BUSINESS, MARKETING, and MONEY

Do you have a business blog that seems to absorb all your efforts and still doesn't perform up to your expectations? Many folks start a blog with the desire to make money online but often are guilty of misdirecting their efforts leading to frustration and a lack of success.

If this sounds like you let's consider 5 points you may need to re-focus on to improve your results.

• Learn to give your readers with what it is they want or need. Many bloggers focus primarily making money and neglect the readers. Remember without readers THERE IS NO BLOG. Listen to their comments; in fact encourage them to leave comments. By responding and acting upon their concerns or needs you are creating an environment 'tailor made' for them. It was their input that guided the creation of this environment to begin with

• If you don't have anything to say in a post then don't post. Feeling compelled to post every day or even multiple times daily could lessen the quality of your content. Emphasize QUALITY over QUANTITY when posting to your blog. If you post good quality content your readers will be willing to wait a day for it as oppose to reading shallow and pointless ramblings. If this occurs too often you can kiss your readers good-bye and say hello to a decrease in your blog traffic.

• Be careful to not become 'anchored' to your blogging duties. A blog is born out of the passion the blogger has for the blogging material itself. By investing an over abundance of time to your blog you run the risk of burning out. Push back from time to time to re-energize. Fresh, invigorating, and insightful blog posts are what the readers want and it would be difficult to deliver this if you're overworked.

Business blogs are a fine balance between a blogger passionate about the topics they post on and a desire to make money online. It is important to remember you always need to put your reader's FIRST. Introducing any aspect of your marketing strategy should be secondary to this.

• Conduct a blog search for sites that offer content related to yours. By visiting these sites you can pick up new ideas not only for your content but also for the blog layout itself. Also don't be afraid to participate at these blogs by leaving a comment when appropriate. Leaving a comment that is useful, humorous, or insightful will catch the eyes of other participants. With a link back to your site in your signature file you can usually expect an increase in your blog traffic. Once again however your comments should appropriate!

• In addition to a blog search find forums and other online communities that contain niches within related to your blogging theme. Once again your participation and interaction at these sites can help you boost your blog traffic. This should be part of your overall marketing strategy due to the strength of networking.

Although a business blog is established for the purpose of making money online it is essential to remember the readers come first. They arrived at your site for the content not the merchandise. Your primary responsibility is to supply good quality content whether it's informative, humorous, or insightful. Always set aside your blog marketing efforts until your readers needs have been met first. Read More......

There are various methods and techniques through which Internet Marketing can be easily carried out. Blogs are one such online method that are not only beneficial but are also an interesting marketing technique. Blogs are a better online marketing tool than other methods like email marketing and article submission.

The first thing that puts blogs above other methods is the fact that blogs are content rich. Article websites are also content rich websites, but the added privilege that the blog sites enjoy are, fresh content. Once you post a fresh blog, readers and subscribers can leave comments on it which constantly keeps the content fresh. Content rich websites are favoured by the search engines; which is one reason why your blog will act as a superior online marketing tool.

A very important factor of online marketing is return visitors. If your blog is interesting and is updated regularly, it will have a good amount of traffic most of which will come back to your blog in order to check out and comment on newer entries. This is a useful feature in online marketing and helps in the branding of a website. If you run an e-commerce site, return visitors are an excellent way to ensure you keep selling your products. If your customers subscribe to your blog, they can be kept informed not only about new products, but they can also see what other people think of them so they can make the most informed decision that they can.

With your online blog you can inform other blogs and blog directories about the update on your blog. Adding an RSS Feed to your blog will make it even easier to update readers and subscribers about new entries on your website blog. In order to publicise your blogs further, you can also send your latest blog post to your audience through emails. They can then click on the link provided in your email to visit your blog and check out the latest posts.

Once you have a blog, it actually begins to act like a website within a website, but it is easier to promote since it is informal. You can also add on some personal tips, pictures, videos or thoughts and ideas to make your blog more interesting and enjoyable. If your site is designed to sell products, why not use it to write informative entries about new products and invite your customers who buy a new product to comment on the entry by leaving their thoughts about what they have just purchased.

UK Internet Marketing has access to a broad network of freelance content writers covering almost every subject area. Whether you're a plumber or a pet shop we can write whatever you need. To develop sales and search engine optimisation, we can write and upload a range of fresh, exciting content to your blog on a regular basis to turn more visitors into paying customers. Read More......

Copyright Chomical Marine so what is blogging really all about? First off, let me tell you that it's a lucrative business to blog and that blogs are easy to set up and manage. Imagine getting paid to write about subjects that interest you, whenever you want, wherever you are! The flexibility involved allows you to maintain your blog at your own pace, and with Internet cafes easily accessible all over the globe, even your vacation won't get in the way of your blogging or should I say: even your blogging won't get in the way of your vacation?

In this article, let's take a look at the profitability of a blog and set up one of our own, free of charge! Interested? Read on! First, you need to get yourself a blog. There are several options, host a blog on your own domain or get a free one. For starters, let's talk about the free blogs.

Blogger is actually owned by Google, so it will be detected by Google's radar faster and you will be indexed more quickly. WordPress.com, however, is a relatively new option so I have no comparison on the speed of getting indexed by search engines. However, Word Press is better in the sense that it has more advanced features such as Track backs and Categories. You can also manage your sidebar links more efficiently (more about this later). Pinging, Blogging seems to be paired with pinging almost every time either one is mentioned nowadays. Pinging is actually the action where a certain aggregator is notified whenever your blog is updated, so that the aggregator may show the newest post of your blog on their website. This is a useful way to gain traffic, which I'll discuss in a future article.

Content next; let's look at the type of content that's suitable for your blog in order to make it profitable. You need to understand that there is no fixed scope that your blog should have, which means you can write about whatever you're interested in. Mind you, the difference between a profitable blog and a non-profitable one is the way you write. What would you prefer: reading your university professor's lecture notes or the latest novel by your favorite author? People prefer to read "light" items most of the time. When they check out your blog, they are not only looking for information, but they are also looking for information that they can access easily.

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So, to attract more visitors as well as to keep your current readers coming back for more, it's very important to add a personal touch to your blog posts. This can be done by simply imagining that you're talking with your personal friend. An extra bonus for your readers would be a great sense of humor, so try to add funny comments in your articles where relevant. Another important point is to avoid addressing your reader as a plural unit. Don't write as if you're preparing a speech. Instead, write as if you're having a conversation with a single person, an equal friend, because this will make your reader relate to you more easily. Read More......

If you are a webmaster you've probably been hearing about SEO (search engine optimization) for quite some time now, and chances are that you are aware of the positive benefits of developing web content using proper SEO techniques. But what you might not know is that it is now more important than ever to integrate SEO into your own web design. And if you're not already doing this then you'll want to start immediately, as you are already behind a few paces.

The object of SEO is obviously to gain more traffic and exposure, and this is done in many ways, but it should be considered at the development stage for the website. Web content can be tweaked in certain ways that the search engines like, and ultimately that will help achieve your goal. The experts use a few techniques that are helpful to know about.

With the fierce competition now on the web, SEO has also gotten much more sophisticated. In the past, all you had to do was to figure out some keywords you wanted to use and put them into the content on your home page. Then you would add some meta tags to your source and that was it, as you sat back and watched your sitemeter rack up higher and higher traffic counts. Now it is not quite so easy, and you must be more aggressive if you want to achieve success.

Search engines pay close attention to links on websites, and strong link building can be one of the most valuable tools you can employ while working for that top ranking. When the search engines analyze and rank the other sites where your link lives, your ranking will likely go up if the sites are similar in subject to yours. However, if you have placed a bunch of random links out there on sites that don't pertain to your subject, the search engine will pick up on that, and you'll likely suffer in the rankings.

The other benefit that link building provides is website exposure - and after all, isnt that the purpose of SEO in the first place? By having your link placed on other sites, you are more likely to be noticed and visited by quality internet traffic. And that's the whole point. Read More......

Blogging has been in existence for a long time now. Many have been blogging on different topics that are widely sort, but still have not been able to make a mark in the blogging world. Blog simply means putting down in writing issues or events or areas of interest to one that can attract readership from others. One sweet thing about blogging is that you write on events, things and issues or subjects that are of interest to you or that you are very conversant with. Blogging has made a lot of Internet users wealthy and very popular. The Internet of course has turned the world into a small global village. One can write and be read worldwide. Blogging is a very simple way of making good money on the Internet with ease. A lot of people started blogging with the intention of making money to increase their income, but a lot have been disappointed because their dreams did not come true. In a real world situation, making money has to be as a result of good planning and execution of plans. This is the same thing with blogging for money. To blog for money one has to be sure that he/she is actually doing the right thing and in the right order.
The essence of this article is to highlight the simple way to plan, execute and blog your way to wealth. There are a lot of bloggers today who have written very good articles that would have attracted a lot of readership and income, but this was not to be because some things were not done right. If you happen to fall in this category of people, don’t worry for the solution to your problem is here. The question then is “ How do we blog our way to wealth’?

Research and carve out a good niche: The first and most important thing to do before starting a blog is research. Some topics or areas may look interesting, but the question is do people want to read about them? When you want to market something, the first thing you do I to find out if there are people who actually need what you want to market. If you find out the niche market were people are ready and willing to come into and buy, then you go ahead and produce. In other way round, you are in production because there is a need to be filled. You can use search engines to find out if the area you want to write on is in demand or not. Through search engine rankings, you should be able to find out how eager people are to read information from that area. If your search shows that a lot of people want to read about your niche market area, then you are good to go.

Create Your Blog: When you are sure of the area you are going to blog about, then you go ahead and create your blog. There are a lot of sites that offer free blogging services, and most too that offer paid services. As a businessman you are, you will want to maximize your profit, then its advisable to go for a free blog. You can log on to www.blogger.com and register and create your blog. While creating your blog, make sure the area you want to blog about is reflected in your keyword. Your blog title also should align with your keywords. Make sure you choose a very good template that will be eye catchy. Optimize your blog very well so that you will not be missing anything. One good thing about www.blogger.com is that it is very easy and user friendly. Once you have finished setting up your blog, you are ready to start posting articles. Make sure that your articles are of good quality and actually discuss issues that revolve around your blog name. The truth is that your blog name and key words are the main things that attract viewers to your site. After your first post, try to always update your blog by writing and publishing intelligently.

Moneytizing your Blog: If you want to blog your way to wealth, that means you are ready to make money. A good product does not sell itself. You have to make the availability of the product known. This calls for advert placement on your site. There are a lot of companies that are willing and ready to place adverts in your blog. The adverts have to relate to your blog title and keywords. These adverts are what generate money to you as a blogger. For instance you can get adverts from google by cutting and pasting google adsence in your site. It’s as simple as registering with google adsence and after the approval your adsence HTML code will be given to you and you cut and paste. Another very good way of moneytizing your blog is by registering and participating in affiliate programmes. Place the banners for the programmes you want to promote in your site and you are paid anytime somebody registers through your blogsite. To place banner codes, go to your dashboard, click on add gadget, then choose HTML in the options available and paste your code. Another very important thing to do is to make sure that your blog settings are optimized to give access to search engines and always remember to enable your show back links.

Getting Content Articles: Creating a wonderful bog will not fetch you any money if you that have content articles that can attract the right advert and also the right traffic that needs to generate clicks and subsequent pay to your blog. It is very essential to have quality content in your blog. It is not necessarily the number of articles you have in your blog that matter, but the quality of the article. If it is going to take you a whole week to generate content article, go ahead and do that because that’s the secret to generating quality traffic. It is also of importance because it will make your site easily noticed by search engines and web crawlers. Make sure your keywords always appear in your articles because that is the lead that also drives traffic to your site. Some people are lazy and may not have the energy to write articles. The good news is that there are a lot sites in the Internet that write articles for people for a token. When you have prepared a content article, then go to your dashboard click on post and publish your article. Once in a while it is always good to write a review about your previous articles and paste in your blog too.

Driving Traffic to Your Blog: Now you have created a successful blog with relevant ads from different firms and probably with different good banners from affiliate programmes. The major work now lies on how to drive traffic to your site. It is not all about driving traffic, but quality traffic that can generate interest and possible clicks that will earn you money. Most traffic to websites comes from search engines. It is very important to register with as many as possible to enable them drive traffic to your site. There are also so many sites that help you circulate your articles on the web free of charge. One of the successful one is www.pingomatic.com . You go to the site and register your blog URL with them and they will ping your articles to different directories. It is always fast to drive traffic to your site too by submitting your articles to different directories and this increases your back links. You can query google for such sites that you can post your articles for circulation in return to quality traffic to your site. Another good method to drive traffic to your site is by writing press releases There are also a lot of sites that offer free press releases on the internet. You can also get good traffic by joining and posting your articles in forums. When you joining forums make sure you put your link to your signature and anytime you make a contribution in the forum your URL link appears. Another good method to drive traffic to your site is to always visit other sites and make a comment. When you make a comment you drop your link.

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Generating more traffic to your website
One of the most frequent questions thrown around the Internet by aspiring web masters is "How do I get more visitors to my site?"

1) There is a lot of confusion among new web designers and developers regarding 'Search Engine Optimisation' techniques, some still believe that adding a few keywords
in your meta tags is enough to bring your site to the top of Google's results. Obviously for the more seasoned web designers we know this is just not the case. For more details go to: www.the20seotools.com.So the purpose of this article is to give the newer designers a bit of information on the best methods of generating good traffic to your website through proven SEO techniques.

Produce good content

Would you visit a website for nothing? No you wouldn't and nor will your potential visitors. People will only be interested in your site if there is something that interests them i.e. information, free ware, blogs, services etc.

Keywords

2) Lets settle one myth right now. Adding your keywords in the meta tags of your site is NOT going to get you up the ladder. One way of helping your site is to choose the relevant keywords for your site, and reference them in your pages content in the and the title tags. For can visit to: www.offline-promotion.com.There are a lot of sites out there that offer keyword research and the best ones for your site and industry.

Build links

Get web masters of similar sites to link back to your website. Link building this is probably the most important aspect of SEO. People linking to your website tells the search engines that your site is more important, so more links you manage you gather to your website the better the search engines will rank you.

Article Writing

One of the easiest method of developing links is article writing.

Write articles on a subject your are familiar with and submit the articles to a number of article submission websites with a link back to your site in the footer. By doing so you will not only share your link with the people that read your article, but anyone that uses your article for content on their site will keep the link in the article which will share out your link even further. A Google search will generate you enough sites to submit your articles to.

The most important aspect of article writing (apart from writing something worth reading) is to insert your link in the footer. This needs to be inserted as a hyperlink. Read More......

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a technique beneficial in improving the number of quality visitors to a website. With the options of so many affordable SEO service providers available now-a-days, you can easily enhance the visibility and reach of your website to maximum number of target audiences.

Whether personal or corporate website, SEO techniques can certainly put a great impact on the earnings and profits of your business. Small or big, irrespective of the size and nature of business you operate, promoting your website by the best SEO strategies can improve your online presence over the Internet.

With the availability of a lot of affordable SEO services, you can get a variety of benefits, such as informative, linkable page content, keyword rich internal link structures and quality inbound links without any spammy tactics. The most vital aspect is the cost-effectiveness. The SEO service providers are much cost-effective and easily accessible.

They are expert in natural and organic link building techniques with natural keyword implementation. Without much restructuring of the website, its existing structure and layout, the SEO service providers ensure that the most vital content in the website can be easily located by various search engines.

These service providers offer other services, such as free and paid directory submissions and back link building campaigns that remarkably improves the page rank of your website and boost the web traffic. They offer you the most genuine and secured services without following any kinds of bad practices, widely prohibited in the industry.

So many good reasons and so little cost to pay for them, all your worries to find an affordable SEO come to an end. Avail the best and the most cost effective SEO service today and bring in the unachieved success into your business.

With the growth and development of the Internet, doing business has under gone a radical shift in the way the same has been practiced so far. Internet marketing and e-commerce are the new business buzz word. In such a scenario, an affordable SEO service can significantly enhance the growth and development of your business by implementing various SEO techniques.

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Pay per click (PPC) is an instant advertising procedure which helps to pay the advertiser on the basis of number of clicks on the website of a website owner. This method is used basically to increase traffic on a website with the help of some keywords related to the site. The services provided by the web designing companies using pay par click technique are innumerable. Some of them are attractive keyword discovery, PPC copywriting services, traffic investigation on the website and ROI calculations.

The web designing companies providing PPC services also avail their customers with PPC consultancy services. In these services, consultants give an idea to the website owner about the working, worthy advantages and expenses of PPC.

Making contract for PPC consultancy is a crucial task for somebody who is making his website as these consultants as these consultants by their innovative technologies and advanced procedures of gaining traffic, have the power to uplift a business from nowhere and put it in front of the highest competitors of market. It should be taken care that the website of the person is deeply investigated by the PPC consultant and it should be appropriately advertised which will lead to positive effects on the business of website owner. The website owner and the PPC consultant then decide about what amount and type of keywords should be selected for the website in order to gain popularity of the website. The CPC (cost per click) i.e. the amount paid by the advertiser on each click on the keywords and CTR (click through ratio) i.e. the number of times the advertisement has been seen, must be mutually agreed among consultant and owner.

Making a new website with the help of PPC consultant adds a security towards the growth of business. It creates the awareness to the brand without even clicking the link. PPC services involved in a website give the owner with instant results because of appropriate management and you actually get what you pay. Read More......

SEO is the abbreviated form of the term Search Engine Optimization, a process which involves designing of the website in such a manner that it increases the search engine rankings of the website. High ranking of the website helps you reap huge business and it becomes necessary that your website has useful and rich content that the search engines can access. SEO consulting specialist use ethical SEO technique to maximize return of investment and visibility of your website. The website is well-tuned with keywords and important information to make it more search engine friendly. SEO consulting specialist optimize your website by using links, methods like Pay-per-click, putting emphasis on particular keywords, and by adopting other search engine marketing strategies.

In recent times, with the increase in the popularity of SEO marketing, several companies have emerged in the markets that claim to provide effective SEO solutions. SEO consulting specialist is experienced and skilled in using marketing strategies that can help the companies in yielding profitable business. It is always essential to keep oneself well informed with the changing nature of the algorithm of the search engines. SEO consulting specialist carries out extensive research and analyzes the situation of the competition, market and products. Using off-page and on-page techniques, SEO experts approach to a planned strategy in improving the traffic and page rank.

SEO specialist uses these techniques for on-page optimization:

• Detailed research on keyword
• Uses proper header texts and footer text
• Applies appropriate Meta tags
• Optimizes the content with the proper usage of the keywords
• Gives attention to the footer links

With the use of off-page optimization techniques, SEO experts can carry out following actions:

• Involves in building links with quality websites
• Posting advertisement of your website on big branded websites
• Getting links from educational and government websites.
• Creating a Google analytic account to know and analyze traffic details.
• Getting report of the ranking of keywords

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Search Engine Optimization is important for website traffic marketing. Use of apt keywords/phrases is not just confined to web content but expands to all web traffic avenues. If you desire increased number of website traffic, consider investing in website traffic services and keyword-centric link building strategies.

Many times problem arises when you purchase website traffic services and the service provider do not insert keywords while doing directory submission. As a result your increased web traffic drive is hampered adversely. This fact clears how vital it is to use keywords and phrases. Whichever website traffic service provider you choose it should provide the chance to choose the keywords for directory submission.

Keywords are the basics in the procedure for searching the relevant information through the search engines. Maximum percentage of targeted website traffic use keywords in search engines and respective links to locate the information. Every major search engine uses their own official algorithms so that the system generates most appropriate and exact matching results to the keyword’s request. You might feel that search engines produce results in fraction of seconds, so it is a very simple process and no extra efforts are their in it! But the truth is search engines have programmed mathematical formulas and put into system that scans and indexes all type of websites in just fraction of second. Importance of keywords always remains on top priority for getting targeted website traffic.

Website content should have clearly defined and structured keywords/phrases so that the fact is established that your website can meet up the needs of the keyword request of the users. Frame out well-structured keyword strategy leaving no chance for your competitor to takeover your traffic share! Wherever you have text see to it that it contains significant keywords, it can be articles, blogs, social websites, images, directory submissions, link building, etc.

At any cost never practice ‘keyword spamming’, it increases the chances of your websites being banned by search engines. Construct content with relevant keywords in a meaningful way and not use it repetitively just for the sake of it.

When you do purchasing of any website traffic services ensure it that they allow you to select your preferred keywords. It is possible that unlike marketing campaigns have some similar set of keywords. Select the keywords cautiously for the purpose of directory submission, also the directory submission heading should be written carefully.

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Search engine optimization is the process that helps online businesses to attain top pages rankings and better visibility by implementing practices and processes. The concept can be considered as an effective tool for businesses aspiring to attain prominent position in all search engines. SEO processes and practices include keyword research and selection, creation of sitemap, submission of articles, blogs, forum, press releases, communities, social media optimization, link building and pay-per-click that boost a website’s search engine ranking and driving better traffic visibility towards the website.

Why India?

The advent of internet and globalization of business have made India a popular outsourcing destination for getting professional search engine optimization services. The country is the home of several recognized specialties offering credible services to online businesses. These specialties provide customized solutions after thoroughly evaluating the needs and expectations of businesses hoping to establish their services online. Besides offering quality solutions for online businesses, Indian companies offer affordable and productive solutions without costing your much. You can save your pennies and get remarkable results within a promised time. In addition, Indian SEO companies provide expert solutions in website designing to get better results on search engines.

How to choose an effective SEO company?

With the popularity of SEO services, many companies have stepped in with their effective and affordable services for global clients. Hence, it is quite difficult to judge what to choose to get the best services for strengthening your web identity. While considering the services of an SEO company, it is evident to search thoroughly and get full information about the company. Contacting former clients would be a great way to get exact information on how the company works. Furthermore, reading testimonials would help you to know what others think about your chosen service provider.

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Like Meta tags, Alt Text tags were also an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) till few years ago. Now days the importance of Alt tags have been diminished.

Alt Text tags are meant for providing alternate text to the images, for visually impaired surfers. Stuffing keywords does not help them as they will be stuck in reading the same thing again and again, if keywords ate stuffed in all the alt tags on the page. For them, it will be keyword spamming. Probably this is the reason why all major search engines have started ignoring Alt Tags.

What does this mean?

Alt Text tags should be used for the purpose of representation of image. This was the purpose of their creation so they should be used for the same. Never try to SPAM through alt tags, in fact you can use 2-3 instances of your primary keywords in Alt Text tags but try to avoid using more than that. Even W3C highly recommends the usage of ALT Tags to describe images. Do not use the text which is irrelevant to the image. If you are trying to fool search engine by excessive usage of keywords in Alt tags, then you are into “Black Hat” practice. Better to avoid this scenario as this will adversely affect your rankings if it backfires.

Final word

Rankings are determined by many factors and Alt Text is just one of them. Focus on this but do not try to use it excessively, instead use a combination of all other factors which will definitely increase your rankings. Read More......