Tuesday, October 30, 2007
10 Steps To Work At Home Success
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
How To Drive People To Your Site
So you own a small business and you have made the decision to build a simple website to gain Internet exposure. Or maybe you already have a website that no one visits? You can be the proud owner of the slickest website you have ever seen, but if you aren’t getting any traffic because it’s not properly optimized you have wasted a good chunk of change and a lot of your valuable time. Weather you are building a site from scratch or tweaking one that already exists, consider these web hosting and marketing tips to help drive traffic to your website: For Web Hosting: 1) Start with keywords - Think about terms potential customers would use to find you in a search engine. What would you type in if you were looking for your business? 2) Use a keyword selector tool - Type your keywords into a keyword selector tool to see how many people have searched on the term in the last 30 days. Look for terms in the 2k-10k range that are relevant to your site. 3) Use domain names which match your keywords – My client advertises products that are geared toward leadership skills development. In addition to leadingonedge.com he also has leadership-skills.info and a handful of others. 4) Use keywords throughout your web pages - Put your keywords in the title, description, keywords, graphics, and written text. 5) Use a keyword density analyzer - Check your website against a keyword density analyzer to see how frequently a specific keyword is used. Shoot for 3-15% density. 6) Slick and sexy doesn't get you traffic - Don't waste your money on slick graphics or things that fly across your screen. Most visitors find them annoying and search engines don't care for them. 7) Use Google AdSense on your website - Whenever someone clicks on a Google ad in your website, you get revenue. And the ads are relevant to your content. My websites now pay for themselves with ad revenue alone. 8) Advertise Amazon books and products on your website - Set up an Amazon Associates account and put relevant books and products on your website. When someone buys a product you get referral revenue. 9) Consider using a website starter package - If going it on your own, think about using a website starter package which can have you up and running quickly. 10) Decide where you want to spend your time - In any business, time is money! Small business web hosting is very doable, but it does take time. Decide if you want to do it yourself or have a professional help you. For Marketing: 1) Get an automated eCommerce system - These can be really good, very comprehensive and very inexpensive. The good ones can do everything from customer base management to product management to shopping cart to newsletter broadcasts. 2) Get a cheap and reliable merchant account provider - You can get merchant account providers that do both the merchant account and Internet gateway for you. 3) Put a link back to your website in your email autosignature - This doesn't need to be obnoxious, just a simple link that email recipients can click on to reference your website. 4) Do selective link trading - Link trade, but make sure the content on the other websites is similar to your own. Don't touch "link farms" with a ten-foot pole; search engines hate them. 5) Write articles and include your website address – Every business owner has something to say that someone would love to read about! There are a number of article databases out there that are researched for website content. Find some article databases which house content similar to yours and write a few articles. You'd be amazed at where your articles show up!
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Tips On How To Blog And Make Money
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Work-At-Home Business!!!
In case you didn't know, I am a full time college student at Central Maine Community College, and I'm experimenting with different ways to make money online. I've done allot of research and found many different ways to fund a Work-At-Home business, including response typing, paid forums, paid surfing, survey typist, and article typist, but i am currently working with the best methods I've found for high profit gain.