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Two Hot Tips for Twitter Marketing

rodie151 — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:19:11 +0000

Today, almost every affiliate marketer and other online business owner would like to know how to use Twitter marketing to achieve a boost in search engine ranking, as well as for drawing traffic to the site. While it is not as easy or as fast as it used to be, you can still put Twitter to good use. In general, you will need to carry out two distinctly different operations in order to achieve your goal.

Follow and Retweet Information Similar to Yours

Consider a situation where you have a website dedicated to holiday gift ideas. If you are interested in selling cookware, then you can look for other Twitter users that talk about this subject. Ideally, you want to find individuals that have a fairly large following. As these people twitter about things going on at their site, you can retweet the information on your own account.

Aside from helping to draw human viewers, retweeting information also draws search engine spiders. While they are following a path for a particular comment, they will have a higher likelihood of landing on your account. From there, they will also follow the link to your URL. If the spiders come to your site enough times, eventually they will index each page. Ideally, you should be sure to have new information on the site each time you tweet or retweet something.

Generate Interaction With Other Tweeters

Even though you may realize that Twitter is a social interaction site, you may not know how to translate that into a way to get traffic for your site. Typically, the best thing you can do is start responding to tweets and twitters created by other members. You should always make it a point to comment as often as possible on subjects that are relevant to your site. Regardless of whether or not you add you link to these posts, other readers can easily click on your profile, and then go to your site.

Many people that want to use Twitter for sales purposes struggle with finding a way to break in and gain a good sized following. While it may take some time and practice, you will find that Twitter is still one of the best ways to draw a good combination of human and search engine traffic. That said, if you are having an especially difficult time getting started, you can look to other members that have a large following. As you watch what they do, you will also find your own blueprint for success.

Top Website Traffic

Methods for Probing Top Website Traffic

rodie151 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:02:33 +0000

If you are working with affiliate marketing, you will usually wind up spending a good bit of time analyzing web traffic trends. Among other things, this will give you some ideas about which products to market, as well as help you formulate keywords that will help your site gain traction faster within your niche. Today, there are at least two simple methods that will help you analyze top website traffic without going through an enormous amount of effort.

Using Ebay Analytics

Even though Ebay has changed a lot over the years, it is still fairly popular with people looking to buy products online. Therefore, when you look at the top ten Ebay searches for the day, you will have some good ideas about products that people are interested in. For example, if your website is dedicated to electronic gadgets, you will be able to watch trends that tell you which ones you should be blogging about. Chances are, you would be a bit surprised to find out how consumer interests change and go in cycles. At the very least, when you use this method, you won’t wind up blogging about the Nintendo Wii when people are more interested in Garmin GPS systems.

Google Trends

Interestingly enough, there is a bit of a difference between keyword analytics and determining which subjects belong on your site. When you start working with Google Trends, you will get information very similar to what you will get from Ebay. That said, you will also gain valuable information about what the largest number of people are searching for. If you find that people are interested in celebrities, cold cures, or other topics, then you can think about slanting your blog posts in these directions. While these trends may not last for more than a day or two, you may still find that they will come back up in popularity on a regular basis. At that point, your pages will already be indexed and ready to capture as much traffic as possible.

Many people that want to sell goods and services online do not take the time to find out what people are actually interested in buying. No matter how much time you spend on keyword optimization, it will be of little use if you cannot draw a large enough audience. Therefore, you should always spend some time looking at search terms and purchasing trend information offered by Ebay and Google.

Two more ways to get guaranteed website traffic

Two Article Marketing Tips for Beginners

rodie151 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:35:02 +0000

There is no question that article marketing can easily draw traffic to your site. Aside from helping boost your rank with search engines, you will also attract plenty of attention from individuals that enjoy reading articles in the directory. Unfortunately, most beginners make the same kinds of mistakes. In most cases, once readers get turned off by these mistakes, they will simply skip over your articles.

Avoid Keyword Stuffing

Each day, webmasters spend hours poring over Google Adword Analytic results in order to find the best keywords for their articles. Most of this work is wasted when you write articles with a keyword density over 2%. Consider a situation where you have a keyword that is four words long. That means 8 out of 100 words will be exactly the same. In a 500 word article of 5 paragraphs, that means the keyword will be mentioned twice. Under those constraints, your article will look like an inexcusable eyesore.

Quite frankly, there is no such thing as a person that needs to read the exact same 40 words in an article to determine whether or not they want to buy something. Even though 2% keyword density is not unreasonable for short keyword phrases, you will be best served by a keyword density of 1% for anything over 2 words. If your keyword density is too high, article marketing will fail simply because readers will click away from your site before reading the sales pitch. As may be expected, if you post articles that will make a reader’s eyes peel, you can also bet the search engine spiders will assign it a lower ranking.

Stay Away From Redundant Content

Have you ever read three sentences in a row, and then wondered why the author said the exact same thing three different ways? As with keyword stuffing, there is nothing worse than reading an article that doesn’t have a little bit of rhythm and motion to it. Ideally, the first sentence either ask a question or set up a premise. The second sentence should provide a real answer that does not simply repeat the first sentence. Additional sentences should either provide the author’s opinion, other options to pursue, or something else that begins moving toward the subject of the next paragraph.

As you gather more information related to article marketing tips, you should always look for ways to improve your content. Nothing else will gain attention, or help you make sales more readily than articles that offer some value to the reader. Regardless of how desperate you are to get articles published as quickly as possible, you should take the time to sit back and make sure that your content looks like it is a sincere attempt to communicate valuable information. This cannot be achieved with keyword stuffing and redundant sentences