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Creating Press Releases for a Free Boost of Targeted Traffic

Sjarief Hilmy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:49:01 GMT

A press release is an announcement of something newsworthy that is submitted to journalists and other media representatives.

By submitting a press release you can instantly create a buzz with your message and receiving a boost of traffic to your site.

You could submit a press release about you, your business, a new site, blog or product launched. This could be anything to do with your business.

Why Blogging is Essential to Your Business

Sjarief Hilmy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:57:55 GMT

In the ‘good old days’ – about three years ago – you used to keep in-touch with your customers using phone calls, email messages and face to face meetings. Nowadays the world has changed. People expect even more frequent updates, yet it’s nearly impossible to meet with every business contact on a regular basis.

Thankfully, blogging has come to the rescue. Setting up a blog on your web site – and having an associated RSS feed – means you can keep in constant touch with your clients and potential customers. Plus you don’t have to email them and they can get your latest news without having to visit your web site.

Why Social Marketing Must Be A Part Of Your Business

Sjarief Hilmy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:46:51 GMT

If you are trying to sell things on the Internet and you do not have a blog you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Would you go to play golf without a putter?

Your competition is blogging and they are beating your pants off every day with ease. A part of blogging is submitting your articles to social directories.

Internet Marketing Focus

Sjarief Hilmy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:40:04 GMT

Internet marketing is a complicated business. There is so much to learn. Building websites, learning search engine optimization, emails, autoresponders and that is just some of it. Then you have to find your niche, research your market, dream up your product and on and on it goes. Then just as you think you have figured out your blueprint along comes another indispensable tool or system. So you make a few adjustments and read another 150 pages of instructions and watch another 20 hours of high powered video. Phew! You take a deep breath and rewrite your blueprint. You turn on the computer and check your emails. There are 65 emails all heralding the latest and greatest in internet marketing. Spy on your opposition, buy these private label rights and do not forget to listen in to the latest over hyped teleconference with two or three self proclaimed gurus thinly disguising mutual backslapping for selling some over priced “how to” book which is probably just another rehash of what you learned two or three months ago.

Building Backlinks for Search Engine Love

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:09:54 GMT

Building backlinks to your website is highly recommended in the Internet marketing community these days. This practice is especially helpful for the purpose of drawing organic (read “free”) traffic to your website. And, if you don’t have traffic to your site, you don’t have much if earning money is your goal.

Benefits of Listing Your Website In a Web Directory, What to Look

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:57:15 GMT

When looking to start or grow an existing Internet business or even offline business there is one fact you cannot get away from. That simple fact is without traffic your business is going nowhere. This simple truth is universal to all Internet businesses and is tantamount to building a Wal-Mart on the moon it could be the biggest and best-stocked store ever but if no one can get there it is dead before it starts.

You Can Make a Lens on Squidoo to Boost Your Internet Marketing

Sjarief Hilmy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:01:00 GMT

Creating a Squidoo lens can be fun as well as wise. It is fun because the tools produce a lens with a wide range of variety and creativity. And it is wise because the lens will help the lens maker market their business more successfully.

7 Viral Ways for Exapanded Online Reach

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:17:13 GMT

The emergence of social web provides opportunities for viral marketing that never existed before. Face to face talk or talk over the phone has its limitations in reaching your audience. The Web 1.0 offered forums for a limited viral marketing opportunity. The social web has opened up avenues many folds expanded online reach. This article describes seven techniques for using the social web to achieve virality.

Top 5 Reasons Why You Need To Use Article Marketing

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:04:53 GMT

Whether you run a business totally online, or you operate a brick-and-mortar business and have a supplemental website, you need to implement article marketing. If you aren’t marketing your business with articles, you’re missing a huge chunk of the marketing pie. Let me give you a few reasons why.

10 Tips for Better Search Engine Ranking

Sjarief Hilmy — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:06:29 GMT

follow these simple rules to improve search engine rankings of your site. You can also follow these techniques if your website is not ranked high in search engines for certain keywords.

How to Avoid Your Website Ended in Google Supplemental Index

Sjarief Hilmy — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:52:15 GMT

Although there is no direct way you can influence which pages of your site will be in the regular or supplemental index, you can take steps not to let your site get put into Google’s Supplemental Index (GSI) in the first place.

How to Get Your Web Visitors to Stick Around?

Sjarief Hilmy — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:13:09 GMT

When people visit your website chances are very likely that most of them will leave within the first ten seconds never to return again. The worst part about this is they leave without buying anything. They don’t even take the time to leave you a name, number or email address, so you have no idea how to reach them again, let alone how to get them to come back and give you another chance. How Rude!

Where are the Search Engines Headed in 2007?

Sjarief Hilmy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:30:28 GMT

So it’s the beginning of 2007 and you are wondering what the year will bring in terms of SEO changes. The changes can be summed up in 1 word – “relevancy”....

Picking Selective Keywords for Higher Search Engine Ranking

Sjarief Hilmy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:47:51 GMT

...What this means for Internet marketers is that you need separate pages for each keyword. Focus each page on each individual keyword. Use the keyword in headings, sub-headings, the page text, the page title tag and in the meta tags….

Making The Most of Public Domain and Private Label Content

Sjarief Hilmy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:38:06 GMT

...sites springing up left and right with Private Label articles you can use to create your own products, but what do you need to bear in mind, what is the best way to use all this content and what can you create with it?

Social Bookmarking

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:43:05 GMT

...Social bookmarking and tagging are a major thing right now. But many people do not understand why people actually use social bookmarking….

Strengthen Your Web Presence with Tags & Folksonomy

Sjarief Hilmy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:08:05 GMT

...Folksonomy is a combination of the words folks and taxonomy meaning “people classification management.” This allows users some level of control over how the web is organized. One of the most popular tools of the folksonomy concept is tags. Tagging, in the context of this article, is the process of labeling a piece data with metadata….

How to Gear Up Your Site for Social Media Marketing

Sjarief Hilmy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:44:09 GMT

...The social media is not a fad. It is here to stay and bring in profound changes to web surfers’ experiences. It is the right time for implementing features that will make your site social media friendly. Also, using marketing techniques that utilize popular social media sites, you will be able to bring traffic to your site….

How a Major Ski Resort Uses Podcasts for Online Marketing

Sjarief Hilmy — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:12:00 GMT

...Killington Resorts communications manager Tom Horrocks recognized that one unifying factor of this demographic is their almost cultish love of iPods and portable digital audio. He decided that Podcasts would be an ideal way to connect with them on their own terms….

How to Use Keywords and Keyword Phrases Effectively

Sjarief Hilmy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:53:48 GMT

...t may be better to write your content first, then choose your keywords and/or keyword phrases from the content. Rewrite your content as needed, adding keywords and/or keyword phrases that pertain to the theme of the content. In this way, you’ve chosen keywords and/or keyword phrases that are relevant to your content…