Category Archives: Internet Marketing

Handy tips, tactics and methods of Internet or Web Marketing for greater online visibility for your business or website.

Marlon Sanders “Top 10 Graphic Design Mistakes”


Design-Mistakes!

Here are Marlon Sanders “Top 10 Graphic Design Mistakes”
you can have on your site. Check these to improve your
site. Graphics counts in more ways than we would like
to believe – you MUST project a professional image or
it’s game over.

Download this handy “Top 10 Graphic Mistakes” pdf
and improve your site today:

www.bizwaremagic.com/marlon_sanders/top10_designs.pdf

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Videos – Should You Use Them In Your Marketing?

RSS Revisited – Why You Still Need RSS On Your Site

One of the very first articles I ever wrote on
Internet Marketing had to do with RSS and it was
entitled “10 Reasons To Put RSS On Your Site.”
That was in 2004 and RSS was somewhat new and
many webmasters were just beginning to place
blogs and RSS feeds on their sites. If you do
a search in Google, you can still find that
article on around 2,000 sites.

Most people now refer to RSS as “Really Simple
Syndication” – although it originally stood for
“Rich Site Summary” and was a very simple way
of summarizing and syndicating your content
in real-time to all interested parties.

RSS had its early beginnings with Netscape in
1991 which introduced the first version of RSS
(RDF Site Summary). Later versions would be
introduced and made popular by Dave Winer of
ScriptingNews and Userland fame who is considered
by many to be one of the major founding fathers
of RSS.

Most people today associate RSS with blogs and
blogging. You can read RSS content by using an RSS
feed reader or “aggregator” which can be desktop
or web-based. Some common feed readers include
FeedDemon, My Yahoo!, iGoogle and Firefox (Live
Bookmarks). You subscribe to your favorite RSS
feed by clicking the small icon on your favorite
blog or site and then when fresh content is
published via RSS your reader can immediately
retrieve and display it for you.

RSS is a very simple way of keeping up to date
and in contact with your favorite site or topic.
It makes staying informed easy to do and it provides
site/blog owners a simple way of distributing their
content.

One can’t but wonder has RSS lived up to all that
early hype?

Perhaps that question can only be answered by looking
at the popularity of blogging and the role it now plays
on the web. No one can deny blogs and their accompanying
RSS feeds carry tremendous weight, no matter which way
you measure it. Can anyone now imagine the World Wide
Web without blogs?

But the importance of RSS goes beyond just blogging,
we tend to forget how important it is for all the
new social media sites like Digg, Technorati, Reddit…
and not to forget fast-growing applications like
Twitter.

People also forget RSS feeds play a major role in
online retail and affiliate programs. For example,
you can get an RSS feed of all the latest Amazon
products to place on your site. Many major online
companies now have these product feeds to help promote
and sell their wares.

XML and RSS have blended so seamlessly into many browsers
and operating systems most users are blissfully unaware
they’re even using RSS. Maybe that’s how things should
be; with RSS, the ever-present workhorse, quietly doing its
job behind the scenes.

RSS is just as important now as it was five years ago
– actually its influence and presence has only grown
stronger over the years. If you have not fully embraced
RSS and placed it on your site and in your online marketing
you’re missing out on one of the best opportunities to
spread your message on the web.

RSS is here to stay and even has its own advisory
board to help with the technical and programming side
of RSS. They also list a very handy “RSS Best Practices
Profile” for any webmaster wishing to create their own
XML-based RSS documents. http://www.rssboard.org/

Why should you use RSS?

Well, the list of reasons is quite long but RSS can help you:
syndicate your content in real-time, sell your products, build
your list, gather fresh content, promote your company and boost
that one vital element everyone needs more of on the web – traffic.
For those who have taken full advantage of RSS it has delivered
in more ways than one for it has truly turned into that Golden
Goose with the Midas complex. RSS has simply proven beneficial
to those users who have fully embraced it.

Now, you still don’t really need 10 reasons to put RSS on your
site, do you?

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To add RSS to your Site within minutes – download this
simple RSS Report and Guide.
Or try this more technical RSS Tutorial
Copyright 2008 Titus Hoskins.

Get Brad Callen’s Blinkweb Free

One of the most common stumbling blocks to
creating a successful web business is:

How do I create a website?

I hear this all the time from my frustrated
subscribers… especially those who are just
getting started with this web stuff. How do you
make webpages easily and quickly without knowing
all the HTML coding and technical stuff behind it.

There are a lot of free site builders out there
but many times these just don’t give you all
the tools you need to create a webpage or website
that you can use. Or one that looks professional.

Now there’s a new website creation tool I would
like to tell you about called Blinkweb. Their
motto is “Site Creation In The Blink of An Eye”.

It’s a great little tool but most importantly
it comes from Brad Callen… I have great respect
for Brad simply because years ago I signed up
for his free 7 Day course on SEO… my site
went from around getting 200 visitors a day
to getting around 2000 visitors a day.

This was the start of me getting some serious
income from the web. I will always be grateful.

And I increased that income further by buying
Brad’s Keyword Elite… still one of best pieces
of keyword research software you can buy.

Now Brad has come out with a free website creation
software that literally lets you create a website
in the blink of an eye. Without knowing all the
codes, scripts… that comes with making web
content.

Here’s what you get:

– Drag and drop interface

– Easily create your own info product salesletter

– TONS of designs to choose from Testimonial boxes,
order buttons, checkmarks etc.

– Add optin forms easily Collect your customer’s name
and email

– Add video to your website Youtube, Google Video, Flickr,
and more…

It really is “Drop Dead Simple”.

If you want an easy way to create web pages this is
the tool for you.

Hope you can check it out:

www.blinkweb.com