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Bit.ly

Your company, like ours offering travel marketing solutions online, probably has a Twitter account. You’ve read the How To guides and your posts are the right mixture of fun and informative, but how do you know anyone’s reading your links? Bit.ly is the answer, not only does it shorten your URL a la TinyURL but it also provides statistics on exactly how many people have clicked on the link that you tweeted. This helps you ascertain which links work and which ones don’t. For one of our clients, we found that posts about upcoming fiestas and festivals in their destinations received very few clicks. Whereas any posts that we had written about news stories and current affairs received plenty of clicks. The click-throughs are also analysed and we are able to see how many people are posting our links on Facebook or their Twitter accounts, and also what country the majority of the click-throughs are coming from.

Analysing our bit.ly data, we found that almost everyone clicked through to our links between 4.52 and 4.57pm. This would definitely show that most people logon to their Twitter accounts during the last ten minutes of the working day. Therefore, by moving our client’s posts to this time slot, we were able to receive far more clicks.

Technorati

As a company offering travel marketing solutions online, we write blogs on behalf of many of our clients. But here’s a scary statistic: there are more than 57 million blogs online. So how do you work out which ones are worth reading? A search engine specialising in blogs can help, and that’s precisely what Technorati is. Make sure that you add your blog to Technorati and not only will people be able to find you, but you’ll also start to reap the benefits. One thing that irks many SEO agencies about Technorati is that posts aren’t sorted by the keyword and instead are ranked on the time that they’ve been updated. But whilst keyword usage isn’t important, the words that you place in your tags are, as the indexing tool is based on how bloggers tag their blogs. So if you update your blog regularly and want more traffic, then make sure you list it onto Technorati.

Trending Topics/Hot Trends

Providing travel marking solutions online for a number of clients, we need to know what works and what people are talking about. For our US clients we use Google HotTrends to see the topics that people are searching for each week, we then try to include these terms in blog posts. For example, today’s Hot Topics are pigs and titillation! So writing a blog post on how titillating pigs are would get you extra traffic; well that’s the theory anyway! Google HotTrends has a UK subsidiary, but this isn’t shown on the home page. To access Google HotTrends UK you’ll need to click through on one of the American keywords, the UK HotTrends appear on the left hand side of the page in a column. Currently trending are Volvo and Australia, as many of our topics sell tours in Oz, we would tweet about Australia on Twitter knowing that people searching through the trending topics may pick up on this post. One of our clients specialises in courier jobs so a blog post about why Volvo vans are best for delivery work, would also be in order.

Frank Orman is the Managing Director of LeadGenerators, an SEO marketing agency providing travel marketing solutions online . LeadGenerators offers online marketing solutions to achieving first-rate sales conversions for your business.

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Domain Names - Choose Wisely!

May-17-2010 By LarryL.

You probably put a lot of thought into the name of your company, before you actually opened the doors of your new business. Most individuals don’t use the same thought process before starting an online business. Choosing a unique domain name is a process that will take some time and should not be rushed. It’s a good idea to have the URL of your website, with the same name that matches your company business name if at all possible.

Name recognition is critical to your online success. A couple of good examples of this strategy include the use of company names by some of the major retailers which use their company name as their domain name. Wal Mart, Pepsi, Home Depot and the list goes on and on. If this strategy works effectively for major retailers, then maybe we should consider following their examples.

Over a period of time, your domain name will build a history with the search engine, which will help in the future page ranking of your online business. Sub domains and third level domains can be an extension of your domain name. These extensions can be as powerful as, and sometimes even more popular in search engine positioning than the domain itself. Doing your research and understanding how this process works will be a great help in making a better choice for your domain name, plus help you in your future online ventures. As you become more involved with online marketing, and how this system works, things will become clearer regarding this issue.

The use of .com, .biz, .net, .org addresses is a matter of choice by each individual or company. Some experts feel that any one of these choices, can be effective, if your website is promoted properly. Promoting your website is another whole different subject that we will address later.

Branding your name, whether personally or for your business, will not happen overnight. This is an ongoing process that may take months or even years for your domain to become well known. Branding yourself or company will make it so much easier for your potential clients to find your online business opportunity.

If you’re trying to target a particular audience in a specific country, then you need to acquire a domain that relates to the audience. A good example would be, if you’re focusing on a United Kingdom site you may want to purchase a .co.uk domain address. Many people will only consider a .com address when looking for that magic URL, simply because that’s what they believe will draw a bigger user response. This may require you to do some additional research before narrowing down your choices. A marketing specialist can sometimes narrow down your options to some specific choices based on his or her knowledge of what your overall marketing plan may include.

Some web site designers and SEO Consultants will recommend only domain names with .com addresses, however, with the recent reports stating we will run out of domain names in the next few years, I personally feel that one should consider what applies to your particular needs and see if you can find the .com address that you would like. If a .com address is not available, then one of the others addresses like .biz, .net should work just fine. If you’re a nonprofit organization, special needs school or a local government organization, then you may be wise to consider the .org address.

If you’re looking at optimizing your website for the search engines, then you may want to consider using a keyword or two in your URL or domain name. It must look natural and be relevant to what your site is all about. An example; if you sell real estate in Chicago, the domain of chicagorealestate.com, may be an excellent domain to purchase. Another acceptable way to make the URL more readable for the user may be chicago-realestate.com if available. Including the dash in the URL may make it easier for the user to read. Anyone looking for real estate in Chicago would probably find your site rather quickly. Don’t overdo this idea by stuffing to many keywords in your URL. The search engine will penalize you for keyword stuffing or may ban your site altogether.

Having a long domain name has no advantage, particularly if you’re future plans include the use of other advertising media in your marketing campaigns such as advertisement on your vehicles, printing t-shirts, doing TV or Radio advertisements etc., then a long URL would be a distinct disadvantage. Your name and URL should be easy to remember with no chance of being misspelled or misheard. Visualization is critical here, so keep it as simple, yet specific to your business opportunity.

Summary: If you follow the simple tips in this article, you should find your website gaining page rank popularity quicker than, using some cute phrase you like but has nothing to do with your business. Choose your domain wisely as we’ve discussed above, then you can include all the cute sayings you want in a specific section of your website.

“Let’s Build Your Business Together”

Larry L Miller SEM/SEO Consulting

Larry L Miller - SEM/SEO Consultant who specializes in promoting clients to

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You may be thinking to yourself, did I read that title right? Driving traffic online? Doesn’t make sense does it? Well, honestly it does. Driving traffic online may just be the ticket to get you out of your day job working 9-5 and spending more time at the beach each day.

The way out of that cubical is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is essentially taking traffic from one website to another. A consumer will visit your website, and click on a banner or link that you have posted on it, and be redirected from your site to a different business. When this is done, you will be paid. Depending on what kind of agreement you have with these businesses, you can make a commission based off of sales or you can just get payed by way of PPC, which is Pay Per Click. This essentially means that all a customer has to do is click on an affiliate link of yours and you get paid.

You will want to set up an internet site of your own when you first start. It’s best if you stick to something you like. Something you like will keep your attention a lot longer than something that you aren’t interested in. Once you’ve set up your site, you want to flood it with banners and links. Banners are advertisements, and these will be the thing that redirects your viewers from your internet site to the paying/affiliate site. It’s also called pay per click. With each click, you get paid.

Over time, you will have more and more sites, and you can have a ton of sites with the same theme. Whether it’s sports or some other hobby, each site can also be entirely different, but to keep it a little more simple, staying with the same theme will be just all that much easier on you. Just think of all those banners you’ll have out there, and with half of the world’s population having access to the internet, that is whole lot of people you’ll be able to reach. Well, that’s the plan, right?

This isn’t something that you’ll have overnight. This will take a lot of hard work and determination on your part to not give up when you don’t see a pay out right away. It will take a little bit of time for you to get noticed, and get yourself out there in the internet world, but once you do, you’ll be able to go far and have a good amount of money come rolling in. Think of the day you’ll be able to get out of that long commute and be able to sleep in, leisurely get up when you are ready, and not when your alarm clock says it’s time to get up. Isn’t that what we all wish for? Well this can be something that can happen for you too. It takes just that first step to get out there and get your traffic redirected to make an insane amount of money!

Jason Bacot - Are you kidding me, choose the right affiliate marketing business to generate HUGE profits today, and How to Make Money Online. Also, check out our Free SEO and Affiliate Marketing Software to help you get started.

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Wouldn’t it be just so nice to go to bed at night and not have a worry in the world? Not worrying about getting up for work, you won’t worry about sending your child off to college, or worry about how to make ends meet. I know myself I’d love to be able to go to bed at night without a worry in my head. Well there is a way that you can make this happen. And the way to make this happen is by affiliated marketing.

By using affiliate marketing in your life, you can make all those worries go away, and build a financially strong foundation as well. In this article, I’ll teach you some basics about affiliate marketing and where you can go to find out more in depth information if you think that this is the right job for you.

Don’t quit your outside job just yet. When your mother told you that when things sound too good to be true, they probably are, well get rid of that kind of thinking. This really is something true. Millions of people are using affiliate marketing right now as you are reading this article to make money from home. In fact the way you got to this article very well may have been from affiliate marketing. Enough with the small talk though, let’s get down to business!

Affiliate marketing is basically summed up as an internet based marketing practice where a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. The affiliate in this case would be you.

You will set up your own website first of all. After this is set up, you will want to start setting up banners and links through out the site. Banners are basically advertisements that you can click on. You will set these up so that when a consumer visitor comes to your site usually after an internet search engine brings them to your site, they’ll click on your banner and when they do, they will be redirected to a different website. This is the site of a business. Whether this business has products to purchase or just a form for them to fill out it won’t matter. Either way, once that consumer clicks on your banner or text link, you get paid! That’s it! You get paid per click.

I told you it sounded too good to be true. But it’s really legitimate. By doing a simple internet search of affiliate marketing, you’ll find thousands of articles and information about it online. In order to make it work though, it doesn’t come easy in the beginning. So before you tell your boss to take your job and shove it, I’d wait a little while, atleast until you are making enough money to work for yourself from home.

It does take some time to get off the ground and noticed. You want to sign up with as many businesses that promote affiliate marketing as you can. By doing so, you are increasing your chances of being seen. And you need to spread out those banners everywhere on your website. If someone else’s banner is clicked, there’s no pay for you. So you need to make sure yours is out there to be clicked on!

Jason Bacot - Are you kidding me, choose the right affiliate marketing business to generate HUGE profits today, and How to Make Money Online. Also, check out our Free SEO and Affiliate Marketing Software to help you get started.

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It’s an amazing quagmire of marketing. How people choose their favorite Video Lottery Terminals. Yet there are many similarities and lessons to be learnt in these workups and choices to the field of reverse engineering in SEO Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is the science, art and practice of improving a websites ranking in the search engine results of individual searches that internet users conduct everyday on the major search engines – be they the market leader by far Google , Yahoo or the MSN/ Bing dominant search engine online products and services.

Drive by any local large scale casino – especially the government run ones and you will spot people lined up in front long before opening time. What are they doing you may well ask? Indeed they are waiting for their “favorite “or “lucky “machine / VLT. It’s a symbol of our times that many people – indeed the elderly or so drawn to the love of their special box. This attraction could fund myriad psychological studies in the addiction community. What is it loneliness in our modern society in 2010? Alienation of the elderly by the busy self centered youth or in society? Or is it a case of the powers of addiction and addiction and the “rush” that it gives these people? After all you will not see them lined up in advance outside of their grocery supermarket which to all intensive purposes might well be a more essential and vital basic human desire of theirs to satisfy .

Regardless how does one go about selecting a “suitable “machine in a casino or indeed local purveyor of VLTs? This can even be in some areas your local gas station or convenience store – how convenient so to speak.

First of all once you have located a row of two coins, single payline machines in your desired and preferred denomination and denominations, your next step should be to carefully examine the printed payout schedule or schedules. Technically in the trade these are known and referred to properly as “the glass”. Indeed it has surprised more than one experienced gamer who thought that they were in the “now”, how different payout can vary from individual machine to machine, even those adjacent to each other.

Two side by side, adjacent machines that may to be essentially and apparently similar if not identical may have top jackpots of 4000 coins and 9000 coins, respectively.

An inexperienced player may well jump to pump, thinking that bigger is always better – and that the bigger jackpot is best, since “it pays more”. Of course everyone – and especially those who game – dream of finally being rewarded and winning “the big one”.

This may not be the best strategy overall. Its all calculations and algorithms – not unlike Google the search engine with its intense calculations and algorithms. Indeed in order to compensate in the numbers for the smaller jackpot, the first machine (with the lower jackpot) may have larger number of small and medium payouts. Hence your chances of walking away with cash may be overall better with that machine.

It all comes down to numbers and calculations. Whether it’s Google with its algorithms figuring out where a website should rank in the search engine results or choosing your favorite VLT you have to do your homework to figure out where you’re best bang for your buck and your efforts lie. It’s as simple as that.

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