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Website Marketing Strategies – Reciprocal Links

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Although it’s very old, another good website marketing strategy is building reciprocal links for your site. Let’s say that you’ve managed to build a site where you have great content, great tools or both. All you need now is people to find out about it.

Increasing your link popularity with reciprocal links will help your site to go up in the search engines. Although this kind of links are not so powerful anymore they can still give you some results. Besides the search engine rankings you will also receive direct traffic from the site you are linked with.

The link exchange process is not a hard one but it has it’s secrets and tricks. There are many factors and things to avoid that have to be taken in consideration. You have to know how to convince a webmaster to trade links with you, what sites to avoid and what sites to link with.

The first thing that you need to know is what is a reciprocal link. A reciprocal link is some kind of agreement between two webmasters. Both of them place on their site a link that points to the other one’s website. This is some kind of win-win situation because both websites benefit form this linking, receiving direct traffic and increasing link popularity.

This website marketing strategy also involves a little trust. You can make links exchange with many sites but you don’t have the time to frequently monitor them. So you’ll just have to trust that the other webmaster will keep your link on his site. This situation could become really frustrating when you see that you still keep a link for a website but you’re not receiving one back.

Don’t think about this website marketing strategy as a quick scheme to get tons of traffic. I can ensure you that is not like that. There are many sites that have thousands of banners on them, but only half of them really work. Try to link your site with related and confident websites. This way you will also avoid linking to any bad neighborhoods.

In conclusion, even if the reciprocal links are an old website marketing strategy comparing to the new and powerful one way links they still can bring you some results. Just try to make your links exchanges as safe as possible.

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Considering Expected Web Site Traffic

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Your anticipated web site traffic is something to consider when
planning, designing and developing your website because of the
demand that high levels of traffic can place on your web
capabilities.

The website development process begins with advance planning.
Once your planning is accomplished, you can begin the technical
steps of website development which begins with selecting and
registering a domain name for your business website.

The next important step is to evaluate web hosting plans and
providers and to choose the best web hosting plan for your
business. Once that is done, the actual design and development of
the website including website features such as databases and
ecommerce solutions can be pursued.

The one aspect of this process that really needs to take your
expected web site traffic into consideration is the selection of
a web hosting plan.

There are lots of things to consider when choosing a web hosting
plan; however, many website operators don’t understand the true
importance of web hosting options.

They are generally more concerned with the design of the website
and website features than they are with website hosting. However,
website hosting features really are vital to the potential
performance of the website.

The best designed website with the most incredible features can
truly sink in terms of performance if it is hosted through an
inadequate website hosting plan.

The main aspects that are generally given consideration when
choosing a web host and a web hosting plan include security,
speed, space, email capabilities, reports, administrative
functions, reliability, support, extra features, and cost.

All of these points are important to think about. However, the
single aspect of web hosting that must be adequate to meet the
demand based on your web site traffic is bandwidth.

Many web hosting companies offer different plans with varying
amounts of bandwidth. Many website operators don’t know what
bandwidth is or what purpose it serves.

Explained in the simplest possible way, bandwidth determines the
amount of traffic that your website can get at any one time.
Thus, if the bandwidth provided by your website hosting plan is
not sufficient for the amount of web site traffic that you have,
website visitors will be turned away because your website will be
inaccessible to them.

A web hosting company’s bandwidth providing capabilities is
dependent upon their internet connections, network connectivity,
the number of customers they are serving, and the amount of web
site traffic that those customers have.

Without sufficient bandwidth for your website, your web site
traffic will get bogged down, just like vehicles do in rush hour.
They will be blocked out and will likely forget about your
website altogether moving on to competitors’ websites that are
easier to access.

This is why selecting a website hosting plan with sufficient
bandwidth is crucial. Without it, you will definitely lose
business and lost traffic results in lost revenue for most
internet based businesses.

A web hosting plan with greater bandwidth capabilities is sure to
cost you a little bit more than one with lesser bandwidth;
however, if the web hosting plan with increased bandwidth
prevents you from losing traffic, it will be well worth the
expense.

To determine the amount of bandwidth you need to efficiently
handle your website’s traffic, you need to estimate your average
daily visitors and average page views.

By multiplying your average daily visitors by the average page
views and the average page size, then multiplying that figure by
31 (representing 31 days in a month) you will have a better idea
about how much bandwidth you will need each month.

With this figure in mind, choose a web hosting plan that provides
a little more bandwidth than what you figure you need to provide
an allowance for underestimates. If your website visitors will be
downloading files from your site, you also need to consider the
average daily downloads and the average size of the files that
are downloaded.

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How to gain and retain online customers!

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

It’s the most basic rule of business: you need to sell some to earn some. Salesmanship therefore, or the art of closing a sales, is of paramount importance for any business venture. After all, we can’t expect any earnings if we don’t make any sales

Winning customers is essential for the success of our enterprise. And this is also true for online businesses. In fact, some would say that winning customers online has its share of pros and cons. The good news is that the entire world is your market, and you could potentially reach more people through the World Wide Web. The disadvantage? The Internet offers a more impersonal channel in our dealings with people, making it more difficult to garner their trust and favour.

So what are we to do then? Fear not, dear friend. As with everything else in life, we should try to accentuate the positives to compensate for the negatives. Here are a few ways by which you could gain a good number of customers, and keep them for a long and profitable business for you and your family.

Always deliver quality goods or services. There is no better vehicle for our business message than our products themselves. Consistently offering things that are more than worth our customers’ time and money will brand us as enterprises that are committed to quality products and services. This would only serve us well in future dealings with the same clients. Additionally, this would make our clients as advertising vehicles for our business as well, as they would spread the word about the excellence of our service to people belonging to their network.

Always try to over-deliver. People love receiving more than what they paid for. If you consistently give them some extras, their minds would be conditioned to trust your business for future transactions.

Provide bonuses. In addition to the product you’re selling, add some more goods that would perk up the package. Do this in a manner that you will make your customers aware of the value of the bonuses if they were otherwise purchased. This would definitely increase the worth of your product, and such would make it more favourable for a successful sale. Additionally, your bonuses would foster good will with your clients, and this could go a long, long way for future orders.

Build relationships. The importance of building good relationships with your customers cannot be undermined. As we’ve discussed earlier, the Internet is a rather informal venue for personal dealings. So try to humanize your approach so that your customers can relate to you as someone who is more than just a business provider, but also as a friend.

Make use of a mailing list. A mailing list is an Internet marketers number one weapon. By capturing the contact details of people who may not have been interested with their current offer, they will be able to condition the same people for future sales. And this could serve their businesses well for quite a long time, as one successful sale can beget another and another after that. So invest on an excellent autoresponder service and prepare those follow-up messages well. Take good care of your subscriber base, and they will take good care of your business in return.

Winning customers is more than just luck. It entails a lot of strategizing and good planning. Retaining customers involve the same level of commitment as well. In the highly competitive world of online marketing, trust plays an integral role in achieving our goals. Try your best to win your customers’ trust. Take care of it. And for sure, this trust would fuel good business for you for many years to come.

Traffic? – Certainly sir how much do you want?

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

What Types of traffic are there?

So you have the best website money can buy you are immensely proud of your finished product but still no-one is buying. Why?

Your final profit is simple to calculate it is a factor of number of visitors * conversion rate * profit per visitor. The third factor, profit per visitor is usually where people focus their resources. It is a known quantity and easy to manipulate by simply charging the right price.

But the killer question is always how much traffic am I getting? And further are they the sort of visitors who will buy my wares?

With that simple statement in mind let’s have a look at the main sources of traffic on the internet today.

Search Engine Traffic

The best because it’s free. The worst because it is easily taken away. SE traffic is risky. It is easily acquired for relatively low competitive keywords with a simple knowledge of search engine optimization best practice.

Each search engine orders websites for any given term according to it’s own proprietary algorithm. This algorithm usually is based upon the various factors detailed in the SEO checklist, however the weighting applied will differ for each.

There are currently 3 major search engines being:- Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google is by far the most popularly used search tool.
For more competitive terms the SEO checklist is still applicable however will require additional effort in the key areas of the same key factors. You can investigate competition via these useful tools.

Directory Listings

These are not the massive source of traffic they once were. Submission to a directory is now more use to substantiate your link popularity, a key factor in search engine positioning. The most popular free and paid directories are included within our directory listings.

Paid Advertising

Once banner advertising reigned supreme, however today it is generally recognised that most website visitors suffer heavily from “banner blindness”. Visitors have seen so many banners over the years that they are now subconsciously tuned out when looking at the website.

Much more effective in today’s market place is the basic text link. Not surprisingly a link which is text only! These form the basis of advertising in many a Pay-Per-Click advertising campaign. Pay Per Click is the notion of paying only for visitors to a website that click on your link. Hence you will only pay for visitors to you website and not each time your banner or text link is displayed.

The two largest PPC engines are Google’s Adwords and Yahoo’s Overture services. PPC allows you to instantly drive traffic to your site without having to weight for your search engine optimization skills to be appreciated by the search engines.

Guaranteed traffic is a term used for relatively cheap traffic, usually purchased in bulk. The traffic is usually generated by a popup or popunder on another site, and in my experience has not proven very effective.

Traffic Exchanges

These tend to fall into 2 general styles. The first, ad exchanges are a reciprocal agreement, usually via a co-operative site to add a piece of code to your page(s) which displays adverts on your site. In return your site will be displayed on other members websites according to the individual co-operatives weighting factors.

The second, traffic exchanges, require you to browse websites presented on a central site. You are awarded points according to how many sites you have browsed and in turn these credits may be spent by promoting your site in the same way to other browsers.
Repeat Vistors

So often overlooked. You have done the hard work in getting a first time visitor to you site now get him to stay and later to return for more. There are various methods for making your site “sticky” these include:- including a newsletter and appropriate sign up form, supplying good content, either written by yourself or sourced from the abundance of free information on the net.

Such simple things as including contact details and appropriate use of autoresponders can make all the difference.

Viral Marketing

A rather flash title for a collection of techniques which are common sense but often forgotten. Such examples include:- writing your own articles, building communities via forums, offering free items/bonuses/competitions, producing your own e-book and issuing press releases.

If you are marketing your own product one of the most successful methods will undoubtedly be starting your own affiliate program and getting others to sell for you.

Competition

Not really a traffic category as such however careful analysis of your competition’s website, traffic, links and ad placement can all be obtained if you are diligent. This market intelligence will in turn lead to further opportunities to drive visitors to your site.

After a while it all becomes just good fun!

Paul is the resident expert at Affiliate Marketing City, at Affiliate Marketing City , a site dedicated to the automation of website optimisation and marketing.

More useful articles, tips and tools are available at www.affiliate-marketing-city.com/

Free Traffic Course – Day 1

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Isn’t online a magical invention? Surely it is, just imagine how many people can share their thoughts or open their businesses or run any kind of activity through their personal web sites. Online gives a huge worldwide potential to any idea converted into a web site.

But, even the most perfect web site can be dead. Hope you did not face it with your website, but online experience shows that you can pay for making the fanciest web design in the world, you can have amazing copywriting on the website, you can have the cheapest prices for your product or service – all this will be useless if your website does not get TARGETED traffic.

It is super important to underline “TARGETED” web site traffic. When an online surfer looks for gasoline discount tickets and gets to the web site that sells pot flowers, will this surfer buy the pot flowers? Hardly! The surfer will close the web site in about 2 seconds after web browser opened it.

That is why, if you are online, if you have a web site – fight for the targeted traffic only. The strategy below will help you to understand how.

1. Define and scale your niche.

Niche is the specifics of your web site. Any product or service on the web site belongs to a certain niche. For example, the web sites that sell cars online belong to car selling niche. This niche can be split into different sub niches: car insurance selling niche, car tire selling niche, car loans selling niche.

You see that these niches are very close in some aspects to each other. Some of them are bigger, others may be smaller. But there is one thing which unites all these niches – their targeted car audience.

So, before starting to gather targeted traffic to your web site, think it over: do you really know what niche your web site belongs to?

- Think what type of clients might be interested in purchasing/using your product or service.

- Think what products or services related to your web site can be interesting to your clients – answering this question you will find your neighbor niches (and soon you will learn how to profit from them too).

- Think what products and services you can add to your web site and get a better selling contact with potential clients of your web site. Choose the offers that do not need much time and money, add something useful and dig your niche deeper.

If you have done this job honestly, you surely have discovered more potential about your niche. Now you are ready to attract targeted traffic to your web site.

2. Tools for getting targeted traffic to web site.

If you are online, you already know what a huge niche is the market of traffic building tools. But this market has some typical traps. Make sure you know them to avoid in future:

- Many traffic-building tools work only with one aspect of attracting traffic to web site. This usually gives poor results and low quality of traffic. Imagine that you learn swimming and your coach told you how to use your hands only. Perhaps you will swim, but this will be such a hard task.

So, do not rely much upon the tools that work with one-two aspects of gathering traffic.

- Some of traffic-building tools are made to flood your web site with traffic. But it will be an absolutely non-targeted traffic. For example, some programs give credits when their users scroll the web sites. But they just scroll and pay no attention to what is on the web site. The users of these programs have to scroll hundreds of web site to get many credit points. Will you believe that your web site will be so out-of-the-kind to attract the attention of a tired ‘clicker’? Would you venture to build your online business on such clients? No! Never!!

- Finally, some traffic-building tools are cheating people. These are few, but still the exist in online. You pay for traffic, they use special devices to generate false traffic from different IPs. But this is not traffic at all, computer programs generate it and flood web site with it. This is a crime, a rare one, but it exists on the Internet, so be aware.

The typical traffic-building traps are over. Now come the strategies that will help you to build a really targeted traffic to the web site.

SAFE AND GUARANTEED TOOLS FOR GENERATING TARGETED TRAFFIC

It will be wise to start with Google AdWords. Yes, they are coslty. Yes, the prices in niches for good keywords are always rising. But Google gives targeted traffic.

Those who submit the keyword from your niche into search engine are really motivated to find something about this niche. If you pay for clients who type into search window “traffic tools” and sell traffic tools on your website, surely Google will send you targeted visitors.

But be ready to spend much on Google AdWords: your online advertising budget for good keywords should be huge.

Are there free ways to get targeted traffic? Most of Internet marketers say “NO”. But they use special tools, scripts and software that automate the gathering of targeted web traffic. And their schemes work, otherwise how could Mark Joyner, John Reese, Corey Rudl (dearly missed by millions today) become millionaires on Internet marketing.

Their schemes are not absolutely free. The pay for certain scripts that do all the job for them, but this is one-time payment. With Google you will pay every day.

That is why, if you think about future expenses and still want to get targeted traffic, you should use the traffic building tools that have proven their effectivity in online business activity.

Now these tools (and fresh ones) are integrated into one system that automates the gathering of targeted web site traffic to any web site.

If you wish to learn more about this system, make sure to visit website with Free Traffic System: Free Traffic System

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