Thursday, April 23, 2009

A Confidential Traffic Secret

By Hass67

Internet marketing success depends on learning how to generate a lot of traffic to your website. Without massive traffic, you wont make any money. You need a lot of visitors to your site to make a few sales.

Learning traffic generation secrets is in essence what internet marketing is. Sales copy comes after that. There are various ways to generate traffic to your site.

One way is to do PPC. You pay for getting targeted traffic from the search engines. But over the years, PPC has become very expensive. One simple click can cost you $1 or more. There are big players with deep pockets involved in it. You cant compete against them in PPC.

If you pay for traffic and in the end does not recover even your cost of advertising, you are headed towards failure. You need a system that can generate targeted traffic for your site for free. Only search engines can provide that much traffic to your site.

You will think of learning search engine optimization (SEO). So again you will be competing with big players with lots of experience and deep pockets.

There is an entry barrier for newbies in internet marketing. Nobody will tell you this fact that it is almost impossible to get your new site ranked high in the search engines especially on Google. Google takes the age of a site into account before giving it importance.

Google does not like a few page sites. Google like authority sites! Your website should have many many optimized pages and thousands and thousands of backlinks before Google will position it on its search pages.

You are again stuck! You cant compete with big players who have years of experience doing SEO! Can you beat them? You bet. You can. How about using these same authority sites to generate traffic for your site?

I give you an example to make my point clear, EzineArticles is considered to be an authority site by Google. You can submit articles on it. These articles can get targeted traffic to your site as well as quality backlinks that counts with Google.

You can use many article directories, forums, blogs, and social bookmarking sites to get traffic for your site and quality backlinks.

Learning how to get free traffic is not an easy thing. Lot of work is involved. But if you can learn it, you are on your way to making a lot of money. - 16890

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How to Find Good Ideas

By Don L

Nowadays competition is getting more and more intense. In such a situation, you need a way to differentiate yourself. You need a way to put yourself ahead of the pack.

The ability to find good ideas can give you the competitive advantage you need. It helps you become an innovator in whatever you do. It increases your value in front of other people.

The problem is how to find them. Here I'd like to share with you four tips to do that:

1. Make the problem clearly defined

The first thing you need to do is defining the problem clearly. Otherwise, you may spend a lot of time without getting what you want.

So make a clear definition of the problem. What do you want to achieve at the end?

2. Collect a lot of ideas

A good way to increase the quality is increasing the quantity. The more ideas you have to choose from, the more likely you will get high-quality ones. Ask everyone involved to participate and contribute actively.

That is achievable only if you make everyone feels safe to contribute. You should build that atmosphere in your team.

If you have that atmosphere in your team, everyone will gladly contribute their ideas. They know their teammates appreciates whatever contribution they make.

3. Filter out irrelevant ideas

Next, you should filter the ideas so you are left only with the relevant ones. Assess each of them based on its ability to solve your problem.

The better it can solve the problem, the higher its value is. Filter out those that you don't think can solve the problem effectively and efficiently.

After doing this process, you should come up with some that can solve the problem you have.

4. Find the best ideas

Now that only a few ideas are left, you can evaluate them the second time to find the best ones. The best ones are those that can solve your problem in the most effective and efficient way. - 16890

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