What are your top 3 website marketing strategies?
Having a marketing strategy to promote your website or blog is a MUST! If you want to rank in the search engines, make sales and get web traffic you must have a strategy to get ranked for your keywords and drive potential customers to your websites and blogs .
1. Submit Your Site to Directories.
This is most important! Google counts all links from Directories whether it be blog directories or normal directories. By far these are the most important links to obtain if you want to get found in the biggest and best search engine in the world.
Although submitting sites to directories is a long and tiresome process the best way to do this is to outsource. Use a service or hire someone you know to submit your sites.
Here's a good list of Directories
2. Article Submissions.
I know I've said this before but, submitting articles to Article Directory sites can bring your a good load of ongoing traffic and is a great way to share your message with your target market. You can also rank high in the search engines by submitting your sites to article directories.
There are to places I submit my articles to and they are GoArticles and Ezine Articles.
Read How to write Good Articles
3. Social Bookmarking.
Do you use social bookmarking as a way to generate traffic?
There are 2 successful strategies you can use to drive traffic and market your website.
1. Submit your best articles from your blog to all of the social bookmarking sites.
You can use socialmarker.com
2. Submit your single articles to the bookmarking sites.
Again use socialmarker.com
Submitting every post you make to social bookmarking sites can cause you to get banned so only submit your best.
Now if you use all 3 methods together you can almost guarantee traffic and sales.
To get your online business seen and seen fast Internet Viral Marketing will do the trick. Viral Marketing consists of 4 major players check them out below. But, How do you get your site or product viral???
Well there are 4 easy ways to do this.
1.Viral Video Marketing
Viral video marketing can bring millions of hits, subscribers and sales to your online website business. But, the catch with this is you need a great video or a great video title. If you know how to do keyword research this will not be a problem.
I know people who make thousands a day because their videos are all over the net. It's not hard to make a 2 minute video then mass upload it to video sharing sites. If you think video marketing is for you then sign up for free at TubeMogul.com and submit your videos there.
2. Viral Digital Information Downloads
Giving away a free ebook you wrote or you have rights to. You can bring in a tidal wave of free viral traffic and build a list at the same time. Remember this though, your "Digital Information Download" must be of high quality cos if it ain't why would people click your link then visit your site?
3. Affiliate Program Gone Viral
Having your own affiliate program for your product or site can take your product or site viral very fast, especially if you a few super affiliates. The super affiliates will build hundreds of free back links to your product/site or service. You will be amazed at the viral strategies these marketer use to sell and promote your products.
The income you can make with your own product knows no limits!
4. Viral Torrent Marketing.
WOW this has to be the top viral marketing strategy used by online marketers to date, with this method online marketers avoid sending traffic to their own sites because of SE penalties and the type of traffic. Viral torrent marketing is best used for CPA offer and can easily bring in $100.00-$500.00 a day.
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Submitting your sites and or content to online press release companies is great because you can get the much needed exposure you need & receive free backlinks.
You can submit a free press release to the sites below.
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com
http://www.1888pressrelease.com
http://www.allthesebooks.com
http://www.bookhuntersblog.com
http://www.clickpress.com
http://www.i-newswire.com
http://www.free-press-release.com
http://www.news.eboomwebsolutions.com
http://www.newswiretoday.com
http://www.openpr.com
http://www.pr.com
http://www.pr9.net
http://www.prfree.com
http://www.pr-inside.com
http://www.pressbox.co.uk
http://www.pressmethod.com
http://www.prnuke.com
http://www.webnewswire.com
If you have problems writing your own press releases you can hire someone else to do it, you can try places like guru.com, digitalpoint.com or getafreelancer.com
When you start searching for someone to write your press release make sure you add the price of the article, I would pay from $4 - $30 depending on the quality and the amount of words. Also ask for a sample or references so you know that the person is trust worthy & has experience writing press releases.
Once you have your press release article submit it to the free press release sites above.
Internet based businesses/websites need articles plain and simple, every person who has a site knows this. Articles give the thirst for information and knowledge of a topic they are interested in and article marketing provides many benefits for the business or site owner.
Benefits of Article Marketing:
- List Building: Build your list or
-Sales: make sales from yours products or affiliate products.
-SE Rank: you can get your website ranked high in the search engines results for keywords and keyword phrases relevant to your website.
- Trust: Articles also give the readers a increased since of confidence and trust levels of customers to your site and company.
- Viral Traffic: When the readers like the articles, they would tell more of their friends, family and peers and recommend your site to them maybe via email or even a link on the My Space profile, providing for a larger volume of traffic.
So now we have established that articles are very important to website marketing.
Research your topic first.
Do keyword research and look at competing sites before you start writing your articles. Use keyword tools like https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
and http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ to see how much competition you have and how much traffic a keyword gets.
How long should your article be?
I usually go with the minimum 250 - 450 words the goal I go for is to get people to visit my site and then purchase a product or join my list.
Choose long tail keywords with less than 500,000 search engine result competition. Try find the buyer keywords. As soon as you have at least 5 good keywords you should write at least 5 articles per keyword don't hold back go for it.
Now you should be done, submit your article/s to the article directories and wait for the traffic.
