Internet Marketing Tips

I promised myself that I was not going to write about twitter, but then I decided on a twitter tools list for you to use. Find the list below.

Wordpress Plugins

Twitter Tools

This plugin Integrates with your twitter account so that you can choose which post to tweet.

Tweetmeme

This is the tool to use and so that people can retweet your posts.

Twitter Counter

Let people know how many followers you have and show off that social power.

Joomla Extensions

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Piwik and Google Analytics are both good tracking software to use for your websites. Piwik is an open source software package written in PHP and uses Mysql to store data and is hosted on your own server while Google Analytics is hosted by Google and only needs a JavaScript tag to be included

Piwik Analytics data is updated instantly after a hit to show live data on your site, where Google analytics gets updated after 24hours so no live data from Google.

I find that Piwik shows more accurate data then Google, I have both tracking my one site and it’s obvious that Piwik is coming on top with the tracking. All thou Piwik is still new, it gets updated with new features often. So not much features but they are working on some great stuff and best of all it’s free as well.

Google analytics comes on top when it comes to features, I like the fact that you can see and visualize data to see the trends of your websites traffic. I prefer Piwiks live tracking. I recommend that you use both to track and see conversions.

They are both very competing in tracking and I Will stick with both. Go to Piwik to see some features

I found a nice list of classified ads for u to use, some are classified ads some are social sites that you can use to place ads on. Enjoy the list!

1. webclassifieds.us
2. bargaintraderonline.com
3. freeadlists.com
4. olx.com
5. pennysaverusa.com
6. recycler.com
7. buysell.com
8. sell.com
9. classifiedads.com

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Most people underestimate the power of online classified ads, especially the free ones.

The power of classified ads is in affiliate marketing. You can place ads all over the world; just one ad got me 40 hops!

Now times that with a 1000 ads, it comes to 40000 hops. It’s crazy I know, but you can really make some easy bucks out of this when you promote the right products and niches.

Most common mistakes that people make in placing classified ads is duplicating ads over and over. This is classified as spam and you don’t want your accounts banned for spam at all.

The best thing to do is write about 50 different ads promoting your products that you are trying to sell.

So that’s 50 headlines, 50 descriptions, and if you have some Photoshop know how then I suggest you create a couple of images to go with that.

You will be amazed of the results you get out of this. The other benefits of classified ads are back links to your site even if people never go there. This will help in the search rankings and you will need to keep it up to benefit from this because most ads expire after a couple of days and it’s not permanent.

So start using this technique it’s not going to work if you are still reading this and not implementing this.

Here are some sites to try

craigs list
Gumtree

just search Google for more with this keyword “free classified ads”

Hello everyone happy April fools! Lucky for you this only comes once a year. This is just a quick post on the 1 of April.

I’ve noticed some nice April fools jokes today. Youtube is showing video’s upside down, nice one Youtube!

You Tube April Fools Joke

Reddit the social network has also done a nice april fools joke by changing their theme to look like Digg.com

Reddit.com April fools joke

Some nice ones out there hope you find some nice online april fools jokes.  Even our internet ISP played a joke by cutting us off the net for about 4 hours, now that wasn’t funny

Keyword Elite 2 is soon to be launched, and will be showing off it’s new features soon. There has been no official date released to the public.  The Keyword Elite tool is one of the best keyword research tools on the market and has set the way for many others that has followed its way of doing things.

I’ve been waiting for this latest update for a long time and I’m looking forward too testing the newly awaited keyword research tool.  Below you can see the Keyword Elite V1

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YouTube Direkthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7O9_J91VJ8

There are so many keyword tools out there that it’s not easy to make up your mind, there are some free keyword tools that could help but is very limited.  I have been using Brad Callen’s Keyword Elite for about two years now and this is just one of the tools that will stay in my side pocket.

Please stay register to my RSS feeds so that you could stay up to date with the release of  Keyword Elite 2

Last week Google anounced the new canonical tag. The new Google tag can help you specify your preffered domain. So instead of google seeing someting like this http://yourdomain.com you can now specify with the rel=”canonical” tag by just adding it betwean the <head> tag.

So say for instance you have you have a new page in showing up in google like this htpp://yourdomain.com/your-article.html. Then you can use the new tag specify the way you want it to be picked up like this. rel=”htpp://www.yourdomain.com/your-article.html”.

You can go to the google webmasters blog to view the full article.

How do you promote your products? Do you even know how to promote your stuff online? Ok lets say you don’t. There are a lot of ways to promote your products online.

You can make a YouTube Video about your product and demostrate how it works, there will be a few definite customers that will buy from there if they like what they see.

You can go the classified ads route and post an ad on all the classified ads websites. You can either find all the classified ads websites in your country or you can try and find international ad directories and post your ads.

Socialize with your friends on FaceBook and recommend your products in your status updates, everyone reads your status updates. You can also put paid ads on FaceBook you have an ad budget

Go the Twitter route and just make a twitter page and promote from there.

I like Squidoo, this is one of my favourite places to promote my products or sites.

Gumtree is an international ads directory. Very usefull and you are almost guaranteed to get a response from there.

Graiglist is another one of the famous classified directories out there, but they are very strict on what you advertise.

Google adwords, if you want fast and targeted results then this is the way to go, all though this is not free i’m sure you can work out your ad budget.

Write articles about your products or news about products and promote the article on Digg. You can also use press releases telling people about your great new product.

Now all you need to do is research what people are looking for. If you don’t know what to sell or promote, then I would say start with what you like. Something like a hobby or just something your passionate about.

Yes, I’m sure you always wanted to know how you can get some web traffic to your site, especially the free web traffic. Well it’s very easy to do once you know how to.

• Create a Squidoo lens, this is a web page you create on a social network and write about your toppic. If people like what its about i’m sure you’ll get a lot of traffic from Squidoo
• Create YouTube video’s, this is a great way of getting traffic, you get to put a link on the video profile and you can even advertise inside of the video.
• Facebook your friends, yes that’s true. I’m sure you have a Facebook profile, almost everyone now a days have one. You can send product reviews to your friends even put your business on there and much more. So if you don’t have a profile at facebook then I suggest you get one.
• Digg the O so powerful one, Yes Digg that’s write this gets you traffic sometimes lots if you have a great article to share with the world.
• StumbleUpon, get some traffic from here. This not very targeted web traffic but free.
• Do guest writing on other peoples blogs, that falls in your niche this is also a great way to build up your reputation.

There is a lot of more ways to get free traffic, just use your imagination hope this was helpfull please comment if you have some more suggestions. Thanks for reading!!

SEO like most of you know is a ever changing business. New techniques come and older ones go.

So today I thought I should give you just a little post on which techniques are outdated and you shouldn’t use in 2009.

So here they are;

1. Reciprocal link exchanges is a no-no.
2. Directory submissions is out but could still bring traffic from those sites directly.
3. Keyword stuffing, never ever do this. It will get you banned, besides it’s not professional looking and falls into black-hat techniques.
4. Link farms is a very poor way of getting links, never do this at all. Rather try and do 3-way link exchanges if you have more sites that relate.
5. DMOZ directory submission. It’s not worth it and no one is letting you in no matter how hard you are knocking.
6. .Edu and .Org domains. This will not give you better rankings and is devalued in the search so don’t waist your time.

These are just a few of many. Start of this year by setting your goals and reaching them.