Do you watch television? Do you like art? Do you love the sunrise? Do you like looking at attractive people? Well then you are a visual person, as most of us are who can see. And when you are a visual person, you will respond to images that you see.
For instance, when I see an ad for a cold Pepsi® on a hot summer day, I start craving one. Or when I see a beautiful piece of art, it calls up memories, usually of my childhood. It is visual cues that big advertising agencies and marketers have been counting on since print ads in newspapers and then of course commercials on television. So as online marketers, we should take our cues from these bigwigs. They have poured millions of dollars into marketing which prove that imagery works.
So with that being said, as you write and publish more articles across the web - you can get one leg up on your competition by adding a "visual element" to your articles - add an image.
If you notice, for the last several weeks (maybe months), I have been adding images to my blog articles on this site. Now while I cannot do that for every article directory I submit to - I can do it on my own site and I must admit that they look great! It gives my articles a more polished look, as I also strive for the images to serve as a visual cue for the article's topic.
Not only do I think they look more appealing to my readers, but reader statistics have shown that since I have implemented adding images to my articles - my site statistics show that people stay on my site much longer then they use to.
Where Should You Get Article Images?
Well, one time I was at a internet conference and one of the "platinum" experts there told everyone how she would go on Google, search for an image, save that image and then put it up on her site or her newsletter, etc. This was her advice to hundreds of people there! It was dead wrong.
Every time you "just grab" an image from a image search and place it in one of your articles, you are taking the chance that you are violating copyright infringement laws. Plus - many times the owner of that site paid a service for the rights to those images - but you haven't. Now I realize that people do it, but it's not right.
This is what I do instead:
1. I invest in stock photo images. There are lots of sites out there that have great low-cost images. You can buy subscriptions or pay per image. Price depends on the size of the image. Most blogs only need the xsmall image size.
2. I do searches for free images. There are a lot of free licensed media files out there. You can find a lot on the free encyclopedia sites online.
3. I do this occasionally, but you can always take your own photos. A quick shot with your digital or computer camera and you've got great images instantly. No worries about attribution.
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Selasa, 05 Desember 2017
Rabu, 29 November 2017
How Top Gurus Are Attracting Massive Blog Traffic and Keeping It!
Blogging is the in-thing right now and most businesses are realizing its value and what it can do for their bottom-line. Blogging creates a relationship because unlike cold sales pitches which can tend to be very impersonal, blogs offer a friendlier and sensitive side of either an individual, an organization or a business. This is why people prefer to read journalistic blogs as opposed to other types of web pages. Bloggers and webmasters have invested a tremendous amount of resources and time in creating and deploying attractive blogs but all this ends up being just one frustrating effort if there is ZERO TRAFFIC.
This is one of the most frustrating issues when it comes to blogging-how to get quality and consistent traffic. Many bloggers have gone to great lengths to monetize their blogs with all kinds of ads from various affiliate networks not to mention AdSense only to be faced with very disappointing results. While stories continue to circulate about bloggers making six-figure incomes, the majority of webmasters and blog operators continue to languish ever wondering what they are doing wrong. But research has shown that the majority of bloggers do not have as much as a clue as to how to attract quality traffic to their blogs and keep it. They continue day by day with the same measly results until they quit and abandon their blogs in disgrace.
But it doesn't have to be that way. There are a select few bloggers who are reaping massive profits from their blogs, regardless of how those blogs look, simply because they have cracked the TRAFFIC CODE. They have learnt the tactics that attract massive daily traffic to their blogs without as much as spending a dime.
How do these tactics work?
Blogging has become a full-time income for some people. This is because other than knowing how to monetize their blogs, they have exploited stealth methods of attracting a swarm of regular unique visitors each day to their blogs. In return? Six-figure incomes. This can be done easily by employing tactics that few know about and most of all, they are FREE.
Where do I get these tactics?
Many bloggers who make excessive amounts of money do not share how they do it but some do. Sometimes this information is not easy to come by. If you do a Google search for blog traffic, you will hardly get what you want unless you spend hours searching and in most cases the information you unearth is unhelpful.
Are you looking for expert ways, revealed by expert blog gurus themselves, on how to get quality blog backlinks and also drive a flood of unique visitors to your blog every single day?
This is one of the most frustrating issues when it comes to blogging-how to get quality and consistent traffic. Many bloggers have gone to great lengths to monetize their blogs with all kinds of ads from various affiliate networks not to mention AdSense only to be faced with very disappointing results. While stories continue to circulate about bloggers making six-figure incomes, the majority of webmasters and blog operators continue to languish ever wondering what they are doing wrong. But research has shown that the majority of bloggers do not have as much as a clue as to how to attract quality traffic to their blogs and keep it. They continue day by day with the same measly results until they quit and abandon their blogs in disgrace.
But it doesn't have to be that way. There are a select few bloggers who are reaping massive profits from their blogs, regardless of how those blogs look, simply because they have cracked the TRAFFIC CODE. They have learnt the tactics that attract massive daily traffic to their blogs without as much as spending a dime.
How do these tactics work?
Blogging has become a full-time income for some people. This is because other than knowing how to monetize their blogs, they have exploited stealth methods of attracting a swarm of regular unique visitors each day to their blogs. In return? Six-figure incomes. This can be done easily by employing tactics that few know about and most of all, they are FREE.
Where do I get these tactics?
Many bloggers who make excessive amounts of money do not share how they do it but some do. Sometimes this information is not easy to come by. If you do a Google search for blog traffic, you will hardly get what you want unless you spend hours searching and in most cases the information you unearth is unhelpful.
Are you looking for expert ways, revealed by expert blog gurus themselves, on how to get quality blog backlinks and also drive a flood of unique visitors to your blog every single day?
Rabu, 22 November 2017
How to Develop Link Bait For Aggressive Link Building and Web Traffic
A good link building strategy will ensure that your website receives positive link popularity and this will definitely help in increasing your overall page rank on different search engines. In a layman's language this means that link popularity is defined as the total number links to your website from multiple high-ranked websites. If a website with PR10 rank links back to your website then this will definitely initiate link building and enhance your page rank as well.
The most important type of link is the in-bound link. An inbound link is a link from another website to your website. It is not easy to drive a high amount of inbound links from high PR sites to your website especially in the age of high competition. But there is always a place to start!
Ideally you should start by identifying the various options for getting inbound links. One of the most popular options is content development and submission. This is one of the most effective processes for link building and will not cost you anything at all. The only drawback is that it is a long process and will consume time.
There are two parts in this process of link building: the first part deals with content development and the second part deals with submission. Content development constitutes research for informative content relevant to your target audience and website and creating articles with the help of the research. Content submission deals with submitting these articles in some of the top article submission directories so that readers and internet visitors can link back to your website from the directories.
The most important type of link is the in-bound link. An inbound link is a link from another website to your website. It is not easy to drive a high amount of inbound links from high PR sites to your website especially in the age of high competition. But there is always a place to start!
Ideally you should start by identifying the various options for getting inbound links. One of the most popular options is content development and submission. This is one of the most effective processes for link building and will not cost you anything at all. The only drawback is that it is a long process and will consume time.
There are two parts in this process of link building: the first part deals with content development and the second part deals with submission. Content development constitutes research for informative content relevant to your target audience and website and creating articles with the help of the research. Content submission deals with submitting these articles in some of the top article submission directories so that readers and internet visitors can link back to your website from the directories.
Rabu, 15 November 2017
Writing Articles Online - Creating Endless Article Ideas
If you are knowledgeable in your niche you should be able to create in total a list of 100 different questions that a newbie might want answering. Can you see how easy it is to continuously come up with new ideas for articles?
Further, what I would do is I would take each of the ten questions that I have just created and break them down into five or six points. So for question #1 - How to Get Started in Writing a Short Story?
You could create six bullet points:
- How to Keep a Note Book of Ideas?
- Keeping a Journal of Your Feelings and Thoughts
- Choosing a Point A View
- Writing Your First Meaningful Dialogue
- Setting The Plot
- How to Build Your First Crisis
Now, if you create your ten core questions and create six bullet points for each question you will end up with 60 article ideas.
Imagine if you created 100 questions and then created six topics for each one, you would end up with 600 ideas for your articles.
Sample Article From One of The Questions
Let's take the first question on the list I created above and create an article. Now remember, I know nothing about story writing or short story writing but I am sure you will take that into account.
So the article title will be: "How do you get started to write a short story?"
I tend to start with the body of the article and then go back to write the introduction and conclusion.
Here is my body of the article:
- In every short story you need a character that is after some good or bad, a protagonist if you were. The protagonist's goal must be to achieve something of significance. Choose your protagonist.
- This character will need some background to take them to the present day. What is it they have done so far to help them achieve their goal? Whatever you include in their background it needs to be morally significant.
- It's time to include and ramp up some emotional energy in the introduction of your short story. Will the energy force the protagonist to do something the reader is not expecting?
- At the end of the story your character needs to take make some kind of significant choice which ideally the reader will not see coming.
Once I have created a set of bullet points or numbered paragraphs, I can go back to the beginning and create an introduction.
Further, what I would do is I would take each of the ten questions that I have just created and break them down into five or six points. So for question #1 - How to Get Started in Writing a Short Story?
You could create six bullet points:
- How to Keep a Note Book of Ideas?
- Keeping a Journal of Your Feelings and Thoughts
- Choosing a Point A View
- Writing Your First Meaningful Dialogue
- Setting The Plot
- How to Build Your First Crisis
Now, if you create your ten core questions and create six bullet points for each question you will end up with 60 article ideas.
Imagine if you created 100 questions and then created six topics for each one, you would end up with 600 ideas for your articles.
Sample Article From One of The Questions
Let's take the first question on the list I created above and create an article. Now remember, I know nothing about story writing or short story writing but I am sure you will take that into account.
So the article title will be: "How do you get started to write a short story?"
I tend to start with the body of the article and then go back to write the introduction and conclusion.
Here is my body of the article:
- In every short story you need a character that is after some good or bad, a protagonist if you were. The protagonist's goal must be to achieve something of significance. Choose your protagonist.
- This character will need some background to take them to the present day. What is it they have done so far to help them achieve their goal? Whatever you include in their background it needs to be morally significant.
- It's time to include and ramp up some emotional energy in the introduction of your short story. Will the energy force the protagonist to do something the reader is not expecting?
- At the end of the story your character needs to take make some kind of significant choice which ideally the reader will not see coming.
Once I have created a set of bullet points or numbered paragraphs, I can go back to the beginning and create an introduction.
Rabu, 08 November 2017
Article Marketing Template - Reaching Customers Who Need Your Help But Don't Know it Yet!
Have you ever gone to a dinner party and been asked, "What business are you in?"
If your business is online, this can be a tricky question to answer. If you fall back on your usual answer of what your business is, and you start explaining things using terminology that is unfamiliar to your new friend, you will soon see their eyes glaze over and their mind start to wander. It takes special effort, especially for those of us who have virtual businesses, to explain our businesses to people in the "real world".
It is helpful to step outside of your usual circle of acquaintances and to try to explain your niche to someone who doesn't have the first idea what your field is about.
Why would you want to make a connection with someone who doesn't understand what your product is?
Consider that you might have potential customers who don't know that they need your services. For example, my usual target market is people who are interested in marketing their websites. Anyone with a website who is already interested in marketing it would be very interested in my answer to the question, "What business are you in?"
But what about business owners as a whole? Many business owners just think it's enough to have a website and have no earthly idea that they need to market it. I need to educate them about the potential of their website as a marketing tool and also teach them how to market their site.
I call this an untapped target audience--those who need your help but don't know it yet.
Let me ask you--who is your untapped target audience? Have you thought about writing articles to help spark their interest?
This article template is designed to help you with this. It is very simple:
Step 1: Imagine that you are at a dinner party and someone has asked you "What business are you in?"
Write down (or type up) your reply for this person in your untapped target audience.
Here are some guidelines for you:
*Be very general--remember that you are giving a bird's eye overview of your topic.
*Avoid niche jargon--use language that your grandmother or neighbor would understand.
*Focus on the needs of this person in your target market rather than on yourself. Your reply should not refer to your business, but rather to your niche.
*Include in your reply what types of people you serve (and remember, you're talking to someone who is this type of person but who just isn't aware of it yet).
*How does your niche benefit those in your target market?
*Write as if you're having a conversation with someone. You might need to do some backward explaining in order to get some of this information in so that it makes sense.
*Your goal is to demonstrate (rather than convince) that the type of work that you do could benefit this new friend of yours. You provide the objective information about your field and who you serve, and the goal is that your new friend makes the connection that he could in fact use your services. Alternatively, your goal could be that your new friend becomes interested in learning more about your niche. Many times it can take a person a while to warm up to the idea of needing new services, and it pays to be patient and accommodating.
Step 2: Now, it's time to look back over your reply and identify key ideas. These key ideas can then be used as article topics.
What do think--will you try this?
I have found this article template to be very effective at reframing my thinking and helping me come up with article topics designed to draw readers from my untapped target audience to my business. From using this template just one time, I was able to generate at least 8 laser targeted article topics that I had never thought of before. I hope it works as well for you!
If your business is online, this can be a tricky question to answer. If you fall back on your usual answer of what your business is, and you start explaining things using terminology that is unfamiliar to your new friend, you will soon see their eyes glaze over and their mind start to wander. It takes special effort, especially for those of us who have virtual businesses, to explain our businesses to people in the "real world".
It is helpful to step outside of your usual circle of acquaintances and to try to explain your niche to someone who doesn't have the first idea what your field is about.
Why would you want to make a connection with someone who doesn't understand what your product is?
Consider that you might have potential customers who don't know that they need your services. For example, my usual target market is people who are interested in marketing their websites. Anyone with a website who is already interested in marketing it would be very interested in my answer to the question, "What business are you in?"
But what about business owners as a whole? Many business owners just think it's enough to have a website and have no earthly idea that they need to market it. I need to educate them about the potential of their website as a marketing tool and also teach them how to market their site.
I call this an untapped target audience--those who need your help but don't know it yet.
Let me ask you--who is your untapped target audience? Have you thought about writing articles to help spark their interest?
This article template is designed to help you with this. It is very simple:
Step 1: Imagine that you are at a dinner party and someone has asked you "What business are you in?"
Write down (or type up) your reply for this person in your untapped target audience.
Here are some guidelines for you:
*Be very general--remember that you are giving a bird's eye overview of your topic.
*Avoid niche jargon--use language that your grandmother or neighbor would understand.
*Focus on the needs of this person in your target market rather than on yourself. Your reply should not refer to your business, but rather to your niche.
*Include in your reply what types of people you serve (and remember, you're talking to someone who is this type of person but who just isn't aware of it yet).
*How does your niche benefit those in your target market?
*Write as if you're having a conversation with someone. You might need to do some backward explaining in order to get some of this information in so that it makes sense.
*Your goal is to demonstrate (rather than convince) that the type of work that you do could benefit this new friend of yours. You provide the objective information about your field and who you serve, and the goal is that your new friend makes the connection that he could in fact use your services. Alternatively, your goal could be that your new friend becomes interested in learning more about your niche. Many times it can take a person a while to warm up to the idea of needing new services, and it pays to be patient and accommodating.
Step 2: Now, it's time to look back over your reply and identify key ideas. These key ideas can then be used as article topics.
What do think--will you try this?
I have found this article template to be very effective at reframing my thinking and helping me come up with article topics designed to draw readers from my untapped target audience to my business. From using this template just one time, I was able to generate at least 8 laser targeted article topics that I had never thought of before. I hope it works as well for you!
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