Your Blog and Video

Posted on September 24th, 2007 in Optimizing Your Site, Web Design by admin

If you’ve never heard of Youtube.com, I think it would be safe to assume that this is the first website you’ve ever visited. Youtube, Google Video, and Metacafe are just a few of the many video sites out there that are at your disposal to build massive amounts of traffic to your site. Video is one of the growing assets in the internet marketing community, and is being utilized abundantly.

Video is viral. If you were to make a video that was so funny that hundreds upon hundreds of people put on their website, do you realize that the exposure from that would be massive? What if your website URL was at the tail end of that video? The traffic would be amazing!

There have been case studies done that showed that people who made one single video got over 1000 visitors (unique visitors) to their new website in less than 24 hours. Imagine the rewards of such a magnificent amount of people!

If your Adsense site got 1000 visitors in 24 hours, and the click through rate was even 5%, at 1 dollar a click, you’ve made 50 dollars in one day. That’s not bad at all. What if you had an infomercial that was marketed for FREE to hundreds upon thousands of eyes every day.

Video is becoming a necessity in most websites. If you don’t have a video, it’s safe to say that you’re not in the right age. Video marketing on blogs and websites is becoming so powerful. Creating a video is easy, too. Making a video can be cheaper than 40 dollars, to even free! All you have to do is buy a webcam and you’re ready to go!

If you’re not using video in your marketing strategy, or at least in your traffic building campaigns, you’re not utilizing all of your resources.

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Simple Ways to Get Backlinks

Posted on September 16th, 2007 in Optimizing Your Site by admin

You’ve probably heard the term from me time and time again. A lot of your search engine ranking effort is in your backlinks. I won’t get into the discussion of page rank and backlinks, nor will I talk about reciprocal linking, or link trading. But I will tell you that you need high page ranking sites to link to you, and there are 3 time-tested methods that will get you great backlinks with no cost. Article directories, commenting on blogs, and forums.

Article Directories:

If you’re not writing articles for your website or blog, you’re probably not getting too many backlinks to your site. Article directories (at least the top ones) have great page rank. And they will share it with you if you write great articles and put your site in the “About the Author” section. Also, this will not only get you great backlinks from the article directories, but others who decide to use your article on their website or blog.

Comments:

Commenting on other blogs is extremely dangerous if not done properly. People can consider you spam, block you, or report your site. The best way to comment on other people’s blogs or websites is to find a blog directory and hand pick specific blogs in your particular niche. Then, when you’re ready to comment, READ THE POST, and add good content. This is not only helpful to the other readers, but also gives the blog owner the knowledge that you’re not just spamming them.

Forums:

Another great tactic that has been overlooked for a time. Most forums allow you to place website URLs on the signature of the posts you make. Some don’t. Find a forum that is worth your time and effort, and one that will offer you good advice to add onto your website or blog. Then, get involved with the forum, posting good, useful posts with your website on the signature. This will not only give you backlinks, but will also allow viewers to click your websites, giving you instant traffic.

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