THE BUSINESS THAT GIVES

Lima Ohio Catering

2010-04-23T02:55:00.000-07:00

If you are in Lima Ohio and you have an event, graduation or party that you want catered, one of the best Lima Ohio Catering venues is at Westgate Entertainment, The Char Grill Restaurant. The Char Grill Restaurant in Lima Ohio will do on site catering and will deliver food to your party, graduation or event. On site catering includes BBQ Chicken and Ribs and we can deliver in our complete menu including the best Pizza in town.

Lima Ohio Restaurant

2010-04-23T02:50:00.000-07:00

I recently started working with a Lima Ohio Restaurant, the Westgate Entertainment's Char Grill Restaurant and Fireside Lounge. I am helping them with their online and social media marketing. The food is great and so are the people, drop by the best restaurant in Lima Ohio for a great meal!

FHTM

2010-03-13T03:23:00.000-08:00

Just want to let everyone know that I just published an article called "FHTM" at Associated Content. The article is a basic introduction to FHTM. I will be doing follow up articles on the company and what it takes to succeed with FHTM, (Fortune Hi Tech Marketing). Other articles that I have published on that site that may be of interest are:

CrowdSource Marketing

2010-03-09T03:19:00.000-08:00

My friend Joe Tellup started a new group on Linkedin called CrowdSource Marketing. The name and idea is a wordplay on Crowd Source or Cloud Computing. Anyone interested in networking and promoting their business in an open a free environment is welcome to join the group. Of course you first must be a member of Linkedin. I highly encourage anyone that is interested in improving their business connections to do that. It has done wonders for me and my various business ventures.

Future Home To Millionaires

2010-03-08T03:34:00.000-08:00

WOW! Hard to believe it has been a month since my last post, but I have been very busy. I just finished building a website for our FHTM Executive Sales Manager, Yvette Pennington. The site is Future Home To Millionaires, Team Pennington. Check it out and let me know what you think.

Future Home To Millionaires is set up to be sort of a hub for all the FHTM Reps that are working hard building a Fortune Hi Tech Marketing business. The site has news put out by Yvette and from corporate headquarters. In the right sidebar are links to power point presentations and important paperwork to help you build your business. We also have links to websites that are owned by members of Yvette's downline. If anyone needs a website then I am running a special until March 31, check out Managed Websites for more info.

As you look at Yvette's new website you will notice that we now have a Fan Page on Facebook. I would like to ask that everyone join the Future Home To Millionaires Fan Page. This is very important as it shows the world that we are not just a small downline with no support. It shows new reps that they will have strong upline support and that we are not just some fly by night scam in which there are no real members or business being conducted.

Last but certainly not least, make sure that you sign in and become a member of the Future Home To Millionaires site. This will be one of the main avenues for us to disseminate information about the business and we don't want you to miss out! Also the site has a forums section, but it is available only to members. Once you sign in it will become visible.

MLM Leads

2010-02-04T15:50:00.000-08:00

MLM Leads

The purchase of MLM leads has been a major interest of people in the MLM, Network Marketing industry. For most people considering the MLM business opportunity the big question is: What do I do when my warm market of family and friends has dried up? At this point the MLM Rep. then considers purchasing leads that can be emailed or called in order to get new recruits. My thoughts on the effectiveness of this can be found at the Associated Content Web Site in the article: MLM Leads

New MLM

2010-02-03T15:55:00.000-08:00

New MLM|A Paradigm Shift

The new MLM, Multilevel Marketing, business model represents a paradigm shift in the way that business and network marketing is conducted. In 2001 Paul Orberson founded Fortune Hi Tech Marketing a new MLM company that is the leader in a new paradigm shift that marries major corporations with MLM businesses. The new MLM deviates from the old in that the original MLM companies sold their own products. The new MLM business model is structured so that the products being sold by the MLM company are the products of major corporations and products that the ordinary person is using already. Continue Reading New MLM

Fortune Hi Tech Marketing

2010-02-02T16:59:00.000-08:00

Fortune Hi Tech Marketing

I just wrote and published an article on Fortune Hi Tech Marketing at Associated Content. I had not written anything for that site in quite a while and received an email the other day in which they asked me to start writing again. That was kind of nice. I had not been writing for them because the pay is not all that great, but in reality it gives me a larger audience and more exposure to what I am doing. The new Fortune Hi Tech Marketing article basically explains how Paul Orberson married network marketing to corporate America. One heck of a concept!

FHTM Training

2010-01-30T15:56:00.000-08:00

FHTM Training

Today I went to Columbus for a pretty good training event. Chris Doyle conducted a business presentation first. The one thing I will say about Chris is that I like his ability to mix humor into the presentation. Definitely something I will have to work on for myself. After the FHTM business presentation we had training by Chris Doyle and Yvette Pennington on how to work the Fortune High Tech Marketing Business. Yvette Pennington also gave a class on giving presentations. Very professional!

I will have to say that the more I am involved with FHTM, the more I am impressed. Nothing like other network marketing companies I have worked with. Top quality training and a no nonsense approach to building the business. A good example is that we are taught to not try and sign up those that don't get it or are not interested. Show the business plan, if they do not seem interested, don't waste time, move on to someone else.

Social Networking Classes In Lima Ohio

2010-01-26T17:46:00.000-08:00

Social Networking Classes

Yesterday I finally was able to publish my schedule for teaching social networking classes in Lima Ohio and announced our first ever Octoudel Linkedin Group Social Networking Party. Very excited that things are coming together on this. One little complication did crop up in all the excitement. Fortune Hi Tech Marketing let me know that as far a FHTM is concerned they can not endorse the classes or participate. Kind of a bummer!

Anyway, I am going forward with teaching the classes on social networking and building an internet business. The fact that FHTM does not endorse the class is really not a problem as it has nothing to do with the company anyway.
Our group on Linkedin is growing daily and I did make some changes today to the makeup of that group. The group is open to anyone interested in affiliate marketing, network marketing or internet marketing.

Another item in the works at this time is a web hosting service. A couple of the FHTM reps have approached me about building and managing websites for them, so I am working on a package for people that want a website, yet need someone to fully manage the site. It will be interesting to see how many people actually want and are willing to pay for this service.

Social Networking Classes and Networking Party

2010-01-23T18:51:00.000-08:00

Social Networking Classes and Networking Party

Network Marketing via Social Networking and the Internet

Hello I am J. Michael Warner.

For the last few years I have been working on the Internet learning how to build large social networks and market on the Internet.

I have built up a sizable amount of connections on Linkedin and Twitter.

Linkedin is the largest social networking site on the Internet for professionals and business people with over 55 millions users.

Twitter is estimated to have 25 million users.

On my main Linkedin account I have over 2000 direct connections and another few hundred thousand connections through various groups.

On my biggest Twitter account I have almost 2000 followers.

I am the owner of one of the largest political groups on Linkedin, The Political Coffeehouse. The Political Coffeehouse group is larger than the Democratic National Committee and I am confident we will bypass the Republican National Committee by the end of this year.

I started a Linkedin group called Octoudel to promote my new Octoudel.com web site and was able to get 61 people signed up in less than 24 hours!

I know how to build large social networks! I can teach you how to build large social networks!
I can teach you how to cheaply and effectively market on the Internet!
Are you ready to learn?
Do you have the desire to build a national or international business on the Internet?

I have decided to start teaching others how to use social networking, blogging and search engine optimization to build and market their business on the internet.

This is live classroom training that gives you the chance to ask questions and learn on a more personal basis than if you just started buying eBooks, hoping that one of them would actually teach you something instead of ripping you off.

Upcoming Classes for 2010

Seating is limited for each class and available on a first come, first serve basis.

The Social Networking & Website Building Classes are entirely generic and open to anyone interested
in learning how to build a huge network and improve their internet marketing abilities.

Each class is $25 per person. Hand outs will be given out, real examples using the Internet will be shown. If you have a wi-fi laptop, bring it for real time exercises.

Class Structuring

Series 1 Effective Social Networking on Linkedin & Twitter

Setting up and optimizing Linkedin and Twitter profiles.

Getting massive amounts of connections and followers.

Effective Marketing Strategies on Social Networks.

Series 2 Websites, Blogging, Search Engine Optimization and Link Building

Why you need a website or blog and how to set them up.

How to market using Google and Yahoo for free.

Effective Marketing Strategies on Social Networks.

Each class is $25 per person. Hand outs will be given out, real examples using the Internet will be shown.

If you have a wi-fi laptop, bring it for real time exercises.

Locations

Lima Ohio at the Westgate Bowling Center in the main party room.

Tuesday February 9, 6pm to 9pm Series 1

Friday February 12, 9am to 12am Series 2

Saturday February 13, 9am to 12am Series 1

Saturday February 13, 1pm to 4pm Series 2

Limited Seating Is Available!

Each class is $25 per person. Hand outs will be given out, real examples using the Internet will be shown. If you have a wi-fi laptop, bring it for real time exercises.

Announcing the Octoudel Lima Ohio Social Networking Party
Thursday February 18, 2010

The Octoudel Social Networking Party is your chance to rub elbows, meet and greet fellow entrepreneurs. Come relax, have a drink, enjoy great food, win a door prize, and meet other entrepreneurs and professionals in person ready to learn about and help you! This event will be held at and catered by the Westgate Entertainment Center in Lima Ohio. Cost for this event is $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Octoudel is a division of Genesee Crest Ltd.

Social and Internet Marketing Classes

2010-01-21T15:29:00.000-08:00

Social and Internet Marketing Classes

I have been working on setting up classes for those interested in learning more about how to use Social Networking with sites like Linkedin and Twitter, to market their Network Marketing business. I also will be giving classes on Internet Marketing that will include websites, blogs, search engine optimization, linking strategies and much more.

Right now I am in the final stages of putting together the announcement and hope to post something tomorrow. The classes will be live, in person events. I am lining up locations that have wi-fi so get your laptops ready! Classes will start in Lima Ohio the second week of February with Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati on the schedule. I also will be making available in February personal one on one classes and seminars for network marketing, internet marketing and social networking. Per the request of Yvette Pennington I will also teach classes and run webinars.

I am also putting together a list of services that will be offered at Octoudel. I am working on a setting up a web hosting service that will cater to Network Marketers and Internet Marketers. This service will have semi and fully managed websites and possibly an auto-responder system.

Stay tuned for details.

The Book Of Eli

2010-01-19T18:28:00.000-08:00

The Book of Eli

The other night I watched the new Denzel Washington movie "The Book of Eli"...Very Spiritually Moving!....I don't want to give away the movie to those who have not seen it, so will only touch on the part that really pertains to business. In the movie "Eli" spends 30 years of his life carrying the last Bible in existence to an unknown location. God appeared to Eli and told him to take the Bible west. In a setting that reminds one of the movie Mad Max, Eli is seen on the last days of his very arduous journey.

I think we all need a mission in life. Something beyond our mundane chores and existence. So you want to be an internet marketing and or network marketing guru? Say you make it, what then? It is that, "what then" that will get you there. Whether it is the drive to better care for your family or do a greater good for others, having a "greater purpose" can keep us going when the times are tough, the money is not coming in and it seems that no one wants to talk to you.

So I would recommend watching "The Book of Eli" and thinking about what your purpose should be in life. I myself am thinking that there are a lot of poor people, people that do not understand that their lives can become better. I would like to help educate and show these people how to obtain that better life. What would you like to do?

Promote Yourself

2010-01-16T15:43:00.000-08:00

Self Promotion

A couple of days ago I did a search on my name J. Michael Warner on Google and J. Michael Warner on Yahoo. Unbelievable! I pretty much dominate the first couple of pages on both sites. Seems almost unbelievable, but after a couple of years of writing articles that have been published online, I am starting to really stand out.

If you want to get anywhere with working the business of network marketing on the Internet, you have to promote yourself. I was introduced to a fellow about a year ago that claimed to be a "big fish" in the network marketing field. WOW The only problem was that I could not find any reference to him on the internet. Now you might think that maybe he did not operate on the Internet. Network Marketing is a people business, maybe the Internet was not venue of operation. But, in my mind, there should have been some reference to the fellow, somewhere.

Self promotion is one of the keys to success on the web. Write articles, leave comments. Start discussions on the forums. Start your own groups. Do all of this on a multitude of sites and over a period of time you will have the chance to dominate your field.

Linkedin Octoudel Professional Network Marketing Group

2010-01-15T13:11:00.000-08:00

Linkedin Groups|Octoudel Professional Network Marketing

As many who read this blog will know I am fairly well connected on Linkedin. As I write this I am just shy of 2000 connections. I have started and run groups on Linkedin before and find for professional purposes that having a group on Linkedin is very beneficial.

So I have now started a group for professional network marketers on Linkedin. The Group is Octoudel Professional Network Marketing. Stop by and take a look at the group, join in, network and establish yourself as a professional in the network marketing business.

Is Fortune High Tech Marketing A Scam?

2010-01-12T17:00:00.000-08:00

On our main website I asked the question of whether or not Fortune High Tech Marketing is a scam. A lot of allegations all over the net, but I have not seen any proof from any of the complainers that would prove FHTM is a scam. Considering the amount of lawsuits companies like Walmart, Ford, General Electric and the like are always involved in, I would expect that Fortune High Tech Marketing has their share. It will be interesting to see if anyone takes up my challenge and starts posting what they consider proof that FHTM is a scam.

What is sad, but laughable is that every one of the people alleging scam on these websites, are running ads that either promote FHTM or promote sites that allege everything in the world except their opportunity is a scam. Not a very healthy attitude.

Social Network Marketing

2010-01-11T18:04:00.000-08:00

Social Networking|Network Marketing

It is funny how people resist change. Network Marketing has been around for over 50 years now and still some resist the idea that it is a viable way of doing business. Social Networking via the internet comes along and it is resisted by some in business. It is better to meet and greet, shake hands, nothing compares to meeting people in person or so some believe. So while some realize the power of the internet and take advantage of it, others are still stuck in the 1950's.

Are you stuck in the 1950's or are you ready to take advantage of 21st century technology and build a 21st century business?

I am now working on a curriculum that will be used to teach social networking through Linkedin and Twitter, to network marketers. Since I am a Rep with Fortune High Tech Marketing, Reps with FHTM in the Lima Ohio area will be the first able to attend the classes I will be teaching. Of course if anyone else is interested in the social networking classes they also can attend.

On Wednesday Jan. 13, 2010 I will be meeting with Yvette Pennington and Chris Doyle here in Lima, just before Chris Doyle's presentation. We will be going over my ideas and seeing what kind of synergy we can have together. I should be able to announce a schedule for the classes by this weekend. Anyone that is interested in attending the classes can email me. The venue at this point will be at the Westgate Bowling Center in Lima Ohio. If I get a lot of people signing up, we will move to a larger venue.

Chris Doyle in Lima Ohio

2010-01-10T13:33:00.000-08:00

Chris Doyle

Just letting everyone know that Chris Doyle a Presidential Ambassador for Fortune High Tech Marketing will be speaking at the Lima Ohio Civic Center on January 13, 2009. The cost for Reps is $5 and guests are free.

The following video is of Chris Doyle explaining FHTM and how he came to be in this business:

Fortune High Tech Marketing

2010-01-09T17:33:00.000-08:00

Fortune High Tech Marketing

A new year and a ton of new projects. I started this blog a year ago for a client. The client could not get their business off the ground, so now I have decide to use it for my Fortune High Tech Marketing business. My new website on network and internet marketing has been launched and I believe the two will go hand in hand.

FHTM is a network marketing company that I am now a Rep in. I am using the Octoudel site to publish articles on how to work the businesses of internet and network marketing, we also have a forum on that site. This blog will be used to keep my downline posted on my activities with Fortune High Tech Marketing.

Send Out Cards

2009-03-15T05:15:00.000-07:00

Send Out Cards is a unique network marketing business opportunity that gives people the chance to send out personalized greeting cards. Judging by their traffic stats, I would say that this business opportunity is interesting to a lot of people.

Whois Record

Registrant:
SendoutCards
1825 West Research Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
United States

Domain Name: SENDOUTCARDS.COM
Created on: 16-Jun-03
Expires on: 16-Jun-10
Last Updated on: 07-Jan-09

Administrative Contact:
Robison, Chris
SendoutCards
1825 West Research Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
United States
801-463-3800

Technical Contact:
Robison, Chris
SendoutCards
1825 West Research Way
Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
United States
801-463-3800

BBB Rating

Based on BBB files, this business has a BBB Rating of B.

Reasons for this rating include:

BBB does not have sufficient information to determine how long this business has been operating.
BBB does not have sufficient background information on this business.

The company has had 6 complaints in the last 36 months and has resolved all complaints.

Pay Plan
A complete evaluation of the pay plan for this company will be posted as it is available. I had copied and pasted the information they provided, but for some reason they objected to that.

My Power Mall

2009-03-14T15:02:00.000-07:00

My Power Mall is a network marketing and a shopping system. Those that sign up get rebates for shopping at local stores, gas stations and at online shopping web sites. The idea seems to be that you are not purchasing anything that you normally would not already be planning on. You get rebates for what you purchase and get commissions on your down lines purchases. There is a charity element to the program that enables money the company brings in to make charitable donations.

Whois Record For My Power Mall

Registrant:
One-Time Fundraising
1120 Sudden Valley
Bellingham, WA 98229
US
360-756-5233

Domain Name: MYPOWERMALL.COM

Administrative Contact:
Dye, Ginny
1120 Sudden Valley
Bellingham, WA 98229
US
360-756-5233

Technical Contact:
Dye, Ginny
1120 Sudden Valley
Bellingham, WA 98229
US
360-756-5233

Better Business Bureau Rating

Based on BBB files, this business has a BBB Rating of F.

Reasons for this rating include:

BBB concerns with the industry in which this business operates.
Length of time business has been operating.
Advertising issue(s) found by BBB.

* I find the rating of F by the BBB interesting. The company has only one complaint and that was satisfactorily taken care of.

Pay Plan

The pay plan for My Power Mall is easy to understand. It is a simple matrix system. There is an income calculator at the site and you do not have to sign up with the company in order to use it. I like the openness of this. Many network marketing companies will not let you see very much of there site until after you have given up an email address.

I played with different numbers on the calculator provided. The numbers it gives are very interesting. If a person signed up 20 people in the company and everyone they signed up, signed up twenty people, on the first three levels down you would have 400 people earning you a total of $1,856.00 each month. Assuming that you are able to build to that level your actual paycheck each month would go into the tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars as the next six levels are filled up.

A Few Changes

2009-03-14T14:51:00.000-07:00

This blog started out as an independent tool to be used to help promote a network marketing business owned by Steve Winsell called The Business That Gives. This blog is no longer affiliated with that business. Steve had problems with the programmer of his website and has hired another programmer to rebuild the site. Since it could be a couple of months before Steve is able to get a decent business up and running I decided to revamp this blog as a site for evaluating online business opportunities.

Providing Value and Quality Content

2009-02-27T08:26:00.000-08:00

So your company has a web site, sit back, relax and rake in the big bucks! What is that? Your web site has done nothing to increase revenue? This is a common occurrence for small and large business's. Everyone has a website today, just because you have one does not mean that your bottom line will increase.

I have spent the last three years studying different web sites and the companies or people that own them. I have seen everything from the ugly sites with tons of traffic to the big flashy expensive to produce sites, with no traffic. Let's say that you are in the business of selling stereo equipment. A quick Google search shows that there are 6,110,000 web sites indexed by Google on stereo equipment. Now you want to start another one. What makes you think you can pass up all 6 million of these sites and start bringing in revenue from your new website?

That my friends is a serious question. Prior to starting a business or building a web site you must first ask: What value do I have to offer? The question some need to answer is: What is value? Can I sell the same stereo equipment the other 6 million are selling and somehow offer more value to the end consumer? Probably not.

If you already have a business that is producing value, you are ahead of the game. Your goal now is to market your company on the web and bring that value to a wider audience, which will increase your revenue.

There are a lot of theories on how one should market on the Internet. Web site marketing is really not much different than marketing by any other medium. The one thing that the Internet gives us is the ability to provide quality information. Your website marketing can be tailored to provide lasting quality and value for your consumers.

There are a lot of article that explain the need for quality content. You could probably read a million blogs with “articles” on quality content. The writer writes one or two paragraphs touting quality content, publishes it and expects to be seen as an authority on the subject, based these few sentences. Quality content is not a few sentences or a couple paragraphs of regurgitated crap. Quality content is you talking about living life and connecting life, to what you are marketing. Quality marketing and advertising is not necessarily blatant. One of my favorite examples of marketing is the TV show Ghost Whisperer. In that show the main character is always driving a brand new Jeep. That jeep is provided by Chrysler. This is very subtle advertising and it works!

Let's say that you start a website to sell antique bicycle parts. A Google search shows 570,000 sites related to this subject. How can you market your website and get passed all these “established” sites and be seen by your potential customers. It is not enough to have a quality store, stocked with quality items for sale. Have you ever heard of a company called McDonald's? Everyone has. Why do you think that when you watch TV you see so many McDonald's commercials? Do those high paid Marketing executives at McDonald's think you will forget who they are? Do they just have money to burn? No, the trick is to keep your name in front of the customer in a fun, friendly way. If they are hungry, just watched a McDonald's commercial, good chance they will go to McDonald's to satisfy themselves.

So how do you do this with antique bicycle parts? You build a blog and on a regular basis write article that people who ride, work on and rebuild antique bicycles will find interesting. Think about a magazine. We will use Popular Mechanics as an example. Why does Popular Mechanics exist? Would Popular Mechanics exist without revenue? I think not! Popular Mechanics is a business, they exist to sell advertising. They get you to purchase the products for sale in their magazine by providing quality content. The cool thing is, you actually pay for the privilege of getting this content and end up paying more by purchasing the products for sale in the magazine.

Quality content for our example of a site for antique bicycle parts can come from the basic interaction you have with your customers. If you have a brick and mortar business with the web site being used for marketing, you should be full of stories to write about. Think about it, you have customers coming into your store on a regular basis. As part of the sales process you talk to them, establish a connection, listen to their stories and problems. These stories are priceless. From the grandfather that talks about his first bicycle, the person that broke down on a cross country trip, mechanical repair tips, family outings at the national park and a million more stories.

If people are interested in your products, they will be interested in reading about the lifestyle encompassed by your products. If you are the CEO of your business, you will hire someone like me to do this for you. If you are a small business owner just starting out, you may have to do it yourself. Some people are not that good at writing and have no choice but to hire the work out. Either way, if you are not providing quality content, you are leaving money on the table.

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How To Build A High Traffic Website
Deep Branding On The Internet

How To Build A High Traffic Website

2009-02-25T17:32:00.000-08:00

Many businesses have vanity websites. It strokes the ego to "be on the web" but does not do anything for your revenue stream. In order to improve your bottom line you must build a high traffic website. What is high traffic? That answer will be different for all of us. I am in the business of Internet Marketing. I help companies build traffic to their websites with Blog Marketing and Social Networking. Since my primary Blog Marketing Plan is $2,995.00 and my business is small, I only need a small amount of traffic to actually bring in decent revenue. How much traffic and revenue you need will be determined by the price of your products, the size of your business and your expenses.

Once you have determined that your business needs a high traffic website the next question is: How do I build a high traffic website? This is a very complex question, one that is not easily answered in a few paragraphs.

Build A High Traffic Website - Establish Your Keywords

I write and market for other businesses. The advantage being that you already have products and know what you are selling. You just need someone to do the marketing for you. Some people reading this may wonder why I am writing about how I run my business. If I tell everyone how to do what I do, some think that I will not be able to get any business. Not true. We are all CEO's of our own life. You do what you do best and hopefully have a passion for, I am the same. Not everyone reading this article can afford my services, those that can understand the need to delegate and have a budget for marketing, can hire me. Those that can not afford my services can use these techniques, build their business and everyone wins.

I recently did a little market research for a company in Michigan. The company is a marketing and sales consulting firm. Out of 19 keywords that this company focused in on, they did not rank in the top 100 searches on Google or Yahoo. So basically if they are getting any traffic from the search engines at all, it is minimal. Main competitors that are on page one of Google and Yahoo, are getting over 100,000 visits to their websites each month. Do you think you can improve your bottom line with an extra 100,000 visits to your website each month? Before you get to excited, realize that building a high traffic website is not something that can be done overnight.

So how do you establish what your keywords are? Do keyword research. Webconfs has an excellent tool that will help you figure out what keywords will be the most useful for your business. Simply type a word in that is the most relevant to your business and it will tell you what keywords are the most relevant and how many searches are done each month on those keywords. For example if we type the word marketing, it tells us that marketing has received 52,680 searches in the last month, Internet marketing has received 20,730, search engine marketing 20,730. These numbers change on a regular basis as it is a reflection of the previous month. The list for marketing gives us about 20 keywords. Depending on your market, it may only show a few keywords or none at all. Some subjects simply do not have very many searches conducted for them. If that is the case, you are at the mercy of advertising in order to generate traffic to your website.

Assuming that you have a business with products or services that are searchable, what do you do with your keywords? The first thing is to ensure that the keywords are used in the meta tags and keyword description in the coding of your website. Your webmaster can take care of that, just tell them what keywords you want in your meta keywords and come up with a meta description of your website. The meta description is a couple of sentences that best describes your company. When someone does a search and your company shows up in the results, your meta description is what they will read. So make your meta description interesting.

Building A High Traffic Website - Utilizing Your Keywords

Now that you have established your keywords you must use them. If an important keyword for you is marketing, you must insure that the word marketing is used as much as possible on your website. Use the word marketing enough so that it is obvious your website is about marketing. The best way to do this is to not only use the word marketing on your web pages but write or have someone write quality content for your website. Quality informative articles on your website will go a long way towards helping your website rank high with the search engines.

The next step is to start a blog for your website with quality content added on a regular basis. How regular? How much traffic do you want? If you are operating with a low budget you may have to do everything yourself and just budget your time accordingly. If your business is going well and you can afford to outsource your marketing, you can hire me. Either way, if you do nothing, your website will never be a high traffic website.

When writing articles for your blog make the articles at least 400 words. Sometimes I write long articles, like this one. The theory behind shorter articles is that most people are busy and do not have time for long articles. The theory behind longer articles is that if the content is important and well written, it will be bookmarked and people will return to read it. Having said that, do not write articles or have articles written, that sound like advertising. People do not go to blogs to read about Bobby May's newest exciting discovery that only costs $19.95 and is guaranteed to save the world, blah, blah, blah. You get the idea. Think about what people in the market for your products or services would be interested in reading. If you are in a network marketing company, write about personal experiences of those involved in the business. If you sell bicycle parts, write about bike trips, learning to ride and how to articles, anything that your respective market will find interesting.

The next step is article frequency. Publish articles on a regular basis. The best way to build traffic to the blog is to publish 3-4 articles every day. No easy feat unless you have nothing else to do or deep pockets. I would recommend that you decide on a schedule and stick to it. Publish at least two articles each week to your blog. Once the search engines get used to the frequency you are publishing they will index your site on a regular basis. People that publish 3-4 times each day can end up being indexed within five minutes of publishing an article. Less frequent publishing will cause your site to be indexed usually within a few hours.

Build A High Traffic Websites - Link Campaigns

The search engines look at a multitude of things to determine how high your website ranks. The two most important are quality content and links. No website will ever reach the first page of a popular search if they do not have a lot of links coming into that website. For example the sites that end up on the first page of the popular search terms marketing or Internet marketing have anywhere from tens of thousands of links, to millions.

The first type of links we are concerned with are internal links. As you write articles, link them to each other using anchor text links. Take the one main keyword or keyword phrase and at least once every article, link that word or phrase to the main page of your website. From there the best way to utilize internal links is to link relevant pages to each other. For example if you write an article and mention Linkedin, link the word Linkdedin to an article you wrote about Linkedin. If you write an article about credit, install a link on the word credit to your article about credit. Anchor text links tell the search engines that the page being linked to, has importance in the subject of the word or phrase used for the link.

Anchor text links can also be used in the second type of link, external links. External links are the links found on other websites that link back to your website. These are also called backlinks. This is the type of linking that causes failure among most people that want to market on the Internet. This is work. The easy way to place links on other websites is to write such compelling, timely, quality articles that other people will read them and write about the article on their website, linking back to your original article. Actually, this is easier said than done, but if you can pull it off more than a few times, your website can really explode with traffic.

The real time consuming work is in placing links yourself on other peoples websites. I have read a lot of articles saying you should ask for links on the sites you want to be on. This is a waste of time! If I write Darren Rowse of Problogger and ask him for a link, he will just delete the message. Now if I am an interesting writer, Darren may ask me to do a guest post, which will then link back to my site. Excellent idea since he is very popular and if the regular readers at Problogger like what I have to say, they may start reading my blog.

The other method I use to gain links is to leave comments on any and all blogs relevant to what I am writing about, linking back to me. I have been told that this is a waste of time because most comment sections are encoded with no follow instructions for the search engine spiders. Well my friend, the spiders don't seem to listen to instructions. Ever since I started building links in the comment sections, the spiders have been following them. Not all, but enough to make it worthwhile.

In order to check the status of the links to a website go to Google dot com and type the word links:www.yoursite(dot)com, using an actual dot of course. Type this into the search box. Hit enter and it will tell you how many links your site has and what the links are.

Building A High Traffic Website - Get Started

The information in this article is enough to help you get started building a high traffic website. It is not meant as a be all, end all product. The nature of the Internet is that what works today may not work next year and probably will not work in five years. Good luck and if you decide you like the idea, but would rather pay to have the work done, give me a call.

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