websites, blogs and article submission

A recent study by McAfee found that four out of five website visits start with a search engine query. So if your website doesn't have good search engine rankings then you're missing out on 80% of the traffic you could be getting. This translates to making 80% less money from your website than you could be. Any search engine optimization expert will tell you that submitting to directories is one of the fastest and single-most effective means of improving your search engine rankings.

So what are Website Directories? A website directory categorizes websites so that a person can manually find information they are looking for, rather like a phone book or the yellow pages. Website directories provide an alternative to search engines because rather than just the big sites being listed at the top, it is the user who chooses which site to visit by reading a description of the different sites to see which matches their requirements best. Obviously the more directories you can submit your website to, the more traffic your website will receive. Submitting to web directories will therefore have two massive benefits for your website: the first is that your website will get direct, targeted traffic from the directories themselves, secondly your website will obtain a good quality, one-way link from every directory you submit to, this will drastically improve your search engine rankings and Google PageRank, often moving your website many pages in the search engine results. More information on website directories.

and what are Article Directories? What you need to do as a webmaster is write an article about something related to the subject of your website. For example, if you ran a website about sporting collectables you could write an article about how others could become collectors, or how to value items - basically anything you want to so long as it relates to your website topic. Somewhere in the article or your author biography you include a link to your website, and you then submit your article to 'article directories' on the Internet. An article directory is a repository of lots of articles that other people have submitted. For every article directory that publishes your article you'll get a link to your website (the link you included in your article). The reason article submissions are so effective is because each article is published on its own unique webpage, meaning your link might be the only external link on that page, which gives your link full 'strength'. Also, because the article is based on the theme of your website your link is given even more strength. More information on article directory.

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E-mail marketing Campaign

Email marketing campaigns fail for many different reasons, but the most common mistake online marketers make is not designing the campaign in a manner to produce results. Over the past couple of years I’ve developed this list of key elements to ensure my email marketing campaigns are both profitable and successful. Now I’m going to share them with you so you’re email marketing campaigns will do the same for you.
1: Choose Your Mailing List Very Carefully

Any email marketing campaign is only as good as the mailing list used. There’s many different choices when determining the source of your mailing list so you want to be very careful when making this decision. Too many times email marketers believe the best way to produce results is by using shotgun marketing techniques with harvested email lists. The premise is based on large numbers and the law of averages, in that you’ll produce results simply by sending your ad out to as large a number of recipients as possible. This is a very ineffective way to produce results.

The key of choosing your list is based on your target market. You’re ad may be great but if your mailing list doesn’t consist of your target market, you just as well not send it out. You can use a very small targeted list and produce incredible response rates, depending on your ad, but you can get in the 15% to 35% response range. Before you purchase a mailing list, make sure the list owner can tell what market is represented on the list.

2: You Want To Produce Responses Not Sales
When you advertise, your goal is to get the prospect to respond by requesting more information about what you’re offering for sale. Too many times online marketers try to make the sale in their ad and all too often they fail. Your ad must focus on the most powerful benefits your prospect will gain from the purchase of your product and how they can get more detailed information. You want your ad to sound as if you’re talking with each prospect personally to get the best response rates.
3: Make Your Ad Brief And To The Point

In today’s fast paced society, people are busy and your email marketing needs to take this into consideration. Look to your own experience to help you out here. When you’re searching for initial information you don’t want to wade through a mountain of information, you want information that’s brief and to the point. You’ll have more time to go over the more detailed information in the sales material once you’ve made the initial inquiry.

If your ad rambles on and doesn’t get to the point quickly, your prospect will simply skip over your ad and move on to the next. Pick the most important benefits of your product and let your prospect know what they are and how they’ll solve their problems. Make sure your ad gets directly to the point about your offer. Don’t make your prospect guess about what you’re offering. How do you expect them to request more information if they don’t understand what you’re offering them? After reading thousands of ads, the most common mistakes are made in both the length of the ad and that it doesn’t get to the point.

4: Give Your Prospect An Incentive To Respond

The most powerful word in advertising is "Free!" When you make an offer of a free sample or report, your chances of getting a better response is dramatically increased. Discounts and limited time offers can also be used in your ads, but they’re best used in the sales letter when trying to produce an order. For the best responses, make your incentives immediate and short term. You want to create a sense of urgency when using incentives. If you can generate more ad responses using incentives, you’re increasing your chances for making more sales.

5: Include A Strong "Call To Action"

Have you ever read an ad that when you finished you couldn't figure out what to do next? This is a fatal mistake that’s made in many ads. Don’t be timid here, make sure your prospect knows exactly what to do if they want more details. You can have them send an email, visit your web page, call a phone number or any other method of delivery you’ve chosen, just make sure you give your prospect some options and make the call to action strong. This is an excellent place to combine an incentive.

6: Track And Record Your Responses

Developing a successful email marketing campaign isn’t just having a great ad, its having a great ad and knowing what kind of responses it’ll produce in a specific target market! Your ad might be very successful in one target market and less successful in another. But you won't know this if you don't "Track and Record Your Responses!" You can use special codes as department numbers or form numbers, but the best strategy I've used is in linking a specific ad to an autoresponder or web page. Make sure you always record the responses on a tracking form for evaluation and reference.

7: Follow Up With Every Response

It completely baffles me why an online marketer would spend their time, effort and money to advertise and then make no attempt to follow up with the prospects. You've created an interested prospect because they've asked to get more details, don't stake the success of your business on the fact that after they've read your sales letter, they'll place an order without you asking them for the sale again. If you don't follow up and ask for the sale again, you're passing up the opportunity of a 20% to 30% increase in your sales. I don't know of any business owner who wouldn't jump at the opportunity to increase their sales by 20% to 30% percent and you can accomplish this by just following up with your prospects!

8: Test Your Entire Email Marketing Process

The key to producing a successful email marketing campaign is: "To Test Your Entire Process!" Test, test, test, test! Think about this: Is your ad pulling the most responses it can or can it get a much larger response rate? You'll never know unless you test. Here's where you can take a small profit and create a fortune for your business. You want to take a systematic approach that'll give you quantifiable results for comparing specific ads, sales letters, markets and advertising mediums. But be very careful. Don't make wholesale changes, test each component in your process separately. Test, test and test some more! Be patient and be persistent!

9: Expect Questions From Your Prospects

No matter how well your ads and sales letters are written, you’ll still get questions. Online prospects are more educated and want more information before they make their buying decision. In fact, before I make a purchase online, I send an email to the advertiser asking anything, just to see what and how quickly they respond. You'd be amazed at how many times I never receive a reply. When you do respond, do it honestly and quickly. They're hot prospects when they ask a question, so get them the information they want and as quickly as possible, before they cool off. If you don’t want the sale just do nothing.

10: Set Reasonable And Achievable Goals

In most email marketing campaigns, a 1% to 3% response rate is considered very good. You can and will see better and worse response rates by carefully selecting a targeted email list. But you need to set reasonable and achievable goals for your campaign. If your goals are set too high and can’t be reached you’ll become disillusioned and stop marketing. You want to be able to reach some of your goals so set them up in steps to keep building from.

Final Thoughts
Once you begin your email marketing campaign you’ll begin to see for yourself which of these elements you’ve mastered and which ones you still need to work on. In to give your campaign the best possible chance for success, make sure you've considered and applied these 10 Key Elements. Make your selections carefully and with a specific goal in mind and soon you’ll find that you’re easily obtaining your email marketing goals and producing incredible profits from your online marketing campaign.

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List out your business in google map.

I going to reveal to you the easiest way to produce highly targeted interent traffic to you and you’ll never have to pay a cent for it.
When you have used Google to find a service or product for your area have ever seen a map with several flags on it show up. That is Google Maps. What you may not know is that it is so easy to get your business or service listed on that map for your area and that the service is free…unlike the Yellowpages, etc.
Just imagine what it would be like to have hundreds of people looking for your service or product go to Google and see your business listed right there, on the first page of the search engine results. How many people do you think would get to click onto your website and thus, give you a call?
That is Google Maps for you. Instant first page rankings for your business for free.
Okay, so how do you get your business listed? Quite easy actually. It’ll only take about 10 minutes of your time.
Go to maps.google.com and then follow the directions. Easy, simple and quick. Now, I must warn you; your business will not show up right away on the map. Google says it can take up to 6 weeks, but the longest I have ever had to wait was a week.
So there you go. First page Google ranking for your business in 10 minutes and for free. Life just can’t get any better.

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Nine methods to promote web

Don't make the mistake of ignoring website promotion. Every website is selling something, be it a product or a service, or maybe simply trust or a brand. This means you need visitors; the more targeted, the better. Simply creating a great site isn't enough, although it's an excellent first step. You need to be out there actively promoting it if you truly want to achieve revenue through your site.

Website promotion may very well be the most important aspect of an online business, yet it often gets overlooked. Many online businesses and websites put forth so much effort into website design, yet completely neglect the promotional aspects. This is a big mistake, and in fact I am going to give you nine methods that you can start using today to promote a website effectively.

1. Web Catalogs & Directories

Taking out annual subscriptions in one or more of the major web catalogs (e.g. Inktomi, FAST, AskJeeves, etc.) and business directories (e.g. YellowPages, Superpages) can help garner some immediate traffic for your website. Web Catalogs tend to work well for new sites, as they get you some all important links in the early stages. Business directories work for virtually any business as they put a listing (or ad) for your website right in front of people looking for exactly what you're selling.

2. Link Exchanges Programme

This is a fantastic way to increase the importance of your website in the eyes of the search engines. The rationale that the search engines use is that if other sites are linking to yours, then your site must be important. A link from another site to your site is considered a "vote" for your site. The more of these votes, the better; to an extent, of course. Steer clear of such black hat techniques as link farms and free for all (FFA) sites. I recommend starting by asking your vendors, suppliers and customers if they could link to your site in exchange for a link to theirs. You could then branch out into related businesses that service a different audience (e.g. a competitor in another city that you don't service).

3. Search Engine Submission

This step is critical for any brand new website. You'll want to let the major search engines know that your new site exists, and prompting them to visit it with a search engine submission campaign is a great start. Don't bother buying a big 1500-engine submission package ? there's only about 7 to 10 major search engines worth worrying about, and once you're listed on these, the other 1490 will pick you up (not that they'll send you any measurable traffic?). The controversy here is whether or not to continue a submission campaign. Does it help an established site? Does it hurt it? Our research indicates that it doesn't hurt. As to whether or not it helps ? for some engines yes, for others no. A big tip to give you here is to be sure to work hard to get your site listed in the important directories like DMOZ and AltaVista.

4. Electronic Newsletter

An electronic newsletter is a fantastic method for staying in touch with not only existing customers, but potential customers as well. Provide useful, interesting information on a regular basis and be sure that people can subscribe and unsubscribe easily. Utilizing a good tool (e.g. Constant Contact) will make your life easier and allow people to forward the newsletter to their friends and colleagues (known as Viral Marketing). You can also use the newsletter as a vehicle for announcements or specials. Never charge anything to subscribers, and build your list by running contests or promotions.

5. Pay-per-click

I saved this one until last as I believe it is the single most important item in this list. If you remember nothing else from this article, remember pay-per-click (or PPC). By paying for visits from people who are searching on keywords related to your product or service, you are almost ensuring that your website will generate more revenue with a higher conversion rate of visitors to customers. The more popular programs include Google AdWords, Overture Content Match and Site Match, as well as smaller players like FindWhat, Kanoodle and Mamma.

Google AdWords is a great method to get the word out about your website. This promotional technique works because it gives you the unique opportunity of targeting the type of people who visit your website. This means that your traffic is more likely to be interested in what you have to offer, hence you will make more money.

6. Press release

The first thing you need to do is get the word out about your website. This can be done instantly by incorporating press releases into your marketing campaign. Press releases are a great way to get the word out about your website in a short period of time.

7. Twitter

Twitter is a social community of people, and you can easily find people with similar interests to you. By doing this you are likely to connect with some individuals that could promote your website, and perhaps even find some customers.

8. Forums

Giving valuable information in forums can be very effective, and does not take much work on your part. Starting an interesting thread or contributing meaningful posts will get the job done.

9. Youtube

Use the power of Youtube. Youtube is a great website and by posting videos advertising your business then you can really get a lot of website traffic. Youtube is a fantastic way to promote a website effectively because of the amount of people that will potentially see your promotions.

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ways to get listed in 10 search result

This is an article to show you the fastest way to get top 10 in the search engines for your own website. This method always work, especially for keywords with low competition. But there are some factors you need to consider before using it.
Ok, here is the method in summary:
Simply use the keywords that you want to rank for as the domain name of your website.
For example, if you want to get top 10 rank for “migraine headache relief”, you can name your website as one of the followings:
migraineheadacherelief (.com, .net or .org)migraine-headache-relief (.com, .net or .org)
If those domain names are not available, you can add a prefix or suffix such as my, site, guide etc. For example,
mymigraineheadacherelief.commigraineheadachereliefsite.commigraineheadachereliefguide.com
The idea is to include the keywords in your domain name.
Before using this strategy, there are some issues you should consider:
1) It’s not a loophole
This method works for competitive keywords. If you don’t believe, search for ‘acne’ and see which website ranks top.
But this method is NOT a loophole.
You still need to build links into your homepage.
The only difference is you need lesser links compared to websites without the keywords in the domain names.
This brings us to the next important point - keyword research.
2) Keyword research
The more competitive the keywords, the more links you need and the longer time it takes for you to get top rank for that keywords.
As a start, it would be a better idea to aim for less competitive keywords.
How do you know if a keyword phrase is competitive?
Simple. Below are my personal checklist:
i) Google search result for that keyword phrase should have less than 500,000 results.
ii) Some of the webpages in the top 10 results should have a PR less than 3.
iii) Some of the webpages in the top 10 results are internal pages of Squidoo.com, Hubpages.com, Blogger.com, Ezinearticles.com and/or Buzzle.com.
If I found a keyword phrase that satisfies all the 3 criteria, plus the keyword phrase has a good demand, I know that I’ve found another gold.
3) Branding
If you think domain name such as migraineheadacherelief.com looks ugly, you are absolutely right!
But if I am creating an affiliate site or Adsense site, I don’t really care whether my domain name looks professional.
If I’m creating a website that requires some form of branding, I may have to give this trick a pass. Alternatively, I will try to include as many keywords as possible while making sure that the domain name looks professional

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top 25 tips for marketing blog

With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them, so here is a “short” list of tips for marketing and optimizing a blog:

1. Decide on a stand alone domain name www.myblog.com or directory of existing site www.mysite.com/blog. Sub domain is also an option blog.mysite.com. Avoid hosted services that do not allow you to use your own domain name!

2. Obtain and install customizable blog software - WordPress and Moveable Type are my favorites.

3. Customize blog look and feel templates - aka design.

4. Research keywords and develop a glossary - Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, SitePoint, SEOBook Keyword Research.

.5. Optimize the blog: Template optimization - RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, HTML code, Unique title tags, URLs, Sitemap Add helper plugins specific to WordPress or MT Create keyword rich categories (reference your keyword glossary)

6. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.

7. Create Feedburner Pro account and enable feed tracking.

8. Setup Google acount for Sitemap, validate and prep for future submission.

9. Identify authoritative blogs, web sites and hubs for outbound resource links and blogroll.

10. Format archived posts, related posts.

11. Enable statistics for tracking - Performancing, Google Analytics, ClickTracks.

12. Submit RSS feed and Blog URL to prominent RSS and Blog directories / search engines.

13. Engage in an ongoing link building campaign.

14. If podcast or video content are available, submit to Podcast and Vlog directories.

15. Submit blog url to paid directories with categories for blogs - Yahoo, BOTW, bCentral, WOW, JoeAnt.

16. Optimize and distribute a press release announcing blog.

17. Request feedback or reviews of your blog in relevant forums, discussion threads. If you have a resourceful post that will help others, point to it.

18. Research and comment on relevant industry related blogs and blogs with significant centers of influence.

19. Post regularly. If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.

20. Monitor inbound links, traffic, comments and mentions of your blog - Google Alerts, Technorati, Blogpulse, Yahoo News, Ask Blogs and Feeds.

21. Always respond to comments on your blog and when you detect a mention of your blog on another blog, thank that blogger in the comments of the post.

22. Make contact with related bloggers on AND offline if possible.

23. When making blog posts always cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. Use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.

24. Use social networking services, forums and discussion threads to connect with other bloggers. If they like your stuff, they will link to you.

25. Remember when web sites were a new concept and the sage advice to print your web address everywhere you print your phone number? The same advice applies for your blog.

Of course if you don’t want to do it yourself, you can always have a blog consultant do these things (and more) for you, but I realize that there are quite a few personal bloggers as well as small business bloggers looking for this kind of information. I hope it’s helpful.

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list of pr3 web directories

All of the directories listed below offer a one way link to your website. Just right click on any link and open in a new window, so you can submit your website information to tose directories. these are the directories with pagerank 3. It also helps you much to make your page ranked by different search engines and get high traffic or real visitors to your page.

Zopso.com	mymaldives	adspecs
reviewedweb	graydirectory	adspecs
reviewedweb	reviewedweb	cornerbooks
piggymoo	irotater	mybestdir
siteseek	urlmoz	suggestlink
freeurldirectory	free-seo-directory	softensive
linkfeads	linkaddurl	1abc
placeyourlinks	excellentweb	addlinksuggest
kit-graphik	aCotm	marketseo
addgoodsites	siteavenue	evmina
primefind	putmyfinger	telugulinks
khojbeen	mailfuture	diverselist
dramba	addlinkurl	opendir
bestsitedirectory	thats	buenoamigo
homepageseek	maxxfusion	profitchoice
websquash	optimizedirectory	smartdir
5lbs	linklair	hlnk
best-sites	directscales	sinotribe
webacclaim	rankorama	linksdirectory
surfdirections	nonar	akipus
kazancity	inter-directory	b2binternetmarketingagency
betterwebdirectory	dir365	free-advertise
link-lister	backlinkdir	web-directory
n1directory	searchsols	00link
vipabout	all-linkdirectory	bestdirectory4you

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list of pagerank 3 directories

All of the directories listed below offer a one way link to your website. Just right click on any link and open in a new window, so you can submit your website information to those directories. these are the directories with pagerank 3. It also helps you much to make your page ranked by different search engines and get high traffic or real visitors to your page.

zerovis	websitetop	webhostic
webdirectory	uuiq	theseoking
stopat	skaloosh	seolinking
searchlook	searchcity	putmyfinger
purple-directory	pileiton	perfext
opendirectory	netkushi	national-business-directory
mabontland.	kingoftheweb	gloose
forumsindex	fastpaths	free-website-directory
fabarooni	ettflorida	earth-directory
directoryhi	directory-global	directorygeneral
cherrydir	businesswebdirectory	bluenoserlinks
bahiacar	a-web-directory	alphadir
a-free-directory	wikidweb	perfext
fabarooni	fabaroo	honeyrunapiaries
thalesdirectory	lettingagentdirectory	goobz
coopdir	qos-team	caven
link-directory	9dir	seo-friend
alldirectlinks	a-free-directory	a-web-directory
infignos	velendi	linktoria
ezweb-tools	fabaroo	fabarooni
gdotz	seoplanet	uuiq
searchwebworld	littlewebdirectory	xland
hedir	4-every-1	cachedirectory
directswift	imomlinks	infowebworld
theeverywherepages	directory-global	globalbusinesslist

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more pr 3 web directories

All of the directories listed below offer a one way link to your website. Just right click on any link and open in a new window, so you can submit your website information to those directories. these are the directories with pagerank 3. It also helps you much to make your page ranked by different search engines and get high traffic or real visitors to your page.

annuaire-seo	destynova	samaprzyjemnosc
trybestsoft	dreamsubmitting	companiesindia
linkdirectory	the-web-directory	free-online-directory
simpledirectory	sapujagat	makisearch
ibratu	hitshappening	gaming-forums
jorgensenenterprises	ddirectory	kaikus
worldfamousdirectory	RETF	klingelton-tipp
webdirectory-submit	DCVK	premiumnet
omega55	UIEV	UOLX
IHYL	ilinkexchange	webit
fasttracked	lakbaypilipinas	exchangelinks
yadirectory	delightsquare	webnetclick
search-dir	linkarchive	2thelinks
ohsearch	url-directory	listherenow
alldirectlinks	zopso	mysearchengineranking
stuffdaily	toptero	freewebdirectory
nintra	summerrains	123hitlinks
onedir	laflaf	webslackers
topwebdirectory	miriblack	fastdir
askalink	yourowncorner	chinalinking
directory4u	lonelyway	iollo
zabalook	gulqro	apnadir
pop-net	mmorpgcrypt	yelk
r-fd	quickdirectory	lazymandirectory
sinotribe	lfaj	textlinkdirectory

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list of ranked directories 2 and 3

All of the directories listed below offer a one way link to your website. Just right click on any link and open in a new window, so you can submit your website information to those directories. these are the directories with pagerank 3 & 2. It also helps you much to make your page ranked by different search engines and get high traffic or real visitors to your page. Enjoy the promotional activities in How to get high traffic trend.

pkdesign	linknom	sanory
greatdir	sitesdirectory	trafficbunnies
submit-url	www-42	deblinley
amidirectory	0mg	rapok
bryaa	dee-zigner	down2e
impressiveurls	o13	paradigmamed
b2bcompass	hippodirectory	yourfreelink
thevividedge	thermokarst	suredirectory
secrethole	innerseek	cachedirectory
a1directorysearch	19230	directory-of-links
sighbercafe	clickthese	hitalyzer
sakalees	freewebdirectoryweb	splur
yourfreelink	onebestlink	add-page
arcaderocks	forgematrix	stopat
point-directory	sublime-directory	properdirectory
nicedirectory	ewebdir	pr3plus
bluedirectory	quickdirectory	submitfree
websitetips	bestfreedirectory	usawebdirectory
seagency	Nameproz	scfenghe
allaboutadtips	soredhot	PIPY
f7w	publimix	hobimiz
awesomegoodies	5business	yahoodirectory
gi8	thebestdamnlinkspage	teliadirectory
directory.ind	rulersites	sahiworld
scheduledweb	sdipn	shineinternet

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