Every person who has an online business wants to get traffic to their website. There are many ways to do this using effective SEO strategies – some are paid while others are low cost SEO or even no-cost SEO. It follows that the foundation for getting traffic to your website rests on a well-optimized website so that it can be found by the search engines and receive high rankings.
Whether you’re just starting out, or if you’re on a shoestring budget, following are 3 effective SEO strategies that you can apply to your website to improve results.
1. Link exchanges
Link exchanges or linking to and from other web sites is a no-cost way to improve your website rankings. This can be done in various ways:
i) Contact the author or owner of the web site you want to have a link exchange with.
ii) Get high-ranking links from Article Directories like ezinearticles.com by submitting well-written articles that meet their Read the rest of this entry →
My Internet Marketing Mentor has often recommended the value of viral marketing with ebooks or reports and so far I started but have not completed my first viral report. She highly recommends this as a means of getting your information into the hands of many more persons that you normally would.
I’ve been focused on building my new niche, but this is one of my goals for October. Would you like to join me? Ok, you may not be familiar with viral marketing or need a little more information in order to start, so I’ll discuss the topic in two three posts.
Normally when you write an ebook or report you’ll place a copyright on it and expressly state that it should not be copied or forwarded without your permission. In the case of your viral report, you want people to forward your report to others and you give permission in your report to do so.
I did additional research on viral reports and found some interesting information which indicate that there are many ways to accomplish the objective of Read the rest of this entry →
Do you ever feel like the hamster? Your business isn't growing at the pace you'd like and you seem to be just spinning your wheels? I've felt that way from time to time. In order to take your business to the next level, there are five areas of focus you should not neglect.
1. Content: This is the only way people will get to know what you do and what you have to offer. Your blog should be your home for your content, and should allow you readers to get to know you through informative topics where you share your knowledge.
2. Traffic: Traffic or readers are essential to our business. We want to invite and encourage visitors to our website to read and comment on our posts. At the same time we want to return the compliment by commenting on the blogs of fellow bloggers.
In the interest of growing our knowledge a strategy that was recommended to me quite some time ago, and which I've found beneficial is to take time to Read the rest of this entry →