Search Engine Optimization: Get the Low-down

Written by Dina Giolitto


Been hearingrepparttar words Search Engine Optimization lately? I know I have. But what is it, you wonder? Well, that's what I'm here to talk to you about.

Search Engine Optimization is a type of pull marketing that uses keywords to boost your search engine rank. What's pull marketing? It's what you might call passive, or viral marketing, where instead of aggressively seeking out your customer, you position yourself someplace where they can find you. The most likely place where you might be found isrepparttar 138448 first place they'll look:repparttar 138449 search engine listings. You know: Google, Yahoo, Dogpile... those guys! But how do you jockey forrepparttar 138450 best placement? Read on for some helpful tips and tricks.

1. Optimize Your Articles

Article marketing is one ofrepparttar 138451 newest and hottest ways to boost your search engine rank. To check out SEO article marketing in action, go to Ezinearticles.com. Sign up as a member, and start writing and submitting articles that other web marketers will "receive" via an RSS article feed, and promote on their own websites. With every article you write, a link to your personal website is included.

Why does this work to boost your search engine rank? Well, if you add keywords to your web article titles and text, people who type those same keywords into search engines will find your articles before they locate those of another person who wrote aboutrepparttar 138452 same topic but didn't use popular keywords.

For prime search engine optimization, your article headline should include keywords inrepparttar 138453 BEGINNING (the first 2-4 words- not atrepparttar 138454 end.) You can find out which keywords are most often typed into Google and other search engines by entering each keyword intorepparttar 138455 Overture Keyword Selector Tool. Want to know more? Paste inrepparttar 138456 link below for a crash-course in Keyword Article Writing.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Keyword-Article-Writing:-the-Key-to-Your-Success!&id=21236

2. Optimize Your Website

Not everyone knows aboutrepparttar 138457 advantages to making your website keyword-rich. But if YOU know, then that means you're one-up onrepparttar 138458 next person! So many folks use copy/paste web design programs, paying no mind to title and header creation. As a result, their websites may look pretty, but they're not primed for top ofrepparttar 138459 search index. When designing yours, incorporaterepparttar 138460 most frequently used keywords intorepparttar 138461 HTML title tags. If you do this, web crawlers will be able to 'find' you through your keywords and secure you a pretty sweet location inrepparttar 138462 search engine rankings.

Userepparttar 138463 Overture Keyword Selector Tool to research your keywords for popularity and relevance, and then add them to your TITLE, metatags and headers (H1, H2 and so forth). Meta-tags... hmm. What was that again, you wonder? Metatags are keywords used to help identify your web content. These words are listed atrepparttar 138464 beginning of each page source of your website. A visitor who clicksrepparttar 138465 page can't see your metatags, but web crawlers can, and that's how you get bumped up onrepparttar 138466 search engine ladder.

Present Your Product On A TV Show for FREE

Written by Bob Dean Stanford (aka Maverick)


“Present Your Product On A TV Show for FREE” by Bob Dean Stanford “The Maverick Entrepreneurä”

Would you like to get your new or existing Internet business moving nearly atrepparttar speed of light? Do you know what is required to get your business noticed and how to build your personal credibility fast, making clients secure enough to purchase from you overrepparttar 138447 Internet?

The Simple Answer

The primary answer is putting potential clients in a comfort zone relative to your product quality and your reputation as an authority in your marketing niche.

One Solution

Market it on television. There are many ways to do this, such as Infomercials, guest appearances on talk shows like Oprah, short form (1 minute and under) TV commercials, long form (2 minutes up to 30 minute infomercials), and etc. Most online businesses can’t affordrepparttar 138448 expense of these types of advertising or have products that target a specific niche that just doesn’t fit inrepparttar 138449 above media methods.

The secret is to find a JV (Joint Venture) partner who is marketing on TV, targeting your product niche, and interested in your product offering. One example isrepparttar 138450 national cable television show “The Screen Savers,” (replaced by “Attack of The Show”). If you have a new or dynamic computer related product, such as hardware, software, or training materials (likerepparttar 138451 “Little Professor” series), you could get tremendous exposure by presenting your product on their show. Again,repparttar 138452 cost is often an obstacle, though some . There are ways around this problem.

Find a media that will work with you for a percentage ofrepparttar 138453 profit and provide ALLrepparttar 138454 production and airtime costs. Who offers these types of shows? Local Indie (current term meaning Independent) producers that provide programming on your local cable lease access stations. This is NOTrepparttar 138455 Public Access non-commercial stations, but programming on a legitimate commercial station. Local cable TV networks usually have at least one station enabling them to sell low cost quality airtime to Indie producers. Call your cable network and ask them for referrals of local producers and to list any locally produced shows.

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