Online Promotion: FROM ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY THROUGH INTERNET NETWORKING

FROM ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY THROUGH INTERNET NETWORKING

Written by Rozey Gean

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endless resources that freely flow through Internet networking communities. These communities are made up of enterprising women and men who are seeking to discover new and innovative techniques of establishing business relationships, building a client base, and gaining increased exposure globally. Through e-mail lists and electronic bulletin boards sponsored by such communities, entrepreneurs can not only establish these viable contacts; they can also share Internet resources to assist fellow members within repparttar 125190

communities in just about every aspect of business start up and operation.

As a veteran in repparttar 125191 ever-growing popularity of Internet networking, I envision four distinctive elements that are inevitably sought after from true networkers across repparttar 125192 world.

1. A VAT OF INFORMATION The Internet offers a vat of information to entrepreneurs. However, knowing what you need to know and where to find it can propose many challenges. Through effective networking, entrepreneurs share their knowledge and resources in an effort to help each other keep up with information that may be pertinent, as well as useful, in growing their businesses.

2. PARTNERING THROUGH SUPPORT Often times repparttar 125193 isolation of working alone limits our creativity and abilities, as well as our potential growth. Through Internet community networking, entrepreneurs are able to establish partnerships wherein they share various components of services that will allow them to take on projects they may otherwise feel forced to turn down. Reasons they turn down opportunities may be a result of time restraints or a lack of knowledge in specific areas or aspects of a project.

Not All Links Are Created Equal

Written by Sunil Tanna

Every wise webmaster knows repparttar

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number of links to his site, really is a webmaster's number one promotional priority. However a lot of webmasters get so enmeshed in building up repparttar 125190

number of links to their sites, that they forget all links are not created equal - some links are far more valuable than others.

It is absolutely essential to your success that you not only build up repparttar 125191 number of links to your site, but also be fully aware of how to evaluate repparttar 125192 worth of each link. This lets you can concentrate your efforts on getting repparttar 125193 most effective links to your site, and guarantees that you are getting a fair deal in any reciprocal linking arrangements.

Here's a list of factors you should consider when assessing repparttar 125194 value of a particular link:

* Permanent. A permanent link to your site is far more valuable than one that is removed after a few days (or even hours, in repparttar 125195 case of some automated Free-For-All links pages).

* Placement. A link to your site from repparttar 125196 front page (or even one of repparttar 125197 internal pages) from a high traffic site, especially one of repparttar 125198 top few thousand web sites, is far more valuable than a zillion links from people's personal home pages.

* Relevance. Ideally repparttar 125199 link to you should be on a page (or better yet a whole site) devoted to repparttar 125200 same or a closely related topic to your own. For example, all things being equal, a link to your golfing store from a golf tips site is much more likely to produce results than from an auto, finance or games site.

* Descriptive. A link that explains your site and entices a person to click, will get far more traffic (and better quality, more interested visitors) than a non-descriptive link. Compare for example: "Joe's Golf Store" versus "Joe's Golf Store - Tour quality golf clubs at discount prices, complete guide to every golf course in repparttar 125201 USA and Canada, and free pro golfing tips"

* Low Competition. A link that is buried among 500 others on repparttar 125202 same page will not get many clicks. A listing on a page which also lists 10 or 20 direct competitors (example: other golf stores selling to repparttar 125203 same market), is less valuable than being "exclusive" in your particular category (example: being repparttar 125204 only golf store on a list of resources for golfers).

* Context. Links usually work better if place in some kind of related context like an article for example. Be prepared to help out people placing your links in a context that works by providing free articles, which explain your topic (not repparttar 125205 same as blatant self-promotional!) or simply being prepared to answer questions.

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