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What is SEO? (Search Engine Optimization)

30 Apr

by: Steve Guttridge

Search Engine Optimization is a process of choosing the best targeted keyword phrases related to your site and making sure that this ranks your site highly in search engines so that when someone searches for specific phrases it returns your site near the top.

New sites don’t need to be submitted to search engines to be listed. A simple link from a well established site will get the search engines to visit the new site and begin to spider its contents. It can take a few days to even weeks from the referring of a link from such a reputable site for all the main search engine spiders to start visiting and cataloging the new site.

Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific searches.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing your website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms and keyword stuffing that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their directories.

Search engine marketing and promotion companies, will look at the plan for your site and make recommendations to increase your search engine ranking and website traffic. If you wish, they will also provide ongoing consultation and reporting to monitor your website and make recommendations for editing and improvements to keep your site traffic flow and your search engine ranking high. Usually your search engine optimization experts work with your web designer to build an integrated plan right away so that all aspects of design are considered at the same time.

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7 Ways To Make Money Online For Free

27 Apr

by: Jinger Jarrett

There’s no super secret formula to making money on the internet. If you really want to make money on line, then what you have to do is choose a particular technique and then stick to it. Although some techniques border on marketing techniques, they are also business models. Follow the rules for each of these business models, and you may begin earning an income in as little as a few hours.

1. Affiliate Marketing

This business style has a lot of advantages. You don’t need to do any customer service, create your own products, or even build a website if you don’t want to. With a little creativity, you may market these programs just about any way that you want, and you may even make money giving away stuff for free.

2. Blogging

Blogging is both an internet marketing technique and a business model. There are bloggers online who make six figure incomes doing it, so it’s very lucrative.

What’s key here is to choose a topic that you are passionate about and write about it. You may sell your own products, affiliate products, advertising, or a whole host of things on your blog. Just make sure they are related.

3. Freelance Writing

Freelance writing is just one of many of the services you may perform online to make money. Services are very lucrative if you have a specific type of expertise and you are good at marketing yourself.

What’s important about marketing services is that you enjoy what you do, and you are willing to do it for money. More importantly, getting out there and marketing is the difference between those who earn good incomes from services and those who don’t.
4. Bum Marketing

Bum marketing is a specific way of marketing affiliate programs. What you do is select several products that you are interested in. Then you write articles to promote each of the products. You include your affiliate link in the resource box of your article.

Keep in mind here that certain article directories won’t allow you to include a link to an affiliate program in the resource box. So, you will either need to buy a domain or create a simple website to send your traffic to. The best part is, the more articles you write, the more money you make.

5. Squidoo

Squidoo is a site started by entrepreneur Seth Godin. What this site allows you to do is to build simple one page sites on a specific topic or product. You may build as many of these little sites, or lenses, as you like.

Lenses may be used to market both your own products or affiliate products. The more lenses you build, the more money you make.

6. Product Creation

Product creation is only limited by your imagination. You may write short PDF reports that solve the specific problems for your customers. Then there are audios, books, CDs, or tons of other physical products you may make like tshirts on Cafepress.

If you have a hobby, you may want to sell what you know. Look at your skills and knowledge to help you get ideas for creating products.

7. Pay Per Click

Ultimately, pay per click is not free. Eventually, if you pursue this as a long time money making venture, you will have to spend some money. However, when you are first getting started, find pay per click sites that offer free traffic so you can try it out first.

Start small. Promote affiliate programs so you don’t need a website. As your business grows, develop more campaigns and invest more money.

There are about as many ways to make money online as there are people. Keep it simple. Choose marketing techniques and products that interest you and then build a business around it. You will succeed.

About The Author
Jinger Jarrett is the author of “Internet Marketing for Free: The Guide,” available on Amazon.

http://www.askjingernow.com

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