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 Can Social Bookmarks Help You

Posted in SEO by Anson Hall @ Aug 9, 2008
by Anson Hall

There are a lot of people who start the services of social bookmark submission. In fact, social bookmark has become a standard of web site promotion. As a result, you should try to submit to the social bookmark sites in order to promote your web site.

You may not really know what social bookmark actually is. In fact, you can submit your favorite sites to various social bookmark sites. In most cases it is free to use these site.

You will bookmark the sites you love. In fact, your web browser will certainly provide you the function to bookmark your favorite sites. However, the problem here is that you will not be able to access to your bookmarks if you are not using your computer. To this end you may want to access the bookmarks somewhere else.

This is what social bookmarks meant to be. You can bookmark your favorite sites on the social bookmarking sites. And you will be able to access the bookmarks whenever you can access to the internet.

You will be able to share your favorite sites with all the other web surfers. Of course you can make your bookmarks private. Yet you may certainly let others read your bookmarks if you do not make them private for you only.

This is how you promote your site using the social bookmarking system. You will be submitting your website to various social bookmarks. Since all other web surfers can read your bookmarks, they will also see your site and this will help to promote your site.

The link of site may also appear in the first page of the social bookmarking sites. If you site is really popular in the social bookmarking site, which means that a lot of people put your site as their favorite site in the social bookmarking site, your site will probably be shown in the first page of the social bookmarking site.

Social bookmarking sites can also help in your SEO. In fact, it can help to build back links to your site. When someone submit your site to the social bookmarking site and mark it as public, you will get one back link. The link popularity of your site will be improved.

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 Inbound Links -Why Search Engines Love Them

Posted in SEO by Derek Gehl @ Aug 8, 2008
by Derek Gehl

Relevant, respected websites that link to yours — without having links back to them — are search engine gold. This kind of link lets the search engines know your site is worth linking to, and it offers the kind of information that searchers are looking for when they type in your keywords.

You can build up your inbound link count by approaching website owners and asking for a link, or by sending them articles (with a link to your site) that would be interesting to their audiences. But before you do, here’s a list of what to look for.

Great inbound links…

- Come from relevant sites. If your site is about golfing, don’t go after a link from a site that sells hockey sticks.

- Appear natural. If people were linking to your website randomly, they wouldn’t all use the same anchor text, and they wouldn’t all link to you in the same week. When you give out the links you want people to use, vary the anchor text and build them up gradually over time.

- Aren’t among dozens of other links. You don’t want the page your link is on to have more than two dozen outbound links - the fewer the better (unless the link is from a directory).

- Are placed in a good position on the site. Try to get your link in a natural position — usually within some text in the main body area. The search engines may discredit links found in the footer, right-hand side, or other areas where advertising usually goes.

Don’t worry about getting your link on their homepage. Deep links within a strong complementary website are great.

- Are found on sites that are indexed regularly. Check the Google cache date of the page the link would come from and make sure it’s recent.

- Are on sites that have been around for a while. The search engines assume that an older site is more credible

- Are on sites with high Google PageRank. The more links you can get from high PageRank sites, the higher you’ll get ranked in Google’s listings. However, if you find a website that would be a great partner but the PageRank is 3 or lower, they are still worthwhile

Getting inbound links is one of the most powerful strategies for getting high rankings in the search results. It’s worth spending time on.

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 Will You Consider Social Bookmarks

Posted in SEO by Anson Hall @ Aug 8, 2008
by Anson Hall

There are a lot of people who start the services of social bookmark submission. In fact, social bookmark has become a standard of web site promotion. As a result, you should try to submit to the social bookmark sites in order to promote your web site.

Without any surprise, you should know how to use the bookmarking function in your web browser. However, the idea of social bookmarks may probably be something new to you. In fact, you can treat social bookmarking sites as websites which offer you the function to bookmark your favorite sites.

When you are surfing on the web, you may come across some sites which you like or you find useful. You may bookmark them in your web browser. However, you can only access you bookmarks in your own computer. As a result, it will be a good idea if you can access the bookmarks virtually anywhere.

To this end you may use the social bookmarking sites to stored your favorite sites or the sites you find useful. The advantage of using a social bookmarking system is that you can access your bookmarks anywhere and anytime.

Another advantage of using social bookmark site is that you will be able to share the bookmarks. You can make the bookmarks visible to all web surfers. And the result is that they can access to your public bookmarks.

The idea of public bookmarks will help you to promote your sites. When you submit your site to a social bookmarking site, other users of the bookmarking site can see your bookmark and also your site. People will visit your site when they feel interested.

Besides, when many people add your site as their favorite site, it will become a popular site and it may be shown in the home pages of the social bookmark sites. And it will certainly drive a lot of traffic to your site.

As a matter of fact, social bookmarks can help to improve the link popularity of your site. When you bookmark your site, there will be a link to your site. This will certainly help to boost your search engine ranking in the long run.

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 The Most Common Mistake Made by Internet Business Entrepreneurs

Posted in Site Promotion by Derek Gehl @ Aug 7, 2008
by Derek Gehl

Most internet home business entrepreneurs fail when they start their internet business because they make one large error.

They decide on a product to sell without finding out if there’s a market of potential customers who want to buy it! That’s the “bass-ackwards” way to go about it.

Before deciding on a product to sell on the internet, successful internet entrepreneurs need to find an underserved niche market.

Then, when they come up with a product or service for that niche, they do lots of market research to make sure they’ve got a winning — and profitable — business idea.

To avoid this fatal mistake follow these three simple steps.

Step #1: Jot down all of your interests and passions

You are far more likely to be successful if you base your internet home business on something you are already knowledgable about.

If you don’t find your internet business idea enjoyable you will not be motivated to stick with it and put in the necessary work needed to make it a success. Before finding your underserved niche make sure to brainstorm your interests and let them be your guide.

You can find unique skills a variety of ways. Knowing how to pass the exam required to be a paramedic is a skill on which an internet business could be started. Think of your own unique experiences. Maybe you collect stamps or sew quilts - these are all examples of unique niche markets.

A list is a great place to get started - write down all of your unique experiences, careers, passions, interests and any life challenge you have overcome.

Once you have your list narrowed down to a few areas that are of most interest to you, you are ready start your market research.

Step #3: Find your niche

Think small if you want to find big profit when starting your internet home business.

Specialized, underserved niche markets can be a source of large profit streams online.

On the Internet, a niche market is a group of people who are searching to solve a common problem but not finding many (or any) relevant results.

The fact is, most people do not go online to buy at least not right away. They go online looking for information to solve a problem.

And that’s where you come in. Once you’ve found a group of people who are all looking for a solution to the same problem — without much success — you’ll have discovered the “hidden treasure” that will form the basis of your successful internet home business!

But you’ve got to think small. If you start with a large, general market, you’ll likely find it saturated with competition.

To strike gold you have to be patient and not rule out any possible avenues you have brainstormed. You need to keep drilling down to make a small market even smaller.

How do you find these markets?

You can find out exactly what people are searching for online by using a simple tool, such as BeBiz. Are people searching for your potential product and not finding it? You may have just found your niche!

If you start your internet home business this way, you’ll know there’s a market of eager potential customers out there who need your product even before you’ve spent any time or money creating it! But even when you think you’ve found a niche, you can’t just rush off to create the hot product you think everyone will want to buy. The next step is to validate your market.

Step #3: Validating your market

Validating your market means confirming it has profit potential. In other words, can you actually make money from it?

To validate your market, ask these 4 questions:

1. Can you easily reach and define the market you are validating? Most potential market groups will have a place they congregate on the internet. Use places such as forums, discussions boards, club sites and online groups to analyze exactly who your potential customer is.

You will have a much better idea if your market will be likely to buy from you once you know who they are.

2. Is the market small enough so there aren’t many competitors, but big enough to be profitable?

You want a small pond, but it still needs enough “fish” in there to make it worth your efforts. If you find lots of competitors who are well established, well supplied, and well funded, back away! You should look for a smaller, more precise niche.

3. Do your potential customers have money they are willing to spend?

You need to know if these people actually buy stuff… so it’s a good sign if there’s some competition already selling products to the market. You’ll have a much harder job selling to people if there are too many free products or free sites available.

4. Is your niche willing to spend money on your product in order to solve their problem?

You want a potential market that is so passionate about their interest that they eat, sleep and breath it. They will want ALL the information they can get on the subject.

People who are obsessive about their passions, such as video gamers or stamp collectors make a profitable market!

Take away

You need to follow these 3 steps when starting an internet home business. You will be able to create a business you are passionate about if you find a niche market based on your experiences. You can be confident your internet business will be profitable if you validate your market BEFORE you create a product.

This simple, but effective formula will start you on the path to internet home business success.

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