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I found this on a Blog I read and thought you’d like to
read it.

“My Best Kept Secrets To Increase Web Site Traffic From Scratch “

You can read it here.

Enjoy !
Bob

Many people are interested in making easy money on the internet
these days, but many just don’t know how to do it. Of course, no
matter what online business you are going into you will have to
learn a few things about that particular business. Be also
prepared to spend some money to get your business started. In my
opinion affiliate marketing is the easiest and cheapest way to
starting an online home business, and it won’t take long before
you start earning some money.

An affiliate program simply means that you sign up as an
affiliate marketer for someone else’s product, send the company
customers, and get a cut each time a sale is made from your
efforts. Affiliate commissions can range from as little as 2% for
high ticket items up to 70% for ebooks and informational type
products. The great advantage of this kind of online business is
that there is no hassle mailing goods to customers, taking
payments etc. You just send customers to the company, and the
company send you money in return. Voilà!

You can market the product(s) through your own website or blog,
or just by advertising your affiliate link, or email your list if
you have one. You can do fine without a website of your own, but
I do recommend that you set up one because you have much more
freedom to do lots of things with your own website.

One of the most appealing aspects of affiliate programs is how
quickly you can begin making money. You can literally sign up as
an affiliate and begin making money in minutes. Your earnings can
be very good with affiliate programs if you pick the right
product and do your part to promote it. As for which programs
would be best for you, I advise that you concentrate your efforts
on one or two products instead of spreading too much. Pick only
top quality products that are of personal interest to you.
Remember, you are starting a business. If it’s not a business
that holds your interest, you won’t be in business very long.

Even though you might be a novice on the internet it’s quite easy
to get started. The best choice is to join an affiliate program
and take advantage of the marketing resources they provide. Then
you will have the opportunity to earn while you learn as well as
your learning curve is shortened. This way you will be in
business fast and start earning money almost immediately.

Affiliate marketing is an excellent source of passive income. And
best of all, you can earn this income while sitting in the
comfort of your home. You can work flexi-time, go away on
vacation, and the money will still continue to roll in. In fact
you can have the whole business on automation! Except the
marketing part. Your job as an affiliate is to promote your
partner’s product, and the more effort you put into it, the
higher your earnings.
Regards,

Bob Kimball

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Howdy Folks.

You finally see the light and you realize that you need an opt-in list to make money on the Internet. You’ve read hundreds of times ‘the money is in the list’. You’ve heard all the stories of people creating a profitable business with opt-in lists.

With that light bulb still flashing away you decide to do something about it - start a list of your own. But what’s the first step? And better yet, how do you build a list big enough to generate an income?

It’s a bit daunting when you’re first starting out.

a) Do you need a web site?

b) Do you need an Opt-In form?

c) Should you use an autoresponder service or free script?

d) How should you format the messages?

e) How many should you send each week?

And the list goes on and on.

Much depends on how experienced you are on the Internet. If you have no knowledge of CGI or PHP, then hosting your own script may not be an option. If you don’t know HTML or don’t have direct access to your on-line files, then editing your pages to insert the code for an opt-in form will not be possible.

Sadly, these are just some of the obstacles that you will need to overcome if you want to give this ‘Internet Thing’ a fair shake. Having your own web site is a good thing, but not absolutely necessary, but sooner or later will be a smart move. Without one, you would only be able to promote other people’s products (as they would have their own web sites for you to send traffic to through your affiliate links). However, getting a free Blog for starters is always an option. Try Google’s Blogger for example. You can add your opt-in form on your blog!

Here are three easy steps that you can take to start building your opt-in list right now:

1. Offer a free report or video that contains links back to your web site/blog.You can also make it necessary for your visitors to fill out your opt-in form before they can access the report.

2. Join some of the Fire Sales and Giveaways that other marketers are running (sometimes called Joint Ventures). Add your gift to the site and when visitors want to download your gift make them fill out your opt-in form first. Haven’t got a gift? PLR products are your answer.

3. Exchange ads with other opt-in list owners. You run an ad for them and they run an ad for you. Granted you probably won’t be able to join up with someone who has a huge list (as they won’t be getting much exposure in return) but if you can find other lists that are of a similar size to yours, you should be able to dance with them.

Building a responsive, profitable opt-in list won’t happen overnight, but it will happen. Keep at it and be creative. Think outside of the box; put a twist on an old idea. And most of all - be persistent.

An important part of generating traffic to your website or blog is to
rank highly in the search engine result pages. In addition to having
good, relevant content on your site one of the best ways to increase
your search ranking is to get high quality backlinks to your site.

Backlinks are hyperlinks placed on another website which link to your
site. The most powerful backlinks are one-way backlinks. This means that
another website has links pointing to your site, but you don’t have
reciprocal links pointing back to theirs.

Using forums is a great way to get high quality one-way backlinks to
your site. These links can generate direct traffic to your site, as
people browsing the forum click your links in addition to raising your
search engine ranking. But you have to be careful when using forums in
this way. Do it wrong and you will be branded a spammer and most likely
get your forum account closed. But if done correctly, forums can be a
very powerful tool in your traffic generation arsenal.

Step 1: Find relevant forums
The key word here is ‘relevant’. You want to be sure to find forums
related to your niche - the topic of your website. The easiest way to do
this is to go to Google and type in your topic along with the the word
‘forum’. Let’s say you have a blog on coin collecting. You’d type this
into Google:

coin collecting forum

There are two reasons you want to find forums related to your niche.
First, the search engines will usually give more weight to links
pointing to your site if they come from sites centered around the same
niche as your site. Secondly, you’ll get much more direct traffic from a
forum where the members are interested in your niche.

Step 2: Pick the best forums and join them
Now that you have found some forums you need to check them out and
choose which ones to join. Click the links to visit about half a dozen
of the top search results. Most forums will allow you to view the
content without having to join, it’s only when you want to start posting
that you have to register. If you land on a forum that won’t let you
view unless you join, forget it and move on.

When looking for a forum to join you want to find ones that are popular,
so look for those with a decent number of members. You also need to make
sure those members are active. Go into one of the more popular forums
categories and scan down the list of threads to see when the last
posting was made. This information is usually in the right hand column
of the forum threads table. If you see a lot of posts made in the last
24 hours, you’ve found a forum with lots of active members. With the
content changing this often, the search engines should be all over that
forum, which means that your links will get picked up quickly. Search
engines tend to love sites with lots of frequently updated, relevant
content. This is the type of forum you want to join.

Now there is just one more step before joining. You need to make sure
this forum allows you to have a ’signature’. Jump into one of the more
popular threads on the forum. Scroll down and look at the posts to see
if anyone has a signature showing at the bottom of their post. There
will usually be a horizontal line after the body of the post and some
text and/or links underneath it. Often people just have a quote or witty
saying, but sometimes they will have links as well. Not everyone will
have a signature, but try to find some members who do. Signatures are
crucial, because this is where you are going to put the links to your
site.

When you find a forum that meets the criteria, follow the steps to
register and confirm your membership. If you find just three or four
forums that’s plenty to start with.

Step 3: Set up your signature
After you login to the forum you should see a link to your user profile.
Often this will be called ‘User CP’ or ‘User Profile’. In the user
profile area you can edit things like your avatar, your bio and
preferences. Look for a link that says something like ‘Edit signature’
and click that. You’ll see a text field where you can type in the text
you want to appear beneath all your posts. This is where you’ll put the
backlinks to your site.

Forums use a special kind of code to allow members to format their
posts. It’s called BBCode and it’s quite simple to use once you get the
hang of it. Copy the examples below and change the URL and text to your
URL and some catchy keyword-rich text. Paste the code into you signature
box and save it.

Link to your website or blog with this code:

Learn how to start [url=http://www.mycoinblog.com/]Coin Collecting[/url]
the easy way.

You can see in the code above where you need to edit the domain to be
your domain. In this example, ‘Coin Collecting’ will be the anchor text
for the link. This is where you want to put your keywords. Almost all
forums will allow you to have a link in your signature.

If you want to make your signature bold, just add the bold tags around
it like this:

[b]Learn how to start [url=http://www.mycoinblog.com/]Coin
Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b]

Most forums will allow you to bold the text in your signature. If you
add the bold code and your signature still doesn’t come out in bold then
it’s you know the bold formatting is not allowed.

Some forums will also allow you to change the color of the text,
although the anchor text will come out as the default link color,
usually blue. Here’s how you change the text color:

[color=red]Learn how to start [url=http://www.mycoinblog.com/]Coin
Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/color]

You can also combine formatting. This would make your signature red and
bold (except for the link text which will usually be blue bold).

[color=red][b]Learn how to start [url=http://www.mycoinblog.com/]Coin
Collecting[/url] the easy way.[/b][/color]

One final tip for creating your signature. Less is more. If you make
your signature look spamming people will treat you like a spammer. You
don’t have to use up all available lines in your signature. Make it
short, sweet and to the point. If you post great content and people are
interested they will click your link.

Step 4: Participate!
The first three steps were all preparation. Now you get to start
creating backlinks to your site! It’s simple, just participate in the
forum. Post good content, ask questions. Try to help people out by
answering questions. Be nice, be helpful.

Every post you make will give you a backlink to your site. The higher
the quality of your post, the more powerful your backlink will be, at
least in Google. Because Google looks at the text surrounding a link to
determine the relevancy of a link having good content in your posts is
much more valuable than having a post that says something like, “great
post, I agree”. If you simply participate in the forum and try to be
friendly and helpful chances are your content will take care of itself.

That’s it. Have fun. And remember, you can change your signature any
time you want. You might changing the text a bit from time to time to
find out what generates the most clicks through to your site.

Bob

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Ok, I’m outing myself! I just don’t like to battle writers’ block!

Plain and simple, every who has a site knows this. Owning, running
and maintaining an internet based business or a site needs articles.
Even those who don’t have sites but are frequent
internet users knows this as well. People who want information
and knowledge love article. Plus, the articles provide many other
benefits for the site.

The benefits that articles provide are putting a site high in
the ranking in search results of keywords and keyword phrases
that pertains or are relevant to his or her site. They also
provide attraction to website visitors when they are appreciated
and is linked to your site from another site or newsletter.
Articles provide for the increase of the confidence and trust
levels of customers to your site and company.

Many articles are also beneficial to both company and its
traffic. When the readers like the articles, they would tell
more of their friends, family and peers and recommend your site
to them, providing for a larger volume of traffic. You get
bigger sales if your traffic trusts and believes in you. Your
product or services would be much easier to sell when they know
you know what you are doing and talking about.

So ok, we have established that articles are very important to a
site and to business. Articles are crucial and to keep ahead in
the game, a site must have an article, it is imperative. There
is one dilemma though, not many people like writing articles.

Many website owners would rather spend their time on something
else, and unless you’re a big time company, you don’t have the
necessary resources to use on a pool of article writers.
Plagiarism or copying of other articles is frowned upon and
could easily get you into trouble, worst case scenario; a hefty
fine and jail time.

So what are the other options?

Well, for starters if you hate writing articles and you can’t
afford to hire people to write for you then don’t. Get free
articles. The first place to look at for free articles is the
public domain. Here you won’t have problems with copyright
infringement and the following penalties and fines if you get
caught for plagiarism.

Public domain articles are articles freely given to the public
for public use. You can do whatever you want with it. You can
place it on your site, name it as yours, put it in a newsletter
its you decision. Always remember though that you will have to
choose articles that is very relevant to your site.

The downside to public domain articles is that since it is free
for everybody, many of your competitors may have access to them
as well. Since every site needs to be original and unique even
though you have the same niche, this could be a predicament. You
may also have to edit them a bit to place more keywords and
keyword phrases to make them better.

There are many other very useful membership sites which are
quite reasonable and have excellent content. It is always worth
a look.

Another way to get free articles is to allow other sites which
has the same subject or topic as yours to submit articles to
your site. This would be only to augment your existing content
or else all your articles would be leading to other sites since
these articles would have resource boxes with them that could
link or direct the readers to their site. That’s why it is
important to have your own articles; you cold use them to link
your site to other sites as well.

But, to truly feel the impact of what a good article is to you, go
for original ones. There are many article writers who do part
time and freelance article writing jobs that charges only
minimal fees. You can get good articles that have all the
keywords and keyword phrases you need and people are looking for.

The investment you made for these articles would be worthwhile
because you could use them for all the benefits you could offer.
You hold copyrights to them and you will be able to use them
anyway you want. As your articles help you in building your
business and your site, you will have more articles to write and
maybe then you wont be having second thoughts about articles.

Until tomorrow, (or maybe later…)

Bob