These are general guidelines that may vary from search engine to search engine.
You want to make sure that you have a lot of relevant keywords in your meta tags first off. you also need to have a lot of html text on your page. fill out your alt tags for all your images. you also want to avoid duplicate content as the spiders will disregard them.
These are general guidelines that may vary from search engine to search engine:
1. Keywords should be relevant, applicable, and clearly associated with page body content.
2. Keywords should be used as allowed and accepted by the search engines (placement, color, etc.)
3. Keywords should not be utilized too many times on a page (frequency, density, distribution, etc.)
4. Redirection technology (if used) should facilitate and improve the user experience. But understand that this is almost always considered a trick and is frequently a cause for removal from an index.
5. Redirection technology (if used) should always display a page where the body content contains the appropriate keywords (no bait and switch).
6. Redirection technology (if used) may not alter the URL (redirect), affect the browser BACK button (cause a loop), or display page information that is not the property of the site owner or allowed by agreement without sound technical justification (ie, language redirects).
7. Pages should not be submitted to the search engines too frequently.
Additionally, you need to make your site sticky. This means you need to have a content rich site that makes your users stay at your site longer than your competitors.
I would suggest if you don't know ABC of SEO, then think of taking the services of SEO professional, though they chargeArticle Submission, they give you value for money.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Bell, SEO Consultant.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services.comProfessional And Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services Trought Natural Search Engines Results. Want To learn More About SEO? Get your FREE SEO Newsletter With Hundreds Of "killer" Website Marketing Tips And Tricks.Affordable Search Engine Optimization Service.com™ is an Award Winning Search Engine Optimization Company that focuses on creating Natural Search Engine rankings.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
How to Tune Your Model Airplane Engine
Tuning is simply adjusting your engine for peak performance. The factory-fresh settings may be a good starting point. However, you may need to compensate for higher altitudes, or for temperature changes with the seasons. Changes in fuel type or engine wear, may also require a tune-up.
Relatively more fuel to air is known as a "rich" mixture, while the opposite is known as a "lean" mixture. A lean mixture generates more power, but also generates more heat. Too much heat could damage the engine. A rich mixture generates less power and less heat. Too rich and the engine might quit while you're flying.
The popular twin-needle carburetor has two needle valves. The high speed needle controls the total fuel flow into the engine, and affects the engine's behavior from half to full throttle. The low speed needle tends to have more of an effect from half throttle down to idle. Both the low and high speed needles can be richened (counterclockwise turning), or leaned (clockwise turning).
Tuning Procedure:
1) Start with the factory recommended needle valve settings.
2) Start the engine.
3) With the engine or aircraft secured, open the throttle to full.
4) Lean the high speed needle slowly and watch and listen:
Too rich: lots of smoke, low pitched sound
Leaner: reduced smoke, sound starts changing to higher pitch
Leaner still: little smoke, max rpm reached
Too lean: very little smoke, max rpm can be heard falling off. Open the needle valve up 20 or 30 degrees from this point. If you have a tachometer, open the needle about 300 rpm less than max.
5) Still at high throttle, perform the pinch test. Briefly pinch then release the fuel tube going into the carb. If the engine momentarily speeds up, then slows back down, you're done. If the engine does not speed up, or quits, then it is too lean; richen the needle some more.
6) Now throttle back to idle; let the engine idle for a couple minutes.
7) Now perform another pinch test. This time pinch and hold the line. The engine will want to speed up and die. If it speeds up immediately, it's too lean, richen the low speed needle. It should take 4-6 seconds to speed up and begin to die. Any longer and it's too rich.
8) Also check the throttle transition. With the aircraft secured and engine idling for a couple minutes, advance the throttle quickly to fully open. If the engine hesitates, the low speed mixture is too rich.
For more information about Model Airplane EnginesHealth Fitness Articles, visit the RC Airplane Advisor – Model Airplane Engines.
This article may be reprinted if proper credit is given and all links left intact.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andre is a regular contributor to the RC Airplane Advisor:
www.rc-airplane-advisor.com.
Relatively more fuel to air is known as a "rich" mixture, while the opposite is known as a "lean" mixture. A lean mixture generates more power, but also generates more heat. Too much heat could damage the engine. A rich mixture generates less power and less heat. Too rich and the engine might quit while you're flying.
The popular twin-needle carburetor has two needle valves. The high speed needle controls the total fuel flow into the engine, and affects the engine's behavior from half to full throttle. The low speed needle tends to have more of an effect from half throttle down to idle. Both the low and high speed needles can be richened (counterclockwise turning), or leaned (clockwise turning).
Tuning Procedure:
1) Start with the factory recommended needle valve settings.
2) Start the engine.
3) With the engine or aircraft secured, open the throttle to full.
4) Lean the high speed needle slowly and watch and listen:
Too rich: lots of smoke, low pitched sound
Leaner: reduced smoke, sound starts changing to higher pitch
Leaner still: little smoke, max rpm reached
Too lean: very little smoke, max rpm can be heard falling off. Open the needle valve up 20 or 30 degrees from this point. If you have a tachometer, open the needle about 300 rpm less than max.
5) Still at high throttle, perform the pinch test. Briefly pinch then release the fuel tube going into the carb. If the engine momentarily speeds up, then slows back down, you're done. If the engine does not speed up, or quits, then it is too lean; richen the needle some more.
6) Now throttle back to idle; let the engine idle for a couple minutes.
7) Now perform another pinch test. This time pinch and hold the line. The engine will want to speed up and die. If it speeds up immediately, it's too lean, richen the low speed needle. It should take 4-6 seconds to speed up and begin to die. Any longer and it's too rich.
8) Also check the throttle transition. With the aircraft secured and engine idling for a couple minutes, advance the throttle quickly to fully open. If the engine hesitates, the low speed mixture is too rich.
For more information about Model Airplane EnginesHealth Fitness Articles, visit the RC Airplane Advisor – Model Airplane Engines.
This article may be reprinted if proper credit is given and all links left intact.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andre is a regular contributor to the RC Airplane Advisor:
www.rc-airplane-advisor.com.
Cool New Search Engine On The Block
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms...
If you log on to PayPerClickSearchEngines.com you'll find they list over 600 different pay-per-click search engines operating online.
In fact, some online sources report that over 1,000 "search engines" of various size and popularity operate in the U.S. alone.
With so much competition among sites to capture the search traffic that Google.com and Yahoo.com seem to dominate like 800 lb. Gorillas, why would one new search engine rate even a second glance?
The answer: Amazon, the Web's mega bookstore, launched a new search engine with a very user-friendly interface and some of the fastest, most relevant searches online... along with a **twist** that will help EVERY person who wants to sell ebooks for profit, publish articles to get traffic, or create special reports that go viral.
Here's the story...
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms, click a button, and pray something relevant to your search appears in the results.
When you first log on to A9.com, it looks like a traditional search engine, but once you start searching, you'll find an organized and extremely helpful set of search tools right at your fingertips.
A9.com organizes its search criteria by category on the right side of the page.
Input a search term such as "mortgage loan" or "George Washington" and you'll start to see why I like this search engine so much.
When you first input your search term, the website displays the "web" search results to show you various websites A9.com deems relevant to your search.
Click the "books" button on the right and get a list of the most relevant books available on Amazon.com.
Follow virtually any of those book links to the Amazon website and you can literally browse through the table of contents, first chapter, and even the index of most books.
Click on the "Movies" button and get a list of any relevant movies with your search terms included.
One of the helpful things you'll notice as you start searching different types of media is that you can show or hide various search results on the same page.
So if you only want to search books and movies, you can hide the Web and reference results.
Depending on the type of information you need to research, you can also use the "Reference" results to get dictionary, encyclopedia, and history information on the search terms you entered.
Needless to say, when I did a search for "George Washington," this reference section overflowed with relevant links and information.
However, I was surprised at just how much reference material was available for search terms like "mortgage," including information from Investopedia.com on alternative search terms to help me narrow my search for more relevant information.
Probably the biggest reason I like A9.com so much is that it helps to wade through the ever rising tide of information that threatens to drown us all online.
Depending on what you need to find, you can quickly get suggestions, reference material, physical books, and even information on available film and video without leaving the A9.com website.
Now, here's specifically how A9.com can help anyone who wants to publish their own ebooks, articles, or special reports.
#1 - Insert your main search term at A9.com and look at 2 things: total web results (higher number the better) and the books and movies tabs.
If you see a lot of web results and tons of books and movies on the subject, you have a VERY good (and fast) indication that the topic you're considering is "hot" enough to warrant more investigation for creating your own ebook, special report, or other info-product.
#2 - Follow the look links to specific listings on Amazon. Some of those books will allow you to go through the table of contents, first chapter, and index right there on your screen.
Use this opportunity to:
A. Make notes on the most important points on your topic (from the table of contents) and expand your list of potential points to cover.
B. Get a feel for the general topic and the typical way authors are currently approaching it (first chapter).
** By the way, the table of contents and / or first chapter will usually give you at least one great idea for an article you could create (or pay someone to create) and use to generate traffic to your website.
C. Look for additional keywords you could use for your pay-per-click campaigns as well as your headlines, bullets, and other classified ads (in the index).
#3 - Use the "Reference" tab on A9.com to access the dictionary, thesaurus, and other tools to find MORE keywords you can use to advertise on pay-per-click search engines... specific "niche" keywords many of your competitors probably aren't using.
Though nothing on A9.com is actually new, it does present a much faster and easier way to search the web, compare reults, gather marketing intelligence, and wade through available data to help you with your own ebooks, special reports, article writingFeature Articles, and other marketing activities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
If you log on to PayPerClickSearchEngines.com you'll find they list over 600 different pay-per-click search engines operating online.
In fact, some online sources report that over 1,000 "search engines" of various size and popularity operate in the U.S. alone.
With so much competition among sites to capture the search traffic that Google.com and Yahoo.com seem to dominate like 800 lb. Gorillas, why would one new search engine rate even a second glance?
The answer: Amazon, the Web's mega bookstore, launched a new search engine with a very user-friendly interface and some of the fastest, most relevant searches online... along with a **twist** that will help EVERY person who wants to sell ebooks for profit, publish articles to get traffic, or create special reports that go viral.
Here's the story...
Amazon recently launched www.A9.com -- a search engine that creates more of a "portal" experience than the traditional search engine where you input your search terms, click a button, and pray something relevant to your search appears in the results.
When you first log on to A9.com, it looks like a traditional search engine, but once you start searching, you'll find an organized and extremely helpful set of search tools right at your fingertips.
A9.com organizes its search criteria by category on the right side of the page.
Input a search term such as "mortgage loan" or "George Washington" and you'll start to see why I like this search engine so much.
When you first input your search term, the website displays the "web" search results to show you various websites A9.com deems relevant to your search.
Click the "books" button on the right and get a list of the most relevant books available on Amazon.com.
Follow virtually any of those book links to the Amazon website and you can literally browse through the table of contents, first chapter, and even the index of most books.
Click on the "Movies" button and get a list of any relevant movies with your search terms included.
One of the helpful things you'll notice as you start searching different types of media is that you can show or hide various search results on the same page.
So if you only want to search books and movies, you can hide the Web and reference results.
Depending on the type of information you need to research, you can also use the "Reference" results to get dictionary, encyclopedia, and history information on the search terms you entered.
Needless to say, when I did a search for "George Washington," this reference section overflowed with relevant links and information.
However, I was surprised at just how much reference material was available for search terms like "mortgage," including information from Investopedia.com on alternative search terms to help me narrow my search for more relevant information.
Probably the biggest reason I like A9.com so much is that it helps to wade through the ever rising tide of information that threatens to drown us all online.
Depending on what you need to find, you can quickly get suggestions, reference material, physical books, and even information on available film and video without leaving the A9.com website.
Now, here's specifically how A9.com can help anyone who wants to publish their own ebooks, articles, or special reports.
#1 - Insert your main search term at A9.com and look at 2 things: total web results (higher number the better) and the books and movies tabs.
If you see a lot of web results and tons of books and movies on the subject, you have a VERY good (and fast) indication that the topic you're considering is "hot" enough to warrant more investigation for creating your own ebook, special report, or other info-product.
#2 - Follow the look links to specific listings on Amazon. Some of those books will allow you to go through the table of contents, first chapter, and index right there on your screen.
Use this opportunity to:
A. Make notes on the most important points on your topic (from the table of contents) and expand your list of potential points to cover.
B. Get a feel for the general topic and the typical way authors are currently approaching it (first chapter).
** By the way, the table of contents and / or first chapter will usually give you at least one great idea for an article you could create (or pay someone to create) and use to generate traffic to your website.
C. Look for additional keywords you could use for your pay-per-click campaigns as well as your headlines, bullets, and other classified ads (in the index).
#3 - Use the "Reference" tab on A9.com to access the dictionary, thesaurus, and other tools to find MORE keywords you can use to advertise on pay-per-click search engines... specific "niche" keywords many of your competitors probably aren't using.
Though nothing on A9.com is actually new, it does present a much faster and easier way to search the web, compare reults, gather marketing intelligence, and wade through available data to help you with your own ebooks, special reports, article writingFeature Articles, and other marketing activities.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co-author of an amazing new ebook that will teach you how to use fr^e articles to quickly drive thousands of targeted visitors to your website or affiliate links...
Simple "Traffic Machine" brings Thousands of NEW visitors to your website for weeks, even months... without spending a dime on advertising! ==> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Ethical Search Engine Optimisation Services: Are You Unintentionally Search Engine Spamming?
Many people who have websites are not totally up to date with what is considered to be search engine spamming. Having worked on search engine optimisation for a few clients, I have come across websites that are using spam techniques to help elevate search engine rankings. When I confronted clients about this, they honestly did not know they were using a form of spam nor did they realise the consequences if detected by the search engines.
So what is search engine spamming? A simple definition would be; deliberately designing website pages that offer poor and irrelevant content, and are used to trick search engines into ranking the content highly for inappropriate search results.
People tend to use spam as a way of attracting as many visitors to their website. When caught by the search engines, this will result in a major setback to business. Websites will be blacklisted from the search engines and chances are they will not appear in the index for a very long time.
Not sure if you are spamming? Below are a few common forms of spam techniques that you should avoid.
Doorway Pages – Optimising a single webpage to perform exceptionally well in search engine ranks for a group of keyword phrases (keyword stuffing on the webpage). Once a user clicks on the link, they will be automatically redirected to a completely different website.
Invisible Text – Using text that is not visible to the human eye (having the same colour text as the background colour). The invisible text will usually contain a large number of keywords (keyword stuffing).
Link Farms – Joining community websites that provide large volumes of irrelevant links to your website.
Along with other forms of spam, these techniques should be avoided at all costs. If you are not sure whether your site uses some form of spam, then it would be best to contact a search engine optimisation specialist before it could result in your website being blacklisted.
Past clients who were using some form of spam and were not aware of itBusiness Management Articles, had taken a big loss by having their website blacklisted in some search engines. The road to recovery can take very long and it is one that no one would like to follow. Be cautious!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Touri works for SEO Sydney, the SEO Consultants. He has worked on various projects and offers search engine optimisation in Australia.
So what is search engine spamming? A simple definition would be; deliberately designing website pages that offer poor and irrelevant content, and are used to trick search engines into ranking the content highly for inappropriate search results.
People tend to use spam as a way of attracting as many visitors to their website. When caught by the search engines, this will result in a major setback to business. Websites will be blacklisted from the search engines and chances are they will not appear in the index for a very long time.
Not sure if you are spamming? Below are a few common forms of spam techniques that you should avoid.
Doorway Pages – Optimising a single webpage to perform exceptionally well in search engine ranks for a group of keyword phrases (keyword stuffing on the webpage). Once a user clicks on the link, they will be automatically redirected to a completely different website.
Invisible Text – Using text that is not visible to the human eye (having the same colour text as the background colour). The invisible text will usually contain a large number of keywords (keyword stuffing).
Link Farms – Joining community websites that provide large volumes of irrelevant links to your website.
Along with other forms of spam, these techniques should be avoided at all costs. If you are not sure whether your site uses some form of spam, then it would be best to contact a search engine optimisation specialist before it could result in your website being blacklisted.
Past clients who were using some form of spam and were not aware of itBusiness Management Articles, had taken a big loss by having their website blacklisted in some search engines. The road to recovery can take very long and it is one that no one would like to follow. Be cautious!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Touri works for SEO Sydney, the SEO Consultants. He has worked on various projects and offers search engine optimisation in Australia.
Article Marketing: Why 2 URLs Equal Pure Champagne
Writing articles today is becoming less about getting your message in front of readers and more about winning the search engine war. What many writers don't appreciate however is just what a powerful weapon they have in their article resource box when it comes to winning the war.
If you are using articles to promote your business then I don’t need to tell you that including the URL to your website in the resource box at the end of your articles represents payment for the hard work involved in writing and submitting those articles.
But, if you’re including just one URL, instead of the two allowed my many article announcement sites, then your reward could come in the form or orange juice instead of champagne.
One of the first rules of marketing, which applies whether you’re writing sales copy or an article to promote your business, is to give your reader one simple message and, having delivered that message, to clearly ask that reader to take one single action.
For this reason, people often believe that your article resource box should contain just one single call to action and, accordingly, just one single URL link. And I would agree wholeheartedly, if it were not for one simple thing – the search engines.
Yes, article marketing is indeed about getting your message out to as wide an audience as possible so that they can read it and, hopefully, click through to visit your website. But it is also very much about getting your article posted on websites across the internet and building links to please the search engines – particularly Google and Yahoo.
Now the subject of building links to please the search engines is a little beyond the scope of this short article, but I’d like to give you just one example of why I believe that you’re leaving money on the table if you don’t add a second link to your resource box.
Suppose your article is posted on a website and that the page containing your article has a PR (Google Page Ranking) of say 4, which is derived from a points score given to the page by Google. For a PR4 page this score could fall anywhere within a fairly broad range, but might for the sake of illustration be 3000 points.
This page, through your resource box link back to your website will pass some of that PR to your own website page. Exactly how much will depend on a number of factors, including the total number of links on the page that contains your article. But, If there are a total of 10 links, then your resource box link could pass somewhere in the region of 250 points back to your website page. Enough to give that page a PR3 ranking from this one link alone.
But suppose that instead of having just a single link in your resource box you have two. The page containing your article will now have a total of 11 links and each will pass a slightly lower score, of perhaps 230 points, but this is still enough to give not one but now two pages on your site a PR3 ranking.
Now take this small illustration and imagine your article being posted on hundreds of websites, many with little or no PR, but others adding your article to PR4, PR5 or even PR6 pages. If you think that getting your article on a PR5 or PR6 page is dreaming believe me it isn’t. I know from experience that this article will appear on several PR5 and PR6 pages within 24 to 48 hours of my submitting it.
Now, take this illustration one step further and image submitting not one article, but hundreds of articles.
While article writing is still very much about getting your message out to a wide audience of readers, it is also increasingly about building link popularity with the search engines and gaining PR to raise your profile in the search engine listings.
Love or hate the search engines they play an increasingly important role in promoting your business and your article resource box can play a vital role in ensuring that you get those champagne top listingsScience Articles, rather than those orange juice second page spots.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of Internet Marketing guides including 20 Major Marketing Mistakes. Writing articles is one of the keys to your internet success, but submitting those articles is hard work. Follow this link and discover the secret to easy article submission
If you are using articles to promote your business then I don’t need to tell you that including the URL to your website in the resource box at the end of your articles represents payment for the hard work involved in writing and submitting those articles.
But, if you’re including just one URL, instead of the two allowed my many article announcement sites, then your reward could come in the form or orange juice instead of champagne.
One of the first rules of marketing, which applies whether you’re writing sales copy or an article to promote your business, is to give your reader one simple message and, having delivered that message, to clearly ask that reader to take one single action.
For this reason, people often believe that your article resource box should contain just one single call to action and, accordingly, just one single URL link. And I would agree wholeheartedly, if it were not for one simple thing – the search engines.
Yes, article marketing is indeed about getting your message out to as wide an audience as possible so that they can read it and, hopefully, click through to visit your website. But it is also very much about getting your article posted on websites across the internet and building links to please the search engines – particularly Google and Yahoo.
Now the subject of building links to please the search engines is a little beyond the scope of this short article, but I’d like to give you just one example of why I believe that you’re leaving money on the table if you don’t add a second link to your resource box.
Suppose your article is posted on a website and that the page containing your article has a PR (Google Page Ranking) of say 4, which is derived from a points score given to the page by Google. For a PR4 page this score could fall anywhere within a fairly broad range, but might for the sake of illustration be 3000 points.
This page, through your resource box link back to your website will pass some of that PR to your own website page. Exactly how much will depend on a number of factors, including the total number of links on the page that contains your article. But, If there are a total of 10 links, then your resource box link could pass somewhere in the region of 250 points back to your website page. Enough to give that page a PR3 ranking from this one link alone.
But suppose that instead of having just a single link in your resource box you have two. The page containing your article will now have a total of 11 links and each will pass a slightly lower score, of perhaps 230 points, but this is still enough to give not one but now two pages on your site a PR3 ranking.
Now take this small illustration and imagine your article being posted on hundreds of websites, many with little or no PR, but others adding your article to PR4, PR5 or even PR6 pages. If you think that getting your article on a PR5 or PR6 page is dreaming believe me it isn’t. I know from experience that this article will appear on several PR5 and PR6 pages within 24 to 48 hours of my submitting it.
Now, take this illustration one step further and image submitting not one article, but hundreds of articles.
While article writing is still very much about getting your message out to a wide audience of readers, it is also increasingly about building link popularity with the search engines and gaining PR to raise your profile in the search engine listings.
Love or hate the search engines they play an increasingly important role in promoting your business and your article resource box can play a vital role in ensuring that you get those champagne top listingsScience Articles, rather than those orange juice second page spots.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Donald Saunders is the author of a number of Internet Marketing guides including 20 Major Marketing Mistakes. Writing articles is one of the keys to your internet success, but submitting those articles is hard work. Follow this link and discover the secret to easy article submission
Articles - They really work
Several years ago I began an online business. At the time, the field I was entering was not all that crowded, search engine algorithms were much easier to manipulate, and links from relevent sites were not too tough to come by. In short - if you wanted traffic, and were willing to do a little footwork, you could get it. Over the past few years, things have changed.
Several years ago I began an online business.
At the time, the field I was entering was not all that crowded, search engine algorithms were much easier to manipulate, and links from relevent sites were not too tough to come by.
In short - if you wanted traffic, and were willing to do a little footwork, you could get it.
Over the past few years, things have changed.
Almost by accident, I stumbled upon a method for increasing, quite dramatically, the number of visitors to my website.
It turns out that almost everybody can design a really cool website...but very few people can write an interesting article. Writing is not a skill which is crucial in todays world, and very few can do it well.
(I, on the other hand, have the opposite problem...it's one of the few thing I can do well <-: )So, what is a webmaster to do if he wants to provide well written content to his visitors? Obviously, he needs to get somebody else to write it for him.
That leaves two options:
1. Pay cold hard cash to a professional writer.
2. Find a way to entice good writers to write good content for free.
3. Trade something of value for well written content.
My father once told me that there's no such thing as a free lunch. I believe he was correct, so option 2 is out.
That leaves paying or trading as the only viable options.
Most webmasters have opted for trading.
But what, you may ask, do they have to trade?The trading arrangement which has evolved is one of wriiten content in exchange for a hyperlink.
Hyperlinks are gold in today's Internet economy. The more links a website has back to it, the higher it will rank in the search engines.
Therefore, if I, as a webmaster, can obtain several hundred relevent links to my website, my search engine rank goes way up, and I end up with a ton of visitors.
Do you see the possibilites? If you're a decent writer, you can end up having your articles published all over the Internet, with hyperlinks galore pointing back to your website.
"But how" you ask, "do I hook up with website owners who will publish my articles?".
Basically, there are several large article repositories online which will allow you to post your articles. Some of these are:
Go Articles Article Beam iSnare Article Factory Ezine ArticlesThere are actually quite a few more, if you do a search in Google.
Write a few articles, post themFree Reprint Articles, and see what happens!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Pierce is the webmaster of Article Beam Free Content Directory - http://articlebeam.com and the Customer Service Manager for Gold Zero Web Hosting - http://goldzero.com
Several years ago I began an online business.
At the time, the field I was entering was not all that crowded, search engine algorithms were much easier to manipulate, and links from relevent sites were not too tough to come by.
In short - if you wanted traffic, and were willing to do a little footwork, you could get it.
Over the past few years, things have changed.
Almost by accident, I stumbled upon a method for increasing, quite dramatically, the number of visitors to my website.
It turns out that almost everybody can design a really cool website...but very few people can write an interesting article. Writing is not a skill which is crucial in todays world, and very few can do it well.
(I, on the other hand, have the opposite problem...it's one of the few thing I can do well <-: )So, what is a webmaster to do if he wants to provide well written content to his visitors? Obviously, he needs to get somebody else to write it for him.
That leaves two options:
1. Pay cold hard cash to a professional writer.
2. Find a way to entice good writers to write good content for free.
3. Trade something of value for well written content.
My father once told me that there's no such thing as a free lunch. I believe he was correct, so option 2 is out.
That leaves paying or trading as the only viable options.
Most webmasters have opted for trading.
But what, you may ask, do they have to trade?The trading arrangement which has evolved is one of wriiten content in exchange for a hyperlink.
Hyperlinks are gold in today's Internet economy. The more links a website has back to it, the higher it will rank in the search engines.
Therefore, if I, as a webmaster, can obtain several hundred relevent links to my website, my search engine rank goes way up, and I end up with a ton of visitors.
Do you see the possibilites? If you're a decent writer, you can end up having your articles published all over the Internet, with hyperlinks galore pointing back to your website.
"But how" you ask, "do I hook up with website owners who will publish my articles?".
Basically, there are several large article repositories online which will allow you to post your articles. Some of these are:
Go Articles Article Beam iSnare Article Factory Ezine ArticlesThere are actually quite a few more, if you do a search in Google.
Write a few articles, post themFree Reprint Articles, and see what happens!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Pierce is the webmaster of Article Beam Free Content Directory - http://articlebeam.com and the Customer Service Manager for Gold Zero Web Hosting - http://goldzero.com
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