Getting listed in Google, MSN, and Yahoo is not always the easiest task if you’re not using a systematic way to get listed. Submitting your site to the search engines is not the best or fastest way to get listed. I know that sounds odd, but it’s true. The easiest and fastest way to get listed is to place your site in front, or as some say, in the path of the search engine bots while they are visiting other websites. [More]
Everything starts somewhere. And the first Search Engines were indeed pretty simple. To determine the relevancy of Web pages for a search term, they looked for keywords in various places on a page.
It was easy for marketers to meet/manipulate the crude “relevancy algorithms” of Search Engines (SEs). All you had to do was stuff a page with “invisible” keywords (ex., text in the same color as background color) and BINGO! Your page would rank #1 for search requests for that “stuffed” keyword. [More]
RSS is short for “Really Simple Syndication” and it is a method of sorting and displaying content from multiple sources. Whenever a website with an RSS feed is updated, links to the new content on that site are displayed on the RSS feed. Where ever that feed is placed, a link will be dynamically inserted into that page. What you can do with RSS is nearly endless.
If you have a list of websites which you love reading, you can set up a website or software program which reads updates on your chosen RSS feeds to display all of their newly posted content to a single source. Thus, you don’t need to head on over to all ten websites to check on all of your favorites, you can simply check one source. If a site is updated, a new link will be posted, and if not, you won’t see anything. [More]
There are an enormous number of ways that you can make money online. Whether you are selling advertising space, selling actual merchandise, or selling information, you determine your success or failure by your ability to get people to visit your site.
If you started a business and put all of your advertising on the side of dirt road with minimal traffic, then you probably won’t see any fruit produced by that effort. In the same way, you want your store to be located in a busy part of town where casual shoppers linger. Your best business may come from people who just dropped in while window-shopping. [More]
In the early days of my business I attracted a lot of free traffic simply by participating in online forums. If you’re doing that, see if you figure out a way to HELPFULLY include a link to an article on your site in the middle of your message. Don’t just rely on using a signature.
Learn how the free search engines work. Capturing e-mail addresses for your own opt-in list or newsletter is very useful because it gives you the opportunity for repeat sales, but it’s not absolutely essential. How do you suggest promoting affiliate programs? [More]
The role of the search engines is to attempt to gather all the pages that are in the internet world and rank these according to the search phrase typed in by the user. The algorithms used are highly complex mathematical formulae that no one knows exactly how they work (except for the search engine staff of course!)
However there are certain rules to follow that are known to be able to rank highly for given search terms. From the webmaster perspective
Of course everyone believes their website should rank at the top. But there are sometimes millions of people within the same industry trying to get a #1 position. This makes it harder for new sites to get to the top, and certainly, if you are trying to rank #1 for “home based business” you will not succeed. [More]
The Internet becomes even more pervasive, the importance of search engine optimization continues to grow.You can make the most of your Internet marketing efforts by following the same steps that top ranking sites do for improvinge their rankings.You may think that top ranking sites have to spend lots of money to get there.The truth is that sites who come out on top, follow some basic search engine optimization guidelines.These guidelines are easy to follow and often cost little or nothing to put into practice.
1. Manually register your site with DMOZ, also known as the Open Directory Project.The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors and feeds other leading web directories. [More]
I would not have believed it if I hadn’t done it for myself. You can actually write an ebook without actually doing the writing. Because of an interesting legal twist, you can hire a writer, and then when the writer is finished, you own the complete copyright to the work. If it sounds too good to be true, it almost is!
But there’s something else that’s almost too good to be true: having an ebook written doesn’t cost near what it costs to have a hard cover book written. It’s actually pretty affordable for someone who plans to recoup their money with ebook sales. One more almost-too-good-to-be-true fact: ebooks often sell for the same price that a traditional, hold-it-in-your-hand, book would sell for! No writing, no problem!
Let me tell you a little about my story. As the Internet began taking over the world, dollar signs flashed almost constantly in the back of my mind. I did some research to see who was making money from this evolution. I ran across import companies, search engines, web-site-development/hosting companies, and auction sites. That was a year ago. [More]
