the target readers are not only interested in one topic only, but some topics. So, should blog Doing general topic can reach a high traffic link and a link that many.
    2. Easier to write. Because of broad topics, then for the blogger should be easier to write. The blog owners need not worry the lack of any ideas that will be written. When the mood is not one topic, can write other topics.
While the blog Doing specific topics that contain specific topics. For example, on the internet business, the business is discussed on the Internet only. If the topic of visual design, for example, it is written is not far-distant around it.
If the blog Doing special topics, what benefits?
    1. The preferred search engine. Search engine pleased that specific blog. When browsing to a blog search engine spider will identify a blog about what. Spider will also examine the links that link to get there. Are accordance with the topic of the blog or not. And this affects the blog page Rank.
    2. Can be a specialist. Doing blog has a specific topic allows you to become a specialist in the field. And when your credibility and reputation as a recognized expert, you will be asked to place other people. Without the shrink will also recommend them to friends to visit your blog. Campaign for free and certainly the additional traffic flow to your blog.
    3. Have loyal visitors. As a fellow owner of a field, you will be surrounded by loyal visitors. Means the level of visits to your blog will never be quiet. They are your friends. Even though you positioned as a specialist, but the relationship is built equivalent. This means, you are obliged to building a good relationship and interact with them.
Now, the blog Doing some of the excess general and special topics. My suggestion, you better have a blog Doing special topics. For the world, blogging and the Internet led to specialization. If you have a lot of interest, I recommend making more than one blog.
How? Blog your learner types or special general topic? Or you have other opinions?

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10 Easy Ways To Promote Your Website For Cheap Or Free

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TITLE: 10 Easy Ways To Promote Your Website For Cheap Or Free
AUTHOR: Jen Merkel, Freelance Writer
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"10 Easy Ways To Promote Your Website For Cheap Or Free"
� 2004 Jen Merkel
You've built your website and you're quite proud of it. The graphics look nice, it has a few interesting pieces of information and it showcases your subject perfectly. But how do you draw people to it and get that hit counter climbing without breaking the bank? You�ve got your meta tags in place but you just can�t afford to pay the humungous fee to be a featured advertiser on a mega-search engine. Here are a few easy and quick ways to publicize your website which are either cheap or free.
1. Link Exchanges
One of the most effective ways to get traffic moving into your site is to list it as a link on other sites of interest to your target market. If you don't already know of another site similar to yours, just do a Google search using a few appropriate keywords. By using Google to do a search on the words "link exchange" you will also find entire sites � some free, some with a fee � with directories of sites willing to exchange links. Once you find a site, see if they have a links page and scan it to make sure yours would be a good fit. Usually instructions on exchanging links are somewhere on the website, but if they're not simply e-mail the webmaster or site owner and ask if they have a link exchange program. Be sure your site does not compete with theirs. After all, you will have to reciprocate with a link to their site on your own. Corporate sites don't normally do link exchanges, you will have much better luck with a site owned by an individual or small business. If you don't have a banner, you can create one for free online. A very user-friendly site for this is www.addesigner.com, but there are several others out there as well.
2. Join a Web-Ring
Web-Rings are a way of driving traffic to your site from others similar to yours. You simply place a web-ring banner on your home page using specified HTML code and you�re automatically part of the network. When a visitor clicks on the web-ring banner at one member�s site, they are directed to the next site in the web-ring, potentially yours. There are some things to consider when joining a web-ring. For example, when one of your site�s viewers clicks on your web-ring banner, they are being directed off your site onto someone else�s. If you join a web-ring, find one matching the interests of your target market that doesn�t have a large number of members competing with you. For example, if your site sells aquariums, join a site for tropical fish enthusiasts rather than one with for people who sell pet products.
3. Host a Contest
Everyone loves to win a contest, and if yours offers something of value to your target market you can spark a lot of interest. The prize doesn't have to be big - maybe a $10.00 gift certificate, a set of books, a pretty piece of jewelry you purchased on closeout, or of course one of your products. You may be able to get prize donations from your link partners or others in your network simply by offering them credit and a link on your site throughout the contest. It's also smart to offer extra entries to a contestant if they refer someone else � word of mouth (or e-mail) is extremely powerful!
4. Win an Award
This may take some legwork on your part, but it could be well worth it in the end. If your site is rich in content and appealing to the eye, you have a good chance of winning some sort of web award. Simply do your Google search on "website award" or "site of the day" and research the links for application procedures. If you win, the payoff will be the privilege of posting an award banner on your home page for all to see. The site hosting the award will literally be sending visitors to you by way of a link.
5. Put a Link in Your Signature Line
The easiest and quickest way to get publicity for your site is to put a link in your signature line. Every e-mail you send will announce your site, and including an enticing one-line ad such as "enter our contest to win a $10.00 gift certificate" will likely increase your traffic.
6. Join an E-mail Group
In case you aren't familiar with e-mail groups, they are basically networks of people with a common interest or purpose, using e-mail to communicate to each other. Using a single e-mail address, you can send a message to a whole group of people with interests similar to yours. Rest assured, no matter what your target market is, there is an e-mail group for it. It is important to keep in mind that most frown upon advertising and all ban spamming, however you are usually allowed to put a link in your signature line and make special announcements. Just be sure you actually contribute to the discussion - don't just assume you can use the list for free advertising or you will be shunned very quickly. Two of the most popular websites for e-mail groups are Yahoo Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) and Topica (http://www.topica.com), both of which offer free memberships.
7. Publish a Newsletter
It can be sent daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, but be sure you send it out on a regular basis. Mine is published weekly on Fridays without fail. My readers have learned to look for it and I'd never consider letting them down by missing a deadline. Aside from being consistent, it is a cardinal rule to offer something of value to your readership. Don't use it solely as a venue for advertising � there are plenty of places to put text links and banner ads within it. To maintain readers, you will need to include some helpful information as well. If you aren't much of a writer, there are articles available on the web that are free for publication, providing you include a link to the writer's website and a promotional paragraph. If you have a hard time finding these, consider posting a call for submissions on writers' websites offering $5.00 and free promotion via a byline. You will be pleasantly surprised how many people respond with fresh and well-written ideas.
8. Purchase Advertising
Think advertising is expensive? Think again. There are countless inexpensive opportunities for advertising on the Internet. Start by looking for sites which target the same market you do, providing they don't directly compete with yours. Chances are they have a link for people interested in advertising on their site. If you can�t find it, simply e-mail the webmaster or site owner and inquire. Another option is to do a search on eBay. Many sites put banner ad placement on auction. You can find ad spots on eBay for as little as $5.99, but remember, it is an auction, and someone could easily beat you out. I recently saw a banner ad auction get up to $269.00. Don�t forget however, because it�s an auction, you have the power to limit the amount you will pay a your maximum bid. It is important to have a banner ready to go, since you will usually need to obtain permission from the website�s owner before bidding on the auction. Always read the terms of the auction carefully, to make sure you understand the dates your banner will be up and exactly where it will be placed.
9. Promoting Your Business Using an Online Network
Just starting to catch on is a unique way to network with other small businesses by way of shared advertising. The basic idea is to swap business cards, flyers, or coupons (called "fillers") for your site with other small business owners. They will put your fillers in their customer orders and you will put their fillers in your orders. Many groups put together bags or packs with a compilation of member fillers along with other goodies the recipient will enjoy. These can be given out at area businesses, schools, day care centers, parties... the list is endless. If you have trouble finding a networking group think about starting one of your own.
10. Write an Article
With a little work and a free morning, you should be able to put together a couple of paragraphs for a "how-to" piece on your area of expertise. Just be certain it somehow relates to your website. Use your article in your own newsletter or search on writers' websites for sites or e-zines looking for articles that may be a good fit for your piece. Whether or not they pay for publication they will be an excellent way to get the word out about your site. Just be sure to keep your byline brief and don't reference your website within your article unless absolutely necessary.
Jen Merkel is a freelance writer living in Chandler, Arizona with her husband and two children. Working from her virtual office, Jen offers business writing services (press releases, proposals, etc.) as well as assistance with meeting and incentive planning. Please visit her website at http://jenmerkel.bravehost.com or send her an email at jen.merkel@cox.net.

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Jen Merkel lives in Chandler, Arizona with her husband and two children. Working from her virtual office, she offers business writing services (such as press releases, reports and proposals) as well as meeting planning assistance. Please visit her website at http://jenmerkel.bravehost.com or email her at jen.merkel@cox.net.

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How to Get the Commission in the Amazon Associates?

Perhaps there among you who have not yet know how to identify associates, Amazon affiliate ID on it. This is necessary because we do not know until we are tired, tired of the Amazon affiliate tide but it can not commission from the sales only because one place affiliate id in the links that we installed on the website.
Previously there things that I want to inform, actually how Amazon affiliate id is treated by Amazon. What happens with our referral id if there are customers who come through the Amazon link to the product that you plug in the blog or website of your online store. Approximately the following description, hopefully I make confused: P
* Note: "Amazon is paid a commission if the status of its' Shipping '(purchase / items paid) is not' Order '(new items into the cart, but not yet paid)"
Condition 1:
If there are customers / customer came to the Amazon site through your referral link, then Amazon will mengindentifikasi each customer purchases, the commission will be paid to you. And identification is valid for 24 hours.
     * Although the customer is leaving the Amazon, and then enter more directly to amazon.com, during the 24 hours - you are still entitled to a commission if a purchase from the customer. :)
     * If the entrance to the amazon.com again through your link, then the first 24 hours was lost, and replaced with 24 hours of the new link since the last was in the click by customers.
     * But if the customer entrance to the amazon.com link from the referral id other people, although not yet 24 hours, the commission is not paid to you but the other was en who can commission rules and 24-hour fall ketangan referral id of the other.
Condition 2:
If there are customers who come to the Amazon site through your referral link, and placing the items in his cart customers, but Amazon and then leave the website before making a purchase, then:
     * Items in the cart before the name will remain on the referral id for you for 90 days.
     * But if the purchase is made after 90 days by the customer, then you will not get a commission from Amazon.
What also needs to be, although in case you install only one link in the Amazon product website or blog, and some visitors who click on a product that Amazon, and Amazon's website in his search for and buy products that Amazon another (say, he bought a total of 10 items / products) from the Amazon website, then you will get the commission up to 10 items.
Once again, need to know, that in this Amazon affiliate internet marketing, including in kategory PPS (Pay-Per-Sale) = commission paid to the affiliate member if there is a transaction product sales from the affiliate.
What, you want to try? :)

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10 quick tips to make your website user friendly for search

1. Design your website to be compatible with the largest number of viewers. Have the resolution set to 800x600.
2. Avoid large graphic files, pictures, and fancy applets that make pages load slowly.
3. Be creative with your design but keep your hyperlinks in the normal blue color which means they have not been selected and purple which means they have been.
4. Optimize your graphics so they load fast.
5. Use bullets, descriptive headlines, and sub texts to make your page easy to read and find information.
6. Red and yellow should not be used on your website, these bright colors cause the human eye to strain and it will be tiring to look at your page.
7. Make your hyperlinks short; select one or two words to use in the hyperlink.
8. Make sure to put your contact info on the bottom of each page. Your website address, email, name, and physical address this makes visitors to your site much more comfortable. It lends credibility.
9. If you are selling something it should take less than three clicks to get to the order form.
10. Don't use frames on websites. They are confusing for visitors to navigate and search engines won't look past your front page, so you will have poor search engine ranking because of it.

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10 Tips Make Your Blog The Famous and Great Success

You have a blog? And the blog you want to experience great success? Surely you will all nod nod and replied, "Yes!" Well, then certainly the questions of how to do next?
If true, such as that which you ask, please continue reading.
As I said before, I will tell you how to create blogs quickly known and most successful meraup. I write to you in a short and easy to understand quickly. And immediate action can-kannya. This is a trick-kiatnya ...
    1. Create links to other blogs. Especially to the blog that trafficnya high and the same topics with your blog.
    2. Berlombalah so that the first comments. Do this especially in the many visitors. Because the comments you will read by other visitors. If your comment interesting, they would go directly to your blog.
    3. Fishing for their comments.

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Select Where, Blogger or Wordpress?

For the first time like blogging, may want to create confusion where the blog. Because many options are offered. Start from the outside blog providers such as Blogger, Wordpress, Multiply, Blogdrive, to the local as BlogGaul, BlogBoleh, Seconds, and Dagdigdug.
Among the many options that blogging, this time let's review and obrolkan blog providers on the two most widely used today, namely, the blogger and wordpress. What are the similarities both? And what they overdelivery be both?
In any vote, most of us would choose the good and (if it can be) free. Both the general criteria was certainly be fulfilled and bloggers idea. But in addition to two yesterday, both have other similarities. What?
    1. Easy to use. Both are equally easy to use. It's you type in the word processing program. Before the post is published, you can also see the review of his first. Making it is not difficult. We live just follow the instructions in several steps, so be it.
    2. Available options template (theme). Both have the option theme. However, the amount, there are many more options in Wordpress. Template or theme, it actually can we change the template with other outstanding on the internet.
In addition, bloggers have advantages on:
    1. Can change the design. Edit the file with the style (CSS), we can change the design as we want.
    2. Adsense can be made. Peraup majority of money from AdSense using the blog for free, usually using bloggers. Perhaps because bloggers and adsense is equally owned by Google. So it easier for adsense approved it. It can not actually be, but must use a paid version.
It can have advantages are, among others:
    1. The existence of the feature category. The existence of the category will make the owners and visitors to the blog. Blog owners to easily determine the scope of the topic will be discussed. For visitors, this feature is easier to find specific topics of interest. The idea, this feature automatically appears. In any blogger can actually established, but need a little business.
    2. Easy to communicate. According to me this is one of the most important advantages idea. That can make pingback or Trackback. Because, in reality the owners of each blog is a social creature. Like to mingle with other owners blog. In addition, comments, and do pingback Trackback are other ways to communicate with other blog owners.
    3. There are statistics. Available at the idea that you can plug in the statistics show, either daily, weekly, or monthly. There is also information about the total area of each page and keywords. All this information is important to monitor the development of your blog. So you can take the appropriate action for the development of your blog.

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What is the difference Website With Blog?

Sometimes there is a difference between asking what the website with a blog?
According to me only fair, because every day that there is only a start using the Internet, there is still ibaratnya for a mother who delivered the baby, the question will still appear during the technology and the term is still used.
What is clear, I certainly website, the website and blog do not necessarily add hee ... confused truck race: p
And information such as what can explain the difference between the website and blog so that can easily be understood by the right (the term for someone who falls into a new virtual world activity or the Internet)
Nutshell explanation about biography:
Website
Writing in the dictionary actually consists of two words Web Site, because WEB itself is a short from the World Wide Web (WWW abbreviated), but it is used in general writing it into the website.
I also often use writing website (combined) in my blog because many internet users who use the writing on the website when searching for information on search engines. :)
In general the website is divided into 2 style / model / type = Website Static and Dynamic Website
Static Website
The information in the web page is changed periodically in a certain period of time. And to make changes to the content other than the basic skills required designing web, the software also usually use a text editor such as Notepad, FrontPage or Dreamweaver. In sum, the website visitors this model can not determine what information you want dilhatnya, and keep information on what is offered
Dynamic Website
His explanation may be long and confusing even later.
For convenience, examples of websites that use this model as the website forums, blogs, e-commerce, news, search engines, and many more.
So that can be clearly said that the blog is also the website, but its function may be different with the website, another website it. To create a blog service providers can use a popular blog such as Blogger or Wordpress.
Blog is short for "web log" is a form of a web application that resembles writings (published as a post) on a public web page. Writing is often loaded in the inverted sequence (the latest content first and then followed by new content older), although not necessarily so. Web sites such as this are usually managed by the private and can be accessed by all Internet users in accordance with the topics and goals of the user's blog is.

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