Saturday, July 28, 2007

How to Optimize Your Website for Local Search

Nowadays, businesses and entrepreneurs, both big and small, know the fact that advertising at traditional media is not practical anymore. Because ad spending is considered a major operating cost in all businesses, it should be targeted in initiatives that would specifically and effectively reach the target consumers. Proper and well-visited venues and media forms should also take most of the ad efforts. Thus, because online media has been fast becoming a popular and well-utilized media, consumers are more exposed to it and so businesses swoon to follow where consumers or prospective customers are.

So you know that it is now considered a necessity to put up a Website for your business. Suppose your company has established an online page where clients could find out more about your products and services. Logically, the quest does not stop there. You have to aim for your Web site to be exposed to prospective clients or for it to tap the intended and target online users. Operating a Web site, you would soon know that the initiative is not an easy one. But to help you carry out that goal, it would help if you would optimize your Web site for local search.

On top of that concern, you should also specifically aim to target local searches. You know that the Internet is a hub that contains millions of companies' Web pages. So how could you top those searches and make sure consumers check out and easily find your site? The Answer lies in search engines. You should optimize your Web site so that it would easily and strategically be listed in search results. Targeting local listing would also be necessary if you aim to tap consumers who are within your vicinity and who would more probably be convinced and called to action to conduct business with your company. Here are several measures that you could take as you act to bolster optimization of your Web site for local search.

* Adopt a marketing program specifically for the local search engine. To do this, you have to initially determine the scope and range of penetration of ads in the market and of course the possible competition to your Web site.

* Revise several pages or rewrite contents so that the articles would be keyword rich. When the content is rich in strategic and search keywords, for sure, search engine ranking would be better and more effective. Doing so would also help maximize the placement of your Web page in numerous search engine queries.

* Do a Piggyback search engine optimization so that traffic would be redirected to your site. Article marketing would also be helpful in creating Web sites with quality back links.

* Make Web site directory submissions by sending such to as mush as 300 search engine worldwide and affiliated regional directories.

* Market and advertise your Web site through traditional and online classifieds. The Craigslist is an example of an effective online classified that would be a great help to your Web site.

Overall, make your Web site user-friendly, interesting and informative. Creating a good impression to online users would help your Web site, and your business as well, achieve well patronage and regular heavy online traffic.


About The Author

Smart Link Solutions provides expert local search services. To view their local directory, go to http://profiles.smartlinksolutions.com.

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Four Critical Web Design Rules

When creating a new website or redesigning an existing site, there are four critical rules which the designer should follow to make the site effective and functional - and successful.

1. Easy to Read

When building a website, the first thing you need to be sure of is that your website is easy to read. When you write content, remember that most web site visitors don't read every word of a page - in fact, they only scan pages to find what they want.

Break up Your Content

Break up your pages and use headers between major ideas so people scanning your site can find what they want quickly. Use meaningful headers between each paragraph or major idea - this helps with SEO. Headers should be created with the H1 through H4 tags for SEO. Always use good writing structure. Additionally, avoid long paragraphs that run on. You should break up any long paragraphs.

Color and Fonts

To help readability, use high contrast colors between font and background. Black text against a white background may seem stark, but it is very readable. To make a website easy on the eyes, try an off-white background and a dark gray (almost black) text color.

Things to avoid with content color:

Avoid vibrant background colors like purple or yellow. Such back colors make text difficult to read.

Avoid using an image behind your text.

Avoid using bright text colors on bright backgrounds.

Fonts Matter

One simple statement covers the font issue:

Simple fonts are the best; the more fancy the font, the harder it is to read.

Since many browsers only have the standard font set, use standard fonts. In reality, there is no ""standard"", but there are certain fonts that are installed on most browsers. These include Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Times New Roman. Your readers will see something different than you see if you use other fonts.

Standard Compliant Browser for Development

When developing and testing your site, use a Standards compliant browser like FireFox. If you develop your site to be standards compliant, it will work in most browsers, including MS Internet Explorer (IE). It is recommended that you test your site using the latest and last browser versions of IE (IE6 and IE7). To run multiple versions of IE on the same machine, TredoSoft has a free installer that will install multiple versions of IE. It works great!

2. Simplify Navigation

The menus and links make up the navigation that the visitor uses to get from page to page in a site. Always plan a site around how people will get from page to page. A visitor to your site should be able to get to what they want within three clicks of their mouse.

Multiple navigation points makes it easy to find things. Repeat the top menu and at the bottom. Also create a left or right menu.

Using links within your text to other areas on your site. You can create links so that they are good for search engine optimization (SEO). There are generally two ways to create links within your text:

The wrong way: ""For search engine optimization techniques, click here.""

The right way: ""Good techniques for search engine optimization are important to use.""

Using link text (anchor text) that describes what the link is about is the best way. Search engine web crawlers (programs that automatically index the contents of websites) visit your site, they ""read"" links. Spiders can index descriptive links into a subject or keyword category. Spiders have nothing to work with when reading a ""click here"" until it reaches the linked page.

This is Cross Linking - use it as much as possible when it makes sense to do so when writing your content.

3. Consistent Design

At most, one or two layouts should be used in your site design. As a reader browses your site, they should be able to get used to looking in the same place for your navigation, for your sub-navigation and for your content. That's all there is to say about that.

4. Lower Page Weight is Better

Page weight is the total size of a page on your site in bytes - code, text and images. Your site's page weight makes a big difference to your viewers. Lighter page weight is better for your readers because the page will download faster. The faster a page downloads, the faster they will get to the content.

What is Means to be Light

No large images. (unless the site's purpose is to showcase images, art or photos)

Fewer images are better.

Optimize images for the web at no more than 72 dpi

Use as small an image dimension as possible for the given design.

Use a table td bgcolor attribute or a background-color style attribute for solid color backgrounds.

Make gradients horizontal or vertical (not diagonal) so that you can use a small image ""strip"" and repeat it.

How ""Heavy"" Should a Web Page be?

Certain studies show that 64K is a good maximum webpage size. 64K is a maximum, however it is still, in my opinion, really big! The smaller the page, the better. 25K is good, 15K is even better. There is a balance between design and function. It is a good idea to focus more on function.

Try putting pages on your web host server as you build your site so you can test it as you go. For pages online, you can test the page weight to be sure you are on track.

Ways to make pages lighter:

Use linked style sheets

Use DIVs instead of TABLEs where possible

Use simple repeating backgrounds for effect

Summary

Visitors to your website should be able to find what they are looking for within about three clicks. Making a site easy to read with consistent page design, and easy to navigate will make it easy to find information. You will be on the way to building a readable, effective, functional and hopefully successful website if you follow these rules.


About The Author

Nicholas LaPolla has been a web applications developer for 11 years. He created http://AcmeWebResources.com to help others build or improve, market, and monitize their websites with a focus on web design, website seo / internet marketing, and working to make money online.

Copyright 2007, all rights reserved.

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Wordpress Themes: Selecting an Effective Theme

If you're blogging on the Wordpress platform, I'll bet my entire life savings that the first thing you ever did was try to install a new Wordpress theme. I'll bet my future earnings that even today you're still occasionally changing themes and wasting a lot of time doing minor modifications that when summed up merely distracts you from blogging itself.

It's actually easy to see why this single aspect of running a blog demands so much attention. With the correct theme, you can accommodate all the nifty little widgets and codes, and may also mean better search engine rankings and tons of fresh traffic every day.

So what are the factors you need to consider to make theme-hunting easier? Here are five important ingredients:

1) Theme Width and Columns

Typically, Wordpress themes come in 2-column or 3-column formats, with widths ranging from 500 pixels to 960 pixels wide. If you're blogging for non-profit purposes, a 2-column theme can look more compact and reader-friendly. Since you have less images of products or links to other sites to display, you can focus exclusively on the content without leading readers away from your site.

On the other hand, if you're blogging for profit, you may want to consider a 3-column Wordpress theme that will be able to accommodate your Google Adsense, Chitika and Text Link Ads codes comfortably without squeezing everything in the content area. 3-column themes allow room for expansion, but in the event that you've filled up all available space with ads, then it's time you removed the non-performers and use only the advertising services that work for that particular blog.

2) Use of Images and Icons

A theme with images and icons can look good, but it rarely increases your web traffic or subscriber base. In fact, most "A-list" bloggers have plain vanilla themes with a simple logo on top. Reducing the amount of images also means faster loading time and less stress on your servers. This vital aspect of server load become apparent only if you have tens of thousands of visitors a day, but it's worth designing for the future.

A image-laden theme also distracts readers from the content itself. This is the reason why blogs like Engadget and Tech Crunch use images intensively in the content areas to add value to a post, but the theme itself is simple and rather minimalist.

Ideally, a theme should allow you to use your own header image for stronger branding purposes, yet replace images and icons with links and text, or just not use them at all unless absolutely necessary.

3) Compatibility with Plugins

Another time-sucking activity is installing plugins that improve the functionality of your site. There's a plugin out there for almost everything you want to do with your blog, but while most of them are free and easily obtainable, it's not always easy to install the plugins and insert the codes into your Wordpress theme.

If your theme is too complicated, it may be a headache to even insert that one line of code you need to make a plugin work. This is often the case with advanced AJAX-based Wordpress themes that have too many files and heavy coding. I've always preferred a simpler themes that stick to the default Wordpress theme as much as possible, so I can cut back on the learning curve and just get on with my life.

Remember that the purpose of your blog is to deliver timely, relevant content to your readers, Any theme that preserves or improves the reader experience is good, any theme that subtracts from the experience is bad.

4) Search Engine Optimization

A lot can be said about search engine optimization, but at the end of the day if you have content worth reading eventually you'll get the rankings you deserve. That doesn't mean that you don't need SEO; all it means is that what you really need to do is to make sure:

(a) Your tags are formatted properly, with the name of the post first followed by the name of the blog - some themes can do this automatically without modification to the code or use of a plugin

(b) All your blog content titles use the H1 tag, with the main keywords used instead of non-descriptive text for better SEO relevance

(b) Your theme has clean source codes, and if possible all formatting is linked to an external CSS file which you can edit independently

5) Plug-And-Play Ease of Use

Can the theme be installed easily on an existing blog without having to move things around? Can the same theme be used and customized easily on your other blogs? These are some additional things you may want to consider when theme-shopping, especially if every minute of downtime on your blog may mean lost revenue.

While it's hard to make comparisons due to the sheer amount of free and paid themes out there, it's still a good idea to have a test blog site. Test any theme you plan on using, and make sure your test blog is also fitted with all the plugins and miscellaneous widgets used on your real blog. The last thing you want is for your readers start seeing weird error messages on your blog.

At the end of the day, a theme is just a theme. Instead of spending your time installing them, it may be wiser to outsource the task and focus more on your readers. Alternatively, you may also want to consider buying "plug-and-play" themes for a reasonable price. Dennis De' Bernardy of ProWordpress.com has probably one of the best themes around, but if you're short on cash there are certainly cheaper alternatives.


Copyright (c) 2007 Gobala Krishnan

About The Author

Gobala Krishnan is a niche marketing and Wordpress blogging expert who has helped thousands of beginners start blogging for fun and profit. With his "Instant Wordpress Themes" package you can get "Plug-in-Profit" niche themes for $1 each. You can browse the current selection at http://www.easywordpress.com/go/instant-am

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Why It’s Important To Have New Content On Your Website?

Have you ever wondered how people get a number one ranking on the search engines? Is it because they are special? Is it because they know the Internet gurus? Is it because they have paid to become number one or is it more likely because they constantly update the content on their website?

Content rules. The search engines employ ‘spiders’ that ‘crawl’ and index the many millions of webpages out there. They are looking for new and ‘fresh’ content. Why? It’s in the best interest of the search engines to always look for new content because their advertisers and people who wish to advertise with that search engine want to know what interests people so they can target that interest.

Advertisers will not pay for content that is stale or not updated because yesterday’s news is the reason for today’s business failure.

As a website builder business owner this can be succinctly summarised:

* New content = new visitors
* New visitors = better chance of sales
* Better chance of sales results from better and new content

This method is not magic. Since it is in the best interest of the search engine’s spiders to always be on the lookout for fresh and new content and if your website is producing fresh and new content (at least once a day) the ‘spiders’ will continue to ‘crawl’ and index your website.

Think of this as a reward. The search engines are rewarding you for posting information that may be useful. The more useful the information becomes, the more you will be linked and your rankings will increase. Because your website and its’ information is useful, more advertisers are attracted to the search engines and they make money from the advertising revenue.

As a website builder owner, you can save literally thousands of dollars by employing the method of keeping your content new and fresh. If you combine this with some of the search engine campaigns you will have incredible success.


About The Author

Mark Gerrard is the Development Manager of the Freestart Website Builder Platform. See our website builder in action at http://www.freestart.com

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Friday, July 27, 2007

What Factors Create a Solid Business Opportunity in Network Marketing?

Author: Howard Brooks | Posted: 23-07-2007
Despite the " herd " mentality often seen in our industry and the feeding frenzy that occurs in some brand new "pre-launch" business opportunities, there is a better way to choose a company to affiliate with than simply " following the herd off the cliff ". History absolutely leaves clues and if you look closely at what factors were present in the most successful companies and opportunities, I think you will find the following factors:

1. Experienced management with a clear long-term vision for the future of the company and discipline to make it happen. Just as a side note, it is interesting to note that every billion dollar company had at its helm, a previously successful network marketer. Find out more about his name on Google.

2. A product(s) that delivered on the promise. The products performed as advertised and people would continue to purchase the product(s) without being involved in the business opportunity. The product(s) must be value priced and not artificially priced high to provide additional profits.

3. A compensation plan that allows the first time business owner to get into profit as soon as possible while having a strong enough back-end to attract and retain full-time professional business builders. One of the keys to getting into profit quickly is a strong profit. 100% is not out of the question. Selling retail is not always a good idea when you're new...There's not enough money in it.

4. A systemized approach to distributor (not retail) training providing actual techniques and strategies, based on experience, that will help new distributor build a solid business. The training must be live using telephone conferencing and webinars and be provided on a continuous basis.

All four of these factors must be present to create the best change for successful business building. Be sure that your opportunity offers all four of these factors. Before signing up question what your sponsor thinks about these 4 considerations.

One other thing, be suspect when considering an opportunity where you are not being readily informed about your sponsor of his sponsor's income. Why join anyone whose opportunity has not been successful and prosperous. The group that you select must have a strong successful leader above you. Many times you can research his name on Google.

You almost assuredly will be informed by some "big-hitter", all that matters is a really hot compensation plan or getting in on the "ground floor" and that the product is unimportant and is only a means of creating a check. If you just calmly think this through, you'll see the massive flaw in this scenario. It goes without saying, but it is virtually impossible to create a long-term income without continuing product sales.

It cannot and will not happen.

If you are content to jump from company to company for the rest of your career and you have the rare ability to recruit thousands of distributors on an ongoing basis, you should run, as fast you can, from anyone who espouses the "product isn't important" theory. One opportunity that I like is webucation.

Webucation is an education product using the Internet. Whether you wish to gain a BS Degree from the University of Phoenix or DeVry University you will be receiving an education. The bottom line is any education is about self-improvement whether it's from, a BS degree, a seminar, a conference, CD's or DVD's. You attend via the Internet. What you do have to do is apply yourself by getting to work and finishing the course/s.

The opportunity may present a compensation plan that pays you a small commission over-ride on the efforts of thousands beneath you. This may be viturally impossible for many of us to attain. Attrition is killer, and the efforts to keep everyone trained and supported seems good in theory, but how practical is that. Be sure you understand the compensation plan before joining with any network marketing opportunity.


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Earn a Predictable $200 - $600 Per Order Online Instantly!

Author: Cris Cohen | Posted: 23-07-2007
According to information that was on the Wealth Magnet System website. But does this opportunity deliver on its promise or is it another hyped up scam? Well, I decided to purchase it and review the package from the back office to give you a better idea about this how this program works.

As you may know already every new home base business opportunity needs an excellent product to be able to compete in the marketplace and on the internet. This is an important factor that has huge impact on the type of people that get involved with the program.

Here is my opinion about the Wealth Magnet System

After paying my $700 plus hosting and sign up fee, I had some really high expectations. I have set up my login and password to quickly get inside the members area and checked out the products in the "Ultimate Internet Marketers Showcase", I can tell you there is a lot of quality information to help you market there product.

Sign up Process

I was set up within a few minutes. Wealth Magnet System makes it easy for the new members to get started and create their replicated website. All you have to do is fill in the blanks in your personal profile and you are ready to go with your professional replicated website with auto responder.

I must admit that I was amazed with the quality of the products in the back office. The member’s area was jam choked full with videos,audios and marketing courses that show step by step instruction on how to set up your back office and how to market successfully online. But it does not end there. The back office has products that I believe should be sold for a lot more than what they are charging. They call their product “The Ultimate Internet Marketers Showcase”, valued at over $6800 and frankly over delivers with its quality and content.

The Wealth Magnet System home base business opportunity compensation plan

The Wealth Magnet System comp plan is as a 2-tier pay plan program with a highly lucrative commission overrides of $100 per sale.

In a nut shell this is how the comp plan works

Once you are a member of the Wealth Magnet System Team you resell one of two programs, The $300 Basic Level Package or The $700 Elite Level Package, the sale price is paid directly to you. Next you will receive bonus overrides of $100 for every sale your team members make. I personally like this type of payout structure because it provides a quick and substantial residual income. Another feature of the opportunity is the flexibility to use your own payment processor, such as Paypal, Google Check Out, Merchant Account or cashiers check on your personal order page. This feature offers your visitors different ways to pay, which in turn will increase your sales conversions.

In conclusion The Wealth Magnet System is my #1 pick Home Based Business Opportunity for 2007

In my opinion the Wealth Magnet System has huge potential and it will spread like wildfire across the internet. This program is designed with the newbie in mind. You don’t need any experience to get involved with this program. The step by step videos show exactly how to utilize this opportunity and start making profits quickly and successfully. In addition, it is an affordable investment for most people looking for a Home Base Business.


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An Easy Way To Make Money Online

Author: Kevin Sinclair | Posted: 23-07-2007

There are many different ways to generate revenue online and some are more difficult than others.

Let's face it, many people that first come online and find out they could make a few bucks realize really quickly that it's not all that easy.

They start searching for information about making money online and find out all too soon that there are a lot of sites out there that will let them purchase information they can use to learn how to make tons of cash for themselves and shortly thereafter they realize that the next step is to go purchase even more tools, info and study material at an even higher cost.

The other problem many people run into is that they find the many different newsletters that are online and each one is promoting a different way of making money online. Some may talk about affiliate marketing, others are discussing how to use their blogs or the power of Web 2.0 and yet others review how to use adsense and payperclick to boost their business.

In both cases, the new and aspiring internet marketer is confused, lost and all to quickly fed up and frustrated after just a short time and most likely a ton of money they feel was thrown out the window.

And yet, making money online doesn't have to be difficult, you don`t even have to have a website, your own products are not needed and you don't have to run a massive affiliate program of your own to at least make some money to help you get started and you can quickly plug that hole in your wallet where all those precious dollars have been falling out of.

One of the simplest and quickest ways to get started generating some revenue online is to use articles coupled with affiliate marketing.

Here`s a simple guide to help you get started:

1. Head over to Clickbank and take a look at the many products waiting for you to promote them. There are a few things you might want to look at while you are browsing around the Marketplace. Clickbank has a pretty good guide that will tell you how to tell the difference between products that are performing well and those that are bombing, but here's one simple tip to keep in mind as well.

As you look through the pitch pages, think to yourself for just a moment, if I was interested in this product, does this page even grab my attention? Would you be likely to purchase what you saw?

Once you have picked out a couple of products you really like, consider purchasing them so you can provide high-quality reviews of them, but if the budget is tight, that sometimes isn't an option, so you will have to make note of the features, benefits and any other important information you got from the sales page.

2. Write one article. Yes, that's it. Write one simple article that features some of the key benefits of the product you will be promoting. Keep it simple and don't make it look like a sales page.

For example, if the product you plan to promote is about Planning Your Wedding you could write your article based on "The Top 10 Things To Keep In Mind When Planning Your Wedding" and then list the 10 things (or however many you got) from the sales page that are related, such as Choosing The Location For Your Reception, How To Avoid Relatives Embarrassing You, How To Keep Your Bridesmaids From Looking Like Clowns. Whatever the information you found, write it out in a bullet point list and then add a few short sentences to each bullet point.

It doesn't have to be fancy, short and sweet works better. For example, if you are working on Choosing The Location For Your Reception, you could add a sentence or two about the things to keep in mind if you are planning an outdoor reception.

3. The Resource Box or About The Author. If you go look at some of the popular article directories, such as eZineArticles online you will find at the bottom of each article a section known as the Resource Box, or also called About The Author.

This is your place to shine. Your article was to the point, without any sales pitches, but now in this last part you are free to tell a little about yourself (and if you have a website you can add a link there too) and you can also suggest a helpful solution (the product you are promoting) that could further assist the reader with the challenges of planning their own wedding.

Keep in mind that you only have a few lines for the resource box, so you will definitely have to rewrite it a few times just so you can tweak it and get it just the way you want it, but ultimately, the goal is to have the reader click the link at the end of your article and purchase the product you are promoting, so make it straight to the point. A simple and yet effective example might be: "For more helpful information as well as awesome ways to save hundreds if not thousands on your wedding visit [your affiliate link] today".

Again, you don`t want it to be fancy, but your call to action has to make sure the reader has no choice but to click the link and hopefully the sales page you are referring them to is good enough to close the deal and earn you some referral commissions.

4. Last but definitely not least. If you go to your favorite search engine and type in "Article Directory" you will find hundreds of different websites where you can submit your article for inclusion. There are other ways to spread the word about your new article, but directories are a quick and easy way to get the word out there and they are all quite easy to use. Just search for the article directories and then submit your new article to as many as you can. If possible, try to submit it to at least 20 or 30, but the more the better.

What will happen is that webmasters, bloggers and newsletter publishers that search through these directories will come across your article and if it's a good match for their readers and visitors they will be inclined to post your article on their website, or publish it in their newsletter and they will include your Resource Box, along with the link to the product you are promoting.

Bottom line, this has the potential to get your article very quickly on thousands of websites, in front of tons of newsletter readers and ultimately you didn't have to spend a single penny for all this exposure and advertising, you didn't have to have your own fancy website or subscriber optin list and you didn't have to create your own product.

This same method has been used for quite some time very successfully and has in many cases returned more than just a few hundred bucks within a couple of weeks, in some cases, one single article has returned over a thousand dollars in a month and the best part is that your article will continue to be out there, week after week for others to see, click your link and order the product, making you more commissions.

The final thing I can suggest to help you get started is when you've gotten this far, congratulate yourself. You have done more than many of the people "day-dreaming" of making it online, you've actually done something about it. Now get back over to Clickbank and find yourself another product to promote, start back at step 1 and have fun making money.

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