Tuesday, July 21, 2009

3 Easy Ways to Get 10 Backlinks a Day

Backlinks are the key to succeeding with your Internet home business. In a nutshell, the more backlinks you have the higher the traffic exchanges rank your site and the more traffic you will receive.

Unfortunately building the total of backlinks to your website can be a rather time consuming process. There are websites that for a fee will build backlinks for you but with these you usually have no control of the quality of the link that you receive and the fees they charge can be quite high.

Most people who start their new home based business are (or should be) on a tight budget and paying a fee for backlinks is an expense that most avoid. There is also my somewhat old fashioned belief that when you do something for yourself you will have a higher satisfaction and in turn higher results with your business.

So rather then trying to build thousands of backlinks at once and paying someone to do it for you the better plan is to build them slowly learning as you go.

Everyday you should try to build a small, steady amount of links. If you set a goal of ten backlinks a day you soon will have thousands of links pointing to your site.

Posting in forums is a easy way to get a backlink. You should find four or five active forums in a niche similar to your Internet home business. Many forums allow you to post a signature and this is were you place a link to your site.

Visit each of your favorite forums each day and make one or two posts in each. Every post in the forum will have a link to your site and as you continue to make posts your reputation will grow and so will traffic to your site as people begin to trust you and want to use your services.

Commenting on blogs is another popular method for backlinks. A Google search of your particular niche will most likely bring thousands of blogs. Visit four or five of blogs a day and leave a comment. Each time you leave a comment you also leave a link back to your site. Its important that your comment is not promoting your business. It should be thanking the owner for the information in their post.

Writing articles has been the most popular method of backlinks for years. Submitting articles to directories and adding a link to your site in the resource box has proven to be very effective.

While writing and submitting articles can be time consuming and it can be difficult to do on a daily basis, submitting one or two a week to several directories will double your backlinks in a very short period of time.

If you use these three methods on a regular basis you will soon have thousands of backinks and your traffic to your site will steadily grow.

Source: Ezine

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Double Your Business Profits on net

As the owner of a small business you often have to wear a number of different hats; manager, technical expert, marketer, problem solver and more. Which role you believe to be the "real you" will determine how much net profit your business makes.

Most people start their business in a "technical" area in which they are qualified in or skilled. They could be a builder, a chef, a musician, an inventor, an accountant, a computer wizard, a writer, or any number of other professions. Let's refer to this as being an expert.

Initially you spend most of your time working in that area of expertise but as the business grows you might find yourself spending more time in management and administrative roles.

Is it more profitable to focus on being a manager or on being an expert? The answer is neither! Your business will make the most profit if you think of yourself first and foremost as a marketer.

You are a marketer who also builds houses or a marketer who also runs a restaurant or a marketer who also plays music or a marketer who also does whatever your business entails. If you think of yourself first and foremost as a marketer and develop a passion for it then you will make every decision and take every action based on increasing your share of the potential profit from your market place.

A builder who thinks of himself, as a builder will build well for personal pride or to keep the customer satisfied. If that leads to more business it is almost a happy accident.

A builder who thinks of himself as a marketer who also builds will build well as a marketing strategy to gain more business and higher profit business. He will have a system in place to capitalize on the quality of work and gain referrals. He will take before and after photos to use as marketing material. He will hire workers with good people skills as well as good building skills, because he understands that everything he does can potentially build his business or break his business financially.

The business owner who is first and foremost a marketer is focused not only on cost effectively providing the customer with what he wants but also on making sure that the customer is fully aware of all the benefits he is getting by dealing with this particular business. He knows that every customer is potentially repeat business and that every customer knows other potential customers.

A business owner who sees himself first and foremost as a manager or as an expert will rely on the technical expertise of the business to generate customers. The business owner who sees himself first and foremost as a marketer believes that his primary responsibility in the business is to ensure that the business is gaining more customers and better quality customers, then to use the technical expertise within the business to service those customers' needs.

A business owner who is first and foremost a marketer will make a priority of investing a percentage of the business profits into a marketing campaign that builds the size and quality of the customer base. He will also ensure that the business is getting the best returns for each marketing dollar spent because he judges his effectiveness in the business by the growth rate of annual profits.

All self made billionaires are first and foremost marketers and all small businesses that grow into big businesses are the ones that are owned or run by people who see themselves first and foremost as marketers. I wonder how much more profit your business could generate if you became passionate about marketing.