|
|
|
Combine Links with Quality Resources and You’re on a Winner
There are 1001 ways to drive traffic to your websites. I reckon I’ve tried most of them over the years and in the process have become blasé over the whole process of traffic promotion - but here’s one that surprises even a hardened old cynic like...
Creating Your Own Product: Testing The Market And Finishing Your Product
Copyright 2005 Ronald Gibson
Now that you know what you want to write about, the next step in the process is to gauge the amount of interest there is in your upcoming product.
You can also do a quick search on The Dowser (download the free...
E-marketplaces from Seller's Perspective
What is an E-marketplace anyway? E-marketplace is a business to business web based venue, where buyers and sellers meet online, generate business leads and conduct business transactions. The e-marketplace features are tailored in a manner so that a...
Making e-Business Your Business
If you don't use the Internet in your business today, even the word "e-business" may be a little intimidating. But it doesn't have to be if you take it one step at a time. Here are a few tips that can help in building and promoting your e-business. ...
MARKETING YOUR BUSINESS the 'Affiliate Way'
An Affiliate Marketer is someone who actively promotes the products or services of one or more businesses, and receives commissions on sales generated through his/her referrals. A successful Affiliate Marketer is efficient and 'savvy', can locate a...
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
The WRONG Way To WRITE Articles
Copyright 2005 Steve Shaw
As you no doubt already know, writing articles is probably the most effective way to promote your web site. It's a very simple principle - publishers want a vast quantity of good quality content that they do not have to pay for; you provide that content, with the proviso that at the bottom of your article, they include your resource box with a link to your web site. It's a win-win situation. With your article published on heaps of web sites, and in several ezines, it's enough to set your traffic counter spinning.
However, I see many articles that are simply not written in a way that will maximize the benefits for the author. Minor mistakes can turn an article that would otherwise get published several times and achieve a great deal for the author, into an article that is barely published and discarded by most publishers into the trash.
By avoiding these common mistakes, your article will appeal much more to publishers, and you will see the results from your article submissions vastly improve:
1. Do Not Write A Solo Ad
Many authors make the mistake of submitting articles that are actually little more than solo advertisements for their web sites. Containing little helpful information, they read like a sales letter and then urge the reader to visit their web site - and that's before you get to the resource box.
The chances of such an article getting published are virtually zero. Publishers are looking for an informative article, a quality piece that they can publish in order to benefit their readership and their visitors.
This means that including a link to your own web site in the article body is generally a no-no, unless for example, you are linking to a helpful article that adds further to the information you have included and is in context.
Your article should not read like a promotional vehicle for a particular product or service.
2. Do Not Include Affiliate Links
The site of an affiliate link within your article is a big turn-off for publishers - unless your article is highly informative and of an extremely high quality, but that is quite rare.
Generally, if you want to maximize your chances of publication, avoid including affiliate links in your article. You can
sometimes get away with it, if for example you include a link to a straight domain that actually forwards via your affiliate link to another web site. The publisher might not notice, as it appears to be a straightforward web site link, but I find it quite sneaky and dishonest, and I would not generally recommend it.
3. Avoid Spelling Mistakes
The sight of a spelling mistake in an article is another big turn-off for publishers. It turns what could otherwise be an acceptable article with good chances of publication, into a poor quality article that will end up in the trash. Publishers are busy people - they don't have time to edit out your mistakes. But the main point is that spelling mistakes leave a Very Bad Impression - it points to a lack of care on your part, and reduces the credibility of the information provided in the article.
Take a minute to run your article through a spell checker - there's a free one online at http://www.spellcheck.net/ - before you submit it. You may be surprised at what you failed to spot.
4. Do Not Include Hype In Your Resource Box
While your resource box can include a link to your web site, it should not read like an advert. I see many resource boxes that read like over-hyped promotional material more at home on a classified ad page. Your resource box should contain some brief information about you as an author, with a link to your web page - nothing more.
A badly written, overly-promotional resource box can cause a publisher to reject your article, even if your article would otherwise have been accepted - the simple reason is that such a hyped-up resource box would 'lower the tone' of their publication, and turn off their readership. That's obviously not what they want to do.
Just respect your potential publishers, and keep your resource box brief and to the point.
As long as you avoid these common mistakes, you are on the right track, and you should see the results from your article submissions greatly improve.
Steve Shaw provides systems and software for effective e-marketing. Find out more about how to publish articles for profit online with his popular free ecourse, available at:
=> http://www.takanomi.com/publish-articles.php
|
|
|
|
|
| Yahoo! Domains: Secure Domain Name Registration |
| This is a useful feature if you own multiple domain names. Complete Domain (DNS) Control. Advanced users: You can easily edit your name servers and MX, A, ... |
| smallbusiness.yahoo.com |
|
| Register domain names, domain name registration and domain name ... |
| Trust Register.com for domain names, domain name registration, domain name transfers, web hosting, easy-to-build Web sites, personalized email, reliable web ... |
| www.register.com |
|
| Web Hosting, web site design and domains from Network Solutions |
| Web Hosting, web site design, domain names and SSL certificates from Network ... Domain Names | Web Hosting | Web Design | SSL Certificates | Sell Online ... |
| www.networksolutions.com |
|
| WHOIS Search provides domain registration information from Network ... |
| Network Solutions WHOIS searches across multiple registrar databases to give you registration information on millions of domain names with many different ... |
| www.networksolutions.com |
|
| 123 Domain Names UK. Expert UK Domain Name Registration |
| Search and register UK domain names securely online. Low prices on all UK domain names with free support and advice. |
| www.123domainnames.co.uk |
|
| Domain name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| Letters are ASCII A–Z and a–z; domain names are compared case-insensitively. ... Fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) are sometimes written with a final dot ... |
| en.wikipedia.org |
|
| Internet Domain Name Registration, Domain Transfers. Your domain ... |
| GoDaddy.com: Pay less for domain names. Register your .com, .net and .org domains. Bulk pricing and private domain name registration options. |
| www.godaddy.com |
|
| Search, reserve, register domain names from checkdomain.com |
| Search, look up, check, reserve, purchase, register, back-order domain names, internet / Web addresses, URLs for any country in the world from ... |
| www.checkdomain.com |
|
| Nominet UK |
| Official registry for .uk domain names. |
| www.nominet.org.uk |
|
| Domain Names, Web Hosting, Web Design, Search Engine Optimisation ... |
| Melbourne IT is a world leader for domain name registration, offering search engine optimisation, web hosting, email plans, and website design. |
| www.melbourneit.com.au |
|
| Australia Domain Name Registration Services | .com.au Domains |
| Australian Domain Names | Aust Domains, Domain Name Registration and Website Hosting Australia. Aust Domains is an Australian favorite domain name registrar ... |
| www.austdomains.com.au |
|
| Buy Domain Names UK Web Hosting Dedicated Servers Broadband |
| UK based specialists in domain name registration, web hosting, dedicated servers and web design. All domain names come with free web and email forwarding. |
| www.lowcostnames.co.uk |
|
| Domain Name Registration || NetRegistry || .com.au $44.95 ... |
| Great value domain names with domain certificate, 24/7 domain name and service management through Control Panel, plus $1000s savings on leading Australian ... |
| www.domain.netregistry.com.au |
|
| Easily.co.uk - Search domain names, domain name registration ... |
| All US and UK domain names registered. Realtime name checker with full WHOIS. |
| easily.co.uk |
|
| Trademark Registration of Internet Domain Names |
| Home · Index · Search · System Alerts · Business Center · News and Notices · Contact Us. Trademark Registration of Internet Domain Names ... |
| www.uspto.gov |
|
| Netfirms - Web Hosting, Domain Names and E-commerce for Small Business |
| Netfirms provides free Web hosting, domain names, web page design tools and email for small business. |
| www.netfirms.com |
|
| Domain name registration from 123-reg |
| Register family, company & project domain names now, before someone else does! ... 123-reg dedicated servers, high performance hosting for your domain names ... |
| www.123-reg.co.uk |
|
| InterNIC | FAQs on the Domain Names, Registrars, and Registration |
| Information about who is responsible for domain names is publicly available to ... The rules and policies for registering domain names in the ccTLDs vary ... |
| www.internic.net |
|
| What is domain name? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia ... |
| Home page for Network Solutions, currently acting as the exclusive registrar of Internet domain names within the .com, .net, .edu and .org top-level domains ... |
| www.webopedia.com |
|
| Domain Name Registration, Domain Names, Web Hosting from Aplus.Net |
| domain name registration, domain names, domain register, register domain name, web site design, email services, domain name transfer, domains, email address ... |
| domains.aplus.net |
|
|