Directory Submission for SEO

In order to gain popularity and tons of traffic to your site, blog or page, you need to have a proper visibility from the audience around the globe. For you to be able to do that, you must be doing techniques and strategies in order to obtain that specific goal – rank. First in rank in search engine is not an easy task but if you make a simplified activity that will lead you to that goal is a matter of choice. Directory submission is one of the most commonly used techniques by internet marketers.

What is Directory Submission?

Directory Submission is the process of submitting your site, blog or business to any paid or free directory out there. With this process, it helps your site being “index” by the search engines so you might have a search engine rank. Acquiring rank from the search engine gives you an advantage over the other pages, site or blog out there in the internet marketing world. It might give you an edge over and over again every day of your marketing years.

Is Directory Submission difficult?

The answer is a big “NO”. You only need to write your content you wanted and look for a directory of your choice and then read their rules. It is important to read the rules and regulations of the directory that you’ve chosen in order to not to get disapproved or worst case being banned from them. Remember, if your site is being banned from a certain directory, you won’t get traffic from that directory. Directory submission is great if you abide with their rules.

One thing that makes directory submission difficult is that you don’t know how to perform it. It became a burden to the newbie in the field of internet marketing since they don’t have enough knowledge on that. Remember, you need to be out of your shells in order to gain popularity. There are plenty of “how to” out there. You only need to research and read and read and read over again until you master it.

Is Directory Submission Costly?

Again, the answer is a big “NO”. Directory submission became costly if you manage it in the wrong way. Submitting your domain in a paid directory can only cost amount of money ranging from $240 - $300 annually. But why do you need to pay such amount of money if you can submit your domain to a free directory such DMOZ directory? DMOZ is an open directory project that is also known having a very high standard when it comes to website listing in the directory. Plus it will charge you “FREE”.

Is Directory Submission help my Site Rank UP?

In some ways “YES”, but that is not the sole case. You have to take consider that directory submission help you being index by the search engine since search engines send out robots every time someone type a keyword search on their search box. So, if your site is in a directory list the search engine gives extra plus point for your rank. Additional plus is given since your site is in a directory and someone searches on that directory in a certain category, there will be a chance that the searcher becomes your audience. You have to look on the positive side always. A little effort of about 10 minutes is not hard for you to gain visibility forever in the internet. Building your site more will give you an advantage from time to time.

Always remember that there is no shortcut to being rank 1 in every search engine. It is a matter of time and work. Every technique being written above only gives you a hint how are you going to get even a fraction of a million dollar surfing the net doing your internet marketing. It is a vital tool too and a good one to try without spending a dime.

Updating and Pinging your Blogs

Blogs should be updated every time to generate more visitors and readers. At first and due to busy workloads, I always forgot to update my blog. Until I have learned that you should write at least one blog a day for you to have a greater chance being indexed by the search engine. In other words, updating your blog everyday get you an advantage in having a high SEO.

Blogging today became famous and became the source of income in the internet marketing. If you are blogging for leisure or just for fun that is good. But why don’t you knock the door and blog for leisure and for fun and at the same time earn some extra cash. If you are regularly updating your blog and you have a good number of readers and followers, I think this is the time that you turn the tide high and low.

Some people like me are not given the talent of writing but I have been given a talent of reading. So what? I mean there are only few people good at reading and writing both. Some of the successful internet marketing are not even good at writing but they were the one earning from 5 digits to 6 digits monthly. Maybe you just heard the myth, yes it’s true. We don’t need to mention any names and I know you knew these guys I am talking about. If not, better search for them and be friend with them. Maybe you can get a share or even a fraction from a million dollar revolving in the internet marketing.

Blogging is addictive and somewhat abusive sometimes. But for marketers like us, this should be done in a manner that it is informative and helpful to everyone. Not only to your clients but to every person who want to learn something new from your expertise. So you must write a content that is humanistic and realistic.

If you are on to internet marketing world, you must see to it that your blog are giving fresh information to your readers. If you regularly monitor your blogs stats and your audience is growing, you must see to it that it has to continue giving information that they can use so they continue visit your site.

Now let’s say you have updated your blog, even the old content of the former articles that you have written. The question is, “did you tell it to the internet world?”

During my previous blogging years, I might say there are more than 5 blogs that I’ve been created and discarded for I even forgot to write something fresh so my audience depleted. Until I’ve learned about pinging your blog once you update it.

Pinging your blog is a way of telling other websites that you have updated your blog with fresh contents. So if they knew that you have a fresh content, they might come and see to what you have in your blog. Here comes a visitor!

You can use free multiple ping services like what I’ve been using: http://autopinger.com and http://pingoat.com to send pings after I updated or wrote knew things in my blog. It may take a minute but it’s worth waiting since this is your way to have visitors and with more visitors to come means more traffic and more potential earnings.

You can also submit your blog to content sharing/voting websites such as http://digg.com and http://stumbleupon.com but be careful not to spam them or you could lose your account J.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of the famous and easiest ways to make money on the internet. Even beginners like me through the help of simple online video tutorials, free eBooks and through reading from successful affiliate marketers earn cash with affiliate marketing every day.

At first especially when you are a newbie (like me, J) you find affiliate marketing very difficult. You don’t even know where to start and which product you should promote or sell. Don’t worried about this since every big names don’t tell you the secret, I’ll exposed it to you. You’re going to learn how do affiliate marketing became famous and how to earn truck loads of cash using this system.

Without further testimony let’s begin with affiliate marketing strategy.

One of the hardest parts about affiliate marketing is promotion, to get high traffic and to sell your offers. You might be thinking of every possible strategy but nothing comes from your head. Believe me! At first I am also doing that. All you need to do is to provide some effective and no cost ways of promoting your affiliate products that will suit your style.

I’m not going to sell you anything from this or promote a product like others did. I am writing this so that somebody like me who was starting their feet to ride in the world of internet marketing get their buddy who will guide and redirect their path. I will tell you what I have learned from years of experience. So sit there and continue reading.

Finding a product to sell

In finding product to sell, you must first consider your interest most especially when you are going to promote it in your site or blog. There are hundreds of thousand product there you can promote and get high paying commission of 30% - 70% or even a 100%. 100% instant commission is my favourite but before we you went to that, you must first try to sell products with commissions of 30% to 70% if you’re new to affiliate marketing. Why? This is for you to have training so you don’t waste your time selling the 100% commission but no one is buying your product. I know you don’t want it but you can do it if you want.

How do you find these products? You can search directly through search engine or do the shortcut. There are several places but I recommend www.Clickbank.com or www.paydotcom.com if you want to sell digital products. Why digital products? The only answer is that this is the fast and easiest way you can catch a sale in affiliate marketing. People today are fun of reading and surfing the net looking for a good digital product. This is fewer burdens since they can just click the buy button and the product can be downloaded instantly unlike the hard bounded merchandise that they have to wait for the deliver thought there are online shoppers who bought that kind of goods. I am only telling that for you to be an established affiliate marketer you must first sell products that are easy to sell and get commission instantly but you can do the same if you want.

Another thing that you must consider is where do you want your commission stays? If your don’t have yet a PayPal account you must first sign up there for free. Just google it or simply click through the link www.paypal.com or type it in your browser. This will help you receiving all your commission from you sales throughout being an affiliate marketer.

Now let’s say you want to sell a product about “affiliate marketing”. So you go to ClickBank marketplace to find a product to promote about “affiliate marketing” and you’ll there’s a lot of eBook about it meaning people are buying them. (You can search for the keyword of the product you want, this is just an example.) Look for the product with good gravity. Good gravity means it must be higher than 50 and must have a search volume of 15k searches per month on some keywords.

The wonderful part is researching for at least top 10 keywords you may need using free keyword tools. You may use google keyword tool or http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com to check out for your keywords.

Selling Process

So you have your product, affiliate ID and keywords. The next thing is to write an article about your selected product. For you to be successful in affiliate marketing you must not put all your eggs in one basket and you know that. You should keep linking your affiliate link to your site when you are writing articles. Also, you can put you affiliate link at the end of your articles under the author’s box. But be very careful that you have read the terms of use. Some sites don’t permit directly putting your affiliate link to them. You might use shorten link using http://tinyurl.com or you link them to your site where your affiliate links can be found on you page.

You can submit your articles to ezinearticles and goarticles. These are only two among the most popular article directories. Take note! You need to write more article but be careful not to over use or you will be marked as spamming them and you don’t want it to happen.

Register a domain name to any registrar of your choice. You can use cheap domain registrar such as www.namecheap.com or www.godaddy.com and make a redirection of your affiliate link. Be sure that your domain name is simple and search engine friendly. I suggest you use your keyword in your domain.

You can also use www.squidoo.com as your website. It is a user content generated website that took the internet by storm. Squidoo lets you create a webpage called “lens” where you can write something about your topic. You must search and read more for it. It’s free to join and you can use www.squidoo.com for free. After your registration, you will be prompted to start building your lens which is a great thing for affiliate marketing since you can put your keyword in your lens such as www.squidoo.com/affiliatemarketing.

Now you’re set. You have your way on affiliate marketing. If you want to be a super affiliate marketer, you can also create video and upload it at www.youtube.com for it is the second most visited site in the internet. Under the description, you can put your link there to redirect to your site or blog or articles that you’ve written.

I hope this idea of affiliate marketing gives you an idea on how you got a share from the fraction of a million dollars in the world of internet marketing. Have a good day.

Online Marketing

These days there are so many ways to make money online, the problem is that most of them are rip offs. From MLM to eBay schemes it is hard to navigate which ones are legitimate. One sure fire way to make money online is by using PayPal.

To begin making money online with PayPal, you need to do these 3 things.

1. You need to find something to sell and the best products to sell are digital ones. They cost nothing to deliver and it only takes a few days to put something together. You need to find a topic that you know a lot about like a hobby or profession. Then, you need to write everything you know about it and save it as a PDF file. It has to be something of value that the end reader would like to know and be willing to pay a few bucks for.

2. Go and set up a PayPal account so you can accept credit card sales from your customers. PayPal is great because once you have an account you can be in business from day one. You do not have to jump through hoops like you would normally to get a merchant account. When you get sales for your product, you can transfer the money into your bank account with ease; it normally takes 3 to 5 business days. One word of caution, do not abuse your PayPal account as you really only have one chance - just no tricky stuff and deal with refunds or problems promptly.

3. Now you need to promote your product, which can be done in a variety of ways. Freeways such as blogging or article writing are a great way to get started. Some people even place a small inexpensive classified ad in the local newspapers to get some interest going. Also, if you had some money to spend you can place Google Adwords ads, starting off small and scaling up as the sales come in.

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