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| traffic to your website... | | | | amazed at where your articles show up! |
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| Got a website but no traffic? Is your small | | | | - Write newsletters - Allow for customers and |
| business internet marketing ineffective? | | | | visitors to subscribe to a newsletter to get |
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| traffic to your website: | | | | - Consider using a search engine submission |
| | | | services - These services submit your site to |
| - Get an automated eCommerce system - These | | | | multiple search engines & directories. |
| can be really good, very comprehensive and | | | | Can be helpful particularly if your website |
| very inexpensive. The good ones can do | | | | is new. |
| everything from customer base management to | | | | |
| product management to shopping cart to | | | | - Set up an affiliates program - Allow for |
| newsletter broadcasts. | | | | others to promote your products on a |
| | | | commission basis. Again a good eCommerce |
| - Get a cheap and reliable merchant account | | | | system should already have this built in. |
| provider - You can get merchant account | | | | |
| providers that do both the merchant account | | | | - Download the Google Toolbar - The Google |
| and internet gateway for you. Hint: your | | | | Toolbar has a nifty feature which shows you |
| bank is probably more expensive than the | | | | the page rank (0-10 scale) of every site you |
| discount providers out there. | | | | visit. The higher your page ranking the |
| | | | higher your placement in search engines. |
| - Put a link back to your website in your | | | | |
| email autosignature - This doesn't need to be | | | | - Set up multiple websites - Got three |
| obnoxious, just a simple link that email | | | | services you perform? Set up three different |
| recipients can click on to see your website. | | | | websites with domain names that match your |
| | | | keywords. Super cheap to do and can be very |
| - Do selective link trading - Link trade, but | | | | effective. |
| make sure the content on the other website is | | | | |
| similar to your own. Don't touch "link | | | | - Consider setting up a Google AdWords |
| farms" with a ten-foot pole; search engines | | | | account - You pay on a cost-per-click (CPC) |
| hate them. | | | | basis to get your website advertised. Can be |
| | | | effective but also can get very expensive. |
| - Write articles and include your website | | | | |