Writing an informative article about something that is related to your website content, service, or product, then mass submitting it to article submission or free content websites.

Because of the links in your author bio section or footer of the article, every article directory you submit to is linking back to you. While this creates a lot of one-way inbound links, you have to remember that those websites are not likely to be related to your product, service or website content.

In addition to that, those article directories also link to thousands of websites. Even on the page where your article appears in their site, it’s likely that many other links accompany your links on the same page, further diminishing the value of those links.

It is worth the effort. Those inbound links will definitely not hurt you and will help some, but the goal of submitting your article to all of those article directories is so that other Webmasters and Bloggers can find your articles.

Whenever a webmaster or Blogger uses your article in a website or Blog that is related to your content, product or service, then you are accomplishing a lot. Those are valuable one-way inbound links and will carry weight with search engines like Google.

Writing exclusive articles for high-traffic websites.

This is another way you can use article marketing to enhance your search engine rankings and link popularity as well as get traffic directly from those who read your article.

For this, you really need to polish your writing style. You need to write an informative article that is grammatically correct first of all. It needs to be 500 – 700 words.

You need to provide references for your facts and acknowledged quotes to support your theories or opinions. It will also help you illustrate that the information is correct. These types of articles require more research because they need to be accurate.

Once you have your article written, offer it as an exclusive article to just one high-traffic website where their topic is related to your content, products, or services. This article will be seen by many if it is accepted and you will see a direct result in the amount of traffic you get from just one article submitted to just one website.

I will offer one last way to use article marketing effectively. Writing the article as you would an exclusive article as mentioned above for another website and putting it into your own website.

Once you have the article written and posted into your website, take the link directly to the article page and start posting in forums and commenting on blogs that are related to the topic of your article. Use the link to that article page in your sig. line or as a reference if you find people discussing exactly what your article explains.

By using the article to help others, you will find they will want to see what else you have at your website. By linking it in your sig. line, you also increase link popularity for that page and for your website. Make sure that the rest of your website is linked from the page you put the article into and it can even help your website get crawled by the search engine spiders.

Article marketing is one of the newest and most important trends in content formation.
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Search engines are internet venues where billions of people congregate to search for information. The most prominent search engine giants are Google and Yahoo. The kind of traffic these dot-com companies receive per hour is phenomenal.

So naturally, companies would gravitate towards placing their links and sites in an attempt to garner more visits to their web sites.

In order to maximize ranking and placement, companies have used tools such as search engine optimization or SEO. Search engine optimization is the method or process of improving a web sites ranking in a search engine listing.

Legitimate search engine optimization practices focus on the improvement of a pages ranking in the search engine list by improving site content, usability and using legitimate methods of promotion through web phenomena such as viral marketing.

Search engines all use complex algorithms in keeping their relevancy in the web and to keep illegal and abusive search engine optimization methods from prospering. However, black hat SEO users will always be around so it is expected that search engine giant such as Google and Yahoo will continue to make more complex algorithms to filter the garbage out.

Search engines display different kinds of listings on a result page. The more common ones are pay-per-click (PPC), adverts, paid inclusion, and organic listings. Of all these listings, SEO concerns itself foremost with organic listings for a variety of keywords. This can increase the quality and quantity or visitors to a desired web site.

Organic searches are searches conducted by web users in a search engine that is free from solicitations. A study from Jupiter Media stated that 5 out of 6 commercial online purchases came from organic searches versus paid online ads. This has made SEO much more in demand in creating revenue for companies as SEO is not a paid ad but a method of intrinsically improving content.

Here are a few tips on improving content for a much more improved result in organic searches:

1. Expertise. Follow your strengths. Sites you set up must be on subject you consider yourself an expert on. People can smell an amateur a mile away.

2. Plan the site. A good layout for the site can improve usability. This in turn will not unnecessarily aggravate the browser.

3. Research. Check out the competition and see what they have set up. See what works and what does not. If possible try to communicate with users in forums and get feedback on what should or can be improved further.

4. Decide on important keywords. Decide on the most important keywords to use for your site. Include these keywords in the metatags, copy page, page title, and file names.

5. The Search Engine is your friend. Make friends with your search engine and do not give it a hard time. Being nice and friendly to it will make its job easier to serve your site up to your target audience.

6. Focus. Focus on the topic at hand and nothing else. The rule is one topic per page.

7. Join the directories. Directories are repositories of knowledge done by human hands while search engine are huge databases collected by mostly machine methods. The relevancy of your page when joining the right directory may shoot through the roof. Of course, make sure you know what you are talking about.

8. Start a linking campaign. A most effective SEO method. This is a must to do. Ask your allies, strategic partners, friends and acquaintances to place your sites URL link on their sites. With a short description this can draw traffic from other sites and increase exposure. Google especially ranks the importance of its sites by the number of sites linked to it.

9. Repetition is the key to victory. Keep repeating the above tips, supporting and increasing what works and killing what does not as fast as possible until the desired result is achieved.

In the world of search engine optimization, content matters a lot. If a site has amateur or worse falsified information, fewer and fewer browsers will want to visit it. They will even spread bad news faster than good news so expect a garbage site to be ignored even in a weeks time.

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Let’s begin with the W3C Validator. If you haven’t heard of W3C, then you need to know that W3C dot org is the World Wide Web Consortium. They are an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C essential is the organization that develops web standards. They have some great tools to see if your web site is compliant.

This is important because if your web site code meets these standards, you can bet that Google recognizes it as providing a positive user experience. The better the experience, the better your web site’s ranking. After you have built your web site or a particular web page, google W3C and visit the W3C validator. All you need to do is type in the URL the web page you want checked and W3C will do the rest.

If you receive a number of errors, I recommend using Elance or GetAFreelancer to hire someone knowledgeable enough to fix them. If trying to go it alone with only minimal coding experience, chances are you’ll either end up frustrated or just unable to make the updates. Save time and aggravation by finding someone who can clean up your code for you.

Another technique that involves a bit more knowledge about your web site and web site layout is that of navigation. Internal linking is an important on page optimization factor. From my perspective simple is best. Make sure that your home page links to each top level page. Also called category pages, your main pages should point back to your home page.

Some webmasters use navigational links on the top, bottom, or side of a web page. In addition, you may choose to use breadcrumbs. Regardless of the technique you use, internal linking is an essential part of successful optimization.

The last technique that we’ll cover here today is keyword density. There are plenty of web sites and blogs out there who will profess, ‘keyword density is dead’ or ‘keyword density doesn’t matter’. I’m here to say that nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, Google has recently published information that infers greater value on keywords and links from within the content as opposed to navigational links.
So how often should you use your keyword on the page?

To answer this question we again have to focus on what Google is looking for, a good user experience. If you try to cram your keyword on the page again and again it won’t read well. If it doesn’t read well, Google won’t like it. I try to achieve a keyword density (the percentage of times you use your keyword versus the total number of words on a page) of around 3 percent. Give or take half a percentage point, you’ll find that your web page reads well and uses your keyword phrase.

For those focusing on improving search engine rankings, go beyond basic optimization techniques. Consider the importance of clean code, internal linking, and the attainment of an appropriate keyword density. By applying these techniques web site rankings can only improve.

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There are variety of optimization factors to consider when optimizing your web pages. I have found three in particular to have more of an impact than others when correlating them to search engine rankings. In particular, meta tags, URL structure, and page load speed all have a direct impact on search engine rankings for particular keywords or keyword phrases.

Meta tags are important to web site rankings because they provide some basic information to search engine spiders. Properly formatted meta tags go a long way towards enhancing search engine rankings. My research as shows that meta tags by themselves cannot radically improve rankings. It is my belief that meta tags may be used to verify other aspects of your website and are important for getting users to click through from search engine results.

Meta tags should include a title tag which has your most important keywords and contains no more than 60 characters. This is the number of characters that can be displayed on Google search results. Your description tag which is also displayed in search results after a user does a search engine query, should be no more than 150 characters. This tag is most effective when mentioning your keywords two times.

The final meta tag of any importance is the keyword tag. This tag is supposed to include your most important keywords. Unfortunately, most web sites are using this meta tag incorrectly and it could be hurting their rankings. Keywords are only valid if some of them are found somewhere on your website. In addition you only want to include about a dozen keywords per page. Any more than that and it could be considered keyword stuffing. Focus on your most important keywords and place them in the keywords tag.

In addition to having your meta tags in place, how quickly your site loads is very important. Slow loading websites are penalized by Google. What’s the big deal with a slow web site or web page you might ask? Google is all about giving the browser a good user experience. If you site has a lot of broken links or loads slowly, Google considers this a bad experience and will penalize you with lower rankings. Make sure that your page loads within 5 seconds on a standard connection. There are a number of tools that can help you measure load speed.

The third and certainly one of the most important factors is URL structure. It is true that having your keyword in the URL helps but it is not the only or the most heavily weighed optimization factor by Google. There are plenty of examples of sites that include the keyword in the URL but don’t rank as well as their competitors.

If you can purchase a URL that has your keyword in it though, consider it advantageous. If you are unable to do so, consider adding a folder to your main directory or page to your site that includes the keyword you want to optimize your site for. A good example would be example.com/example. By doing so you are placing your keyword close to the root and giving it more value. Also consider a sub domain strategy.

Don’t start any optimization program until you have taken a serious look at your on page optimization factors. With a well laid out web site that includes properly formatted meta tags, loads quickly, and has a URL which is properly formatted, you’ll be way ahead of the competition.

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SEO stands for search engine optimization, and it is without a doubt the most important skill for someone looking to promote a local business online to learn. When someone wants to find something on the internet, the very first thing they typically do is go to one of the three major search engines, Google, Yahoo! or MSN (now Bing), and type in words describing what they are looking for. The search engines then provide a number of suggestions based on that query. SEO is the process used to get your site to rank higher in those lists of results when someone searches for a term related to your area of business.

There are literally billions of people now online, and even the smallest local business with the humblest marketing budget can keep themselves operational if they are willing to make even the tiniest fraction of these people their customers as well. First of all, by using ‘keywords’ that is the words that you want your site to appear for when people search for them, judiciously throughout your site and in the tags for your HTML code, you will help to ensure that your site appears when people search for those terms.

Another important SEO technique is going to be building links from other sites. Keep in mind when doing this that you don’t want junk links. Instead, focus on trying to get links from sites that are visited by many people, are trusted and popular, and are in a related area of business, either geographically or in topical area to your own. This will also help your site appear higher when people search for certain things.

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When it comes to getting sales leads, a large corporation relies almost entirely on branding. They may be spending literally millions of dollars on real world media campaigns and product placement to ensure that everyone knows exactly what product they are selling, and that brand awareness will drive sales. This is financially impossible for a small local company, but using the power of the internet it is now possible to reach more people, for free, than it is with a million dollar ad campaign. This is done chiefly, although not solely, as there are many ways of viable internet marketing for almost no cost, through SEO or search engine optimization.

The majority of the people who are online are searchers. This means that if they log on to the internet and want to read about something, research something, or buy something, the first thing that they do is go to a search engines and type in a description of what they’re looking for. By using SEO properly, you can ensure that whenever anyone searches for terms related to your business that you have targeted, you will appear near the top of the list of results that they are given, in some cases it’s even possible to find ways to get above those previously mentioned corporate giants, and best of all, it requires mostly investments of time, not money, allowing you to finally get on a level playing field.

If you are trying to operate a local business, and literally only allow yourself to market to your local area, there is a good chance you will fail simply through a lack of sales leads. On the other hand, even if you want to operate a physical location in your local market, by broadening your sales base to online clients you give yourself enough potential leads that you can sustain and grow your company indefinitely.

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Getting a top page rank with the likes of Google is often seen as make or break for many website owners. If you get on the first page of Google for any particular keyword or phrase then the traffic will come. But what really determines page rank?

The main thing that helps determine how high you come in search engines is the quality of your best friends from other websites. When you receive a link back to your site from another site that is called an ‘inbound’ link. Google don’t care too much about ‘outbound’ links and neither should you, apart from those going back to your good friends that is!

When I refer to ‘quality’ of your best friends I mean those inbound links from sites that have high page rank themselves. This is critical in your blog setup planning.

Think of page rank like a school popularity contest. When I went to school I didn’t have many friends but the friends I had all were good at sport and liked music. They were very cool friends. My brother on the other hand had many more friends than me.

But he was a computer nerd and didn’t hang out with the girls. He hanged out with other nerds while I was away on sports camps and going to gigs with my cool buddies. No matter what my brother did I was always cooler and more popular simply because I hung out with other popular kids. Actually, the reverse is true but that’s another story!

So if you want to be popular in the eyes of Google find out who is already popular in your niche and hang out with them. This is not difficult as all you need to do is search using your targeted keywords and see what results you get. If there is a way to comment or contribute to popular sites then do so with quality content.

One day they may give you an inbound link that will be worth its weight in gold and certainly a lot more than many inbound links from low ranking sites.

In planning your blog setup then start immediately to build relationships with sites with high page ranks. You’ll soon be just as cool as them!

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1. Find a mentor

In the beginning, this will be quite difficult. You need a way to sort the wheat from the chaff, and there are many charlatans out there just waiting to grab your meager cash for a promise. Yet, they have no idea about what they’re doing, and the promise will fade just as quickly as your savings account. Spend some time online evaluating the players. Find a mentor that you can trust and follow and then, stick to that person’s system. Just do it. If it’s been proven to work before, it will work again for you.

2. Find support

For every online guru there are hundreds of thousands of people trying to learn how to make money online. Find a forum of supportive people. The ideal system to follow will have this type of peer-driven support built in. Just be wary of negativity, and don’t allow that to sway you from following the system you have chosen. Some people just don’t want to do the work, and will complain rather than take action.

3. Focus on Lead Generation

The most important asset that any online business has is its list. Lead generation allows you to ethically gather names and email addresses from a list of people who are interested in what you decide to sell. This is the most important skill to learn, one that you should concentrate on right away and continue to pursue as your business grows.

4. Pick Any Niche

Not all niches are good ones. Yet, in the beginning, it’s probably a good idea to pick anything that you’re passionate about, any niche that can sustain your interest and keep you moving forward. You probably won’t make a lot of money while you’re learning the ropes, anyway. Once you’re more sophisticated, you’ll be able to pick a niche that not only has lots of interest, but a niche that sells.

5. Attend Live Conferences in Your Niche

Meeting people face to face makes a huge difference in how they will interact with you. Online business is pretty impersonal, so meeting other people in your niche will help you to bond with the like-minded. It will also help you to make joint ventures in the future.

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A marketing professional will find the Internet to be a source of unlimited promise. The number of users of the Internet is on the rise. Broadband technology is also available in most geographical areas. Tools that are part of Web 2.0 ensure that customers experience the true power of the broadband technology, giving them a great multimedia experience.

You must first recognize the market you would like to center your efforts on to succeed at online marketing. While taking cognizance of the products and services you intend to sell, try to judge the profile of your targeted customers.

By estimating the make-up of your targeted market you can modify your goods and services to suit the requirements of your customers.

In order to attract visitors to your site, you can do many things. You can have your own blog. You can publish your articles for free on leading, top-ranking websites. You can think about putting up online press releases and even consider paid advertising.

Your website must interest your visitors; it must be efficiently designed to provide the relevant information that the visitors seek. The home page should have just enough matter to lead the visitor to other relevant pages. For the search engines to find your keywords easily, you need to ensure that all relevant pages of your website have the important phrases and keywords placed strategically.

It is always a good idea to record your users’ profile before directing them to the following pages of your site. This task must be handled with considerable tact so that your users are not deterred from visiting your site. The user must be provided with information in relation to your products so that he is persuaded to make a purchase.

Convince the user of the superiority of your products when compared with other products existing in the market.

The high value of your services and products along with the low risk factors must be explained to the users. Text that points to your credibility should be promoted on the website. Certificates of appreciation received from clients are a big advantage.

Ensure that you declare the tempting offers you are making to clients at a prominent place on your website. By having various options for payment and keeping different communication channels open, you are making it convenient for the visitor.

The user may not buy the product during the first visit, but you can always have a system of pursuing the matter till you get a response.

Ideally, your website needs to have a database operating in the background. Basically, the application needs to capture data related to any transaction taking place on your website.

Real time updating of the website’s control panel will give up-to-date information on transactions that need to be pursued or attended to. This control panel would also present a summary of past data so that you can observe trends and patterns, and take alternative or additional action.

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