Archive for January 18th, 2006
The recent spurt of interest in blogging has begun to ignite the hope that people can make a full-time income from blogging.
Although there are a few people actually doing this, there aren’t too many business models yet that can support someone making a full-time income from their blogs.
I believe that blogs should be an important part of any traffic-generation plan for a website, but don’t depend on the blog itself to do much selling.
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January 18th, 2006
One of the most popular ways to generate free traffic to your website these days is to use a free traffic exchange service.
A traffic exchange is website service that enables you to view someone’s website, and others in turn view yours. You earn credits when you view someone’s site, and you use those credits to have others view your site. Internet marketers would like to know how to bring traffic to their websites quickly, without spending any money.
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January 18th, 2006
Depending on your site’s subject matter, you might even be able to start earning a significant income purely from the popularity of your site. For example, if you have a site on jokes you might be able to get a substantial amount of traffic, but you’re unlikely to earn a huge income.
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January 18th, 2006
Search engine optimization is on every webmaster’s mind these days. Achieving a favorable ranking for the right keywords can mean a steady stream of targeted traffic to your site, and all for free - that’s hard to beat. The key to high search engine rankings is structuring your website correctly, including plenty of content that is relevant to your keywords, and making sure your website is spider-friendly. You can use this checklist to make sure all of your Web pages can be found, indexed and ranked correctly:
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January 18th, 2006
Businesses are starting to look closely at the long-term benefits from pay per click advertising. Pay per click search engines are primarily used for sales in the now time frame, but they are also being used to build a business identity that their customers will remember. This form of brand awareness can be applied to a company of any size, large or small.
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January 18th, 2006
More and more people are considering the World Wide Web as a great opportunity to offer their products and services to a new, bigger market or even as a chance to create entirely new businesses online.
Even if the perspective to reach millions of potential customers is surely exciting, the truth is that internet marketing is more difficult than it may seems and if you don’t have a sufficient experience you will usually waste a lot of time and resources doing things that don’t produce the results you expect.
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January 18th, 2006
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt in over 3 years of web marketing, it is this: you *must* follow up with your visitors.
The statistics are very clear about this: the 1st contact produces 2% of sales, the 5th to12th contacts produce 80% of sales.
I knew about this for years but didn’t act on it. Then, about 8 months ago I wrote a 5 Day Email Course about my eBook (Ezine Writer) and offered it to my visitors.
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January 18th, 2006
Copyright © 2004 Priya Shah
The question of the day is “Should you start a Blog?”
People all over the planet are blogging. Companies, CEOs, lawyers, journalists, stewardesses. Even dogs and babies.
Why? Because they can. It’s that simple.
Blogging requires little or no learning curve. If you can type, speak into a phone, bark, chew, record a holiday movie, you can blog.
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January 18th, 2006