Joseph’s Internet Marketing Tips

What are the top secret SEO tips?  The truth is there is no secret.  There are only true facts on how you should optimize your blogs, articles, ads or whatever.

Most important is the content.  Content is your best vehicle for driving traffic to your pages.  Quality content will keep traffic flooding to your door.

Research your material.  Find an authoritative voice to learn from and always provide unique content to your readers.

Makes sure you use links.  Back links add value to your site for the search engines.  But don´t just stuff any links into you content.  Be sure that they are related to your subject and are helpful to your audience.  You disperse them in your content or provide a helpful resource box with all your links in it.

While we are on the subject of links, use text links on your website.  When you use image links then don´t give them a name in your alt tags instead give them a number like”jpg 1″.  This way when the image is not relevant the search engines will not count them as ”relevant” to your website. 

Remember that rating number one is not neccessarily the best place to be in the search engines.  When you are placed at the top you typically get a lot of “tire kickers”.  Aim to be somewhere around 3rd or 4th.  the people who tend to look further down the page tend to be more targeted traffic.

One way to rise in the rankings however is to provide fresh content on a regular basis.  Search engines love new content and you will tend to rank higher with quality fresh content supplied on a regular basis.

Go for keyword phrases and not just single keywords.  Again more targeted traffic tends to search for keyword phrases than just one word.

These are just a few of my top secret SEO tips.  If you would like to learn more then visit my blog at:

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So now you know what to do when using Yahoo Answers, what are some of the things you should not do?

First and foremost make sure that your weblink is related DIRECTLY to the question.
I mean really, don´t you get frustrated when you click on a link and the site has nothing to do with what you are searching for?

A good example of this is quoted by Tracey Edwards of http://www.answerstraffic.com: If someone ask you a question about exercise that does not mean that you can send them to your diet pills website.

They are both a part of the losing weight niche but they are not related.
You don´t want to be labeled a spammer.

Next make sure that your answers are unique to the questions ask. Don´t give out a carbon copy answer to every question related to your subject.

Give detailed answers. Naturally you want to drive people to your link, but if you just add a link saying for more info “click here”, people will see it as a sales ploy. In fact the more you make prospects click around, the more likely they are to get frustrated and look somewhere else.

Save Your Link For The Resource Box!

Now you know what not to do when using Yahoo Answers. Go out there and make contact and you will be getting loads of traffic from Yahoo Answers in no time!

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So how do you get started using Yahoo Answers to drive traffic?

First of all, if you don´t already have one, sign up for an account with Yahoo Answers.

Next search the questions for open ones related to your niche.  The questions are generally open for four days.

Then go to the advanced search page for Yahoo Answers and put your keyword in the keyword box.

In “search for keyword match in” choose “questions”.

Under “category”, select “all”.

In “question status” choose “open questions – best answer has not been chosen”.

Then under “date submitted” choose “any-time”.

In the “% thumbs up rating” select “all evaluations”.

When you get your results, pick out about 10 questions you would like to answer but put your link in only two of them.  By doing this, you will prevent Yahoo from thinking that you are a spammer.  So only add your link to the questions that you gave the best answer to.

Also, answer questions in a few different categories.  This way it comes across as more natural as apposed to answering questions in only one category.

You will get the most traffic from questions that you give the best answer to because, your response will appear at the top of the page.  Since people have a tendency to only read the first reply, you will be in the best position to receive traffic.

That´s it for Getting Started Using Yahoo Answers To Drive Traffic.  I hope you find it helpful.

My next post will be explaining what not to do when using Yahoo Answers.  Be sure not to miss it!

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Hi Everybody,

I ran into an interesting article on how to generate traffic using Yahoo Answers.

Let´s face it, without traffic you could be selling water in the desert and you would not make a sale.

Most people concentrate on using Google Adwords pay-per-click to get traffic.  Naturally, Google is the largest search engine out there and you can get fast response by paying for ads.

However, if you are ignoring Yahoo, you could be leaving money on the table.

Lots of it!

You see, Yahoo Answers gets around a billion visitors looking for answers to their questions. 

Highly motivated targeted visitors.

How much traffic you can get depends on your niche and how many  questions you answers you provide.  But you can expect 20 to 30 visitors/month for every answer you give.

So let´s say you are trying to get around 100 visitors/day to your site.  You would need to link into about 100 answers.

Sound like a lot?

Not at all!

That´s only 10 to 20 questions per day.  In a month´s time you will have about 100 answers.

Imagine that, in 30 days you could have an extra 3000 targeted visitors to your site!

Popular questions tend to generate the most traffic.  Less popular questions generate less traffic.  It´s that simple.

The main thing is, you will see an increase in your traffic!

So tomorrow I will be giving you more details to get started generating traffic using Yahoo Traffic.  So stay tuned!

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Well ladies and gentlemen, this is the last installment of 5 profitable steps to blogging.  Hopefully you have found it somewhat helpful in your endeavors as an internet marketer thus far.

So the last step is:

Write a product review to create more content for your blog.

In writing a review there are 4 points to consider.

1.) Talk about your personal experience with the product. 

*If you haven´t used it yourself you can´t very well review it.

2.) List the good points about the product.  You can also get other peoples opinions by using Google.  Just search for the “name of the product + review”

3.) Don´t forget to share the negative aspects of the product.  You want to be honest and even the best product in the world is not perfect.

4.) Call-to-Action.  Tell your reader to click on the link that leads them to your sales page.  Then let your sales page do the selling for you.

Bonus* Cloak you affiliate link.  There is no bigger turn off to your reader than when they look at your url address and see your affiliate ID.  They know immediately that you are trying to sell them something.

Two free cloaking/shrinking services are:

http://www.budurl.com and http://www.tinyurl.com

Now you probably already have some affiliate products to sell.  But if you don´t I will have a few listed on my side panel for you to check out, along with some Cost-Per-Action programs.

That´s it for 5 profitable steps to blogging.  Again, I hope it has been helpful to you.

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