Monday, July 26, 2010

Benefits Of Search Engine Optimization For You

There are two ways to measure the success of business websites.  You can check the page ranking within the internet search engines as well as the search engine result page.  If you are a business website owner, you should use search engine optimization while benefiting from the many tools and resources the internet has to offer your business. 

The downside to being a business website owner is that you have to ensure that internet traffic can actually find your business website.  How will internet users know your website even exist if they can't find it? If you don't take the necessary steps to ensure your business website is ranked accordingly within the major search engines; they can't?

Search engine optimization can aid your business.  SEO can place your business website possibly within the top ten results on the search engine results.  Help from SEO will not only aid with increasing sales for your business website but also increase the flow of internet traffic to your business website.  SEO can also aid with your products visibility while improving business relations with your current customers. 

The first mistake you could make. becoming a business website owner, is to disregard how important the internet search engines can be to your business website.  Internet search engines drive the majority of internet traffic.  Internet users click on links found within the search engine result pages.  If you can get a decent ranking with your business site within the major search engines, you will stand a great chance of success, for your business website.

You must ensure that your business website is appealing to internet visitors.  There is no need to draw any visitors into your business website, if you do not have relevant content or a website which internet users find appealing.  It does not take a long period for internet users to decide if they like or dislike your website (less than 3 seconds on average).  Your focus must be to grab their attention when they stumble upon or find your business website through the search engine.

If you are not an SEO expert then you might want to consider hiring one.  SEO experts can improve the traffic to your commercial website, while aiding your business to be competitive with other online businesses.  SEO’s offer many services which your business could greatly benefit from.  Website reporting, search engine submissions, link popularity building, as well as monthly maintenance are a few of the things, which SEO’s can offer your business website.

SEO’s allow companies no matter the size to advertise their products and services with the power of the internet.  If you are uncomfortable, hiring an individual SEO expert, then a search engine optimization company might be right up your alley. 

SEO companies or individual SEO experts can be a great help, with maintaining your website, as well as your page rankings.  If you choose the right company for your business site, you will eventually see the results in not only the growth of the internet traffic to your website; but also profits.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Ultimate Marketers Social Network

I just came across a great new social networking site that is sure to be a hit in the internet marketing world. IM Faceplate gives you all kinds of tools on your profile that makes marketing your sites and products... even building your list much easier. Here a few of the features:
  • Add RSS Feeds
  • Add Links
  • Add Opt-In Form
  • Add articles
  • Add videos
  • Links to your other social sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.
IM Faceplate is free to use. There is a Pro account available, but the features of the free one are great so I don't really see the need to do the upgrade. Here is a screen shot of my profile page...


You can also check out a video here that gives a quick overview of some of the features available... or just jump on over to IM Faceplate and check it out for yourself.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Keep Your Website Visitors Coming Back

A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1) Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox

When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers -- all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2) Start a web log (blog)

Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3) Carry out polls or surveys

Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4) Hold puzzles, quizzes and games

Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5) Update frequently with fresh content

Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

Thursday, March 25, 2010

An Avalanche of Traffic from Twitter

I don't do an out and out promo post for a site very often, but this new site is just to good not to recommend it to you. It just launched a few hours ago and I'm already getting traffic from it! How you ask?


You might have noticed that Twitter is one of the biggest sites on the internet now and I blog about it quite often on here and at my Internet Marketing blog. I love Twitter and with thousands of new people joining Twitter each day, it is emerging as one of the largest and fastest growing social networking sites at this time.

As there are millions of people joining up to and logging into Twitter everyday, Twitter turns out a bigger and better opportunity to get you loads of targeted traffic to your website.

Though you can access millions of people on Twitter, you will need to work aptly in reaching out to them correctly. Here is where Tweet Traffic Rush can help you out.

Tweet Traffic Rush is the easiest, fastest and most efficient way to get a flood of laser targeted visitors to your site through Twitter and this is... Absolutely FREE! It took me about 5 minutes to get my account set up. It just launched today and looking at my stats, I've already gotten traffic from it!


With Tweet Traffic Rush, you will be able to use Twitter to spread your marketing messages virally and work in creating an Avalanche of FREE Targeted Traffic to Your Website in a very short time.

And how it works?

All you do is sign up for a free account. Then you will need to add your twitter username in an appropriate category so as to get a tiny piece of widget code. And once you add this widget code to your websites, blogs or social networking sites, you'll start getting more targeted visitors to your site.

If you are tired of and feel difficulty in spreading your marketing messages across the net, TweetTrafficRush.com can get you thousands of visitors to your site on autopilot.

I don't recommend programs very often from my blog like this, but Tweet Traffic Rush is going to be huge! Not only will it get your Tweets seen by more people, it can also help you add a ton of new followers. Check it out for me and let me know what you think.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

New sites... More Traffic... Bigger List

Couple of new sites and a new report that will help you build your list and increase traffic to your sites. One of the sites and the report are mine. The other site comes from Derrick VanDyke and Todd Gross.

First is the report...

If you want to build a massive list quickly, you need this eBook. Best of all its free! "Power List Building for Newbies" will tell you what you need to build your list if you are a new marketer and will give you tons of tips and tricks that even a seasoned pro can use. You can get the report now and download it today. Just visit my page here.

When you download it, I'll also throw in squeeze and thank you page templates so that you can get to building your list almost immediately!

The first site is called Traffic Leads and Sales. It launches on March 9th at noon Eastern time. You can get a preview of it now, but you won't be able to sign up until launch day. This is a viral list builder that will put you on the fast track to making a successful online business. Its free to sign up, so you really have no reason not to try it out.

The last site is Viral Web Views. This is a simple viral traffic site that can get you a ton of traffic to your site or affiliate link. Officially, I'm not launching this site until March 15th, but I am offering a few spots to early-birds to come in and take a look around and try it out. Sign up for free and send me a message from the members area stating that you wish to be a JV partner in the site and I'll upgrade you to Pro for free and you'll be one of the first to market this site on launch day.

I plan on signing up JV partners through March 8th only, but I may quit before then if I get where I feel that I have enough. So jump on over there and get your free Pro account and help me launch it on March 15th.

Between these three items, you should be generating traffic, building your list and making a ton of money by the end of March.