| Promoting your business on Free Index |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Free Index is a unique business directory that’s available to individuals and companies in the United Kingdom. It offers a way to promote your business online without cost. As the name suggests, it’s a free way to get noticed on the Internet and promote your products or services. |
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| Are you in one of these 17 niches? |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| In my articles, Become an Expert and Ten Top Tips to Make Article Marketing Work For You, I explain how Article Marketing can help to not only establish you as an expert, but also to bring in valuable and targeted traffic to your website. (And yes, in some cases it can also help with the Mighty Google…) |
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| Promoting yourself on BT tradespace |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| You may not have heard of BT Tradespace, but it’s a popular and fast growing way to promote yourself or your business on the Internet. BT Tradespace is a hub, a meeting place where buyers and sellers, companies, businesses and customers can come together. BT Tradespace emphasizes the interactive relationship between business and customer. |
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| How I use twitter |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| If you’re reading this, it’s either because you’ve just started following me on Twitter, or you’re thinking of following me on Twitter. |
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| An interview with Nikki Pilkington |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Nikki was interviewed by Jay Loftus from The SME Brand Newsletter, You can read the full interview below. |
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| Twitter is easier with Tweetdeck |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Having spoken to lots of people about Twitter, on and off Ecademy, I realize that the first impression most people get is of the Twitter website.
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| Ten mistakes you can't afford to make with Google adwords |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Google AdWords is a highly effective, affordable way for anyone to advertise online. |
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| Top ten tips to make article marketing work for you |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| One of the most effective ways to build your credibility, attain search presence and create quality backlinks to your website is through ‘Article Marketing’. Article marketing involves writing a series of well crafted, knowledgeable articles within your area of business expertise and publishing them not only on your own website but also in various |
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| Webstats - the truth about hits and visitors |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| The Internet is an important tool for businesses across the globe. But with everyone competing in the online global market place, it’s vital that each business works hard to bring visitors to their website. Once the visitor is at the site, they need to keep them interested in order to convert that visitor into a sale. |
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| The 7 deadly sins of SEO |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Back in March 2008, the Vatican issued a set of seven new Deadly Sins to update and augment the original established list of seven. Within the Catholic Church, these are considered terrible ways that a person can offend God. |
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| Guaranteed front page Google positions, when is a gurantee not a guarantee? |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| The word GUARANTEE is one of the most powerful words used in marketing and sales. The idea generated by the word is that a customer or client will absolutely receive or achieve something as a result of the product or service. |
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| 10 places you can find Nikki Pilkington |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| I get a few (OK, 2 or 3) emails a week asking me what other networks I can be found on – so thought I’d post a few of them here – feel free to contact me via those networks, or to ‘connect’ to me |
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| Why is no-one buying from my website? |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Are you, like many other website owners, frustrated at the amount of time, effort and money you’ve put into your website, only to see few or no sales? |
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| What not to do |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you can ‘fool’ or ‘trick’ the search engines. Webmasters and designers have tried to fool Google since it’s inception, and before that, Yahoo, Lycos, Infoseek (r.i.p.) and Alta Vista. |
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| Twitter for business, part three |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Recently business has realized the potential use of Twitter as a tool for marketing products and services directly to new customers. If you and your business want to capitalize on Twitter’s application for marketing, here’s some advice on running your Twitter marketing campaign: |
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| Business on twitter, part two |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| The business world has already awakened to the power of Twitter as a promotional tool. This micro-blogging service has amazing potential to instantly provide customers with exclusive information, gain feedback and producing lightning fast market research. |
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| Twitter for business, part one |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Twitter is a mini-blogging device that can be accessed via the web, instant messaging and mobile phones. Users can send messages of one hundred and forty characters that are published either publicly or privately in a shared environment. Anyone with access to this environment can follow the flow of messages and comment, reply or simply keep up to d |
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| Top four keyword tools |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| It’s very easy to start optimizing and promoting your site willy-nilly for the keywords you think it should be top for. I touched on this in my article Top 7 Mistakes People Make When Optimizing Their Website |
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| 3 ways to increase your website conversion rate |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Everywhere you look these days, people are telling you that in order to sell through your website, you need tons of traffic. |
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| Is google the best search engine? |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| With more and more people frustrated by the difficulties in getting good listings in Google, Nikki Pilkington tells us more about the 3 other major search engines and the advantages they have: |
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| Get listed in ODP |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Today more than ever, in the field of search engine optimization (SEO), there is a very important step that needs to be taken in order to help a website’s visibility in the major search engines. That important step is to submit it to DMOZ, sometimes called the Open Directory Project or ODP. DMOZ provides a lot of search results for a good percentag |
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| Get listed in Google for free |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Google does not accept payment for inclusion in their main index – so anyone that’s at the top is there through hard work and perseverance. |
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| Effective email marketing |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| When you send an email to an opt-in list, the chances are you want results. And the message that you send to the list can have a significant effect on the results your achieve. |
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| Become an expert |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Everyone focuses their web marketing efforts on search engines, and while this is a large part of traffic generation, it’s not the be all and end all of selling from your website. |
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| 10 reasons why you could need online reputation management |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| The Internet’s capacity for instant publishing, search and find has made shaping public opinion more malleable than ever. It’s possible to sway public opinion with what is written on the web about people, businesses and their brands. Online Reputation Management is about controlling how people perceive you or your business. Managing this perception |
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| Killer keyphrases part two |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| In Part One of this series , we looked at why Keyphrases are more effective than simply using generic keywords. But HOW should you choose killer keyphrases that really work for your website? |
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| Killer keyphrases part one |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Part One: Keyphrases Capture Customers
One of the most essential keys to successfully attracting visitors to your website is the words that you choose when promoting it. Whether it involves your website content, the copy you write, online advertising or Google Adwords, it is the words that connect you and your website to its visitors.
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| 12 ways to promote your website offline |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| So you have your website and you’ve done everything right on the web – search engines, classified sites, newsgroups, bulletin boards, link sites, mailing lists, etc etc etc. |
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| 10 tools I use everyday |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| I was reading something the other day about business people not making the most of the tools they have that can make their lives easier, and it started me thinking about the tools I use and probably take for granted every day. |
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| 10 sites I visit everyday for business |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| 1) Search Engine Watch – the first site dedicated to search engines, and still the best. Originally started by Danny Sullivan in 1996 (he resigned in 2006), this is a great site to find out the latest search engine stats, search engine news and more. |
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| 8 ways to mess up your SEO |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| If you want better results from your website, higher traffic and improved rankings, you should employ the services of an Internet Marketing Expert. The SEO will use their expertise in Search Engine Optimisation and their knowledge of Search Engines and Internet Marketing to give you the edge over your competition. However, a small number of SEO cli |
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| 10 steps to Google heaven |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| 1. Be Owner of your Domain – none of this freebie rubbish. If you want a decent listing, you need to be hosted on a proper server with a proper domain name. The most it will cost you is £100 a year, so get rid of that freebie ISP web space now, OK? |
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| They know your name - so what? |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| Every time I go to a networking event (and I go to a lot!), I obviously spend some time telling people there what it is that I do.
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| Top 7 mistakes |
posted 01-08-2009
Category: Business and Professional Services , Subcategory:Marketing |
| When I started in Internet Marketing fourteen years ago, there WERE no courses, there WAS no qualification, and everyone learned by trial and error. And mistakes were made. With that in mind, here are 7 mistakes to avoid when optimizing your website. |
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