How do you know what online marketing strategies to choose from that is best for your business online? There are always emerging new tactics, new ideas, and new tools coming out every day, and most business owners simply don't have the resources to jump right into every one of them. The problem is, that it is not easy to figure out which online marketing strategies will work best and be the most cost-effective for your business.
The changing pace of internet is considerable frightening. Even just within the realm of search marketing, the way of how internet works have changed so drastically over the years with no signs of slowing down.
The internet industry has now gotten so big and so sophisticated; it just gets even more challenging every year to maintain your edge if you're out there doing big paid search programs
People are starting to think about how to optimize their online marketing strategies for their business by integrating their paid search efforts with their social and their organic, and their email, display, and affiliate... and that’s where the new challenges come in on the competitive market.
Many businesses are more comfortable with paid search, simply because it's relatively easy to measure, as compared to social media marketing, whose metrics are still emerging.
By looking at how internet evolved with searches through internet just in the past two years: real-time search, personalized search, social search, Google Instant, Instant previews (recently launched by Google), Facebook data in Bing results, the rise of mobile and connected TV devices. And that is just how internet evolved quickly with just searching for information only through different search platforms.
With so many new technologies, platforms, and implementations coming out it's practically impossible to know which ones to take advantage of. New initiatives cost money and resources, so businesses are reluctant to just jump into new ideas. Should you play the wait and see game? Wait and see how they emerge? Set a timeline for observation? Or jump into the trend to be the pioneer of the new evolution? Of course, there will be a certain percentage of uncertainty and risk involve.
Internet business has no difference with off-line business. This is a cold-hard fact for internet business: the competition for online business is fierce, particularly in the present economic climate. As such, it is essential that online business owners implement the best strategies to keep one step ahead of the competition.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Sourcing Images For Your Site
There is an old saying: ‘A picture speaks a thousand words’. And it can be very true with website design which normally starts with having a great header graphic. With appropriate images that blend well to your site, they can bring your site page to life and they add an extra professionalism that is indescribable with text alone.
So, where do you get great images from?
Firstly, here are the two places you should consider to avoid ...
The first one is Google Images. You can avoid most images but not all. And avoid at all cost on images that belong to other people’s web sites. Why? The reason is simple. Grabbing images from other people’s sites, even Google images, tends to be illegal. Or I can say even illegal indirectly is also consider as a copyright theft. I’m sure you don’t want to get into a fight with one of those upstanding citizens who have chosen the legal profession as a way of extracting money from people.
If you can’t steal them from Google, where can you get your hands on some high quality photographs without having to empty your wallet at the same time? It’s not exactly true that you never get anything for free. Here are two great resources you can consider that worth checking out for free legal images.
FREEFOTO: http://www.freefoto.com
MORGUEFILE: http://www.morguefile.com
So, where do you get great images from?
Firstly, here are the two places you should consider to avoid ...
The first one is Google Images. You can avoid most images but not all. And avoid at all cost on images that belong to other people’s web sites. Why? The reason is simple. Grabbing images from other people’s sites, even Google images, tends to be illegal. Or I can say even illegal indirectly is also consider as a copyright theft. I’m sure you don’t want to get into a fight with one of those upstanding citizens who have chosen the legal profession as a way of extracting money from people.
If you can’t steal them from Google, where can you get your hands on some high quality photographs without having to empty your wallet at the same time? It’s not exactly true that you never get anything for free. Here are two great resources you can consider that worth checking out for free legal images.
FREEFOTO: http://www.freefoto.com
MORGUEFILE: http://www.morguefile.com
Sunday, November 7, 2010
How to Get Free Traffic with Indexing
To have a successful blog, you have to build a blog that your readers will appreciate and love. And that is something you can be proud of as a great bloggie!
Having a great, unique and high-quality content that provides real value to readers is something that you need for being a successful blogger. Or I can say, this is the first thing you need for having a successful blog.
When your first article has already been posted, and you shall begin posting new articles every day if you look yourself an active blogger. In fact, there are a few things you can do to boost your success.
Once you've got content on your blog, you need to get it "indexed" by Goggle and the other search engines. This will happen automatically but it may take some time to happen on it's own.
Over time, Google and the other search engines will find your blog and start sending you "organic" search traffic. Sweet!
And in the mean time, here's what you can do to speed the process:
1. Start bookmarking your articles
2. Comment on other blogs with links to your articles
3. Use social media to generate links to your articles
4. Use Web 2.0 properties to generate links to your articles
OK, so you may have noticed that it's all about getting links to your articles. That's because every inbound link counts as a vote for your articles. And the more votes you get, the more important Google thinks your blog is.
2 Ways To Get Traffic
Having a blog with great, unique and high-quality content that provides real value to readers is something that you need for being a successful blogger. This is the important element you need for having a successful blog. But no one is visiting your blog to read this great content, click the links and earn you commissions if you want to earn some extra cash for yourself through the blog you have created… So what do you do?
There are two ways to get traffic to your site:
* Pay for it
* Get it free
I’m going to assume you’re interested in free traffic, so I’ll talk about that…
How to Get Free Traffic with Indexing
There are two main ways to get free traffic to your site:
* From search engines
* From other sites
In the interesting part of internet, the efforts that you make to get traffic from other sites will eventually lead to traffic from the search engines. Search engine traffic is the holy grail of free traffic and it is pretty cool that the things we’ll do to make this happen will also generate free traffic from other sites in the process.
Getting your blog site indexed is the first step in getting traffic from Google and other search engines. This means that Google knows about your site existence where Google will visited your site and taken some notes on it. Google will store your site data in their huge database. Whether Google decides to share your site with others depends on your ranking… But the first step is getting indexed.
And the only way to get indexed is to get inbound links from sites that are already indexed and “crawled” to your site regularly. It will notice the link to your site and even follow that link and see what’s on your site. This is how you get traffic by getting yourself indexed. If you are interested to learn more about inbound links, Success Novice has posted an article on how to get your blog indexed with inbound links.
Having a great, unique and high-quality content that provides real value to readers is something that you need for being a successful blogger. Or I can say, this is the first thing you need for having a successful blog.
When your first article has already been posted, and you shall begin posting new articles every day if you look yourself an active blogger. In fact, there are a few things you can do to boost your success.
Once you've got content on your blog, you need to get it "indexed" by Goggle and the other search engines. This will happen automatically but it may take some time to happen on it's own.
Over time, Google and the other search engines will find your blog and start sending you "organic" search traffic. Sweet!
And in the mean time, here's what you can do to speed the process:
1. Start bookmarking your articles
2. Comment on other blogs with links to your articles
3. Use social media to generate links to your articles
4. Use Web 2.0 properties to generate links to your articles
OK, so you may have noticed that it's all about getting links to your articles. That's because every inbound link counts as a vote for your articles. And the more votes you get, the more important Google thinks your blog is.
2 Ways To Get Traffic
Having a blog with great, unique and high-quality content that provides real value to readers is something that you need for being a successful blogger. This is the important element you need for having a successful blog. But no one is visiting your blog to read this great content, click the links and earn you commissions if you want to earn some extra cash for yourself through the blog you have created… So what do you do?
There are two ways to get traffic to your site:
* Pay for it
* Get it free
I’m going to assume you’re interested in free traffic, so I’ll talk about that…
How to Get Free Traffic with Indexing
There are two main ways to get free traffic to your site:
* From search engines
* From other sites
In the interesting part of internet, the efforts that you make to get traffic from other sites will eventually lead to traffic from the search engines. Search engine traffic is the holy grail of free traffic and it is pretty cool that the things we’ll do to make this happen will also generate free traffic from other sites in the process.
Getting your blog site indexed is the first step in getting traffic from Google and other search engines. This means that Google knows about your site existence where Google will visited your site and taken some notes on it. Google will store your site data in their huge database. Whether Google decides to share your site with others depends on your ranking… But the first step is getting indexed.
And the only way to get indexed is to get inbound links from sites that are already indexed and “crawled” to your site regularly. It will notice the link to your site and even follow that link and see what’s on your site. This is how you get traffic by getting yourself indexed. If you are interested to learn more about inbound links, Success Novice has posted an article on how to get your blog indexed with inbound links.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Something That You Need Before You Earn From Blogging
Most people I've come across have excellent blogs, with loyal readers and high traffic, but they struggle to maintain their blogs, writing during lunch time of after a hard day at work.
These people I'm talking about, blog part time. It's more of a hobby for them actually, and they enjoy doing it.
But what if your blog can get you out of your dead-end job?
Then you can blog full time, and get paid for what you already love to do - wouldn't that be great?
There's nothing wrong with turning your passion into a business. In fact, most of the successful bloggers you see today are very passionate about what they do, just like you.
But they also make tons of money from their blogs.
This is what you need to learn to be a successful blogger that can help you to make money through blogging…
(1) How to get TRAFFIC
Without traffic there's absolutely no way you're going to make a decent income online.
(2) How to Monetize your Blog
There are always more than a way to monetize your blog from your traffic of readers.
(3) How to get MORE TRAFFIC
Yes, that's right! After all, you can never have "too much traffic" now, can you?
Did you see something in common? Yes, that ‘something’ you need is ‘TRAFFIC’. Traffic is one crucial source of your income. Without traffic, there will be no reader who will notice about your blog, not to mention about making money from blogging.
By now I think most people in the world know about blogs. What most don’t know as there is a great income to be made as well for free… Go to the link below and you'll discover:
- How One Dumb Little Automated Blog Earned $14,480.13 Last Month
- The 5 Biggest Secrets That Guarantees A Home Run Style Success For Any Blog You Create In 2010
- The Most Successful Step-By-Step Blueprint For Long Term Blogging Success
- The Secrets To Building A Blog Empire That Earned Over $1,107,693
- How To Create Real Blogs In Just A Few Clicks
- 6 Sure-Fire Promotion Techniques That Are Responsible For Driving Over 2.1 Million Visitors To Just One Of My Blogs.
- How Any Business Or Individual Can use Blogging For More Exposure And Gain An Instant 'PHD' Credibility Status
- The One Technique No One Else Is Telling You About On How To Build A Multi Million Dollar Blogging Empire
Plus there's much more and it's all laid out in a simple step-by-step roadmap anyone can follow even if you don't have any experience with blogging before. This is a great guide for a complete blogger newbie to get started who wants to earn money from blogging.
Just check it out now on the complete blueprint of a blogging millionaire
These people I'm talking about, blog part time. It's more of a hobby for them actually, and they enjoy doing it.
But what if your blog can get you out of your dead-end job?
Then you can blog full time, and get paid for what you already love to do - wouldn't that be great?
There's nothing wrong with turning your passion into a business. In fact, most of the successful bloggers you see today are very passionate about what they do, just like you.
But they also make tons of money from their blogs.
This is what you need to learn to be a successful blogger that can help you to make money through blogging…
(1) How to get TRAFFIC
Without traffic there's absolutely no way you're going to make a decent income online.
(2) How to Monetize your Blog
There are always more than a way to monetize your blog from your traffic of readers.
(3) How to get MORE TRAFFIC
Yes, that's right! After all, you can never have "too much traffic" now, can you?
Did you see something in common? Yes, that ‘something’ you need is ‘TRAFFIC’. Traffic is one crucial source of your income. Without traffic, there will be no reader who will notice about your blog, not to mention about making money from blogging.
- How One Dumb Little Automated Blog Earned $14,480.13 Last Month
- The 5 Biggest Secrets That Guarantees A Home Run Style Success For Any Blog You Create In 2010
- The Most Successful Step-By-Step Blueprint For Long Term Blogging Success
- The Secrets To Building A Blog Empire That Earned Over $1,107,693
- How To Create Real Blogs In Just A Few Clicks
- 6 Sure-Fire Promotion Techniques That Are Responsible For Driving Over 2.1 Million Visitors To Just One Of My Blogs.
- How Any Business Or Individual Can use Blogging For More Exposure And Gain An Instant 'PHD' Credibility Status
- The One Technique No One Else Is Telling You About On How To Build A Multi Million Dollar Blogging Empire
Plus there's much more and it's all laid out in a simple step-by-step roadmap anyone can follow even if you don't have any experience with blogging before. This is a great guide for a complete blogger newbie to get started who wants to earn money from blogging.
Just check it out now on the complete blueprint of a blogging millionaire
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