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Posted By Thom on February 23, 2010

One of the best Twitter descriptions comes from their About page:

Twitter is a real-time short messaging service that works over multiple networks and devices.

Now, you may agree with me that’s just a feature, but it perfectly leads to the very best Twitter benefits and thus unveils why this network is tremendously popular.

You see, Twitter is based on human psychology.

One of the founders, Jack Dorsey, was very interested in an application that would let him know what his friends were doing. He’s no exception, many people want to know that (hence the success of cell phones!). That desire lead to the development of Twitter.

Absolutely needless to say that this doesn’t apply to you or me, we’re just too smart to fall for such psychological trivialities , but in general, people:
1. are very curious and
2. want to belong to a community.

Twitter perfectly takes advantage of these natural needs. After you open an account, all they ask is only one question:

“What’s happening?”

Once you’ve answered that question, you’re sold. Especially since you only have 140 characters to send your messages, which for most people by far isn’t enough to get their message across. You want to send more.

And it makes the received ‘tweets’, as they are called, a bit mystic, like cliffhangers. You’re curious, you want to know more.

The downside is that this also leads to a lot of irrelevant information published on this micro blogging system, which on its turn is a big bummer for many other people. They quit.

But if you can filter that, or if you don’t mind the occasional garbage, Twitter can be a great traffic resource.

Therefore I’ve listed six of the best Twitter traffic tips below. Make sure you use them well and don’t forget to download the other 40 tips at the bottom.

1. Network with noteworthy business associates, competitors, and peers.
   You don’t have to simply befriend every person you can that requests you or vice versa on Twitter. Instead, choose your networking buddies carefully. Look for fellow executives or business owners who work within your particular niche. Then, follow their progress, look for advice, and of course, throw in some of your own two cents as well.
   By befriending people who are in the same line of work as you, you’ll get an insider’s look at how their successes compare to yours.
2. Update your audience fairly regularly, but don’t over load them.
   A lot of people are most likely interested in what you have to say, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have added you to begin with. This means you should be updating them on a fairly regular basis so they can keep up with what’s happening in your world or your business’ world.
3. On the other hand, you don’t want to overload people so much that the feel of your Twitter site feels “spammy” and they turn away.
   Try to maintain the balance between good updating and overwhelming people with insignificant updates.
4. Keep an eye on what people are saying.
   Don’t forget that Twitter, like any other virtual conversation, is a two-way street. Pay attention to what other members are saying, and see if they’re Twittering about you. If they are, you might want to use that as an opportunity to either thank them for a nice compliment, or to make good if they are posting a complaint.Remember that you’re never 100% safe from someone who might try to talk negatively about you, your website, or anything else on Twitter. Be sure to use this to your advantage in a diplomatic way.
5. Find a cool template that says who you are as company.
   Twitter now allows users to customize the look of their home page. Use something individual and creative as your Twitter page. This can be the same graphics you use on your website, a company logo, or something you’ve customized just for Twitter.
   No matter what it is, make sure it’s appealing to the eyes and does not look too ‘busy’.
6. Ask for feedback. Don’t just tell everyone what you’re doing via Twitter, try to ask everyone for their opinion or feedback. It’s a good way to start a dialogue and open up a forum for new suggestions and changes that can be made.

There! Six of the best twitter traffic tips.
And if you want to follow me, just go to Case Stevens at Twitter.

But that’s not all. I even have another 40 tips to generate more traffic from this micro blogging system.
You can get all 50 by just subscribing to my newsletter. After you’ve confirmed your subscription, you can download all 50 of the best Twitter traffic tactics.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter, these tactics will short-cut your success! Implement any of these tactics to see bigger results!

After reading these 50 of the best Twitter traffic tactics let me know what you think about them.
Post your comments below.

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

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Posted By Thom on February 10, 2010

You undoubtedly know many ways to get your website traffic for free, don’t you?

One of the best free traffic generating methods is Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

That’s where you optimize your site in order to get a permanent high ranking in the search engines for the keywords or key phrases that you optimize.

I’m not going in to this, that’s for another occasion, but by applying SEO you will certainly get your website traffic, although it takes quite some time.

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Running an affiliate program is another way to get your website traffic for free. Letting others do the promotion for your products is a great way to generate that traffic.

You should submit your program details to several affiliate programs directories to achieve this. And promote your affiliate program on your website.

Only downside is… you got to have your own products.

Link exchange as a way to get your website traffic still is possible, but a bit out of fashion these days. That’s because, due to abuse, search engines don’t like reciprocal linking as much as they used to do. It still works though, and it works very well if you can do it in the form of contextual linking, fitting well in the high value content that you provide.

Of course there are the social media sites that you can use to get your website traffic. Only recently I published about 7 of these sites specifically about traffic generation, starting with 8 Digg Tactics For More Traffic.

Posting useful comments on topic related blogs is another way to get your website traffic. If you use this method, then please, don’t spam!

A useful comment on my blog is rewarded with a nofollow one-way backlink to generate traffic, but for every valuable comment there are at least 100 spam or promotional comments.

Don’t do that. Like the search engines with link exchange, blog owners don’t like that and tend to change back to the normal NOfollow situation.

There are many more ways to generate free traffic, but today we’ll concentrate on forums.

In cyberspace discussions, forums can play a significant role. You can discover many such discussion forums that are related to your products or services.

Publish high quality answers on them. In most cases you are allowed to add your website link in a signature or bio line in order to get your website traffic. Thus your link will be visible on every post you submit.

While topic related forums can easily be found, there’s something even more powerful to get your website traffic: a secret forum finder using keywords and page rank to find the most relevant topics with lots of potential link juice!

It’s explained in a brand new guide I just finished reading. Actually it’s for finding backlinks in relevant forum topics, but what applies to backlinks also applies to website traffic.

It’s an outstanding, comprehensive report, written by Jack Duncan.

In fact, it’s so good that I’m presenting this guide through my affiliate link, so if you buy (at a ridiculous low price!), I’ll earn a bit of money. After that, you can do the same and earn your money back in no time, since it’s a 100% commission.

Using the secret forum finder tools and methods, you’ll find plenty of fantastic forums with strong authority and pagerank just waiting to be directed to your site.

In fact, by the time you’ve completed this training, you will have located more high PR forum links then you could possibly submit in a day…

That’s a great problem to have!

At that point, you need to either outsource the submission or decide just how many links are needed to achieve ranking success.

So….

check out The Definitive Guide For Finding High Pagerank Forum Backlinks

Read it and let me know what you think about this way of getting your website traffic.

Post your comments below.

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

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Posted By Thom on February 10, 2010

What are the success for business secrets?

Lots of words have been written already on this topic. That’s because of the urgent demand from million of business people who -desperately- want to know what these secrets exactly are.

They want to become successful too. Like their favorite idols, whoever they may be.

Many of them talk about money when discussing the topic. They want to become rich.

But that has nothing to do with the definition for success. After all…
the richest man is not the one who has the most money; the richest man is he who needs the least!

So, success is not typically related to money. You can’t say you aren’t successful if you don’t earn a six-figure income. And those that do may not be as successful as those that don’t!

No, money isn’t one of the secrets to success for business people.

I can list a few success factors, like:

- Success for business is about making things happen. People who take action will become successful in the end.

- As part of making things happen, success for business also means to fail as fast as possible, because failure is part of the learning process. It doesn’t brand you, it’s just a setback to the beginning point.

- Also, success for business starts with setting achievable goals that can be adjusted along the way. Making a plan an stick to it is always a good idea. Asking yourself tough question too. And both will definitely help you to become successful in your business.
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- Your attitude will be part of your business success too. Being optimistic and uplifting, living a balanced life, both financially as well as spiritually, trying to be healthy and being a loyal community member, whatever these communities are, will also help.

- Learn how to think “success” so that you will become successful at whatever it is you do.

These are all great success factors, but we still aren’t at the core of the question.

How can ordinary people create extraordinary
success for business and compelling futures?

You know, I think I have the answer.
I have it for years, because I read them back in 2003.

Not from Napoleon Hill or Dale Carnegy or any other hero, but from an ordinary Internet marketer named Bryan Kumar.

Because he wrote Success For Business Secrets back then.
And it’s awesome.

Back then I was already on my way to become successful online, but after reading this superb report, I knew why!

Guess what?

I’m giving you this report!

No, no need to take your wallet out. It’s on me. I got the rights from Bryan and today I’m giving this report to you.

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Fill in the little form below and press Re-Tweet. If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can get one here. Don’t worry, it’s completely free.

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After reading, let me know what you think.
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7 Crucial Website Conversion Rate Factors

Posted By Thom on January 19, 2010

Website conversion rate is a topic that isn’t discussed too often.

That’s why I didn’t hesitate when Michelle Strassburg offered to write a guest post about the issue.
I’ll let her do the talking.
Enjoy!

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Website conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who will take a desired action which will somehow profit your business.

Although the term ‘website conversion rate’ is normally used in relation to e-commerce sites, it also applies to sites making a living from advertising revenue and those living on lead generation.
In fact, most sites I know of have some sort of website conversion matrix.

Here are 7 factors which will influence your website conversion rate and how you can improve each one.

1. Poor navigation
   Making your site easy to navigate includes having navigation elements in commonly accepted locations on the site.

   For example, visitors will look for a search box on the top part of the site, a log in / register option above the fold and contact us in the footer or header.
   Although you might think it’s oke because your design is unique, it might be so unique visitors will struggle finding their way around.
   Use common navigation elements and if you have any doubts, look how the big players the likes of Amazon and eBay address that problem.

2. Limited browser support
   A few years back, most web users used IE, but nowadays visitors use many types of browsers from Firefox to Google Chrome.
   If your site supports only IE for example (I’ve recently came across one – I know, shocking), you’ll be missing out as your website conversion rates will be low.
   To check how well your site is working with various browsers, you can either install a virtual machine or try the free BrowserShots utility.
3. No call to action
   You really don’t want to leave visitors second guessing what’s the site about. Make sure to use a call to action across your entire site, for example ‘add to basket’ or ‘view more’.

   If you are have the resources, try different call to action messages across the store using A/B testing. To further increase your website conversion rate, I’d recommend giving Google Site Optimizer a try as it’s free and altogether easy to set up.

4. Typos and spelling errors
   The two have a profound effect on the site’s credibility.
   While we all make mistakes and typos from time to time, it’s important to iron-out those and run a spell check before committing any content to the live site.
   A useful tip is to encourage visitors to report typos and spelling mistake.
5. Page loading times
   It is crucial to work on the user experience, particularly how quickly the content is fetched. If your site loads too slow, the visitors might go else where.
   To check how quickly your pages are loading, how to fix it and to read up on best practices try the free Page Analyzer utility or if you’re using Firefox, Google has a neat speed test plug in.
6. No trust signals
   Visitors need to feel they can trust the site because they’re going to hand over their confidential information, be it credit card details or even an email address.
   Check that you’ve display information such as your address, phone number, company registration number, about us, privacy policy, terms and conditions, 3rd party accreditation and so on.
7. Few offers
   The idea behind introducing offers as such is to make your offers more appealing to more visitors.
   Customers come in many shapes and forms, some find free delivery offers appealing, some find sale offers appealing and some are looking for added value offers (for example product bundles).

   Put together a yearly offer road map which can include offers such as free delivery, buy 1 get 1 free, cash back, upgraded delivery method, price reduction, end of line, limited stock, discount over certain amount etc and rotate between them so you always have offers.

I hope you found these website conversion rate tips useful.
If you think of any other factors, list them in the comments section.

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Article by Michelle Strassburg, Head of Sales and Marketing at Wood and Beyond, sellers of hardwood flooring and worktops.
Michelle has over 10 years experience managing online marketing and is an active blogger.
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Case here again.
Well, strong website conversion factors I guess.
Any comments or additions? Post them below

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Domain Check – Domain Names Quiz

Posted By Thom on January 19, 2010

A domain check normally is where you check if the desired domain still is available.

You do that, because you have this great product or service that you want to sell and you’re looking for a great domain name for a new website to promote it from.

That’s when you do a domain check. You want to see what’s available and what’s taken already.

If it’s taken, you can do a whois to find out who the owner is and make him/her an offer. If it’s available, you can register the name.

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What are you looking for when searching for a premium domain name?
- a domain name containing your main keywords,
- a catchy name that will be easily remembered and
- a name that covers what you’re promoting.

How hard is it to find that catchy, short and easy to remember premium domain name?

Well, for one thing it’s becoming more difficult each and every day.
One of the reasons for that is that there are millions of website owners and quite a few of them get more savvy each day. They investigate well and do a thorough domain check, resulting in registering great domain names.

Another reason is that on the other hand, many of these website owners fail, after which their domain name is bought by someone else who deals in expired domain names.
Most of the time the reason behind these deals is the traffic that the domain name still generates and if you buy a domain name from them, it often comes with (a bit of) traffic.

So it’s very hard to come up with premium domain names these days.
Registrars, like Nameboy.com, often have a special script available that generates domain names for you based on the keywords you enter and they’ll do a domain check to see if they are available.

Heck, there’s even free software available to come up with premium domain names, like Domain Name Analyzer. You can put your main keyword or even key phrase in the middle and have tons of various suffixes and prefixes to come up with the most amazing names. It also let’s you do a domain check too.

This often results in a domain name that does not quite fit the product or service or profession that is promoted on the site.

Talking about that topic, let’s do a little quiz called domain check: which domain belongs to which profession, product or service?

Profession, product or service	Domain name
Roofing	AffordableReports.com
BUM Marketer	ForexOptimized.com
High Ticket Ghostwriter	ProfitAudio.com
Outstanding Jewelery Shop	GetRoofing.com
Report Marketeer	ArticleMarketeer.com
Affordable Whirlpools	TotalCorneaLasik.com
Forex Trader	PrivateGhostwriter.com
Audio Editor	GreatUsedTrucks.com
Ophthalmologist	WholesaleWhirlpools.com
Used Trucks Reseller	SuperiorJewelers.com

What do you think?
Great names huh?

Guess what. They’re for sale!
And they don’t even cost thousands and thousands of dollars, as you would expect.
No, they’re far below the market prices. There are hundreds of them and you can make an offer for each and every one of them.

You don’t even have to do a domain check. If you’re offer is accepted, the domain name is yours. For as long as you want.
Are you starting to see some business here?
If so, check them out at this Domain Name Availability Search.

What do you think. Are these great names?
Post your comments below.

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

Domain Check – Domain Names Quiz

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