Hi Folks,
My primary blog is now moved over to a WP format.
I'm at MarginsXs! http://www.marginsxs.com/Blog.
I now understand why WP is so popular, however, I'm very fond of Blogger,
and think I'll tinker here on my spare time.
So, if you'd like to see what I've done, come on over!!!
Kathleen
What a wonderful tutorial! Thank you for this, and I will pass the news of this location
to folks.
Regards
Kathleen
MarginsXs
Tips for New Bloggers: Author Comments - Different Styles
Top 5 Ways To Generate Low Cost Website Traffic
by Jane Foster Photo:From Stock.xchng
Creativity.
This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized.
It doesn?t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people don?t know that you exist, it doesn?t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you business could just get killed.
While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.
While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spywares.
Viral Marketing Overview
Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one?s product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company advertisement along with it.
In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on to another with the company brand or logo or the products description or any other content to help promote the company or its product.
Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they won?t block it and open it as well.
Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed with.
Using Viral Marketing to your advantage
The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.
Most every site and companies are catching on to the effectivity of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you ahead in the rating games.
Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a gossip or a buzz, many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips to make them moiré popular. Remember the movie ?The Blair Witch Project??
Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft?s Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.
Now it?s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for you and your sales figures.
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I've wri tten a few entries about Getting traffic, but once you do, what does it really mean?
Analyzing Your Traffic by Mick Robinson
Analyzing your web traffic statistics can be an invaluable tool for a number of different reasons. But before you can make full use of this tool, you need to understand how to interpret the data.
Most web hosting companies will provide you with basic web traffic information that you then have to interpret and make pertinent use of. However, the data you receive from your host company can be overwhelming if you don't understand how to apply it to your particular business and website. Let's start by examining the most basic data - the average visitors to your site on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
These figures are the most accurate measure of your website's activity. It would appear on the surface that the more traffic you see recorded, the better you can assume your website is doing, but this is an inaccurate perception. You must also look at the behavior of your visitors once they come to your website to accurately gauge the effectiveness of your site.
There is often a great misconception about what is commonly known as "hits" and what is really effective, quality traffic to your site. Hits simply means the number of information requests received by the server. If you think about the fact that a hit can simply equate to the number of graphics per page, you will get an idea of how overblown the concept of hits can be.
For example, if your homepage has 15 graphics on it, the server records this as 15 hits, when in reality we are talking about a single visitor checking out a single page on your site. As you can see, hits are not useful in analyzing your website traffic.
The more visitors that come to your website, the more accurate your interpretation will become. The greater the traffic is to your website, the more precise your analysis will be of overall trends in visitor behavior. The smaller the number of visitors, the more a few anomalous visitors can distort the analysis.
The aim is to use the web traffic statistics to figure out how well or how poorly your site is working for your visitors. One way to determine this is to find out how long on average your visitors spend on your site. If the time spent is relatively brief, it usually indicates an underlying problem. Then the challenge is to figure out what that problem is.
It could be that your keywords are directing the wrong type of visitors to your website, or that your graphics are confusing or intimidating, causing the visitor to exit rapidly. Use the knowledge of how much time visitors are spending on your site to pinpoint specific problems, and after you fix those problems, continue to use time spent as a gauge of how effective your fix has been.
Additionally, web traffic stats can help you determine effective and ineffective areas of your website. If you have a page that you believe is important, but visitors are exiting it rapidly, that page needs attention. You could, for example, consider improving the link to this page by making the link more noticeable and enticing, or you could improve the look of the page or the ease that your visitors can access the necessary information on that page.
If, on the other hand, you notice that visitors are spending a lot of time on pages that you think are less important, you might consider moving some of your sales copy and marketing focus to that particular page.
As you can see, these statistics will reveal vital information about the effectiveness of individual pages, and visitor habits and motivation. This is essential information to any successful Internet marketing campaign.
Your website undoubtedly has exit pages, such as a final order or contact form. This is a page you can expect your visitor to exit rapidly. However, not every visitor to your site is going to find exactly what he or she is looking for, so statistics may show you a number of different exit pages. This is normal unless you notice a exit trend on a particular page that is not intended as an exit page.
In the case that a significant percentage of visitors are exiting your website on a page not designed for that purpose, you must closely examine that particular page to discern what the problem is. Once you pinpoint potential weaknesses on that page, minor modifications in content or graphic may have a significant impact on the keeping visitors moving through your site instead of exiting at the wrong page.
After you have analyzed your visitor statistics, it's time to turn to your keywords and phrases. Notice if particular keywords are directing a specific type of visitor to your site. The more targeted the visitor - meaning that they find what they are looking for on your site, and even better, fill out your contact form or make a purchase - the more valuable that keyword is.
However, if you find a large number of visitors are being directed - or should I say misdirected - to your site by a particular keyword or phrase, that keyword demands adjustment. Keywords are vital to bringing quality visitors to your site who are ready to do business with you. Close analysis of the keywords your visitors are using to find your site will give you a vital understanding of your visitor's needs and motivations.
Finally, if you notice that users are finding your website by typing in your company name, break open the champagne! It means you have achieved a significant level of brand recognition, and this is a sure sign of burgeoning success.
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Author: Mick Robinson
Site: Ebooksdirectonline
website: http://ebooksdirectonline.co.uk
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 Since I?m always trying to learn as much as I can about webpages and webmastery, it?s natural I found the below mentioned blog. When I read things like ?try our new web template?.it is SEO optimized?, like a lemming, I see, believe, and follow for the time being. This new blog I discovered, Webdeveloper Blog (http://blog.universalwebservices.net/ )seems to be keen on a lot of insights into web developing. Hence shedding light on just what such things as "SEO optimized" is technically all about. Roughly 50% I understand, and the other 50% I still have yet to learn. I?m already considering it for now-and-future reference. I have for myself, and I sell through MarginsXs, basic tutorials in HTML and CSS. Like any other subject, where do you go for more rigorous details? (Besides forums). Blogs of this nature are priceless, and it is irresitable to pass on such a great find.
What I did follow and understand, right now, where two entries:
?Preventing Spam On Your Blog? http://blog.universalwebservices.net/item/15
and ?Blog and Search engine Optimization? http://blog.universalwebservices.net/section/search-engine-optimization
Before I proceed, let me say I would figure this blog is not for the newbie or the unintroduced to web pages. However, if someone wants to learn with reasonable effort, I would suspect in a short time, the information presented in this blog would become meaningful. On the Homepage, on the left, hit the Archives tab. Very nicely done are the topics and dates of entry. No, this blog hasn?t been around long, but shows promise of being so. I would recommend taking a look at the archives for personal evaluation of now or future usefulness.
Continuing, addressing the spam topic, I had always thought spam filtering was solely a plug-in solution, and was surprized to see a PHP script solution. For the second entry, Blog and SEO optimization, the use of proper HTML tags was clearly explained. For myself, I?m good at recognizing patterns, even if I don?t know what it means. It?s always nice to read something like the above, and think to myself,?Yeah, I?ll check my blog and site. You know, I think I?m OK, and now I know for certain.?
Great blog, and great rewards in checking this out!
Kathleen
Marginsxs
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