You can cash in by following this link : Twitter Self Serve Advertising

Twitter VS Google?

It seems that even though it took the guys at Twitter years to figure out how to monetize their traffic, they may still have a few tricks up their sleeves. They have been playing with an income strategy, mainly their promoted tweets platform, but now they are ready to take their marketing to the next level and offer completely self serving advertising to those businesses who are interested in an extra social push from the 140 character giant known as Twitter. This may be the first real competition in the digital advertising space that Google has come across since Facebook rolled out their own advertising platform. Only time will tell how popular and how effective this type of marketing will be for the Twitters pocket book and those utilizing the service.

If you grab some free Twitter money, please comment below to let others know that it is still working and don’t forget to tell your friends and colleagues where you heard about it!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Google Swallows Another Cool Web App

For those that have been playing around with the new Google ChromeBooks you already know that they integrated the basic features from Picnik right into the OS. If you open an image from your file manager you will be able to choose the “edit” button at the bottom right to see what I am talking about. Other Google users will see the Picnik image editing features

Picnik Is Refunding All Existing Paying Members Money

Just a little more proof that Google has no need for more money, but a very nice gesture all the same. You will be getting a full refund from Picnik very soon if you are currently a paying customer. Even if you are on the last day of your 1 year subscription they say you will still receive a full refund just to say thanks (or I’m sorry) not really sure which..

The Good News – Free Premium For Everyone

So if you have paid for the premium service on the Picnik photo editing site or not, you are going to be able to to use the premium service for free until the site officially closes on the 19

of April 2012. This means you can start adding all those cool photo masks you wanted for free!

Use Picnik Premium For Free!

I am definitely sorry to see this site go, but we will still be able to access many of Picnik’s great features right inside of the photos section on Google+ so don’t worry its not gone for ever, just moving over to a new online home.

The integration into the photo sharing on Google+ is just one more of the reasons that I am starting to prefer this social network over the old blue one and I am sure that there are many more cool updates to come soon enough.

Put me in your Google Plus Circles

Here is my official Google+ profile : Nick Simpson Google+

And here are some great Google+ pages to add too..

AlienServ Web Hosting On Google+

BlogPowr On Google +

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When it comes to marketing on the internet there are many reasons that a person that is very used to marketing with traditional advertising get weary.

After all the practices that have been used in marketing for the past 100 years still produce sales and they can be effective marketing and branding opportunities for most businesses.

So why is everybody so interested in getting their online marketing strategies up to snuff?

The reason is that online marketing is traceable, affordable and results driven in ways that traditional media can never offer.

There are many different angles to any marketing strategy and the fact that the amount of consumers that buy online has shifted in recent years has really changed everything. In fact, there are now over 2 Billion people with smart phones that now have internet access, so the online buying, advertising and marketing opportunities have simply exploded in recent years and if you do not use a online marketing as part of your overall branding and business marketing strategy you are simply missing out on a huge sector of the market that is buying from somebody.

Huge Value Of Online Marketing VS Traditional Marketing

This is something that I have spent a considerable amount of time pondering, when it really comes down to one simple concept. If you are going to purchase advertising in a newspaper, magazine or on television or even a billboard (there is nothing wrong with these marketing strategies), but the longevity of your message is limited until your dollars run out. Much like PPC (pay per click) advertising online, these methods are only effective while you continue to pay. On the other hand, if you invest in a strong SEO campaign, the traffic, sales and effectiveness for this type of marketing can last for years after you stop paying for the marketing services.

There are cases where SEO needs some maintenance to keep your rankings up, but many times once you get stuck on the first page of Google this can last for a long time and bring huge amounts of customers and clients to your front door free of charge.

Social Marketing Reaches New Customers Automatically

This is more than just a buzz word in the internet marketing industry; it is a powerful business tool that truly is a force to be reckoned with. Utilizing the power of the social nature of many of the web’s most popular digital destinations does more than get a quality link back to your web site, it allows people to naturally spread the word about your product using word of mouth.

This is huge!

Using sites like FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube and Google+ you can put out product release information and allow the masses to further distribute your message via shares, likes and mentions. These little boosts can add up to a huge amount of free “word of mouth” marketing that is hard to produce by other media standards without a huge budget.

Mobile Marketing Has Exploded

So, I will start off with a few figures to let everyone understand how big mobile marketing really is. There are currently over 5 Billion mobile users, over 60% of them own smart phones. This sixty percent has access to the internet 24 hours a day and wherever they are.

Now, with that in mind, this means that mobile ads, localized content and other forms of targeted marketing are viable using mobile advertising where traditional media advertising simply cannot even compare. If you own a local “brick and mortar” store, you can do some localized marketing by putting out sign in front of your business, but what if somebody just searched Google for a dry cleaner near them? These types of searches automatically display relevant local businesses, but if you are not listed correctly, your competitor could be getting this walk by business from you.

Can you imagine getting traffic from somebody who has never visited your store before and is from out of town simply because you got your site listed in local search and your mobile web page showed them how to get there? This really is happening for many businesses already and can happen for you too. Mobile marketing can be easier than you think; simply getting listed on Google places will give you a strong start.

Are There Businesses That It Is More Effective To Market Offline?

Of course, there are always exceptions to the rules, but in most every case, if you are currently running successful offline marketing campaigns; they can be complemented by online efforts. If your business markets directly to farmers in India, you may find a market online, but most likely these “odd” types of “clients” or “niches” are not going to be a perfect target for online marketing. With this in mind, there is still a lot of value in traditional marketing, but this is only true for a very very small percentage of businesses in the world.

If you find yourself still wondering if online marketing is right for your business then the good news is that it is very cheap to find out. Unlike spending a huge amount of cash for a television advertisement or a billboard ad, when you look at online advertising you will find that you can use huge budgets, but this is not necessary. With online marketing you can run inexpensive marketing tests before you allocate large amounts of funds for advertising and in many cases this is great to find powerful marketing niches that have yet to be tapped.

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This post will talk about different ways to utilize a powerful affiliate program and if you are already working as an online consultant, web designer or an seo/marketing expert you will be able to use this program to boost your profits while offering a high quality service to your clients and existing customer base.

O.K. So What Is This Secret SEO Marketers Affiliate Program?

The program I am talking about is the Massive Links Affiliate Program.

www.massivelinks.com/affiliates.htm

The Massive Links Web Directory has been up in operation for over 6 years and it is still growing in authority and pulls more traffic today than ever before. It is true that a few years ago, many of the top ranking directories on the web lost PR and took big hits from Google. The Massive Links Directory still stands strong and really offers a solid authority link, in context and categorized. This means that you have a link and anchor text ready to go for SEO and you can create these links on demand!

How Do I Get Traffic From These Links?

When you add links on high ranking sites that use contextual anchor text and they are categorized in relevant sections not only does Google notice, but it loves this. When you paid links are added, they are placed in a way that will not only get you some good old link juice, but in many cases you will see some direct traffic as well. This is not a miracle link, but it will be a great addition to any marketing efforts you are already using and adding a couple authority links like this can work wonders in search result ranking if you are having trouble moving up in Google.

How Do I Make Money From This Directory?

There are many ways to promote such a program. You can use your own creatives or the images provided inside the affiliate program. You can even use email to market this high quality and totally white hat link building services to your mailing list. The fact is that it does no matter how you want to promote these paid web directory links, but you will get a big 25% commission on any and all sales that you send.

365 day cookies,  mean you get your referral fee even if the visitor you send waits up to 1 year to buy. You can even help other affiliates get started and make another 20% commission on top of their own commissions. There are so many different ways to make money with this simple and effective service that it only makes since to get involved and see how you can make this powerful service put money in your account.

Add This Service To Your Existing SEO Offerings And Make More Profit?

SEO companies and online marketing firms can really make some serious cash with this directory if they package it right. If you put together directory listing packages for your client and bill them for the paid listings you can see how you can easily get paid twice every time you render service for a client.

You can get started here: www.MassiveLinks.com/affiliates.htm

Please feel free to comment below with any questions or stories about your experience with seo marketing, seo packages, or the Massive Links affiliate program in general. I look forward to hearing from you all very soon.

As always to your success,

Nick Simpson

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This tool allows you to gain access to hundreds of different web sites and acquire new links in content on them at will!

The power of the Backlinks Kingdom online seo tool is that you can publish your own articles the way you want. Start blasting your content to all sorts of new places instantly using this cool and free tool. There are of course a few upgrade packages, but if you are looking for some fast and free links, just go grab your seat and start publishing your articles now. If you are as blown away as I am about how simple and effective the Backlinks Kingdom

Join The Back Links Kingdom Now And Start Automatically Building Links To Your Money Site Today!

The online application that allows you to start building unlimited backlinks is free to start using and we will be updating this post once we have had a chance to get to know the system even better. If you have any questions of comments on this new seo link building tool or if you have a story about your own experience with it, we would love to hear from you in the comments section below.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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How Does WordPress Use RSS Feeds?

If you are using WordPress you are already automatically pinging a site called ping-o-matic which pings many popular services. However, with an up to date ping list you will be able to get even more automatic exposure every time you make a new post. WordPress is smart and will automatically ping when you post, you just need to give it the best rss ping list possible to get the most action out of your effort.

Adding Your WordPress Ping List

If you want to add the ping lists below to your own WordPress blog, it is easy. Simply highlight the ping list that you want from below then login to the admin section of any self hosted WordPress blog.

Next, you will need to click on the link at the bottom left under the “Settings” title where it says “Writing” like in the picture below.

Now all you need to do is scroll down and you will find a section that says “Update Services” as seen in the image below.

Now simply past and save and WordPress will do the rest!

Is This A New RSS Ping List?

I have seen many ping lists and I must admit they all change rather frequently. So the one that I have for all my readers here on Webmaster Business Plan is fresh as of the date of this post. I can not guarantee how long it will be valid, but I will try to update it as soon as possible.

How Much Does It Cost?

We do not charge for our blog and web site rss ping list. We think that sharing with the community is the way to go, so it’s totally free and does not even cost an email address. However, if you do want to join our mailing list and grab the free internet marketing course just click the ling and we will get our 7 day crash course out to you asap as well.

Download The RSS Ping List Right Here!

download: RSS Ping List (PDF) (566.58KB) added: 10/06/2011 clicks: 631 description: This is it, a 12 page pdf file that contains all the information you need to understand rss syndication, install the ping list on your wordpress blog, where to find online ping services and much more! It's all here and it's all free, so start getting more traffic automatically using the Official Webmaster Business Plan RSS Ping List today!

Ping List Questions and Comments?

I am wishing each and every one of my readers the best of luck with this ping list and all their marketing efforts. If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you, just leave a comment below!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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How Does The Farming Update Affect Me?

If everything goes as planned this update will really help those who have been taking the time to create high quality content on their sites. However, if you have been heavily relying on external sources for traffic and your rankings you may want to take a second look at your marketing campaign. There are some web sites that have been major areas for so called seo experts and link builders to leverage for links that have lost some major link juice in this transition. Google claims that about 11% of all searches will be altered by these changes. This means that more than one out of every ten searches will now render altered search results from the Google farming update which is an astonishing number if you consider the millions of searches ran each and every day on Google.

If you have been building links on web sites that have been removed from results or otherwise blocked by Google’s antenna you may notice some loss in position on your own web sites SERP rankings. This can of course bounce up and down and during these big changes most sites will fluctuate. However, now may a crucial time to get more high quality back links coming in to your web site.

Make Google Happy With Unique, Fresh Quality Content

You can avoid having problems by continuing to create new and engaging content. If you can try to write for the reader and not the search engine, you may find more favor in Google’s results now than ever before. If you can share something of value people will talk about it and these “natural” links are going to be much more valuable now that the juicy site links are becoming more and more limited. To see a full list of the top sites that lost the most from this update check out this article: Content Farms Hit Hard

Learn More About The Google Farming Update

There is more information about this on the official Google blog on Blogspot and there are all sorts of seo sites throwing in their own 2 cents on the topic. I have read quite a few and if you want more insight into what really is going on here, I really appreciated the concepts and research that went into this post on Jennifer (The Pot Pie Girls) web site. Here article My Theory On Google Algo Change is a great read. Here is another article that has some useful food for thought on the subject called Is Google Punishing Internet Marketers, both bring up some interesting ideas on how to roll with the punches on this one.

If you have a serious online business, you owe it to yourself to learn more about this change and how it may be impacting your traffic, sales and conversions. It will be easy for some to rise above, but if you have been relying on low quality links, you may need to learn some new methods or have your seo team take steps to raise your site and link quality over the months to come. Please feel free to leave any comments on this change below and let the community know if you have seen any negative effects on your own projects when the farmer update went live.

Wishing Everyone Good Luck Keeping Up,

Nick Simpson

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This plugin really lets you take control of your advertising space and start testing which advertisements are getting the attention. From there you can start testing different ads and see which are really converting and drop the rest. If you already have some traffic coming into your web site and now you are trying to refine your advertising efforts this plugin can really help and it is very reasonably priced.

This is a very powerful plugin and it allows any webmaster to add many different ads and you can follow the analytics to really focus on the ads that are producing. If you are not using the Max Banner Ads plugin on your WordPress blog you are losing money!

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You Say I Can Link Directly To Affiliate Sites On EzineArticles.com So How Do I Do It?

The resolution to this issue is using a little known server trick called domain forwarding. You may have heard of this and just never known what it was or what it did. There are many different things you can do with a domain name. You can point it to name servers for hosting it yourself, you can park it and try to collect some revenue from ads or in this case you can forward your name to the affiliate link you are trying to promote. This action can be done by going into your registrar and setting up a domain forward. Most registrars will also allow you to mask the domain too.

This allows you to forward something like www.buycoolstuff.com to www.coolstuffsite.com/members/?aff_id=953 and when a visitor goes to your link they see the content delivered from the long address, but they will only see your short address in the address bar of their browser.

Why Does Linking To Affiliate Pages Directly Help?

This is a great way for affiliate marketers to send the readers of their content directly to the page that is going to pay them. However, depending on your own marketing plan it may be more important to build up your own web site’s popularity in the search engines. This is totally up to you, but either way now you know to add your affiliate link to ezinearticles.com without getting your article thrown in the trash. Hopefully this concept helps you grow your business and put some extra profit in your pocket!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

P.S. If you want to learn some more cool secret tactics to marketing on the internet check out my newest favorite free resource site called the link building ninja, this site has a whole lot of great content and even some freebies!

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If you want to start spreading the word about your web site, brand or company then you can start right now. All you need to do to get your very own QR code is create a short link using Googles own url shortening service Goo.gl which is very similar to tinyurl.com but offers some very cool additions to this standard url shortening service.

The coolest thing of course is that you can put in your own url and instanly get the QR code for your web site address, but it also offers some free analytics information that can be very helpful too.

All you need to do to get your own QR code is put your url in and then right click on the image and save it. You can then put it on flyers, web sites, cellular apps or anything you like! Enjoy and we will see you on the next post.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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We all know that social bookmarking is a powerful marketing tool. The fact is that many of the most popular social bookmarking sites carry a lot of weight in the google search algorithm because they are driven by real people. Most search engines value the popularity of links and the amount of bookmarks in their search results as part of the equation that their scripts cannot find without the help of human interaction. This makes linking to your business web sites a very important part of any marketing campaign. If you are not using social bookmarking as part of your seo and traffic generation process, you are most likely missing out on quite a bit of free traffic.

The new SocialAdr web site offers a whole new way to webmasters to take advantage of social bookmarking and implement it into any marketing campaign. Before you go to this site and start utilizing the powerful free bookmarking tools there, lets talk a little more about what social bookmarking options are out there for webmasters and internet marketers.

Social Bookmarking Tools

There are a quite a few different tools that have been devised to assist internet marketers in their quest to reach a massive amount of people with these social sites. Social bookmarking power is just a simple way of explaining the advantage of these sites and if you utilize the opportunity given to you by taking full advantage of these services, the results really are very powerful. Most of the tools that are on the market to help you get more social bookmarks faster, offer some value but also have some common failings that will not help you in your search engine optimization efforts.

Why They Don’t Work

The main problem with these applications is that they require you to submit from your own computer. This means that all of your submissions will show up from the same IP address. This is a tell tale sign of a spammer and does not really benefit you the way that most believe it does. Some bookmarking applications also do not allow you to spin your content so all of your bookmarks look identical no matter how many times and how many sites they are submitted, another black flag to most search engines.

Real Social Bookmarking Power

Instead of spending a lot of cash on an application that may be outdated soon, you could take advantage of this new totally free online resource that allows you to get more dynamically submitted results from different IP addresses.  By using the power of a huge membership base you can get any site you are trying to focus traffic to bookmarked by different people from all over without spending a dime. This new way of automatically sharing bookmarks can be a great way to get some extra traffic to any site you want and also drive some healthy search engine results.

Here is the resource site I am talking about : SocialAdr

When you start using this powerful social bookmarking web app, you will be able to submit spun content so each time your link is bookmarked you will have a unique title and unique description. This site offers a very cool bookmarking service that is both unique and very beneficial. So give it a look and see for yourself, Social Bookmarking Power can be easier to obtain than you think!

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Free Blog Hosting should be easy to understand and simple to use. The okayblog.net site uses a very familiar blogging platform to many, there free blog platform is built on WordPress, so if you have ever build a site using WordPress you already know how to use this award winning blog platform. You can start blogging here for your first time and know right where to get started with no problems. This free blog host has a lot of great features and is building a huge and very successful blogging community. If you are looking for a site to expand your web site exposure or are just looking for a rock solid blog host to begin your own blog, this site is a great place to get started for free!

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If you are like me then you are always looking for a new blog site to start building some great content and of course a few back links to your main site. This is one of the strongest ways to build authority to any web site and can be a great way to develop some strong targeted traffic to your site to. You must keep in mind that even your third party blogs must be full of rich content that is either helpful or valuable to the reader to make this method become effective in your overall site promotion efforts. Blogging is a powerful way to get people interested in your topic of choice, but you have to give the reader enough information to show them that you are an authority on the topic.

There are many great blogging sites on the internet, it seems that most of the better quality blogging sites will offer a free version of their blogging software. However, if you are wanting to take full advantage of all of their blogging features you have to upgrade to a paying membership level. This is not how it works at the thoughts.com free blogging site. You can get a free account, start blogging and get all the feature rich blogging options that you would expect from a paid blogging site for absolutely free. This web site has a lot to offer any blogger for business or personal blogs.

If you are used to blogging on other popular blog web sites, you will be able to pick this new site up within seconds and if you have never blogged on a free blog site before you will be able to get your own free blog setup in a couple of minutes using the easy to use controls and great help that this site provides to all of its members. There are a lot of reasons to get a free blog site on the thoughts.com network, if you are an internet marketer knowing that this is a PR6 site should be enough! Go grab your free account today and start blogging.

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Who Can Take Advantage Of Ousourcing?

Not everybody will be able to take advantage of these services to their fullest, if you are still trying to figure out how to make money on the internet, then your money may be more effectively spent on training material.  However, if you are already starting to make some money and want to multiply your income stream then you will find this site as a great resource to do just that.  If you have money to invest in a new business startup and are short on time, these online “task” oriented service providers can be a great assistance to you as well.  If you are following a system that you have purchased, it can be very easy to break down what you need to do into small tasks and have them outsourced for your at websites like this one.  You can also track your progress as the various tasks are completed to make sure that you are moving forward in the right direction.

Why Outsource Online Tasks?

It is simple, if you can make one hundred dollars a week from a couple hours one night from your own efforts, think what you could make if you could outsource that same 2 hours of work for less than twenty bucks?  There is no way to limit your income to how much time you have to put towards your own internet business. If you need a hundred bookmarks on your new money site, you can have this work done by simply posting your job and you will never have to lift a finger.  The power of outsourcing is just now being realized by many internet marketers, but there is no reason not to start taking advantage of these systems now.

Check out the WebeServe Internet Marketing Outsourcing site and see for yourself.

Outsourcing is all about focusing on your strengths and letting others pick up where you may lack.  If you are not a strong writer, but you are link building ninja, then you may want to outsource some original article creation.  If you can write like water runs but hate taking the time to build back links to your site, well then use others strengths to make up for this.  The biggest thing to understand is that you want

What Types Of Tasks Can I Outsource?

You can outsource pretty much any sort of task that you can think of.  Social bookmarking and twitter tasks are some of the most common tasks that many people choose to outsource.  Tasks can vary to match anything that you may need help with. If you need an article create, a email sequence written or some new user profiles created on your site it can all be outsourced.  Using the leverage of outsourcing can really give you the upper hand on your competition and drive your business forward if used correctly!

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All of the sites offer a free link for you, it only takes couple minutes to get your site setup and registered and the great thing is that many of these sites carry a very strong Google Page Rank. So if you are on a SEO journey to get your blog ranked well and listed high on the Google SERP’s then this is a good place for you to start.  Of course a strong article marketing campaign and social marketing campaign can do wonders for a sites traffic as well. If you are looking for help building an all around marketing campaign for your site you can look under our web site promotion section for more help with this. View SEO and Written For SEO are also some great resources for search engine optimization methodology and help outsourcing the work if you are looking for professional grade web site traffic solutions.

So enough already, here is the list.  Make sure to get your site listed in the appropriate category to receive the best results.  It is highly important that you choose an accurate category to assure that your listing is both effective for search engines and real people who are looking through the directory. This is the only way to really get great search standings and direct traffic from your listings.

Webmaster Business Plan – Blog Directories List

The list of great places to get your blog continues.  Don’t stop now, you already have some great places to get your site listed, but why not take advantage of the whole list here to get even more free back links to your web blog?

Webmaster Business Plan Blog Directory List Section 2

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Authority sites simply pass on more link juice than sites that have less of a presence on the internet.  You may be able to grab links on sites like facebook and twitter pretty easily and yes these are considered to be authority sites.  However, how can you get links on education site or government sites?  Well, most of us really don’t know.  Getting quality back links on sites like these can really make a big impact on your search engine standings, because these sites outbound links are seen as “official” and are respected by the search engines algorithm.  So you need to be getting these links if you want to take your search engine optimization skill set to the next level.

The information I am sharing below comes from a post on a forum, so before we get to the meat of this post, let me give credit where credit is due.

How To Get Links On Authority Sites Source :  http://forums.seochat.com/link-popularity-43/how-to-find-authority-sites-and-get-links-from-them-297793.html

There are other ways to get these authority site links pointing to your webpage, you may want to take a look at the Webmaster Business Plan section on link building for more info on this topic or even visit good old View SEO.  So enough fluff, lets get to these killer internet marketing techniques!

How To Get Links On Authority Sites

This is my small gift to the SEO Chat community from whom i learn a lot. I wrote this article in December of 2009 and hope that it hasn’t become outdated since search industry is changing every second. I like teaching (although it should not be confused with preaching) and sharing knowledge. I used to teach C, C++ (programming language) to 1st year engineering students (as a tutor and not in the college) some 6 years back when i myself was a student and since then have got this bug  Consequently i understand different type of loops (for, while and do while loop), functions, parameters, conditional statements and above all program logic. I am sharing this info with you to let you know that it helps me a lot in understanding the code and in dealing with web developers. And i think it will equally help you if you could spend sometime in learning a programing language and its syntax esp. some server side language like PHP. Anyways back to the subject of authority sites.

As a seo we heard of authority sites a lot. Get back links from authority sites to boost rankings. But what are authority sites. How to identify them? Is there a way to find out what is authority and what is not? The answer is yes. There is a way to find out (although not a guaranteed way). Authority sites are those websites which have got back links from large number of different domains and majority of these domains are based on same/similar topic as the linked to domain. For e.g. a website on ‘Car Insurance’ can be considered as an authority on ‘Car insurance’ if it has got backlinks from large number of different domains and majority of these domains are based on car insurance or other insurance topics. Now the question that comes up is, how to identify authority sites. Do they scream i am authority, got a label of authority or is there some other identification mark.

Following are some ways to perceive the authority of a website

1. Authority sites have generally very high ranking on Google for your industry or primary keywords.

2. Websites which authority sites frequently link out to, can also be considered authoritative.

3. Websites which are talked about a lot in your industry are generally authoritative. You can find such sites through industry blogs, industry magazines and industry news publishing sites.

4. Websites with heavy user engagement (like lot of comments, reviews, ratings, page views, heavy users’ activity or large membership base) in your industry can also be considered to be authoritative.

5. Authority sites generally have very high Page Rank (PR >=6).

6. Authority sites generally have very strong back link profile which you can determine through tools like linkdiagnosis.com

7. Authority sites generally have high domain moz rank (>=6) which you can determine through tools like linkscape.

8. Authority sites have back links from large number of root domains which can again be determined through tools like linkscape

Following sites are generally perceived to be authoritative: Elementay & Seconday Schools Sites , Community Colleges sites, Technical & Vocational Schools, educational institutions which provide higher education, government department sites, research councils sites, public library sites, chamber of commerce sites, non-profit organizations sites etc.

How to find Elementary/secondary Schools in US:

Site:.k12.<state-code>.us

For e.g.

To find elementary schools in New York:

site:.k12.ny.us

And if you are looking for a linking page:

<your-keyword> site:.k12.ny.us

To find elementary schools in California:

site:.k12.ca.us

And if you are looking for a linking page:

<your-keyword> site:.k12.ca.us

How to find Private elementary/secondary Schools in US

Site:.pvt.k12.<state-code>.us

For e.g.

To find Private elementary schools in New York:

site:.pvt.k12.ny.us

And if you are looking for a linking page:

<your-keyword> site:.pvt.k12.ny.us

How to find Community Colleges in US

Site:.cc.<state-code>.us

For e.g.

To find Community Colleges in New York:

site:.cc.ny.us

And if you are looking for a linking page:

<your-keyword> site:.cc.ny.us

Following are other search queries to determine linking pages from authority sites:

<your-keyword> Site:.tec.<state-code>.us (to find technical and vocational schools in US)

<your-keyword> Site:.lib.<state-code>.us (to find public libraries in US)

Library Site: .<state-code>.us (to find libraries in US)

Research Council site: .<state-code>.us (to find research councils in US)

chamber of commerce site:.<state-code>.us (to find chambers of commerce in US)

<your-keyword> Site:.kids.us (to find sites which are suitable for children under 13)

<your-keyword> Site:.ac.uk (to find educational institutions which provide higher education in UK)

<your-keyword> Site:.sch.uk (to find primary and secondary educational institutions in UK)

<your-keyword> Site:.org.uk (to find non-profit organizations in UK)

<your-keyword> Site:.gov.uk (to find government institutions in UK)

Library Site:.uk (to find libraries in UK)

Research Council site: .uk (to find research councils in UK)

<your-keyword> Site:.ac.in (to find educational institutions which provide higher education in India)

<your-keyword> Site:.edu.in (to find educational institutions in India)

Library Site:.in (to find libraries in India)

Research Council site: .in (to find research councils in India)

chamber of commerce site:.in (to find chambers of commerce in India)

<your-keyword> Site:.res.in (to find research institutions in India)

<your-keyword> Site:.gov.in (to find government institutions in India)

<your-keyword> Site:.nic.in (to find government institutions in India)

<your-keyword> Site:.edu.au (to find educational institutions in Australia)

<your-keyword> Site:.gov.au (to find government institutions in Australia)

<your-keyword> Site:.org.au (to find non-profit organizations in Australia)

<your-keyword> Site:.asn.au (to find associations in Australia)

Library Site:.au (to find libraries in Australia)

Research Council site: .au (to find research councils in Australia)

3 Golden Rules to get back links from authority sites

1. Establish yourself as an authority- Do it before you ask for a link. Do you really deserve a link from an authority site? If deep down inside you know, the answer is ‘NO’, then most probably you won’t be getting it either. Speak at major industry conferences and write in major industry journals to establish your authority and become known/popular among your potential linking partners.

2. Socialize & Build Personal Relationship- Do it with key persons of the target authority sites for long term link building benefits. Organize/participate in Industry conferences, seminars, exhibitions, workshops and meetups to socialize offline. Remember SEO is just another form of marketing. The more you will market yourself, the better. Social media sites (like blogs, forums, community groups, social networking sites ) are excellent way of socializing online. While socializing online, don’t ignore the viral connectors (like top diggers, top stumblers or people with large fan/subscriptions/members base). These guys can instantly make your contents viral.

3. Determine content needs- Determine content needs of your potential linking sites, develop killer contents and tools to satisfy those needs and then make your potential linking partners aware of them.

Biggest SEO mistake in link acquisition from authority sites

It is to ask for a back link without following the aforesaid link acquisition rules. If you don’t trust me, then just go ahead and try to get a back link from authority site. Your link request will either get deleted or ignored.

How do you get links from authority sites? Pls share.

-SEO Himanshu

If you want to learn how to earn your link here is an article that talks about some other methods of acquiring .edu links : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/ten-ways-to-earn-an-edu-link

I hope that this information is very helpful to any webmaster that has taken the time to read this great article.  I also wanted to thank the author for sharing such great information.  Creating winning site content and getting links on authority sites will prove to be the strongest marketing skills you can learn.  So read it again and then it is time to start applying what you have learned here.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Are you looking for an easy high PR back link?

Well, if you want to get more from your seo efforts, you know that you need high quality back links on sites that are relevant to your niche topic. The site I am talking about today is called Twine. I have been using this site for networking and for link development for a while. It seems to be a great place to meet some new people and do some link building too.

Solid links with good anchor text mixed with some simple automated link building services can be a way to boost your sites exposure overnight. Ping.fm which I discussed in a previous article found here “Social Marketing Made Easy“, I discussed how you can automate your updates to over 30 different social networks, but how about these static sites?  I am not going to get into the “how fast is too fast” link building argument.  I am just going to tell you what I have seen from my personal experiences with developing site traffic and favorable search engine listings.  You should be careful how fast you build links, but being consistent with your weekly pace is more important in the long run.

There are not to many sites that have this high of Google page rank that just give away good links and allow you to leave a full description and screenshot of your site.  Digg no longer produces as much “link juice” in Google, but sites like this one and Kontain are starting to take hold and are showing some surprising “sticky” power in the search engines. So now is the time to take advantage of these new linking methods, while they are still valid! Google’s algorithmic change that they call “caffeine” has left a lot of seo experts looking for the next way to get notices and this may be just what you have been looking for.

I have just recently started testing with some sites on Twine.com but I can already see that this site is going to be one that I will be putting in my marketing arsenal for sure.  So make sure to take a look at this site and start creating your own niche link groups here to see if you can get Google to shine it’s light on your site.  Link building must be done on different sites, but if you are looking to get indexed quick or  just build some new links, this is a good place to start

Twine is a valid PR 6 web site and you can use this site as a social bookmarking site. So it only makes since to make “Twines” or small niche groups to post within. That is exactly what I have done and you can capitalize on my efforts. You can create your own groups or “twines” here too.

So Here It Is

Free Back Links For The Taking, I recently created these new twines, all you have to do is join for free and put your site in the right category to get your PR6 Back Link.

RSS - http://www.twine.com/twine/1320yhzdm-37q/rss
Movies - http://www.twine.com/twine/1322zf104-3j9/movies
Internet Marketing - http://www.twine.com/twine/13298z3cr-1vg/internet-marketing
Travel - http://www.twine.com/twine/138vnnhj0-2fc/travel
Technology News - http://www.twine.com/twine/1395j6hhr-1wh/technology-news
Weight Loss Help - http://www.twine.com/twine/139b4mhg3-1zq/weight-loss-help

I will be adding some new groups shortly.  If you have a topic that you would like me to add here, just let me know and I will do so.  If you have any questions or comments leave them here or you are welcome to contact me on twine as well.

Kontain – This site is cool for few reasons and is becoming one of my favorite places to spend my time when it comes to social networks.  However, this high PR site has got some crazy link juice on Google so it is another great place to get some back links to your site.  I would create an account here and start getting the most out of your links today!

Enjoy adding your links into these awesome groups and feel free to connect with me here too.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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The feature I am talking about is of course the ability to update your ping.fm account and then in turn all of your social sites from your Skype or Gtalk clients.  All you have to do to set this up is login to ping.fm and look at the bottom right.  you will see links to these services.  They give you an email address/account name to add as a contact.  Then you will send one message to make your account verified to use the ping. fm api using your credentials and you are done.

Now any time you send a message to this new contact in your IM app of choice, all of the social networks that you have setup with ping.fm will be instantly updated for you!  This is a great way to get the word out about a new blog post, specials you are running or anything for that matter.

You can see what I am talking about in the image below, just click the thumbnail to open the full size image.

Well if you are always chatting on gtalk and skype already, now you can blast social networks very easily too.  Now that is what I call being productive.

This is just one more little trick you can add to your arsenal of social marketing tools.  I hope you enjoy this new found feature as much as I did,

Nick Simpson

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If you are not, you should be, the link wheel concept seems to be one of the most solid techniques out there to start getting some relevant and very targeted traffic to any website.  There are no expenses involved in building your own powerful link wheel, this is another reason seo experts love this method.  It seems that this is one of the most talked about techniques in the seo world recently.

Yes, link wheels are a great way to get some free traffic an they can be implemented in a few hours time.  You need to understand what a link wheel is first, then you can start using the power of a link wheel on your site or to drive traffic to an affiliate product.  The concept is simple but setting up an effective link wheel may take a little more effort.

Are Link Wheels The Best Free Traffic and SEO Method?

Here on Webmaster Business Plan we discuss many different methods to generate traffic to your website and most of the time we try to keep all the information on the free side.   The link wheel concept is no different, you can put together an seo friendly, traffic getting link wheel in no time at all and it will cost you nothing but a little effort.  We don’t like to use terms like “best” anything, but this sure is one powerful force to be reckoned with as far as search engine optimization and traffic generation.  So, for now this is at least our favorite methods to get some serious traffic, maybe not the best but damn close!

So What Is The Basic Concept Of A Link Wheel?

The basic concept of a link wheel is nothing more than creating multiple Web 2.0 properties on the Internet that inner link to each other and also link out to your main website or “money site” and in effect make a wheel of sites that link together.  There are complete products that are nothing more than explaining this process with a couple pictures.  We believe you can find better things to spend you money on, so we are going to explain it all here and give you a chance to compete with the big boys in any niche by grabbing some serious traffic with the power of your own link wheel.

If you can imaging you main site in the middle of a circle or wheel and sites like blogger, squidoo, hubpages and wetpaint surrounding your site this is how it starts.  Now each of the sites surrounding yours will link in to your site and then link to the next free blog or web 2.0 site.  So blogger would link to your main page and would also link out to your squidoo lens.  Squidoo would link to your site and then link out to your hub on hubpages and so on.

Why Are Link Wheels Effective?

Well, there are a couple reasons for this.  The main reason that these become very effective as far as google and other search engines are concerned is that the sites that you are going to setup for external linking are considered authority sites.  You know, sites with high page rank and ones that are used as part of the search engines “social indexing”.  Yes, these authority sites pack a real punch when it comes to search engine optimization and when you link multiple authority sites to each other and they are all linking out to your site, guess what, the search engines let little old you, share a little of that authority!

Keywords And Link Wheels

Understand that just because you have setup a few blogs really fast, you are not out of the woods yet.  The keywords you focus on are just as important here as they are anywhere else.  If you focus on some low competition keywords you will be sure to get ranked fast, but you can shoot a little higher on the competitive keyword target, because after all you do want some keyword phrases that will bring you some good traffic.

Once you have decided on your keyword phrase, you will wan to get your keywords in your blog addresses, lens urls and so on.  Also you will want to make sure that you are using variations of your keyword phrase in all of your link’s anchor text.  You may want to use a few long tail keyword phrases and then focus in on your main keyword set.  This is a good way to keep the links mixed up and still give the focus to the correct term as you are developing your link wheel.

How Many Web 2.0 Sites Do I Need In My Link Wheel?

Ultimately this really is up to you.  You can build a very small, simple link wheel with three to four external blogs, but you may want to continue to grow your link wheel through time.  The more external web 2.0 sites you include in your link wheel will help re-inforce the link strength to your main site, but also can drive some healthy direct traffic to your sites as well. The power of the link wheel is 2 fold, keeping people in a loop of your own information until they end up on your main site and hopefully buy.  Secondly, you are building an authority presence on the search engines, so you will benefit in raised google rankings for your keyword phrase.  So, there is no reason to limit yourself to four sites in your link wheel, when you could have as many as you like.

A More Effective Link Wheel

If you really want to get the most out of your link wheel, you may have to make some more mini link wheels on the outside.  This means nothing more that adding social bookmarking to each of your Web 2.0 sites or blogs you are using as your main feeder sites on the link wheel. Since you can only add one link to a social bookmarking post, you really cannot expand the theory of the link wheel using these sites.  However, you can reinforce the strength of each of your new inbound link properties by giving each of them some exposure on these hugely popular and high page ranked sites like digg, stumbleupon, mixx, reddit and others.

So What Does A Link Wheel Look Like?

Well everybody has a different take on what an effective link wheel should look like.  I have found many different ideas on the net, most of these are free on flicker, but I have saved these so long ago, I do not have the accurate credits to give here, so I do apologize for that.

Here are some of the best visual examples of link wheels out there.  You can take any of them and put them to use in your online business instantly or you can study them all and choose one you want to follow.

Complex Link Wheel Diagram

Link Wheel Chart

Link Wheel Diagram

Link Wheel Explained

Link Wheel Type 3

Well that’s pretty much it for link wheel’s, let me know if you have any questions or comments in the comment section below and happy link wheeling to you!

Nick Simpson

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If Google finds you link on a page that has good page rank, but your link is surrounded by dead links, this will not look very appetizing to Google.  You need to understand that the quality of the directory is “as” important if not more important than the PR of it’s pages.   This is why in many cases the most valuable directory listings to get involved with are not free.  The money spent is many times turned over to those who keep the directory up to date and continue site maintenance to assure that each and every link on the directory site is active and accurate.  Just like anything else, you really do get what you pay for when it comes to buying a spot on a top website directory.

If you are ready to get serious and take your website to the next level by spending some money to get a high quality back link to you, here is our own top 5 paid directory listing list.

Top Ten Paid Directories (Domain – Page Rank – Price)

1. Yahoo.com PR 8 – $299
2. Business.com PR 7 $199
3. Best of the Web PR 7 $69-$300
4. JoeAnt.com PR6 $39.99
5. MassiveLinks.com PR4 $39.99 – $79.99

There are other directories out there, but these are the ones that stick out and seem to have the cleanest and most up to date listings on the web.  We don’t think you will find better value anywhere else, but if you do run across a paid directory that you think deserves to be listed here, simply leave a comment or contact me and I will be sure to consider it as an addition to the list of the top 5 paid directories here on Webmaster Business Plan.

Good luck with your site listing and we hope the list of useful resources above can help bring your website traffic to the next level.  Even successful websites can use a boost and these site have proved to be among the top directories out there.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Learn even more marketing tips, seo secrets and more at the Nick Simpson Blog and as always it free!

Don’t worry it is fairly simple to get a big result from blog commenting, you just have to know what you are doing and you can really get some traffic and results in the search engines in no time flat.  So let’s get to it…

So What Is Blog Commenting?

Well, simply put blog commenting is the process of joining the conversation on blogs, instead of using email or popular social networks.  The main feature that makes a web site become a blog, is the ability of visitors to add there own comments, thoughts or questions to the site.  You may have seen a long string of comments at the bottom of a post on a web site before and this is the comments section. Anybody can submit comments on blog post, however in most cases only the best will actually be published live on the site.  Depending on the blog owner, your comments may be automatically posted or they may go to the admin for review first.

Why Do I Want To Comment On Blogs?

Commenting on blogs is a great way to get known as an expert on any topic, to get more exposure to your site and to build your brand.  You can comment on specific blogs to grow you brand and also get free back links pointing to your product site, affiliate program or personal web site.  You will see many Internet marketers using this as a fast and free way to get more back links and get more traffic to the sites of their choosing.  The reason you see so many people suggesting this as a link building technique is simple, it works.  There are very few ways to get so many links put on web sites that have a good PR rating for free.  Most sites charge to have a link added to their blog roll.  However, having a good link in a comment section of a blog can drive some quality direct traffic and also give you valid back link for Google to pick up on as well.

So How do I Find Good Blogs To Comment On?

You can find blogs by using Google’s blog search.  This is probably the simplest way to find blogs that you can comment on.  However, there are a couple more factors that will prove to be important, besides the topic and content theme of the blog you comment on.  One thing that will be very important if you are wanting to get a high quality back link, is the Page Rank of the blog  you will be commenting on.  You can install the Google toolbar on Fire Fox or on Internet Explorer to see what the blogs PR is quickly and easily.  Now finally, you want to check and see if the links in the blog comments are “do-follow” or “no-follow” links.  You can find a few tools that will help you with this or in Fire Fox you can simply right click on the link and choose properties to check it.

There are also a couple of applications out there that seem to work well for this, if you want to know more about them, just contact me and I would be glad to share.

What Do Do When Blog Commenting

1. Post On Recent Posts – Being the first or one of the first to comment on a new post can really get you more attention than being the one who posted the 25th comment on a post.
2. Write Something Useful – Nobody cares about the guy who say “great post” or “thanks for sharing”  these are the comments you can buy for penny from India and these are not what get attention in readers eyes or from the site owners.
3. Speak To The Blog Owners and Readers – These are your target market, when it comes to commenting.  So don’t just speak out into thin air, talk to the folks who will be reading your comment.
4. Add Value – This should be the main concern when writing a blog comment.  If you are not adding value to the conversation or giving something of interest that is on topic, do not expect your blog comment to get published by the blog owner.
5. Get Attention! – Yes, just like any good writing, you need to grab the readers attention and if you do this, you blog commenting campaign will prove to be very successful!

What Not To Do When Blog Commenting

1. Drop links – Putting links in the comment itself is simply not proper commenting etiquette, you link should be listed as your web site and will link to the name you leave on the comment.
2. Make Spelling Mistakes – Spelling errors may seem to be a very minor issue to you, but to some people reading your comment this may be the difference between a click through and scrolling on to the next comment.  Your writing should represent you, so it should concise and spelled correctly.
3. Talk Down About Post – If your not going to make a positive comment, don’t waste your time. If you are talking down about the web site, web site owner or the post itself, your post will never get published in the first place, so move on.
4. Spam A Blog – One comment at a time is plenty.  If you put a comment on ten different posts, this not only looks suspicious but is!  So one at a time, if you like the blog and want to put more than one comment, bookmark it and come back later.
5. Long Comments – You may need to write more than one sentence to get your point across, but understand that usually only the first few lines of a comment will show by default, so get the goods out first, if you have to make it a long one.

I hope you enjoyed this article and if you want to get a blog comment on a PR2 webmaster site, comment below or you can go to the homepage of the site and post a comment there. If you follow my rules above, I promise to publish you!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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RSS 3.0

About a week ago, we added a script which allows webmasters to perform a blog ping to many popular RSS aggregation services, including Google!

Well, just like any new web service there were a few bugs to work out and a few services were running so slow that it was slowing the blog ping script down. We have since removed the rss services that were causing errors and timing out. So the blog ping service from RSS 3.0 seems to be fully functional and now is ready to serve you!

If you are looking for a new way to boost the traffic coming to a blog or a website, get your rss feed ready and head on over to RSS 3.0 to ping all the top RSS sites for absolutely free!

FREE BLOG PINGER

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Well trust me, you are not alone.  This is one of the most frustrating problems for webmasters and Internet marketers alike.  If you are putting in the work and simply not getting the results, trust me I know exactly how you feel and I have definitely been through this.  However, I do have some helpful hints to get your past this “bump in the road” and back on track with your internet marketing efforts.

I was recently asked a question on a forum that I frequent “I have done my keyword research and have submitted my info to squidoo and ezinearticles, but I am not getting ranked, I feel like I am missing something?”

Well, the conversation on the forum was about different methods of keyword research that different people use.  There are many different methods that people use and some are obviously more effective than others. The problem it turned out was not finding the right keyword to use, but how to market the site and get link exposure with the keyword term that this member was trying to focus on.

If you do not understand what keyword research is, join our mailing list here and you will get a link to some videos that will help out with this.  For those of you who are already doing some keyword research and then trying to focus your link building efforts to get ranked for those keywords, I will give you the same reply I posted in the forum.  If you do not know what keyword research is and do not fully understand link building and anchor text yet, please do not proceed with the steps below!
The methodology I will explain is very quick and dirty seo, but when it comes down to it I have used these exact steps to successfully launch many a profitable site and I know these will work for you too.  All you have to do is apply the steps and keep mixing up your keyword phrase in relevant long tail keyword phrases and You Will Get Results!

Write one new article, get your keyword or a variation of it in the title, body, keyword tags and make a link with the same or variant of your keywords in the post, to the post. Do Not make the keyword spammed throughout, make it natural and make this one of the best posts you ever wrote, this is the gold nugget that you are going to trade for traffic!

Publish this, take your rss feed over to http://feedburner.com, burn it, then get over to http://pingoat.com

Now that you are at http://pingoat.com submit both your website feed and the feedburner feed, with a slight variation in the title, but still Keep Your Keywords In There Too.

Next it is time to do some social bookmarking, get over to:

http://digg.com
http://stumbleupon.com
http://reddit.com
http://mixx.com

and bookmark you new post, do this at different times of the day, not all at once.

Now, write you up a small 300-500 word article and post it on all article directories( http://ezinearticles.com http://goarticles.com http://articledashboard.com ), authority sites( http://squidoo.com http://hubpages.com http://facebook.com http://knol.google.com )and as many blogs that you can(heres the blog submitter I use, it’s free)then time to get your article on some authority blogs, say hello to http://blogger.com http://blog.com http://fortuneboard.com and http://posterous.com

Everywhere you submit you article you need to make sure that you can get at least one link with a variation of your keyword in the article or do not waste your time there.

You may also want to spend some time on popular social sites telling people about the new post, Google loves to see some traffic to a page that it is going to rank. I suggest you use http://ping.fm to multiply your efforts here.

I know this sounds like you are going to be carpet bombing the web with info and Yes that is the idea. If you want to be noticed by Google, give them something to look at!

This can be done all in one day, but I suggest you spread it out over a few days or even a weeks time, because after all you don’t want to scare Google with to many new links all at once.  Now once you have completed these simple steps, just wash, rinse and repeat; you will be guaranteed results.

That is if you have chosen a worthy keyword!

Well I can tell you if you do the things I spoke of above, you will get traffic! There is no question about it, you will be able to see some immediate traffic from direct click through visitors. However, more importantly, if you use good anchor text and keep mixing up the long tail terms, you will be able to sustain some rather healthy traffic from the search engines as well.

You can look at any of the big name products, video series or guru reports; they all will focus in on one of the sections of info above and build a whole product around it, but you know what, you don’t need to spend $300 dollars to take some logical steps toward your success online. When it comes down to it, there are only 2 things that online marketing comes down to, Distribution and Target Market. Everything else is simply smoke and mirrors.

Now, I will say that much like exercising, some people really do need to make a huge investment in a product to remind them that they need to exercise, however I hope you can find you motivation elsewhere

I hope that this quick little synapses helps some internet marketer or webmaster take there website traffic and online business to the next level.  As always feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this or any article of mine and I would be glad to assist in any way that I can.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Some people may prefer to use MS Paint, Photo Shop or any other graphics application to create their own banner images, but if you are looking to create a quick banner and don’t want to have to learn how to use a graphics editor, there are some online services that will help you do just that.

Below, is  a list of a few of the most popular banner creation websites.  All in the list are free banner creators and can create you a banner with your choosing of text and background images in just a few clicks.  Some of these offer flash banners, some are simple jpeg images and a few offer animated gif images.  So take a look through and find one that will work for you and your website promotional needs.

10 Free Banner Creators

1. http://bannerbreak.com/
2. http://www.banner-generator.net/en/bannergen.php?genaction=2&pid=1&x=94&y=8
3. http://www.bannersketch.com/
4. http://www.puresilvabannermaker.com/
5. http://www.bannercreator.us/create-banner.php
6. http://www.bannercreator.nu/banner-maker.html
7. http://mybannermaker.com/
8. http://cooltext.com/
9. http://www.flashvortex.com
10. http://www.abcbanners.com/cgi-bin/b2/b2.pl?action=Browse&CatID=1

Free Banner Examples

Here are a few banners I have made from the sites listed above, just to show you that you can get an attractive looking banner for absolutely free!   If you would like to show some love for Webmaster Business Plan, feel free to use any of the banners below on your own sites, blogs or social network profiles.

<a href=”http://webmasterbusinessplan.com”><img title=”wbp-banner” src=”http://webmasterbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wbp-banner2.jpg” alt=”wbp-banner” /></a>

<a href=”http://webmasterbusinessplan.com”><img title=”wbp-banner” src=”http://webmasterbusinessplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/wbp-banner.png” alt=”wbp-banner” /></a>

<script src=”http://h1.flashvortex.com/display.php?id=3_1260712341_20910_330_0_468_60_9_52″ type=”text/javascript”></script>

There are some great resources listed above, I hope you are able to find a great looking banner creator and get your free banners today.  As always if you are having problems and would like some assistance, simple contact us and we would be glad to help.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Let us show you a better way to do this without chasing your tail all day long. However first, we want to make sure we are all on the same page, so let’s get started.

What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is nothing more than putting a link to your favorite websites on a site that is built to share your favorites. Much like you can add a bookmark or favorite to your web browser, you can add a similar listing on these “social bookmarking” sites. This is a great way to share your favorite websites and web destinations with your friends and family and is also a very “White Hat” way for webmasters and internet marketers to get a little google juice and some direct traffic to their websites.

What Makes Social Bookmarking So Powerful?

There are a couple reasons that using social bookmarking as an method of online marketing works.  The first is the fact that your link will be put in front of hundreds of thousands of people on each site you submit it to.  Just the other day I got 800 unique visits from a single submission to stumbleupon.com  I don’t claim to get these results every time I submit a link, but I can guarantee that you will never get free results like this without using them.

Another big reason that internet marketers and webmasters cannot live without using these services is that the top search engines look to these social bookmarking sites as Authority Sites and they check them for what’s new and what’s popular.  In most cases this translates into a boost in your web site’s ranking on the search engines.

So yes, you NEED to be using these sites if you are serious about online business, internet marketing and getting mad crazy traffic to your sites.

How Do I Add My Site To Social Bookmarking Sites?

This really varies from site to site. Most all of the popular social bookmarking sites will require you to create an account to post your website bookmarks, but none of these sites charge for membership so don’t worry, this is free.  Once you have created an account and logged in, most sites have a similar setup to add a link, you choose a title, description and category for your web link.  In some cases you can also choose a set of keywords and an image to associate with your bookmark as well.

Most of the more popular social bookmarking sites will allow you to get a plugin for either Firefox for Internet Explorer to make it quicker and easier to add your bookmarks to their site.  These can be nice, but at the same time if you want to get your bookmark spread to many sites, it is not an effective way to do this by any means. If you add one or 2 of these bookmarking toolbars to your browser, that is more than most people want or would really use in the first place.  Don’t worry, there is a better way and we are getting ready to get to that.

Effective Tools For Social Bookmarking

There are a couple of tools out there that can make your social bookmarking efforts more effective and much easier to keep up with.  Some are free to use and some of the best ones are not, we will discuss both and let make an educated decision as to which one is right for you and your online business.  Most people can see the benefit right away from the free tools and personally I decided to start using the payed tools pretty quick because I saw so much value and control that was not offered by the free ones.

Free Social Bookmarking Tools:

1. Social Marker – This website offers a cool and free tool to allow you to send your bookmarks out to many sites all at once.  This site can make a days worth of worth of work achievable in a few minutes!
2. OnlyWire – This is another secret guru type tool most folks don’t tell you about until you have already bought a paid product from them.  Now this is by far the best free one, but it has a huge downfall.  The fact that they force you to put a link back to there site on the site you wan to bookmark really takes away from their appeal, to me at least.
3. Social Marking – another site that attempts to make social bookmarking easier, I am not convinced.  It has a very archaic setup and really does not seem to automate much, besides there sales funnel.  Maybe a good resource for some but after using there free system, I think there plan is to get you to buy there service, so probably not the best out there, but it is free?

Top Paid Social Bookmarking Tools

1. Bookmarking Demon – No, this is not a free tool, but it really is worth its weight in gold.  Am I an affiliate, Yes! And the only reason I am is because this tool is so powerful that I cannot stress how much value it brings to the plate of any internet marketer or webmaster.  If you are looking for a product that will automate, schedule and blast you social bookmarks to all the right places in just a few clicks you will blow you money on this one and come back and thank me for suggesting it. It Really Is This Good Folks!

I hope the information I have shared with you today proves to be a driving force in your online marketing efforts and gives you results like you have never seen before.  I understand that there is a learning curve to everything and I will add some follow up posts to explain the ins and outs of social bookmarking to make sure you get the most out of  your efforts.  As always if you any questions about what I have outlined above feel free to contact me at any time and I would love to help answer any questions you may have.

You can also get more free information by joining our free Webmaster Business Plan Mailing Here.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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So if you are not getting results, let’s see what you can change.  The one thing that gets me every time is people who say, well I have not got results yet, so I am just going to keep trying.  Not that having the perseverance to stick with something is bad, but if you are not getting results and you just do more of the same actions that are not getting you results, the odds are all you are going to get, is tired!

Things To Change In Your Current Article Marketing Campaign To Get More Results:

1. Quality Of Content - Article marketing is not all about how many junky articles you can crank out in a day.  It is about how much high quality and grammatically correct articles you can produce.  So don’t be confused the quality of your articles is the single most important factor in being successful with article marketing.  After all if you hope that your articles get published on many other sites, which should be a goal of yours, you need to give them the “meat” so they want to share your information on their own web site.
2. Keyword Research – Don’t just throw out articles and hope people find them, first check and see what people are already looking for and then you will be able to write to the people that are “looking” and this can be a very quick way to get instant positive results in your campaign.  There is no more powerful marketing concept than “preaching to the choir” once you learn how to do this, you will not be able to be stopped!
3. Focus – Again, to some this may sound very elementary, but really focus is one thing that many people loose.  If you are trying to work with too many products or services, it can be easy to loose focus and start writing on all sorts of topics that have nothing to do with each other.  You need to keep your writing and publishing focused on one or 2 related items or topics.    You must become known as the authority on the topic to get the results like an authority on the topic you are focusing on!
4. Article Distribution – Obviously I highly suggest you start right here on ezinearticles.com this is the biggest and best article directory on the web and anybody who does article marketing will tell you the same.  However, you should also understand that your success will be based on how many people you can get to see the information you are sharing, so don’t be afraid to offer your information on 3-5 or even more article directories.  This will help you get more visitors, more eyes and more syndication out of your efforts.
5. Hire A Writer – If you are working on an article marketing campaign that is on a subject matter that you simply do not have the knowledge for or ability to write on, don’t be afraid to get help.  Professional writers can help you create fresh content and may also be able to help you with article distribution.  For many this can be a great way to amplify their efforts and get more done quicker.  Article marketing is very powerful, but if you are not a powerful writer on the topic you are focusing on, seo writers may be able to help take your article marketing campaign to the next level.

There are many more facets to a successful article marketing campaign, but if you are already working with a article marketing campaign that is not getting results, these are five ways you can change what you are already doing and see if you can get more results from your existing efforts.  Many times people spend too much time in areas that are simply not effective and this can lead to a lot of frustration and after all time is money, so you want to make sure you are spending your time effectively and where you are able to see a return on your efforts.

There is definitely an inertia that is created by being consistent with your article creation and submission, so don’t let a slow start scare you away from article marketing, it truly is one of the oldest and still one of the most relevant methods of online marketing.  Slow and steady really does win the race and if you can find ways to get more benefit along the way, you are sure to stick with it for the long haul and see how beneficial article marketing really can be for you and your online business.

If you try the suggestions above and are still not getting the results you are after, feel free to contact me and I would be glad to take a look at your article marketing campaign and personally see what I can do to make it profitable and successful for you.  I do not claim to be a guru on this topic.  However, I do know that many times somebody on the outside looking in is able to see things that those to close to a project simply miss.  So this in mind let me know if I can be of assistance.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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The power of your social marketing campaign will come down to 2 simple factors:

1. Quality Of Information
2. Expansion Of Syndication (across many networks)

If you are getting any results from working with one social network there are many more places you can get the same results, it just comes down to a matter of time.  If you are not taking the time to add value to your presence on social networks, you will not be getting the results you are looking for either.  That is what makes these the 2 golden rules of social marketing to me.

If you are sending out a bunch of junk and you are only sending it to 5 or 6 people, my guess is that you are not selling much and probably not driving a lot of traffic to your websites either. This is fine if you are only using social sites for fun and to keep in touch with your family and friends.  However, if you are trying to use the power of social sites to get your information out to the world, you may need some extra syndication power to give you more bang for your buck as far as time spent on your social marketing efforts.

I have a couple of suggestions to get your social marketing campaign rocking really fast.  I have listed the top resources below.

Professional Social Marketing Tools

There are a few paid tools out there to help you get your information out to all your social sites and to twitter effectively and the biggest one on the market today by far is, Socialoomh.com pronounced “Social Oomf” and it does a great job, allowing users to que up tweets and messages to be sent out in the future to many social networks.  This allows you to manage and maintain many accounts on many social networks with ease.  The fees here are well worth it.  This site has a great back end to make sure you can keep your messages personal and get your messages out when you want them to appear from a company you can trust.

Free Social Marketing Tools

There may be a few different free tools on the market, but I can tell you that you will not find one that is easier to use, more powerful and more flexible than Ping.FM This service is seriously a killer when it comes to distribution of your information across multiple social networks with one click.  I have used this service for some time and I have nothing but good things to say about their marketing power.  Oh and did I say, this is FREE!

I know the title was a little misleading to this one, but to be honest I am not going to waste your time or mine to list other free services that just don’t compare to the power of the Ping.FM service.  So if you want to take your social marketing power and syndication to the next level, get over there now and don’t forget to post a thank you down below.

Nick Simpson

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Well this ain’t no western!

I am here to share a couple of excellent ways to totally blow your hosting account out of the water with a traffic tornado folks!

There are almost unlimited ways to generate mad traffic to your website and I know that some seem a lot more complicated than others especially if you are new to internet marketing are a sprouting webmaster.  Some of the best traffic generating methods in the world are absolutely free to do and just require a little elbow grease if you know what I mean.

If you want people lining up bumper to bumper to get in to your web site it’s going to take some work. I will not lie to you like some other guys and tell you, hey this is going to be easy and you can do it over night, because frankly that is not true.  If you want the Traffic Tornado to hit your site, you are going to have to work like a meteorologist, or maybe more like a steel worker, because I am not sure the weather man actually works?

What I will show you is…

Ways To Create New Visitors

Ways To Generate Visitors Within Your Market or Niche

Ways To Get Lasting Traffic and Search Engine Results

Real World Methods That Do Not Take A Rocket Scientist To Understand

What I will not show you is…

Lame Social Bookmarking Tricks That Boost Your Rankings Overnight and Then Disappear The Next Day

Black Hat Methods That Will Get Your Site Removed From Search Engine Results

Methods That Do Not Produce Real Visitors

Information Products To Make Me Money and Empty Your Wallet

Content Is King!

Yes, I Know You Have Heard It Before But…

It really is true, content rules the internet and it rules search engines, thus it must rule web site traffic. I know that sounds like a silly logic puzzle, but when it comes down to it, no matter what you are doing on the internet to drive traffic to your page, if your content is crap, it makes no difference anyhow.

Start with your website, start with what the experts call on page seo. This does not mean cramming the same keyword phrase into an article a thousand times, (if you think this is seo, stick your hand out so I can slap it). This means create an article that would make you excited to share it with somebody else if you found it. NEVER write your content for the search engines, ALWAYS write your content for the reader in mind.

If you write with the reader in mind, not only does it come off as such when it is read by others, but you are more likely to get some free PR (Press Release, not Page Rank) from your readers. If you can continue to crank out award winning content, seo (search engine optimization) will take care of itself, I Promise You!

If you have great information to share and you make it easy for people to add your content to popular social bookmarking sites, you won’t have to be “one of those guys” who goes and diggs his own content every day or stumbles every article he writes. And after all who wants to be One Of Those Guys anyways?

Article Marketing Works!

Article Marketing Has Been One Of The Most Powerful Traffic Generation Methods Since It’s Inception And Still Is.

There is no question about it, article marketing is among the strongest forces on the internet when it comes to driving long lasting streams of traffic to your web site. The basis of article marketing again is “Content Driven” however it is totally acceptable to submit the same article to a few or even hundreds of article directories.

This makes article marketing a lot less labor intensive and can put your content on some sites that already have some Google Page Rank so your content may receive attention from the search engines faster than on your own site.

Article Marketing In a Nutshell

Here is the breakdown and concept that drives article marketing and article directory sites.

US

-You as an article marketer create an article on the same or similar topic as the site you are wanting to drive traffic to.
-You post your article on many free article directories hopefully with page rank.
-You put a link to your site, using a keyword phrase that you would like folks to find you on Google from. The reverse thinking here is that google will see your keywords in your links on many sites and then rank your site higher in search results because of this, this is a strategy known to seo guys as “Link Building.”

Them

-The article directories get free content on their site, they get email addresses to market to, YOU.
-Website owners get to re-publish your article on their sites, but get this, they have to leave your link in the article to get rights to republish.
-Both article directory and web site re-publishers hope for some juicy adsense ads to show up next to your article to make money.

Now, this is not the fastest process, let me tell you. However you will NOT run across a longer lasting and self sustaining link building system. The links that are in your articles getting automatically spread all across the internet will give you a small trickle of direct traffic from click throughs on your links and if you mix up your keywords on your links and you write many good quality articles, this can dramatically raise your search engine standings and through time, this one method can get you on the almighty #1 spot of google!

Some Quick Useful Links:

Top 250 Article Directories Listed By Google Page Rank – This is a list compiled of many many article directories, listed by their google page rank, so start your way at the top and work your way down.

Submit Free Articles – This is a new article directory and yes, it’s mine, you got me! Oh, well now that the cats out of the bag, read this squidoo lens to see why you should be posting even though its brand spanking new: Why www.SubmitFreeArticle.com Is Different Than Other Article Directories

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If you are not already using the Google Webmaster Tools I highly suggest you start now.  The Google Webmaster Tools service has now released a new feature to allow webmasters like you and me to get a glimpse into the behind the scenes view of the Google search world.

Now you can actually enter any web page or domain name and have the Google Bot manually download and Display what it sees!  This is amazing if you are into search engine optimization, because now you there will be no question of what is getting indexed on your page.  You can be assured of what scripts are or are not search engine friendly because you can actually SEE what is being pulled from each page on your web site.

Of course this will be more important to people running many scripts or have many layers on their sites, if you are using a simple html page, you can pretty much see how google will see your site by loading it in a normal web browser.   However, I thought that this would come in handy for anybody that wants to know what google is really taking away from your website and trying to boost their own web site traffic and search engine standings.

As Always To Success,

Nick Simpson

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How Many Back Links Does Your Website Have?

If you are like most people you probably have 5-20 back links built up by posting to forums or maybe a blog here and there.  However to really get ranked in google for a search term that you want to be ranked for, one that really pulls in the traffic, most sites are boasting over a thousand back links. It is a commonly accepted fact that the amount of back links to your website, including the correct anchor text is one of the most definitive techniques to achieve the first page of google, for that term.

So How Do I Build Up More Back Links?

Building back links is not a quick process and actually google likes to see a constant stream of new ones pointing to your site, this assures the search engine that not only is the link text accurate, but more and more people agree that this site is worth seeing.  So for many webmasters it seems like a constant uphill battle to keep bringing in new back links.   Some actually resort to black hat methods like paying for back links or even using sneaky software to spam forums or blog comment sections.  We here at Webmaster Business Plan do not suggest you use either method above.

The correct way to build back links is to either contact many webmasters and ask to trade links, get active on forums and add your link to your signature or even join many social networks that allow you to post your web address.

The problem with all these methods is that they are very time consuming and in some cases produce very little results.

What Is A Better Way To Build Back Links?

I know that there are many more methods than discussed above to build back links to your website.  But, simply put all of these methods are just as slow and very repetitive to complete if this is being done by one person and not a team of seo experts.   What I propose is that you use a “system” to do the work for you, instead of you manually working day in and day out just to “keep up” with the competition.

Here is the system that I have used myself to drive more than one site to the #1 spot on google and it is absolutely free to use!  I don’t know what to say besides, it is free, it works and it is worth its weight in gold!

Free Back Link Building System

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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Many time I show somebody a new traffic exchange site that I may be using and they tell me that they are not getting any respone, or maybe even that they think I am wasting their time.  I want to let you know, that yes, these can be huge waste of time, if you do not understand how to use them correctly.

Here Are The Rules To Effectively Use Any Traffic Exchange System:

1. Register For Many Traffic Exchanges, not Just one

The reason for this is that you in some cases can surf more than one simultaneously to generate more free traffic.  I would never open a bunch of tabs, but maybe 3-4.   The rule of thumb is that if you can carry on a conversation while surfing, you need to focus more and look at the pages you are supposed to be viewing, you should respect that this is what you are wanting your viewers to do and should do the same for them.

2. Always Pay Attention

You need to pay attention to the web pages in the traffic exchange not just from a ethical standpoint, but if you do not you may miss out on a good opportunity or even worse, miss out on the free market research.  If you pay close attention you will notice that there are some pages that get shown more frequently and in some cases almost back to back.  Now these are the ones you want to keep your eyes on, because either they are paid listings or there are many people that are promoting the same program and either way, you want to make sure to pay special attention to these ones.

What are they offering?
How is there page setup?
Do they ask for action?
Do they use video or audio?

These are the kind of questions you can ask yourself and using the answers to these questions you can change and make your own web page that is in rotation more effective from what you learn.

3. Cross Promote Always

If you have registered for more than one of these traffic exchanges, make sure to put your affiliate link from site A in rotation on site B.  Why?  Well there is one thing we know for sure about every user that is on a traffic exchange and that is, THEY ARE LOOKING FOR TRAFFIC!

So use this to your advantage to refer new members to your down-line on each traffic exchange you use.  When you have successfully referred a new person to one of these sites, you will earn some percentage of that persons credits earned as long as they stay active on the site, some will give you as much as 20% of the credits that your referrals earn.

Most of the major traffic exchanges do also offer a upgraded package and in some cases these are very reasonable offers. Make sure to look for the ones that will put random referrals in your down-line and also give a good amount of free credits when you upgrade. This will help you get the most out of your money spent if you decide to do the upgrade.

4. My Site Is Not Getting Clicks or Sign-ups!

Well if you are having problems getting any response from your surfing, there is one little secret that most will only tell you in their 50 dollar ebooks.  If you want people to take action on traffic exchanges don’t send them to an article page or even your home page.  If you send somebody to a standard web page, the odds are you are not going to get very good results from these systems.  Remember, people only see you pages for between 10-30 seconds, so they are not going to have time to decide if they want to buy from you.

So no sales pages, that is if you want to get the most out of your efforts that is.  You need a capture page, a squeeze page, or a lead generation page.  No matter what you want to call it, you have all seen these pages, the ones that have a big headline, either a picture or a quick video and a place to register.

These pages are designed for quick decisions and that is precisely what people are going to have to do when they are surfing a traffic exchange, decide that they are interested enough to get registered, join a email list, or give up their email address in exchange for something free that you can offer.

Here are the high quality templates I have used with much success on traffic exchanges, they are not free, but worth every penny!

Graphical Opt In Boxes Collection

You will never see any of the big companies linking to their homepage, unless the occasional need to raise alexa rankings.  I almost forgot about this one, even if you never get a click in your life from traffic exchanges, these sites can really boost ones PR and Alexa rankings, if that is something you are concerned with.

5. How Often Do I Need To Surf?

Well, there are a lot of ways to answer that and I guess it really comes down to how much time to spend on your online marketing efforts in a week.  I really try to surf for about 20 minutes a day.  I do not have another job so this seems like a very small investment of my days work.  If you only have a couple hours a week to dedicate to growing your online business, maybe you can sit down for one 30 minute session once a week.  It really is up to you and your rewards are multiplied by surfing for longer periods of time, so you will want to pay close attention to each site you join and see how their surf ratios and rewards change for x amount of sites viewed.

My Personal Top 3 Traffic Exchanges

I have signed up for many traffic exchanges through out the years. Some of the traffic exchanges worked, some didn’t. But some really worked! That is what this blog post is about, the ones that do work. Guys, it is a jungle out there as you all know and there are many loopholes and sites that just don’t work, so take my experience and learn from it without wasting your own time.

You may have watched some of my videos about making money with traffic exchanges and I never mention which ones are the best so here are my top 3 in order of our personal response rate.

1. Traffic Swarm – Guys this is simply the best out there, hands down. You get the best return rate on your clicks, plus you can make your own ads, to pre-qualify clicks. If you are not a member here, you are really missing out.

2. Easy Hits 4 U – This traffic exchange is one of the fastest growing out there so if you are going to build a down-line on one of these traffic exchages, this is the easiest to promote and produce more unique visitors from other peoples clicks.

3. Traffic G – We have had more response in the last 2 months from this traffic program than any other that we participate in. Guys views on this traffic network are like gold nuggets in your pocket!

Now as always being straight forward with all my viewers/readers. I have used my affiliate links to the above sites, you are welcome to go directly to these sites and join, but we would like you to join our team on these sites, so if you appreciate us referring you to these sites, please use our links above.

Please watch all of my videos to see how to really use these system effectively and get the most return for your effort.

Thanks for reading guys,

Nick Simpson

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I will give a brief overview of what this service is and how you can use this service to promote website and actually build content for a website in this article. I will be sharing more in the next few articles on how to really use the complete power of these methods to develop massive back links and spread your content across the internet with the least amount of effort and the most return!

RSS – Really Simple Syndication

Is a internet service that has been around for years now, but has really been picking up in popularity, as the technology has matured with the new Web 2.0 sites like myspace, facebook and twitter. So RSS, as stated above stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it allows a website to give a live stream of updates in a format that can be used in your web browser, email client or on your favorite news reader appliction. This simply means that you can get all of the updates from your favorite websites in one place, instead of having to go to each website to see if there are any new posts or articles.

If you want to see an example of a rss feed, just go to feedburner, this is a google site and it is used to track and promote your rss feeds. Just type “Feed Burner” into google and it will be the first link. You can search others RSS Feeds Here and see what “exactly” an rss feed is.
Normal RSS feeds only have 2 different data fields a Title and a Short Description. There are some specialized feeds that allow for attachments of videos or podcasts as well. Depending on the web service you are using to create your feed you may be able to use links within the feed or not.
Some popular RSS models are:

RSS .091

RSS 1.0

RSS 2.0

Atom .03

OPML

RSS Feeds are a great way to get your information out to the world and if you do not have a mailing list on your site anybody can subscribe to your website updates using it. So this in mind, I highly suggest using this service on your web site or web sites.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

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RSS Directories

RSS Feed Smart Submission

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Article directories play an integral part an many webmasters business plan, including a way to get free content for any web site and a way to generate free and organic back links. So if you are an article marketer and are looking to submit your article to many directories or if you are looking for some fresh content to add to your website, here is a great list to get you started.

Article marketing has proven to be one of the most effective internet marketing strategies through the years and is as effective today as it was in it inception.  Webmasters can really get a massive amount of traffic from there article marketing efforts, especially when you have the right sites to list your articles on.  The fact that article marketing has a very viral nature will help webmasters and internet marketers build many back links from the submission of a single article, so the more you submit you can only imagine the impact this will have.

Don’t forget to submit your articles to our new sister site that is literally blowing up! Submit Free Articles

We have rooted through many a Google search to put together this list and hope that you can find some useful information here. Most of these directories are great and have a lot to offer, but many pros like to get there information out on the most effective networks that have Page Rank so we have sorted the list for you, so you can get straight to the meat.

Enjoy!

The 250 Top Article Directory List

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Now for Pod Casts the same rule applies, you can use RSS feeds to syndicate your pod cast and this can be an effective marketing method to allow you to get your website seen all over the web for free. There are a couple of ways you can boost your podcast exposure for free using the rss feed that is already in place. You can send your podcast rss feed to giant online podcast directories that only accept podcast rss feeds, these are places that you cannot display a regular rss feed, so in our books this is extra exposure that you can only receive if you site offers a podcast, so why not take full advantage of it?

Top Podcast Syndicates Are:

1. iTunes
2. Blubrry
3. Podcast Alley
4. Podcast Ready
5. Podbean

There are also many other sites where you can submit your podcast for indexing, but these are the biggest and best out there, so we suggest submitting your pobcast RSS to all the sites above.

The great thing is, once you have submitted your podcast, you need not ever go back to update these sites, because they will pull your updates from the rss stream making the updates seamless an automatic!

To Success,

Nick Simpson

Webmaster Business Plan

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If you are not making videos to promote your website, you are missing out on one of the most lucrative avenues of the market right now. People love video! It’s that simple.
If you are not comfortable with being in front of a camera, who cares, I didn’t like it when I first started either. This may be an area that you need to “grow” so that your business can “grow” too. One simple rule of business is “If you want more, DO MORE!”  So don’t think that you are going to grow a huge business by doing what are already doing, if that were the case you would already have a huge business.

If you want to start off with some simple how to videos, you can use “CamStudio” to create free videos of your screen as you show people how to do something online.

No matter what software you use you need to be making videos, there are some great reasons as far as SEO (Search Engine Optimization) goes as well.

If you really want to get your video production of the ground and start building a huge list at the same time, I suggest you take a minute to check out the Free Easy Video Producer Site! I have used it personally and I think that it is one of the most powerful and free marketing tools out there today.

If you need some tips on how to market using videos, I have a whole video series on “Video Marketing Made Easy.” There are 4 videos here and this will really help you get started if you are new to video marketing.

To Success,

Nick Simpson – Webmaster Business Plan

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Yahoo answers gives you the power to market to a direct niche of your choice, you can link to your own website as the source of information on every question you answer, thus giving you many back links on a highly ranked site. This is a very powerful way to market any online business, no matter what your product or service is.

You can help people out and get some massive traffic to your site all in one. Just watch the videos below to see how!

Free Website Traffic Using Yahoo Answers – Part 1

Free Website Traffic using Yahoo Answers – Part 2

Free Website Traffic using Yahoo Answers – Part 3

Don’t forget to take the time to really help people out on the site, the more helpful you are the more response you will get from your efforts.

Nick Simpson – http://WebmasterBusinessPlan.com

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