Apr 2, 2008

How To Use Keywords Effectively For Your Website


Keywords are essential to the success of your website. These are the words, which the search engines use to help categorize and rank your pages. For example, if I wanted to know something about the law and child adoption, I would type in “child adoption laws.”

The Search Engines Results Pages will deliver thousands of pages relevant to what I am looking for. This is why it is very important to optimize your website with relevant keywords in order to get the best possible placement. You should use your keywords phrases and keywords effectively within your site so when a search engine spiders your site, the keywords get picked up.

Within the HTML of your site, you should use keywords in the title tag. These keywords should be used in a descriptive sentence for each page within your site. The most relevant keywords and keyword phrases should be used in the home page title.

The use of Meta tags is also important. You should place all relevant keywords and keyword phrases in your Meta tag. Using keyword phrases as opposed to single keywords is generally helpful as single keywords can be very competitive.

Avoid overuse of a keyword. This can actually hurt placement with some search engines if it is used too often. Use commas or spaces to separate the keywords but do not use both. It is also helpful to add common misspellings of a word as well as both the singular and plural forms of the word or phrase.

Use your keywords in the Meta tag description. The description should be relatively short and not exceed twenty-five words. It should also make sense and entice users to click to your site when they view it on a search engine.

Content of your site is the most important part of keyword placement. Search engines often concentrate on the first 250 words for relevancy and density so use the majority of your keywords there. Try to get a five to seven percent density but do not go over this.

Search engines will consider this spamming and it will damage your placement. Make sure the content makes sense without sounding too repetitive. It may be helpful to write your content without using keywords first, and then modify the content to incorporate your most relevant keywords.

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The first couple of times I watched this video, as Simon Caul would say "I didn't get it." I really just thought that it was silly, but after a few months I came across it again and thought I'd watch it for a third time. I laughed when watching it and thought, how true it was right from the frustration and anger I experienced three years ago, until I finally found SBI and was able to build my own successful website.

Give it a look, I am sure that many of you have felt this way at one time or another. Hey, you may even have behaved this way, I am sure that you wouldn't be the first, nor the last.





Mar 27, 2008

Is SBI Right For You?


Before discovering Site Build It, I came across several websites claiming that they would build me a free site, and they did. It was great, but being a newbie I didn't know that I would have to register my domain and pay for web hosting each year. The cost was $60. a year and that was for the cheapest host that I could find along with free domain registration.

I still had to learn about Internet marketing and how to promote my site so that I would get some traffic. I got quite a bit of information off the Internet, but ended up spending an additional few hundred dollars on e-books.

Many gurus said that the “money is in the list,” which meant spending another $250. a year for an autoresponder so that I could efficiently send emails to anyone who signed up for my newsletter.

Getting submitted into the directories was like pulling teeth, many of them would not accept mirrored sites, you know, same content, same products. This was all just a waste of my time and I knew it, but I loved being able to stay home and work on the Internet. So I continued looking.

Then lo and behold, I came across Site Build It! Now I will admit that I have this “obsessive analytical thinking behavior” (especially since being scammed a few times) where “I feel that if I don’t check things over several times, something could go wrong and I could fail.” You may know what I mean.

So I learned everything there was to learn about what SBI had to offer. I mean after all, this program seemed to be on the expensive side or was it? After a few days of studying the website and action guide, I took the plunge; the guarantee was unbeatable, so how could I lose. If I did not begin to see some success in my first year, I could at least get
some of my money back.

SBI Guarantee: No time limits. Ask for your money back anytime. SiteSell.com will refund you 100% within the first 30 days of purchase, and on a pro-rata basis after that, for whatever part of the year remains.

I bought the program, did some brainstorming, built a site about what I know and love to talk about. SBI hosts your site and domain name. I didn’t have to know any HTML, (OK, if you want to fancy up your page some with some color and some bold highlights or something then the very basics are good to know) and then just put my content into the block-by block builder. You can upload your own HTML pages; I was just not ready for this step yet.

When you feel that your page is complete, the SBI builder analyzes it to be sure that it is search engine optimized. You click on the “build it” button and it is automatically submitted to the search engines.

When it came to building my site, SBI had a lot to offer, but I still had to get it submitted to search engines in the beginning, and then to directories. Another way of getting good page rank was to exchange links with other quality sites.

Just the thought of this was enough to make me want to give up. It was going to take me hours and be a very tedious process. The good news is Site Build It has a Value Exchange Program that does all the tedious work for you; all you have to do is choose the sites that you would like to link with.

I was able to cancel my autoresponder because SBI offers one along with many other necessary tools. They just wanted me to focus on building high quality content for my website. And other than getting my site submitted into directories they pretty much did the rest!

Beware of Home Based Business Scams!


Each day thousands of folks are seeking to find that one and only home based business. Many more people start a business at home only to become defeated. Why? Because folks often neglect to see that the opportunity just was not attainable in the first place!

Can one avoid this trap? Yes, but you must know how to spot the gems and how to say no to the scams.

Problem #1: Many home based business opportunities, especially the new ones, are not yet proven. The product or service is not yet well established. Opportunities, which are too new, can be risky! Let those who can afford it pave the way, ie. Fortune 500 companies.

Problem #2: Many are just promoting the same old out-of-date dreary plans and programs. The majority of home based business opportunities mention that they are new and cutting edge, but they are not really. They may have that new look, but in reality are only a scam!

Following some research, you will discover very little if anything "new" at all about them. It is wise to become involved in an opportunity that is better than most, is well-founded, and is part of an exciting combination of the three most enthusiastic emerging multi-billion dollar trends.

Problem #3: There are a multitude of home based business opportunities that just make the promoters wealthy. Most people who are caught-up in these plans rarely make much money at all.

Problem #4: Plenty of the sizzling and exciting profit making home based business opportunities are crooked and unlawful. Do not, ever, sign-up with any home based business opportunity that looks appealing and sounds too good to be true.

Always ask what is the product or service behind the opportunity, if this product or service has taken the world by storm as it claims to have, then where is the market for it? And would you be able to make money even without all the hype and buzz?

Problem #5: Countless home based business opportunities are not long lasting. In other words, they are here today and gone tomorrow! They are all a lot of talk with no set foundation to back them up; there is no "actual" service or product. At some point, there will be no more hype and the market will be gone for good!

Do not allow yourself to get drawn into a home based business opportunity supported by complete hype.

Mar 21, 2008

The Beauty of Working Online


#1 - Anyone Can Do It!

Anyone can build a business online, people who work full-time, housewives, the unemployed, students, senior citizens, and the disabled. They all form the bulk of those who already are working online.

#2 - Easy Money?

People are attracted to the fact that working online brings easy money. And it does, however, you need to remember that you will begin making money only after a period of time in which you put in some hard work, discipline and dedication. Then and only then does it all become easier.

#3 - Work Full or Part-Time

Working online allows people to work on a part-time basis. For example, for those who have a job outside of the home, it is highly recommended that you keep it until you are making at least an income equal to your current job or better before you so much as consider leaving your day job.

Students will only be able to work online on a part-time basis so that they can pursue their studies. Stay at home moms may only be able to work part-time because they have small children to watch over.

However, if you are ready and serious about devoting yourself full-time into the job you can consider a more advanced approach to what the Internet has to offer. You could build a business online with your own website, reaping even bigger profits from working online.

#4 - A Plan of Action

You will be required to have a plan of action concerning the steps that you are going to take when building your online business. You can search for information on the web about online jobs. By doing this you will discover the right tools and information needed for taking appropriate action.

There are a variety of options you could choose from. You might want to become an affiliate, promoting someone else's product or service. You could try paid surveys, or other get paid to programs.

There is a vast amount of information provided on the World Wide Web, so it is advisable to keep updated and clear on all that is happening in Internet marketing to ensure that your income is constantly growing. Then you can begin earning great profits from the internet.

Believe me, it takes time to educate yourself with all the information available on the net. It's everywhere, and many gurus offer some very valuable information, but there is always a catch.

They usually want you to buy a product, which sounds like it will do a world of good to help you along with your business. But then you will need to get another product or tool to make that work and then another and so on.

To say the least, it can make you frustrated and fed up. Once I found SBI, I could become more focused on what I was doing. There was still a lot to learn and I have still had to do a lot of work, writing content and building my site.

But the information and tools available with your SBI package are all you really need. The best part is that it’s all in one place and you won't have to search the Internet to find what your looking for, you can if you want to but it really isn't necessary.

Once you have educated yourself on Internet marketing, built your website and have had success with it, you will then be able to say, "That was easy."

Mar 14, 2008

Stay Focused on Your Business


Do Your Best to Avoid Distractions

There is so much to learn about Internet marketing, that it can be quite difficult to stay focused. First you will need to find a niche for your business, and then you will have to research your market and you may want to consider a product to sell or affiliate marketing.

Then you will need to learn how to build a website, learn HTML and search engine optimization. Do some research to find the best web hosts, where to register your domain, business email addresses, auto responders and on and on.

And then just when you think that you have a plan of action along comes yet another invaluable tool or resource. So you read another 180 pages of information and watch 15 more hours of video.

Phew! You take a deep breathe and redo your action plan. You switch on your computer so that you can check your emails. Wow, 75 emails, each discussing the latest and greatest marketing technology.

"How to spy on your competition," "buy the latest private label rights," "listen to the latest teleconference with two self proclaimed gurus" where they are offering to sell you a "how to" e-book which is probably just more rehashed information of what you already learned only a few months ago.

In order to achieve success you will need to stay focused on your business and do your best to avoid distractions at all possible cost. The biggest major distraction is your email inbox. The best thing you can do in this case is to limit the amount of emails you read each day.

Only subscribe to those that provide valuable information such as SiteSell’s ezine, and do not try to sell you something in every email.

Once you have done that you can stay focused on your business and what you really enjoy. Take it one step at a time. First focus on getting set up and then you can expand on building your business with quality content.

Do not totally disregard what is going on in the Internet marketing but do your best to limit some of the unnecessary distractions.

Stay focused on your business and concentrate on achieving your goals and earning some money. Join a mentoring program if you need help in staying focused but do yourself a favor and stop jumping from one thing to another. Be single minded and maintain focus. Once you have your business running on autopilot, you can then look for ways to make improvements.



Do you want to start a business but are not sure where or how to get started? Listen to what Jon Forsyth has to say about SBI, he puts everything into perspective in this short video.



Mar 13, 2008

What Is A Niche And Why Do You Need One?


No matter where you go online, you are likely to hear the same thing. “Before you can get started with your online business, you must find a niche.” You will do well to pay heed to this advice, especially if you are new to Internet Marketing.

Each day, thousands of people go online in search of, you guessed it, WEALTH. So many, tend to jump right into those markets that are already so completely saturated with competition and then wonder why it is that they are failing to make any money.

So what is a niche anyway?

You could purchase anyone of the hundreds of e-books telling you all about niche markets and get the longer answer. Or you could find the definition of a niche from the dictionary. But to give you the shorter version, niche simply means individual or distinct.

Seems everyone and their mother wants to start an Internet Marketing business. The big guns are making their money in this niche market, so it must be the way to go, right. Wrong, that’s the problem. So many people have years of experience in this area, that they have totally saturated the market. So, when someone new tries to compete in this broader market, they will likely not have any chance of success.

Susan Ward on About.com, defines Internet Marketing as “the strategies that are used to market a product or service online, marketing strategies that include search engine optimization and search engine submission, copywriting that encourages site visitors to take action, web site design strategies, online promotions, reciprocal linking, and email marketing". Anyone who is new to starting an online business will not know enough about all of the areas above to be able to compete in this fast pace market.

So can a new person have a chance at becoming successful? Yes.

But you must think smaller – think niche!

You could possibly come up with any one of the following niches just from the definition above:

Copywriting
Linking
Marketing
Email Marketing
Web Site Design
Search Engine Optimization

Even if you are already extremely experienced or lucky in any one of the above niches, there is still a lot of competition out there in these broader niches. You may decide to do this anyway in the end, but spend some time exploring smaller niches within the more broad areas. This may lead you to finding a niche that you are better suited to anyway.

In order to be successful in any business, it all comes down to supplying a product or service that the public has a demand for and the market has room for. Discover the right niche and you will discover that you are on the right path.

Mar 11, 2008

Exchanging Links With Other Sites


When exchanging links with other sites all that is required of you is to reach an agreement with another webmaster to trade links. Ok, so it's not all that simple, it takes time and persistence because some webmasters will not agree to link back to you. But it is possible and it's a free means of getting traffic to your site.

As long as you link to the right sites, ones that are related to yours. You can attain a good ranking with the search engines.

Find high-value, similarly themed sites, and then exchange links to TRULY increase your link popularity, in a way that the engines love. Use "The World's ONLY True-Blue, Real Link Exchanger that WORKS!"

Not only will you be joining an incredible traffic-building program for free, but you can also download a free book that teaches the most effective ways to build long-term traffic to your sites. "Make Your Links Work!"

Top Ten Things to Look for in a Web Host


How do you choose the right web host for you? It will of course depend on the size of your site. Is it a small mini site, a blog or will you require more bandwidth for photo galleries and audio-visual media?

Lets take a look at some of the essential features every good web host should have.

1. A Price That is Reasonable

For a dependable, full-featured web host you shouldn't be required to pay any more than $10 - $15 a mon. Unless, of course, your website has special requirements. You may even be able to pay a year in advance so that you can save some money.

2. A cPanel Interface

A 'cPanel' is a control panel that permits you to completely manage your domain. Including setting up email, file management, installation of scripts, database administration and FTP and more.

3. Reliability 100% of the Time

Guaranteed 100% or at least 99.9% uptime. In other words, you can depend on your site being live all of the time and you will have access to it, your cPanel and your email. The web host will need a back up server in order to be able to guarantee this reliability, so check with them before you commit.

4. Customer Support That is Easily Accessed

You will want to have access to web-based and telephone support, including both live chat and an email-based support ticket system. It is helpful when the support is reliable, intelligent, friendly and available 24-7. The web host should also offer training in help files that you can access online or download.

5. Multiple Domain Hosting

You may not need this feature if you only have one website, but for some this may be important. Some hosts may even offer an unlimited number of domains for a low monthly fee.

6. Large Amounts of Bandwidth and Storage Space Allowed

Your site will likely grow both in size and in the traffic that it attracts. A good web host should allow that growth without penalizing you. It may eventually be necessary to upgrade, but hopefully you will not have to switch your hosts.

7. Number of POP3 Email Accounts Allowed

You will want an unlimited number of emails accounts for your website. This way you will have the flexibility to include addresses for different purposes of your site such as, webmaster@yourdomain.com or support@yourdomain.com, etc.

8. Access to Statistics and Logs

Once your site gets going you will want to start evaluating it's performance. Being able to access your statistics will help in this analysis.

9. Ability to Use Online File Management or FTP

FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol. This tool is used to upload large amounts of files quickly. You may not always have a use for this feature but it will at least be available to you.

10. Backups

All web hosting companies should have some type of backup plan in place for security measure. For example, data bases, files, server settings etc. The cost for this feature is often included in the price; however, it may be extra depending on the web host.

So, there you have it - the top features you should expect to find with any great quality web hosting company. You can find free web hosting online, but keep in mind, " You'll only get what you pay for." If the web host provides quality, reliability and a full set of features, you may be more willing to pay.

SiteSell Hosting

Mar 6, 2008

Myth – All SBI! Sites Look the Same


Yes, the “basic” simple-to-use, templates provided by SBI! are similar in look and feel, however, they are actually recommended by site-design experts (Dr. Jakob Neilson of useit.com and others) who stress both simplicity and a left-hand navbar.

Just because these designs are simple does not imply that they will keep someone from achieving top search engine and 1% Alexia rankings and ultimately success.

When you are a newbie, you will feel more comfortable using these templates and when you are ready or if you already have the skills, you are free to use Dreamweaver and Photoshop, CSS or any other design methods or tools that you choose.

Anything you can design with regular Web hosting, you can do with SBI!

Take the time to check out some of these websites. They are all SBI! websites, however, you can see that some are using the SBI! templates and others are not. Can you tell which is which?

It also seems that these sites are ranking well at Alexia and Google. Looks good doesn’t it, but I had to check it out for myself. Here is a free “search tool” that will do just that for you. Click on the “popularity” category and the follow the instructions from there to get Alexia and Google page rank.

Feb 28, 2008

Myth - Site Build It! (SBI!) is Too Expensive!


“Too expensive compared to what?” Once you see what you get, SBI! would be considered a deal at 10 times the price.

For example, Brainstorm It! is just one of the many tools offered in the Site Build It! package. It uses Wordtracker as its base and then adds even more functionality. If you were to use Wordtracker as a separate tool, it would cost you at least $329 per year.

On top of this you will get
- webhosting
- point and click site-building
- easy blogging,
- traffic stats and click anylsis
- automatic search engine submission
and so much more.

You will receive an action guide (you can even take a look at it now or watch the video to see how helpful it is), that will not only show you how to get your website built, but it will show you how to do it step-by-step in order to build a “successful web business”.

After your site is live on the web you will learn how to submit your site to search engines, directories and other means of generating traffic. This is all available to you after you register. There is so much helpful and quality information available, that you will not need to look any where else.

And if you cannot find the answer to your questions, support is there to help or the SBI forums.




Resign from your job! Elad did and you can too. Here's his story and others.

Feb 21, 2008

Myth – Is SBI! Just for Beginners?


Well, of course it’s great for beginners. Site Build It! offers all the information and training required to teach you what you will need to know as a “newbie” to build an effective website. All the tools you will need to build and promote your website are included this one package.

Features include:

* Keyword research tool
* Keyword brainstorm tool
* Website building tool
* Web hosting
* Search engine submissions and automatic re-submissions
* Autoresponder
* Blogger
* Want to see what other features are available?

And for more experienced webmasters you can

* “Upload your own HTML pages”


If you have been browsing the forums or blogs and come across a post stating “SBI is for Newbies Only”, this is just not true. Many web savvy individuals use SBI because it offers so many features all in one place.

Sure, you could do it all by using third party tools, but wouldn’t that just be more work? As the saying goes, “Work Smarter, Not Harder” SBI! allows you to do just that.

Benefits of Site Build It!

Site Build It! will take you step-by-step through the process of coming up with a winning niche idea or topic of interest. You can then build your site using the easy point and click interface and when you are ready to promote your website, the training guides, SBI support and SBI forums are ready to assist you in any way they can.

SBI! literally changes small business people's lives. Read the stories told by real people who were once in the same boat as you.

Feb 15, 2008

Why SBI!



Feb 14, 2008

Free Decision Making Tool


Are you trying to make a decision about something, anything?

Try out this nifty little tool called Choose It! that helps you to make many different decisions from business to career to vacation chooses, even life-changing decisions.

I use it when I have a question and 2 or 3 pretty good answers, but don’t know which decision is the right choice for me.

There are five simple steps involved.

    1. Ask a question. Just don’t ask a question that will return you a yes or no, because all you will get is an NaN answer. I tried it, the instructions said not to, but curiosity got the best of me.
    2. Provide a list of possible answers.
    3. Then make a small list of what is important to you in regard to the question you asked.
    4. Rate how well each possible answer fulfills the requirements of each factor.
    5. Finally, an overall score and bar chart will appear revealing the best possible answer to your question.


Take the Quick Tour Me Through an Example, to see how it works.

Feb 12, 2008

Quality Links Using SiteSell Value Exchange


A highly talked about free traffic source is to get some relevant links pointing to your site. You can do this by participating in a link exchange; however, it is not a good idea to partner with just any site. You want to be sure that the other site has some good quality content that is relevant to your site’s theme.

It is the quality not the quantity that counts, so 10 or 15 good quality websites are better than 100 sites of low quality linking to you that have little relevance to your theme.

Seeking out quality sites can be a difficult and tedious task if you are not sure where to start looking and how to go about it.

Thanks to Site Build It! They offer a Value Exchange Program that assists in making the monotonous chore of locating and contacting webmasters with quality sites beneficial to both parties and easy to manage.

How the Value Exchange Program Works

You register your site URL into the value exchange program, as do many other webmasters with similar or different themes. The URL is then submitted into the value exchange database, it searches only for sites related to yours and instantly puts you in contact with each other.

It is then up to you to determine which sites you want to link to. Register for the FREE Value Exchange Program now.


Don’t forget to download the FREE “Make Your Links Work” e-book, which focuses not only on link popularity but the bigger picture required to building targeted traffic and long-term online profits.

Feb 7, 2008

Ken Evoy's All-in-One Website Building Software


Site Build It! is an excellent marketing system that takes you step-by-step through the process of developing a winning business idea. Building a website for that idea and then promoting your website.




Listen to what some of the folks have to say who actually use and succeed with Site Build It!

What are You Looking for in an Affiliate Program?


* one that offers excellent products that you feel comfortable promoting.
* one in which you can earn life time commissions, in other words, you sell once and earn indefinitely!
* one where you can earn a commission just for referring customers to the owner (President Ken Evoy).
* one in which you can trust Ken Evoy because he OVER-delivers on his promises and looks after your interests.
* you even get a free manual packed with great advice on how you can get started earning money.

Become an affiliate and if at any time you have questions, get them answered from the friendly forums at Site Build It!
or ask by Calling or Sending an E-mail

This program is nothing less than a winner.

Register today, its Free!

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