Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Proven Way's To Market Your Website Offline

Although it is clear that most website users of the internet use search engines to find their destination, is there a better alternative? I recently had a look at the stats of a website I have been working on. To my amazement only 5% of the visitors came from other websites or search engines, the rest were direct requests. This website is only 3 months old, so it is fairly new with barely any link popularity, but for such a new website an average of 150 visitors a day, is not too bad. I asked the owner how he was promoting his website, and to my amazement he was using none other than flyers. The website is advertising his adventure tourism business, as you may have noticed when you visit a tourist destination there are plenty of flyers on the counter. Advertising all sorts of accommodation or locations to visit. He employed a very smart Graphical Designer to create a flyer that is very eye catching. These flyers are so catchy that he has told me that he never has enough. You may be thinking that this is expensive because you have to pay for the printing, but in actual fact it is much cheaper than some internet advertising. For instance to even have his website listed optimally on Google's Ad words he would be paying in excess of 50c a click. Whereas printing flyers that can be passed on for years only cost 23c each. On the other hand some people choose to spend thousands on optimizing their websites, gambling to be in the top of the results. Or you could choose to use paid advertising, but targeting your potential customers can be difficult and costly. I am certain that the old fashioned flyer advertising is here to stay. The benefits of flyers are astronomical; targeting your audience is the key to success. Travel destinations, travel agents and rental agencies are all targeting his potential customers. Since he first began his business, he has always used flyer advertising, and with the amalgamation with the website business is soaring. This indicates to me that with the synergy of the real world and the internet we can create very powerful advertising campaigns.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

High Search Rankings Advice

In the internet marketing business there are many different buzzwords that float around and around. Words like "targeted traffic" and "search engine optimization" and "affiliate income." Most of them have a lot to do with the internet search engines, because after all if you can figure out how they operate than you have 99% of the game figured out. Basically if you are selling something than you need buyers, and the portal that the buyers come to your sales page through is almost without exception the search engines. The higher your site's search rankings are the more people will come to your site and the more sales you will make.

Given the fact that most peoples pages are on a level playing field as far as desirability for the customer, it really is the search rankings that separate those who have to work another job because they are barely making enough to pay for hosting, and those who work very little and own several houses all over the world that they rotate through on a month to month basis. It's simple math really, the higher the rank the more customers, the more customers the more sales, the more sales the greater the profits, the greater the profits the more home that you own around the world.

So how do you achieve these valuable high search rankings? A great question and one that doesn't really have a good answer because no one really knows who. Why is that? Well that's because the search engines don't post a month-to-month bulletin that details the criteria they are using to grade topic relevancy. Why not? Well they don't because if they did people would exploit the system so that they could get high rankings (and therefore more traffic) even if their relevancy sucks. Well doesn't that happen anyway? Of course it does but it takes us all a lot longer to do it the guess-and-check way.

Anyway there are many different ways that people have found that help promote their site to the search engines in such a way as to get good search rankings. A lot of it has to do with keyword research, and diversity of page forms, amount of information, and the amount of information on related topics, and the number of links that the page has, and on and on. This is valuable knowledge and the guys that have it are willing to give it and the tools that they have made to automate these procedures away for a price. Let me tell you if you haven't been doing this for the last 10 years than you have no choice but to bite the bullet and purchase your knowledge. I will also tell you though that when you finally start to get it and understand the potential for income generation that you have you will be so glad you threw the cash down. It's out of this world baby!
Best Wishes
Kathleen Oz
Legitimate Opportunities Online
Business Knowledge

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Generated Keywords

The keywords are generated by using the content of your page. Keywords are usually placed close to the top of the page for the benefit of search engines. If the keywords are missing, taking the time to ad them in each engine could be an effort with a great return. Keywords are critical: google's free keyword tool just got better regular readers will know how important keywords are for driving free traffic from the search engines. The right keywords can be a challenge. You decide to find the keywords that are most searched for, related to the topic of your website. You can easily find these lists on the search engine websites telling you what people have been searching for recently in a given area of interest. Keywords research and understanding is mandatory for successful search engine optimizations and get to top search engine rankings. Read the Keywords Research Articles to know about what it is. . . . Keywords Are King What can you do if your keywords are too common? Is there anything that can help? . . . Well, for a start, including misspellings in your meta tag keywords could help you to get visitors who don't know how to spell or those who type too fast - this traffic is just as good as any other, after all. Put your business in front of potential customers at the precise moment they're searching for what you sell . . . Connect with customers searching for what you sell. . . . Advertise your business in search results on Yahoo! and other popular sites. You can put your business in front of potential customers at the precise moment they. . . For instance, if you repeat the phrase "Athletes have coaches" five times on your page and YOUR keywords only 2 times, a search engine will think that the most important keyword on your site is "Athletes have coaches". Keyword Suggestion Tool - Find how often phrases are searched for (and get suggestions). . . . This is a handy little tool will show you the results of your query from both Word tracker and Overture for determining which phrases are searched most often. Tagging information resources with keywords has the potential to change how we store and find information. It may become less important to know and remember where information was found and more important to know how to retrieve it using a frame-work created by and shared with peers and colleagues. Offline to online keyword marketing promotion service sends people direct to content-specific web pages and files with keywords you choose and tell people about. . . . keywords you saw or heard . . . Since 1997 keyword. com has been providing an offline to online marketing solution for sales, marketing, customer service,Displays the keyword searches data collected from Yahoo! search log files. Updated each weekday, it shows the percentage of users searching for a specific subject on a given day. The world has changed from the first years of the Internet where loading your meta tags with hundreds of the same keywords made a big difference. Back then you could use one word over and over and the search engines ranked you high because they had no method to screen out "keyword spam". How Cool are Custom Keywords? . . . Mozilla Custom Keywords ROCK! Not just for making shorthand for bookmarks but also for searches and queries. Simple keywords allow you to type a short string in the Location Bar and load its corresponding Bookmark URL. Firefox bookmark keywords explained . . . A dialog window appears, and you can fill in similar values as in the manual example except the location (URL) which Firefox has already obtained automatically. Make sure that you change the "Create in:" location to Quick Searches unless you don't mind having the smart keyword. . . Learn which keywords you should be targeting to increase your website rankings, traffic, and profit. . . . What keywords are competing businesses ranking for? Which of them get the most search volume? Which of them has the greatest value? Should you target those keywords as well? Hope This Helps, Legitimate Business Opportunities Online

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