How To Successfully Market Your Website

Be forwarned! There is no fast down and dirty way for you to get fantastic rankings and tons of qualified traffic to your site inside of ten seconds, like all of the other so called SEO Experts who spam your email inbox claim. But then again, if you believe all of the hype that they offer, you must still believe in Santa Claus or that the earth is flat.

However, if you want honest information about how a sheer novice built a profitable website in well under one year, then stick around. This article is really about what has worked outrageously well at getting mountains of highly targeted traffic to an ecommerce website that I own.

A year ago I was a complete amateur at this, and I didn’t know what SEO, reciprocal back links or article spinning and marketing was. Today I am the owner of a outrageously successful ecommerce website.

Now, I don’t claim to be a Search Engine Optimization expert or guru. But I can honestly tell you that in well under one year, I’ve been very successful at driving tons of qualified traffic to my ecommerce website without paying a dime for it. My site also has a much higher conversion rate than many other sites on the web. In other words, my site is well in the “black” and making plenty of money.

My Background: I’ve been in my own business for many, many years and I’ve had a great deal of success at it. Since about 90% of all new businesses fail within three years, and many established businesses fail regularly, I think that over the years I’ve learned how to rapidly adapt as the marketplace changes.

I decided to transform my chosen profession into an Internet based business in February. So I got a copy of FrontPage and I started creating an ecommerce site. At the same time I started transforming my “product” for online consumption. In June, I was 59 and I retired from my professional practice in order to focus full time on marketing my “product” via my ecommerce website.

You might be wondering what my “product” is. My “product” is information. But I’m not going to disclose to you exactly what kind of information it is, and I’m not going to send you to my website because I don’t want my competitors to know how I took a brand new homemade PR0 site, and advanced it to a PR4 site by Thanks Giving - a six month time span.

More importantly, I don’t want them to know the processes that I used to get my homemade website to rank on the first page in the Google organic SERPS for a large number of very important keywords, and on the first three pages of Yahoo, MSN, and Google organic SERPS for literally hundreds of different search terms. It has taken me way under one year, and lots of my competition has been struggling at it for many years!

I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve wasted a lot of hard earned money and time on lots of Internet marketing software and lots of worthless information from the “Internet Get Rich Quick Gurus.” At the same time I’ve learned which Internet software applications are productive and worth the money.

HOW I FOUND SUCCESS ON THE INTERNET - ARTICLE WRITING AND MARKETING

Many people use reciprocal linking to promote their website. I myself have traded links with others in my industry. However, it is my belief that writing articles and getting them published on thousands of competitor sites for free has had the greatest impact on my site’s search engine ranking and the amount of money that I have been able to make. But beware: If you are not aware of the downside of article marketing, you can quickly drive yourself out of business.

WHY IS ARTICLE MARKETING SO EFFECTIVE?

It’s simple: 1. The quickest way to rank well on the major search engines is to have lots of one-way links from other on-topic websites to your website.

2. When you write and publish a good article to another website, your “payment” for the use of that article is one or more links from that article back to your site. The more articles that you publish, the more free one-way links pointing back to your domain. The more one-way links from other on-topic websites, the better your site will rank in the organic SERPS.

3. If you write a good article, then you can set yourself apart as the expert in your field. A well written article will create a lot of validation for you in the eyes of the public. And a well-written article is one of the best ways to get qualified traffic to your site. That is because people will read it, and if you’ve built their trust, they will click your link to see what you have to offer them.

NOW FOR THE MONKEY WRENCH - AVOIDING THE GOOGLE DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTER

In order to be successful you have to get your articles onto hundreds or even thousands of other websites. None of the major search engines like content that has been duplicated on other websites. What that means is that even if you have an article on hundreds or thousands of other websites, the search engines can find the identical articles and only give you credit for the links in one, or maybe a few of the published articles.

So in the real world, in order to get the most benefit from your articles you must create a different well-written article for each website. But it is almost impossible to accomplish that, right?

Well . . . . Thanks to modern computer software, articles can be spun, spooled, or re-written automatically using software. And indeed, in 2006, article-spooling software began to make its appearance on the scene.

Unfortunately, most articles that are spun are worthless because the articles that the software creates on full autopilot are very often totally laughable. The grammar and syntax is almost always all wrong. And people who read them usually think that they were written by a six year old. And because of latent symantic indexing, the Google algorithm can also pick out and ignore your articles as well.

But if you create a well-written article to begin with, and then use the spooling software correctly, the software can re-write the article into hundreds or even thousands of unique, high quality articles that you can feel proud of. And most importantly, your articles will be more than unique enough to avoid the duplicate content filters.

If you don’t like writing articles, don’t have the time, or don’t have the expertise, don’t worry. You can purchase PLR (private label rights) articles and spin them! But you are always better off if you can write your own articles.

I’ve used desktop article spooling software that I paid about $200.00 for, to create these kinds of spun articles, and the software works great. As I write this page, I still do use this software for creating articles that I submit to article directories. The upside of this is that each article directory gets a unique version of the article, and this version won’t get filtered out by the duplicate content filters. The down side is that as other webmasters take these articles from the article directories and publish them on their sites, most of these re-published articles will get filtered out. But they will still increase the traffic to your site as people read them and click your links.

Published articles will usually trigger far more referrals if they are published directly on your competitor’s website! But it is somewhere between very difficult and impossible to recruit other competitor webmasters to publish your articles. So that relegates you to submitting only to article directories.

HERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS!

Now there are some inexpensive Internet sites that allow you to use their article spinning software right on their websites, to create dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of unique articles. You can even try some of them out for free. It is super easy to learn and to use their software. And the benefits of these services are almost too good to be true. Let me tell you a little bit about these online services.

To start with, the wonderful thing about these online services is that they take your article, and they can spool an unlimited number of unique versions of it. Then they publish a different unique version of your article on hundreds or even thousands of on-topic websites. These spun articles are so unique that a duplicate content filter will not filter out these articles. So you will get the benefit of all of your back links for ranking purposes.

This is real power. We are talking about the ability to get your well-written articles published on hundreds of your competitors and your peer’s websites practically overnight. To make the situation even more attractive, when these services publish your article on another site, they won’t publish that Webmaster’s articles on your site. This eliminates reciprocal linking and nets you hundreds, or even thousands of one-way links.

And unlike article directories where your links are severely limited, these services allow you to put up to five keyword rich links in each of your articles. It’s best to have each of those back links go to a different webpage on your site, not just to your home page.

You should make the links appropriate. So if your article is about baby furniture, and you are talking about cribs, you’ll want to link to a page about baby cribs on your site. If you are talking about playpens, you’ll want to link to a page that features playpens, etc.

Future plans on some of these article spooling networks are to spool your unique articles to thousands of on-topic blogs, and into hundreds of article directories automatically. And remember, every submission will be unique as far as the duplicate content filters are concerned.

Make no mistake; this is not a 10 second cure for the huge job of publishing hundreds or even thousands of unique articles and submitting them to hundreds of directories and potentially thousands of your competitor’s websites. If you believe that something like that exists, then you probably believe that the earth is flat.

You still must put a great deal of effort into creating well-written professional articles. And then you must be ready to put effort into creating the synonym words and phrases that the software will use to spin or spool your unique article. But believe me, you can not accomplish in a full month what these services can do in an hour.

As an example of what can be done: I wrote four completely different articles on different kinds of information that I sell. After only 12 days with one of these services, my articles were on two-hundred-forty-two different peer site on-topic web pages.

You do the math! With five links in each article, one to my home page and four to different deep linked product pages on my site, that’s 968 back links in only twelve days! And I began to see some of those links indexed by the major search engines within that same time period. Use your imagination about what will happen after a month, six months, or a year!

JUST HOW HARD IS IT TO SPOOL ARTICLES USING THESE SERVICES?

It’s so easy to use the software applications that it’s almost ridiculous. You will learn to use the software within moments.

Some of these article spooling services will let you test out their site and their service for free. Most give a 30-day money back guarantee. So you get to try their service for a full month to find out how much it can help your site to improve its traffic before you have to pay for it. I highly recommend this type of software and you will be happy that you gave it a test run!

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Albert Weiss is an amateur at Search Engine Optimization. He isn’t one of the thousands of self-proclaimed Search Engine Optimization Gurus that inhabit the Internet. However, as a beginner, he has created and marketed a very successful and profitable ecommerce site in well under a year. And his site is successfully competing with other top producing sites in his industry, many of which have been on the Internet for ten years!

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps he took to drive lots of free traffic to his site to make it successful by using article spinning and marketing, as well as how using several other aspects of SEO can quickly make a website a success. He built a Free SEO Website for everyone! So drop by www.ArticleSpooling.com today.

Mr. Weiss has documented the steps that were taken to get lots of free traffic to his ecommerce site to make it successful by relying on article spinning, as well as how using several other aspects of SEO can make a site a success. He created a Free Search Engine Optimization Site for everyone! So drop by www.ArticleSpooling.com today.

- Albert Weiss

Add Garden Of Life Perfect Food To Your Daily Routine

Most individuals in the United States do not eat nearly the recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guide says that each person should eat three to five servings of vegetables and two to four servings of fruit each day. Many individuals say the inconvenience of purchasing, washing and storing fruits and vegetables and instead they grab quick processed, but not as healthy foods, like cookies, chips and candy.

Although it may be hard to accomplish, it is important to get enough servings of leafy green vegetables. As simple as it is to grab a piece of fruit or a grain serving, it takes more effort and thought to meet the every day need for vegetables.

Mother Nature’s “packaging” of leafy greens was not made with the modern active person in mind. Also, her “marketing” strategy when it comes to leafy greens leaves a lot to be desired. Their rather dull taste and coarse texture makes it hard to get excited about getting your daily allowance of greens.

Vegetables that are green and leafy are filled with a wide array of vitamins, and many important natural acids. All of these components are imperative in maintaining normal metabolism, and keeping all of your organs working together in a proper manner.

Garden of Life products, such as the Garden of Life Perfect Food vitamin supplement, is one way to ensure you get the crucial nutrients that are necessary for your body. Made of healthy ingredients such as whole vegetables, seeds, legumes, vegetable juice, sea vegetables, and sprouted grains, two heaping tablespoons of Garden of Life Perfect Food is nutritionally equivalent to over 5 vegetable servings.

Perfect Food, or any other vitamin supplement, has done the bulk of the work for you by putting together very nutritious, although somewhat different foods into a powder, that is mixed with water. It is so convenient to get all the servings you need of greens in this way, so keeping an active and healthy lifestyle is easy. Why would you not want that?

The U.S.D.A Dietary Guidelines call for a recommended 2-4 servings of fruits and three to five servings of vegetables per day, but the average American consumes well below these recommendations. Mother Nature’s “packaging” of leafy greens was not designed with the modern active person in mind. A simple way to obtain the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs is by taking Perfect Food. It is full of natural ingredients such as green grasses, sea vegetables, whole vegetables, grains, legumes, and juices and in just two tablespoons, this Garden of Life contains the equivalent of 5-10 vegetable servings.

- Ben Pate

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