Web Design & SEO For Small Businesses

Buying a Existing website is very lucrative if it is done correctly, since theses sites are already build and is bring traffic. You are benefiting from the efforts of others who have worked on this site. You can buy these existing websites from different websites, forums and auctions like eBay etc. An existing websites are sold from $10 to more than a million.

Buying an existing website has many advantages but it doesn’t mean it will guarantee you success. One of the top reasons to consider buying established websites is because of the traffic flow from various links and referrals, as you all know traffic is key for any online business. I have come up with strategies and things to look up for while buying established website, in the quest for buying existing websites if couldn’t find the right website would be a nightmare.So consider the following steps below before buying an existing website to make money online.

Traffic – all Internet entrepreneurs knows traffic is vital for any online business. The sole purpose of buying an established website is because of the traffic the website is generating. There are several ways to find traffic of an existing website. Before negotiating with the website owner you need to get website stats or raw log from the website host. Although there are several online tools out there to give you an idea of what kind of traffic and an approximate amount of visitors it is receiving every month, asking the owner for more details is important. You need to get at least 6 months old data to come to the conclusion weather the website is receiving consistence traffic. Also these data will give you more details about the website weather the traffic is coming from search engines, referral links or directories. Even if the established website is generating traffic you need to know from where it is coming from some of the website owners try to create fake traffic from link farms and other kinds of black hat techniques which will get the website banned from search engines. The Quality visitors which you need to look up are search engines traffic, traffic from authority sites and Directories. This traffic is genuine and targeted traffic, so if you buy this established website there would be potential of generating more money online.

Domain age – Domain age of the existing website is important to not only since it is established but also in the eyes of the search engines. An older domain has value because it has been online for a longer period of time. Usually it is hard to find older existing website for sale because it is costly as well as hardly anyone sells because of their effort they have put into it. But if you are lucky by chance and able to grab one check for the domain age you can do that using who is of their website. But some time the domain owner has the option to make who is information private. In this situation you can either ask the owner or check the website in way back machine tool to find. Usually this would help you to determine the age of the website domain name. An Idea old domain should be at least 3 years old.

Unique content – When you buy an existing website you need to get the ownership of the content as well. One of the reasons you are buying the website is because of this unique content. Always looks for quality and good content with lots of pages. If the website has quality content you will have the potential to grow, it will have loyal and regular visitors.Also before you buy you need to check weather the same website content is been duplicated elsewhere. You can do that by typing the content within “content” in the Google search box. If it is unique the search results will show only one site who is the original owner of the content. Also make sure the owner has the full ownership of the content otherwise in future you will be trouble.

Page Rank – Page Rank is very important for a website; it shows the authority of a website in which ever niche it is. A website builds up its page rank via links from other website. My advice is to go for a website which has a page rank higher than Five. A PR 5 website should have good quality links from other authority sites from the same niche. This gives you an advantage in future selling of your site or its growth. A website gains its page rank through quality links as well as if it is older domain the chances of getting higher page rank is high.

Link Popularity – Link popularity is important for any website to rank higher in search engine results. Google, Yahoo and MSN algorithms is build with link popularity the more quality links the website has the chances of ranking higher in Search Engine Result
Pages (SERPs). You can check the links of an existing website by typing this “link: www.domainname.com” command in the Google or any other search engine search box. Right now MSN has stop allowing showing the Link popularity command. There are also other tools which will show you the link popularity like www.marketleap.com or if you do a search in Google you can come up with different tools for link popularity.

Monetization opportunity – You need to check weather the existing website has the monetization opportunity. If the website is in a good niche and has good amount of traffic you can monetizes. There are several ways to monetize like advertisements, paid links, reviewing products and affiliate marketing. The whole purpose of buying an existing website is to make money online through website monetization.

Amazon associates program has launched a version of Amazon Widgets. This Widget is a configurable tool which will allow showing featured Amazon products on your blog, website or social networking pages. This easy to use widget comes with features like post your comments about the products; choose colors to match with your blog or website. For me this widget looks like another extension of their Associate program since it is offering 10% referral fees if someone purchase products through this widget.

The Option of Amazon Widget 1) Slideshow – You can choose product images from the Amazon catalog and show that as a slideshow in your website, this also allows to add comments on the selected products.

2) Make Favorite – This option allows you to recommend certain products which you like to your visitors it will show the images of the product, price and rating also you can resize the widget length and width.

 

3) Quick links – This option allows you to build links to Amazon products without visit their associate central page. Just by adding a custom HTML tags it will allows you’re to write your own content, Amazon recommends to all associates and bloggers to use this tool since they write their own content.

4) Wish List – This Amazon wish list allows your friends and family members to let your know what you want.

5) Product cloud – You can create tag clouds choosing a particular category or theme related to your site. This will display all the product titles in that category also you have the option to resize and color pick.

6) Amazon Unbox Video Previewer – This widget shows movie and TV network previews from a wide range of new release, old and classic movies and TV shows available with Amazon Unbox video down load service. Amazon associates can choose from attributes, genre, to preview it on their website.

For more detail your can visit their Amazon associate blog. Also they are planning to add more widgets in the future. Also you think you can certain idea about the new widget or feedback your can write to them as well.

 

 

A new blogging tool called blogrush has been recently launched by John Reese, a renowned internet marketer. This tool will help bloggers to drive more traffic to their blog from other relevant bloggers. You need to place the code of the blogrush widget inside your blog which will display 5 blog titles relevant to your blog category. 

How this BlogRush work with your blog and bring traffic

When ever someone visits your blog the widget will be displayed with a set of blog title links and you will earn credits each time. For example if your blog gets 1000 page view a day, what does this widget does is that you will have one of your post title displayed 1000 times with other category blogs related to yours. This program allows you to have a referral link once you have signed up, by that way you will get a chance to invite other bloggers to join and increase traffic to your blog. 

Each signup will get you more credit as well as you will get a chance to display more blog titles inside the widget if you refer more bloggers to this blogrush. This will really help bloggers if someone with higher traffic blogs signup. If you visit the home page of BlogRush.com there is a cool video about this. 

So why wait signup for BlogRush.

As you all know traffic is the key for success in blogging. There are several methods to generate traffic to your blog. I have listed a few of them for your review. Blogging can be a non motivational if you can drive traffic to your website. Most of the bloggers abandoned their blog after some time due lack of traffic and making no money online. Traffic building can be tedious job so you need to follow a systematic way and have patience through out your blogging career. 

Search Engine traffic is the best and the most effective traffic than any other form of website traffic. To get tons of traffic from the search engine it takes time but there are other source and ways to increase traffic. 

#1 Submit articles to Article directories this is one of the tedious since it takes time and effort to gain traffic from search engines. If you submit articles to these article directories you can find traffic and well as help you blog get indexed and know to the outside world as well. You will also gain links from these directories which search engines love and increase your search engine ranking. If you are articles are of quality you can get couple hundred of visitors to your blog every day immediately. 

#2 Publish your blog posts with RSS feed, this can increase your RSS subscription and you readership base as well. The RSS feeds give an option to subscribe in a reader so the reader can view your content and headlines without actually visiting your blog. This can save time of your visitors with the click of a button. There are several RSS service providers I would recommend Feed burner also there is Firefox live text which is compatible with Firefox browsers. 

#3 Create contests on your blog and give away prize which can increase traffic. Bloggers have found success with giving away prizes to its readers and reviewing your blog in theirs. This can create buzz in the blogsphere and spread the word about your blog and your contests. This strategy has seen bloggers getting tons of traffic from different sources. Ipods were some of the hot prize in these contests by several bloggers and it paid of well for the bloggers due the traffic it generated for them. They earned the money through that traffic generate income for their blogs.  

#4 Create review of your blog with A-list blogger’s Top bloggers are ready to review your blog for a fee. Usually you can go through sites which offer this program and you can find bloggers which have a huge readership to review about your site. This can increase traffic for some bloggers. This can be an expensive strategy to get traffic but worth the money if you get the right blogger the make the review.  

#5 Do Press Release of your blog launch or if you blog is different from others create a Press Release to the directories like PRweb.com, business wire and freepressrelease.com to name a few these press release can generate massive traffic as well and links to your blog. Press Release can be seeing in Google news and other related online news which leads traffic to your blog.

 #6 Optimize your blog for Search Engines, SEO or Search Engine optimization is a way to increase traffic from search engines. It is a combination of several factor content, links and several optimization factors, there are several e-books online to educate yourself about SEO. To find results of your SEO may take some time. 

The bottom line is increases online traffic begins to bear fruit continue that and you can see snowballing effect, to have continuous traffic to your blog your need to make this effort consistent.

It is every bloggers dream to get traffic to their blog, to increase their RSS subscribers, Make money online with blogging. But where the traffic does comes to the blog if you have tons and million of blogs being started every day. Here is a good idea to create blog posts with long tail keywords. Let me explain about long tail keywords before I proceed. Long tail keywords are keyword phrases which are really long than small keywords.

You can take advantage of the long tail keywords in your blog only by having volume blogging which I mentioned in my previous blog posts. If you can write tons of posts using these long tail keywords you blog will bring a lot of traffic and which eventually is important to be a successful blogger.

Some of the places where you need to use the long tail keywords on your blog.1)     Title of the blog should always where you need the long tail keyword to be inserted. So it will appear in the search engine results and visitors will click on it and visit your site.
2)     Sprinkle the long tail phrases all over the blog posts but don’t over do it, if you start stuffing keywords in my blog search engine spiders treat that as spam and it can hurt your search engine results.
3)     Create categories in your blog with long tail keywords this can help to get some extra traffic to your site.
4)     Anchor text link your long tail keywords can also be used with the anchor text to that link to that posts.

Long tail keywords are so important because these keywords will lead to higher conversation rates. The key phrases which visitors types in search engines are more high targeted visitors and can be potential buyers as well. Since there are no competitions for these keywords you will rank immediately in search engine results. More the long tail keywords you use more the traffic your blog will generate. This increases visibility of your blog in search engines.

The bottom line is try write blog posts with unlimited number of long tail keywords.