Since targeted traffic is so important to any business online we’ll get into some more ways of driving targeted web site visitors to your site. Unless you have a small fortune to invest in buying web traffic you’ll certainly be searching for as many free traffic methods as possible. Especially when first starting out with your online business.

Since content is king and the search engines are on a non stop quest for fresh original content I would recommend that you view your web site as a resource of those who will arrive. It is important both for the search results and climbing that all coveted position on the first page as well as to your site or blog visitors.

If you are considered a resource then they will come and they will stay. It will aslo position you as an authority in your niche. So when you design your web site design it to be a targeted resource center. Choose one subject and build on it. You’ll gain repeat visitors that are interested in that topic. (more…)

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All the products that you want to sell online are ready. You have already signed up with the Google Adsense program or with other affiliate marketing programs or you have your own product that you created and you have already prepared the ad you want to post on your affiliate’s site. Your mind is now set to being the next most successful online entrepreneur.

But is there anything else that you might have forgotten to prepare? Maybe not, but how about your landing pages? Are they all set for your business? Landing pages are simply web pages where visitors are directed to whenever they click a result in a web search or whenever they click a web ad.

For affiliate marketing, landing pages would refer to the web page where you, as a merchant, would want your potential customer to be directed after clicking your ad on your affiliate’s website. Landing pages are, at most times, nothing really different from other web pages in a particular website, especially if the said website is an e-commerce site. (more…)

If your interested in placing high in the search results then keyword research is an essential element when you are creating a web page or article or press release. Keywords and keyword phrases are those words and phrases that someone is most likely to type in their search bar to find information on their subject of interest.

Now you are not going to hit the ace each and every time. But if you are diligent and keep after it, over time you’ll find your site starting to climb the search pages. Keyword research is all about taking a product and matching it with the phrases that work as a best match for that given product. (more…)

This post is going to be a departure from the norm. This special report Internet Marketing Sins and its relevancy to our industry is simply to important not to put on all 4 of my blogs. Sylvie Fortin’s Internet Marketing Sins, It’s what true marketers have always wanted to say and never really have. Sylvie makes no apologies for what she has written and I don’t blame her. As I read through this 120 page report it did take long for me to appreciate is relevance.

I was thinking to myself in the first 15 pages that it was about time someone came out with what many of us have been thinking all along. Personally I never have quite understood why those who are doing these things would start in the first place. Our industry is suffering and could easily get a very bad name for itself and all of us who are doing things above board.  Sylvie didn’t miss a beat in her report. I am of the opinion that the only way to slow these practices down is to get this report in the hands of newbies or those considering an online business venture. (more…)