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Free Marketing Graphics

December 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Exciting news for all internet marketers.

I came across this great product that is a definite plus in my books.

Not only does it make the job of an internet marketer easier, faster and with a great professional look, they are offering it for free.

Imagine that! Finding great professional work like this will cost a fortune, not to mention if you even try to design them yourself�.

I am sure it will consume your days leaving no time to attend to anything else. I must say that the graphics are great and the quality is superb, just what you need to grab attention and to help make that sale.

You can use these for

-Opt In forms
-Order Now Buttons
-Download now Buttons
-Guarantee Buttons
- and more…

And the best part is, the are All for free.

To find out more, click here…

http://www.yourblogriches.com/go/freemarketinggraphics



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Top WordPress Sites

December 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I’ve started a new site that provides ratings on the top sites that contain content, plugins, themes, or hacks for WordPress.  I’ve seen plenty of sites that rate WordPress blogs based on the site design and how appealing the site is.  The purpose of my site is to find out which sites have the best content related to WordPress.  Which sites have the best list of plugins?  Which sites have the best themes?  Which sites provide the best tips, tricks, and hacks for WordPress?  These are the kind of questions I want to answer, but I need your help.  Please visit http://topwpsites.com/ and start rating each of the sites listed on their content. 

If your site is not listed, please contact me using the Contact Me page on the site and I will add your site.  Very soon, I’ll provide the ability for anyone to add their site. 

I think this will be very useful.  Its easy to find thousands of WordPress sites via searching, but this way they will all be in one location and the community will be able to vote on their usefulness.

Thanks!

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Creating quality content for your blog

December 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment

All Internet marketing guides stress the importance of using only quality content for the blog pages, yet, the question remains: how can one decide which is good content and which not?

I simply suggest that we start from the very nature of the blog: a highly informational and personal site which tackles with subjects in a specific domain.  Hence, when designing the blog, don’t make it too complex, stick to the simple structures that allow users to perform actions easily on the page.  The frame should also be very simple and the eventual ads and links need to naturally blend in the content of the blog as such.  Web design provides the great advantage of using similar fonts and formats, so that only some elements on the page should stand out.

Furthermore, you may have learned by now that you need to create the site content around some high-in-demand keywords that users type in the search box of the engine.  The more the keywords, the higher the chances to have your blog appear in the first result pages.  However, many bloggers understand keyword density the wrong way.  The blog content should naturally include the keywords in an easy-to-read kind of way; a keyword density that goes higher than 2 or 3% could make the articles less appealing to the reader.

There are some tips you may consider when creating quality content for a blog.  First of all, regardless of the domain and the target audience, it should be reader-friendly and even reader-oriented if it be the case.  This means that even when you deal with a scientific topic, you can still keep the reader’s attention vivid since not everybody who visits your blog has a professional cultural background.  Write everything in short or medium-sized paragraphs so that the information naturally flows without being hard to track in case of an interruption.

Statistics show that blogs that include links in the very article content are more successful than those who present links at the bottom of the page for instance.  Inserted links allow the reader to get a puzzle-explanation of a concept or provide the opportunity to show interest for specific products or services.  Furthermore, the blogs that make a happy combination of written content, pictures and videos are considered a lot more appealing to the average Internet user, and thus receive a lot more traffic.  The key to being successful within the blogging system is definitely the continuous adaptation to the requests of the market.

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Getting a blogging job

December 24, 2008 By 1 Comment

The blogging phenomenon has reached such dimensions that presently it has gained prominence on a market where competition is anything but mild. This is how it came that business owners actually hire people to optimize blogs and keep a close watch over what happens on the web; companies that use blogs to make the relationship with clients and employees more informal and efficient are usually the ones in need of finding people for blogging jobs. After all, it takes quite some time to update fresh materials, answer comments and post opinions. Nevertheless, it is not uncommon to turn blogging into some form of home business.If you could make enough money to live decently, I’m sure you’d like to stay home in front of the computer instead of commuting every day to the other side of the city. However, don’t make the mistake of thinking that income keeps coming without any effort on the blogger’s part; on the contrary, to make a blog profitable, you need perseverance, knowledge in the field, adequate software and a lot of time. Let’s take the simple case of search engine optimization – what we shortly call SEO. Finding the right keywords to incorporate in the blog content is probably the first corner stone in the business.

What are the qualities of someone who blogs for a living?  First of all, you need full knowledge of how search engines operate in combination with an advertising program: Adsense or Adwords, preferably. Then, you should be able to make a serious selection of the keywords and understand the way you have to bid for them: the keywords highest in demand are also the most expensive ones. You have to be able to identify those keywords that become inactive or that have a very low return on investment rate, and thus be able to get them back in use or replace them with new functional ones.

Working as a blogger also implies Internet marketing and ecommerce solid knowledge. It is true that the general rules of traditional marketing apply here as well, but we cannot ignore the fact that the web is a different market with specific rules and laws of action. There are all sorts of marketing tools you may find available on various sites, and you should not ignore their importance, particularly since products and services promoted via blogs depend on advanced advertising techniques.

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Blog Traffic – Web 2.0 traffic tactics

December 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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The blogging phenomenon perfectly integrates in the second generation of web services know as Web 2.0 since this is the most convenient platform for all Internet moves. What is there for bloggers with Web 2.0?  First of all, the whole aim of the new web-technology is to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, on the one hand, and increase the usage rate on the other hand.  The next legitimate question that rises here touches on the best ways to attract traffic in the conditions of the transition to blogs that are sources of highly functional content.  First and foremost, we need to say here that with blogs web information is no longer centralized in terms of authority, not to mention that the freedom to use and re-use material is limitless.  From a certain point of view blogs become a real market, in which content is the transaction environment.  Hence, Web 2.0 traffic tactics mainly gravitate around the optimization of blog articles for advanced search on the search engines. Though it may be very tempting, don’t aim too high from the very beginning, it is almost impossible to get large numbers of visitors form the first blogging days.

The key to getting good traffic is perseverance and service quality.  Content has to be refreshed every week if not more often; in order to make that an easier task, it is enough to change some of the content, even if you don’t replace it all.  With the large number of applications available with Web 2.0, you should place a Google search box directly on the site, so that any user may find it comfortable to perform any further search directly from your blog page.  What’s there for you?  You make the user spend more time on the site and, consequently, you increase the chances of his or her returning to the blog in the future.

People are now more interested in blogs that have RSS feeds; well, you’ll have to let Internet users know that as soon as you can!  Initially, graphics were the best means to indicate the presence of an RSS feed; the great advantage now is that you can adjust the very colors used for this attention sign to the theme or topic specific to the blog itself.  The system is created in such an easy to use way that all you have to do is insert the text and the color scheme and then a graphic pattern is generated immediately.

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Automate Ad Buying Process with OIOpublisher WordPress Plugin

December 19, 2008 By 1 Comment

250x250 1 Automate Ad Buying Process with OIOpublisher Wordpress PluginEveryone knows that private advertising on a site has far more potential to make lots of money for your blog than the Ad Networks do.  With private advertising, you don’t need to share the earnings.  You get 100%.  The problem is it can be difficult to manage all of the different types of ads without an ad network.  

Enter OIOpublisher. 

OIOpublisher is a WordPress plugin that automates the process of selling ads on your site.  It allows you to directly sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads, and paid reviews.  It also provides the ability to sell custom items such as digital downloads.

Here are the features from the OIOpublisher website.

  • OIO can be used as a standalone platform, or as a WordPress plugin
  • Sell text ads, banner ads, in-content ads and paid reviews
  • Sell custom items; from custom ads to digital downloads
  • Entirely automated; purchases and epxirations all handled automatically
  • Your own ad server; javascript output lets you display ads on any website
  • Break ads into zones; display ads easily over multiple sites
  • Click and impression tracking; weekly ad reports emailed to advertisers
  • No empty ad slots; show your own default ads until slots are purchased
  • Ad status management; approve / reject / expire / renew / validate ads
  • Setup your own affiliate program; reward people for selling your ads
  • Easily extend functionality; modules let developers go further I
  • Integrated marketplace; let us help you advertise your ads

The cost of the plugin is $47, which is not that much considering that it does for you and the license you get with it.  The license is a multi-use license which means you can run it on any website that you own.  You also get a lifetime membership and access to the marketplace. 

I purchased OIOpublisher this morning and am working on integrating it into my sites.  So far, it is fairly easy to setup and has decent documentation.  The support forum also has a lot of useful information. 

For $47, you really can’t go wrong with this tool.  The first private ad sale could easily make up the cost of OIOpublisher.

 

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Optimizing your blog for search engines

December 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Competition is fierce online, and the top places on the search result pages are the most hunted for; therefore, any blog owner who tries to make money on the Internet needs to use a whole strategy to attract the best visitors and the highest traffic. The working principle for the blog optimization for search engines is the keyword. When you start the race for SEO (search engine optimization), you already have an advantage: blogs are usually the ones to receive more traffic then other complex sites due to their highly informational content. By keywords we mean those sentences or structures that a user types in the search box of an engine.Blogs mainly rely on articles that are regularly updated and re-freshened, so that they have something new to offer all the time. Before you write the blog content, you’ll need to make a list with all the keywords related to your domain and which are most likely to be typed in the search box by Internet users. A brain-storming session is ideal to find the best structures you need to include in the articles; keep in mind that there are some rules you may have to follow here as well.

For instance, choosing some very general keywords is not the best way to promote a business via a blog given the fact that though you may receive a high traffic, the profit could remain modest. The explanation is very simple here: too broad terms attract all sorts of users, even those that are not interested in purchasing something. SEO experts use all sorts of parameters to check the profitability of a blog, and one of them deals precisely with the number of relevant users the web-page gets.

Once you manage to get the most high-in-demand keywords, you’ll still have to do a lot of work in order to keep the blog position high in traffic. The status of keywords may change from one day to the other, given the intense competition that characterizes the Internet in general; consequently, every time you update or change the site content, you need to perform a keyword analysis beforehand and see where they stand in rankings. Last but not least, there is one thing that remains the golden rule of search engine optimization: quality informational content, that should be the essence of any successful blog!

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Tips for Making Widget Ads Perform Better

December 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment

For those using widget ads on your blog, the following article from Problogger.net provides 5 tips for making these ads perform better on your blog.  Check it out! 

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/12/17/5-tips-for-making-widget-ads-perform-better-on-your-blog/

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13 Common Mistakes in Search Engine Optimization

December 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Here is an excellent article on 13 common mistakes in search engine optimization (SEO).  The article is top notch and includes some excellent information that I will be trying out. 

Hope you enjoy this one!

http://www.thenetfool.com/13-search-engine-optimization-mistakes/

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How to promote your blog

December 15, 2008 By 2 Comments

Regardless of the reasons for which you have created a blog, it can become a success only if you know how to promote it: in other words, you have to attract traffic.  There are several ways to do so, depending on what you aim at with your blog; first of all, you need to get a look on the web and see what the competition is like.  Blogging is something you learn and improve as you acquire more experience; actually we could say there are no boundaries related to the possibility to promote something online.  The best help you can get is from domains related to yours, by the use of friendly links.  Once you’ve got the pages ready don’t hesitate to have links to your blog posted on other sites, which you may have to do the same in exchange to help others.  Nevertheless, it is good to mention here that you must pay attention to the web page quality to make sure that you don’t promote something that contradicts your principles.  Then, you should probably know that there are all sorts of blog directories where you may submit your pages so that you make it more easily accessible.  Generally such sites require a description of your blog, and it is here that you need to show your skills.

In case you have to describe the blog as clearly as possible, try to focus on the general topic and aim of the blog.  The title you include here will be part of a category that you must select very carefully, so that it reflects your intention completely.  This introductory part should not be too long, though you’ll have to include some descriptive details and high-in-demand keywords.  If you manage to do all these insertions correctly, then you can expect to get great traffic to the blog.

When you are new in the blogging world, you have to let people know that you’re available with great subjects, pictures, articles, products and anything else specific to your field.  The best way to spread the news about your blog is to write press releases and submit them to free directories; statistics show that many bloggers chose this promotion method as it is the most profitable in terms of attracting friendly links and good positions in search engine rankings.  Forum postings are also great to be used in parallel with press release listings, and results should not be late to appear right away.

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