101 Tips to Promote Your Website

Oct 10, 2008 @ 09:00 pm by articles

The main reason for website development or creating a blog is in hopes of either making money or getting people to read what you have to say.

In order to do either we need website visitors. And not all website visitors are equal. It’s best if a high percentage of your website visitors are people interested in the subject of your site, not people who wind up there by accident.

You have to read a lot of website development articles and learn from website development resources.

And, it’s better still if your traffic is free? If it comes as a result of places like:

1) Yahoo Answers.

2) Myspace.com

3) Yahoo Groups

4) Stumbleupon.com

5) Forums

6) Craigslist.org

7) Site maps

8) E-Book Giveaway

9) Website Design

10) Submit To Directories

11) Tell a Friend

12) Search Engine Optimization

13) Squidoo.com

14) Social bookmarking sites

15) Article Promotion

16) Site Explorer

17) Epinion.com

18) Alexa.com

19) Newsletter Box

20) Pay per Click search engines

21) Get Links from Relevant Websites

22) Increase the Size of Your Site

22) Send out Press Releases

23) Advertise On Online classified Ad Sites

24) Use Firefox Plug-in

25) Add a Forum to Your Site

26) Add a Blog to Your Site

27) Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines

28) Comment on Other Peoples Blogs

29) MySpace News

30) Digg

31) Banner Exchanges

32) Traffic Exchanges

33) Pop Unders

34) Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes

35) Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators

36) Submit your blog to all of the RSS directories

37) Link to other blogs in your posts

38) Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.

39) Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)

40) Start a group blog.

41) Join SpicyPage and promote your blog

42) Join a webring.

43) Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog

44) Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.

45) Trade blog roll links with related blogs.

46) Use Twitter

47) Publish videos on YouTube

48) Search for Wikis related to your.

49) Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write.

50) Pray.

51) Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends.

52) Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog

53) Most brands are not well established online, you review related content and it will rank well.

54) Review relevant products on Amazon.com.

55) Create product lists on Amazon.com

56) Review related sites on Alexa

57) Review products and services on shopping search engines.

58) Swap some links.

59) Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages.

60) Sell items on eBay.

61) Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg

62) Whenever you send an email to someone, always add your website url as a signature.

63) Do email signature swaps

64) Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites

65) Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords – Google Images generates traffic too.

66) Tag blog photos at Flicker

67) Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche.

68) Outsource grunt work.

69) After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product.

70) Participate in Blog Carnivals

71) create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together

72) Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL

73) Find and discuss memes

74) Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.

75) Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you?re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.

76) Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.

77) Syndicate your site?s content by using an RSS feeds.

78) Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites.

79) Don’t worry about PageRank – worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.

80) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

81) Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.

82) Send out a newsletter!

83) Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.

84) Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.

85) Add a Tell a Friend function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their mates.

86) Share your banners on banner exchange sites.

87) Create a lense for your site on Squidoo

88) Do you have really hot content on your site that geeks would love? If so Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic.

89) upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site.

90) Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search.

91) Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

92) Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

93) Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

94) Increase the list you ping

95) Use Facebook

96) Social Networking

97) Micro

98) Email Marketing

99) RSS Feeds

100) Get outside links to internal pages

101) Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site.

Is Affiliate Marketing Getting Too Hard?

Oct 10, 2008 @ 06:09 pm by articles

Whether you’ve just started poking around with making money online as an affiliate or you’ve been slogging away at it for years, there’s one thing that you’ll agree on…

…it’s getting tougher to make a living as an affiliate.

Although some people resort to less crowded and less competitive markets to make money, the problem is there is less people to sell to, so it’s catch 22 for MOST affiliates.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Not at all.

Sure, it’s not as easy to make money online as it was 5 years ago but hey, that’s life. Everything changes and there will always be a way to win the race.

They key to winning the race however, is to play smart, NOT hard.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Competition – gotta love it

First of all, find a niche where there a healthy number of affiliates promoting products. Don’t be obscure and try to be clever on this one, because it’s far easier to find a market where people are already proven to be spending lots of money. Just join the affiliates and take your share, because one more affiliate in the crowd will not make a difference, so it might as well be YOU.

2. Time – save some

Sure, we’d all like to have more time. But you need to save as much of it as possible so that you can save yourself from a stress induced illness or a breakdown of your life in general.

You also need time to breathe, to relax and assess where you’re going with your business online, and to be able to assess your progress. This is so important, for your sanity, let alone your family’s.

3. Money doesn’t grow on YOUR trees.

Yes, money grows on trees, sort of…but not the ones in YOUR back garden. So why spend it like it does? Be sensible with your budget when it comes to advertising or you’ll end up in serious poop.

And when I say sensible, I don’t mean hiding it all under a pillow or saving it for some useless retirement fund that the government likes to tax, I mean investing it wisely into your business, being smart with your advertising budget and making each dollar/pound truly count. We review products to help you, checkout Secret Affiliate Code Review.

3. Avoid Confusion

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The Secret Law Of Attraction

Oct 10, 2008 @ 04:11 pm by articles

What is the secret law of attraction, really? Does it work or is it just a marketing hype by television gurus and book writers? Is it really such a big secret? Let’s find out and see what the possibilities are. I think we all know that you can do pretty much anything you set your mind to. Most of our parents told us that as kids, right? So why is it that some people get abundance and others, poverty?

Karma

Universal Law or Karma as some call it, is based on you being a good person and treating others as you would expect them to treat you. Basically, what goes around comes around. It is a good law, in a perfect world. If everyone lived by that standard, then surely there would be no more crime or corruption in the world. Unfortunately, most people don’t believe in Karma, Universal Law or The Law Of Attraction. At least they are not letting up on it if they are.

Thoughts Become Things

There are many ways for people to achieve things in life. Some may take the proven road of hard work and elbow grease to get what they want in life. Some work hard and get nowhere. Others seem to make less work and get more results. The law of attraction is based on believing in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals and targets. Thoughts become things. Things become reality. So, if you think about something enough, at some stage you are bound to take action towards getting that thing. You are effectively attracting results. It is as simple as that. Of course, if you do never take any action, there is a fair chance you will never, ever get that very thing you have been thinking so much about.

Put your thoughts into action and take some solid steps towards achieving your targets and goals. The key is, if you want to have something, you need to take firm steps towards getting it. That is the law of attraction. You will attract that thing to you that you are thinking of.

Looking Into Turnkey Online Business Opportunities

Oct 10, 2008 @ 12:01 am by articles

There are many opportunities to have an internet business but starting from little to no knowledge can be a disadvantage so why not look into turnkey online business opportunities. Why go through the learning process which can take as long as a year or more when you can just get a ready made online business and start receiving an income.

Yes there are many ready made online businesses to choose from and the only limitation is the cost. You can find a business under a hundred dollars or into the thousands of dollars. But you get what you pay for and think about who would want to sell you a profitable business for pennies on the dollar. The formula for selling a ready made online business is 10 times the monthly income it produces. So if you would like to get a $1000 a month income from you business then you should expect to pay the owner around $10,000. Still you can recover you cost in less then a year and that isn’t bad.

What about the low cost turnkey online business opportunities that you see advertise daily on the search engines, what do they offer? They offer you a chance to grow a already establish business plan that works but you will have to find the traffic and do some learning as you grow your business into an income producing asset. Just don’t believe all the hype that sounds too good to be true because too many people with good intentions have failed for lack of understanding what it takes to make a business successful in an competitive environment.

Even if you invest into an expensive ready made online business you better have someone with online business experience help you to maintain it or the business could become unsuccessful and stop producing profit. Unless you hire someone with internet business experience you will have to go through the learning curve or your competitors will take your business from you.

I have found a great ready made online business that not only cost nothing to start up with but the owner of the business will set you up with a web page and even bring you traffic from his own advertisements. He is use to new beginners and will personally help you with your start up business. Of course he is making money from what ever you make but it is of no consequence to your profits as his income is from the second tier in the programs which don’t affect you and your profit. I have already made money with this business and feel that Tissa Godavitarne has been a great help and friend. My hope is that when you are looking into turnkey online business opportunities that you take your time and find one that suites your needs as I have