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Article Marketing

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Search engines rely greatly on quality backlinks to establish how important a website is. Consequently, it is exceptionally important for any website owner to understand that building backlinks holds the means to building his presence on the web.  There are many methods to boost your backlinks, such as article marketing, web directory submissions, forum posting, news release, podcasting, webinars, to name a few. Article marketing at this time is most definitely the most cost-effective and successful way to build your backlinks.
Typically one article which has been submitted to article directories may in turn result in 5, 10,, 15, 50, 100, or more backlinks to your web site; there is really no saying to the number of links this one article could end up building for you.  Any article you write in your niche will likely build you a number of backlinks down the line.
Not only is this an outstanding way to add backlinks to your website, it is also a superb way of driving free quality traffic to your site.
How does this work.  When you write an article, it is key to submit your article to at least ten quality article directories.   Typically these article directories will allow an author box below the article.  Within this box you would put one to two URLs to your website.   Once your article is approved, then your links are live and you have two inbound quality links.

By placing your quality article within an article directory your site is viewed by thousands of article readers and website owners.   If a website owner feels your article is related to their site, they can then feed it to their site, thus gaining you more inbound links.

In closing you can see that article marketing is a very inexpensive way to build your inbound links.

Advertising That Makes People Click

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

The hardest part about making money online is getting that coveted click. One click can be all that you need to succeed, and we all know how good that first one felt. But how do we get them, what makes people click on our ads?

The first and most obvious tip is to keep the content relevant. If your article is about dogs, then show an advertisement about dog obedience. If the article is about making money, then show an ad about making money. By keeping the content and ads consistent you can ensure the greatest chance that a reader may be interested in your affiliate links.

The second tip is to make the most of the space you have available. This doesn’t mean filling your site with ads. We don’t need a ton of ads, we just need a few ads in the right places. Try installing a click heat script (available all over for free) on your site to see where your readers are clicking – and place your ads accordingly. If nobody clicks your footer, then don’t put any product links there.

Finally, keep your ads fresh. Unique and creative advertisements have been shown to largely increase sales. They stick out in our mind, make us think, and keep us hooked. If you’re going to sell an eBook, then make it look good. Make it stand out from the crowd.

If you keep these tips in mind, you will surely succeed. Good luck!

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Great Option to Build Inbound Links

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

You almost certainly have heard of link building strategies such as traffic and link exchanges, as well as article submission. And the most utilized strategy and technique SEO companies use is called directory submission.

It is most likely you know what a web directory is, but if you do not we will explain. A web directory is a categorized website, within these categories links are place with title and description and your URL.

There are thousands upon thousands of free and paid web directories on the Internet today. With many new ones being created daily.   Many directory owners and companies like to boast of high pagerank on a new directory, but how can that be since the directory is new?  Well, it’s quite simple, they are using dropped or expired domains or one’s which they bought just for the pagerank. Even if these directories show valid Pagerank, it is most certain this will drop when Google does its next update.    Don’t let this trick you into paying a fee to get listed.

Directory submission can be a very inexpensive yet effective way to gain backlinks. However, you should also do a bit of research before submitting to these directories or paying to have someone else do them for you.  There are many companies that just spam your link to directories and even worse are the directory owners that just approval all listings and these will give you no value.

You might also want to check to see how many domains are on one IP.  Many companies also will put hundreds of domains on one single IP.  It is best to find directories or sites you wish to link with that have no more than five domains on one IP.

Try directory submission to gain easy inbound links to your website.