Videos are great viral marketing tools that can attract a lot of traffic to your web site. They are similar to how article marketing is used to boost traffic to your web site. It is used not only as a marketing tool, but also as a tool for teaching online. Whatever its purpose is, business videos are great for supporting your marketing scheme, and is an effective way of advertising your website, enticing your audience to visit.

Ways of Profiting from Online Videos

A way to increase conversions and boost online profits, after driving traffic to your web site, can be done through the use of live video broadcasts, video emails, or video on demand infomercials by online businesses. This can add to the bottom line of your company.

People generally remember 10% of what they read and 20% of what they hear; but with the use of videos online, people can remember 50% of what they both see and hear together. People need time to process things before they can act on your message, that is why videos can help you increase their level of processing on what they see and hear, increasing your chances for profit.

Video broadcasts can also increase the response rate of people. If a call to action is actively delivered, with sincere enthusiasm and passion for your topic, then it is much easier to follow since they are especially more powerful action drivers.

Your time of building a relationship with your customers is also dramatically shortened since you can cut through the technological barriers of the internet, putting yourself online, allowing the people you do business with to know, like, and trust you better.

You can avoid spending unnecessary high costs for sending someone on the road to meet with your clients or to attend a meeting. The technology is readily available, and the effects of your savings are immediate and obvious.

You can also enjoy ‘soft’ cost savings that dwarf your hard dollar travel costs by sparing yourself the productivity drain and the physical and mental tolls travel takes on your employees, or even yourself.

How to Market Your Videos for the Most Traffic

Videos, when used effectively, can be a vital tool in improving your online business by using it as a marketing tool, such as advertising for your web sites. This can help entice your net audiences to do business with your company, depending on how effective it is as a marketing tool for boosting your site’s traffic.

One way of doing so is by taking advantage of free broadcasting. There are a lot of social networking web sites, as well as video broadcasting websites, that reach millions of visitors every day. You can take advantage of the sites’ free traffic and networking by uploading your videos to these web sites.

Use your video blogs to provide useful information to your visitors, just the same as when writing on a blog. You can pattern your videos to follow certain formats, such as a TV show, infomercials, or how-to videos, as long as you work around a topic that ties in your business. If your video is creative and useful, it has a higher chance of getting passed around to other people.

Do not forget to include your web site’s URL when editing the video. Place your web site’s URL somewhere during the playback. If possible, try to keep your web site’s URL on display or visible throughout the entire video. Placing it along the bottom of the screen is preferable, but at least display your web site’s URL at the beginning or the end of the video.

How to Make a Successful Video

Creating a quality business video for your online business is a difficult task, not to mention expensive. You need to make sure that you create the best video that will accomplish your goals.

One way of doing this is by determining the purpose for your video. Define the exact purpose of the video and state that up front to prevent the person watching the video from getting confused, especially if there are too many information packed into the video. You must have a single idea that you are trying to convey in your marketing video to avoid packing it with too much information.

Determine your target audience before making the video. Make your video pitch for whatever your target audience is. If your product is for the home, then let your advertisement pitch for the home. If it is more for the tech savvy, then you may need to use a different approach on the video. Keep in mind that your videos will be used by your online business to market potential customers, so make sure that your video will explain the virtues of a product by the company.

Make sure that your marketing videos are not overly lengthy. Keep the flow of information brief and to the point. Once somebody has decided to purchase or would like more information, then you could give them longer videos that will cover the details; otherwise, give information in small chunks.

The content of your video must be interesting in order to keep the audience’s attention, so you can get your message across. Some videos use humor and sex appeal, while others do not. If these are not what your video is aiming for, then focus back on your targeted audience and determine what they would appreciate from a video. Keep your information fresh and appealing to them.

You need to make sure that the audience can remember what they saw long after the video. Make the content interesting, yet memorable.

Videos are great marketing tools, especially for online businesses, since it can act like an advertisement for them. Making it accessible online makes it more prominent to your audience, especially if you carefully place it on certain web sites that can maximize its productivity.

Desi Videos is a site where you can find the videos of bollywood and indian regional languages.
]]> http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/how-to-make-online-profits-using-videos/feed/ 0 Jennet http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/which-article-directories-are-worth-submitting-to/ http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/which-article-directories-are-worth-submitting-to/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:53:05 +0000 Jennet http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/?p=35 ]]> Individuals that wish to drive free traffic to their websites through article directories need to know which ones are worth submitting to. Some article directories are obviously far superior to others. Anyone can start a directory so just because it exists doesn’t mean that it is well ran or will drive you traffic. If you have some experience marketing with articles, then you may already have an idea about which directories work for you. If you are a newbie, you might not have any idea where to start. In this article, we will discuss five of the very best article directories on the web. This is by no means an exhaustive list. There are many more very good ones. This article was written simply to give you a nudge in the right direction.

Ezine Articles: Ezine Articles is arguably the best article directory on the internet. The search engines tend to rank Ezine Articles really high, sometimes even without any extra optimization such as link building. Ezine Articles is so highly respected by the search engines because they critique every article that is submitted to them. If the article is not up to snuff, it is rejected. Therefore, Google, Yahoo and MSN can be assured that the information that they will be showing their visitors will be of high quality.

Search Warp: Search Warp is a very well respected writer’s community. If you are writing on a broad topic, you should be able to get a good number of page views. Search warp articles also tend to do well in the search engines.

Buzzle: Buzzle is another excellent article directory. You have to apply to become an author. They don’t accept everyone. An optimized Buzzle article can also help you reach the top of the search engines.

iTechno Article World: iTechno Article World is another well trafficked article directory. Your article has the chance of being seen by many people. Remember to craft a good resource box and pick your keywords carefully. You are allowed to place hyperlinks in the body of the article. However, if you want other webmasters to pick up your article and run it, don’t write your article as a sales pitch and only hyperlink your article at the very end of the article or in the resource box.

Go Articles: Go Articles is still a pretty good article directory. However, they have lost a little bit of prestige in the search engines. This may be in part because they do not screen their articles at all. Anyone can submit an article. There are no quality checks. However, because it is so easy to submit to, you should keep it on your submission list. It also is still pretty popular and you can pick up some extra traffic.

SALES, right? Wrong. And while that may be a worthy goal, it shouldn’t be your initial one. Why? Because it takes repeated (at least 7) contacts with prospects to get them comfortable with you before they will buy from you. The purpose of your ezine is simply develop and maintain a relationship. Research suggests that it takes up to 7 contacts with a company before a consumer feels comfortable buying from that company. Your job is to use your ezine to get in front of that prospect multiple times and move them towards a buying comfort level.

2. Find a non-sales purpose for your Ezine

You don’t want you ezine just to be about sales and discounts. As a new business owner you shouldn’t be running that many sales to begin with, so you need to develop another reason for people to hear from you. You want to develop the informational ezine – something that your subscribers look forward to getting because they know it will have some valuable information or something fun to read. You’re probably thinking about how to do this if you sell, say baby blankets. Simple – can you create a newsletter filled with parenting tips? If you sell a craft item, could you create a newsletter that was the craft of the month? If you sell jewelry could you create a fashion tips newsletter? Sure you could – you probably started your business because you were passionate about it – display that passion in your newsletter.

3. Develop Compelling Content

Now that you have a hook for your ezine, you’re probably wondering how to fill it with content. Look to your own experience, or if that doesn’t work, try finding a book on your subject and letting that inspire you to create how to articles or tip lists. You can also use Google Alerts to get emails delivered to you everyday about all the news and blogs about an area of interest. This can be a great source of ideas.

4. Consistency and Frequency

Develop a consistent look and feel to your email. Use an email newsletter program like iContact or Constant Contact. They have templates that you can plug content into and maintain the same look and feel. If your newsletter has sections, keep their order consistent – a quote at the top, a article in the middle, and a featured product at the bottom. Let your readers know what they can expect from you.

5. Frequency

This also goes for frequency. You need to commit to sending your newsletter at least once a month. Twice a month is probably better. You want them to either be reading you or deleting you on a regular basis. Even if they don’t read your newsletter, the act of deleting you can be considered a “contact.” As for optimum frequency, it will depend. Once a week is probably too often and too labor intensive for a full newsletter, unless you’re selling an information heavy service like consulting. You could also do a staggered schedule – one information newsletter and one “sales newsletter’. But establish a decent frequency from the start and the sooner new prospects on the list will be in the “comfort zone’ with you. At any given time on your list, some people will be hearing about you for the first time, others for the 5th and others for the 10th. So always include a way for them to link back to your products and buy from you.

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Throughout college I was always looking for ways to make extra money. I naturally started looking online because I was always researching stuff on my laptop anyways. I came across a bunch of sites claiming I could make hundreds of dollar a day doing simple data-entry. I found out the hard way that these sites are total scams. However, over the years I have worked with some legitimate companies and used certain techniques to make good money online. People always ask me how to make PayPal money fast, so I figured I would write up an article on some things that work for me.

One of the things that I like to do when I need to make money online is fill in some free offers at “Get Paid To” websites. These websites are also known as “GPT websites”. A lot of these websites only have offers that you need to pay for or you have to refer several people in order to get money in your PayPal account quickly. However, there are at least ten active and 100% legitimate sites that have free offers listed. A majority of these websites will pay you instantly or within 24 hours to your PayPal account.

Another solid way to make PayPal money fast is to simply offer your services at the many freelancing websites scattered around the net. If you have good communication skills, you should have no problem landing a job fairly quickly. You may not get paid upfront, but you can get paid immediately after completing the service. I personally like to offer my writing services to buyers. Now you have learned two great methods on how to make PayPal money fast.

Not only can you use the freelance bidding sites, but also there are several legitimate author marketplaces where you can pick up writing and data-entry tasks instantly. Once you complete them, the buyer will pay you through PayPal. I also like to work with five or six online answer services to make a quick buck. Some of these answer services will pay you good money to answer other people questions, and most of them pay you within a few days! So now you have learned several methods on how to make PayPal money fast. The crazy part is that these are only a few of the thirty or so methods that I use to make good and consistent money online.

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]]> http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/ways-to-make-paypal-money-fast-your-options-are-endless-so-just-take-action/feed/ 0 Jennet http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/high-pagerank-does-not-results-in-high-search-engine-rankings/ http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/high-pagerank-does-not-results-in-high-search-engine-rankings/#comments Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:15:23 +0000 Jennet http://itechnoarticlesworld.wordpress.com/?p=24 ]]> “Page Rank” is a very well known term to most search engine marketers. The affinity of Page Rank is heard by all for many good reasons. Google introduced the concept of Page Rank in 1998 and since then all search engine marketing professionals have been adopting strange strategies to up their rankings. Is Page Rank worth of all the efforts?

One thing which attracts people towards Page Rank is that it tends to reward people for their efforts on a scale of 1-10. Page Rank measures success quantitatively and a factor of happiness for both marketers and their clients.

Since its inception there is only one and one thing which has been extremely important for Google, which is the visitor of the website. Google has always told to the world that sites can achieve high rankings only if they focus on the visitor of the site. Make your site more informative and easy to use for your site visitors and you don’t need much in order to succeed in Internet Marketing.

Link building is no different than this. The same methodology should be used in link building. While exchanging links for your website you should keep in mind that the links should offer useful content, rich information and relevant to the topics showcased in your website. Instead of a link algorithm it should be you who should decide the relevance of a link your site connects to.

There are many genuine link exchange offers which are turned barely on the basis of Page Rank, rejections of such link requests results in a loss of abeyant traffic and search engine marketing opportunities for both sides.

PR followers will undoubtedly argue that links on a site with low PR will not help them. If we talk strictly in PR terms a site can easily get a high PR within months if it engages in a genuine reciprocal link program. Everyone should keep in mind that if Google changes it Page Rank algorithm it can easily bring the PR down from 6 or 7 to PR 2 or 3. Page Rank does not help you in achieving the desired ranking in Google search engine. Yes, it may help you in creating a good repo with your clients and first time site visitors.

I do not intend to nullify the efforts of search engine marketers, but I want my fellow marketers and customers to know the fact that Page Rank does not helps in achieving high ranking in search engines. What matters is the relevancy and neighborhood of the link.
I hope this article makes things more clear and understandable for those who run after high PR links and in the process miss good relevant links. In other words webmasters should pay attention to the webpage and not to the Page Rank.

Author: Guneet Singh is a highly experienced web optimizer with total experience of 6 years in Search engine optimization and link building. Many clients worldwide have benefited from his experience and have been highly satisfied by the results.

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Using your favorite Internet search engine do a search on “internet home business” and you’re going to generate a lot of results. While some of these are legitimate opportunities, some are little more than internet scams. Be careful whenever you see the promise of making large amounts of money in very short period of time. Especially when the “secrets” are being offered in a $19.95 e-book.

There are many people who are literally making millions in their own home internet business. How do you start a profitable internet business like this? The truth is, it all starts with having the right attitude. You must also understand that you are starting a real business. It may be an internet business, but it’s just as “real” as any bricks-and-mortar business out there.

You need to find out whether or not to incorporate, how to obtain any business licenses you may need, how much money to invest in your new business, register properly to pay any taxes that might be due, and comply with the laws that apply.

The good news is that the costs to start an internet business are generally lower than any bricks-and-mortar kind of business. You may even be able to set up an internet business that’s nearly free. For example, if you choose to get involved in affiliate marketing, you don’t even need to have your own website!

Which brings us to our final point; which internet business should you start? Well, there are so many choices from running your ecommerce store, to affiliate marketing, to selling your own informational products. You should spend at least a couple of days investigating your options.

There is a lot of free information on the web about internet businesses and plenty of discussion boards where you can ask what others recommend. I wholeheartedly recommend a information site about home internet business and products for anyone who wants the freedom, income, and lifestyle. http://ecommercecurrent.com.

What Article Directories Are?

Before you can use an article directory, you have to know what one is. Article directories are websites where thousands upon thousands of articles on just about any subject are posted. They are generally categorized to make it easier for readers to find information they want. They are also linked together, so a reader reading about “Hawaii travel” will naturally go from article to article on that topic. People can use the articles they find in the directories on their own websites, either for free or for a small fee. Authors pay nothing to submit to article directories.

How Article Directories Benefit Online Businesses?

You are probably thinking, “Sure, that’s great. But how does an article directory help me promote my business? Doesn’t giving away free content defeat my purpose as an online business?”

These are great questions. When you submit an article to an article directory, it will contain a bio with a link to your website. Since you are the author of the article, you are allowed to include this information.

This means that anyone who is searching online and comes across the article directory will see a link to your site. Not only that, but the people who use the content on their own websites are required to keep it exactly as it appears in the directory. This means that your link could show up on hundreds of websites.

Article directories are generally large websites. This means that the web spiders are attracted to them. Having your link on these articles is a crucial part of an online linking campaign.

How to Make Your Submissions Effective?

If you are going to submit to article directories, you need to do two things. First, you need to learn about proper keyword usage. You need the right percentage of keywords in your article, and they need to appear naturally within the content. This will draw the search engine spiders to the article, thus exposing people to your link at the bottom.

You also need to make your content unique and helpful. If your article is the same as thousands that are already online, other website owners will not want to use it. Also, if the information is not helpful, people will not read the entire article. Your goal is to have them read the entire article so that they will click at the link on the bottom.

Having helpful information in the article also helps the reader view you as an “expert” in the field. This is important, because you want them to have a reason to click on the link. If they are reading useless information, they will have no desire to visit your site. Also, proving that you are knowledgeable about a particular topic will show that whatever product or service you are marketing is worth buying.

What to Do if You Can’t Write?

At this point you are probably wondering what you can do because you can’t write. You are an entrepreneur and business owner, not a writer. The good news is that you have options.

You can hire a freelance writer to “ghostwrite” the article for you. Ghostwriting means writing the article in your name. Instead of placing his or her name on the article, the freelancer uses your name and your business link. You will need to pay for this service, but the amount you will pay for a quality article is far less than the amount you would pay for an advertising campaign, and a well-written article placed in the right article directories will draw more traffic to your site than just about any other form of advertising.

Where can you find ghostwriters? There are a variety of online classifieds where you can post your job requirements or search for available writers. You can ask for quotes to help you learn what the going rate for a writer is. Keep in mind that you will pay more if you have detailed information that needs to be researched or if you are working on a tight deadline. You can also hire a content creation company to help you if you require numerous articles that would be too much for one individual writer.

If you do use a ghostwriter, be sure that you proofread the article before submitting it. You may find that the writer did not approach a particular topic as you would have wanted. You can ask the writer to rewrite the material, but posting something that is inaccurate or does not sound well written will detract from your goal of drawing traffic to your site.

Risks of Using an Article Directory

There is only one main risk to using an article directory, and that is that someone will download your content and use it on their site without including the link. You can do some work on your own to check for this, but it is hard to police. However, the occasional unscrupulous website owner who uses your content incorrectly is a risk worth taking for the many users who will give you a link on their site.

Post Much and Often

Once you get the hang of using an article directory, post many articles, and post them often. The more fresh, relevant content that links to your page, the more traffic you will receive. Be sure to continually research your keywords, because the keywords that people search for constantly change.

Also, submit your articles to a variety of sites. The most popular article directories may not draw certain demographic of people. The more places that have your article and your link, the better your traffic results will be. Since these sites are free to use, you might as well submit to as many as you can.

In saying this, one factor has become very clear. Google’s LSI (latent semantic indexing) algorithm is very particular about spelling and grammar, because it is programmed to recognize specific character strings that will certainly be based upon correct English spelling and grammar. You should also assume that, rightly or wrongly, this will be American spelling.

What that infers is that you must write well, and as grammatical as you can, since otherwise your text might well be given a low listing, if it is listed at all. There are many people in this world, through no fault of their own, that are unable to write in English correctly, and some articles I have read even appear to have lacked a basic spell-check. While this might not worry the article directory editorial staff, it does worry Google. And where does Google come into this? Read on!

Writing articles offers you four main benefits from article submission to article directories:

1. Links back to the URL quoted in your resource – make sure that page relates to the article.

2. Article directory readers – you can get a lot in spite of what many say. It is possible to get get over 2000 readers of each article solely from the directories, let alone from other sources.

3. Links back from sites that use your articles as content on their own website (and clicks from those readers that read your article).

4. Free advertising through the listing of your article on Google and other search engines.

Did you get that last benefit? I hope so, because that is now one of the major benefits of writing articles and article submission. Google give a lot of weight to articles that have been published on article directories, and your article can reach #1 on Page #1 on Google for the keyword for which your article has been optimized.

That can achieve a higher Google ranking and get you more traffic that all the others combined – in fact it can generate an avalanche of traffic to the page quoted in your resource. That is a major reason for making sure that your article is professional and that not only the resource is sufficiently compelling as to force readers to visit your web page, but that the entire article has been optimized to meet Google’s needs for a Page #1 listing.

For that you will probably need a professional writer, and that is where you should seek professional help for writing articles for submission to article directories. Consider how much money a Page #1 listing for your website could make you? Webmasters pat thousands for that type of search engine optimization. Well, an article listing can get you just as much, because your resource will be listed on it along with your URL.

It is a very powerful means of marketing a website, and one that many people use as their sole means of SEO to ensure the high Google ranking that brings the traffic needed for success.

If you want that high level of search engine exposure, and the rewards that come with it, you should be prepared to offer up well written articles with high class search engine optimization, taking Google’s LSI algorithm into consideration. Few articles achieve that, so if yours can then you might well be onto a winner.

I’ve decided to discuss 3 of the big mistakes with you so that you can have a head start and avoid these AdSense pitfalls. They are:

1. Selecting the wrong topics
2. Having too many topics on the same site Trying to make a quick buck with bad traffic
3. Selecting The Wrong Topics

Selecting the wrong topics

When I first started out with AdSense, I was one eager beaver. I wanted to create as many pages as I could, and I didn’t care what topic they were about as long as it wasn’t adult or gambling.

I put up a site on Old Time Radio Shows, and I was excited to see that I made a few dollars a month with it. What I didn’t realize at the time is that my $0.10 clicks were the bottom of the proverbial AdSense barrel in terms of earnings.

I didn’t know then that it paid to research the good, high paying topics. So I just put up sites on whatever I could think of that seemed easy to rank for in the search engines.

I was shooting myself in the foot! Once I realized that I could do a little keyword research and find out how much the keywords were worth, then I started focusing on the higher paying niches and started seeing the $1, $2, $5, $10 clicks and up. I don’t get that much with every click, but often enough to keep me very happy!

So research your topics first using the AdWords Traffic Estimator Tool, or a good high paying keywords list such as Keyword Explosion.

Too Many Topics on One Site

Another mistake I see newbies make very often (and I made myself when I was a newbie) is having too many topics put on one website. I’ve seen sites that target everything from alphalpha to Zoro!

That’s a bad idea for two main reasons:

It makes it hard to optimize your site.

You want your domain name to be targetted to the topic of the site (a great search engine optimization technique). If you have every manner of topic on the site, you can’t do this and lose out on the power that a great domain name can have with the search engines.

Google’s Smart Pricing doesn’t like it.

If you’re not familiar with it, SmartPricing is what Google uses to figure out how much your page is worth in relation to the ads showing on the page. The more Smart Pricing likes your pages, the more you will get paid per click.

One of the things I’ve seen with Smart Pricing is that it likes tightly focused, targetted sites. You might have a lot of pages on one site, but they need to be related to each other.

“But I can’t afford more than one domain right now,” you might protest.

If that’s the case, the best thing you can do is to create subdomains for each of the categories that your site targets.

For example, if you have a site that targets “alphalpha” and “Zoro”, have two subdomains:

http://alphalpha.mydomain.com/

http://zoro.mydomain.com/

Do not have the subdomains link to each other either. That way Google seems them as seperate “mini-sites”.

Be Careful What Kind of Traffic You Send To Your Sites

Not all traffic sources are created equal. There are a lot of sites out there selling “one hundred thousand visitors to your site for $49.95!” and the like.

What most of these sites do is use software to “simulate” a visit to your site. They are not real people. I’ve tested this extensively with a couple of vendors who sell this kind of traffic, and not once have I ever gotten any “real” people.

The problem is that sometimes those bots goof and “click” the ads by following the links.

Google sometimes sees those clicks as fraudulent, and many a new AdSense publisher has lost his account because of it.

So beware of shady or “too good to be true” traffic promises, they will only hurt you!

Focus on search engine optimization and link trading, that’s where you’re going to get the most bang for your buck. Don’t forget to write quality articles to increase the traffic and link popularity.

Author: Technical Tips

Article writing should follow certain principles. To get targeted traffic to your site there should be strategic placement of relevant keywords in your article. The anchor text should also include the keywords in the hyperlink HTML. This would bind the article & bring the targeted traffic to your site.  To venture into new market similar keywords with slight modifications could be used. The exclusivity & the uniqueness of your article can create a brand name for your business thus generating traffic volume to your site. It should be kept in mind that quality, targeted traffic could be generated to your site by directory submission of your articles, which on the other hand helps in link building especially back links which help in generating quality as well as quantity traffic to your site. This further increases the search engine ranking of your website.

Knowledge based, informative articles are supposed to enhance the visibility & thus the search engine ranking of your website. The number of inbound links to your site determines your sites popularity. The greater the number of back links greater is the trust factor for your site. Moreover back links together with informative articles are the foundation of article exchange. Article exchange could be made comparable with free article sites which provide a free exposure to your articles, the popularity depending on your marketing skills to allow the complimentary sites to exchange articles with you. Thus in other words you support other sites to increase your websites popularity & visibility. Through article exchange you become selective in using & allowing to use a particular websites content.  Article writing has proved a blessing for home business too.