by Remi on January 15, 2010
Today everyone is obsessed about search engine optimization, targeted keywords, and generally, how to get the search engines to work for you, meaning how to make Google like you?
You can see it all over the place. Hundreds or maybe thousands of forums, not to mention the other media channels like social networking platforms, placed filled with webmasters trying to figure out the secrets behind Google and how to make money online by milking Google.
Now, I’m not suggesting that you should forget about Google and search engine optimization. After all it is very important to have a presence in the search engines. And especially in these competitive times, we need all the sources of traffic we could possibly get. Be that free or paid.
But relying on a single source for traffic, a single entity if you like, that essentially makes your business work, is a big mistake. And it’s not only my opinion. It’s the experts who talk about this.
They talk about how to diversify your portfolio, just like in the investment world. In order to lower your risk, it’s a good thing to divide your investment and place it in as many opportunities you possibly can.
But the question is: can you make it without Google? And my answer is: Yes, you can!
If you haven’t noticed, social media took a giant leap lately with the cutting edge social networking platforms like Facebook or Twitter. Yes, socializing can make your business flourish a hundred times better than focusing on using Google.
I’m talking about hundreds of millions of potential visitors to your website! And you don’t have to wait for some miracle that will get you to #1 position in Google in order to get that kind of traffic. Sometimes it can happen overnight starting with a sparkling idea.
It’s not fairytales, its reality. People have come out of anonymity with a single brilliant idea, got the information out to the world in various forms like blogging, twitter, facebook, etc., some respected influential member of a community picked it up and passed it along through the social media’s giant net and there’s your recipe for success.
And this is only one way to do things without Google. Imagine what you could accomplish by advertising on other websites in your industry, or send out a press release, or using Pay-Per-Click advertising. The possibilities are endless…
by Remi on January 14, 2010
Here’s some more cool stuff for FREE, this time from Kevin Wilke of Nitro Marketing.
It’s a great FREE training course and Kevin will answer the question…
“If I lost EVERYTHING….
and had to start from scratch, with no money, no list, no website, no product and no contacts…
“Exactly What Would I Do To Create A 5-Figure-Income Within 30 To 90 Days!”
I HIGHLY recommend you check this out.
P.S. Check out the link at the bottom that says “Affiliates”. You could be building your list very fast with this awesome product.
by Remi on January 12, 2010
Do you know what to do with the feedback you get?
Do you know how to interpret that feedback?
Do you know what feedback is?
Ugh… If you can’t answer to one of those questions, don’t worry. I will do my best to explain everything I know about getting feedback from your website’s visitors.
Everybody agrees that feedback is important and it can drive your business to the highest successful levels you could possibly imagine. Sorry to use the word ‘business’ but it’s the best word to describe anyone’s online presence. Whether we talk a bout you having a simple blog and making money online or a multi-national company like Amazon.com
Feedback is the same for you as it is for Amazon .Inc. It can be in form of a review, a simple comment on your blog, or an entire survey campaign designed to capture the visitor’s opinion or view on a particular product, service or feature, or anything you can think of, that is related to the marketing side of the business.
The most obvious of all is the feedback you get from a survey. It’s the easiest to interpret and you can easily take action accordingly.
But why is it so important to know what your blog’s readers think or have trouble with? Well, first of all, it helps you develop your blog, find new articles and subjects to write about that will eventually help your readers.
You can find comments on your blog in which people desperately express their need to find help with certain issues regarding their business or website or sales process or whatever, and that’s another opportunity for you to write a new article, create a new product or launch a new service.
Someone could say something like: ‘Hey, I have the same technical issue with my blog’s template’. Now I’m not a web design savvy and I don’t know much about web programming and development but I could do a deeper research in the matter and hopefully help the guy out.
And if you find that the problem or issue is often encountered that’s usually a sign that you should pay close attention to what people say. As I said before, you could be a problem-solver.
So, make sure you read your blog’s comments, check your emails, you Facebook inbox and your Twitter DM’s, and generally, keep an eye out on what people talk about regarding your website or your online presence. It will definitely help you decide on your next move.
And if you play your cards right, soon you will have so many ideas in your head that you won’t be able to implement all of them by your self. That’s when an outsourcing team comes in real handy.
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Commenting On Blogs For Better Exposure
by Remi on January 13, 2010
Commenting on blogs related to your particular niche can not only bring you backlinks that search engine spiders and bots can follow and index your website or blog, but it can give you a better exposure of your online business, whether it is a blog or a sales letter on a website.
I probably should say that spamming is out of the question… I don’t use such tactics since they are not ethical and against search engine’s Terms of Service and I do not encourage such actions in any way. Plus, I could get my blog banned from the search engines for doing that.
If you want to comment on other blogs and link back to your website or blog, make sure you first read the article, understand it and comment on the subject with a decent, intelligent reply. Not a spammy message like: ‘Great article dude!’
An interesting thing happens when you comment intelligently on other blogs: some of the people reading those articles will also read the comments below the article. And if your comment is right to the point and interesting, it’s a high possibility that the reader will click through, onto your website.
And that’s how you gain more visitors to your website and more customers for your business! You can capture those visitors’ info like their first name and email address and every time you post a new article on your blog, you can send them a short email and instantly get visitors to your blog.
I made a habit of bookmarking the various blogs I visited in the past, blogs that looked like valuable in terms of content. Now I have a couple of hundred blogs that I can visit, read and post comments on.
And what I want to do next is a little experiment to see how much exposure and how much traffic I could get by consistently commenting on some of the high trafficked blogs I’ve bookmarked over the years.
I will start commenting on five blogs every day for a month, constantly monitoring the traffic I get from those blogs. I can easily do that with Google’s Analytics tool.
I will do a check on this, every week, to see what has changed and I think the results will be interesting, least to say. Because commenting on other blogs on a regular basis can not only bring you traffic and get you a better exposure but it can also affect your blog’s ranking in the search engines in a positive way.
Also, your page rank can grow because your website or blog becomes, gradually, more and more popular. We’ll see what happens in the following weeks.
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