If you have a site you’re trying to optimise for search engines that’s a blog, one of the greatest ways you can optimize it is to give it some link love. Consider putting up some or even all of the following types of links into every blog post you write. Here are three types of link love and why they’re good for your SEO:

Link to Yourself

Why give someone nothing else to look at on your site? Link in posts to other posts that are related to the topic at hand.  That way, when your visitor is done reading, they’ll find something else to look at. The longer they’re on your site, the more likely they’ll buy something or subscribe.

Link to Others

Linking to other sites in your niche does at least two things.  First, it shows search engines that you are relevant to your topic because of the linking between sites. The other site might allow track backs which will show as links and comments on their blog posts and this could also result in people blogrolling you, visiting your site and linking to you in their posts as well. Wherever possible link to sites with as good or better a page rank as you.

Link to an Authority

If you link to a site that has a high page rank on your site, this does several things. It helps with your page relevancy and can pull your own site rankings up.  It also helps readers understand what something means.  For instance, linking to Wikipedia is considered linking to an authority.  When you do it, tell the link to open in a new page so that a visitor checking the definition of a term won’t leave your website and not find their way back easily.

Have a most outstanding day.

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

With Thanksgiving in the U.S people around the world might be considering what they’re thankful for.  In internet marketing, there are a lot of things to be thankful for.  Let’s look at a few of them:

Google

Google lets us earn, lets us be found and puts a world of free information at our fingertips.  Yay Google! It really did change the way the internet works and the free available Google tools make being an internet entrepreneur even more profitable.

Social Marketing

Social marketing tools are free to use and help us spread the word about our product or service. They also let us mentor and be mentored to. Tools like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, Digg and other social tools can make our online pursuits much easier to do well at.

The Blogosphere

We can blog to be found, to find information and to sell products and services.  Whether you use a free hosted blog, a revenue shared blog or create a blog of your own, this is a great tool for SEO, for social marketing and for internet marketing.

Regardless of what you’re thankful for, cheers to your health, safety and success.

Have a most outstanding day.

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

If you’re an affiliate who’s been making money online by selling other people’s products for a while, you might realise that there’s big money available if you can launch a successful product of your own. This isn’t an easy feat and there’s a great of time, effort and money involved in promoting your own product but if it’s something you’d like to do, there are many ways to go about it.  Today’s post looks at whether or not to sell your electronic product yourself or get help from other affiliates.

Sell  It Yourself

If you want to work hard and reap all the rewards, you can set up your own e-commerce site with a shopping cart and sell the product yourself. Whether you’re doing an e-book or a membership site, this is a doable solution but one that will require an investment of time, money and resources. You do get all the rewards but the journey will require a bit more of you because you’re on your own with every step of the journey.

Get Affiliates To Sell For You

Just as you’ve sold products and earned commission from publishers, you could decide to go this route for yourself and try to attract those interested in affiliate marketing. Hopefully you’ll get some old pros as well as some newbies!  You can list your product on a site like ClickBank or for a low fee through a site like E-Junkie and get affiliates to help you sell. While you share in the commission you’ve also got people putting efforts into selling for you.

It’s a win-win situation for you because you only pay commission on items sold.  If you’ve got a product that really sells it can run practically on autopilot for you. Other people pay money to get the word out for you through setting up websites, investing in search engine optimisation and through pay per click ad campaigns. While there is often a set-up fee for you to get going and commission is shared, this can provide a great return on investment that allows you to reach a wider audience.

Have a most outstanding day.

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

We’ve all heard those stories of affiliate marketers making thousands of dollars a week by selling products from ClickBank. All the money pours into their account faster than they could hope to spend it and they simply keep on selling more and more all the time.

Promoting Products

But we have also heard the stories of people who join the site, try to sell a few things and never make a dime. Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes when it comes to being affiliate marketers, but unless you are one of the happy few who are really in the top league, you will want to try and increase your sales in some way.

The best way to do this is to look at what you are currently doing first. How much are you promoting these products? Are you really putting the most effort into it, or could you be doing a lot more to become a better affiliate marketer? The people who really are at the top of this particular money tree are always the ones putting in the most effort, so you’ll need to do that yourself if you want to climb even the hard to reach branches to be sitting up there with them.

The Next Step

The next step is to look at the actual products you are promoting. Are they the best sellers? Are they appropriate for your particular audience? Are they likely to bring you a large number of sales or only a few from time to time?

A big part of being a successful affiliate marketer with ClickBank is to work out what works for you. This site has plenty of useful pages on it, so read them all thoroughly and make the most of them. Being an affiliate marketer isn’t easy – but it can be a lot easier than you might think.

Have a most outstanding day.

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

If you’re new to internet marketing and want to learn more about exploring search engine optimisation, you might not know where to start.  Here are two starting points that you can look at as a starting point. You’ll find a wealth of information online to help you do these things on your own.

On Page SEO

On page SEO refers to things you do on your website to optimize it for search engines.  These things could be your headers, meta tags, site map and content optimization with keywords.

Off Page SEO

Off page SEO refers to performing actions in cyberspace to improve your website’s optimization.  Such actions could include:  commenting on other blogs, getting text links posted on other sites, pointing to your website in forum links and social bookmarking.

The above basic tasks are a great way to get your feet wet with search engine optimization. The more the search engines find your site friendly and relevant the more visitors you’ll get.

You’ll find a wealth of free information online to help you maximise your website’s potential for productive traffic. Read blogs, ebooks, forums and websites that focus on search engine marketing for great tips to help you get started.  Watching your site’s traffic and page rank rise can be like watching an exciting horse race.  A little bit of effort and research on your part can definitely bring you dividends!

Have a most outstanding day.

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