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Image you are able to write high quality, unique, informative articles that would drive new visitors to your site every day in less than 30 minute per article.

As you know the article marketing is the most effective strategy for driving traffic to your website.  And it is the foundation of good traffic generation strategy.  And nothing can beat the benefits of unique content for your sites. Article submissions can boost your search engine rankings and traffic to your site from getting exposed from your articles.   Your backlinks with the 1000 of new and relevant backlinks pointing to your site week after week could boost your search engine ranking.  Those backlinks are from that article exposure with your URL signature because they have a potential of pulling 100 unique visitors a day.  Then the result would bring you a solid income month after month if you know how to turn traffic into income stream.   You can do all of that and save a lot of time with Article Speed Writing (ASW).

ASW is a tool that you can learn how to write and submit your article effectively and efficiently.

As you have a business online, time is the most valuable asset.  With the ASW, you save time and you could use the time you save to do other 50 things you rather do.  Even the writing is your second nature to you, it would help you write effectively after learning all techniques below:

What you will learn from this article speed writing are:

1. How to do super fast research and absorb enough information to write an article on any topic within a few minute

2. How to write article by following the Golden formula—sentence examples on how to write like a pro

3. How to stimulate ideas when you have a specific keywords, but you can’t think of how to start your article

4. How to write multiple articles on the same keyword

5. How to activate your “creative flow” instantly and write large numbers of articles quickly without overstressing your brain

6. How to rewrite private label right and other various articles in the blink of an eye

7. How to boost word count without fluffy sound articles

You don’t have to get hung over what you have to write with the keywords you have any more. 

You owe it yourself and why not do yourself a favor by buying your Article Speed Writing now. 

Whether you are an affiliate or Google Adsense publisher, you need to know about On-page optimization.  It is important because you need to have  your website page rank well on first page of Google. If you don’t, you won’t have a lot of free traffic.  When you don’t have a good traffic, you don’t make money with your site.  However, if you drive paid traffic to your site, no need to worry about on-page optimization, but it may not suitable for you if you’re a noobie.  Also if you have some money, you can outsource this task.  It largely depends on each person individually.

What is on-page optimization?

It is all about the factors that you can control on your site.  And they can affect your web page listing in natural search.  It is ranging from  the HTML code, meta tags, keyword, and keyword density, but some people would include Keyword Research and Analysis, implementation of 301 Permanent Redirect, submission of XML Sitemap, and other items as part of the optimization.  However, I am not going to get into more depth.  I am going to talk about the essential items that you need to know.  And you need  to continue learning SEO as you progress in your Internet business journey.

What can you do with the on-page?

1-You page  Title

    It is the most important keyword. The page title  preferably contain the keyword term/phrase as the first word(s) if you want to rank well.

2- Meta Description

Next, your page meta description should be brief and very concise description about content of your page and it should be a unique description.   The limit is 200 characters maximum.  It contributes to the search engine ranking and click-through rate (CTR). 

3- Meta keywords

    It is a short and precise list of the most important keywords of your page.  They are similar to  the tags in the blog format.  The meta keywords help your site rank well  in your specific keywords .

    Note:  When people talk about meta tags, they are usually referring to meta description and the meta keywords.

4-Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Length

    The short URL tends to perform better, however you may not find the exactly short url contained the long tail keyword phrase unless you add a suffix or prefix to it.

Keyword location

    The target keyword(s) should be closer to the domain as much as possible.

5-Body tags

    Heading,_h1,h2,h3 keyword density

    Your keyword should not be less than 3% percent throughout the content.  Otherwise, the search engines, such as Google,  consider you stuff keyword.  And they may penalize your site.
 

   H1 headline

    It is very important tag for on-page optimization.

    h2,h3-they are even less important than the H1 tag and carry very little to SEO value.

   image file name

    It can have a big influence on the traffic because it is the source of your blog visit.  It is highly recommended you to use keyword as the name of image on your post.

    Bold

    It appears to carry a little SEO value.  However, it is the best practice to bold keyword or keyword phrase at least once in your post.

    Italic/emphasized

    I recommend you use these italic/emphasized in your blog post because they are surprisingly carry a little more correlation to the ranking than bold keyword.

    WP plugin for on-page optimization

    all_in_one_seo_pack All-in-one SEO Pack

  Other plugins

To help you speed up the on-line optimization process, there is a plugin call SEO Pressor that provides you some sort of on-page optimization.  Here is a free one that is similar to a paid version.  It is clone version from Blogger High.  Check it out, you definitely find it very useful in term of doing on-page optimization.

You might know that the expert/guru interview would boost the traffic to your site if you have done it correctly (Read my post,

Traffic: Will the Expert Interview Increase Traffic to Your Blog or Site? for more information)

. A small part to that contributes to the effective interview is the equipment that you choose to use to conduct the live interview. If you are looking for something small and lightweight but can handle a mic for interview recording equipment. Here are my suggestions:

- MicroTrack which looks useful.

- Talk Shoe to record it online for free

TalkShoe Community Call Voice Chat Group Calling Teleconference Calling

- Online service with a mic plugged into a cell phone and a hand held digital voice recorder with and without a mic. Google “Olympus DM” and check out their line of digital voice recorders.

- Condenser microphone like the “Samson CO1U USB Condenser Microphone” at Amazon for around 90 bucks. Gets you a clear recording

- SONY ICD-PX720. Here what it does. It is Dragon Naturally Speaking compatible. It can create a TEXT file and with a simple push of a button, and you can get a pdf file, too. It also creates MP3s. Easy to upload and edit. Stereo Mic and Stereo headphone plugs. Hi-Lo sensitivity.

- Canon ZR 960 Digital Video Camera. Make sure to get a stereo microphone.

Of course, there are many more devices out there that are not listed here.

Comment and Suggestion

If you find any of them useful, please make a comment about the pros and cons here.

You may know that there are a lot of benefits of using RSS feed.   If you do not, please read the entire post and you may learn some tricks and gain some benefits from reading this post.  People are using it in different ways to serve their purpose such as boosting traffic to their sites.  Below, I am  going to describe what the real benefits of using RSS feed.

Link Juice: RSS feeds will give you some link juice. This can happen after you submit your RSS feeds to RSS feed directories.   People who subscribe to the directories would find your feed interesting and would come and check your site more often.  RSS feeds seems to be overlooked from many website owners as they are very beneficial for SEO (search engine optimization).

SEO: Search engine likes updated fresh content or new things. The RSS is the one which ping the update to search engine as well as it also helps user find the new updates on the web.

Reader convenience: it can expose your site more if you have a great  content that provides a lot of benefits to the public.  People would subscribe your RSS feed without going to your site.  They can read your content remotely.  So it is a must have a RSS feed subscription on your site so that people would be able to read your posts after they find your great content and want to learn more what you are going to write in the future.  I believe if they know your style of writing and the subject area that you have been writing.  RSS is a great way to keep your readers updated with all the latest happenings on your blog.  So have a RSS feed ready for them to subscribe is a way to expand your reader to another level.

Boost Traffic: It can boost traffic to your site  when one of your guests subscribes to your RSS feed.

I love to hear your comments and thoughts.  Please leave it below if you have any.

You and I love to have a lot of traffic to our site because you want to share the internet surfers or your readers what you know so that they would learn something useful from you.  Or you want to offer them your solution to their problem.  You  are the expert and authority in a certain subject.

As you all know that traffic means making or breaking business.  If there is no traffic, there is no business.  After having some traffic, we want to have some comment.  You want to engage in a conversation with our readers and want feed back how you are doing.  But how do you get traffic and comment on your blog?

Here are my few suggestions on how to get traffic.

Good design: You must have a unique and brandable website and have a great look and feel.  The great design can draw people’s attention because it has a first impression that your readers would find something cools you offer.  It is a one of a kind environment where they hope they find the solution to their problem.  Good design can also make people to observe around longer than a plain and simple site.

Valuable content: On top of the great design, your posts must have a unique and valuable content that the readers find them useful and informative.  Otherwise your loyal readers would not come back for more information.  On top of that, you would not find any unique visitors either.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): If your blog is new, you have to submit it to major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.  Moreover, your posts should have keyword rich content.  That way you do not have to spend a lot of effort to promote your site.

Watch the video below for more useful information

How do you get comment on your blog?

Content: Again it is imperative to have a good content in the first place in order to have your readers leave you comments.  They want to gain a benefit from your blog before they place their comment.  As you know, they want to have a backlink to their site after they learn a few tips from your blog content.

WP plugins: There are few plugins that can help you get more comments.  The most common ones that most bloggers use are “CommentLuv” and “Top Commentators widget”, “NoFollow Free”, and “CommentRelish”.

Placing comment on other blogs: It seems that commenting on other blog would bring traffic to your site, but remember to place useful comment or to provoke a meaningful discussion so that other readers would benefit from it.

Watch the video for more ideas from the experts.

Now you have some useful tips on how to get traffic and comment to your site.  I am sure there are a lot more out there.  If you have used other ways to get traffic and comment to your site, please leave your comment below.

As you know it takes time to build a list.  You may have to struggle for a while to find out how to do it if you do not have a guidance.  However it can take just a few months to build a decent number of subscribers where it is actually at the point of it being profitable. Here are my two suggestions to build your list fast and free, especially for all the newer marketers who doesn’t know this already.

1. Free gifts: Even though it says FREE gifts, but actually they are not free.  The visitors have to sign up (opt-in) to get free gifts.  It is a reciprocal where you get their name and email address and they get your gift.  You exchange your gift with their personal information.

Using Aweber would probably be your best bet. Just make a simple squeeze page with the Aweber opt in form.

Enter every giveaway event that you can from the start. A giveaway event is an event where thousands of internet marketers upload a free gift and hundreds or thousands of people sign up for this free event to download their good products as free gifts. This will cause a steady drop of sign ups that are highly targeted. You can even make some extra money with one time offers. You can really leverage this method if you can add 3 gifts and one time offers (OTO).

2. Ad Swap: Once you have a seed list of at least 300 subscribers you can start leveraging this by doing ad swaps–when you send an email to your list advertising another marketer’s site and in exchange he/she will do the same for you. This maybe the best way to generate loads of subscribers free and easily, for example warriors forum’s JV section is a great place to look for ad swaps.  You can do an ads swap 2 times per week. As your list grows, you can do ad swaps with people with bigger lists in your niche. You can see how your list will grow exponentially this way.

However, most people starting think they cannot get marketers to push your stuff to their list unless you can do the same for them. And since you don’t have a big list yet, you are shut out. But there are all sorts of other things you can do for the other marketer. For example, offer to create some content for them, especially if they have a membership site.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below!

This is another avenue to expose your site or blog to a segment of marketing place.  It is also  a great way to expand your readership to the next level if you are a blogger.  It is a way to show them what you got in front of their faces in order to get their attention.  You have to let the world know.  It is marketing.

For advertising your own product,  it is a great way to let people in your industry know what your site or blog has to offer as their benefits.  It is either product or service to the community.  Those are the solutions that they are looking for.  You have to be a problem solver to serve that market segment. Advertising is the way to let the consumers know what you got to offer.

There are paid and free advertisement.  Here I just concentrate on the free one because this is probably what you want to know if you just started a blog or have a new site.  I would not include the newspaper ads, but they are mostly free classified ads through the internet sites and forums.

Writing a classified ad is really easy once you get a grasp of it.  After you have a profitable copy, you only need to spend a few minutes each day reposting it to the classified ads sites.

How to write a great classified ads

Have a compelling headline: This is the first thing that your targeted visitors will see.  Spend a great deal of time writing a quality headline which contains benefit-drive words such as “secrets”, “discount”, “limited time only”.  These keywords are proven to get a high click through rates.

Provide quality photographs and pictures: You are allowed to add pictures to your ads if you post your ad with USFree Ad.  Good pictures carry a lot of weight and make your ad more appealing and attractive. Picture is worth a thousand words!

Use bullet points:  Internet surfers tend to scan through content on website.  So bullet points help the reader to read your ads easily.  Do not use long paragraph in your ads because people won’t bother to read it and will click away.

Use a “Call-to-action” word:  This tells a visitor to take an action that you want him or her to do, such as to click your website, to buy your product, or to sign up for your newsletter.

Here are sites where you can get started:

http://www.craigslist.org/

http://www.usfreeads.com

http://classifieds.myspace.com/

http://classifieds.yahoo.com/

http://www.oodle.com

http://www.adpost.com

Free Advertising Forum

Forum Ads Free – http://forumadsfree.com – (Free ad forum)
Power Hour Ads & Classifieds – http://forumadsfree.x10hosting.com – (Free ad forum)
Free Ads Board – http://freeadsboard.com – (Free advertising forum)
Free Advertising Forum – http://freeadvertisingforum.com – (High traffic free advertising forum.)
The Free Ad Forum – http://thefreeadforum.com – (High traffic free advertising forum.)
New Biz Shop – http://newbizshop.com/advertising-forumsdirectories/ – (Business and advertising informational site.)
Tweety Got Back – http://tweetygotback.com – (Grow your business with a Twitter account and layout!)
Free Advertising Forum – http://thefreeadvertisingsite.com – (Free advertising forum.)
Forum Mansion – http://forumansion.com – (Promote your forum, website, blog, and even your Twitter account for free!)
Post Your Ad For Free – http://postyouradforfree.com – (High traffic free advertising forum.)

Note: Please pick the site that is related to your product, your niche, and your site (I am not an affiliate to any of those sites).

The ads at a forums that is related to your site is worth the time to explore and would generate extra traffic to your site if your are creative and think out side of the box.  You have to show them what you got for their benefits, especially solutions to their problem.  You have to be thinking what the readers or consumers want.  And you serve them before you get a compensation.

Test it out and see yourself.  You may like it.  If not, move on to another technique that is available within your reach.

What Do You Think?

I am glad you dropped by my blog post.  I hope you learned a new tip on how to advertise your blog or site. And I love your thoughts about this post.  So please leave your comment below if you have any.

Any where you go in this planet. You will find the competition.  It could be a tough one or easy one depending on how you look at it.  The competition could be good or bad for you depending on the niche you are getting into.  There is always upsides and downsides no matter what it is you are looking at. Check my analysis below for more details.

Good Competition: If there is a big market and big demand in your niche, the competition is good for you.  You expect to get a small piece of the pie, but not whole big chunk of it.  I said it because if you are a late comer into the niche, you have to work hard to build relationships with your visitors that later on you turn them into your customers.  With a good product, good marketing strategy, good sales page, good testimonials, you can stand a chance to make some money.  Only the time will tell because you need to boost traffic to your blog. You may have to buy traffic or free traffic.

It could be good if you are a small fish in a big pond along with other big fishes.  Make sure the demand is high enough for you and other fishes.  You have to do keyword research to make sure there are plenty of search monthly.  Let say 100K per month.  Or just say hot niche.

Bad competition: If you do not study the market or did not do your homework properly, this competition may throw you off the curve.  You won’t make any money at all.  You must know which keyword you rank on Google page rank.  If you rank on page one and position number 10, and there are 9 sites on top of you.  They have been in this market long then you. Their site age is more than 9 years.  On top of that , they have page rankings 3 or better.  I believe this is not the niche for you to get into.

Now you are a small fish in a small pond along with other bigger fishes.  Your chance of making money is very slim to none even though there is a hot demand in that market unless you throw a lot of money for blog promotion and advertisement.

So it is better to spy your competition before getting into a niche.  There are plenty of tools, such as Market samurai, you can use to do research before jumping in with both feet.  Do not waste time and energy if you think it is too tough for you to compete.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  So please leave your comment below!

Of course you have no control over who links to you, but when you do have an influence in how you are linked, you might want to have links from highly ranked sites than yours.  Here are some ideas on how to attract quality links:

Offer valuable content: As you know good content is the king and NO good content, no traffic and NO traffic; then there is no monetization on your blog.  So the best way to get links to your blog is to write good quality content that people will want to read.  You can sign up for different link-building programs or buy text links on other sites, but the cheapest approach to build inbound links in a natural organic way is to have other linked to you through your quality content.

Notify relevant bloggers of your content: You can do this in the event you write a quality post on a topic that you know it will interest to another blogger.  Then it might be worth shooting them a short polite email letting them know of your post.

Use directories: This is an old way to get inbound links.  You submit your links to blog directories.  The benefits are small at best though.

Inter-link your blogs: The impact may be small, but it is worth trying.  Because the search engine may work out what your are doing when you have your sites on one server.

Buy links: If you have money to spend like some professional webmasters.  You can purchase links from other highly ranked and relevant sites.  It is an expensive approach.

Swap links: It is an old technique where you link to me and I will link to you.  This exchange links have a poor reputation and bad practice.  You have to keep an eye on the other party and make sure they link back to you as they promised.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below.

All internet marketers want targeted traffic to their sites in order to sell their product.  They want visitors to see the products that solve the readers’ problems.  If you are a blogger this scenario still applies to you too.  You want a lot of visitors become your audience.  In order to do that you have to blog what they are looking for.  This can be done after you have a valuable and unique content and promote it to the maximum level.   There are four(4) ways to get targeted traffic.

1- Type-in domain name: If you have a domain name that matches the type-in keyword that the visitors are looking for, then you have a gold mine.  The traffic to your site would come without too much effort.  When they search for the keyword, they would land on your site.  The problem is there are too many sites that are competing for visitors.  You have to fight to get your site shown on the first page of Google.  Search engine optimization is the key to do that.

2- Article submission to directory: You would have a targeted traffic when you submit your articles that contain your keywords that you want to target in your niche.  Most site directories allow you to have back links in your bio or your resource box.  It can improve search engine rankings, too.

3- Forum posting: Forum participation can provides a back link to your blog or site.  In order to do that, you must have your signature set up.  It improves your web presence without spending too much money.

4-Trading links: You can trade your link with other blogs that are in the same niche, but are not competing for your visitors.  As long as they are complementing each other, it is going to be fine.

There you have all of four ways to get targeted traffic to your site or blog.  Some techniques are taking a little of your time to achieve a maximum result.  Every action has reaction.

What do you think?

I love to hear your thoughts.  Please leave your comment below!