502 Twitter Widget Tools, Buttons, and Icons for Engaging your Followers

Twitter is continuing to grow at a most overwhelming rate. As more and more people use twitter...be sure to utilize these twitter resources on your blog or website as a tool to to expand and connect with your twitter community.
Widgets and buttons are a great way to grab your readers attention and hence increase your twitter community. Below you will find links to different sites where you can attain the source code for these widgets and icons. Please enjoy thoroughly!

Twitter Widgets

ReTweet Button
A powerful twitter widget which allows your readers to easily share your blog posts. The button also displays a live count of the amount of times the post has been tweeted! ReTweet allows you to choose from two different sizes of buttons.

TweetMeMe Button
This twitter widget is very similar to the ReTweet Button but is stylized with a green interface.

BackType TweetCount Widget
The widget also counts the number times a certain URL has been tweeted. The great thing about this counter is that you can fully customize it. Choose the background color, border color, text color, etc.

Twittley
Yet another twitter button which displays the number count of tweets in real-time.

TwitterCounter
This widget shows off how many people are following you on twitter. Surely, you'll be able to impress a few tweeters.

TwitterRemote
This widget shows which twitter users recently visited your blog or website.


TwitStamp
This badge displays your latest tweet with many different styles to choose from.


Chris' Original Twitter Badge
Chris has created a snazzy looking twitter badge which loads in no time.


TwitGif
Create a twitter badge for your blog which scrolls through your most recent tweets.

Twitt-Twoo
A WordPress Plugin which displays your twitter status.


Twitter Tag
Here is an automatic updating twitter image for your website or blog.


TwitSig Badge
This twitter image updates with your latest tweet by creating a new image every time you update your status. With this in mind, the twitter badge shouldn't take too much time to load on your blog.


Official Twitter Profile Widget
This widget loops through your tweets and has a full range of customization options. The twitter widget allows you to choose the color scheme, dimensions, and whether or not to loop through your old tweets as well.

Add Twitter to MySpace
The MySpace Flash Widget integrates Twitter into your MySpace profile page. This is a great twitter widget for myspace!


Twitter Gadget for Blogger
Simply display your recent updates on twitter as a list with this gadget. Also featuring a "Follow me On Twitter" link at the bottom of the widget.


Go2Web20 Badge
A simple image which floats on the side of your blog and directs readers to your twitter page when clicked on. Choose whether or not to display "Follow Us", "Follow Me", "Follow", or "My Twitter" in the image. Most people choose the Follow Me on twitter widget instead of the follow us on twitter button because it sounds more personal. You may also customize whether or not to display the twitter widget on the left or right side of your webpage.


TweetSnap
TweetSnap creates an image for your twitter account which will always display your latest tweet.


TwitterSticker
Another website which creates an image of your latest tweet. TweetSticker allows you to customize the font color, font size, text padding, and text wrap.


Twitterati Badge
A unique twitter widget which displays your twitter friends. Click on one of your friends and you'll be directed to their actual website.

Twitter Buttons and Icons

225 Buttons from TwitButtons.com
TwitButtons allows you to easily copy and paste their button code into your site.


80 Buttons from TwitterButtons.com
Make sure to click "More Twitter Buttons" at the bottom of their site to see the full collection. This follow us on twitter widget is my favorite!


Cute Twitter Bird by The Design SuperHero
3 Variations of the Twitter Bird with 5 different Resolutions.


Twitter Bird by WeFunction
3 more adorable variations of the twitter bird.


The Social Bird Icon Set
20 Wonderfully original twitter icons by popular artists for your inspiration. These icons have been released by InspiredMagazaine.


TweetBird Icon
1 icon which comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixel sizes.


TweetaBird Icon Set
2 more cute icons by LittleBoxOfIdeas. Featuring a twitter bird cheerleaders and a queen twitter bird.


Twitter Icon Promo Pack
53 Twitter Icons by WebTreats for you to grab and use on your site.


German Twitter Buttons by MTS
10 more twitter buttons for you to enjoy!


Twitter Graphics by Graphic Leftovers
16 twitter graphics in different shapes and forms; such as eggs,lightbulbs,bottle caps, and more.


Twitter Birds by Inaliblast
8 flying twitter bird icons.


Twitter Bird Icon Set by ProductiveDreams
6 High Quality transparent PNG twitter birds.


Free Tweet Tweet Vector Icon Set
1 Twitter bird with 4 differnet poses, created by ProductiveDreams as well.


Randa Clay Twitter Graphics
18 twitter buttons for gaining new followers.


Happy Birds by WebDesignFM
4 Happy go lucky twitter birds that will encourage both your faithful followers and potential followers.


Twitter Buttons by Blog Marketing Web
31 attractive buttons to enhance the twitter experience.

How To Recover From Google Penguin Update Penalty

Like the previous updates from Google, such as the Panda, the latest Penguin update has left much destruction in its wake. And since there's been just a few days since this update was released, people are all eyes and ears on this topic. Indeed, these algorithm updates from Google have become sort of like tsunamis for webmasters, which leave the ones close to the edge, devastated. Google Penguin was no exception. Although it wasn't the same magnitude as the Panda, it still caused widespread damage, and effected around 3% of websites.

It is worth mentioning that this time, the update benefited more people than before. But that may be because bloggers were expecting something worse than Panda, so the Penguin came as no surprise. For such people who benefited from the update, well and good. Congratulations :). For the rest, however, you need to work hard from now and learn something from history. Earlier, I shared tips on how to recover from the Panda update. Well now, it's time to talk about some recovery Tips from the latest Google Penguin update.

Top 10 SEO Strategies To Protect your blog Against Google Panda Update

With the recent release of the Google Penguin, the talk is all about Google's algorithm updates and how they effect websites. Yesterday, I wrote about what these updates are all about. And as promised, I am here to share some tips for recovering from the Google Panda update. Google Panda was the first radical change in the search model since many years.
And basically, it was aimed at getting rid of low quality websites and bringing higher quality websites in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Many bloggers saw a drop in their traffic, drastic in some cases, while some also benefited from this update. The impact was negative by far, and this update effected 12% of the total websites when it was first released.

With this update, we can say that Google raised the quality bar for many bloggers. Now, much more was expected from them. Good quality and basic level SEO became mandatory for keeping up in accordance to the wishes of Google.
This update had by far the widest, most negative impact on websites ever, and to this day, some blogs have not fully recovered from the gaping hole in their traffic that was bitten off by the vicious Panda. So here, I am going to talk about some SEO tips that will help you counter the traffic loss from Panda, and prevent any future updates from harming your website.

Google PageRank Update May 2012

Google's latest PageRank Update May 3rd 2012, which has just been rolled out, has given bloggers all over the internet something to say and think about. For some, it came as a pleasant surprise, as their PR increased, while others were shocked to see their PR drop as a result of this update. Indeed, we weren't expecting an update until June, but PR is updated every 3-4 months, so it didn't totally come put of the blue. It was just a minor update, as Google has already been implementing changes in the last few months. Amid high anticipation among bloggers, this update benefited more blogs than it harmed.

After this update, PR for MBT remains the same. But there is good news! The PR for our sister blog Smart Earning Methods jumped directly to 2 from 0! So as a treat for our readership at SEM, we have opened up guest posting on SEM, and we have already received some guest posts! You can submit one too now!

What is Google PageRank and How does it work?

For most savvy bloggers, this is nothing new, as they have spent time in the past worrying about the next PR update. But for new people,bloggers, or for those that don't know, Google PageRank is a rating of your webpages on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the best rating. Google rates itself at PR 9. It is updated every 3-4 months. The last update was in February 2012, while the one before that came in November 2011. So There's been a three month gap for two or more times in a row. Hence, the next update is expected in the first week of August, although Google never releases a fixed date for this update.

As to what Google PR actually is, it basically is Google's way of ranking pages and giving higher priority to better quality pages. A few years ago, spam blogging was on the rise. Spammers used automated bots to comment on other blogs, with links to their own blogs. This increased their inbound links and hence gave them better priority than quality websites. As a result, Google introduced updates and this ranking system so that quality websites are given higher priority.

The Google PageRank takes into account many factors,some of which are backlinks, content quality, content quantity, SEO, and more. Watch the video below which explains how PR works and how it is updated.

How to check PR?

If you haven't checked your PR already, then what are you waiting for?? Get on with it! Go to the PR Checker Tool, and write your blog URL there. You will need to fill in an anti-bot captcha before you can find out your PR.

How to improve your PR?

Build backlinks - PR is mostly based on the number of incoming links to your blog, and the quality of those links. There are various methods for increasing backlinks, such as Guest Posting, article marketing, forum participation, etc. Always try to build genuine backlinks, and never purchase backlinks, because these are low quality links, and they do more harm than good.

SEO - Search Engine Optimization is very important as well. You want to make it easy for Google to find and index your blog. For more information about SEO, check out our 20 Hot Seo Tactics every blogger should know.

Has your PR dropped

If you are on the wrong side of this update, and if your PR has dropped, chances are that you are doing something wrong. Handing out many backlinks to other blogs when you yourself have a few incoming links can be a major reason. Not to worry though. This isn't the end of the world! You have the next three months ahead of you to make the most use of. Read our post on 3 Reasons Why Your PR is Not Increasing to learn on the job better.

If you have been successful in getting a higher PR, then congratulations are in order :). If not, then now's your chance to work harder and improve your rank. For those who haven't checked their PR yet, I sincerely hope your PR has improved.

Add Count Down Redirect Script to Blogger

How To Add Count Down Redirect Script to Blogger

1.Login to your blogger dashboard and go to Desing --& Page Elements.

2.Click on 'Add a Gadget' on the sidebar.

3.Select 'HTML/Javascript' and add the one of code given below and click save.

<form name="redirect">
<center>
<font face="Arial"><b>You will be redirected to the script in<br><br>
<form>
<input type="text" size="3" name="redirect2">
</form>
seconds</b></font>
</center>

<script>

var targetURL="http://www.backlinkworldyou.blogspot.com/"
var countdownfrom=10

var currentsecond=document.redirect.redirect2.value=countdownfrom+1
function countredirect(){
if (currentsecond!=1){
currentsecond-=1
document.redirect.redirect2.value=currentsecond
}
else{
window.location=targetURL
return
}
setTimeout("countredirect()",1000)
}

countredirect()
//-->
</script>

Note: Replace var targetURL and var countdownfrom with your contents.

Now You are done.

Top 10 SEO Tips and Tricks For Your Website

If you are looking to start a new website, blog or optimize your website, you need to understand SEO to be successful.
Knowing what goes into a successful SEO implementation and ways to build up your site, will turn your site into a major online destination and help you rank faster in search engines.
But what are a few of the ways you can make your site a profitable one?

In this article I will show you 10 SEO tips and tricks that will help you get more benefits from doing SEO and help you build a more profitable site.

1. Social Media

The single biggest thing you can do for your site and boost SEO is to have a social media presence.
Sites like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook and now Google+ are going to be good avenues to expose your site and get people to notice your brand.
Social networks are also the golden goose for brand reputation management these days and for connecting with new audience.
Moreover, search engines like Google started to pay attention to social media and use data from social networks as rank signals.

2. Connect Your Accounts

If you have a Twitter account, a Facebook page and a Flickr account, you should connect all those accounts together.
This strategy can help with building up links improve your SEO and it gives your audience more ways to find you and your content.
For example, a Twitter follower could find your link on Twitter and follow it to Facebook.
Connecting accounts just gives you a wider reach and consolidates all the real followers into a small but profitable group, it also makes outreach much easier.

3. Analytics and Tracking

You need to understand where your clicks are coming from, who is referring them, what search queries drive the most traffic and which have potential to do so as well as how many ads are being clicked on.
Knowing where your traffic is coming from and how your audience behaves, will help you shape your site into something that more people will want to visit.
So having a website without checking your Webmaster Tools Account or Google Analytics installed is a big no-no.

4. Keyword Research

One of the most important things you can do to improve SEO is to research your keywords extensively.
You can use keyword tools like Advanced Web Ranking, Scribe SEO or Google Keyword AdWords Tool to determine which words and phrases will be most effective.
Finding a niche in the keyword world can create a unique place for your site that will have less competition.
Simply relying on keywords tools will unfortunately do you no good in most cases as you will be stuck with broad keyword matches, when we say thorough research we mean going deep and getting all the variations and long tails you can get your hands on.

5. Easy Sharing

Allow your users to instantly Tweet a link from your page, or like your content on Facebook.
This will help to create the backlinks and link juice that you need to increase your following and increase your keyword rankings, not in the direct way, but getting your content in front of thousands of eyes can get you there.
Also allow your readers to instantly follow you on social media sites with a simple click of the mouse. Doing so will let your readers to make a deeper connection with you and your content.

6. Internal Linking

Internal linking of your webpages can be an amazing factor from an SEO standpoint.
It can ensure that your pages will get spidered by Google and other search engines. It can also help to increase the keyword rankings of a given page within your site.
Good internal linking can also help with increasing the relevance of certain keywords that you want emphasized on your site.

7. Relevant Content

If you are going to guarantee that you get good traffic, you should make good content.
Quality content is content that is engaging and relevant to your audience.
Anything that sounds like it was designed for robots to find will result in your page not keeping your customers for very long, in other words it will increase your bounce rate and lower your quality score.

8. Navigation

Have a table of contents at the top of your site where a reader can simply click a link and navigate to the content that is most appealing to that reader.
Provide clear anchor text and think about adding a site map as well to enhance ease of navigation. Although this is way too basic I had to mention it, even though most web designers know onsite SEO, some tend to sacrifice usability for appeal, which can be a costly gamble.

9. Guest Posting and Networking

Contributing to other sites can be a good way to build links and get your name out there.
The more quality backlinks you can garner for your site, the better off you will be.
Make sure that you are contributing to sites that have a lot of readers so you don’t spend time on a fruitless endeavor.
Also do comments, not in a sense where you will get comments as backlinks, but to engage with other readers and bloggers and get yourself known in the community, which is the fastest way for newcomers to get some traction and traffic.

10. Pay Attention to Usability

Including site search and 404 error templates on your page can make it easier for your user to navigate.
A 404 occurs when a page cannot be found, but a customized 404 can allow your user to type what they are searching for manually and continue searching or even better, give them a fully customized 404 page with navigation and suggestions. It keeps the reader on your site.
When it comes down to it, we all need a site that contains quality content that can get a lot of links back to our pages.
Focusing on relevant keywords and using those keywords throughout the site as well as interacting with users is the only way to do business successfully.
Tracking our stats and analytics, connecting and making sure users are happy is the way to go, not just through backlinks, SEO starts from your website and then expands, remember that.

Backlinks, What are Backlinks?

Any successful off-page SEO campaign begins with building relevant, high authority backlinks to your website. Once built, the backlinks will provide you with two main benefits: relevant traffic and higher ranking in search engines. The more backlinks your website will have, the more frequently it will be visited by search engines robots, which means that new content will be indexed much faster.

What are Backlinks?

 

Links from one website to another started to appear much earlier than the search engines were invented. Before the Google era, if you saw a website you liked and wanted to remember the address you had no reliable place to put it in, except your own website. Things like SEO, page-rank or number of inbound and outbound links didn’t really bother you back then, because these concepts simply didn’t exist. Back then, if a website had many links pointing to it, it meant that the website was actually good.
The search engines used the situation to help people find the most popular websites fast. Google was the first to do that, the other search engines followed. However, the search engines made the whole thing a bit more complicated by introducing two completely new concepts: popularity and relevance.
Popularity in Google is measured by page rank, a value scaled from 0 to 10 that represents the total number and the quality of links pointing to a website. Google updates a website page rank every time it finds a new backlink. However, the information becomes public approximately every three months. It confuses many webmasters who see no immediate improvement to their site page rank even after they create a huge number of quality backlinks to their website.
Relevancy is defined per keyword and doesn’t have any publicly available indicators. Unlike popularity, it is a measure derived from natural language processing methods that indicates how much the anchor text and the surrounding content of the backlink relates to your web page. For example, if the content of a web page is related to “SEO Basics” and has an outbound link to another web page dealing with the “Backlinks Strategy”, then the relevancy of the link will be high since the terms: “SEO Basics” and “Backlinks’ Strategy” are strongly related to the more general field (SEO).
Popularity and relevancy are measured per page (not per website). Theoretically, if only one of the pages on your website has a lot of highly relevant backlinks, it will be ranked high in the search engines, while the rest of the pages will be ranked low. In reality, the whole website will be ranked high, because very often, each page will have a plenty of internal backlinks to the main page and vice versa.

What is Page Rank?

As mentioned previously, Google’s page rank (PR) was invented in order to measure the popularity of the various Internet pages. It is a value scaled from 0 to 10 that represents the number and the quality of all the inbound links penalized by the number of the outbound links from the page.
In other words, if you have a PR10 backlink pointing to your website but your page has outbound links pointing to other websites, the influence of the PR10 backlink will be distributed between your website and the others.
Defining the popularity of web pages via page rank has a drawback. New pages, which have not enough backlinks, have a small chance to be found by the users even if they offer a great content. When Google engineers realized that, they killed the page rank. Don’t get me wrong, page rank still exists as a measure, but it has no influence on the search results whatsoever.
Google’s new method examines a combination of factors such as community popularity and users’ loyalty. When a webpage is frequently mentioned within web communities like social networks or forums, its popularity rank will increase.
Additionally, in order to test the popularity of a new page, Google will try to push it upwards in the search results, to see how the users react. If the users like the content and stay a long time on the website (low bounce rate) it will get a higher popularity rank than high PR websites for the same keyword.
Quoting Google: “Content Is King”. Old backlinking techniques are no longer as effective as they used to be. And nowadays, it is much more important to concentrate on content and social communities than on the page rank.
But if you think that having a great content and being popular in social communities is enough to land your website on the first page of the search results, think again. True you don’t have to bother about the page rank anymore, but relevancy is still a factor. And relevancy means backlinks, many relevant backlinks.

Types of Backlinks

There are three types of links that should concern you: inbound links, outbound links and internal links.
Internal links are the ones connecting between the pages of your website. These links are crucial to increase the relevancy of your pages. Building internal links is an art by itself, and it will be discussed in more detail on the on-page SEO section.
Inbound links are the ones pointing to your website from other websites. As mentioned above, certain (relevant) inbound links will determine the relevancy and the popularity of your website, which in turn, will affect the ranking of your website in search engines. When building inbound links, find web pages with content that is relevant and use your niche keywords in the anchor text of the link.
Outbound links are the ones pointing from your website to other websites. Nobody actually knows how these work, except Google Almighty of course. Some believe that outbound links are bad for SEO – these are the old school guys. Others, believe in some mythological ‘trust rank’ that was invented by Google. They claim that outbound links to quality websites increase the trust rank of a page. However, not one of them can explain how that affects the search results. The rest believe that relevant outbound links to quality resources (such as the Wikipedia) increase the relevancy of the page.
Rumors aside, if the site has no outbound links it looks strange not only to the search engines but to the visitors as well. The users expect to find references to trusted resources when visiting your site. Therefore, it is important to have a mix of inbound and outbound links, which point to high quality Internet resources. Needless to say, your outbound links must point to existing websites; otherwise you might get penalized by Google.
To sum it up – outbound links should point to high quality websites only, never agree to place reciprocal links to low quality web pages, and don’t put more than three outbound links per page. Additionally, track the outbound links and remove any broken ones if you see them.

How to Get Backlinks?

The goal of every SEO campaign is to accumulate as many inbound links as possible. Those links must come from popular and relevant websites; otherwise they are as good as useless. The inbound links can be classified as follows:

Reciprocal Links

This is one of the oldest methods to get backlinks, soon to become totally ineffective. The method is really simple – find authority websites in your niche and ask them for a link exchange. There are a number of problems with that method:

• If your page rank is lower than that of those websites, they won’t accept your invitation. If however, your page rank is higher than theirs, you’re not likely to benefit from the deal.
• Many website owners will respond months later, when it might no longer be relevant.
• Most of the websites will place all their partner links on a single page, which means that the influence of the links will be divided between all the websites appearing on that page.
• You have to track your reciprocal links regularly, as website owners tend to cancel the partnership without letting you know.
• Google can easily track reciprocal backlinks and if the rumors are true, completely ignore them.

Given all the above, your SEO campaign won’t benefit much from reciprocal backlinks.

Paid Links

As you can guess, where there’s demand, there’s supply. The essence of paid links is simple – you pay someone to put your text-link or banner on his website. Along with the backlink you get an additional benefit – relevant traffic. The payment model can vary, and it’s up to you whether to choose CPV (Cost-per-View), CPC (Cost-per-Click), CPA (Cost-per-Action) or any other acceptable payment method.
Of course finding suitable websites for advertising might become nightmare, and this is where services like Google Adwords come into the picture. Their purpose is to provide a platform where you can choose a keyword, set a budget and the rest will be done automatically. Their main disadvantage is their high cost – popular keywords will cost you a fortune.

Links from Blogs

Many bloggers are in constant need for fresh content. One of the best ways to promote your website is to provide bloggers with free content related to your website. This content will be published in a form of an article with a link to your website. However, be sure to provide them with quality content since no one would want to publish boring, obvious, or poorly written articles.
Another way is to have your own network of blogs. There are a number of popular (and free!) blogging platforms, such as Blogger and WordPress, where you can post articles relevant to your niche with links to your website. Note that the blogs’ content has to be highly relevant to the content on your website and it must be unique. I.e. you can’t just ‘borrow’ content from other websites and post it as your own, because Google will quickly detect that and penalize your backlinks.

Web Directories

Web directories are highly underestimated; some will even claim that web directory submission is dead. The truth is – backlinks from web directories still count, and it is a very powerful backlinking method.
However, if in the past it was enough to submit your website to one big directory (such as DMOZ), today it will no longer suffice. Today, to feel the impact of directory submission you’ll need to submit your website to thousands of web directories – an easy task provided you have the proper tools.

Article Directories

Article submission is one of the most effective ways to get large number of highly relevant links to your website. There are nearly thousands of article directories on the web that will accept your content (backlink included) without asking anything in return.
Article directories are built on the principle of mutual benefit – you give them content, they provide you with a backlink to your website from the content itself. I.e. if you submit content relevant to you niche, the backlink will be considered relevant as well. Moreover, you enjoy the traffic of their readers and backlinks from countless websites that steal and repost your content as their own.
The only problem with article submission is unique content; you can’t just submit the same article over and over again to thousands of directories. Google will quickly detect that all your backlinks come from the same content and diminish their influence. This is where article submission software comes to your rescue; it will spin the article (replace words with their synonyms) and submit a slightly different version of your article to each directory.

Press Releases

Press release websites work in a similar way to article directories, but they have a different purpose. They accept a news release (together with the backlink) literally from anyone and distribute it to major news aggregation websites such as Google News.
From there the content is getting spread across the web either by reporters who the find the press release to be interesting, or websites that repost stolen content.
The content you submit to press release websites should be a little different from content submitted to article directories – it must look like a news item. And if you submit to multiple press release websites, spinning must be used here as well.

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7 Great Tips on Driving Targeted Traffic to Your Website

We all need traffic. It's the life-blood of an online business. But what are the best ways to drive targeted traffic directly to your website? Here are 7 great tips to help you decide.

1. Offline advertising = Online profits

Whatever you're trying to sell online will most likely link to a relevant or appropriate media section offline. For example, if you're selling bicycles from your website, there will undoubtedly be a suitable offline magazine, in which you can place an ad. The purpose of the ad is not to sell your products, but to get prospects to visit your website. So your ad need only consist of a few lines, which should work out to be quite inexpensive.
Your bicycle ad could read like this: Looking for a new bicycle? We stock a huge range at discount prices and can deliver within 48 hours. To learn more visit our website. www. bicycles4u.com - Your ad could be placed in cycle mags, sports magazines or even national and local newspapers. Wherever you think your most likely prospects will look for your products or services offline is a means to getting them to go online.

2. Press releases for the inquiring minds

Some people just have to know what's new, what's in and what's out. To stay ahead in this information age, online and offline press releases can offer newsworthy titbits that could even be picked up by the national press. If you're just starting out in your online business, launching a new product or creating a new service, people will want to know about it.
If this is something you haven't done before, take a look at some existing press releases by going to Google and typing 'press releases' into the search field. Once you get the idea, write out your press release, including your contact details and website URL, then go back to Google and type in 'press agencies'. Most will charge you for this service but your press release could get maximum coverage on and off the internet.

3. Opt-in mailing lists

Opt-in mailing lists can provide one of the most effective means of generating repeat business from your existing customer base. If your customers have bought from you once and that buying experience was satisfactory, there's a very good chance they will buy from you again because they trust you. Capture emails by encouraging your customers to sign up for your newsletter or other promotional information. Alternatively, you could rent an opt-in email list. A carefully worded e-mail message to people who have expressed an interest in receiving further information about your products or services could lead to extra sales, but be prepared to pay a princely sum.

4. Getting your message delivered direct to your customers

For as long as anyone can remember, direct mail has been one of the most effective and profitable forms of marketing ever. Many people have made millions from direct mail and it's still as successful today as it was 50 years ago. It's also relatively easy and inexpensive. First, create a single page introductory sales letter or brochure, detailing you products or services and all the benefits. For maximum effect, offer your new customers a discount or something for free, when they first purchase from your website.
Don't forget, you want them to visit your website, so give them more than a good reason to do so. Next, rent a targeted mailing list from a reputable list broker. There are lists available, which cover every conceivable geographic and demographic statistic, so whatever business you're in, there will be one that's suitable for you. Send out your 'invitations' and wait for your hit counter to melt.

5. Referral marketing

This is a simple strategy of referring your own customers to a related but non-competitive website in return for them doing the same for you. Let's say you are selling printers. Find some quality sites that sell printer inks and contact the webmaster. Ask them if they would be willing to send their traffic to you in return for you doing the same for them. Most will agree. Between you, you will have to decide whether to display an ad on each other's site or go for a written recommendation. Either way, it will increase the chances of you getting more traffic to your site because you have been recommended. You could seek out many related websites and have numerous streams of traffic coming directly to you.

6. Traffic merchants

Paying a company to send traffic to your website is an easy option, so long as the traffic is targeted. There are many companies who specialize in selling traffic. You could say they are traffic traffickers. They use all forms of online advertising to get people to visit your website and usually guarantee the numbers. At around $20 for 10,000 visitors, it certainly looks tempting.
Although there are many merchants to choose from, beware the scamsters operating in this market. Some will take your money and put your ad on a Free For All (FFA) website, leaving you to deal with hundreds or thousands of spam emails from everyone and their dog trying to sell you their products. A good place to start would be SafePartner.com. They offer a variety of packages and are very affordable. TrafficCircuit.com is another company offering this service but charge a little more. However, they offer tracking services, so you can see where the traffic comes from. If you're into stats, you may find this service very useful.

7. Affiliate programs

You just can't afford to ignore affiliate programs. Getting other people to sell your products for a commission is a tried and tested, successful and very rewarding exercise. It doesn't work very well if you're selling a service, but it's overwhelmingly awesome for shifting your product range. The best part is, once set up it works on automatic pilot. All you have to do then is monitor its success, because affiliates do all the work for you. They advertise your products and send the traffic to your website to buy them.
Another thing is you don't have to pay your affiliates until you've been paid. Plus you save on advertising costs, and the increased activity to your website helps your search engine ranking. There's an array of affiliate program tracking software available to track your sales and commission payouts or if you prefer, you can hire a company to look after all that side of the business for you.

Guidelines To A Successful Link Exchange Program For Driving More Traffic To Your Website

Webmasters look for ways to get a higher ranking with search engines and increasing traffic to their website everyday. One of the ways they accomplish this is through exchanging links with other websites. In order for a link exchange program to be beneficial, one needs to focus on building a solid exchange program correctly.


With some search engines, like Google for instance, can base your rankings by how many inbound links you have. So one would think...well this can be a simple task, I'll just work on exchanging links with any website who is willing to participate.
It's not as simple as just sending out an email to every Webmaster that's out there. The biggest mistake you can make is linking to sites that are not relevant to the theme of your website. Search engines frown upon sites that link to one another with no relevance. You can risk the chance of being penalized and banned from their search results. So obviously, this is not a good approach.
The best way to build a solid program is to exchange links with only targeted websites and whose customers would have an interest in your products or service. If you are just starting out, a good rule of thumb is to try and devote a few hours one to two days a week just focusing on link building. This will require effort on your part, but the time you spend will show results rather quickly.
You can start by performing a search using keywords that would pertain to your website. Take the time to view each of the sites of interest. As you visit each website, try to view as many pages as you can. As this may seem to be time consuming, never judge a website just from their home page. You want to be sure that their site is one that you would recommend to your viewers.
As your viewing these websites, another factor to consider is how their website is set up for a link exchange program.
Do they have a link to their main links page (resources, link partners, reciprocal links page, etc.) plainly visible on their home page? You don't want to exchange links with sites that hide or bury the link to their exchange partners.
Are they listing their link partners into appropriate categories on their main links page? As your link program builds, it's important to put your exchanges into appropriate categories. You will find that your exchange partners may fall into different categories, such as web design, home business opportunities, software, etc. Listing them in appropriate categories allows viewers quick access to the link of interest.
On each of the category pages, do they list more than 25 listings per page? It is best to keep each category page limited to 25 listings per page. If website has a links page where it requires a lot of scrolling, the changes that your link will be clicked on are slim. A solution to this is when each category begins to grow, list them in alphabetical order, than break the category into separate pages. As an example, lets say you were using web design as your category; you can use Web Design (A through M) than Web Design (N through Z) as your second category.
Does their website provide useful content, or do they have a lot of misleading information? If the website you are exchanging links with has a lot of misleading information, the viewer in most cases will not be on the site long enough to even see your link. Also keep in mind; the links you recommend plays a role on your business reputation.

How To Generate Targeted Web Traffic

If you want to be successful with your online business, you will need web traffic. However, you have to know that far not all traffic is equal and thus you will need to have the proper type of web traffic. And thus below there are some useful tips for you to achieve the needed traffic.


- Blogging
You have to know that blog is a great way to get web traffic and keep it coming. As well, it is a great way to attract search engines and people to your website. Keep in mind that interactive nature of blogging could help you attract a lot of targeted web traffic and proper marketing style could help you get subscribers that you could market to. In other words, blogging could be a powerful relationship marketing tool and thus you have to take advantage of it.
- Social media websites
If you need web traffic, then you have to know that social media websites could help you build a following that translates to web traffic and to internet business success. Via your social media profiles as well as via your postings with links to your website, you are able to bring in a steady trickle of web traffic that follows your call to action.
- Web traffic analyzing
In fact, if you are not looking at your web traffic reports you can be missing out a great opportunity. You have to determine how web traffic gets onto your website. You can use web traffic reports to figure out what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong as well as what could be done better so that web traffic continues to be more and more targeted.
- Professional search engine optimization help
You have to know that search engine optimization company is able to help you get more targeted web traffic. Professional search engine optimization consultant is able to help you determine how to attract your customer base as well as how to get your website ranking for the top local terms in your field.

Effectual Web Traffic Generation Techniques

And thus if you are clearly earning money on the internet as a freelancer, seller, web content writer, affiliate marketer or a blogger, your key task will actually include some specific traffic generation work. Without any doubt, more web traffic definitely means more buyers who are really checking out your business and such products and services which you are providing.


In fact, this surely increases the chances of them purchasing something from your site. And earning money on the internet through your web site is going to be more efficient if you certainly know how specifically to increase web traffic, Thus here are some effectual traffic generation techniques which you are able to utilize.

Firstly, it is necessary for you to increase web traffic through numerous social media sites. Of course, you must make usage of social media marketing and also promote your web site through numerous social networks. Well, you are able to increase your web traffic through print materials. However, you possibly should not underestimate print ads in business cards, magazines, posters and also newspapers. They really bring numerous individuals to your web site, particularly these ones who do not go online very often.

Besides, it is necessary for you to increase web traffic through your video clips. For sure, you are able to lure some potential clients if you have such informative and entertaining videos which are actually relevant to your site. And you have to increase your web traffic through building links. Moreover, link building is another vital strategy which can definitely expose your site to numerous users online.

Additionally, it is advisable to try article marketing, blog commenting, forum participation, search engine optimization and so on. Of course, those are only some of the most efficient opportunities for you to clearly explore in order to really lead buyers to your own site. You should remember that!

Driving Traffic To Your Affiliate Site With SEO

Inevitably you will need to drive quality traffic to your website. You will need the traffic in order to make money with your affiliate site. How can you make money if no one is going to visit your site? To this end you will try to launch various marketing campaigns. One of the most common things you may do is to launch a PPC campaign. There are a lot of options to launch such a campaign. You may use the services of Google Adsense for example. There are also other companies which provide such marketing services.


While you may be thinking of launching a PPC campaign, the fact is that you need to pay some money in order to do so. Yes there is no free lunch in this world. In some cases, marketers will spend up to $300 a day in order to get quality traffic to their affiliate websites.
If you think $300 is too much for you, this article is certainly for you. There are indeed free ways to drive quality traffic to your site. However, you will not be able to get the traffic if you do not work on it.
One of the best ways to drive quality traffic to your affiliate site for free is to do search engine optimization (SEO) yourself. No one will challenge the importance of search engines such as Google and Yahoo! in the internet world. You will be able to get really good traffic from the search engine if your website rank well in the search results. And SEO is the way to make your site rank well in the results.
The first step in search engine optimization is to do keyword research. You will need to choose some main keywords for your website to optimize for. There can also be some secondary keywords for a web page or website. However, there is no way to get the first place for all the keywords. As a consequence you need to choose the most targeted keywords for your website.
Keyword research tools will be used to help you to determine the main keywords. There are quite a number of keyword research tools out there. WordTracker, Keyword Discovery and Niche Bot are some of the examples of the keyword research tools you can use. Although all this tools are paid tools and the monthly subscription fees vary from tool to tool, the amount you pay is certain worthy.
After you have done your keyword research, you will write articles which incorporate your main keywords. There can also be some secondary keywords in your articles. When writing the articles, you should always remember you should never spam your articles with the keywords. Otherwise it will only do you harm more than good.
Building back links is also an extremely essential task in search engine optimization. There are various ways of building back links. Article marketing can be one of the ways you adapt. You should also pay attention to the quality of the back links. Do not try to spam your links in forums or newsgroups. This will only harm the ranking of your site.

What Is SEO (Search Engine Optimzation) - The Facts

Search engine optimization is not rocket science, actually it is hardlya science at all, many search engine experts and companies will leadyou to believe that it is a difficult and highly technical process that isbetter left to the experts (them of course). Search engine optimizationis in fact a fairly simple and straightforward methodical approach thatanyone with a grade school education can grasp and implement.


As we discuss different aspects of search engine optimization in thisbook you will see that search engine optimization can be easy toimplement and maintain. My approach to good search engineoptimization requires very little maintenance.
All that is required for good search engine referrals is a bit ofresearch and a small amount of planning before implementing ourapproach. We must ask a question ourselves before we begin the optimization process. Primarily we need to look at why we needsearch engine optimization and where we need it the most. In mostcases, website owners want good search engines referrals that areobtained by properly optimizing their website for the search engines.
If a website owner is selling a product or service or their content siteis advertising supported, they are in definite need of search engineoptimization. Let us face facts, the easiest and quickest way toreceive website traffic is from search engines, whether throughorganic listings or via sponsored search ads. Search engines havebecome the most widely used resource to find information, productsand services.

How To Monetize Your Traffic So You Get The Most Out Of It

Establishing your own E-commerce site is not like what it used to be. There are thousands of competition that is all too willing to get a bigger share of the pie. Every scheme and method you can find to augment your sales would be very beneficial.


We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don't get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn't expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora's Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called 'pay-per-click'. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

Using Search Engine Optimization To Get Web Traffic

Today it is not a secret that search engine optimization plays important role in generating web traffic to the website. As well, you have to keep in mind that the majority of internet users use different search engine to look for information on the internet. The web traffic of any website or web page is influenced by its page rank by a search engine for relevancy of the content.


You have to know that different search engines use absolutely different algorithms to rate any website. And thus a website could have different rankings in different search engines. You have to know that, for example, Google gives more importance to the keywords in the content while Yahoo prefers back links to the website or web page.
You have to remember that search engine’s crawlers read the content in simple text format without any textual enhancements. And thus it is a good idea to decorate your text, however you do not have to place the keywords or some important links in pictures or other formats because these will not be read by the search engines.
Below there are several ways to improve website ranking:
- Use of keywords
Because search engines rank a website for its content relevancy relative to queries of users, in order to move to the top in search results, your website has to contain the proper keywords which are often used in searches for any specific topic. You have to know that keyword density determines the amount of keywords in your content. Remember that if there are too much keywords in your article, it will be considered as spamming.
- Link building
Link building is helpful for improving search engine rankings as well as it enhances the amount of web traffic greatly. You have to know that one of the most important factors determining your website ranking is the amount of clicks to your website’s URL.

The 10 biggest lies about SEO and Websites

1. You do not need to know html to have a good website

Websites that are made are maintained without knowledge of html are passed left and right by sites that know what they are doing. Knowing your html will give you a large advantage over sites that do now. There are many websites sold with the promise that they can be maintained knowledge of HTML. This might be true but the options usually are minimal and important parts of a website are generated automatically and are beyond the control of the webmaster. for example the underlying structure of links, folders, internal references etc are not easy to maintain.

2. Company X ensures high positions in search engines

Only search engines determine the position of a site in the results. The rules of most search engines change several times a month. A search engine optimization company can help a website to optimize on desired keywords. It can help to structure a website. It may help to build links and it can help determine all the weaknesses on a web site. This generally ensures that a site ranks higher in search engines but there are never guarantees.

3. Advertising is a great way to get more customers and revenue

A good site will (over time and with some effort) always be found! If as site is not found without advertising, there is probably something wrong with the website or the strategy. If there are customers on the website but earnings are low there is also probably something wrong with the site. Perhaps the site lacks the connection with the customers or the site is not informative enough. The site may be unclear or take too long to respond. The order process may be too difficult or long. In this case it makes no sense for a large advertising budget to lead visitors to your page while the underlying reason that the page does not perform still exists.

4. You do not have to worry about your hosting provider

Most hosters have their servers set up to optimally configured for their own interest. That is not always in the interest of the customer. Many shared hosting providers (identified by their hosting packages) just try to puy many customers on one server as they can. Their server response is ofter set to a catch all default. A good server however is set up to serve a correct response to different types of requests. Pages of text are not allowed to be stored locally but images, style sheets and javascript files should be cached locally. A correct server response should be different for those file-types. A correct server response may cause a speed improvement of 300%! That can make a difference between a popular site and a not so popular site.

5. A good layout makes your site easier to find

Layout has no direct effect on your search engine results. Search engines ignore layout when indexing a website but focus on the content and descriptions. It is true that a good layout can provide a better user experience which in turn can result in more links to a website. It is very important in a good design to have enough room for good content and not to just focus on eye candy.

6. Social media like Facebook and Twitter will help you get more visitors

It is true that social media like facebook and twitter may help a website get more visitors but the reality is often different. Much energy, time and a good social marketing campaign is needed before social media can be effective. Sometimes it is more effective not to bother with social media but focus on the quality of your website. Once the website is in order and there is a good social media strategy social media can be effective !

7. More visitors means more conversion

A good website has a good connection to it's target audience. Writing popular articles or advertising on popular pages may attract manu visitors but if there is no connection between the visitors and the page they will leave just as quickly! So make sure that articles and advertising etc target the right audience.

8. Meta tags help improve the ranking of a page

The meta tags of a site are becoming less important as search engines grow a better understanding of the web. Meta tags are just no longer needed. The meta keywords tag is almost useless in google and the meta description is only important because it is displayed alongside search results.

9. You need to submit your site to search engines and directories

There are many (paid) options to submit your site to multiple search engines and directories. Do not buy it ! Search engines find your site once there are links to it. With good links and good content your site will do better and better search engine results.

10. Optimization is difficult and takes time and money

Website optimization can indeed be a lot of work but not if you start doing it properly right now. Make sure when you create or modify a page, the page just right. Tell a good story that matches your target audience. Do not make mistakes in the html and use the elements for which they are intended. The web is full of HTML optimization tips and tutorials (including this site). Not every tip is as important or good but overall the tips and tutorials are easy to follow and make good sense. Take a moment to find out about html and SEO that is an investment that pays itself back!

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