According to an iProspect Search Engine User Attitudes Study of 1,649 people, 56.3 percent of the participants use search engines at least once a day and 56.7 percent use the same search engine. Among the participants, 81.7 percent responded that they will try a new search if they haven’t found what they are searching for within the first three pages. It was also found that the younger the internet browser, the more likely it is to get past the SERP (search engine results page). This number isn’t surprising, as the older population have been slower to adopt technology than the younger generations. Also, male browsers are more likely to go past the SERP than females.

The study also showed that the search engine used can play a factor in the type of results they found relevant. Google and Yahoo! users engaged with natural search as a more relevant result to their activities. Users who used MSN found that paid search advertisements were more relevant to their search. AOL users found both natural and paid search to be equally relevant. As MSN transitions to Bing, we could see this behavior change dramatically.

Gender also had its role to play in search. Both men and women favor natural results. However, 43.1 percent of female participants responded to paid search as relevant, while only 34.6 percent of of men found paid search results to be relevant to their search. Education and employment also factored in to behavior and preference. The more educated and employed someone was, the more they favored natural search results as a relevant solution to their search. Non-college graduates and unemployed participants favored paid search.

When considering the variables of your SEO campaign, take in consideration your target audience. Are they more male or female, educated or unemployed, older or younger? These will all play a role in your decision-making process when considering natural search versus paid search. Volacci prefers you use both, because they can work together as a team with larger reach and more lead generation potential and traffic.

Volacci is the leading Drupal SEO company and very passionate about your online success in the future of SEO. If you don’t have the time or capacity for SEO, you should invest in the services of a solid SEO firm. By the end of your contract with Volacci you will have at least as much additional business from your web site as you spend on our services… or we’ll work for free until you do.

Ethan Luke. search engine optimization – Volacci is a Drupal SEO company providing marketing services to your Drupal website ranging from Search Engine Optimization, PPC Management, and SEM consultation.

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Affiliate Marketing may be simply defined as:
“Selling other peoples products for a commission”

Affiliate Marketing is a simple but powerful concept and is well known as the easiest and the quickest way of earning money on the internet. Because the basic concept of selling others products on a commission basis, works particularly well on the Internet.

Here are some simple and easy steps to help you get to grips with affiliate marketing:

1. First of all you need to decide on a market niche which you think will be a good one, Health, Sports, Clothing, Computers, and so on are all examples of some market areas for an affiliate marketer. Finding a good one that will pay you the best is another book all by itself! But in a nutshell you are looking for low competition niche areas to start with, at least until you find your feet…
2. You will need to Register with some suitable affiliate agents where you can choose product(s) to sell, some examples are www.CJ.com (worldwide) or www.affiliatefuture.co.uk (mostly UK based) you can Google plenty more if you need to
3. For every product you choose to promote, you will receive a specific affiliate link, this will be totally unique to you so your sales can be tracked, and you will obviously need to decide the best way of promoting your unique affiliate link to get more and more sales. Again this is another whole book all by itself, but I am just trying to give you an overview here OK

Thats all for today… Until next time…

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In this article we will talk about the importance of choosing a good domain name for your online based business.

A domain name is a product that carries some market value and there are entrepreneurs who actually trade in domain names as a full time business.

Domain names are bought and sold all the time on the internet on domain auction sites and the prices of these can vary from cheap to extremely expensive. It all hinges on the perceived value of the name. If you choose your own domain name that has not previously been used, then you can register it for less than $20 a year.

There are two points to consider when choosing your domain name one is branding and the other is keywords.

If you wish to use your own name or the name of your business and market that as a brand then you would build your business around the name rather than around the product. For example when people hear the name Google they immediately associate it with the internet and a way to search for information they want.

The other way is to use keywords associated with the type of business you wish to run. If your business was selling health products or information on health issues then the keywords that you would choose would have the words health or wellbeing in them and you could choose a domain name incorporating these words, which would help tremendously with getting listed on the search engines. This would be a big help if you are marketing in a particular niche.

When deciding on the domain name, if you want to use keywords then the best thing to do is to write a list of all the possible keyword combination’s associated with your niche and do a keyword search to help you decide on the best ones.

Once that is done then choose a name around those words. By using this method, you are giving a very clear indication to anyone searching exactly what your business is all about.

The simplest way to choose name is to do a domain name search. There are free sites that will give you the information and this will help you with the choice.

Another important point is to get a website with a .com extension unless the website is aimed at a particular country then rather get one with an extension that is used only for that country.

Choose a couple of domain to start as there is always the possibility that the one you have chosen is already taken. Have another choice also with your keywords in it, just in case.

There is always the possibility that the domain name that you originally chose is for sale, but it is usually expensive to buy. It is far better to create a new one which will cost you a few dollars to register.

Michelle Jayes lives in Johannesburg South Africa and runs her internet based business www.Online-Income-Business.com from her home. For more articles and ideas visit her blog.

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Search Engine Marketing covers the many ways by which a website can be made more visible and thus get more traffic, these being centered on making sure that a site is listed when people search for a particular phrase. This of course covers the area of ‘Pay Per Click’ (PPC) and that of ‘Organic’ or ‘Merit’ listings, all the visits in the former being paid for , whilst those generated from the later are free.

It is PPC that makes Google all of its money, and is an method used by many website owners today to ensure that their site is visible and thus gets visited.

What is this to do with tortoises and hares then??

The relationship is quite simple really, PPC is very much a ‘hare’ (gets a website on the front page very very fast, sometimes within hours) while Organic listings can take a long time (sometimes months), and are thus very much ‘tortoise like’.

In this little story we take the analogy even further, but first, let us select the rules for the race. In the original fable, it was just a straight run to the finishing post, but in the world of Search Engine Marketing it is slightly different, the race not being one to get a website’s listing on the front page of Google (such a race will always be won by the PPC hare), but instead to the finishing point that marks a successful Return on Investment?.

Why is this true, quite simply because being first in the listings using PPC is not always the right answer, as you will see as this story unfolds.

So to the Race !!

Picture if you can the starting line, there is the hare with a huge sack load of money, money that he intends to give to anyone who will visit the site while on the run to that finishing post. The poor old tortoise has only got his soap box, knowing that he will have to do a lot of talking to people, asking them to support his site (by links) and by convincing them that the site is worth visiting in the first place.

Worse still for the tortoise, he cannot take the shortest path to the finishing line, as he will have to go out of his way to visit as many other people (sites) as possible in his quest for support. Plus to make matters even worse, he knows that even when he does get ’support’ for this site, it will take the umpires (in this case the Search Engines) quite a time before they will even ‘notice’ this support, this making his climb to the front page of the listings and his goal of getting a good ROI on his labours even longer.

It is no surprise therefore that when the hare races off, the visits to his site pour in just as fast as he can throw the money out to people, but wait, is this really the idea, the way to success? Surely you have to make sure that the right person is being given the money and visiting the site? Asking these questions (in the SEM world this in part equates to choosing the right key phrases and writing the right adverts) slows the hare down a bit, but he is not worried as he knows that the tortoise is going to have the same sort of problems.

The tortoise’s journey is, as you can see much slower, he has a longer path to take and do a lot of work to get people to notice him and his requests for support, he even has to make sure that the words (key phrases) he uses (in the SEM world this equates to those on each of his web pages) are used in the just the right way, as otherwise he knows that the umpires will disallow his gains (he could be accused of cheating or ’spamming’ in SEO terms).

As you can see, with all this work to do, it takes a long time before the pages that the tortoise is trying to promote to get onto the front page of Google, whilst the hare has had his pages listed on the front page ever since the race started, but he has gone through a lot of money ‘buying in’ those visits and it took longer to get to the end than he thought it would too.

So who was the Winner?

Unlike the fable, in the SEM world, the winner is not so certain, PPC can work very well indeed (when managed properly). But however successful the PPC campaign is, it will in virtually all cases not be as good at converting visitors to buyers as a well constructed Organic campaign. So while there may be lots of visits to a site using PPC, they may well end up like the hare, i.e., a bit short of cash!

The morale of the story?

By all means, do use the ‘hare’ (PPC) approach, but be aware of the dangers of PPC, always remember that those that click on PPC ads do not seem to be so committed to purchase or enquire as those who click on any organic listings. So go for PPC by all means, but don?t please don?t forget the good old tortoise, after all he did win in the original race?

Graham Baylis works for a business called Serendipity Online Marketing, whose sole aim is to help businesses use the power that the Internet offers. This article is one of his many offerings and tries to help people understand just how Google thinks. For more articles about Search Engine Optimisation see www.serendipity-online-marketing.co.uk

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In this article we’ll take a look at the pros and cons of both of these popular Internet marketing methods.

1. Pay per click advertising allows you to quickly get your Internet business online. For example Google is the largest search engine in the world.

If you do a Google search for a keyword phrase you’ll see sponsored links down the right-hand side and across the top of the page. These are companies who are participating in the Google Adwords pay per click campaign.

They are paying Google by the click to give them a good placement for targeted keyword phrases. By bidding on numerous keyword phrases an Internet business can get on page 1 of the largest search engine in the world very quickly.

The downside to pay per click advertising is it can be expensive if you do not know what you are doing. The key to making this form of marketing work for you is to monitor what the traffic you are purchasing is costing you in relation to the sales you’re getting from it.

Obviously you are in business to make a profit and you cannot afford to overbid on the price of individual keyword phrases. However once you get a campaign in place, that is profitable, it becomes a hands-off form of marketing your business online.

2. Article marketing is a form of advertising online where you promote your business through a resource box in articles written and submitted to article directories online. Blog marketing has become another form of article marketing where you promote your business through blog articles both in your own blog and through social directories.

The advantage to article marketing is there is very little cost associated with doing it. The biggest expense you will incur is writing and submitting the articles. If time is a factor you can outsource this to a ghost writer. You can also use a submission company to reach hundreds of article directories with one click.

The primary benefit to article marketing is the links you list in your resource box back to your business become archived online for future traffic. Over time this can lead to thousands of potential clicks on a daily basis that you do not pay for.

The time it takes time for it to pay you back is the main downside to article marketing. You have consistently work at it and view this as a long term investment into getting traffic back to your website.

The most successful Internet businesses today use a combination of article marketing and pay per click advertising to get quality traffic on a daily basis.

Jeff Schuman is the creator of “Hands Off Article Marketing” where he writes and submits articles so you don’t have to. This article marketing program gets you thousands of backlinks and free traffic for years to come. Click here now: http://www.HandsOffArticleMarketing.com

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There are two types of mistakes that are common:

Technical mistakes and Management mistakes. Let’s take a look at both and how they can be avoided.

Technical mistakes arise from a lack of understanding of the Internet and the technical environment within which the Internet operates. You have to realise that you are working within certain constraints on the Internet – namely hard disk space and bandwidth.

1. Ignoring bandwidth restrictions.

Bandwidth is the most important one that will have an impact. There is a big difference opening a photo or document on your local machine and downloading it from the Internet. If you place photos or documents on your website that are huge it will be very difficult for your visitors to navigate your site and even view your web pages. Pictures especially are the main culprit, since normal text take up very little bandwidth.

All pictures and photos should be optimised for the Internet. A good photo editor program (even the Microsoft Office Picture Manager) is essential to do two things:

a) To scale the picture down so that it can fit onto a web page – pictures should not be larger than 800 pixels or even 1000 pixels wide. Do ensure that you select to retain the ratio when you scale pictures down so that the picture retains the right proportions.

b) To resize the picture physically so that it takes up less physical space. JPG pictures especially can be saved at 60% to 70% compression without the naked eye being able to see it. Use JPG for real life photos with gradual color changes, but rather use GIFs for drawn graphics, sold blocks color and text. Be careful if you use JPG for these since the compression WILL be visible to the naked eye.

2. Cluttering your website with pictures and animations.

Be aware of the latest style in website design. DO NOT clutter your website with animated gifs such as envelopes posting themselves, rotating animals or any distracting elements. These are very old fashioned in Internet terms by now and instead of attracting or drawing attention, these elements will cause your website visitors to leave – quickly.

3. Using non-standard fonts

Do not use exotic fonts on your website. Each font that you use needs to be installed on each local machine of your website visitor and you have no guarantee that if you are using Acanthus in your website design, that each and every person in the world that opens that page will also have the Acanthus font installed. The results might be unpredictable, to say the least.

Stick with fonts that are common to most Windows and Mac installations. These are Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, TImes New Roman and Georgia.

4. Not building your website for search engines.

A common error is building a site that ignores search engine needs. The result is that search engines don’t list the site in their search results. Internet browsers don’t learn about the existence of the site and the site stays unknown.

5. Not hosting your site with a provider that is scalable.

A few individuals host sites with companies that are not scalable. The result is that when you have outgrown your current package you cannot upgrade in terms of bandwidth or hard disk space. Scalability is an important criterion to be kept in mind while hosting sites. Otherwise, the site is unable to accept new visitors when the traffic peaks.

Management mistakes arise from a lack of understanding on how to conduct business on the Internet. Conducting business on the Internet is not just a hobby, in fact, if you do not see it as a serious business that is going to consume a lot of your time and resources, your website will fail.

1. Lack of business plan

Make a definite business plan and to stick to it. The business plan should not be abandoned if the business progresses slowly in the beginning. Also, the plan must ensure spending on marketing. You are going to have to market your business as well as market your website if you want to really see a return on your investment. Most businesses make the mistake of depending on the Website to carry all the advertising burden for the business, whereas the actual website actually needs its own marketing budget before it will start to contribute positively to the business.

You must define your target group and invest in advertising which targets them – both offline and online. Patience and persistence are needed, because you may not get immediate results. Networking with family, friends and co-workers also helps. Make yourself visible to the online communities. Avoid spamming, which has a negative effect.

2. Not ensuring that you plan for the lean periods.

You might need the help of your bank or other source that can provide short term capital, advice and resources. You will have to invest in your business and re-invest once you start to have some cashflow. On the Internet (as with any business), things do not happen overnight. It takes time to be successful. Make a budget and keep track of your cash flow. Before you pay yourself a high salary or buy a car, think about whether you can really afford it. Your own business, whether offline and supported by a website, or whether wholly online consumes a lot of time, energy and money and you have to be prepared to invest that in order to be successful in the end.

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In this article we are going to look at how you can effectively run a small PPC campaign without draining your budget dry.

1. Begin by setting the boundaries on your campaign.

As this is just a small campaign that we are discussing, you need to think about the amount of conversions you are aiming at for a maximum cost. For example if you are earning $20 per sale and your PPC budget is $100 then you would need to make at least 5 sales in order to break even and one more would then put you in profit. If you could manage to achieve a 3% conversion rate you would have to generate 200 click throughs to get your 6 sales. This would mean that your maximum cost per click or CPC should not exceed 50 cents.

You will need to set your maximum budget limit at the time that you enter your campaign details into the Adwords campaign settings. As you learn what works for you and you begin getting a decent return on your investment you will then be able to increase the amount you are spending each month, but until you know exactly what you are doing, don’t exceed the budget that you originally set.

When setting up your Adwords campaign details make sure that you choose “set a separate bid for content network impressions”. In other words if you have set you cost per click at 50 cents you would really only want to pay this amount for targeted placement ads. You certainly wouldn’t like to pay this amount every time your ad is clicked, so it would be wiser to set the bid at one cent throughout the content network where it is reaching a far less targeted audience. Rather save your big guns for the targeted placement ads.

2. Keywords choice:

The main thing you need to do here is find several different keyword phrases that are closely linked to the product you are selling. Choose words that attract a fair number of searches and are priced within your budget for maximum cost per click, but the words must be targeted, this is of utmost importance!

3. Writing your ads.

Your ads are limited to 95 characters including spaces so you must make every word count when writing your ads. Even if your ads are only 10 to 15 words long they will still need to tell your potential customers what the benefits of buying the product will be to them and also needs to encourage them to take action.

4. Split testing your ads.

When running a PPC campaign for your internet based business, one ad is not sufficient. It would be far better to write three or four different ads so that you can test one against the other to see which works to bring you the best possible results. This way you will be able to dispense with the ads that don’t achieve much and replace them with better ones. It would be to your advantage to sign up with Google Adwords Free Conversion Tracking as it will help you to measure your results.

Make this a task that you do each and every month and you will begin to see your results improving over a period of time. Your ads will also be monitored by Google Adwords to check their performance and once they have enough data, the ad will then be shown with the best click through rate more often.

5. You will also need to test and check on your landing pages on a regular basis. By dividing you Adwords campaign into two and pointing the ads to two different landing pages you will be able to see which one is converting your sales more quickly and you will be able to make changes that will then bring you the best results.

You will need to constantly test and tweak your Adwords campaigns to find out what is working and what does not work. This way you will achieve success, so long as you stay within the budget you have set and you don’t get carried away.

Michelle Jayes writes articles aimed at helping people to build a successful online income business. Visit her website www.online-income-business.com

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Let’s go over a few facts when it comes to SEO and marketing your website:

=> When you start a new website, where do your visitors come from?

You can receive visitors from multiple sources: article directories, websites that are linking to you, links to your site from an ezine, etc, but the main source of reliable traffic to your site will come from Google and the other search engines.

Google is like a switch board operator. In the olden days, when you wanted to make phone call you had to call the switch board and the operator would connect you to whoever you wanted to call.

It works the same with Google: Someone who wants to get into contact with a website like yours will call up Google and ask the search engine to connect them with a website that has a certain type of information on it.

This is why website owners work very hard to get higher rankings in Google. They know that with a higher ranking they will receive more traffic to their website.

=> Link building is the main way a website owner can elevate his site’s search engine ranking.

‘Search engine ranking’ refers to where a particular website shows up in Google (or one of the other search engines) when specific search terms are typed into the search box. From a website owner’s perspective, these search terms are called ‘keywords’.

By building links into your site, you can get a higher search engine ranking for the keyword terms associated with your website. More links going into the site shows Google that your website has authority and that it’s likely that your site contains valuable information to someone searching on your topic.

=> Article Marketing & Google

Article marketing builds links. Each time you submit an article to a publisher, your website receives a backlink (a link going back to your site). Every time your article is republished, you receive an additional backlink to your site via your resource box.

So, when you submit an article, the article can continue to ‘pay you back’ over time. Every time your article is republished, it is working for you.

=> How Can I Use SEO Knowledge In My Article Marketing Campaign?

Remember those keywords? Your goal is to rank highly for the keyword terms associated with your website. Keywords are the search terms that people who are interested in sites like yours are typing into Google.

In order to figure out what your keywords are, you need to do a little research.

STEP 1: Develop a list of 3-10 keywords. Competitive keywords are usually 2 words long (such as ‘dog collars’ or ‘running shoes’). These will be your main keywords.

STEP 2: Develop a list of long-tail keywords. These are longer phrases that are 3-5 words long (such as ‘red plaid dog collars’ or ‘off trail running shoes’.

These longer phrases are not ‘competitive’, meaning that they are so specific that a minority of folks are typing them into Google.

Still, they are being used and because of the lack of competition, it is easy to rank high for long-tail keyword terms.

STEP 3: Write articles with your keywords in mind.

=> Write on all aspects of your keywords and long tail keywords, tackling their topics from a different angle each time you write an article.

The end result will be that you’ve completely covered your niche with content specifically designed to satisfy searches that your target readers are doing. The more keywords you cover for your niche, the more opportunities for traffic from Google.

CONCLUSION:

It’s all about writing articles to satisfy what the searchers are looking for. When you write content specifically to address searches that your target customers are doing, you start working hand-in-hand with Google, and it’s like you’ve tapped into a secret weapon for leading readers to your website.

Another link building secret weapon is using an automatic article submission service to distribute your articles, bringing in more links and increasing the exposure of your articles. Steve Shaw created the web’s first ever 100% automated article distribution service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, which distributes your articles to hundreds of targeted publishers with the click of a button. For more information go to=> http://www.SubmitYOURArticle.com

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Smart business owners have been using press releases for a long time. They have shown how it is possible to help a business get promoted by using press releases. They can get a lot of attention for their products and services online and offline through press releases.

Many business owners are eerie about using press releases because they are unsure how to create them appropriately and how to distribute them in the proper manner for maximum effectiveness.

As long as they are created and used properly, press releases can be use as an effective marketing and SEO tool.

By figured out how to properly write a press release, it is possible drive a lot of traffic to your website and even build from links to your websites that can easily help increase your page rank.

In order to write an effective press release and use it to gain a lot of exposure for your product, website or service you will want to play your release out completely before even publishing it.

You will be wasting your time by constructing and planning a poor press release. You should make sure to target the message that your press release was intended for.

The first step to writing a press release is to figure out what you want to achieve from writing one.

- Are you interested in creating brand awareness for your products or website?

- Are you attempting to increase the number of subscribers to your e-zine or newsletter?

- Do you want to promote a product or service that was recently developed?

After figuring out the reason you want to write a press release, you can then begin writing the press release.

It is a good idea to start by doing a rough draft, read it and see how it flows. Does what you have written serve its purpose and it is formatted correctly?

Often times, press releases follow a particular format. Those people who are unsure how a press release should be formatted should check out the PR WEB site.

The most important part of any press release is the headline.

Using a bad headline could cause a person to skip by it without even reading it.

The headline is extremely important too because it is what the search engine is going to pick up on first. You should use the headline to your advantage since it is what gets listed first when indexed. You should list key points here, use keywords or a catchy headline that will be sure to grab the attention of your readers.

You should remember to keep your headline to a minimum because your headline will give more value to keywords that are not surrounded by irrelevant words. Planning is very important.

When trying to advertise a new website you’ll want to include the URL in the headline. When promoting product or services include keywords in the headline.

Many press release services will provide a summary box. You should write a memorable once paragraph of the press release in this box. Be sure to use some targeted keywords.

Be careful when using keywords to make sure that you’re not creating spam. Instead only use targeted keywords in the first and last paragraph. You can also use them without the entire press release. You can use them for about 2-5% saturation.

When promoting a website, it is a good it mention the website’s URL around three times to achieve the maximum benefit.

Many people will be asking hoe to make a great release. What should a good release be created with and how should it be constructed?

There are a number of example press releases that you can use to help construct your own press release.

You should examine each of these press release templates and use to them to find out which is the most effective.

After you have finished studying these examples and want to submit your own press release, you will want to figure out which are currently the most popularly used.

Here are a few of the very popular press release services. There services are very effective.

prweb

pressbox

webwire

24-7 press release

Most of the time you can submit a press release for free but there are a few services that will require you to pay a fee. When you pay to submit your press release you will be given the benefit of having your press release indexed much faster.

After its release, it is possible for Google to pick up your press release within a few hours. It should then begin showing up within the search engine’s search results within a few days or a week.

Having used bother services in the past, I have found that paying the smallest amount possible will give you the ability to view your stats online. This will also give you the opportunity to choose a number of different categories for your press release to be place in. This gives your press release a change for much larger coverage.

You can use press releases to easily and effectively promote your website or affiliate products when your press release is constructed and submitted properly.

You can use press releases to draw in a large number of targeted visitors while building links back to your website.

Seomul Evans is specializes in Press Release Services for businesses with a leading US based SEO Services company focusing in Natural SEO.Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-use-press-releases-for-seo-purposes-1043845.html

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