(Don't Get Ripped Off)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
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(For the most part, affiliate programs are a nice, easy way to
make money online. However, like many other online
opportunities, you need to be on the lookout for scams.
Internet scams are all over the place, as they are increasing in
popularity. Unfortunately, there are also scammers who are
using affiliate programs as fronts. Although it is hard to
associate good news with internet scams, there is good news.
That good news is that there are ways to make sure that you join
an affiliate program, make sales, and actually get paid for
those sales.
As previously mentioned, a large number of scammers are starting
to use affiliate programs as fronts for their scams. These scams
can take on a number of different sizes, shapes, and styles.
One of the most popular affiliate program scams involves
affiliate programs that do not pay. These programs are selling
real, legitimate products. The only problem is that many of
these affiliate programs do not pay. Essentially, you end up
doing a bunch of work for nothing. Another common affiliate
program scam involves selling a product that doesn’t even exist.
Not only will you not get paid for your hard work, but you will
also be participating in a scam that involves ripping off
consumers, by taking their money without giving them what they
paid for.
As it was mentioned above, there are a number of different ways
that you can prevent yourself from joining an affiliate program
that doesn’t pay. One of those ways involves choosing a
well-known affiliate program. If you need assistance choosing
an affiliate program, you can seek it online. There are a large
number of online websites that give accurate and updated
information on a wide variety of affiliate programs. There are
also programs, which are regularly referred to as affiliate
directories. These directories are actually in charge of
running a company’s affiliate program. Many of these programs,
which include LinkShare, come highly rated and recommend, as do
the affiliate programs they have listed in their directories.
In conjunction with researching an affiliate program, you can
also research the product that is being sold. A large number of
customers write product reviews. Many of these product reviews,
which can be both positive and negative, can be found online.
You will also want to check out websites that are known as scam
websites. Scam websites allow internet users, just like you, to
post ways that they have been scammed and by whom. You can find
information on poor quality products, individuals, companies,
and even affiliate programs that are not considered legitimate.
When researching an affiliate program or even a product, it is
important to remember that nothing and no one is perfect. While
it isn’t uncommon to find one or two negative reviews, you need
to be cautious of numerous negative reviews.
Since it is relatively easy to avoid an affiliate program scam,
you are advised to do so. If anything appears out of the
ordinary or if you suspicions are raised, you are advised to use
your common sense. In the long run, you will be glad with your
decision to do so. Not only can avoiding an affiliate program
scam ensure that you get paid, but it will also help you save
your own reputation. The last thing you want to be associated
with is an affiliate program that doesn’t deliver the products
that they promise. In fact, your name or your company’s name
could literally be drudged through the mud. While you may think
that this won’t have a long lasting impact, it might just,
especially if you plan on selling your own products in the near
future. Even if your products are quality products, many
consumers might remember you as the person who scammed them
before.
Although it is relatively easy to spot an affiliate program
scam, there are a few that might “fall threw the cracks.” If
you later determine that you are involved in an affiliate
program scam, or even just a program that is selling poor
quality products, you are advised to get out as soon as
possible. Severing your ties will help to ensure you get paid,
as well as build a good name for yourself.
P.S. Affiliate program scams do exist, but you don’t have to
live in fear of them. Just use your common sense, when it comes
to choosing an affiliate program. Common sense goes a lot
further than many imagine.)
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
(Page Length For Search Engines)
(Page Length For Search Engines)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
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(You’ve decided to create content for your web pages, but aren’t
sure how many words each page should have to ensure that search
engines and visitors come back often. It’s a dilemma that many
web site owners face. They don’t want to have too little words,
but they don’t want to have too many words, either. It’s a
delicate balance that every web site owner has to know in order
to have a site that is search engine optimized and visitor
friendly. In this newsletter, we will discuss the appropriate
length for pages, and the reason why your pages should adhere to
this length requirement.
What is a good length for pages?
Ideally, each page should have at least 700 words, but no more
than 1500 words. Anything less than 700 words and search engine
spiders might just skip over your site entirely; anything more
than 1500 and spiders won’t take the time to search through the
content for keywords.
When I write the content, what should I strive to do?
You should strive to write content that is entertaining and easy
to read. Don’t drone on and on just to meet the 700 word
requirement. Find things to talk about that are relevant to your
site and come up with ways to say them in a concise manner.
Remember that search engine bots aren’t the only thing to come
to your site—people are also coming to your site and they will
want to read content that makes them want to visit again. Aim to
please them first, then the search engine bots.
How do I please search engine bots?
Pleasing search engine bots is as simple as having 700+ words of
content and some keywords sprinkled into your content. Keywords
are words that the search engine bots immediately spot and use
to figure out how to rank your site. In a document of 700 words,
you’ll want to have at least 7 keywords, but preferably around
21, throughout your content. When using keywords, make sure to
sprinkle them naturally throughout the document so that you do
not distract your reader from what the content is about.
Why should I have pages with content between 700 and 1500 words?
The reasons for this are simple. Having pages with content of
700-1500 words will please visitors and search engine spiders.
Pleasing both will help your site attract more traffic and
become successful.
Visitors who come to your site want to see useful content. If
your content is short, chances are, it’s not very useful to
visitors. Good content is content that is worthwhile to read and
tells the visitor something they don’t already know. It must be
packed with information and details. Few can accomplish this in
less than 700 words, which is why it is often necessary to use
that many words.
However, it is also important not to be too wordy with your
content. People want to be able to quickly get the content they
need. They don’t want to read through hundreds of words of fluff
in order to get what they came for. So be concise and try to
make sure your content doesn’t go over 1500 words.
Spiders who come to your site want to have a good amount of
content to “chew” on. That is, they want to have enough content
to report back to the search engine database. Less than 700
words really isn’t enough content for a spider to bring back to
a search engine database, so spiders tend to ignore pages with
under 700 words.
Spiders, much like human visitors, also don’t like pages with
excessive amounts of words. Pages with 1500 words are usually a
big turnoff to spiders, and even if a spider does visit the
page, chances are they won’t report the contents of the page
back to the search engine database for which they work. That is
why you must strive to be concise not just for human visitors,
but for the robot(spider) visitors as well.
If you are able to limit your pages to between 700 and 1500
words, you will do well with human visitors and search engine
spiders. That’s the goal of every web site owner and should be
your goal as well.
P.S. Writing content between 700-1500 words is easy as long as
you come up with good content to write about and try to be as
concise as possible. It’s just that easy!)
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(You’ve decided to create content for your web pages, but aren’t
sure how many words each page should have to ensure that search
engines and visitors come back often. It’s a dilemma that many
web site owners face. They don’t want to have too little words,
but they don’t want to have too many words, either. It’s a
delicate balance that every web site owner has to know in order
to have a site that is search engine optimized and visitor
friendly. In this newsletter, we will discuss the appropriate
length for pages, and the reason why your pages should adhere to
this length requirement.
What is a good length for pages?
Ideally, each page should have at least 700 words, but no more
than 1500 words. Anything less than 700 words and search engine
spiders might just skip over your site entirely; anything more
than 1500 and spiders won’t take the time to search through the
content for keywords.
When I write the content, what should I strive to do?
You should strive to write content that is entertaining and easy
to read. Don’t drone on and on just to meet the 700 word
requirement. Find things to talk about that are relevant to your
site and come up with ways to say them in a concise manner.
Remember that search engine bots aren’t the only thing to come
to your site—people are also coming to your site and they will
want to read content that makes them want to visit again. Aim to
please them first, then the search engine bots.
How do I please search engine bots?
Pleasing search engine bots is as simple as having 700+ words of
content and some keywords sprinkled into your content. Keywords
are words that the search engine bots immediately spot and use
to figure out how to rank your site. In a document of 700 words,
you’ll want to have at least 7 keywords, but preferably around
21, throughout your content. When using keywords, make sure to
sprinkle them naturally throughout the document so that you do
not distract your reader from what the content is about.
Why should I have pages with content between 700 and 1500 words?
The reasons for this are simple. Having pages with content of
700-1500 words will please visitors and search engine spiders.
Pleasing both will help your site attract more traffic and
become successful.
Visitors who come to your site want to see useful content. If
your content is short, chances are, it’s not very useful to
visitors. Good content is content that is worthwhile to read and
tells the visitor something they don’t already know. It must be
packed with information and details. Few can accomplish this in
less than 700 words, which is why it is often necessary to use
that many words.
However, it is also important not to be too wordy with your
content. People want to be able to quickly get the content they
need. They don’t want to read through hundreds of words of fluff
in order to get what they came for. So be concise and try to
make sure your content doesn’t go over 1500 words.
Spiders who come to your site want to have a good amount of
content to “chew” on. That is, they want to have enough content
to report back to the search engine database. Less than 700
words really isn’t enough content for a spider to bring back to
a search engine database, so spiders tend to ignore pages with
under 700 words.
Spiders, much like human visitors, also don’t like pages with
excessive amounts of words. Pages with 1500 words are usually a
big turnoff to spiders, and even if a spider does visit the
page, chances are they won’t report the contents of the page
back to the search engine database for which they work. That is
why you must strive to be concise not just for human visitors,
but for the robot(spider) visitors as well.
If you are able to limit your pages to between 700 and 1500
words, you will do well with human visitors and search engine
spiders. That’s the goal of every web site owner and should be
your goal as well.
P.S. Writing content between 700-1500 words is easy as long as
you come up with good content to write about and try to be as
concise as possible. It’s just that easy!)
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
(Meta Tags, Titles & Their Uses)
(Meta Tags, Titles & Their Uses)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
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(Title and Meta Tags can be quite helpful—and effective—to
gaining more visitors to your site. However, they are only as
effective as you make them. Proper use of meta and title tags is
absolutely essential to making them a good thing for your site.
In this newsletter, we will go over the basics of title & meta
tags—using proper keywords, writing good meta tag descriptions,
and using the title tag effectively.
The basics to creating good meta tags
It is best to plot out how you’ll use meta tags on a particular
page before even writing the content for the page. Lots of
people will write the content of the page and then try to
sprinkle in keywords in the meta tags. This is an ineffective
way of doing things, as it usually makes your page confusing to
visitors.
Before writing content, take a minute to pick out 3-4 primary
keywords. Then take another minute to write phrases from those
words. Once you’ve done that, you can begin writing your content
around the keywords.
How do I select proper keywords to enter into the meta tags?
This is an excellent question. Really, there are two main rules
of thumb for selecting proper keywords.
#1: Base your keywords off of the content of your site.
For instance, if you are running a digital photography site,
your keywords could be digital, photographs, photography etc.
You’ll want to steer clear of silly keywords that don’t relate
to your site. These would include keywords completely irrelevant
to your site.
#2: Make sure your keywords can flow naturally throughout the
content of your site.
Try to pick words that you can easily incorporate into the
content of your site and that make sense. You must remember that
actual people are reading your site—the content(and keywords)
MUST make sense to not only search engines, but also to the
people who visit your site. Thus, the keywords you choose must
fit the content of your site perfectly.
How do I write a good description tag?
What description tags essentially do is briefly inform the
search bot/web crawler what a site is about. Therefore, to write
a good description tag, you must be able to write a good, brief
description of what your site is about. It is important to note
that you are limited to 200 characters or less in the
description tag so be as concise as possible.
Let’s use the photography example again. Your site is based on
digital photography. So your description tag should say that
your site is related to digital photography.
Example description tag: “Digital photography site, digital
photos, buy digital photos, print digital photos”.
The search engine bot/web crawler will see this and will place
the site in relevant search results. So if someone searches for
digital photos, they should see your site somewhere on the list.
The same principle can be applied to any and every site. Good
description tags are as simple as a good, concise description of
what your site is about.
How to use the Title tag Effectively.
There are some misconceptions about Title tags. People have said
in the past(and some still do today) that a good, effective
Title tag consists of keywords. However, this is just not true.
Every good title tag consists of two things—the name of the site
and a brief description of what is on the site.
One thing to keep in mind is that the Title tag is also the
title of your listing in any search engine. Why would you want
your title listing to consist of keywords? It won’t help your
site at all—it will actually hurt it because people are less
likely to take the site seriously due to silly keywords. Another
thing worth noting is that the Title tag should never be more
than 80 characters. Generally speaking, the briefer the Title
tag is, the better. So strive to be concise!
So what is a good, effective Title tag? Well, a good, effective
Title tag should first have the name of your web site (so if
it’s www.digitalphotography.com, it should be “Digital
Photography”) and then a short description of the site. In this
example, you could put “Digital Photography – Buy and Print
Digital Photos Here”. This is both an accurate and effective
Title tag for this particular site. Apply this principle to your
site and you will have a good and effective Title tag.
P.S. Meta tags and titles are incredibly useful to your site.
Master the above techniques and you will be able to create
effective meta tags and titles that will help your site earn a
higher search engine ranking and more visitors!)
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(Title and Meta Tags can be quite helpful—and effective—to
gaining more visitors to your site. However, they are only as
effective as you make them. Proper use of meta and title tags is
absolutely essential to making them a good thing for your site.
In this newsletter, we will go over the basics of title & meta
tags—using proper keywords, writing good meta tag descriptions,
and using the title tag effectively.
The basics to creating good meta tags
It is best to plot out how you’ll use meta tags on a particular
page before even writing the content for the page. Lots of
people will write the content of the page and then try to
sprinkle in keywords in the meta tags. This is an ineffective
way of doing things, as it usually makes your page confusing to
visitors.
Before writing content, take a minute to pick out 3-4 primary
keywords. Then take another minute to write phrases from those
words. Once you’ve done that, you can begin writing your content
around the keywords.
How do I select proper keywords to enter into the meta tags?
This is an excellent question. Really, there are two main rules
of thumb for selecting proper keywords.
#1: Base your keywords off of the content of your site.
For instance, if you are running a digital photography site,
your keywords could be digital, photographs, photography etc.
You’ll want to steer clear of silly keywords that don’t relate
to your site. These would include keywords completely irrelevant
to your site.
#2: Make sure your keywords can flow naturally throughout the
content of your site.
Try to pick words that you can easily incorporate into the
content of your site and that make sense. You must remember that
actual people are reading your site—the content(and keywords)
MUST make sense to not only search engines, but also to the
people who visit your site. Thus, the keywords you choose must
fit the content of your site perfectly.
How do I write a good description tag?
What description tags essentially do is briefly inform the
search bot/web crawler what a site is about. Therefore, to write
a good description tag, you must be able to write a good, brief
description of what your site is about. It is important to note
that you are limited to 200 characters or less in the
description tag so be as concise as possible.
Let’s use the photography example again. Your site is based on
digital photography. So your description tag should say that
your site is related to digital photography.
Example description tag: “Digital photography site, digital
photos, buy digital photos, print digital photos”.
The search engine bot/web crawler will see this and will place
the site in relevant search results. So if someone searches for
digital photos, they should see your site somewhere on the list.
The same principle can be applied to any and every site. Good
description tags are as simple as a good, concise description of
what your site is about.
How to use the Title tag Effectively.
There are some misconceptions about Title tags. People have said
in the past(and some still do today) that a good, effective
Title tag consists of keywords. However, this is just not true.
Every good title tag consists of two things—the name of the site
and a brief description of what is on the site.
One thing to keep in mind is that the Title tag is also the
title of your listing in any search engine. Why would you want
your title listing to consist of keywords? It won’t help your
site at all—it will actually hurt it because people are less
likely to take the site seriously due to silly keywords. Another
thing worth noting is that the Title tag should never be more
than 80 characters. Generally speaking, the briefer the Title
tag is, the better. So strive to be concise!
So what is a good, effective Title tag? Well, a good, effective
Title tag should first have the name of your web site (so if
it’s www.digitalphotography.com, it should be “Digital
Photography”) and then a short description of the site. In this
example, you could put “Digital Photography – Buy and Print
Digital Photos Here”. This is both an accurate and effective
Title tag for this particular site. Apply this principle to your
site and you will have a good and effective Title tag.
P.S. Meta tags and titles are incredibly useful to your site.
Master the above techniques and you will be able to create
effective meta tags and titles that will help your site earn a
higher search engine ranking and more visitors!)
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
(Direct Advantages of Email Marketing)
(Direct Advantages of Email Marketing)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
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(Email marketing is a wonderful way to reach large amounts of
customers in a short amount of time. This is a very inexpensive
marketing method that is effective. It will result in getting
more traffic to your website thus generating more sales. Email
marketing can be used by any type of business regardless of the
products or services they have to offer.
One huge advantage of email marketing is it can be effective for
both large and small businesses. When it comes to regular
commerce, the larger company can afford to print up colorful
fliers and ads. This is much harder for smaller businesses due
to the expense. Email marketing can be done using software so
that even small businesses can create effective and professional
looking email marketing campaigns on a small budget. This will
hopefully help them increase their sales.
Email marketing is an effective way to deliver the information
you want to get to consumers in the method they enjoy using.
Most everyone has email these days and it is common to log on
and check for messages several times each day. It also allows
you the opportunity to reach consumers around the globe. There
are no boundaries when it comes to location with this method of
marketing.
On average email marketing costs 78% less than other types of
marketing. This savings is after the cost of research, testing,
and sending the emails. It also takes the cost of consulting
into consideration. Email marketing consulting is often less
expensive than other marketing consultants. This means you can
choose to save money or maybe invest more but reach more people.
In addition to saving money, you save valuable time. Your emails
can be scheduled to go out at times when you are out of the
office or working on other projects.
To appeal to your consumers, email marketing allows you to use
graphics, games, music, videos, and other types of materials to
gain their interest. This is something most other marketing
concepts don’t allow. Sure, they offer one or two choices but it
seems like everything is possible with email marketing concepts.
Since you have the name and purchasing history of the
individual, you can personalize the email. This makes the
customer feel more trusting towards you as well as more loyal to
the company. It is much better than getting a piece of mail at
home that says dear customer. You will be able to create
marketing lists that allow you to send a marketing campaign only
to a target market. This is a very effective way of sending
different campaigns to different customers.
The process of email marketing gives you tools for measuring the
successful of the marketing campaign. You can measure the click
through rate, conversion rate, find out how a person linked to
your website, and many more ways of analyzing data.
Customers can choose to opt out by clicking the link in your
email marketing campaign. This saves you money by knowing who
isn’t interested in receiving your information. There is no way
to know that with other types of marketing campaigns. For those
who are interested in your email marketing campaign, you will
see the responses quickly. This is a great way of knowing what
is effective for future marketing endeavors.
P.S.
Email marketing is one of the most common as well as most
successful marketing methods available. With the volumes of
consumers on the internet everyday it only makes sense to use it
from a business point of view. Email marketing is a great way to
reach a volume of people quickly and inexpensively. Email
marketing is a great opportunity to communicate with your
customers. This is an effective way to be able to analyze your
marketing tools so you will know what is working and what areas
you need to continue improving.)
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(Email marketing is a wonderful way to reach large amounts of
customers in a short amount of time. This is a very inexpensive
marketing method that is effective. It will result in getting
more traffic to your website thus generating more sales. Email
marketing can be used by any type of business regardless of the
products or services they have to offer.
One huge advantage of email marketing is it can be effective for
both large and small businesses. When it comes to regular
commerce, the larger company can afford to print up colorful
fliers and ads. This is much harder for smaller businesses due
to the expense. Email marketing can be done using software so
that even small businesses can create effective and professional
looking email marketing campaigns on a small budget. This will
hopefully help them increase their sales.
Email marketing is an effective way to deliver the information
you want to get to consumers in the method they enjoy using.
Most everyone has email these days and it is common to log on
and check for messages several times each day. It also allows
you the opportunity to reach consumers around the globe. There
are no boundaries when it comes to location with this method of
marketing.
On average email marketing costs 78% less than other types of
marketing. This savings is after the cost of research, testing,
and sending the emails. It also takes the cost of consulting
into consideration. Email marketing consulting is often less
expensive than other marketing consultants. This means you can
choose to save money or maybe invest more but reach more people.
In addition to saving money, you save valuable time. Your emails
can be scheduled to go out at times when you are out of the
office or working on other projects.
To appeal to your consumers, email marketing allows you to use
graphics, games, music, videos, and other types of materials to
gain their interest. This is something most other marketing
concepts don’t allow. Sure, they offer one or two choices but it
seems like everything is possible with email marketing concepts.
Since you have the name and purchasing history of the
individual, you can personalize the email. This makes the
customer feel more trusting towards you as well as more loyal to
the company. It is much better than getting a piece of mail at
home that says dear customer. You will be able to create
marketing lists that allow you to send a marketing campaign only
to a target market. This is a very effective way of sending
different campaigns to different customers.
The process of email marketing gives you tools for measuring the
successful of the marketing campaign. You can measure the click
through rate, conversion rate, find out how a person linked to
your website, and many more ways of analyzing data.
Customers can choose to opt out by clicking the link in your
email marketing campaign. This saves you money by knowing who
isn’t interested in receiving your information. There is no way
to know that with other types of marketing campaigns. For those
who are interested in your email marketing campaign, you will
see the responses quickly. This is a great way of knowing what
is effective for future marketing endeavors.
P.S.
Email marketing is one of the most common as well as most
successful marketing methods available. With the volumes of
consumers on the internet everyday it only makes sense to use it
from a business point of view. Email marketing is a great way to
reach a volume of people quickly and inexpensively. Email
marketing is a great opportunity to communicate with your
customers. This is an effective way to be able to analyze your
marketing tools so you will know what is working and what areas
you need to continue improving.)
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Saturday, February 23, 2008
(The Truth About Trackbacks)
(The Truth About Trackbacks)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
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(If you’re a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of trackbacks.
Most likely, you probably don’t know what these are and what
they have to do with your blog. That’s alright, as most people
don’t quite understand how trackbacks work and why they are
useful for a blog. In this newsletter, we’re going to go over
trackbacks—what they are, how they work, why they are important
to blog traffic, and how to get more trackbacks. After you’ve
read this, you’ll know practically everything there is to know
about trackbacks.
What are trackbacks?
The concept of trackbacks is a bit hard to explain. So we’ll use
an example to explain it in the best way possible.
OK, say you see a great blog post on another person’s blog and
want to link to it on your blog. You could do this the
old-fashioned way by manually putting a link on your site to
that blog. However, if you do it this way, the person whose blog
post you are linking to won’t know that you are linking to them
unless you tell them.
This is where trackbacks come in. A trackback is a program which
will notify the owner of a blog when one of their posts has been
linked to at another blog.
How do they work?
A blog that has a trackback system set up will have a link at
the bottom of every blog post. This link will say something like
“Blog This!” Anyone who clicks the link can then put a link to
that blog post on their site. The person who posted the original
blog will then be notified via email that their blog posting has
been linked to. Additionally, the link that was clicked(“Blog
This!”) will change to “Trackbacks”. From that point forward,
the “Trackbacks” link will keep track of how many people have
chosen to blog about that particular post. So after the first
trackback, it will say “Trackbacks: 1”. The number of trackbacks
recorded will be updated as they occur.
Why are trackbacks important to blog traffic?
The easy answer is that trackbacks are important because they
increase awareness of your blog. Trackbacks also make a blog
seem more credible. After all, people have to think your posts
are good enough to be trackbacked.
Anytime a person makes a trackback on your blog, they make a
post on their own blog about your blog. This, in turn, lets
their readers know about your blog. Chances are, their readers
will want to visit your blog to see what the big deal is. If
they see something on your blog that they like, they’ll keep
coming back for more, which means you’ll have a whole new
fanbase of readers. That means more traffic for your blog.
Can you imagine what would happen if 5 different bloggers
trackbacked a post on your blog? Depending on how popular their
blog is, that’s potentially as much as hundreds of new readers
for your blog! Pretty incredible, right?
Also, every trackback made, assuming it is a legitimate one(and
some trackbacks are spam, especially if they are there only to
link to another site) adds credibility to your blog. Blogs with
high amounts of trackbacks look credible because lots of people
like the posts enough to trackback them.
How can I increase the number of trackbacks I get?
The easiest and best way to increase trackbacks is to frequently
post. If you post frequently (2-3 times a week), people will
have quite a few posts that they can trackback. However, it is
important to make sure that your posts are of a good quality.
Quality blog posts are those that people can relate to and are
easy to read. If you post a long boring rant, people probably
won’t want to trackback that. But if you post a decent sized
rant that is entertaining (and that people are likely to agree
with), you’ll get trackbacked.
The number of trackbacks you get is totally dependent on the
number of visitors your blog receives and how frequently you are
able to make quality posts. If you’ve got a good amount of
visitors and write good blog posts, you’ll get trackbacks.
P.S. Trackbacks are a wonderful thing for every blog. You are
able to know when your blog posting has been posted about at
another blog, plus you potentially gain more visitors. It’s a
win-win situation for you!)
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(If you’re a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of trackbacks.
Most likely, you probably don’t know what these are and what
they have to do with your blog. That’s alright, as most people
don’t quite understand how trackbacks work and why they are
useful for a blog. In this newsletter, we’re going to go over
trackbacks—what they are, how they work, why they are important
to blog traffic, and how to get more trackbacks. After you’ve
read this, you’ll know practically everything there is to know
about trackbacks.
What are trackbacks?
The concept of trackbacks is a bit hard to explain. So we’ll use
an example to explain it in the best way possible.
OK, say you see a great blog post on another person’s blog and
want to link to it on your blog. You could do this the
old-fashioned way by manually putting a link on your site to
that blog. However, if you do it this way, the person whose blog
post you are linking to won’t know that you are linking to them
unless you tell them.
This is where trackbacks come in. A trackback is a program which
will notify the owner of a blog when one of their posts has been
linked to at another blog.
How do they work?
A blog that has a trackback system set up will have a link at
the bottom of every blog post. This link will say something like
“Blog This!” Anyone who clicks the link can then put a link to
that blog post on their site. The person who posted the original
blog will then be notified via email that their blog posting has
been linked to. Additionally, the link that was clicked(“Blog
This!”) will change to “Trackbacks”. From that point forward,
the “Trackbacks” link will keep track of how many people have
chosen to blog about that particular post. So after the first
trackback, it will say “Trackbacks: 1”. The number of trackbacks
recorded will be updated as they occur.
Why are trackbacks important to blog traffic?
The easy answer is that trackbacks are important because they
increase awareness of your blog. Trackbacks also make a blog
seem more credible. After all, people have to think your posts
are good enough to be trackbacked.
Anytime a person makes a trackback on your blog, they make a
post on their own blog about your blog. This, in turn, lets
their readers know about your blog. Chances are, their readers
will want to visit your blog to see what the big deal is. If
they see something on your blog that they like, they’ll keep
coming back for more, which means you’ll have a whole new
fanbase of readers. That means more traffic for your blog.
Can you imagine what would happen if 5 different bloggers
trackbacked a post on your blog? Depending on how popular their
blog is, that’s potentially as much as hundreds of new readers
for your blog! Pretty incredible, right?
Also, every trackback made, assuming it is a legitimate one(and
some trackbacks are spam, especially if they are there only to
link to another site) adds credibility to your blog. Blogs with
high amounts of trackbacks look credible because lots of people
like the posts enough to trackback them.
How can I increase the number of trackbacks I get?
The easiest and best way to increase trackbacks is to frequently
post. If you post frequently (2-3 times a week), people will
have quite a few posts that they can trackback. However, it is
important to make sure that your posts are of a good quality.
Quality blog posts are those that people can relate to and are
easy to read. If you post a long boring rant, people probably
won’t want to trackback that. But if you post a decent sized
rant that is entertaining (and that people are likely to agree
with), you’ll get trackbacked.
The number of trackbacks you get is totally dependent on the
number of visitors your blog receives and how frequently you are
able to make quality posts. If you’ve got a good amount of
visitors and write good blog posts, you’ll get trackbacks.
P.S. Trackbacks are a wonderful thing for every blog. You are
able to know when your blog posting has been posted about at
another blog, plus you potentially gain more visitors. It’s a
win-win situation for you!)
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
(Marketing Via Video)
(Marketing Via Video)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Using streaming videos in the internet as a form of marketing
is a relatively new approach. Currently, most marketing
brochures and newsletters are using text and pictures in
combination to attract a consumer’s attention. Some pictures are
a combination of still and animated objects to better the
chances of attracting a prospective customer. But, if there is
anything advertisers and consumers have learned about marketing,
television advertisements are still the best way to attract
attention for a product and keep it in the consumer’s memory.
To fully understand why internet streaming videos are the next
step in online marketing, we need to be able to grasp the
objective of advertisers and the effects of the different
methods of advertising.
To begin with, online advertising began mainly with newsletters
in the form of emails or pop-up screens containing pure text and
some inanimate pictures. As internet users became more and more
accustomed to surfing the WWW, these newsletters and pop-up
advertisements gradually turned into annoyances. Marketing
newsletters started to look like junk mail and pop-up screens
became similar to billboard advertisements that you see
everyday. Also, pop-up screens disturbs the rhythm of internet
surfing. There you are browsing away when you see a link or
article which you decide to follow or read. Just as you are
about to click on it or just as you are in the middle of reading
it, the pop-up appears and displaces your current browser window
behind it.
In short, these common forms of advertising soon became major
annoyances in most cases that anti virus software developers
soon added anti pop-up features in their products thereby
drastically reducing the number of consumers that these pop-ups
were able to reach. To add emphasis to the drive against pop-up
advertising windows, Mozilla developed a built-in anti-pop up
utility into their web browser, Firefox. Just as the pop-window
is about to open, Firefox immediately denies the opening of this
new browser window. Nowadays, I rarely see pop-up screens on my
computer when I browse the WWW.
As far as email newsletters and advertisements are concerned, a
similar phenomenon is occurring where they have suddenly evolved
into what is known as junk mail or spam mail in internet
language. Again, anti-virus protection software creators
incorporated spam mail protection within their software while
numerous sites in the internet make available free, downloadable
anti-spam software. The biggest blow to spam mail marketing was
when e-mail providers decided to add anti-spam or spam blocking
utilities in their website. As a result of these measures
against pop-ups and spam messaging, an avenue in internet
marketing is about to close.
This is where streaming video comes in. It is undisputed that
television commercials are still the best way to attract
attention. The advertiser needs to make the product look good in
TV, but their primary objective is to attract the consumer’s
attention. Their second goal is to make the video memorable
enough so that the customer remembers the brand name when they
have need of the product. The most famous brand names like
Marlboro succeeded in their advertising campaign videos so much
so that people still remember the Marlboro man. In this
advertisement, the first thing you see are wild horses running.
This is quite an attention drawer since lots of people like
horses even when they haven’t seen one in person.
The main advantage of videos is their ability to instill
curiosity in a person. An apt demonstration of this ability is
when people are seen stopping at display windows of stores that
have television displays in them. When you see a moving picture,
you are immediately interested in what it is all about and what
will happen next. Even if you don’t stop in front of the
display, you will spare a glance or two. The uncanny part is
this, in the instant that you see people gathered in front of
something you haven’t seen yet, you will take time to look to
satisfy your curiosity. However, if that display happens to be
in your own neighborhood, you will gradually get accustomed to
it and begin to ignore it.
This is the strength of internet marketing through streaming
videos. It immediately grabs attention. The only thing that you
as an advertiser have to do is to make the video interesting
enough that it maintains or improves on that initial level of
interest. When the video is old enough to become common place,
you replace it with a new one. Unlike pop-ups or spam messages
or newsletters, they cannot become an annoyance because the
first thing it does is to grab the consumer’s attention and
curiosity.
With the use of videos, the consumer gets a clear picture of
what your product or idea is all about. This is an added bonus
to the attention grabbing feature of using videos for your
marketing or advertising campaigns. When a consumer knows what
you and your product are all about, they can begin to trust you.
After all, having the trust of your customer’s is better than
the bottom line. A trusting customer is one who will patronize
all your product lines. As good as your advertising video is, it
is still the quality of your product that matters in the end.
P.S. To make a video interesting enough, try to place some humor
and social relevance into them. You also need to make your
customers feel a need or craving for your product. This is
especially true for entrepreneurs who wish to create a niche for
their product line. A good video advertisement will pull in
people more than newsletters, pop-up windows or spam messages
will.)
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Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Using streaming videos in the internet as a form of marketing
is a relatively new approach. Currently, most marketing
brochures and newsletters are using text and pictures in
combination to attract a consumer’s attention. Some pictures are
a combination of still and animated objects to better the
chances of attracting a prospective customer. But, if there is
anything advertisers and consumers have learned about marketing,
television advertisements are still the best way to attract
attention for a product and keep it in the consumer’s memory.
To fully understand why internet streaming videos are the next
step in online marketing, we need to be able to grasp the
objective of advertisers and the effects of the different
methods of advertising.
To begin with, online advertising began mainly with newsletters
in the form of emails or pop-up screens containing pure text and
some inanimate pictures. As internet users became more and more
accustomed to surfing the WWW, these newsletters and pop-up
advertisements gradually turned into annoyances. Marketing
newsletters started to look like junk mail and pop-up screens
became similar to billboard advertisements that you see
everyday. Also, pop-up screens disturbs the rhythm of internet
surfing. There you are browsing away when you see a link or
article which you decide to follow or read. Just as you are
about to click on it or just as you are in the middle of reading
it, the pop-up appears and displaces your current browser window
behind it.
In short, these common forms of advertising soon became major
annoyances in most cases that anti virus software developers
soon added anti pop-up features in their products thereby
drastically reducing the number of consumers that these pop-ups
were able to reach. To add emphasis to the drive against pop-up
advertising windows, Mozilla developed a built-in anti-pop up
utility into their web browser, Firefox. Just as the pop-window
is about to open, Firefox immediately denies the opening of this
new browser window. Nowadays, I rarely see pop-up screens on my
computer when I browse the WWW.
As far as email newsletters and advertisements are concerned, a
similar phenomenon is occurring where they have suddenly evolved
into what is known as junk mail or spam mail in internet
language. Again, anti-virus protection software creators
incorporated spam mail protection within their software while
numerous sites in the internet make available free, downloadable
anti-spam software. The biggest blow to spam mail marketing was
when e-mail providers decided to add anti-spam or spam blocking
utilities in their website. As a result of these measures
against pop-ups and spam messaging, an avenue in internet
marketing is about to close.
This is where streaming video comes in. It is undisputed that
television commercials are still the best way to attract
attention. The advertiser needs to make the product look good in
TV, but their primary objective is to attract the consumer’s
attention. Their second goal is to make the video memorable
enough so that the customer remembers the brand name when they
have need of the product. The most famous brand names like
Marlboro succeeded in their advertising campaign videos so much
so that people still remember the Marlboro man. In this
advertisement, the first thing you see are wild horses running.
This is quite an attention drawer since lots of people like
horses even when they haven’t seen one in person.
The main advantage of videos is their ability to instill
curiosity in a person. An apt demonstration of this ability is
when people are seen stopping at display windows of stores that
have television displays in them. When you see a moving picture,
you are immediately interested in what it is all about and what
will happen next. Even if you don’t stop in front of the
display, you will spare a glance or two. The uncanny part is
this, in the instant that you see people gathered in front of
something you haven’t seen yet, you will take time to look to
satisfy your curiosity. However, if that display happens to be
in your own neighborhood, you will gradually get accustomed to
it and begin to ignore it.
This is the strength of internet marketing through streaming
videos. It immediately grabs attention. The only thing that you
as an advertiser have to do is to make the video interesting
enough that it maintains or improves on that initial level of
interest. When the video is old enough to become common place,
you replace it with a new one. Unlike pop-ups or spam messages
or newsletters, they cannot become an annoyance because the
first thing it does is to grab the consumer’s attention and
curiosity.
With the use of videos, the consumer gets a clear picture of
what your product or idea is all about. This is an added bonus
to the attention grabbing feature of using videos for your
marketing or advertising campaigns. When a consumer knows what
you and your product are all about, they can begin to trust you.
After all, having the trust of your customer’s is better than
the bottom line. A trusting customer is one who will patronize
all your product lines. As good as your advertising video is, it
is still the quality of your product that matters in the end.
P.S. To make a video interesting enough, try to place some humor
and social relevance into them. You also need to make your
customers feel a need or craving for your product. This is
especially true for entrepreneurs who wish to create a niche for
their product line. A good video advertisement will pull in
people more than newsletters, pop-up windows or spam messages
will.)
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
(Article Directories For Profit)
(Article Directories For Profit)
Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Are you looking to increase the amount of traffic that your
website sees? If you rely on your website for income, there is a
good chance that you are. If you are unfamiliar with internet
marketing, you may have done a little bit of online research.
While researching internet marketing, there is a good chance
that you came across article directories. Article directories
are essentially online websites that display content, often with
links. These links should link readers directly to your website,
whether it be an online store or a content site. When it comes
to article directories, one of the most common questions asked
is “is it worth the time?” In all honesty, it depends.
Submitting articles to article directories is a great way to
increase traffic to your website, but it all depends on the
approach that you take. If you are looking to benefit from
submitting articles to article directories, there are a number
of important factors that you will want to take into
consideration. These factors, which are outlined below, may have
a significant impact on the amount of traffic that your website
sees from article distribution.
As it was mentioned above, article directories are essentially
websites that display a collection of content. That content,
which is accompanied by links, is often placed into specific
categories, such as parenting, money, business, and so on. As
article distribution has increased in popularity, so have
article directories. This means that it is possible to find
hundred of article directories that are willing to accept your
articles and have them displayed on their site. While your
first impulse may be to submit your articles to every article
directory that you can find, you may want to reexamine your
decision to do so, as it can be time consuming. In fact, it may
be a good idea to research article directories, find, and submit
articles to the directories that are considered the most popular
or those that come highly rated and recommend.
It is also important that you examine how often you submit
content. As with your website, you are urged to update it often
or at least add new content to it. After all, it is a known
fact that internet users like to see new, refreshed content.
The same can be said for the articles that you submit to article
directories. You will want to develop a schedule. Submitting
new articles to article directories a couple of times a week is
a good goal to have. In fact, the more you can submit, the
better the results are likely to be. The more articles that you
have distributed across the internet, the more links you will
have. This, in turn, will increase your chances of seeing your
website’s traffic increase.
Although producing and disturbing a large number of articles is
your best chance of success with article directories, you also
want to examine the content that you are submitting. It is
extremely important that your content is interesting, readable,
and presentable. That is why it is important that you do not
rush when creating articles. In fact, it may be a good idea to
proofread your articles multiple times, before distributing them
online. It is also advised that you view your articles, once
they have been published online. Most article directories will
allow you to post links to your websites at the end of your
article page. For article directories to work to your benefit,
you need to make sure that readers make it to the end of your
article. This is why interesting and readable articles are
vital to your success.
As long as you keep the above mentioned points in mind, you
should be able to benefit from submitting to article
directories. To get you started, you may want to examine Ezine
Articles - http://www.ezinearticles.com/, Isnare Articles -
http://www.isnare.com/, and Article Alley -
http://www.articlealley.com; they are considered three of the
most highly rated and recommended article directories online.
P.S. Article directories are a great way to increase your
website’s traffic, but they are also a great way to get your
name, as an author, out into the internet community.)
About the Author:
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Copyright © Tim McLendon
BandOMarketing.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Are you looking to increase the amount of traffic that your
website sees? If you rely on your website for income, there is a
good chance that you are. If you are unfamiliar with internet
marketing, you may have done a little bit of online research.
While researching internet marketing, there is a good chance
that you came across article directories. Article directories
are essentially online websites that display content, often with
links. These links should link readers directly to your website,
whether it be an online store or a content site. When it comes
to article directories, one of the most common questions asked
is “is it worth the time?” In all honesty, it depends.
Submitting articles to article directories is a great way to
increase traffic to your website, but it all depends on the
approach that you take. If you are looking to benefit from
submitting articles to article directories, there are a number
of important factors that you will want to take into
consideration. These factors, which are outlined below, may have
a significant impact on the amount of traffic that your website
sees from article distribution.
As it was mentioned above, article directories are essentially
websites that display a collection of content. That content,
which is accompanied by links, is often placed into specific
categories, such as parenting, money, business, and so on. As
article distribution has increased in popularity, so have
article directories. This means that it is possible to find
hundred of article directories that are willing to accept your
articles and have them displayed on their site. While your
first impulse may be to submit your articles to every article
directory that you can find, you may want to reexamine your
decision to do so, as it can be time consuming. In fact, it may
be a good idea to research article directories, find, and submit
articles to the directories that are considered the most popular
or those that come highly rated and recommend.
It is also important that you examine how often you submit
content. As with your website, you are urged to update it often
or at least add new content to it. After all, it is a known
fact that internet users like to see new, refreshed content.
The same can be said for the articles that you submit to article
directories. You will want to develop a schedule. Submitting
new articles to article directories a couple of times a week is
a good goal to have. In fact, the more you can submit, the
better the results are likely to be. The more articles that you
have distributed across the internet, the more links you will
have. This, in turn, will increase your chances of seeing your
website’s traffic increase.
Although producing and disturbing a large number of articles is
your best chance of success with article directories, you also
want to examine the content that you are submitting. It is
extremely important that your content is interesting, readable,
and presentable. That is why it is important that you do not
rush when creating articles. In fact, it may be a good idea to
proofread your articles multiple times, before distributing them
online. It is also advised that you view your articles, once
they have been published online. Most article directories will
allow you to post links to your websites at the end of your
article page. For article directories to work to your benefit,
you need to make sure that readers make it to the end of your
article. This is why interesting and readable articles are
vital to your success.
As long as you keep the above mentioned points in mind, you
should be able to benefit from submitting to article
directories. To get you started, you may want to examine Ezine
Articles - http://www.ezinearticles.com/, Isnare Articles -
http://www.isnare.com/, and Article Alley -
http://www.articlealley.com; they are considered three of the
most highly rated and recommended article directories online.
P.S. Article directories are a great way to increase your
website’s traffic, but they are also a great way to get your
name, as an author, out into the internet community.)
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