Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.

5. Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.

7. Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

Tips to Increase Ranking and Website Traffic

Tips to Increase Ranking and Website Traffic

It is worth cataloguing the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
• Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
• Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
• Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
• Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
• Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
• Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
• Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
• When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
• When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
• Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

Writing a Traffic Pulling Article

As marketers, we are told that we should be article marketing.  It is how you make money as an affiliate, it is how you promote your websites and it is how you add content to your virtual real estate empire.

Many people find article writing difficult to do because they are not used to writing.  If you have the money, it can be outsourced.  However, for many people starting out online, money is tight and so they can't afford an outsourcer.

You can get articles written for a couple of dollars, but they are likely to be very poor quality.  For a decent 400 to 500 word article you are looking to pay around ten dollars, possibly more depending on the niche and the author.

You can write the articles yourself, and it's not that difficult to do if you follow a system.  Many people suffer from writers block or are just not used to writing an article.  It can be very daunting to sit down and write if it is something you are not used to.

Below is a system that works very well, it is one I use myself and you can be writing high quality articles surprisingly quickly with this technique.  It really isn't that hard and it enables even the most novice of writers to create decent articles rapidly.

Step 1 : Decide upon the niche you are writing in.

Step 2 : Determine which keyword(s) you are targeting in your article.

Step 3 : Determine the subject your article will be about.

Step 4 : Type into Google some of your keywords and see what problems and issues people are facing in that niche.  What do they want to know?  What is their pain?  What solutions are they looking for?

Step 5 : Write a powerful, interest building title with your keyword at the start, if possible.

Step 6 : Write out four or five short sentences about the problem (don't give away too much ... you want your reader to buy).

Step 7 : Turn each sentence into more descriptive paragraphs, remembering not to give away too much information.

Step 8 : Write a paragraph introducing the article at the top.

Step 9 : Write a paragraph summarizing what was in the article at the bottom.

And there you have a good quality, unique article that you could spin or just submit to an article directory or use on your website.  Content is king on the Internet, and unique content provides you with an edge over the competition.

This method will help you to quickly write articles, and it won't be long before you can write a high quality article in under ten minutes.  With practise, you will be able to do them in five to seven minutes easily!

And remember the more articles you have out there, the more you can potentially earn!

Writing a Traffic Pulling Article

As marketers, we are told that we should be article marketing.  It is how you make money as an affiliate, it is how you promote your websites and it is how you add content to your virtual real estate empire.

Many people find article writing difficult to do because they are not used to writing.  If you have the money, it can be outsourced.  However, for many people starting out online, money is tight and so they can't afford an outsourcer.

You can get articles written for a couple of dollars, but they are likely to be very poor quality.  For a decent 400 to 500 word article you are looking to pay around ten dollars, possibly more depending on the niche and the author.

You can write the articles yourself, and it's not that difficult to do if you follow a system.  Many people suffer from writers block or are just not used to writing an article.  It can be very daunting to sit down and write if it is something you are not used to.

Below is a system that works very well, it is one I use myself and you can be writing high quality articles surprisingly quickly with this technique.  It really isn't that hard and it enables even the most novice of writers to create decent articles rapidly.

Step 1 : Decide upon the niche you are writing in.

Step 2 : Determine which keyword(s) you are targeting in your article.

Step 3 : Determine the subject your article will be about.

Step 4 : Type into Google some of your keywords and see what problems and issues people are facing in that niche.  What do they want to know?  What is their pain?  What solutions are they looking for?

Step 5 : Write a powerful, interest building title with your keyword at the start, if possible.

Step 6 : Write out four or five short sentences about the problem (don't give away too much ... you want your reader to buy).

Step 7 : Turn each sentence into more descriptive paragraphs, remembering not to give away too much information.

Step 8 : Write a paragraph introducing the article at the top.

Step 9 : Write a paragraph summarizing what was in the article at the bottom.

And there you have a good quality, unique article that you could spin or just submit to an article directory or use on your website.  Content is king on the Internet, and unique content provides you with an edge over the competition.

This method will help you to quickly write articles, and it won't be long before you can write a high quality article in under ten minutes.  With practise, you will be able to do them in five to seven minutes easily!

And remember the more articles you have out there, the more you can potentially earn!

Why On Page SEO is Vital for Traffic

Many marketers get so caught up in the stampede for traffic that they spend all their time building links.  They forget that one of the most vital parts of SEO are the on page factors.

These are not complex for you to do and are something that should be fundamental when you create a new site.  Wordpress is an ideal platform as it typically lends itself well to search engine optimization.

The first step is for you to ensure you have set your title tag correctly.  This needs to be 64 characters in length.  Any longer and it will be cut off and this will look very odd in the search engine results.

The title tag needs to tell people what your site is about in such a way to entice them in to your web site.  It needs to include a keyword that is specific for the page the title tag is on.  Every page on your website should have its own unique title tag.  You should never use the same title tag on every page.

Next are your meta keywords and meta description.  These tell the search engine spiders what your site is about.  They are not massively important to the search engines, as most of them will analyse your site to see what it is really about.

These are important if you are using Adsense as without these meta tags in place, you find your Adsense ads are not focused on your niche.

The meta description is important because it appears in the search engine results.  It is 150 characters for you to get people to click on your link and come to your website.  You need to be concise and enticing in the same sentence.

Your meta keywords and description should also be unique for each page within your site.

Any images on your site have what is known as ALT tags.  These are tags which provide an alternative description for the visually impaired. These are noticed by the search engines and can get your images ranking well.  Make sure you do not attach the same keyword to too many ALT tags and add the word graphic, picture, image or something similar afterwards.  This will again help tell the search engines your website is relevant for those keywords.

On top of this you can include your keyword in the header 1 (h1) tag on your page, i.e. the title in the text.  This is another indicator to the search engines that your site is important for that keyword.

Using your keyword well within the text of your page and including related keywords around it will also help your site rank.

You must make sure you do not spam or keyword stuff any of your pages because it is a surefire way to get yourself dropped from the search engine results.

By performing some simple on page SEO optimization you can gain the advantage in the search engines.  Remember that not all marketers do this, and this can put you ahead of your competition, which is vital for your profitable success.

Why On Page SEO is Vital for Traffic

Many marketers get so caught up in the stampede for traffic that they spend all their time building links.  They forget that one of the most vital parts of SEO are the on page factors.

These are not complex for you to do and are something that should be fundamental when you create a new site.  Wordpress is an ideal platform as it typically lends itself well to search engine optimization.

The first step is for you to ensure you have set your title tag correctly.  This needs to be 64 characters in length.  Any longer and it will be cut off and this will look very odd in the search engine results.

The title tag needs to tell people what your site is about in such a way to entice them in to your web site.  It needs to include a keyword that is specific for the page the title tag is on.  Every page on your website should have its own unique title tag.  You should never use the same title tag on every page.

Next are your meta keywords and meta description.  These tell the search engine spiders what your site is about.  They are not massively important to the search engines, as most of them will analyse your site to see what it is really about.

These are important if you are using Adsense as without these meta tags in place, you find your Adsense ads are not focused on your niche.

The meta description is important because it appears in the search engine results.  It is 150 characters for you to get people to click on your link and come to your website.  You need to be concise and enticing in the same sentence.

Your meta keywords and description should also be unique for each page within your site.

Any images on your site have what is known as ALT tags.  These are tags which provide an alternative description for the visually impaired. These are noticed by the search engines and can get your images ranking well.  Make sure you do not attach the same keyword to too many ALT tags and add the word graphic, picture, image or something similar afterwards.  This will again help tell the search engines your website is relevant for those keywords.

On top of this you can include your keyword in the header 1 (h1) tag on your page, i.e. the title in the text.  This is another indicator to the search engines that your site is important for that keyword.

Using your keyword well within the text of your page and including related keywords around it will also help your site rank.

You must make sure you do not spam or keyword stuff any of your pages because it is a surefire way to get yourself dropped from the search engine results.

By performing some simple on page SEO optimization you can gain the advantage in the search engines.  Remember that not all marketers do this, and this can put you ahead of your competition, which is vital for your profitable success.

Traffic With Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is a source of very targeted traffic that many marketers overlook.  The time involved with it and the ease with which it appears Yahoo ban people puts them off.

The basic premise of Yahoo Answers is that people ask questions and other people answer them.  Think of it as an advice board, if you like.  Some of the questions are bizarre, some peculiar, whereas others are normal.

The quality of answers varies too from the single sentence, to the rude to the outstanding.  The latter is the type of answer you want to be providing.

Firstly, people are only banned if they abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers.  So long as you stay on the right side of their terms of service and provide good quality answers you will have no trouble keeping your account.  People have had the same account for years and have accumulated thousands of points, whereas others lose theirs in a few weeks because they break the terms of service.

The key to succeeding with Yahoo Answers is to find questions that you can answer and your website provides more information on.

The benefits of Answers are threefold.

1)  You gain traffic from people reading your answer
2)  Your answer, if chosen as the best answer, will rank in the search engines and get traffic directly
3)  You can get a backlink from your answer which will boost your sites rankings.

As Yahoo Answers is considered an authority site by the other search engines, having links from it are considered highly relevant and very beneficial.

You must do an advanced search to find the best questions to answer.  Search only questions opened in the last 7 days with your keyword.  This will give you the most relevant questions.  You then need to go through each question and find the ones you can answer well.

In order to keep your account and to get voted as the best answer, you need to provide high quality answers.  This means reading the question thoroughly and understand what is asked.

Start your answer with a greeting, e.g. "Hi there" or "Hi, thanks for your question".  This instantly makes your answer stand out from the crowd and will start to build a relationship with the questioner.

Then provide your answer and sign off with something equally friendly such as "Hope this helps you out" and then sign out with your name.

You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for.  Putting your link in every answer is likely to get your account banned.  Your link needs to go in the resources box below.  Don't worry, it will get seen and clicked on, particularly if your answer is voted the best answer.

Yahoo Answers provides a very good method of generating targeted traffic through to your website.  It works well for most types of sites and some people earn decent money just from Yahoo Answers.  Use it well and wisely and you can receive many benefits from it.

Traffic With Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers is a source of very targeted traffic that many marketers overlook.  The time involved with it and the ease with which it appears Yahoo ban people puts them off.

The basic premise of Yahoo Answers is that people ask questions and other people answer them.  Think of it as an advice board, if you like.  Some of the questions are bizarre, some peculiar, whereas others are normal.

The quality of answers varies too from the single sentence, to the rude to the outstanding.  The latter is the type of answer you want to be providing.

Firstly, people are only banned if they abuse the system and provide consistently poor answers.  So long as you stay on the right side of their terms of service and provide good quality answers you will have no trouble keeping your account.  People have had the same account for years and have accumulated thousands of points, whereas others lose theirs in a few weeks because they break the terms of service.

The key to succeeding with Yahoo Answers is to find questions that you can answer and your website provides more information on.

The benefits of Answers are threefold.

1)  You gain traffic from people reading your answer
2)  Your answer, if chosen as the best answer, will rank in the search engines and get traffic directly
3)  You can get a backlink from your answer which will boost your sites rankings.

As Yahoo Answers is considered an authority site by the other search engines, having links from it are considered highly relevant and very beneficial.

You must do an advanced search to find the best questions to answer.  Search only questions opened in the last 7 days with your keyword.  This will give you the most relevant questions.  You then need to go through each question and find the ones you can answer well.

In order to keep your account and to get voted as the best answer, you need to provide high quality answers.  This means reading the question thoroughly and understand what is asked.

Start your answer with a greeting, e.g. "Hi there" or "Hi, thanks for your question".  This instantly makes your answer stand out from the crowd and will start to build a relationship with the questioner.

Then provide your answer and sign off with something equally friendly such as "Hope this helps you out" and then sign out with your name.

You should only put your link in your answer directly if it has been asked for.  Putting your link in every answer is likely to get your account banned.  Your link needs to go in the resources box below.  Don't worry, it will get seen and clicked on, particularly if your answer is voted the best answer.

Yahoo Answers provides a very good method of generating targeted traffic through to your website.  It works well for most types of sites and some people earn decent money just from Yahoo Answers.  Use it well and wisely and you can receive many benefits from it.

Tracking Your Traffic

We all love traffic coming to our website.  The more the merrier in most cases.

However, as a marketer, that isn't the case.  Marketers want targeted traffic and they want to know where it is coming from.  Not knowing where your traffic is coming from means you don't know which traffic generation methods are working.

The majority of marketers make no effort to track their traffic and are grateful for any visitors to their website.

If you are paying for advertising and not tracking your traffic you are throwing money away!  You have to know which adverts are working and which are not.  This way you can do more advertising that is earning you money and less of that which isn't.

Tracking your traffic doesn't need to be complex and can be done very easily.  You can invest in scripts and services that will track your website traffic for you.  These vary from the cheap to the expensive, the good and to the brilliant.

You don't need to have a script or service to track your traffic, but it can often make it much easier for you.

A simple traffic tracking method is to use Google Analytics.  This is a free to sign up service that many marketers are using.  The good thing about it is that it offers in depth stats and can track almost anything.  The downside of it that it offers in depth stats and can track almost anything!

The complexity of it is a good and a bad thing because you can find out so much about your website that it will initially confuse you.  However, once you have spent some time analysing the results it will prove very useful.

Firstly you have to add the code to your website.  This code is unique for each of your websites and needs to be inserted at the bottom of each page in your website just before the closing body tag.

Once it is reporting data, you need to drive a decent amount of visitors to your site to get some good results.

Analytics will report on all activity on your website and even go as far to overlay where people are clicking to help you understand the activity on your website.  You can link your analytics account with your Adsense and Adwords accounts to further help you understand how well they are working for you.

One of the biggest benefits of Analytics is that it can provide goal tracking to track sales and sign ups to lists.  It can be a bit tricky to get working behind scripts and membership sites, but is worth using.

The big appeal to most marketers is the fact that it has a lot of features, more than many scripts and is completely free.  Of course, Google get to understand exactly what happens on your website, but that is a small trade off for such in depth analytics.

Using Google Analytics will give you a good understanding of where your traffic is coming from and what it is doing on your site.  Through this you can improve your conversion rate, and in turn, your profits.

Tracking Your Traffic

We all love traffic coming to our website.  The more the merrier in most cases.

However, as a marketer, that isn't the case.  Marketers want targeted traffic and they want to know where it is coming from.  Not knowing where your traffic is coming from means you don't know which traffic generation methods are working.

The majority of marketers make no effort to track their traffic and are grateful for any visitors to their website.

If you are paying for advertising and not tracking your traffic you are throwing money away!  You have to know which adverts are working and which are not.  This way you can do more advertising that is earning you money and less of that which isn't.

Tracking your traffic doesn't need to be complex and can be done very easily.  You can invest in scripts and services that will track your website traffic for you.  These vary from the cheap to the expensive, the good and to the brilliant.

You don't need to have a script or service to track your traffic, but it can often make it much easier for you.

A simple traffic tracking method is to use Google Analytics.  This is a free to sign up service that many marketers are using.  The good thing about it is that it offers in depth stats and can track almost anything.  The downside of it that it offers in depth stats and can track almost anything!

The complexity of it is a good and a bad thing because you can find out so much about your website that it will initially confuse you.  However, once you have spent some time analysing the results it will prove very useful.

Firstly you have to add the code to your website.  This code is unique for each of your websites and needs to be inserted at the bottom of each page in your website just before the closing body tag.

Once it is reporting data, you need to drive a decent amount of visitors to your site to get some good results.

Analytics will report on all activity on your website and even go as far to overlay where people are clicking to help you understand the activity on your website.  You can link your analytics account with your Adsense and Adwords accounts to further help you understand how well they are working for you.

One of the biggest benefits of Analytics is that it can provide goal tracking to track sales and sign ups to lists.  It can be a bit tricky to get working behind scripts and membership sites, but is worth using.

The big appeal to most marketers is the fact that it has a lot of features, more than many scripts and is completely free.  Of course, Google get to understand exactly what happens on your website, but that is a small trade off for such in depth analytics.

Using Google Analytics will give you a good understanding of where your traffic is coming from and what it is doing on your site.  Through this you can improve your conversion rate, and in turn, your profits.

Stumbleupon Visitors

Traffic is what all Internet Marketers are after.  Though to be more precise, we are after targeted traffic, not just any old traffic.  Targeted traffic means they are interested in what we have to offer and are therefore more likely to buy, signup or otherwise participate in our website.

Many marketers spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours building traffic to their websites.  In some cases, the cost of traffic generation far exceeds the meagre income made from the site itself.

Aside from the usual traffic generation methods, there are other Web 2.0 techniques you can use to increase your traffic.

One site in particular stands out with its ability to generate vast amounts of traffic very quickly.

This site is Stumbleupon.com.  It is a site that has a great following and offers something for people who are bored at work or at home.  The basic premise is that you find a site you think is interesting (you Stumbled Upon it) and submit it to Stumbleupon.

Visitors to Stumbleupon can look through the sites other people have found.  They can vote to say they like a site, which gets it more views, or say they don't like it, which gets them less views.

In many ways, Stumbleupon appeals to that voyeuristic, reality TV mindset.  People can see what other people are doing and vote - something which is becoming ingrained into out culture.

In order for your site to do well on Stumbleupon it must be the kind of site that people will want to pass on and recommend.  Sales letters don't tend to do very well, but controversial or contrarian articles do.  Anything that is cute, funny or entertaining will do well.

This can be an article, a video, or anything of a similar ilk.  It must be something that has social appeal to your niche.  You may have to think about how you can spin your content in order to give it wide ranging appeal.  It can be done though, and will get you traffic.

You can Stumbleupon your site yourself, but it is better to get someone else to do the original Stumbleupon for you.  This could be a friend, family or an outsourcer.  They will need a set of space separated tags plus a description and to know which category you want it placed in.

Once it has been Stumbleuponed, you need to get other people to say they like it through the Stumbleupon website.  This will help to kickstart the viral effect.  If you can, put a link to Stumbleupon on your website to make it easy for your visitors to say they like it.

A well written article with wide social appeal can get thousands of visitors in a single day from Stumbleupon.  It is a very powerful site that you, as a marketer, must be using.  With the traffic potential from this site, you are missing out on valuable backlinks and massive amounts of traffic if you are not using it.

Stumbleupon Visitors

Traffic is what all Internet Marketers are after.  Though to be more precise, we are after targeted traffic, not just any old traffic.  Targeted traffic means they are interested in what we have to offer and are therefore more likely to buy, signup or otherwise participate in our website.

Many marketers spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours building traffic to their websites.  In some cases, the cost of traffic generation far exceeds the meagre income made from the site itself.

Aside from the usual traffic generation methods, there are other Web 2.0 techniques you can use to increase your traffic.

One site in particular stands out with its ability to generate vast amounts of traffic very quickly.

This site is Stumbleupon.com.  It is a site that has a great following and offers something for people who are bored at work or at home.  The basic premise is that you find a site you think is interesting (you Stumbled Upon it) and submit it to Stumbleupon.

Visitors to Stumbleupon can look through the sites other people have found.  They can vote to say they like a site, which gets it more views, or say they don't like it, which gets them less views.

In many ways, Stumbleupon appeals to that voyeuristic, reality TV mindset.  People can see what other people are doing and vote - something which is becoming ingrained into out culture.

In order for your site to do well on Stumbleupon it must be the kind of site that people will want to pass on and recommend.  Sales letters don't tend to do very well, but controversial or contrarian articles do.  Anything that is cute, funny or entertaining will do well.

This can be an article, a video, or anything of a similar ilk.  It must be something that has social appeal to your niche.  You may have to think about how you can spin your content in order to give it wide ranging appeal.  It can be done though, and will get you traffic.

You can Stumbleupon your site yourself, but it is better to get someone else to do the original Stumbleupon for you.  This could be a friend, family or an outsourcer.  They will need a set of space separated tags plus a description and to know which category you want it placed in.

Once it has been Stumbleuponed, you need to get other people to say they like it through the Stumbleupon website.  This will help to kickstart the viral effect.  If you can, put a link to Stumbleupon on your website to make it easy for your visitors to say they like it.

A well written article with wide social appeal can get thousands of visitors in a single day from Stumbleupon.  It is a very powerful site that you, as a marketer, must be using.  With the traffic potential from this site, you are missing out on valuable backlinks and massive amounts of traffic if you are not using it.

Dominiting Video Marketing

Video marketing is the next big thing online.  It is underused by many marketers and fantastically profitable for those that do use it.

Many marketers don't use video marketing simply because they don't know how to get started on it.  It isn't actually that difficult and you will find it remarkably easy when you do use it.

Videos can very easily go viral and you will find yourself getting a lot of traffic from them.  Plus, the search engines love video because it is very popular at the moment.  You can often see a selection of videos in the top five ranking for any search term in Google.

Creating the videos doesn't have to be difficult.  You can create a live action video using your mobile phone or digital camera, or if you live in the dark ages, a webcam.

Using a tool such as Camtastia or Camstudio you can capture the screen and demonstrate some software or a website.  These are very effective videos because people can see what they are buying or what they need to do.

Promotional videos can be created by Windows Movie Maker, which is installed on most Windows XP and above computers or on a website such as Jing or Animoto.  These websites create some fantastic videos which you can use as adverts.

Your video needs to be concise, to the point and entertaining.  You want your viewers to see your video and be captured and want to know more.

Before you start submitting your video, you need to know which keywords to use as tags.  This means doing some keyword research.  The Google External Keyword Tool will tell you everything you need to know, or you can use your own favorite tool.

You could manually submit your video to various video directories, but this takes a lot of time.  You could outsource it, which will get expensive, or you could use a tool to do it.  Alternatively, you can use the TubeMogul website, which is free to use.

This allows you to submit your video articles to a handful of video directories automatically.  Once you have produced some videos and are established on their site you can increase the number of video directories.

Once the videos are approved (and some sites will turn them down) you can then sit back and watch your videos spread all over the Internet.  They will be picked up by websites and other directories that feed off these main sites, giving you more of an audience.

Set up a Google Alert for your video name and you will be surprised to see how far a single video will get you.  So long as you have put your URL in the description and in the video itself, then you will get a good amount of traffic from this.

Video marketing is emerging as a very powerful and effective method of getting traffic.  It is still underused and one that you can start to use to further boost your sites in the search engines.

Dominiting Video Marketing

Video marketing is the next big thing online.  It is underused by many marketers and fantastically profitable for those that do use it.

Many marketers don't use video marketing simply because they don't know how to get started on it.  It isn't actually that difficult and you will find it remarkably easy when you do use it.

Videos can very easily go viral and you will find yourself getting a lot of traffic from them.  Plus, the search engines love video because it is very popular at the moment.  You can often see a selection of videos in the top five ranking for any search term in Google.

Creating the videos doesn't have to be difficult.  You can create a live action video using your mobile phone or digital camera, or if you live in the dark ages, a webcam.

Using a tool such as Camtastia or Camstudio you can capture the screen and demonstrate some software or a website.  These are very effective videos because people can see what they are buying or what they need to do.

Promotional videos can be created by Windows Movie Maker, which is installed on most Windows XP and above computers or on a website such as Jing or Animoto.  These websites create some fantastic videos which you can use as adverts.

Your video needs to be concise, to the point and entertaining.  You want your viewers to see your video and be captured and want to know more.

Before you start submitting your video, you need to know which keywords to use as tags.  This means doing some keyword research.  The Google External Keyword Tool will tell you everything you need to know, or you can use your own favorite tool.

You could manually submit your video to various video directories, but this takes a lot of time.  You could outsource it, which will get expensive, or you could use a tool to do it.  Alternatively, you can use the TubeMogul website, which is free to use.

This allows you to submit your video articles to a handful of video directories automatically.  Once you have produced some videos and are established on their site you can increase the number of video directories.

Once the videos are approved (and some sites will turn them down) you can then sit back and watch your videos spread all over the Internet.  They will be picked up by websites and other directories that feed off these main sites, giving you more of an audience.

Set up a Google Alert for your video name and you will be surprised to see how far a single video will get you.  So long as you have put your URL in the description and in the video itself, then you will get a good amount of traffic from this.

Video marketing is emerging as a very powerful and effective method of getting traffic.  It is still underused and one that you can start to use to further boost your sites in the search engines.

Maximum Traffic

Submitting articles to the search engines is a time honored strategy for generating traffic.  It has been used since the early days of the Internet and is still an effective traffic generation strategy even in our Web 2.0 times.

There are a lot of questions over the best method of submitting articles for maximum traffic and effectiveness.  What are the best techniques and which are the most effective?

The first technique is to submit your article to the granddaddy of all article directories, EzineArticles.  This site has built a reputation of being the best article directory in town.  It is loved by marketers and by readers and most importantly, by Google.

It is a source of frustration to many marketers who find it hard to meet the submission guidelines or cope with the timescales for articles to be approved.

However, if you read their guidelines and stick to them, your articles will get through without a hitch.

Once they are in Ezinearticles you instantly receive benefits from it.  Articles in this directory tend to rank very well in Google, even without backlinks to them.

Add in a few backlinks and suddenly you find your articles are ranking in the top ten for moderately competitive keywords.  In fact, even without backlinks they can often rank well just because they are on Ezinearticles.

Once your article has been published you need to do some simple backlinking to it just to give it that extra boost in the search engines.

Firstly, take your Ezinearticle author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories.  You can either use a tool or do it by hand.  If you are doing it by hand, just pick the top ten directories in a Google search and that will be good enough for now.  You can always submit to more later on, so make sure you keep track of which ones you have added your feed to.

You can also use one of the many ping sites to ping your article.  This does give Ezinearticles a lift, but it also gets your article noticed.

Finally, social bookmark your article.  Again, you can either use a tool or do it manually.  If your article is newsworthy and well written then you can look at adding it to sites such as Digg or Stumbleupon to get further links and traffic.

Of course, there are other article directories out there, but none of them carry the weight of Ezinearticles.  Google Knoll is a current contender and is very popular with marketers who are using it to submit their articles too.  So far though, these don't seem to be ranking as well as Ezinearticles, but it is a good way to get the Big G to notice your sites.

For the other article directories it is not worth submitting articles manually to them, except maybe the top half a dozen big directories.  Many of the rest get so little traffic it is not worthwhile, except for the backlink.  Therefore you should either outsource or automate these submissions to free up your time to concentrate on building your business.

If you are submitting articles then you need to make sure they are on Ezinearticles for maximum traffic.  Do some simple backlinking to your article and you will easily find your articles ranking well for their keywords and bringing you good traffic.

Maximum Traffic

Submitting articles to the search engines is a time honored strategy for generating traffic.  It has been used since the early days of the Internet and is still an effective traffic generation strategy even in our Web 2.0 times.

There are a lot of questions over the best method of submitting articles for maximum traffic and effectiveness.  What are the best techniques and which are the most effective?

The first technique is to submit your article to the granddaddy of all article directories, EzineArticles.  This site has built a reputation of being the best article directory in town.  It is loved by marketers and by readers and most importantly, by Google.

It is a source of frustration to many marketers who find it hard to meet the submission guidelines or cope with the timescales for articles to be approved.

However, if you read their guidelines and stick to them, your articles will get through without a hitch.

Once they are in Ezinearticles you instantly receive benefits from it.  Articles in this directory tend to rank very well in Google, even without backlinks to them.

Add in a few backlinks and suddenly you find your articles are ranking in the top ten for moderately competitive keywords.  In fact, even without backlinks they can often rank well just because they are on Ezinearticles.

Once your article has been published you need to do some simple backlinking to it just to give it that extra boost in the search engines.

Firstly, take your Ezinearticle author RSS feed and submit it to RSS directories.  You can either use a tool or do it by hand.  If you are doing it by hand, just pick the top ten directories in a Google search and that will be good enough for now.  You can always submit to more later on, so make sure you keep track of which ones you have added your feed to.

You can also use one of the many ping sites to ping your article.  This does give Ezinearticles a lift, but it also gets your article noticed.

Finally, social bookmark your article.  Again, you can either use a tool or do it manually.  If your article is newsworthy and well written then you can look at adding it to sites such as Digg or Stumbleupon to get further links and traffic.

Of course, there are other article directories out there, but none of them carry the weight of Ezinearticles.  Google Knoll is a current contender and is very popular with marketers who are using it to submit their articles too.  So far though, these don't seem to be ranking as well as Ezinearticles, but it is a good way to get the Big G to notice your sites.

For the other article directories it is not worth submitting articles manually to them, except maybe the top half a dozen big directories.  Many of the rest get so little traffic it is not worthwhile, except for the backlink.  Therefore you should either outsource or automate these submissions to free up your time to concentrate on building your business.

If you are submitting articles then you need to make sure they are on Ezinearticles for maximum traffic.  Do some simple backlinking to your article and you will easily find your articles ranking well for their keywords and bringing you good traffic.