Archive for April, 2008

Participate in forums to populate your website

April 7th, 2008 | Posted in Affilaites, Internet, Webmaster, seo

Nowadays online businesses are becoming popular because of the fast services and to save some time spent on visiting showrooms for shopping. Online websites are available worldwide to serve those who can’t afford even going to markets. Making any website is quite simple but how to bring visitors so that you gain some profit on sale of every product. Earlier we discussed about submitting our website into web directories in relevant category to spread your business now I found some more ways to populate your website without investing any dollars but all you need is to make participate frequently atleast 2-3 times in a day.

Forums are some online discussion points on different topics to get some suggestions and also helping others by advising them if they know about that question. These message boards are available free of cost and people can post replies to many different topics. Forums are also called online community where users read and post topics of common interest which encourages feeling of helping others without any personal interest. I think this is enough introductions of forums to understand how exactly they could benefit websites. Now the question is how to start with forums? First of all you need to sign up with any of forums like: Digitalpoint, Sitepoint etc. and then you’ll receive a mail at you email id which you mentioned at the sign up form. Check out that mail for user name/password note these both at any private place which is not public because if someone has traced these he/she may login with these and could make spam which would ban your account and in future you’ll not able to login with this user name.

Now one more thing is how to populate your business with forums? Usually you have to post atleast 15 replies and your account should have been for 12-15 days old after that only admin or forum owner activate Signature column in which you can mention the website or business to populate. Benefit of adding website in signature is that you don’t need to mention it every time when you reply it automatically attached to every post. Some forums deactivate or Ban account if you provide the website in between of post so I’ll always recommend mentioning website in signature column to populate or spread business which ever you want.

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PPC: Does it affect traffic reports?

April 4th, 2008 | Posted in Affilaites, Internet, Webmaster, seo

Pay Per Click also as spelled ‘PPC’ one of the online advertisement program to bring instant traffic to your newly build business or may be used for older one also through paying some dollars to any advertisement company like: Google ads, Yahoo ads, MSN ads etc. is an advertising model used on search engines, advertising networks, and content websites/blogs, where advertisers only pay when a user actually clicks on an ad to visit the advertiser’s website.

Advertisers bid on keywords they predict their target market will use as search terms when they are looking for a product or service. When a user types a keyword query matching the advertiser’s keyword list, or views a page with relevant content, the advertiser’s ad may be shown. These ads are called a “Sponsored link” or “sponsored ads” and appear next to or above the “natural” or organic results on search engine results pages, or anywhere a webmaster/blogger chooses on a content page.

Pay per click ads may also appear on content network websites. In this case, ad networks such as Google AdSense and Yahoo! Publisher Network attempt to provide ads that are relevant to the content of the page where they appear, and no search function is involved.

While many companies exist in this space, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter are the largest network operators as of 2007. Minimum prices per click, often referred to as Costs Per Click (CPC), vary depending on the search engine, with some as low at $0.01. Very popular search terms can cost much more on popular engines. Arguably this advertising model may be open to abuse through click fraud, although Google and other search engines have implemented automated systems to guard against this.

Normally people avoid PPC because these are artificial traffic sources and not the organic which comes from Google or any other search engines.

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