The more links you have pointing at your money making websites, the better.  Why not utilise some free services to give yourself some link love and positively impact your SEO?  There are loads of ways to use free services to your advantage and today’s post will give you some great linking strategy ideas.

Write blog posts or articles with appropriately anchored keywords and long tail phrases on free sites. These sites that get human and internet traffic and can be very beneficial to you. Here are some examples of tools you can use:

1. Open a MySpace account and use the blog on it.  You could even open two if you have more than one e-mail account.
2. Open a Blogger account
3. Open a Wordpress account
4. Write HubPages and Squidoo Lenses
5. Try Tumblr and post regular updates with links to your work and articles
6. Add websites to community forum signature lines and free online profiles

Ping and social bookmark your posts on all the above sites!

Not only can you anchor keywords to your other sites within these free services but don’t forget to put your many sites (free and paid sites) on all the blogrolls.  Consider making a list of links to your free sites, hubs and other online pages so you can use the same blogroll wherever you go. This way, you create a big network of your own work which can positively impact your search engine optimisation and if people like what they see one of your blogs, chances are they’ll visit other blogs too so if you work in multiple niches you can refer people to your other sites ,especially where services are complimentary.   Happy linking!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Time management is an essential skill for entrepreneurs who find themselves being pulled in many directions at once. Besides using a task management timer as we recently suggested here at SeanSEO.com, there are other things you can do as well in order to increase your productivity. Problogger talks about how batch processing helps him and that’s something you can do with your various tasks to stay on target and reach your goals.

Here are a few time management tips:

• Emailing is something most people do throughout the day but instead of checking email every minute or two and giving it a chance to take you away from the task you’re working on, turn off your auto-notification sound or alert and check it hourly instead. When you’re in the middle of a task, don’t be tempted to check it in the middle.

• Sometimes it’s better to be invisible for a bit! Instant messaging and Skype are great but can be very disruptive. Turn them off or stay invisible other than in short periods of time per day so you aren’t constantly interrupted by those who want to chat you up.

Here’s a big one:

Use Social Networking as a Reward

If you use microblogging tools like Plurk and Twitter, only stop in periodically during the day. Save socializing (even if it’s productive socializing) for after you’ve completed a task to reward yourself. For instance, if you’ve submitted to article directories, go on Twitter and Plurk to buzz your articles after you’ve done them and take that time to spend a few minutes surfing the blogosphere or chatting with your friends.

Having a productive lifestyle does take discipline and you occasionally need to hide from online friends and force yourself to work before you can play.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

When you first set up a new website it’s natural to do all you can to make sure as many people as possible see it. Over time you learn that a small amount of targeted traffic is better than a large amount of visitors from all directions – many of whom don’t have any interest in your site.

Streams of Targeted Traffic

But you can easily become a victim of your own success. When your efforts result in a steady stream of targeted traffic it’s all too easy to sit back and relax, watching that steady stream continuing to come in. That is fine, but why don’t you aim for the next level and try and find more streams of targeted traffic to add to it?

You probably already know that the more people you can get to visit your site who have an interest in what you want to sell, the more sales you will make. That much is obvious, and you’ll get a much higher conversion rate of visitors into sales than you will from a general audience, who mostly just sucks up your bandwidth each month.

Methods for Good Results

So think about what other methods you can use to find more targeted traffic. Which advertising methods can you use to get good results? Can you do things for free which don’t take much effort to get up and running? Even if you have to tweak them or do a little regular work every now and again to keep them working, it’s worth it if you get a lot of visitors in return who are genuinely interested in what you do.

However successful you are at the moment, targeted traffic can get you to the next level of online success. All you need to do is sit down and work out how you are going to get there.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

Making money online is most often done when you focus on a niche. You might have several areas of expertise or focus instead of just one and this is OK provided that you really learn your stuff and focus on getting knowledgeable in that area.  Research and perseverance will ensure you’re maximising your profit earning potential. A niche will do better for you because you can get knowledgeable about a subject and your website will be better understood by the search engines who want to know how to categorise your site. Here are three tools to help you make the most of your efforts.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is really important in any niche and doing a bit of research can help you find popular and profitable niches.  There are all kinds of tools online that are free and available for a fee that can help you learn about the popular online categories and keywords to focus on.

Google Trends

Alexa.com

WordTracker

The above links can help you learn more about what’s being searched for so you can decide where to focus your efforts.

Knowledge=Power=$

Using tools to help you discover what people are looking and what types of searches are being done for a particular category help you learn to work those keywords into your content so that you’ll get picked up by the search engines for your targeted key phrases and increase your chances of getting clicks or making sales.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009

People love free stuff and there’s a huge online industry built on the internet user’s desire to win something or get something for nothing. Use the giveaway or contest to help you with several areas of online business.  You can use this to your advantage in internet marketing in several ways.

What Should You Give Away?

A free report, a gadget, even something small like a gift card or a free book can help you in several ways including: increasing subscribers, generating traffic, building a mailing list and increasing your SEO.

Subscribers and SEO and Mailing Lists-Oh My!

You can do the above in several ways including asking people to write about you on their blog with a link or referring others to your site. They can also write in comments on your blog as well as do social bookmarking to tell others about your contests.You can even really utilise the contest entry by building a mailing list and starting to build an autoresponder series. Use names of contest entries to try to sell other products or services of yours (do be sure you offer an opt-out link.).

In terms of building a following and getting attention, the small investment you make in a giveaway can result in your making more money online overall.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2009