How To Use Internet Marketing For Your Blog

If you are like everyone else on the net, you are trying to get more traffic for your blog. Since it is highly likely that you do not have the time to implement hundreds of ideas to help drive traffic, there are a few big internet marketing tips that you can follow to get big results.

First and foremost, you need to focus on creating quality content. Great content will help to increase the likelihood of your blog gaining more inbound links from other websites.

It will also increase the chance of your blog being shared on social media, and help to establish a following that will continue to return to read your information and share your content. All of this helps to contribute to each of your posts getting ranked higher in the Google listings.

For each post that you write, do a keyword search. Decide on your topic that you will be writing about and then do research to find which keywords you should target in the post. You can easily use Google’s free keyword tool to do this.

Not only will this show you which terms are searched more frequently and what keyword you should target, but the search can also help to provide you with new ideas for your future blog posts.

Be sure to do search engine optimization (SEO) for each post that you write. If you optimize each post for one keyword, it helps the search engines to recognize the subject of the post and index it accordingly.

Once you have the keyword that you are going to target, be sure to incorporate it into your page title, throughout your content, your meta description, your image ALT text, and your H1 header. Do not try to put to keyword in the post to frequently, (this would be keyword stuffing), just mention it a few times naturally throughout your content.

You really do need to have your own domain name. If you do all this effort for SEO, it will be for nothing if your URL has wordpress.com or tumbler.com at the end. This gives tumbler or WordPress all of your SEO credit. Using a hosting service is fairly cheap, and all that SEO juice is credited to your efforts.

Make it as easy as possible for your blog post to be shared in social media. You can do this by adding social media sharing buttons to each blog post that you write. This makes it very easy for your readers to be able to share the content.

Google is now factoring in social shares into their search. This means that the more times your content is shared throughout social media, the higher your rankings for that content will become in Google.

Providing your followers with great content, relevant subjects, and an easy way to share that content with friends will not only help to increase traffic to your site, but will help to maximize your internet marketing efforts and rankings.

How YouTube and Pinterest Can Boost Your Online Sales

Are you using YouTube and Pinterest to promote your online business? If not, then you are missing out on some very easy traffic. Both of these sites have the ability to deliver thousands of visitors to your site each week. All you have to do is use them correctly.

The reason social media sites have become so popular for Internet marketers is because of the viral energy they create. Have you ever gone into YouTube and watched a video — and then noticed that it has had over a million views? It is not uncommon. How does that happen?

Well, any time someone uploads a YouTube video onto their Facebook site and someone watches it, that is reported back to YouTube and listed as one view. If the video is entertaining and all of your friends turn around and paste it onto their Facebook pages, and then their friends see it and do the same thing — well, you can see how quickly the effect can explode.

Imagine one viewer produces two; two produce four; four produce eight; eight produce sixteen, sixteen produce 32, —- in a matter of no time you are in the hundreds of thousands! You do the math.

But what kind of videos get that kind of viral movement? Obviously they have to be videos that are funny, entertaining, newsworthy or shocking.

Now imagine you put together a little video about your dog training site using a Windows program. If the video is nothing but slides about how to train a dog, your video is not going to be passed around. But what if you have a video about teaching a dog to dive off a high drive — and he does it! Do you think that might get passed around? How about a cute little puppy who refuses to give back his master’s slipper and keeps running away and trying to hide it? Videos like that can be golden!

The same is true of Pinterest, although Pinterest features still photos more than videos (although you can load videos onto Pinterest). These pictures can be seen by millions of people. The viral effect comes when someone sees your picture (called a pin) and repins it to one of their boards. The viral effect can be astounding — and each time the picture is repinned, a link to your site goes along with it!

Because most Pinterest users are women, the pins that get repinned the most deal with fashion, recipes, children and entertainers. Also high on the list are decorating tips. If you work in those niches, you can expect a lot of help from Pinterest. But even if you don’t, if you can find one of those subjects and still have it relate to your niche, it work very well.

Using Pinterest and YouTube are great ways to get more traffic to your site. More traffic means more sales — so don’t overlook these two great resources.

The Importance of Building an Email List

If you are an Internet marketer, then you know that the number one thing required for a successful website is traffic. Without traffic you will not be able to make sales. So the big question becomes how do you get visitors to come to your website?

There are many ways to optimize your web pages to attract traffic. Good SEO is important, and if you are not familiar with SEO you should check into it. You can also use forum marketing, Facebook marketing and other social platforms to promote your site. Once you have visitors, however, it is important to hold on to them however you can. That is why the importance of building an email list is understood by so many successful marketers.

Of course once you have visitors to your website, it is important to have informative and compelling material there to make them want to come back. If they don’t like what they see, even an email list will probably not help you to get return traffic.

On the other hand, people who like what they read on your site will want to know what you have to offer next. If you provide them with a way to sign up for an email list it will not be hard to get people to join. Some marketers offer a free gift to anyone joining their email list, and that is not a bad idea. For instance, one website about dog training offers a free e-book filled with tips about how to get a dog to do basic tricks such as roll over, sit, stay and sit up. Find something in your own niche to use as an inducement to join your list.

Once you have set up an email list it is important that you use it. Your subscribers should get used to getting one to two emails from you each week. Remember, though, that they are not subscribing in hopes that you will try to sell them something. They are subscribing because they want more information and they think you will provide it. So most of your emails should contain just that — information. It is okay to provide a link to something at the end of your email, but it should not be the focus.

Also, don’t fall into the bad habit of asking a question or posing a lot of problems only to force your readers to buy something to get the answers. I don’t know about you, but when I get emails like that I quickly hit the “unsubscribe” button. It is alright to present a resource, but questions asked in your email really should be answered.

People will join your email list because they want to believe in you. Don’t let them down. Don’t abuse their faith in you. You can drive a lot of traffic to your website through an email list. Just make sure that the information you send your subscribers is information they want and are seeking. Once your traffic is flowing you will better understand the importance of building an email list.