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		<title>Your Website Title Could Be Costing You Money</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/24/your-website-title-could-be-costing-you-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ghuf</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing could be simpler than the title you give to your web pages right? Unfortunately, the vast majority of the websites I visit these days have absolutely terrible titles that hurt their online business. The title of your website is a very important p... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing could be simpler than the title you give to your web pages right? Unfortunately, the vast majority of the websites I visit these days have absolutely terrible titles that hurt their online business. The title of your website is a very important part of getting good rankings on most of the major search engines. A good title also goes a long way towards getting your prospects to click on your listings.</p>
<p>If you go to Google right now, and type any search phrase you want, you get back a listing of web sites that match the keywords you entered in. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll notice that each search listing&#8217; hyperlink is also the title of that website. The title you choose needs to describe to your prospects what your website is all about. It needs to be able to entice your prospects to click on your listing over any other listing. If your title is simply your company name, you are most likely loosing lots of traffic. You will also find it difficult to rank highly on relevant keywords to your site.</p>
<p>Here are some things to consider:</p>
<p>1. Make sure you use relevant keywords</p>
<p>Keywords are simply search terms that your web site prospects will type into a search engine in order to find you. The keywords you are targeting need to be included in your title. Your keywords also need to be as close to the beginning of the title as it makes sense to do. For example, if you were selling shoes online and you were targeting the keyword &#8220;children shoes&#8221;, you could have a title like &#8220;Children&#8217;s shoes for hard to fit children.&#8221; Notice how the targeted keywords were at the beginning of the title. Putting your keywords at the front of your title speaks to keyword prominence. Prominence refers to the importance of your keyword in the title. If your main keywords are at the very beginning of the title, it is said to have a prominence of 100%. If they are at the very end of the title, they have a prominence of 0%. As much as possible, you want to have your main keywords appear towards the beginning of your title.<br />
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2. Consider using your main keyword twice in your title</p>
<p>If you are optimizing your site to rank well on Google, you should also consider finding a way to include your main keyword twice in the title. The trick is to do this without making the title sound stupid. One way I do this is to use the pipe character | between your main keywords. For example, if I was writing a title for a fishing website and the main keyword I was targeting was &#8216;fishing charter&#8217; I could repeat the keywords this way, &#8220;Fishing Charter | Are you ready for a fishing charter you won&#8217;t soon forget?&#8221; This example gets my target keyword at the beginning and manages to repeat it again without making it look stupid.</p>
<p>3. Persuade your prospect to click on your link</p>
<p>The link that your prospects will see when they do a search of your website on a search engine will almost always be the title of your website. Even if you get to the first page on a search engine for the keywords you are targeting, you still need to persuade your prospect to click on your link over all the others around you. If you title is not persuasive, or even non-existent, you won&#8217;t get the traffic you expect even if you are number one in the listings. Your title must be persuasive.</p>
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<p>4. Say what you want in 65 characters or less.</p>
<p>Almost all search engines limit the length of the title that will appear to the search engine surfer. Google for instance, only displays the first 60 to 66 characters. Sometimes, a webmaster will try to include every one of their keywords in the title in the hope that all of their keywords will be picked up by the search engines. Keep your main keyword prominent in the first 65 characters of your title. Do this while making sure that your title is properly targeted to your target market. You can include your secondary keywords in the body of your web page, but keep them out of the title unless it makes sense to keep them in. The rule of thumb for including secondary keywords in your title is to include them only if you can still keep the title persuasive to your website prospects.</p>
<p>Your website title is crucial to your success online.</p>
<p>Your title is vital to your efforts of getting traffic online. Make sure it is descriptive, and persuasive. It needs to include your main keywords as close to the start of your title as it makes sense to do. You need to avoid repeating the same keywords over and over again. This may work for keywords that have little or no competition on them, but it won&#8217;t work for any keyword that gets even a decent amount of traffic on them.</p>
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		<title>The Budget Webmaster?s 6 Step Guide to Improving Existing Rankings in Google</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/23/the-budget-webmasters-6-step-guide-to-improving-existing-rankings-in-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ghuf</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren&#8217;t getting more clicks, and you find out that you&#8217;re ranked in the 30&#8217;s, 50&#8217;s, or heaven forbid, the 300&#8217;s.... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know the scenario. You get an occasional click from Google for a certain keyword. You go to find out why you aren&#8217;t getting more clicks, and you find out that you&#8217;re ranked in the 30&#8217;s, 50&#8217;s, or heaven forbid, the 300&#8217;s. &#8220;Great&#8221;, you think, &#8220;I finally get ranked for a good keyword and it&#8217;s a worthless ranking&#8221;.</p>
<p>Not necessarily.</p>
<p>If you got ranked for a keyword you wanted At All, the game&#8217;s not over yet. If your site&#8217;s content is geared towards that subject, you can get your ranking in search engines increased, at no cost. How?</p>
<p>The first thing you want to do is find out how well you are ranked for this keyword. For Google in particular, this used to be a difficult chore. In the old days of 2003, you&#8217;d spend your valuable time doing a search on your desired keyword, then a sub-search for your site, and crawling through pages of listings to find out exactly where you stood.</p>
<p>Now there is hope in the form of the following website. Direct your browser to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php" target="_new">http://www.googlerankings.com/index.php</a></p>
<p>You can use this site to find out what number you come up for in the Google listings, which can be very powerful information if used correctly. If you&#8217;re ranked in the top 1000, you have a shot at raising your listing for that page by tweaking the page to be a little more relevant.</p>
<p>So, secondly, you have to know how good a shot you have at getting a better listing. Go to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.searchguild.com/difficulty/" target="_new">http://www.searchguild.com/difficulty/</a></p>
<p>I posted a tip about this a month ago, and it&#8217;s also in the free optimization Guide I released the week of March 7th. It tells you how hard it is to rank well for certain keywords in Google. You&#8217;ll need a free Google API key to use it.</p>
<p>Now that you know your chances, the third piece of information you need to know is how much traffic you can expect. Digital Point has a free tool that gives an approximation of how many hits per day a good ranking gets. Access it here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/" target="_new">http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/" target="_new">Okay, let&#8217;s say everything checks out so far. You rank in the top 1000. The term you want won&#8217;t be that hard to get, and will get you enough traffic per month to justify your efforts.</p>
<p>Our fifth step is to take the term you chose and optimize your page.</p>
<p></a><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/" target="_new">This site does periodic reports on the search engines, and their February report gives their analysis of what the best ranking pages in Google have in common. And as a free bonus, it will also tell you what Yahoo wants. Follow the following link for details-</a><a href="http://www.gorank.com/" target="_new">http://www.gorank.com</a></p>
<p>Now that you know what to shoot for, you need to know how the page you want will measure up- you need to calculate your keyword density. You can also do the sixth step at gorank.com - it has a free tool that will calculate it for you. Prepare your page with that in mind, re-upload, and you&#8217;re almost done.</p>
<p>Great, you&#8217;re all set. Now you should submit your site to Google, right?</p>
<p>Wrong. Absolutely not. If you can help it, you should never, ever submit any page of your site to Google. Let it find you. HOW it finds you can affect your page rank. I don&#8217;t mean that there is a standard penalty for submitting. There&#8217;s been speculation on that for a while but I have yet to prove it matters.</p>
<p>What I DO know from personal experience and testing on my member&#8217;s sites, is that getting the Googlebot search engine spider to happen upon your site shaves up to 6 weeks off the standard time it takes for indexing. You can show up in Google in as little as 4 days.</p>
<p>Which site links to you can also affect your Google Page Rank. While this is not as important as it once was, it still carries significant weight? my site didn&#8217;t start getting spidered on a daily basis until my Page Rank increased to 5.</p>
<p>So even if the spider comes to your site on a Monthly basis, you&#8217;re better off waiting for the spider to come back by. That&#8217;s the seventh step, let your page be re-discovered with it&#8217;s great new changes.</p>
<p>And yes, there&#8217;s an even faster, better way to get Google.com&#8217;s search engine spider to re-index that page, but that&#8217;s another article, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>If Content is King, then surely Relevance is Queen!</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/22/if-content-is-king-then-surely-relevance-is-queen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ghuf</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen. It is easy as a webmaster to get caught up in these webs of intrigue. You get email notes about th... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing in the search engine world of late and there are lots of conspiracy theories as to why these things happen. It is easy as a webmaster to get caught up in these webs of intrigue. You get email notes about them, you view so-called experts&#8217; thoughts on bulletin Boards - hey you probably even read things in newsletter articles!</p>
<p>Well I hope so anyway&#8230;.</p>
<p>The big driver for webmasters currently appears to be content and link building. While link building is important I don&#8217;t believe it makes Queen. Maybe a Prince. Content and links DO go hand in hand but, without relevance, the Kingdom is doomed. Sorry I will stop the analogy now! <img src='http://articlelive.myotomart.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If your site is about finance, then finance content is best supported by finance link exchanges. Relevance! If your site is about finance, then finance content supported by casino link exchanges from a PR8 site while in the short term may help,?but all the signs are saying this is not a long term strategy.</p>
<p>Okay,so what is the best strategy?</p>
<p>Keep EVERYTHING relevant. It is that simple. Make sure that you only swap or link to sites that are relevant to the content on your pages. Yes I am suggesting link exchanging on pages of your site not a links page. Links pages seem to be being abused. There are rumours that pages called links, resources or partners are not passing page rank. You could be wasting your time building links that are not giving you any benefits! Delivering relevant links from relevant content is the future. Look at sites such as www.bbc.co.uk or www.independent.co.uk. News sites have the right idea. They have 2 or 3 relevant internal links to other articles on the same topic or links to internal tools that are related. These usually can be found at the right hand side of the article. They also then have weblinks or external links to sites of interest that are related to the topic. These are relevant! Another benefit of this is that with a content rich site you can add hundreds of links quite legitimately and really add some value both to your Rankings and your users. With a content-poor site it is difficult, you have to add link pages or create a links directory. A five page site will need to add 10 or 12 good link pages to compete and even then with algorithm changes, this may not be prudent. Having a site with 400 pages means you can easily add 3 links per page, so you have 1200 link options straight away.</p>
<p>Hopefully this explains that relevance runs a close second to content.Always bear in mind when writing content that relevant  links will not only boost your search engine rankings, but you will also add a service to your visitors.</p>
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		<title>Get Better Search Engine Rankings with RSS</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/20/get-better-search-engine-rankings-with-rss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ghuf</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?
RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood. RSS ... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RSS is the latest craze in online publishing. But what exactly is RSS?</p>
<p>RSS or Rich Site Syndication is a file format similar to XML, and is used by publishers to make their content available to others in a format that can be universally understood. RSS allows publishers to &#8220;syndicate&#8221; their content through the distribution of lists of hyperlinks. It has actually been around for a while, but with the advent of spam filters and online blogging, it is fast becoming the choice of ezine publishers who want to get their message across to their subscribers. However, not much attention has been given to the advantages RSS provides for search engine optimization.</p>
<p><strong>Why Search Engines Love RSS</strong></p>
<p>Many SEO experts believe that sites optimized around themes,or niches, where all pages correspond to a particular subject or set of keywords, rank better in the search engines.For example, if your website is designed to sell tennis rackets, your entire site content would be focused around tennis and tennis rackets.<br />
Search engines like Google seem to prefer tightly-themed pages.</p>
<p><strong>But where does RSS figure in all this?</strong></p>
<p>RSS feeds, usually sourced from newsfeeds or blogs, often correspond to a particular theme or niche.<br />
By using highly targeted RSS feeds, you can enhance your site&#8217;s content without having to write a single line on your own.It&#8217;s like having your own content writer - writing theme-based articles for you - for free!</p>
<p><strong>How can RSS improve my Search Engine Rankings?</strong></p>
<p>There are three powerful reasons why content from RSS Feeds is irresistible bait for search engine spiders.</p>
<p>1. <strong>RSS Feeds Provide Instant Themed Content</strong></p>
<p>There are several publishers of RSS feeds that are specific to a particular theme. Since the feed is highly targeted, it could contain several keywords that you want to rank highly for. Adding these keywords to your pages helps Google tag your site as one with relevant content.</p>
<p>2. <strong>RSS Feeds Provide Fresh, Updated Content</strong></p>
<p>RSS feeds from large publishers are updated at specific intervals. When the publisher adds a new article to the feed, the oldest article is dropped.These changes are immediately effected on your pages with the RSS feed as well. So you have fresh relevant content for your visitors every hour or day.<br />
3. <strong>RSS Feeds Result in More Frequent Spidering</strong></p>
<p>One thing I never anticipated would happen as a result of adding an RSS feed to my site was that the Googlebot visited my site almost daily. <br />
To the Googlebot, my page that had the RSS feed incorporated into it was as good as a page that was being updated daily, and in its judgement, was a page that was worth visiting daily.</p>
<p>What this means to you, is that you will have your site being indexed more frequently by the Googlebot and so any new pages that you add to your site will be picked up much faster than your competitors.</p>
<p class="main"><strong>How does this benefit you as a marketer?</strong></p>
<p>Well, for example, let&#8217;s says a top Internet Marketer comes out with a new product that you review and write up a little article on, and that your competitors do the same. Google generally tends to index pages at the start of the month and if you miss that update, you will probably need to wait till the next month to even see your entry in. But, since your site has RSS feeds, it now gets indexed more frequently. So the chances of getting your page indexed quickly are much higher. This gives you an advantage over the competition, as your review will show up sooner in the search results than theirs. Imagine what an entire month&#8217;s advantage could do to your affiliate sales!<br />
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<p class="main"><strong>Why Javascript Feeds Are Not Effective</strong></p>
<p>Some sites offer javascript code that generates content sourced from RSS feeds for your site. These are of absolutely no value in terms of search engine rankings, as the googlebot cannot read javascript and the content is not interpreted as part of your page. What you need is code that parses the RSS feed and renders the feed as html content that&#8217;s part of your page. This is achieved using server side scripting languages like PHP or ASP.</p>
<p>A good free ASP script is available from Kattanweb<br />
<a href="http://www.kattanweb.com/webdev/projects/index.asp?ID=7" target="_new">http://www.kattanweb.com/webdev/proje cts/index.asp?ID=7</a></p>
<p class="main">An equally good PHP script is CARP<br />
<a href="http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/" target="_new">http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/</a></p>
<p class="main">So in conclusion, besides optimizing on page and off page factors, adding RSS feeds to your pages should be an important part of your strategy to boost your search engine rankings.</p>
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		<title>Choosing a good domain name isnt always so simple.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you need a domain name for your brand new internet business. You may even have some cool ideas for a new domain name combination that will really impress your friends. Question is, is your new domain name going to help your business or hurt it?
What c... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you need a domain name for your brand new internet business. You may even have some cool ideas for a new domain name combination that will really impress your friends. Question is, is your new domain name going to help your business or hurt it?</p>
<p>What could be simpler than choosing a domain name right? Wrong. There are a number of things you need to consider and research before you register your favorite domain name.<br />
First off, what is a domain name and why would I want one?</p>
<p>A domain name makes our lives much easier when surfing the internet. You see, all computers on the internet are actually referenced with what is called IP addresses. On the internet, IP addresses are four sets of numbers that serve like street addresses allowing two computers to talk over a network. An example of an IP address is the one for Google.com. It is 216.239.39.99. If you enter this IP address into the address bar of your browser it will bring you to Google&#8217;s home page in that very same way that typing www.google.com would get you there. Unfortunately, we humans have difficulty remembering our phone numbers let alone so many digits for all kinds of sites. That&#8217;s one of the main reasons domain names were invented.<br />
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Domain names make it easy for us humans to remember how to find a site. Most people know Google.com and anyone familiar with the internet knows that to reach Google, you simply type www.google.com in your address bar and you are transported to their website. The same goes for Disney.com, Microsoft.com, CNN.com, etc?</p>
<p>Now you would think that choosing a domain name would simply be a matter of choosing something that is unique and that people would remember. The problem with that approach is that most of us don&#8217;t have the money needed to turn our name into a brand name on the mass market. Most of us need to rely on our prospects reaching our website through other means. The best of these are search engines.</p>
<p>Choosing a good domain name for your site starts with the main keywords you have chosen to focus on for your website. Before you launch your business, you should conduct some preliminary research online to determine which keywords have the most traffic and the least number of other websites competing for that particular keyword. Some tools that help in this are the Overture keyword suggestion tool and Wordtracker.com. Both of these tools will give you a rough idea of how much traffic each of your chosen keywords will likely get each month. This helps to determine which keywords to focus on.</p>
<p>Should you choose a domain name that includes your main keywords?<br />
In most cases, the answer is yes. Google and to some degree Yahoo both give you a small boost for your domain name. If your domain name happens to contain your targeted keywords, your domain name will help you in your quest for higher search engine rankings. Now if you do everything else wrong, having your main keywords in your domain name will not magically catapult you to the top of the listings. Many other parts of your site must be working for you as well. Other things you can do to improve rankings are beyond the scope of this article.<br />
Choosing a keyword rich domain is a smart business move.</p>
<p>For some sites, it could be the edge they need to move up a few spots in the search engines. When choosing a keyword rich domain name, you may want to consider hyphens between your keywords. An example is cheap-airline-tickets.com. Current research trends for Google and Yahoo suggest that hyphens are the only way to separate keywords within a URL that will give you a rankings boost.<br />
Why not simply choose your company name? Simple. Is your company a household name? Are you so dominant in a category that people have stopped referring to the generic name of your category and use your brand name like Kleenex has for tissue paper? If so, register your company name. If not, register a keyword rich domain wherever possible.</p>
<p>You may be thinking, &#8220;But I already own a domain name that is my company name. Should I go and register a new domain and point it to the same site? The short answer is no. Years ago, you could improve your rankings on search engines simply by setting up lots of doorway pages and having them all link back to your home page with all kinds of domain names. That tactic nowadays can backfire. You are better off optimizing individual pages within your existing website than you are creating a whole bunch of &#8220;fluff&#8221; sites just to increase rankings.</p>
<p>The technique I suggest above is really best suited for brand new business ventures. If you still have not registered your domain name for that special online business you are about to start, then make it keyword rich wherever possible. If you have already launched your business, you&#8217;ll just have to take advantage of this information next time you start another online venture.<br />
This article was written by Joe Duchesne, president of http://www.yowling.com/ , a budget web hosting company that specializes in helping online business owners increase their website traffic. Copyright 2004 Yowling. Reprint Freely.</p>
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		<title>Time Management Mastery</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/17/time-management-mastery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Potential to Performance
One of the great things about life is that we can realistically be or do anything we choose to. This includes being a good time manager! We must believe that we can be a good time manager - that we have the potential. Unfort... ]]></description>
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<p>One of the great things about life is that we can realistically be or do anything we choose to. This includes being a good time manager! We must believe that we can be a good time manager - that we have the potential. Unfortunately, many people say, &#8220;Well, I am just a poor time manager,&#8221; as if it was ingrained in their DNA. The truth is that anyone can be a great time manager, if they choose to go from potential to performance.</p>
<p>So, how do we do this? Here is a simple 7 part process:</p>
<p>1. Believe that you can become a good time manager</p>
<p>2. Inventory where your time is currently being spent</p>
<p>3. Determine what your life values are - what do you view as important, what do you want to accomplish?</p>
<p>4. Set time priorities that will move you toward living out your values</p>
<p>5. Develop a system of scheduling that works best for you, not a time management conglomerate</p>
<p>6. Learn to say &#8220;no&#8221; to things that are not part of your priorities moving you toward your values - exercise your power to choose</p>
<p>7. Do what is in your new schedule</p>
<p>These simple steps, if you apply them, will take you from having the potential to be a good time manager to true time management mastery and performance!</p>
<p>About The Author:</p>
<p>Chris Widener is a popular speaker and writer as well as the President of Made for Success, a company helping individuals and organizations turn their potential into performance, succeed in every area of their lives and achieve their dreams.</p>
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		<title>Link Building Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, an effective link building strategy is not building some 50-100 back links with sites with &#8216;X&#8217; PR. It is more of getting links from the informative websites that is visited often by the people who could be your future customers. In broa... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, an effective link building strategy is not building some 50-100 back links with sites with &#8216;X&#8217; PR. It is more of getting links from the informative websites that is visited often by the people who could be your future customers. In broad sense the websites related to your focus industry.</p>
<p>Link popularity refers to the number of links pointing to and from related sites and is an extremely important method of improving your site&#8217;s relevancy in search engines.</p>
<p>There are three types of links that will increase the link popularity of your site; internal, incoming and, to a lesser extent, outgoing links.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at each one in more detail.</p>
<p>Internal links</p>
<p>Internal links are amount of links to and from pages in a site. Cross-linking your important related pages is recommended for a better search engine visibility. This assists search engine spiders to find and index your most key pages faster, particularly if some pages are hidden deep within your site.<br />
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Site maps</p>
<p>Site maps or sitemap are visual models of your site&#8217;s content that enables users to find exact content or page on your website. Site maps are like interactive table of contents, with links leading to most or all the pages on your website. Site maps are organized hierarchically, breaking down the site&#8217;s information into progressively more specific subject areas.</p>
<p>Incoming links</p>
<p>Incoming link popularity refers to links pointing to a site from other related sites. In addition, there are two types of incoming links:</p>
<p>1. Linking from your own sites</p>
<p>Crass linking as we discussed above is very much recommended for a better crawl of your site by spiders. You must select keywords that describe the site you&#8217;re linking to. You have to do this because some of the major search engines, such as Google, place a great importance on the text used within, and close to, links.</p>
<p>2. Linking through other sites</p>
<p>There are two ways of finding sites to link to yours. The best way to get other sites to link to yours is to ask them politely. And the best way to find likely candidates is to ask web sites that link to your competition. To find out which sites are linking to your a particular competitor, visit a search engine such as Google and enter, &#8220;link:&#8221; followed by the competitors domain name (with and without &#8220;www&#8221;).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Link:google.com</p>
<p>link:www.yahoo.com</p>
<p>To check the link popularity of your own sites, simply use your own domain name.</p>
<p>Once you got the list of related sites, add a link to these on your site. Follow it by sending an email to each web site owner acquainting them that you have linked to their website and request them for a link back to your site.</p>
<p>Another important way to find list of sites that accept site submissions. To find such sites, visit a search engine, such as Google, and search for: &#8220;add url&#8221; &#8220;your keywords&#8221;</p>
<p>Quotation marks are must as it ensures the search engine only return pages with the exact search phrases you search for. Also try replacing, &#8220;add url&#8221; with one of the following sets of search phrases:</p>
<p>add site, add link, submit url, submit site, submit link</p>
<p>Outgoing links</p>
<p>Outgoing links refers to links pointing to other related sites from your site. Search engine spiders will crawl your site&#8217;s outgoing links and determine that the content of the sites you link to are related to the content of your own site.</p>
<p>Link keywords</p>
<p>It is important to name your internal and outgoing links carefully. Since keywords play a major part in determining the relevancy of a Web page, it is essential that they are also included in link text.</p>
<p>Link quality</p>
<p>The quality of the links is just as important, if not more, than the number of links to your site.The types of sites you should concentrate on getting links from include major search engines (Google.com), popular search portals (MSN.com), web directories (Yahoo.com and Open Directory Project - dmoz.org), high trafficked sites (eBay.com and Amazon.com), news sites (CNN.com), and sites related to your site&#8217;s theme.</p>
<p>The most important link building strategies includes:</p>
<p>Marketplace understanding</p>
<p>First try to understand your marketplace. Make a list of all the market sectors you service, ranking them in terms of their importance. Choose a minimum of 3-4 niches and make a list of 250 websites under each niches. Go for link exchange only after this list is complete.</p>
<p>Content is king&#8230;</p>
<p>Content is what your potential customers will look for. It is content that will give your search engine rankings and would also help in getting links. There is no substitute for a good content, so unavoidable.</p>
<p>Content and proper optimization</p>
<p>Make sure the contents on your website is optimized properly with proper focus on keywords and nice heading, title and description. If you lack time then better hire someone to do the same.</p>
<p>online press releases</p>
<p>Issuing online press releases is more of a one-to-many approach. You submit your release to a newswire and they distribute your news to thousands of journalists and editors on their database. Such releases can be picked up and covered by both national and local media and are certainly worth. Try Prweb.com or in the UK, Sourcewire.com.</p>
<p>But perhaps the best way of getting media coverage quickly is to use the knowledge, experience and contacts collected by others. Eric Ward&#8217;s URLWire.com service is the best.. Through many years of online promotion for clients, Ward has built an impressive opt-in list of over 19,000 journalists, website reviewers and writers.</p>
<p>Monitor and evaluate</p>
<p>At the start of this article, I said that link building was not about the number of links you could get. Likewise monitoring and evaluating is not simply a matter of counting how many links you manage to get. What is really worth measuring is the benefit those links bring your business.</p>
<p>So as a minimum you should measure:</p>
<p>* How much increased traffic comes from links</p>
<p>* Which links bring the most traffic</p>
<p>* How much does your search engine traffic</p>
<p>* How much your sales increase as a result.</p>
<p>Matt Bacak became &#8220;#1 Best Selling Author&#8221; in just a few short hours. Recent Entrepreneur Magazine&#8217;s e-Biz radio show host is turning Authors, Speakers, and Experts into Overnight Success Stories. Discover The Secrets To Unleash The Powerful Promoter In You! Sign up for Matt Bacak&#8217;s Promoting Tips Ezine ($100 value) just visit his website at http://www.powerfulpromoter.com or http://promotingtips.com</p>
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		<title>Referral Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of referral traffic may be a bit elementary to many folks who have been networking for a while. However, a few recent discussions with new marketers have led me to the conclusion that a brief commentary on the subject might be well received.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The subject of referral traffic may be a bit elementary to many folks who have been networking for a while. However, a few recent discussions with new marketers have led me to the conclusion that a brief commentary on the subject might be well received.</p>
<p>Referral traffic is web traffic you receive when you refer other people to the viral traffic programs (traffic exchanges, ad replicators, and similar systems) you are a member of. For the sake of simplicity, I will use traffic exchanges as my primary example in this article.</p>
<p>While there are a few exceptions, the huge majority of exchanges operate a referral traffic system. When you register a new account with a traffic exchange, you will be given a special affiliate URL for the purpose of building your downline in that program. Many exchanges will award you with an instant bonus of free traffic credits each time you refer a new member, and nearly all exchanges grant you an amount of referral traffic that is equal to a percentage of the traffic your downline generates while they surf.</p>
<p>If you are a member of Traffic Roundup, for instance, you will get an amount of free, referral traffic equal to 10% of the traffic your personal referrals generate when they surf. This means if you refer one person who earns 100 credits per week, you will get 10 free traffic credits each week from this referral. Take a moment to estimate the amount of free, ongoing traffic you could receive if you built a downline of 10, 20, or 30 personal referrals at Traffic Roundup.</p>
<p>Also, consider the fact that you will receive referral traffic from all active surfers recruited by your downline. Many exchanges award referral traffic benefits on five or more levels.</p>
<p>As you can see, the benefits of building strong downlines in your favorite traffic programs are considerable. It would be well worth a little effort on your part to lay the foundations of a solid referral traffic network.<br />
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I have worked passively to build my traffic downlines over the past year, and I receive a few thousand free hits to my web sites each month as a result of referral surfing activity. Other people I know have worked aggressively toward the building of their traffic downlines, and receive thousands of free hits every day from the efforts of their referral network.</p>
<p>Like just about everything in this business, building a referral traffic network is an ongoing process. You won&#8217;t see amazing results in your first week, but after a few months of consistent work, you should start to experience some of benefits of &#8220;hands free&#8221; traffic flow. With a full year of continued effort, you could be well on your way to several hundred, maybe even several thousand, free hits every day.</p>
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		<title>10 Highly Effective Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Website</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/15/10-highly-effective-ways-to-increase-traffic-to-your-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to promote your website for free online. Here are 10 highly effective strategies you can use right now.
1. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in the by-line. If you write good c... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many ways to promote your website for free online. Here are 10 highly effective strategies you can use right now.</p>
<p>1. Write articles or free reports for other webmasters to publish and put your website address in the by-line. If you write good content, your articles will be published and many readers who like your article will go on to visit your website.</p>
<p>2. Arrange a Joint Venture partnership with List owners and Webmasters.</p>
<p>3. Add your ad or website address to your email signature. This way, every time you send an email, you&#8217;ll be promoting your website.</p>
<p>4. Exchange Links with Other Webmasters. This is another effective strategy for generating targeted traffic to your website for free. It involves contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership.<br />
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5. Add a blog to your site and Ping weblogs.com and other search engines. Pinging your blogs to the search engines is the fastest way to get the search engine robots to visit your blog and attract new visitors to your web site.</p>
<p>6. Submit your blog address to blog search sites and directories. You can submit your blog&#8217;s URL to websites such as Technorati, Daypop, Blogdex and Popdex. For a complete list of websites where you can submit your URL, go to http://www.guidetorss.com</p>
<p>7. Create RSS feeds for your site and submit the feed URLs to the major RSS feed directories online. A good place to start is http://www.guidetorss.com/ which provides a list of the top RSS directories.</p>
<p>8. Be an active commenter. Try to leave comments on the blogs that you regularly visit. Most comment systems also provide a way for you to leave a link back to your blog or website which begs a visit at the very least.</p>
<p>9. If you plan to have anything printed up, put your web address on it. You can print your URL on business cards, stickers, leaflets, etc.</p>
<p>10. Add your web address to your forum profile signature. Every time you post or respond to questions your ad will be displayed. If you post good content in forums, people who read your threads will also check out your website.</p>
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		<title>How to Booost Your Affiliate Commissions by almost 30%</title>
		<link>http://articlelive.myotomart.com/2008/06/14/how-to-booost-your-affiliate-commissions-by-almost-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Affiliate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing is one tough business. Everyone online today is looking to make or save money in any way they can.
In the good old days when internet marketing was in its infancy, most of the people who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchas... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Affiliate marketing is one tough business. Everyone online today is looking to make or save money in any way they can.</p>
<p>In the good old days when internet marketing was in its infancy, most of the people who clicked on your affiliate links used to purchase without a second thought&#8230; but, now as times are getting tougher, and visitors getting more cynical, you&#8217;ll be amazed at the number who won&#8217;t!</p>
<p>Just one flaw in a system and you will find dozens of unscrupulous people waiting to exploit it. Same goes for affiliate commission tracker systems. People who know how to manipulate the system will replace your affiliate ID with theirs and &#8220;hijack&#8221; your commissions.</p>
<p>Most affiliate links are some form or the other of http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID</p>
<p>Where your affiliate id is passed as a parameter. A thief has to simply change the &#8220;YOURID&#8221; part to &#8220;HISID&#8221; to put your money in his pocket.</p>
<p>In other cases, there are visitors to your site who simply can&#8217;t stand the thought of you &#8220;making money off them&#8221; so they bypass you by simply chopping off the end of your affiliate link that contains your ID.<br />
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Instead of buying from http://www.thesite.com/?YOURID &#8212; the bypasser will simply &#8220;chop off&#8221; the affiliate ID at the end and simply buy from the plain URL http://www.thesite.com/ &#8211;without your affiliate ID attached!</p>
<p>Bam! you just got cheated out of your rightful commission.</p>
<p>Studies have shown that this phenomenon causes about 30% lost sales.</p>
<p>By following some of these simple tips you will be able to, if not all, at least confuse most hijackers and, in many cases, often disarm them completely.</p>
<p>You might notice i said most and not all. This is because if the hijacker is well versed at html and javascipt he will be able to eventually get to your affiliate link. However, most hijackers are just opportunists who will only act if they see an easy buck and its this segment that we can beat</p>
<p>The simplest way to hide your affiliate links is using a javascript redirect page.</p>
<p>This is where you hide your affiliate link in a page on your site using a simple javascript that redirects people to your affiliate link.</p>
<p>This way your &#8220;naked&#8221; affiliate link is not exposed in your actual email messages and ezine ads, but, once people get redirected to the true affiliate link.</p>
<p>One possible drawback of this method is that some affiliate programs, like clickbank for example, expose the affiliate link along with your ID in the browser address bar.</p>
<p>So if the viewer is eagle-eyed he will notice that hes been redirected through and affiliate link.</p>
<p>A safer method to hide your affiliate links is using a zero-frame or &#8220;invisible&#8221; frame that masks the affiliate link by making it appear you are sending people to a page on your website. In reality, you are actually sending them to your affiliate link.</p>
<p>This technique is also used by many domain redirection service sites.</p>
<p>Unfortunately is the user views the source of the page. He know whats that youve loaded an affiliate link.</p>
<p>The solution is to use javascript encryption to scramble up the page code.</p>
<p>Even though there isn&#8217;t a 100% perfect solution to this problem, if you want to get paid more often through your affiliate links, make sure it&#8217;s not obvious you&#8217;re referring people to an affiliate link.</p>
<p>If they can&#8217;t see that its a affiliate link, lower the possibility of you getting stiffed of your commission.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a tool that lets you do all this plus earn affiliate commissions even from those folk who dont click your affiliate link then do check out Covert Affiliate</p>
<p>Satyajeet Hattangadi is the Owner of Novasoft Inc, a software solutions provider, who specialize in affordable customized software solutions.</p>
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