Xongoo! CMS is a search engine friendly and zero-cost content management system http://www.xongoo.com/contentmanagementsystem.php

Other open-source CMS include PHP-Nuke and Drupal http://www.phpnuke.org http://www.drupal.org

- Forums/Bulletin Boards

A forum or bulletin board is an excellent tool for building content and creating an online community that will bring repeat traffic. Many web hosts now provide packages that include bulletin board scripts on your server.

The best part about a forum is that it allows your visitors to build your content for you. However, it does require time and energy, and some technical knowledge to moderate and maintain forums.

phpBB is a popular open-source bulletin system http://www.phpbb.com

- Reviews/Interviews

Reviewing and publishing a write-up on new products or resources in your field is becoming a favourite technique with affiliate marketers looking to boost their commissions.

It is also an excellent way to get found for keywords related to product you review. You can also do regular interviews of experts in your industry and put up transcript on your site.

My product reviews have allowed me to get high rankings for specific keywords of my choice http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/reviews.htm

- RSS or Newsfeeds

RSS is latest craze in online publishing because it allows syndication of *expert* news and content that is regularly updated at source.

Using RSS feeds you can enhance your site content without need to write a single line on your own. Search engines love RSS feeds and are known to spider pages with such feeds more often.

Express RSS is a tool that allows you to add RSS feeds to your site in under a minute http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/expressrss.htm

Links page - Having a quality reciprocal links page can benefit your site in several ways. First of all, it gets your site listed in more places on net which can bring you more traffic. More and more major search engines will rank your pages higher when there are more links to your site. Also, quality links can help spiders find you more easily each week, therefore keeping you indexed longer and dropped less frequently. Take a look here for an example of a link exchange page. http://www.seymourproducts.com/exchange/index.shtml

Articles - Not only do you want to post relevant articles on your site, but writing and submitting them to other sites will help you as well. Posting new articles on your site will keep your content fresh and new so spiders like your site. It will also keep your visitors coming back for more.

Writing and submitting articles can increase your link popularity and bring you more traffic as well as helping your search engine ranking. A few places to submit your articles is listed below:

http://webmarketingspecialists.com/articlesubmit.html http://wahmteam.com/submissionform.shtml http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/articles/submit.html http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html http://www.creativehomemaking.com/submit_article.shtml

Using these techniques and others will greatly improve your rankings in search engines and bring you more targeted traffic which in turn can increase your sales substantially! For more info on search engine tactics, visit http://www.searchengines.com/

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