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Archive for January, 2009

When you find a website that you like and you want to go back to that site regularly, you don’t have to memorize its URL, you only need to bookmark it. Since people who find something valuable or useful often find themselves itching to share their discoveries, they refer the URLs to their friends and family. This spun off to become social bookmarking, and web searching has never been the same again. When it comes to internet marketing, many people are using social bookmarking to drive traffic to their websites.

Social bookmarking is that online habit of saving the URLs of websites to bookmark them by “tagging.” These days, instead of saving your bookmarks for your own reference, you can already sign up for an account in social bookmarking sites and store your finds there.

People now flock to social bookmarking sites to store, classify, manage, share, and search links. The bookmarks are tagged so they can easily be searched when they are needed. These tags are a means to organize things up, since the URLs will be labeled for easier reference to them in the future.

Marketing via articles is one of the best forms of free advertising on or offline that is available for bringing new visitors to our websites.

Why is that you ask?

Writing articles can lead to increased visitors to your website. The main reasons you’re writing an article is for people to read and learn about your topic and you. After writing an article you want it published of course. Getting it publshed is how you’re going to drive traffic to your site.

If you know your target market then the hardest part of the work has been done for you – that of assembling a list several thousand individuals to read your article.

You’ll want to submit it to ezine publishers, article directories and create a webpage on your site to display it and to submit to the search engines.

There are several things to consider if you decide to write and submit articles to ezines. The format for writing the article itself, finding ezines to submit it to and figuring out the right way to submit it to publishers so that it gets an above average chance of being used by the publisher.

Writing is hard work. At least for me that is. I tend to generally keep up with how the internet is evolving and develop an article from changes that I see going on.

Writing Articles To Increase Targeted Traffic To Your Website

Article writing, if you can think of plenty of ideas to write about, can be a beneficial way of getting more targeted traffic directly to your site. If you are very lucky, it also brings in some useful one way links, which could increase your site’s search engine ranking and bring in even more traffic. And if you want to know more about discovering affordable website promotion, just follow the link!

The article writing system works as follows. There are a lot of people out there running e-zines, blogs and sites that need more content. They want a quick and easy way to provide their readers with fresh information and it can be extremely hard work to provide this often enough.

On the other hand, there are lots of people that are seen as ‘experts’ in their fields. These people have a load they can say, but are without the circulation list to send the content they can put together. Some are motivated by a need to publicise their knowledge, whilst most want to give their sites or businesses a higher profile.

One of the very first things we ask when discussing a new SEO campaign with a client is “Can we see your website statistics”. This is usually after we have been told how many thousands of hits they receive every day to their website. Very often the answer is “we don’t have any”, sometimes followed by “can’t you tell us?”.

It’s an interesting dilemma, we as the experts are expected to know a lot about the web, SEO and how to make pages rank on top for specific keywords. We’re expected to know this for every industry we deal with. Whether you provide a specialist widget or a commodity, as the experts we are supposed to be able to tell you about your market, your niche and how many surfer are searching for your post.

This is the same with all marketing. If you go and ask your local marketing company to advertise your service in the most cost-effective way to the sort of customers who would want to buy it, the marketing executive is expected to be able to do this. They’re being paid to know and so you would expect to be able to get an answer quickly.

Link exchanging for traffic can reap plenty of rewards by giving you more ‘link popularity’with the search engines. But not all links are made equal. What should you be looking out for? And if you want to know more about affordable website promotion services, just visit my site!

Firstly, links from other website pages with higher page ranks are normally betterthan those from pages with no ranking. But it could just be an indicator that the page proposing to link to you is new and soon enough it will have a high page rank. So what is important?

Well, the link must be ‘visible’ to search engines. There are various ways that other sites could have unintentionally, or intentionally, made link not visible to the search engines. This is because it is believed by most website owners that it is favourable to have many links pointing in from sites that you do not link toyourself, one way linking . So here are some key warning signs to look for.

The first, and a very simple oneto be alert for, is there is a attribute that can be inserted into a link on webpages to tell search engines to ignore the link. If you see the attribute rel=”nofollow” in a link then search engines will not be allowed to follow that link – so it’s not worth while accepting that link exchange, or at least demand it be removed.