The search engine optimization game is constantly evolving, and to keep on top of it you need to maintain consistent link building efforts while also keeping an eye on the developments and buzz around the SEO community. Some of the most valuable SEO info available comes from blogs and industry publications, and keeping up to date with it is essential to being able to effectively SEO optimize your website.

As any SEO info blog will tell you, there is a real emphasis in SEO circles on appearing ‘natural’. What is meant by ‘natural’ is to structure your link building in such as way as to make it appear completely unforced – to make it look to search engines like your site has merited links from a diverse range of sources, using diverse anchor text and linking to a range of internal pages. This is harder than it seems, and the sophistication of Google in particular makes it even harder to pull off. So what SEO info do you need to optimize your site in a way that won’t obviously flag the attention of the search engine algorithms?

In a perfect world, websites would link only to those sites with interesting or useful content. The way in which these links would be formed would vary from site to site, but a simply tally of number of links (multiplied by the relevant weight of each link) would produce a nice, straightforward ranking system. Delivered objectively, the most useful content would show up under a given keyword term. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, but trying to recreate the conditions of natural link building as far as possible will see you on the right track to better rankings.

Appearing natural also means avoiding spammy-type links, in any shape or form. Links that anyone can get are likely to be of little value because they are more open to manipulation, whereas links that are harder to come by (e.g. those that come from more trusted sites) are likely to be more valuable. Similarly, links that all have the same anchor text and all point to the same page don’t look like they would have arisen naturally as a result of the quality of your content.

Appearing natural also means addressing the content and coding on your website itself. Any stuffed keywords or over-optimization will seriously harm your rankings. Any good source of SEO info will tell you that being natural means almost forgetting SEO, and treating the quality of content and the diversity and trust of your links as the most important factors for modern SEO.

Creativity is key when it comes to natural SEO. Be creative in your placement of keywords focusing on the quality of your content – anything that reads like it’s written for a search engine spider will likely get the boot from Google. Focus on the quality of your website, and think of creative ideas to garner natural links from other sources, rather than investing time in the spammy, easy link-building techniques that have been around for years. If you focus your energies on doing a more high-level SEO effort than your competitors, it should be reflected in the results, and should leave your site with a better ranking for the long term under your key search phrases.

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There are about ten common Facebook marketing tactics. (You can probably think of more, but most are a derivative of one of these ten.) It may surprise you to learn that five of these tactics don’t even work — that’s fully half! Now, no Fire God will suddenly appear to smite you if you happen to have done one of the following things. They are definitely mistakes, but they aren’t irreversible. In fact, they’re really only mistakes in one sense of the word.

My perception of these as “mistakes” isn’t about breaches of the unwritten Facebook etiquette either – I dance on those lines myself from time to time.

Rather, I’m calling them mistakes from a perspective of effectiveness, versus the alternative behavior. Whether they’re wrong in terms of just coming across as rude or politically incorrect is another matter altogether.

Having said that, off we go.

Mistake #1 – Posting Signature Links on Profile Walls with Your Introduction

I asked someone why they did this once, especially since I’d already been to their site and purchased the item they were selling on that page.

She said: “I saw someone else do it.”

“How did it make you feel?” I asked.

“I felt kind of used. But I figured if that’s what it takes to be successful, that’s what I’ll do, even if it doesn’t seem quite right.”

Now that’s deep.

I understand though, because once I made the vow to become successful, I also made a vow to do “whatever it takes”. At the time I thought it meant hard selling and being pushy. I later found it meant hard work, and doing what’s right even if there’s a lazier, easier way.

Even if this was at one time effective in terms of getting clicks from random profile visits, Facebook is now much more stream-driven than it is profile-driven.

And that’s a huge part of why this is a mistake in terms of effectiveness.

Not to mention that people who see these postings as rude or attempts to spam can remove or hide them. They may even drop you as a connection, which cuts you off not just from them, but from their network.

You’re not missing out on anything by omitting that signature link. Your name, hyperlinked to your profile IS your signature link. If your profile is set up correctly, prospects will get to your site from there.

Mistake #2 – Pitching

If you want to pitch people on Facebook, buy an ad on Facebook.

It doesn’t have to be a Facebook ad – buy one in a popular Facebook application. No matter how good your elevator pitch is in real life, it doesn’t translate in online networking. Let me give you a hypothetical example from the real world.

Imagine you go to an after-work bar. People go there to relax with work friends, to meet potential mates, on actual dates, and to get to know other people in the business.

You’re unwinding with colleagues when someone walks up, and without forewarning, tries to sell you some steak knives. When you stare blankly, they shrug, and move on to the next person.

We all may chuckle to ourselves, and wonder what that person is thinking… but are you ever the knife salesman when you’re on Facebook?

Honestly, when I first came here, I was tempted to be.

Thank God my better judgement stopped me. I’m telling you that to say this – if you’ve been the knife salesman don’t be ashamed, you didn’t know any better. It’s not like they issue marketing lessons with your incorporation papers.

Just make a vow, right now, to always check yourself before you post. Ask yourself “Am I Networking or Pitching?”

Mistake #3 – Artificial Bonding

I’d respect a person more who was upfront with me, and said they were hoping we could work together, or do some business, than someone who pretended to care about me in order to get me to have a conversation that they could then direct to their pitch.

I wouldn’t buy from them, at least not then. But at least I’d still respect them, which means I could change my mind in the future.

Pretending to like people until you get the chance to try to sell to them is really just pitching with a little bad foreplay first.

Bad foreplay isn’t better than none at all.

Mistake #4 – Favoring Uphill Marketing Over Downhill Marketing

Again, this is a mistake in terms of how effective it is. In my own experience, as well as in case studies of clients, it always works out better when you create a fantastic marketplace presence and people are drawn to you in droves, seeking to do business with you, rathere than the alternative.

The alternative, of course, is when you go out and pursue customers and clients one by one.

That’s not to say that you should stop advertising, bidding on projects, or being a go-getter in any way.

It means that while you’re doing that, also create a situation where customers are flowing towards you, seeking you out, asking for help.

It’s much less work to get from interest to sale when they come to you.

Mistake #5 – Fishing on Dry Land

A long, long time ago, I was in a network marketing company. Now defunct, the products they have greatly enhanced, possibly even saved, my life. The products were targeted to people who cared about being healthier and eco-friendly.

At first, I was so excited about what had happened to me, that I told every single person who would listen. I would try and go product by product and explain how great everything was.

After failing Very Hard for about three months, I narrowed my focus.

I bought a bottle of the mineral complex, and some sample sized containers. Then I gave a sample to every single person I could think of who had a health problem that might be related. Orders started pouring in.

Ever since that day, I have remembered two things. First, the one that’s relevant here – proper targeting greatly increases sales. Secondly, give a free sample of something needed to those most starving for it, and they’ll be back to buy more.

A few well-timed, well-placed interactions with the right profile are the main things you need to do the equivalent of offline networking on Facebook. A great profile is just as important as being appropriately dressed at a networking function offline.

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The way business is done has evolved significantly in the past few years and is continuing to do so. Most businesses have adapted and applied an online presence for their business. With the internet becoming more and more important in today’s business world, it is almost becoming a necessity for businesses to have a presence online to survive. Internet marketing is certainly a strategy that offline businesses should consider.

For example, email marketing has been proven to provide endless benefits for businesses. If you are an offline business, it has removed many geographical restrictions since it allows you to target clients from all over the world. Email marketing can help your business cut down on unnecessary stationary costs, as this method is completely electronic and won’t force you to keep purchasing office supplies and postage.

Make sure you avoid the problems that can be caused by sending unrequested emails. Earning a label as a spammer can be very costly to your business and reputation. And, much like in real life, recovering from a bad reputation can be very hard.

Fortunately, this can easily be avoided by letting your prospects voluntarily sign up to your opt-in email lists. This means that your customers know exactly who you are and, provided you are sending valuable information, will likely read your emails. This is an important step in getting prospects interested in what you have to offer.

Offline businesses should also consider building their web presence. It is remarkably affordable and easy to create your own business website to let your customers know more about you and what you offer. The internet allows for very efficient means of two-way communication. Excellent communication with customers should always improve relations and build customer loyalty and goodwill.

When you are establishing your online presence, make sure your first impression is a good one. Your website design needs to be laid out with the right colors and content. It must be easy for your clients to navigate so that they can find exactly what they are looking for with minimal effort. Also ensure you have as many ways as possible for your clients to contact you.

Furthermore, after you have established your business website, you may look to expand your presence online with other methods. Most people like interactive elements and like to be heard, so adding a forum and a blog might be a good step. They both allow for your customers to interact with both you and your other clients. This means you are able to find out what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong. You may even get some ideas on what they are looking for or what you are missing in your product line. This information can be invaluable in the quest to grow your business.

Adopting email marketing, improving your online presence, and using other methods of online marketing can bring amazing results if implemented correctly. More and more offline businesses are getting started, so chances are decent that your competitors are doing it. If so, you will be at a huge disadvantage if you don’t venture into the ever-growing online world.

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Link building is the most dreaded task of all serious SEO’s. Here are five quick and easy backlink building tips that you can apply today!

Link Building Tip #1 – Get Active in Your Community

I’m not talking about joining the local country club here (although that would be fun…), but rather about joining forums that are relevant to your niche. You want to find a forum (or forums) that is active and well ranked, and place your link in your “signature” section. This way, whenever you contribute to the forum (i.e. say something), you’ll be building backlinks. It is vital that your posts are of informational and educational use, and that you don’t just abuse the system in order to gain links. You’ll get banned quicker than you can say “backlink” if you do this. Contributing to the community is of the essence here.

Link Building Tip #2 – Scope Out Your Competition

Write down the website addresses of the top five results for your desired keyword. Then, using Google, type in “link:website” (replace website with the actual website address). This will show you where each site is getting their links from (well, most of them in any case) and hopefully spark some ideas for your site.

Link Building Tip #3 – Get Writing…

Writing and submitting articles is definately one of the most popular link building tactics around. You simply write a short article (400 – 600 words) and publish it on as many article directories as possible. Each directory will allow you to place your link in the “resource box”, thus growing your number of backlinks. You might be wondering “But what do I write about?”. The answer is simple – write about your area of expertise. So if you’re a handyman, write about some basic DIY tasks that people can carry out. Write how-to’s, 101’s and the like – Just give it some thought, it’s well worth it…

Link Building Tip #4 – Submit To Directories

Wherever there is an industry, you’ll find directories, especially on the internet. Do a search for your keyword and the word “directory”. Sign up to as many of them as possible – it’s a free link every time, and you might even find organic traffic (people) finding you on these directories (that’s what they’re there for, after all).

Link Building Tip #5 – Get Blogging

My final tip is to get blogging, or at least commenting on other people’s blogs. Have a look for relevant blogs and post some useful comments where suitable. Each comment will earn you a free link, plus potential direct traffic if the blog is popular and well followed. A word of warning though – make sure that the blogs don’t use “nofollow” tags, as this will render your link null and void in the eyes of the search engines.

And there you have it! Five easy link building tips that you can apply today. Best off all – they’re all absolutely free… Remember, link building is an ongoing exercise, and the more you make it a habit, the easier it will become. The only cost is your time and effort.

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Internet marketing has helped countless individuals and businesses to make significant amounts of money online. In order to be successful with internet marketing, it is imperative that you avoid the common mistakes made by those new to the industry.

One of the most common mistakes made is simply the failure to take action. This is usually just due to over-thinking and constantly changing your plans. Some call it ‘paralysis by analysis’. Once you have properly planned your business, it’s time to take the necessary action. Sometimes this pitfall can be attributed to perfectionists. If you spend all your time tweaking the design of your website, you will never get to doing the tasks that will really take your business forward. If you are not happy with a particular aspect of your website or products, it may be a good idea to hire a designer to help you out behind the scenes, allowing you get started with more important things.

Another mistake is not planning an online advertising strategy that best suits your needs. Don’t re-invent the wheel. You can try to emulate other people’s success by analyzing what works for them and what doesn’t. A good idea is to put your goals in writing and put them in a prominent place that you will see every day. As you complete each goal, you can mark it as completed. You will likely end up adding new goals down the road in order to keep your business moving forward and to keep you motivated.

Some internet marketers focus solely on the cheapest methods and tools. This can be counter-productive to your efforts since it’s true what they say – you get what you pay for. This is especially true when it comes to online advertising.

When advertising, it’s usually more effective to focus on quality over quantity. Numerous poor quality ads will probably not produce as much results as a single high quality advertisement. A poorly done advertising campaign can do real harm to your business reputation and brand. But, they do happen. When they do, it’s best to not let it get you down and instead use it as a learning experience.

As long as you find your most effective methods of internet marketing and keep doing them on a consistent basis, there is no reason why you won’t be successful. Use any possible mistakes as a learning experience in order to improve your next campaign and don’t get distracted with anything that doesn’t provide value to your overall business model and goals.

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By Debbie Lynn Butler

We live in a world where many people expect everything to be easy, instantaneous, or both. They want quick and easy money, quick and easy answers, quick and easy access, and easy lives that quickly manifest what they desire. They get frustrated when they have to apply more than a little effort. Your prospects and clients may be no different. Make it quick and easy for them to do the following:

Reach you.

Put contact information in (or on) the following

*article resource boxes

*auto responders

*business cards

*directories including those for your industry and your alma mater

*Chamber of Commerce listings

*e-mail signature lines

*e-zines or newsletters

*letterhead

*online, on air, and in print advertising

*press releases

*social media profiles

*Web sites

Share multiple ways to reach you by including:

*a frequently checked e-mail address

*a phone number answered by a live person speaking your ideal client’s native language well

*a valid mailing address

*the URL for your Web site’s Contact Us page

*a mobile phone number

*a toll-free number

*a fax number

Find the answers to their most pressing questions.

First, take the time to discover what your target market’s needs and problems are. Provide answers and solutions

*on your Web site

*in articles written specifically about these concerns

*as an overview on your business card

*on your blog

*on forums and in discussion groups where these people congregate and ask questions

*in social media posts

*in giveaways you create in the form of e-books, white papers, special reports, teleseminars, and audios

*in informational products you offer

Understand exactly how your product or service will improve life for them.

Be clear, concise, and honest.

Answer the unasked question “What’s in it for me?”

Provide testimonials and case studies with details of exactly how people got results.

Demonstrate in person or in video format.

Offer a free sample or taste of the product or service.

Trust you.

Establish an online presence with articles, blogs, Web pages, and participation.

Get certified by your industry.

Be honest.

Do what you promise.

Deliver in a timely fashion.

Transact business.

Use technology to

*display and sell products on your Web site and make navigation easy for your visitors

*transfer files electronically

*communicate online in real time

*access a remote computer for administrative or diagnostic purposes

*accept payment by credit card

Make it easy for prospects and clients who have limited access to the Internet or are not comfortable with computer technology to transact business with you, too. Provide:

*printed material by mail when requested

*live customer support by phone

*multiple options for making payment

Give your prospects and clients what they want: quick and easy ways to reach you, find answers to their questions, understand what they can get from you or how you can make life easier for them, trust you and then transact business. In the process, you will discover it is easy to give them what they want.

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By Katherine Droguett

E-mail marketing has become imperative to online promotional strategies. It is a great way to enhance your online presence and, of course, sales. Not only does it help a webmaster to sell his products online, it also helps build a trustworthy relationship with the clients. Lately, internet marketing has become a crowded place with every ‘Joe’ trying to entice customers. As such, it doesn’t take long for your mail to be labeled spam.

So, what does it take to be added as a contact in a person’s mailing list, or at least, get your mail opened? The answer – creating curiosity filled titles. The prime aim of an e-mail title line is to tempt the potential reader to click open the mail. A well thought-out, eye catching subject line increases the chances of message being clicked and read. The curiosity factor allures a reader to click and read the contents of the mail.

The saying ‘curiosity kills the cat’ very well sums up the human innate trait to explore. Human brains are geared towards seeking the unknown and can barely resist the pursuit of knowledge. A curiosity laden subject line will urge your visitors to click on the link and satisfy their inquisitiveness. This is enough to serve the purpose i.e. get your mail opened. Further, if the content of your email matches their interest, they’ll continue reading. The more they read, the more likely they are to purchase your products.

Here are some of the lines you can try:

1….. The four dots is a universal curiosity builder expression. Write your subject line and leave four dots in the end to make it incomplete. The sense of incompleteness or asymmetry increases the curiosity quotient. For e.g. “what an amazing….”Why would someone not click on it?

2. A Provocative Question: A question immediately sends a reader into a state of thinking and compels him to provide an answer to you. You can ask about his desires or explain your own experiences through a question. For e.g. if I am selling weight loss products, I can pose a question, “How I was able to lose weight in just 3 weeks?”

3. The Free Product/Benefit: Offer a free product or a discount on your product and let it shine brightly in the subject line. People love free handouts or want to try out your product’s sample before buying. By offering a glimpse of your product, you’re increasing their itch to get more of it. For e.g. “Free Online Marketing Course worth $250″ is a compelling line.

Leave your visitors wanting more. However, remember to insert ‘a call to action’ in the content or in the subject line, if possible. Let them feel that their curiosity can be satisfied by visiting your website or purchasing your product. Contrary to the perception, email marketing is very much alive. Creating curiosity in your title is the key. If you disregard this fact, then be prepared to be labeled spam.

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Both email marketing and mobile marketing have risen in popularity amongst business owners due to its effectiveness as a means of building customer loyalty and increasing revenue. Until very recently, the costs of email marketing and mobile marketing were prohibitive to all but the largest corporate players, and as such the market (certainly for mobile marketing) remains largely untapped to this day. Direct marketing using these methods has undergone a revolution in recent years. It has finally come to the forefront as a successful and affordable way to market to targeted individuals.

Email and SMS marketing are amongst two of the most highly responsive forms of direct marketing available. These forms of marketing require you to gather permission from the prospect in order to send ongoing messages, meaning that the messages that are sent are received by a truly receptive audience. This also allows for sending specific messages to certain subscribers, which makes for much more targeted campaigns that produce much more serious results.

By sending carefully crafted email and SMS messages to a list of ‘opt-in’ prospects, business owners of all sizes are able to give themselves a fighting chance of generating more sales leads. This direct form of marketing tends to prompt a response from prospects in a way that just isn’t possible with most other traditional marketing strategies.

Up until very recently, upfront costs have served as a major barrier to entry for these particular kinds of marketing for many smaller businesses. The ongoing costs of email and SMS mobile marketing also contributed to the inaccessibility of these as marketing channels.

Given the advancement in surrounding technologies and the availability of marketing agencies set up to provide these services, email marketing and marketing by SMS now require very little outlay in terms of infrastructural costs. These advancements have also led to a vast reduction in the marginal costs of sending each new marketing message.

As a result, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and across different industries and sectors can afford to market through mobile and email channels with very little, if any, fixed costs of getting started. Also, the costs associated with actually sending marketing messages over either email or SMS are relatively small, with the only spend required on the margin side of the business if you are offering discounts.

Now, email marketing and mobile marketing are now affordable and accessible to even the smallest of business owners, and there is no excuse not to seize the opportunity and leverage the benefits of these relatively new technologies in order to grow their sales. While for some, the concept of marketing online is still alien, those that have already embraced the values of modern technology can benefit from diversifying their marketing strategies, with email marketing and mobile marketing leading the way.

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By Peter Nisbet

By using a marketing funnel management system it is possible to improve the profitability of your B2B business. Most businesses are likely to be running CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, and are also likely to be using it to only a fraction of its capability because CRM in itself is only part of the answer to managing the marketing and sales aspects of a business.

Too many businesses separate sales and marketing to the extent that they feel obliged to compete, and unfortunately, while healthy inter-departmental competition can be of benefit for many companies, it can also have a detrimental effect without some form of control. That control can frequently be provided by automated lead scoring systems with pre-set rules.

However, even better would be to combine marketing and sales efforts into a result that compares leads entering the funnel against customers leaving it. In other words, the combined efforts of marketing and sales functions are integrated to a single objective.

How can that be put into effect? Any system or extension of marketing and sales functions must be part of your existing CRM system, and an automated marketing funnel management system would have to be integrated with your current CRM software. Were that not the case then you would have different and possibly conflicting systems operating concurrently – and that rarely results in success.

Given that a marketing funnel management system could be integrated with your CRM software, what should its objectives be in order for it to be successful in improving the profitability of your B2B business? First, the software will focus on B2B, so that it should be designed to help a company that does business with other businesses. This offers the advantage that the lead is seeking a genuine solution to a problem. Businesses should not be surfing the net for fun.

If they get to your website then they can be classified as genuine leads, and not passers-by clicking for the sake of it. Lead scoring software can immediately score such clicks positively, and you can offer inducements such as white papers or free trial products in the knowledge that they will be accepted only by interested businesses and not by individuals seeking freebies!

Those entering your marketing funnel can then be nurtured and scored as they pass through it. All of this is carried out automatically, with scoring initiated with specific action events, such as offering contact details, downloading a white paper or even just visiting the site. Professional lead scoring can be integrated with your CRM system that holds the lead’s details in a database, and maintains the statistics and position of each lead within the marketing funnel.

A lead nurturing system can be employed to analyze the needs of the lead from response to certain triggers, and be offered free publications that relate to the leads of the specific need. A white paper or free report can be provided, and later in the funnel a lead, perhaps now qualified as a prospect, could be offered a low-cost product that relates to their specific interest.

Eventually, the marketing funnel management system will identify qualified customers that have purchased specific products related to their business. You can mark that point as the bottom of the funnel or you could (preferably) mark it as one more stage on the way downwards. It is one more qualifying step, after which even more effort is made with what is now a customer.

That effort can be in the form of back-sales, where you could promote products that relate to that they have just purchased, or you could offer extensions of the original product – Mark II for example. This kind of back-up marketing might not be relevant to your type of business, and for you the process is complete other than the ongoing customer relationship procedures that are followed to ensure that your customer returns to you for their next requirement.

There are many marketing funnel management system available online, and which you choose should be dependent on your specific needs and whether or not it can integrate with your CRM software. It is possible to improve your B2B profitability by making the correct decision, but it is also very simple to make a serious error of choice that could have grave implications for the future profitability of your business.

The upshot is that you should never purchase a marketing funnel management system without having a free no-commitment trial over a period long enough for you to give it a proper test. A company that offers that is one that is confident their product works as it should, and that you will purchase it after your trial. However, the system you purchase should be developed specifically to suit your business, since there is no ‘one fits all’ solution to marketing funnel management.

For more details on how to integrated modern marketing techniques with your CRM software visit http://www.manticoretechnology.com where you will also find some useful information on Marketing Funnel Management systems that help you maximize the conversion of your leads to customers.

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