Six Linkbaiting Ideas To Get More Traffic To Your Site

March 10th, 2010 by juust No comments »

There’s been a lot of talk about LinkBaiting in the blogosphere, and I’d like to weigh in.

First a little background: Google gives more ranking weight to what they call authoritative sites and pages. It defines those sites as having many outbound and inbound links. So now having links to your site is important to your success online. More simply, inbound links also drive traffic to your site.

So now we have link exchanges and link sales and link finding software. We have free articles on anything you could possibly think of that all contain links back to the author’s site. There are 437 free articles in my Inbox right now, including Rubber Floor Mats or Carpet Floor Mats and The Lowdown on Laminating Film.

LinkBaiting is viral marketing for links, and we love viral marketing. Like all viral marketing, the goal is to get people to write about and pass around your link so that you get free exposure and traffic. You need to give people a reason to mention you in their blog or on their website, and you need something newsworthy or at least write-worthy to get a news source to mention you.

The best treatise on LinkBaiting comes from Nick Wilson on Performancing.com. Nick says that all good LinkBaiting relies on a hook, and he’s come up with different hook categories:

News hook
Contrary Hook
Attack Hook
Resource Hook
Humour Hook

The goal is to offer something so unique and mentionable that other sites will link to your site for free. Other sites will see that mention and add their own in true Viral Marketing fashion. Making you think? Me too.

Here are six LinkBaiting ideas:

1. Come up with a simple free tool for people in your subject area to use, and spread it around.
2. Watch the RSS feeds like a hawk. Jump on and cover a good news story. Comment on a blog or two to get things rolling. This has worked for me.
3. Write a funny list or post in your subject area.
4. Find some funny pics related to your subject area.
5. Come up with some original research (the 10 Most Profitable Programs on Commission Junction This Week was the most popular post on my blog).
6. Give away a free web template, WordPress plugin or graphics file.

Whatever you choose to do, remember that Viral Marketing needs an index case. So go plant the virus somewhere, like at a prominent blog site or two in your niche, or at a forum site, or both.

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Share Success With Others To Get More Visitors!

March 10th, 2010 by juust No comments »

Networking with others is very important. Getting good contacts will increase your companies chances at obtaining some great, pre-qualified referrals.

I have not heard of one company online that has ever made it on it’s own without any outside help. Sharing business ideas with others increases your chances at success.

Yahoo Inc, a household name, owes part of it’s online success to small business entrepreneurs who loved to talk about Yahoo within their website. If you where to take a look at yahoos link popularity, you would see incoming links within the millions. Getting people to talk about your business should be looked at, as something fun, creative, and inspiring to do.

The universe and all it’s energy is straight forward, “what goes around, comes around”. Same applies online.

Let’s see how we can implement this on the web…

There are many ways to spread good fortune on the web. For instance, try complimenting people on their website and let them know that you enjoy visiting their site. This usually gets a really good response and it is a great way to start a business conversation.

Get to know the people who own popular websites. They usually hold the doorways to online treasures. We all search online, some of us daily, some of us once in a while. We all find different things. You can’t be expected to find them all, the key is to find useful tools on your own to share with others and they will do the same for you.

With over 4-6 billion websites out there and growing rapidly, it’s really hard to keep up with every new idea and/or group out there. By positioning yourself with key people, you will subject yourself to new ventures, different openings, and better contacts.

Popular web sites love to talk about their website, try and brain storm some ideas on how you can create new resources for your site by helping others to promote theirs. Find something related and useful for your visitors, add it to your site and then tell the people who provided the resource, they will really appreciate you for it.

It really works..

There’s no better feeling then when someone takes the time out of their busy schedule to email me and let me know that my latest article will be featured within their newsletter this week!

What Else Can You Do???

If you’ve followed some of my articles, you would have read me say before, “increase the content on your site, daily”. Here are a few web marketing methods that you can not only increase your content but, help others as well…

How Can You Help Others?

* Listing their business on your site
* writing an article about them
* featuring their products
* adding their banner
* writing a review and linking to them
* collecting great tools online
* featuring writers from all over the world
* starting online contests
* hosting a daily motivational thought
* creating free graphics for others
* featuring “a site of the day”

These are only some of the things you can do for others. Whatever it is, it should be related to what you do.

Work With Competitors Away From Your Market Reach:
Don’t be afraid to hook up with your competitors from across the globe.

Here is one method you can gain major traffic for your web site by working with competitors that are out of your market reach…

Try featuring companies in Australia while you operate in Canada. Your website will get Canadian visitors from their site and vice-versa. The immediate results aren’t what matter, it’s when the loop starts to form to each others search engine results. Their web site will eventually get listed in Canadian search engine results and vice-versa. By targeting the same field or profession, both websites can refer the right people to suit their area.

Once the Australian website starts to attract Canadian visitors from other search engine listings than your own, it will then start to refer Canadian visitors that you didn’t have to go get.

Don’t be afraid to expand you thoughts to neighboring countries, they too can prosper without ever harming you as their competitor.

I hope this opens your mind to competitors and helping others!

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Setting Your Goal For 2006

March 10th, 2010 by juust No comments »

New year brings new beginning and new expectation. This is the time where people get things straight and set new goals for the coming months. For most, their goal for the year is to set their finance in order. Once they have done that, they will normally try to invest their money to increase their life savings. That is good. When you have more savings, it acts as a cushion when you incur unexpected expense such as medical bills or tax increase.

For webmasters, your goal is probably to achieve certain page rank or link popularity for your site. That is good. It is even better if someone else can help you do that. To increase your link popularity there are two types of sites that can help you achieve that; web directories submission and niche article directories.

Web directories let you submit your website profile and descriptions mostly for free. They act as internet yellow pages where each website is categorized according to your website content. You can gain one link per one listing at most web directories.

Niche article directories let you submit your content. Their services are also free. At the end of the submission form, there is a resource box that lets you describe your website and businesses with a link to it. To me, this is one of the most wonderful ways of gaining back links. For one, you can get more than one links if you write more than one article. Having 100 articles to submit? Then, you can gain a 100 back links from just one site. If you submit to ten different article directories, then you can get at least 1000 back links. With web directories, you need to submit to 1000 web directories to get that much back links.

Having said that, which one is a more effective back link? One link from a web directory or one link from an article directory? The more effective back link is of course the link that comes from an article directory. This is because you submit your content to article directories, which might help viewers finding information they need. Once they read and like your article, they are most likely to click on the link and visit your website. Meanwhile, web directories merely publish information about your site which might or might not help the viewers.

Do you have to pay to publish your content at another site? Not at all. Most article directories do not charge submission fee. But as they gain in popularity, they might charge a submission fee in the future, just like web directories. Here is your chance to get 1000 back links or more if you have 100 articles to distribute.

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5 Elements Of A Prosperous Legal Internet Marketing Campaign

March 10th, 2010 by Phillip Guye No comments »

There are lots of important things one needs to consider when beginning to kick off a successful Legal internet marketing campaign. You’ll find 5 crucial elements that you need to include into your marketing method and inability to do so could cause an unsuccessful campaign along with a lack of business for you personally. Maybe the mention of needing to comply with some points could scare you but is in fact very simple to handle. The 5-crucial parts of internet advertising and marketing include popularity on the web, site design, content in the website, conversion strength, and web analytics.

Your popularity on the web is simply the overall visibility of your website inside the internet planet. There are typically 2 ways in which a client could gain access to your website. The first is by these people going directly to your website through an advertisement of some sort or other. The other and more likely way folks will make their way to your website is by means of search engines like google. Your Legal internet marketing campaign should be directed at taking you to the very first page of search results when someone is searching for legal services. For that reason the most important query you have to ask yourself when building a marketing campaign is whether or not your site is showing up at the top in search engines, and if not, how to do this.

In order to achieve a high place within the search rankings, you must factor in an element into your own legal internet marketing strategy that many folks usually neglect: the overall layout of the site. Having a website that is aesthetically appealing is a great investment as well as a necessity. Within three seconds, a visitor could make a judgment about you through your internet site. Should you load your site with difficult to understand materials and ensure it is challenging to navigate, you will give clients the go ahead to transfer to the next internet site.

The majority of sites have only a few lines of text describing their practice and services. This could look bad on your part. For your site to flourish, you should have informative textual content which is updated on a steady basis. Consumers are on the lookout for information, and information changes quickly. For that reason, you have to provide compelling content material which is easy to understand and it is also up to date to persuade a visitor that you are the service to pick in dealing with their legal affairs. Always update your Legal internet marketing campaign with original content material since internet sites with high quality information usually are favored by search engines.

As soon as you have people coming to your internet site, the objective is to convert them into actual customers. The conversion strength of your internet site will arrive as a result of inputting accolades that will convince a visitor to contact you. A case result page showing some of your victories for instance will inform a great deal concerning both you and your organization. The last element you need to focus on to achieve a successful legal internet marketing campaign is analytics. Determine where your visitors are coming from, exactly why they are staying, how frequently do they leave once they click on your internet site? By analyzing the behavior of your potential prospects, you will come ever closer to having a productive practice.

Web marketing can help you to acquire clientele and you won’t have to waste money up to the last buck in your pocket. Instead of waste moneying money on Search Engine Marketing, which is not successful try Attorney SEO. Every lawyer has seen 100% action with Legal Internet Marketing.

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Selective Keywords Get Higher Search Engine Ranking

March 10th, 2010 by juust No comments »

Keywords are an important factor of producing a website and getting traffic. These are the terms which the search engines use to categorize and rank your webpages. For example, if your website is about “traffic building” then your keywords could include traffic,building traffic,website traffic, and so forth.

After reading this article and using the knowledge at hand you will see why your web pages might not be ranking high in the search engines and contrary to what you have learned in search engine optimization in the past.

The decision from many web designers and search engine optimizers has been to find as many keywords as you can. They inform you to search for keywords using a kind of online tools and software programs which can uncover primary keywords. At first this seems attractive, but it actually defies any reasoning.

Let’s take a look at the aim of the search engine. It’s job is to find pages that meet the detail search word that a web surfer has typed in. The more focused the pages it serves up that meet the search term, the better it is for users. search engines must be as accurate as possible in delivering the right things to their users. Otherwise the web surfer goes somewhere else.

Now, visualize you are a search engine algorithm – the mathematical string which calculates the probability of any web page matching the search word typed in. If the page has hundreds, or thousands of keywords you’ll be a baffled. For example, is this web page about ‘article writing’, or is it about ‘feature writing for journalists’. They are different things. You’ll end up realizing the page is pertinent but not that pertinent. So you end up ranking the page down the list.

But what if the page only has the keyword ‘article writing’ and many times. You’re absolutely positive the page is about article writing and so you rank it higher.

Admittedly, it’s not quite as simple as that. But this is the notion of search engine technology. It is searching to find the most pertinent pages that meet the search term you enter.

What this means for Internet marketers is that you must separate pages for each keyword. Focus each page on each individual keyword. Use the keyword in headings, sub-headings, the page text, the page title tag and in the meta tags. Evade having pages which have numerous keywords as that simply confuses the search engines and lowers your rankings.

So overlook the belief that hundreds or thousands of keywords rank your pages high. Go for pages that meet single keywords and you will find your page will increase in traffic.

This ploy also works for Google AdWords. Each advert should employ just a handful of keywords – you get much better click through and cheaper advertising when you only have a few select keywords per advertisement. If you have hundreds of keywords you’ll find you’ll get better results by having keyword relevant ads and not having one advertisement with hundreds of keywords.

So go against the opinion of having your pages filled with keywords…Go with keyword specific pages to rank high.

As I stated in the first part of this article you might be surprised by the outcome.
Most web marketers have learned the old school way of building web pages filled with keywords that probably look like spam to the search engines. And you can be certain if they are seen that way, your pages will be lost in the millions of pages indexed by search engines everyday for surfers and prospective buyers looking for your product or service.

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