Website Marketing Skills For Small Businesses

BREAKING NEWS: Calling all Wordpress Bloggers

About me

I purchase and try hundreds of internet marketing ‘solutions’ every year. I answer hundreds of questions a week on my blog from Internet Marketers of all different backgrounds and levels of skill. I understand the pressure of what it is like to struggle financially, pay the bills and feed a family so I do this for money (because I have a family to support) and to help others in a similar predicament.

Disappointingly a large number of Internet Marketing content and tools I evaluate isn’t very good. Until now I have restricted publishing my discoveries to a limited group of blogs because their owners have been very helpful in assisting me with my reviews.

Over Six hundred products tested

This represents just over six hundred ‘products’ that I have tested over a timescale of nearly five years, obviously a number of them are obsolete and I will only be including ‘products’ that are still available. All of the products I review on my blog have been or are currently being used by me.

Easy to use and organised directory

I am really keen for every visitor who visits website gets good value so I am making sure that every ‘product’ summary is categorised in terms of the amount of money they will have to spend, the level of experience they will need, how much time they should spend and how long it usually take to see some results.

First Report – The ‘blueprint’ for Wordpress blog success

Wordpress Blogs are arguably the easiest way to start in Internet Marketing so I am going to start with a set of reviews of products that can turn these search engine ’attractions’ into cash machines. Blogging is an easy thing that everyone should do and can earn income from and so everyone who signs up to my list will get easy to follow instructions on how to set up a Wordpress blog and turn it into a site that can generate cash.

Create once and replicate

The great thing about blogs is once you appreciate how they really can work and make cash you simply duplicate the blog mechanics over and over again to multiply your income stream. But getting the first blog correct is essential and this is where you need the knowledge about how to design a ‘blueprint blog’ and what Internet Marketing ‘products’ and strategies you should use to build a solid foundation for growth and a regular income.

No bullshit, just answers.

So if you own a Wordpress blog or you need some practical and personal assistance with your choice of Internet Marketing products then please do sign up to my list at www.backlinksclinic.com.

See you there

NJC

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An article promotion blog that may bring you great amounts of success is straightforward to make if you employ it in the correct way. A bum marketing blog is simple to put together but what will make it successful is getting content put on it. Getting content for your blog is not enough, though. You have got to get traffic for it. For an article marketing blog content is king but what gives that king his power is the traffic that comes to read it. Get the people to your article marketing blog and get them coming back, whether you use article submission software or not.

Article writing blogs can get their content from many alternative sources. You can, naturally, write all your content but you may have it written for you too. That’s where hiring a ghost writer can come in handy. There are more sources for content, though.  

If you decide to write your own content, first make sure that it uses keywords that will help get it picked up on search engines. So far as finding things to scribble about, follow top stories stories related to your personal industry or product. Also consider industry reports sources and use social bookmarking services to find out what the hot topics are for the present and just comment on them. Also consider having a look at the most up to date websites applying to your blog and see what is drawing the most attention and check out what’s generating the most traffic on search engines relating to your field. Follow trends and comment on what you find. Your article marketing blog will be riding a wave of popularity.  

Many will employ PLR articles and article submission software in their bum marketing blogs. You’ll be able to find reasonable articles generally as a group and can make even that stretch by breaking it up into different parts.  

An alternative choice that folks use is RSS feeds. This is a straightforward way to get content to your article marketing blog because it is immediately updated with content.  

One thing that you always need to be doing is ensuring that there are some things in the article that’s posted which will make it seen by search engines. This is why it is usually best to have some control over what is being posted rather than depending only on automation. Articles are many times written just for the reader when they should just as much be written for the search engines through article submission software. Make sure that it is keyphrase rich so that it will help folks attempting to find info that you have find it.  

Another thing that may help generate traffic and help those looking for information find you is to use the different article directories. Find those ones that the search engines love and utilize them. Make sure you read all the rules and that you create the best article for their standards. This will help to give you links to your bum marketing blog and will draw in those people that will keep coming back to your blog weekly or daily.

Further reading: article submission software

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When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers – as we do – and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.

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