Creating Keyword Rich Backlinks

Posted on June 5, 2008 | Filed Under Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation, Website Tips

It is, as it always has been the holy grail on online marketing:
links! There are many different ways to get links to your site: link
exchanges, certain services, blog commenting, articles and on and on.
Fortunately, most people skip over the easiest (and cheapest) way to
generate high quality backlinks to your site - tell your readers how
to link to you by creating a ‘Link To Us’ page

Why have a ‘Link To Us’ page? There are 2
reasons: you get to suggest to your visitors that they link to you -
suggestion is a powerful tool - and because you can suggest they use
the keywords you are looking to rank high for in the search engines.
Will everyone link to you? Some will, some won’t. You’re looking for
the ones who do and those who use your suggestions will help you with
your Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Plus, there are a lot of people on the internet who
are not html savy. By providing code to copy and paste, you make sure
their links will be valid. Broken links don’t count, but all valid
links do. And if you only get a few more links by having this page on
your site, then it’s worth the effort.

A ‘Link To Us’ page should include a variety of icons, banners,
thumbnail images and especially text links. Give directions to the
lowest common denominator, so don’t be afraid of saying “right-click
to save images locally and the upload to your web server”. Put the
text links in a textarea input tag so the resulting page displays the
HTML you want them to copy and not the link. This also makes it easy
for people to copy and paste.

You then put a link to this page on a fairly prominent
place on your website, so everyone who visits will get the suggestion
to link to your site and that you make it easy to do so. Both of these
will make it much more likely you will generate links with the
keywords you want. It ends up being a win-win for everyone.
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A Perfect Link

Posted on May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation

A Perfect Link
By Sharon Housley

Webmasters are given the advice that they must attract links, but the key is not just to attract links… they need to attract good links. But what is the perfect link? The search for the perfect link need not be a quest in vain. Consider the following when attempting to attract links…

1. Related

The best links should come from related websites which contain similar and related content, but not the same type of material or content. For example: A link for baby clothing would benefit from a link that discusses baby care.
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50 Ways to get More Visitors

Posted on May 4, 2008 | Filed Under Traffic Generation

By Justin Michie

1. Write and submit articles to the article directories.

2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.

3. Answer people’s questions on www.answers.yahoo.com.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.

5. Write a press release and submit it to www.PRWeb.com.

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category on www.CraigsList.com.

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100’s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

Posted on April 30, 2008 | Filed Under Copywriting, Online Marketing, Traffic Generation

By Michel Fortin

If you played video arcade games in the late 80’s, even early 90’s, you might remember Zero Wing — a game in which a battle takes place in the year 2101, where you must defend the planet Earth from an alien invasion led by the dreaded warrior Cats.

Zero Wing may have been a favorite among teenagers, but like the Cabbage Patch doll the fad faded… Until Sega Genesis came out with their version of the popular arcade game in ‘98, giving Zero Wing new breath. But this time, one is offered an animated introduction in preparation for the space battle…

“In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.” And a dialogue between the ship’s captain and Cats ensued, offering these priceless gems:
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3 Simple Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

Posted on April 9, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Traffic Generation

by Robert Gneissman

Anybody can create blog quickly and easily with all the blog creation tools
available today. But once your blog is created, getting traffic to
the blog is another issue entirely. Just because you built a blog
doesn’t mean anyone will visit it. You must create traffic by
promoting the blog and the more traffic you drive to the blog the
more money you’ll make. Here are three methods I’ve personally used
to drive traffic to my blog. They’ll work for you too.

1. Add Fresh Content on a Regular
Basis

Once you’ve created your blog, it’s not time to forget about it. A new blog needs
regular blog posts until it becomes established in the search engines.
Try to update your blog with a new post daily for the first month. You
have to give blog readers and search engines a reason to come back to
your blog frequently and new posts are the best way.

Blogs are a favorite of search engines because there is new
content added on a regular basis but if you make frequent posts
neither the search engines nor blog visitors will return with any
regularity. On the other hand, the more often you make informative
posts and inject some of your own personality the more posts will be
indexed by the search engines and the more likely visitors are to
make repeat visits to your blog.

2. Find Related Blogs and Make Useful Comments

Another effective strategy is to make comments on
relevant blogs. A simple search on your favorite search engine should
reveal several blogs on similar topics. All other things being equal,
you’ll want to leave comments on higher PR blogs since those links
will be more valuable.

Take some time to read several posts on the blog to get a feel for
it. Then make a constructive comment to one of the posts. Don’t just
comment with some rubbish, contribute to the conversation. If your
comment adds value, people will be more likely to want to visit your
blog. Leave your name and a link to your blog to allow readers and
easy way to click over to your blog.

3. RSS

The third way to drive traffic to your blog is by building a
list of loyal readers. It’s very similar to building a list from a
squeeze page. Many autoresponder services have the capability to send
a notification by email to your subscribers whenever you make a new
post to your blog. This is an effective way to provide people who’ve
asked with a friendly reminder to visit your blog and read a new
post.

To build a list, all you have to do is put a simple opt-in form on your blog and ask
visitors to subscribe by giving you their name and email address.
That’s all there is to it and now when you make a new post to your
blog, the list will receive an email reminder. It all happens
automatically. You don’t have to do anything other than put the
opt-in form on your site.

There are many more ways to drive traffic to blogs and I’ll cover
those in future articles.

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