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While viewing web pages on your browser, you may have noticed a feature that will allow you to save a particular URL under your “My Favorites” folder. Click on the “Add To Favorites” button and you’ll be able to save the URL on your hard drive. This process is called bookmarking. The saved URL is called a bookmark.
Social bookmarking websites work the same way. But instead of saving a URL on your hard drive, you’ll be able to save it on a web server, under an appropriate tag.
If you visit a dog grooming website, for example, and you liked it a lot, you can save the URL under the tag “dog” or “dog grooming,” in the space provided by any social bookmarking website.
What makes social bookmarking websites stand out is that you can share your list of indexed sites with other people. They may be looking for information about dogs, and your list can help them out a lot.
Marketing Advantages Of Social Bookmarking Websites
This relatively new technology presents a lot of useful possibilities for an online businessman:
* Experts predict that social bookmarking will soon replace search engines as the information finding process of choice by most Internet users. The best way to capitalize on this emerging phenomenon is by starting to position your online business using its features as early as today.
* Social bookmarking can be used fairly easily. You can place your own websites in favorable positions without being subject to the whims of the search engine algorithms.
* Tags are beginning to establish an interconnectivity that reaches many platforms and many channels. Social bookmarking websites can easily become the launch pad for your conquest of specific tags… which are considered as the “keywords for the new millennium.”
The new generation of internet marketing strategies starts with social bookmarking websites. Master this particular channel and you’re sure to garner an avalanche of traffic from sources which were once unknown.
September 24th, 2006
Tags are the new keywords.
You see them everywhere, in blog directories, in video repositories, in social networking websites. They are often presented as a group of words inside a block. The hottest tags are printed with bigger fonts and at a higher intensity. The less popular tags, on the other hand, have smaller fonts and lighter colors.
But what are tags, exactly, and why should you care?
Tags Are More Than Just Novelties
Introduced a couple of years ago in direct opposition to the mechanical indexing methods performed by search engines, tags are devices that empower the actual internet users themselves to properly categorize content according to their appropriate classification.
Search engines are powered by search engine spiders, robotic little creatures that crawl through each and every web page on the internet. These spiders index the web pages according to the search engine’s predefined algorithms. This is an automated process, one which does not involve human discernment. Everything is in black and white. There is no room for gray areas.
Hence, it was likely that some pages will be improperly indexed. Search engine spiders are machines, after all. They will not be able to appreciate the real intent of the contents they index.
Enter tags. Websites that use tags encourage people to categorize certain pages according to their appropriate groups… which are labeled with tags. A website about insect control, for example, can be indexed by a visitor or by the webmaster himself under the tag “pesticide” or “insecticide.” This makes it easier for other people to find such a web page.
The Marketing Benefits Of Tags
Tags have become useful for online businessmen. There are 2 reasons for this:
1. Websites can be classified under their appropriate tags. This will ensure that they will be found by the people who are meant to view them. Additionally, under the tagging system, the web page with the newest update will appear at the very top of the results. Hence, tagging encourages the addition of fresh content, and allows savvy internet marketers to position their websites favorably well just by regularly updating their web pages.
2. Tags can serve as excellent tools for market research. Hot tags are quite prominently displayed, and the system is amazingly up-to-date. Hot tags are displayed in real time, and any changes to the internal rankings will reflect on the fly. Hence, internet marketers who are looking for hot niches need only to study the hottest tags of the moment.
The Many Applications Of Tags
Currently, tags are being used in a variety of ways. Studying them will ensure that the online businessman will have the requisite knowledge to capitalize on this emerging technology and use the same for the success of his online business.
1. Tags are being used in blog directories to properly classify newly published entries.
2. Tags are being used in social networking websites such as MySpace to cross reference people who share the same interests and passions.
3. Tags are being used in multimedia repositories such as YouTube to make it easier for users to find the audio and/or video files they are looking for.
Experts predict that in a few years time, tags will replace search engines as the information finding method of choice of internet users. The tagging system is more reliable and credible, given the fact that such is implemented using human faculties. Also, tagging is fast. No need to wait for days before a page is properly indexed. Everything transpires instantaneously. You web page will appear under the correct category as soon as you inform the tagging system of your entry’s publication.
If you want to read more about how to benefit from Tags then check out Tagging Secrets
August 13th, 2006
Mention traffic generation and chances are, people will suggest the usual approached. Article marketing, forum posting, reciprocal linking, search engine optimization (SEO), and even traffic buying… these are just some of the choices you always read about in many resource centers in the World Wide Web.
And since information about them is everywhere, you could bet your bottom dollar that your competitors are doing the exact same tactics.
You need something better. You need something new. You need something effective that people have yet to exploit.
And boy, are you in luck!
In this article, we’re going to discuss two powerful traffic generating strategies that you have never heard of before, and chances are, your competitors won’t have a clue about them either. These are tactics that are “hot off the press,” so to speak. They have just been discovered, and they are bound to give you unbridled traffic the likes of which you may not have experienced before.
The Secrets Of MySpace
There are reports circulating that www.myspace.com is generating 2 ½ times the amount of traffic that Google is acquiring. This is mistaken report that grew out of proportions. The real fact is that www.myspace.com is using 2 ½ times the bandwidth of Google, given the many exciting, but bandwidth-hungry, features of this website.
Nonetheless, there is no denying the fact that MySpace is one of the MOST visited websites today.
MySpace is a community/dating website that allows people to create their own profiles and connect the same to other people to build their own virtual network. It’s quite easy to build your network in this community. People claim that they are able to gain 1,500 contacts within two weeks.
Now, how could these statistics help you generate massive traffic for your own website?
Simple.
Create a MySpace profile and build your network. It doesn’t require much effort. There are already quite a number of services out there that could even do the job for you.
Include your main website’s link in your profile page. This would give you a back link on a page that has a very high Page Rank (PR), which is excellent to boost your website’s own PR. For the uninitiated, a high PR would mean a higher placement in search engine results, hence a greater volume of traffic for your website.
But this isn’t enough.
MySpace also has a community billboard feature. If you’d post there, your message would appear in the profiles of all your contacts. Simply include your link in your message. Imagine if you have 20,000 contacts. You could potentially garner 20,000 visitors with just one message. Additionally, you’d have 20,000 back links pointing to your main website! This is a wonderful opportunity to increase your link popularity!
This MySpace route is something that has yet to be exploited. In fact, most of the internet marketing superstars have yet to discover this approach.
Yes indeed.
You’ll be one of the first!
Connecting With CraigsList
The website www.craigslist.com is an online classified ads center dedicated to employment opportunities. However, it accepts all manners of advertisements.
For free, at that!
What does this mean?
Well, Craigslist is a PR7 website. Simply choose the category most appropriate for the subject of your website and place an advertisement that would invite readers to visit your web pages.
They don’t have to click on the link. They don’t have to visit your website.
Having your link in a PR7 website is enough to spike up your own website’s Page Rank! Again, this means a higher position in search engine results pages, and more organic traffic for your online business.
Amazing strategies, aren’t they?
And what’s best is that you’re one of the first people to know about them. So use them well and get the head start on your competition!
July 11th, 2006
To be able to achieve success in the World Wide Web, you need traffic. Traffic, as has been said many times, is the lifeblood of any website. Without traffic, you can never achieve any profit in cyberspace.
The best way to generate the traffic that you need is by placing highly in the search engine results. And to do this, your website needs to have a high page rank. One of the more vital determinative factors of increasing your website’s page rank is the number of relevant back links pointing to your URL.
Now here’s the catch. It’s not as easy as exchanging back links with another webmaster. What you need is to gain one way back links from different sources. This is what search engines want. And this is what you should aim for.
How can you convince other webmasters to include a link of yours in their web pages? Here are some tactics you can employ.
* The best way to get some unilateral links is to ask other webmasters. You don’t have to employ subterfuge, as some of these webmasters will be kind enough to assent to your request. There’s no need to bribe them with all varieties of kindness even. You’ll be surprised with the sheer number of webmaster who will actually agree to your request. The important thing is that you try this route.
* Often however, it’s a “what’s in it for me” business. Offering a link back to his website usually does the trick, but then again, we’re after one way links here, not reciprocal ones. One of the better ways to win his assent is to offer him something that he needs for his website. We’re talking about content, of course, as every webmaster needs content. Write an article for him, and exclusively for him, with a subject that is relevant to his website. Then ask if you can include your link within the article. 90% of the time, such a webmaster will agree. How can he say no to free content?
* Another offer you can use as lure for webmasters for that vital virtual real estate that can host your website’s URL is an incentive program. If your website is selling some products, for example, you can tell the webmaster that you’d give the visitors that will come from his website a substantial discount. Such visitors will develop a sense of loyalty for the webmaster, and your proposition will be something that he’ll find difficult to dismiss.
* By far the best way to encourage webmasters from all over the World Wide Web to include your link in their web pages is by establishing an affiliate program. Such an affiliate program will reward these webmasters a specified commission for every sale they will manage to refer. John Reese, in one of his amazing Traffic Secrets conventions, said that if you’re not using affiliate programs, there’s something seriously wrong with you. Indeed, affiliate programs are the most efficient and the most expedient way of building your back links.
* Viral marketing is the next most effective way of gaining some back links, and this time, you won’t even have to actively invite people to include your URL in their web pages. Viral marketing comes in many forms. Just take a look at www.blogthings.com which provides a slew of cool additions for blog users. Because of the very interesting nature of what it provides, the website garners thousands of visitors per day without even having to advertise themselves. It’s all word of mouth. MySpace grew the same way. It’s system is viral in nature, and it expanded by nature as well.
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July 9th, 2006
A lot of people tell me that one of the most frustrating things for them in terms of Internet Marketing is that they put a lot of work into it and yet are still struggling to get visitors to their sites. In previous posts I have talked about the use of Tag and Ping which as described in Tagging Secrets is probably one of the most effective methods I have come across for driving traffic to our sites.
Here I am going to ask you to think about the basics! If you want to increase traffic and customer purchases on your website, you need to really analyze the site. If you have an existing site, then look at that. If you have a plan for a site, look at your plan.
As you look at your site or your planned site you really need to be objective about it as you ask yourself these questions:
1.
Is my site attractive and ‘sticky’? Does it make people want to stay and look around?
If your site is a built from a standard template, it probably does nothing to attract your customers. It may have all the necessary components, but does it look professional?
If your prospective customer looks at this site, does she or he think the person selling the product or service is a dependable business, or does the site look like it may fold any day?
If you don’t think you can afford a professional designer, think again! Many local web designers freelance and the prices you get for design may be better than you might imagine.
If your needs are simple and you are a small business person, it won’t cost you that much to hire a professional if you don’t think you have the skills yourself.
2.
Does your website offer ‘value’ and true content?
With the advent of search engine optimization and keyword overload, some sites pull customers in by using many keywords that the customer may use in a search, thereby ranking them higher with search engines.
When the customer gets to their site, they may find content that is not useful to them. In fact, there is so much of this going on now that online customers are getting pretty disgusted.
Make your content USEFUL. We’ll talk more about how to do that later on in this book!
Think about your target audience and what they may be coming to your site to see, learn or buy. THEN DELIVER THAT! Don’t bother your customer with four pages of sales pitch in a large red font in bold and italics. It is annoying, and at the very least will put your customer in a bad mood. At the very worst, your prospective customer will leave and never come back.
We don’t want that do we! You want repeat visitors who will buy what you are offering - don’t you?
June 24th, 2006
The Free Report in the post below has received some very positive feedback and thank you for that.
I am still finding an absolute mass of information in the Tagging Secrets and I think used appropriately Tag and Ping and Social Bookmarking is going to be a long term strategy for building traffic. It will be interesting to see how the Search Engines develop their own thinking on this area and whether there is much more emphasis placed on Googles Bookmarking abilities and the like. There are some tremendous benefits to this “Search Engine of the People” approach without all the emphasis on complicated algorithims as well as some downsides of course.
Interesting to see how it develops over the coming months.
June 18th, 2006
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