1. Learn how to write effective copy.
The skill that will make or break you in internet marketing is copywriting.
It is especially important to learn how to write headlines. There is a ton of good information online that is free regarding headlines and copywriting. Just do a Google search.
2. Take action, test, and track.
Tracking is essential because you absolutely need to know the results of your marketing efforts.
Once you start getting results, you can employ simple tests to see if you can improve. Often this testing involves strategies that are free.
One such strategy that comes to mind is split testing. You can do this for free, and it can provide incredible returns. Generally speaking, split testing involves making slight changes to a landing page or adwords ad, often just the wording of the headline, and testing it against a current version.
I have seen very simple changes DOUBLE the productivity of an ad. It's not only amazing, but also a lot of fun! Marketing takes work. You simply cannot get something for nothing. Massive action creates massive results.
So take action and do not be afraid to fail. Remember to minimize your risk
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Muddabir Aziz
Basic Rule OF Internet marketing Episode 3
Basic Rule For Internet Marketing Episode 2
1. Be consistent.
Successful marketers do something to propel themselves forward everyday. That is their secret.
A good practice is to create a to-do list every night featuring 5 actions that you must complete the following day.
By doing this at night before you go to sleep, you engage your subconscious mind and the next day you will know what you have to do and be on target to complete these tasks.
This is a very powerful process. Try to do this, one day at a time, until it becomes a daily habit.
2. Set a budget.
Determine what you can afford to spend on advertising on a monthly basis. In this way you can set and manage your expectations.
This should also prevent you from trying things you cannot afford.
3. Diversify.
Spread your efforts as much as you can over many different sources. This will also reduce your risk and help you to discover what works.
Remember that if one internet marketing method that you try does not produce results, you have not failed. This just means that you are one step closer to finding something that DOES work.
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Muddabir
Basic Rules for Internet Marketing Episode 1
Internet marketing strategies involve driving targeted (people who are interested in what you have to offer) traffic to your website, blog, or sales page.
That traffic then has to be converted into sales. This simple formula illustrates this process:
Traffic + Conversions = Sales
Keeping this formula in your mind will help you in your internet marketing efforts because you will realize that you not only have to generate traffic, but also turn those visitors into buyers.
Furthermore, here are 7 basic rules to follow when applying this formula. These rules are relevant to all forms of marketing but are especially important for online marketing where inexperienced people can "burn" a lot of money quickly and become very discouraged.
1. All marketing involves RISK.
Whether you are trying something new or "copying" a strategy that has brought good results for others, there is still an element of risk.
When speaking of risk, you tend to think of gambling which makes for an appropriate analogy here.
For internet marketing, we try to reduce the risk and swing the odds in our favour by doing keyword research, learning skills like ad writing, article marketing, and pay per click, and other general marketing activities such as knowing what your target market is interested in.
2. Test small first.
Reduce your risk by testing a marketing approach on a small scale first. If it works, then increase the scale and create momentum.
This is how to make money!
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Muddabir
Keywords have close contextual relationships to other Keywords
For those of you interested in the study of "semantics" or Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI) as it relates to which keywords have close contextual relationships to other keywords....here is an interesting experience.
Check out a brand new Search Engine called http://www.quintura.com Not only does it use LSI but it even displays the evidence of how your search word shave other words relating to them. Unlike keyword-based search, that returns too many "irrelevant results," Quintura often finds what your looking for with one merely one click. Enter your search term. It displays a "cloud" of results. The size of a word shows its significance in relation to the query.
The larger a word is, the stronger the contextual relationship with your query. The smaller the words appear the less related they are. Now place you mouse over each keyword in the cloud and see how your SERPs change. You may find what you're looking for visually with just one click. Click on any word in the cloud to change your query and get relevant results that will comply with your new query. Visit http://www.quintura.com and give it a try.
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Muddabir
Yahoo Confirms Maven Networks Acquisition
Yahoo has acquired video publishing platform Maven Networks for $160 million. We were the first to report the deal the day the papers were signed, on January 31. The next day, Microsoft announced its bombshell offer for Yahoo, which probably delayed the announcement of this smaller acquisition. Everyone at Yahoo has been a little bit preoccupied.
Yahoo will use Maven’s technology to host video for media partners and incorporate Maven’s video-ad insertion technology into its overall advertising platform.
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Muddabir
SEO Experts Tip Of the Day
When doing press releases at http://www.prweb.com/ remember that you must thinkin terms of news, not sales. Editors and publishers are looking for good legitimate news. If you give it to them, you may even be contacted for a larger story to be published in their print publications too.
What do publishers watch for?
- Legitimate news
- Background stats
- Human interest
- Seasonal interest
- Well-written humor
- Industry specific news
- Hard news related to real world events.
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Muddabir
SEO Experts Tip Of the Day
Here is your free Tip of the Day:There is little value in focusing all of your attention on trying to analyze something that is designed for the purpose of constant, continual and nearly perpetual change. Don't spend hundreds of hours trying to analyze algorithm.Instead, use your time wisely to create fresh original content that is mildlyoptimized for those low competition "niche phrases" that are being used bysearchers (the ones who know what they are looking for and know how to search.)Excellent at keyword research and it'll make your optimization work MUCH easier.
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Muddabir
Google Announces Urchin Software Now Public(By Mike Sachoff)
Google has announced that the Urchin Software is now in public beta and can be downloaded at urchin.com.
Google says the software is similar to Google Analytics but you install and manage the software on your own servers. The company says the beta software "should only be used for evaluation purposes," and it is not recommended for production environment.
Urchin can be used by businesses that have content behind a security firewall or that have restrictions that will not allow them to use Google Analytics. The software can also be used to do ad-hoc historical log processing for those that want to store their Web analytics on local servers.
According to the Google Analytics Blog the upgrades include:More accurate geo-identification of visitorsCross-segmentation options similar to Google AnalyticsEcommerce and campaign trackingImproved embedded scheduler to more easily manage processing and re-processing jobsImproved user interfaceMore robust log processing engine A 90-day version is available for download. When the software moves out of beta it will be available for $2,995.
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Muddabir
Simple way to get messive Traffic Episode 5
1) Start an email newsletter: while it may not seem like a newsletter that you email can drive traffic to your site you'd be surprised at the effectiveness of this type of promotion. If your newsletter (like your articles) is interesting and relevant to your audience, you'll find that it has a huge pass-through factor, meaning that it is passed from one email subscriber to another. Also, if you have an email newsletter you should never, ever go to a single event without your handy signup sheet. Yes, you can even use offline events to drive traffic to your web site.
2) And speaking of offline efforts: if you're ever quoted in a magazine or other publication, make sure and mention your URL as it's appropriate to the topic. Don't be too pushy about this, but do not forget to tell folks you have a web site that may be a great resource for the topic of your interview.
3) If you have products to sell, why not get a store on eBay? This site gets a tremendous amount of traffic and on your sales page you're allowed to list your URL. It's another great way to get an inbound link and a way for people to find you.
4) Load a video on YouTube and 57 other video sites
5) While this isn't a tip per se, it's still important. If you're going to go through all the trouble of getting traffic to your site, make sure your site is converting this traffic into something. Get folks to sign up for something, your newsletter, the RSS feed on your blog. Whatever it is, getting their email address will help you remarket to them when the time is right. Studies show that visitors landing on a site often don't buy the first time. That's ok! You want to get them into your marketing funnel so you can market to them again and again – not in a way that's obtrusive, offensive or downright annoying, but in a way that is helping them with their own mission.An example of this might be an email newsletter. A helpful, informative newsletter is a fantastic funnel. A blog is another great way to keep people in your marketing loop without bombarding them with "please buy my stuff" email messages. Also, make sure you know what your traffic numbers are before you launch into any Internet marketing campaign. By traffic numbers I mean how many people are visiting your site. You want to know this so you can gauge a before and after view of your marketing efforts.
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