On January 9th, 2008, Jonathan Leger is releasing a new f.ree report that completely obliterates the following myths about Google (and then goes on to show you what DOES work):
Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content
..and.. MYTH #7: THE BIGGEST MYTH: Ranking In Google Is Hard!
12 Simple Steps to Explode Your Site Traffic Using Online Social Media By Dave Foster (c) 2007
Last year saw the arrival of online social media. If you operate a website or blog, you would be well advised to realign your site to exploit the popular social media sites for increased traffic.
You should also introduce social media components to your site because web users are experiencing these new forms of interaction on more and more sites and they will have an expectation of the same from your site too.
If you want to attract repeat visitors and want them to stay longer, your focus for the next few months should be on the social aspects of your site.
Social media uses technologies like RSS, blogging, podcasting, tagging, etc. and offers social networking (MySpace, Facebook), social video and picture sharing (YouTube, Flickr), and community-based content ranking (Digg, MiniClip) features.
The central theme of these sites is user generated content used for sharing amongst other users. The social aspects of these sites allow users to setup social communities, invite friends and share common interests.
You don't have to change your site immediately to take advantage of these new technologies. Introduce small changes incrementally and you will be well on your way to measure up to your visitors' new expectations.
Step 1. Declare who you are to the online community. People should be able to relate to you. Unless they know more about you, you will be just an unknown identity and most people don't like to deal with people they don't know. Create an About Me page to list your achievements, skills and aspirations.
Step 2. Create a MySpace page and link your biography in the Profile of your MySpace page. Also provide a link back from the MySpace page to your website. Spend an hour every week to develop your online social network in MySpace. Invite a few of your new friends to write blog articles at your site about your products or services.
Step 3. Install a free blog and start publishing at least one article in your blog every week. Provide an easy bookmarking feature to social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. This is done by providing an action button for each article in your site. The action button takes users to the submission page of the bookmarking site.
Step 4. Provide an action button for direct posting of blog articles to Digg (http://digg.com/). Digg is a popular news ranking site. A well dugg article will bring thousands of visitors to you.
Step 5. Provide a forum at your site for users to discuss your products and services. Don't delete negative comments because they provide insights into the improvements needed to serve your visitors better. However, censor hate speeches and meaningless bantering. Register your forum at BoardTracker (http://www.boardtracker.com/). BoardTracker is a forum search engine.
Step 6. If you are offering products, allow users to review and rate your products. This will help you in inventory management because you may want to discontinue low rated products.
Step 7. Provide RSS feeds for your new products, blogs, forum postings, etc. An RSS feed provides teasers of your content. Users will use RSS readers to scan your teasers and visit your site for more information if the teasers interest them.
Step 8. Publish all your feeds at Feedburner. Feedburner (http://www.feedburner.com/) provides media distribution and audience engagement services for RSS feeds. They also provide an advertising network for your feeds. If you have quality content, you will be able to monetize your content using their services.
Step 9. Create short how-to or new product videos and post these videos in social video sharing sites like YouTube and Google video. Provide a few start and end frames in these videos to introduce your site with your site URL. Post these videos using catchy titles, teaser descriptions, and appropriate tags to make them easy to discover.
Step 10. Provide embedded links to your remotely hosted videos on your site. This will save your bandwidth and storage space because the videos reside on the video sharing sites rather than on your own site's server.
Step 11. As well as videos, use social photo sharing sites like Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/) and SmugMug (http://www.smugmug.com/) to share pictures related to content on your site. Use the same title, description and tag techniques discussed earlier for social video sites.
Step 12. Provide a "Send to Friend" feature for all the products and services you offer. This feature is a link that sends the article, product description, etc. to a recipient via e-mail.
Social media is not a fad. It is here to stay and brings a profound change to web surfers' experiences. Now is the right time to implement features that will make your site Social-Media-Friendly. Also, using marketing techniques that utilize popular social media sites, you will see a massive increase in traffic to your site.
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Dave Foster owns and operates the "Solo Profits" blog and podcast, guiding individual entrepreneurs and home-based business owners to online success using audio, video and multimedia techniques. Dave also explores the virgin territory of multimedia psychology and how to present your message effectively through these new communications channels. Want to discover more? Go To ==>> http://www.soloprofits.com
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Social Media Optimization Is A Sure-Shot Technique To Spread The Word
By Steve Waganer
Almost every business nowadays has an online presence, as the internet is the new buzzword in communication. An online presence can work wonders for your business, provided you go about promoting it the right way and using the right techniques. One such crucial method for promoting your website to the world is the use of the popular social media platforms. The platforms serve as a place where people interact socially through the internet and the word of mouth helps to carry a message forward. Social media optimization techniques make sure that whatever the message that is being spread and promoted on these platforms consists of websites and content that have been incorporated with key elements.
The specific elements included in this manner make it easier for the website or content to be spread across the popular social sites.
An important step of carrying out social media optimization procedure is to increase the linkability of your website through the willingness of other websites or articles to link back to your website. The more useful and informative your site, the more likely it is to get links from other authority websites. Some of the most effective ways to achieve this is through keyword specific content, articles, RSS feeds and blogs. Optimizing the content and website to make it more acceptable and popular on the social media platforms is the first priority task of a social media optimization procedure. When you get traffic directed to your site, the user should be happy with the quality and relevance of information provided by your site or chances are that he may not return.
When a user visits your website and likes what he sees, chances are that he would like to return to it and also tell his friends about your website. This brings us to the next step of social media optimization that deals with the concept of tagging and bookmarking a site. A website should make it easy for the user to tag a page link for future reference or simply to let more and more people know about the website. Tagging links such as Digg or Technorati can be easily used but make sure that a suggestion box is provided along with it so that the visitor can add a relevant note to the tag.
Another good way to carry out social media optimization is by rewarding all the inbound links that you get for your website. Rewards to people or websites that link back to you help them to stay interested in providing promotion for your website in the future as well. It is also equally important to help your content travel to further widen its reach and scope. Submitting content to relevant high traffic websites will help to make awareness about your online presence, a task easily accomplished, thanks to social media optimization techniques. Such methods as well as more means to promote a website like mash ups with another high traffic and relevant website, all conjoin to provide the apt solution for optimizing any website.
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