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Affordable Search Engine Ranking

By on August 14, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Attaining an Affordable Search Enging Ranking

Getting an affordable search engine ranking is not especially hard to do but it does require some time. Getting a good ranking has a lot to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which basically means how well the search engines like your site. If you can meet their standards, you will be ranked. And the more they like you, the more highly you will be ranked. But it isn’t just about how well the search engines like you that counts. What they seek to determine your ranking is how well others like you. How do they measure how much others like you? They look at how many links you have coming in to your site. So, if you can increase these links, you will increase your search engine ranking.

There are paid methods that you can use to increase incoming links (or backlinks as they are often referred to) to your website. But it’s very easy to skip those and just go for the affordable search engine ranking. Some easy ways to raise your rank is to obtain bookmarks from the social bookmarking sites. This is completely free of charge. Just go to the SocialMarker site and sign up for the various bookmarking sites. And then submit your site. It’s very important that you do not just go through each bookmarking site all at once. Do a couple a day or every two days. And you may even want to bookmark some other things along with just your site. Mass bookmarking could actually get you penalized with the search engines.

One of the other most effective ways to get good search engine ranking by establishing links to your website is article marketing. And this is absolutely free. Do some keyword research with the Google Adwords Keyword Research tool (also free) to find out the searched for keywords that are relevant to your website. Then, write one article that centers around each keyword. Put the keyword in the title of the article and in the beginning of each paragraph, if possible, as well as in the last sentence of the article. Try to write an article that it at least 400 words long. Your keywords should appear no more than 3% of the time within the article. Submit your articles to the main article directories, such as EzineArticles and GoArticles, within the appropriate categories. And make sure you include a link back to your website. Also keep in mind that you are not allowed to submit the same article more than once. So, you will have to vary your words a bit so that the search engines consider the articles to be different. Some say that rewriting the article so that it is at least 30% different than the original is ok. Others say it must be more than that. You can do this rewriting (otherwise known as “spinning”) yourself or take advantage of some of the software programs that do it for you. Some of these software programs are actually free, so you can still stay within the affordable search engine ranking range.

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Clickbank Affiliate Marketing

By on August 9, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Clickbank Affiliate Marketing Basics

Clickbank is an extremely popular and profitable affiliate network on the worldwide web and many clickbank affiliate marketing individuals make a lot of money with it. This article will give you the basics on how to go about using this powerful website.

Signing up with Clickbank is fast and easy and there are several tutorials, tips and training that show you exactly how to get started.

Next you’ll want to look for your first product or service–keep in mind that Clickbank is generally geared for digital products. Try to pick something that you are interested in, or that is in a niche that already involved in. It’s easier to stay focused on what you are doing if the topic actually interests and even inspires you. If you already have an established site on a certain topic, it’s very easy to incorporate some clickbank products to sell there. The more specifically targeted the product to your site, the better. Look for products and services that have good gravity and popularity stats. If you find something that you really like but the stats don’t add up, then it’s really not worth the effort you’ll have to spend on it.

You can decide to promote your product directly with the salespage given to you by the merchant, or you can do it by setting up a blog or website and positioning the product there. Most experienced marketers will agree that you can do the direct ad to merchant website as a newcomer to affiliate marketing, and it is a way to learn the ropes, so to speak. But it is worth your time to eventually set up your own blog or website. WordPress is very popular and professional looking, and it’s quite good in terms of SEO (search engine optimization) as well.

Just some general pros and cons of Clickbank affiliate marketing:

One big pro, especially if you are a newcomer to affiliate marketing, is that Clickbank is extremely easy. The second big pro is that the commissions are on the high end when compared to other affiliate networks.

One con is that many of the products offered on Clickbank are not of the best quality, although they can be expensive. There are really a great deal of rags-to-riches types of products and e-books. You can also find many good products but you do need to do a bit of digging, depending on the niche you are working in.

Another con is that the Clickbank stats are really nothing special, especially if you compare them to sites such as Adsense and Amazon, just to name a few. Also, you can only create text links automatically with Clickbank. Other types of links are not available.

Clickbank affiliate marketing is a good place to get started in affiliate marketing and many experienced marketers are successful with them as well.

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Compare Affiliate Marketing

By on August 4, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

How to Compare Affiliate Marketing with Other Jobs Many newcomers to online marketing like to compare affiliate marketing with other strategies for making money. The draw of affiliate marketing is strong, especially if you are new and have no product or service of your own to sell. You can just go to one of the many affiliate networks (like Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon, or any of the CPA networks, just to name a few), sign up for the product you want to promote, and get started. There is no investment necessary, and your salespage is already prepared for you. Also, many merchants offer support for their affiliates. Another big advantage of affiliate marketing is that you don’t need to keep inventory. And if you use Clickbank as your affiliate network, there really is no inventory to store anyway because its products are mainly digital. This is also something to keep in mind for if and when you do want to create your own digital product. Perhaps one of the biggest appeals of affiliate marketing is that the sky is the limit in terms of how much you can earn. The more you sell, the more you earn, and no one or nothing can cap your earnings, unless, of course, you do something that is unethical or illegal. You are your own boss when you become a full-time affiliate marketer. You have no one to answer to but yourself. And you can team up with other like-minded individuals in order to pump up your sales and knowledge. When you compare affiliate marketing to a nine-to-five job, the biggest feature that sticks out is that you can work from anywhere, anytime. All you need is a high speed internet connection. So these are some of the reasons that so many people want to at least try affiliate marketing. However, if you have dreams of making millions, or even thousands, or even hundreds of dollars overnight, then you need a reality check right now. Being successful at affiliate marketing requires quite a bit of learning. While there is no investment needed to start promoting affiliate products, you will need to invest in some sort of training and tools to help you in your endeavor. Also, while you will find lots of ads that promote affiliate marketing as a job that you only need to do a couple of hours a day, or even a couple of hours a week, this is not how it works in the beginning. While you can definitely start your affiliate marketing career training on a part-time basis, you will need to put in just as much, if not more, time and effort "on the job" as you would in a traditional company. When you compare affiliate marketing with other jobs, you will also see that the field is very competitive. If you put in the training, time and effort to succeed in this business, you will have a very lucrative future.

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Great WordPress Plugins- Identifying Another One Of Them

By on August 3, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Great WordPress Plugins: Identifying Another One Of Them Another of the great WordPress plugins that deserves special mention is ""Simple 301 Redirects"". One thing about essential WordPress plugins is that if you do not know about them or do not know how to use them, you do not realize how great a functionality you are leaving out of your content management system. ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is a good example of this. I recollect that I have been in and out of internet marketing three times over the years before this my final stay. Each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, had I known about this great WordPress plugin, no doubt my search engine rankings would be higher today. I simply would have deployed it to transfer my old blog posts to the new amended/updated pages and thereby seamlessly preserved the old pages rankings. But alas, each time I resurfaced on the internet marketing scene, I simply discarded the old blog posts and posted new/updated pages of these old blog posts on my new blog without linking the two. That is one of the many setbacks great WordPress plugins like ""Simple 301 Redirects"" set out to correct. It provides an easy method of redirecting requests to another page on your site or elsewhere on the web. It’s especially handy when you migrate a site to WordPress and can’t preserve your URL structure. By setting up 301 redirects from your old pages to your new pages, any incoming links will be seemlessly passed along, and their pagerank (or what-have-you) will be passed along. Note that ""age"" and ""number and nature of backlinks"" are critical factors in search engine rankings. Any action you therefore take to preserve these for your blog posts will definitely positively impact your search engine rankings. I’ll give you a perfect example here. I wrote a blog post in December 2009. At that time, I still was not as thoroughly grounded as I am now in search engine optimization (SEO) and so was not optimizing effectively for my intended keywords. I recently changed the title and made some minor adjustments to the body of the blog post and were it to be before, I would simply have left it at that. Does it strike a chord in you that anytime you do such and leave it at that you are simply beginning your SEO for that post all over again? All the backlinks to the previous post will be gone forever. So also the age, as the new blog post will now be indexed afresh while the old blog post on subsequent visits by the Google bot will read ""not found"", again compounding your crawl errors in your Google webmaster tools. Note that all these ultimately negatively impact your page rank. So what did I do? I simply inserted my old url in the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" interface and pointed it to my new url which I also inserted in the interface and saved. Just as simple as that and wow! a whole lot has happened with those simple steps. The backlinks and age of my old blog post will be seamlessly passed over to my new blog post and the page rank of my web page preserved. Let me explain another purpose to which you can deploy this plugin that I have identified as one of the great WordPress plugins. If you go into your webmaster tools account, you will see indicated, crawl errors that resulted while the search engines were trying to crawl your web pages. You can rectify some of these errors and thereby have a more ""efficient"" website which will impact positively on your search engine rankings by utilizing this plugin to redirect some incorrectly specified links to their originally intended destination. Those links that you have control over and can still amend such as your backlinks in forums, you can make amends to. But what of incorrectly specified links that you no longer have access to? For example, links on your articles republished on other sites. This is again better explained with an illustration. I erroneously inserted a link in one of my articles which was republished on another site and noticed the error from ""crawl errors"" in my Google webmaster tools account. The link led nowhere i.e. 404 page and I subsequently redirected it to its originally intended destination, thereby preserving that backlink. This becomes very important when you realize that you can have many of such errors over time.The ""Simple 301 Redirects"" plugin’s many uses can only be limited by your imagination. In summary, the ""Simple 301 Redirects"" is one more of the great WordPress plugins.

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How To Advance Your Business Home Internet Marketing Promotion

By on July 30, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

Internet marketing is one of the newest tools that businesses are using to get ahead. Internet marketing helps you to reach as many different people as possible, allowing your company to advance, improve, and grow.

This type of marketing is marketing that you can easily handle from the comfort of your own home. Business home Internet marketing promotion is something that every website owner and business owner can handle.

There are plenty of issues to consider when thinking about home Internet marketing. This information will help you to understand how Internet marketing can advance your business, and will teach you how to approach Internet marketing for your company.

Getting the Most out of Internet Marketing

It is important for you to get the most out of your Internet marketing endeavors. This means that you need to take the time to research what you can do with Internet marketing; this research will help you to understand what Internet marketing can do for your company.

This also means that you need to consider a full marketing campaign. Many find that they get the most out of Internet marketing when they have an entire cohesive campaign that covers multiple Internet marketing mediums.

Finding a Professional

For many, the only way to get the most out of Internet marketing is through a professional. Professionals will help you to create the Internet marketing campaign that is going to be successful. They will help you to narrow down your target market, and will help you to communicate directly to that target market. They will also help you to develop the visual aspects of your marketing campaign and the copy (words) aspect of your campaign.

Opening Up your Possibilities

If you want to advance your business you need to consider possibilities that you may not have considered on your own. You need to open up to the possibilities of Internet marketing, including different mediums that you may not have considered. Internet advertisements, search engine optimization, and emails are just a few of the different Internet marketing tactics that your company can benefit from.

Enjoying the Low Cost

Luckily, Internet marketing has a low cost when compared to other forms of marketing and advertising. This low cost allows your company to get maximum exposure and efficiency for a reasonable price.

It is important for you to open up your mind to the vast world of Internet marketing. Your company may easily benefit from multiple Internet marketing techniques and venues. Take the time to understand how you can benefit from these different techniques, and how you can implement these various techniques.

Whether you attempt to handle business home Internet marketing promotion on your own or hire a professional, you should consider Internet marketing. It will give your business the chance to succeed and grow.

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Improved Search Engine Rankings

By on July 25, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

How to Get Improved Search Engine Rankings

Improved search engine rankings can be obtained in hundreds of different ways. Most of them involve “SEOing” your site more efficiently. SEO (search engine optimization) is basecally a way to get the search engines to like you, and therefore favor you in their rankings. One aspect of SEO involves making sure your site is keyword optimized. Are you using the keywords that people are searching for when they go online? And are these keywords relevant to your site? Are you using the keywords in the best places, and the appropriate amount of time? But the most important part of SEO is establishing backlinks. Backlinks are links that come from another site to your site. And the reason that they are important is because they are what the search engines use to determine how worthwhile your site it. If you have a lot of good quality backlinks into your site, then the search engines count this as a vote in your favor, and they will reward you with improved search engine rankings. It’s also important to note here that, although it is true that the more backlinks you have to your site the better, these links should also be high-quality. This means that the keywords being linked from are relevant to your site, and it also means that the quality of the site that the backlinks originate from should be high. So, your goal is to get links from higher ranked sites than yours if possible.

Before starting on your backlink-building journey, you need to put your site in the right condition. Make sure that the information that you offer is valuable and presented in an appealing way. You can bring in lot of visitors to your site, but if you have nothing to offer them, then you are wasting your time and theirs. So, make sure you provide content that is valuable to whatever market you are targeting.

One of the many ways to get more backlinks to your site is to comment in forums and blogs that are relevant to your market. Don’t just randomly pick these out. Search for the blogs and forums that have a high Google ranking. You can use free tools to do this such as the SEO rank checker or others to see what rank each site has. Then post comments or respond to other comments and your link will either be included in your signature or in the text of your comment (each blog/forum has different rules on this). You should also make sure that the links are do-follow links (and you can also check to see if they are do-follow with certain free tools). Do-follow links simply mean that the link will then go to your website. If they are not do-follow, you will not get many real benefits from using them. This is one relatively quick and easy way to establish credibility and obtain improved search engine rankings.

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Internet Marketing Center – 5 Things to Look For

By on July 20, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

There are plenty of different Internet marketing businesses that claim to help you with your Internet marketing needs. While some of these different companies will teach you how to do your own marketing, others are paid to do your marketing for you.

You need to be able to look at each Internet marketing center and dissect their business to understand how they can help your own business. You need to understand who they are, what they do, and what they can bring to your business.

There are multiple facets of each company to take into consideration. With that being said, there are five different things to look for when trying to find an Internet marketing company that can teach you how to market your own company online.

Experience and Education

The first thing that you are going to want to identify is the experience and education of the company that you are researching. Look around their website to understand how long they have been in business, how many companies they have worked with, and what kind of training they have. This will help you to understand the level of quality that you can expect from the company.

List of Services

It is also important for you to look into the overall list of services provided by the different marketing companies. You want to know the different types of Internet marketing that they handle. This will help you to understand whether or not they can meet all of your online marketing needs.

Impressive Portfolio Work

Most companies will provide you with a portfolio, showing you their various Internet marketing pieces and work. Take a look at this portfolio work; it will help you to understand the style of the company and whether or not that style works with your needs.

Excellent Customer Service

You need to know that the company that you work with will be able to handle any problems or issues that you may have. Excellent customer service is key for this need.

Low Cost

Finally, you are going to want to look for a relatively low cost when working with an Internet marketing company. While you should never sacrifice quality for cost, you will want to find the most cost effective and cost efficient company available.

If you look into these five different facets you will be able to easily identify the best Internet marketing center for our company. You can be sure that this company will provide you with the information and education that you need because of their experience, education, portfolio, and list of services.

You will also be sure that the company is easy to work with, as they will provide reasonable costs and a high level of customer service. When you bring all of these things together, you will have found an Internet marketing company that will meet your needs and expectations.

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Keyword Search Engine Ranking

By on July 15, 2012 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Internet Marketing

How to Get High Keyword Search Engine Ranking

How do you get a top keyword search engine ranking? There are different things that go into this but one of the main contributors to your success on this front is getting many incoming links to your website for the keywords that you are targeting. If you are just starting out with a new website, you need to do some research before you begin so that you can understand how you should construct your website. The first thing that you need to research are the keywords themselves. You can do this for free at the Google Adwords Keyword Resarch tool. Simply type in the main concept of your business and website and see what comes up. This free tool will show you the exact words that people are typing in when searching whatever product or service you are offering. You want to choose one of these keywords to use in the name of your site. And more research should be done on the validity of that keyword. You can use other free tools like WordTracker and the MSN commercial intent tool to get more information about just how much traffic is being generated for the keywords that you are analyzing and if the keyword offers commercial potential or not. Once you’ve identified a good keyword for your site, one that is both relevant, and offers enough traffic, register the name of your site with GoDaddy, NameCheap, or any of the other domain selling sites. If you have chosen a very general keyword, you will need to add a word or two in order to get the domain name. For example, if your site is about Bird Cages, the domain BirdCages.com will most likely not be available, so you will need to pick a name like BuyBirdCages.com, or BestBirdCages.com, etc.

Once you’ve got your keywords and name figured out, start developing the content of your site with those the keywords that you have researched and that people are searching for. Once you have some content up, you can then submit your site to the search engine directories to start you off with some backlinks which will raise your keyword search engine ranking. To submit your site, just include the name, a short description (using your main keyword) and the url, and place it within the right category of the search engine. You can submit your site to the major search engines, the minor search engines, and niche-related search engines that pertain to your site.

Next, you can post comments, which include a link back to your site, on blogs and forums in your industry. Also start bookmarking your site at some of the various bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. It also helps to write articles that include your keywords and link them back to your site, and to post them on sites like Hubpages.com, Squidoo.com, and EzineArticles.com.

These are just some of the ways that you can start getting a high keyword search engine ranking.

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