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In the late 90s and early 2000, it would be enough to submit a site to Google, Yahoo, MSN  but this is simply not the case anymore. Now, to be at all relevant on Google, you must have a search friendly site and a dynamic sitemap.  Google adds and updates new sites to its index each time they crawl the web so you are definitely invited to submit your URL to Google but it can’t stop there. Yes, Google may add you to their index but there is no promise made by Google that all URL’s will be indexed and there are no guarantees about when or if your URL will ever appear.

In order to be effective, you may want to consider creating an account through Google Webmaster Tools. This is a great tool that offers many user benefits. With this tool you can:

Find out how Google sees your site: This includes information about how Google crawls, ranks and indexes your site and enable you to analyze your data.
Analyze search data: With this feature you can see how many users found your site in search results and of the people that found your site in the results how many people clicked on your site. (impressions versus clicks)
Receive alerts in your inbox: Google is great at alerting you if anything is detected on your site in terms of malware and other possible errors that may affect your notability on the search engine.
Check who links to you: Google efficiently tracks links from all over the web and will show who added a link to your site. This can be an extremely helpful marketing tool when considering cross branding or other joint venture opportunities. The will also help to build visibility and site relevance.
Tell Google about your site: Through the submission of Sitemaps (a list of pages on your website), Google allows for you to see how many pages they added to the index. Sitemaps help to make sure that all of the pages on your site, including the URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process, are noticed by the search engine.

Google’s platform (when maneuvered properly) creates boundless possibilities for you to reach more users and grow your audience. By submitting your URL and sitemaps you are opening your business up to the possibilities of not only increasing your visibility but also distributing your content across the World Wide Web.

After you have successfully submitted your URL and Sitemap through Google you may want to consider listing your business in Google Places. Google Places is a free account that allows your verified business information to be found through the search engine. With this feature you may share photos, offers and public responses to engage potential customers. The insight offered by Google Places can be used to make more informed business decisions.

Adding your URL to Google, though vital, is just the first step in many necessary steps that must be taken for your business to be most prevalent on the search engine. If you are looking for assistance in taking these steps, contact Optimum7 today!

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Although affiliate marketing has become exceedingly more competitive over the last couple of years, the industry in itself still hasn’t lost its lucrative appeal. The performance based model of affiliate marketing makes this particular channel less risky from a cost perspective for advertisers thus, more merchants are joining.  With thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of affiliate programs out there, as an affiliate, how do you choose the best one(s) to join?

Let me outline the major items to look for when selecting a potentially profitable program to join:

1. Product

First and foremost, pick a product that is of interest to you. There is nothing worse (and nothing that makes you give up faster) than a product you’re not interested in. You have to feel at least a little passionate about the subject and the product you’re promoting since you’re going to be spending a lot of time looking at it and talking about it.

Just as important as your own interest level is other people’s interest in the product. Is there demand for it? You can use Google keyword tool to identify which keywords are being searched for as well as the estimated search volume each word gets on a monthly basis. It also shows you the estimated level of competition for that keyword.  If the competition is high and the search volume is low, then you may want to pass on that product. However, if the search volume is consistently high  and the competition is low, it might be the perfect product to go after.

2. Website

Once you’ve determined the affiliate program has a product you’re interested in, that there is good demand for the product, and that you can compete in the industry, take a good look at the website of the merchant with the affiliate program.

Is it user-friendly and easy to navigate? Does it have clear messages and calls to action? Are the images and the products shown clearly so people know what they are buying?

Also important to note as an affiliate is if the website has any leaks. Leaks are links or paths out of the website that will not generate money for you. This could be links to other non-commissionable websites (rather than the confirmation or checkout page) or even an overly large toll-free number (assuming the affiliate program does not honor pay-per-call through a service like RingRevenue). These are all areas you could lose money and a potential sale because they are leaking good traffic you sent off the site.

Remember, if you’re going to be representing someone’s website, you want to make sure it’s good, reputable and has the potential for strong performance based sales for you.

3. Conversion Rate

There are a few numbers that are extremely important when selecting an affiliate program and conversion rate is at the top of the list. The advertiser you are considering could have a good looking website, a solid brand and offer an extremely high commission; however, if their website does convert, then you will never make any money promoting it.

Conversion is calculated by the number of people who complete a desired action out of 100. So, if one person out of a 100 completes an order on the website, then that website has a 1 percent conversion rate. For eCommerce sites, this is industry average, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. Keeping in mind the price of the product as well as the commission you’re earning, as an affiliate it’s ideal to have a conversion rate over 3 percent in order to turn a profit. Here’s a sample of what you should be doing to figure this out:

Merchant A has a 1 percent conversion rate. They pay 10 percent commission on sales and have an average order value of $100.

This means if you drive 100 visitors to their site, and you make one sale at 10 percent of $100, you make $10.

Now if Merchant B has a 3 percent conversion rate and has the same average order value and same commission payout, you’ll make $30 for sending the same amount of traffic to their site.

In this case, Merchant B is the better program to join.

4. Commission / Payout

The commission or payout for promoting an advertiser is the number that draw the most attention. Often affiliates will automatically join the affiliate programs that have the higher commission payout and skip over the lower ones. This is not always right.

Go back to the example of conversion rates. If Merchant A has a conversion rate of 1 percent and is now paying out 35 percent commission on an average order value of $100, and Merchant B is paying out 10 percent on a $100 Average Order Value (AOV) product and maintains their 3 percent conversion rate, then you’d actually be earning $35 from Merchant A and $30 from Merchant B, in which case it would be better to join Merchant A’s program.

5. Average Order Value (AOV/AOS)

Now here’s where it gets really interesting (and where you can make the most money). You have Merchant A paying out 10 percent commission with an average 1 percent conversion rate and you have Merchant B paying out 12 percent commission with an average 3 percent conversion rate. Based on these numbers right off the bat, most people will join Merchant B. However Merchant A’s AOV is $380 and Merchant B’s AOV is only $100. A product that pays out 10 percent of $380 makes the affiliate $38 per sale whereas a product that pays out 12 percent on a $100 order only makes $12. With Merchant A converting at 1 percent and Merchant B converting at 3 percent, they payouts would be $38 and $36 consecutively. In this case, Merchant A has the program that will earn you more.

6. EPC

Something important to ask  the merchant is what their Earnings Per Click (EPC) is. Some affiliate networks such as ShareASale will report this for you when you’re browsing programs. This shows you on average the earning potential from the program based on the affiliates who are already participating in it (or you can calculate your own personal EPC to figure out if the program is really paying off for you or not). Others like LinkShare do not publicly display this information.

EPC  is calculated by dividing the overall commission generated by the number of clicks.

For example, if you receive a commission of $15 after sending 100 clicks (visitors) to the merchant, divide $15 by 100 = 0.15. This means your EPC is $0.15 per click.

This figure tells you exactly how much you’re earning for each visitor you send to a merchant, so it’s also a very important number to note.

7. Cookie Duration

Another important money earning number to consider  is the length of the affiliate cookie. This tracks that the customer was referred to the merchant website from yours. If the merchant is offering a 30 day cookie, this means that the customer has 30 days to go back to the merchant website to complete their purchase (if they did not already complete the order on the first visit) in order for you to still get commission for that order. If they return to the merchant website after that cookie has expired, you will not get commission for the sale.  So from an affiliate standpoint, the longer the cookie, the better.

8. Tools

Different affiliates like to use different tools, but it’s good when you can find a merchant that offers a good variety of high quality tools and creatives for you to use.  These tools can come in the form of banners, text links, widgets, videos, coupons, datafeeds, search boxes, and more. The point is, make sure the merchant offers something of value that you can use to do your job. If you don’t have any good tools to work with, it makes driving targeted traffic from your site to theirs that much harder.

9. Reversal Rates

A program’s reversal rate tells you the percentage of orders that were either canceled, returned or un-commissioned. This is an extremely important number because everything else listed above could be great, but if they have an 80 percent reversal rate, that means that 80 percent of the orders affiliates sent them were not credited for some reason or another.

When you see high reversal rates, beware! Your work will go mostly unpaid and your time and money will likely go down the drain. Just keep in mind  a slow conversion rate is normal for most programs, and it’s important to realize that sometimes orders are canceled  or returned. It’s part of the buying process that affiliates need to be aware of.

If you happen to have an unexpectedly high reversal rate where there wasn’t one before, it’s a good idea to ask your affiliate manager why the rate is suddenly so high. If they cannot give a good reason or the reason seems fishy, it may be time to switch up their links for a competing site that does honor honest and legitimate affiliate payouts.

10. Competition

It’s a good idea to consider how competitive the industry is for that particular product or service, and it’s equally important to keep an eye on what the competition is doing. Many merchants have multiple competitors with programs trying to recruit top affiliates as well. They may have higher payouts, they may have better conversions. Many of them are listed in different networks or even have their own in-house programs.

It’s smart to see what the competition is doing. Consider the brand creditability and recognition of these other merchants. It’s possible that a merchant with a lower payout and lower average order value does more volume, in which case it might make sense to join their program.

Keep in mind that if a product or brand has a lot of competition, it’s going to be more difficult to get a market share in those sales because more affiliates will be participating in the program and other merchants will all be competing for the same traffic. This means in order to get targeted traffic to your site and your merchant’s so you can earn your commission, your personal marketing strategies need to be better than the other affiliates and merchants in the vertical.

A lot of affiliates have to call on various marketing efforts in order to get the traffic they need to make a living in affiliate marketing. This could include, but is not  limited to: SEO, PPC, email marketing, social media (such as Facebook or Twitter), video marketing, podcasts, newsletters, joint ventures, and so on.  The best thing to do is find a niche that interests you, then find a niche within that niche and own it in every way you possibly can. Doing your keyword research at the beginning of the process as mentioned before will help you determine if it’s something you’re willing to fight for.

11. Terms of Service

Something a lot of affiliates overlook and click “I agree” just for the sake of not having to read it, are the program terms of service, otherwise known as the program’s terms and conditions. This is very important to read because each program has different terms.

The terms generally outline how you can market your affiliate links, how they can be placed, keywords you can and cannot use, whether you can link to their website using direct search or if you can promote their program via search at all, software you can and cannot use, and so on. If you don’t read the terms of service, then you might find that you won’t get credit for anything you’ve been doing  after you’ve already invested a ton of time and money setting up the merchant links and marketing their brand.

12. Support

The final major thing to note when selecting a good affiliate program to join is whether they have a dedicated affiliate manager. Obviously, it’s best to have an experienced affiliate manager running the program, or even an outsourced program manager (OPM); however, it’s better to have even a new affiliate manager available to answer all your questions, than to not have a dedicated person at all.

Things to look for in a good affiliate manager: their ability to be reached by phone, email or chat, their response time in getting back to you, their experience and understanding of how affiliate marketing works, a keen understanding of their program TOS, their ability to guide you in the right direction when you have questions, and their ability to quickly get you the tools you need in order to help you do the job of making you both money.

The best way to test this out is either call or email them and see who responds and how quickly they respond.

As an affiliate, with so many programs  to chose from, following this list will quickly help you narrow down your search to only the best, most profit potential programs for your future success.

Although affiliate marketing has become exceedingly more competitive over the last couple of years, the industry in itself still hasn’t lost its lucrative appeal. The performance based model of affiliate marketing makes this particular channel less risky from a cost perspective for advertisers thus, more merchants are joining.  With thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of affiliate programs out there, as an affiliate, how do you choose the best one(s) to join?

Let me outline the major items to look for when selecting a potentially profitable program to join:

1. Product

First and foremost, pick a product that is of interest to you. There is nothing worse (and nothing that makes you give up faster) than a product you’re not interested in. You have to feel at least a little passionate about the subject and the product you’re promoting since you’re going to be spending a lot of time looking at it and talking about it.

Just as important as your own interest level is other people’s interest in the product. Is there demand for it? You can use Google keyword tool to identify which keywords are being searched for as well as the estimated search volume each word gets on a monthly basis. It also shows you the estimated level of competition for that keyword.  If the competition is high and the search volume is low, then you may want to pass on that product. However, if the search volume is consistently high  and the competition is low, it might be the perfect product to go after.

2. Website

Once you’ve determined the affiliate program has a product you’re interested in, that there is good demand for the product, and that you can compete in the industry, take a good look at the website of the merchant with the affiliate program.

Is it user-friendly and easy to navigate? Does it have clear messages and calls to action? Are the images and the products shown clearly so people know what they are buying?

Also important to note as an affiliate is if the website has any leaks. Leaks are links or paths out of the website that will not generate money for you. This could be links to other non-commissionable websites (rather than the confirmation or checkout page) or even an overly large toll-free number (assuming the affiliate program does not honor pay-per-call through a service like RingRevenue). These are all areas you could lose money and a potential sale because they are leaking good traffic you sent off the site.

Remember, if you’re going to be representing someone’s website, you want to make sure it’s good, reputable and has the potential for strong performance based sales for you.

3. Conversion Rate

There are a few numbers that are extremely important when selecting an affiliate program and conversion rate is at the top of the list. The advertiser you are considering could have a good looking website, a solid brand and offer an extremely high commission; however, if their website does convert, then you will never make any money promoting it.

Conversion is calculated by the number of people who complete a desired action out of 100. So, if one person out of a 100 completes an order on the website, then that website has a 1 percent conversion rate. For eCommerce sites, this is industry average, but that doesn’t mean it’s good. Keeping in mind the price of the product as well as the commission you’re earning, as an affiliate it’s ideal to have a conversion rate over 3 percent in order to turn a profit. Here’s a sample of what you should be doing to figure this out:

Merchant A has a 1 percent conversion rate. They pay 10 percent commission on sales and have an average order value of $100.

This means if you drive 100 visitors to their site, and you make one sale at 10 percent of $100, you make $10.

Now if Merchant B has a 3 percent conversion rate and has the same average order value and same commission payout, you’ll make $30 for sending the same amount of traffic to their site.

In this case, Merchant B is the better program to join.

4. Commission / Payout

The commission or payout for promoting an advertiser is the number that draw the most attention. Often affiliates will automatically join the affiliate programs that have the higher commission payout and skip over the lower ones. This is not always right.

Go back to the example of conversion rates. If Merchant A has a conversion rate of 1 percent and is now paying out 35 percent commission on an average order value of $100, and Merchant B is paying out 10 percent on a $100 Average Order Value (AOV) product and maintains their 3 percent conversion rate, then you’d actually be earning $35 from Merchant A and $30 from Merchant B, in which case it would be better to join Merchant A’s program.

5. Average Order Value (AOV/AOS)

Now here’s where it gets really interesting (and where you can make the most money). You have Merchant A paying out 10 percent commission with an average 1 percent conversion rate and you have Merchant B paying out 12 percent commission with an average 3 percent conversion rate. Based on these numbers right off the bat, most people will join Merchant B. However Merchant A’s AOV is $380 and Merchant B’s AOV is only $100. A product that pays out 10 percent of $380 makes the affiliate $38 per sale whereas a product that pays out 12 percent on a $100 order only makes $12. With Merchant A converting at 1 percent and Merchant B converting at 3 percent, they payouts would be $38 and $36 consecutively. In this case, Merchant A has the program that will earn you more.

6. EPC

Something important to ask  the merchant is what their Earnings Per Click (EPC) is. Some affiliate networks such as ShareASale will report this for you when you’re browsing programs. This shows you on average the earning potential from the program based on the affiliates who are already participating in it (or you can calculate your own personal EPC to figure out if the program is really paying off for you or not). Others like LinkShare do not publicly display this information.

EPC  is calculated by dividing the overall commission generated by the number of clicks.

For example, if you receive a commission of $15 after sending 100 clicks (visitors) to the merchant, divide $15 by 100 = 0.15. This means your EPC is $0.15 per click.

This figure tells you exactly how much you’re earning for each visitor you send to a merchant, so it’s also a very important number to note.

7. Cookie Duration

Another important money earning number to consider  is the length of the affiliate cookie. This tracks that the customer was referred to the merchant website from yours. If the merchant is offering a 30 day cookie, this means that the customer has 30 days to go back to the merchant website to complete their purchase (if they did not already complete the order on the first visit) in order for you to still get commission for that order. If they return to the merchant website after that cookie has expired, you will not get commission for the sale.  So from an affiliate standpoint, the longer the cookie, the better.

8. Tools

Different affiliates like to use different tools, but it’s good when you can find a merchant that offers a good variety of high quality tools and creatives for you to use.  These tools can come in the form of banners, text links, widgets, videos, coupons, datafeeds, search boxes, and more. The point is, make sure the merchant offers something of value that you can use to do your job. If you don’t have any good tools to work with, it makes driving targeted traffic from your site to theirs that much harder.

9. Reversal Rates

A program’s reversal rate tells you the percentage of orders that were either canceled, returned or un-commissioned. This is an extremely important number because everything else listed above could be great, but if they have an 80 percent reversal rate, that means that 80 percent of the orders affiliates sent them were not credited for some reason or another.

When you see high reversal rates, beware! Your work will go mostly unpaid and your time and money will likely go down the drain. Just keep in mind  a slow conversion rate is normal for most programs, and it’s important to realize that sometimes orders are canceled  or returned. It’s part of the buying process that affiliates need to be aware of.

If you happen to have an unexpectedly high reversal rate where there wasn’t one before, it’s a good idea to ask your affiliate manager why the rate is suddenly so high. If they cannot give a good reason or the reason seems fishy, it may be time to switch up their links for a competing site that does honor honest and legitimate affiliate payouts.

10. Competition

It’s a good idea to consider how competitive the industry is for that particular product or service, and it’s equally important to keep an eye on what the competition is doing. Many merchants have multiple competitors with programs trying to recruit top affiliates as well. They may have higher payouts, they may have better conversions. Many of them are listed in different networks or even have their own in-house programs.

It’s smart to see what the competition is doing. Consider the brand creditability and recognition of these other merchants. It’s possible that a merchant with a lower payout and lower average order value does more volume, in which case it might make sense to join their program.

Keep in mind that if a product or brand has a lot of competition, it’s going to be more difficult to get a market share in those sales because more affiliates will be participating in the program and other merchants will all be competing for the same traffic. This means in order to get targeted traffic to your site and your merchant’s so you can earn your commission, your personal marketing strategies need to be better than the other affiliates and merchants in the vertical.

A lot of affiliates have to call on various marketing efforts in order to get the traffic they need to make a living in affiliate marketing. This could include, but is not  limited to: SEO, PPC, email marketing, social media (such as Facebook or Twitter), video marketing, podcasts, newsletters, joint ventures, and so on.  The best thing to do is find a niche that interests you, then find a niche within that niche and own it in every way you possibly can. Doing your keyword research at the beginning of the process as mentioned before will help you determine if it’s something you’re willing to fight for.

11. Terms of Service

Something a lot of affiliates overlook and click “I agree” just for the sake of not having to read it, are the program terms of service, otherwise known as the program’s terms and conditions. This is very important to read because each program has different terms.

The terms generally outline how you can market your affiliate links, how they can be placed, keywords you can and cannot use, whether you can link to their website using direct search or if you can promote their program via search at all, software you can and cannot use, and so on. If you don’t read the terms of service, then you might find that you won’t get credit for anything you’ve been doing  after you’ve already invested a ton of time and money setting up the merchant links and marketing their brand.

12. Support

The final major thing to note when selecting a good affiliate program to join is whether they have a dedicated affiliate manager. Obviously, it’s best to have an experienced affiliate manager running the program, or even an outsourced program manager (OPM); however, it’s better to have even a new affiliate manager available to answer all your questions, than to not have a dedicated person at all.

Things to look for in a good affiliate manager: their ability to be reached by phone, email or chat, their response time in getting back to you, their experience and understanding of how affiliate marketing works, a keen understanding of their program TOS, their ability to guide you in the right direction when you have questions, and their ability to quickly get you the tools you need in order to help you do the job of making you both money.

The best way to test this out is either call or email them and see who responds and how quickly they respond.

As an affiliate, with so many programs  to chose from, following this list will quickly help you narrow down your search to only the best, most profit potential programs for your future success.

Editor’s Note: This text was originally revealed in Anvil, February 1998. Whereas the advertising disciplines mentioned beneath have not changed a lot previously two years, a few of the references are a bit dated and incomplete (i.e. lack of mention of affiliate internet marketing or electronic direct response). Extra importantly, the evolution of Web-based advertising and PR has allowed firms to construct inside groups, rather than outsource to agencies, which may be dearer and potentially erode the brand. I decided to publish as it initially appeared, as much for the leisure value because the timeless insights. -KL

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Precisely what are backlinks?

Any time a site finds your web site interesting and valuable it will ask you to allow to “connect” in your site by displaying a link on site whereby their visitors would appreciate the extra value.

These links are known backlinks. Just like a professional’s value is counted with the volume of important clients they get, so a web site is judged with the number of premium quality profile backlinks they get. Search engines like google put these to work just as one important indicator that measures the caliber of your website involved.

How do backlinks affect your company?

Visibility is just about the most significant aspects to e-business. You’ll find a lot of businesses launched everyday which with a year would dwindle to some thousands. Why?

Because these e-enterprises can’t build a special niche by themselves while in the virtual world. The equation is superior: the thing is that your website, you visit; you need to do no notice it how do you visit it?

This visibility relies on how quickly google search matches a keyword with the website. So that you can enhance the speed and rank, your internet site should fulfill certain criteria of search, for instance excellent content, great keyword optimization and building of backlinks.

Every one of these aspects would tell the various search engine this your site is an excellent match towards search. Excellent backlinks especially absolutely are a confirmation that others feel this excellent website provides good material.

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The search engines SEO Software would value these across the former ans the grade of the backlinks are higher.

Obtaining backlinks needs practice

Link building is not as easy since it sounds. It’s going to take practice, patience and top quality content. If you want to attract great links and ensure that your business grows from strength to strength, you would never compromise on quality in almost any component of your business.

There is not easier technique to commit suicide in the virtual world, than using inferior quality material, content or products. The advantage of maintaining excellent is the fact that it’d make others need to be involving you together with therefore request permission to hyperlink to your website; which is the place you build backlinks.

Whether you use any promotional offer or content creation, link building takes practice and patience. You should also need to offer an unflinching resolve forpersistance to quality. Despite the fact that leave comments on forums, exclusively use reputed forums and social support systems, where your comments could well be valued at par.

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Pubcon South in Austin is a bit smaller than the Vegas show, well, a lot smaller but that doesn’t mean any less valuable.   In fact, because of the size you not only get 1 on 1 interactions with some of the smartest people in the Search, Social and Affiliate industries, but you get to learn a lot more.  The networking is a lot more meaningful because you aren’t overwhelmed with thousands of people shoved in a room and you are able to have your own space.  It is by far one of the best shows I have been to to be able to not only network, but also to learn a ton of information. I live blogged 4 sessions today on AdamRiemer.me and will be doing some more tomorrow, but here is the recap and some of the best takeaways from the show.

Keynote Speech by Jeffrey Eisenberg, co-author of “Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?”:

Transparency is no longer your choice with social media.  Instead it is out there because you have employees and customers talking about you.  Being authentic and able to engage your audience is your choice and how you go about it can mean success or failure.  Amazon, for example could be considered the first ever social media site because instead of just uploading a catalog of a million books and products, they let the users and shoppers build the content and give ratings.  Those ratings and user generated content built it up and created one of the first social atmospheres and social shopping experiences.

Think about social media like email.  Why do people unfriend you on Facebook?  Because you keep posting things that aren’t about them or interesting to them.  You constantly invite them to the same games which they don’t care about.  Remember this with your company and brand.  If you spam them with ads and things just about you, they may get bored and unlike your fan page and possibly leave your group.  It is like when you over-email your lists, they eventually unsubscribe and you lose one of your best ROI resources and the loyalty of your customers.

Session 2,  Reputation Management:

There were a ton of great points brought up, but the one I found most interesting was a way to deal with sites like RipOffReport.  Apparently if you have bad reviews and you sue the authors of the page, even if it is suing Jon Doe or Jane Doe, Google will remove that page from their indexes if you can show you are taking it to court.  That is amazingly valuable to fend off these types of sites.  I haven’t ever tried this but apparently it may work.

Session 3,  Social Media Customer Service Management:

There were some great points brought up and IBM shared some internal data.  There was so much to take away from this, but the thing I liked most about this session was that the speakers had shared a ton of tools that you can use to monitor social media as well as respond and manage it from a customer service standpoint.  Geotwt.com, GoMockingbird, CrashPlan and tons of others were given.  It was a great place to learn what you can use to monitor, respond and track your customer service within social media.

Session 4,  SEO for Ecommerce Sites:

This was an amazing session about SEO 101 with some great ways to optimize as well as other terms to think about.  The session covered adding in modifiers like buy, order, discount, etc… to your copy for long tail, but the thing I liked most was to measure all keywords that drive at least two sales.  Then place them into buckets with equal value amounts.

Each bucket will continue to have more keywords and more longtail as you go down since the first bucket has your highest volume and highest sales keywords.  If for some reason you are being penalized or someone has spammed their way to knock you out of your first bucket, don’t worry because the other buckets are worth 4 times that amount.  There are a lot more keywords to have to go after, but they are also a lot less competitive and easier to optimize for.  You have to plan to lose your first bucket but keep your income strong with your other ones.  The other ones are driving 80 percent of your SEO revenue so make sure to work on them when bucket 1 is hurting so you still have money coming in.

This show has taught me more in a day than I could have learned from reading blogs for a year.  Combined with Affiliate Summit, I don’t think anyone would ever need any training on SEO, SEM, Conversion Rate Optimization, Affiliate Marketing and Social media again.  The two shows have the smartest speakers from all sides of the white hat and black hat fences as well as people who are ready to share a ton of information with you.  I cannot wait for tomorrow and will be live blogging the show on AdamRiemer.me as well as giving a recap here on ReveNews again at night.

Who would think that I would need to acquire so much new knowledge in order to use my skills for web marketing portugal. As it happens, because the last couple of years have enabled me to discover methods and types of seo portugal has opened up to me as an Internet search engine marketer. FTS has opened my eyes to the possibilities.

You have a choice of the way you can use FTS, one of them costs nothing and is a fairly passive form of marketing through articles containing a couple of backlinks posted on up to 30 blogs.

Another much more aggressive way of climbing the serps mountain is to use their push strategy. The push strategy allows you to accumulate great numbers of backlinks far quickly than possible through the free system. It would certainly not seem natural in the same way to the search engines but where there is a need for a full blast back-link campaign and time is pressing then it works better than the normal system.

I still intend to use the free system or if I have signed up for the pro version then a month or two using the upgraded article marketing with more backlinks in more blogs. FTS still allows people to use their network of blogs free of charge if you wish and I will certainly do that for my own use to top up my existing backlinks when I have nothing else to do.

The free system still allows webmasters to enjoy the paid seo push but at a higher price than if you have paid to be pro. This is very fair as for instance if i wanted a double push of 5 articles, it would cost me 15 dollars extra on the free system. Not too much extra, but if I wanted a huge campaign of blog posts, blog comments and forum profiles then it would certainly pay me to go pro. The difference in the cost would cover my membership.

If I suddenly had 497 dollars, it would be money well spent to be permanently pro…this is the price of lifetime membership and access to all the best prices.

marketing in portugal is the same as anywhere else but the need for English seo guys is relatively small so I need to reach out to a bigger audience. It is one of the hardest things to do, but who knows? With the aid of my new knowledge and FTS, there is no limit to what I can accomplish with a little money invested in the right places.

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