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Let Submit Elite do your directory submissions for you

Directory submissions are one of the most effective ways of improving your websites link popularity by getting quality and relevant one-way links from web directories. Because your website is very important to you, it is necessary that you choose the right person or company to do the directory submissions for you.

Submit Elite

A good and professional SEO Company can always do the submissions for you in a much more efficient manner and in much more less time, as they already know the most important, high quality and popular link directories on the web. What’s more, professional SEO Companies know that your website is valuable for you, which is why they take great care in choosing the most appropriate link texts and link descriptions for the submissions, and also choose the most appropriate category or sub-category which meets your website theme.

Professional Web Directory Submission companies also know that automated submissions are not the right thing to go for when submitting websites to web directories. That is why they take care to do manual directory submission to quality web directories, making sure that your website is accepted and listed on the directory by following the submission guidelines closely for each directory.

If you are looking for a professional directory submission service, be sure to check out SubmitElite.com. They are professionals in web directory submissions and also have a list of regularly updated free directories where they will manually submit your website to. Every order is taken personally and a detailed report is emailed once the order is complete. Submit Elite offer different submission timings also, and allow you to enter 5 different title text variations and 3 different link descriptions for the submission. The best thing about them is that their services are highly professional, yet the price is very reasonable, priced at only $0.10 per directory submission.

What is SEO?

Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is the process of optimizing the site as per the needs of search engines. Nowadays most of the users using the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN for search on the internet. Because of that its very important for site to rank high on the search engines. High ranking sites on search engines can generate lots of business and its one of the very powerful tool for brand promotion.

SEO optimization is mainly divided into two parts.

  1. Onpage optimization
  2. Offpage optimization

Below are the major factors of onpage optimization

  • Title / Meta Tags
  • Keyword Research & Analysis
  • Site Navigation
  • HTML Sitemap
  • Content Analysis
  • URL optimization
  • Google Analytics Implementation

Below are the major factors of offpage optimization

Link Building

Backlinks for the site can be generate by directory submissions, article submissions, press releases, social bookmarkings.

Getting the most out of your Affiliate Marketing Campaign

BizFive Business Directory

According to Wikipedia, “Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.”

If you own a website and know some tricks for online marketing, you can use Affiliate Marketing to earn some extra income to compensate your day job. A successfully carried out Affiliate Marketing Campaign can help earn much more than your day job, which is why Affiliate Marketing has become so popular. The whole idea behind affiliate marketing is to drive traffic to the primary company whose affiliate program is being promoted by publishers. This helps drive traffic and a far greater number of potential buyers to the primary company and helps them make sales. As a reward, the primary company pays a small commission or part of the sale to the publisher or affiliate who has helped drive that traffic to the website.

There is a great deal of profit to be made by successful affiliate marketing. All you need to do is get yourself familiar with what is Affiliate Marketing, Which Affiliate Networks to choose, How to choose profitable affiliate programs related to your website niche, and other tips to promote your affiliate website once it is up and running.

You can find an excellent guide for Affiliate Marketing at BizFive Business Directory, which outlines the following important topics:

Affiliate Marketing Overview

The Affiliate Marketing Process

Affiliate Strategies

  • Organic Search Engine Optimization
  • Paid Search Advertising
  • Social Media and RSS Feeds
  • Niche Sites
  • Direct Marketing

Getting Started in Affiliate Marketing

The article has everything you’ll need to start your own Affiliate website and start earning money in no time.

You can also find more interesting articles at BizFive.com for SEO and Marketing, Monetization, Business Basics, Web Design and Development and even an article on Starting your own LLC, Limited Liability Company. You can also submit your website to the Business Directory or use their Online Web Tools.

Your Ideal Web Hosting Company

Before I talk about what it takes to be a cheap and good quality web host, let’s get to the fundamentals first.

What is a Web Host?

A web host is a service provider that places your web site on a computer which is connected to the internet. This ‘computer’ is called a server. A web hosting service provider will typically have a fast connection to the Internet and they may host thousands of web sites on many servers. The web host essentially rents out space to you so that you can get your website up on the world wide web. With a well-managed web host, you can free yourself from worrying the up-keep of complicated server technology and proper technical maintenance. That’s the whole purpose of the web hosting companies. You should leave the technical work to web hosting professionals while you focus on your own internet business.

Features Offered

The features that web hosting companies offer are getting quite standard nowadays. The following are some of the common features you’ll see in most web hosting plans:

· Control Panel

Control Panel is an interface where you can access your site on the web server, allowing you to set-up and subsequently update and customize your web site. Though cPanel is by far the most popular control panel; some hosting providers customize their own so that they can up-grade and expand it at will.

· Diskspace

A vast majority of sites that don’t have tons of graphics, sound and video clips or downloadable files easily fit in 50 MB of disk space. You should always leave yourself some room for growth or check if the host has a bigger plan in case you need to upgrade.

· Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the amount of data transmitted or received through a unit of time. In web hosting, bandwidth is consumed when visitors make requests for files on your web site and download them to their personal computers.

· Email Account

With POP3 email accounts you can check email from Outlook, Netscape Mail, Eudora or any other Email software.

· Scripting language

As all our top 10 listings are using Unix and Linux platform, php, perl and CGI are the languages we are talking about here. It is best to choose a host that supports the latest version to maximize the latest web technologies for the fee that you pay.

· Database

If your web site is going to store a lot of data that should be dynamically accessible (like user accounts, stock prices, maps, Interactive news, message boards and forums etc.), you’ll need to look for an account that offers a database. MySQL is a powerful and most popular database program that runs on the Linux operation system. It is able to handle million of entries all at once. Its flexibility and speed allow you to also store logs and pictures. MySQL is designed to scale well under heavy traffic conditions and is ideal for database-intensive or e-commerce-enabled Web sites.

Customer Service/Support

No matter if you are an expert or a novice in web hosting, you need a web host with good customer support system. What is the criteria of an excellent customer support? Let me explain.

· How big is the knowledge base?

This is particularly important for those who want to search for aquick answer without seeking direct assistance from customer support staff. Due to the huge database, normally it’s searchable. Some web hosting providers will even make your life easier by making a video tutorial guiding you step by step in setting up your new account. Very useful for beginners.

· Responsive customer service staff.

If you are too lazy to find the answer out of a big pool of database, get the direct answer from someone who knows it. Direct customer support comes in a few forms.

a. Email support
b. Phone support:
Normally, sales and technical support uses separate phone line. A good phone support staff knows what your problem is and answers with relevance.
c.Web Host like Lunarpages and Hostgator even have live chat support.
However, it’s not how many support channels that are available but how responsive it is of the staff.

Price to Disk Space / Price to Bandwidth Ratio

Are you paying too much for your Web Hosting Plan? Having done the research on hundreds of web hosting companies, in general, we’ve come to this conclusion: the more disk space and bandwidth you are getting, the more expensive is the monthly price.

Popularity

A web host might have the best feature offered, unbeatable customer support and reliability in place but without an effective marketing plan, it will go bust too. Let’s face it. If a web hosting provider does not have sufficient members and steady growth of new members, it’s very difficult to survive in this highly competitive industry. We judge the popularity of a particular web hosting provider by looking at the number of awards won, the reviews of other websites and the Alexa traffic ranking. You can find out the hosting reviews and ratings of all the hosting providers on this blog.

Reliability, Speed and Uptime Guarantee

Nothing can hurt you more than this: your visitors come to your web site only to find that it’s not accessible. You lose credibility and possibly even a sale. If your web host does not guarantee at least a 99% uptime, leave the web host now!

To ensure maximum uptime, installation of redundant back-up systems is essential. Each web host has their own management systems to minimize downtime. “Redundant” means that if any of the Internet connections get interrupted, the alternate Internet connection will take over.

As for speed, even though routing, web server set up and local area networks play a part in determining the speed of a site, the main concern of how fast your site is depends very much on the types of network connections. Many hosting providers still connect to the Internet through T1, or T3 connections. This is not the case for our top 10 hosts- they are using OC (Optical Carrier) lines. A T1 line will offer data transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps (megabits per second), while a T3 line can supply data transfer rates of 43Mbps. OC-1 refers to a circuit that transmits 51.85Mbps. Higher levels are multiples of that speed. Ultra-High Speed OC3 and OC12 lines offers 155Mbps and 622Mbps respectively. Some hosting providers have connections to major internet backbones at the speed of OC48 (2488Mbps) and OC96 (4976Mbps).

Get thousands of relevant non-reciprocal text links at TNX.net

TNX text link adsLinks are one of the most important factors in obtaining high search engine rankings but getting quality relevant links is one of the most difficult and time consuming tasks in SEO. But yesterday, I came across this new thread at DigitalPoint Forums for a new revolutionary text link ads system at www.TNX.net

TNX allows webmasters and website owners to buy thousands of direct text links from other websites to their sites in minutes. The price structure is also great. The system is based on point system, and you can buy points easily. You can get one text link to your website for as little as one point. This system sells 1,000 points for just $1.14. So, basically, for a little over a buck you can buy thousand text links pointing to your website.

All the links you get from TNX are non-reciprocal links from thousands of relevant websites, which makes it even more powerful. In just a few minutes, you can order thousands of links from high quality internet resources. These links can be obtained for the home page of for deep pages of your website. Here are some interesting stats about the system:

TNX Statistics

  • TNX system has over 24,000 members worldwide
  • The TNX database consists of more than 33,500,000 pages
  • Over 500,000 of these pages have PR > 0
  • TNX sells over 25 million links a month

You can sign up as an Advertiser or Publisher on the TNX system.

Advertisers at TNX

TNX offers a number of advantages for advertisers. For advertisers, TNX.net combines the benefits of contextual advertising, text link brokers and relevant exchange of permanent non-reciprocal text links. Using TNX, advertisers can attract interested visitors to their website as their ads are placed on visible positions. Also, the links help to achieve high rankings on the Search Engines which can then drive lots of targeted traffic to your websites naturally.

Publishers at TNX

Publishers at TNX can serve ads of advertisers by selling a small but noticeable advertising spot on their websites for serving text ads. Publishers agree on a monthly fee for adding some code on their pages and are paid the fee in advance by TNX for displaying the text ads on their website pages.

Another good thing about the system is that TNX is free for webmasters or publishers who install a TNX code on their websites. In case you have sold a link from any page of your website with Page Rank = 4, you will get enough TNX points to purchase links from other websites.

Many members that joined TNX and created Ad Campaigns have already noticed more traffic from search engines to their websites. With TNX you can promote unlimited amounts of websites and keywords. Within seconds you can upload a file with thousands of unique links with different keywords. For example, you can use names of your online store items in the link keywords. And in a few weeks when people search for such items in search engines, your website will be in top results. Sign up at TNX.net now and start your website marketing campaigns today. TNX is offering a special offer for Digital Point members where you can get 2000 points for free. So join today and avail this special offer by TNX.

Link building tips for search engine results

Link building is one of those time consuming things that all webmasters need to do. It does take a lot of time and resources however given the results that can be achieved through link building then it will be worth it. Link building is one of the most important elements of SEO

Link building is the best method of obtaining search engine results.

  1. Submit to well establish quality directories – Try to go for the best – some don’t offer the ability to use your anchor text, however they do carry great value.
  2. Article submission – Don’t just use article directories; get your article published in other sites. Don’t just write one article and promote it everywhere – Googles duplicate content filter will place multiple copies in the supplemental index.
  3. Buy links – ‘Yes’ Google say they can detect these links but in reality it is very difficult for them to do this. Google may be able to detect some paid links but most should go undetected. Try to get links placed within the content. These have a better chance of getting through Googles ability to detect paid links.
  4. Link baiting – This is the process of creating content so that people will link to your pages naturally. This requires a bit of skill and obviously you need to provide something link worthy. Promote your article through social networking sites like digg.com. Remember that most people who use these social networking sites are web savvy and can spot spam a mile off.
  5. Link exchange – many people say it does not work any more – they are wrong! There was a day a few years back when you could run hundreds of link exchanges and get a great ranking however those days are gone. Be more selective and don’t just go for a conventional exchange between two link pages – what about content exchange, article exchange or exchange with links being placed within the content? Remember link pages do not carry the same value as they did a few years back.
  6. Write testimonial’s for products/services that you have used – Although you may not get to use your anchor text in these links many of these links carry value in Google.
  7. Ask for links! Do not be afraid to contact others and ask for them. This is a tactic better used when/if you become an authority within your genre. Be polite and give them reasons why they should link to you. Even if you get 1 link out of every 50 requests it still will be worth the effort.
  8. Offer to write content/blog posts as long as you get to add links within your content. Provide quality examples of the content you have written and maybe suggest some topics you could write on for the site you are contacting.

Can I win this 24 inch LCD contest at CashForComments.com?

Win a 24

There’s still one day to go and I’m not going to miss this Contest for a Free 24 inch LCD giveaway at the CashForComments.com blog. I’ve been trying my luck at different contents, but have never entered in any contest held at CASHforCOMMENTS.com before.

The good thing about this contest is that its free to enter and the readers have 3 ways to benefit:

  • Win a 24″ $599 LCD
  • Win a 4-Hour Workweek book
  • Get traffic to your blog or website when you become part of the winning prizes 😀

Last date for entry to the contest is before 15 September 2007 and the grand prize of LG 24 inch Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor, which is sponsored by Elite baseball instruction which give baseball training videos designed to improve the basic skills of players of all ages.

Cash For Comments is a blog where you get paid to comment. Every day Prinja holds a “Best commentator of the day” prize to give away some cash to the best commentators on his blog. He has this funny way of rewarding the winner with $1 which he sends them by snail mail 😛

JohnChow visited my Blog!!!!

JohnChow MyBlogLog

I was just going through the latest visitors of my site using MyBlogLog widget and was amazed to see that JohnChow had visited my Blog! I was so happy to see him on the list of visitors, that I thought of blogging it on my blog and bragging about it 😛 (Come to think of it, JohnChow even gets links from blogs by visiting them, lol)

I’ve been trying hard to post regularly on my blog but never get to meet my goal. I’ve been too busy working on some client sites that I simply don’t get the time to blog regularly. Posting new posts on a regular basis will bring return visitors and I’m sure it will also attract a lot of traffic from the search engines and other social bookmark sites.

Anyways, I’m off to give myself a treat to celebrate John Chow’s visit to my blog. I’m also very excited to announce that I won the “Comments ClosedFunny T Shirt from the contest I entered last week 😀 Waiting for the Tee to arrive anxiously and then I’ll add some pictures on my blog.

Earn $25.00 by signing up at Auction Ads!

Auction Ads

** If you own a blog or website and are looking for ways to monetize your site and earn money from it, you can do that by signing at Auction Ads. What’s special about this is that you earn a quick $25.00 by simply signing up at Auction Ads as a publisher. (This offer is only valid for September 2007, so hurry and signup before September ends)

By signing as a publisher at AuctionAds, you will be able to display ‘Live relevant eBay Auctions’ on your site which will boost your click-through rates and help you generate more money from your website. AuctionAds can also work as an Adsense Alternative for you if you have been banned from Google Adsense for some reason.

AuctionAds Signup

Displaying Auction Ads on your blog is very easy. Simply signup to be an AuctionAds publisher, get the code from your user panel, and insert it on your website. You will see auction ads targeted to your content being displayed on your site where you added the code. When users buy products by clicking on the ads, you make money! Click on the Sign Up image on the right to start your sign up process at Auction Ads now.

For those of you wondering if you can use Auction Ads with Adsense, you will be happy to know that it is completely safe to use AuctionAds with Adsense 🙂

**This post contains Affiliate links

Driving traffic to your Affiliate site

Having your own affiliate network website can be a very useful thing, as you can sell other peoples products and services on your website and earn commission by selling affiliate stuff.

The key to earning money from any website and to increase sales is traffic. When you have visitors and users coming to your website, it will definitely increase your sales and earnings. However, driving traffic to your site, especially an affiliate site can be a big problem. This can be due to several reasons:

  1. You are taking data directly from some affiliate network, in the form of XML Feeds or fetching and displaying it on your site using an API key.
  2. Your site has very little content and data of its own, so the website you have mainly has duplicate data from the affiliate network website like Amazon shop.
  3. Your Title Tags, Meta Tags and content is not unique, so most of your pages might end up in Google Supplemental Index (Supplemental Pages)

Such a situation can be problematic for your website and for its business. Duplicate sites and sites which mainly use some kind of feed to display and fetch data, like RSS Feeds sites, Affiliate network sites etc. usually suffer from these problems and hence have a hard time in getting traffic from the search engines.

More Traffic more Sales

There are various ways by which you can drive traffic to your website.

Paid Advertising

PPC, also known as Pay-Per-Click Advertising by using Google Adwords or similar program. This can be effective and fetch highly targeted traffic if you carry out a proper PPC campaign. However, over time it can get very expensive.

Website Promotion and Marketing

Online and Offline Marketing and website promotion can also drive traffic to a website. These methods include banner advertisement, link purchases, Press Releases and offline promotion like newspaper ads, hoardings etc. Please note that Paid Advertising like PPC is also a kind of online marketing and promotion technique.

However, the results for these are short term, and only last while you spend money on your advertising campaign. As soon as your advertising budget exceeds, and you stop the promotion, you lose all kinds of traffic coming to your website.

Search Engine Optimization

This is the most effective of all these methods and also leaves long lasting results. Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO involves changing your website pages in a way so that they become more Search Engine Friendly and hence achieve high rankings in SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Pages).

Some of the most important factors involved in SEO include:

  1. Keyword Research
  2. Market and Competitor Analysis
  3. Creation of Landing pages for the website, and defining a directory structure for the pages which is search engine friendly
  4. Content Writing and Addition to the website, related to the Keywords and website theme
  5. Title Tags, Meta Description and Keyword Tags generation for all the website pages
  6. Search Engine Friendly URL writing for all the pages
  7. Website submission to Search Engines, Web Directories, Article Directories and Social Bookmarking sites
  8. Getting Links (One-way links to the website) with appropriate Anchor Texts
  9. Monitoring the website progress and ranking on the Search Engines
  10. Improving the website and optimizing it, adding more contents and getting more links on a regular basis

SEO is a time taking process, and a new site can take up to 8 – 10 months to start showing in rankings for niche and competitive keywords on Search Engines. However, the results you obtain after all the efforts are fruitful, after which you can enjoy traffic coming to your website directly from the Search Engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN.