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| Premium WordPress Themes For Any Website Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:46 AM PDT 
Premium themes cover a large gamut of layout options and design styles that will appeal to the majority of users and which can be used as the basis for other layouts and designs. Although there are several common layouts, the majority of the layouts fall in to just one or two categories: division by columns and division by rows. These layouts divide the content in a way that saves portions of the screen for navigation, content, and other important information with columns dividing the content horizontally and rows dividing it vertically. One of the most common layout styles is a two-column layout. This layout generally has the navigation bar in a smaller column to the left-most or right-most side of the panel and which utilizes a larger central area of the screen to display the content. Don’t let the simplicity fool you, though – this layout is capable of achieving beautiful things with simple modifications. A great example of this layout can be found in the “Graphix” theme. Though obscured by a small picture gallery between the top-most navigation and the central content, you can see the division of the two columns. This layout is suited for any content. Another common and classic style is the double-or-triple row style, which puts all of the content in the center of the screen below a navigation bar with no need to scroll. This design is most commonly used for artistic websites and can also be commonly found on websites that center around one specific topic. An example of this is the “Web Studio” theme, which uses a triple-row with the center row displaying the content, the top row as the navigation bar, and the bottom row for the copyright. A slight modification to any premium WordPress themes using this kind of layout may allow you to use the bottom row for navigation, freeing the top row for other content. These are just two of the most common designs and two themes which have modified the common designs to do something more. However, what many people do not know is that premium themes do not have to look the way they are displayed; the truth is that many customization options are available in every theme and that there are many ways to easily modify a theme using the standard Wordpress interface in order get the exact behavior that you want or the exact look that you need for your WordpPess-powered website. Knowing that, do you still think that premium WordPress themes can do nothing for you or your website? Article by Joe Maldonado. Next, finally get the elegant and professional WordPress theme that will earn you profits. Check the limited and exclusive selection at: http://bestpremiumwp.com/ Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
| Seven Important Reasons To Build An Email List Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:37 AM PDT 
Build A Relationship With Your Readers The main reason to build a list is to be able to build a relationship with your readers. They have to know like and trust you before they ever consider buying something through your site (be it your own product or an affiliate offer). A list allows you to stay in touch and gives them that chance. Connecting With Your Target Market Not only are you building a relationship with your subscribers, you’re also connecting with your target audience. This means that once you have a list, you can ask them what they want to learn more about, what problems they are facing and the likes. Bring People Back To Your Site An email list also allows you to bring visitors back to your site. How many times have you been surfing the net, ended up on a really great site…but half an hour later you can’t remember what it was or how to get back to it (unless you spend a lot of time going through your browser history, which no one does). With an email list, you can continually send them more and more great content that includes links back to your site. Branding Yourself As The Expert And speaking of great content…it, in combination with a list allows you to brand yourself as an expert. Your readers get great advice from you over and over again on a certain topic. It won’t take them long to figure out that you know what you’re talking about…which again builds the trust you need to create a profitable and sustainable online business. Easy To Automate One of my favorite aspects of list building is the fact that it’s so easy to automate. I set up my list once, I drive traffic to the pages of my site that contain an opt-in box and then I start adding email messages to my autoresponder. Each of these things I only have to do once, but they will continue to work for months and years to come… growing my list, making money from my list etc. Making Multiple Offers Another big advantage of having a list is that you can make multiple offers. Think about this…if you are passionate about gardening, you’re not going to buy just one gardening book, subscribe to one magazine and buy one set of tools. Instead you’re going to get several of each and you’ll keep spending more and more on your hobby. Your target audience is no different. By having a list you can make them multiple related offers (again, both your own products or affiliate offers or a combination of both). Being Able To Generate Income With The Push Of A Button Last but not least, let’s talk about the reason that brings me the biggest peace of mind. If you have a responsive list (even if it’s relatively small), you have the ability to generate extra income at the push of a button. There have been many a times when we needed a few hundred extra dollars for unexpected bills. Each time I was able to come up with the extra cash just by sending a special offer to one of my lists. I hope this convinces you that having a list for your online business is important and that this article encourages you to get started right away. In fact, I’m so passionate about this, I’ve put together a great resource for you. Sign up for this free ecourse on setting up your first email list in 7 easy steps at http://www.affiliateecourse.com/listbuilding/ Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
| 8 Best Places For Building Authoritative One-Way Links Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:05 AM PDT 
One of the best ways to achieve both, is to build one-way links from existing authoritative sites on the web. Now, let’s be honest, building quality one-way links will take some effort and time on your part. However, this can be done much quicker if you know exactly where to look for those authoritative sites or places which will let you create links back to your site. Here are some good places or sources for Authoritative One-Way link building: 1. Press Releases Press releases have become what article marketing was just a few years ago… excellent way to get quality one-way links back to your site. You can use both free and paid press releases to get your message out. Many marketers have had success with PRweb, but it can be somewhat costly but highly worth it. A well written press release will usually get picked up and displayed on numerous niche-related sites, boosting both your traffic and rankings. 2. Wikipedia Type Sites Such places as Wikipedia and Google Knol are also excellent sources of quality one-way links. These can also give you those all important in-content links, as well as links in the resource section of the article. Everything will be theme focused, so your links will carry more PageRank juice in the eyes of Google. 3. Powerful .edu and .gov Link Mainly because they are seen as non-commercial and coming from prestige sites or institutions, .edu and .gov links are some of the most effective and powerful one-way backlinks you can receive. Try to go out of your way to build these types of links for your site. For example, if you went to a college or university, try getting links from any Alumni pages. If your college has a newsletter section, try to get links there. 4. How To Sites Yes, we know, Google with its Panda Update and countless follow-up changes to its algorithm, have hit these kinds of sites hard. But the quality ones are still great places to build one-way links. Often if you write a great how-to guide in your niche and place it on these sites, you will get an instant page one Google listing. For starters, try sites like eHow and Squidoo. 5. DoFollow Social Sites and Profiles If you haven’t noticed, the web has gone social. Some of the best places for authoritative one-way links are in these social networking/bookmarking sites and profiles, especially if you build up your followers and subscribers. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google+… will all give you opportunities to build your one-way links. 6. Memberships and Testimonials You must always be pro-active when it comes to link building, so go out of your way to get links from any memberships you may belong to. Also, giving testimonials for your favorite site or product can be another excellent way to get authoritative links as these links are usually displayed on the main/index page of a site. 7. Embedded Videos/Slideshows/Software Many webmasters have had great success by using embedded software, videos, awards, slideshows… to create one-way links back to their sites. For example, just look at how Slideshare.net builds its backlinks. You can try something similar or use that program to share your content and build your own links. 8. Site And Blog Commenting While many sites are cracking down or making all their links NoFollow… commenting on blog and sites is still an effective way to get those backlinks. Many online marketers create Google Alerts for their targeted keywords and when any related links are indexed in Google, they get an email. They then thoroughly check out those links to see if it is worth their while to make a comment. There you have it, some of the best places to help you build your all important authoritative one-way links. Many marketers simply take a few minutes of each day to build these types of links back to their sites. Over time these links will increase and you will receive more traffic and higher rankings as a direct result of these powerful one-way links. The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites. For the latest web marketing tools try:http://www.bizwaremagic.com If you liked the article above, why not try this Free 7 Day Marketing Course here: http://www.marketingtoolguide.com Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached. Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
| Article Marketing Strategies: How Can I Maximize My Potential for Backlinks? Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:35 AM PDT 
1 - Have you done research for your keywords? This step is crucial in your article marketing strategy, and it’s really not that hard. You can use Google’s free keyword tool to research some phrases associated with your niche. From the keyword tool, you can gather how many people are searching for this particular phrase (that’s the demand). Then, take the phrase and do a Google search on it, putting the phrase in quotes. The number of results is the supply–that’s how many web pages are competing for that particular phrase. You’re looking for phrases that have high demand and relatively low supply. Some of the more popular phrases associated with your niche may already have high competition–just know that it may take longer to make headway with those words. 2 - Have you developed a list of main keywords that you’d like your website to rank highly for, and are you hyperlinking those phrases in your resource box? When writing your articles, you should be working from two different lists of keywords. The main keyphrases are shorter–usually 2-3 words long. They have more competition, but the payoff for ranking highly for them is greater. These are the words that you would like your website to rank high for. In your article submissions, target these words in your resource box, as opposed to the article. 3 - Also, have you put together a list of longer keyword phrases (long-tail keywords) that you focus on in your articles and titles? The long-tail key phrases are usually 3-8 words long. They have less competition, but also less reward. Still, they can be attractive because with relatively little effort you can get your article to rank for that term. It’s the article that you want to rank for the long-tail term, whereas it’s your website that you want to rank for the main keywords. 4 - Does your resource box (author bio) hyperlink your main keyword phrases? The resource box links that use key phrases as anchor text are very powerful–these are the phrases that you want your website to rank highly for. To do this properly, be sure that you alternate the keywords you use (hyperlinking the same words each time can have some negative SEO consequences). For the second link in your resource box, you can link your written out URL. Having this spelled out website address helps readers to remember where your site is located (maybe they’ll think about visiting it when they no longer have your article in front of them). 5 - Do you submit articles regularly, month in and month out? “The secret to success is constancy of purpose.” That’s true about just about everything in life, and it’s true of article marketing too. A key component to your article marketing success is just submitting articles on a regular basis. It can take a few months for the first impact to show up in the search engines–it takes Google several months to calculate your links and the various other factors that go into determining where your website will show up in the rankings. Just be steady in your article submissions, and you’ll see better results. Submitting articles is very user friendly–you don’t need to be an SEO expert or any sort of technical wizard to do this. It is a big help, however, to take a little preparation and have a strategy that maximizes your potential for backlinks and the quality of the links. Even if you’re a beginner, you can do these 5 steps listed here and make a big difference in your success. Steve Shaw is a content syndication specialist. Do you own a blog? Need content? Join thousands of other blogs and get free high-quality, niche-focused, human-reviewed content from quality authors sent on auto-pilot – and it’s all 100% free! Go to http://www.autoblogit.com for more information. Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
| 19 Effective Offline Advertising Methods for Your Website Posted: 02 Oct 2011 10:00 PM PDT 
Following are 19 affordable and effective offline advertising methods that generate traffic to your website: 1. Bookmarks Everyone has books in their home – some more than others. But I think that you’ll agree, just about everyone owns books. And what better way to get your marketing message in front of readers, than with a bookmark with your company name and website address printed on it? And distribution couldn’t be more easy! Simply get a bunch of bookmarks printed up and hand them out to everyone you meet. You can purchase bookmarks imprinted with your company name from Branders.com. 2. College Newspapers Why market to college students? Because the college market consists of about 15 million people who spend over 120 billion annually. In addition, more than 79% of college students go online at least once a day and over 95% of college students have access to the Internet. (Source: NationwideAdvertising.com) You can put your marketing message in front of tens of thousands of college students at an affordable price. You can get started by contacting NationwideAdvertising.com. 3. Postcards Postcards are inexpensive to mail and are very effective. When people sort through their mail, they will often read postcards before they read anything else. You can take advantage of that fact, by starting a postcard marketing campaign. Lelli.com has been in the printing and direct mail business since 1977. 4. Business Cards No, I’m not talking about your everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill business cards. I’m talking about business cards that stand out – that get people’s attention. For example, business cards that look like folded money. They’re called drop cards or sizzle cards. Like the forementioned bookmarks, simply get a bunch of these unique, attention-grabbers printed up and hand them out to everyone you meet. You can also pin them up on public bulletin boards. You can order drop cards from DollarCardMarketing.com. 5. Flyers Yes, businesses still use flyers and yes, they still work quite effectively. You can get a bunch of flyers printed up at a very reasonable price and post them all over town. Your local printer can print them up for you, or you can go online and order from Lelli.com. 6. Local Business Journals The Business Journals are part of a group of local business newspapers with a national readership of 4 million. For example, in Albany, New York where I live, the local business journal is called The Business Review. Boston, Massachusetts has a similar publication called Boston Business Journal. And in Dallas, Texas the publication is called Dallas Business Journal. In addition to exposure for your business and website, The Business Journals are an absolute goldmine for leads. Unfortunately, The Business Journals aren’t available in every city, but they are in many of the largest U.S. cities. Go to BizJournals.com, to see if The Business Journals are available where you live. 7. Refrigerator Magnets Consumers are in and out of their refrigerator several times a day. In addition, refrigerators are generally located in the kitchen, where many families eat their meals, pay the bills and do a whole host of different activities. A refrigerator magnet is an ideal way to reach consumers. You can order refrigerator magnets from Magnets.com. If you walked around in public in a T-shirt with the name of your company and website address printed on it, you’d be surprised how many people would see it – especially if you work in a high-traffic environment like a supermarket or fast-food restaurant. You can have some T-shirts printed up and distribute them among friends and/or family members. You can order promotional T-shirts from Zazzle.com. 9. Community Shopper Newspaper Classifieds Nearly every community, regardless of size, has a community shopper newspaper like Pennysaver. You’ve probably noticed the brightly colored “free” shopper newspaper dispensers outside of supermarkets, which is where they’re usually located. Some shoppers are mailed directly to people’s homes and while these shopper newspapers are free, their classified ads are read by millions of people nationwide. You can advertise in shopper newspapers by contacting NationwideAdvertising.com. 10. Community Bulletin Boards You can find community bulletin boards in laundromats, gas stations, supermarkets, office buildings, schools, libraries, community centers, fitness clubs, etc. You can post your business cards and flyers on community bulletin boards for free. I have to admit, I didn’t think people really paid any attention to community bulletin boards. Then one day, I decided to make a handwritten flyer to sell my car, and posted it on the bulletin board in an office building that was located just a few minutes from where I lived at the time. An hour after I posted the flyer, I got a call about my car. I sold it that evening to that same caller. 11. Luggage Tags If you know people who travel a lot, or you travel a great deal yourself, you can take advantage of all those frequent flyer miles by exposing the name of your business and website address to travelers worldwide with promotional luggage tags. Yes, luggage tags! Just contact Branders.com. 12. Car Magnets Car magnets have always been a highly-effective way to promote a business. Just driving around town normally, without doing anything out of the ordinary, you’d be surprised how many eyeballs are exposed to your company name and website address. If you’ve never used car magnets to promote your business, better late than never. You can order custom car magnets from Signazon.com. 13. Coffee Mugs While I personally don’t drink coffee, just about everyone I know does. Why not gift the coffee drinkers you know with a coffee mug with your company name and website address printed on it? After all, if people are going to drink coffee, they might as well drink out of one of your mugs, right? You can order promotional coffee mugs from PromoLogoMugs.com. 14. Rear Window Decals Imagine, every car on the road that is driving behind you being exposed to your company name and website address. Well, you don’t have to imagine it, you can actually make it happen with rear window decals. And guess what happens when you stop at a red light or stop sign? That’s right, the people driving the cars directly behind you are a captive audience. You can order rear window decals from Signazon.com. As long as I can remember, I’ve always had an air freshener dangling from my rearview mirror. I like my car to smell nice. Well, guess what…so do millions of other drivers! And since so many drivers like their cars to smell nice, why not hand out custom air fresheners with your company name and website address to everyone you meet? You can order custom air fresheners from AirTrendsInternational.com. 16. Desk Calendars One of the most useful items you can give someone is a desk calendar. After all, everyone needs a calendar, right? Yes, calendars are useful, but they’re also highly-effective promotional items, because people use them constantly to write down appointments, remember important dates, events and occasions, jot down notes, etc. Why not give people something useful, and promote your business at the same time? You can order desktop calendars from PricelessImprinters.com. 17. Mousepads Even with the advent of laptops and smartphones, millions of people still prefer to use a traditional desktop computer with a mouse. And every mouse needs a mouspad, right? Hand out mousepads with your company name and website address to people you meet. You can order custom mousepads from Branders.com. 18. Promotional Caps Just like with the aforementioned T-shirts, if you walked around in public in a cap with the name of your company and website address printed on it, you’d be surprised how many people would see it – especially if you work in a high-traffic environment like a supermarket or fast-food restaurant. You can have some caps printed up and distribute them among friends and/or family members. You can order promotional caps from Branders.com. 19. Disposable Cigarette Lighters While smoking is no longer in vogue or cool like it was in the fifties, sixties or seventies, millions of individuals still light up on a daily basis. And more often than not, they use a cigarette lighter to light their cigarettes. You can put the name of your business and website address in the hands of smokers by advertising on disposable cigarette lighters. You can order promotional cigarette lighters from Branders.com. David Jackson is a marketing consultant, and the owner of Free-Marketing-Tips-Blog.com – Powerful, free marketing tips to help grow your business! free-marketing-tips-blog.com Post from: SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources |
Many people think that premium WordPress themes cannot do anything for them and then proceed to spend time and money creating a theme that had already been created and offered as a premium theme. It’s important before even considering creating a new theme to know what other themes have already been designed that could be modified slightly for your use.
Are you actively building at least one list in your niche right now? If not, you’re missing out on quite a bit of potential growth and income. Let’s talk about seven reasons why you need to build a list. 
For any online webmaster or marketer, two things will consume most of your time: rankings and traffic. Usually, these two objectives will go hand-in-hand, the higher your rankings the more traffic you will receive. However, as you probably already know, getting higher rankings and traffic can be somewhat difficult.
If you’re wondering if you’re submitting articles in a way that optimizes your potential for links, I’ve got a short checklist for you:
With the advent of the Internet and the worldwide dominance and prominence of Google, Facebook and Twitter, one could reasonably assume the whole world revolves around the Internet. It doesn’t. There’s a great big offline universe out there with nearly 6 billion people in it that was here long before the Internet. And if you don’t have an offline marketing strategy to reach those billions of people, and complement your online marketing strategy, you’re missing out on a significant amount of traffic and income.| You are subscribed to email updates from SiteProNews Recent Articles To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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