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The Fastest Way To Make Money Online

Frank Bauer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:34:30 +0000

The question has come into everyone’s mind at one point or another…

“How do I make money fast?”

Luckily for everyone who has ever had that question come to mind there is an answer!

There are several ways to make money quickly online, now we will venture through the online category.

Three sites to make money online…

1. Associated Content.

2. Cash Crate.

3. Forum Booster.

Let’s begin with Associated Content.

Associated Content should be the number one stop for those people who frequently ask themselves, how I could make money fast.

Associated Content requires you to write content, which in other words for those who aren’t familiar with the online language, content means articles.

Those articles you will write for other people and they will pay you anywhere from $3 to $40 for your content. Most of the time however the bids that they place on your content are for much less than $10. However, this is still a great way to make money online if you can type several articles per day. You may be surprised to see how easy it has become to earn a part time income through writing for Associated Content.

The next site that we will talk about is Cash Crate.

Cash Crate is a site that pays you to take surveys. They may pay anywhere from a dollar to possibly a hundred dollars, just for you to take a survey. Doesn’t sound too bad now does it?

The reason they pay you to complete surveys is that companies are willing to shell out loads of cash for in-depth information from their consumers to find out exactly what they word on the street is about their product or services. They even have a daily survey on the homepage that is guaranteed to make you some extra
income; the guaranteed survey on the homepage pays $0.80.

It may not seem like much but do the math, over a 30 day time period. That is almost $30 extra dollars just for taking surveys.

Are you still asking yourself that question, how do I make money fast?

Well if writing tons of articles and taking surveys doesn’t really sound like your cup of tea, there is always the alternative of Forum Booster.

Forum Booster is a website that pays you $0.10 for each post you make on a forum. This is great for those of us that would be searching and posting on forums either way, why not get paid for it?

If you can post sixty posts in 1 hour, you can make $6, which is not that bad for earning money online. It may not be minimum wage, but you have the advantage of being in the comfort of your own home. You can be in your pajamas sipping coffee while working on posting on these forums.

Each post should be a minimum of 12 words, which is not difficult to do at all.

Overall there are tons of ways to make money quickly online but these are just the tried and true and the best of the best.

Speaking of how to make money online… Secret Cash Blueprint 2.0 is a private club that will teach you how to build a six-figure a month business on the internet. If you want to make money online, click here to join the inner circle before it’s too late.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com & ViralHosts.com

Meeting with Craig Beckta… the brain behind Secret Cash Blueprint 2.0

New Twitter App Gets You Free Traffic

Frank Bauer — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:59:12 +0000

I just downloaded TweetGlide, a free, new Twitter application that makes tweeting a lot simpler and less time consuming because you can easily manage all aspects of your account from one location.

It also has a built in traffic network designed to send you free traffic to your website when you post updates from inside the application.

It was developed by Mike Filsaime and if you know anything about Mike, then you know that this will be a viral traffic generating machine for you.

All you have to do is download it for free and maintain the same Twitter activity you were before you heard about this. Only now, you will get free traffic from it.

Here’s how using this application will get you free traffic…

It has a similar user interface to popular Twitter apps such as Twirl and Tweet Deck, where you have different panels for the Twitter Stream, your @ replies, and your direct messages.

But what makes TweetGlide different, and more importantly, what gets you TRAFFIC is the additional panel called the “Sponsored Tweets” where your ad (which looks like a Twitter post) that you created from inside the application will be displayed on OTHER TweetGlide users “Sponsored Tweets” panel.

It’s credit based and all you have to do is post, like you normally do, and you will earn ad credits which will convert to your ad being displayed in the stream.

Pretty straight forward, but extremely powerful.

But here’s where it gets even better…

In addition to getting credits for posting, you will get credits for referring other members, and even more credits for members YOUR referrals get to use TWeetGlide – 5 levels down!

Click here to download it now for free and start getting more traffic today!

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com & ViralHosts.com

Meeting with Mike Filsaime… the brain behind TweetGlide

The Easiest Method To Include An Up-sell

Frank Bauer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:00:52 +0000

Amazon does it, eBay does it, so why can’t you?

After all, up-selling is a technique employed by leading e-commerce sites to boost their sales and though you may be some light years away from them, this could be used by you effectively too. And though this is a technique, there is not a lot different from up-selling and selling by themselves!

There are many ways you could up-sell a product, but before we get into knowing the easiest method, know that an up-sell is a product you wish to sell immediately after he has bought the first one. Needless to say, the second product or the product to be up-sold has to be related to the first product bought by the customer.

To the point – The easiest method to up-sell is to work on the ‘checkout’ page!

What you can do with the Checkout Page?

I’m not asking you to redesign the entire webpage. Follow this process to uncover the easiest method to up-sell.

First, identify your webpage which you want to include the upsell. It could be your product page, salesletter page, your newsletter subscription page, your thank you page and so on.

Then just add an option for them to include MORE products before they ‘checkout’.

So if it’s a newsletter subscription page, ask them if they want to include a free trial offer to your other paid product before they click “Register” on your newsletter page.

If your page is a salesletter webpage, give them an option to include another of your product before they click the “Order Now” button.

Here’s another example – if your webpage is a shopping cart, you can always ‘upsell’ your prospects for them to add more quantity of the product that they’re buying.

The list goes on.

Here are some things you would like to watch out for while up-selling:

- The product you up-sell needs to be somewhat related to the product the customer bought. The closer the correlation, the better it is for you because you’ll get more sales.

- Write your up-selling ad as carefully and diligently as you would have designed your sales ad. Just the fact that the customer bought one product from you doesn’t mean he is sure to buy another!

- Up-sell but don’t push – Pushing is bad for any form of selling and the same applies in up-selling too. Inform the customer about your product and leave the choice to him. Also, bear in mind that you’re adding more value to your customer by offering greater solutions to them in your upsell products.

The method to up-sell your product is not as tough as you would have thought it to be. Basically, if you’re not integrating any upsell in your sales funnel, you’re literally losing money.

It’ll cost you more time, effort and money to acquire a new customer compare to selling to an existing customer who already trust you and like your product.

Although the technicalities surrounding the deal make it a slightly tough nut to crack, but I can tell you that it’s worth your time to explore this powerful marketing strategy.

Patric Chan’s 1ClickUpgrade System is a free software that can be integrated into your existing website and allow you to create upsells within minutes! Click here to get it now for free and for a limited time, you’ll also get an audio course with it!

I just tried it out myself and really like it because it makes it so much easier to add an upsell. The first page I tried it on is at http://Add2it.com/ref.

Quick tip… make sure you don’t use any single quotation marks (‘) in the system as it doesn’t work properly with them. Simply use ` or ” instead and it works smoothly.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com & ViralHosts.com

Meeting with Patric Chan… the brain behind 1ClickUpgrade

The 5 Myths of Joint Venture Marketing Exposed

Frank Bauer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:21:05 +0000

Any ‘truly’ successful business owner understands the power of leveraging joint ventures, often referred to as ‘strategic partnerships’ for maximum exposure and profitability in their business.

The advantages in using joint ventures to grow your small business are endless and unmatchable. So, if this is the case, why isn’t every small business owner implementing joint ventures as one of their business-building strategies?

Below is a short list of the 5 biggest misconceptions that small businesses and online businesses have about Joint Venture marketing:

Joint Venture Misconception #1:

Fear of losing Money: Many small business owners find themselves on a shoestring budget when it comes to marketing their business. Often times they are busy focusing on how to conserve their marketing dollar and cut back, rather than realizing there is another way, a risk-free way to market their business with little or no out-of-pocket expense.

By using a joint venture marketing strategy, you can arrange it so that a company will promote your products/services for free and they will receive a commission only when they send business to you and you actually make a sale. This means you are only paying when there are results! This is a risk free marketing strategy that costs you no money, and very little time to set up.

Joint Venture Misconception #2:

Fear of losing Clients: Whether you like it or not, your clients will continue to buy other products and services from other companies, including in some cases, your competition.

Rather than trying to hoard your clients for yourself, by referring them and recommending to them other products and services through your joint venture partners, everyone involved is benefiting:

(1) Your client does not have to waste time searching and testing to find those quality products/services themselves, (2) you are strengthening your relationship and rapport with your client by finding them complementary products/services that are of value to them and (3) by leveraging the products/services of your joint venture partner you can offer them discounts and special bonuses, etc., that they would otherwise not be able to get. This in turn, makes your JV happy and increases their willingness to work with you and help promote you, as well.

Joint Venture Misconception #3:

Fear of losing Profits: Believe it or not, many small business owners would rather struggle to get clients than give up a percentage of their profits to someone else. This is a very limited way of thinking and not the mindset of a ‘truly’ successful business owner.

One of the greatest benefits of joint venturing is that you don’t have to waste money on advertising to find out if it is effective or not. Instead, by joint venturing you can leverage the marketing power of another company to generate sales/responses that it would have otherwise cost you a lot of money with little or no return on investment.

Joint Venture marketing takes the risk out of spending money, and although you may be giving up a small portion of your profits to your JV partner, you will have saved a lot of money in the long run, while you’ve gained more business in return. Joint venturing in this sense is also more effective, because you can leverage the relationship and trust that your JV partner already has with their customers, which will more likely increase your chances of making a sale!

Joint Venture Misconception #4:

Fear that they are too complicated: It is true; there are very complex ways in which a Joint Venture can be structured. However, this is usually done primarily between big corporations that have a lot of money invested into it and usually have a lot of red tape and legalities to deal with.

There are a myriad of ways in which small businesses can do joint ventures that are simple and easy to implement right away. For instance, you can try simple strategies right off the bat such as:

(a) co-promote a workshop or seminar and split the profits together, while reducing the cost of the event; (b) you can simply send out a mail endorsement to your customers promoting your JV partner’s product or service and take a commission on sales generated through the offer; (c) you can even do something as simple as sending an email out to your list with a FREE BONUS offered through your JV partner that will provide more value to your clients and help you continue to build your relationship with them.

Joint Venture Misconception #5:

Fear of hard work: Many small business owners often times don’t want to do joint ventures because they think that it will require a lot of time and effort. However, this cannot be further from the truth.

If you try to go out networking and finding JV partners that you don’t really know, you may be doing your clients a disservice by referring them to your ‘cold contact’. Instead, by finding Joint Venture partners that you already know have a good product and/or service and/or that you have properly ‘qualified’ and have established a good relationship with, you have already cut your time down in half, if not more.

Also, can you imagine how much longer and how much effort it would take to meet 3,000+ qualified prospects in your target market and introduce them individually to your services? On the contrary, you can leverage your JV partners’ relationship and access to these same 3,000+ prospects and get the word out about your services in a matter of hours (even seconds). The only time & work left is to simply decide on how you’d like to arrange your joint venture, take the necessary steps to prepare & implement and start making money right away!

The hard work is really just in trying to do it yourself.

To join the biggest Joint Venture Social Network for Small Businesses & Internet Marketers visit JVdealmasters today!

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com

Create Traffic By Linking to Other Sites

Frank Bauer — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:47:13 +0000

Build Traffic Through Backlinks

There is a lot to be gained by visiting others websites and exchanging links, something to be gained by both sites. You can create free web traffic with link exchange and backlinks. You will want to find sites that are similar to your own site, keeping within your niche.

Here you are going to learn how to increase your traffic by simple backlinking. How do you do it? Simple, you are leaving your website address on other websites that are going to send traffic back your direction. There are a few tips that will get you started and I will list them here.

First let’s give you a clear definition of what “backlinks” are according to the US Dictionary; …[Backlinks (or back-links (UK)) are incoming links to a website or web page. The number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. In basic link terminology, a backlink is any link received by a web node (web page, directory, website, or top level domain) from another web node (Björneborn and Ingwersen, 2004). Backlinks are also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links.]

The more quality links you have leading to your website, the higher your page will rank in the search engines which is the way to get to the top of SEO.

Some of the way you can create quality backlinks that will bring you the traffic you desire are:
Submit your site to all the social directories
Article websites
Forums with your signature link
Comments on blogs with your signature link

As you build up quality backlinks, you will find your site gaining the attention of the search engines. The more quality links you have pointing to your website, the higher your ranking.

Remember, it is very important to have your site linked to relevant content, this will work better for you than linking to totally unrelated websites. Quality links is crucial, by linking to unrelated websites, you can hurt your rankings on the search engines.

What about “keywords” in your backlinks?

Keywords in your backlinks are very important, they need to in your anchor text, especially in your Inbound links. Find your keyword on Google, look at the first 100 listings, these are the website you want to link to.

Now if they are your competitor, you may want to stay away. Google puts a lot of emphasis on links that are built around content, not on a list. You want to have the right words around your link, which plays a very important role. Don’t have any expectations of return when you link to a site, and provide links for your readers. You are providing more resources for your readers, which is providing your reader a service and your readers will greatly appreciate it.

What About Blogs?

You will have a link to your blog when you leave a comment, but in order to benefit from this, leave a comment of quality content, make it interesting in order to draw the attention of the readers so they will want to check out what else you have to say. You are creating a curiosity trigger that will lure them to your blog or website.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Owner of FrankBauer.name

65 Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing

Frank Bauer — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:33:03 +0000

65 Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing
For Small Businesses & Online Marketers

A ‘Joint Venture’ (also referred to as Strategic Partnerships and Alliances) is when two or more companies join forces and combine their resources to achieve a common goal.

In most cases, businesses form join ventures to reach their business goals faster and to maximize their profits – while at the same time creating value for their customers. The beauty of joint ventures is that when done ‘right’, they form a synergistic relationship, meaning, a win-win-win situation is created for all parties involved.

Joint Venture marketing is the Winning Formula for ALL Business Owners from: Corporations to Small Businesses, Internet Marketers and Entrepreneurs. Below is a whopping list of the 65 Benefits you can reap from doing Joint Ventures every day!

Joint Ventures Allow You, the Business Owner to:

Build long-term profitable business relationships
Increase your credibility by leveraging other businesses’ reputation
Generate referrals through other businesses
Receive free and lower costs for advertising from other businesses
Save money by sharing marketing and advertising costs
Increase your amount of sales and bottom line profits
Grow and expand your business reach quickly
Save lots of valuable time
Create multiple streams of “passive” income
Access to partner’s capital
Target other markets using other businesses’ advertising channels
Target new markets that are otherwise too costly to enter alone
Accelerate your wealth and increase your net worth
Increase and/or stabilize your Cash-flow
Offer valuable discounts to your clients without losing money
Offer your products/services for less than your competition
Offer more bonuses and incentives for your prospects to buy
Broadcast your ad to large, targeted email lists at little to no cost
Build your online customer opt-in list free
Build your online newsletter subscribers list fast
Test the effectiveness of your advertising and sales copy free
Find and create additional product distribution channels
Outsource your work and time-eating tasks at little to no cost
Eliminate employee hiring and training & management costs
Provide additional up sell and backend products to your customers
Save money from not having to stock inventory
Barter your products and services in exchange for others
Make money getting rid of your inventory
Save money on overhead and business operating costs
Create strategic partnerships with little or no money, risk or effort
Create more products with less effort and expenses
Increase brand awareness and visibility
Gain new leads and customers with minimal effort
Start a new venture with little to no money
Get online exposure and web services free or for little cost
Give your employees more bonuses & incentives
Increase the amount of resellers and affiliates that market you
Leverage and control your competition as alliance partners
Receive credible endorsements and praise from other experts
Build highly profitable strategic alliances with other partners
Receive discounts on products and services from other businesses
Access to partner’s technology and intellectual property
Profit from others’ valuable information, research & development
Learn insider information from experts at no cost
Reduce product development time & for faster-to-market products
Utilize other businesses’ skills and workforce at little to no cost
Create new business funding and lines of credit
Create more tax write offs and reduce your taxes
Avoid bankruptcy by eliminating and reducing your debts
Survive a depression, recession or slow economy
Get all your business problems solved
Make a profit by leveraging other businesses’ resources
Make money from yours and others’ underutilized resources
Receive complimentary products and services free
Trade and sell unconverted leads
Piggy back off other businesses’ sales and marketing systems
Save money by paying out commissions only after making a sale
Borrow other businesses’ space and equipment
Borrow other businesses’ investments and business opportunities
Leverage other partners’ and businesses’ credit
Leverage other businesses’ sales force and distribution team
Sell your product in massive quantities to a large targeted market
Build credibility and rapport by offering added value to your clients
Rapidly achieve scale, critical mass and momentum in business
Absolutely DOMINATE your market!

Joint Venturing is the Secret That Successful Business Owners Use to Build Massive Wealth & Passive Streams of Income!

Apply even just ONE of these joint venture strategies today… and your business success will skyrocket and grow faster than you ever imagined.

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Find JV Partners To Help You Grow Your Business Today!

Join the Biggest Joint Venture Social Network for Small Businesses & Internet Marketers:

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10 Money-Making Secrets of Newsletters

Frank Bauer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:44:37 +0000

How To Generate Traffic With Newsletters

The Power of the Newsletter

You have at your disposal, a very powerful marketing and sales tool, and that tool is a Newsletter. In this post I am going to give you some great tips on how a Newsletter would be to your advantage and bring droves of traffic to your website.

1. Trust and Authority Established

Creating a newsletter in your niche or topic, will establish you as a leader and an expert in the market or field of your industry. When users go online for information, a product, or ideas, they want to go to someone that is knowledgeable in that area, an expert they can trust.

2. Ongoing Communication

Communication is extremely vital to keep the interest of your readers and to gain more of the market. Through this communication, you are allowing the masses to see your business name, your products and services, and your brand or logo. If they are impressed, have a question answered, feel that they can trust you as the field expert, then they will buy from you. Communication is also another way to create a relationship with your customers, asking for their comments and feedback, what they are looking for, how you can improve your service.

3. Market Testing

If you have a new product or idea, this is a great place to test it. You can offer a preview or survey of a new product.

4. Rinse and Repeat

If you are familiar with the marketing and advertising industry, you will know that repetition is a big key to their success. Do you usually buy something the first time you see it, a brand new company, brand new product? No, you typically won’t buy anything until you are familiar with the product or service, you need to have that message sent to you over and over again before you can trust the company or product. This is why you see the same commercial over and over, they want you to become familiar, comfortable with their company, the product, to become something that is as familiar to you as your own living room. With a newsletter, you can send your message out over and over again, all without any hard sale tactics.

5. Special Offers

What a great place to provide special offers for your preferred customers and readers. You are reinforcing your relationship with your readers, making it easier for them to buy from you, creating a loyalty as well greater trust.

6. Sell Ad Space

You can possibly create more income and revenue by selling advertising space in your newsletter once you have a well established reader base.

7. Create and Distribute With Little Expense

There are a huge number of creative software programs and email that make your newsletter inexpensive and easy to design and deliver.

8. Advertising in Detail

You want to promote your business, your product, your service, and you can do this extensively in your newsletter, whereas conventional methods can be a bit impractical.

9. Return and Repeat Customers

The most difficult sale to make is the first sale, as well as the most costly. So, the money is in your repeat business, and when you can reach your customers after their first purchase, then you are increasing your odds of having them as a repeat customer.

10. Referrals, Referrals, Referrals!

Newsletters are a great way to ask your readers for referrals, creating a huge viral marketing campaign.

With the above tips in mind, remember that you are developing a relationship with your clients, you are not using your newsletter as a way to make a quick sale. In time, your customers will be familiar with you and your product, have the trust needed to create more business, more sales.

Newsletter Writing Tips

Articles need to be interesting and relate to your niche or market.
Keep your email list private, do not under any circumstances, sell your list, you will immediately lose the trust of your customers. Let your clients know that you will never sell your list.
Always include your contact information
Create a newsletter that is attractive. Send your newsletter out on a regular basis and on time.
Keep it sweet and simple, easy to read.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Owner of FrankBauer.name

Building Free Traffic Using Online Forums

Frank Bauer — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:30:03 +0000

How To Use Online Forums and Communities to Build Traffic

To have a successful Internet Marketing business, you first need to have visitors to your site, and there are several ways to do this, however, this post is going to focus on one particular area.

There are an unlimited number of online forums and Internet communities that are based around varied interests and niches. The key is to find one that is centered around your particular niche.

When you become part of an Internet Forum, you can become a local forum expert in your niche, which will magically boost your sales and build an astounding amount of traffic to your site. You have to be careful though, these forums do not look kindly on advertising, so you have to make you are there providing valuable comments and good content, therefore, creating a soft sell, less conspicuous.

On most online communities and forums, you are able to create your profile which will include your signature. Each time you post a comment, your signature will be included along with a link to your website. Become familiar however, with the forum before you begin to post, read what others are saying and doing, familiarize yourself with the forum rules, and be sure to abide by them to keep yourself from being banned… which will undo all you are working for.

Forum Tips:

1. Make your signature brief, but powerful. Offer something of value, such as an e-course or an ebook or report. It is important that this is located in your signature and never in your comment or post. Keep it simple, short and to the point. If you have a free report or ebook, make the title a live link.

2. As you are reading the forums, what kind of questions are asked, what are the topics focused around? Post one of your articles that answer some of these questions, give tips, techniques, and other useful information that the members will benefit from immediately. By doing this, you are showing that you are an expert in this area, and you will be sought after for more information and answers… then they will seek out your website for even more answers.

Also, your name will be shown as someone who starts the topic threads, and your topic will soon be at the top, again, showing you as the forum expert. This a great way to advertise. If you were to start a new topic each week, by the end of the year, you will have 52 expert articles on the forum with your name, your link and a growing reputation.

3. Private messaging is another form of communication that you should take advantage of. As you are sending messages to others, you will include your link to your website or direct them to your site in some way. You can’t push your website, but it can be recommended by others.

You will develop a community feel inside these forums, and as you become a part of the community, you will begin to reap the benefits. You also get a great feel of your audience and what type of solutions and products they are looking for and become their source of information to solve those problems.

So, as you use this strategy, you will bring in new readers on a daily basis and have a huge referral base that is ever growing. Begin checking out the many online communities and forums on the Internet… you will be amazed at how many there are. Have fun and enjoy your success.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Owner of FrankBauer.name

7 Easy Ways To Generate Traffic To Your Website

Frank Bauer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:47:35 +0000

Internet Traffic, Why Is It So Important?

To be successful in Internet marketing, you need to generate traffic to your website. Because the Internet is growing so rapidly, there are numerous ways for you to do this very successfully. But before I give the methods that work, you need to create in yourself a mindset of success, determination, a belief in innumerable possibilities, and excitement. You need to be willing to do what it takes to create the traffic, willing to do the research and then you will reap the benefits of your efforts.

Below I will list briefly 7 easy and proven ways that will assist you in generating free traffic to your website, then in future posts, I will take each one and go into more detail as to the best way to implement them. With these tools, and your research, you will have what it takes to create success.

1. Online Forums and Communities

There are numerous forums and social communities on the web, each one serving a demographic of your interest. You will find here a place to talk about your niche, become an expert in this topic. You will build your brand and reputation with a group of users that are interested in what you have to say, while you develop their trust in your knowledge.

2. Newsletters

A newsletter is a great way to get your message to your readers and visitors to your website. The more readers you get for your newsletter, the more traffic to your site. You can create a newsletter that is not only entertaining, but something that is filled with useful articles and information that your readers will want to pass on to their friends and family.

3. Linking to Other Sites

There is a lot to be gained by visiting others websites and exchanging links, something to be gained by both sites. You can create free web traffic with link exchange and back-links. You will want to find sites that are similar to your own site, keeping within your niche.

4. Articles

If you want to bring attention to your product, write an interesting article. If you are writing articles that are attracting a large majority of readers, then you can usually count on them visiting your site which is the home base of that article. This is a great way to increase traffic to your website. You want to create articles with tips, how to information, guides and knowledge that has to do with your niche. You will also be including a link or a small description of your website, product or company, then submit your articles to the multiple article directories.

5. RSS Feeds

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, or in simpler terms, a way get your information syndicated and delivered to a software such as Google Reader. This allows readers who read a blog on a regular basis to have it delivered without them ever having to actually go to the blog. RSS Feeds are a way to increase the number of readers, which is a big step in getting your brand and product out among the web.

6. Social Networking

A great tool that allows you to link with other people in a social network, a way to connect with an organization or a group of people with the same interests. There are billions of people surfing the Internet at all hours of the day and night, and the Social Network creates a venue for people to get together to discuss and share their interests. This is a great place to build your brand, create your reputation and share what you know.

7. Social Bookmarking

This has to be one of the most popular and easiest ways to get traffic to your website. When you build a site, you want to immediately social bookmark your site, then you will have visitors within hours. You will not only be creating traffic, but working your way up in the Google rankings.

I will go into each of these methods in upcoming posts, so stay tuned.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Owner of FrankBauer.name

Let’s Talk About RSS Feeds and SEO, A Win-Win Model

Frank Bauer — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:14:57 +0000

Will RSS Feeds Improve Your Search Engine Rankings?

What Does RSS Stand For?

You see the term “RSS Feeds”, and see the RSS symbols on every page, you see the symbol at the end of your search bar, the term is everywhere and will continue to spread. So what is all the hype about RSS and will it assist you with your Internet marketing and Search Engine Optimization?

RSS stands for Really-Short-Syndication, which webmasters and Internet marketers have been using to bring more exposure to their content and brand, therefore, improving their websites rankings on the search engines.

If you are someone who likes to stay on top of the latest news, top stories, announcements, and so on, then you will be one that benefit from RSS Feeds. You are able to access information wherever RSS is applied and when you have a RSS Reader to provide the information for you.

Some of the places that RSS is available are WordPress, Live Journal, and Blogger.com. There are still many other social networking sites that have caught on in the frenzy and jumped on the bandwagon. If you are a blogger, or plan on becoming one, then RSS Feeds are going to be a part of your daily routine. You want your blog, your content, to be going to the RSS Readers all over the Web. The people that will be subscribing to your RSS Feeds are those that are looking for the latest gossip, news, sports, or anything else that peaks their interest.

An RSS Reader will organize your information for you, providing a brief summary about an article, allowing you to gather information from all over the world, and therefore, have your information out there as well, a perfect SEO tool.

How Do You Get Your Information Out There?

You will be doing this by submitting your articles or content into the RSS directories which will bring you the exposure you are looking for. There are also several websites that provide copies of your RSS at certain times to assist the promotion of your website, which is great when you are constantly updating your content. As you update your blog or website, your exposure will continue to grow, therefore, improving your rankings in the search engines.

What you are looking for is exposure to the web, and RSS is going to be your ticket. This is really helpful when you have a particular category you are marketing in, RSS feeds will be a huge boost to your business. You will be promoting your content while making great information easily accessible to all end users on the web.

So as you are working toward your viral marketing campaign, building your brand, creating a buzz about your site, take advantage of RSS, it’s free in most places to use and will bring you closer to the top.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

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