How You Get Traffic from Your Articles

 

How You Get Traffic from Your Articles

 

By: Matt Bacak

First, you should submit your articles to all the popular article directories. When webmasters and ezine publishers look for free content to reprint on their websites and in their newsletters, they turn to article directories.

In exchange for the free content, they agree to leave the article intact and include your resource box. This is where you get your traffic. Every time someone reprints one of your articles, your resource box is included with your name and a link to your site or an affiliate site.

You should start with 10 articles. That will get you started as an expert author at EzineArticles.com, the number one article directory on the Internet.

EzineArticles.com alone gets about 40,000 visitors every day, so your articles are very likely to be picked up and reprinted by several publishers.

Here are the top places to submit your articles:

http://ezinearticles.com

http://articlesfactory.com

http://articlecity.com

http://articledashboard.com

http://goarticles.com

You can find more directories by searching on Google. But I highly recommend you start with the list above.

I personally use them myself.

Go here…

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Building a Website

Building a Website

 

By: Matt Bacak

Building a website is a skill that any internet marketer or webmaster should possess. This used to be a very complex thing to do but at present, one can create a website without much in the way of coding and design skills. One of the best tools to use when building a website is NVU. The following is what you should know about it.

What is NVU?

Basically, NVU is a free online program that makes the process of building a website very easy by using a WYSIWYG editor. Website creation using NVU is almost intuitive allowing you to easily create a website, publish it and make any changes without having to buy any third party software. NVU has been around for a long time and is also popularly known as Kompozer. You should only download NVU or Kompozer from the official website to avoid getting malware.

Creating a page

When building a website, download and install NVU into your computer and run it. You should see a page with the name ‘untitled’. This is where you’ll add written content, images, video etc. when building a website.

The next step is inputting your written content. You can either type in the text or use HTML. Most people prefer using plain text because NVU auto-generates the corresponding HTML very accurately. This not only saves time but also prevents coding errors.  There is a preview button at the bottom of the page that allows you to see what the webpage will look like when published. This will allow you to make necessary changes when on the developmental stages of building a website.

After inputting all the content, you can choose to style it into something more eye-catching for your readers. You go about this by selecting the text you want styled and choosing the ‘Font’ option on the main menu. There are numerous font options to choose from but you should only go for easily readable ones. You can choose to change the font size by going to ‘format’ then ‘size’.

Adding media when building a website with NVU is equally easy. All you’ll need to do is select a desired position on your webpage, select ‘insert’ then ‘image’. A dialog box should appear from which you can search your computer for the appropriate image. After this, fill in the alt text and click OK. This is the process to follow when adding any image on your web pages.

Publishing a page

After building a website, you’ll need to upload it to a server so that internet surfers visit it. All that’s required when publishing a completed webpage is to click ‘file’ then ‘publish’. You should then fill in all information accurately in the dialog box that comes up. This information includes:

  • A site name – This is a name that allows you to identify it from all other projects. To avoid confusion, use the same name used when saving the page.
  • Http address – This should be in the form http://www.abcd.com/ if your root domain is abcd.com.
  • FTP address – This address will be provided by your domain host and varies from one host to another. This address should be followed by the directory the webpage should be uploaded to and should be in the form ftp://ftp.abcd.com/public_html/.
  • Username and password – you should get this information from your web host.

In a nutshell, NVU removes the complication usually encountered when building a website allowing even unskilled people to design very effective ones.

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Internet Business Marketing

Internet Business Marketing

 

By: Matt Bacak

The only way to get more clients to your online business is by using a host of internet business marketing strategies. These strategies will attract web surfers to your site and hopefully convert into sales. That being said, the following are a few things you could incorporate into your internet business marketing strategies.

1. Search engine optimization

This is where you make your website easily usable by humans and also allow for search engine spiders to crawl it. This internet business marketing facet requires developing high quality content, better site arrangement, incorporating various media etc. When you take time to optimize your website for search engines, you’ll get a lot of free high quality site traffic which will result in many sales.

2. Social media

Social media sites are very good for creating better relationships with your clients and prospective customers. Creating social media pages is an internet business marketing technique that will allow you to inform people of contests, new products, changes in your business model etc. and allow you to get immediate feedback. It is also very easy to turn your followers into repeat customers allowing for greater sales.

3. Video content

More people are gravitating to video sites as their main information sources over written content. This means that you should create a lot of unique video content and post it to the top video sites. These videos can be about your business, how to videos, product descriptions etc. Depending on the content, they could go viral causing a jump in new clients and thus sales. The best thing about this internet business marketing facet is that it’s very easy to accomplish; you just need a video camera.

 4. Local listings

You have to make listings on Google places, Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp etc. in order to attract clients in your business. This internet business marketing technique will sensitize people about the services you offer, how to get to your site, contests etc. These listings are also listed on search engines meaning that people looking for the service or product you offer have a chance of getting to your business.

5. Write reviews

Most people read customer reviews before buying anything over the internet. This means that you should find ways for clients and other businesses to say positive things about your business, products or services. This can be in the form of positive comments, testimonials, product reviews etc. This internet business marketing facet will give credibility to your online business causing more clients to trust you and therefore buy from you. This means that you have to offer high quality services in order to get positive reviews.

6. Email marketing

This internet business marketing strategy has been around for a long time but it’s still effective. You have to collect emails from clients and prospective customers in order to pitch your products and services to them in the future. You have to make your respondents trust you by first sending them useful information. After gaining rapport, start pitching your product or service. Email marketing is also another good way to keep your clients updated on any changes in the business.

 

There are many other things you can incorporate into your internet business marketing strategy. It usually takes a lot of time and work but the effects are usually well worth the efforts.

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One Effective Way to Get Traffic to Your Site

One Effective Way to Get Traffic to Your Site

 By: Matt Bacak

No matter how good your website or online business is, it can never be successful without good quality site traffic. You’ll want site traffic that’s targeted to the product or service you are selling and converts with relatively little effort and cost. There are many places to get quality site traffic but one of the most effective ways is by using WebFire. This article will look at what it is and why you should use it.

What is WebFire?

This is a set of tools aimed at getting you quality site traffic from effective SEO techniques, content creation and submission and better analysis to find out what is working and what is not. WebFire pools all the valuable resources an internet marketer, online shop owner etc. might need in order to maximize site traffic and therefore revenues in the shortest time possible.

What are the main features of WebFire?

Some of the ways WebFire will improve your online presence include:

1. Search Engine Optimization

WebFire will help you analyze your website and show you how to optimize it. For instance, WebFire will show you how to optimize content, improve navigation for both humans and search engine bots, modify tags etc. The end result will be a better quality site which will translate to better quality organic site traffic.

WebFire will also analyze the niche your website services and give you suggestions on how to get better rankings. These suggestions will help you develop better content, gain more keyword ideas etc.

2. Written Content creation


Most web surfers visit websites because of the content. This means that you should develop unique and engaging content in order to increase site traffic from search engines, social media etc. WebFire will help you develop unique written content based on what people in your niche are searching for. After creating these articles, you will be able to submit them to high traffic press release sites, magazines, news outlets etc. This will result in a jump in site traffic as people visit your site for more useful information.

You also won’t need to spend a lot of time developing the content because WebFire has a tool that turns one unique article into hundreds in a very short time.

3. Video content creation

More people respond better to video and audio messages than they do to written content. WebFire will help you easily develop high quality video content aimed at increasing site traffic, reducing bounce rates and increasing sales. WebFire will also help in converting articles into videos with included optional human voice overs. WebFire will also submit all this video content to all top video sites which will result in an almost immediate jump in site traffic.

4. Profitable niches

A profitable niche means higher revenues with relatively little optimization and competition. WebFire has a tool that will help you uncover hidden high traffic keywords that have little competition. You can then inject these keywords in your campaigns, website content, code etc. with the result of an almost immediate increase in site traffic. In that same respect, WebFire will suggest highly ranked domain names in your niche that you can buy, develop and make more money with.

There are many other ways that WebFire will help you get quality site traffic such as finding sales from numerous blogs and forums in your niche. All in all, WebFire is the best investment you can make for your business since you stand to gain a lot of site traffic without having to spend a fortune on a variety of tools.

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How to Get Followers on Twitter

How to Get Followers on Twitter

 

By: Matt Bacak

Having a large twitter following is something that really help a business to garner more sales, get a larger audience for your messages and generally have better conversations. That being said, there are a few things you could do to get followers on twitter. They include:

1. Encourage retweeting

In order to get followers, you have to explain to what retweeting is to your existing followers and encourage them to do it. This will allow your tweets to be seen by more people and therefore increase the probability of getting more followers. You should also use services like retweetist to see whether your efforts are paying off.

2. Reveal details
You should reveal as much as possible on your twitter bio in order to get followers. A detailed bio will cause people to follow you because they’ll be able to associate your tweets with a real person. This is because people use social media for the conversation with other people meaning that they won’t add a user with a black bio page.

3. Market your account
You have to sensitize people on the existence of your twitter account in order to get followers. For instance, if you are a public speaker, you can tell the audience that you are on Twitter, display your twitter URL in your presentation, include it in your business card etc. You can also market your account on other social media sites, blogs, forums etc. Another viable option is buying followers from high traffic sites. This usually causes you to get followers interested in you, your business etc.

4. Join the conversation
You have to participate in all relevant conversations in order to get followers. Use the trending topics section to find interesting conversations and get involved. Witty and intelligent responses will get people to look at your profile and hopefully follow you. In order to get followers in that topic, you should also incorporate hash tags in all your tweets. This allows you to get followers looking for information, friendship etc.

5. Use media
Another good way to get followers in twitter is to use media. You find that interesting pictures get retweeted a lot because they offer a break from all the written content. This means that you should have your smartphone with you at all times in order to take and upload interesting pictures.

6. Contests
This is a very good way to get followers because it takes advantage of peoples’ need to acquire free things. Holding a simple contest that asks people to retweet a link or suggest your twitter page in return for a suitable prize will allow you to enjoy a sudden increase in followers. These prizes can range from gift cards to computers.

7. Follow other people
Look for people with many twitter followers and follow them. This will allow you to find out why they have such a large following and incorporate this information into your own endeavors. For instance, you can learn how to create conversation, stir controversy without annoying people etc.

In a nutshell, getting a large twitter following may require you to invest a lot of time and money but the benefits will be well worth the efforts.

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7 Points for a Follow up Email

7 Points for a Follow up Email

 

By: Matt Bacak

A follow up email is very important because it helps you foster a better rapport with the respondents. This can then lead to more sales, more traffic, more suggestions etc. There are a few guidelines that you should follow in order to make each follow up email very effective. They include:

1.     Capture attention

You have to think of creative headlines and opening paragraphs to convince people to open any follow up email you write. One of the best ways to do this is to add the person’s name in the title and in the text. Come up with a few ideas and test them all to find out the most effective ones.

2.   Create curiosity

Find a way for people to want to find out what is contained in your follow up email. This can be done by creating mystery in the title and opening paragraph. For instance, you can put your title in question form and make people search for an answer in the body. You also have to show them how they stand to gain from your follow up email. You could tell your respondents how the product is not for everyone, what it is not, etc.

 3.    Tell a story

Formatting your follow up email into a story form will break down people’s barriers to being sold to, capture their attention and therefore give you a platform on which to pitch your product. You also have to make respondents identify with the story line for maximum effect. For instance, if your follow up email is about driving, you could make a story with a title ‘do you make these driving mistakes?’ and follow it up with a short story.

4.     Dispense useful information

Your follow up email should show respondents how they could use your product to solve any problems they have. This will further help in convincing them to buy your product. Your follow up email should also contain detailed directions on how to solve a particular problem with your product. Each follow up email may also contain a link to free e-courses and webinars that educate your readers on how to get the most out of your product or service.

5.     Create trust

Each follow up email should be crafted to increase the level of trust your respondents have in you. Once respondents know that you want to help them and not just make money from them, they start paying attention to each follow up email you send out. They also convert more readily. A good way to improve trust is dishing out a lot of free and useful information about the subject matter. For instance, if your follow up email is about building furniture, you can add information about where to get the best raw materials at the lowest price. When creating trust in your follow up email, you could add some negative aspects of your product and take a soft sell approach.

6.     Add facts to claims

If you are pitching a product in your follow up email, you should make claims and back them up with facts. This will allow your respondents to believe your claims. These facts can be in the form of customer testimonials, figures, video etc.

7.     Create scarcity

Your follow up email should prompt respondents to buy your product as soon as possible. You can do this by offering time limited bonuses, discounts, special offers etc. You should also explain the reason as to why you are doing this to your respondents.

 

In a nutshell, taking time to think of an effective follow up email series will go a long way in increasing sales, website traffic and rapport with your respondents.

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AdSense, What Is It Really?

 

AdSense, What Is It Really?

 

By Matt Bacak

There are quite a few ways a blogger or webmaster can make money from a website, the most popular being AdSense. This is because of ease of implementation and its effectiveness as a revenue source. This article will look at what AdSense is and a few important features.

What is AdSense?

This is a program that puts relevant advertisements on a webpage by inserting HTML code into the site. A webmaster has to sign up for the program in order to get the code, the ads and the revenue. When a webmaster signs up, they become a part of Google’s display network where advertisers can run ads from AdWords. For instance, if the website is about pet food, an advertiser can choose to run ads about pet food on the display network in the AdWords platform and they will automatically appear in all blogs and websites that talk about pet food. Google shares the revenue from advertisers with the webmasters registered in it.

The higher the traffic a website has, the more clicks the AdSense ads will get and therefore the higher the revenues. This means that webmasters have to look for ways to maximize traffic. Some common methods for this include:

• Search engine optimization – Where a webmaster increases a site’s SERP ranking for related keywords in order to get more targeted organic traffic.

• Buying traffic from high traffic sites e.g. search engines, social media sites etc.

• Developing high quality content in order to attract visitors to the site. This content can be written, video, audio etc.

• Link building – Where a webmaster looks for links from high traffic sites so as to get more referred traffic etc.

AdSense is a very good way for beginners to start generating revenue on the internet because they can only concentrate on the most important aspects i.e. getting high quality traffic.

Types

Some of the types of AdSense that a webmaster can integrate into websites include:

• Feeds – This is where a webmaster can put ads to RSS feeds. A webmaster has to have at least 100 unique subscribers and the content must be completely unique.

• Mobile – This is where ads are run on mobile websites. The ads, code and landing pages are optimized for the mobile web in order to maximize earnings.

• Video – This are the ads seen in video content e.g. on YouTube. This allows a video advertiser to generate income from content created. A video advertiser has to have a minimum number of views per video in order to qualify for this type of AdSense.

• Domains – This is where a webmaster can place ads on domains being developed or not being used. This type is a good substitute for ‘page not found’ error messages. Only domains that follow Google’s advertising policies are eligible for this type of AdSense.

• Search – This type allows webmasters to generate revenue from Google custom search boxes on websites.

In a nutshell, a webmaster looking for the easiest ways to monetize a website should go for AdSense before trying more complicated methods.

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Webfire Review

Product: WebFire by Shawn Casey & Brian Koz
Cost: As low as $29.08
Rating: 4 stars out of 5

What is Webfire?

A set of 25 tools and software, available online, that promises to automate the entire traffic-generation process by taking weeks of time-intensive tasks, that you would otherwise do by hand, and condense those tasks into push-button simple tasks. These tasks are designed to help you dominate the search engines while helping you get better rankings and generating extremely targeted leads, FREE traffic, and exposure to your websites from natural search rankings.

Here are some of the tasks WebFire will do for you (per the WebFire site):

1. Instantly analyzes your website or market to get the best SEO suggestions.

2. Fixes and improves upon it’s suggestions with powerful SEO tools

3. Submits press releases to top Google press release sites

4. Submits news stories about you to thousands of media outlets, magazines, publications, etc (online and offline).

5. Turns articles into videos with optional human-like voice-overs and submits them online.

6. Turns 1 article into dozens, hundreds or even thousands of unique version that read perfectly… and submits those unique articles to top article directories exploding your “exposure” and “reach” in the search engines.

7. Uncovers hidden keywords for getting top rankings with top secret keyword tools.

8. Instantly alerts the search engines and top sites about your new content.

9. Gets fresh leads from people who are asking specific questions related to your niche.

10. Finds high value domain names that you can grab that help to get you top rankings and traffic. Some are already ranked!

11. Finds top forums and blogs in your niche that have new posts related to your niche so you can quickly participate in for getting instant traffic to your website in just minutes.

Inside The Members Area

The navigation is well put together making it easy to navigate and access all of the tools and training. And a really useful feature is the wizard that asks you questions to determine the path (and tools) you need to start with or get access to first. That really makes WebFire custom tailored to the individual. Awesome!

Pros

The greatest benefit of using WebFire is that it contains every tool that you’ll ever need all in one place at a cost that is considerably less expensive than hiring an entire team working full time. Ultimately this means saving you a massive amount of time and money compared to doing it yourself (which can take weeks) or paying others to do it. Additionally, there’s nothing to download or install and the tools are compatible with MAC, PC, and Linux.

Cons?

Although WebFire provides a collection of articles to help you get started with spreading content on the web, many of the article archives are empty (as of now). There are hundreds of niche categories in the archive, but many do not contain articles yet. So until they start building that library, you may have to come up with content in the form of articles on your own depending on your niche. Another small caveat is that humans check each press release submitted. This may delay the acceptance process, but if you think about this, it’s a good thing. When submitting your websites and RSS feeds to ping sites (to let the search engines know that you have updated content), you have to manually do the “pinging” each time you update. But the good news is… the tool stores your website info/ping data so it makes this extra step pretty simple. However I’ve spoken to the owner of WebFire and the better news is that the “automatic pinging” feature is coming which will allow you to setup on a schedule (such as every 3 days, etc) and the tool will automatically ping for you. Some people may think it a “negative” not to be able to download the tools, but I don’t. If there are updates, I don’t have to bother with re-installing or updating or worrying about my computer running slow, etc. When using these tools online, I’m assured that I’m always using the latest version and updates.

Who should buy this product?

Anyone and everyone who wants or needs traffic and leads online. With the intuitive members area and training, even beginners can master traffic generation.

Cost in line with value?

In my opinion, yes. It does all of this BETTER and for LESS than similar services I’ve priced recently. Other sites charge from $97 up to $300/month for access to just a couple of these type tools. You have 3 options after hitting the order button. If you pay up front, you’ll save the most money. If you choose to pay as you go, then you’re looking at $49 per month.

Bonuses?

This isn’t advertised on the sales page, but you get an unannounced bonus containing free or matching advertising credits to help you get free website visitors quickly. Nice touch.

Guarantee?

30 day money back guarantee. That’s plenty of time to jump in and try out everything to your hearts desire before making any conclusions.

Why 4 of 5 stars instead of 5 out of 5?

Only because it’s in beta and some improvements are still to come :-) Truth is… I LOVE WebFire. I can’t imagine living without it. How I’ll Make Money from just One of WebFire’s Tools… Feel free to take this idea and run with it. Just going through just one of the tools gave me an instant idea for for setting up a simple profit funnel. The tool was the Keyword Domain Finder. I typed in a keyword and in 6 seconds, the tool spit out 82 possible domain names that were available (including telling me how many monthly searches that keyword phrase was getting!). Instantly my brain started racing with ideas for making money with this information. I now see a great domain on a highly searched keyword phrase. I’m going to go out and find (or write) an article that provides 1 or 2 solutions for the people searching with this phrase. I’ll setup a squeeze page offering this article (with 1 or 2 solutions), then make them a special discount offer on a video or ebook, etc that offers many more solutions or related solutions targeted to the topic/niche.

Recommend?

To get 25 tools, all in one place, that saves me hours and weeks of time and automates traffic generation for me and that gets me FREE traffic… for under $50? Definitely a no-brainer investment and a smart business decision for me!  With a full 30 days to try it out and use every available tool to get all the traffic I want, I had nothing to lose. And neither will you… I highly recommend it for anyone who needs more traffic.

Learn more here:*

http://secrettrafficmachine.com/webfire

Summary:

You need traffic, period. To get it, you can pay for it, hire others to do it for you or do it all yourself manually and end up giving up once you discover the exhorbitant amount of time and dedication it takes to get enough content on the web to make a difference… or you can invest in a tool that automates everything in a matter of minutes with the push of a button for thousands less than what you would pay others to do it for you while getting it done FASTER. I would encourage anyone who needs Traffic (and don’t we all) to try WebFire for themselves. I’m extremely happy with my decision to invest in this. Learn more by going to*: http://secrettrafficmachine.com/webfire

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Jump on the LIVE Webathon and learn a TON.

The Internet Marketing Web-a-thon is LIVE right
now (and it’s awesome) and you can still get in on
this legendary event:

http://www.marketersforacause.com/live/ 
What’s going on here?

The “Who’s Who” of Internet marketing has come
together for something special — yes, dozens upon
dozens of 6 and 7 figure earners will be coming on a
live video webinar telethon style training session for
2 reasons and 2 reasons only:

1) To pour their hearts out giving you their best
directly usable proven methods to make more money online.

2) To support a sweet little girl named Sophie who
has Stage 4 bone cancer and really needs our help.

There’s also 2 and only 2 reasons you should be here:

1) Everything raised goes 100% directly to help Sophie.
You can feel great about that.

2) Your teeny tiny small contribution will get you a
1000 times more money-getting knowledge from the
best of the best in online business.

There’s something like $17k in value being given
away — or some insane amount like that.

Me…I’m doing it for Sophie.

Imagine if your child had stage 4 bone
cancer and a bunch of people jumped
in and made them happier? 

What if they were able to help give you
and your child more time together AND
your child was happier too?

That’s why all the Studs of Internet Marketing
have banded together – but yes you also get a
boatload of usable advice out of it too.

Don’t worry, if you can’t make the whole thing
you’ll get the full recordings.

Help Sophie and get a ton of value too,
won’t you?

It’s a no brainer here.

Here’s the front door to helping Sophie – I know
she would give you a hug you if you were there
in the hospital with her.

http://www.marketersforacause.com/live/

Thanks,

Matt Bacak

PS:   Today is the day. make moves and change Sophie’s
life and yours too.

Go now and get in on the Internet Marketing Web-a-thon.

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Let’s All Help Sophie!

This would be great to be apart of… I’ll be on tomorrow night helping…
love to see you there too! http://www.marketersforacause.org/live/

—- here’s more info:

“We’ll be going LIVE Weds. morning with the best minds in the Internet marketing world all ready to help you succeed. Here’s a sneak peak at our guest list:

Mike Koenigs, Matt Gill, Eric Louviere, Russell Brunson, Brian Bagnall, Keith Baxter, Laura Betterly, Mark Anthony Bates, Stephen Renton, Matt Bacak, Ryan Lee, Glen & Natalie Ledwell (of Mind Movies fame) & more special surprise Guests will be appearing LIVE with me starting from 10am Pacific Standard Time (1pm Eastern)

Save this link & tune in LIVE:

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Don’t forget that this entire live broadcast is designed to help a 4 year old girl who has bone cancer. Tune in and get your free help & win prizes, but you’ll also get a chance to pick up over 53 different marketing products for just pennies on the dollar. All with 100% of the proceeds going straight to Sophie & her family.

Don’t miss it!

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All the best,

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