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Writing articles that are available for reprint is an excellent way to generate traffic to your website. Webmasters,ezine publishers, and bloggers are always looking for quality content. This is an excellent way to get free exposure for your website. Here are some tips to help you write your article.

Make sure your article is between 200 and 1000 words. Most of the people that surf the Internet on a regular basis have extremely short attention spans and will usually start to go to sleep if your article is longer than 1000 words.

Make sure your article does not sound like a sales page. Webmasters and ezine publishers can tell the difference between an article and a sales letter dressed up to look like an article. Most publishers will not use such material in their publication. Save the selling for your resource box.

Format your article to between 60 and 65 characters per line. This makes things easier for the ezine publisher that is going to publish your article. If you have an html version of your article, mention that in the email that you send to the publisher.

Make sure that you proofread your article before it is submitted. Most publishers operate on a very tight schedule and simply do not have the time to rewrite an article that is full of grammatical mistakes. They will simply discard your article without a second thought. Don’t rely on spell check to catch everything either. It’s best to save the article and look at it the next day with a fresh set of eyes. It may also be helpful to print the article out. Sometimes it is easier to catch mistakes when we see the article on paper rather than on the computer.

Finally make sure that your article grabs the reader’s attention. When dealing with an online audience, you have to grab the reader’s attention right away. Action in the first sentence is a must. Don’t take too long to get to the point, either. It only takes a second for your reader to click away from a website.

Article writing is one good way to get traffic to your website.

It’s a good way to get yourself established as an “expert” or to break into your niche market. There are millions of things to write about, so you should not have a problem finding article ideas.

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One of the easiest ways to get visitors to your web site is to spend money. Nothing is more effortless then paying for traffic. But if you can’t afford it or don’t want to pay, there’s an equally simple but free way to get traffic: ad swaps.

An advertisement swap or ad swap is simply an arrangement where you agree to put up someone else’s ad on your site or email newsletter in exchange for them doing the same.

The goal of an ad swap is mainly to get exposure for a specific purpose, such as selling products/services or improving awareness of your brand/site. This is different from a link exchange because you are not seeking to improve your search engine rank.

The link value doesn’t matter at all. What matters is getting visitors into your web site.

For an ad swap to be successful and fair, there are four pre-requisites to be fulfilled:

1. Equal traffic and exposure: Both parties ought to have websites that receive a steady amount of visitors everyday, or an email list with a decent amount of subscribers. Otherwise, there is no meaning in setting up an ad swap in the first place. Ad swaps are most agreeable when both parties have an equivalent audience reach/traffic count.

 

2. Fair and Good Ad placement: Traffic flows more easily to you when your ad is displayed in a spot which is easily viewable and accessible by visitors. While site designs may differ, both parties should endeavor to exchange ads that are displayed in a similar fashion. A pop-under does not capture visitor attention in the same way as a site-wide banner, so seek to use equivalent ad formats too.

 

3. High Relevancy: In the best scenario, an ad swap should occur between websites in the same niche, as both parties would benefit from a trade in visitors with an already established interest on the same topic. But it is possible for trades to occur for sites in different niches. The essential point to remember is that your ad/message MUST be relevant to the page or site where it is placed and vice versa for your ad partner.

 

4. No Conflicting Purpose. If you’re a merchant selling a product or a firm offering a service, you should not do ad swaps with competitors (other merchants/firms in the same niche). However ad swaps can be done for joint promotion of a specific event or shared project. You also should not do an ad swap with a site that contradicts your brand’s ethos or image (e.g. PETA doing an ad swap with Kentucky Fried Chicken).

There is one more important factor and that’s networking. Webmasters and bloggers are often inundated with requests for link trades: they have a defensive barrier against requests from strangers. Unless your site has some reputation or authority in your niche, ad swaps usually need to be prefaced with an established relationship.

People are far more likely to do ad swaps after they become more comfortable with you, when they don’t see you as a leech but a potential benefit. So keep this in mind as well when you aim to fulfill the four other prerequisites.

You may be familiar with the traffic exchange networks of the past (and present), places where webmasters can go sign up, submit their site and browse through each other’s websites in order to earn viewing credits that can be converted into pageviews for their own site.

It’s all about trading incentivized glances in a merry-go-round of self-interest. You look at my site, I look at your site. Everyone is happy. And it goes on ad nauseam.

Even though these pageview-trading rings are called traffic exchanges, they aren’t useful because you don’t get truly targeted and interested viewers, people who click through to your site because they were honestly compelled by curiosity or desire, not because they want more hits to their own website.

I bring up the topic of the old-school traffic exchanges to emphasize the importance of having a quality ad swap. One should carefully select ad partners because you need to maximize your returns with a limited inventory: you only have that much ad space to trade.

Your goal is to get the best quality visitors from your ad. To achieve that, you must try to only trade with websites that have a quality audience. Don’t do ad swaps just because someone asked you to, it could end up being a waste of time and ad space.

You probably know how to find quality ad partners already, as you should be familiar with your niche. If not, find them by doing a Google search for your site’s keywords.

If you can’t set up a good ad exchange because your site doesn’t get enough traffic, try again after you’ve developed a greater audience. Or you can negotiate with more popular sites by reducing the display length for your ad against their ad, although even that may not work.

Types of Ad Swaps You Can Set Up

All ad swaps can be measured with tracking links and analytics so both parties can compare how many hits they received with the clicks they sent out. If you’re doing an ad swap with a friend or prefer a looser agreement, you can forgo click data and stats altogether. The choice is up to you. Here are some ad swap formats you can use.

• On-site Banners and Text Links. This includes banners of all sizes and text links on a site-wide basis or on specific webpages. Includes blog post promos.

 

• Email Newsletters. Involves inserting a mention of your ad partner’s website or product/offer. This can be accompanied by a personal endorsement or not.

 

• RSS Feed Ads. These are either text links or image banners placed within an RSS feed.

Some Extra Tips and Recommendations

One guideline I follow is to never send traffic to my homepage or any page that is unoptimized. A custom landing page must be created for each ad swap. I can design it for the purpose of capturing leads (freebie + opt-in) or set it up so that it becomes a welcome page (’Hello, visitors from Site A!’) with a short introduction and deep links.

I also pay special attention to the ad banners used. Banners that reference your partner’s site name or brand tend to get better click throughs, although you should get permission first. Sometimes they do not want to appear as if they were endorsing your site, although they are already implicitly doing so by having your ad up.

Ad Swaps Aren’t Hip Now But They Still Work

While it’s a common email marketing practice amongst internet marketers, I don’t often read about ad swaps being recommended as a traffic strategy for bloggers or webmasters. There were a few ad trading networks around but none of them really caught on for some reason.

Perhaps it sounds archaic and boring compared to all the super cool social media viral marketing buzz building tactics being promoted right now by all the experts. Yes, ad swaps may sound dull but they still work if you know how to do them right. If you’ve got ad space you can’t sell, why not give it a shot? You have nothing to lose at all.

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There are many uses to which Twitter can be put, and this is the first of several articles describing some of these. Twitter marketing is a form of internet marketing that uses the benefits of Twitter as a social media phenomenon.

When Jack Dorsey created Twitter back in 2006 as a means of SMS-type communication using only 140 characters (including spaces), little did he know that it would become a world-wide phenomenon worth untold millions of dollars. Little wonder, then, that it has found a number of uses other than simple text messages, but has the potential to become a significant marketing tool.

If you are like me, and are involved in various forms of internet marketing, you will find that some of those that you follow tweet nothing but adverts for their products. There are better ways of using Twitter than that to promote your websites and products, which you will realize if you also have a Facebook account and have integrated Twitter with Facebook, or any of the other social networking sites that also integrate with Twitter.

Every tweet I make appears on my Facebook home page. That means I can advertise all my websites and products on Twitter and Facebook with one click. That’s cool, and I am now looking at other social networking sites that cab integrated with Twitter to achieve the same thing. That’s using Twitter marketing at its best. However, that is just one simple way in which Twitter can be used to promote your products, and there are also better ways of promoting your websites and products that blatantly mentioning them in your tweets.

An important aspect of Twitter is your followers. I have many followers, but only a relatively small proportion of them would be interested in what I have to offer them. However, luckily there are ways to attract followers that will be interested in what you have to offer. These techniques are not difficult to use, and not only can they be used to attract followers to follow you, but also they then attract others to follow them. In that way you can make Twitter go viral for you. Twitter marketing is awsome when viral.

This is particularly true if you have affiliate programs that others can sell for you. However, before Twitter can be used that way, you have to learn how. Not only that but you might also have to learn how to use Twitter at all, since not everybody registered with Twitter can actually use it properly other than just send a few tweets now and again.

You need to know how to find the right kind of people to follow you, and also who you should follow yourself. Everybody wants to follow Britney, but when I want to know what she or anybody else is up to, I don’t have to put up with all her tweets filling my pages but simply visit her Twitter page. That’s the way to follow people without having your pages filled so quickly that you don’t have time to read anything.

I have just given you two tips in the short period of this article, but these are the very simple ones you should be able to think out for yourself. There are many more ways to use Twitter in ways that can help you without overloading your own Twitter page. Twitter marketing is a skill to be learned.

For more information on how to use Twitter profitably check out Pete’s site at Twitter Marketing where you will get few tips and also some free Twitter tools.

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Google and Yahoo! are the most used search engines on the Internet with about 35% of all Internet searches run on one or the other. That’s about 70% of all Internet traffic from just two search engines. Actually it’s more than 80% when you consider Google’s affiliation with AOL, Netscape, and others.

Recently there have been major changes on both these engines. Many sites with top placements have lost their positions while others have achieved top positions on both engines without doing anything.

You can take advantage of these changes and get more traffic from both free.

Recent Changes at Google & Yahoo!

Google recently changed their page ranking system for search results. These changes have far reaching ramifications for your website. The quality and ranking of the pages you link to and those that link to you now matter more than ever.

Previously, Yahoo! would display its own directory listings first, before displaying Google’s web listings. Now Google and Yahoo’s! results are displayed together on one results page, in a simpler display.

Submission to Google is free, while submission to Yahoo! costs $299.00 PER YEAR, just to be considered for inclusion. Yahoo! only includes websites it considers unique in content. About half the websites that pay for inclusion don’t even get listed.

A Yahoo! listing used to have a great deal of value for unique websites but now every listing will be competing with the entire Google database. Now, if you have a page that ranks high in Google, you’ll be getting the same listing in Yahoo!’s web results free.

Following are some pointers on exactly how you might take advantage of these changes.

A Simple Google Placement Strategy

Simply put, your Yahoo! ranking is now determined by your Google ranking. If your site is doing well in Yahoo!, It now must also do well in Google also. Your Yahoo! strategy IS now your Google strategy. This makes your website optimization easier and more productive.

The Internet’s purpose is to make in-demand information available, and a search engine’s job is to provide the highest quality, most relevant information in its search results. Pages with the highest quality content will always rank higher in Google.

So getting good ranking in Google has always involved getting as many high quality links to your site as possible. It’s even more important now. It’s also important to make sure that your outgoing links take your visitors to high quality pages.

The Google Search Toolbar

Google has released a search toolbar for Internet Explorer. This toolbar provides you an insider’s method to determine and boost your ranking while helping Google (and Yahoo!) deliver more relevant results.

You can install it from the following URL
 >> http://toolbar.google.com/

After you install the toolbar, click on the Google icon on the left and choose TOOLBAR OPTIONS. Make sure you have enabled the ADVANCED OPTIONS so you get a display of the actual page ranking of any pages you search.

Look for a headline that says “PAGE INFORMATION” and check to “INCLUDE VOTING BUTTONS” on your toolbar. You will see new smiley and frowning face icons on your toolbar. These are important, as you can send an instant ranking suggestion to Google for relevant keywords used in the search results generated by Google.

Near the bottom of that page you will see “EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES” click on the text link to customize these features. There is a feature here that disables exit popups in your browser.

Google Optimization & Submission Process

The first step is to optimize the quality of your page for Google. Check your rank in the toolbar, any pages you link to should rank as high as or higher than your own page. Your rankings will improve over time.

Don’t bother requesting links from low quality link pages because just a few links from high ranking pages can have a much greater positive effect on your ranking in Google than 1,000′s of poor quality links.

Include a menu of links to your other important pages within your own website on each page. This will help build your link popularity ranking within your own website.

Work on obtaining links from high-value sites that are related to the theme of your site. When Google finds these links, your rankings will improve.

Include links to other relevant high quality, high ranking sites where your visitors can find quality related information and suggest that they link to you in return. Explain how your ranking can boost their page rank even higher. Soon you’ll see how a few high ranking links can make all the difference in the ranking of your pages.

Google will schedule your page for spidering and the Google-bot will examine and index your page, as well as the links to and from your page. Submit each page separately as you optimize them. Google’s robots will find all your pages eventually, and some experts feel it’s even better for your ranking if they are found than if submitted.

Developing Your Yahoo! Strategy

Yahoo! will only display one result from one domain in its directory results for any keyword. If you have not paid to have a SPECIFIC page included in Yahoo!, the page will not be shown in the Yahoo! directory. For websites in highly competitive niches a Yahoo! evaluation may not be productive enough to justify the cost.

Yahoo! doesn’t search its own index for keywords anymore. There is no longer any need to pay for a listing in Yahoo! IF you already rank well in Google.

So why would you even consider purchasing a Yahoo! evaluation?

A Yahoo! listing can help boost your Google ranking. If you don’t already have a good ranking in Google, and you have a quality and unique commercial website, a listing at Yahoo! could make a huge difference. If you don’t have a page rank before you get into Yahoo! you will get one soon because Google will know you are listed in Yahoo!.

A Yahoo! listing, will not only bring you more traffic from Google, it will bring you traffic from the Yahoo! directory listings as well. In addition, since Google often displays multiple listings for one domain. A Yahoo! listing may actually help generate multiple pages from your domain in Google’s results.

A neglected backdoor to getting a free Yahoo! listing is to create a content based non-commercial website on a separate domain which Yahoo! will consider for inclusion free. It’s cheaper to obtain an additional domain than to pay for a commercial listing in Yahoo!.

Use your non-commercial website to help drive traffic to your commercial website where you actually sell your product or service. Some experts feel it’s better to wait until you actually get listed in Yahoo! before you add a link to your commercial website.

If you can afford it, a Yahoo! listing pays off in the long run for most businesses. Just make sure you understand that the $299 listing fee does NOT guarantee that your site will be included.

Getting Listed in Yahoo!

Actually obtaining a listing in Yahoo! is not easy or automatic.

Before you decide to purchase a Yahoo! evaluation I would suggest purchasing the ebook. “Getting listed in Yahoo!” is all about delivering to Yahoo! what they are looking for. The $17 cost is well worth it when you consider the $299 Yahoo! submission fee.

In Summary

Getting high quality free-targeted traffic from Google and Yahoo! can be a daunting task, but for many of us it’s the only affordable method to get traffic. That’s why there are SO many books written about search engine optimization. If it was easy, anyone could do it. The top listings go to the top optimizers and to the highest quality websites, which is as it should be.

Success in the search engines is about providing unique and compelling content related to your product, service, or solution in order to earn your visitor’s confidence and credibility, BEFORE you ask for the sale.

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Network service providers come up with various broadband plans as per the requirements of an individual and are continuously working towards providing better services to the broadband users. One can find attractive deals as per one’s pocket and that too along with superb free gifts.

Difficult task for a customer to choose amongst the various service providers in UK coming with their lucrative offers in broadband to find out the most appropriate one. Few of the popular network service providers in UK are Talk Talk, Orange, AOL, BT, Virgin Media and Vodafone. To have an edge over their competitors and to get more recognition in the broadband market., these network providers come up with great broadband deals.

There are two ways of getting the broadband services either through mobile broadband or through home broadband. The deals that these providers offer along with broadband service include free minutes ,free bytes in data transfer, free minutes , free LCD, free laptops etc.

The best way to find great broadband deals is through the comparison websites. A comparison website is the one which compares the prices and bring the less pricey deals to the notice of the surfers .These dedicated websites work towards getting the cheapest deal that are offered by vendor websites, in such a way as to bring the best valued deal towards the top. In this way one can reduce the time incurred while searching from one website to another for a better option.

One should always consider few things before getting into a broadband deal like the network coverage of a particular network service provider in your area, data allowance, price and deal period. One should always keep a check on the services that are provided in a particular area. If the network provided is intermittent then you must think twice before deciding upon taking the broadband plan.

The quality of services that a broadband provider offers varies from one locality to the other and so one should always ask the experiences of others before finalizing any plan. One can also refer to forums for getting more information on a particular service provider.

Data allowance is the amount of data that is allowed to transfer and varies from various service providers. One should keep a track over the amount of data transferred as extending the limit reserved might lead you to pay more for your broadband services. There are various policies related to network usage which should be carefully taken into consideration before signing. If one has got the fair usage policy which says that they can download more in peak hours then one should abide by the rules as violation of such rules may lead in changing the phase of one’s Internet usage. One might not be able to work fast during peak hours. Those who use fast speed Internet must keep a check over the data that they download as they can download plenty of data in less time with high speed connection which can lead to violation of rules.

Check out for those broadband deals which offer more data transfer at less cost.

One should always look out for the cheapest deal with maximum benefits as this not only saves ones money but also find deals as according to their budget. One should also checkout those broadband deals that have great value for one’s money. It is a must to carefully observe the time period before getting into any agreement .One cannot move out of the contract until its period is over as this can lead to troubles afterwards. Think about getting into an agreement for long period only when you find the network service upto the mark and its better to serve the agreement period completely.

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