tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66407291126299688202024-02-20T01:00:43.421-08:00Traffic Hungerebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-36887842714533006082009-12-12T06:52:00.001-08:002009-12-12T06:52:38.089-08:0031 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Business Web Site<p><a href="http://About.com">About.com</a></p> <p>Web site promotion has become a time consuming project and a new position in the web design industry, Search Engine Consultants, has been created. Use the list below to find ways that your business web site will be found by your ideal client, is user friendly and is visited often.</p> <p>1. Build a strong, solid business foundation. Design a business plan, marketing plan, ideal client profile and 30-second elevator speech.</p> <p>2. Be consistent and “brand” your company. Use the same colors, logo, motto, etc. everywhere on your business web site!</p> <p>3. Make your business web site trustable.</p> <p>4. Create policies that build trust: customer service, code of ethics and newsletter privacy policy.</p> <p>5. Ask your web master to name each of your pages using a keyword you have supplied them with.</p> <p>6. Offer added values on your business web site that make sense to your business and ideal client. This can include affiliate programs, books, and recommended links to web sites.</p> <p>7. Add a “favorites or bookmark this site” script to some of your business web site pages.</p> <p>8. Add a "Recommend This Site" on your site. If someone visits your business Web site and knows someone else who may appreciate it, this feature will e-mail the page's link to a recipient.</p> <p>9. If you have pages on your business web site that you update monthly (like an articles page or recommended links page) say so on the page.</p> <p>10. Join a few Web rings. For additional information, visit <a href="http://www.webring.com/rw">WebRing</a> and <a href="http://www.bravenet.com/">Bravenet</a>.</p> <p>11. Provide a subscription box, to your e-zine or business announcement list, on your most viewed business web site pages.</p> <p>12. On large business web sites, create a "What's New Page" or even better, ask your web designer to design a "Site Map" for your visitors.</p> <p>13. Search engines look for certain things - titles, headings, meta tags - so it is crucial to make sure your site is "search engine friendly". Visit the <a href="http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/searchengines/index.htm">Search Engine Optimization and Submission</a> page on this site for additional resources on search engines and search engine submission tips.</p> <p>a. TITLE tags: Title tags should be 60 or so characters and include some keywords.</p> <p>b. Header tags are numbered from 1 to 7: some search engines recognize Header tags. So make sure you use these tags for each of the titles on your page.</p> <p>c. Keyword Meta tags: Add no more than 15 to 20 keywords to keep the search engines from flagging your site for keyword spamming. Prioritize your words. The best way to submit to search engines is to submit to each search engine individually.</p> <p>d. Use keywords in the text area of each page. They are especially important at the beginning of sentences and higher up on the page. </p> <p>e. To learn more about meta tags and choosing keywords, read <a href="http://sbinfocanada.about.com/library/biztips/bl_biztips_41.htm">"Effective Search Engine Optimization"</a> (from About Small Business: Canada).</p> <p>14. Search engines do not find your site unless you submit your site's information to them. Below are four ways to submit your Web site to search engines:</p> <p>a. It is recommended that you submit to search engines individually (this is also the way I do it and it works great, but is time consuming)!</p> <p>b. Since some people prefer to use a free service to submit their sites to search engines, I recommend that they open a free e-mail address to use when you do "anything" for free on the World Wide Web. Two good search engine submission services are <a href="http://www.submitit.com/">Submit It!</a>, and <a href="http://www.scrubtheweb.com/">Scrub The Web</a>. You can pay for a program that will assist you to submit and critique your site such as <a href="http://www.webposition.com/">WebPosition Gold</a>.</p> <p>c. Hire a Search Engine Optimization Expert to handle your search engine submissions.</p> <p>15. Visit these search engine information sites: <a href="http://www.searchenginewatch.com/">Search Engine Watch</a> and <a href="http://www.searchengineguide.com/">Search Engine Guide</a>.</p> <p>16. Find easy and secure ways for your clients to pay you. A shopping cart and a secure way to accept checks and/or credit cards work very well.</p> <p>17. Check your business web site's links regularly to make sure they all work. Use a free link checker such as <a href="http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html">Xenu's Link Sleuth</a>.</p> <p>18. Provide monthly chats or bulletin boards (forums) to build relationships and community.</p> <p>19. Conduct periodic contests and announce the winners on your site.</p> <p>20. Offer a free e-book or e-report on your site. Its size doesn’t matter if you’re providing it for free and it’s specifically for your ideal client. Provide permission for the e-book to be forwarded to others for their personal use.</p> <p>21. Write articles, post them to your business Web site, and submit them to <a href="http://www.coachmaria.com/articles/articlebanks.html">article banks</a>.</p> <p>22. Design some quizzes or surveys. Statistics show that visitors love quizzes and assessment tools.</p> <p>23. Participate in online forums as an expert. You get to "quietly" promote your business in your three or four line signature.</p> <p>24. Place your business web site address on all your printed literature -- business cards, brochures, newsletters, letterhead, e-mail signature, ads - everything!!</p> <p>25. Promote your web address in your signature for e-mails (change it regularly to highlight something new you're promoting).</p> <p>26. Teach classes or speak to groups about subjects relating to your products.</p> <p>27. Network locally to bring people to your site.</p> <p>28. “Permission Market” by gathering, in writing, the e-mail addresses of students, or an audience as part of your evaluation forms. Create index cards so that you can invite your friends, networking partners or associates to join your list. Keep any papers involved in this process for at least a year or two.</p> <p>29. When your business web site is launched, updated, or you write a free e-book, send a Press Release to the media, your clients, and friends and associates, too.</p> <p>30. Want to know more about Internet Marketing? Visit this <a href="http://www.internet.com/sections/marketing.html">Internet Marketing Index</a> at Internet.com's Interactive Marketing Channel.</p> <p>31. If this list of web site promotion ideas seems overwhelming, visit your favorite search engine to conduct a search for Search Engine Optimizers and Consultants or ask others who they use and would recommend.</p> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-70074453010558293312009-12-09T04:13:00.001-08:002009-12-09T04:13:35.467-08:00Phone leads sovereign in global web traffic<p>Also in October, Apple was able to significantly expand its market share in mobile web use. Once a month, the recently released Google acquired ad network AdMob's statistics on the worldwide mobile web experience. And for several months, is Apple's iPhone OS - and thus the data traffic that is caused by iPhone and iPod touch - the undisputed number one. This has remained unchanged in October, on the contrary. Apple could from September to October to expand its leadership role on. The global share of iPhone OS data traffic on the Internet increased from 43 to 50 percent. In second place are two devices with Symbian (which is predominantly used by Nokia), which, however, lost interest and dropped from 29 to 25 percent. Google's Android could grow one percentage point and is in third place with 11 percent. </p> <p> <br />Research In Motion's BlackBerry device gave off a percentage point to 7 percent and came in fourth place. Microsoft's Windows Mobile has further lost and limbo with just three percent of fifth place. The fifth and sixth place to go with WebOS and Palm OS to Palm, and also get a total of three percent. From September to October was the iPhone to expand its global market share of mobile web usage from 43 to a full 50 percent. (In the same amount of time that is mainly used on Symbian Nokia mobile phone) from 29 to 25 percent. Android could dazugewinnen one percentage point and now stands at 11 percent. BlackBerrys followed by 7 percent (September 8 percent) to fourth place, is located off of fifth place Windows Mobile, which lost market share further and now stands at only 3 percent.</p> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-43308896547150656882009-12-04T21:25:00.000-08:002009-12-04T21:26:03.320-08:00Traffic War<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Ever been to a market? A fish market or a street market selling such things as vegetables and fruit? <em>It’s a very special world, lively and busy</em> where all market players are pushing each others in order to get the best spot.</p> <p>Internet is very similar to a street market in many ways. There are <strong>a couple of keywords</strong> that really would work very well for your business.<br/>Type your favorite keywords in Google and heck the number of results sitting there: MILLIONS!</p> <p>You are only the new guy. You had no idea you’d have to <strong>queue behind millions of already-existing websites</strong> standing there, in front of your customers and proud to be in the first pages of Google results.</p> <p><strong>Are you going to queue? No, it’s Traffic War!!!<br/></strong></p> <p>This is the best topic ever discussed on internet: Moving your shop from a back alley to the main street.<br/>These are exciting times, things happening now could never have happened before, at least not that fast.</p> <p>Why be <em>in</em> the yellow pages when 10 competitors are <em>on</em> the coverpage?</p> <p>It all <em>starts with words</em>, so we will definitely talk again about <em>words</em> in the next post: <strong>Choose the right keywords for your business.</strong></p><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=a7f2a109-cdd9-87a0-b8bc-584d66b0e7ac' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-18342158645770175592009-12-04T21:21:00.001-08:002009-12-04T21:21:13.966-08:00Website promotion More techniques<h5> </h5> <p>After being accepted into the largest directories and having pages of your site come up in answer to searches done at the major search engines, the long hours that you've spent on website promotion have begun to pay off and your daily visitor count is starting to look good. But there is still plenty you can do to help your site attract even more traffic.</p> <p>In phase three, we'll examine different promotion methods that you might want to try. However, in order to prevent you from wasting your time on things that don't work, we'll also go over a few techniques that have proven to be less than spectacular when I experimented with them.</p> <h6>Step one - Keep these in mind</h6> <p>First, let's take a look at the good stuff. The articles introduced in this step are about the website promotion methods that are at least partially effective. Some of them work better than others, but if used correctly, all of them can produce results that will be worth your while. Of course, most of the articles include advice on what you need to do to obtain the best possible results with the method discussed.</p> <ol> <li>If you sell something on your site, you might want to try <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/banners.html">banner ads</a>. Usually banner campaigns are seen as expensive and ineffective, but it is partially because advertisers don't know how to design good banners. </li> <li>Read the article on how to <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/return.html">increase traffic with return visitors</a>. Getting people to come back is the secret to why some sites get amazingly many hits per day. </li> <li>Learn what <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/recipro.html">reciprocal links</a> are and how to get them, then put that knowledge into use. In addition to sending you visitors, reciprocal links will also increase your link popularity and help your site rank higher in the search engines. </li> <li>Start using <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/sig.html">E-mail signatures</a>. They might not produce thousands of visitors, but are a great way to promote your site a bit without having to actually do anything. </li> <li>Evaluate whether your site could benefit from joining a <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/topsites.html">topsite list</a>. These lists have their good and bad sides, but might be at least worth a try. </li> <li>Consider trying to <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/usenet.html">build traffic with Usenet advertising</a>. It can give you a nice traffic boost and help spread the word about your site, but only if done properly. Read the article to learn why Usenet promotion should only be done with great care. </li> <li><a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/increasetraffic.html">Writing newsletter articles</a> often works well and can send you large amounts of targeted traffic in a short period of time, for free.</li> </ol> <h6>Step two - Forget these</h6> <p>As said, everything just doesn't always work the way it should in the world of promotion. In step two, our attention is focused on website promotion methods that are more trouble than they are worth. They might not be entirely useless, but your time would be better spent on improving your site or spreading the word about your site in other ways.</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/clickthr.html">Click exchange programs</a> are easy, fast, free and will get you a lot of visitors. That's why it might be a surprise to hear that they really aren't good website promotion tools. </li> <li>A lot has been written about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/ffa.html">FFA pages</a> and for the past few years, most of it has been negative. The only thing they are good for is increasing the flow of spam to your E-mail address. </li> <li><a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/awards.html">Winning website awards</a> can occasionally be useful, especially if the awards are well-known. However, sometimes the winner of the award is not the real winner.</li> </ol> <h5>Final words</h5> <p>Congratulate yourself for being persistent, bright and hard-working. Most get frustrated and quit before this point, which is why most sites never become anything. After all, the secret to having a successful site is working hard in both promoting </p> <p>and creating it. You just might have what it takes.</p> <p>After going through those three phases, you've read just about everything this site has to offer. While there is more to website promotion than what we have discussed here, you now know quite a lot about the subject. If you still desire more information, don't forget to come back to this site every now and then. This tutorial is always incomplete, because I continuously notice things that I want to write about.</p> <p>I hope that A Promotion Guide has been able to help you to make your site more popular and thus given you the chance to spread your ideas and thoughts to a larger audience. And remember, if you have achieved good results, it's not because I showed you how to do it - it's because you did it.</p> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-62160705640857203742009-12-04T21:20:00.001-08:002009-12-04T21:20:18.020-08:00Website promotion - Search engines<h5> </h5> <p>Now that your site has been included in ODP and Yahoo, you should already be receiving clearly more traffic than before. The next task is to get to know search engines and use them to bring even more people to your pages. Because you have completed phase one, you have established a good foundation for making your site perform well in the search engines.</p> <h6>Step one - Search engine optimization, basics</h6> <p>In order to gain good rankings, you'll need to learn the basics of search engine algorithms (ranking systems) and adjust your pages to meet their criteria as well as possible. This will take some time and effort, but doing some work now will save you from a lot of trouble in the future.</p> <ol> <li>First, try to make the design of your site as search engine friendly as possible. To read more about the subject, take a look at my article about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/seodesign.html">website optimization</a>. </li> <li>Next, you'll need to do some <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/keywords.html">keyword optimization</a>. Sounds frightening, but in plain English it simply means choosing the correct keywords for your pages. Using the wrong words is perhaps the most common reason why people don't get satisfying results from their search engine optimization work. </li> <li>Continue by reading these <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/search_engine_optimisation.html">search engine optimization tips</a>. </li> <li>Read the article about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/metatag.html">META tags</a> and add them to all of your pages. The META keywords tag isn't absolutely necessary, but the META description tag is very important. </li> <li>Learn what <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/link_popularity.html">link popularity</a> is and how search engines use it to rank your pages. </li> <li>Unless you have already done so, read about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/google.html">Google's algorithm</a>. Google is among the most popular search services of today, so it is wise to take its requirements into account. </li> <li>Use all of this information to optimize your pages for the search engines.</li> </ol> <h6>Step two - Search engine optimization, advanced</h6> <p>Your site is now adequately prepared to really start bringing in traffic from search engines. But if you want to widen your knowledge about them and increase your chances of success, you still have some work to do. On the other hand, if you're totally exhausted and just want to get this thing over with, you'll be delighted to know that this step isn't absolutely necessary.</p> <ol> <li>Study some of the more advanced things related to search engine optimization. Among them are <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/cloaking.html">cloaking</a>, <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/css_tricks.html">css tricks</a>, <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/doorways.html">doorway pages</a>, <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/themes.html">themes</a> and how to <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/click_popularity.html">improve your search engine ranking with click popularity</a>. </li> <li>Read about the things you should avoid doing from this article that outlines common <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/whatnot.html">web site promotion mistakes</a>.</li> </ol> <h6>Step three - Submitting to search engines?</h6> <p>Now is the time to make sure that your site has a presence in the indexes of major search engines. Fortunately, they are quite good at finding your site on their own. There are things you can do to help them, though..</p> <ol> <li>Get to know how <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/search_engine_submission.html">search engine submission</a> works and how the search engines determine which sites to list. </li> <li>Read the article "<a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/targeting_search_engine_marketing.html">Targeting your search engine marketing</a>" to see which engines are the most popular ones. </li> <li>If you are running a commercial site, you might also want to consider paying for search engine placement. Take a look at how you can use <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/top_position.html">PPC search engine advertising</a> to buy your way to the top.</li> </ol> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-88053425575969149362009-12-04T21:13:00.001-08:002009-12-04T21:13:36.399-08:00Website promotion - Directories<h5>You should start your website promotion efforts by listing your site at the most popular Internet directories. Because they can send you substantial amounts of traffic and affect your ranking in various search engines, it is wise to make sure that your site is present in all of the major directories before doing anything else.</h5> <h6>Step one - General information</h6> <p>Submitting to directories is easy and doesn't require much effort. It's ensuring that your submission will be accepted that makes this task a hard one. </p> <ol> <li>First, read "<a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/director.html">Boost your traffic with website directories</a>" to get a basic idea on what directories are and how to submit to them. </li> <li>Examine the article about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/design.html">web page design</a> to get some tips on how to improve your site and reduce the chances of it being rejected.</li> </ol> <h6>Step two - The Open Directory Project</h6> <p>Start with the Open Directory Project. While your site has to offer good, unique content to be accepted to the ODP, its editors usually review sites quickly and won't reject them without a good reason for doing so. This, along with the fact that submitting to the ODP is free of charge, makes it a perfect starting point. Completing this step successfully will also provide you with experience that will prove to be very valuable later on.</p> <ol> <li>Read my thoughts on how <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/google.html">Google's ranking algorithm</a> works and notice how an ODP listing seems to affect your ranking at Google. Keep this information in mind when you submit. </li> <li>Take a look at the advice on <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/submit_open_directory.html">submitting your website to the ODP</a>. </li> <li>Finally, <a href="http://www.dmoz.org">submit your site to the ODP</a>. </li> <li>If your submission isn't successful, consider <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/becoming_open_directory_editor.html">becoming an editor at the Open Directory</a> and listing your own site.</li> </ol> <h6>Step three - Yahoo</h6> <p>After securing a listing at ODP, your next task is to get the folks at Yahoo to notice that your site exists and is worth a place in their directory. This might cost you a fair amount of money if you are running a commercial site, but is usually worth it. Non-commercial sites can get in for free, but might require several submissions and a lot of patience before they are accepted.</p> <ol> <li>Check out the <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/yahoo.html">Yahoo-specific guidelines and hints</a> and the article about <a href="http://www.apromotionguide.com/yahooalgo.html">how Yahoo's search feature ranks sites</a>. </li> <li>Bite the bullet and <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">submit your site to Yahoo</a>.</li> </ol> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-87835020433227835732009-12-04T06:50:00.001-08:002009-12-04T06:50:43.210-08:00Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection (2ce9ad62-e864-4f38-84e6-7168a8a617b6 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)<p>This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. (60f721e4-3e06-4231-9c9b-58ec1e856124 - 3bfe001a-32de-4114-a6b4-4005b770f6d7)</p> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-60893500885818720182009-11-25T20:23:00.001-08:002009-11-25T20:23:38.487-08:00Facebook Marketing Best Practices<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><span class='medium_text' id='result_box'><span title='Saya selalu kepingin tahu bagaimana caranya untuk memasarkan blog saya dengan memanfaatkan Facebook.' style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>I always wanted to know how to market my blog by using Facebook. </span><span title='Aku menemukan artikel berikut.'>I found the following article. </span><span title='Kelihatannya bisa memberikan sedikit inspirasi.' style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>It seems to give a little inspiration. </span><span title='Silahkan membaca..' style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Please read </span></span></p><p>After the keynote frenzy this morning, the session that stood out for me was “<strong>Facebook Marketing: Best Practices”</strong> with Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester Research as moderator, Evan Mager from AKQA, Holly Liu from Watercooler, Brett Keintz of 750 Industries and Stanford GSB and Kevin Barenblat of Context Optional.</p> <p>Some of the key takeaways from this session were:</p> <ul><li>Be clear with your objectives</li><li>Test spending money on Facebook marketing even if you aren’t sure about the return. Hey, 1,000,000 visits can’t be wrong!</li><li>Understanding the ROI of Facebook requires a new kind of mindset</li><li>Don’t take away the social features of Facebook from users</li><li>Facebook marketing is not about driving traffic to your web site. Keep Facebook users on Facebook</li></ul> <p>Hopefully Jeremiah doesn’t think I’m stalking him as this is the second session in two days of his that I’ve blogged. Unfortunately, I don’t know the panelists and there are no name tents, so each panelist response or comment below is labeled simply as “panel”.</p> <p>He started with a series of polls: How many people use the internet? <img class='wp-smiley' alt=':)' src='http://www.toprankblog.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif'/> Facebook? Bloggers? Twitter? With each poll the number of hands raised changes.</p> <p>Owyang cites <a target='_blank' href='http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics' onclick='javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics');'>stats</a> from the Facebook site:</p> <ul><li>70 million active users</li><li>Facebook is the 6th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore)</li><li>Facebook is the 2nd most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)</li><li>Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks</li><li>More than half of Facebook users are outside of college</li><li>The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older</li></ul> <p>The neat thing about Facebook is that they have a platform that allows 3rd parties to develop widgets and other applications. There are over 20,000 applications, mostly junk. 140 new apps are added per day.</p> <p>Forrester data: Researched to find out how people use social networks. Primarily, they use Facebook to self express and also to communicate with peers. Nowhere does it say they look for products or look at advertisements.</p> <p>Facebook offers many methods and channels for marketing – many of which you can find in this article: <a target='_blank' href='http://www.insidefacebook.com/2007/12/09/inside-facebook-marketing-bible-24-ways-to-market-your-brand-company-product-or-service-in-facebook/' onclick='javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.insidefacebook.com/2007/12/09/inside-facebook-marketing-bible-24-ways-to-market-your-brand-company-product-or-service-in-facebook/');'>The Facebook Marketing Bible</a>: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook</p> <p>Panel: You approach Facebook like any other media. Think about your objectives and audience and go from there.</p> <p>Panel: It depends on what your goals and budget are. If your looking at branding and community, create a Facebook page and consider engaging an app developer.</p> <p>Owyang: What are you seeing as objectives from clients?</p> <p>Panel: If you’re looking to attract users, applications are useful.</p> <p>Owyang: Any companies looking to increase sales and revenue?</p> <p>Panel: This space is so new, no one has really developed a ROI formula that works. The value is the ability to create virality around your brand. It’s a different way of thinking about achieving your objectives.</p> <p>Owyang: What are some best practices?</p> <p>Panel: Keep your content dynamic and fresh. Keep people coming back. There are basically two types of content on Facebook: The assets themselves, photos, text, etc. Also the social digital actions around that content like comments on photos.</p> <p>Ways to keep assets fresh: 1. Do it youeself. 2. License it 3. User generated content – allows a lot of engagement. Users feel ownership of community. However, with UGC you will definitely need moderators.</p> <p>Create applications that are metaphors for what people already know. For example, the Dodgeball mobile application. People are familiar with the concept and can jump in and start using it right away without a lot of confusion.</p> <p>Owyang: Some of the audience will hate the brands being marketed on Facebook. What do you do about that?</p> <p>Panel: You’re going to hear the good and the bad. That provides you an opportunity to listen to customers, audience.</p> <p>Owyang: What about trolls?</p> <p>Panel: With some people there’s not a lot you can do. Brand fans will come to your aid in many cases.</p> <p>Owyang: Does driving traffic to your site work in Facebook?</p> <p>Panel: Not really. If you have great content or incentive, they’ll go. With our viral marketing clients, you can take that same content and wrap it into Facebook itself so the experience for the consumer is seamless. We look at Facebook like TV, it’s an immersive experience. They generally don’t respond well to going offsite.</p> <p>If you do send them offsite, make the landing page or microsite look similar to the page they came from within FB. Otherwise, we recommend trying to keep people on Facebook.</p> <p>Panel: The clickthroug rate to outside sites is low. This is a distribution channel and you’ll get more page views if you keep them within Facebook.</p> <p>Owyang: What are some measures of success?Panel: We track everything that happens with the application. We a/b test everything about the app. We also track effectiveness of the campaign, impressions and where they’re coming from. In the app world, it’s important to understand the viral factor. How many are passing the app along and how successful that is.</p> <p>Panel: There can be challenges in getting data/metrics from Facebook to match up with traditional media formats. Sometimes you just have to go for it.</p> <p>Owyang: When I look at Facebook apps, I see a lot of crap. Where’s the buisiness utility in this?</p> <p>Panel: It’s like TV – it’s an opportunity to put your message in front of someone. If you have a million users engage in an app over amonth, that’s something interesting to them. That’s also time they’re not spending with other media.</p> <p>Panel: If you can tie in your Facebook campaign with other marketing efforts or as part of a larger effort, it can be more effective.</p> <p>Owyang: What is Beacon? What is a fan page?</p> <p>Panel: A fan page is an official page for a brand on Facebook. A Facebook page is created and other users can become fans of the page. Marketers can buy ads on those fans and their networks.</p> <p>Owyang: Beacon is what happens on 3rd party sites. Is Beacon a good way to do marketing?</p> <p>Panel: For most Facebook users, it’s about the feed. What we’re driving toward is distribution through the feed. Giving your fans a place to rally enables you to up the experience for fans. It can supercharge excitement for the brand.</p> <p>Panel: Apps are important but fan pages are also very valuable.</p> <p>Panel: Brands that want to present an “official” representation, can use Facebook pages. For unoffical engagement, they can provide applications.</p> <p>Owyang: What about ads?</p> <p>Panel: If all you’re doing is banners and ads on Facebook and nothing else, you’re missing tremendous opportunity.</p> <p>Panel: If you can slip an ad into the feed without being obtrusive, you can get very good clickthrough rates.</p> <p>Owyang: What about demographic and targeting based on self volunteered personal info? Cites an example of being able to reduce the number of potential job candidates from millions to 200 people by this kind of segmentation and targeting. However, when the ad campaign to work for Forrester was executed, it didn’t generate results.</p> <p>Panel: You’ve got to have a soft touch or it can alienate.</p> <p>Audience: How do you define success?</p> <p>Panel: It depends on the campaign. For video, it’s views, traffic back to the fan page.</p> <p>Owyang: Tell me about a company that’s done it wrong.</p> <p>Panel: Walmart created a back to college Facebook page. To Walmart’s credit, they “keep trying” with social media. A problem with the Walmart Facebook page was that it was a shallow experience. They disabled the peer to peer experiences – forums, comments, etc. That generated a bad vibe from Facebook community because they couldn’t interact. Also, the Walmart Facebook page was designed to send people to the Walmart web site. When people are on Facebook, they don’t want to leave.</p> <p>Owyang: Best practices broken down: Let people communicate with each other, and don’t focus on sending people off Facebook.</p> <p>Owyang: Biggest problem I see in this space when talking to brands is that they come into Facebook without goals/objectives.</p> <p>Audience: Looking at using Facebook from a recruitment branding perspective. Anyone have experience with apps?</p> <p>Owyang: Gives the <a target='_blank' href='http://www.facebook.com/ernstandyoungcareers' onclick='javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/ernstandyoungcareers');'>Ernst and Young Facebook</a> recruiting example.</p> <p>Audience: What are best practices to research a target market on Facebook?</p> <p>Panel: Facebook has official tools to identify psychographic information. your best bet is to poll Facebook users.</p> <p>Audience: Is Facebook enough? Or should I advice to our developers to pour everything into <a target='_blank' href='http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/' onclick='javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/code.google.com/apis/opensocial/');'>OpenSocial</a>?</p> <p>Panel: It depends on your audience. We make that decision based on who we’re trying to reach. ie, other sites that support OpenSocial that have audiences of interest. Facebook is certainly large, but it does make sense to make apps available to other sites.</p> <p>Audience: Any examples of lawfirms using Facebook for recruiting?</p> <p>Owyang: Nothing specific, but I would start with LinkedIn actually. Do a search via Facebook ads for law students.</p><p><a href='http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/04/web-20-expo-facebook-marketing-best-practices/'>Read Original</a><br/></p><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=b06a0d62-a4fd-80cb-aa22-2813053a64c1' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-6581914138405831892009-11-25T04:26:00.000-08:002009-11-25T04:27:04.664-08:00How To Generate Free Traffic<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Increasing the website traffic to your website helps you to cash in through ads. And this is reason why webmasters are searching for the best tricks and tips which help them to build the traffic to their<br/>websites. <br/><br/>Is there any such website traffic generator program which helps to increase the web traffic and that too available for free? In the following paragraphs, we will see about free traffic generator programs and how they work.<br/><br/>Traffic generators is software programs which are designed to increase the traffic of the website. There are several companies which offer such traffic generator programs which bring about guaranteed targeted website traffic. Most web based companies who offer traffic generator programs charge some<br/>amount of money for their program. But there are several companies which offer free traffic generator programs. <br/><br/>One of the most popular free traffic generator software programs is the Traffic Swarm. Till now, the software has been generating lots of positive feedbacks from its users. <br/><br/>Free Traffic generator programs come in many types. Of the most popular type is a HTTP traffic generator for testing web based applications. These types of applications allow its users to request count and interval between two requests. The generated requests are transferred to the specified website URL. One of the major advantages of these types of applications is that they are simple and fast programs which can simulate client activity. <br/><br/>Another well known type of traffic generator available in the market is a packet Traffic Generator program which can be used to distinguish the performance of packet switched network communication protocols. The packet traffic generator program is designed so as to generate and receive one way packet traffic streams transmitted from the user level process between traffic source and traffic sink nodes in a network. The program allows the user to test various versions, or versions of the similar protocol, and determine the differences in<br/>performance. <br/><br/>Whichever type of free traffic generator program you are using to increase the traffic to your website, the main point one need to know is that the traffic a website generates is a cumulative effect of various crucial factors such as keyword optimization, SEO techniques, and link exchange. So together with free traffic generator software make sure that your web pages have enough contents optimized with the targeted keywords.<br/><br/>To conclude, the traffic a website generates is not something that happens by chance. But it is a cumulative effect of some crucial factors, whose selective and intelligent implementation could catapult any website on to the road to internet riches. Do just as what has been suggested in the earlier paragraphs and see for yourself how your hit counter is galloping and your coffers getting filled simultaneously. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=ed0fa3e9-3188-80ea-8903-f82608b781a0' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-39320754726017094812009-11-25T04:25:00.000-08:002009-11-25T04:26:01.623-08:00Driving Traffic To Website - Free Resources<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>If you're a webmaster, you know you need to get traffic to your website in order to succeed. You might be selling your own products, or you're an affiliate for others, or you're building your lists and want to capture email addresses. Whatever your site's function, you know that driving traffic to website is a key objective.<br/><br/>There are many ways to promote your site in driving traffic to website. One of the most effective ways to get traffic is to try and get in the top ten positions of Google, Yahoo and other search engines. <br/><br/>However, attempting to get your website returned on the first page of search engines is very ambitious. It means that you will have to optimize your web pages extremely efficiently for your chosen keywords and key phrases. <br/><br/>Whilst it's difficult to get on the first page of Google, Yahoo and the rest, you can find lots of resources on the internet, many free, to assist you in this objective.<br/><br/>I did a search on Google for - optimize website free resources - and it came back with over 68 million hits! So there's plenty of assistance available to help in driving traffic.<br/><br/>If you're looking for help, here are a selection of resources which I have found particularly useful:<br/><br/>http://www.sitereportcard.com<br/>Free website analysis, optimization and promotion reports.<br/><br/>http://www.seocompany.ca/tool/free-seo-tools.html<br/>You will find useful optimization free tools here.<br/><br/>http://www.spiderhelp.com/optimize/<br/>An excellent checklist covering the elements of optimizing your site.<br/><br/>These sites will be a good starting point for you if you're looking for that ultimate of traffic objectives - to appear in a top ten position on the search engines.<br/><br/>If you use these resources wisely and effectively, you will find that there are many ways of driving traffic to website. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=c0eb28ad-ce53-8ccc-8f19-4a50e2cea56d' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-61095703224283260922009-11-25T04:20:00.000-08:002009-11-25T04:21:03.755-08:00Traffic Exchanges - Are They Worth the Effort?<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>There are advertisements, articles and more that all state how great these traffic exchanges are. But are they really worth the time and effort they require? Will you really get a lot of traffic and if you do get traffic, is it good, purchasing traffic? <br/><br/>There are many traffic exchanges; TS25, Traffichits, Traffic Swarm, TrafficG, etc... If you can think of a subject there is probably a traffic exchange named after it - there's even Mafia Traffic and Dead hits. The basic idea is that you click on a website and watch it for 10-30 seconds and for every 1-3 sites you view 1 person will view your site. This can be quite tedious as to get a sizable amount of traffic you must view an awful lot of websites. <br/><br/>Most of these traffic exchanges have come up with an upsell from the free traffic exchange. For a set fee around $10-$30 per month you get 1,000 or so free credits and a quicker timer or a better conversion 1:2 instead of 1:3 or similar. The problem here is that most of this traffic is seen as robotic by the search engines so it will ot help much in your ranking. This traffic is also people just like you trying to get traffic. Very, very few will have any interest in your product or site and most will click right through to the next screen. So yours doesn't even fuully load - in other words they won't even see your site. Yes, there are sales made through the traffic exchanges, but it is so low of a conversion that you must really visit tens of thousands of pages for each conversion/sale.<br/><br/>Most traffic exchanges do have a virulence aspect built in which can help, but just like with Mary Kay and any MLM program, only the first program participants will reap much from this. You need a huge downline for it to be worth your time and this can take a long time to build. Just like Mary Kay, there are only 10 or so people per exchange getting most of the results. The rest are basically wasting their time and helping others (their sponsors) to get rich. <br/><br/>There are better ways to spend your time. Write articles and submit them to sites like ezinearticles for maximum readership. This will give you traffic that is virulent and long lasting. And it isn't a scam like MLM, its just you and your site links getting all the benefits. If you write interesting and helpful articles you will get great, targeted traffic. Ezinearticles even has numerous pages devoted to help you learn what to write and how to writ it to get maximum effect. You can also do press releases and word of mouth through forums and other free sites. In the long run you will do much better. Traffic exchanges are a waste of time. Don't take my word for it - try them and you'll see why I'm right. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=74d6ca41-9c37-8a1a-9175-9c3f8b188b32' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-42936939090234064242009-11-25T04:19:00.001-08:002009-11-25T04:19:45.197-08:00Free Traffic Generator Information<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Increasing the website traffic to your website helps you to make more money through ads. And this is reason why webmasters are searching for the best tips and trick which help them to build the traffic to their websites. Is there any such web traffic generator program which helps to increase the web traffic and that too available for free? In the following paragraphs, we will see about free traffic generator programs and how they work.<br/><br/>Traffic generators are software programs which are designed to increase the traffic of the website. There are several companies which offer such traffic generator programs which bring about guaranteed targeted website traffic. Most companies who offer traffic generator programs charge some amount of money for their program. But there are several companies which offer these programs. One of the most popular free traffic generator software programs is the Traffic Swarm. Till now, the software has been generating lots of positive feedbacks from its users. <br/><br/>These programs come in various types. Of the most popular type is a HTTP traffic generator for testing web based applications. These types of applications allow its users to request count and interval between two requests. The generated requests are transferred to the specified website URL. One of the major advantages of these types of applications is that they are simple and fast programs which can simulate client activity. <br/><br/>Another popular type of traffic generator available in the market is a packet Traffic Generator program which can be used to distinguish the performance of packet switched network communication protocols. The packet traffic generator program is designed so as to generate and receive one way packet traffic streams transmitted from the user level process between traffic source and traffic sink nodes in a network. The program allows the user to test various versions, or versions of the similar protocol, and determine the differences in performance. <br/><br/>Whichever type of program you are using to increase the traffic to your website, the main point one need to know is that the traffic a website generates is a cumulative effect of various crucial factors such as keyword optimization, SEO techniques, and link exchange. So together with free traffic generator software make sure that your web pages have enough contents optimized with the targeted keywords.<br/><br/>To conclude, the traffic a website generates is not something that happens by chance. But it is a cumulative effect of some crucial factors, whose selective and intelligent implementation could catapult any website on to the road to internet riches. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=8b7466c4-4898-8462-bb79-e937990cdcbb' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-71450654522892914242009-11-25T04:18:00.001-08:002009-11-25T04:18:27.582-08:00Are Traffic Exchanges Dead<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Traffic Exchanges Are Only Good For A few things. there's basically one market you can advertise that will grab someone's attention at a traffic exchange website guess what it is.<br/><br/>Well Think About For A second Before I just give it away if your signed in clicking away waiting for those seconds to pass before you can go on to the next website most of the time you don't even pay attention to what you clicking on because you there to get more traffic not look at other peoples websites.<br/><br/>So why not advertise a website for getting more traffic or some type of website traffic ebook or web site traffic software these types of products grasp peoples attention at at traffic exchanges because thats why there at the website in the first place.<br/><br/>The reason you are reading this article is because you have some type of intrest in web site traffic in one way or another. So after this article there is a chance for you to go to a web site that is all about web site traffic, you can learn a lot there for free and of coourse there is a product which is a membership site that help you get traffic and promote you website in every way there is.<br/><br/>In General you reach people by there intrest so even in marketing you should find what the people are intrested in that you are targeting and make you self easly avalible for them to target you.<br/><br/>Are Traffic exchanges worth the time, well that depends on what you have to offer if you dont have anything that going to catch someones eye and get there attention you may as well forget it.<br/><br/>traffic exchanges are the place where you want to be the most flashy and give the best deals at the top. Give them something they can't resist so they have to sign up for your mailing list. speaking of mailing list traffic exchanges are a decent place to get some sign ups so you can get some sales later.<br/><br/>As an example get an eye catching picture if you don't really know what i mean just go to google and serch for something your intrested in then look through some webpages and see if there a pic that jumps out at you then once you get that get something the customer can't resist like $100<br/>ebooks on there intrest all they have to do is sign up and it will be sent to there email for free. once you get the combination you can make a couple extra 1000 a month using this technique.<br/><br/>If you want to obtain all the information there is on website traffic you should definatly visit Maximize Traffic Look at the author box get your free ebook worth 29.99 this website has been out for a year now and is updated about every month. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=63f978da-c08c-8b21-a84f-fd7e4a452e8c' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-23986797569798491672009-11-25T04:17:00.001-08:002009-11-25T04:17:43.509-08:00Manual Traffic Exchanges<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>While there are a lot of ways to bring additional traffic to your website, manual traffic exchanges are one great choice. This is a great way to bring additional traffic to your site, and as we all know, more traffic means more sales or advertising revenues. If you have previously done this by hand, requesting links from individuals or businesses, you can save yourself time with manual traffic exchanges. <br/><br/>How does a manual traffic exchange work? It is really quite simple. You visit sites on the traffic exchange and in return, you get visitors to your site. Many manual traffic exchanges are also great communities with forums, games and more to make this not only an effective way to bring visitors to your site, but also to have fun while you are improving your own websites. More traffic to your site will help improve your site revenue or community. <br/> <br/>Signing up for manual traffic exchanges is easy and there are many manual traffic exchange options. Do choose a manual traffic exchange with many participating sites to allow your sites the most benefit from your efforts. Many allow you to register multiple sites, making this an easy way to publicize your network of sites. Sign up is very similar to other websites, so you will have no difficulty at all beginning your work in a manual traffic exchange. Carefully read through FAQs and terms of use to be sure that you are comfortable with the manual traffic exchange you have chosen. <br/><br/>Some manual traffic exchange sites allow you to exchange a variety of types of links. There are text exchanges, graphic ads and even banners. With this great array of advertising options, nearly anyone can benefit from using a manual traffic exchange. Most manual traffic exchanges are free, or quite inexpensive, so they can also be good during that stage of web site development when you may well have more time than money. <br/><br/>Web promotion is often most successful when you use a multi tiered strategy. Search engine optimization, back linking, and manual traffic exchanges can all work together to make your site a success. This is true regardless of the type of site you own. More visitors to your site will mean more sales in your store, more clicks for your ads, or more people in your community or learning from information offered. Whatever kind of site you own, participating in a manual traffic exchange is a good way to bring additional targeted traffic to your site.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=5e33265a-88fd-8538-a034-e0ffcb4e6442' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-20287478147297691542009-11-25T04:16:00.001-08:002009-11-25T04:16:19.586-08:00The How and Why of Buying Traffic for Your Website<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Need more traffic on your website? You may want to consider buying it. When you buy traffic, you are almost guaranteed to get traffic. Many of the services that dedicate their businesses to building traffic for other websites offer a guaranteed number of visitors on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, making this one of these easiest and fastest ways to get traffic on your website.<br/><br/>If you have never heard of buying traffic before, or if you want to learn more about how it works, here are some frequently asked questions in regards to traffic buying that can help.<br/><br/>What Kind of Businesses Buy Traffic?<br/>Buying web traffic is not necessarily a new Internet marketing concept. In fact, there are many online businesses that have been doing it for years. Though many of these companies are established already, they are not the only types of businesses who use such services. Sometimes the only way that a new, unknown site can get traffic to their website is by buying it. Competing with large sites is tough, and sometimes, search engine optimization techniques aren't enough to boost a new site's rankings in the search engines.<br/><br/>Where Can You Get Traffic?<br/>There are many online services that sell website traffic. To find a sampling, simply type buy traffic or get traffic into any Internet search engine. You will be faced with so many different options that you will have a hard time choosing which service to go with. <br/><br/>If you are looking for referrals, consider visiting forums that have members who are online business owners or web developers. Many of the people who post in these forums may have already used one or two traffic building companies. In most cases, they will be able to offer you information on their experiences. <br/><br/>If you are unable to get a referral, don't base your decision on cost alone. There may or may not be a difference between a traffic building service that offers 10,000 visitors per month for $20.00 and one that offers 10,000 for $30.00. Always inquire about services, as well as costs. Good questions to ask include:<br/><br/>How do you bring traffic to my website?<br/>Do you ever use spamming techniques?<br/>What type of traffic will be targeted: specific countries, specific languages, etc?<br/>Can you guarantee that I will get traffic?<br/>Will you provide me with stats?<br/>Do you offer customer support?<br/>How much will you charge me if I want to buy traffic?<br/>Why is your service better than others? <br/><br/>Where Do Visitors Come From?<br/>When you buy traffic, most of the visitors you get will be from banner ads, pop-ups, pop-unders, and layers ads. The ads are placed all around the net. When a web visitor clicks on the ad, they will be taken directly to your website.<br/><br/>Is Traffic Guaranteed?<br/>This is a tough question to answer because it depends on the service that you use to buy traffic. Some services guarantee that you will get traffic and others do not. Even if they do guarantee traffic, they cannot guarantee sales. They cannot even guarantee that when you get traffic, it will stay on your site for more than one second.<br/><br/> This is very important to remember when deciding whether or not to buy traffic. Whatever you decide to do, make sure to track your traffic, your sales, and your overall results. Once you have analyzed everything, you will be able to easily determine if buying traffic to get traffic is in your best interests. <br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=b6e8057e-27f6-8543-8579-996dbed5d228' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-66507918037901648242009-11-25T03:40:00.001-08:002009-11-25T03:40:58.896-08:00Basic- Viral Internet Marketing Overview<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><span class='long_text' id='result_box'><span title='Kreativitas adalah salah satu kebajikan sebuah situs harus memiliki untuk memimpin perlombaan dalam persaingan kejam di Internet berbasis bisnis berbasis rumah online internet afiliasi pemasaran.' style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Creativity is one virtue a site must have to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet-based online home based business internet affiliate marketing. </span><span title='Dengan begitu banyak kompetisi dan persaingan terjadi, setiap metode pemasaran harus digunakan dan dimanfaatkan.' style='background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be used and exploited.</span></span><br/><br/>It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you online home based business internet affiliate marketing could just get killed. For more details visit to www.auto-hits-machine.com .While there are so many internet marketing techniques, methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of the best internet marketing strategies is the viral internet marketing. Many researches show that viral internet marketing strategy (or word of mouth) becomes the most significant internet marketing strategy to grow your home business.<br/><br/>While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your online home based business internet affiliate marketing; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spy wares.<br/><br/>Viral Internet Marketing Overview<br/><br/>The viral internet marketing also known otherwise as viral advertising is an internet marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.<br/><br/>In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.<br/><br/>The viral internet marketing has become a popular means of advertising and internet marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral internet marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.<br/><br/>Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral internet marketing. They rely on the number of recipient’s viral internet marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.<br/><br/>Using Viral Internet Marketing to Your Advantage<br/><br/>The main and foremost advantage of viral internet marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your affiliate site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that is potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence. To know more logon to www.tube-traffic.com .<br/>Most every site and companies are catching on to the effectively of the viral internet marketing and advertising. Not using it could kill your online home based business internet affiliate marketing. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral internet marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.<br/><br/>The viral internet marketing technique could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a online home based business internet affiliate marketing suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz; many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them more popular.<br/><br/>Many big companies have tried the viral internet marketing strategy and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.<br/><br/>Final thoughts, now it’s your turn to use viral internet marketing strategy to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits the viral internet marketing strategy will provide for you and your sales figures.<br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img src='http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=276e9249-3c3f-868c-9c54-c0b8cfcc19a1' alt='' class='zemanta-pixie-img'/></div></div>ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6640729112629968820.post-79651241952779472652009-11-18T03:59:00.000-08:002009-12-07T03:59:45.632-08:00Reducing Load Time Through Image Optimization<p>Even though more and more Internet users switch to broadband every year, a large portion of the web 's population is still running on good old dialup connections. It is therefore unwise to count them out of the equation when you're designing your website, and a very major consideration we have to make for dialup users is the loading time of your website. Generally, all the text on your website will be loaded in a very short time even on a dialup connection. The culprit of slow-loading sites is mainly large images on your website, and it is very important to strike a delicate balance between using just enough images to attract your users and not to bog down the overall loading time of your site. You should also go to a greater length and optimize every image on your site to make sure it loads in the least time possible. What I really mean is to use image editing software to remove unnecessary information on your images, and thereby effectively reducing the file size of your image without affecting its appearance. If you own Photoshop, it will be obvious to you that when you save an image as a JPEG file, a dialog box appears and lets you choose the "quality" of the JPEG image -- normally a setting of 8 to 10 is good enough as it will preserve the quality of your image while saving it at a small file size. If you do not have Photoshop, there are many free image compressors online that you can download and use to reduce your image's file size. On the other hand, you can opt to save your images in PNG format to get the best quality at the least file size. You can also save your images in GIF format -- the image editing software clips away all the colour information not used in your image, hence giving you the smallest file size possible. However, saving in GIF format will often compromise the appearance of your image.</p> ebezehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13893322111832743412noreply@blogger.com0