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		<title>Don&#8217;t be a Square &#8211; 5 Strategies to Get Circular With Those Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Way Links from High Page Rank Pages are Your Ticket to the Top of the Page Rank Leader Board.  Circular Links is a Win:Win:Win where everyone gets Links yet Everyone  gets One Way back Links.
3 Different Link Strategies


Reciprocal Linking is Where You link to a Link Partner and The Link Partner then [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One Way Links from High Page Rank Pages are Your Ticket to the Top of the Page Rank Leader Board.  Circular Links is a Win:Win:Win where everyone gets Links yet Everyone  gets One Way back Links.</p>
<p>3 Different Link Strategies</p>
<p>
<ol>
<li>Reciprocal Linking is Where You link to a Link Partner and The Link Partner then Returns the Link to You.
<li>One way back Links is where a Link Partner Links to You, But you don&#8217;t Link Back to the Link Partner
<li>Circular Links is where You link to Link Partner A, and Link Partner A links to Link Partner B and then Link Partner B Links back to You.  Everyone Gives a Link.  But the Best part is Everyone Gets a one way Back Link.
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<p>Here are 5 Different Circular  Link Strategies any Webmaster can use to get lot&#8217;s of Circular Links with many Link Partners.</p>
<p><b>1 &#8211; Multiple Web Site Strategy Circular Link Strategy</b></p>
<p>If you own or operate multiple web sites you can offer a Link Partner a link from a web site of their choice that you own or operate in return for a link back to a different Web site of your choice that you own or operate.</p>
<p><b>2 &#8211; With a Little Help from My Friends Circular Link Strategy</b></p>
<p>You can offer a Link Partner a Link from your friends Web Site in return for a link back to your Web Site. You of course would then Link to Your Friend Completing the Circular Link</p>
<p><b>3 &#8211; Circle with Yourself Circular Link Strategy</b></p>
<p>If you happen to own or Operate 3 or more Web Sites why not set up Circular Links between your Web Sites. This Strategy works best when the Web Sites are on Different Servers or with Different Hosts</p>
<p><b>4 &#8211; Circle those Blogs Circular Link Strategy</b></p>
<p>Set up Multiple Free Blogs on different Blog servers and then Build Circular links Between your Blogs.  At the Same Time you can build Circular Links between your Blogs and Your Web Page</p>
<p><b>5- Let&#8217;s All Join Hands Circular Link Strategy</b></p>
<p>Who said you need a Circle of only 3.  You can Do Circles with as Many web Pages as you Like. Thinks of this as  Web Ring   of Links.</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Link Partner 1 Would Link to Link Partner 2
<li>Link Partner 2 Would Link to Link Partner 3
<li>Link Partner 3 Would Link to Link PArtner 4
<li>&#8230;..
<li>The Last Link Partner would Link back to 1
</ul>
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<p>By Using the above 5 Strategies it should be Fairly simple to set up circular links with many Link Partners and explode your Search Engine Rankings and web site Traffic.</p>
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<p>Mike Makler has been Marketing Online Since 2001, When he built his first Sales organization of over 100,000 Members.</p>
<p>Subscribe to Mike&#8217;s Newsletter here:<br />
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		<title>Good Traffic is Targeted Traffic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Targeted traffic: the demographic
Assuming your business is motorcycles, my first guess at your target demographic would be 16-25 year old males and 50+ year old wealthy retired couples. Breaking it down further, if you sell Suzuki crotch rockets, you can safely discard the wealthy retired group. Narrow the demographic as best you can to target [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Targeted traffic: the demographic</p>
<p>Assuming your business is motorcycles, my first guess at your target demographic would be 16-25 year old males and 50+ year old wealthy retired couples. Breaking it down further, if you sell Suzuki crotch rockets, you can safely discard the wealthy retired group. Narrow the demographic as best you can to target potential customers. Paying for traffic that isn&#8217;t dense with people interested in what you&#8217;re selling is a waste of your advertising dollar.</p>
<p>Once the demographic is well defined, you can begin identifying and sorting out perspective advertisers. Determining whether a particular advertiser or marketing group is going to work for you can be rather difficult, unless you&#8217;ve personally used them before. This is where experience and networking with other webmasters comes in very handy. Talk to other webmasters who&#8217;ve advertised with the company, find out what they were advertising, and ask them how the campaign went and if they plan to advertise on that website again. I don&#8217;t generally use an advertiser unless I&#8217;ve heard very good things from other webmasters or they have a trial ad setup, where you can commit a small amount of money to testing out the traffic before you make a real investment and buy several weeks or months of advertising with them.</p>
<p>An important consideration when buying ad space on a specific website is the focus of that website. If you&#8217;re considering advertising on a service oriented website, make sure your product or service compliments that website&#8217;s service. For instance, if you sell shoes, advertising on hotmail.com is going to be very inefficient and expensive. You&#8217;ll be paying to advertise to a bunch of people, the mass majority of which aren&#8217;t looking to buy shoes. However, if you&#8217;re selling a spyware removal tool, email services could be a great place to advertise. Most internet users have spyware on their computers, and most are aware of and concerned about spyware.</p>
<p>Advertising on content based sites</p>
<p>When I need to advertise, my favorite place to go is still a content oriented site with a close relationship to my product or service. If I&#8217;m selling Gregory backpacks, I&#8217;ll look for advertising opportunities on websites related to backpacking and hiking, such as outdoors guides and wilderness survival websites.</p>
<p>Web traffic at some content based sites is not particularly targeted, while others have a specific topic, like a gardening tips website. Finding a website with a very specific interest may or may not be as important, depending on what product you&#8217;re selling, or what service you offer. T-shirts may sell well on lots of different content based sites, while the gardening weasel isn&#8217;t likely to do well on places not related to gardening.</p>
<p>An update schedule of content based websites you&#8217;re considering advertising on is rather important, depending on how you advertise. A website that updates every other day or weekly will have many visitors who come for the updates and leave. A website that updates sporadically will have more people who come just looking for something new. When there is nothing new they&#8217;re more likely to look for other related links, which is where good advertising kicks into high gear. Of the three major advertising types, I tend to believe in doing my homework and paying flat rates for given periods of time. This seems to work best, because it depends more on you to build an intriguing advertisement, and rewards you for doing so.</p>
<p>Buying ad space on a per click basis can be a better bet if you&#8217;re trying to build a brand name, because your ad might get 50,000 impressions before the 1,000 click-through you paid for happen.</p>
<p>Conversion rates are key</p>
<p>For most of us on the web though, our main goal is to sell the product or service. This is why I contest doing your research, finding the best websites, and purchasing ad space on a weekly or monthly basis is the best method of promotion in the long run. If you&#8217;re smart, you&#8217;ll monitor your traffic from different sources and determine the cost per sale to see which sources are providing the best conversion rates. In the case of buying click through traffic, the monitoring program should give you the traffic conversion rate.</p>
<p>More targeted traffic suggestions</p>
<p>Additional information can be found in the subscribers area of <a href="http://www.webmasterarchives.com" rel="nofollow">www.webmasterarchives.com</a>, specifically information on what to look for when considering traffic trades with other websites, where to get started with traffic building, good approaches when requesting a link trade, how to jump start your traffic building efforts with very minimal cost, and methods to making your website so attractive webmasters will be knocking down your door with link trade requests.</p>
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<p>Copyright 2004 Harley Barnett<br />
Some Rights Reserved<br />
This article is licensed under the Creative Commons License, which allows for non-commercial use under conditions of attribution and share-alike. For more articles like this check out the author&#8217;s website: Webmaster Archives.</p>
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		<title>How To Use Online Auctions As Traffic Generators</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are thousands of online auctions on the internet.
 People love them because they can usually find great
 bargains. If you have an online business, you can use
 them to increase traffic to your web site.
You could create an electronic book or report that
 relates to your online business, then auction it off at an
 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are thousands of online auctions on the internet.<br />
 People love them because they can usually find great<br />
 bargains. If you have an online business, you can use<br />
 them to increase traffic to your web site.</p>
<p>You could create an electronic book or report that<br />
 relates to your online business, then auction it off at an<br />
 online auction. You could increase traffic to your web<br />
 site by placing an ad for your web site in the electronic<br />
 publication. Some online auctions will even allow you<br />
 to link directly to your web site.</p>
<p>Electronic publications won&#8217;t cost you anything to ship.<br />
 You could send them via e-mail or allow people to<br />
 download the electronic publication from your web site.<br />
 You can also auction them off for a lower price. When<br />
 they visit your web site you could offer them a higher<br />
 priced product.</p>
<p>You could also get traffic from people who don&#8217;t bid<br />
 or don&#8217;t get the winning bid. You could direct them<br />
 to your web site to download and read a free sample<br />
 of the ebook or report before they bid.  If they want<br />
 more detailed information about the ebook or report,<br />
 you could also direct them to your web site.</p>
<p>You can also get traffic to your web site by auctioning<br />
 a physical product. Print your web site advertisement<br />
 on a flyer or brochure then insert it into each product<br />
 package you ship.</p>
<p>Before you start auctioning any product at an online<br />
 auction, read the terms and conditions. Some auctions<br />
 may not allow the auctioning of electronic products or<br />
 directly linking to your web site where you have other<br />
 products for sale.</p>
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<p>About the author:</p>
<p>Rojo Sunsen is a specialized bounty hunter who prefers to work quietly/confidentially for the benefit of her clients.</p>
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		<title>How to Draw Traffic to Your Website &#8211; More Steps</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web site traffic refers to the number of times your site is viewed by the users.
It is the most important point to be made for the success of your online business.
Steps to increase the site traffic:
STEP 1: Submit Your Site to Search Engines:
Major Search Engines:
Yahoo, Google, AOL Search, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Direct Hit, Excite, FAST [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Web site traffic refers to the number of times your site is viewed by the users.<br />
It is the most important point to be made for the success of your online business.</p>
<p>Steps to increase the site traffic:</p>
<p>STEP 1: Submit Your Site to Search Engines:</p>
<p>Major Search Engines:<br />
Yahoo, Google, AOL Search, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Direct Hit, Excite, FAST Search, HotBot, Inktomi, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN Search, Netscape Search</p>
<p>&#8226;	Manually Submission:<br />
If you want to submit by hand, be aware that each Search Engine has it&#8217;s own set of rules for determining relevancy and ranking.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Paid Submission:<br />
Where you have to pay to be listed.</p>
<p>Good Submission Sites:</p>
<p><a href="http://submitfire.coffeecup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://submitfire.coffeecup.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.actnowdomains.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.actnowdomains.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.submitnet.net//default" rel="nofollow">http://www.submitnet.net//default</a><br />
<a href="http://www.submitexpress.com" rel="nofollow">www.submitexpress.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.submit-it.com" rel="nofollow">www.submit-it.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.submitshop.com" rel="nofollow">www.submitshop.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.addme.com/submission.htm" rel="nofollow">www.addme.com/submission.htm</a></p>
<p>STEP 2: Update Information:<br />
Put fresh content and update the existing content of your website.</p>
<p>STEP 3: Pay for clicks:<br />
Receive targeted pay per click traffic from all major search engines. People will see your site in the sponsored links section of the search results when they search for keyword phrases related to your products or services.</p>
<p>Major pay- per- click search engines:</p>
<p>&#8226;	Overture- from yahoo:<br />
<a href="http://www.content.overture.com/d/" rel="nofollow">http://www.content.overture.com/d/</a></p>
<p>&#8226;	AdWords- from google:<br />
https://adwords.google.com/select/Login3</p>
<p>&#8226;	Search 123:<br />
<a href="http://www.search123.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.search123.com</a></p>
<p>&#8226;	FindWhat:<br />
<a href="http://findwhat.com" rel="nofollow">http://findwhat.com</a></p>
<p>&#8226;	Enhance Interactive: (formerly ah-ha.com)<br />
<a href="http://www.enhance.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.enhance.com</a></p>
<p>&#8226;	Kanoodle:<br />
<a href="http://kanoodle.com/" rel="nofollow">http://kanoodle.com/</a></p>
<p>STEP 4: Get published:</p>
<p>Write articles for publication on other websites. The author profile will link to your site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.site-reference.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.site-reference.com</a><br />
<a href="http://www.articlecity.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.articlecity.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://ezinearticles.com" rel="nofollow">http://ezinearticles.com</a><br />
<a href="http://searchwarp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://searchwarp.com/</a></p>
<p>STEP 5: Publish yourself:<br />
Write articles for your own site regularly.</p>
<p>STEP 6: Get links to your site: (link exchange)<br />
Get people with other sites to link to yours. Links lead to clicks onto your website and help to improve your search engine rankings.</p>
<p>STEP 7: Classified Ads:<br />
These are generally simple text line ads, advertising a product or service. All your classified ad needs to do is to get a visitor to your web site. Your web site becomes your sales letter!</p>
<p>The Grandfather Of All Links FREE Advertising Directory which has over 10,000 + places to advertise for free. Contact them at:<br />
<a href="http://www.ecki.com/links" rel="nofollow">http://www.ecki.com/links</a></p>
<p>STEP 8: More steps:</p>
<p>&#8226;	Buy links to your site:<br />
Buy text links on other websites.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Buy banner ads:<br />
Buy banner ads on other websites.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Participate in a banner exchange program:<br />
It won&#8217;t cost you anything, and will lead to a few extra visitors.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Set up an affiliate marketing program:<br />
With affiliate marketing, you can either pay per click or pay per customer acquired.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Use off-line marketing:<br />
Do anything and everything to spread the word about your website around your city.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Give away free stuff:<br />
Offer free information or/and free downloads and update them regularly.</p>
<p>&#8226;	Auctions:<br />
Sell your product online using one or more of these auctions:<br />
<a href="http://www.ebay.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com</a><br />
http://www.ubid.com</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
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<p>Faraj Balousha<br />
Civil Engineer, Architect, Webmaster<br />
Sketch-Plus Inc., <br />
<a href="http://www.sketch-plus.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sketch-plus.com/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.creating-website-stores.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.creating-website-stores.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Free Link Exchange &#8211; Is It Worth Using a Free Link Exchange Program?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many free link exchange sites on the internet.  Link exchange is beneficial.  However, competition online is increasing.  In any given industry, most of the time, the sites competing for top positions in the search engines have over 1000 links to their website.  To use a free link exchange program [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many free link exchange sites on the internet.  Link exchange is beneficial.  However, competition online is increasing.  In any given industry, most of the time, the sites competing for top positions in the search engines have over 1000 links to their website.  To use a free link exchange program can be very time consuming, slow and discouraging.  Especially when trying to reach that 1000 mark one link at a time.</p>
<p>There are programs online that will provide you with hundreds or thousands of backlinks in a short period of time.</p>
<p>There are some things you should make note of before starting a link exchange program:</p>
<p><b>Make sure you use keywords in and around your link</b> &#8211;  You may think that your link, buried in a sea of 25 other links will never be seen by an actual visitor.  But, while no one usually goes to someones link page looking for a site to visit, search engines will pick up on your keywords and sometimes rank that page with your link on it high in the search engines.  This can result in direct traffic for your targeted keywords.</p>
<p><b>Site wide links do almost no good</b> &#8211; A few years ago, having a link on every page of another website would increase your search engine rankings considerably.  However, nowadays a site wide link on another website will not help you at all.</p>
<p><b>Links exchanged with relevant sites increase your ranking</b> &#8211; Figure that the search engines are trying to determine what industry and topics your pages are related to by who is linking to you.  The closer in relevance your link is, the more it helps you rank higher for those pages.</p>
<p>Try more than one option.  Spend your time wisely by spreading out your efforts.  Do a little manual link exchanging.  Try a couple of automatic link exchange programs.  Write good content for your website to increase natural linking.</p>
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