When you want to add some search engine optimized content to your website it's probably a good idea to hire a professional SEO consultant. A professional SEO consultant can help you decide what services you need in order to overhaul your existing website to make it more search engine optimized and to implement some search engine marketing. A consultant can also tell you what percentage of content you need to have on your site and what Meta tags to use.

If you have never used any search engine optimization on your site at all then you will definitely need to hire an experienced consultant to make sure that your site gets a complete search engine optimization makeover. Many consultants offer more services than just content so if you already have a professional copy writer you should ask that writer if he or she also does consultations or provides other services.

If you need to start looking for an SEO consultant here are some tips on selecting one. When you are considering a consultant ask to see previous examples of any SEO content that person has written but also ask to see websites that the person has written for. After all, the point of hiring someone is to get your website noticed, isn't it? So you need to see some of the websites that the they worked on in order to know for sure that they can deliver high quality search enegine marketing services.

A good way to tell if a web site that the SEO consultant has worked on is really doing well in search engine rankings and drawing traffic is to look on the Alexa website. You can enter the name of the website or the website address and see the search engine ranking for that particular website over a period of months, weeks and days. If that site is doing well then they are experienced enough to provide quality SEO services but if the site is ranked very low or doesn't get a lot of hits then you might want to look for another consultant.

Another way that you can tell if the consultant that you're considering hiring is of high quality is by what his or her rates are. Someone who has high rates but a poor portfolio probably hasn't been working very long and might not have the skills that you need to increase your web site traffic. If the consultant's rates are very low then he or she might be trying to build up a portfolio of work which shows inexperience.

You should always be willing to pay a fair rate for SEO services just like you would be for any other professional services. Don't expect to get great SEO services for next to nothing. This is your business and your business is important so it's worth investing the money for quality work.

Having your website shown in the top search engine position for some of the important keywords can make a big difference in your business. It can bring you tremendous amount of free traffic that can boost your sales and bring your affiliate marketing business to a whole new level.

In fact, getting a top search engine position for your site does not require a lot of experience. It can be done by any affiliate marketers irregardless of their experience level. All you need is to have access to some of the secrets and keep on putting the secrets to practice to see results. It is worth the effort as it is definitely of great help to your affiliate marketing business.

Here are some of the technique to get your affiliate marketing site to the top ten search engine position

1) Increase the number of back link: In order to get top search engine position, you ought to create as many back links as possible to your affiliate marketing site. You can do so through submitting articles to hundreds of article directories sites. Participating in a number of forum site or make use of web 2.0 methods such as Squidoo or Blogger can also greatly increase the number of back links to your website.

2) Keyword Density: For your affiliate marketing site to be ranked at the top ten search engine position, you have to write content that have at least 3 to 5% keyword density of your targeted keywords. This can help your affiliate marketing site gets better search engine position for those keywords you are interested in.

3) Content update: Beside the two above factors, if you have an affiliate marketing blog as your website. You have to make sure that your site must be constantly updated to get better search engine position. If your site is stagnant, you will not be ranked well.

As long as you keep on practicing the above 3 methods, I can assured you that you will be getting good search engine position for any affiliate marketing keywords you are targeting.

Now put this into practice and you will see your site at the top search engine position soon

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As a Web optimization specialist I spend a good deal of time seeking out the best designers from around the country and around the world. We swap industry insider tips. They teach me about Web design and I show them how to get their beautiful sites to the top of Google, MSN and Yahoo. It's a match made in heaven. The most recent collaboration was a huge success that helped both of us get just what we wanted so we decided to publish our findings for anyone interested. That said; here is an interview with a New York Web design company.

What makes a New York Web design company any different from other Web design companies? That's easy... Competition. Just look at how many design firms there are out there and you will see what I mean! In the city or outside, someone seeking high quality Web design in New York faces hundreds of choices in an area of just a few city blocks. Now that's competition!

If you are not from the area it can be difficult to envision. This might help... Imagine typing "New York web design" into Google's search box and getting hundreds of pages with thousands of links of returns. Instead of clicking on those links however, you're walking into hundreds of offices; each offering their own unique flavor of Web design.

But, with the competition comes a competitive edge that is critical in a struggling economy. Of course we all want to look good on the Internet, but when you're competing with your real live neighbors in addition to those online; you have to step it up a notch.

With that said, I provide some inside advice from a successful New York Web design firm. Let's focus our attention on Website usability. This has the unfortunate distinction of being both the most important yet generally least considered aspect of design all too often and the Website owners suffer for the oversights.

First off, most people do not really read a Web page at first glance; they scan it to see if there is something worth actually reading. You need to get their attention right away and keep it. Here's how...

1.) Jump in with your most powerful content right off the bat. Grab their attention immediately and keep it. Don't save the best for last unless you have something nearly as good to lead the reader there.

2.) Make sure your functional areas are consistent, as much as possible, throughout your site. This is especially true of the navigation links (top, left, right, etc.) search fields, logins, and anything else needing user interaction. The more at ease your visitor feels working through the site, the more likely he or she is to stay for a while and go even deeper.

3.) Embed a link to your homepage within your company logo. This is expected by just about every site visitor who has been on the Web for any length of time. It's a safety net many users rely and to deny it could result in major inconvenience to your visitors.

4.) Add a search box in an easy to find, consistent location. And be certain it searches ONLY within your Website. Having a search feature that offers to "Search The Web" gives your visitors an invitation to leave your site. Why would you want that?

Secondly, keep in mind that search engines will also be looking at your site. Making it pretty is not enough. It needs to attract the search engine as much as live visitors if you ever expect those live visitors to find it in the first place. This is known as search engine optimization, or SEO. It's more complicated today than in years past but still quite doable. Here are three "must do" tasks for you to complete if you want your site on top of Google.

1.) Use keywords as anchor text (the visible clickable words) in your links throughout your page's content. This is huge! Allow me to demonstrate how powerful this one element can be.

Navigate to Google.com and conduct a search for the term "Clíck Here" (no quotes.) Take note of two things right away... Number one, there are more than 1.6 billion other (competing) Web pages. Number two, the top match returned is a link to Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Ready for a surprise? The term Clíck Here is not anywhere on the page text or META tags. The page is number one, out of 1.6 Billion pages, because thousands of Web pages supplying a link to Acrobat "Clíck Here" as their anchor text of choice. Amazíng, isn't it?

This is great news for you! You can easily take advantage of that power by linking to and from pages within your Website. Which leads us nicely into Tip number two...

2.) If you deem that SEO is a priority for your site, create a unique page for each of your main keywords. Just be sure to link the anchor text from each page to the page that has that specific keyword as its focus.

Industry Advice: If you are a blog specialist or Web designer by trade, offering SEO as part of your services is a natural fit that can double the value of your work, or more. With so many good SEO products available to help you get professional results with minimal effort, you can usually rely on reputation as a good indicator of potential success. For example, eBay, Motorola and Lexmark all stake their online success on a tool you can get for $250 at iBusinessPR0M0TER.com.

3.) Relevant anchor text should also be at the top of your mind when you are requesting inbound links from other sites. This is what Google uses as its strongest measurement to gauge the quality of your pages.

This is how you can build your brand using your words. Getting visitors there is only half the battle, keeping them is a whole different ballgame.

Now, similar to tip number 2, you want to request specific keywords be used in the anchor text leading to your pages from other sites. And be sure to request each link to the most appropriate page. Just linking to the homepage doesn't cut it anymore.

Warning: Avoid reciprocal link farms like the plague! They are so easy for Google to spot it's a joke.

If you are in need of quality links but don't have time to setup link partnerships yourself, you may want to try a service that facilitates "3 way linking" like the one at 3WayLinker.

It's very simple and really pretty ingenious. Here's how it works... Site 1 links to Site 2. Site 2" links to Site 3. And Site 3 links to Site 1 forming an indirect chain of one way links.

That's all for now. Good luck!

About The Author:
Article based on interview with David R. by Scott Jason. Premier New York Website Design is David Radovanovic's passion. After 10 years of success, in 2003 he opened WhatsTheBigIdea.com and more recently CreativeCrib.com . Want great graphic design in New York? See Dave.

In order to rank high on search engines, first of all you need to allow search engines to find your website. Search engines use a program known as Spiders to locate new website. When spiders find your website, they will indexed your site and store it in their databases. However, for newer sites, sometimes it is hard to get indexed by them.

What many people do is to manually submit their sites to Google and Yahoo, and what I can tell you is that there is no need to do that. Let me share with you 5 tips to get your website indexed by search engines quickly:

1. Include a sitemap.xml file in your root directory. This xml file consists of the URLs of all pages on your site which will facilitate crawling of your website by spiders. Once you have uploaded it to your root directory, you should set up a Google Webmaster account and point the sitemap.xml to it.

2. Get rid of any roadblock that prevents spiders from reading the content of your site. If your website is a coded entirely on flash or frames, it is hard for spiders to crawl your website. If they do not crawl your website, your site will not be indexed and it will not appear on the organic listings of search engines.

3. Submit your site to social bookmarking platforms. The best way to get your site noticed by search engines is to let them naturally stumble across it. One way is to submit your site to popular social bookmarking platforms like Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Spiders usually visit these sites multiple times in a single day. This is why if you bookmark your site, you stand a very high chance for it to be found and indexed.

4. Get a backlink from a website with high PageRank (PR). Getting a high PR backlink to your site definitely paves the way for successful indexing and possible good organic rankings on search engines. Directory linking and submission is one of my favourite ways to get backlinks. Target those directories with high PR and submit your website to them. Some of the popular directories such as Yahoo may require you to pay, which I think will be well worth the money.

5. Write articles and submit to popular article directories. Article marketing is a great way to get your site indexed by search engines, as well as generate good traffic to your website. Include a link to your site in your articles and submit them to popular article directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles. Spiders visit these directories often and once they crawl your article, they will follow the link in it and find your website.

Getting your site indexed by search engines is definitely a must in order to have good organic rankings for your site. So, try out the tips above and get your site indexed now!

As an article marketer, I say things that I believe will help other people accomplish their goals. As a widely published article writer, I am often criticized for the words I write. ;-)

In July of 2008, I wrote an article about meta-search engines called, "Look Beyond Google: Meta-Search Engines Can Help Online Marketers". In this article, the basic concept I was trying to share was that Internet Marketers should look beyond the presence of Google, to find more ways to drive traffic to their websites.

The Google Religion

This article apparently struck a chord of truth with a lot of people, as its reprint results are much larger than even I expected.

The article was also reprinted on the Link Referral website by someone who seems to have appreciated the article.

The first response to the post at the Link Referral website read as follows: "Thanks for the useless post. Google is everything. If you cannot be found on Google, pray for MSN and Yahoo. Anything else will give you 1 hit in 100 years. Link exchanging and buying ads would be so much more effective than buying into that article."

Now, don't get me wrong. I am not the least bit annoyed that someone criticized my article. The fact that someone criticized the article is only a testimony to the fact that my words touched the nerve of someone who worships the Google religion. I don't want to offend anyone's religion... That would be wrong...

Of course, this is not the first time I have offended those who preach the tenets of the Google religion. I also wrote about this subject in an article about Creating Page Rank, which can be read at: http://www.keywordtext.com/pudding/28.html. This article also drew criticism by those who mocked my assertion that people can truly generate substantial traffic from sources other than Google and that Google PageRank is not as important as many claim.

Answering My Critics

I will admit that if a website is not listed in Google, the task of trying to make monëy online is made more difficult.

But if a website is not ranked in Google, and it does not possess links to it from anywhere else either, then you might as well be working at McDonald's for extra money, as opposed to trying to make monëy online.

Honestly, Google is only "everything" when you have "nothing but Google" on the table.

The Proof Is In The Pudding

This is not just an opinion I hold. I can back up what I am saying with real data, from a real website that does not rely upon Google for its salvation... The statistics shown here are from my primary website: thephantomwriters.com

Even though I do not rely on Google for traffic, Google delivers a great deal of traffic to my website. I actually do quite well in the Google game. I get lots of Google Love for my website, as described here:

http://article-blog.thephantomwriters.com/google-love/2008/08/09

Nothing But The Facts

The following data reflects the traffic for The Phantom Writers for both 2007 and 2008 (through Aug 15th):

Total Unique Visitors
* 2007: 244,000+
* 2008: 169,000+

Total Page Views
* 2007: 1.2+ million
* 2008: 1.0+ million+

Unique Clicks from All Search Engines (59 in 2007; 58 in 2008)
* 2007: 119,309
* 2008: 129,749

Unique Clicks from Google
* 2007: 61,923
* 2008: 75,750

Unique Clicks from Yahoo, Windows Live, Ask, and MSN Search
* 2007: 49,291
* 2008: 50,148

Unique Clicks from Other 54/53 Search Engines
* 2007: 8,095
* 2008: 3,851

Important Data Analysis

In 2007, with 244,000+ total visitors and 61,923 visitors from Google, I would have had to turn away 182,077 visitors or 74.6% of my traffic in 2007, if I had relied solely upon Google to drive traffic to my website.

In 2008, with 169,000+ total visitors and only 75,750 of those visitors coming from Google, I would have had to turn away 93,250 visitors or 55% of my traffic, if I relied solely upon Google to deliver visitors to my website.

With 61,923 visitors from Google in 2007 and 93,250 visitors from Google so far in 2008, it is sure that Google is important.

I wonder how many of my critics are actually seeing 61,923 visitors per year? I suspect that many of those who claim that my advice is bad would be tickled pink to see my Google traffic to their websites. And I bet they would be shocked to realize that non-Google sources account for more traffíc for my website than their Google God does.

Beyond Google

In 2007, my website receíved 119,309 total visitors from all of the search engines combined, but only 61,923 of those people came from Google. That leaves 57,386 people who arrived on my website from the 58 search engines that are not Google. In the search category, Google accounted for 51.9% of my total search traffic.

The top five search engines accounted for 93.2% of my search traffic.

Had I ignored those unknown search engines, as my critics suggest others should, I would have been forced to turn away a full 8,095 people or 3% of all of my visitors in 2007. That is a far cry from "one hit in 100 years".

So far in 2008, Google has accounted for 58% of my total search traffic and only 45% of my global traffic.

The top five search engines have accounted for 95% of my search traffic. Those itty-bitty search engines have delivered 3,851 visitors to my website so far this year, accounting for 2.96% of all of my gross traffic in '08.

Itty-bitty is historically worth at least 3% of my yearly traffic. If you want to ignore that 3%, then that is your business. But myself, I am happy to receive traffic from anywhere that I can gain that traffic.

Beyond The Search Engines

As the owner of a professional article marketing company, who practices what he preaches, 90% of my advertising budget is spent on article marketing alone.

This is where the following two pieces of data come into play:

Unique Non-Search URL's Sending Traffic
* 2007: 9,036
* 2008: 5,811

Unique Visitors from Non-Search URL's
* 2007: 27,397
* 2008: 23,907

The remainder of my website's traffic comes from articles published in newsletters and on other websites, recommendations by other websites, bookmarks and name recognition.

In 2007, my website receíved 27,397 visitors from 9,036 verifiable links to my website from articles that we wrote or from recommendations people made for my website. Of course, I am willing to bet that many of the 97,294 visitors who were untrackable in 2007 were the result of the many articles of mine that were published in newsletters.

In 2008, my website has so far pulled 23,907 visitors from 5,811 verifiable external URLs. There have so far been another 15,344 visitors that I receíved from untrackable sources, many of which were probably from the articles that we have successfully had published in newsletters.

The article marketing that we do provides a lot of verifiable traffic to our website, and potentially a lot of our untrackable traffic was also derived from the article marketing we do.

In the end, we credít article marketing for our great search engine placement, for hundreds of keywords, and our substantial search traffic as well.

One Quarter Million Reasons Why Google Is Not God

If I believed the poster who said that "Google is everything" and I had followed his advice for the last several years, then I would have had to turn away 275,327 additional visitors to my website in the past 20 months!

OMG!!! To think that I could have turned away a quarter million visitors or 67% of all of my websites' traffic, if I had simply followed the advice of my critics.

Wow! Some of my critics are absolute idiots!

Yes, Google is important. But, is Google really "everything" ? Only if you want to fail...

About The Author:
As the owner of thephantomwriters.com, Bill Platt has been providing article ghost writing and article distribution services since 2001. In recent weeks, Bill overhauled his website format, in a way that improved navigation and simplified the process of finding the highest ranked authors and most popular articles on his website. You will also find a lot of great information in Bill's article marketing blog, which can be seen at: http://article-blog.thephantomwriters.com

It's easy. Just type your subject in quotes in Google's search box. This is one of the quickest and easiest ways to test your search marketing efforts. Each week you can track which of your search marketing efforts is paying off and which isn't doing so well. The results may surprise you.

For instance, you might be surprised to see your Craigslist ad showing up surprisingly high in your Googleprint. Placing an ad on Craigslist not only gets your name out but also gets you site picked up by the search engines.

You can also find out what doesn't work; for instance, all those URLs you stuck on Twitter are fun but probably don't count for much. Using search Googleprints is also a good way to see what your competitors are doing. If they are buying Google search words that will turn up too.

And don't forget to click past the first page and examine other pages. Every now and then look at the first five pages to get a sense of what is happening on the lesser hits, especially if your search is a big generic one.

So how can one tell just what is going on? Much has been said about figuring out the Google algorithms or the way Google comes up with its search results. Forget it.

Even an engineer would have trouble figuring out exactly what Google is up to and Google certainly doesn't want to let the cat out of the bag. Those algorithms are Google's greatest intellectual property.

The truth is the Google algorithms change on a regular basis and if you are monitoring your Googleprint you can see how search results change when algorithms change. Sometimes these changes can be somewhat dramatic significantly changing your Google footprint. But you won't know unless you are tracking your Googleprint.

It's obviously important to remember that yours is not to reason why. Your chore is to see the application and results of the Google algorithms. If you begin to see the results, you can begin to understand the bigger picture and how that affects your search marketing efforts.

Don't expect any great revelations, but if you keep a steady finger on the pulse of the algorithms they will begin to make sense.

The basics don't change very much and they are most important; change your homepage with fresh, original content daily, focus on keywords and keyword strings and publish, link and backlink as much as possible. Avoid scams and spam.

Regular Googleprints also help you check for spammers and scammers that affect your Googleprint; in fact, you may have recourse.

For instance, a short while back when checking my Googleprint I was dismayed to see that the number one hit was a scam. This scam had lifted my name and business name and had posted it on a website that was selling porn.

I flagged and reported the site, as well as probably hundreds others also did. Within 24 hours it was gone; barred by the Google God. Or Goddess. Or their Googlenesses. The lesson here is take action and don't panic. Panic gets you nowhere when dealing in the search world.

If you are just starting out with your search marketing efforts, make a weekly copy of your Googleprint and save it for reference. Over a period of time you can review your Googleprint snapshots and see which of your search marketing efforts is more effective.

You can also check your Yahooprint and MSNprint as well. But clearly Google, as the biggest and most important search engine, is critical to search marketing and your search marketing campaigns.

Think search.

If you are trying to help your website reach the top of the search engines for your keywords, one of the best and most effective ways to help your efforts is to attach a blog to your website and keep it updated on a regular basis. One of the most important things to Google is how often a website is updated. To improve your search engine ranking dramatically, you should be updating your blog at least weekly, with 100% unique content.

Within your content, you need to make sure that you mention your keyword(s) frequently, just like you do on your website. You should also make an effort to link out to at least two different pages on your site or other blog posts to help build internal links. This is the juice that fuels SEO.

At this point, you might be in a bit of a panic if you don't have a blog on your website. Guess what, you shouldn't be! There are quite a few blog programs that are absolutely free for you and I to use. If you use certain blog software, you can even install plug-ins that will assist you with your SEO and help you move your website higher and higher in the search engines.

One of the best blog software that you can find today is called Word Press. Word Press is absolutely free for anyone to use. Word Press is a slick content management systems that allows the use of plug-ins to make your life easy while blogging.

One of the very best SEO plug-ins that can be used with Word Press is the "All in One SEO" plug-in. This plug-in allows you to make each of your blog posts and blog pages optimizable for the search engines, but allowing you to add a unique title, description, and keywords to everything. This very small and simple step will help you set your website and more important, your blog apart from all of your competitors that are not taking these additional steps to tell Google exactly what your site is about.

SEO is rather simple, it is all about providing the search engines with fresh, unique content that is optimized to tell Google exactly what it is and how it relates to your website. If you take the steps necessary to optimize your website properly and add an optimized blog to your marketing mix, you will be able to accomplish your goals in reaching new search engine heights.

It is a common misconception that you need to have an extensive team of professionals that can create the ideal website for you and your business to start booming. The reality is that you know your business, your niche and how your organization fits into these better than any marketing person that you may hire to do your promotion. Of course marketing experts know lots of valuable information about getting your message out there, after all its their job and its likely that you will do much better getting an expert on board to help you in achieving your goals. However, the most crucial person that also needs to spend time promoting your business is you.

Web designers and marketing specialists can help you develop just the kind of website that will see your sales go through the roof, but they also need your input. No one knows your business better than you, and if you do not take the time to share that knowledge with the experts to help them sell your unique business attributes, then you could literally be selling your business short.

All marketing is focused on generating more sales, and for this reason you want to be involved with helping the marketer achieve this goal. Outsourcing marketing lets you get an expert to assist you in this process, but the most important thing that you can give to the marketer is your time and knowledge of your business and your products. The significance of this is that most small to mid sized businesses have three primary internet marketing options available to them; Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC), or Blogging & Social Media Marketing. So lets look at why you need to be actively involved in marketing via these methods.

One common misconception is that SEO is something that your website designer will do for you, but thinking this way is a bad trap to fall into. You will need to be commited to doing ongoing work on your SEO, sourcing new keywords, updating older ones and refining which words you select. This is important because consumer trends can change over time and new developments in products may cause a shift in your business focus. All of these reasons are why you, the business owner and specialist in your area, need to be certain that your SEO remains up to date with what your business is doing. It will be worth your while to take a little time to fully understand the SEO process and how you can make it work for your business, long after your web page designers have finished putting your site together.

The most efficient form of advertising for many small to medium sized businesses is Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. This does not necessarily take a lot of time to implement, but a remarkably large number of people do not know how to effectively implement tracking on their PPC advertising. The key here is that as with the other forms of marketing mentioned, you need to dedicate the necessary time to get this to work. Establishing a PPC campaign necessitates you to monitor it effectively to ensure that you are tracking your ROI and are able to implement the necessary updates and fine tuning of your campaign to truly generate the sales you are looking for.

Finally, if you are looking at doing social media marketing or blogging then you really need to be prepared to dedicate the time required to making these work. The unique advantage of these forms of marketing stem from the personalized nature of them, so this is your chance to get your message heard and be certain that you are demonstrating the dynamism and skills that you particularly have as a business person. Both blogging and social media are the kind of tools that require a good blend of marketing, sales, networking and writing skills to ensure success. The personalized nature of these things makes it impossible to truly outsource this, so being committed to dedicating the time necessary is again crucial to the success. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that this is time well spent.

There is no defined amount of time that you can nominate as the ideal or target amount to achieve success. Basically you need to focus on making sure that your time is well spent. The key element that the business owner brings is their knowledge, and the only real measure of success will come if you have implemented good measures of ROI. As a rule stay focused on what you wish to achieve, be sure that you have the necessary measurement tools in place and accept that as with many things, the more time you dedicate the more positive the results you will generate.

Despite the popularity of RSS technology, only about 20% of internet users actually use it. In fact, many internet users don't even know what it is or how to use it. But there are three reasons why we should expect that to change very soon. Just as many devoted "snail mail" users eventually came around to the idea of using email, many email users will probably become avid RSS users.

Three Reasons Why RSS is The Way to Go!

1. RSS Allows the Use of Embedded Audio and Video:

Let's say that you're an internet marketer who wants to send an email to established clients. You envision this email containing a YouTube-like preview that the client can click on to see your expertly-crafted video. But guess what? You can't do that with email. The best you can hope for is to include a preview image that opens up a web browser to play the video when the client clicks on it.

You may wonder why that's so bad, but just think of how much easier it would be to view the video right there in the email without being bounced around. And then remember that RSS easily and conveniently allows for embedded video and audio.

2. RSS Guarantees 100% Deliverability

If you're an internet marketer, listen up. Even if you legitimately obtain the email address of a potential client or an established client, there is only a 60% chance that they will receive an email that you send to them. That means that if you have a list of 100 emails that you've worked hard to obtain, 40 of those customers won't ever get the email. What a waste!

But RSS is different. If someone has subscribed to your RSS feed, you are guaranteed that they will receive every single message.

And the advantages aren't limited to internet marketers! Customers also win with RSS. No more whitelisting senders, and no more signing up for email lists only to find a spam box filled with old email. Once users realize how convenient and efficient RSS really is, RSS will grow by leaps and bounds.

3. RSS Means NO SPAM!

Industry analysts and internet marketers are acutely aware of the possibility that email may not be free forever, particularly for large corporations that send out significant numbers of emails. Why? The answer is spam. It's time-consuming to delete, it often contains inappropriate messages, and large corporations are often burned by it. Before you dismiss the idea that email may no longer be free, know that some email providers are already researching ways to make email like cell phones that impose a sending quota.

And won't RSS be popular then for marketers and consumer alike!

If you are one of the 80% who uses RSS feed regularly, you may be stuck for awhile checking both email and your feed reader because a few key things need to happen before RSS completely eclipses email. First, users need to be able to send messages to select RSS subscribers instead of everyone who subscribes to the RSS feed. Second, users will need to have the ability to share some identifying information with the publisher so that the publisher can send content that matches the needs of the user and can utilize RSS similarly to email.

So What Will This Look Like?

Quite honestly, it will probably look a lot like email, except that instead of publishing your message to a blog, you'll actually publish it to a private spot on the internet and to your client's RSS reader. When your client checks his feed reader, he'll see that you've posted a message to him and reads the message online or in the private space where you've published the message.

Sounds easy, right? Although RSS technology has a way to go before this is a reality, it never hurts to prepare for the possibility. If it all sounds overwhelming, consider the possibility of consulting with an SEO expert to talk about how your company can prepare for the widespread use of RSS as an alternative to email.

Getting your business in a competitive market means you will need to invest in successful marketing, and with the technological advances of video marketing on the Internet, your business can find a wider audience.

Viral marketing can ensure that your business is getting more coverage and more information out to your future clients. Video marketing can increase your ranking on search engines, which means more people are viewing your web site and your new viral marketing videos. With the viral marketing trend increasing each day, more and more businesses are finding that video marketing can improve the density to which your web site receives views and can increase your business potential.

Advertising and marketing through conventional means can get expensive and advertisement search engines do not always grab the attention of customers. However, video marketing can ensure that your business is receiving the widest range of customers and search engines.

With so many web sites utilizing the video craze sweeping the Internet, it seems only natural that your advertising plan includes viral marketing. But not including video into you marketing, there are millions of customers that you are missing out on each and every day.

Including videos on your web site does not mean you have to be an award winning director or need to know how to edit video to stream on your site. You do not need even need to pick up a camera to do viral marketing if you don't want to! Outsourcing your viral marketing can not only save you money but it can make you money as well, by making your web site more attractive to both the search engines and to future customers.

Businesses can customize their video to showcase their business services and plans to customers. A video means that your future clients can have tangible evidence to the actual services, producing more trust and confidence in your business.

Most customers need a visual and testimonials on the business to feel comfortable, and a video on your web site can help build that rapport. Customizing your web site with viral video means you will need an effective web site follow up program, and having a web site designed to support your video can do just that.

Customizing your video to your web site can help your business be successful beyond your wildest notions. Going viral means your business can effectively get the viewing and audience you've been seeking. Having your video on several major video search engines, such as YouTube and Google Video, on major forums and blog spots means that you are gaining more exposure with each click of the mouse.

How long should your blog post be?

Ever since I started blogging a few years ago, that is one of the questions new bloggers have asked. The blog Guru's will tell you that blog post need to be short. The theory is that if you make longer post, the reader will get bored and leave your site.

I naturally write long articles so it was hard for me to follow the 250 to 500 word blog post unspoken rule.

If you're only interested in attracting Social traffic, stick to making those short, concise post. Most Social readers have shorter attention spans than a 3 year old, especially if they come from Digg.

If on the other hand, you want your post to rank high in Google SERPS and bring in loads of targeted organic search traffic, you're more likely to do it with longer keyword optimized post than shorter ones.

You'll also naturally have more long tail keywords in your long blog post. Long tail keywords bring in more targeted organic traffic to your site.

If you run a content rich site with Adsense, you can increase your CTR with longer post and articles. Why? Because you'll stand a better chance of the reader losing interest and clicking on an Adsense ad. Yeah, I know, it's a pretty underhanded Adsense trick hunh? But it works.

You should also be aware that you'll probably lose a few RSS subscribers who do not like long post, but you'll also gain a few more who feel long post are more informative and detailed. They'll see you as a detailed authority on the subject.

If you're worried about losing your RSS subscribers to long post, here are a few tips that will help you keep them interested and to optimize your long post.

Use the H3 tag to break up your long post into sections. Properly constructed H3 headings also add SEO benefits to your long post.

Use bullets and numbers to break up list or for making points.

Use blockquotes when quoting others or for highlighting a resource.

Use Bold, Italics and Colored Text to get your point across and to break up your long post.

Not all of your long post have to be a War and Peace novels. Just the really important post you want to expand on and the ones you want top rankings for.

Don't worry about mixing long and short blog post. I've done it on my blog for nearly 2 years now and I reaping the benefits of knowing that longer blog post equal higher rankings.

If you're a website owner and are not following these five tactics for correctly linking your website together then you're losing Google traffic as you read this. Internal linking is the links on your website that point to other pages within your same website. External linking is when you link to another website.

There are things you can do when developing or re-working your internal linking structure. If you carry out the following tactics, you're going to achieve two things. First, you'll make your website better from a user's perspective. Second, you'll rank better in Google. And it's no coincidence that Google rewards you for doing things that make the website user's experience easier and better. In fact, the most important thing I can recommend is that you create, design and link your website together is a way that benefits the visitor first. Your visitors are most important, not Google rankings.

And remember, links to your site (whether from other sites or from pages within your own site) help your rankings.

1) Add links in your navigation or footer as text links to all your important pages and main sections.
This is a very easy and an extremely effective tactic that not all sites do, and even less do for maximum results. This is the first thing I look for when reviewing a website for a client. Unfortunately, sometimes artsy Web designers add cool buttons, which are images, to all the main sections of the site, but neglect to include text links as well. Or a programmer decides to make the website's navigation a dynamic drop down menu in DHTML or JavaScript but forget to include text links to the same pages represented in the menus. Search engines cannot follow image links or links created in JavaScript, they can only follow simple text links, so be sure you add them to your site as well.

So if you want search engines to visit and index (or record) ALL your website's pages, be sure there are text links pointing to all the main sections of your site and to all your important pages.

2) Use of the rel="nofollow" HTML tag.
This is fairly simple. Google created this tag which tells them NOT to count the link in their search engine ranking algorithm when used on a link. There's debate that maybe Google does count them a little, or will some day in the future. But for now, this tag does greatly decrease a link's value in Google's eyes. Therefore, consider using this tag on some of your links within your site. For example, let's say you have a homepage and then create two inner pages, and that's the extent of the site. Let's further say that you add a link to both pages on your homepage.

If your homepage has some external links pointing to it, then it has some value in regards to Google's ranking system. When you link to each of your two new pages within your site from your homepage, each page gets only 50% of the value the homepage has. (This is all measured in Page Rank). Let's then say that your first inner page is the one you want to rank well in the Google, but you don't care if your second inner page even gets found by Google or ranked. You could add the nofollow tag to the second link on your homepage, thereby giving the first inner page 100% of the homepage's value.

Think of the implications. Imagine if you had a website with hundreds or thousands of pages and used the nofollow tag throughout. To understand how to implement this tag is, do a search in Google such as "how to add a nofollow tag to link".

Finally, if you have pages such as a privacy page, terms page, checkout pages or contact pages that you don't care if they rank well in Google, be sure to use the nofollow tag when creating internal links to these pages.

3) Use descriptive & different phrases to point to the same inner page
The words that are in the text of a link (also known as the anchor text) affect your search engine rankings. For example, the anchor text in the two links above is "Your Website". If enough of these links that were on quality and valuable sites, including your own website's inner pages, pointed to the same page, it would eventually rank well in Google when someone searches for the phrase "your website".

Therefore, be sure to make the anchor text in all your internal links the phrases you want the pages to be found for in Google.

Going back to the number 1 tactic above, you would be far better off making the anchor text in all your footer links as descriptive as possible. If you want to rank well in Google for "affordable Red widgets" then make the anchor text "affordable Red widgets".

Finally, vary your anchor text when pointing to the same page within your website. For instance, on some of your pages you could link to your Red Widgets page with the anchor text of "Red widgets", then on other pages link to it using "affordable Red widgets" and then maybe use "widgets that are Red". This allows you to get the page ranked for multiple terms and helps the user since you're being descriptive and making your anchor text better match the content of the page it's on.

4) Make links in your content
If you have text on your site, make some of the words within the text links that point to other pages within your website. For instance, if you have an article about Red widgets, or a page that describes how great your Red widgets are, make the first or second occurrence of the phrase "Red widgets" in the text a link that points to your Red Widgets page.

5) Create breadcrumbs at the top of every page
This looks something like this: Home - Products - Red Widgets
Each of words between the hyphens (which are also often greater-than signs) above should be links to their corresponding pages within the site. This helps your website visitors know where they are in relation to the rest of the site. It helps orientate site visitors. Anything you can do that helps your visitors' experience is something you ought to consider doing. This also helps search engines spider your website more easily as well. Finally, making breadcrumbs creates more internal links to your pages, thus helping your rankings as well.

By following these top five internal linking tactics, you'll be far ahead of the competition, you'll rank better in Google and other search engines and you'll be making your website visitors' lives easier.

Building a list of members or newsletter subscribers is one of the most important things any webmaster should do.

One of the best ways to get free subscribers to your list is to get other publishers and websites to mention you, your site and your products constantly. This will then build a relationship with their own subscribers and when they join your newsletter they will already know a lot about you and be looking forward to receiving your emails.

Because your site or the product you are promoting has been recommended by someone else that has already provided them with information they want the trust will already be in place.

So how do you get other publishers to mention you in their newsletters? Do something news worthy! Hold a contest, claim to know something no one else does, tell publishers a little tip that you learn and that they are free to tell their subscribers as well.

Building a relationship with other publishers is one of the best ways to get a mention or referral especially if you are offering them something that will be beneficial to them and their subscribers.

Another great way to get publishers to mention you is to send them articles, good articles or even an e-book full of articles. Tell the publisher they can send your articles to all their subscribers for free and include an author box that leads to your sign up page.

Build relationships with these publishers and become their friends!

It is also a good idea to tell people who are already subscribed to your newsletter that they can pass the newsletter or e-book on to friends and also use parts or all of your newsletter in articles that they can then submit to various article marketing sites

As long as you are mentioned in the author box you will of course get credit and a link back to your site. This is sort of like article writing, just with your newsletter issue in replace of your article.

If you are providing good solid information in your newsletter or e-book, what ever the topic, you will want to target different people. Offering your information as something that can be passed onto others for free is a great way to get other website owners and marketers to mention you constantly.

It is also important to remember one of the biggest problems I see when people write articles or e-books is that they write about subjects no one in their market is interested in. They just write about whatever they think people want to know about without doing any of the research, which is a huge no no.

Another problem is, publishers who have a market well defined don't then write the content in their newsletters that interests their readers. There is no use having an article on coin collecting and running a business about stamp collecting.

This is easily overcome. Just send out an email asking your readers what they want to read. Also sign up for other newsletters in your market and see what they are writing about.

Building a valuable list of subscribers is something every webmaster wants to achieve. This article will give you some excellent ideas on how to build your list using surprisingly easy methods.

1 - Add more subscriber boxes to your website. Sounds simple enough, but few people actually do it. If you have a 100 page website, you should have 100 newsletter subscribe boxes on your website.

You can integrate a subscribe box just about anywhere in a website. You could add one just before an article starts, in the middle of an article or even at the end of the article.

As long as you have good content on your website, you won't have a problem getting people to subscribe to your newsletter.

- Offer an outstanding bonus or gift. I have had a problem in the past with offering freebies to get people to subscribe to your newsletter, but I also know it can work well, if done properly.

Why do I have a problem with it? Well I really want subscribers to be signing up for my newsletter because they want my newsletter not because they want the freebie I am offering.

The best way to offer a freebie is to create one yourself and not something you have reprint rights to with 500 other people. You want it to be unique, and you want it to be something that plugs your newsletter heavily.

Do you know what makes a good bonus? Back issues of your newsletter!

- Use a sales letter to get subscribers, This is something I've seen a lot of lately. People using direct sales letters to get new subscribers for their newsletter. They are actually creating a sales letter like they would for a product they are selling, and at the end of it, instead of an order button, they have a subscribe here button.

You wouldn't even know by reading the sales letter that it is not for a product until the very end.

This gives people the WOW factor. You make your newsletter sound so valuable that when they find out it's free, they go "WOW, I can't believe they are giving all this information away for free".

This is pure marketing at it's best, and it's exciting. Marketing is meant to be exciting, just like life.

- Use a well paid for and well known autoresponder, I can't stress this enough. Do not use free Autoresponders or mailing lists! These services can go down at anytime and are not professional looking at all.

Plus they also get used for spamming and are abused badly.

Once your list has begun to grow do not forget to keep sending those subscribers valuable information that will be of use to them. Always let them know that they are welcome to pass the information onto others, or better still get their friends to subscribe also.

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Google Adsense: Where to Place Ads on Your Web Pages

Deciding Where to Place Your Google Ads on Your Web Pages so That They Will Be Most Profitable.
This is one of the best parts of the whole Google Adsense experience. No one else gets to make this decision except you. It’s your page. You get to decide how many ( up to 3 ads per page), what colors and shapes you will use and on what part of the page the ad will be placed. Should you place your ads at the top or bottom? In the middle of the text? To the left or right? There are only billions and billions of websites online to serve as a pretty decent example! So why not take a look around the web?

One piece of advice I can personally give you on strategic adsense placement is to place your ads as close to eye level as possible for maximum exposure without scrolling. In other words, the easiest less confusing your ads are, the more likely they will get noticed which equals more and more clickthroughs.

While I am not the foremost expert on google adsense I am experienced in the field. I am experienced in the field of pay per click advertising and I have seen every trick in the book. All of my ebooks and literature over the years have been read by lots of people seeking success in adsense. From crooks and con men to the legitimate every day Joe. The bottome line is....If you have a simple page and you place adsense on that page hoping to at least make enough adsense clickthrough revenue to pay for your uptime you are in it for all of the wrong reasons and you are ultimately wasting your time.

The guru's who made money on utilizing google adsense advertising for content, researched and researched and dabbled in every single avenue of legitimate website marketing to illegitimate website marketing. Then when they made their millions or when they went broke they wrote ebooks about it and made more money from that. Did they reveal their secrets in the ebooks? Yes. But thats all old hat now! Why? Because google changes its operations nearly weekly now and aren't afraid to deny you money that your reports say they owe you. Is it legal? Yes! Why? Because they reserve the right to change their TOS or "Terms Of Service" at any time with or without notice. This doesn't mean that they are crooks. This simply means that in order for them to provide excellence in online search while remaining number one, they must make huge decisions at a moments notice.

One old trick of the trade in adsense adplacement is to place ads really close to a link or image hoping a mis click could take place by a visitor. Google soon caught on and soon! And went on to re write their policy and made that against the rules. Another trick peple would and still try which is still against the rules is to beg you to click their ads. Google has announced openly over and over again that they do not allow this practice. So while you may be on the right road to success with adsense be sure to follow their simple rules which are laid out in their guidelines.

Cramming pages? If you cram your pages with confusing links, images and other content your site visitors will not be pleased! They probably got to your page by accident anyways. The reason I can honestly come to that conclusion is because you aren't organized! Well....If your page is crammed with confusion I can honestly come to that assesment. I can also assess that your over all adsense earnings are either very low or almost non existant. Lets work on that!How to maximize ad exposure with the least amount of ads, while making revenues, while staying on topic, while providing fresh content!

You will surely want to read this section. Lets start at the top. Find a niche topic that you love researching. Then compare it to competitors who also offer the same information. Now on your desktop open a blank notepad and write a few HOTT paragraphs with the HOTTEST relevant keywords most used while searching an engine for your topic or information. Make sure these few paragraphs are content rich! In other words. Make sure they are on point and offer you what you'd want to read if you were searching for your site on the web as a potential visitor.

Now pick a relevant domain name that is simple and easy to say! The reason why is because word of mouth still works online and still works offline as well! People write and talk about websites every day! So keep this in mind when choosing a relevant domain name.

Now find a reliable web host and pay for hosting. Just buy the minimal hosting that provides you with advertisement free website hosting. You don't want your webhosts ads all over your page! Now get a free web template online that you like and edit it to your liking. Now upload this template while keeping a copy on your desktop of the page content. Everytime you change your page content and you are pleased with it save the page source to the copy on your desktop in case of data loss or server crashing.

Now research your topic from the inside out and create separate pages describing your topic. From articles to on topic news to on topic products etc.

Now subscribe to a general world news feed in rss format and insert it into a table on each of your pages. No need for big huge complicated overwhelming feeds! Just keep it simple. This provides you updated content on general world news daily! This is essential for those times when you just don't feel like updating your topics.

Now sign up for a google adsense account and place a banner ad at eye level that displays text and image ads. Now if you want and have plenty of room get a side bar adsense ad and put it down lower on the left and right.

When you have the site the way you want it. And it loads in decent time. And you feel really good about it. Create a simple sitemap for google's crawler by placing a simple notepad document entitled sitemap.txt into the root folder of every webpage within your site. In each sitemap it should only list the pages full URL one URL per line. For example if I had a site named exaample.com and I had 3 sub pages in the same directory on my server I would list each of the three full URL's one per line in one sitemap.txt file and I would upload it to the same folder each pages index file is located. Practice this until you get it right. There is an XML sitemap procedure that can be referred to but it is much more complicated and takes more time although it does work better. Now visit your google account and submit your main site URL within your account and also submit the full URL path to each sitemap you have created. When this is all finished submit your website to every free search engine online and be patient. Start blogging like a mad man and every few days visit your google account and take a look at your reports! Research your reports and know them well! When you change a strategy from within your website these reports will soon reflect this. Be patient though! Googles crawl service may not get to crawl your pages for a few days or a week! So give it a couple of weeks before making major changes. But always update your content. I wish you luck and success in google adsense and I hope that this article helped you figure out how some of the lesser talked about topics pertaining to google adsense are handled. Thanks for reading! David Batterson MyTurboTraffic.com.

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Many people seek information on attaining decent "pr" (page rank) with google. They ususally start somewhere when they begin and usually its a pretty simple web page with a google ad. If they are insistent upon reaching success with google adsense that page will turn into something bigger. Usually when someone wants to achieve success they do not want to cut corners. They need to be ambitious and continue to look for a niche. Premade google adsense pages usually come with some sort of news feed in RSS and they usually have other auto update features. I don't really like this idea for auto content. Automated content is not as effective as people would like you to believe. The reason why is because usually your own auto content feeder is set to update content that is relative to your site. Well every single webmaster who runs a site that has the same content and feeder settings are nearly duplicating your site by coincidence.
Rich fresh content is the ultimate key. I stress this repeatedly throughout all of my google articles and let me say that it is important. Do not copy content from other websites! Now don't worry. You won't likely get sued for it. It will just keep you from standing out in the search results. And standing out is exactly what you are attempting to achieve! In the short "how to" paragraph below I will explain how to "stay fresh" on the web. I will update this article when my free ebook is finished to allow you to download more information and help on improving your site content and helping you deliver fresher content more often.
A Few Simple Steps To Achieving Fresh Content Daily For Free! First make sure you are not doing the following. I am not copying content from other websites to get fresh content daily.
This is important. Fresh content is your own content! You can NOT get fresh content when you are getting it from another online source. This is a misleading scam that many websites use to get people to subscribe via rss or to copy and paste snippets of code to increase their pr by having their content on so many other peoples websites. I am not falling for software offers that promise fresh content daily via php script. These can be useful in providing stickyness but should not be used as a fresh content daily strategy that you turn on and walk away from. These tools should be used only in addition to your own daily fresh content inserts into your page source. I am not displaying more ads than content!
This one surely doesn't get enough attention! People can tell if you are straining for content when your page is more than 60% ads and 40% or less is decent alluring content. Be original and at least attempt to balance out your content so that your pages are unique and can get more people bookmarking them. Nowadays people bookmark pages in so many ways like "Digg" and "Facebook" and so many others including "Stumble" and the classic browser bookmarks. These are pr building bookmarks! They work well to build your page rank and are considered backlinks!
Begin Building Fresh Adsense Pages That Are Rich And Fresh In Content! First you need a niche topic that is really hot! Like maybe a page on celebrities for example. If you watch a lot of television you could keep up to date on this by checking out the Entertainment News channels. Sure its old news by the time it hits your page but the point is its written in your own words and you are going to update this daily. This will become your sole duty when online everyday. Always check the top headlines on all of the news channels that cover Entertainment so that you will be quick to jot the new facts down. Also if you have DVR you will be able to really shine through on your research with the ability to be more accurate in your writing by recording the news while you watch in case you need to hear a story again to make an accurate update on your page. Find interesting facts about your favorite actors and actresses including their autobiographies and their likings or interests and create a master template for a few pages that way about different people in Hollywood. Then have a separate table within that page where you show the latest news you have found out about this person. Then you can include a table where you update the current box office standings and then you can place your auto update feeds in the templates. Now everyday while you are online have the television on in the background and keep up to date on the latest news in the hot Entertainment scene and when a HUGE story breaks you can be one of the first people to post it online. This will get you up in the rankings. When a HUGE story on Entertainment hits and you update your page with it that page should not get updated. Keep it the way it is and only update the latest on that HUGE story. This will become a major archive of your site that people will begin to backlink for you. Now when you have several pages that you update all of the time and a few really good archive pages that have HUGE stories that lots of people are interested in you will notice your page rank starting to increase. This should help get you well on your way to being backlinked and to rise above the rest in link popularity on the web for your niche topic! If you like this article please digg it for me! Thanks! David Batterson.

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When you're trying to run an online business, you need to be aware of your traffic counts at all times. These are the counts of how many people are visiting your website on any given day. The more people you have visiting your site, the more likely it will be that your profits will also go up. So, it's essential that you not only monitor these numbers, but also become concerned when you see a sudden drop in the traffic counts. Here are the four things you should do when you see your traffic numbers drop.

Check the Site

Before you begin to panic, you will want to try to pull up your own site to see if you can see it. If you can easily pull it up, there maybe nothing technically wrong with it. Check the content next to see if something was placed onto your site unintentionally or if anyone hacked your website and made it completely different from what you meant your site to look like. Take a few minutes to go over all of the main pages of your site and then see if you can get into your site as a customer would. If everything looks okay, you might have other problems you need to work on.

Call the Web Host

If you can't access your site, but you can access other websites, the problem may lie in the services of your web host. If the server is down, you will not be able to access the site, causing your customers to not be able to access it as well. When a web host server goes down often, the traffic counts will begin to drop as the customers become more wary of whether your site will be available. Or, if there is a sudden drop in the numbers, you might simply need to get the server repaired or your information switched over to a backup server so that it can be broadcast to your customers. When your web host is crashing more often than it should, you need to start looking for a new web host.

Look Back Over Changes You've Made

When a sudden drop in your traffic occurs, you might want to stop to think about what changes you've made recently. Did you change your prices? Did you change your images? Any sort of changes might be the reason for your change in traffic count. When your customers are accustomed to certain features on your site or certain menus, it might take them a while to get used to them - or the drop in your counts might be a sign that they simply don't like what you've done at all. To respond to this situation, you might want to change your site to its original format and see what happens to the traffic counts then.

Wait it Out

But sometimes, there is simply no rhyme or reason to the traffic counts dropping - they just do. And if you can, simply wait it out to see what happens over the course of the next week. If your site is up and running and it's still working the way it should, you might simply be experiencing a temporary shift in the market, which will eventually turn around. When you're still getting new site visitors and old customers, you might just need to wait it out until things get back to normal. Perhaps there's a new site that just started and that is drawing attention to itself for the moment. Once customers realize that you are still the better business, they'll be back.

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Links to your website can bring you more traffic and get you listed higher with the search engines. When you exchange links you put up a link to another site and they put up a link to you. That is called a two way link. They are not as good as a one way link where there is a link to your website only. A good way to get one way links is submitting a link to a directory website. There are thousands of these directory websites. People could go there to find websites and to add their link to it.

Each of these websites has their own rules. Many of them offer 3 choices. You submit your information and they review it and decide whether to accept it. One choice is a free submission. Some sites may say that with this choice it may take up to 6 months before they review your site. These groups want you to create links back to them so they can become bigger. When you do this then you are submitting a reciprocal link. This is a higher priority and it gets reviewed sooner than the other links and has other perks.

Then there is the paid for link called possibly a featured link. This type of link gets looked at the soonest and you get other perks like being able to submit other pages of your website in addition to the main page. Submitting these links to so many sites can take a lot of work. Some sites offer to do it for you if you pay them. So that is something you can try.

A way of getting two way links is by exchanging links. You can just look for sites that you like and ask them if the want to exchange links. there are also link exchange places that help you to do this. This group has many people that are looking to exchange links with you or you can ask them to exchange links. I have been using one of these for 2 years.

With the group I use, if a site requests a link from you, they have to put up the link first. Then they check it and notify you that it was done and for you to do the same. Many of these sites will put your link on a page that is not connected to their website so no one will ever see it. The exchange group can check that the link is on the page but the page might not be connected to the website which means it does you no good. So you have to check this. There are many unscrupulous people on the internet.

When it comes to links to your website there is a difference of how much it helps you. The Google page rank is a way to measure how much a link from that site helps you. The higher the number the better. The numbers are from 0 to 10. Some experts tell you not to exchange links with a site that has a PR of 0. If it is a bad site, it could hurt you to have a link to it. Some say not to exchange links with a site that has a PR lower than yours.

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Regardless of why you have a website, the truth is that if you have one, you need to drive traffic to it. Many people have simple websites just for sharing family photos or someplace for friends to interact. Other people make a full time living from having their own websites. No matter what your situation, the more traffic you have, the better.

But a perennial problem remains: how do you increase website traffic? Aside from shelling out money for those "traffic building" packages or paying for links (which is getting to be really hazardous to your website's page rankings and overall standing with Google), there are still several strategies for driving traffic to your website - and keeping them there. I'm going to present you with a few good ones:

Keyword Searches - There are several keyword tools on the Internet that can help you increase web site traffic, if you know how to use them properly. I'm talking about tools like Yahoo!'s KW Selector Tool, Wordtracker, KWDiscovery, and Google's KW Tool, to name a few. Using these tools, you can search for high-traffic keywords or phrases that have some relevance to your business or website, but with very little or no advertisers using them at all. Effective keyword research will enable your business' brand to develop and give your site more exposure in the search engines.

Just be sure to provide your visitors with the kind of content they're looking for - whether in the form of listed resources, articles, multimedia, or the like. Doing so will help your site get the best kind of publicity there is in the form of viral marketing - where word of mouth about the quality of your site spreads like wildfire, bringing more traffic to your website and keeping them there.

Controversy is the Key - Sometimes emotions get the better of people, especially when they see, hear, or read about something that they strongly feel about. Why not use these emotions and put them to use to channel traffic to your site? Your main targets will be impassioned and (sometimes) overzealous Internet users who harbor strong feelings about a particular topic. Just generate controversial content using articles, blog posts, videos, or statistical reports (whichever method is applicable).

Once your content is ready, you must be prepared to make blog posts and comments in other venues such as forums, that may be appropriate or useful. If done effectively, this method will increase web site traffic for you through various sources, but most of it may come directly from the individual or organization you challenged. Make sure that you handle all feedback and discussions in a professional manner, though. Doing so will allow you to develop a respectable persona online, even with those whom you are disagreeing with.

Get out and go to events - The type of event may vary depending on your interests but they are a great place to find sources of traffic. Gaming expos, tech shows, the like - all can be taken advantage of to bring great and updated content to your website, and droves of traffic along with it. Try to cover the event as much as possible by taking pictures, shooting some videos, making new friends and acquaintances, and taking detailed notes all the while.

Of course, make sure that everyone knows you're going to feature all this stuff on your site within the next few days (the sooner the better). This is a great way to really increase traffic and the visitors can range from hundreds to thousands. In some cases you can generate tens of thousands or more. It will depend on many factors including the size of the event and also it's popularity. As an additional tip, underground or exclusive events make for better coverage - but be sure to get permission first.

There are countless ways to increase website traffic. Many of them are probably familiar to you. Effective use of these methods will allow you to see a boost to your website traffic for a long time to come.

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