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What’s a Backlink and Why Do I Need Them for My Website?
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If you’re new to the world of website development and online marketing, you may have heard a lot of noise already about backlinks. Everybody always says how important they are, but what’s the real story? What is a backlink and why do you need them for your website in order to be successful?
A backlink, also known as an inbound link or an incoming link to your website, is simply any link from another website, blog or online outlet that leads to one of the pages on your own website. So anytime that you get added to somebody’s links page or blogroll, or anytime somebody references one of your products, services or articles via a clickable link, that counts as a new backlink to your site.
Now, why is it that these are so important? Well, one of the most powerful options at your disposal in order to find new prospects and customers is to be ranked highly in the search engines. That’s not always easy to pull off, particularly when it comes to crowded markets and niches. You’ll find that even with the right keyword selection and on-page SEO, that you still may not be able to crack the top listings.
This is where all of those backlinks come into play. Each backlink that you have leading to your website is like adding a vote or tally to your cause within the search engine’s complicated formulas. Every time that somebody links to you they are basically saying, hey, I vouch for that website, and that increases your value. The more backlinks you have and the better quality that they are, the more this can boost your positioning.
Yes, that means that not all backlinks are worth the same in terms of the push that they can give your own reputation and ranking. Think of it as a politician running for office. Nailing down the head of that big union in your district and getting him to support your cause will be much more valuable comparatively to getting Bob on the street corner to vote for you. Every vote counts, sure, but the backing of a powerful player means even more.
That means the best backlinks you can get for your site are the ones that come from highly reputable sites themselves. Additionally, backlinks that come from related sites as opposed to unrelated sites, and backlinks that are natural as opposed to exchanged, will be worth more as well. So ultimately, while the more links you get the better, certain ones are far more important than others.
The bottom line with backlinks is that quantity and quality incoming links will improve your positioning in the search engines. Your reputation and online presence will grow, and you will be able to find more prospects and convert more of them into customers and repeat clients. For many small websites and businesses, it can be the difference between success and failure, so clearly, backlinks are something that should not be taken lightly.
Do I Really Need to Bookmark My Content Online?
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the most popular forms of online marketing for businesses and websites today is the world of social media, and more specifically, social bookmarking. Social bookmarking can be an extremely valuable tool when used correctly, however like nearly anything else its true merits have been questioned, and not all individuals see the results that they would like to. Here’s a quick primer on understanding social bookmarking and making it work for you.
Social bookmarking is the process of taking your website and its individual pages of content and saving it as a bookmark on various different web 2.0 websites. There are many popular outlets designed specifically for this purpose. These include sites coupled with voting such as Digg, Reddit and Propeller, and more general storing and sharing websites such as Delicious.
There are several different advantages to bookmarking for your overall online success. The first of which is that you’re exposing your content to lots of fresh faces. If you send out compelling content that truly engages people and entices them to take a look, then you’ll drive some serious traffic to your website and watch the list of your prospects and customers grow.
Additionally, the second main benefit to bookmarking your content on social media sites is that you’ll build up your base of incoming links. The more incoming links you have leading to your site and all of its pages, the higher you will rank in the results pages of the search engines. This can provide a great, free boost to your positioning.
Knowing all of this, are there any downsides to social bookmarking, or why do so many fail to succeed with it? The truth is that far too many people simple copy and paste generic content into dozens of websites and hope to see results. This isn’t going to get you very far, as your links will be devalued and nobody will bother having a look for themselves.
If you really want to see results, you have to really invest some time and effort into providing valuable and interesting content. When you post to multiple sites, you have to make those postings unique enough to be considered as such. Additionally, you need to become an active member of the community you’re involved with. If you friend other users, view and comment on their postings and generally participate in the environment, then people will do the same for you.
If you build up a base of followers, your posts will automatically receive a stream of content, and will have a much better chance of catching on fire. And that can be the biggest benefit of them all, having your content go viral. It’s not something you can really try or force to happen, but when it does you can see a ton of benefits.
Social bookmarking has grown quite popular, and it’s here to stay. If you want a quick and easy way to drive traffic to your website and boost your positioning in the search engines, then social bookmarking is a fantastic place to turn. Just remember to actually take the time to do it in the right way in order to see results.
The Carbon Copy Pro Experience In Las Vegas 09
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The Carbon Copy Pro Event Live In Las Vegas
It’s been a little over a week now since my first Carbon Copy Pro event in Las Vegas, and man what an experience that was. It all started with a rush to get the premium front seats once the doors opened to start the event, as everyone took there seats the roar of beating drums could be heard in the background. I still don’t know who this group of drummers was but it was pretty evident as they made their way down the aisle and ultimately to the stage that there precision drumming techniques were second to none, wow what an opening.
Traffic Geyser
They started us off with Mike Koenigs founder of Traffic Geyser, for all of you who might be looking for a web 2.0 syndication service that distributes to over a million video platforms per week and generates web traffic, leads and top ranking to search engines by sending video content to over 70 video sites social media, blog and podcasting directories as well as bookmarking sites, no one does it better than Traffic Geyser. I’ve had the program for a little over a year and it has done wonders for my video marketing efforts.
Beating the Odds
Next we were introduced to Karen Teresa head of sales and customer support as well as the customer support team that works with her, these guys do a fabulous job of getting everyone’s questions and concerns taken care of in our Carbon Copy Pro back offices. Karen shared a truly inspiring story of her son who over came a hearing impediment to become founder and CEO of his own company TekTegrity a regional provider of information technology on the central coast of California. Talk about beating the odds Karen’s son Russ Levenway is a wonderful inspiration for us all.
The Power of the Spouse
For those of you who have been on any of the CCPRO daily wakeup calls I’m sure you know the name John Jackson vice president of leadership development, JJ or BIG JOHN as he is affectingly known. John is one of those guys who can invite over for a cookout not even know him and fell right at home with his presence. In staying with his principles of passionate leadership Big John moderated this session of The Power of the Spouse, we were introduced to Liz Parkinson wife of Aaron Parkinson and Sophia Rashkin wife of Aaron Rashkin. They spoke about how important it is for the spouse of an entrepreneur to have understanding and commitment to the dreams of one day having a successful business.
This one really hit home for me, I can remember over 20 years ago now how much of a struggle it was when first starting my building maintenance company. My wife at the time didn’t understand the realties of sacrifice that it took to make one’s dreams come true, my marriage ultimately ended up in divorce it was hard but I got over it. Quitting was never an option for me, and I made a commitment to myself and my son’s that nothing would get in my way of making my dreams come true. It’s so important for a husband and wife to work together as a team, and Liz and Sophia provided perfect examples of The Power of the Spouse, I’m sure this one left some tears in the eyes for many of us in the audience I know it did for me.
The Urban Cowgirl
You want to see what personal branding will do for you? Well then you’ve got to check out Cherie Yvette aka The Urban Cowgirl. Cherie is founder of The Urban Cowgirl and Wild West Media, both companies are geared towards helping today’s entrepreneur navigate the world of online marketing specifically Google Adwords/Pay Per Click. Cherie has been responsible for helping 100’s of small business owners gain top search engine rankings, leads and continuous traffic for there websites and blogs. She also has been responsible for managing Adwords campaigns for many of the top producers with the network marketing industry.
It’s obvious that Cherie knows her stuff, but the one thing I’ve so interesting about her is the way she markets her business. The whole theme around both her companies revolves around the concept of the Wild Wild West. I mean everything from her marketing materials to her slide presentations to her websites in some way or another relates to gun slinging cowboys/cowgirls back in the Wild Wild West. This is what I mean when I say she’s done a fantastic job of personal branding, when ever anybody mentions Cherie Yvette’s name you automatically get this picture in your mind of a cowgirl complete with cowgirl boots, blue jeans and a cowgirl hat. So if you’re looking for an expert on Google Adwords look no further than the The Urban Cowgirl.
Wealth Masters International
We where than introduced to Wealth Masters founders Kip Herriage and Karl Bessey, who gave us in inside look at where Wealth Masters is going as a company and the new opportunities they have planed for the future. Kip has over 15 years as vice president, financial planner, and money manager for one of the largest investment firms in the world, having managed over 70 million dollars in assets. Karl comes from the blue collar arena having spent over 22 years as an underground coal miner in Utah and ultimately becoming a million dollar producer in the direct sells industry.
After meeting each other at a network marketing seminar both of them decided to do something that would help other entrepreneurs in the areas of Health, Wealth and financial education. You could definitely tell that both of these guys are passionate about what they’ve created with Wealth Masters as a company and are truly dedicated to helping people pursue there dreams.
Step by Step to Seven Figures
Andrew Cass or as I heard many people call The MC extraordinaire presented his Step by Step to Seven figures. Andrew was the first member of Carbon Copy Pro, and was number 1 in sales in 2008 he give us a brief overview of his history in the financial services industry and his rise to become a top earner within the Carbon Copy Pro system. Andrew is now senior vice president of marketing for Carbon Copy Pro as well as Vice President of Business Development for Wealth Masters and sits on the company’s board of directors. If you’re looking for a model to follow and a Step by Step to Seven figures Andrew Cass is it, he’s also a great MC as well.
The Millionaire Roundtable
Aaron Parkinson co-founder of Carbon Copy Pro treated us to a million dollar roundtable session with four of the top earners within the Carbon Copy Pro system. It was interesting to see how well these guys interacted with each other, it was obvious that they were all friends but there was definitely a feeling of competition among them. It’s always good to see from a personal perspective how different people are doing business wise within the company, Michael Force along with Andrew Cass give us some really enlightening information on how they were able to move up through the ranks and obtain top earner status.
Aaron Parkinson asked the right questions and I know myself as well as many others truly benefited from the answers received. Aaron has a pretty interesting history himself, having been a seven time top producer in several direct sells organizations. I also found out that he fought as a mixed martial artists for over 10 years, being a long time martial artist myself I could relate. We really enjoyed the great information we received from this million dollar roundtable, as it was the topic of discussion during the break.
Carbon Copy Pro 3.0
Kevin Thomas and Ferny Ceballos Carbon Copy Pro Live Las Vegas 2009
Ok last but not least Jay Kubassek took to the stage with an energetic presentation into the future of Carbon Copy Pro 3.0. Most of us know the story of Jay from his humble beginnings as a Midas muffler salesman to launching Carbon Copy Pro in 2004. But not too many know about his philanthropic associations and his love for the arts, he’s produced several independent films and even has his own movie production company (Aliquot Media). I’ve seen some of his work, and just like everything else Jays does his films are top notch and could rival any movie production company out there.
We also got a glimpse into the new Inside Out DVD and also the new business in a box or what it is now affectionately known as the BlackBox, the second generation of the BIB. Jay talked about the importance of keeping up with the training in the Carbon Copy Pro Back office as well as networking and staying engaged with Carbon Copy Pro community members.
Well after the awards ceremony which was dominated by Michael Force, man talk about a go-getter the event winded down for the day. As we made our way out of the meeting room in to the lobby and hallway everyone was a buzz with conversations about how to take there marketing to the next level.
I’m really glad that I attended this event because lets be honest, being an online entrepreneur locked up in your office in front of a computer all day can be a little lonely at times. And being able to see real people, connecting names with faces I’m sure was a huge boost for us all to get back home and take building our businesses and marketing efforts to a whole nother level. I had a chance to meet people from all over world and made quite a few networking connections many of whom I’ve spoken with since the event. Carbon Copy Pro has everything you’re looking for in an internet marketing company, and I as well as many others look forward to being a part of the evolution and growth of Carbon Copy Pro.
SEO or PPC?
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The two main components of search engine marketing are search engine optimization and pay per click management. The two are very contrasting in terms of their benefits, their costs and how you go about using them for your website. It’s important to understand how both of these components of search engine marketing wok and how you can use them to help your business’s online presence and profitability.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO entails everything you do both on your website and off your website to boost its standings in the displayed results of the search engines. There are many different pieces of effective search engine optimization. For example, you can include targeted keywords and phrases into your content, you can build the amount of incoming links you have on your website and much more.
Results you see from SEO are known as organic. A visitor to your website that arrives there from a normal query in the search engine is known as an organic visitor. You didn’t have to pay to drive that person to your website, instead it was a result of your natural placement in the search engines.
SEO takes time to become effective and is generally a gradual process. You can’t throw up some keywords on your website and expect to be number 1 in Google the next week. Instead, SEO is about boosting the value and credibility of your website over the long haul. With the right strategy deployed continually for a long period of time you will be able to see and maintain substantial results in your search engine positioning. The result, of course, is increased traffic flow to your website and a greater online presence.
Pay Per Click
PPC campaigns entail purchasing sponsored listings that appear in the search engine results. When you make a search in Google, the sponsored results show up right at the top of the page, as well as down the sidebar of the page. Every link you see in these areas has been purchased.
The main thing to remember however is that you don’t really pay for the placement, you pay each time somebody clicks on your ad to go to your website. This offers a direct link between visitors and the amount you pay, and you can control your daily budget to limit how much you end up spending. The way that the listings are determined is through an ongoing bidding process. The more you are willing to spend per click, or per visitor, the higher you will end up getting ranked.
The great benefit of PPC is that it is instantaneous. You may not be able to run a masterful PPC campaign right away, but as soon as you create and launch a campaign, you will start seeing results. Therefore it’s an extremely powerful way to make an immediate impact on your traffic.
As opposed to SEO however PPC of course costs you money. If you don’t target your market appropriately and bid on keywords strategically, you can end up wasting a good deal of money. Another important aspect of PPC management is developing effective landing pages that convert visitors who click on your links. This is extremely important when every visitor you receive has been paid for.
Clearly there are many differences between search engine optimization and pay per click campaigns. SEO produces long term results and doesn’t cost you money directly. PPC can produce instant results but will cost you every time someone ends up on your website.
An effective search engine marketing strategy will usually incorporate pieces of both. It’s all about fitting a specific plan into a budget you can afford, and deploying tactics that help you achieve your specific goals. For example, if you just created a website and want to begin seeing traffic right away, bidding highly on some of your important key phrases will help you gain an immediate presence.
However, to keep costs down in the long run while further developing your presence, you will have to use SEO to help climb up the rankings. PPC is also commonly used when you are directly trying to sell a product or service to someone, as opposed to convert them over longer periods of time.
Be sure to consider both PPC and SEO when developing your Internet marketing strategy. Both can pay huge dividends for your website, but as mentioned they are extremely different from one another. Used in conjunction, they can be an extremely powerful tag team of Internet marketing.
Offline Marketing Strategies for Your Online Business
Posted by: | CommentsMany small business owners fail to successfully connect their online business with the offline world. What this means is that they either don’t realize that online businesses can be promoted with offline strategies, or they don’t know how to make it work for their specific situations. The truth is that many traditional forms of offline advertising and marketing strategies can be extremely successful for businesses that are entirely online based.
It’s easy to get caught up in the world of online marketing when you are running an Internet business. Indeed, 
succeeding in the areas of search engine optimization, social networking and PPC campaigns are all extremely important to the success of your business. Additionally, they are all extremely cost effective forms of advertising and promotion that enable you to reach a potentially huge market. No online business would be wise to avoid online marketing.
However that doesn’t mean that you have to forgo offline marketing or traditional advertising altogether. In fact, what is consistently proven time and time again is that the most successful businesses form comprehensive marketing plans that incorporate many different tactics and platforms. Including offline advertising into your online marketing plan is simply a smart way to broaden your horizons and diversify your plan of attack.
The most important thing you have to remember though is that not all offline advertising opportunities make sense for online businesses. The trick is finding the ones that work for your particular business or industry. There is a huge variety of different options, including newspaper ads, trade magazines, conferences and tradeshows, post cards, radio advertising and more. So how is your online business supposed to find the platforms that work best?
Just as with your online marketing work, you are looking for cost effective, efficient and highly targeted forms of advertising, marketing and promotion. In the world of search engine optimization you wouldn’t try to target the broad search market of “cars” when what you are really offering is “vintage car auctions in New York”.
You would be facing far too much competition, and the costs of your efforts will be significantly higher. Additionally, the people who eventually find you may not be interested at all in what you have to offer. They may be looking for “car repair shops” “cars with the best gas mileage” or anything else.
Of course the same rules apply when you are working with offline marketing. You want to target your market as effectively as possible, and reach out to your potential prospects and customers in the places where you are most likely to find them and where they are most likely to listen to what you have to say. This will help you keep your costs down while providing yourself a better shot at actually reaching out to interested parties.
The offline methods of marketing you choose have to have clear, tangible benefits for your business. Just advertising and opening up your budget for the sake of it isn’t going to get you anywhere. Instead you need to think about what you specifically are trying to accomplish and then devise ways of making that happen.
Are you trying to add 1,000 new names to your email list so that you can grow your presence and find new prospects? Are you trying to promote a new product or service you just released? Are you offering a limited time discount or promotion designed to get customers into your doors with the hopes of selling to them repeatedly over time?
Whatever you are trying to accomplish, the first step is specifically plotting out your desired results. From there, you can find the quickest and most cost efficient ways of achieving that goal. To find 10 or 20 highly valuable prospects a tradeshow or conference may be the best route, but to send as much traffic as possible to your website a newspaper or radio ad may make more sense.
Think about your goals, keep your budget in mind and then choose the offline marketing strategy that fits the best with what you are going for. Remember, online businesses aren’t restricted to the online world. There is no unwritten rule that says a website can’t promote itself using traditional methods. So dive into the world of offline marketing for a way to increase the success of your online business.
Can a Press Release Drive Quality Traffic to Your Internet Business?
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Traditionally, press releases have been one of the most powerful tools that a business or organization had in order to increase exposure and generate interest. However, as the world of media and technology has changed, there has been a change in the way that press releases can be used as well. It’s important to understand how press releases have changed and how they can be utilized today for an effective marketing program.
In the past, a press release was used solely as a way to promote a product, company, service or event through the media. Perhaps you released a brand new product with some fantastic features that customers have been looking for. Your company writes up a press release, sends it out to all of the major news providers in your area and hopes that it sparks their interest.
If a journalist or reporter sees your press release and thinks that it makes for a good story, they will follow up and either write an article on it, do a television segment for it or in some other fashion highlight the information that was given to them. In this way your company gets free exposure in a major media outlet all for sending out press releases to various sources. It worked for the media because they got new stories and information and it worked for businesses because of the coverage they received as a result.
Today with the Internet though press releases have changed. Yes, there are still traditional press releases being used everyday in standard media outlets. However, there is also a new class of press releases, the online press release. An online press release is made specifically to be distributed to online press release websites, as opposed to traditional outlets. How do these really work and can they be effective tools for driving high quality traffic to your business?
There are actually several different benefits to distributing an online press release. The first of which is that you are going to be including links back to your business. The major press release sites are all high ranking, meaning that the links that you include on these sites will help boost your PageRank and search engine standing. The result is more traffic driven to your website from searches as your site enjoys an increased reputation.
Another benefit to the online press release is the power of search engine optimization. When you create an online press release you get a chance to include links back to your website, as mentioned. However you also get to control the anchor text of those links, and you also get to fill the press release with the keywords and phrases of your choosing. By doing this, you can get the press release highly found in the search engines.
When somebody performs a search for a topic, sees your press release and then clicks through to your website you’ll be gaining a great deal of traffic. This traffic will be highly targeted when you make use of effective SEO techniques, and your website will receive a big boost as a result.
For example, let’s say that you’re developing a new line of cheap workout clothing for runners. If you optimize your press release for that term and related phrases, then people searching for those items will come upon your press release. Reading about your company and their new release, they’ll follow through to your site and you’ll have a highly interested prospect that’s primed to be converted.
Don’t forget that with an online press release you can still potentially gain traditional media exposure. While their main benefits lie in SEO and traffic generation, online press releases are still official press releases that media outlets will pour through to try to find stories. Therefore if you’re lucky you will enjoy all of the above advantages and you’ll still receive traditional media coverage as well.
As with every other area of marketing, advertising and promotion, the realm of press releases has changed and evolved over the last decade. While traditional press releases are still powerful, online press releases are quickly growing in importance. You can increase your presence, improve your ranking in the search engines and send high quality traffic to your website.
How Copy Writing Can Make or Break Your Online Business
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There are many factors that go into the success or failure of any business. In many ways there are even more factors for online businesses than traditional businesses. It’s simply a completely different environment, and you have to stay atop all of the latest trends, get found over a stiff pool of competition in the search engines and then find ways to convert your site’s traffic into paying customers and clients. The good news is that all of your success is in your own hands. One of the factors that can make a huge difference, and in many ways the factor that can even make or break your online business, is copy writing.
Copy writing is a term that is thrown around a bit too loosely and it’s important to understand what it really means. Copy writing is not just any website content you have. On the contrary, copy writing is geared specifically to be promotional. The purpose of copy writing is to get somebody to make a purchase or take another desired action. High quality copy writing will draw people in, get their attention and keep them engaged, leading them the whole way towards taking a specific action that the author or business owner intended.
Content such as reviews, testimonials or product and service details is meant to be informative. It’s secondary information that people are looking for and interested in, but it’s not selling anything directly. At most it’s making a soft-sell by giving people more confidence in what you’re offering, or by merely informing them as much as possible so they can make an accurate judgment if they are interested.
It is the copy writing however that is really making that push for a sale. It does more than just inform people or softly hint at taking an action, it tells people exactly what to do, how to do it and it gives them a reason or many reasons why they should do it. Additionally, it encourages immediate action so that you convert as many people as possible without ever losing them to complacency, forgetfulness or competition from other businesses.
So many business owners take a hands-off approach and assume that people will figure everything out, and that the sales that will be made will be made regardless of what information or content they present. Unfortunately that’s a terrible misunderstanding and a huge oversight that can seriously derail your business and the profits you are trying to bring in. With some poorly designed websites visitors don’t know when, where or how to make a purchase. Worst of all is when someone doesn’t even understand that you even are selling anything.
Copy writing is the link between product or service and consumer or prospect. It brings the two of them together and lays everything out on the line. You can either hope that your soft-sell approach does enough to get the job done, or you can actively seek out sales through copy writing. It’s the difference between passively watching prospects walk out the door and convincing them by making them an offer they can’t refuse. As the owner of an online business you want to highlight all of your strengths and benefits. Copy writing enables you to do this, and the end result is that you’ll see more sale and more conversions.
People have a short attention span, and they need and like to see everything laid out right in from of them. If I buy your product, what exactly am I receiving? Why should I buy your product instead of another company’s? What are the benefits to working with your organization? If I take action right now, what do I receive? Will I be missing out on something if I don’t make this purchase and do it now? These are the questions that people want answered. Copy writing answers all of those and much more.
The bottom line is that copy writing really can make or break your online business. Without high quality copy writing, you’re just another website amongst hundreds of millions that doesn’t stand out from the crowd. People may find your site, but they’ll quickly leave as they ponder what you’re all about and why they should care. However, with copy writing when you have people at your site, they are yours for the taking. You can quickly convince and convert them, bringing in a great deal more sales than would have occurred otherwise. You can either hope that your hands-off, soft-sell approach works or you can seize the reins and pull the sales in with copy writing.
“Relevancy” and How it Relates to Marketing Your Online Business
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If you have spent any time operating an online business then you already know how important it is to be relevant. It’s crucial that your website stays up to date with the latest trends, and stays in touch with what consumers and browsers are looking for. Additionally, it’s also important to come off as relevant in the eyes of the search engines, thereby improving the visibility and presence of your website.
The dynamics of the Internet community as a whole are always changing. The web 2.0 movement ushered in a slew of new products, communities, services and websites that are designed with one purpose in mind: to increase user interactivity and control. The web is no longer a place where a company can create a website, never worry about it again and expect customers to come waltzing right up to them.
On the contrary, to remain relevant in the web 2.0 Internet, you have to be providing a rich and worthwhile experience for the visitors to your website. There are many ways to do this, including hosting a blog about your company and/or industry on your website, posting videos, pictures and other frequent updates, sending out worthwhile email newsletters, having contests and much more.
There are an infinite number of things you can be working on to help drive up the success of your website, capitalizing on the latest trends and staying relevant with the people who matter most, your potential customers and clients. Don’t be afraid to get creative and show a little personality, and don’t be afraid to try something new.
Another way to do this is to make your company’s presence in other social networks known. You can join other communities, ranging from Facebook to YouTube and many more to showcase what your company is all about, finding new prospects and driving up site traffic along the way. Additionally, by bookmarking your content on sharing websites such as Digg or Reddit, you can increase your site’s presence and traffic, while leaving the power in your visitors’ hands, allowing them to promote your site for you. Of course, Twitter is the latest craze, and it can be a potentially potent way of staying in the forefront of your customers’ and prospects’ minds.
The other half of staying relevant with your online business in today’s competitive Internet marketplace relates to your positioning in the search engines. Major search engine like Google, Yahoo! or Bing uses a huge array of different factors to judge all of the websites in their directory and then display the highest results. Ultimately, the results that get displayed the highest are those with the highest perceived relevancy.
In this case, your website has to be closely aligned to whatever niche or industry you may be serving. This can be done with high quality content and basic search engine optimization techniques of keyword research and inclusion, domain name choosing and more. The more closely aligned you are to your targeted market, the more your website will be judged as relevant when somebody searches for a related term.
Additionally, your site’s relevancy is also determined in large part by your presence in the rest of the Internet community. This can include the above mentioned presence and reputation you have gained through web 2.0 and social networking participation. However it also includes on a broader scale all of the incoming links that you have leading to your site. The more inbound links you have, the more credibility and therefore relevancy your website has in the search engines. The end result is being displayed more prominently in their results, and achieving a higher level of success at the end of the day.
There are two main forms of relevancy that your website has to worry about. First, you have to stay relevant to your visitors by providing timely content, getting involved in the web 2.0 movement and keeping up to date with the latest trends and techniques. Second, you need to make your online business relevant in the view of the search engines. This can be done with onsite optimization and offsite optimization such as link building. If your online business manages to be relevant in both of those realms, you will be able to succeed at a very high level and there’s no better place to get started than with your own top tier online business with Carbon Copy Pro “Let us help you make your business relevant today”.
What is Web 2.0 and Why Do I Need it to Market my Carbon Copy Pro Business ?
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The world of web 2.0 technology and services has completely changed the Internet, how we view it and how we interact and respond with the information that’s on it. Today, web 2.0 is a necessary component of an effective online marketing program like the Carbon Copy Pro System. Without it, you will be severely limiting your capacity to reach out to an extremely large portion of the population.
In the past, the world of the Internet was basically a one sided form of communication. Somebody created a website with whatever information they wanted, and that was that. You could view the page but you couldn’t really do anything else, besides maybe send an email to the site owner. But with the revolution of web 2.0 technology, the Internet became an interactive medium were everyday people can now establish online businesses such as Carbon Copy Pro. Now every single user or browser has the power to create their own content, respond directly to someone else’s content, share information with others in an instant and so on. That, in a nutshell, is what web 2.0 is all about.
There are many different web 2.0 services today that you can utilize to help promote your business. The power of web 2.0 lies in the fact that you gain immediate access to a plethora of potential prospects in ways you never could before. Additionally, you gain the potential to make your content go viral, which is when people find your content and quickly distribute it themselves around the web, sharing the information with friends, relatives and coworkers. When you can make this happen, you basically enlist a force of thousands of salesmen doing the job of marketing your website for free.
Going viral is never a guarantee, and you need the right kind of content to pull it off. In fact, you shouldn’t even try to “go viral”. Instead you should focus on providing high quality, unique content that people will take to. Content can be lots of different things, it can be entertaining, informative, educational and so forth. No matter which of those categories it falls into though, it needs to be wholly unique and it needs to be interesting and engaging. If you create content like this and share it on the major web 2.0 communities there’s a good chance you can begin sending more traffic to your site right away.
The list of web 2.0 services and websites is growing by the day. In one group you have the major profile and friend sites, such as Facebook and MySpace. They can be great for finding prospects who share similar interests aligned with the purpose or ideal of your CCPRO business. There are also the link sharing sites, such as Digg and Reddit. On these sites people post links to articles, pictures or videos and people can vote for them. The more votes your content receives, the more prominently it’s featured and the more attention and traffic you get as a result.
There are also other media sites. For example, Flickr is a place for sharing pictures and You Tube is the biggest video sharing community on the Internet. Finally, all of the buzz in the last year has been about Twitter, a service that lets you quickly send out short, informative blurbs to everyone on your list.
What you have to remember is that all of these sites are different, and an effective web 2.0 marketing strategy will incorporate many different sites and services at once. It also means that what works on one site, such as MySpace, won’t work on another site, such as Twitter or Digg. You have to customize your campaigns to be sure you’re reaching out to the targeted audience in the right way.
All of these websites have unspoken rules of interaction. In other words, the web 2.0 community is based on the interaction of people within that community. That means you need to do more than just post your own content, you need to abide by the unspoken rules and interact with other people and the content they create, commenting on it, voting for it, adding friends and so forth.
Web 2.0 is here to stay, and more sites and services continue to pop up all the time. If you want to take your online marketing efforts to another level, then you need to incorporate web 2.0 into your program and Carbon Copy Pro will show you how to do just that.
