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marketraise

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Jan 25, 2008 6:15 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Am providing you with some guidelines.Just go through them and implement them as mentioned.

1)Tell Your Associates:There is no need to reach the unknown millions of people out there surfing the Internet,instead it would be wise if we contact our friends and associates.Look at your e-mail address book and get the word out, tell your business contacts, friends, relatives and tel them to tell their friends too. Channelise them in a proper way.

2)Link to Your Own Site:If you already have one website, make sure that this site is linking to your new site. A website without any incoming links to it will have a very low page ranking in the all-important Google search engine and will face an uphill battle to be seen in Google search results, especially if you are in a very competitive category.Even when your site is in the construction stage you, or even your web designer can link to the new site from another already well-established site, mentioning that the new site is under construction. If you already have several sites, then link them to your infant site. It will help the new site to be seen in competitive search engine listings even in its debut period.

3)Get a paid inclusion in one of the big search engines:It takes 4-6 weeks to get listed in Google, and other search engines are equally slow. However there are a few fairly important search engines that have inexpensive express inclusion programs. If you join these programs, then your site will be listed in 48 hours. Inktomi, which provides results for MSN and 100 other search services, has an inclusion program which  costs $39 for the first URL that you submit, and subsequent ones cost $25. The value of the Inktomi submission is that they revisit your URL every 48 hours and if you make changes on the page you can see the results in the MSN listings very quickly. Thus, you can tweak your pages and see how it affects your position.

4)Add your site to the Open Web Directory and the major search engines:Quality is more important than quantity when it comes to search engine submission. Forget about the sales hype that tells you to add your URL to 300, 000 search engines. Only a few search engines and directories provide the lion’s share of Internet traffic. If your site is in good shape, no longer under construction, then go to www.dmoz.org. This is the Open Web Directory. Find the category where your site fits, and make a submission. If you are accepted here your site will appear in the many search engines and local directories that use the results from the Open Web Directory. Inclusion in this directory usually takes time but it will help you a lot.  Similarly submit your site to Google, Alta Vista and All The Web, these are the remaining giants where you can submit for free.

5. Start a reciprocal links campaign – Once you have given yourself a link from your other sites or from your designer’s page, you can go out and ask other complementary sites for links.Always try exchanging links with sites that have a good page rank for it indicates that the site has good hits and is often visited.By having a trackback link chances of your site having hits is enhanced.

6.Write an article about your product or service – If you have a website the chances are that you are an expert in the field that your site is all about. Write an article about your product or service, or write an article related to the subject matter of your site. Submit the article online to various websites and e-mail lists dealing with your topic. The publication of your article in a big e-zine, or on a popular web site can get your new site off to a roaring start.

7)Promote Your Site Off-line – Now that you have a site, put the URL brochures, business cards, TV advertising, and circulars.The cafepress.com has a program enabling you to put your URL on these items and even sell them online.
Last but not the least be unique and be promotionally inclined initially for traffic generation.





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sddreamweavers

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Jan 25, 2008 4:05 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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I concur with Dale. Although SEO-rich content can help, it doesn`t really get to the main point. "SEO-rich" means that you try to include key phrases within the larger context of an article, discussion, or other written material. It`s still a gimmick, though.

An article, on the other hand, is written to build interest, excitement, or to provide new information. The article usually can stand alone, regardless of whether it`s on your Web site or some other location. That, and an article isn`t as constrained as SEO writing.

For example, an SEO article about signal flags would have to repeat a particular key phrase maybe 10 times in 300 words. The simple repetition gets old, and being only 300 words, there`s not much room for interesting things to happen.

But a general-interest article on signal flags can develop a plot or theme, build an argument, explain a process, explore history, and any of a variety of ways to make the article interesting, informative, and (most importantly) memorable.

Given two pathways, articles have a long-term, lasting effect. SEO writing gets you visible on a search engine, but that`s all it does. You STILL have to develop something interesting after that. So article-writing sort of covers two things in one event, where SEO writing is only half the solution.



SEO rich content not a gimmick and this is NOT the way that SEO rich content is written.


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Aaron Wood
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San Diego Dream Weavers
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sddreamweavers

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Jan 25, 2008 4:09 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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5. Start a reciprocal links campaign – Once you have given yourself a link from your other sites or from your designer’s page, you can go out and ask other complementary sites for links.Always try exchanging links with sites that have a good page rank for it indicates that the site has good hits and is often visited.By having a trackback link chances of your site having hits is enhanced.





Do NOT start a recoprocial Link campaign on a link page.  This is the quickest way to get your site dinged negatively by the Google Search engines.  If you want to trade links use Wordpress on your site and expand the link text to over a paragraph.

One other thing to keep in mind is that you should plan on 9 or more months before Google considers your site a `good one`.  They keep new sites with low rankings low on the listings to counter sites that are gone or not updated within a year.


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San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
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CraigL

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Jan 26, 2008 2:04 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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Aaron, I understand that you`re a skilled SEO person, but I also make money writing SEO-rich content, and boosting visibility. It`s easy enough to disagree with a point in a conversation, but without an explanation of why the point fails, what`s the benefit of information?

The fact of the matter is that SEO writing is quite different from writing an article, writing a short story, writing a novel, or writing a news story. SEO writing is a sort of three-dimensional word puzzle, with strict parameters. Among those is the preferred requirement that the repetition of keyphrases shouldn`t detract from a human being`s interest level while reading the content.

To that end, and because I also write articles and stories, I`ve seen badly done SEO writing, which verges on being tossed out as spam by search engines such as Google. Search-engine optimization isn`t as simplistic as listing a bunch of keyphrases and repeating them ad nauseum in as little space as possible.
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Feb 19, 2008 8:54 AM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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I think that its almost impossible to make money with google adsense. Unless you are getting loads of quality traffic to your site. Now I say quality traffic because traffic thats visits your site and is there for less then a minute will not click on any ads.
 
The problem as I see it is that many many people when starting a website will build on making money with google ads with the help of social bookmarketing sites.  Yes those sites can drive crazy traffic to your site but its not quality traffic in most cases.


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Feb 28, 2008 12:52 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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hi!

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KingDingaling

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Mar 21, 2008 10:58 PM ET    Quote  Report Abuse
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