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Easy way to market your web business

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

emailmarketingEmail Signatures - This is the easiest way to market yourself. Set up an email signature that includes your name and/or business, any special offers you may have, some tempting text, and your website URL. Including your website URL is very important. Attach that email signature to all outgoing email (including replies). It is good to use this email signature when you are writing to friends and family too. If they forward emails from you to their friends, you will receive more exposure for your website. With Email Marketing, One size doesn’t fit all. We help grow your
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Provide fresh and engaging content - No one wants to go to a website that hasn’t been updated in five years. If your website has a certain niche, write about that niche and provide your visitors with fresh material. It is important to make sure you have content that will cause your visitors to want to come back again.

Create a content specific newsletter - Also know as a subject newsletter or niche newsletter. This option is great for those who have writing talent. Even if you don’t have writing talent, with simple organization and focus you can pull it off. Offer an option on your website for newsletter signup. You could either use an email link as the signup method or a contact form. Collect all visitors that want newsletters and put them on your mailing list. Create fresh newsletters (weekly or biweekly) and email them to your subscribers.

Article marketing - Write articles centering around your niche and submit them to article directories such as Ezinearticles.com or NeatArticles.com. Always add an author resource box at the bottom which serves as an advertising agent for you. The author resource box should include your name, a blur about your website, and the website address. Once accepted your article is blasted all over the Internet will thousands, if not millions of potential visitors. Create Instant Publicity, Online Visibility & Increase Web Traffic | PRWeb!

Blogs and Forums - I put these together because these go hand-in-hand at times. Blogs are free to create and forums are free to join. Create a blog using Wordpress or Blogger. Blog about your website or your niche. Provide links within your blog posts to your website and if applicable, to specific items. Visit other people’s blogs and comment on their posts and include your email signature in your blog comment. Grow Your Business with Blogs. Download Movable Type Now!

Take your email signature and use it in the same way in forums. Don’t try to over do it by posting non related forum posts just to get your signature noticed. Participate in the forums and gain reputation. Have fun posting to the forums, all the while keeping your resource box (email signature) in tact. Before long, you will begin to see the fruitage of your efforts.

Google Page Rank

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

pagerank_googleGoogle has become the ultimate search engine service in the internet today. Anyone who knows what the internet is knows what Google is and what it can do. For the web entrepreneur, Google means customer visibility, advertising, and networking.

Due to the popularity of Google as a search engine, web pages that want to be known in the internet will need to deal with the Google search engine’s primary search algorithm, the Google page rank.

As a link analysis algorithm, Google page rank has become one of the better ones. It can accurately measure the popularity of the website and has proven to bring users who searched through Google and was, therefore using Google page rank to the site that satisfies their needs, as proven by the wide spread use of Google.

The Google page rank works by checking the number of links to a certain web page that is available in the internet. Each of these links is weighted on the importance of each page. The total Google page rank that a certain web page gets is measured from the weighted value of each web page that links to it.

In effect, the Google page rank works as a sort of survey among the websites in the internet for the popularity of a single web site. The weight of the Google page rank of a certain web site indicates its position when an internet user searches for terms that are related to the contents of the web site. Basically, the higher the Google page rank that the web site has, the more prominent it is when a search about it is done. Typically, web pages with high Google page rank values are found in the first few result pages from a Google search.

Web page optimization services, especially search engine optimization often involves some time of Google page rank optimization operation. This is to ensure that the web page is easily found through the Google search engine. This usually works by distributing links to the web page to various other web pages, usually those with high Google page rank values. This results in an increase in the Google page rank of the web site itself.


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