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If you have a web-based business or if a significant portion of your business is done on the web through your website, then the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results, although, maybe effective in a small proportion.

Beware of companies that promise automatic submission of your website to hundreds of search engines which are but only false promises. The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself or to hire an expert to do it manually, by contacting the search engine companies and directories.

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed to the professional quality using the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete. While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including the name and contact information of your business.

Mere submission to search engine companies does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite sometime before they take up your site for review by human editors. One important factor to remember while submitting site is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots. Search engines like ‘http://www.google.com’ hardly considers submissions without sitemaps.

There are many online companies that accept search engine submission services. You can choose to do it yourself with a software package and service like this one:

http://www.webposition.com/order/trial.asp?WT.mc_id=google%3A%7Bifsearch%3Asearch%7D%7Bifcontent%3Acontent%7D%3A%7Bcreative%7D%3Atrial%3A%7Bkeyword%7D&WT.srch=1

Or if you want professional help try the following sites:

http://www.addpro.com/professional_submission

http://www.submitawebsite.com/aboutus.html

Don’t use the automatic submission services.

Here is a list of the most popular Search Engines and directory companies:

Search Engines

Go.com/InfoSeek AltaVista

Google, HotBot

Excite/Webcrawler

Directories

AOL Search Inktomi

Lycos Open Directory

MSN, Yahoo!

LookSmart Snap

Apart from the above there are thousands of search engines and directory companies, where you can submit your website to as many companies as possible. The following links gives info on other search engines and directories:

http://websearch.about.com/library/searchengine/blsearchenginesatoz.htm

http://websearch.about.com/library/tableofcontents/blsearchenginetableofcontents.htm

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It is worth cataloging the basic principles to be enforced to increase website traffic and search engine rankings.

• Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
• Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
• Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
• Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page. Like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
• Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
• Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services. Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
• Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high. Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
• Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
• Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from. Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
• Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
• Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
• When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
• When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
• Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.

I’m about to reveal the truth about how I get top rankings with less effort than everyone
else… so pay close attention

Most people will lie about SEO and what works or they honestly really don’t know… it’s
really not that complicated especially when you have a few basic steps you can take to
be on your way to top rankings.

1.  Find low competition keywords

The best way to do that is to analyze the top 10 places in Google… I don’t care what others say… if you want easy rankings you need to go after keywords that
have a weak top 10 in Google…
The best way to do this is by looking at 2 things – the page rank (anything 3 or less is
good), The number of links (specifically yahoo links) the easiest way to do this is by
using the SEOQuake plugin for Firefox – once installed activate it at the bottom right of
your browser and search for the term (without “ “s)
Next you want to generate the PR & link info automatically to do this search for the
keyword and select “request paramaters” which will be just above the top rankings.
How much traffic will I get? …I’m sure you are wondering.
The best estimator of traffic is use Google’s search based keyword tool… although that is
only a rough estimate you can get a general idea how much traffic you will get.

2. The right domain name

If you really want to rank for a keyword, then buy a domain name with that actual
keyword at the start of the domain and make sure you buy a .com, .net or .org
…otherwise you if it’s a specific page make sure your desired keyword is in the actual
page URL.
3. Create content around keywords

Quality content related to the keyword is really important, although I don’t like to get
into specifics because I’ve recently had sales pages rank at #1 (with 9 million plus
results) for a term that the actual page content wasn’t specifically optimized for.
But I did have the keyword as the title, in the description, in the url and toward the start
of the sales copy (go head and search for: article marketing secrets – and you’ll see my
site pop up at the top)
Lesson learned… include the keyword in the URL, Title, Description & towards the start
of the content – then work on providing quality content that your visitors will spend time
reading (Google likes that).
If you want to take it a step further then you can include the main keyword you’re
targeting in about 2 or 3% of the content and also include LSI keywords (keywords
closely related to that main keyword)

4 Minor Link Building

I see this happen over and over …you build a site then you instantly send tons of back
links toward the site. That doesn’t look natural to Google!
What you simply want to do is get your site noticed by Google… you can do this a few
ways. Social bookmarking your site (at a few sites), submit your RSS feed (if you have
one) to RSS submission sites, Ping-ing your site (easiest) or buy getting a quality
backlink that sends constant traffic your way (such as an established site).
The key is to generate some constant small amounts of traffic for a month or so…
It’s best to use your main keyword in the actual link such as:  <www.mykeyword.com>

5 Authority Link Building

The best way to improve your rankings is by getting your site linked on authority sites,
you’ll want to really get some powerful authority links after about a month or so (after
doing the previous steps – you may have 1 link already if you took that approach in the
previous step)
To do this we simply want to build up some authority links to an authority site that links
to our site! – sounds easy, it is!
You’ll want to use a web 2.0 blog or another authority site that you can easily add
content to, for this I recommend blogger or a simple authority site without many extra
links (like many of them have). This will be your main site that passes tons of link juice
to your original site.
Next you’ll want to use different web 2.0 blogs (or authority sites) to link to your main
authority site (blogger if you used that) that then links to your actual domain.
There are several of these sites online such as squidoo, wetpaint, hub pages, wordpress…
Remember to use your keyword in the anchor text as well (example above).
Repeat steps 4 and 5 periodically to improve and maintain your ranking
Great you’ve successful completed the simple SEO secret for top rankings technique…
you should be on your way to the top of Google and be ready to cash bigger checks very
soon! …I’ve just given you a strategy that could make you $1000s (if not more).
Remember… it’s all about taking action!

There are some myths in affiliate marketing, which attract a lot of people to it believing they are true. First is they think managing an online business is easy and second, they think that one can make a fortune through online marketing in an instant. Probably not even 10% of those who are into affiliate marketing became rich overnight. There may be some who fortunately achieved overwhelming success in just a short span of time after setting up an affiliate program, but not a majority of them can confidently say they only had luck. Anyone who is successful in this kind of business would say he worked hard to get to where he is right now. Success in affiliate marketing takes time and hard work, but it’s worth it.

If you are planning to start an affiliate program, one of the things you have to consider is having your own website, not just an ordinary website but a professional looking one. How do you build an affiliate marketing website? What are the easy steps to build one? First, you must have already decided on the theme or niche of your website. It would be better if you already have an idea what products or services to promote as this would help you plan the design and lay-out of your web pages. The next thing to do is to choose a domain name and get it hosted. The domain name is a unique name used to label the actual address of your website on the Internet.  In deciding what domain name to register, look into the type of products you are endorsing and the theme of your site. Having the right keywords in your domain name would give you better chances of drawing more visitors to your website. Also, choose a top level domain or extension, such as .com because it is more popular. In selecting your web host, consider the security of servers and up time guarantees.

Creating an affiliate website on your own would be cheaper and more interesting. In the process of building your website, you may also increase your knowledge in Information Technology and the use of computers, software, and the Internet. As you educate yourself in these fields, you are increasing your advantage against other affiliate marketers. It helps a lot, though, if you already know the basics in web page development like programming languages and graphics software because you can make your site extra corporate-looking, more convenient to use or easier to navigate. Furthermore, if you are knowledgeable and skillful in this area, you can already concentrate more on the content of the page rather than the design.

The key to draw visitors to your website is to have high quality content; thus, the next thing you must pay attention to in building your marketing website is this. There may be several other factors that contribute to the success of your affiliate marketing site, but a good content tops the list. This is precisely the reason why users choose to enter your site. They want to get information and so when they don’t find it, they would definitely go elsewhere. Write interesting articles related to your theme as this would make them frequent your site. If you have already looked for affiliate programs that complement your site, add links to the business sites and other very good informative sites. Links contribute to how well you will be listed in major search engines as well. Also, create pages for the products you are endorsing, but don’t just promote the products by putting hyped-up ads. Keep your readers interested by injecting lots of relevant and useful information. This would make them click the link to the business site and buy the product. Remember that no good content means no frequent visitors, no sales and ultimately, no commission.

Make your site simple yet not without a touch of class in order to make it appear more of a business website rather than a personal website. This would be pleasing to the eyes and more interesting to browse. To help you with the design, you can check some successful online stores to get an idea on how you can make your site look better. Make sure you don’t place too many banner ads since these could distract some site users; and thus, instead of clicking your ad, they might just leave your site and look for other interesting websites. After all, banner ads are not the only means of advertising your products. Now your website is complete, submit its URL to major search engines to increase your traffic.

Grow from where you started. Learn about use of keywords for search engine optimization and apply them in your content. Update your site regularly or add new web pages. Make sure to inform your prospects about the latest updates in your site. You can use newsletters to accomplish this. The Internet offers a huge source of information about just anything, make use of it. Continue to educate yourself on how to improve your website and soon you’ll find yourself successful in affiliate marketing.

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