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Keyword Difficulty

2009-10-24T20:49:00.001-07:00

The wise choice of the right keywords you will optimize for is the first and crucial step to a successful SEO campaign. If you fail on this very first step, the road ahead is very bumpy and most likely you will only waste your (or your client's) money and time. There are many ways to determine which keywords to optimize for and usually the final list of them is made after a careful analysis of what the online population is searching for, which keywords have your competitors chosen and above all - which are the keywords that you feel describe your site best. All of this is great and certainly this is the way to go but if you want to increase your chances of success, additional research is never too much, especially when its results will save you the shots in the dark.
Dreaming High - Shooting the Top-Notch Keywords?

After you have made a long and detailed list of all the lucrative keywords that are searched by tens of thousands a day, do not hurry yet. It is great that you have chosen popular keywords but it would be even greater if you have chosen keywords for which top positioning is achievable with reasonable effort. If you have many competitors for the keywords you have chosen, chances are, no matter how hard you try, that you will hardly be able to overtake them and place your site amongst the top ten results. And as every SEO knows, if you can't be on the first page (or on the second and in the worst case on the third one) of the organic search results, you'd better think again if the potential gain from optimization for those particular words is worth the effort. It is true that sometimes even sites that are after the first 50 results get decent traffic from search engines but it is certain that you can't count on that. And even if you somehow manage to get to the top, do you have any idea what it will take to keep the good results?

You can feel discouraged that all lucrative keywords are already occupied but it is too early to give up. Low-volume search keywords can be as lucrative as the high-volume ones and their main advantage is that you will have less competition. The SEO experts from Blackwood Productions confirm that it is possible with less effort and within budget to achieve much better results with low-volume search keywords than if you targeted the high-volume search ones. In order to do this, you need to make an estimate about how difficult it would be to rank well for a particular keyword.
Get Down to Earth

The best way to estimate how difficult it would be to rank well for a particular keyword is by using the appropriate tools. If you search the Web, you will see several keyword difficulty tools. Choose a couple of them, for instance Seochat's Keyword Difficulty Tool, Cached's Keyword Difficulty Tool and Seomoz's Keyword Difficulty Tool and off we go. The idea behind choosing multiple tools is not that you have so much free time that you need to find a way to waste it. If you choose only one tool, you will finish your research faster but having in mind the different results that each tool gives, you'd better double check before you start the optimization itself. The Seomoz's tool is a kind of complicated and if you want to use it you need to make several registrations but it is worth the trouble (and the patience - while you wait for the results to be calculated).

You may also want to check for several keywords or keyword phrases. You will be surprised to see how different the estimated difficulty for similar keywords is! For instance, if you are optimizing a financial site, which deals mainly with credits and loans, and some of your keywords are finance, money, credit, loan, and mortgage, running a check with the seochat's Keyword Difficulty Tool produces results like these (the percentages are rounded but you get the idea): finance - 89%, money - 76% credit - 74% loan - 66% mortgage - 65%.

It seems that the keyword finance is very tough and since your site is targeted at credits and loans and not on stock exchange or insurance, which are also branches of finance, there is no need to cry over the fact that it is very difficult to compete for the finance keyword.

The results were similar with the second tool, though it does not give percentages but uses a scale starting from Very Easy to Very Difficult. I did not check all the results with the third tool, because it seems that the seomoz report on keyword difficulty for a particular word needs ages to be compiled but the results were similar, so it becomes clear that it is more feasible to optimize for mortgage and loan, rather than for the broader term finance.

You may want to bookmark some of these tools for future use as well. They will be very useful to monitor possible changes on the keyword difficulty landscape. After you have optimized your site for the keywords you have selected, occasionally check again the difficulty of the keywords you are already optimizing for because the percentages are changing over time and if you discover that the competition for your keywords has increased, make some more efforts to retain the gained positions.

10 Ways to Get Traffic for Free

2009-10-24T20:35:00.002-07:00

Getting traffic is one of the most important tasks for any web master. What is more, you can't get traffic once and then just reap the benefits. Getting traffic is an ongoing task and you must be constantly doing it, if you want to get traffic and keep it. Here are some of the ways to get traffic for free:

1. Optimize your site for search engines.
Search engines have always been a major way to get traffic for free. That is why you need to do your homework and optimize your site so that it ranks well for the keywords you target. SEO is still the most powerful way to get traffic for free and you really need to invest some time and efforts in the optimization of your site. SEO is not that difficult and if you want to get familiar with it in a nutshell, check our SEO Tutorial. If you are too busy for that, you can start with the 15 Minute SEO article.

2. Frequently update the contents of your site.
If you expected some shocking secrets revealed, you might be a bit disappointed. One of the first steps in getting traffic for free is trivial but vital – get great content and frequently update it. In terms of SEO, content is king. If your content is good and frequently updated you will not only build a loyal audience of recurring visitors, who will often come to see what is new, but search engines will also love your site.

3. Take advantage of social bookmarking sites.
Social bookmarking sites (especially the most popular among them) are another powerful way to get traffic for free. If you want to learn how to do it, check the How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites article, where we have explained what to do if you want to get free traffic from sites such as Digg, Delicious, etc.

4. Use your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Social networks are also a way to get traffic for free. If you are popular on networks, such as Twitter or Facebook, the traffic you get from there can easily surpass the traffic from Google and the other search engines. It is true that building a large network of targeted followers on Twitter and supporters on Facebook takes a lot of time and effort but generally the result is worth.

5. Get links with other sites in your niche.
Another way to get traffic for free is from other sites in your niche. Getting links with other sites in your niche is also good for SEO, especially if you manage to get links without the famous nofollow attribute. But even if the links are nofollow (i.e. they are useless for SEO), they still help to get traffic to your site. If you manage to put your link in a visible place on a site with high volumes of traffic, you can get thousands of hits from this link alone. If you need list of sites within your niche where you could get backlinks from, check the Backlink Builder tool. However, be careful if you exchange links because linking to bad neighbors can do you a lot of harm.

6.Use any chance to promote your site for free.
Free promotion is always welcome, so don't neglect it. There are many ways to promote your site for free and some of the most popular ones include free classified ads, submissions to directories, inclusion in various listings, etc. It is true that not all free ways to promote your site work well but if you select the right places to promote your site for free, this can also result in tons of traffic.

7. Create a free product or service.
Content drives most traffic when you offer something useful. There are many types of useful content you can create and they largely depend on the niche of your site. You can have articles with tons of advice, or short tips but one of the most powerful ways to get traffic is to create a free product or service. When this product or service gets popular and people start visiting your site, chances are that they will visit the other sections of the site as well.

8. Use viral content.
Free products and services are great for getting free traffic to your site and one of the best varieties in this aspect is viral content. Viral content is called so because it distributes like a virus – i.e. when users like your content, they send it to their friends, post it on various sites, and promote it for free in many different ways. Viral content distributes on its own and your only task is to create it and submit it to a couple of popular sites. After that users pick it and distribute it for you. Viral content can be a hot video or a presentation but it can also be a good old article or an image.

9. Use offline promotion.
Offline promotion is frequently forgotten but it is also a way to get traffic for free. Yes, computers are everywhere and many people spend more time online than offline but still life hasn't moved completely on the Web. Offline promotion is also very powerful and if you know how to use it, this can also bring you many visitors. Some of the traditional offline ways to promote your site include printing its URL on your company's business cards and souvenirs or sticking it on your company vehicles. You can also start selling T-shirts and other merchandise with your logo and this way make your brand more popular.

10. Include your URL in your signature.
URLs in forum signatures are also a way to get traffic for free. There are forums, which get millions of visitors a day and if you are a popular user on such a forum, you can use this to get traffic to your site. When you post on forums and people like your posts, they tend to click the link to your site on your signature to learn more about you. In rare cases you might be able to post a deep link (i.e. a link to an internal page of the site) rather than a link to your homepage and this is also a way to focus attention to a particular page. Unfortunately, deep links are rarely allowed.

Getting traffic for free is a vast topic and it is not possible to list all the ways to do it. However, if you know the most important ways – i.e. the ways we discussed in this article and you apply them properly, it is guaranteed that you will be able to get lots of traffic for free.

How Search Engines Work

2009-10-24T20:33:00.000-07:00

The first basic truth you need to learn about SEO is that search engines are not humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how humans and search engines view web pages aren't. Unlike humans, search engines are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an idea what a site is about. This brief explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines perform several activities in order to deliver search results – crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.

First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by e piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20 billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified. Sometimes crawlers will not visit your site for a month or two, so during this time your SEO efforts will not be rewarded. But there is nothing you can do about it, so just keep quiet.
What you can do is to check what a crawler sees from your site. As already mentioned, crawlers are not humans and they do not see images, Flash movies, JavaScript, frames, password-protected pages and directories, so if you have tons of these on your site, you'd better run the Spider Simulator below to see if these goodies are viewable by the spider. If they are not viewable, they will not be spidered, not indexed, not processed, etc. - in a word they will be non-existent for search engines.
After a page is crawled, the next step is to index its content. The indexed page is stored in a giant database, from where it can later be retrieved. Essentially, the process of indexing is identifying the words and expressions that best describe the page and assigning the page to particular keywords. For a human it will not be possible to process such amounts of information but generally search engines deal just fine with this task. Sometimes they might not get the meaning of a page right but if you help them by optimizing it, it will be easier for them to classify your pages correctly and for you – to get higher rankings.
When a search request comes, the search engine processes it – i.e. it compares the search string in the search request with the indexed pages in the database. Since it is likely that more than one pages (practically it is millions of pages) contains the search string, the search engine starts calculating the relevancy of each of the pages in its index to the search string.
There are various algorithms to calculate relevancy. Each of these algorithms has different relative weights for common factors like keyword density, links, or metatags. That is why different search engines give different search results pages for the same search string. What is more, it is a known fact that all major search engines, like Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc. periodically change their algorithms and if you want to keep at the top, you also need to adapt your pages to the latest changes. This is one reason (the other is your competitors) to devote permanent efforts to SEO, if you'd like to be at the top.
The last step in search engines' activity is retrieving the results. Basically, it is nothing more than simply displaying them in the browser – i.e. the endless pages of search results that are sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant sites.

Maximize Your Potential

2009-10-24T20:24:00.001-07:00

The Internet is a global marketplace, and allows people living in small villages in one corner of the country to trade with someone half way across the globe in a similar village. Twenty years ago, such trading would have been enormously tricky and would have taken a lot of time – by which point a customer could well have reconsidered, or circumstances made the deal impossible. With the increase in efficiency that the Internet has brought it is now possible to move goods, services and money between nations at almost instantaneous speed. While this may have removed some of the browsing time, it does mean that you can make money quickly.

Although there are many reasons why people go into business, we would be kidding ourselves if we claimed that there was not one factor which motivated business above all others – money. Being able to make money at the click of a mouse has made the Internet an indispensable item for those who have become used to it – and there are several businesses now which will not trade any other way. The costs that a business used to incur have disappeared in large part, and every bit of money you make can be a profit if you do things the right way. The advantages that the Internet has bestowed on us are really quite startling.

The Internet is a way for potential businesspeople to maximize their potential and make money fast – money which they can use to streamline their business further, make more money, and make it faster.

Promotion Sites

2009-10-24T20:15:00.001-07:00

Promoting your business is something that will generally be important if you want to bring in customers and make a success of it. There are numerous ways of doing this, some of which are expensive and others which, as a matter of relief to the person looking to get a business up and running quickly and on a budget, are free of charge. Free promotion of a business has its drawbacks compared to when paying for it – it is less direct and will not be as prominent. On the other hand however, there are clear upsides to free advertising. For one, well, it is free, and for another it is really quite simple.

Getting free advertising is something that need only take half an hour – and that is allowing for writing the advertising copy and ensuring that it looks good. There are sites devoted to free advertising – two of the most famous being Gumtree and Craigslist. Both of these sites simply require you to write a short description of your business, prices and some contact details so that interested parties can get details from you and arrange a deal.

These sites make their money by placing advertisements on the site from companies who will pay for exposure in a setting where people are looking to conduct business. You make your money by placing an attractive advertisement that will make potential customers want to know more. After that it is a matter of handling enquiries and arranging deals. All of that for zero outlay, too. Isn’t it amazing?

Promotion is Important

2009-10-24T19:57:00.001-07:00

There have been people – many people – who have set up a website for their business and sat back expecting it to become lucrative immediately. While the Internet has made business a lot easier for the individual with the intellectual capital to make it happen, there is little scope for making money without investing time and effort. However, compared to setting up a High Street business, the Internet can deliver results for a relatively small outlay on your behalf. An advertising budget makes things easier – no-one would ever deny that – but it is certainly not essential. A bit of time and awareness will also bear results.

The Internet is crawling with forums and message boards. For just about any topic of conversation you can imagine, there will be at least a few message boards on the Internet, each slightly different in the way they look at the subject. Certainly, there will be a message board that discusses things that have a connection with your business. By registering on these forums, you can make your business known to a receptive audience. Many forums have anti-spam measures that prevent you from posting irrelevant content or linking without context, but there are no reasons why you cannot link to your business in the signature box that most allow beneath posts.

Depending on the nature of your business, the possibilities for promotion on the Internet are many and varied, and they make for a real opportunity to drive your business forward, usually at no extra cost to yourself.

Starting a Business From An idea ..!

2009-10-24T18:51:00.001-07:00

For those who intend to start a business, generally the first problem faced is the question of what businesses should run.
Questions that seem trivial are, in fact has a huge weight means and so determine the future of the company to be established it. In fact, likely to determine their own future entrepreneur. So, how is the best way to determine the field of business?

According to the logic, an effort likely to go smoothly is the level of effort a little competition, but the level of consumer demand high. Of course with the assumption that the determinants of others are met. In order to suppress the level of competition to as small as possible, then the product should be sold a product that has the original characteristics, has not been made by others, or if the product is a product that already exists, should have added value not possessed by the product competitors.

Many events show that the tendency of people to start businesses is to follow the trend given moment. For example, if today a lot of people set up shop (home-store), then assuming that demand much effort it would be beneficial, then a gang co-founder of shophouses. Patterns of thinking like this too oversimplify, as if to equate the business trends with fashion trends. In the field of fashion, if currently in vogue crew-cut hair cut (short cut) for example, there is no problem for anyone to imitate. However, if we follow the business sector have so many other people run it, then we go into a land that is already crowded with competition. It is difficult for us to grow in such a situation, especially when we are newcomers who are "late" (late).

Since the years 1970s, the pattern of "adherents trend" is a lot of people do on those areas which quickly became saturated, as established theater, nightclubs, taxis, commercial private radio stations, discotheques, founded the apartment, RSS (really simple house) , wartel (telecom shop) and others.

In the financial sector even fashionable for some good businessman or not, to go play the forex (foreign exchange), stock markets and even commodities. Not a little of their limited knowledge about these areas joining in play, then suddenly, without knowing anything about the reason, the money given can not be prevented disappear again. Something like this is too horrible to each candidate experienced by entrepreneurs who have ideals.

Alex S. Nitisemito in his book "Starting a Small Business With a Capital", provides a good example of an apple orchard owner who one day found a fallen apple birds ate the ground marks. Because of these apples were smelling the wine, there arose the idea to establish a business drinks apple juice.

Such an original idea. Not counterfeit or copied the ideas of others. Henry Ford started with the idea to create a good car for the masses with affordable prices, and business success. So is Bill Gates who wish to "computerize" the whole world, it flew so quickly became the king of universal computer.

Idea or ideas are not always just come unexpectedly, so people will not be able to know when the idea was to come. Do not wait for inspiration, or expect magic whisper in a dream while sleeping. The idea should be pursued, thinking and searchable. This corroborating evidence that entrepreneurship is the "brain work" rather than "muscle work". Ideas can come and happen at any time, then we must always be vigilant. Like the example above, the owner of the orchard is in a state of alert so that he could spark a big idea based on a small incident. If not, thousands of ex-eaten apple falling bird up ground, decomposing remains without meaning anything to anyone.!

From Keyword to Business Idea in 8 Steps

2009-10-22T21:01:00.002-07:00

Keyword research is incredibly effective for market research because the main reason people use search engines is to find solutions to their problems. And people with problems might be willing to pay money to solve them.

But there are so many ways of expressing the same problem. "Cat food" could also be "cat treats," "food for kitty," "organic cat food." Someone who needs to feed a cat could use any of those terms in their search, or hundreds of others--and search engines record every one of them. That means there's a mountain of data about what people are searching for--and it's all waiting to be analyzed. That's why initial keyword research is a crucial first step if you're just starting an online business.

Low-cost research tools, like Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker, and BeBiz, make sense of all the data the search engines provide. With that knowledge, you can uncover untapped niche markets by finding problems a lot of people are seeking answers to--and not getting many results. If you find a hungry market first, and develop a product to serve that market, you've already won half the battle.

Keyword research in a nutshell

1. Use one word to describe a passion or interest, e.g., dog.
2. Combine your interest word with "how" to generate problem statements in your keyword research tool, e.g., "how dog." We use Google's free AdWords Keyword Tool for this brainstorming process.
3. Record the "action words" that come up, e.g., "how wash dog," "how housetrain dog.". These are terms that people are using to search the internet to solve a problem they have.
4. From that list, choose some problems that you have the interest, knowledge, or skill to solve, e.g., "train dog."
5. Find as many ways as possible to express your interest word and your action word, e.g., training, educate, teach, show, obedience, commands, stop. To find similar terms quickly and easily, try entering each term into Thesaurus.com or the new Google Sets.
6. Enter your interest-plus-action phrases into your paid keyword tool--you'll get a long list of real searches that people are doing in the area you're focusing on, e.g., "stop Pomeranian yapping," "teach dog cute tricks," "paper train puppy."
7. Organize the top keywords into groups according to the action being performed, e.g., barking, basic obedience, tricks, housetraining, professional dog training, puppy training, etc.--now you have some pretty specific problems you can investigate.
8. Look for the largest clusters and add up the number of actual searches--a large cluster with lots of searches is worth exploring further because it indicates that a large number of people are trying to solve the same problem.

You might not find a serious money-making niche the first few times you go through the process, but keep going. You'll find one eventually, and you'll get faster and better at it the more you do it.
Once your business is established, you'll continue to use keyword research. You'll look for the keywords that will attract the people who are most likely to buy your products, and you'll use those keywords throughout your web pages.

You'll use those same keywords in your advertising, and every time you reach out to new audiences via social networks or article distribution. You'll build special landing pages based on keywords to attract targeted traffic to your opt-in offer or products.

When you've mastered the keyword research process, you've unlocked the door to online success.

Allen Moon is the Marketing Director of the Internet Marketing Center, which creates information products, software, and training services that have helped thousands of people establish and grow their own profitable online businesses. He has just released the completely updated 2009 edition of the comprehensive Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet course.

Is That the Best You Can Do?

2009-10-21T20:54:00.001-07:00

These days, everyone's a haggler. How to give your clients what they want without giving away the store.

When closing a deal or finalizing a sale turns into a negotiation, small-business owners often end up on the losing side--particularly during a recession. Fortunately, there are several strategies small-business owners can adopt to help improve their knack for haggling.

According to business ethics expert and Elegant Solutions Consulting CEO Lauren Bloom, the simplest involves setting parameters in advance.

“Know exactly how far you can go to walk away feeling you got a reasonable deal,” she says. “In fact, you can approach it as an opportunity to develop and package a new product.”

It’s also important to be firm about those limits--a policy that has worked for Amy Burke, owner of San Francisco-based floral design company Amy Burke Designs. Despite a boost in haggling customers, Burke maintains a strict margin for each job. Some customers “order the moon and the stars,” she says, but push back significantly when they see what it costs to pull it off. “We genuinely try to give prospective clients the best deal we can,” Burke says. “But when clients just flat-out lower the budget, something has to give.”

She recalls a situation with a bride who wanted Burke to match a price that was $1,000 less than Burke’s original quote. “We could not and would not match the price,” she says. “All we could do was warn her to be careful of the quality and reliability of the new florist.”

Keeping a clear head also helps, Bloom says. “Hagglers are annoying, particularly if you feel they’re suggesting the goods and services you’re providing aren’t worth what you’re charging,” she says. But staying calm allows you to think twice before taking on a job you’ll probably regret later. “If someone is trying to take advantage of you, it’s perfectly all right to say, ‘This is not a customer I want.’”

Jeff Burney, co-founder of BURNadvertising, based in Kansas City, Mo., believes in haggling, but also knows it needs to happen with mutual respect.

“All too often, potential clients are just looking for a price match,” he says. “Then you’re better off without their business because there’s no loyalty, no relationship.”

Protecting reputation is also critical. “Never cut your fees to the point that you feel you’re not being paid what you’re worth,” Bloom says. “Then you’re going to start resenting the assignment, and maybe start cutting corners.”

So what’s the safest way to convince a hard-nosed haggler? “Show people you offer the best value, and separate this value from price,” Burney says. “There will always be other businesses willing to undercut you--but it goes back to the saying, ‘You can have it cheap, fast or good: pick two.’”

Bing Optimization

2009-10-18T20:51:00.001-07:00

Ever since Microsoft launched its Bing search engine, it has drawn a lot of interest (and speculation) from the SEO community. On one hand, this is quite logical because Bing is intended to be one more heavy-weight player and it is expected to cut some share from Google. On the other hand, this is hardly the first time a new heavy-weight player comes to the ring, so maybe the expectations that Bing will put an end to Google's monopoly are groundless. Still, Bing is quite different (in a positive way) from the other search engines and this is its major strength.
Is Bing Really That Different?

The first impression you get when you go to Bing.com is that it is different – the background makes it cute but sure, there have been many other cases of search engines with tons of graphical frills to disguise their irrelevant search algorithms. However, when you type a search term, the results you get are a pleasant surprise because they are relevant.

It is this relevance of search results that worries SEO experts. The results you get when you search with Bing are relevant, yet they are very different from Google's. Actually, no matter if you search with Google or with Bing (or if you go to Bingle, you can compare the result sets side by side), you get relevant results and the two sets are very different from one another.

One of the most important things SEO experts are curious to know about Bing is its algorithm. Obviously, Bing's algorithm is different from Google's because when the search term is the same but the set of results is different, a difference in the algorithm is the obvious answer. Actually, the question is exactly what is different between the two algorithms and if the difference is so drastic that it makes it mandatory to reoptimize a site for Bing.
What Do I Need to Do In Order to Optimize My Site for Bing?

Wait. This is the first thing you need to do. Right now it is too early to say what steps (if any) are required in order to optimize your site for Bing.

Additionally, no matter how promising Bing looks, it is still early to predict if it will become a real competitor to Google or if it will become one more failed attempt to dethrone Google. Let's see how users react – will they start Binging more or will they stick to Google. When it becomes clear that Bing will be able to make it, then it will make sense to optimize for it as well. So for now the best you can do is wait.
Which Factors Make a Site Rank Well With Bing

As you probably guess, the exact algorithm of Bing is not publicly available and because of that there is a lot of speculation about what weighs more for Bing (in comparison to Google) and what weighs less. Many SEO experts test different search queries, analyze the results, and based on that try to figure out what of the known SEO tactics works with Bing. For instance, these tests are quite interesting.

Some SEO experts even think that Bing is actually Live Search in new clothes (i.e. user interface), while others say that there are noticeable differences between Live Search and Bing. But there is no doubt that for now Bing is a significant improvement over Live Search in terms of relevance of search results.

Bing is hardly the first time when there is no agreement in the SEO community about the intricacies of the algorithm but if we can summarize, here are some factors, which are (or at least are strongly believed to be) of importance when Bing optimization is concerned:

Backlinks are of less importance. If you compare the first 10 results in Bing and Google, it is noticeable that all equal, the winners in Bing have less backlinks than the winners in Google. It is unclear if nofollow matters with Bing.

Inbound anchor text matters more. The quantity of quality inbound links might be of less importance for Bing but the anchor text certainly matters more. Actually, since anchor text is one of the measurements of the quality of inbound links, it isn't much different. Get quality anchor text and you will do well in both Bing and Google.

Link spamming won't do much for you on Bing. Since the quantity of backinks (even if they are of supreme quality) seems to be of less importance to Bing, link spamming will be even less effective than with Google.

Onpage factors matter more than with Google. This is one of the most controversial points. Many SEO experts disagree but many also think that onpage factors matter more with Bing than with Google. Still, it has nothing to do with the 90s, when onpage factors were definitive.

Bing pays more attention to the authority of the site. If this is true, this is bad news for bloggers and small sites because it means that search results are distorted in favor of older sites and/or sites of authoritative organizations. Age of domain is also very important with Bing – even more than with Google.

PR matters less. When you perform a search for a competitive keyword and you see a couple of PR2 or even PR1 sites among the top 10 results, this might make you wonder. On Google this is hardly possible but on Bing it looks quite normal.

Fresh content matters less. Bing looks a bit conservative – or maybe it just can't index sites that quickly – but it seems that fresh content is not so vital as with Google. This is related to the age of domain specifics and as a result you will see ancient pages rank high (but these ancient pages are relevant to the search query).

Bing is more Flash-friendly. Optimizing a Flash site for Google is a bit of a SEO nightmare. It is too early to say but it looks like Bing is more Flash-friendly, which is good news to all sites where Flash is (still) heavily employed.

For now it is too early to say which factors are of primary importance with Bing. But the fact that their search results are relevant means that their algorithm is really precise. Well, maybe the relevant results in Bing are due to the fact that web masters were taken by surprise and they haven't had the time to optimize for Bing. As a result, the content is authentic, there are no SEO gimmicks and artificial pumping. We'll see if this will stay so in the future, when web masters learn how to optimize for Bing as well!

Importance of Sitemaps

2009-10-17T20:46:00.001-07:00

There are many SEO tips and tricks that help in optimizing a site but one of those, the importance of which is sometimes underestimated is sitemaps. Sitemaps, as the name implies, are just a map of your site - i.e. on one single page you show the structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both for your users and for search engines. Sitemaps are an important way of communication with search engines. While in robots.txt you tell search engines which parts of your site to exclude from indexing, in your site map you tell search engines where you'd like them to go.

Sitemaps are not a novelty. They have always been part of best Web design practices but with the adoption of sitemaps by search engines, now they become even more important. However, it is necessary to make a clarification that if you are interested in sitemaps mainly from a SEO point of view, you can't go on with the conventional sitemap only (though currently Yahoo! and MSN still keep to the standard html format). For instance, Google Sitemaps uses a special (XML) format that is different from the ordinary html sitemap for human visitors.

One might ask why two sitemaps are necessary. The answer is obvious - one is for humans, the other is for spiders (for now mainly Googlebot but it is reasonable to expect that other crawlers will join the club shortly). In that relation it is necessary to clarify that having two sitemaps is not regarded as duplicate content. In 'Introduction to Sitemaps', Google explicitly states that using a sitemap will never lead to penalty for your site.
Why Use a Sitemap

Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don't have a sitemap.

Also, when you have a sitemap and submit it to the search engines, you rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. Sitemaps can even help with messy internal links - for instance if you by accident have broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other way (though there is no doubt that it is much better to fix your errors than rely on a sitemap).

If your site is new, or if you have a significant number of new (or recently updated pages), then using a sitemap can be vital to your success. Although you can still go without a sitemap, it is likely that soon sitemaps will become the standard way of submitting a site to search engines. Though it is certain that spiders will continue to index the Web and sitemaps will not make the standard crawling procedures obsolete, it is logical to say that the importance of sitemaps will continue to increase.

Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.

Having in mind that the sitemap programs of major search engines (and especially Google) are still in beta, using a sitemap might not generate huge advantages right away but as search engines improve their sitemap indexing algorithms, it is expected that more and more sites will be indexed fast via sitemaps.
Generating and Submitting the Sitemap

The steps you need to perform in order to have a sitemap for your site are simple. First, you need to generate it, then you upload it to your site, and finally you notify Google about it.

Depending on your technical skills, there are two ways to generate a sitemap - to download and install a sitemap generator or to use an online sitemap generation tool. The first is more difficult but you have more control over the output. You can download the Google sitemap generator from here. After you download the package, follow the installation and configuration instructions in it. This generator is a Python script, so your Web server must have Python 2.2 or later installed, in order to run it.

The second way to generate a sitemap is easier. There are many free online tools that can do the job for you. For instance, have a look at this collection of Third-party Sitemap tools. Although Google says explicitly that it has neither tested, nor verified them, this list will be useful because it includes links to online generators, downloadable sitemap generators, sitemap plugins for popular content-management systems, etc., so you will be able to find exactly what you need.

After you have created the sitemap, you need to upload it to your site (if it is not already there) and notify Google about its existence. Notifying Google includes adding the site to your Google Sitemaps account, so if you do not have an account with Google, it is high time to open one. Another detail that is useful to know in advance is that in order to add the sitemap to your account, you need to verify that you are the legitimate owner of the site.

Currently Yahoo! and MSN do not support sitemaps, or at least not in the XML format, used by Google. Yahoo! allows webmasters to submit “a text file with a list of URLs” (which can actually be a stripped-down version of a site map), while MSN does not offer even that but there are rumors that it is indexing sitemaps when they are available onsite. Most likely this situation will change in the near future and both Yahoo! and MSN will catch with Google because user-submitted site maps are just a too powerful SEO tool and cannot be ignored.

How to get traffic from Twitter

2009-10-15T20:43:00.001-07:00

Twitter is one of the latest and greatest Web 2.0 apps and it gets tons of traffic. However, from the point of view of a SEO expert, it is more important that Twitter can get you tons of traffic as well. So, if you still don't have an account with Twitter, you'd better open one.

Twitter is simple to use and this is what made it so popular. Twitter is fashionable right now, so enjoy the moment. Even the creators of Twitter admit that as with MySpace and other Web 2.0 sensations, Twitter will inevitably go out of fashion some day, so hurry up and get some traffic for free now, when it is still all the rage of the season.

Twitter is simple to use, yet it is really powerful. You might need a couple of hours to get familiar with the basic functionality of Twitter and of some of the extras it has but you can harness its power, even if you don't know it very well.

Unlike most of the other places you can get traffic for free, Twitter is a microblogging platform, which means that there are restrictions on the number of characters in a message. Therefore, you need to be concise in your Tweets and use your space wisely. In addition to being concise, here are some more tips to help you get traffic from Twitter:

1. Make your Twitter profile interesting
Your profile and your username are the first two things your visitors will see when they go to your Twitter page. If your profile looks boring, people won't bother to read your tweets, not to mention visit the links you post in them. You can't write a very long bio of yours, but you can enter a few words about you – i.e. your occupation, your interests, etc. You can also include a couple of keywords in your bio.

2. Pick a niche-targeted username
Your username is also very important. You need to pick a username that is targeted at your niche. For instance, if you are promoting your SEO services and want to drive traffic to your SEO site, you can choose something like SEOmaster, SEOguru, SEOservices, etc. Your username will show in searches other users make and this is why you must pay attention to what you choose.

3. Put your site/blog URL in your profile
According to some statistics, 80% of tweeters don't provide an URL in their bio! Well, maybe these people are not SEO experts/Internet marketers and they don't need this traffic but you as a SEO expert can't afford to miss it. So, don't forget to include your URL in your profile!

4. Send the link to your profile to your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances
Your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances will be your most loyal audience, so if they don't know about your Twitter page, make them aware of what they are missing. If you have their emails, or know their accounts on other networks, you can send a mass invite.

5. Search for Twitter users with similar interests
You might have millions of friends, but more followers are always welcome. That is why you can use the search functions on Twitter and find people with similar interests. Find as many as you can and invite them all. These people might not be as loyal as your friends, coworkers, and acquaintances but still you will get hits from them as well. Some Twitter users report that about 1-2% of their followers visit their site a day, which means that if you have 1,000 followers, you might expect to get at least 10 or 20 visits a day to your site. This response rate might seem low but there are ways to increase it.

6. Socialize on Twitter as much as you can
When you are active in Twitter, respond to the posts of your followers and visit their links, this seriously increases your chances that you will get the same in return. In a word, actively follow those that follow you.

7. Tweet regularly
As with all other kinds of media, if you want to keep your audience, you need to feed it regularly. Writing a short tweet takes just seconds, but it is enough in order to keep your followers happy. It goes without saying, that you should tweet about useful things, so if you don't have something meaningful to post about you or your sites, it is quite OK to post a link to an article, a video, a blog, etc. you found on the Net and you like.

You might feel that every single user on Twitter is interested in you and your blog/site but this is not exactly so. You might be tempted to make as many users as you can aware of your Twitter page and your latest tweets but you'd better refrain from doing this, unless you want to see if you can get a ban or not.

8. Take advantage of Twitterfeed
Twitterfeed is one more useful service you can take advantage of in order to increase your reach. Go to twitterfeed.com and configure your feeds.

9. Make Twitter Search love you
Twitter has a great search function and its main advantage is that it offers real-time results. Google might be fast in indexing pages but its indexing is not real-time. Users are hungry for hot news and nothing beats a real-time search. Many bloggers report that they are getting more traffic from Twitter than from Google and partially this is due to the fact that their tweets are popular and users find them with ease.

10. Add Twitter gadgets to your site
There are tons of Twitter gadgets and new ones are being released every day. The cool thing about Twitter gadgets is that your blog visitors can become your Twitter followers. If your Twitter followers have many followers, chances are that some of these followers will notice you and will join your network. As we already mentioned, building a large and targeted network is key to getting more Twitter traffic to your site.

These are some of the main ways in which you can get traffic from Twitter. If you are creative and if you monitor what's going on on Twitter and what new Twitter gadgets are released, you will certainly find more ways to drive traffic from Twitter to your site.

How to get traffic from Facebook

2009-10-14T20:40:00.001-07:00

Facebook is not the first social network but it is the most popular one. There have been many other social networks before Facebook and while some of them were popular at some point in time, none could reach the popularity of Facebook. In addition to keeping in touch with your friends, Facebook can be (and is) used for business. You can use it to promote your products and services, to acquire new clients, or to get traffic to your site.

Like Twitter, Facebook is just one of the many ways to get some traffic to your site. Many marketers believe that it is just a matter of time for the traffic from Facebook, Twitter and the other major social networking sites to surpass the traffic their sites get from Google.

While this time might come, don't take this as a promise that even if you do everything right, Facebook, Twitter, or any other similar site will do traffic miracles for you. For some people Facebook works like a charm, for others it doesn't work at all. The same applies to Twitter. You can't know in advance if Facebook and/or Twitter will crash your server with traffic. Just try both and see which one (if any) works for you.

Unlike Twitter, which is very simplistic, Facebook offers more possibilities. Yes, you might need more time in order to explore all the possibilities and take advantage of them but hopefully these efforts will have a great return in terms of traffic. Here are some tips that can help you turn Facebook into a traffic monster:

1. Your profile is your major weapon
As with Twitter and any other social network, if you don't make your profile interesting, you will hardly become popular. Give enough background information for you and don't forget to make your profile public because this way even people, who don't know you, when they encounter your profile, they might become interested in you and become a supporter of yours.

2. Include information about your site on your Wall and in the photo gallery
Facebook gives you the opportunity to write a lot about you and your endeavors, as well as to include pictures, so use all these opportunities to build interest in you and your products. It is even better to post videos and fill in the other tabs, so if you have something meaningful to put there, just do it.

3. Build your network
As with other social networking sites, your network is your major capital. That is why you need to invite your friends, acquaintances, and partners and ask them to join as your supporter. You should also search for people with interests similar to yours. However, don't be pushy and don't spam because this is not the way to convince people to join your network.

4. Post regularly
No matter how interesting the stuff in your Facebook profile is, if you don't publish new content regularly, the traffic to your Facebook profile (and respectively the Facebook traffic to your site) will slow down. If you can post daily, it is fine but even if you don't post that regularly, try to do it as frequently as you can. If nothing else, updating your status regularly is more than nothing, so do it.

5. Be active
A great profile, an impressive network, and posting regularly are just a part of the recipe for success on Facebook. You also need to be active – visit the profiles of your supporters, take part in their groups and other initiatives, visit their sites. You are right that all this takes a lot of time and you might soon discover that Facebooking is a full-time occupation but if you notice an increase in traffic to your site, then all this is worth.

6. Arrange your page
Unlike other social networks, Facebook gives you more flexibility and you can move around many of the boxes. If you put the RSS feed with the links to your blog in a visible space, this alone can generate lots of traffic for you.

7. Check what Facebook apps are available
Facebook apps are numerous and new and new ones are released all the time. While many of these apps are not exactly what you need, there are apps, which can work for you in a great way. For instance, MarketPlace widget/plugin or Blog Friends widget are very useful and you should take advantage of them. You can also use the widgets for crossposting (i.e. posting directly on Twitter from Facebook) because this saves you time.

8. Use Facebook Social Ads
If you can't get traffic the natural way, you might consider using Facebook Social ads. These are PPC ads and starting a campaign is similar to an Adwords campaign.

9. Start a group
There are many groups on Facebook but it is quite probable that there is a free niche for you. Start a group about something related to your business and invite people to join it. The advantage of this approach is that you are getting targeted users – i.e. people, who are interested in you, your product, your ideas, etc.

10. Write your own Facebook extensions
While this step is certainly not for everybody, if you can write Facebook extensions, this is one more way to make your Facebook profile popular and get some traffic to your site.

11Use separate profiles
Unfortunately, social networks do expose a lot of personal information and you are not paranoid, if you don't want so much publicity. Many people are rightfully worried about their privacy on social network sites and that is why it is not uncommon to have one personal profile for friends and one business profile to promote their business. You can have one single profile for both purposes, but if you have privacy concerns, consider separating this profile in two – you'd better be safe than sorry.

Facebook is changing all the time and no matter how hard you try to follow these changes, there will be new and new possibilities for you to explore. That is why it is not possible to compile a complete list of all the tactics you can use in order to drive traffic from Facebook to your site. Anyway, if you try just the basics for Facebook success we listed here, chances are that you will see a considerable traffic increase.

What Is SEO ?

2009-10-13T20:29:00.001-07:00

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often considered the more technical part of Web marketing. This is true because SEO does help in the promotion of sites and at the same time it requires some technical knowledge – at least familiarity with basic HTML. SEO is sometimes also called SEO copyrighting because most of the techniques that are used to promote sites in search engines deal with text. Generally, SEO can be defined as the activity of optimizing Web pages or whole sites in order to make them more search engine-friendly, thus getting higher positions in search results.

One of the basic truths in SEO is that even if you do all the things that are necessary to do, this does not automatically guarantee you top ratings but if you neglect basic rules, this certainly will not go unnoticed. Also, if you set realistic goals – i.e to get into the top 30 results in Google for a particular keyword, rather than be the number one for 10 keywords in 5 search engines, you will feel happier and more satisfied with your results.
Although SEO helps to increase the traffic to one's site, SEO is not advertising. Of course, you can be included in paid search results for given keywords but basically the idea behind the SEO techniques is to get top placement because your site is relevant to a particular search term, not because you pay.
SEO can be a 30-minute job or a permanent activity. Sometimes it is enough to do some generic SEO in order to get high in search engines – for instance, if you are a leader for rare keywords, then you do not have a lot to do in order to get decent placement. But in most cases, if you really want to be at the top, you need to pay special attention to SEO and devote significant amounts of time and effort to it. Even if you plan to do some basic SEO, it is essential that you understand how search engines work and which items are most important in SEO.

What’s the Ultimate Method to Rapidly Generate Residual Income?

2009-10-12T20:17:00.001-07:00

This is Important because Residual Income is one of the Secrets to Financial Security!

As long as you have to “labour” for your Cash flow, you are “Not Liberated”, in other words…

You Don’t Own Your Own Life!

So…

What Is Residual Income?

Firstly, let’s make certain that you and I are speaking the same dialect. To put it in the proper perspective, Residual Income is a type of earnings that… after you have it functioning, doesn’t require any additional contribution on your part!

Many people mix up the terms “Residual Income” and “Passive Income”, but they are not one and the same. One is bona fide and the other one is a daydream!

This is very significant since…

If you have ample Residual Income coming in that you can get by on, then… You will Have Achieved Financial Independence!

We Can Show You How to produce Residual Income for Life!

We can show you The Best Way to produce Residual Income for Life in a Bad Economy!

So it’s important that you understand the many sorts of Residual Income and how they differ from Passive Income.

The only sort of income that could be considered Genuine “Passive Income” is a “Retirement Pension”!

After that, the waters get rather unclear, because you need to understand the…

Myth of Passive Income!

Income that’s Entirely Passive in fact is a Fable, however…

Once you understand the Passive Income Fable, then you can get going on the path to generating real Wealth, and generating Residual Income that is about 90% Passive.

The following are some situations where people erroneously believe that Passive Income can be created, but they are in reality only Residual Income. For example…

An Author gets a Royalty each time one of his/her Books is sold, and then there’s returns from savings accounts or bonds, playing the stock market, or renting real estate, and Royalties are paid to musicians, performers and artists each time their work is aired, etc…

In fact, those are not examples of Passive Income, because they are in fact all “Residual Income” but not necessarily passive.

Also… Nearly everyone will undoubtedly never become well-known Authors, Actors, Movie Stars, Musicians or Artists, but even for individuals who do attain that type of Residual Income…

What’s going to come about when a new Fad evolves and People stop watching the movies, shopping for the books or the CDs, etc.?

Certainly the supreme Passive Income is a pension, but how many thousands of individuals have lost their pensions in the previous two to three years when the companies they worked for went into receivership?

On top of that, who can subsist on just a Government Pension, and is that really secure these days as a Key source of Passive Income?

On the other hand, you have additional options for accomplishing some manner of Residual Income if you’re already Wealthy, but for the average person the choices are a good deal more constrained.

Even if you have assets to invest, it can’t in reality give you Passive Income for the reason that you have to look after and supervise your undertaking, so that’s not in actual fact passive is it?

Your other option of course is to put your nest egg into “someone else’s hands” to handle, but then can you really know for sure that this someone is not just one more Bernie Madoff?

Also, unless you’re a Capable Investor, you wouldn’t want to endanger your hard earned money in this Economy!

Luckily…

The Internet has totally changed the game, because it makes a whole new type of Passive Income possible which was never possible previously, however…

You have to know what to look for, and after that you can start growing some Residual Income, but not in the same way that a good number of people frequently believe.

The Real Secret nowadays if you can find that Rare Company is…

Internet Network Marketing!

The predicament is that a good number of people don’t know what to look for in an Internet Network Marketing Company, and…

They get Sucked-In by all the Hard Sell and do nothing but squander Capital!

Actually, I plan to write an Article & probably do a short Video in the near Future on:

“What to Look For in an Internet Network Marketing Company”

When you know “What to Look For in an Internet Network Marketing Company, you can produce lasting (almost Passive) Residual Income, and…

It’s all so easy once you know what to look for(and why), and I’ve found just such a situation, but in order to achieve that almost Passive Income, I had to produce an online infrastructure so that I could produce a worldwide Recession Proof Residual Income, but there was one sticky situation…

I acquired the cutting-edge of high tech tools but I need a small Group of players to manage these tools which can do over 90% of the Labour, and so…

I’ve just opened the doors and I’m accepting new Joint-Venture Partners (no investment) that would like to share (equally) in this Residual Income Goldmine with me!

So you see, residual Income that’s almost Passive is now possible without Risk!

Unfortunately…

This Passive Income opportunity is not open worldwide as yet, but it is available in 12 Countries with 2 more starting October 2009

In summery…

The first Lesson that you have to understand in order to produce permanent Passive Income is that there is “No Free Lunch”, because building Passive Income is going to need some energy, be it in the form of Money (as in investments), or an investment of time like in my Joint-Venture Passive Income Opportunity.

Passive Income is without doubt a key to Financial Independence but it takes time to create. You won’t achieve Financial Independence in a month or two, but if you continue working on your Residual Income, you will get the results you wish for.

Financial Independence within 12 Months with a Online Home Based Business?

There are shortcuts however as we reveal in our Free Business Meetings, and with our Passive Income Automated Tools & our Success Team, we think that it is possible for any person who is coachable & who is prepared to learn & put in some part-time effort into his/her Residual Income Online Home Based Business, to achieve…

A liveable “almost“ Passive Income within One Year, which naturally will let you to begin to have…

Financial Independence!

All while sitting at your computer desk!

Income that you earn from a job on the other hand, is wages that “requires you to show up” to get paid.

However… Residual income keeps on coming in, Month after Month, Year after Year, regardless of whether you get up in the morning or not.

It’s easy to produce Residual Income because we can explain to you how to generate Residual Income using the greatest 21st Century Residual Income generators, for the best Residual online income available anywhere.

With our free instruction, we’ll show you how you can turn into a Master of Residual Income as you learn “how to generate an almost Passive Income” for the rest of your life.

With today’s Technology and the right Mentoring, it is feasible for any person to begin a home based business on a Shoestring, and get almost Passive Residual Income in a very brief interval of time.

What’s the Ultimate Method to Rapidly Generate Residual Income?

2009-10-12T20:17:00.000-07:00

Selling online

2009-10-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time, setting up a business meant opening up a shop somewhere where you could be sure that customers would come to see you. You needed to order stock and keep the shop tidy, well-heated or ventilated, and you needed to always be there. All of this meant that starting to sell would be preceded by weeks, even months of extremely diligent work, and with no guarantee of success anyone looking to set up a business would often decide that, on balance, the risk was too big. Now those problems are things of the past, and the potential businessperson can get things up and running very quickly.

The thing about “bricks and mortar” businesses is that they relied a lot on location and the other factors mentioned above. By going electronic, your sales room can be a small study under your stairs and your customers can be anybody. There is plenty of technology available which allows you to process payments electronically from a customer’s credit card or online banking facility. But even if you are not in a position to do this, you can set up a PayPal account and do your selling on eBay. Scarcely any initial outlay for you, and potential for the money to come flowing in with scarcely any delay. And now you can do business in your pajamas at 1.30am. so many of the obstacles to someone hoping to make a way in the business world have been removed, and it is all thanks to the Internet.

How to Use Back Links to Maximise Your Website Traffic

2009-10-11T19:33:00.001-07:00

Put simply, back links are incoming links to a particular website or page. This means that some other website has a hyperlink on one of its pages which is “pointing” to your website. In terms of search engine optimisation, the higher the number of back links you have pointing to your site the better, especially if the site is particularly relevant to your niche.

As the number one goal of a website or online business is to achieve traffic, i.e. people actually looking at the site, it follows that you must make the website visible. Generally, if you want to make your website very visible, individuals have to be able to easily find it when they look up keywords which are directly related to your product, niche, service or whatever else your particular website happens to represent. People are generally looking for such information via the major search engines, and the operators of those engines have somewhat complex algorithms to help them determine whether a given website is relevant to the searchers query, or not.

Although they will not divulge exactly how they go about composing these algorithms, the search engine operators do assure us that relevancy, as viewed by others, is most important. If they see that you have a back link or a number of back links from other websites that have some relevancy to yours, this is a plus. In addition, if the site linking to you has a fairly high “page rank”, this helps as well. Page rank is Google’s proprietary means of assigning a number (zero being rock bottom and moving all the way up to ten) which indicates how important a website is inside its particular field.

There are a number of ways to achieve back links for your site.

ARTICLE MARKETING.

As Bill Gates once said, “content is king”. Article marketing is known as one of the most solid Internet marketing methods. By writing highly relevant and informative articles and submitting them to high profile article directories you do several things, not the least important of which is to help establish you or your site as an expert in your niche. Within your article, published in the article directory, is a resource box which contains your details – who you are and what you do, and a link back to your site, the all important Back Link.

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING.

There are many hundreds of social bookmarking sites, and their primary motive is basically to provide a way of informing people about the existence of content related to any niche or interest in a very manageable format. You can sign up and initiate a process of notifying social bookmarking sites about fresh content, including back links in many cases. It should be noted at this point that some website webmasters initiate a “no follow” tag which can negate the impact of a back link, as the no follow tag tells the search engine spider not to give you points, or link love.

SOCIAL MEDIA – TWITTER.

Whilst Twitter and other similar sites are becoming increasingly more powerful in marketing terms, you should know that to include links within your “tweets” or in your URL profile box is not a powerful back linking strategy, as these are all allocated the dreaded no follow tag. However, you may find that it is possible to link within a bio box and get some link love this way. Also, if you syndicate, your Twitter feeds are updated via the RSS aggregators, earning you back links.

BLOG COMMENTING.

Firstly, you will need to find blogs or forums that are relevant to your niche. This is not difficult to do as a simple and relevant search will find hosts. Once you find these blogs you can sign up and create a profile. Often you will be allowed to create what is called a “signature”, and within that signature you incorporate your links. Note, you should check to see if there are any no follow tags, as these will appear occasionally.

Enter into the spirit of the place by interacting with other members and making entries and posting comments that are relevant, useful and educational. In addition to a back link appearing every time one of your comments is posted, you will also build a valuable relationship with members – and this can lead to all kinds of new opportunities.

Back link building remains one of the most important SEO strategies to adopt for virtually any website development.

Michelle Dale is The Managing Director of Virtual Miss Friday, a highly qualified Executive Virtual Assistant Service which helps businesses and individuals accomplish every detail of their professional aspirations. Want to discover more about these insightful online business building success strategies? Contact VMF Today!

What is PTC (Pay To Click) ?

2009-10-10T19:13:00.001-07:00

Pay To Click (PTC) websites provide an easy way for members to earn a little extra cash, while bringing advertisers closer to members through guaranteed, targeted ads.
Pay to click is when advertisers pay a user to actually click on an ad to visit the advertiser's website.
Why do they do it? Let's say you have a website and you are planning on selling something. What do you need? Right, you need visitors to your web site. How are you going to make sales if you have no real visitors? It can take weeks, months or even longer to get a new website pushed up in the rankings in the better search engines. This is the point where many webmasters turn to pay-to-click programs.

But what is a PTC? PTC advertising means having your ads placed on different search engines and/or directories, then paying a set amount of money each time a visitor clicks on your ad. When you sign up to these PTC programs, you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is easy; usually they will provide ~ 10 ads per day for you to visit. You simply click on a link and view a website for ~30 seconds to earn money. Regular price for one visited website is 0.01 c.

Want to earn more? Next step is to become Premium member. Bonuses? At least 20 ads per day, your referrals will earn for you ~25% more, you will receive ~25% more by visiting advertiser's website, priority payments. To increase your income faster you can buy referral packs. Combined with premium memberships, your profits will grow much faster.

How Do I Get Started?

First of all, set up a new email account. Then, open a paypal or alertpay an account, the best ways to receive payments. Start earning from $0.05 to dollars a day, at each website. Most of all, they pay on time, and allow you to earn a very easy residual income. Personal earnings are multiplied many times through referrals. Click your ads daily, and browse this website for tips and brand new programs.

There are certain program owners who limit membership to people from certain countries. Members are limited for various reasons, including the kind of advertising that is promoted in the site. You can easily see whether a country is listed in the Program's front page. For example: International Members welcome, which means, people from all over the world can join the site so long as they can read and understand English.
On our tabs you'll find only International Members welcome programs.

Almost every PTC website requires you to have an account with alertpay before you join them.

BUSINESS IS THE GAME, NOT SCIENCE ...!

2009-10-10T19:06:00.001-07:00

As long as we are not yet familiar and fear to start a business, usually arising in our minds is: "learn!". The choice may be a way to take the program to be an S2 and an MBA, or take as many seminars and training.

Or it could also learn from and serve a business Begawan. I wonder, have selaraskah such line of thought to what happens in reality? Let's examine.

Most of us do business because they want to succeed, and become rich. We thought, how nice and wonderful if we can be as successful and as rich as Bill Gates or Donald Trump. According to public opinion in general, they are the successful people who in truth. They are the business figures of his achievements made many people obsessed.

So do not be surprised if the experts were trying to tap and learn everything there is in people's success, hoping to transfer the values of its success to other people who also want to become a successful figure. They argued that: "Leaders are made, not born".

Furthermore, all the football actions undertaken by these businessmen, collected, sorted, and analyzed. From the analysis made theories. Result, there was a variety of theories of success in the packed material "business knowledge", the discourse of professionalism, knowledge of leadership (leadership), and so forth.

Ordinary people did want to find ways that can help them to quickly achieve success. Such living railroad followed just going to drive people arrived at the gates of glory.

However, is it true that if we want to become a successful figure - more specifically a successful businessman - have to travel filled with theories such success?

From the existing records, apparently not. Many of the actions undertaken by world business leaders do not reflect that their success is due to learning seriously in the business of science, professionalism and leadership theory. Not even the knowledge economy, theories of financial freedom, science, marketing and so forth. Also, not because they are diligent in following the success of seminars or workshops on business strategy.

On the other hand, many business leaders turned out to be people who just do not like learning, school lazy, and just wanted to play it. Boro-boro take seminars or workshops. Lho kok bisa?

There are several examples of cases. The first, Thomas Alva Edison. These names we've known since elementary school right? However, we certainly know more as the Edison of science, because the school focuses on teaching only the discovery of incandescent lamps and various other technical findings that do.

So rarely do we notice that the real Thomas Alva Edison was also a successful businessman. He is the owner and founder of various companies with names like Lansden Co.. (car / automotive), Battery Supplies Co.. (battery), Edison Manufacturing Co.. (batteries etc.), Edison Portland Cement Co.. (cement and concrete), North Jersey Paint Co.. (cat), Edison General Electric Co.. (electrical equipment, etc.), and many others. One that still prevail today is General Electric.

Is it to achieve all Edison have much trouble following the various schools and higher education? Or world-class seminar organized by the success experts, business experts or expert financial freedom? Apparently not. Figure Edison is a figure who only tolerate lazy 3 weeks of school. He preferred to play with tools, with wire and with electricity. It's fun and with it he was successful.

Another example is Kenji Eno. He also did not like school. He just likes to play with the game, special as video games. Class 2 high school drop out of school on jobless. Then a job at a software company, until finally he succeeded in setting up the software company itself is called warp. Within a few years, Kenji Eno can take his company into a company's greatest video games in the world recognized by industry leaders.

Phenomena that are made by people like Edison and Kenji Eno has given the impression to us all that the business is actually closer to a game, and too far away to be treated as a science.

Gede Prama known as a management expert (Stephen Covey called even Indonesia), commenting on the phenomenon of Kenji Eno as the success of freedom of thought which can jump, as they are not exposed to pollution-pollution that created the school.

In my opinion, is to study the phenomenon of false leaders, to create a leader. Similarly, studying the phenomenon of mistaken successful businessman, a successful businessman to print. Therefore, the phenomenon of leader (or business) is a human phenomenon, which is not the same as natural phenomena. If Isaac Newton studied falling apples incident to the ground (natural phenomena) and then find gavitasi law, then it is okay. Because of natural phenomena do not change, the law of gravity will remain eternal.

However, the study of human phenomena would lead to frustration. Because human beings are the engines of change, so there will be no living human phenomena remain timeless all time, contrary to what we see in the event fall apples.
Leaders, in any field including business, is a free human figure, which acted arbitrarily without regard to any theory of rules, they are almost useless if we want to learn and follow in the footsteps terjangnya football.

Let's see, at the time of world economic recession in 1929, all based on theories that exist, trying to apply sehemat possible. But instead, the king of Matsushita Electric of Japan actually spend money lavishly. As if money was no more than just a toy like. Even though he's not without reason do so.

See also Kim Woo Chong, founder of the Daewoo empire. When all the entrepreneurs (also with theories that exist) to concentrate the market into rich countries like America and Europe, he even casually into the markets "hard" like Iran, Sudan and Russia and the countries east bloc.

"Futility" studying and trying to follow the exploits of football business leaders can be felt directly in the field. The first time Harvard Business Review publishes the popular marketing concept of the "Marketing Mix" 4P (product, price, place and promotion), almost all entrepreneurs and business experts embrace this concept fanatic. So also with universities and management schools.

But, not too long, as a result of "behavior" of business leaders who likes to play games, changing economic trends and forces the industry experts and learners change concepts again 6P, 8P latter even as 12p.

Then what? If we have to guard all the time to learn and not with outdated marketing science, when we do business?

I think we all are caught and many lost in the "current science" made by their "expert knowledge", so we do not have time to innovate, which is precisely the key to business success. Instead we continuously "forced" science to catch up without knowing where the end of the base.

The question: "Actually we want to be a businessman or want to be a scientist, anyway?"

I personally believe that the business and the success it is just a game. Like what was said by William Cohen in his article "The Art Of The Leader": "Success is acquired by playing hard, not by working hard ..".

Referring to the obsession with many people about Bill Gates and Donald Trump, as mentioned above, please note that both these figures were achieved success from pleasure to play.

Bill Gates since his 13-year-old was playing with the computer software, and with it he became one of the richest men in the world. Donald Trump also since childhood always play to the office of his father, Fred Trump. He loves looking at model buildings and skyscrapers, before interest in his father's business, ie property. And be a King Donald Trump Properties.

Finally I have to say is, people who study the science of leadership will not be a leader. But, people who try to be a leader, will be a leader. Similarly, people who study the science of business, would not be a businessman. But, people who tried to become businessmen, will be a businessman.

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