Archive for June, 2007

There are many of factors involved in succeeding online.  It all depends on your chosen path. Your unique skills, experience, knowledge and talents plays a major role in your quest to succeed online.
 
There are some things you can do that will increase your chances in any given opportunity. Continue Reading »
Factors involved in succeeding online

There’s now a way to encourage more of your site visitors to comment on your posts. And it’s through the DoFollow WordPress plugin. The DoFollow plugin basically disables the nofollow attribute from your blog comments. 

The following is a list of sites which have implemented the DoFollow plugin so you could go there and comment away knowing that your links will be followed by search engines.

Sites which have implemented the DoFollow plugin

• Andy Beard - Blog Search Engine Performance, WordPress, Niche Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Tips and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude
• pqInternet.com - Information, Skills, and Tools for Building an Internet Business
• Jim Kukral - Marketing Ideas Online
• Carlocab.com - Make money online with a 13 year old
• Terence Chang - Blah blah blog

And of course this site, Wang Internet = Internet Money Made Online also supports this movement.

If you too have disabled the nofollow attribute on your site and joins this list, simply comment below and let more people know about it! It’s that simple.

This is actually a spin off of something I posted on a forum online. Someone had started a thread regarding looking for other ways to get traffic other than Google. They were frustrated with Google’s constant changes and loosing their high rankings.
 
Here’s an enhanced version with a little more detail for your benefit:

If you want to start competing with other search engines, I would probably start hanging out in other search engine areas in the forum and start asking questions. There is more to life than Google. I would HIGHLY recommend that no one puts all of their advertising in that one place. Just one Google Change could bring your whole business crashing to the ground.
 
You could also ask some questions about Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising. This is a way to get targeted traffic from the Search Engines. Google Adwords is one that I concentrate on. You only pay when someone clicks your ad.

There are a lot of different ways to get traffic besides Google. A couple more might be: Continue Reading »
Something about Google’s constant algorithm change

The following are some ways to get repeat web traffic to your site 

• Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.
• Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.
• Allow customers to ‘opt in’ to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to ‘opt in’ to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.
• Add a link to your primary page with a script ‘Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites’.
• Add a link ‘Recommend this site to a Friend’ so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, “Thought you might be interested in this”, just by clicking on it.
• Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a ‘Contact Us’ link on each page.
• Create a ‘Our Policies’ page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.
• Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.
• Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.
• Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to ‘opt out’ of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.