SEO Secrets the Experts Won't Reveal

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Only Pick A Fight You Can Win - The First Rule Of Successful Web Marketing

We're at least a decade into the Internet as a commercial medium. The top sites have been there for a long time, so if you're launching a site now, you have a lot of catching up to do.

Aren't a great site and brilliant products enough?

In a word, no. Consider the nature of the battlefield. Google is king of the Web - more than 70% of searches worldwide are on Google. And, in the B2B sphere, probably more.

Google actually prefers older, established sites - it even largely ignores new sites by 'sandboxing' them for 9 to 12 months. The big hitters have been there for 10 years or more, and they have thousands of mature links, many of them inevitably of good quality. They're the kind of sites that will be entrenched in the top positions on popular searches.

Now do you want to take them on? Do you have the budget, stamina and time? Or will you find a better way?

Only pick a fight you can win

To pick a fight you can win, you're going to have to operate smart. You're unlikely to want to take on Tesco (Wal-Mart, if you're reading in the US) by setting up a small general store next door, so why would you want to take on the Tescos of the online world in a similar kind of contest?

One of the areas we find people trying to pick the wrong fights is in financial services. From time to time we get an enquiry from someone who wants to rank on the first page of Google for 'home insurance', 'car insurance', 'pensions' and 'mortgages'.

There's next to no chance (within reasonable budget and patience boundaries) of getting them there because every bank and financial institution has been pouring loads of investment into marketing their sites online.

Many have been on the Web for years, and just as many of them have thousands and thousands of links. And, for regulated financial products, the poor financial services business will have government sites to contend with as well - Google loves government sites because they're the ultimate reference for so many matters.

Where's your niche?

You need to look at what makes you different. Particular product niches or geographical focus, perhaps? That's good basic marketing, not Internet marketing or SEO. Look at your products and services.

Let's go back to the mortgage example. Do you specialize in self-employed mortgages? Or do you have particular geographical focuses? 'mortgages in West Sussex' would be a much more realistic target than simply 'mortgages'.

Your Web site needs to reflect what your business, products and services are really about, not what you'd like to be about, or what you'd like to target. Be realistic. The tough targets can come next year, once you've started making some profit from your site.

Pinpointing your opponents' undefended side

So how can you find a niche where your competitor is weak? Think about the kinds of things you can do that your competitors don't or can't? If your business is already running, then the chances are, you already have figured out your niche offline. That's your starting point for marketing online.

Or look towards your business plan. A SWOT (strengths weaknesses opportunities threats) analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis) can be applied in the online environment just as well as off-line.

But commission some appropriate key phrase analysis, researching both traffic levels and link competition, and your opportunities should be laid out in front of you. By this, I mean higher traffic key phrases that are relevant to your business, and that you should be able secure a first-page listing for on Google because the tougher competitors have ignored those pieces of prime turf.

These niches are normally there if you look hard enough and in the right places.

Winning your fight

Once you've identified your niche, you can attack on two fronts - Organic SEO and PPC. For successful Organic SEO, you need to do three things:

Write the copy with an awareness of your customers' needs and the strengths of your products and services - to be as competitive as possible, your copy should be optimized on your researched key phrases

Build links - one-way, non-paid-for links, so don't go in for link exchanges, and beware of anyone who promises you thousands of links very quickly

Ensure your site is built to enable search engine spiders to read your copy - it's best to use CSS

For PPC you need to:

Run ads on one system only - unless you have a large amount of time to manage the campaigns (or the budget to employ an expert to do it for you), choose Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing or Microsoft adCentre. In the unlikely event you are profitably buying all the clicks you can and still have some budget, you should try the same profitable key phrases on another system as well

Start with the key phrases you have researched, then use the system's tools to research even more - and keep on researching as your campaign runs. With PPC, you'll almost certainly find yourself targeting more key phrases than with Organic SEO

Set a budget - and make sure you have set that maximum budget in the system to ensure you don't overspend

Set up Ad Groups and write copy - bear in mind you should try testing headline, content and landing page variations

Monitor, manage and test, test, test - keep a close eye on what's working and what's not; monitor bidding levels and CPCs (costs per click)

Work out your break-even point and be ruthless - if you can't make a key phrase profitable after a reasonable time, drop it. It's no use inflicting a hit on yourself through making a loss on PPC

Have patience and you'll win

Sandboxed or not, it'll take some months before you really start reaping the benefits of your Organic SEO. And although you can get immediate traffic from PPC, it's unlikely that you'll hit the jackpot right away.

Have realistic expectations and make a sustained attack on your competitors' weakest points and you'll have won the online fight.

US troops search Iraq ambush town

Some 4,000 American troops are searching for three comrades who are missing after being ambushed south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday.

The focus of the search is on an area known as the Triangle of Death because attacks by insurgents are so common.

An umbrella al-Qaeda-led group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq said it had captured the soldiers.

Sunday was one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 100 people killed or found dead.

At least 50 people were killed and dozens wounded by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, police said.

A parked car exploded in the centre of Baghdad, killing at least 17.

More than 20 bullet-riddled bodies were found in areas of the capital and the northern city of Mosul.

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US Troops searching for the missing American soldiers surrounded the town of Yousifiya and broadcast warnings for residents to stay indoors, as units searched house-to-house for the missing men.

Forces on the ground around Yousifiya are being supported by aircraft and satellites.

Last year, two American soldiers were kidnapped in the same area - their bodies were found several days later.

The Secret To A Thriving Business On a Shoestring

When you're first venturing out into your own business online, you're going to fall into one of two categories, either you have a budget for advertising and product development or you do not.

If you have a budget, you invest in online tools and learn how to develop your own product, you advertise and are hopefully making money in a short period of time. This is the advantage you have of starting out with a budget.

If on the other hand you are starting your online career on a shoestring, it may feel like you're chasing your tail before you really start to see any kind of profit. For the rest of this article I'll show you exactly how to get started online with nothing more than a shoestring budget and how to see a profit from it.

Something to remember when starting out on a shoestring is that you cannot draw any earnings for personal use. Any earnings should be reinvested immediately back into your business.

I'll illustrate a series of steps to take that involve free advertising, free products and tools, and free methods of traffic generation. Online you have to remember that although they don't cost any money, they will cost time, so when first starting out you will have to be willing to spend a considerable amount of time online at first. Once you begin to earn money as result of the time you're investing, you need to reinvest the money into paid versions of the services you use. If you don't, you will burn yourself on the sheer amount of time you've dedicated and you will never really get ahead.

Before you get started, the first thing you need to do is determine what kind of an online business you want to create. Although your long term goal should be to create your own online products, when you're first starting out I recommend you promote someone else's product by becoming an affiliate. This gives you experience in the field you eventually wish to venture into and gives you an advantage when creating and marketing your own products.

The next step is to create a web site. There are many free web site hosting companies that include free built-in site builder software. Perform a quick search for the phrase "free web hosting" into a search engine and you will have lots of choices. The only downside to the free hosting is not only will you have limited space but the site will also have advertising on it to support the company, this is the trade off for starting on a shoestring. However because you're starting out you should not need a lot of space and once you start making some money you can afford to upgrade to the paid version.

The next step is to get an auto responder in order to keep in touch with your client list. There are several free versions of paid auto responder services available. Just do a search for "free auto responder" and again you should have some choices to start out with. Like with the free hosting they will be limited and have advertising, but again, once you are making money, you can upgrade.

Once the web site and auto responder service are set up, you need to drive traffic to your site. Expect to spend most of your time doing this. The best form of free marketing is article writing and submission.

With article writing and submission, you create articles that are related to the product you are selling or promoting, and then submit them to the various article directories. With anything in life, you will get out what you put into it. The key success to building a thriving, flourishing business with articles is to write good quality material and to write everyday. Don't worry, the more you do this, the better you get at it. The potential traffic from articles is mind boggling. The beauty with articles is that they can go viral indefinitely still continuing to generate sales and exposure for years to come. Their potential is almost exponential, remembering that you garner traffic not only from the new articles you write and release but from previous articles, their impact is like a ripple effect, one article receiving an ever increasing amount of traffic over time.

So get to it and start writing those articles and like anything in life, you get good at what you practice.

Here's to your article writing and online business success.