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How Hyperlinks Can Help Your Online Business
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| If you currently have, or are considering starting, an online business you need to learn about hyperlinks. Hyperlinks play a very important role to all of us on the internet. Hyperlinks not only help you as a business owner but they also help readers. |
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Search Engine Optimization for Dummies
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| Are you feeling like a complete dummy when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? Don’t feel bad, most of us that have entered the online business areas have felt that way for the longest time, even me! Search Engine Optimization is one of the few marketing avenues that people become scared of. I don’t know if physiologically the word optimization frightens them or what. |
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How to do Keyword Research
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| So, you have a website (or are working on it), and you kind of know what keywords are, but you don’t know where to start. This article will give you some great tips for coming up with the best keywords for your website through keyword research.
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Keyword Overload can Kill a Web Page
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| Keyword overload can absolutely kill a web page, confusing both your website visitor and search engines. So, “What is keyword overload?” you may ask. There are two types of keyword overload that occur regularly on websites all over the world. Let’s discover what they are and why they occur. |
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Use Title Tags to Educate and Stimulate
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| Have you ever noticed that when you move your mouse over a website image, a little text window sometimes pops up that, hopefully, gives you additional helpful information about something to do with the website? This is typically accomplished using what is known as “Alt” tags. In this article, you will be introduced to something even better and they are called Title tags. |
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Why Cross-linking Your Website is a Great Idea
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| The term “cross-link” may sound like a foreign language to you, but it is a great website content enhancer. In this article, you will learn exactly what cross-linking is and how to use to help you and search engines better understand your website. |
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Why is Page-specific Search Engine Optimization Important
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| Optimizing your website on a page-by-page basis takes a lot more time and effort than just throwing a bunch of text out there and expecting your website visitors and “search bots” (sent out by search engines) to figure it out. Since page-specific optimization does take so much additional energy, a valid question is, “Why is this detailed level of search engine optimization so important anyway?” Here are two important reasons. |
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Why Page Titles are Critically Important to Your Website
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| Just as a book and chapters have titles, so must your website also have main and sub-page titles. Too many website ignore this very important component of a web page or website and this can seriously hamper search engine optimization efforts. We will learn here, why page titles can make or break your website. |
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Why Reciprocal Linking is a So-So Idea
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| Most likely, you have heard the term, reciprocal (or two-way) linking. This is basically when you say, “I’ll link to you if you link to me.” Most of the time, this is improperly done and does not result in the results you seek. Let’s learn why in this article. |
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Why Your Website Needs a Sitemap
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| Too many times, sitemaps are thought of as something that is not needed on a website. Maybe it is because the website is too small or maybe there are just too may other important tasks ahead of generating a sitemap. Here, we will learn all about sitemaps, why they are important, and how they can help our websites in the eyes of search engines. |
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15 Reasons to Have a Facebook Page
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| There are many reasons to have a Facebook page. Tech savvy consumers are using the deep search option on Facebook to find way more than just friends. Make sure they find you! Don't let anyone say, "I can't believe you aren't on Facebook yet!"
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6 Ways to Get Your Visitors To Contact You From Your Contact Us Page
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| Along with the About Us page, your Contact Us page is one of the most important and crucial pages on your site to get right. In fact, the Contact Us page could be considered the absolutely most important page. Even if the rest of your site succeeds in the goals, if visitors fail to find the information they need to contact you then you will bring their shopping experience to a screeching halt.
Shoppers are often hampered if they don't feel they can get a hold of a real person or are limited in their contact options. With all other areas of the site working, a bad contact us page may cause someone to think twice about purchasing with you altogether.
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7 Ways to Make Your Home Page a Home Run for Usability
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| Your home page is the single most crucial page of your site. This is the page that will be the primary entry point for a majority of your visitors. It is also the page that sets the stage for the rest of the site giving visitors a birds-eye view of who you are, what you're about, what you can do for them, what you offer, and how they get the information needed.
The importance of making sure your home page is user-friendly cannot be understated. This page, more than any other, has to pull together so many elements without being overbearing or overloading the visitor with information overkill. Despite the over-reaching purpose of the home page, simplicity is the key. Provide the necessary information and usability elements and you'll lower your bounce rate and improve site conversions along the way.
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Increase Conversions With Optimized Landing Pages
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| A landing page is a web page that visitors from a specific traffic source land on. They are heavily linked to individual marketing campaigns – for example, the landing page for a PPC campaign is the page that visitors land on when they click your PPC ad. |
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How To Consistently Improve Your Web Site Results
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| Split testing is also known as A/B testing. It is the process of taking one page (your control or page A) and then creating another page (page B) with one single change and then driving equal traffic to both pages to see which page gets a better result. |
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How To Create Your Own eBay About Me Page
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| Regular readers of this newsletter and my newspaper column know that I am a big fan of eBay's About Me Page feature. This is a special page you can create as part of your eBay account that is linked from your eBay ID (with a little About Me icon). You can use your eBay About Me Page as a sales tool. Customers can click on your About Me icon to get to your About Me page, which you can set up to include information about you, your interests, and |
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The Art of the Signup Page
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| A site's signup page is the second most important page on a site (the most important is the home page itself) because this is where you're asking for committment. Everyone worries about the home page (and still don't do a good job), but most companies do a poor job with the signup page. For example, HAMweather's is aesthetically-challenged, and Last.fm's doesn't convey enough information. This article about signup pages by Tim Bednar is a good read. His list of important signup-page elements is: |
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Landing Page Optimization Tips
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| When we hear the words Landing Page we generally think of PPC campaigns or some other form of internet advertising. But I like to use landing pages for all of my off-line advertising also. However, you’re using it, a landing page is a web page, typically hidden from the site’s menu bar and other navigation – meaning the only way you can get to the page is to type the URL directly into the browser. |
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Learn the Two Different Types of Pages Required for Your Online Based Business Website
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| If you have a website from which you run an online based business, are you aware that you need to have two distinct types of pages for this to work efficiently? The first type is a content or article page and the second is a sales page often referred to as a landing or squeeze page. |
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Small Business: The Importance Of Lead Capture
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| If you're putting together your website, you've probably come across the term "lead capture page" and wondered what on earth it's all about.
A Lead Capture Page is often called a squeeze page and it performs a vital function. This page grabs a visitor's attention and provides fast, easily-understood benefits to encourage that person to subscribe to your email marketing list. Over time your lead capture page will provide a prospect list that you can use to market your business. This page must be designed to attract and appeal to your Target Audience. This is not only includes the graphics and layout of the page, it also includes the words and language used...
Your Lead Capture page is critical - if you don't hook the reader within a few seconds, they'll move on and they general won't come back. |
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What is Page Rank and How Does It Work?
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| According to pro-seo, Check PageRank aka PR is one of the methods Google uses to determine the relevance or importance of a Web page. PageRank is a vote, by all the other Web pages on the Internet, about how important a Web page is. A link to a Web page counts as a vote of support. If there are no incoming links to a Web page then there is no support. |
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