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10 More Ways to Increase Your Traffic

Wouldn?t it be great to boost your website traffic and earn more income? Here are some quick tips to bring more visitors your way ? and increase sales opportunities 1. Give away an eBook as a gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business. Place some ads inside the eBook for products or services you're offering. 2. Get free advertising by submitting your eBook to freebie and freeware/shareware web sites. This will increase the number of people who will down- load your eBook and see your ads. 3. LEARN and EARN. Make money by selling your own eBooks. Learn from and sell eBooks written by others, branded by YOU. Join an inexpensive wholesale program already in place for this ? get new eBooks to LEARN from and EARN from each month at http://presssuccess.com/wholesale 4. Hold a contest on your web site so that people can win one of your eBooks or an eBook package. Submit a contest ad to no-cost contest or sweepstakes directories. 5. You can g...

Website Marketing 101

When it comes to website marketing and promotions, you need to start here... Every website, whether new, old, or just a thought needs to consider the marketing that will be put that website in front of it's targeted audience. Sounds easy huh? It just takes time, perseverance, and the will to succeed! A budget will help too! The hardest part is sorting through all the crap that's available to (supposedly) help you. Yes, I said crap. There is a mountain of businesses out there making incredible claims about FREE traffic generation, FREE hits, Mega sales, $20,000 in 3 hours,- or worse, for a small fee of $29.95 we can... blah, blah, blah. Save your money! I have spent enough for all of us. Following through with our suggestions offers you the most lucrative, ethical, and professional ways to achieve substantial results and still sleep at night. No, you don't have to go for your wallet, I will tell you about these programs in this article (for no charge). A good education wil...

Choosing Keywords: What They Don't Tell You

Website Design What They Don't Tell You Let me start off by saying that I am no web design expert but I have designed a few websites and the biggest challenge I found was choosing keywords . It seems like it would be easy but it is not. Choosing keywords and keyword placement is the foundation of getting indexed properly in search engines , choosing the correct ones and placing them on your web page is not an easy task. First off your keywords or key phrases have to make sense so that a person visiting your website can understand what you are saying. All well and good, we can all do that. The problem comes when a machine is sent to look at your page all of the sudden it no longer looks the same. Take this page for example http://www.globalwebmonitor.com, after reading this page you would know the following things about this company: Global Web Monitor sells business services. The business services are designed for IT departments, website owners, web hosts and website developer...

SEO Content Distribution Linking For Newbies

The new buzz on the internet is all about getting one-way links by distributing content to other sites in exchange for backlinks. As with every other SEO or website promotion technique ever devised, there are plenty of newbie myths about it that can ruin your chance for success before you even start. Newbie Myth 1: The "Duplicate content penalty." Some webmasters worry that if the content on their sites is suddenly on hundreds of other sites, search engines will inflict a "duplicate content penalty." Why is this concern unjustified? * If this were true, every major newspaper and news portal website would now be de-indexed from the search engines, since they all carry "duplicate content" from the news wires such as Reuters and the Associated Press. * Thousands of self-promoting internet gurus have proven that distributing content is an effective method of improving search engine rank. * Even more thousands of content websites have proven that republishing ...

Website Marketing Mistakes Smart People Make

You have invested your time and money into putting up your website . Your prospective customers are out there, somewhere, and you want to make them aware of your site, what you offer and why they would want to visit. You have some marketing ideas, but you don't want to waste money. How can you avoid mistakes other smart website owners make? By reading this article, of course. I'm going to outline several tactics that DON'T work. By the end of this article, you'll save time and money (not to mention avoiding throat-clinching disappointment and frustration) by skipping these Bad Ideas. Bad Idea #1 - Let's get more traffic to get more sales. Seems reasonable at first glance. But it's not always the best course to take. How well does your site sell now? What's the sales conversion rate of your website? If your website is inefficient at converting 100 visitors into customers, it will be inefficient at converting 20000 visitors into customers. For instance, I ma...

New Website Marketing Made Easy

Often new website owners ask me how to get traffic to their new creation. Some have been known to stare at their computer in an attempt to will visitors to the site. The truth is, the Internet is evolving every second of every day. And with that, it becomes more difficult to establish a viable presence—or does it? Follow these easy steps and carve your slice of the cyber pie. Step One: Preparation Before going out to proclaim the glory that is your website, first make sure it's in tiptop shape. Was your website carefully and professionally constructed? That includes content copy. It's vital that your copy (the text on your website) be written well, including a logical flow, clarity, good sentence structure, wise word choices and proper grammar/punctuation. Studies reveal the average Internet visitor is getting more sophisticated and expects features, such as proper language use (whether English or another language). Fail in this area and you'll lose business. It's t...

How to attract advertisers for your site

How to attract advertisers for your site Build a site with plenty of content Firstly it's pretty obvious that you need to build a site with plenty of content. You'll also need to have a targeted audience in mind from the outset. My site was aimed at the beginner to intermediate ASP developer. Promote the site You'll need to promote the site in search engines , directories and exchange links with other similar sites and build up the site's reputation. Look for similar sites on a related subject and advertisers To source advertisers look for those who are currently running ad campaigns on sites related to your topic. This way you know what companies will be receptive to your inquiry. Make a list of all the companies that you intend to contact. It's a good idea to also make a note of those companies that you do contact for future reference. You can note the date and whether you received a response amongst other things. Contact advertisers ' send an introductory em...