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You Are NOT George Clooney – So Get Your Social Networking Act In Gear!

October 9, 2009

When George Clooney was recently asked about his take on Facebook at the Toronto Film Festival, his response was short: “I’d rather have a prostate exam than a Facebook page.”

Now, that’s probably understandable when movie studios (his potential clients) have his number on a speed dial, and pesky paparazzi (freebie seekers and unqualified prospects) chase after his every move.

But unless you already have more prospects and high quality clients than you and your business can handle, your approach to Social Networking should be drastically different.
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Frankly, a little over a year ago I considered online networking a total waste of time. Fortunately, I was able to recognize how wrong I was. And I wasn’t the only one that had a change of heart on this.

After Dell revealed they generated a cool million dollars in extra sales in 2008, (ahm, make it a cool $3 million by June’09!), many other companies large and small started paying attention to this social networking “fad”!

Just consider a few of these facts:

• Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks initially considered online hang-out places for kids and teenagers are now attracting a much more demographically diverse crowd.

• Big brand names, like Ford, WholeFoods, Comcast, IBM, Dell, Southwest Airlines, and many, many more are establishing a strong presence on social networking hubs like Twitter and Facebook.

• Facebook membership has just passed the 300 million mark (that’s nearly the population of USA!) and Twitter is marching towards 18 million users by year’s end! That’s a lot of potential customers!

• Although, started with college kids in mind, over 50% of Facebook’s members now are over 25 years old, over 55% are women (the new buying power), 51% have an annual income of $75K, with 33% claiming to bring home $100K or more.

• Finally, Facebook has become one of the most trusted companies in America, and people spend three times more time there than on Google!

Got your attention now?

Good, let me give you just five basic tips on putting this massive connection power to your advantage.

1. Get Started! Open an account on every social media and social networking platform you come across. Even if you are not actively using all of them, (which you won’t) you should reserve your name, the name of your company, your brand, or your key products, because those are like real estate locations – once the prime spots are gone, they are gone! For example, I have the vanity url facebook.com/adamurbanski – but there are at least six other Adam Urbanskis who won’t ever be able to grab that link! I also have twitter.com/adamurbanski, youtube.com/adamurbanski and many more like this – are you getting the point?
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2. Get Involved! Just opening the accounts won’t do anything for you. You must be actively involved. Choose the best three platforms for you – where you can find the largest population of your ideal clients and it’s the easiest to connect with them. Each platform provides search tools that enable you to find people you already know, current customers, as well as hubs where most of your ideal potential clients already hang out, so you can become visible to a lot of them very quickly. And start connecting and talking! But first…

3. Listen, Listen, Listen More The most important thing you must remember is that social networking is NOT ABOUT YOU! It’s ABOUT THEM! So don’t listen twice as much as you talk (I mean “post”), listen 10 times as much! Find out what the current topics are. What people are concerned about, what information and solutions they are looking for. Then make your posts relevant to other people’s needs! Here is a hint – nearly all of the social networking services and tools, at least the basic version of them, is free! So don’t go out there pitching your high-priced wares. Give, give, and give some more first! If your focus is on getting and taking, you will get a big fat NADA from your networking efforts. But if you focus on giving, you’ll be abundantly rewarded in return.
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4. Get Attention! Following all the rules is for sissies! So don’t be a social networking pansy – have an opinion (in fact, have lots of opinions on everything!) and voice it loud and often! People admire people with opinions – even if they don’t agree with you, they will stick around to watch what will happen next. Social networking experts are quick to dispense all their “must not break” rules (heck, I’m doing it right now!), but the fact is, this is such a new media that most of the effective approaches are still to be discovered. And the only way to do so is by stepping on some toes and breaking some norms.

If you want a “safe” way to practice this, follow my PET formula: polarize, entertain, teach!

- POLARIZE. Whether you piss people off or make them love you, they will pay attention. If they are indifferent, they will leave!

- ENTERTAIN. People will always choose fun over education. If people laugh w/ you, they like you… Plus, when they laugh – they learn!

- TEACH. Gary Veynerchuk says “give good s#!%.” And he gets how PET works, because that phrase rubs some people the wrong way, it entertains, and it teaches! Peeps love good tips they can use right away – so share some!

5. Automate! The purpose of social networking is to CONNECT WITH PEOPLE on a very personal level. Still there are some tools that can help you impress your fans with your “omnipotent online presence” and get more networking done in less time.

RSS blog feeds, FriendFeed.com, Ping.fm, TwitterFeed.com, SocialOomph.com, TweetBeep.com, and TubeMogul.com are just a few of a plethora of tools and services – most of them free – that will kick your online socializing into high gear!

Here is my final take on it. And I really want you to get it! In April of 2008, from a stage at one of my boot camps, I called people who use Twitter “lazy idiots with no life” (yeah, how is that for polarizing, huh?) But at the same boot camp earlier this year I had my Twitter networking activities to thank for clients from Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, Spain, England, Hungary, and a few other countries. Needless to say, I changed my tune. I’ll leave it to your imagination as to what I now call professionals and entrepreneurs who refuse to recognize the client attracting power of social networking. Better yet – stop wondering, and if you aren’t involved yet – get started now!

By Adam Urbanski (c) 2009
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The Simple 10 Step Plan To Online Home Based Business Success

October 8, 2009

The Simple 10 Step Plan To Online Home Based Business Success

ECommerce Articles | July 16, 2008

Starting an online business from home can be fraut with difficulties, but by following a simple 10 step plan, your home based business can succeed where others fail.

Making the decision to go out and work for yourself, starting an online home based business from scratch is no small feat. But do you have a systematic plan to guide you from zero to making a profit? Follow this 10 step plan to get a head start on those with no idea -

1 – Define Your Niche: You’re going to need to identify a subject that you not only enjoy, but an area that you can successfully exploit to generate increasing revenue and sales. Try to think of things that you like or that you have experience in, but don’t decide to build your business based on a subject just because you think it will make money. You may well be stuck with this topic for many years – you must enjoy what you’re doing!

2 – Research Your Market: Does the niche you’re looking at have enough outside interest to give you increasing sales income? For example, you may enjoy collecting ‘pepper pots’, and it’s certainly a niche market, but are there enough other people actively looking to buy similar items for you to make a living and pay your bills?

3 – Competition: Having a healthy competition in a market can be a good thing as it means the topic is popular enough to build a business in. However, looking to dominate a big market is not going to work. Think of ‘Goldilocks’ and go for somewhere in the middle for being just right!

4 – Register Your Business With The Relevant Organisations if Required: In some countries, you will need to notify the government body that you have started working for yourself within a stated period. You may need to advise the likes of your national taxation office or government trade and industry department if you need a licence. Don’t get yourself fined before you even start.

5 – Get An Office: This doesn’t have to be anything special, but you will need somewhere that you can go and not be disturbed – an unused room at home is great, if not, set a time for business and use the kitchen table. If all else fails, you may have to use a ‘hot desk’ option in a real office and pay by the hour.

6 – Build Your Website: If you can, build it yourself, but if not you’ll have to pay someone to do it for you. There are big issues with paying someone else (eg they don’t know what you want), so if you do go down this route, prepare a brief showing them exactly what you want. If you do decide to do it yourself, my suggestion is WordPress – it’s a great Content Management System and is Web 2.0 compliant.

7 – Go Market Your Business: One-way backward links help the search engines determine your website relevance. Writing good articles and leaving forum posts are great ways to achieve good links into your site, and they don’t cost you anything to do!

8 – Step Back & Take a Breath: You’ve come a long way in a short time. So that all your hard work is not in vain, take a break for a few days and check your ‘system’ is working, like your marketing and your website. Is your working environment good enough? Take a broad view and replace before venturing further.

9 – Outsource If You Need To: One of the worst things to have happen, is for your business to be so successful that revenue generating tasks get put aside for mundane ones, so think about outsourcing tasks that don’t make you money. There are a number of ‘freelance resource’ websites where you can look for help if required.

10 – Reinvest: You don’t have to reinvest your profits, but if you really want to change your lifestyle and work from a tropical beach, reinvesting your profits in the early stages of your business growth can pay massive dividends later.

Starting a home based business takes time, money and effort. Way too many people fail because they haven’t thought through how they are going to build their business. Using this simple 10 step plan can help you succeed where others have failed. Nothing is guaranteed, it’s up to your own effortsArticle Submission, but this plan is a great place to start.

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Michael Hemmins has developed several successful online businesses. He is a qualified ‘Guerrilla Marketing Coach’, specialising in growing online home based businesses using little or no money. His website is
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Viral Marketing – Spread the word.

October 7, 2009

Viral Marketing – Spread the word.

Viral Marketing Articles | May 19, 2005

While a virus, in Medicine, is the smallest infectious
agent, it is an extremely potent strategy in Marketing speak
with similar abilities to proliferate. It is an effective
means of advertising and relies on an understanding of what
individuals may accept, should the price favour them.

Viral marketing by definition is any type of a marketing
campaign that encourages those in receipt of an advertising
message to voluntarily pass it along to friends, family and
others that may be interested. [unlike a bad "virus" which
one would not want to knowingly spread or pass along.]

Examples of successful viral marketing are: hotmail and
their simple teaser at the bottom of all their emails that
stated “Get your free private email at www.hotmail.com.”

In its first 1.5 years, Hotmail acquired over 12 million
subscribers.

eGroups.com [Yahoo Groups] is a free place on the Net with
tools for groups to share ideas, coordinate schedules and

exchange documents. It reached 4.1 million users at a faster
pace than Hotmail did.

MeMail.com, the Canadian publisher with over 300,000
subscribers, has 97% of its new subscribers from direct
referrals.

Every time a subscriber passes along a story or joke,
attached is a subtle endorsement for MeMail.com brand.

Other forms of viral advertising are based on the idea, that
people will pass on and share cool and entertaining content,
which is often sponsored by an individual or company.

This is looking to raise awareness and use of a product or
service. These viral commercials can take many different
forms: funny video clips, interactive Flash games, images,
or even text.

R.S.S. is not just a gift, but a means to propagate your
brand via incoming links. It will provide content to any who
wish it, but its true purpose is to infiltrate the market,
virally.

Viral marketing is usually carried out by email, although it
is not the same as email marketing.

Email marketing is a message that is sent out by a company
to a database.

In Viral marketing a conventional database is not used. The
idea is to get your reader to pass your message on to their
friends, family or associates. The message then carries a
powerful personal endorsement and is much more likely to be
read and/or acted upon.

When a viral campaign is properly constructed and executed,
you will be rewarded exponentially by the spread.

Example: 2 readers tell 2, which in turn tell 2 more and so
on. It spreads 2+4+8+16+38+64 and hopefully swells to a
reach massive number of readers that act on your offer or
message.

Ironically, even without action or direct financial
participation, a mental impression can be formed through
branding.while no-one will click on the large billboards
that fill the landscape, the memory of it, can prompt
future action with the sponsor in question. Exposure and
impressions have consequences, both on and off line.

Most internet programs including mlm’s initiate novices by
impressing them to harvest their “circles of influences”.
This involves such novices telling everyone that they know,
and giving the product a personal recommendation, or
endorsement.

Some insist that a circle of influence strategy could spread
the word to an incredible nine hundred people.

Examples of viral marketing can be seen everywhere: free
email addresses, branded software, branded ipods or
accessories, bravenet tools, some newsfeeds, syndication and
other content, jokes (via email and offline), quotations
even, anything that people want for nothing but agree to a
link,like phpnuke or WordPress.

Look at the Marlboro Cigarettes campaign suggesting saving
miles to purchase merchandise. Most items purchased are
branded physically or by word-of-mouth, “I got it from
Marlboro catalogue by saving miles”.

Miles that can only be accumulated by purchasing a pack of
their cigarettes.

By offering a simple download with an email or as a bonus to
your offer your branded name will become known. For instance you can go here and download a great set of
tools that will benefit webmasters at any level. This
branded tool will benefit both the consumer and the one
making the offer.

E Books are invariably information products that can be
branded and embedded with affiliate links. These are often
given away as free reports, but with the firm consciousness that
they will be passed on to enhance a viral campaign.

Brand it, and recieve widespread recognition. Embed it with
affiliate links, and recieve any associated revenues.

Indeed, affiliation programs could be considered to be viral
in nature. While the new affiliate may not make a sale, they
will surely be aware of the product and may even purchase it
themselves. This does happen, incidentally.

The most powerful vehicle of a viral marketing strategy is
the one that is carried to the most valuable target of all;
Those that want something, and those that want something else!

Good Luck and happy viral marketing.

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Getting Website Traffic For Free is Not That Hard

October 7, 2009

Getting Website Traffic For Free is Not That Hard

ECommerce Articles | April 8, 2008

Regardless of how good your website is, how good your sales copy is, how good or attractive your product is, unless you generate traffic you will never make money online. This article is going to cover some ways for you to drive traffic to your website for free.

Some say the money is in the list. Well, that may be true, but the real money is in driving traffic to your website. This article is going to give you some tips and tricks you can use to get free website traffic.

Most people when starting out don’t have the extra cash needed to pay someone to get them traffic. So, you must be willing to learn and put in some effort in understanding what you need to do to get traffic for free. Be prepared because it will take work and you will need to commit to it at the beginning. Once you have mastered the techniques, you can start to ease off some as many of the techniques will start to work on auto-pilot for you.

Being able to get website traffic for free will take a little time to build up. Without question, paying for traffic will get you instant results, but it is very important you learn how to get traffic for free. Believe me, it is a great feeling when you get tons of traffic to your site, and you know you haven’t paid a penny for it!

The first place you should look at to get traffic for free is in forums. Depending on what you are selling, or what your website is offering I guarantee you there is a forum on the subject somewhere. Search out and find those forums using the search engines. Check them out, see what people are writing about or commenting on. Join forums and answer people’s questions or simply reply to comments they make in the forum. You will soon brand yourself as an expert in your field and gain a good reputation. Once you are recognized as an expert, you can then start adding your signature to all your comments.

The amount of traffic you get from this will astonish you trust me. The major benefit is that the traffic visiting your site will be highly targeted and much more likely to either optin to your newsletter, or indeed purchase your product.

Set up your own squeeze page or capture page and offer a newsletter full of content on your niche or subject. It is advisable to send all your traffic to your squeeze page and build your own mailing list. When people optin, give them high quality content. Make it enjoyable to read and many of your subscribers will then begin to tell their friends about you. This itself will bring you more free traffic.

Contact other website owners that have similar products to what you are selling. Ask them if they are interested in swapping or trading links. Most webmasters realize the importance of this and most will agree providing you are not selling the same product of course. Exchanging links will help to increase your search engine rankings which will in time bring you more free traffic.

Writing articles of course will bring you a lot of traffic over time. The most important thing is your articles need to be original and full of quality content giving the reader exactly the information they are looking for. It will take time but with high quality articles and good content the traffic will come.

You will need to write up as many articles as possible over a short period of time. The more the better basically. It is free to also submit these articles. The Internet is full of places where you can submit your article without charge. One small tip here is to make sure you do not submit the same article to all of the directories as this will be classified as duplicate content and have a negative effect on your search engine raking. Simply change the article around and make it more than 30% different and then submit it to another directory.

Set up your own Blog and provide good quality content on it. You can get a free Blog from www.wordpress.along with many other places you can get a Blog for free. Providing good content works in two ways. It helps to get your site ranked high on search engines, and because most of your free traffic will come from there, it is important to get your sites ranked high. Secondly, providing good content helps to build and brand you as an expert. People then recommend your site to others bringing you more traffic of course.

Using the above techniques and spending a little time putting everything in place will help you to start getting targeted traffic to your websites for free. There are other techniques of course but for nowScience Articles, use these in this article to at least get started.

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Top Ways To Getting Free Backlinks For Effective Search Engine Optimization

October 7, 2009

Top Ways To Getting Free Backlinks For Effective Search Engine Optimization

SE Optimization Articles | May 28, 2009

Every major search engine utilizes what are called “Backlinks” as a large part of their judgement of a site’s rankings.  You can equate it to every link pointing from another site to yours is a vote for you and the more votes you get the higher your site’s ranking will be.

Every dominant search engine utilizes what are known as “Backlinks” as a huge part of their determination of a site’s rankings.  Backlinks are, basically, a link from another website which points to your site and to make things simple, the more backlinks you can get the higher in the rankings you will be.

That looks like child’s play right?  Find more backlinks and improve your rankings and traffic.  The easy way is to hire a Toronto search engine optimization expert however that is not always within everyone’s means.  However how do you find them without spending large sums of money and time?  You can get large numbers of backlinks in simply a few easy steps so let’s take a look.

Most people understand that to the search engines content is king.  This is accurate for 2 reasons.  Visitors that come to your site need something to hold their interest and search engines have to be able to index it. Content is also needed by all other sites for the same reasons. The second part can be used to your advantage.  Give them your information for free.

Compose an article on a subject that is closely related to your website’s theme. Your article needs to be around 500-1000 words in total. Adding in your site’s keywords is good but only if it doesn’t interfere with the flow of your content.  The main goal is to write quality content.

Next you will be giving this content away for free, but with terms.  You will be submitting this content to article directories like Article Factory.  An article directory serve two purposes.  They will deliver or allow others to download your article and use it on their own site and they permit you to add a resource box at the bottom of your article.  They display your content on the site but as well enable others to use that article on their own sites and above all give permission for the content creator to place a link back to their site in a section called the Resource Box.

Within the resource box you are adding a brief bio about yourself. That’s niceFree Web Content, however what you are really looking for is to add a link to your site.  So every time a site posts your content they will also be adding your website’s link.

Submitting to only one directory though is not enough.  The more places you submit your content to the greater leverage you will receive from it.  Lets say that your article is on twenty directories that means that there are twenty sites that are linking to your site.  Now if those directories distribute your article to only 5 sites each your links climb to one hundred with no extra effort.  In many niches like real estate this will be a huge step in getting your site to the top of the search engines.  However if you want to have a capable real estate search engine optimization strategy you will have to to do a little more.

There are sites that can further increase your article’s publicity by converting it into a podcast.  To do this you can either record yourself reading your content or use a service like odiogo.com that will convert the words into speech record your own reading of it but the easiest way is to use a free text to speech service such as Odiogo.  These require that your article be posted on a blog like WordPress or Blogger.com.  You can get a blog on-line with a few clicks of the mouse.

By following this guide you will be able to increase your search engine rankings and bring targeted visitors to your site.  In a short period of time you can be at the top of the search engines in your niche.

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Welcome to the Blogosphere

October 7, 2009

Welcome to the Blogosphere

Technology Articles | June 16, 2008

New to blogging? This article will tell you all about free hosting to paid services and 10 tips on what to blog about.

Blog, blogger, blogosphere. I thought these were the strangest sounding words when I first heard them. And I admit, it took me a while to warm up to the whole “blogging” idea. I actually imagined the whole blog scene akin to a supernova that would take the Internet by storm but die out as fast as it came in. But, alas, that has not been the case.

A blog (short for web log) is a website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order. Blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news; some function as personal online diaries.

Blogs make it much easier for your prospective clients and customers to find you! First of all, when you publish a new website the traditional way, it can take Google a few days to index it (include it in search results). When you publish a new blog site or add a new post to your blog, it is indexed almost immediately.

Next, you can use your blog to improve your traditional website’s ranking because you can link to your website from your blog. The more “incoming” links (from other websites) your website has, the higher it will rank. What’s more, you now have a new way of inviting people into your marketing funnel.

A blog is also essential for creating and deepening your relationships with your current and prospective clients and customers. You can start a conversation in every post, and they can reply by adding their own comments right on the page. Before you know it, you’re at the center of a community of people who all have a similar interest in your area of specialty.

To get started as a blogger, the first thing you’ll need to decide is the question I’m asked most frequently about blogging – “Free or Paid”?

Blogger.com is an example of a free blog service. Typepad.com is an example of a paid blog service. WordPress has both a free service with hosting included (http://www.wordpress.com) and a free download to use on a site that you’ve paid another company to host (http://www.wordpress.org).

Free, Hosted Services

Blogger and WordPress.com are examples of free, hosted blog services.

Pros: These blog sites are quick to setup, easy to maintain, and posting is a breeze. Both let you assign your own domain name (yourname.com) to the blog (though with wordpress.com, there is a nominal fee for this).

Cons: The templates are pretty plain and there are limits to the amount of customization you can do. In my opinion, WordPress offers more stylish templates than Blogger.

There is nothing wrong with free blogs, and they might be perfect for you if you’re brand new to blogging. And as you can see from Alexandria Brown’s example (http://alexandriabrown.blogspot.com/), some well-known online marketers are using them.

Paid Hosted Services

Typepad.com is designed especially for the small business owner. It’s a great option if you’d like to have a little more control over the look and feel of your blog, additional features, as well as the service and support that comes with using a paid service. Prices start with a Basic package at $4.95 per month.

WordPress.org the same company that provides free blogs at WordPress.com, also provides an option for the more technically savvy blogger. The system itself is free, but you’ll need to pay for website hosting from a separate company. Be sure your hosting package includes MySQL databases (tip: GoDaddy.com provides MySQL databases with all of their hosting plans).

The bonus of choosing WordPress.org over WordPress.com is that you have much more control over the look of your blog, because you can choose and customize your own template design (also referred to as a “theme”). Keep in mind, though, you’ll need a certain level of technical expertise, such as the ability to edit PHP code (a programming language similar to HTML). You can see my WordPress.org theme at my blog at www.marketingmindsetblog.com.

What Do I Post?

Not sure what to write about? Here are some suggestions:

Make it relevant – post content that will enlighten, educate and benefit your customers and/or clients.
Share your opinion – comment about a recent news story, review a recently released book or movie, or summarize a teleseminar (telephone class) or webinar (online class) you attended.
Showcase your knowledge – write articles, tips sheets or how-to lists.
Be a guide – provide links to websites, blogs, books or products that you recommend (and ask your online colleagues to reciprocate!) – use affiliate links if you have them.
Give-away a taste – offer free special reports, e-courses or recordings in exchange for the visitor’s email address.
Announcements – create fanfare and excitement when you launch a new product or service – focus on the benefits it offers. Send these types of posts sparingly.
Foster conversation and community – run a survey or a provocative question that’s relevant to your target market.
Make it talk, sing or dance – audio and video are HOT additions to any blog.
Keep it short – don’t be intimidated by the idea of writing pages and pages of new content for your blog posts. A paragraph can be more than sufficient.
Be consistent – depending on how much true “news” there is in your topic, experts agree that you’ll get the best results if you post 1-3 times every week.

With so many advantages, not to mention these simple tools and instructions, there’s nothing stopping you from adding a blog to your e-Marketing Toolbox. My friendBusiness Management Articles, welcome to the Blogosphere!

Copyright ©2007 Lisa Wells.

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Lisa Wells is a Certified eMarketing Associate who partners with coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, managing their many online marketing needs. Move your business to the next level and up your e-marketing game – sign up for her FREE e-course “e-Marketing Toolbox Essentials” at http://www.emarketingtoolboxessentials.com, where she shares ideas, tips, strategies, and do’s and don’ts.

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How To Drive Free Traffic To Your Website

October 7, 2009

How To Drive Free Traffic To Your Website

ECommerce Articles | September 8, 2009

Learn how to drive traffic to your website using
linkbuilding, article marketing, social bookmarking, and other methods in this
article.

The holy grail of internet marketing seems to be getting “free” traffic. Even though you could do a lot with paid traffic, such as pay-per-click, free traffic is great. There are several ways you can get some free traffic to your main website.

Now, blogging can be like any other website that alone isn’t going to get any traffic. However, depending on which blogging platform you use, you’ll have an instant leveraged website or web platform you can use to get traffic assuming you use the right keywords in the right places on those blog posts. For instance, Blogger.com and WordPress.com tend to rank relatively well with the search engines, especially with Google.

You can use social bookmarking sites to get both links back to your site for the search engines as well as direct traffic from people visiting these social bookmarking sites and clicking on the links in your bookmarks. You can use sites like socialmarker.com to get a list of social bookmarking sites that can be used to bookmark your blog posts, pages on the site and also use the profile options with several of these social bookmarking sites that allow you to put links in for your websites into the profiles.

In addition to blogging on sites like WordPress.com or Blogger, or even a self-hosted blog, there are other sites you can use that may be considered mini-blogs. There are several sites that allow people to create their own pages. You may have heard of Squidoo.com or Hubpages.com. You can use existing articles, videos, and just about anything else to populate those pages with content. Just make sure to link back to your main site or the site where you have your affiliate link or your main source of revenue. You can use these types of sites as well to promote affiliate products.

Next to pay-per-click, articles are the best way to get your website ranked and get traffic back to your website. The main reason these article websites are so good is because the pages on which your article shows up are very relevant and the links that are allowed in the author profile or resource box. Many of the good article sites also have a lot of “authority” with the search engines and their article pages rank very well which also means that the link values passed along from these types of sites are very high.

What would probably be considered the original “Web 2.0″ would be forums. Anything where you can interact in a community type setting with something topical or niche specific. Many forums will allow you to add a signature to the end of each of your postings. Depending on the forum, you can put a link back to your website, usually using whatever keywords you want to. Depending on your contributions in the forums as well as the call to action in your signature, you’ll get visits to your site as well as the search engine benefit of having those keyword phrases linked back to your website.

You can find that there are a lot of blogs that already get a lot of traffic. When you comment on these blogs, you’ll usually have an option to put in your name, email, url and your comment. If your comment is insightful and contributes to the value of the original post, you’ll have other readers of that same blog post find your comment and many times will click through to your blog. I’ve personally done this and also had visitors to my sites also from blogs for comments I’ve left.

These are some great ways to get free traffic but each of these requires an investment of time. If you’re willing to put in a consistentScience Articles, dedicated amount of time each day or a few times per week. Consistency is a key part of success when it comes to getting traffic to your website.

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Stimulus Watch – What’s going on in Wash?

February 26, 2009

Update:  The StimulusWatch is a list of projects that are still under consideration/discussion.  The actual “Stimulus Bill” otherwise known as the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” is not so specific in what or where the moneys are being directed.  To view the entire ARRA in PDF format, click here.

Find out details on all the projects listed for your state at StimulusWatch.org

Amazingly enough, the most expensive project listed is 17.5 Billion for Puerto Rico.

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