Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Are you interested in web promotion and web marketing? Have you discovered the power of article marketing yet? Are you attempting to attract additional traffic to your website? Are you hoping to make a lot of money online via your website. Now I am not sure how you have answered these questions, however I would have answered yes to all of them. Taking my last eight years of experience, I truly believe that writing articles is one of the best, if not the best forms of promoting a website and in this article I am going to write about what in my opinion are the best five article marketing websites to submit your articles to.
I have been writing articles for eighteen months and I must say that I aim to continue writing more articles as a way of promoting my own websites for many more years to come. This is because it has done wonders for my own sites and also because it is a form of free web marketing. I would strongly advise any person who is looking to gain more traffic to their sites to commence writing articles asap. As a rule I attempt or have a goal to write an average of one article per day. On certain days when I have more time or when I am in the mood for it, I write a lot more than just one, my record thus far has been seven in one day.
By way the best article marketing site has to be ezinearticles. It is important to be clear about their guidelines when submitting to this site as they do not accept any old rubbish, which of course has to be a good thing.
I also submit to articlealley, articledashboard, goarticles and ideamarketers.
I used to also submit my articles to searchwarp but they have had a bit of a disaster and they now use the no follow rule on all links in the author bio.
One other article directory which I have heard is very good is buzzle. I am yet to submit to this site but am likely to in the near future.
Stephen Hill helps to promote a number of websites including:
stammering treatment
anti aging products
anti aging advice
3 Steps to Creating A Knockout Corporate Logo For Dum Dums
A corporate looking logo can effectively make you look far more important than you actually are. By adopting this simple 1,2,3 step guide we can turn your existing crummy logo into a world beating effort - garaunteed to impress the ladieees.
Step 1 - Choose a dull font such as helvetica
In the world of high flying executives and corporate back slapping deals done upon yachts etc. the one thing almost all self-made millionaires will agree on is that you must give the impression that your company is a straightlaced solemn outfit. Standard fontfaces such as helvetica or times will signify your ability to fit in with suits without ruffling too many feathers and will be looked favourably upon by those all important investors looking to harvest some of their cash in your business.
Step 2 - Choose a dull colour such as grey
Battleship grey - has there ever been a colour more appropriate for the deadening nature of high corporate investiture? No, not by my reckoning at any rate. But surely a grey logo among a sea of other bland logos is just going to get lost isn't it? Hmmm, I've got to hand it to you, you're right but do you know what - if we add a smidgin of royal blue somewhere within our hypothetical logo we achieve the type of chin stroking brilliance that committee members and associate directors can spend literally minutes debating before abstaining to the golf course and soho massage parlours.
Step 3 - Choose a dull symbol such as a circle
Right this is where our creative minds get to have some fun. Do we put the grey/blue circle before the words or after? Above or below? Whatever you choose to do make sure it doesn't involve anything too clever or inspiring. Remember our aim here is to look 'corporate' and sensible not like some kind of fun loving chimps, you gets me. Right the logo should be just about complete and ready to enter the exhilarating world of corporate high life. To celebrate why not throw a lavish party inviting your corporate buddies like Dave and Steve from down the pub?
To summarise, what we want to achieve is an air of 'dullness' yet reliability. Choose a dull font, keep the colour palette strictly dull- nothing too interesting and if you must add a quirky symbol of some sort make sure it keeps well within the dull spectrum of ideas i.e. a circle or square. Corporate Logo Design is not rocket science but if you want to give off the right impression you've got to go with the flow. Right now where did I leave that bowl of cocaine I'm off to a corporate party. Toodle pip.
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10 Secrets To Improving Your Website's Conversion Ratio
10 Secrets To Improving Your Website's Conversion RatioBy Dean PhillipsAnyone may use this article free of charge, provided thearticle is not altered and the resource box remains intact.According to the so-called experts, a decent conversionratio is right around one percent. In other words, one outof every one hundred visitors to your website converts to asale.Personally, I think you should ignore what the experts say,and strive to achieve as high a conversion ratio aspossible. You should never be satisfied. You should alwaysbe looking for ways to improve your conversion ratio. Mywebsite consistently converts anywhere from 3 to 5 percent,and often converts as high as ten percent!Unless you're selling a big-ticket item and making $100or more per sale, it's extremely difficult to make any realmoney with only a one percent conversion ratio.Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and if yourwebsite is attracting hundreds or even thousands of visitorsa day, then obviously you can do quite well with a onepercent or lower conversion ratio.But what if you don't have that kind of traffic--and mostwebsites don't. Then what? What if you're selling a $20 e-book and you're only attracting a hundred visitors a day toyour website? With a one percent conversion ratio, thatmeans your website is making a measly $20 a day. And believeme, that's much more common than you realize.However, what if you could improve your conversion ratio to3 percent? 5 percent? All of a sudden, you're making $60 to$100 a day with the same amount of traffic. Improve yourconversion ratio to ten percent and voila, that $100 a dayturns into $200 a day!So, how do you go about improving your website's conversionratio? Here are some tips that should help:1. Make sure your visitors know what you do, the instantthey land on your website. Don't make them have to guess.Tell them right up front with a benefits-laden headline.2. Make sure the design of your website is up to par? Makeit easy to navigate. Get rid of distracting flash orstupid, meaningless graphics that are a waste of everybody'stime and take forever to load? Simplify your website. Getrid of the flash, graphics and pop-ups!3. Use psychologically effective colors. The color bluesuggests quality, trustworthiness, success, seriousness,calmness--the perfect choice for sales pages. Avoid purple,which connotes uncertainty and ambiguity, and only useyellow to highlight key words and phrases. In addition, tryto have as much white space as possible. This makes for amuch cleaner looking, easier to read website.4. Get your own domain name. URL's that contain nameslike, "Geocities", "Angelfire" or "Tripod" have amateurwritten all over them.5. Prove what you say. Back up your claims with cold, hard,indisputable and verifiable facts?6. Put your name, telephone number and street addresson your website?7. Use authentic customer testimonials, complete withfirst and last names? Just make sure you get your customerspermission first.8. Offer a fair and reasonable money-back guarantee? Thirtydays is good. Sixty or ninety days is better!9. Make it easy for your customers to pay. And offer avariety of payment options. I can assure you, if you'reusing Paypal only, you're losing sales. There are a lot ofpeople out there, myself included, that just won't dobusiness with Paypal. It's too much of a hassle!10. And last but not least, make sure you have a powerfulsales letter. A strong and effective sales letter can blastyour earnings into the upper stratosphere!If you aren't capable of writing that type of sales letteryourself, hire a copywriting expert to write it for you.Follow the 10 steps set forth in this article, and yourwebsite's conversion ratio will improve dramatically--and sowill your profits!Dean Phillips is an Internet marketing expert, writer,publisher and entrepreneur. Questions? Comments? Dean can bereached at mailto: dean@...Visit his website at: http://www.lets-make-money.net
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