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Successful Internet Marketing – Web Traffic
Successful Internet marketing is generating lots of revenue from your visitors. How is this possible? How can we turn visitors into customers?

Successful Internet Marketing – Search Engine Optimization
How to increase search engine ranking is a major subject as far as successful Internet marketing is concerned. In this article, we look at search engine optimization (SEO).

3 Must-Have Website Features that Convert Visitors into Customers
Instead of trying to immediately convert the visitor into a paying customer, initiate a relationship with your visitor. This means that you have a strategy to move him through your like, know, and trust process so that he's well acquainted with you when he decides to he's ready to purchase your service.

20 Ideas for creating traffic rich, search engine friendly pages
Instead of lightweight pages with no content, today's pages need to contains high quality information, which is relevant to the online audience. The information rich page is 100% quality, put together with research, relevance, thought and care. No tricks are ever needed.

A Non-stop Marketing Machine
Develop your company's most effective sales tool, your web site, and increase your profits. Your web site should be your best sales person - available 24/7

Engage Your Customer – Write About Benefits
If you’ve ever sat down to write a sales letter and wondered how you’re going to grab your reader’s attention, or you’ve ever gone ‘round in circles writing draft after draft of web copy without ever hitting the mark, then this article is for you.

11 Tips for a Killer Web Site!
An attractive, well-thought out Web site will hook and hold your visitors. This article is a helpful guide and checklist to achieving a web site that delights your visitors and achieves your goals!

Is my website broken?
Your business can't stand still online, and you can't afford to look backwards. Qualified, targeted traffic generation is what we all desire. Owning your category online goes a long way in providing just that.

Exploring Beyond Keywords Into Behavioral Research
If you have ever studied search engine optimization, then you'll know that most educators place tremendous importance on performing good keyword research.

Copywriting Makeover: Making An Emotional Connection
Witness a complete search engine copywriting makeover that caused rankings to improve and sales to triple in just 48-hours.

5 Essential Traits Of A Home Business Website
5 very important traits of a professional home business website. Implementing these into your website will make it much more effective in getting visitors to do what you want them to do...

5 ways to get more results from your web copy
Here are some great tips to improve the design of your web site.

Search Engine Crawlers and Dynamic Web Pages
There are misunderstandings and confusions in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) world in regard to search engines indexing of dynamic web pages. It has been claimed that search engine spiders don't index/crawl dynamic web pages well. This statement is only half true.

Concrete Content: The Foundation for a Successful B-to-B Website
Let's face it; no one comes to your website to ooh and ah over your pretty graphics. They come to your site because they want something. And that something is the content.

6 Tips To Improve Your Business Website
There are six important characteristics that can play a major role on the impact your website has on prospects. The author describes the importance of each characteristic and tips on how to maximize your potential.

7 Steps to Web Sites that Sell
Your web site is like a fight of stairs into your business. Once you've got prospects to your home page - your online front door - you want to move them to action.

Content: Don't Get Lost In The Shuffle
Tips for using content to keep your website alive and working for you. How to prevent your website from getting lost on the information highway.

Does Your Submit Button Say Submit?
Use call to actions in ALL of your buttons and links. Always remember, does the button or link by itself, give the visitor any motivation to click?

Top 5 Must-Haves on Every Web Page
There are 5 elements that every page of every Web site must have. They are standard, and expected by Web users. When one of them is missing, it screams to a viewer that it's an amateur site. If a few or all of them are missing, don't expect anyone to linger for very long.

Writing Your Body Content
It is said that search engines like to see a certain amount of words in the body of your html page. That is true, if you don't have a certain amount of words in the body, then that page will not be considered a viable page.

The 3 Most Important Things In Your E-Business!
How to tweak your website so that it can convert more visitors.

Problems Found After Indexing 200 Websites
After indexing 200 websites I've found a lot of problems with the way web builders are using their meta information.

A Word of Caution on Search Engine Positioning
Search engine placement is by far the best way to generate traffic to your web site. A top rank in just one of the major search engines for one keyword can bring in thousands of new visitors to your site. However, before you embark on optimizing your site for the search engines, I would like to put in a word of caution.

Search Engine Strategies- Pay Per View advertising
The introduction of "pay per view" entries with major search engines and indices has created yet another challenge for the web master with a tight budget. It has been difficult enough to get our web pages a decent ranking and now we are faced with the prospect of having to spend more money in order to get noticed.

Top 10 Search Engine Positioning Mistakes
When it comes to search engine optimization, there are certain common mistakes that I see people making over and over again. Here's a list of the 10 most common mistakes that I see people making. By avoiding these mistakes, you can avoid a lot of anguish and frustration in the long run.

A Simple Guide To Search Engines
Search engine marketing is a highly effective method of driving hordes of targeted visitors to your web site if you achieve good rankings on them.

Web Accessibility - Making your Pages Friendly to People with Disabilities
Did you know that nearly 20 percent of all Web users have some form of disability? “Making your site accessible for all is a matter of courtesy, is good business practice, and is not difficult,” explains Robert Roberts, a professional SEO who owns the SEO Toolbox.

Creating A Web Page That Spells Out Benefits to Customers Effectively
One of the most powerful methods of marketing your products or services on the Internet today is to create a benefits web page. Let's face it, customers are interested in knowing how they will benefit from purchasing your products or services.

How Benefit-Rich is Your Site?
Getting hits but few sales? Spending valuable time and money on traffic generation with little profits to show for it?

Features and Benefits: Which is Which, and Why Do I Need to Know the Difference? 
You've heard that when writing promotional copy, you should promote benefits rather than features. Benefits show the genuine value of your products to your customers. They go beyond the specs of your product to tell customers about all they will lose if they don't buy from you now. How do you distinguish between features and benefits?

Sticky Sites Sell!
It is important to make your web site "sticky" if you want to increase your sales. A "sticky" web site refers to a web site that can keep its visitors on their web pages for a long period of time and also get the same visitor to return for a future visit.

Make Your Web Site User-Friendly
You can create a website that attracts customers, not repels them, with a little common sense advice.

7 Tips for Creating More Effective, Attention-Grabbing Headlines 
Few things are more important to the success of your marketing efforts than the headlines you lead off with in your sales letters, display ads, and web pages. An attention-getting, arresting headline has the power to pull in many more prospects and customers.

A Simple Rule to Create the Best Headlines: The 100 to 1 Rule 
Nobody uses their first draft in copywriting. In writing it’s just as important to edit severely as it is to write succinctly. What does this have to do with creating the best headline? It’s called Jeff Dobkin’s 100 to 1 Rule. It’s the rule all copywriters use but don’t tell you about. It’s the reason great copywriters get paid so much money: it’s the writing you never see.

Eye-Popping, Heart Racing, Subject Lines!
One of the most important factors of a successful sales letter is having a powerful, eye grabbing headline. With email marketing, you have to go one step back and first create a snappy subject line in order to get your email opened.

Closing With A Powerful Postscripts (P.S.)
Did you know that having a postscript (P.S.) is one of the most important aspects of a successful sales letter? The P.S. is just as important as headline to a sales letter. Many marketers even consider their P.S. message as their second headline because out of all the items in a sales letter a reader reads, it is the headline and P.S. message that are read the most.

Writing Headlines That Scream *READ ME!*
Bottom line, the headline of anything whether it be an magazine article, newspaper column, web site, etc., is the *most* important factor in the selling process. If you don't capture the reader's interest with your headline, it doesn't matter if master copywriters wrote the rest of your advertisement.

Tips on How To Write a Sales Letter
If you want to sell anything on the internet, you have to have a good sales letter. Keep reading to discover how your letter should look like in order to make a sale.

Domain Naming for Prosperity
Great misconception about domain names has quickly spread over the web and seized a lot of minds of internet entrepreneurs. It is time to put things on the right track, presenting other side of the domain name "medal" as well as going through the "check list" of the proper domain naming.

How To Write Powerful, Persuasive Web Pages
Many factors will lead to better conversion visitors to your page into buyers including: the products you sell, your competitive advantage, how well targeted your marketing is, your competition, and even how long your product has been on the market. No doubt though, your sales letter will be the primary factor in converting visitors to your page into buyers who put money in your pocket. So what's the secret to writing web copy that sells?

Don’t Get Caught Making These 5 Common Website Mistakes
These common website mistakes can make the difference between getting a few sales and getting a massive number of sales. That’s how marketing works. If people like what you say, they read on, and, if not they become turned off and move on.

How to Boost Your Chances at Having a Successful Web Site
You do have to work to make money online. Just like having a regular offline business, the online business needs to be taken care of, the Web site continually updated, and the customers made to feel safe and secure when doing business with you.

Ten Tips for Building an E-commerce Web Site
Want to sell your goods directly from your site? Here's 10 tips.

Why Some Web Sites Sell and Others Don't
Why don't most web sites attract prospects, help convert them to clients or customers, or function as a source of revenue? To answer this question for your own web site, focus on its purpose.

Benefits of Including Personal Information on Your Website
Many web site owners disclose little about themselves on their sites. This may be for reasons of confidentiality. But remember that if you want people to purchase your goods and services, they need to be able to trust in you.

On The Cutting Edge
Your site is up and running and it's amazing. Right on the cutting edge, with all the latest bells and whistles, it's a marvel of Internet technology. A wonder to behold and a pride to own but...are you making any sales?

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
One of the best ways of turning people away from your web site is what I refer to as "Banner Overload". Banner advertising is a good way to raise revenue from your site, but can also be very distracting. If you already engage in the use of animations on...

Psychology of Color
When color is used correctly, it can add impact and clarity to your message and highlight important points. When color is used incorrectly, it can compromise your message and confuse your target audience - to the point that they click their way out of your site as quickly as they can.

Which keywords should you optimize your site for?
The correct way of finding out the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines. This article will give you the formula for the Keyword Effectiveness Index - a mathematical formula to help you determine which keywords you should be optimizing your site for.

Creating keyword rich pages for the search engines 
Once you have established the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines, it is time to figure out how you can get a high ranking in the search engines for those keywords. The solution is to create Keyword Rich Pages - pages which provide good content and in which a particular keyword is repeated a number of times so that the page gets a top ranking for that keyword.

Creating Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are pages which repeat a particular keyword a number of times and are designed to get a high ranking in a particular search engine. Since each search engine uses a different algorithm to rank pages, those who use this technique of creating doorway pages to get a high ranking for a particular keyword have to create separate doorway pages for each search engine.

Improve the Link Popularity of your site
Link popularity, i.e. the number of sites which are linking to your site, is an increasingly important factor as far as search engine placement is concerned. Other things remaining the same, more the number of links to your site, higher will be its ranking.

Build Traffic and Value Through Reciprocal Links
Reciprocal linking is a way for website owners to share each other's traffic, a simple "let's trade links" deal that can help to widen your web audience. 
Swapping links can also help you with your search engine traffic. Some search engines calculate the number of links to your site from other sites and use it to determine your ranking. As you know, a better position equals more targeted traffic!

Page Cloaking - To Cloak or Not to Cloak
Page cloaking can broadly be defined as a technique used to deliver different web pages under different circumstances. Find out what is page cloaking, how it is implemented, and whether or not you should actually use it.

Tell Them Who You Really Are
There is a lot of talk about building loyalty and trust on the Internet. Various strategies and techniques have been discussed, different strategies orchestrated. Yet, it seems the majority of people miss the main ingredient of this trust-building process: being vulnerable.

Killer Ad Writing...Your First Step.
So how do you create Killer Ads and Ad copy anyway? Some say that it is your "Headlines" that can make or break you? Others say that your "Call to Action" statement really makes the difference. Sometimes even a "Killer Headline" and persuasive call to action statement will Net you very poor responses to your ads.

What You Don't Know...Can...Hurt You!
You know that old saying "What you don't know can't hurt you". Well that's not exactly true on the Internet.

Benefits To Internet Relationship Management
There is a new, rapidly expanding revolution sweeping businesses worldwide. New technology by way of the Internet is forcing major changes in marketing strategies. As a result, businesses are racing to shift gears from their "mass marketing" strategies of days gone by, to today's more competitive strategy of "one-to-one marketing", also known in the business world as customer relationship management.

Colors that sell
Color is a powerful psychological trigger. It creates strong emotions which can sometimes mean the difference between loosing or making that sale. So how do we know what colors to use?

Great Content And Fish
In simple terms,  great site content is information your visitors want or need. It may be a set of drawings, maps, descriptions of how to do things, and so forth. The notion that content must be great prose is nonsense.

50 Quick Biz Tips for Creating a Successful Website Business!
This article lists 50 quick tips on things you can do to make your web site more successful.

How to Make a Winning Home Page
To create a home page that
will rank well in the search engines and attract new visitors once they arrive takes some advance planning. Knowledge of a few key points can make all the difference in the success of your site.

It's not a website: It's a magnet!
Here are some tips to turn your website into a magnet for attracting visitors, fans and ultimately customers.

Create a Successful Web Site
Here are tips on how to create and sustain a successful Web site.

10 Tips For Better Web Sites
What are the secrets of the super sites? Why do some sites succeed while the majority of others fail? Here are 10 tips for better, more successful web sites.

The Three Ingredients That Make YOUR Content King
Your web business is in a constant battle with the typical consumer's "tune-out" antenna. Unless you are already 'branded' as a credible expert, directly promoting your sales page for a product or service rarely leads to consistent sales.

Stop Your Readers In Their Tracks!
Studies have shown that while 75% of the people read headlines, only 25 % keep reading 'the rest of the story.' Breaking it down even further, you have about 4 seconds to convince that reader to read on!

Do Customers Trust Your Website?
How often do you think about trust in terms of your website? You think about the content you put on it, the look and feel, the quality of the messaging. But if visitors to your website don't trust you, they won't become your customers.