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Use Articles to Drive Targeted Visitors to Your Website

Do you want to bring more visitors to your website? The answer is article marketing.

Compared to other methods of online marketing, article marketing is low-cost if you can write it yourself and the results are long-lasting as the articles are distributed and remain for a long time.

The method is to write articles related to your website and submit it to as many articles directories as possible using article submission tools.

What articles will you write for your audience? Find out what they are thinking about, their concerns, their problems? How do you know? You can browse through the forums related to your niche and see the kind of questions they ask. Look at Yahoo Answers for clues. Browse through magazines and see the kind of headlines on magazine covers. Feel the pulse of your target readers.
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How to Promote a Brand New Small Business Website?

It is easy to assume that just by putting up a website online people will find you ‘naturally’. The truth is that it doesn’t matter how beautiful your website is or how great your product or service is, people will not find your website ‘naturally’. Thousands of new websites are being put online each day and every one of them is fighting for people’s attention, therefore getting people to visit a website isn’t as easy as 10 years ago. But with the right knowledge and planning, you will be to do better than 50% of other small business website owners, which is the goal of this short article – to give you easy to use tips on promoting your new business website.

As a small business you probably have a limited budget so it’s probably best to try some free methods first before spending any money, especially if you’re new to the business world. There are probably thousands of different ways to get people visit your website, but these 3 methods which I’m going to share with you would give you good results now and in the the future. Continue Reading »

Reasons Why You Need a Lead Generation Website

A lead generation website is one that encourages customers to enquire about the product or service that you have to offer. For example, it could be something as simple as “enter your email here for more details”. The customer doesn’t have to enter in pages of personal details and in all likelihood it will take them less than a minute to do so they are likely to fill it in so they can get more details.

Now the email is just an example the same thing could be done via phone calls, SMS text message or filling in a form. Either way you need to make it as simple and hassle free as possible for your customers to ask you for more information.

If you aren’t already doing this on your website you will soon see that it is vital that you implement this to your website.
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5 Things That Successful Website Owners Have in Common

Is your website providing value to your business? Nearly 90% of businesses have a website now but only a small percentage of them are benefiting from their website. If you want to be part of this small group of people you need to know what they did to get to where they are today, and you just have to do the same. To save you time, we have already done the hard work for you. These are the five things we’ve found in successful website owners:

  1. They track and test everything with the help of tools like Google Analytic. They track the number of visitors, what keywords were used, how long people stayed on site, which is the most popular page, etc. They use this information to guide them for making the right marketing decisions as well as to find out which methods are working for them and which ones are not. Not only do they track their website visitors and marketing methods, they also test different layout designs, headlines, images and promotional offers. Continue Reading »

7 Cost Effective Ways to Promote Your Website

Getting a website for your business is just the beginning. You need to promote it if you want to get the most benefits from it. With thousands of websites going online each day, how do you get your website in front of your customers before your competitors? In this article you will discover seven simple methods to promote your website without costing you an arm and a leg.

  1. Start blogging for your business – you can have a third party hosted blog up and running in 10 minutes. Write quality contents that your customers would like to read. A regularly updated blog can drive not only traffic to your main web site, but can also help your website’s search engine ranking. If you are serious about blogging you should host it on your server and use an unique domain for it.
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