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		<title>Send Traffic to Your landing Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Traffic Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building website traffic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving traffic into your landing page sounds easy, but it's not. And no matter how great your landing page is, it wont matter if no one ever reads it. Furthermore, if everyone in the world other than your target audience reads it, it also wont matter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='font-style:italic;' class='byline'>by Steve Blalock</div>
<p>Driving traffic into your landing page sounds easy, but it&#8217;s not. And no matter how great your landing page is, it wont matter if no one ever reads it. Furthermore, if everyone in the world other than your target audience reads it, it also wont matter. This is why you need to find media through which you can drive targeted visitors to your landing page.</p>
<p>One way in which you can drive traffic to your landing page is through natural search engine optimization. This is the slowest process, but it is also one of the best ways to ensure a continually-increasing stream of traffic over time.</p>
<p>Generating natural search engine traffic generally entails getting links to your site. While reciprocal linking was once the best strategy, experts now believe that major search engines are devaluing reciprocal links in favor of one-way links and triangular links (which search engines can&#8217;t really detect). </p>
<p>Another way in which to get natural search engine traffic is by optimization your website for certain keyphrases. You can do this by creating pages that specifically focus on one keyword on your given niche. You can then set the page extension to that keyword and optimize the content at a 1.5% density for that keyword. You will also want to use it in header and title tags.</p>
<p>Now, in addition building natural search engine traffic, you will want to consider using pay per click advertising. You can do this by opening an account with Google Adwords. </p>
<p>As mentioned earlier, successful Google Adwords campaigns do two things: they group keywords into multiple, small, related groups &#8221; and they send leads to multiple, tweaked landing pages.</p>
<p>This means you have to start with some careful keyword research; and you will then have to alter your landing pages to match that research.</p>
<p>These are some of the most commonly used tools for driving traffic to a landing page; however, they are not always the most effective.</p>
<p>In the beginning of this article, we discussed driving traffic into your landing page using pay per click advertisement and natural search engine optimization. Now, both of those methods can be effective, but they both usually have rather high barriers to entry and require a lot of work.</p>
<p>Luckily, you do have another option: human connections. And this is where most Internet marketers fail. They don&#8217;t realize the power of human connections because they are so caught up in the idea of making transactions and collecting massive checks without having to deal with customers and clients.</p>
<p>One quick way to get traffic through human connections is a joint venture. You can enter into a joint venture by compiling a list of possible partners &#8212; or people who might be able to assist you in some mutually-beneficial way. This list might include other list owners in your niche, site owners in your niche, and experts.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s only one important thing you should keep in mind when contacting joint venture partners &#8221; and that is to make it as quick, easy, and beneficial for them as possible. If they have no incentive for doing it, they probably wont even reply to you. And if it isn&#8217;t easy, they&#8217;ll accept other joint venture offers over yours.</p>
<p>Another way in which you can drive traffic to your landing page is through blog and forum posting; however, it is important that you do not spam, as many businesses do. Instead, actually participate on the forum, provide people with something of value; and, after a while, post your product in your signature &#8221; and try to network with people on the forum who work in similar fields.</p>
<p>Your approach to blog posting should be similar. Include a signature file that links back to your landing page, but don&#8217;t spam. Instead, always post useful comments. This is not only more ethical, but it is plainly more effective. Spam gets deleted. Good comments get praised, inducing people to follow your link and check out your products.</p>
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		<title>Creating a Highly-targeted Opt in List</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Email Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you successful with your online business? When most online entrepreneurs are asked with these questions, they often brush it off. This is because most of them, who have not yet realized the right way to succeed in Internet Marketing, continue to believe that the mere fact that they have a website is already enough to succeed on the Internet.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='font-style:italic;' class='byline'>by Steve Blalock</div>
<p>Are you successful with your online business? When most online entrepreneurs are asked with these questions, they often brush it off. This is because most of them, who have not yet realized the right way to succeed in Internet Marketing, continue to believe that the mere fact that they have a website is already enough to succeed on the Internet.</p>
<p>The truth is, they all end up very upset because they fail to realize the secret behind the success in Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>Having a website is not a guarantee that your internet business will succeed. How will you succeed if people will not realize that your business exists online? The main key to Internet marketing is to get your business noticed. </p>
<p>One of the best ways to do this is to build an opt-in list. In fact, most of the people who are already experts in Internet marketing will tell you that building a highly targeted opt in list is the most effective and important tool in Internet marketing.</p>
<p>The opt in list is a group of email addresses of people who have agreed to obtain any kind of information from online businesses like you. The term opt in means that you have their permission to send to them whatever newsletters, brochures, or promotions that you have in your online business. </p>
<p>It is extremely important that you have their permission first before sending them information because unsolicited emails will be regarded as spam, and spamming is an illegal activity in the Net.</p>
<p>Because of the feasibility of building an opt in list on Internet marketing, most of the online entrepreneurs consider it as the most treasured tool online. They need this list in order to get the consumers attention and sustain interest.</p>
<p>By creating an opt in list, you will be able to maintain solid contact with your previous buyers and at the same time boost your sales because of the fact that you have a sure target market always ready to purchase items from you.</p>
<p>Opt in list is considered to be the most important item in an Internet marketer. In fact, if in case something bad happens like emergencies and catastrophes and they could only save one item, it would be their opt in list saved on a backup disk. </p>
<p>Just imagine how these people value their opt in list. If this is the case, then it must be really something, right?</p>
<p>So, for people who are not yet aware of the importance of building an opt in list and would like to know how to build them, here are some tips that could be very useful.</p>
<p>1. Decide on your niche market or your target market.</p>
<p>It is extremely important to know your target market in order to focus on something. It would be really confusing and time consuming if you will build an opt in list with no particular market in mind.</p>
<p>Moreover, having a niche market would bring more focus on your marketing campaigns and would derive better results because you have directed your emails to people who would most likely be interested in them.</p>
<p>2. Be sure that your selected target market is available in the Internet.</p>
<p>Finding a niche market is not a guarantee that you can already start building your opt in list. Since, the concept of opt in list is specifically generated to aid in the growth of the Internet market of a particular entrepreneur, it is important to have a niche market that is available through the Internet.</p>
<p>The concept is basically simple, how can you promote your internet business if your niche market is not available in the Internet? Hence, it is extremely important to verify if your target market is available online.</p>
<p>3. Verify if your chosen target market is income-generating market.</p>
<p>Building a highly targeted opt in list will just go to waste if your niche market is not generating any income at all.</p>
<p>Try to verify their income-generating potential through the search engines, wherein you will find some paid ads related to the keywords you have searched. This would only mean that if somebody is willing to pay to advertise focusing on the same target market that you have in mind, chances are, you will be able to reap positive results on your target market.</p>
<p>4. Generate solutions to the problems of your target market by using Internet forum.</p>
<p>Creating this type of forum will initiate the underlying solutions that will answer to most of your target markets problem.</p>
<p>Through their posts and threads, you will be able to identify your target markets problem and will be able to come up with a great solution. In turn, it will be very handy when you make your opt in list.</p>
<p>It has been said that the success of an online business or Internet marketing greatly depends on the opt in list. It is where the online businesses could come up with newsletters that would allow them to promote their products at the same time create the need for it. In turn, it will generate more income and make more money.</p>
<p>As they say, money is in the list&#8230;.. thats why most businesses consider opt in list as valuable as gold.</p>
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