Web Design & SEO For Small Businesses

I have been looking for blogs which has the highest traffic, I decided to rate them by their Alexa ranking. The Alexa Rank is measured by the level of traffic a website receives from visitors who have installed a Alexa tool bar. Sites like Text Link Ads and Review me determines who much the link on that blog is worth. I know anyone can manipulate the Alexa ranking, There is a article on Dosh Dosh suggesting how to increase Alexa ranking by 20 steps.

Apart from Alexa ranking I also considered blogs which has good Page Rank and Back links.  Also If you know any sites which I would have omitted or do you think they deserves to be here please let me know I will add them to this list.

http://tech-buzz.net/  25422 Was just higher by 422 could not get into this elite list.If you comes across more blog which is under 25,000 Alexa ranking leave a comment on the comment box.
Author : Thomson Chemmanoor

Blogging has taken the internet by storm. Day by Day it has increased popularity and massive momentum thanks to its inherent dynamism that has besieged it into a position in the online media. As a new development, weather it is online or offline bloggers has become a victim to their own popularity. The rise of blogging as a part of the new web 2.0 development that has taken the internet by storm. Web Savvy internet marketers are now using blogging as a arsenal to generate leads and increase credibility and rise their ranking in their search engine results. Here some of the top six reasons why you should consider blogging from a Commercial angle? 

1) Blogging is fun, anyone can blog it is that easy. It is fun because you can write anything which you think about your business or personal thought, or any idea on which you like to write. The fun aspect is the interaction with other bloggers or readers who can post comments on your blog related to your blog posts. All those comments are user generated content which is search engine spider food.

2) It doesn’t cost you nothing or very little. Almost all the blogging software or tools are free WordPress is one of the best blogging programs on the web and it is standard one. You can have free blogs which doesn’t need to be on a unique domain name or you can buy a hosting for and a separate domain.

3) Blogging is fast, there is not technical know how to do a blogging if someone else have set up your blog already. It is as easy as using a note pad. The user interface is easy and anyone can use it. It is quite challenging to make the look and feel as you want but you can get the services of some experts in blog design to get it done.

4) Blogging Makes you an expert, when readers go through your blog and if they found the information accurate, they think that you are an expert in this field and will trust you more and gives your products or services a personality and make a identity within the blogsphere.

5) You blog is a virtual online real estate, you can turn that into a money making machine, by monetizing it properly through Google Adsense, affiliate programs, selling text links.

6) Blogs are search engine friendly, since blog content are fresh content which search engine spiders love, blogs content get indexed fast rather than the static html pages, If search spider find that you update your blog every day it will index every day of your fresh content and it will rank your website in search engine results and drive traffic to your blog. 

Bottom-line is blogging is a very buzz on the web, if done correctly it will produce results more than your expectations.

Author : Thomson Chemmanoor

E-mail marketing is one of the oldest ways to market on the web. You can’t send newsletter to all the people on your address book, because you won’t be able to get targeted visitors to your website or relevant buyers to your business. All major multinational companies use this technique to promote their products and services. It is pretty easy to build the mailing list but should be done carefully.  Email Opt in list provides the ability to generate targeted list of potential clients in which you can create a direct line of communication with your customers and increase your sales considerably. 

There is lot of ways to build an opt-in list1) Provide your opt-in list subscribers with quality information. Internet is all about information. Visitor coming to the website are looking for quality info on the topics which they are looking for.

2) Be consistence on your newsletter providing them on a weekly or biweekly or monthly. If you are sending the newsletter on the Tuesday of every week make that a consistence on all Tuesday of the week. Subscribers can easily unsubscribe if the ezine is not consistence.

3) Choose a nice newsletter template for your subscription which is clear and no too many ads on it. Readers are not comfortable with flash text and distracted with un-relevant ads. So sign up with companies or affiliates which are relevant to your industry. But that way there would be increase in sales and get targeted visitors to your website.

4) Use only important fields to capture the visitor’s information. The best information we should capture from a visitors are Name and Primary Email address. If you ask for more information visitors will shy away from the newsletter opt-in form.

5) Build trust among you and your customers don’t share, sell or rent your mailing list to anyone. If you loose the trust you will loose your business.

6) Use different techniques to increase your opt-in list by adding video and audio testimonials or information about your business. By adding video and audio it can increase higher conversion rates. 

How to Monetize Your NewsletterIf you have a good list of subscribers who subscribe your newsletter you can Monetize Your Newsletter and make money online.

1) Promote your own products or other people services like affiliate products which is related to your niche. Try to promote products which will bring in recurring income. You should be cautious about this while promoting products don’t overdo.

2) Write informational articles on your newsletter. To make this work you need to create very informative articles in your niche and break it up into two and the first half goes inside the newsletter or ezine and the rest inside your website at the end of the first part article on your newsletter put a link to read the rest inside the website and monetize the WebPages with Google and Yahoo ads.

3) You can increase membership to your membership site from your website by promoting offers in the newsletter campaign.

4) Offer advertisement inside your newsletter. If you have a big list of subscribers business are ready to advertise inside your newsletter. It might need some research to find the right advertiser in your industry but it is worth the effort.

5) Run your own email coaching program through newsletter. If you are running a coaching kind of website it is pretty good to run a newsletter campaign.

6) Train your subscribers to promote your products with tips and advice by that way you can sell your products. 

The bottom line is to make money through your newsletter is to build a quality list and build a trust between you and customers. This will definitely take you a long way to run a successful online business.

Author: Thomson Chemmanoor

During the 90′s people where buying generic domains names so that in the future they hope they could made good money. There is huge money in parked domains. With the popularity of pay per click program parked domains plays an important role. This is how it works if you have a domain which is parked you can placed Google and Yahoo ads on these parked domains and when visitors click on these links you will be paid for that. The best way to monetize parked domains is by having huge amounted of parked domains which generic names.Not all domains are good. Here are the few tips you need to do to buy domains.

1) Look for keyword rich generic domains names – which can get index faster in Google and can get some organic search engine traffic. Use keyword tools like Wordtracker or overture keyword suggestion tool to find keyword which is generic and can get traffic to these domains.2) Look for expired domains this doesn’t not be generic terms but domains which is expired domains with traffic, check the link popularity of these expired domains with traffic so that these domains will still be getting good traffic and can earn money by parking these kinds of domains. To find expired domain names you can get it from snapnames.com, pool.com and networksolutions.com.

3) Backorder domains this can cost you money but the chances are very little that you can get that domain when it gets expired. The tip for backordering domains name is look for websites which has good amount of traffic but it is not maintained and is going to be expired very soon. Keep an eye on these kinds of domain and website and create a excel sheet and check it out when it is going to get expired. If you are lucky in backordering those domains are like gold.4) Look for misspelled domains names of popular website and if it is popular buy them and park to earn money online through pay per click programs. Some popular website domains which is misspelled like craigslist.org get huge amount of traffic. Take advantage of these misspellings. It is a tedious work but still it is worth.

5) Once you find domains names which have potential start buying day by day and add a list. Even though a single parked domain just bring in a nickel or dime by if you have a huge portfolio of domain names you will be making tons of money.  Some of best place where you can park you domain names are
http://www.sedo.com
http://www.google.com/domainpark
http://www.directoryone.com/domain_name_parking.htm http://www.domainmart.com/broker/parking
http://www.domaindirect.com/parking.html   

The bottom line is having huge quantity rather than quality of the domains. All the effort you put in is just renew the domain once in a year which is generate a residual income with minimum or no effort.Author – Thomson Chemmanoor

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool for Keyword Identification and Keyword Research

If you are a SEO or run a online business you have already would be aware of keyword suggestion tool. Overture keyword suggestion tool is quite popular among Internet Marketers for Keyword identification and research. The reason is it is free compared to Wordtracker who charge $260 a year.

The benefits of overture Keyword suggestion tool are you can identify keywords which are very important for website content. It tells you how many times the key phrases have been searched on the web depending on that we can build website content for your website. It is also popular among the Pay per click professional who use these tools to build PPC campaigns.

Overture keyword suggestion tool is free from Yahoo. By clicking on the link you can go to Overture keyword tool.

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