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Thursday, August 12, 2010

4 Ways Of Internet Marketing

Businesses are always striving to rank higher in Google, to build stronger relationships with customers, and to stay profitable, to name just a few. One way businesses have chosen to achieve these goals and challenges is by marketing online. For some of us, understanding the way in which internet marketing works, is not always clear and can end up hurting our company rather then boosting it's online exposure. The first step, is in knowing what internet marketing is and why it is important for your business.

Internet Marketing: What is it all about?
Internet Marketing is where your business can reach a global audience to bring exposure, awareness, and attention to products and services your company offers. A couple of the unique features Internet Marketing offers, due to it being an interactive medium, is in providing instant responses to customers and in getting instant responses from customers. Internet marketing is mostly free and can bring traffic to your website that may not have been possible without it.
Internet Marketing: How to use it?
Here are 4 ways in which your business can use internet marketing to reach potential customers. Included below, is list of some Tees In A Pod Blog posts you might find useful in understanding and sustaining these 4 ways of Internet Marketing:

1. Search Engine Marketing - is in promoting your business' website to greater it's visibility on Search Engine Result Pages (also known as SERP's) when potential customers put keywords in the search engine. So when promoting your site be sure to use targeted and specific keywords that you think customers would put into search engines for your website to appear on the search engine results page.

How To Market Your Brand - 9 Marketing Tips and Ideas

2. Search Engine Optimization - is by promoting your website or webpage to rank higher in search engines through organic or unpaid search results.

What Does SMO and SEO Really Mean?

Finding High Page Rank Sites For Backlinks

Follow The Linker: Backlinks

6 Onsite SEO Tips That Can Improve Your Rank!

3. Web Banners OR Banner Ads - is by placing an ad on a webpage to bring traffic to a website by linking the ad to the advertising site. One way is to use Social Media Sites such as Facebook to create ads and to gain a large amount of exposure.

Facebook Ad Tips

4. Email Marketing - is a way of direct marketing in communicating commercial services, etc. by sending electronic mail to a specific audience.

Be careful when using this tactic for too many emails can be considered spamming.

10 Ways For Businesses To Promote Without Spamming

Most of the tools used through Internet Marketing is free and is mostly about understanding the way in which to design a website, interacting with customers, creating links, placing ads on proper sites, and by knowing more about the expectations of search engines in order to improve your websites ranking. One great way to figure out if your business is already using these 4 internet marketing ways, is by creating a checklist to see what you may or may not need to do, to bring more traffic to your site and to create online exposure.

Let Tees In A Pod know if there is a specific topic and/or information you'd like us to cover, be it, more details regarding Internet Marketing or any other! We always love to hear from YOU!!

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Finding high page rank sites for backlinks

For SEO you need backlinks to your blog if you want to increase in the serps (search engine ranking positions) There are many ways to build backlinks to your blog, website, or online store. One of my favorite is by blog commenting on high page rank sites. Preferably you can find high page rank blog sites that are in your niche as the search engines reward those that build links related to their niche. However sometimes building backlinks in your niche can be a tough go as your niche may not have that many high page ranking blogs in your niche. Why should you target blogs that have high page rank? First lets talk about what page rank is. Page rank is a ranking composed by google ranking the importance of any website. Google gives a ranking of 0 to 10 with 10 being the most important. Google is the only site with a ten ranking. A site is deemed important by the number of backlinks or the amount of time someone linked to that particular site. Also a major factor is the type of site linking to the particular site. If your site gets a link from a page rank 7 site instead of a page rank 3 site the page rank seven site backlink is weighted higher in the serps than the page 3 backlink.

So how do we get the backlinks from the high page ranking sites? Well simply performing a google search can open up a world of high page ranking sites that actually want you to comment on your website. One thing to make sure to search for is blogs that are do follow. Rob wrote a piece called Follow the Linker explaining why do follow backlinks are the way to go because when you build the link googlebot follows the link and counts it for your website. If a website is no follow googlebot does not follow or count the link. Let's search for something in google that has do follow blog and high page rank in the search. How about high page rank do follow blogs as a search? As you can see when you perform this search one of the top results is 7 High Page Rank blogs that Do Follow. Click on it and try to see if some of the blogs shared still allow comments. If they do read the actual post and click on the area where it says comments. At the bottom you should be able to leave your name, email, and website. When you comment make a comment relating to the topic of the blog to show that you actually read the post. People that have blogs such as this know that many people are going to be just trying to promote their own websites but they don't really care as long as the person leaving the comment took the time to read their post. I would maybe mention two things in the post to comment on or discuss.

After you have commented on one high page rank do follow blog its so easy to find others. You can scroll through all the other links that you found on google for high page rank do follow blogs or start a new search. For a new search you can try do follow blogs with high page rank. You can also try to find high page rank blogs in your niche. For example if your niche is merchandise you might want to search "merchandise powered by wordpress" since most bloggers use wordpress. This should bring up a list of people that have wordpress blogs that talk about merchandise. Just using google search should enable a hard working searcher to find and endless supply of high ranking do follow backlinks for their blog, website, or store.

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Monday, July 12, 2010

Podcast 13: Be Remarkable!

Be remarkable is more than just a throwaway line. It's what you need to do to separate your online store or business from the rest of the pack. In this podcast lucky number 13 you will get some tips on how to brand your business so that it it's not only remarkable but here to stay. Also some awesome May tips will be shared as well as Seo corner in which we will dive into the world of backlinks which can really help get that organic search engine traffic. Ready to be remarkable? Just tune in and listen.

BLOG POSTS REFERENCED IN THIS PODCAST:
Branding For Business

May - Tips Of The Day

Follower the Linker

MENTIONS:

08:14 - Seth Godin

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14:30 - Involver - Complete Brand marketing on Facebook.

16:21 - Amy Sagan - Starzraven
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16:43 - Henny Fox - UK artist with her song Name In Lights.
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Music suggested by...

16:52 - Jared Thompson - Design Juices
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23:45 - Matt Cutts
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Q&A Segment...

24:07 - Bo - Loving This Tee Blog

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Mentions within the Q&A... Programs/services used by TIAP for the creation of podcasts:

24:46 - CallGraph

25:21 - Levelator

25:47 - Audacity

25:59 - QDrive

27:12 - Podpean

28:05 - itunes

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Follow the Linker - Backlinks

"If you build it they will come" - an iconic line from an iconic movie alas sadly it doesn't hold true for your website. When you launch your site you need to get traffic to it..There are a myriad of ways of doing this but one way is backlinks. In this post I'll discuss a bit about backlinks, what they are and why you should be trying to get them.

What are they?
So, starting from the start, a backlink is basically a hyper text link from one site to your site. A hyper text link is written as follows in HTML
<[a href="http://www.fakesite.com/">Fake Site<]/a> (just ignore the [ brackets, they are there so the HTML can be displayed).
and the part that is clickable is "Fake Site". A link can have a few additional bits of information within the tags but stripped down to it's barest format the above is all you need.

Types of Backlinks
Do Follow - good for search engine results
No Follow - good if useful comment

Importance of Backlinks
Very important..the more dofollow links you receive the better rankings you will get in the search engine results (until Google tweak their algorithm which could happen at any stage)..Disregarding the search side of it backlinks from quality sources are still important as you may get lots of "ambient" traffic, people that happen to read your comment and get interested in in. Matt Cutts (the Google ninja) posted a video about it here which is really good stuff.