Archive for December, 2008

Is SEO Elite worth a Crap

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

SEO Elite is one of the best tools to help you obtain good organic rankings in search engines, and do it quickly. This article is the just of why I like and recommend the product.

Seo Elite has several features that will help you get ranked higher in the search engines. The best feature of SEO Elite is that you can basically see exactly what your competition is doing offsite and onsite. This allows you to mimick or improve upon what they are doing. The key here is to remember that for search engine rankings your competition is not the search engine, it is the people ranking for your phrase.

I think you will see instant results as soon as you implement the projects within this software. Traffic has been known to dramatically increase with the use of this software. The best way to use this is identify what the anchor text is in links to your competition and then mimick that. Then you will rank where they are ranking.

The software includes assistance for you in building links, including requesting link exchanges, submitting articles and many analysis tools. You can also use the rankings check to monitor the results of your optimization efforts.

The best thing this software does is analyzes the sites linking to your competition and what anchor text is being used. You can then go out and contact these webmasters, which SEO elite will assist you in doing, and see if they will link to you. You will also be able to sort these by page rank so that you can get the most important links first.

If you have never been to the website of this software, you need to check it out. They have dramatic testimonials of the increase in traffic they have received from using SEO elite. Remember this is free traffic from the search engines which is highly targeted. You can get some serious money by just knowing this one tactic.

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SEO Permanently In The Gray Area

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The term SEO, or search engine optimization, is still an unknown to virtually everyone who doesn’t work in that field. Most people have never even heard of the term nor know what it refers to. But the more interesting part is that even within the SEO industry, not everyone agrees on how best to approach the problems SEO sets out to solve.

Most everyone does agree on basic guidelines though. Guidelines like high site content, receiving and giving inbound and outbound links, proper meta tags and strong organization of the site. The problem is that there is no one formula that dictates the ratio or value of each of those things, so by its nature, SEO continues to be more of an art form than a scientific method. A good SEO provider is constantly juggling and balancing between all the factors as they carefully watch the movement of the website in the rankings.

Most professional SEO providers will provide their client a level of detailed in-depth report similar to one another. But that’s where much of the similarity ends. While most will not have any outright conflicting advise, their content and their approach will be different. If you polled 10 providers for reports, you’d likely get 10 different versions.

This makes the industry exciting for the SEO organizations. It makes performing SEO well a challenge, not just a standard checklist that you can use. No magical software to plug the site into and get all the right answers. Every site is different. Every day at work is different. And not to mention the suspense of not knowing immediately if it is working. An SEO provider gets no grade except improved rankings and traffic for the client, which take time to build and fluctuate daily.

For an individual to perform successful SEO work on their own website is nearly impossible because of all the nuances involved these days. And things change regularly, in fact so rapidly that only an experienced SEO provider with an extensive performance history is likely to be able to keep up with them. The best way to assure success is to check out providers and look at their track record.

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MLM Website Design Success

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Website design is the most crucial tool in your online business. A bad website will piss people off, and a good website will attract and retain visitors and convert traffic into sales. Here are 5 steps to website design for your MLM business.

Step 1: Choose your Domain

You may be fun and cool to get an interesting domain like “information4u.com” but this kind of names do not fare well on search, because nobody search for such words. You should use high search keywords in your domain.

Step 2: Choose your Colors

Use colors that are soothing to the eyes, and matches your whole layout of your Website. Bold words to catch attention. Colors like red, yellow are good and striking for attention catching to important words you want your readers to catch. Use colors to draw readers’ attention to the area you want them to focus on.

Do not use too many bold and colors as it will distract the readers attention. You want to focus your readers’ attention on important information that will lead to a sale.

Step 4: Structure of Content

It is also very important to ensure easy reading through your website. Consider the flow of information. Structure your content in a smooth flow and ensure smooth transition between parts.

Step 5: Opt-In Form

It is important to get contact information from your visitors. Because not all visitors will buy the first time they visit your website. And you also need to follow up with everybody who came into your website. These are targeted leads. You can install an opt-in form to capture the information.

After having done many websites, I realize a potential trap that all business owners face when they build their own website. That is the adding of fancy gadgets into the website. But remember, you should focus on building your traffic and improve on your contents before adding fancy gadgets trying to impress your visitors.

Test your website for the conversion rates, if it doesn’t convert traffic into sales you probably need to change some elements in your website. So it is also good to do A/B testing for your website.

Your main object is to get people to visit your website, not sending your website into a design and creativity competition.

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SEO tips for Online Video Content.

Friday, December 26th, 2008

People usually love video, millions of Americans consume videos online and same is the case world over. A consumer is most likely to keep in mind and refer to a video in comparison to a print advertisement. These days video making is very economical as compared to the cost of a traditional commercial. Broadband is getting enormous popularity worldwide. Now people can watch videos without long download times or quality issues. Present generation considers video to be a reliable source of news and information. Online video for them is second to nature. Here are a few tips/hints for optimizing your video:

1) It is recommended that you create and submit a transcript for users and the search engines, add a transcript to each video file you’ve uploaded via your Video Status page. Create a Keyword Rich Title for your Transcript; include a brief introductory paragraph/synopsis that describes the subject matter of your transcript (and video) and be sure to publish your transcript.

2) Make sure to include the keyword that you are targeting visitors for. Most often users will use the word “video” in conjunction with their search if searching for videos via the search engines. Therefore, it is important to use the word “video in your title, description, meta tags, and any other on-page text that you include with your video.

3) Just as with normal techniques for SEO, it is just as important that you develop links to your video for off-page search engine optimization. Try to get as many quality links to your video as possible. Perhaps submit to social bookmarking sites and friend’s blogs.

4) Video sitemaps are a great way for you to tell the search engines where all of your video content resides. With video sitemaps, you make it much easier for search engines to discover and index your online video in a rapid manner.

5) If you are hosting the video on your own site, it is advisable to do your best to utilize a player that is not flash as search engines have difficulty understanding flash content. That being said, it will be difficult to empower video on your site without a simple flash player. If you can not get around it, do your best to take advantage of the other SEO techniques since search engines cant understand the flash technology.

6) Keep a keyword friendly URL structure that uses a few of your main keywords in the url string. For example - website.com/videos/car-racing-video/ is much better than website.com/videos/?videoID=123kjh

7) Various video search engines use to capture thumbnails of your in different manner. Some of them take the first frame of your video, while others try to take from the middle or end. It is better to experiment with each site individually to make sure they are displaying the right thumbnail for your video. A video thumbnail is always crucial when it comes to decide for a viewer which video to watch.
8) Try to keep one video per page and put all video pages into the same directory or folder.

Beside the above mentioned points there are few more points relevant for the optimization:

9) Always make sure viewers are searching for your targeted keywords regularly. If not, try to find the closest related keywords being searched.

10) Allow users to submit comments and feedback on your videos. Studies show that viewers who offer feedback are those most likely to convert and take the desired action that you are trying to solicit, whether it be an email, website visit, or purchase.

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Video Search Engine Marketing Tips and Techniques

Friday, December 26th, 2008

If you perform a simple search on video search or video SEO, you will be bombarded with numerous articles that try to explain this technique. Video search optimization, or Video SEO (VSEO) is a new bug that has bitten the world recently. Though it’s a new technique, still many companies have started using it aggressively to earn high ranking and more business.

In order to successfully optimize your videos for search engines, it is important that you have some knowledge regarding the various aspects of search as well as the difference in techniques with regard to video.

As with Search Engine Optimization for webpages and text content, keyword research is an important first step. Prior to optimizing your videos, you will want to obtain a keyword target list. There are however, some difference with regard to how users search for videos vs. website and webpages. Namely, most users include the word “video” when doing a search. Make sure that your keyword list contains several variations with the word video, Examples - car videos, car video, racing video, automotive videos, etc….

So, after you have completed your keyword research, I would also suggest that you take an inventory of the various video search websites. In other words, take note of which sites have the highest traffic, which channels and categories are the most popular, etc… You will likely want to submit your video to as many sites as you can but it will certainly be important to get your video on the more popular search engines as well.

As a side note, pay attention to the audience that is already searching for the terms that you identified in your keyword research. Are there closely related terms that you did not include? Take a look at videos that are similar in terms of the keywords that you are targeting and view the comments and feedback from users to find related terms.

Make sure that when you add your video to the video search sites that you allow users to comment on your videos. Videos that enable users to comment tend to get much more traffic. In addition, those users that do comment and provide feedback are more often the users that will result in a conversion.

If you can do this, it is always better to pick a video theme that is not saturated in terms of competition out there. As an example, a video about Tom Cruise will likely be very hard to optimize for as there are thousands of results for that search.

Nobody is interested in watching long and boring videos. Shoot or create short clips from your longer version of the video. This will make your video more interesting and crispier. People usually like to watch short clips online ranging from 1-3 minutes, as they are short and takes less time to download.

Finally, make sure that you take advantage of the fact that you can brand your video with a watermark logo, text for your URL, and additional information to get users back to your website or business. One of the main points for doing video SEO is to get users back to your destination.

So if you wish to succeed in search engine optimization’s mad frenzy race, video search engine optimization is an incredible new way to get exposure, and you have the opportunity right now, to get in the ground floor.

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Online Business: Making Money At Home

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

These days, it seems like everyone is trying to find the right high potential home based job. A home based business opportunity could be a potent second income stream, or an opportunity that could change your future. We will show you a few of the opportunities that could be your new career.

Some of the more outstanding work from home opportunities that you can find are internet based businesses. An online based business has an abundance of advantages when stacked up against different kinds of home based business opportunities. With a web based venture, you will get lots of advantages that you won’t find from other fields.

I think the most beneficial thing about a correctly established online company is that it can work for you 24-7. That one aspect, by itself, leads to making an internet based venture a great place to look for a home based opportunity. Just imagine how good it will feel having a business opportunity that provides income during the time you’re away from the computer.

We will mention a number of classic methods that an entrepreneur can pick from to be successful with an online business. We will split the list of opportunities into two separate lists. The lists are one, working for someone, and second, working for your self.

The initial list will have any type of job that you are hired, and get paid by, a company. We have found there are many kinds of online based, stay at home, employment possibilities you can be hired to do. This list most certainly will be comprised of, bookkeeping, telemarketing, and consulting.

There isn’t much required to get work doing nearly any of these work at home jobs Of course, you must be qualified, or prepared to learn, to perform the work required. You most definitely will be in need of some type of phone service for pretty much any of these various internet jobs.

The next piece of equipment that you need is your own computer. If you do good work, many of these employers love having a work from home arrangement. The company is helped not just from your effort, and your equipment, but also saves area in their office.

The second category shows the opportunities that should be for anyone who would desire to work for themselves. The types of businesses that are out there are composed of, consulting work auction sales, and writing. This list is only the tip of the iceberg of the infinite opportunities that can be created.

Choosing any of these businesses, you will find that you are working for yourself. You will make how much effort you put into this, and you will be doing everything yourself in your new business. The chance to make a lot of money is there, but so are the responsibilities, in operating your online company.

In most cases, it is very beneficial to begin your new venture as a supplemental income stream. This usually will reduce the stress during the time you start up this new business challenge. In the future, if you are successful, you will choose whether you will switch over to your new business full time.

Home based business opportunities seem to have become the direction things are going. Run an investigation, and determine all the potential choices that are out there. If you find your niche, you might get lucky, and retire young and wealthy.

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3 Way Links. Does It Work?

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

I thought when I first saw this SEO linking system known as 3WayLinks by the web guru Jon Leger… I doubted the whole thing it seems to be the real deal.

It seems like one of those “too good to be true” deals that I generally stay away from. But I had a friend that joined and was giving it rave reviews, so I decided to take a closer look at this “miracle solution” to linking.

Looking at it now after being on the service for almost a year now, I would say it is not “miracle service” for it cannot grab the #1 spot in a highly competitive niche market, like “insurance” but I know for a fact it has helped me to grab the top rankings in some smaller niche keyword phrases.

It has helped me get to the top of the engines for several “long tail” keyword phrases that requires less link popularity to rank for. It will take a few weeks but it is definitely worth the wait.

The way the links grow is slow, and as your network of links grow, your PR grows.

At first, I tried this on sites that I did not care much about and saw good results the rankings began to climb.

The 3waylinks.net system allows webmasters to add up to 50 domains in their link network in exchange for thier monthly fee. In the beginning I only added 3 of my own websites. I decided to do some otehr things and then months went by and noticed a doubling in traffic to those site. I am now convinced it is worth it. To this day, I am still a member.

On one of my sites on the network, I was able to acheive a top 3 ranking for a highly competitive term (which I will not reveal here..but be assured, I was extremely pleased…

A few tips I will leave with you about 3 way networks:

1. DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT - If you want to test it, test it on sites that are marginally important so that you can find out for yourself if it is good.

2. CONTINUE TO LINK TRADE IN OTHER PLACES - It is definitely dangerous to leave all your linking in only one place. IF you will build a strong network of links all over the net, it will be much better. This will disguise any possible footprint…even though I have not found this to be a problem any way.

3. IT DON’T HELP PR - It didn’t help my sites with PR anyway. I find PR to be not such a huge factor in rankings anyway. While I dod keep an aye on it some, I don’t base my SEo solely around the concept like some SEO “experts”.

4. YOU NEED SOME WEBMASTER SKILLS - The install of the code could make a web newbie cringe, but it is not difficult. IF you need help, email me.

5. CHOOSE THE RIGHT KEYWORDS - I usually pick highly related keywords that are not going against huge competition in terms of sites optimizing for it AND also produces a good bit of traffic according to Google’s Adword Keyword Tool.

If you are looking to get more traffic, build rankings, and have an extra way to dominate Google, I highly recommend 3waylinks.net

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Cash Gifting (Mentor Sam) Articles,Forums,Programs (252) 626 9777

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

No Smoke and mirrors ..Let’s Get right to it!

Now before you look at the various cash gifting programs, let me tell you about the concept of cash gifting in the Abundant Living System. And why I have chosen to participate in a cash gifting activity and believe you should take an honest look at it.

The # 1 benefit to cash gifting is no boss telling you what to do and when because there is no company behind it. I’ve attempted a few programs in the “home business” industry that were not using cash gifting and they always had some owners who’s rules you had to abide by. You can really help someone else with real cash gifting with no one in the middle to take cash away. There’s no single person in control deciding how everybody gets paid, as happens in many other programs encumbered by having to market products and services that actually have no value at all.

Cash Gifting as a concept becomes very appealing over the years in the form of gifts. In real Cash Gifting Programs, there are no companies. It is simply normal people, informing others about the right we all have to share and gift property, assets, cash etc. to others if we so choose. A gift given freely with no expectations of receiving anything in return is a real gift from the heart of gifters.

Also there is no merchandise available for promotion. Cash Gifting generates simple cash. I originally thought there had to be a company behind it so I tried to research it. But after researching, I found that Cash Gifting isn’t a business, and is not portrayed as such. Actually, this is one of the greatest challenges that I see online. Many people think that this is another Multi Level Marketing program and try to analyze and compare it to MLM programs

So you need to be sure you’re learning Cash Gifting from people that actually know what it is and more importantly, from people that also know what it is not. That way you can truly benefit from the many positive attributes of properly structured, private cash gifting activities. The great news is that you can start with as little as $500. That allows you to start receiving while you learn about the process.

That is an extremely low amount in comparison to the potential amounts that can come to you. Compare it to many other traditional product selling programs that often require at least a thousand to start plus a significant minimum monthly investment. Of course, for people who are interested in really succeeding in cash gifting right away, there is the option of giving and receiving MUCH HIGHER amounts of cash gifts. So you have levels available to fill many people’s interests.

In the home based opportunity industry 60% of money has been generated due to cash gifting programs. The Abundant Living System with it unique Residual Cash Flow for life structures is a truly powerful cash generating vehicle and people continue to join at increasing rates. I am so very excited about being a part of cash gifting activities where anyone who really wants to change his or her life can get an invitation for just $500.

Finally by setting you inside a structure like The Abundant Living System, that is both open and easy to use, you just extend an invitation to help other people. Do you see the incredible power cash gifting will have on your life?

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Get Targeted Free Traffic with Squidoo Marketing

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for creating an easy to build single page about things you are interested in. Blogs, books, online shops, your business or whatever.

This single page is called a Lens. Lenses are interactive, and can contain Google maps, photos, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, and other links.

A great way to get found more on the web. Squidoo is in the top 500 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 250 most viewed in the United States.

Squidoo is a free way to earn money for your charity. Squidoo has already donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charity.

Squidoo has more than 700,000 pages, or Lens, and has been reviewed by the New York Times, Mashable, BoingBoing and sites and papers around the world. Since its debut, Squidoo has been profiled in The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and The Washington Post.

Squidoo is simple, easy and free. A lens can be treated much like a blog, except it is on a single subject, and can contain links to other external sites. Click here to visit my Lens

Users creating lenses are called lensmasters and can be anyone who wants to present information on a topic they care about. Squidoo is a great way to get targeted free traffic . Pages can achieve built-in popularity due to their association with thousands of other pages. Click here to visit my Squidoo Lens

Word of mouth at your fingertips. Squidoo is something you should have if you care about getting the word out about your business or charity.

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Picking A Link Building Service: A Guide

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Search engine marketing is a very important part of website promotion, and within that field, link building is a very important aspect. This is done through a number of mediums including article submission, social bookmarking, directory submission, blog building and so much more.

You’ll find that to save time, hiring link building services is definitely a great idea. However, there are many different business that provide these services. So, how can you choose the best service for your needs?

The following are some useful tips to consider when making your choice.

Tip #1 - Make Sure they Provide Linking Diversity

The first thing to look for when trying to find a top quality link building service is whether or not they provide linking diversity. You don’t want a service that only specializes in one type of link building, such as blog posts. If you’re going to pay for the service, look for companies that will provide a variety of different methods of building up quality links for the best results.

Tip #2 - Is The Service Well Updated

Your next question for the prospective link building service should be on how update they are with current methods. Ask what methods they use, what publications they read, how they know the methods are working etc

Tip #3 - Link Building Should Be Done Morally

Some link building services out there provide a less that moral service, and will happily spam other sites and directories. Technically you may get a large number of inbound links, but it wont do much for your site and will just be a waste of time and money.

Tip #4 - Find Someone with a Great Reputation

A good place to find out about link building services is to ask around on forums. Find out what services others have used, what they paid for them, what results they got, were they happy, are they still using them etc. This will give a very quick idea on the quality of a service.

Tip #5 - Get Testimonials

Take the time to get references from the company you are considering. Find out who they have worked for previously so you can get some references. Talk to the company about references and more than likely a good company will be able to supply them. Although they can’t provide information about their clients, they can provide references.

Tip #6 - Check Out Who Links To Them

Find out who is linking to the link service themselves. If they are really good in the industry, then they should have looked after themselves well. If you can’t find reasonable numbers of incoming links then they may not be as good as they pretend.

Tip #7 - How Much Is A Link Worth?

Comparing pricing of different link building services is extremely important. Various companies charge different rates, and there are many different pricing plans hat are available. You’ll want to find out the alternatives that you have when it comes to pricing and then figure out which options are going to be right for you. However, don’t just take the word of one company on prices. Do your homework and compare the prices of several companies to see which company can offer the best link building service for your money.

Locating a top link building service that you can work with is not easy, and is certainly worth doing thorough homework on as it involves your future prosperity. I hope these guides will aid you in this and make the whole process a little easier.

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