How to get website visitors (traffic) that convert to sales is every website owners’ business. Although you can pay for traffic, share your profits for traffic, actively market for hours daily to solicit traffic, there is one preferred method for getting website visitors.

This is what online marketers call ‘organic’ search engine positioning and even though the work is challenging the dividends pay off as long as you own your domain.

“Without website traffic from the search engines you’re paying for every visitor no matter how useful or beautiful your website may be…” Laura Childs, 5th Oct, 2005

There are a number of firms, freelancers and specialists in the business of performing research and tweaking pages to gain top ranks in the most popular search engines. They are labeled as SEO experts, search engine optimizers and such.

The goal is to achieve a steady stream or ‘organic’ traffic – free, from the search engines. To have your site naturally recognized by the top search engines as being one of the best sites on the subject of choice.

Getting to that stage is a process that contains many variables but once you learn the basics you can then apply your knowledge to any site you ever build. You might even consider freelancing your services out to other site owners in the future. (Of course I’d never recommend wasting your talents working for someone else when you can apply your time to your own venture for better profits.)

There are a number of places to learn how to perform search engine optimization. You can take the slow and costly route to get visitors to your site or you can learn from the marketers and experts who are now fast tracking the process through tried and tracked techniques or highly specialized software.

If you’re going to spend any ‘learning dollars’ at all on your business, this is my top suggestion – put your money into search engine knowledge and current optimization techniques – after all traffic is the lifeblood of any internet business.

Why wait for 3 months for the search engines to find you only to give your website a low ranking – when the knowledge you need for higher positioning can be had for a song? Get the basics through the free email course below, this free 89 page pdf report "#1 in the Search
Engines, and then spend your money on high-ticket training materials on Web 2.0 traffic.

Get to Know How Search Engines Direct Traffic

Understanding Search Engines and Increasing Traffic

This is a free course that arrives daily in your email. I make every one I come into contact with take this course whether they’re new to making money online or a seasoned vet.

The course is called: ‘The 7 Most Powerful Web Traffic Creation & Conversion Techniques Period.’ It’s completely free and information rich. You’ll never look at search engine positioning and results pages the same way again! There is something in this course for everyone to learn – even one new tip is worth the 3 minutes it takes to read.

This is not a well-known or highly-publicized course so you’ll be going into it on my recommendation. (The sign up form for the course is on the left side of page. The first automated email makes you wonder if you signed up for the right course, but it all begins to fit together and begin to train you for search engine positioning success by day 2.)

More Traffic to Your Site with Web 2.0 Strategies

New Technique for Website Traffic – It Doesn’t End at the Search Engine

Listen, in order to get lots of traffic you must be included in the top search engines, that’s true, however, it doesn’t end there…

I just finished months of research regarding 2006-2007 online user activity and discovered that although more people are signing onto the internet daily and spending more hours at it then ever before, they just aren’t using the search engines as often as they used to.

So how can you capture their attention and attract them to your website?

It’s a little trickier as it involves a strategy to (a) determine where your target market is spending their time and (b) getting your website link in front of them. This is Web 2.0 Traffic strategy – you’ll be hearing a lot more about it over the next few years.

Once you understand basic search engine strategy (by taking the free course above), you can easily apply the Web 2.0 traffic strategy and get twice the bang for your buck as the search engines will automatically include your site in their listings once you’ve created a presence on a Web 2.0 site. This new technique doesn’t cost a cent, gets your site indexed by the top engines in short order, and is easy to repeat for higher rankings and more traffic over time.

You’ll have to pay to learn the techniques, but the result is worth the cost and more. Organic placement and targeted traffic to your new website, or increased traffic to an existing site. My clients and I have been using this technique since January 2007 now and we’re all seeing great results.

Get Incoming Links and Boost Your Website Traffic

Traffic from Outside Websites – Getting Off Links which Increase Page Views (but not necessarily search engine positioning)

Although getting incoming links from a variety of existing websites was once a sound solution to website traffic woes, it’s effectiveness is waning.

However, if you are a brand new website owner there are some very basic rules and training necessary to your success. I used to sell this video training set for $29 that share the techniques I still use today for a boost in website traffic whenever I need some extra visitors (after extensive testing I haven’t seen much good from using the technique described in Video 5, so don’t waste your time on that one if you buy this set at it’s reduced price of $8). P.S. Once you buy the video set, you can practice the techniques and sell copies of it!

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It’s just my way of saying "Thank you for being here."

If you’re running an online business that requires more sales or page visits to make your business viable I suggest you do this as well – it works in spades and
let’s customers know you care about them.

Thank you for visiting Smartzville’s Internet Marketing Website. I have gifts I like to give my subscribers and customers from time to time…

So whether you have to suffer through my newsletters and promotions or you’ve bought one of my products I think you deserve a reward. That’s precisely why I bundle up products with bonuses (often unadvertised) or follow up my customer contact with relevant (and only useful) information, tips or more ebooks.

For instance since I discuss website traffic so much on a few websites and since my specialty is Web 2.0 I recently started selling resale rights to a series of ebooks on how to market yourself, your mailing list, your products or your affiliate links with marketing on Squidoo. The set is top notch content and I passed the savings onto my customers when I sold it for under $13.

Wonder of wonders though, a few days later I picked up master resale rights to another ebook (not as good, but valuable enough to some) on Web 2.0 sites. My customers were happily surprised when I followed up with them a few days after their initial purchase with another ebook – this one for free.

That, in a nutshell is one of the easiest ways to brand your name and secure repeat customers for your business. In no time at all you’ll start receiving emails from your following asking for your advice on this product or that product, if you’ll be selling something similar, and so on.

Why not give it a shot? You can map out the strategy in less than 1/2 an hour and load up the entire campaign in an auto responder. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about take the free auto-responder course here.)

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Marketing Terms and Their Definitions

If you’ve just started your business online no doubt you’ve heard a pile of new words and terms for running an online business or promoting a website.

It gets confusing…

So I’ve put together this list of terms for you – to help make sense of it all and to use as a resource you can return to from time to time.

Marketing Terms – Marketing Definitions

Ad Tracker

Software that records the number of click-throughs or sales per link you’ve set up on your site.

Affiliate

A person who markets, promotes, or advertises someone else’s product or service in return for a commission. Online salesperson. You can become an affiliate for free at ClickBank and start earning right away.

Affiliate Link

When promoting a product or service as an affiliate (see above), you would use a specially coded hyperlink to ‘point’ to a sales page. That hyperlink code would be tied specifically to your account at the vendor’s site. Affiliate links vary across merchants and networks and are generally well explained on the merchant website. Sometimes your affiliate code is numerical, alphabetical or of your own choosing. If you’re in the internet marketing field you should check out this affiliate network – I’ve had great success promoting their products.

Auto Responder

Software or a paid service that sends email to your list of subscribers on a pre-determined schedule. My recommended auto-responder service.

Blog

Short form of Web Log. The trend began as online diaries that, dependent on the blog writer, may have solicited collaboration. Blog software is now widely used as an easy way to run a website. Smartzville’s Web 2.0 Blog is here. Another of my blogs on Web 2.0 Traffic is here.

CAN SPAM

This is a legislative act on email content and delivery meant to minimize spam, but is now a cornerstone of regulations on email marketers.

Classified Ad

A small text ad with a link to the advertiser’s site, used in newsletter marketing online.

CPM

An advertising standard. CPM = cost per thousand readers of an advertisement.

Content

Content is essentially the words on your web page or within your site but may also refer to an RSS Feed’s text. "Content is King" is a buzz-phrase passed around for the last few years when large search engines (such as google) changed their top results listings to the larger, content-rich sites.

Copy Writing

Effective written copy. Used to sell or teach.

Co-Registration

Services offered by some companies to assist you in building a subscriber base. Cost per subscriber varies by market and service provider.

CPA – Cost Per Action

CPA is a model used for advertising online where the rate for every action taken by a user is preset. The advertiser and publisher agree on what actions (a sale, a sign up, a site visit, etc.) will be tallied, registered and a commission rewarded.

CPC – Cost Per Click

CPC is the model used for advertising online where the rate is tallied, registered and rewarded for every actual ‘click through’ that results in a new visitor to the advertiser’s website.

CPM – Cost Per Thousand Impressions

CPM is the model used in advertising online where the rate is set for every thousand impressions. In other words, an advertiser pays a publisher $40 for displaying their advertisement 1000 times.

CTR – Click Through Ratio or Click Through Rate.

The number of people who clicked on an ad vs. the number who viewed the ad.

Database (Relational)

Not to be confused with a datafeed (something I write quite a bit about on this website.)

A database is a file that contains many ’strings’ of information that is searchable and usable in a variety of software applications.

A phone book is a database of names and phone numbers although I’d never use one for internet marketing because mine, personally, isn’t in computer ready format. In the computer sense, a database I might use would be the names, emails and telephone numbers of my past customers and a list of their purchases over the years.

Lately I’ve worked extensively with MySQL databases (which I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy but if you have a geek-ish mind, you’d find them quite powerful for content management and creating and managing online stores.

Directory

A finely tuned category of information. Yahoo for instance serves their search results based on directory headings.

Double Opt-In

Where email subscribers must verify (even after subscribing) and confirm that they did indeed want to be on your list.

Download

Saving files from the internet to your computer.

Ebook

Electronic Book. Ebooks created in PDF format can be read on both MACs and PCs. Where we once used ebook software to create our ebooks to sell, now we pretty much all use PDF since they have low risk of carrying viruses.

Ezine

Electronic Magazine, generally delivered by email.

Follow-Up

A sequence of email messages sent to a subscriber usually by an Auto Responder (see auto responder).

FTP

File Transfer Protocol. The means of getting content on your hard drive to the internet. Also used for downloading entire websites from the internet and onto your hard drive.

Forum

An online meeting place of like minded individuals.

HTML

HyperText Markup Language. The programming code that displays web pages.

Joint Venture

JV – Two marketers team up to present, sell, or share resources for the sale of a product.

Lead Generation

Similarto Co-Registration but also any means necessary to get people to sign up to a marketer’s email subscription. The ‘pre-sell’ part of follow-up.

Moderator

King (or queen) of a particular forum or forum topic. A moderator ensures that posts to the forum are appropriate and follow the forum’s guidelines.

MP3

Audio file format for computers or MP3 players.

Name Squeeze

A hot new way to tease a reader into subscribing to your follow-up messages. Used for lead generation and invented and tested for efficiency by marketing guru Jonathan Mizel.

Niche Marketing

Categorizing your potential customers by their likes, age, similarities. Finding out what they want to buy and how to reach them, then selling your product or service to them. Frank Kern was one of the big marketers who talked and trained extensively on niche marketing.

PPC

Pay Per Click. An advertising charge system where the advertiser pays for every click from the ad to his/her website. Perry Marshal is the expert on Google Adwords PPC opportunity and he has a free course here.

PDF

Portable Document Format. The file format most often used for ebooks.

RSS

Really Simple Syndication. A way of using varying programming code to syndicate content. See my RSS success story here.

Sales Letter

Text written using copy-writing skills to entice buyers.

Solo Ad

A one time, focused advertisement sent to a list of subscribers.

Split Test

A way of testing the effectiveness of copy. 1/2 potential customers are sent to one version of a sales letter, the other 1/2 to a different version. Each action is recorded and copy is tweaked as a result.

Syndication

Displaying content of one site on another site. See RSS.

Target URL

The landing page for a click through.

Target Marketing

aka Niche Marketing

Teleseminar

A conference call where learning is achieved.

Thank You Page

A special page (usually with download information) where the customer is directed after ordering.

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get. Used to describe a type of web page creation software.

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Should you use a plugin, set up your own mailing list or use a service to grow a subscriber list for your
blog?

This article shows you how easy it is to manage a list of subscribers for a blog readership, and gives you a ‘hands off’ way to keep your readers coming back…

Send Your Subscribers Your New Blog Posts! Easy!

First off let me clarify that this technique has nothing to do with where you host your blog, what blog marketing strategies you already have in place or what type of blogging software you’re using. If you are allowed to edit your blog template this is the easiest and most reliable method to building a list on your blog.

As soon as I say “edit your blog template”, most visitors shiver and shake with the thought of mucking around in code, so let’s clarify…

All you need to do is paste one line of code into your blog template. That’s all the editing that is required.

Getting Subscribers from A WordPress Blog

I used to manage my subscriber lists on my blogs with a plugin called Subscribe2. It was a pretty good plugin with no glitches that I knew of, but it did involve ftping files to my server, modifying my sidebar template, and (from what I remember) took me about 1/2 hour to customize for my readers.

As my list grew larger some of my biggest concerns were that I was never sure that I was in compliance with the CAN-spam act by using it. Nor could I track whether or not my subscribers received their mail, changed email addresses, or clicked the links I sent them. These are all big ‘deals’ in the marketing world. You need access to the details when you’re defining or altering your website marketing strategy. 

Getting Subscribers from a BlogSpot hosted Blog

Most of my regular visitors know that I don’t like blogspot hosted blogs for a number of reasons and I’ll do just about anything to convince you to get your blog off of blogspot. So I’ll try to be careful here about staying on topic. The way I suggest getting subscribers to your blogspot hosted blog is the exact same as for WordPress or for Movable Type. You’ll just add one line of code to your template.

“So What’s the Code That Lets Me Manage Subscribers, Track the Click-through AND Stay in Compliance?”

Use your auto-responder account! Yes, you heard me right. It’s a fast setup and you can easily manage everything you need to from within your autoresponder account.

You do have an autoresponder account don’t you?

“Anyone who’s marketing online – whether you’re selling products, running google adsense, or just making a name for yourself – who desires a steady stream of repeated visits from people interested in your views, products or reviews absolutely needs to keep a list of loyal readers. It is the most simplistic marketing strategy to implement with the largest return!”

An auto-responder account is the second purchase to make after you’ve created your first website. And, if you get the right service you can use one login to manage multiple lists (because sooner or later you’ll start your second website, then your third, and so on) without any extra costs.

Keep Blog Readers Coming Back With Every Post

Okay, here’s how it’s done. I used this auto-responder to manage multiple lists of people with varying interests through one low-payment account. Paying for this account is a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the traffic it sends me week after week just because I made a post on any one of my
blogs.

Blog Subscribers Marketing Strategy

You can set these ‘Blog Notify’ lists as separate lists or simply add the ability to email an existing mailing list that you have. I suggest setting up a separate mailing list for your blog readers (as opposed to regular newsletter subscribers) because newsletter subscribers and blog visitors aren’t often one and the same type of visitor. It doesn’t take any more effort to run two lists than it does one, past the initial setup. And, if you really want your newsletter subscribers to get your blog posts you can invite them to change their subscriptions, opt in to the second subscription or at the very least notify them what they’ll soon be receiving as part of their subscription to your newsletter (fail to do this and you might lose a few subscribers who cry “This isn’t what I signed up for!”).

Setting Up Your Blog Email Subscription List

This is really easy. Login to your auto-responder, Start a new list or select the list you want to add blog update notifications to, and click on the Messages tab.

You should then see a link to the Feed Broadcaster. From that page you simply enter in your RSS feed url.

Note: If you’re hosting on blogspot make sure you’re publishing a site feed (in your blog’s control panel click “Settings” then “Site Feed” then ensure the Publish Site Feed option is set to Yes, and you’ll find the Site Feed URL displayed directly below.

Feed Broadcaster is compatible with the following:

• RSS 0.9 through RSS 1.0
• RSS 1.0’s modules
• RSS 2.0
• Atom

And that, basically is all there is to it! There are many customizations and modifications you can make to the email that is sent to your subscribers, as well as how often they are mailed, but you don’t need to worry about those settings unless you want to start tweaking your blog marketing strategy.

Grab One Line of Code…

Your auto-responder account will generate a single line of javascript code for you to insert into your blog’s template. The script works in html, php and asp files. It doesn’t matter, you don’t need to get caught up in the compatibility or code. Just insert the code you’re given from the Web Form Generator into your template file for subscribers to enter their email address into. (Demo of an autoresponder sign up box is on the right side of all my blog entries here: internet marketing help)

How Does An Auto Responder Work?

Your autoresponder account will now check for updates every hour (subject to change – please verify with your autoresponder account) and sends out notifications to your subscribers immediately upon detection if you’ve selected the “Send Automatically” option in the Feed Broadcaster. If not, you simply login and manually submit the message for broadcast.

Confused?

It’s okay, everyone who is new to auto-responders is a little confused at first…

The fact is that if all this seemed a little hard to follow, you’ve probably never used an auto-responder before. Believe me this is the best learning curve to get over as it’s one of the easiest ways to make money online by generating return traffic to your websites on demand. And the service I recommend has the greatest customer service with an online chat, a 1-800 number as well as descriptive help files (some in video format).

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You can advertise your new niche market information product, or any other ebook, website, or product you want to promote, to the world within the next hour and start making sales just as quickly.

There are a ton of ways to direct traffic to your website or to a website that you’d like to promote for affiliate commission. The best way is, of course, to have your own high traffic website and list of subscribers, to announce new products to, but if you’re just beginning or if you want to promote something that doesn’t fit in your current marketing strategy, then pay per click is hands down the fastest and most affordable ways to drive traffic to your offer.

Got a great product or website but can’t get any visitors? Why not try pay per click advertising from the search engines? Right now, Google holds the largest percentage of traffic generation (at about 45%), but yahoo and msn are hot on google’s trail.

Pay Per Click for Affiliate Income 

Dependant on your target market and the keywords they use to search for items online, you can often grab a click for .30 cents and with effective marketing meeting that visitor on the other side you could easily make $60 from that 30 cent click.

Of course that is the best case scenario. The fact of the matter is that very few markets this lucrative have cheap click rates and big income returns. But every now and then you’ll hit a winner – especially if the product or the topic is new and underdeveloped (bigger, faster marketers don’t know about it or aren’t promoting it yet).

Pay Per Click to Your Own Website

If you’re not getting organic search engine hits to your website and you want visitors right away, pay per click marketing comes in very handy. The order of the day is to get highly targeted niche market traffic right away to your product offer before the search engines have picked up and listed your pages in their index. You want to get your product in the way of ready to buy customers, these are the people who have already run a search for a product or information on a search engine – when they ran their search, your website or advertisement is served up beside or above the organicly listed pages.

How-To Pay Per Click

Here’s the scoop – you’re going to pay 5 to 20 cents per interested buyer for the average $35-40 product. (That’s not a written law, that’s just how most niche marketers work.)

If you’re new at this, use Google’s pay per click program but first I strongly suggest learning a few ins and outs so you don’t lose hundreds of dollars on advertising – check out the free email course on using google adwords.

Go to google.com and set up an account.

Plug in the keywords that you determined best fit your product (through the Product Idea Evaluator which was explained in Evaluate an Idea). Set your budget limit and usually sometime within that day your site’s advertisements will be listed when people search for your defined keywords.

I always put the price of my product in my pay-per-click advertisement. That slows down the freebie seekers (remember every person clicking your advertisement will cost you money – you only want people who are prepared to pay for your product).

Start small and slow with your google.com campaign…set a daily budget in your Google account and evaluate the number of clicks vs. orders. You may want to tweak the keywords your using or your sales letter to improve performance. At the very least, have a free course offering or newsletter sign up form on the page you drive traffic to so you can continue to market your product to people who are interested in your topic, but not quite ready to buy.

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What does RSS or XML mean to your online marketing?

It could mean market domination and phenomenal success, if you add it to your marketing mix – but do it sooner rather than later!

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) formats such as rdf, rss or xml.

Sounds like a lot of ‘techno geek speak’ doesn’t it?

"More and more surfers have discovered the ease of use and time saving process of surfing and searching by RSS feeds."

Let’s look past the definition and onto the usage of the RSS Feed. I think you’ll see that RSS is the new marketing darling.

Group 1 Site Owners use RSS Feeds to announce news, website updates, and events (or any other newsworthy announcements).

For the Internet Marketer or website owner, RSS Feeds are a way to attract more visitors, obtain higher search engine ranking and provide another venue (vs. email) to stay in touch with subscribers.

Group 2 Site Owners will use RSS Feeds to add constantly changing content to their websites (written by Group 1 site owners) for search engine favor (search engines love to see regularly updated content on websites).

Internet Surfers use RSS Feeds to quickly check current headlines, weather, or new articles on their favorite sites.

This new style of acquiring information from the internet saves the surfer time – in comparison to visiting a search engine, surfing through pages of irrelevant results, or even accessing websites through their browser’s Favorites menu.

Internet Surfers use browser-based RSS services (via a website) or an RSS Reader (software installed on their desktop) to read RSS Feeds. Internet Marketers create an RSS Feed and submit it to feed directories – it’s really that simple…but there are some marketing techniques to ensure success.

Free RSS Document

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I’ve always maintained that a blog, when created solely for the purpose of boosting search engine rank, doesn’t have to be anything more than a brief listing of articles available on your website that you update on a fairly regular basis. (No, not update the articles, just update the listings on your blog like a mini, ever-growing, sitemap. You can link to old articles on your website and it won’t make a lick of a difference – higher rank and positioning will follow.) Now this isn’t the ‘blog’ we think of today, but it is just as capable of bringing in website visitors and getting noticed by the search engines when made correctly. And, it takes far less time for the webmaster…

I’m telling you this here only. While other marketers push their ‘How to Blog’ ebooks and home study courses, the secret to higher ranks is in the RSS Feed, yet so few marketing books cover it – and those that do, don’t really explain the reason for it’s success!

The results of one year’s testing and tracking on the effectiveness of blogs and rss feeds for search engine positioning. This article discloses my take on having a blog just to get search engine rank…

You don’t need a blogger account, you don’t need to install software on your server and best of all you don’t need to spend hours writing a new article every day (as so many other marketers would have you believe).

Many small business owners like you and I, are far too busy to blog every day.

Many of us don’t want to learn how to install and manage blog.

But most of us do have 5 minutes a day to spice up their marketing.

If you are a ‘5 minute marketer’, you can get all the benefits of a blog by learning how to promote your site with an RSS Feed. An hour to learn about them, an hour to create your first one and submit it to the top 10 directories – then just a few minutes every day adding a new item and new link to the feed. That’s all!

Want More Blog Techniques without Writing to a Blog Every Day?

Marketing with RSS or a Blog – Case Study

Smartzville.com is a perfect case-in-point. When I first started testing in July 2004, the site was relatively new, small and in a highly competitive market. Yet I had obtained a google page rank of 4 (which isn’t great but it is fabulous for a new site with very little content). I didn’t update the site’s html pages for quite a while (5 months to be exact) yet it kept its google page rank and moved up in hits and search engine positioning consistently.

How was this accomplished?

I ran an RSS Feed on Smartzville – which I only updated once every 3-4 days (updating was simply a matter of adding one new RSS item that pointed to an existing html page). That’s how I kept the page rank and grew my positioning, even though I barely did anything to the site and no other sites were linking in, by updating the RSS Feed with one item every few days. One sentence, one link, once a day – 5 minutes.

The RSS Feed – A Fast Worker for Busy Website Owners

After co-authoring The Stampede Secret with internet marketing expert Joe Vitale, and really pushing the beauty of RSS Feeds onto my subscribers (as opposed to pushing blogs simply because they are easier to teach), I have been performing some research and tests to ‘back my theory’.

What’s the theory? That an RSS Feed gets the best return on investment in this marketing mix and if you are ignoring it, you’re simply spinning your wheels with the entire Blog trend.

Stage 2 of the Marketing Strategy – RSS or Blog

Next I wanted to test and see if having a ‘true’ blog for this website would increase exposure, search engine positioning and google page rank. So I started up a Marketing Blog, optimized it for the search engines, drove traffic to it, advertised it every place I was told and knew to, and updated it frequently with oodles of original content.

What happened? Nothing new. I kept the old page rank, had about the same positioning in the search engines and saw no more traffic than could reasonably be expected given the marketing practices used. (What I’m saying here is that I could have received just as much of an increase if I’d created static html pages with that content.)

Stage 3 of the Marketing Strategy – RSS or Blog

Today is October 8th, 2005. Google is due for an update any day now and I’ll be able to report at that time whether the site sees increase in page rank and listings in the engine. (My guess is that nothing will change.)

But as of today I will only be adding to my blog infrequently (because I have a loyal following and I don’t want to disappoint my readers), I will re-submit my standalone RSS feed to the RSS directories (not the blog’s generated RSS Feed, but my .xml hand coded one) and begin updating on a twice weekly basis again. In three months or so (mid-January) Google will ‘dance’ once more and I am confident that at that time Smartzville’s home page and many inner pages will jump to a page rank of 5 or 6 and traffic will increase substantially as well as positioning in search engine results.

So come on back to this page in January of 2006 if you want to see the results. And, if you want high ranking results for your own site, grab your copy of The Stampede Secret so we can work together on your project!

Stage 4 of the Marketing Strategy – Enter Web 2.0

During testing and tracking I began to notice some disturbing trends on my websites. After months of research on user behavior online I discovered the trouble and the solution. As a result of all that work I re-wrote the Stampede Secret to include a Web 2.0 Marketing strategy that every business owner could use to custom-develop his/her own traffic generating activity.

Add the Smartzville Marketing RSS Feed to your feed list today to stay up-to-date on online marketing trends and tools.

www.smartzville.com/rssfeed.xml

RSS by Software Use: If you are currently using a RSS Feed Reader, simply copy the url for the News Feed (above) into your aggregator.

RSS by Browser: If you are currently using an RSS Feed Service, (i.e. bloglines) search for the Smartzville Marketing Blog in your service directory window and add us to your list of feeds.

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If a 40 year old chicken farmer living in back woods Ontario could figure it out and use it to double her newsletter sign-ups every month, you can do it too!

Now:

• Even if you’ve read about Blogs and RSS Feeds before,
• Even if you’ve tried them and quit because they were too difficult or time consuming to learn,
• Even if some other marketer told you that RSS was a passing fad…

Understand that:

• Even ifs don’t put subscribers in your auto-responder sequence…
• Even ifs don’t feed your family…
• Even ifs had no idea that RSS Feeds are attracting the best pre-targeted, pre-disposed-to-click readers that a marketer could dream of, no matter what you are selling!

This could make all the difference in the world to your online business…

The report covers:

• All you need to understand as a website owner about Blogs and RSS Feeds. What they are, who uses them, how they access them, and the reasons why Blogs and RSS Feeds are gaining in popularity and simply not going away!
• How having an RSS Feed and Blog can have oodles of high quality new prospects reading your site headlines every hour, every day, or every week – you decide when!
• How to increase, by the busload, the number of visitors to your site just by creating and submitting your RSS Feed in
  the right places and in the right manner. (We’ll show you where and offer all our notes in the password protected area – for your eyes only!)
• Instructions on creating blogs using existing content, and both the content and format to follow to create an RSS Feed. Hey don’t worry if you’re not the page-creating coding type – this is super easy! As a matter of fact we’ll even provide access to the tools we use to effortlessly create feeds on the fly – it’s a simple fill in the blanks and press a button process – all you have to do is provide the content – instant news feed – it’s that easy!
• A separate instruction sheet to pass onto your webmaster showing them exactly how to create and edit RSS Feeds, bringing them up to speed in this fast-evolving field. (This is no more difficult than the most remedial html). You don’t want to give your site designer/editor the entire report – as it could be used to push too many other sites up the ladder!

So whether you are selling your own products or promoting products as an affiliate, you need to download this report and get started today.

Get on the first ship as it sails out to rich seas…let the other marketers go after the high-speed city-slickers who have oodles of time to wait for videos and stick men to load on screen.

You know there’s just as much money to be made from busy people who don’t like wasting time – busy people who just want the facts, not the flashing pictures.

Busy people who would rather click the order button and have their questions answered quickly than to spend all day surfing around, kicking tires, and looking for freebies.

You know who your market is…

You know the person who’ll click the order button and not the X…

…and with a Blog/RSS Feed on your site, you’re bound to attract more of them!

Click the book cover to visit the official site.

The Stampede Secret: How to Get More Targeted, Smart, Affluent, Hungry Traffic Than You Can Imagine Using Blogs and RSS Feeds.

Order now, before all those other marketers finally figure out this best kept traffic secret!

To Your RSS Success!

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