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Thanks William I will give it a shot. Out of curiousity how much does an ad like that run??? By the way great site wish I had something like your service in my home town!!!

Rosanna

www.rozanacuizne.com

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RozanaCuizine Delicious no sugar gourmet sauces www.rozanacuizine.com

Here are some recent articles I wrote, excuse the mess around the site, it`s still be made, so some links may not be active, but these are:

How to Get a Herd of Targeted And Qualified Prospects
Beating a Path to Your Website:

http://www.hippomarketing.com/getting_website_traffic.html

15 Unique and Inexpensive Ways
to Market and Grow Your Business:

http://www.hippomarketing.com/unique_marketing.html

 

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Website Startup Coach: Step-by-Step Coaching to Help You Build a Profitable Business Online!

The ads are models on the PPC concept.  Each time someone clicks on your ad, you pay for the impression.  It is ran kind of a like an auction.

The more you bid for a click the higher your position.  The objective is really to be in the top two or three positions.  Most searches just plain don`t go past the first screen.  Each click a prospect does will cost you your bid amount.  Some of my bids are as high as $5.00 or so.  It seems high, but if I can make a sale or two a month it`s paid off with no problem.

Thanks for the compliments on my site.  It is ongoing, but is fun too.  Service type sites don`t bring in the amount of traffic e-commerce sites will, but it does help to sell the services.


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Steve
Computer Repair in St Louis and Saint Charles

Thanks Cartess3 for your information on the different sites I will check them out....and Happy Years!!!

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RozanaCuizine Delicious no sugar gourmet sauces www.rozanacuizine.com

Hi William,

Thanks for your info...however I`m not sure if adword is the way to go for me...considering my product is $5.99 a bottle. However I will still check it out. Happy Years

Saucelady

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RozanaCuizine Delicious no sugar gourmet sauces www.rozanacuizine.com

Lots of good information here- glad I found it. I`d be interested in hearing
more about search optimization and affiliate marketing. I`ve learned a few
hard lessons that search marketing (Google and Yahoo ads) lost more
money than the business they brought in, even though I was tracking
everything thoroughly. I`ve only had my business for under 2 years, so I still
have a lot to learn.

For the Sauce Lady- keep trying boutique grocery stores. In Minnesota, we
have a few (Lund`s, Kowalski`s) that pride themselves on providing niche
sauces, cheeses and other foods. I think you`d probably have to call and
schedule appointments with the manager or food buyer, but it might be
worth it and the margins might be better as well. Good luck!

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Michelle Courtright Bjork mbjork@romeoshops.com

Thanks Bjorkie,

I have tried some east coast stores the problem I meet with is that to send it from the west coast the shipping is a killer. I would need to find a distrubtor who I can send a pallet to in order to make it worth while and with  a price on the shelves that consumers would buy it for.

So if you know of any east coast distrubtors let me know...

Thanks

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RozanaCuizine Delicious no sugar gourmet sauces www.rozanacuizine.com

Dear Saucelady,

Looks like you`ve made quite a stir!

One easy way to help with traffic is to increase external links to your site.  One very, very easy way to do this is to add a signature to your forum posts.

Just go to your profile and edit your signature file to include your url.  Your url will appear with every post you make without including it in the body of your message (which is not allowed in some forums)

Claudia

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The Anniversary Shop, online store for traditional and modern anniversary gifts Plug-In Profit Site Work at Home Ideas and Opportunities

This is a good technique, but don`t rely on this heavily.

Google`s logarithm places low points in this technique.  Google is capable of determining original content versus response content.  Response content is not too valued regarding rank.

Original and updated content is the most powerful ingredient for positive rank results.  This is true for all major search engines for that matter.


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Steve
Computer Repair in St Louis and Saint Charles

Hello, Saucelady.

I wondered several months back how to drive people to my website, too. I did a lot of looking around the web, checked out a good many entrepreneurial sites (like this one) and talked with a few successful business owners to get ideas. Two things that kept coming up were to start a blog and write articles. I started a blog, actually a few of them, and started getting traffic and really nice comments right away. I would recommend Wordpress. I saw an earlier post suggesting a few good sites for submitting articles. Here is another site you might consider: www.ezinearticles.com.

I wrote some articles, posted a profile, etc. etc. I`ve had thousands of hits on my blogs and website since then. You have a great product, and I am willing to bet could share a good deal of insight about your love of cooking.

Just a suggestion.

-Kim