Top 10 Traffic Ideas for your Blog

Publisher: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer


Blogs are popular ways to create an online presence for personal and business reasons. You can build a blog for free and begin posting content right away. But, what good is that content if no one is reading it. Here are ten ideas to bring in the traffic your blog needs to survive.

Of all the successful blogs on the Internet, hundreds more have failed. Running a blog is like running a business website. Unless you are willing to put the time in and treat it seriously, you won't be blogging long.

That is not to say that the failed bloggers weren't serious about blogging. Mostly, new bloggers aren't prepared for the work that goes into creating a successful blog. Just building the blog doesn't mean that people will necessary come to you. You pursue the audience and give them a reason to see what you have to say.

1. Fresh Content - no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Update your blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write several posts ahead of time and upload them at the appropriate times.

2. Article Marketing - the niche you've chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time doing it. Create content not only for your blog but also to be submitted to article directories. Use the resource box to advertise your blog so people can find you.

3. Social Networking - these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections. You can join groups of likeminded people who are also bloggers or entrepreneurs.

4. Viral Marketing - this is where you spread the word about your blog. Talk to friends, family and even strangers. Give out business cards that have your blog address on them.

5. Use RSS Feeds - RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication." Readers can subscribe to your feed and get email updates when new content is posted. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

6. Submit Blog to Search Engines - doing this allows your blog to be ranked. Google and Yahoo! Are two of the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages. It doesn't guarantee top ranking, though. You'll have to do a little more work for that.

7. Joining Forums - as a blogger you are a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Become a member of business forums; work at home forums and others to meet new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can find you.

8. Visit other blogs - show your appreciation to those who visit you by also posting comments on their blogs. It is a kindness that shows others you are not just out to advertise your blog alone. Add links to your blog in your comments.

9. SEO Marketing - whatever you write, use relevant keywords. Keyword density between three and ten percent is good for getting higher page rankings in search engines. Base your keywords on a research you do to find the most popular words used in search engines for your niche.

10. Social Bookmarking - submitting posts to social bookmarking sites allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog.

Using any of these ideas will start the traffic moving in your direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want.

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Choosing A Good Domain Name

Publisher: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer

Choosing the name of your business is one of those decisions that feel monumental. It's like naming a child. It represents you, your passions, your goals and your new life. Additionally, the name of a business is a powerful marketing tool. Jane's Store may feel right to the owner however it doesn't communicate the benefits and uniqueness of the business to potential customers.

Step One: Give yourself time to come up with a business name that feels right and fits your business niche or theme. Your domain name will let your visitors know what your website is all about even before visiting your site. In other words, give away as much information in your domain name as possible, leaving no room for your visitors to guess what your website is selling. This will help with google ranking also.

For example, if your name happens to be Jane Smith and you own a shoe store then janesshoes.com would be much more appropriate and informative than janesmith.com. Try to keep your domain name within a range of 13-15 characters, as shorter domain names tend to stick in people's minds. It also makes it easier for them to type out your web address in their browsers without misspelling or leaving out characters.

Step Two: Use Strategic Keywords
When you are able to place your keywords into your domain name, it helps increase your search engine ranking because your domain name is one of the primary places the search engines like Google and Yahoo look to when indexing websites.

Avoid using any extra characters in your domain name like apostrophes and hyphens because they affect rankings and they're more difficult to remember.

In addition to choosing a name that fits your business and utilizes strategic keywords, there are a few more considerations.

• Make it easy to remember.

• Make it unique.

• Make it easy to spell

• Make sure it is available

A quick note. You might be wondering if a .com is the best type of site to have. It is the easiest to remember and offers more credibility. Other options are .net .org .tv .us and so on. Because your business will be Internet based, having an extension that is easy to remember will serve your business better. Companies like Godaddy will give you multiple domain names for the price of one. This way you get to choose which one you want to use.

Once you've chosen a domain name, your next step is to register your domain. Be 100% ready to register when you sit down to your computer. Domain names can be snatched up quickly and you will want to capture your ideal domain name as soon as you know it's available.


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How to Use Content to Sell More Products

By Alice Seba & Annette Elton

Unlike offline, when you run a business on the web, words often speak louder than actions. What your potential customers read is what will ultimately determine if those people make the decision to buy from you.

When you hear the phrase, "content is king," don't make the mistake of creating content for content's sake. Content is great and the extra traffic it can bring is a bonus. You just need to make sure you're making the most of it. Here are some tips for making the most of your content.

Show them what to do and what tools they need to get the job done.

Reader's love "How to" articles and you can create some great content around showing people how to do certain things. As you create these types of articles, give enough detail so they know what they should do and also recommend the tools that will help them get the job done.

Add your product promotions wisely

Don't end your article with "Buy Here" or "Visit xyz.com" People have a tendency to scan an article before reading and if they see wording that looks like you are selling something right off the bat, they either ignore it or will immediately move on. So, don't give them instructions to buy, instead use phrases like "Further Recommended Reading", "Further Recommended Study" or "Learn More".

We find keeping it highly informative sounding inspires plenty of click-through and sales. If you sound like a used car salesman, they may not believe a word you say. Inspire confidence in your knowledge and your recommendations

Include links to your products within your articles.

Some article directories don't allow promotions within an article, but subtle promotions in the middle of an article are often the most powerful, so make sure to sell in the articles you publish on your site and when submitting to other publishers that do allow links in the body of your article.

Provide incentive to other to publish your articles.

If you're distributing your articles for publication, ALWAYS allow people to substitute your links with their affiliate links in your article. It's an extra incentive for them to publish your article over someone else's.

Whatever you do, ensure every piece of content you create and publish serves a purpose. Whether it's to get people to sign up for a mailing list, recommend a product through an affiliate link or sell more of your own product - don't be shy about letting your content do that for you.

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Converting Hobbies and Skills into a Home-Based Business

Publisher: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer


Everyone is good at something. What if that "something" could make you money? If you have a hobby with that potential, you could be making more money.

You might wonder how people come up with some of the ideas they have for businesses. Mostly, it comes from a love of a certain hobby or a skill that a person possesses. There are several hobbies that can be turned into money generators - just look at eBay.

If you have been looking to start a home-based business, consider your skills and any hobbies that keep you busy on a regular basis. Here are a few questions to ask when considering a hobby for your business enterprise:

1. Is my product unique? New products peak people's interests.

2. Is there a market for my product? Some markets are saturated with certain items so it's important to do some market research to see if your idea is viable.

3. Do I have the time to devote to the business? Since you already do what you do as a hobby, the answer to this question is usually going to be "yes."

4. Can I meet the demand? Making crafts, if that's your hobby, takes time. It is possible to get a large demand and go out of business because you can't fill your orders in a reasonable amount of time.

Now that the wheels have started turning in your brain, you are probably wondering what types of hobbies or skills make good home-based business ideas. Here is a short list of some common ones:

* Crafts
* Tax prepares
* Consultants
* Selling surplus items (on eBay)
* Sewing (clothing, wedding dresses)
* Writing
* Health products

These are just a few. Service businesses do well if you have a space in your home to conduct business. Other businesses can be run from home with customer contact done through telephone, email, or fax.

If you want to turn your hobby into a home-based business, here are a couple of more things to work out before you get started. These pertain to running the business.

1. Register your business. Choose a business name and register it with the city or town where you live.

2. Create a business plan. This is just a road map to get you started in the direction that you want to go with the business.

3. Check out the tax implications of a home business. The IRS website has tons of information about tax requirements and deductions for the small business owner and the freelancer.

4. Work out your method of product delivery. With crafts that are delicate, you don't want anything to get broken in shipment. You can package the items yourself or pay a shipping company to do it.

Hobbies are good ways to start a business at home. You have the advantage of being familiar with the product and in control of advertising, with low overhead. Even after reading the above information, you still don't know how to get started then take a look at SBI, they will show you how to turn your hobbies into a business.



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How To Become A Super Affiliate

Publisher: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer


Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money. Finding a niche market with products and services you trust and believe in is the first step to success. There are tremendous affiliate programs, which offer you an abundance of tools and materials to promote and market their products. However, what you do with those tools and materials is entirely up to you. You can be just another affiliate or a super affiliate.

What Is A Super Affiliate?

Technically speaking a super affiliate is someone who generates a significant amount of profits for the products or services they represent. A super affiliate can make a healthy living from their affiliate business alone while a standard every day affiliate may need to supplement their affiliate income with, gasp a 9-5 job!

Benefits To Being A Super Affiliate

The most significant benefit to being a super affiliate is the income. Many super affiliates make six figures simply promoting the products and services of others.

Additionally, if you're one of the main contributors to a company's affiliate program they're going to pay attention to you and your needs. You may receive a higher percentage of sales you may receive first shot with new marketing materials and programs and you'll get the support you need when you need it.

Here Are A Few Steps To Become A Super Affiliate:

Step One - Commit to publishing content every single day. Content has proven time and again to be the best sales tool available to affiliate marketers. Nothing, not even strategically placed ad copy works as well as providing quality content that pre-sells any product that you're promoting on your website.

Possible content includes:

* Auto responders.
* E-newsletters.
* Blogs posts
* Social networking via forums, social networking sites, and chat rooms
* Articles
* Press releases


Step Two - Track and test. Make sure you know where your prospects are coming from, what motivates them to click through and what information they read and respond to - then give them what they need. Tracking and testing is the only way to hone your affiliate program into a smooth running, money making machine.

Step Three - Use the provided marketing materials and be willing to take it a step further. Many affiliate programs do a great job of providing their affiliate with ready to marketing materials including:

1. Banner ads
2. Buttons
3. Email copy
4. Articles
5. Free promotional reports

Use the materials your affiliate manager has provided. It's been tested and developed for results. That being said, be sure to create your own content too. Even as an affiliate you are your own company and your website needs to reflect your personality and brand. Building a community around your website and providing valuable content is a sure way to create a following that trusts you and your credibility - which will result in click through and affiliate sales.

Step Four - Pre-sell. The good news is that your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell products and services. Pre-selling means your content, whether it is a review, article, tutorial, course, or blog post, speaks honestly about the products and services you promote. Pre-selling is about providing value to your website visitors and prospects, making them comfortable with you and your authority to generate interest and a click through to the company website, where the selling happens.

Step Five - Follow up. Just like your affiliate manager follows up with you to see how you're doing and what you need, follow up with your prospects. A great way to do this unobtrusively is to create a lead list by providing a newsletter visitors can subscribe, a free report, or any number of products in exchange for an email address and the permission to contact them with valuable information and special promotions.

Being a Super Affiliate is the only way to go if you want to build a successful affiliate marketing business. Find products and services you trust and believe in and then create a strategy to share information to your target audience. Test and track your efforts, focus on providing value to your prospects and leave the selling to the companies you represent. Helping others live better lives, without having to provide the products or services personally, is a great way to make a living. If you still don't know how to get started, then check out SBI. They will get you started the RIGHT way. Here are some real Testimonials.



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What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Publisher: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer


On most websites you'll see advertising links at the top, bottom and on the sides. Most of the advertisements are related to the site. Displaying these ads on other sites could be a part of an affiliate marketing program.

Affiliate marketing is the idea of using other sites to help sell your products and drive traffic to your site. Affiliate marketing works best when everyone involved benefits from the process. If you need exposure for your products, get other business websites involved in making that happen.

Many websites offer affiliate programs. One of the more popular ones is Google AdWords. Some programs require you to just sign up, while others have an application that they ask you to fill out to evaluate if your website is right for their program.

Affiliate marketing is great for websites that don't have a product or service to sell but would like to generate revenue in some way. As a part of an affiliate marketing program, websites earn commissions for hosting your ads on their website. As you make money so do they.

You have worked hard to build your website. Maybe you have employed several strategies to increase your visibility on the Internet: SEO content, email marketing, eBooks, viral marketing and the like. Now you are ready for something new to increase your traffic and sales.

Affiliate marketing is easy and effective. The strategy here is to find your niche and decide what you will sell on your site. Develop a strong philosophy and operating policy to attract others to your affiliate program.

Investigate other affiliate programs. You may have joined a few when you were getting started to generate revenue. Learn how the better ones operate and their strategies for success. Before beginning your own, decide on commission rates, how you will pay your affiliates, and what benefits you will offer them.

Set yourself apart as a resource for your niche to increase your popularity. When you produce great search engine optimized content that is updated regularly, people come back to your site over and over again. You want them to have something fresh to see each time someone clicks on your links.

Affiliate marketing works for those who are also selling goods or services. They are not in direct competition with you so both of you can benefit. Get regular reports on how well the affiliate marketing strategy is working for you. Some products may sell better than others. Change the items you sell based on these numbers.

Affiliate marketing uses other popular websites to advertise for you and your website. With links to your products and services on other websites, you increase your traffic and hopefully your sales through this marketing strategy.


Earl Williams is a real entrepreneur who is making money with his online marketing business using some of the largest Affiliate programs on the Internet. He makes it easy for anyone to build their ideal online business and earn a substantial income from home. Learn how to start your ideal business and start making money online by visiting his website: http://www.netmarketer.org

What is Skype?

Copyright: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer

Today's article is about communication for large and small business alike. If you'll been watching TV here in the USA lately you have notice a different in the way the major networks do some of their broadcasting. I'm talking about the news channels and The Oprah Winfrey Show. They all are now using Skype.

And for those of you who don't know what Skype is and how it relate to your business, then just keep reading and I will attempt to explain it in detail because I think it is a great way for the small business person to communicate with it's clients and affiliates just like big businesses, regardless of where they live. By now you are asking yourself this question:

What is Skype?

Skype is a piece of software that customers can download to call other people on Skype over the Internet for free and make and cheap calls to phones and mobiles worldwide.

If you notice on main line media these days everyone is going to Skype for communication including the Oprah Winfrey Show. Every day when she interviews her guests now, they are using Skype. She is using the new "Face to Face Video Calling"

"Video calling has emerged as a very popular way for people to communicate online" said Mike Bartlett, director of product strategy for Skype. "Whether it's saying hello to your daughter at college or reading a book to your child while you're away on business video calling lets you have the conversations that make a difference and it really feels almost as good as being there."

With the all -new Skype, people can experience the benefits of free face to face video calling. It's now easier to start a video call and experience full screen video, which makes conversations more intimate and engaging.

Additionally, a new built in bandwidth manager ensures that consumers have the very best Skype video calling experience possible even on a low bandwidth connection.

If you have a fast enough connection (recommended 400 Kb/s or higher), a dual core processor PC and a Skype Certified High Quality Video web cam, Skype delivers up to 30 frames-per second High Quality Video. (Most new computers come with most of these features).

Now you can use the same product to make your phone calls domestic or international at a very low rate.

Skype comes with some really useful free features like Skype to Skype calls, video calling and instant messaging (IM). But, when you take out a subscription or purchase a little pay as you go Skype Credit you can do so much more. And the great thing is that you'll save loads of money in the process.

Free
Skype to Skype video and voice calls are always free. You can also have group IMs and conference calls with lots of people on Skype.

Pay As You Go
Make local, national and international calls any time of day and send text messages anywhere in the world direct from Skype with pay as you go Skype Credit.

Buy now - Pay Monthly
Subscriptions include unlimited calls to landlines and additional benefits. Call any time of the day, any day of the week. Comes with a Skype To Go number and online number.

Learn More

Founded in 2003, Skype is revolutionizing the way people communicate around the world. Every day, millions of people use Skype to communicate for free through voice and video calls as well as instant messages. Many people also use Skype to call landline and mobiles with pay as you go

Skype Credit or a monthly subscription.

Skype certifies and sells hundreds of hardware products from more than 50 partners and works with third party developers to create software to extend Skye's functionality. Conversations over Skype can take place on computers, mobile devices and other Skype Certified hardware.

Skype generates revenue through its premium offerings, things such as calls to and from landlines and mobiles, voicemail, call forwarding and text messages. Skype has been downloaded more than half a billion times and is used in almost every country on Earth.

1) Skype - Out and Skype Calling Plan allows customers to call landlines and cell phones around the world at local rates. This is our best selling product.

2) SkypePro - a subscription to some of our best products in one easy package. Customers can call phones for free (minimal connection fee applies) and make cheap international calls from their cell phone. They also receive 50% off SkypeIn, free voicemail and a free Skype To Go number as well as discounts on hardware purchases.

3) SkypeIn - customers receive a Skype phone number, which other people can call from any phone worldwide. The package also includes free voicemail.

4) Skype Voicemail - never miss another message. Customers can set up voicemail so their contacts can leave messages when they are offline, unavailable or on another call.

For a more detailed explanation of many other features and improvements or to download Skype 4.0 for Windows visit: Skype Download


Please Note: For legal reasons we can't permit the promotion of Skype or Skype related products in China through affiliates. Any sales made within China will not be recognized by Skype and will be automatically reversed. Please be aware that affiliates based in China promoting Skype outside of China will be rewarded as normal.

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About the Author: Earl Williams is a real entrepreneur who is making money with his online marketing business using some of the largest Affiliate programs on the Internet. He makes it easy for anyone to build their ideal online business and earn a substantial income from home. Learn how to start your ideal business and start making money online by visiting his website: http://www.netmarketer.org/