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Common Interests: Social Media Monetization Tips
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Making Online Friends: Perks, Benefits and Musts
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Three Ways To Get Yourself More Links
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Increasing the number of backlinks to your site is a great way to increase your SEO and get better indexing in the search engines. Beyond getting other people to link to you and going on a blog commenting spree, here are some other tips to help you get more links to your websites and blogs so that you can make more money online.
Blogs
Start a MySpace account and other free blog accounts and write regularly in those blogs to promote your self. Anchor your desired keywords to your sites and blogs in this blog. Google seems to love MySpace for indexing so creating links that point to your new website or blog from this social networking tool can be helpful. People also browse through their friends’ lists regularly so adding ‘friends’ on these sites can help you as well.
Article Directories
Submit to sites like Ezinearticles and create alternate pen names or even just resource boxes that can help you to get more links pointing to your online homes. Search engines take notice and so do people who might read your articles and visit your sites.
Online Communities
Post your site URL on forums in your auto signature and in your profiles on online sites as well such as Plurk, Twitter and others. People will visit and search engines will as well. If you post often on a community forum, every post could equate to a link to your website. Some prolific posters on high ranking online forums will even offer signature links for sale because it can equate to great SEO results.
Every Little Bit Helps!
In terms of SEO and online marketing, every little effort can help a little bit in getting you more traffic and making you more money!
Getting Indexed Fast On Search Engines
Monday, August 4th, 2008
When you create a new website or blog, you’re anxious to see some results and if you don’t do anything to get noticed it could take time for the search engine spiders to find you and index you. Optimising for search engines will help you get indexed faster. Here are a few tips to help you get noticed quickly.
Submit Your URLS to Search Engines
Here are places where you can manually submit:
http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
Social Bookmarking
Go to sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us and bookmark your site. These sites will bring traffic to your site as well. You can also get traffic and attention by trying to get noticed on places like Technorati, Twitter and Plurk. Be sure if you have other sites, you link from them to your new site thorugh blogrolls or link pages. Blog about your new site as well on your other online homes and write a few articles for article sites with links to your new site in the resource box. Spending a bit of time getting search engines to notice your website could shave days or even weeks off the process of getting organic search engine results.
Is it a Good Idea To Cloak Your Affiliate Links?
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
In internet marketing, there are two schools of thought with respect to link cloaking. Link cloaking involves making your links to affiliate websites look like regular links instead of affiliate links which many people recognise by strange letter combinations or URL names.
With school of thought number one, you might think it’s better to be up front about being an affiliate selling a product either by saying so or simply by presenting your link with your code in it without worrying about cloaking. On the other side, some suggest people are more likely to buy your product if they don’t think they’re being sales pitched or sold to. For some reason, a lot of people don’t feel good about someone getting a commission off their purchase. Some will even try to avoid your affiliate link if they really want to buy it and you led them there. This is why many affiliate programs will credit you with the sale due to a ninety-day http cookie.
You might consider conducting experiments and seeing what bodes better for you. If you choose to cloak your links, there are free tools like Tinyurl.com that can take a long URL and turn it short as well as make it difficult to see where someone is about to click through to. This type of tool can be useful for more than just affiliate marketing. It can be great in micro blogging environments like Twitter and Plurk or anywhere else that has a 140 character maximum.
Link Cloaking Tools
If you’ve decided that cloaking is something you want to do, there are link cloaking tools that are free and available for a fee. Do be careful you’re not cloaking beyond recognition or you could impact your ability to get paid through companies such as ClickBank.
Using Twitter To Promote Your Product
Friday, June 27th, 2008There are a lot of social marketing tools out there for self-promotion purposes and many of them are free. There’s a balance between social networking and online play. Using tools like Twitter the right way could lead to great results.
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking tool that you can use to tell the world what you’re doing in 140 characters or less. The reason it’s designed this way is for the mobile user who can receive status updates on their mobile device. You can use it online or through a tool like Twhirl that is installed on your desktop. You might think this is nothing more than a social tool instead of a social networking tool but Twitter can be quite helpful in getting you new subscribers and clients.
When to Use Twitter in Internet Marketing Efforts
You get the benefit of your own followers and anyone on the public timeline watching when you update your Twitter status. When you update your status with what you’re doing, you can insert a URL that shows people what you are doing. By writing an interesting headline and inserting your link, you can entice people to visit. The key to Twitter success is to be interesting, to get involved in discussions and to entice new followers. By doing so actively but productively, you can definitely reap the rewards of successful social marketing.
Social Marketing Pitfalls
The pitfalls of social marketing happen when you get so caught up in the social aspect that it sucks out your productivity. It’s important to set boundaries for yourself especially if you see yourself as wasting time socialising instead of working. It’s a fine balance between social marketing and just playing online so set limits for yourself so you can make the most of Twitter as a useful tool.
