You should avoid using content with sloppy text. The content of the site should not contain any spelling or grammar mistakes. It can be irritating to read content with a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. The text should not be presented in images. If you use image to represent the text, the visitor cannot copy and paste it when they want to use it. In addition, the search engine will have problem indexing the content in the image. If you don’t want the visitor to copy your text, you can disable the properties menu on the page.

The content must be presented in an organized format. The whole piece of text should not be in one paragraph. It should have several paragraphs so that the visitor can read it easily. Putting the whole piece of text in one paragraph will cause people to have difficulty in reading it.

You should use relevant language in your content. For example, an old baseball fan will search the keyword alcs, which is an acronym for American League Championship Series. However a new baseball fan will search for the same news by using a more general term such as baseball playoffs. By using the relevant language in your content, your site will attract more visitors. To find the keyword terms for the relevant language, you can use the Google Adwords keyword research tool. The Google Adwords Keyword research tool allows you find out new keyword variations. The new improved Google keyword research tool allows you to find out the volume of each keyword. If you sign up for the Google Webmaster Tools, you can know which keywords that the visitors use to find your site.

I am a website owner and I am willing to share my experience with one of the largest SEO companies in New Zealand.

These techniques for driving traffic to your website via article marketing and social bookmarking have been around for awhile but there are some pretty outrageous claims of the amount of traffic that people claim they are getting using these strategies. Being skeptical is natural, but instead of just discounting it completely, decide to give these methods the benefit of the doubt and actually test these tactics first hand to answer the question once and for all whether they are effective.

In a nutshell, the techniques that most people describe when talking about this subject, use the following process:

* Write a unique article on the related subject of your niche website that you want to drive traffic to.
* Submit several unique versions of this article to high ranking article sites
* Watch as floods of traffic come pouring into your site

After testing these methods, it’s clear that you wouldn’t call the amount of traffic you receive to your websites as floods, instead a trickle may be the better term, and although the technique does work, it was nothing like what most people claim to get at their sites using these website traffic techniques. The good news is that there is a better way to really bring in floods of massive traffic to your website.

In order for this to be successful, you need to add other elements to this strategy. The Internet Marketing gurus do leak bits and pieces of the strategies that do work, but its clear that only a few really know how to do this properly. For most, they don’t have the time or the inclination to tackle doing this and is one reason why only a few really know how to do this properly. One factor that is hard to get past with doing this kind of traffic generation is the amount of time it takes. Thankfully there are now new tools which you can use that automate a big portion of the work involved.

Let’s face it, do you really want to spend your time writing articles and becoming a submission monkey? I didn’t think so and if you’re like most, you would much rather spend your time doing something that is more enjoyable or profitable.

The good news is that 95% of the manual labor involved in getting increased website traffic to your websites can now be automated.

The entire system consists of doing the following:

* Create 20+ unique articles targeting your website niche topic (95% Automated)

* Submit each of these to specific websites to Specific Article sites (Automated)

* Use Social Networking to bookmark one of these article submissions to hundreds of sites (Very specific sites must be used (Automated)

* Submit one of these articles to a very important site that ties the other submissions together (Hardly anyone knows this)

* Rinse and Repeat about 8 times per month

* Watch in amazement as droves of traffic begin pouring in to your website

If you’ve been doing your free marketing strategies manually, or you are looking for a way to automate this process. Using this automated process described above, you can easily get 15,000 unique visitors to your websites each and every month.

For most online marketers, receiving highly targeted relevant traffic to their websites, is one of the hardest things for them to acquire (in terms of those who don’t have a lot of capital to invest in advertising). It also happens to be one of the most important tasks you have on your to-do list as an online business owner.

We all know that, If you don’t have highly targeted traffic getting to your website, then you don’t have an online business and you won’t be earning an income. *GULP*

Most website owners have the mis-belief that website advertising costs a lot of money, takes an unbelievable amount of time, or requires that you do things which are way to risky. Does this sound like you? Well if you are anything like most when they begin looking to drive traffic to their websites, all of this probably sounds familiar and you are left feeling like you should just bag the whole idea.

If you are short on cash and you are managing all of your SEO and Traffic generating tasks Manually yourself, then the tactics which are described above are a perfect solution for getting some good solid traffic to your website.

So who are these tips and tricks designed to help? Anyone who wants to drive traffic to their website, especially for those who don’t have a lot of money and may also just be starting out in the online business world. Getting and understanding these techniques when you first start doing business online is vital to your success. Sadly, most marketers are either doing this kind of traffic generation wrong, or they are missing the most important pieces that turn a trickle into a flood of new unique visitors every month.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that this technique doesn’t work simply because it is a Free method of driving traffic.

Start driving traffic to your websites today using these techniques and watch your traffic increase every single day until you are getting between 10K to 15K unique visitors on a consistent basis. Witnessing these techniques in action first had will make you a believer in the Free Traffic Generation methods and now that you can automate 95% of the work, there is no reason why you can’t start today. Make 2008 the year of your traffic generation explosion.

So what are the benefits of getting free website traffic using these Article and Social methods? Here are some of the major benefits if you automate it as described above:

* It’s FREE! This is even more true now using automated tools to do the brunt of the work

* Provides good solid back links that you choose

* Provides Free Traffic months and even years down the road after doing the initial campaign

* Identifies you and your website as an authority on the subject used

* Increases your Search Engine rankings organically, which is still the most effective way for long term traffic

* The list goes on and on…

Even if you use PPC (Pay Per Click, Google Adwords etc.), these methods for getting traffic to your website(s) should still be part of your over-all traffic generation strategy because it provides organic traffic that adds additional revenue you wouldn’t get otherwise.

Michael is renowned SEO and Website Traffic expert who has investigated and tested the most effective ways to produce highly targeted Website Traffic to your websites using FREE and Paid Methods. Michael is a believer in automating traffic generation tasks and has implemented tools and strategies that allow anyone to receive thousands of free visitors every month. For detailed information about these techniques, Go To ===> Increase Website Traffic on Autopilot

Mike Lawver is a Home Business Evaluator and Internet Marketing Mentor/Coach, who is a full time Infopreneur. Mike has investigated and researched the best work from home internet business opportunities and is frequently requested to assess new home business opportunities that are being developed online. Mike’s Current Top Work from Home Internet Business pick is: ==> My Internet Business

You can also find Michael’s reviews on a number of other Work from Home Internet business opportunities at his blog at: => Millionaire Marketing Tips and Strategies for in-depth reviews of products and online home business opportunities.

Author: Michael Lawver
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

What is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. In other way it is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

These social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet. You can also bookmark services specialized to a specific subject or format – feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. – can be found.

Something about its startup The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can participate in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking Services The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players – del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind.

Here is list of social bookmarking services:

Yahoo, Delicious,Digg ,Fark ,Feedster ,Reddit ,Blinklist ,Buzznet ,Citeulike ,Connotea ,Findory ,Furl ,Linkagogo ,Magnolia ,Simpy ,Spurl ,Technorati ,Backflip,Blinkbits ,Blogdigger ,Blogmarks , Co.mments,Shadows ,Wists ,Blog Memes,Feedmelinks ,OnlyWire ,Scuttle and Smarking

An article on Brain Bubbles [http://www.brainbubbles.biz] – Social Bookmarking [http://www.brainbubbles.biz/Social-Bookmarking_SEO_content_1.aspx] lists out top 30+ social bookmarking services analysis, URLs, features & ranking with details.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

1. First of it is done by people than any software thus provides meaningful and relevant resource.

2. Social bookmarking makes people communities on similar interest and topics.

3. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.

4. It is better way to share resources efficiently

5. You can dig further around your concept and find new insights.

6. Creates related taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community and group of people.

People who are interested in knowledge sharing, knowledge management & research, social bookmarking has become favorite. What’s about you?

Jay

Knowledge Management & Research

Author: Jayesh Chudasama
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

“In modern business, it is not the crook who is feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.” Pablo Casals

There are tons of vendors out there who want to sell you websites and law firm Internet marketing services. Most are honest people who simply don’t know what they are doing. In many cases, they are attempting to sell you something that is overpriced and that won’t produce you any new clients at all, let alone good clients. The attorneys I have worked with report to me that the whole Internet marketing process confuses them. They don’t know who to believe. Some have spent considerable sums already on websites with little or no results. I aim to stop all that. So keep reading.

Do I need law firm Internet marketing?

Yes. According to Reuters News Services by 2007 there will be over nine million legal services searches done online each month. Additionally, prospective clients and clients expect you to have at least a website or think you may be behind the times if you do not. Finally, while the yellow pages are not a good attorney marketing vehicle today they are going away since people are searching the Internet and not going to the yellow pages.

What is/is not law firm Internet marketing?

Having a website is not law firm Internet marketing. At a minimum you do need at least a “brochure website” of a few pages, however, that website is unlikely to get you new business and is definitely not Internet marketing. The rest of this article (in four parts) is going to help you get clear on what Internet marketing is all about.

Where does Internet marketing begin?

Law firm Internet marketing begins with you becoming an educated consumer and then keyword research. Researching your practice’s best keywords will tell us what words your prospective clients are using to search for legal services on search engines, what legal services your prospective clients are the most interested in, what your prospective client is thinking, how to attract these prospective clients to your site at the search engine instead of going to your competitors site, what your competitors are doing/not doing, what content to write for each of your top keywords (recommend writing a page each to at least the top 20 keywords), what are the words to use for PPC law firm advertising and how to begin search engine optimization. If you have not adequately completed keyword research using software tools like Wordtracker you have not done adequate keyword research and are likely to fail at your law firm Internet marketing.

You mentioned, “…what content to write for each of your top keywords…”. What are you talking about exactly?

I am talking about what is known as the CTPM model of Internet marketing developed by Ken Evoy M.D. in 1997. This model works because it is in total alignment with how the Internet works. The C is the first part of the model and it stands for Content – create in demand content (you determine what is in demand from the keyword research). The T is Traffic – attract targeted traffic. The P is for pre-sell – pre-sell the targeted traffic (using such things as newsletters, RSS feeds, free downloads, e-books, auto responders, audio, video, and teleclasses). The M is Monetize – this is where you convert these pre-sold prospective clients to clients easily.

You mentioned, “…tools like Wordtracker…” with respect to keyword research in law firm Internet marketing. What is Wordtracker?

Wordtracker is a software tool that can be used to thoroughly research your keywords. Wordtracker is at least arguably the best keyword research tool in the marketplace and there are others. You can go to http://www.Wordtracker.com to get all the details. Your vendor can use this tool easily and should use it for keyword research to put your law firm Internet marketing on the right track from the beginning if at all possible.

You also mentioned “…how to begin search engine optimization.” What is meant by search engine optimization (SEO) and exactly what is it and how does it fit into law firm Internet marketing?

There is no mystery in SEO in particular and law firm Internet marketing in general so don’t let anyone bamboozle you on that one. As I said earlier SEO begins with appropriate keyword research. If you have not done that you are dead in the water since this is the foundation of everything that comes after in law firm Internet marketing. The next step is the “C” or content mentioned earlier in the CTPM model. You will need to write “keyword optimized” content to each of your top 20 keywords or another way to say this is writing your content in the way that search engines want to see it so they rank you higher than your competitors. Your content needs to fit together in a site plan (the term site plan refers to in what order your pages will appear and how they link to one another) that has an appropriate pyramid type structure. This pyramid type structure includes your home page (the peak of the pyramid) themed keyword phrase being supported by all the tier two pages (the next layer of the pyramid) and their tier three pages (usually the base of your pyramid although you could go deeper) support them resulting in higher rankings for all of your pages. There are some technical aspects to SEO as well like the use of clean HTML, heading text, meta tags, alt tags, site map, etc., however, mercifully I won’t go into those since they should be known to your technical person. The bottom line is put nothing in the way of the search engines spiders (spiders are sent out from the search engine to “read” the sites on the Internet) being able to “read” your site like fancy flash pages get in the way big time for instance. To know more in depth about keyword optimization you can go to Wordtracker.com where they have a really fine Keyword Research Guide if you want to know more of the details. All of what I just told you is known as “on site optimization” strategies for law firm Internet marketing. There is also “off site” optimization as well involved in SEO. Off site optimization means getting one-way links from high-ranking pages of other sites that are related to your top 20 keywords (there we are again with that keyword research being vital) that link to your site. Search engines see these links like a “vote” for your site. The more high quality “votes” you have the higher they will rank your site. The term “link popularity” is used to describe this process in law firm Internet marketing. The royal road to high quality links is having (here he goes again) keyword researched and keyword optimized quality content on your website. You get these links from website directories, article directories, online forums, press releases, etc. I left out reciprocal links because most SEO authorities think they are no longer worth the effort since they are difficult to get and don’t really contribute much (or can even hurt) to your page ranking.

We have completed the first part of law firm Internet marketing at this point. In part two we will go into Google Page Ranking, dealing with your competitors, RSS, the factors surrounding costs of law firm Internet marketing and more. I am committed to you being a master of law firm Internet marketing at least to the point you will get new clients from your efforts and not get taken to the cleaners by vendors who may not know any better.

You can download free now the 125 page Report titled “31 Proven Law Firm Marketing Strategies” by Henry Harlow and much more. You can increase your income; reduce your work hours as you serve your clients better than ever – guaranteed. http://www.Law-Firm-Marketing-Coach.com

Author: Henry Harlow
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

To make sure you rank in the search engine, you have to optimize your site. If your website don’t rank well, it will look unprofessional. Customers prefer to buy from reputable online store. Reputable online store usually rank on the first page for the targeted keyword. Because the reputable store ranks for the high competition keyword, they are able to get a lot of customers each day. If your store rank at the back of the search result, it is highly likely that you won’t get customers because no one would visit the page at the back of the search result. When optimizing a store, you have to take into account the types of audience you get. By learning about the type of audience you get, you will be know how to optimize your site. If you provide products and services for the local people, you have to optimize it for the local results. In this way, the local people will be able to easily find your website.

The domain plays an important role in the SERP ranking. It is best that you include one keyword in the domain. The keyword that you include in the domain must be related to the niche which you are promoting. It is not necessary to use a full keyword as the domain. For example, if you selling wedding cake, the word “wedding cake must be included in the domain. You can brand the keyword with the name of your company. If you are making an information site, you can try to find low competition keyword to be used as the domain name.

By using a low competition keyword, you will surely rank on the top position in the search result. It is easy to rank on the top position when you are not competing with other websites. If you aim for high competition keyword, a lot of websites will compete with you and try to rank for it. The high competition keywords are keywords that have a competition above 100,000. It will be good if you can find keywords with competition less than 1000.

What is Social Bookmarking? Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking, on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. In other way it is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.

These social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy techniques on the Internet or Intranet. You can also bookmark services specialized to a specific subject or format – feeds, books, videos, music, shopping items, map locations, wineries, etc. – can be found.

Something about its startup The concept of shared online bookmarks dates back to April 1996 with the launch of itList.com. Social bookmarking dates back just a couple of years, when sites like Furl, Simpy, and del.icio.us began operating. Other social bookmarking sites include de.lirio.us, an open source version of del.icio.us, and citeulike, a social bookmarking site for academic papers. Social bookmarking is particularly useful when collecting a set of resources that are to be shared with others. Anyone can participate in social bookmarking.

Social Bookmarking Services The social bookmarking market is in a steady state with two dominant players – del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. The rest of the pack, including Yahoo MyWeb, appears to be substantially behind.

Here is list of social bookmarking services:

Yahoo, Delicious,Digg ,Fark ,Feedster ,Reddit ,Blinklist ,Buzznet ,Citeulike ,Connotea ,Findory ,Furl ,Linkagogo ,Magnolia ,Simpy ,Spurl ,Technorati ,Backflip,Blinkbits ,Blogdigger ,Blogmarks , Co.mments,Shadows ,Wists ,Blog Memes,Feedmelinks ,OnlyWire ,Scuttle and Smarking

An article on Brain Bubbles [http://www.brainbubbles.biz] – Social Bookmarking [http://www.brainbubbles.biz/Social-Bookmarking_SEO_content_1.aspx] lists out top 30+ social bookmarking services analysis, URLs, features & ranking with details.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

1. First of it is done by people than any software thus provides meaningful and relevant resource.

2. Social bookmarking makes people communities on similar interest and topics.

3. This provides for semantically classified tags, which are hard to find with contemporary search engines.

4. It is better way to share resources efficiently

5. You can dig further around your concept and find new insights.

6. Creates related taxonomies that have meaning for a particular community and group of people.

People who are interested in knowledge sharing, knowledge management & research, social bookmarking has become favorite. What’s about you?

Jay

Knowledge Management & Research

Author: Jayesh Chudasama
Article Source: EzineArticles.com