7 Places to Get Web Traffic -- (1) SEO

In this series we have talked about the best places to get web traffic. We mentioned the number one way to get web traffic is on the search engines. We mentioned different forms of Search Engine Traffic and how you can choose between SEO, PPC, and learning it yourself.

Today I want to share a little more about SEO.

SEO stands for search engine optimization. It is a way of getting good rankings in Google in what's known as the organic results.

Organic results is just a fancy way of saying the regular site listings without bidding or paying for better visibility. These are the listings on the left hand side of the search engine result pages or SERPs and below the sponsored results on the top.

60% of web users first surf the organic results on the search engines before using the sponsored listings. Users feel many times that the organic result listings have more value because the search engines rank them according to relevance.

Most searchers don't feel advertisers are as useful to their searches and view them with caution. On the other hand organic search listings are many times seen as reviewed by a 3rd party for topical to their searches.

This is why organic search visibility is important for your website to achieve. We will touch more upon this in a couple of days.

Learn more about search engine promotion and web traffic at
Always On Top the eBook

Search Engines Gateway to the Internet

In a blog last week I talked about 7 effective
ways to increase your website traffic. I wanted
to talk about the first type today: search engine
traffic.

Search engines could be understood as the gateway
to the Internet. In technologically developed
countries the Internet has reached market
penetration of about 50%.

So right away if you have a business that is on
the Internet but not getting search engine traffic
you are losing at losing at least 50% of potential
business.

No business can survive losing 50% of its prospects.
This is why investing in getting search engine
traffic is so crucial. You can invest in getting
search engine traffic in 3 ways:

(1) Hire a search engine optimizer (SEO) expert

(2) Hire a Pay Per Click (PPC) consultant or ad agency

(3) Learn Search Engine Promotion Yourself

Contact me if you would like SEO or PPC help by
calling 866-324-9669 toll free.

If you would like to learn how to do search engine
promotion yourself check out...
Always On Top the eBook

P.S. If you order the book today you will get a free copy
of Tube Traffic which shows you how to route some of YouTube's
7 Billion monthly visitors to your site. This is a great
deal.

I'll write later in the week.

Have a Blessed Profitable Day,

Turn Lemons into Lemonade

All of us as entrepreneurs will have disappointments. We by definition run a business at a personal risk.

In business we realize the 80/20 rule in many aspects of what we do. And we understand 20 percent of our efforts
will yield 80% of our sales results.

Just take it to heart that when you try something new to expand your business or get financing there is an 80% chance that you may fail. Therefore, failure becomes
your friend.

Because with time you learn what works for you and what doesn't. Then you drop the things that don't work and adapt the things that do work.

Don't get bitter or sour about your failures. Look
forward to some failure as a path to become more
successful.

Turn bitter or sour lemon experiences in your business
and turn them into lemonade. For instance I just
experienced one of the worst periods in my life.

I was diagnosed with a form of cancer and underwent
4 surgeries and 9 weeks of chemo. I spent a lot of
time waiting for doctors and recuperating.

Rather than getting bitter I put together my eBook at
RaiseCashFast.com which is turning into a huge suc.cess.

I took a very bad situation and turned it into something
valuable. When life throws you some sour bitter events
turn lemon into lemonade.

P.S. I look forward to sending you some valuable fr.e.e
gif.ts next week to help with marketing your biz online.


Have a profitable day,

Kamau


Bio: Kamau Austin helps Businesses
Survive, Rise, and Thrive Online Sharing
Search Engine and Social Marketing Strategies
Check-Out his latest training system at...
Always On TOP or
Learn how to finance Your Internet Business at...
Raise Cash Fast

7 Get Places to Get Web Traffic

Why do business online if you aren't seen? Does your
product or service deserve to make a statement, build
a brand, and make some sales?

Of course they do, if not why would you invest your
time into the hard work of developing a company? If
you have a valued product or service that deserves to
make a splash in the online marketplace you have to focus
on promoting your company.

Some of the best ways to promote your website are:

(1) Search Engines

(2) Articles Distribution Sites

(3) YouTube and MySpace

(4) Ning and other Web 2.0 sites

(5) Blogs

(6) Forums

(7) Affiliate Programs

I will be discussing the pros and cons of using these
methods in the near future on my blogs, sites and
newsletters so stay posted. This is an exciting time
to be involved in web marketing -- and we'll explore
how and why!

P.S. Learn How to Promote Your Business Effectively with
The latest eBooks on search engine promotion, YouTube
Traffic,and even how to finance your Internet business at...
Always On Top

Have a Profitable Day,

Kamau

Bio: Kamau Austin helps Businesses
Survive, Rise, and Thrive Online Sharing
Search Engine and Social Marketing Strategies
Check-Out his latest training system at...
Always On Top or
Learn how to finance Your Internet Business at...
Raise Cash Fast

Is Race Still a Factor in Marketing Online?

I design search engine friendly websites as my main
business. I had my picture on my site and received no
quote inquires from non-blacks unless they were targeting
the African American market.

I take my picture off my site and I get quotes from all
people. People may buy ebooks from Willie Crawford and
Stephen Pierce but they have transcended race because white
gurus have given them the stamp of approval because of
their undeniable genius. They have become a part of the
inner circle of online Gurus.

But in ten years of Internet marketing we have only two
people who are black in the inner circle. This is sad.

There are young black Internet marketers who are just (if
not more successful) than Steven Pierce and Willie Crawford
who I both deeply respect.

For Instance Dante Lee and Veda Brown of Black News and
Black Gospel Promo respectively make over 500,000 dollars a
year in online sales and they aren't even known in IM
circles. There are Hip Hop related entrepreneurs making 6
figures or millions with websites who aren't acknowledged
for their IM savvy at all.

So we still have an old boy network in IM who are elitist
and out of touch with what is going on in niche ethnic
markets. Then there is the issue that selling IM to black
target markets is very tough.

Quiet as it is keep Willie Crawford and Steven Pierce stay
away from targeting the African American online community
because they are a really hard sell. No one know why it is
hard to get blacks to buy from blacks online but it is a
reality.

I am starting to make good inroads into selling to the
African American community but it is taking every bit of IM
knowledge and insight I have learned the last 9 years as an
Internet marketing.

Race does matter when selling to the African American
market online. But it shouldn't be an excuse not to do
well online.

Look at Barack Obama's campaign. I saw "Rednecks for
Obama" the other day! I never thought I would see the day
a Black man might win the presidency for the US in my life
time.

If a Black man can be a serious candidate for President and
transcend race in the US we in IM can do it too. It will
be a challenge to do so - we still have to be twice as good
to get half as far.

Bio: Kamau Austin helps Businesses
Survive, Rise, and Thrive Online Sharing
Search Engine and Social Marketing Strategies
Check-Out his latest training system at...
http://www.AlwaysOnTopBook.com/ams.htm or
Learn how to finance Your Internet Business at...
http://www.RaiseCashFast.com

How can You Really Make Money in Affiliate Marketing?

A recent person in a forum asked if one could really make money with Affiliate Programs. They seemed really demoralized with the whole process. The following is some of my experience with Affiliate programs.

I can feel this writer's pain. I have been there done that.

I consider myself a fairly intelligent person who for years
tried everything to get some affiliate sales. I began to
feel the affiliate business was just bull.

I did some SEO research and discovered a niche that had a
lot of traffic. I went to Click Bank and found some
products.

Then I started to sell an eBook in my niche. However the
companies weren't reputable and Click Bank got rid of them.

I tried to do a direct partnership deal but got ripped off
for my commissions. Later I began to do well with Adsense
and partnered with people with good products and created
affiliate programs. Some of these people never considered
their own affiliate programs before.

Eventually I created my own products. But it all starts
with finding a niche people are passionate about. You can
tell this type of niche by search traffic and the number of
ads carried on Adwords.

Kamau Austin helps Businesses
Survive, Rise, and Thrive Online Sharing Search Engine and Social Marketing Strategies Check-Out his latest training system at...
http://www.AlwaysOnTopBook.com/ams.htm or

Learn how to finance Your Internet Business at...
http://www.RaiseCashFast.com

Today's Web Marketing Q&A

Someone asked the following question:
Question Do You Need a Website to Make 6 Figures Online?

My Answer Below:
These days you lose creditability if you
don't have a website. People don't think
you are current.

There are online marketers who make 6 figures
without their websites being the main marketing
channel. But they have websites if for nothing
more than informational purposes.

A website is considered essential today almost
like a phone. If you told someone you were in
business but didn't have a phone they won't take
you seriously. A website isn't quite there yet but
it almost is considered as essential by most people.