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How to convince webmasters that they should link to your site

Suppose that you have a great website with great content. Your web pages are perfectly optimized for visitors and search engines and you have found many related websites that could link to your site.

How do you convince these websites that they should link to your website? Here are five tips that will help you to convince other webmasters.

1. Offer something in return

The easiest thing that you could offer is a link in return. However, not all webmasters want to exchange links.

There are many things that you could offer in exchange for a link. This could be a discount for your products, an ad on your website or even a simple hint.

If you find a broken link on a website, inform the webmaster about the link. Tell him that your own website might be a good replacement for the broken link (if it is).

2. Ask your current link partners

If another website already links to you then they might add another link to a different page on your website.

Getting a second link from existing link partners is much easier than getting new links because you don’t have to explain yourself anymore. The other webmaster already knows you and your site.

3. Make friends with people from your industry

Networking can help you to get links to your website. This works best with blogs that are related to your website.

Contact the blog owners and compliment on their sites. Do not ask for a link in your first contact. When you’ve a good relationship with the blog owner, you might inform him about a new product or a new article that you’ve written.

Chances are that you’ll get a link from the blog then. These links from related blogs have a great impact on the position of your website in Google’s search results.

4. Show that other webmasters already linked to your website

It’s easier for people to do something if they see that other people have done the same thing before. If many other websites link to your website, you could mention this in your link request.

If a well known website mentioned your site, that’s even better: “As you might have seen on NYTimes.com, we’ve published a new product. This might be interesting to the visitors of your website.”

5. Offer something that other people don’t have

This is the easiest way to get links. If you have a report with ground-breaking new information or something other that’s very interesting and only available on your website then it will be very easy to get links to the page that contains that information.

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Published: March 30, 2009

10 easy Steps to Sell in desperate times

Follow these effective tips and tricks to get your customer to want to do business with you!

1. Know your customer:
Find out what the needs of the prospect are and why they want to do business with you.
2. Watch your body language:
It’s what you don’t say that tells the most about you. Let your body language come over as assertive.
3. “Dress maketh a man”:
Ensure that you are dressed for the occasion. Rather dress up to create a controlled image.
4. Let your voice complete the picture:
Rehearse your sales pitch so that it is word perfect and that your voice is strong and confident. Avoid the ‘uhms’ and ‘ers’.
5. Have the right sales pitch for the right prospect:
Every prospect has different needs – so ensure that you are pitching around those needs.
6. Have confidence in your product / company:
Know 10 times more about your product than what you are going to present. Knowledge is power!
7. Get the prospect emotionally involved:
If it ’feels’ good to the prospect he/she will make the decision to buy-in.
8. Create a high Impact:
You have only one chance to make the sale – if you mess up, that door will forever be closed to you.
9. Let your slides / exhibits enhance your sales pitch:
Use them when you need them and use them to create the emotion.
10. Have the courage to break the chains of conformity:
Be yourself. Have a pitch and style that is you and one that allows you to be remembered.

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Published: March 25, 2009

What is a traffic Exchange

A traffic exchange website receives website submissions from webmasters that join traffic exchange networks. The person who submitted the website then has to browse other member sites on the exchange program to earn credits, which enable their sites to be viewed by other members through the surf system. This increases the number of visitors to all the sites involved.

Exchanges enforce a certain credit ratio, which illustrates the amount of websites the surfer must view in order to receive one hit through the program for their promoted website. Many sites offer the ability to upgrade one’s membership level for a more equal credit ratio.

As the viewers are all website owners or affiliates, it is possible that some might find certain member sites interesting and thus make note of them on their own sites, sending more traffic their way. Most traffic programs also impose a time limit when members are browsing, ranging from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. Some incorporate the use of captcha to ensure user interaction.

Almost all traffic exchange programs are free, although many of them offer special features to paid members and offer credits for purchase. Almost all traffic exchange programs encourage users to build their own referral networks, which in turn increases the referrers’ amount of credits.

The traffic generated in a traffic exchange can be leveraged by using a downline builder to assist the user in building a referral network in the many different traffic exchanges.

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Published: March 22, 2009

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Working from home tips

Almost all people would love to ‘sack the boss’ and work from home. Working for somebody else really means they take all the profits from your expertise and time – and would not it better if a job working at home meant all your time and expertise profited you instead?

The 1st thing you must do before anything for your work at home business is to find a niche or a topic.

One lesson to always remember: The money is in the niche. Even without a subscriber list, it’s still possible to make wads of cash online. But without a hyper-responsive niche, a business is a dead duck. It’s no use working

Mind you, having said that, a subscriber list is powerful and really you should include that in planning your online home business. It is easy to do and relatively cheap to implement. Promoting the niche of your selection becomes viral with a good autoresponder system.

Note first though: you won’t succeed unless you take this seriously. Your work from home business must be treated as such – as a business. See it as replacing your current employment – in full or part-time – that doesn’t matter – but being serious about a work at home job is critical – or you will just wander around, unfocused, collecting information and letting it gather dust. Or worse, you will waste a lot of time – and let’s face it – that’s money – your time has value!

It is a business; it is home employment – only it is not working for a boss! As a job – which it is – it has none of the negative aspects of working for someone else. As you develop the business and start to obtain results – the idea of it being a job or employment will dissipate and it will become something else – fun (gee!), a challenge, a new career and life!

There’s a direct correlation between passion and income. It’s all important that you enter a niche you won’t become tired with. You could be working in this niche for the rest of your life.

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Published: March 21, 2009