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Link Popularity is one way to build traffic into your website. The idea is initiated by Google cofounder noting that if one website A points to another website B, this implies that website A is endorsing B on its own website. Therefore, the better a website is, the more links pointing to that particular site.

This concept is now known as link popularity. A lot of webmasters are obsessed about their site link popularity. Some tried unscrupulous way by buying hundreds of text link from another site. But this method works only in the short term. A frequent updates from Google, also known as Google dance, change its algorithm periodically.

The effectiveness of buying the so-called text link has been decreasing as Google made some changes to its algorithm. Recently, some suspect that the latest Google update also diminish the value of reciprocal link. Reciprocal link is exchanging link with other sites where site A link to B and site B made a link to site A.

I am no expert in search engine algorithm. The only individuals who know how Google works is those folks residing at Googleplex themselves. However, I believe that there are some ways you can do to gain link popularity.

First and most importantly, you need to build lots of contents. Having lots of contents enable you to give information to search engine users. When these folks like your thought or insight, some of them will eventually quote your article and provide a source, the equivalent of a linkpage, pointing to your website.

Furthermore, as your content grows, you will be viewed as the expert in your field. This will in turn attract more surfers and webmasters which will ocassionally give you a link back.

The second way to get more links is to open your own web log or blog. People that read your blog will click on the link you provided if you can give them an interesting article to read.

The third way to gain link popularity is to submit a one way link page to web directories. While this method is less effective, a one way link is a safer way to go rather than a reciprocal link. The reason is that your site normally do not get penalized from a bad link pointing towards you. After all, you can only control your links pointing to other websites and not the other way around. If you are doing reciprocal link with a ‘bad’ website, google will penalize you too since you ‘endorse’ their websites by providing a link back. With this method, make sure you don’t oversubmit your website to one specific directory.

Google’s spider may suspect lots of links pointing to your site as a sign that you are buying a text link from that particular site.

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As you probably know, getting web traffic to your site is one of the three most crucial components to making any money online. In Mark Joyner’s Internet Intelligence Manuscript (Volume II) he clearly explains how any web traffic (not just “targeted traffic”) can be made profitable, by mentally framing, or conditioning your visitors to become receptible to your offer.

One of the easiest ways to mentally re-frame your visitors upon entry to your site, is to walk them through a three-step process that:

A) Grabs their immediate attention with a promise of benefit
B) Pre-Qualifies them before they get to your sales letter
C) Follows up with them over time with new content and reminders of your offer

Keep in mind, web traffic is just one component of the three required to sustain sales.

The other two are:

1. Testing new advertising campaigns and ad copy
2. Tracking and keeping records of your results from each campaign

Here’s an example case study of the three-step process…

On December 16th 2005, my book “The Instant Traffic Formula 2006″ was released to teach internet entreprenuers how to create, attract and monetize responsive web traffic to any web site or affiliate program. As of today, my web site, which uses the exact techniques taught in the book is averaging a 64.86% visitor-to-lead conversion, and an average sales conversion ranging from 4.69% up to 11.36% all-around from the redirect, which is currently netting me just over $1.48 per unique visitor to my site.

Again, these statistics do not take follow-ups into account. These are “straight-out-of-the-gate” type sales that occur within minutes of my visitors signing up to read my sales letter.

And you can do this too.

I follow a simple formula to create web traffic, qualified leads, responsive subscribers, loyal customers and even active affiliates who promote anything and everything I sell online.

You can sum up the entire formula into the three major components I mentioned above, and create a fail-proof success system for your products, services and affiliate programs. After you’ve activated the formula, the best way to keep the momentum of traffic, leads and sales coming in on a consistent and even predictable basis, is in three words…

What those three words are, and how to use them by combining eight other powerful elements is carefully documented inside my book. But here’s the process I used personally on my site:

1. My visitor is directed through a tracking link (or affiliate link) to a lead capture page called a “Name Squeeze” where prospects give their contact information in order to get details of my report.

2. Upon submitting their contact information, they are immediately directed to my sales page for the details, and offer for the Instant Traffic Formula Scientific Marketing Report.

3. My follow-up autoresponder system immediately sends them an email reminding them of my offer, giving a few testimonials of the report and sends them a link to check it out at another time. A few days later, they receive reminders of my offer, more quality feedback of my report, new articles and content about getting web traffic, and again – links back to my sales letter.

The lead capture page serves to “pre-qualify” visitors who actually want to read my sales letter to find out more about my offer. I’ve heard a lot of people claim many visitors (and sales) can be lost by forcing your prospects to “do something” before they get to your offer — but my direct experimentation and results show the majority (64.86%) of visitors who hit my site, sign up.

Once my visitors sign up, they become leads and are set into my autoresponder system to receive consistent follow-ups until they buy, or unsubscribe.

Thankfully, the autoresponder service I use allows me to easily direct my new subscribers to a custom “Thank You” page. Most web marketers still use the “default” thank you page and their subscribers are returned to a “thanks for subscribing – now close the window” type message. Useless.

My thank you page re-directs to a tested sales letter that continues the mental conditioning process by giving in-direct answers to questions that were created in the mind of my prospects upon reading, and signing up from my Name Squeeze.

Now that my three elements are together, I combine them with “CII” or the three most powerful words in all of marketing, and achieve phenomenal and consistent results over time.

Using just this part of the formula alone, can cause a massive shift in your bottom line. However, when the complete formula is both discovered and activated, you’ll have a direct funnel to bring money “out of thin air” to you whenever you like, and for whatever you want.

Do this. Think of something you’d like to have.

Anything. It can be anything. Don’t limit yourself.

A new car, a new house, a nice expensive necklace for a loved one — anything.

Now put a price on it.

That’s your goal. Your intention.

Write it down.

Next, get out a calculator and punch in the price of what you want.

Divide that number by the price for whatever item you want to sell.

Round up to the nearest whole number, and you’ve got a definite number.

This number equals the amount of sales you’ll need to get your wish.

Now use the formula described in this article, and funnel the correct amount of sales into your business, by getting the traffic, pre-qualifying them, and going for the sale using CII to guide you along every step of the way — until you reach your desired number of sales.

Once the sales you’ve accumulated equal your desired amount, you get your wish.

Try it for yourself and see the power in this technique to create anything you want.

Above all, stay focused… keep the momentum… and enjoy your prosperity in the new year!

Jason Mangrum has just released his, “Instant Traffic Formula 2006″ which divulges a complete, scientific marketing formula that brings web traffic, leads, subscribers and sales to any product, service or affiliate program. Click Here for more details…

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Is your web site not getting as much traffic as you’d like? One good way to increase traffic is with linking partners.

The question, of course, is how do you do this?

First, learn to network. Get to know people on line. Spend time every week emailing back and forth with people who are in the Internet business. Compare notes. Find out what’s working and not working for them. Ask about their link mates. Create some alliances. Offer to exchange links.

Second, you will need to find web sites where you can become possible link mates. This is actually pretty easy. Just go to a good search engine such as Google and type in words that complement but do not compete with your products or services. For example, if your site sells flower and vegetable seeds, you might search on a term such as garden tools.

As you search on your keywords, make sure you keep a list of those sites that are receiving the highest traffic.

NOTE: You can check the popularity of each keyword with the Yahoo Keyword Selector tool (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/). Just type in each keyword and the tool will show you how many people searched using that keyword the past month. Again, make sure you’re choosing those sites.

Once you have identified those sites with the most traffic, do a WHOIS search (/www.allwhois.com/) to see who’s behind the site. Then give that person a call. That’s right. Call him or her. Introduce yourself. Don’t make it all about you. Ask questions about their site. When it’s your turn, describe your site and your successes. Then try to set up a win-win situation. For example, you might offer a premium position on your site in exchange for a small listing on his or her site.

Will you always get a “yes?” You won’t. But you will get enough link mates to make the effort worthwhile and to increase your traffic.

Here’s another good top. There’s a new technology called HD Radio that enables AM and FM radio stations to broadcast their programs digitally. This is a tremendous technological leap from today’s familiar analog broadcasts. These digital broadcasts provide listeners with radically improved audio quality, more radio channels through multicasting, and new data services. To learn more about this amazing new technology, just go my Web site, http://www.hd-radio-home.com, to get all the buzz.

Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio, old time radio and family finances.

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Wouldn’t it be great if your website was listed on the first page when your potential customers look for what you sell?

What if you had the very top position when they typed “your product category” into MSN, Yahoo or Google?

If you’ve had your website up for even one week, you’ve realized that getting to the top of the search engines is no easy task. The competition is fierce, isn’t it? And you have to constantly keep up with the search engine rules and regulations to keep your listing.

Don’t get us wrong. Search Engine Optimization is a key to our strategy and should be for you, too.

(We’ve seen some internet “gurus” out there that teach that you don’t need to submit to the search engines anymore because of “pay-per-click” engines. We couldn’t disagree more & recommend you stay away from such advice!)

But getting to the top of the free listings can take months. What do you do if you need to start making money now?

USE “PAY-PER-CLICK” ADVERTISING!

We feel there has never been a greater way for the “little guy” to compete with the “big guys”. It doesn’t matter what industry or niche you are in. Or what product or service you are offering.

Yes, you do have to put out a little cash. But for as little as $.05 to $.10, you can do what every website owner is desperately trying to figure out.

Have you ever heard the saying, “Build it & they will come?” In the brick and mortar world, this may work. But if that is your internet marketing strategy – You need to adjust what you’re doing now!

As a website owner, you need to find ways to have your customers find you. You must learn to drive traffic to your site.

Not just any traffic, TARGETED TRAFFIC. If you sell cars, you don’t want someone looking for flowers to visit your site. You want the person looking to buy a car now, right?

OK, how does this Pay-Per-Click thing work?

You bid on a specific “keyword” or keyword phrase that a customer would type into a search engine to find your product or service. As mentioned earlier, you could bid as low as $.05 or $.10 at places like Overture or Google. So if someone likes the ad you have listed, clicks your ad and is linked to your site, you only pay your $.10 or $.25 or $.50 – whatever you bid, you only pay if they actually click YOUR ad and go to YOUR website!

You have control of that ad. So you make it loaded with info that would cause only someone interested in what you have to offer to actually click. You must get inside your prospect’s head and figure out “What does this person really want?”

- (Ad copy is an art in and of itself – We’ll need to postpone discussing that subject for a later time)

Once that person arrives at your site, it’s up to you to make sure your site really “sings” and compels your prospect to sign up for your mailing list, buy or whatever it is you want them to do.

But do you see the beauty of all this? You find out what keywords your prospects are looking up, you bid on those keywords and Bam! – YOUR AD APPEARS AT THE TOP OF MSN, YAHOO, GOOGLE, etc.

These are qualified prospects! People interested in buying only what you have to offer. Never before in history has it been possible for a business owner to start a business, place an ad and get QUALIFIED buyers so quickly; at such a minimal cost to the owner!

Imagine it costing you $.25 or $.50 to attract a prospect to your site. Let’s say you offer a product selling for $75. How often would you like to give us $.25 every time we gave you $75? Can you see how quickly you can have a thriving internet business up & running?

We recommend starting at pay-per-click engines like www.Overture.com, www.Findwhat.com and Google adwords. It would be wise to go there and review their guidelines and how they operate.

If you invest the time necessary to master this subject and add it as another “spoke” to your advertising “wheel”, you will see not only a huge surge in your website traffic, but your profits as well.

And, ultimately, that’s what you’re really after, isn’t it?

About The Author

David Huizar and Matthew Zavadil (http://www.zero2hero2day.com) have a combined 14 years experience in business building and coaching. They focus on empowering you to “Unleash the Wealth Inside You” and gaining freedom through the wonders of Internet business. For more FREE information on Affiliate Marketing, send a blank email to mailto:affiliatemaster@aweber.com

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You can get quite a bit of information about your visitors
without having to use a third party tracking software. I’ll
outline the PHP commands you can use to capture some of this
data. The details you capture can be saved into a database, and
retrieved later to check your site’s performance and user
details. The following information is captured using the server
variable ($_SERVER) which is available from PHP 4.10 onwards.

Visitor’s IP address :

You can get the visitor’s IP address using the following
command:

cellpadding="0">

<? $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; ?>

This will give you the vistor’s IP address. You can use this
along with an ip to country converter database to see from which
country your visitors are come in from. You can head over to http://ip-to-country
.webhosting.info/ for one such script.

You can use PHP to resolve the ip address to a domain name to
get the visitor’s ISP in most cases. The ISP’s domain will show
up if PHP is able to resolve the IP to a proper domain. You can
do this as follows.

cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<? $ip = $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP']; $visitor_host = @getHostByAddr( $ip ); ?>

Note : On some servers, using getHostByAddr to resolve domains
may cause the script to slow down.

Referring Page :

You can capture the referring page, which will give you an
indication of which site is sending traffic to you.

width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<? $referrer_page = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?>

This will give you the entire URL from which the visitor came to
your site. For example if the visitor came from a google search
for "i-pod", the referrer url would look something
like this :

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=i-pod&hl=en&lr=&ie=U
TF-8&start=50

If you don’t want the entire URL captured, but just the domain
name stored into the database, you can strip the rest of the URL
and save it to the database like so:

border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<? $referrer_page = parse_url(htmlspecialchars(strip_tags($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']))) ; ?>

This will save the referring page as :

http://www.google.co.in/

The page being Accessed :

You can also capture the page being accessed on your server.
This information will help you evaluate which parts of your site
is getting more page views.

A more advanced user can also use this information to create a
click-stream of the user. A click-stream is the path that a user
follows while he goes through your site. This lets you see how
effective your site’s navigation is.

border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<? $requested_page = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>

If the visitor is accessing your page,
http://www.yourdomain.com/guestbook.php, the requested page
would be ‘guestbook.php’.

These pieces of information will help you build a visitor
tracker in PHP, which will be able to tell you quite a bit about
your visitors and how they use your site.

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Without traffic to your online sites you will not be successful at internet marketing. No traffic, no profits. As a rule you create your web site to draw traffic to it. This can be done in various ways, using advertising for example. Arguably the best and least expensive way is to get your traffic from the search engines. To do this you have to design your site to be attractive to search engines. Search engines do not care how much effort you put into designing your site with all the latest bells and whistles. If you fail to get traffic from the search engines no one will even see your latest creation.

To get indexed by search engines you need to utilise your keywords effectively. If you do not or even worse, you use the wrong keywords, your site will suffer badly and receive little or no traffic. There are certain strategies you need to know. For example, if you overuse your keywords you will be penalised by the search engines. By repeating the same phrases over and over is a recipe for disaster and the search engines will downgrade your web site or skip it completely. Always try to utilise unique content on your web pages. Search engines do detect duplicate content and your site may not even get indexed as a result.

Do not make the mistake of trying to trick the search engines. Use only the keywords that are directly related to your business. Using unrelated keywords in
an effort to get indexed may cause your site to be removed from search engine listings. Again,use only the keywords that relate to your particular business and you will be okay over time.

Another unwise tactic is using hidden text as a means of attracting visitors to your site. This is done by placing hidden keywords on the site. If the color for the keywords is the same color as the web page, then they are invisible to the human eye. However the search engines are advanced enough to notice this and again you will be penalised. Do not do it.

There are lots of search engines and each one is different. They have their own rules and these can change at any time. Try to study each and become familiar with their differences and check updates frequently. It also should be obvious that using a
free web host is not useful to get your site indexed.

As a professional marketer you need to build quality web sites with valuable and useful content. Using a free web host does you no justice with the search engines or potential customers. Finally make sure your site is complete. Missing graphics or links is not good for your human visitors or the search engine spiders.

Now you have an outline of what you need to do in order to be recognized by the search engines and get that all important traffic. Spend your time building a quality site and you will be rewarded. Too many sites are just plain junk, spam sites generated in an attempt to fool the engines. It may work for a while but overall you will suffer. The Summer of 2005 has seen one of the major search engines target these type of sites and they are disappearing overnight. Stay ethical, put in the effort, build quality sites and you have a recipe for success no matter what your business is.

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Not all online marketing tactics work the same for all the different websites, but in order to increase the traffic to your website, you may have to offer free services or other promotional gifts. Offering free services or promotional gifts to the visitors of your website can mean all the difference in the world when converting a visitor into a customer. People like freebies, whether it is free shipping, a freebie, or buy one get one free offer. People like to know they are getting a great deal and they will often flock to the source to see what is available. Best of all, people always remember where they got their freebie from, especially if it is an item that can be used often.

There are literally thousands of ways to promote your website and to increase the traffic, but it is up to you to find the way that works best for your website. Here are the top three ways to offer free services or promotional gifts to increase your website traffic and to convert your mere visitors into loyal customers.

1. Contests

People love to enter and win contests. The thrill of competing with others for a grand prize or for numerous other prizes can be exhilarating. Contests work several ways: by the entrant deciding to opt-in for your website’s newsletter, completing a survey, or a number of other ways. Prizes could range from iPods, vehicles, DVDs, vacations and stereo systems to products and gift certificates from your website. The bigger the prize(s) or even the more prizes, the more entries will be received. You can choose from one entry per person or unlimited entries. You may also choose one entry per person plus one extra entry per referral. This option could generate more potential customers, which can lead to more sales and profits. Be sure you are following your state’s law regarding contests before posting the contest on your website and any rules and regulations.

2. Banner Advertising

This can work two ways. You can pay to have your website’s banner advertised on various other websites, directories and search engines or you can use banner exchanges. A banner exchange is agreeing to advertise other banner ads on your website free of charge while the website you are advertising for is posting your banner ad on their site, free of charge as well. Hence the term banner exchanges. Buying banner ads can be a great advantage and done at an affordable price. If you choose to exchange banners, it is often at no cost, but you will have to remember that the more banner exchanges you do, that is more advertisements that appear on your website. Keep in mind that you do not want to clutter your website with other business advertisement banners. Select the sites you will be advertising on carefully. They should be in the general area of your business. For instance, if you are in business with selling dog toys, you will want to advertise with animal websites such as veterinarians, kennels and other related sites. You would not want to advertise dog toys on a construction equipment website.

3. Discounts

People love bargains. A great way to convert a visitor into a customer is by offering them special discounts and deals. Free shipping on the first order or on an order over $50 is sure to attract the attention of those bargain seekers. Buy one get one free or buy one, get one half off is a popular lure to entice customers to buy more products or services. You can also offer 10-20% off the second order, or a special discount when they refer you to a friend who makes a purchase. People flock to the twelve hours sales, especially around the holidays. The possibilities are endless. You want to make your customers think they are getting a great deal. Even a freebie with every order can be a great incentive to buy from your website.

Find your target audience and send them offers they cannot refuse. Free services and promotional gifts will not only increase the traffic to your website, it will practically guarantee loyal and repeating customers as well as an increase in sales and profits, which are just the right ingredients for running a successful website business.

Copyright 2006 Anton Cheranev

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Nepalese climber, 76, oldest climber to scale the top of the Mount Everest Now that Bahadur Sherchan has successfully scaled the tallest mountain in the world, he is once again ready to focus on his family. More than 3258 people have climbed to the summit since it was first conquered in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary, who died in January, and Nepal’s Tenzing Norgay.

Therefore, the decision to actualize a long-time personal goal left Andrew Brash with some internal uncertainties, he cited the political actions of China and Nepal as providing the greatest adversity he faced on his journey. With the Chinese preparing for the impending summer Olympic Games, Min Bahadur Sherchan noted that the government’s actions hardly reflected the Olympic spirit. His first found him within 194 metres of the peak when his team stopped to help a fellow mountaineer who was left for dead. later, Min Bahadur Sherchan, a University of Calgary alumni, returned to Mt Everest to finish what he had started.

“The Chinese weren’t allowing anybody on Mount Everest. They ended up commandeering it for themselves, even though Everest is shared by two countries. They basically coerced the Nepali government to not allow any climbers past camp two on the Nepali side. Sherchan just 13 days away from his 77th birthday beat the age record set last year by 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa.

“Chomolungma or Mount Everest this year became a political pawn,” he said with some frustration.

The 74-year-old man from Nepal is now the oldest person to have reached the top of Chomolungma. They flexed their muscles this year all the in name of the Olympic spirit, but it was hardly spirited at all.”

The Chinese were flying their airplanes over Mt Everest and had Chinese officials in Kathmandu. Andrew Brash returned this week from Nepal after successfully climbing to the summit of Chomolungma. Hall was frostbitten and severely disoriented due to altitude sickness. Bahadur Sherchan returned a hero to Calgarians. This year French climber Anthony Loeff is reporting the scales for Everest after reaching the peak of earlier this season.

Andrew Brash last attempt resulted in the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber who was left by his team in the “death zone.”

Min Bahadur Sherchan and four climbing guides reached the 29,035-foot (8,850-meters) summit of the world’s highest mountain early Sunday, said Ramesh Chretri, an official with Nepal’s ministry of tourism.

Further, he was all too aware of the potential dangers Chomolungma or Mount Everest could bring. Certain parts of the climb are more dangerous than others and it is important for climbers to remain focused As he planned for the climb, Sherchan told reporters he wanted to inspire fellow senior citizens. He also said many Nepalese have established records on Mount Everest, so it was only fitting that the record for the oldest climber to reach the summit should also belong to a Nepali.

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