Archive for the ‘Internet Marketing’ Category

How To Create A Press Release

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Writing content for your web site and creating press releases to help market and drive traffic to your web site are no doubt tasks that hurt.  The emotional pain most people bring to writing has been a major road block to the success of many clients.  And I am constantly bombarded with the question, in various forms, “What do I do now?”.  Sadly, even the lure of waves of economic success doesn’t release these sad ships from their unproductive moorings.

Well, since our internal mantra is “Educate. Inspire. Execute.”, we are always in pursuit of tools that can help our clients pursue their own business dreams.  to that end James Betesh, our resident Search Engine Marketing guru, came across the web site of Evan Carmichael and his Press Release Builder. Take action and use it today to educate and inspire you to execute!

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Popular Article Directories To Submit To

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

I cannot remember where I first came a cross this list of article submission sites.  But I share it here for anyone to use.  These are all places where you can take your interesting content and publish it online, in the hope that someone else will pick it up and publish it on their own relevant web site and link back to yours.  Over time you can use this technique to gain an immense amount of ‘link juice’, respectability and traffic from the search engines.

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.ezinearticles.com/

http://www.articlecity.com/

http://www.certificate.net/wwio/

http://www.amazines.com/

http://www.articledashboard.com/

http://www.article-directory.net/

http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/

http://www.magportal.com/

http://www.isnare.com/

http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/

http://www.article-hangout.com/

http://www.webarticles.com/

http://www.articlecube.com/

http://articles4content.com/

http://www.article-buzz.com/

http://www.free-articles-zone.com/

http://www.newarticlesonline.com/

http://www.articletogo.com/

http://www.articleworld.net/

http://www.impactarticles.com/

http://www.articlealley.com/

http://www.directorygold.com/

http://dir.salon.com/

http://www.articlefever.com/

http://www.content-articles.com/

http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/marketing-article-directory.html

http://www.niche-article-directory.com/

http://www.jogena.com/articles/articleform.htm

http://news.collectors.org/

http://article-niche.com/

http://blogtelecast.com

http://superpublisher.com/

http://www.articlecentral.com

http://www.article-directory.net

http://www.article-emporium.com

http://www.ebooksnbytes.com

http://www.ideamarketers.com

http://www.internethomebusinessarticles.com

http://www.site-reference.com

http://www.stickysauce.com

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Seek out quality links first, then build a larger quantity of incoming links with a smart web marketing campaign

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

When you are tracking your link building strategies and their results, it is important to remember the age old recommendation that quality is better than quantity.  You definitely want to get lots of incoming links to your site.  But if they are from pointless directories that have no page rank to share, then they aren’t really doing much for you.

Your best bet is to focus on getting important links from a quality “seed set”, including Yahoo and DMOZ, before setting out to get more incoming links from other sources.

Your next best bet is to find the partners in your industry with which you can share links.  These would include vendors that you purchase from or retailers that you sell to, or even strategic partners that you work with.  But don’t spend too much time making direct calls to get these types of links, especially if you extend this task to cold calling strangers who you think might want to swap links.  Once you get to that point in this process, it is time to invest your time and money in a good web marketing campaign that will yield hundreds if not thousands of links from all across the internet.

Remember that a good marketing campaign would probably include a smart press release, which can yield you hundreds of links over night – a far “return on investment” than trying to get those links with cold calls.

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Recommended Social Networking Sites To Turn On In JBookmarks

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

In answer to several client inquiries about which social bookmarking links to turn on in Joomla’s JBookmarks component, we have compiled this basic list as of February 2009 and given our recommendations below.  Since the world around us changes so rapidly, what is best could change as soon as I post this.  And the list should not be taken at face value by everyone, as every site will have it’s own unique reasons for choosing which ones to activate.

Our best advice is to look at the ones that we have recommended and choose  8-10 that are right for your web site.

Here they are!

Bebo.com – Yes
Blinkbits (Eng.) – Yes
Blinklist (Multilanguage) – Yes
Blogger.com – No
Blogmarks (Eng.) – No
BoniTrust.de – No
Bookmarks.cc – No
Buzka.com – No
Buzz.Yahoo.com – Yes
Del.icio.us (Eng.) – Yes
Digg (Eng.) – Yes
Diigo (Eng.) – Yes
Facebook.com – Yes
Favit.de – No
Favoriten.de – No
Folkd (Ger./Eng./Spa./Fra.) – Yes
Furl (Eng.) – Yes
Google (Multilanguage) – Yes
Icio.de – No
IndianPad.com – No
JBookmarks.com – No
Jumptags (Eng.) – Yes
Kledy.de – No
Linkarena (Ger./Eng.) – No
LinkedIn.com – Yes
Linksilo (Ger.) – No
Ma.Gnolia (Eng.) – Yes
Mixx.com – Yes
Mr. Wong – Yes
Myspace.com – Yes
Netscape (Eng.) – No
Netvouz (Eng./Swe.) – Yes
Newsider (Ger.) – No
Newskick.de – No
Newsvine (Eng.) – Yes
Oneview.de – No
Power-Oldie.com – No
Propeller.com – Yes
Readster (Ger.) – No
Reddit (Eng.) – Yes
Simpy (Ger./Eng.) – No
Slashdot (Eng.) – No
Smarking (Eng./Ita.) – No
Social-bookmarking.dk – No
Social-bookmarking.seekxl.de – No
Spurl (Multilanguage) – Yes
StumbleUpon (Eng.) – Yes
Technorati (Eng.) – Yes
Upchuckr (Eng.) – No
Webnews.de – No
Windows Live – Yes
Yahoo (Eng.) – Yes
Yigg (Ger.) – No

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