Top 3 Tips To Generate Traffic Online

August 11 2010 by Steve in web design |5 Comments

Make Your Blog A Money Making Machine?

Why is it that many businesses do not generate traffic online and the online business fails within 12 months? I have always said to keep your website updated at all times. But, are there other reason behind this. Is it because of very bad web design, very cheap hosting, or poor online marketing? Many new webmasters set themselves up to fail from the very beginning and don’t even knowing it. If you’re new to web design and online marketing that’s okay. There are some basic things you can do. There are several tips I can give you to help you on your way to being successful. Given the opportunity you should consider all that I say to help you become more successful. Use all these web design tips and use them to your advantage. If you don’t have a website, my recommendation is to get a professional website designer to help you design your first website.

Tip 1: Streamline Your Website!

When starting a new web site you should focus on streamlining new products and services after you develop quality content. Develop your quality content first and then worry about where to place your products and services last. In addition, before you start creating a ton of web-pages, you should map out the first 100  to 200 web pages of your website. Structure your website in a way that it makes sense to visitors, bots, spiders, and search engines. Furthermore, when mapping your website out on paper; consider using broad keywords in your website navigation area and use specific keywords in the sub-navigation website pages.

Tip 2: Design Your Website Around Your Content!

For some odd and old reason, even the very best online web design professionals don’t get this concept right. Designing your web site around the content is the only way to design the best website concept in the first place. Do not do this the other way around. Remember, content is what drives online traffic to your website. Publishing qualitycontent may take some effort and time, but it will pay off in the end. Quality content will always last if it is relevant to your online market. I have always used one rule, publish one good quality article a day and share it on your social networks. Tell people about your quality content; send emails to get the word out. In no-time at all you should have links pointing at you. Twitter is another great way to update people on what you are doing in your world. Twitter is also a great marketing tool to help promote your web site’s quality content.

Tip 3: Generate Traffic From Different Sources!

So, how do you generate traffic to your online website? Using additional 25 – 50 web sources can improve your website traffic 1500% or more depending on what your marketing strategy is setup for. For example, I like to use social online networks, blogs, press releases, article marketing, and word of mouth will help promote our website fast and easy. Shouldn’t you be doing the same? I also use Google AdWords, Yahoo, Bing and MSN for paid web advertising. Moreover, you may also use offline advertising as well. Placing a local ad in your towns newspaper can also spark some interest for your company’s products and web services.

Its Chess Not Checkers!

If you remember nothing else; remember this important point, “web design is not a means to an end.” Meaning, you can design your home web page a million times and still get the same bad results. Why do I say this? The answer is simple; if you are not publishing new content to your website, then who cares about your home page that has change a thousand times within that last year! Not to mention you the wasted time in designing. Don’t design and re-design your website every week. Focus on your key message and create new and exciting web page full of good old quality content and you should do great! Remember, it’s a business and not a hobby! Don’t give up! Keep pushing forward!

How to Make Money Blogging Online

August 10 2010 by Steve in web design |5 Comments

Why Make Your Blog A Money Making Machine?

Making money on the Internet using eBay, Amazon, Clickbank, and Google is not something that is new to blogging. There are many money making scams online that you should watch out for. However, you too can make money online without buying the next new eBook or magic money making software. A lot of these so called information sources or get rich quick scams don’t work. Well, I shouldn’t say that because they’re designed for one purpose and that is to get your money. If you want to make money online, you are going to have to do some ground work first. If you start off fast and write good content you can be “In the money!” Meaning, you will be able to drop your day job and start making money from home.

Start Blogging & Don’t Stop!

Before we start making money online, we have to give people a reason to come to our website. Meaning, you will have to work night and day to publish to content to your blog. For example, I write about one or two blog posts per day that are over 500 words in length. I will also publish a video with my content for people to get more understanding of the topic. When you blog with others you are an active member of a community and it is important to publish high quality content for others to read. Once you have developed your “voice” and followers, you can then add some stuff to make money on your blog. For now just take a small step and publish one good quality article or post to your blog once a day. Do this consistently and within a few weeks you should have a few regular bloggers visiting your website.

Your Next Task To Riches!

Before you earn any money online, you will have to consider “how to make money online.” This can be any easy task. For example, you may choose to use Google AdWords and place ads on your blog. You may also consider becoming a member of Clickbank and linking to product sales pages. Meaning, you choose what products and services you want to promote and then you place a link on your blog and get credit for sales made through that link. Amazon is another avenue, you may choose what books or software to sell and then you place HTML code on your blog or website and get commission when someone buys through your site.

What The Pros Don’t Want You To Know!

It’s a competitive business. The pros just want you to buy their eBooks and software! Here’s my reasoning, the pros know that even if they sell you an ebook that tells you exactly how to make money online, they know it will be bust! Why? Only 98.5 percent of blogs fail and that’s a fact! So, why do blogs fail? Remember what I said? Start blogging and don’t stop! That is what happens to many bloggers. Many bloggers become burned out because they write day and night. That’s why I said only do one or two blog posts a day. Lastly, remember this, write good content and everything else will fall into place.

Promote Your Website Using Feedburner

August 7 2010 by Steve in web design |9 Comments

Why Use Feedburner?

Creating a buzz boost for your website can mean the difference between 20 visitors a day and 500 visitors per day. When promoting your online website you should consider every possible way to promote, market, and increase visitors to your online storefront. Feedburner offers you the ability to increase subscribers to your online blog. In addition, this will help increase your blogs reach to other online platforms and webmasters. Visit www.feedburner.com for more information.

How to Optimize Feedburner

SmartFeed™ – Offers you the ability to reach as many people as you can and consolidate all your links into one feed. When optimizing your feed you should really consider using SmartFeed™.

SmartCast™- Can make podcasting easy! This feature helps support links to videos, images, and other digital stuff. SmartCast™ helps bring richer media to sites like yahoo.com and converts your media into RSS.

Subscription options also help optimize your feed using subscription buttons to simplify the process for your subscribers. You may also choose to add Flickr photos to your feed account as well. You can find this under the optimize section on Feedburner.com after you setup your feed. Lastly, as an active user of Feedburner you may setup Link Splicer and collect information from one of your other accounts. Feedburner offers many options for optimizing your feed!

How to Publicize Feedburner

Publicizing your website takes time. However, by adding a headline animator you can encourage visitors to check-out your blog. The best advice I can give you is to update your content on a daily basis. Writing good content can help visitors understand the content and learn a few tips and tricks. Who knows, you could even sell a few products or services when you have 20 or more visitors per day. I will talk about how to monetize your website in a minute. You may also consider sharing your new feed with directories and listing agents. To do this you will need an API key. In your blogger account you can choose to have others see access to your traffic data.

How to Monetize Feedburner

How many times have I mentioned Google? Google AdSense is another way you can monetize your blog. Putting ads on your website can be very beneficial at $1 per click. However, it is not the only way to monetize. Clickbank.com offers you the ability to add products, services, and memberships to your website by adding a link this is identified to your account so you make money from the products and services you sell on your blog. Before you do this, it is a good idea to buy the products and services first. This will help you format a good testimonial about what you are selling. Lastly, you can also add Amazon, eBay, and other products and services from other websites as well. 

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