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STEP BY STEP

STEP 16 - Paid website promotion methods

Today, one of the most cost effective methods of purchasing advertising for your website is the use of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search engines and directories.

PPC sites allow you to place an ad with a link on their site. You select and bid on keywords that will drive visitors to your site. The higher your bid for each keyword, the higher on the page your ad will appear when that keyword is searched on by someone looking for your widgets.

Bids start as low as $.01 per click, but most of the better PPC sites start the bidding at $.05 to $.10 per click. 

For PPC advertising, I strongly recommend Overture and Google Adwords. Visit their sites for more information. You can find many other PPC search engines by doing a Google search on "pay per click".

Another excellent source of paid advertising is Ezines dedicated to your field or website theme. These ads can be very inexpensive and they allow you to quickly reach several thousand potential targeted customers. Again, just do a Google search on "ezine advertising".

If you plan to advertise in ezines (and you should), we highly recommend 2 Bucks An Ad. Every time they place ads for us our traffic and sales increase substantially for the next few days after the ads are published.

For only $2 per ad, you can advertise to 800,000+ ezine readers who have already proven to be interested in the topic of your site.

Last but not least, you can sometimes purchase a link on a large related website. Why pay for a link? Most large, popular websites won't do reciprocal links with other smaller sites. But many will gladly sell you a link for a pretty hefty price.

A site with a Page Rank of 6, 7, or higher will usually have traffic measured in the million + hits per month range. A well-placed text ad link purchased from one of these sites can drive your hit counter crazy.

To request a link purchase, just send an email to the advertising department and ask! But remember, you should ONLY purchase an advertising link for the sole purpose of gaining traffic and customers, not for increasing your Page Rank.

Purchasing a link in order to boost PR skews the quality of Google's search results. Because of this Google will ban any site caught doing it. 

STEP 17 - How to leverage your higher traffic flow
                 for higher profits

After you have followed the steps in this guide and attained a high ranking in the search engines, you will soon have a large amount of traffic flow to your site. Now is the time to sell, sell, sell!

But the products and services that you offer on your website aren't the only avenues to profit available to you. Your website traffic itself can be an excellent source of revenue. You can use your site to:

  ·  Sell banner or text ads to other businesses.

  ·  Sell advertising in a newsletter or Ezine.

  ·  Earn commissions through affiliate links and banners.

An excellent way to maximize the cash earnings from your website is to sign up with Fastclick Fastclick. They have lots of options for displaying high-paying ads on your site, including leaderboards, banners, popunders, and several other types of ads.

And best of all, Fastclick pays you, the publisher, 65% of the fees paid by the advertisers. You can't lose with this one!

A new advertising vehicle that works very well for sites with lots of content is Google Adsense. All you have to do is apply for an Adsense account with Google.

They'll review your site, and if accepted, you just add a short snippet of code (provided by Google) to your site where you want the ads to appear.

Google will then spider your page(s) and start serving relevant ads in short order. No keywords to fool with! All you do is add the code to your pages and Google does the rest.

Then when a visitor comes to your site, she'll see the Google ads. If she clicks on one, you'll get a commission. It's really that simple!

If you sign up with Adsense, be sure to read the directions, user agreement, and FAQs carefully so that you can be sure that you're in compliance with their rules. You can even use Fastclick popunders in conjunction with Google AdSense to double your earnings potential!

I'm sure there are many other ways to earn money through your website's traffic. Just use your imagination and Google to find them!

STEP 18 - List of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search engines

Overture - Quite simply the largest and most used PPC search engine on the web. If you want to get lots of highly-targeted traffic we highly recommend Overture. One of our favorites!

Ah-ha.com - Several advertising options including PPC. An excellent company to do business with. Very professional.

Kanoodle - RLROUSE.COM uses Kanoodle for many of our Pay-Per-Click campaigns. They're inexpensive, easy to use, and very effective at driving highly-targeted traffic to your site.

GoClick - Another great pay-per-click search engine that we use a lot. You can get started with a deposit of only $10 and the minimum bid is only $.01/click!

Google Adwords - Excellent PPC option from Google. No deposit is required to start using the service. Super service from the #1 name in search.

STEP 19 - List of Ezine advertising resources

Here is a list of popular ezine resources. You can use them to find Ezines to submit your advertisements and articles to.

List-Advertising.com - Email list advertising resource center

EzineAdvertising.com - You can reach over 10 million targeted customers through their associates Ezine lists

FreezineWeb - An excellent resource for Ezine advertisers

Ezine-Universe - A large directory of Ezines

Ezine Advertising  - Excellent tutorials on advertising in Ezines

A-1 Newsletter and E-Zine Promotion - Start up, publish, and make money with your E-zine

STEP 20 - FFA pages: Why you should avoid them

FFAs are basically web pages where anyone can submit the URL for his website for free (hence the term Free-For-All). The web is home to thousands upon thousands of FFA pages.

FFAs may sound like a great way to get lots of free traffic to your site, but you should avoid these pages at all cost.

Why? Several reasons:

1. They are almost useless as a source of traffic. Very few people searching for a topic on the web will use an FFA page. Instead they will use a search engine or directory.

Think about it for a moment. Where do you go when you want to find something on the web? If you're like most web surfers, you use Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL Search, etc.

FFA pages are usually just a long list of unrelated and unorganized URLs which makes finding what you're looking for virtually impossible.

2. Most FFA pages require you to register with your email address before you are allowed to add your link. The owners of the pages then use the email address that you registered with in order to send you loads of Spam.

Even worse, they will often sell your email address to other Spammers. If you choose to use FFA pages, prepare to receive a never-ending flood of SPAM in your email inbox.

3. Using FFAs can lead to your site being banned from Google's search engine index. Many FFA pages require a reciprocal link from your site to theirs before allowing you to place your link.

Google considers most FFA pages to be link farms, and we have already learned what Google thinks of link farms!

STEP 21 - Conclusion

By using the information contained in this SEO guide, you will have your site listed in the Google and Yahoo search results within 6 weeks, and quite possibly on the first page of the listings within 60 days.

All it takes is determination, an open mind, and a little hard work. But the benefits will be well worth the effort!

The techniques listed in this guide are conservative in nature, so you needn't fear incurring a future penalty by using them.

Leave the shady tactics like hidden text and keyword stuffing to the Spammers. Their sites may outrank yours for a short time, but when (not if) they're caught your site will be at the top of the SERPS while theirs fall by the wayside.

And remember, search engine optimization (SEO) techniques aren't static. The search engines are constantly changing their algorithms. What works for good placement today could send you plummeting to the depths of the SERPS next month (or even cause your site to incur a penalty).

Stay up-to date on all the changes in the SEO world and continue tweaking your site accordingly.

Here are a few excellent resources that we use every day:
  • Google News forum at WebmasterWorld - A great source for up-to-the-minute SEO information. It's free, and the experts that participate there are simply amazing! Read the posts, ask questions, and absorb the vast amount of SEO information available there.

    A few hours a week spent in the WebmasterWorld Forums can reap dividends that you simply can't purchase at any price.

    (And in case you're wondering, I have no "ties" to the site, just an amazing fascination and appreciation for the amount and quality of the information available there.)
     
  • SiteProNews - Get the very best up-to-date webmaster news and information in your inbox every day! Every issue of their newsletter has a useful article and tons of information. Highly recommended for keeping up to date on everything webmaster related!
     
  • Webmaster-Talk Forums - Visit the Webmaster-Talk.com forums and discuss website design, coding, graphics, affiliate programs and more!
 
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The above information and more can be found at www.seo-elite-company.com
Good luck with your web based business!
Rick Rouse, RLROUSE.COM
 
SEO Guidelines
 

Search Engine Guidelines

  • Create your website pages for visitors not search engines.
  • Do not try and trick search engines for better rankings.
  • Don't add your link or send a link to websites that are questionable. This can affect your rating and blacklist your site.
  • Don't use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, programs like WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to search engines may improve your site positioning in the short-term but they can cripple your changes in the long-term.
  • Invisible links are Bad. Avoid hidden text or hidden links.
  • Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
  • Don't send automated queries to Search engines.
  • Don't load pages with irrelevant words.
  • Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
  • Avoid "doorway" pages created just for search engines, or other "cookie cutter" approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
  • Hand submit your site to search engines
  • Input accurate content in metta-tags
  • Search engines can not read JavaScript
  • Search engines will not follow dynamic links

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