Posts Tagged ‘Business Owner’

Understanding the Importance of Deep Links

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

These are complicated times. In the past, a small business was all about personal relationships with people who came to your physical location. You had an aura of trust and dedication, while your clients and customers came to appreciate you and what you did for them. Now, the whole concept of a small business has been turned on its head. You can actually go your whole life without meeting any of your clients in person! This opens up some exciting new opportunities, but it also changes the rules of business.

The most important one is how to get new customers. Whether you are a new business owner or you have been in business for a while and are only now starting to build your business a website, there are certain principles that you should know. One of the most important things to realize is that word of mouth is not what it used to be. In the past, when you did something nice for your client, he told his friends and they would come to you. However, in a world of one-on-one interaction through websites, this still happens, but in a different way.

By the way, this doesn’t mean that no one talks to each other anymore, or that you can’t get new customers through positive word of mouth. Rather, this is to emphasize the new way that people attract new customers online, and that is through deep links. If you’re unsure of what deep links are, don’t worry. This will explain it.

Word of Mouth and Then of Link
Basically, the way this works is, you do a good job for a client. He is so impressed that he links to your website, telling his readers or customers to try you out. Now, you have a deep link that is bringing targeted traffic to your website. Those people are there for the express purpose of seeing if they want to sign up with you.

Hopefully you can see how this is important for your online success. If you have customers, and they link to your website, and then those customers link to you from their websites, you start to get an exponential growth curve. This is great for your business, and if you are doing a good job, a great thing for the people you’re serving too. However, there’s more to all this that you should know.

More Valuable Website
Search engines like Google and Yahoo have secret formulas that they use to calculate how websites are ranked on the search engine results pages after someone’s searched for a term. If you have a website on “laser eye surgery”, and you’ve got a ton of people linking to you, then when people search for laser eye surgery, they’re more likely to see your site pop up. This is because those links help demonstrate that your website is more valuable than other websites on the same subject.

In order to truly maximize on this knowledge, you should take advantage of a link building service. These basically help you build up your network of deep links so that you can get more traffic, both through optimization of your site for the sake of search engines, and from the people who follow those deep links to your website.

Here is a list of Link Building Services available:

1. Linkvana.com — 1-way links from private blog network – $147/month

  • A little on the pricey side, overall a good service but limited by the blogs.

2. wlmarketing.com — mixed seo service

3. neurolinker.com — $27/mo, 3-way links, many positive experiences

4. TrafficKahuna.com — currently not accepting new members

5. 1waylinks.net — $47/mo, up to 250 one-way links per month from blog network

6. 3waylinks.net — $47/mo, 3-way links system, many positive experiences

7. NextGenlinks.com — different packages : $37, $77, $137 and developer package $297 per month.

  • Links to deep pages within the site
  • Unlimited incoming links, built slowly over time
  • over 10,000 sites and 250,000 pages in the system and growing

8. easybacklinker.com — high PR search engine service

9. Outsourcing Services: lexorsoft.com – various link building packages

  • More personal but pricey as well

10. ConnectContent.com — only $12 per month, link exchange network but only relevant links

  • Good service , but this is a link exchange not one way links

There are plenty of services to choose from, the point is you need to be building backlinks, and more specifically “deep backlinks”.

If you have any questions be sure to ask us using the contact us link above and please leave a comment if you have had any experiences with these services you would like to share.

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The Expensive Versus Inexpensive Marketing Choices

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

There are Internet marketing choices for all budget levels. The most expensive can bring in traffic and business, but the marketer and business owner will need to weigh the cost with the potential outcome. Some of the best Internet marketing choices are completely free.

The Expensive Marketing Choices

The pop-up ad is an annoying choice in website promotion. This tactic utilizes an ad that pops up in a window under or on top of the current viewing pane. These ads are often misinterpreted for spam and can cause negative feelings with the reader.

The podcast is an equally expensive marketing tactic. When a company uses podcasts to promote, they are essentially funding a radio show that will be downloaded free of charge by the listener. If the podcast is recorded well and edited in a professional manner, there could be quite a following to gain. The cost, however, again needs to be weighed with the real traffic and business attributed to the podcast.

The paid search engine allows the business to buy the top spots on the search engine results page for their keyword or key phrase. This top spot is often shown in a different color and labeled a Sponsored Ad. The reader knows these ads were purchased and may choose to skip those for the organic results listed below in the top 10.

The Inexpensive or Free Marketing Choices

The informational website can be a very inexpensive choice for the marketer. These websites are created to compliment the product or service being sold by the business. On the informational website, there can be links to the business website, newsletters or daily email subscriptions that will push the reader to visit the business for their needs.

Blogging can be both free and inexpensive. The most popular free blogging sites are Wordpress and Blogger. If the business wants to place their blog on an official domain, this is also a free choice. As an alternative, the marketer can choose to purchase a domain name to hold the blog and link to the main business website.

The smaller search engine offers a unique advantage to the marketer. While Google, Yahoo and Bing are overloaded with results, the smaller search engines can offer a higher placement on the search results page. The traffic may not equal a top 5 spot on the major search engines, but could offer a significant number of leads.

Link building is one of the most effective, FREE marketing choices. Links can be established back to the main page URL of a website and the deep pages. These links will drive the reader to the website but will also work to improve page rank. The better a website’s page rank, the more traffic and more profit the website can make.

Building backlinks to a website can be difficult at first, especially for the website that is very deep. A deep website is one that has many pages and sub-URLs to link. A link building service or software can help get the link ball rolling.

Marketing a website does not have to take up all of the marketing budget. The most expensive part of any marketing campaign is the time it takes to create a plan, set that plan in motion and continue building traffic endlessly.

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Let’s Talk Internet Marketing Tools

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Every Internet marketer is trying to make the most of the tools available for SEO and marketing. These tools make the process of website promotion easier and more efficient. Which tools do you need to make life easier without breaking the bank?

Link Building Software / Service

Link building software comes in both free and paid versions. This software often works with article directories to push an article and a resource box onto multiple websites to gain backlinks.

Software can also be used to locate blogs that publish online content similar to the focus of your website. Once these blogs are located, comments and guests blogs can be used to build backlinks.

A link building service works through a variety of methods to build links on the Internet. Some services will communicate with other complimentary websites and blogs to exchange links. Link building services can also help the business to build an online brand by establishing a strong blog or article directory persona.

The Complete Website Package

For the extreme novice, website packages can be purchased through companies that provide domain names, hosting and Internet marketing. These packages may require the business owner to supplement the service with their own content for the website, while others include that content. It is important to verify whether the content used on the website will be original or PLR content.

A Mailing List That Does Not Spam

Mailing lists and email lists have received a bad name thanks to the black hat tactics some Internet marketers use to build these lists. Contact with potential leads is an important part of a website’s success, but that does not mean the process is no holds barred.

The mailing list and / or emailing list needs to include only people who are willing to receive your communication. This list is best built through online signups for newsletters or update emails.

Once the list is established, the emails need to offer a good piece of information paired with a strong call to action. The call to action is a statement or series of statements that give the reader a slight push to read more information on the main website of the business.

E-Books For Increased Traffic

Free or low cost e-books are a hugely popular way of increasing traffic to a website. These e-books need to be FULL of great information about the topic, but also the same strong call to action used in the mailing list campaign.

There are PLR e-books that can be used for this purpose. It is important to change up the content in a PLR e-book either by editing or adding fresh content to offer the reader something they have never read.

SEO Tools are King

The SEO tools used for website promotion and Internet marketing need to be easy to learn and even easier to use. SEO tools include keyword density checkers, backlink checkers and more. The Internet is full of these tools.

If you’re looking for a great backlink building tool, we suggest NextGenlinks.com, it’ll help you build one way links to the deep pages of your site. As far as we know it is the only automated link tool that can do that completely hands free. We give a thumbs up :)

If a business wants to keep close track of their SEO marketing plan results, an SEO or backlink company will often provide a report with their services, that’s something to keep in mind.

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