Your web site content helps you get in search engines, speak to visitors, and ultimately get visitors to buy, contact you, or follow a link. Meanwhile, your content has to be updated at least once a month if you want to get return visitors and search engine traffic. To be successful, you need to have a web content strategy. Web Content Strategy: Sources of Content There are four basic ways you can get content for your site: 1. Licensed content that you can publish on your site for a one-time or ...
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When you think of the world's most successful businesses, what names come to mind? Most likely, consumer-oriented giants such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Sheraton, Disney, IBM, and General Electric. Not only have they spent billions on advertising to buy their way into your head. They offer convenient products and services that have made them a part of your life. But when you think of the most successful web sites, what names come to mind? Names like Google, Yahoo! Amazon, AOL, Kazaa (for better ...
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Interested in advertising and marketing your web business by distributing ezine and website content? Make any of these blunders and you may cut your response in half. Blunder Number 1: Not including an author's resource box/ezine advertisement Yes, there are really authors who don't remember to include an author's resource box (the biography/advertisement at the end of the article). That box is the whole point of distributing content in the first place. Even if the body of your article has a ...
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With so much talk about search engines putting a damper on direct reciprocal links, the hunt for the elusive one-way inbound link is on. As someone who works with small business website owners, I've heard just about every inbound-linking scheme there is. In the end, I've only seen five strategies that really work consistently for getting hundreds of links. Less Effective One-Way Link Strategies Yet there's perennial interest in alternative linking strategies. They range from bad to OK, but none ...
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I was at a meeting the other day when one member of the audience came up to chat to me after I had given my presentation. 'I agree with what you told us,' she said, 'but it only applies to some people. After all in my business there's nothing I can turn into an ebook.' Within a minute of chatting to me she had developed two ideas for ebooks. Now, I'm not saying I'm some kind of miracle worker. However, often I discover that many people who run their own business can't see the wood for the ...
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How many ways can you get free web site traffic? Who knows, but here are some to get you started. Hopefully there will be one or two ways here that you haven't yet tried. 1. Submit your web site to search engines. Don't wait for them to find you. You can automatically submit to 20 at freewebsubmission.com. You'll have to submit manually to Google (www.google.com/addurl.html). 2. Directories. Do a search for niche directories for the topic of your website. Just type in "directory + online ...
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Today Internet has over 36,000,000 web sites, and statistics says that most of these web sites are DEAD - they do not get targeted web site traffic. Only targeted visitors give real online life to web site, and only targeted visitors can be converted into real profits on the web site. That is why those who understand the value of targeted traffic, fight for it every day, and this fight is getting wilder and wilder. But fighting for targeted web site traffic without the knowledge of winning ...
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© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved http://www.thenetreporter.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ever heard the saying 'Penny-wise and Dollar-foolish'? Well bargain priced website hosting may just represent the perfect example of watching a jar full of pennies while bucket loads of dollars fly out the window! When I launched my first website way back in the 'dark ages' of 1997 I paid almost $150 a month in hosting and data transfer charges. My web host watched how many files I uploaded ...
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When I ran across CBmall, I knew I had found a program that hits the nail on the head. You can learn simple ways to make money online with CBmall, even if you don't have a web site or any experience. Most affiliate programs have only one way you make money. You send them traffic, and they close the sale (hopefully). The best of them will add another stream with some follow-up emails. That's much better. But CBmall actually has 15 different ways to make you money. This is one powerful revenue ...
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'Small business spending on Web hosting alone will top $7.4 billion by 2009.' -IDC The rush is among the late adopters to the Internet, eager to put their businesses online. There are, of course, more numbers that go into greater detail about what businesses expect once they're on the Web. They come from several research houses and their sum total can be dizzying: 'The Kelsey Group reports that only half of America's 20-million small businesses have an Internet presence. 'IDC says that by ...
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