If you want to rank well in search engines, then you absolutely must understand how to do market research and build your keyword lists. Why? Because keyword research determines your market’s profitability and competition.

If you skip this stage, you could wind up doing a lot of work following dead ends. There are some markets that just are not worth pursuing. You don’t want to end up chasing a market that isn’t profitable.

You need to decide what the market is looking for and bring yourself to the market. Many small business owners do just the opposite. They come up with a product or service they think the market needs and then try to go after and convince the market of their product value.

There are plenty of markets available that will suit your tastes. Once you find the market that you want to reach, then you will build your keyword or key phrase lists.

In this article, I assume that you already have a target market in mind. Therefore, I will give you a high level overview on how to do proper keyword research. I’ll start with the benefits of keyword research.

The Benefits of Keyword Research

What are the benefits of doing proper keyword research? Listed are four benefits of the power of keyword research:

1. It drives traffic to your site; just by simply using the words your target audience uses in their searches.

2. It helps you write more effective copy (sales copy) for your website; knowing what terms to incorporate into your copy helps your target audiences identify with your side immediately.

3. It helps with content development; it helps you create content that your target audience needs and avoids wasting your time on irrelevant topics.

4. It helps you understand your target audience better: you will know how and what your target audience is searching for.

5. It helps you measure the size of your market: just by determining the number of searches, you can target huge pools of untapped potential and avoid many pits.

6. It helps you to develop and diversify revenue streams: by using keyword research that exposes and employs popular keywords, you can be inspired to innovate and create new product and service ideas.

7. The bottom line: the results of keyword research are that your website copy, business strategies, and online marketing will be successful a great majority of the time.

Keyword research is the foundation to proper linking. Why is this important? Sometimes we assume we know what our audience is searching for. This is a common mistake many professionals make. They assume that since they are an authority on a topic they should know what their audience is searching for.

The only correct way to know what your audience is searching for is to do proper keyword research. What you think your audience needs or is looking for may be completely incorrect. I can guarantee that you will be surprised by the keywords your audience searches on to find your topic.

95% of websites are caught in the trap of bad keyword selection. High correlations of the keywords you use on your website and the words your target audience uses in their searches actually moves the website toward the audience and attracts many more targeted visitors.

Keyword links + keyword content on your site + keyword searches = solid search engine traffic.

Building Your Keyword Lists

Step One: Understand Your Target Audience

To start an effective keyword list, consider your potential customers’ motivations and intentions.

What kind of questions will they ask? What are they trying to accomplish? What problems do they need solutions to?

Step Two. You Must Understand the Types of Buyers and Your Target Audience

There are two types of buyers. The first type of buyer is the logical buyer. They will normally ask “how” and “what” questions when considering purchases.

However, 70% of all buyers are emotional buyers. These types of buyers are normally more spontaneous and concerned with the user experience and end results when considering a purchase. They asked the typical question, what’s in it for me?

Step Three. Think Like Your Target Audience

Remember, most of your buyers are emotional buyers. So, use the emotional slant to convince this type of buyer. Use emotional keyword anchors in your text. For example, if you had a website about running shoes, an emotional buyer is interested in the “best” running shoe or the “healthiest” running regime. They wouldn’t necessarily want to know the benefits of running shoes. They want to know what’s in it for them.

Step Four. Think Broad and Wide for Your Target Audience

Start with a broad list of keywords around your topic. Make sure they are specific enough to fit your target audience. Include terms that match closely with your visitors’ intent in relation to what you sell.

Note: traffic costs money! Think about quality not quantity. Your conversion rate is the most important factor. You don’t just want traffic, you want converting traffic!

Step Five. Prioritize Your Keywords Based on Conversion

If you don’t have conversion data, you’ll have to make your best guess as to which search terms you think will convert the best.

Consider these points:

1. Make your product or services’ intention clear. Don’t hide what you’re trying to sell.

2. If your keyword phrase is “blue high top basketball shoes”, make sure a visitor can buy “blue high top basketball shoes” on your site. Better yet, make sure you link to a page about those shoes.

3. Consider your ability to present value. How does your product present value?

4. Consider the amount of traffic you will generate using your keywords. If you’re using a cheap hosting provider, you may want to switch to something that can handle higher traffic counts. It’s frustrating to have a website go down because you can’t handle the traffic. This is something that you have complete control over. Make sure you don’t ruin your first impression by having a website crashes more often than not.

5. Consider the probability of conversion. If you are highly niched and know precisely what keywords or keyword phrases your target audience searches for, then use your highly niched keywords.

If you don’t know what the probability of your conversions will be, then you need to track this metric. There are several analytical tools that you can use to track this information. Don’t skimp. Make sure you know this information.

Keyword Research is the Most Important Step

The most important step you can take in marketing your website is keyword research. You not only need to know the keywords you want to get ranked for but also which keywords are converting the best for your website.

It makes no sense to drive a large amount of traffic to your site and not be able to stay in business because the conversions just aren’t there.

So, focus on quality NOT quantity. Start with your best keyword/phrase and begin your linking campaigns. Move down your keyword list, each time promoting and linking with the next keyword phrase.

In time, your site will not only move up in search rankings but move up based on the keywords that YOU chose. Don’t fall for the myth that more traffic you get the better.

Take control of your traffic and get ranked well for the keywords and phrases that are most profitable your business.

Businesses are all about decisions, and informed decisions are the thin line of difference between success and confusion. This concept goes for the Internet and websites too, and any tool that provides you with information about your website is a Godsend. Analytics engine is one such simple to use and free tool that gives you web statistics. Here is a short tutorial that will help you harness the true potential of Google.

Step 1 # 1: Making an Account

Analytics software system is a free tool provided by Google. Making an account is convenient and simple. All you need to make a Analytics engine account is a Gmail e-mail id. Once your Gmail e-mail id is set up, you can go to the Analytics engine website and sign up your website for Google Analytics.

Step # 2: Installing the Tracking Code

Once you have signed into Analytics engine, you will be redirected to a page which has links to the analytics reports of your website. If you have not installed the tracking code on your websites, click on the Add Website Profile link.

If this is your first time on Analytics engine, and you have not installed the tracking code on your website or any of its pages, choose the “Add a profile for a new domain” option. Once that is done, scroll down and type in the URL of the home page that you wish to install the tracker to.

Select the time zone you are in and click Continue. Once this is done, the Analytics engine will automatically detect whether the tracking code has been installed on the website or page that you provided them with. Choose any of the code given below (best way is to press Ctrl+A and Ctrl+C) and paste the copied code into the website and webpage that you would want Analytics engine to analyze.

Make sure that you install the code anywhere before the End Body (/body) tag. Click Continue. The pa

ge will now show the webpage, website or websites that you have installed the tracker code to. Click on the View Reports link to go to the The System Dashboard.

Step 3 # 3: The Dashboard

The Dashboard is your Google homepage. Through this page, you can access almost any information you would require about your website, or even any page within the website. Once you have signed into the The System website, you will be redirected to the list of website profiles, that is, the analytics reports of any and all websites that you have installed the Google Analytics tracker code.

Once you are on the Dashboard, you can view the following analytics about your website:

Site Usage: The site usage column gives you the relevant information about the traffic for your website. The Visits column tells you the number of visits and unique visits in a given time frame. You can also know about the number of page views per visit at the Dashboard.

You can also find out the Bounce rate of your website or webpage. Bounce rate is the number of visitors to your websites who browsed away from your website directly from the landing page or the home page. Analytics engine also tells you the exact amount of time one particular user has spent on your website. It can also calculate the percentage of new and unique visits on your website.

Traffic Sources Section: The Traffic Sources Section tells you more about the traffic of your website, and explains it further. You can get information about all the traffic sources for your website. You can also divide your traffic from direct traffic, Search Engine traffic and Referring sites. Google Analytics can also give you traffic related information regarding your AdSense account if you have one.

When I first realized that a great way to get my websites up in the rankings is to add my websites to free advertising websites on the web, I spent 40 hours working on this and managed to get my site into 200 free advertising sites in that time period. I had to search out those free directories on the web. Once I found one I had to figure out how to submit my link and sometimes that took time. It worked though. People started finding my website within a few weeks and WITHIN TWO months I started getting over 3,000 people coming to my site and my website was picked up by a number of directories as well without me doing anything. I even had people contacting me to advertise on my website and I received some income for this. They noticed from some free reporting sites that I was getting a lot of traffic. I had registered a .ca and when I went to register my site as a .com someone had bought it and was sitting on it because they thought my site was so popular they should grab the .com. They now advertise on that site.

The great benefit of adding your website into free advertising sites is you get “backlinks” coming into your website and the search engines think people like your website and you automatically become special to Google and rise up in the rankings. It is something that you need to do if you want to do marketing online. If you want some simple training on search engine optimization (SEO) go to GNC Web Creations. They sell a book for $20 which is very simple to understand and worth the price. They also offer free courses in SEO and web design. The book helps you understand the courses but is not mandatory at all.

This time round I decided to look at directory submitting programs since I am just so busy. I spent some time researching the different programs on the market and after looking at six programs I stopped when I found Submiteaze because I could tell right away that their program was excellent. I was not wrong. I have had the program now for about 4 months and yet again they have managed to wow me with their latest upgrade.

Everyone has probably heard that the web does not like automated submission programs. I am not sure of all the reasons for this but some of them are that when you submit to a free directory you need to search for the right category in that directory. Sometimes these automated programs do not insert the advertisement in the correct directory. If you are selling candles and you end up in the tools directory the webmaster will be angry with you and delete your entry. Also, some of these automated programs spit out garbage and the entry contains language that does not contain proper words. I get these types of entries in one of my contact forms from these automated programs and have to delete them. Also, the web does not like duplication. If you put the same advertisement into 1,000 sites this may be perceived as spam. I am sure there are many more reasons why automated programs are frowned upon.

Submiteaze is a “semi-automated” system. This means you get to look at the information before it is added to a free advertising directory and make changes and ensure it is correct. You have to click the final button to submit the advertisement to the directory. Plus it keeps track of the directories you have submitted to so you can make changes in the future. You would set up a campaign with all the information about your website, contact info, etc. and the Submiteaze program will automatically drop the info into a free advertising website and you then just proof the info and fill in what type of link you want and click submit. The program also keeps track of your passwords and the websites you enter the advertisements into. It takes a few minutes only for each entry.

Since these websites sometimes give off a lot of advertisements for their paid members it is a good idea to set up a gmail account for these campaigns. Make sure the gmail account refers to your business directly or your name because these websites like to know the email used is a business email connected to the website you are putting the advertisement in for. Creating a gmail account or hotmail account guarantees you will not get any spam in your in box. This is the price you pay for free advertising but if done right you will not be bothered by it. Also, some of the websites will want you to confirm your entry so you will get all these emails coming in saying first they have your request and then another saying please confirm and then sometimes another saying you have gone live. You will need to look at each of these emails to make sure you confirm your listing if needed. Otherwise the advertisement might not be entered into their database.

I first mentioned to you that it took me 40 hours to add my website into 200 free advertising sites when I first began. After I started using the Submiteaze program I managed to add my site into 200 advertising sites in about 4 to 7 hours. I have lost track of the exact time but it was substantially less than 40 hours. I wanted to be able to add my website to 1,000 websites so this section of the program allows me to do this with about 1 to 2 minutes per entry.

How Submiteaze works is that they have all of the free advertising directories in lists. One list is for directories that want you to register, one is for a mandatory reciprocal link and the other list is for those who just want to get those advertisements in quickly and do not want to do too much work. That is my favourite section. The program automatically defaults to the free advertising directories signup page and pops your advertisement into the screen.

In my opinion you should not just add reciprocal links to your website without ensuring they are related to your website’s business since it can confuse the Google search engines and they might not target your keywords correctly and business will not come your way.

Submiteaze allows you to set up an unlimited number of advertising campaigns. What I mean by campaign is that I have a campaign for my candle business and I have another campaign to sell my candle products and so on. Each campaign will have a page of information that is submitted which will include your advertisements, website info, email address, contact info, the category you want your advertisement to go in, keywords, etc. which can be amended easily. For instance for my candle business I want to be entered in the business section but for my candle products I want to be recorded in the shopping section. The program allows me to distinguish this when they enter my advertisement into a site.

The program also allows you to set up as many advertisements within a campaign as you wish and the program automatically rotates those advertisements so that a different advertisement will go into the different directories. This way you avoid a lot of duplication. I have at least 20 advertisements for my candle business. All worded slightly different. Submiteaze rotates those 20 advertisements as I am entering them so that if I enter my website into 100 free advertising sites, each of those 20 advertisements goes in 5 times only. This avoids duplication and allows you to add different keywords into your advertisements to track people who are adding those search terms into the search engines. For my candle products advertisements I have another 10 advertisements that rotate as well when I add those advertisements to the directories. Periodically I keep adding advertisements to my campaigns. It only takes a few minutes to write a two line advertisement. I put the keywords in the advertisement title and in the body of the advertisement. People are directed to my website if they are interested and I do get people contacting me that way.

If you do not understand keywords you really need to check out www.wordtracker.com. Understanding keywords is mandatory for anyone wanting to make money online. It will take you some time to understand this so be prepared for some studying.

Submiteaze updates their program every 13 or 17 days. They fix any links that have gone bad and add in new directories. Recently they did another upgrade and added a TURBO submitter. This allows me to add an advertisement in 10 to 15 SECONDS. Now you are thinking this is an automated system and this will not be accepted by the search engines. It is still sem-automated. They have just managed to figure out how to provide for an even faster submission without making the program fullY automated. You still maintain control and have to push the final submit button. The time saving feature has to do with the way the entries default which is difficult to explain. Basically the information is dropped into the submission page automatically. All I do is click the submit button, or fill in a CAPTCHA and then click the submit button. The program knows I want the free link with no reciprocal link (Submiteaze allows for other types of submissions as mentioned above). 99% of the time the program picks the right category for advertisement. Then the program automatically records the entry as submitted for me and moves me to the next screen. I now can enter in advertisements at the rate of 100 in ONE-HALF HOUR to 45 minutes. That is less than half of the time the regular section of the program takes me and of course a lot better than the 20 hours it took me when I first attempted to enter in 100 advertisements. This is why I decided to write this article. There are 1100 entries in this section alone (and they will probably increase that) and I will have 30 advertisements rotating in those 1,000 websites within a couple of days and that is just by doing it late at night when I am relaxing watching TV. It is that simple to do. I have already entered 300 and the program keeps track of which ones I have entered. By the way the program will also keep track of the websites where I have decided to register and want to come back later on to enter the advertisement.

They even have a process in place where you can tell them that an entry is not working by right clicking on the entry and clicking report. Then when they upgrade the system in the next 13 day period they will pick up the deficiency and correct it. Things change all the time on the web and Submiteaze has 3,500 websites in its program. They are always adding more and improving the program. By reporting on a bad link you make it easier for them to be current and it only takes a minute to help them out.

I have been working with programs for a number of years in the legal field. My experience has been that they only upgrade the programs every few years and even when you tell them that something is not working properly they manage to not bother fixing the problem. I have found this very frustrating because I understand how these databases work and modifying their basic program is not that difficult. Because of this the businesses usually go under in a few years and the lawyers buy a new program and the same thing happens over again. These programs usually cost $1000 plus. This is another reason why I am so impressed with Submiteaze. They actively continue to upgrade and amend their program on a bi-monthly basis. They comply with the rules of the internet and provide a semi-automated program instead of a fully automated program. They provide for multiply advertisements so you will not be spammed. They have other products as well which I will also be considering purchasing. My feeling is that if they treat this program with such efficiency, they will do the same with their other programs.

Anyone that owns a website knows that backlinking is one of the easiest and quickest ways to get traffic to your site and its another very important part in the SEO equation. Basically its a link back to one of your sites or pages. Its a very simple and easy project to accomplish. It also plays a large part in PR (page rank). Backlinking can be done in several ways but Im going to list one of the easiest ways in my opinion. This is done by going to a blog or a website with a comment area. And with in the comment area there are usually 4 sub-areas.

Those areas are Name, Email address (which is usually never published), Website URL, and Comment. The most important area here is the comment and URL options. In the URL option you would put the name of the site you would like to ultimately promote. And in the comment section it would be ideal for you to put in a little comment reply about the persons blog post.

By posting a comment thats relevant to whatever the author is talking about you show a certain interest, and for the other people visiting that certain post, you will also peak their interest. So traffic so far is coming from two directions, author of the post, and visitors of the post. The other way you get traffic by leaving backlinks is when a search engine picks up on it and indexes it on its search engine.

I know this sounds like a lot of work, and it can be time consuming but the outcome will be well worth your time and energy. This piece of software is considered freeware (absolutely %100 FREE), and its very efficient in what it is supposed to do. If I had to do a quick review I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. The software can be found on the internet by searching for “Real Link Finder”.

Theres only two things you really need to do to get this started. First off you have to download it, its a pretty small piece of software so it wont take that long to download it. Secondly you will sign up to receive a free key, this will be sent to your email address so please be sure to enter in a VALID email address. While your waiting for the key to arrive, install the program some place where you will be able to find it, preferably your desktop and if it asks would you like to place this on the start menu you can also say yes so that. Once you receive your key, open the program and put it in the unlock key area on the program.

You will also find a readme.txt in the folder you downloaded the program into. Your more than welcome to read through this for a quick start guide. Its all really easy to follow and pretty self explanatory but just so you understand everything Im going to do a quick walk through.

1 Type your keywords here: You can type virtually ANY keyword here that you want. It can be something relevant to your site, or not. It doesnt really matter as long as you have some knowledge about the keyword you are picking.

2 Number of existing blog comments per post: Pick 5 to start out with. This will ONLY bring up blogs that have 5 comments or more. If you cant find any with 5 then you can choose 4 comments per blog.

3 Number of blogs to search: Use 100 as a default every time you do this.

4 You will see three buttons; Find Stop & Next. Press find to start searching for blogs.

5 Authors Name (your name), Authors email (your email), Web link (the site you want to promote). While the program is finding blogs you can go ahead and fill this info out. The Fill Fields button is for when you come to a blog/site, this button will automatically insert your name, email address and URL.

Blogs matching your request: Obviously this is the search results for the keyword(s) you selected. You can click any of those links *once* and in the pane below it will show a quick preview. If you decide you dont want to leave a comment, then dont worry about. Go onto the next link. Once your finished with all the links simply press the next button and itll scan through all the blogs again and find you more results.

The nofollow option is a really great option to have on this program. Many blogs use the nofollow tag which prevents search engines from seeing your link in the comment. Obviously if your backlinking, the whole purpose is for people to see your links so you will get traffic. This program allows you to select yes or no options for the nofollow results. I have mine set on yes. If you take anywhere from 30 min to 1 hour out of your day to do this program you will see significant results almost immediately.

I knew I was going to be writing this so just to make a honest statement I did 1 hours worth of backlinks this way, and received multiple comments and emails from the Authors and visitors of the blog with in minutes.

***Note: When finding blogs to backlink on please make a quality comment. It will make you look better as a commenter. And on top of that SPAMMING is not allowed in this program. Even if it was allowed who is to say the Author would even keep a SPAMMY comment as opposed to a quality comment? He/She probably wouldnt and then it would defeat the purpose of this project. ***End Note.

One last thing before I end this article. Here are a few MORE ways to use backlinks to your advantage:

Submitting your link/site to directories

Press Releases

Signature links in forums

Signature link in emails

Write articles or reviews for people and include your website URL

Link Exchanges

Blogroll (wordpress)

Comment virtually anywhere online that has a add your home page or web url option

Thats just a few. Theres hundreds of other ways. I hope you enjoy the software and get the same amount of pleasure out of it as I have over the last few months. Use it and use it a lot, you will definitely with out a doubt get more traffic coming to your websites. Thanks for reading!

Recently I met Linda Ross, a determined business woman. She has put her heart and soul in setting up her business. Now it was time to promote her product. She left no stone unturned in doing this job. In order to be the best among her competitors she opted for online marketing. She was already aware that most of the people search for products on internet. Therefore it was equally important to keep the website rank high in search engine results. Thus, she took care of its optimization process too, by ensuring that it happens at lower cost. After thorough research she came to know that SEO tools could be the perfect assistants at such time.

Day by day SEO tools are becoming the favorite of every ambitious person. But people find it very difficult to search for such tools. While you surf on internet about SEO software, you get a wide range of information. Most of which is unnecessary and irrelevant material. In order to keep yourself rightly informed and to make an opinion, you need to choose the matter consciously.

What are the major factors that you should consider before buying SEO tool?

· Know the complete features of the software: Before buying SEO software, you should know its complete features. As you are investing money so it is mandatory to know which type of benefits it can provide.

· Familiarise yourself to both values and drawbacks of the SEO tools: Look out for a platform that shows you both dark and bright side of the software tool. This helps you in knowing the best working areas of the tool and thus you can keep yourself prepared. At the same time, if you know the weak areas, then you can take a better decision.

· Ask for its customer updates beforehand: Ask for the medium of customer support services too while looking for SEO tools. It proves to be great help as you will be able to get easy help anytime.

· Know about the real investment cost: Many times the SEO tools need to be updated. It has other included cost too. Therefore you should keep yourself updated regarding the charges you will need to pay in future. Keep yourself safe, by keeping yourself informed.

· Ask for customer reviews: While you go for SEO software review, keep yourself duly informed about the customer reviews. They help you to make the right decision, as here you get a feedback from the people who have already used the tool.

These are the key points that can help you to hit the exact SEO tool. Use them to hit the bull’s eye in internet marketing. For any further information on SEO tools, have a look at iexpertsforum.

Obtaining the highest rankings for your UK-based websites is not impossible if you hire the best SEO (search engine optimization) company there is. Putting up an SEO blog or any kind of website for that matter simply means that you intend to have many people visit and be informed, amused, or entertained by it. The problem lies in one question though: there are millions of other people and websites trying to win the attention of the same group of people. Hence, the decision and the success of getting this audience’s attention lies at your very own fingertips.

There is no question as to the power that the Internet brings and the great business opportunities that it offers for everybody who has the courage and determination to put up with its demands. But all these come with great responsibilities—even when we’re just talking of a blog. Everything should be regarded as serious business. Nobody has ever gotten that lucky to have just registered a domain name, put up a website, and gotten really successful by doing just that. A great amount of knowledge, a wild creativity, and that determination are what you need in the SEO blogging world—that is if you’re still up to it.

UK-based companies providing you the right UK SEO needs abound. Most of which are well equipped to get you your most-desired top rankings for UK SEO blog. They have what it takes to change your SEO blog from a simple one-minute-read-through website to something that is bursting with color and life. UK SEO blog companies know just exactly how to do this. They know exactly what to do to make your SEO blog the first thing in every search engine listing, with millions of Internet users finding and going over it instead of some other mediocre blogs.

Although money goes with these kinds of services, there shouldn’t be any question as to whether it’s worth it. Just like anywhere else in the global market, the UK SEO blog business is no doubt a complex and dynamic endeavor. If you tried and tested things on your own but has failed, then it’s about time you enjoy the services of UK-based SEO company today.

Do you want to know how to perfect your skill when it comes to finding profitable niche keywords that can change the direction of your business. Of course you do. Learn more.

Give me a chance i would like to share with you one of my best ways that i use to generate thousands of profitable niche markets with little or no effort, and for your information i don’t use any paid software, i use whats available for me FREE of charge i believe its there for you too.

Today i am going to reveal to you some simple strategies that you can use and repeat and in no time you will be a master i niche keyword research.

Niche keyword research is easy. Keyword research is critical to the proces of SEO, without this component your efforts to rank well on major search engines can be misdirected to the wrong terms and phrases. You need to understand the keyword research phases.

There is Brainstorming: Get to know what your customers want, what are they ikely to type on the search engines in an attempt to find the information/services your site offers.

Surveying customers; Getting a survey and seeing what past and present customers are saying can be a great way to expand your niche keyword research.

Keyword resarch tools:Tools like Google keyword tools and Wordtracker can give you the best information about the number of times the users perform specific searches, such information can be of great advantage for you.

There aremany other more phases but these are the most important right now. So whats a niche: A niche is a target market, with the simple steps above i will show you how you can arrive at a target market very easily.

People search for different things on the internet, and they type in different terms, your focus is to get people who are looking to buy, people who are looking to buy are more specific in their searches example A person searching for “ipod nano” is very general and its very likely that they are just looking for information, but someone who types in “ipod nano 3rd generation” is actually more specific and is likely to buy, such a  search term is more targeted. Thats what we call a niche.

Below is a simple niche keyword research that i just did using word tracker

Mens suit  (27,000 searches)

Armani mens suits(723 search count)

Italian mens suits(615 search count)

Jones newyork mens suits(424 search count)

Mens cistom made suits (126 search count)

Thats just to give you a rough idea on how to get involved, i believe if you dig down you migh find even better and more targeted niche keywords. eg Armani mens suits—> Digg further i come up with “Armani custom made mens suits” more targeted Amazing.

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Whether you’re running a small blog or a large on-line business, you probably want to know who your visitors are, but also get a great deal. There is a range of companies, suited for different users, that allow you to view your statistics.

Statcounter.com is a website that offers a free edition, which comes with a limit of how many users you can log at a time (100). There is also a variety of paid subscription choices which range from $9 a month for 1,500 users to $49 a month for 100,000 users. Even the free edition is handy in that it breaks down the statistics in a number of ways, including graphs of daily page loads, recent visitor activity, visit lengths, country and state of origin, browser, and unique pageloads for each visitor. It goes much more in depth, and the counter that can be added to your website can be made invisible, even in the free edition.

Google Analytics (google.com/analytics) is also free to site owners and, while it does track site visitors, it is more oriented towards tracking visit revenue, especially is your website contains AdSense. It has features such as Geotargeting, which shows where visitors are coming from, a trend and date slider that allow you to zoom in on daily or monthly visit trends, and can be used regardless of the size of your website.

Vendio (vendio.com) combines sales analytics with visitor counting in the number of services it offers, both free and paid. Its free counters offer more than 100 styles that can be used either for E-Bay auctions or regular webpages with the option to upgrade to pro, which included hourly hit reports and daily hit reports. Other services offered by the site include image hosting, the ability to build a store, and other algorithms pertinent to small online store owners.

No matter what service you use, it is important not to get too caught up in the minute-by-minute breakdown of site visitors and to make sure to look at the long-term picture.

Link Building is the main reason why websites get listed at the tops of the search engines it is actually more important than SEO, so in order to get great free targeted traffic from the organic search engine results link building is a must. Link building is basically anytime another website links from their site to yours. Search engines see links as votes for your site, everytime another website links to yours the SE count it as a vote, The more votes the more popular your site must be, thus your site moves up the search engine ladder. Naturally some links or votes are more important than others, we are going to discuss great link building strategies that will give you a boost in your search engine ranking.

So what are important links? Websites with high pagerank and relevant to your website are considered good links for your site. Quality NOT Quantity is the key, most of the time low pagerank and sites not relevant to yours will most likely have no effect for your website in the eyes of the search engines, But keep in mind that sites with no pagerank could have a high PageRank score as time moves on, so it is worth it to get a link from that site as long as it’s relevant and has good content. Lets Discuss a few link building strategies, so you can use them in your campaign.

Start With Directories

-A good place to get the ball rolling is with directories. Lets find out why,

-Most directories have great pagerank

-Most directories are free to get your link added

-There’s a ton of them, and allot get great traffic.

-Some are niche targeted

Submit To Article Directories

There are tons of article directories that you can submit your articles to, everytime you write a new article for your website you should also submit it to article directories. When you write your article you should add a link at the bottom to your site this way when you submit it there is a link pointing to your website. This can help your link building campaign in many ways,

-When the article directory posts your article your link will be in it, which counts as a vote for your site.

-Other people can use your article on there websites, which your link will be in as well so you get even more links pointing to your site.

Find link Partners From The Search Engines

Do a search on related keywords for your site on the search engines. Email the websites with good pagerank (preferably 4 or higher) and that are related to your site and ask to exchange links with them. There are a few thing you should do when emailing potential link partners.

-Add their link to your site first and let them know where they can find their link, you will get a much better response when you do this.

-Be professional but never sound like a bot

-Look over their site closely and let them know that you actually visited their site. Let them know what you liked about it and where the best place would be for them to place your link.

-Give them a reason to link to you, for example if you have good pagerank, your content can compliment theirs, their link is easily accessible to your traffic, Basically let them know that linking to your site will benefit theirs in some way.

This concludes part one of link building strategies 101 stay tuned for part two where we will be covering more link building strategies that will help you climb the search engine ladder.

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My name is Roger Preston, and I am a journalist for various publications in upstate New York, as well as the New England area.

I recently had a chance to interview the fine team of professionals at WebBusinessSecrets.com whose flagship product is entitled “Get Google Ads Free.”

In April of 2007 “Get Google Ads Free” was launched, and the effect was nothing less than equal to “the shot heard around the world!”

Within just weeks people everywhere were talking about it, and other top-notch online marketers were scurrying to sell it as an Affiliate for the company.

But here’s a little insight that 99.9% of everyone the world over doesn’t know:

The product’s greatest endorser is none other than Google itself!

That’s right. As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search engine for Free!

Now, at this point I know you must be curious as to how such a thing is possible, as Google makes its money from the sale of both AdWords (PPCs) and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show their ads on their pages).

One might think that any information that revealed how an advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone finding out about it, right?

WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired native New York doctor contains an interesting “twist” that while allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does not reduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google.

In fact, just the opposite!

I cannot give away the secret here because that’s why it’s for sale in the first place.

But I can tell you that with the application of what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free” that:

- Google loses NO money

- Google actually can make even more M0NEY!

- Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone

not knowing what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free!”

- Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition!

- Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising budgets no longer matter!

Wow! And this is just the beginning!

Now, where’s the definitive PROOF that Google endorses the amazing system shown in “Get Google Ads Free?”

I asked this question to company spokesperson and Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, to which he responded:

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“We started our launch like we always do with any product online, using Google AdWords to offer our Product.

“We used keywords that contained the word ‘free’ so we anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause any campaign using them to experience.

“But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time than what we regularly anticipated, then we got concerned.

“I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she’d check into what was happening.

“She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook “Get Google Ads Free!”) their team at Google secured the product, read it all the way trough, and then realizing it would NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they immediately un-paused and resumed our ads”

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Amazing! They actually got what amounts to a Signed Certificate of APPROVAL from Google itself!

Therefore, anyone who questions the truth or legality concerning “Get Google Ads Free!” need not fret at all.

Yet, the usual “naysayers” seemed to ignore the obvious fact that if Google had a problem with “Get Google Ads Free!” then we all wouldn’t be seeing all the PPC ads at Google each time we type in the keywords and phrases:

- free ads

- free advertising

- “Get Google Ads Free”

- free ppc

- free adwords

And so forth!

Yet, there are many very stubborn, even foolish, among us .

> The “Crybaby Syndrome