Who’s Stealing my Bandwidth?
There are several ways that you can stop the bandwidth thieves from stealing your bandwidth. If they have an email, I would contact them personally or go through Domaintools.com and do an IP lookup which will give you information on the person and who the site is registered to. You can always get in touch with the hosting company that hosts their site too. Bandwidth can be expensive and the last thing that you want is someone stealing it.
You Internet Service Provider (ISP for short) can limit how much bandwidth you can use at certain times during peak periods or charge you a flat fee every month for usage. If you go over your usage limit regularly, then they will suggest you upgrade to a bigger bandwith package.
Files that are uploaded or downloaded from servers uses bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your hosting server, surf the web or watching streaming video, you are using bandwidth.
Bandwidth is a group of fibers or wires connecting servers to a network. Depending on the quality of the wire it determines how much data can flow across the network where your website is hosted. When someone attempts to use more bandwidth than can be handled by the system, the traffic slows down.
You can upload almost any file (webpages, sound files, images, videos and other programs) to your website. This excludes, of course, pop ups, banners , pdf files, scripts and images which are supposed to be loaded from your hosting server.
Bandwidth thieves link to audio, images and other files directly to your server instead of putting them on their own server. There are many reasons as to why people do this but, the main reason is to maximize the bandwidth they steal as much as possible to show their links and images.
Bandwidth is something you should monitor careful because you never know when someome will borrow and image or link from you for their personal gain.
Bruno
Tags: web hosting, files, images, web pages, web server, links, bandwidth
Traffic and Indexing = Money
The biggest problem facing most people on the Internet is getting traffic to their sites. While it may seem a huge problem
for those who are not getting it, it all comes back to the choices you make.
If you are building a blog around the word ‘weight loss’ then you’re going to have to do a considerable amount of work to get indexed in the right position to get enough traffic to make money.
If you choose to target specific words relating to ‘weight loss’ that are still well searched for and have low competition
then you will stand a far better chance of getting traffic and that traffic will be a lot more targeted.
This highly targeted traffic will earn you more money because it is relating to a specific problem that the person is searching for a rather than a general term like ‘weight loss’
Now when a person arrives on your blog from a specific term they are always going to be interested in the more general term of ‘weight loss’ so you will still be able to sell your weight loss e-book or earn money from your weight loss affiliate programs when people come from these terms.
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Ten Tips to Help You Build Links
Its a cold Sunday morning here. It actually snowed over night but nothing significant. As you know, we all need backlinks pointing to or site to help in the search engines. Here is my list of what I use to create links pointing to my site.
1. Write 1-2 articles a weeks, distribute to about 500 article directories or more with your researched keywords in the bio. These articles will provide one way links, if written well others will download the articles and use them on their sites which will give you more one way links.
2. Post to directories and make sure you research the keywords, and put those keywords in the title.
3. Post to forums and in your signature have links with your keywords.
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Foolproof Website Promotions Strategy
How to effectively make popular an erstwhile new and unknown homepage is not a tricky thing to do now. In our age of pop culture where anyone can be a celebrity and anything can become an immediate rage, the meaning of popularity does not depend solely on internet giants like Google and Yahoo. Rather, popularity now belongs to and is currently defined by smart search engine optimization companies, who can thrust to limelight any decent webpage at simple swish and clicks of the magic mouse. Website promotion, a difficulty before, is today a manageable reality.
What is crucial in all website promotion is the concept called piggybacking. Piggybacking is a technique in which a website rides on to a more popular, more recognizable website. It is like jumping on the right horse to get to the finish line, except that the horse is the search engine and the cowboy is the website wanting to promote itself. The implication therefore is, all website promotion will center on putting a site on the face of the search engine map, where users congregate in the most number and at the most frequent times. Besides, search engine’s purpose is to serve as a springboard to all users to get connected to the relevant website they want to visit.
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Publish PR to Get Traffic to Your Website
Get picked up by the Newsies to market yourself without doing marketing
Using press releases (PR) is one of the greatest ways of marketing your website and Internet business. It gives you backlinks, it gets the word out about you in an exciting and informative way, and if you write the PR piece correctly you will never come off as just marketing a product or service; rather, you’ll simply make headlines, and people are very attracted to newsworthy stories.
PR pieces that are well-written really capture people’s attention. Some PR websites require a fee for you to publish there, while others are free. Generally speaking, the paid-for sites give better exposure. They are sites that journalists, bloggers, researching writers, and website owners looking to add or link to interesting content for a new post all frequent.
PR pieces are also a great way of making yourself quotable. You should include quotes from yourself or from someone authoritative about the topic in a PR piece whenever possible. This lends your piece an air of authority and authenticity. A great quote can spread like wildfire on the Internet and really generate a lot of interest in you as a person, which is the best way of generating interest in your business.
A PR piece should follow a specific format and formula to be successful. First, begin with a catchy headline (title). Remember, this should sound like a newspaper headline and be quite informative but punchy at the same time. Read some front page headlines to get a feel for how yours should sound.
Next you may want to consider writing a catchy summary of your article to appear just below the headline. But this is optional.
Your next step is to give a "dateline". This is where you write the location where the story is generated–it may be the World Wide Web–and the date, written out in full (So, for instance, July 14, 2008). This is followed by a long dash, and then you want to write a sentence that really grabs the reader’s attention but, again, sounds like news and not like one of those midway-hawker online marketing splash pages. This opening sentence should contain very relevant and important information and compel the reader to feel like she’s about to learn something very important if she continues reading. If you need it to be so, feel free to make this sentence quite long (but be sure it’s not a fragment or a run-on).
Most important about that opening sentence is that it’s powerful WITHOUT sounding even remotely like a sales pitch and that it’s chock-full of vital information that makes the reader desire to read more. One of the best ways to achieve this is to open with "[Yourself, your business, or the producer of a product you are promoting] today announced that [latest and greatest event, such as the launching of a hot new product]."
Next, proceed to outline everything someone should know about the newest event. Use straightforward language always, not overly-emotional or hyped. Try to remember your essay-writing classes from high school or college. Save anything emotional for a direct quote from you or someone authoritative like a product producer.
Finally, at the bottom of the PR piece include a brief, informative summary about you or your product, and then follow it up with Contact Information with a link to your website. Go to a site such as "PR Newswire" or "Marketwire" to see models.
Bruno Auger
Tags: website, traffic, marketing, press release, PR, internet business
3 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Website With Teleseminars
By Bob Jenkins
The number one issue faced by any business person with a website today is getting traffic.
Without visitors to your website, how will you ever be paid for your products and services (or through your affiliate recommendations)?
One solution to this problem is holding a teleseminar.
A teleseminar is simply a phone call where somebody (i.e., you) talks to somebody else (i.e., a guest expert or just the audience) about a specific topic of interest.
You don’t have to have any specific educational background or be some kind of certified expert to hold a teleseminar – just the courage to hold an intelligent conversation for about an hour about something you enjoy.
Marketing with teleseminars gives you over a dozen ways to get traffic to your products and services. Let me highlight 3 of them for you right now.
Teleseminars can…
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Provide a live event for people to get immediate answers to their questions
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Turn into articles and blog posts which are magnets for search engine-traffic
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Connect you with new affiliates who share your teleseminar with others in exchange for a commission
Let me describe how each of these 3 could work for you.
Attract Traffic With A Live Teleseminar
When you host a teleseminar, you provide a specific time and date for a group of people to gather together. At heart, most people are still social animals. Because of that fact, if people know they can get together with other people like them at the same time and date and learn or discuss their favorite topic, they’ll show up.
And if you provide a way for your listeners to ask you a question that you answer during the teleseminar then they’ll definitely want to connect with you after the call is over.
Create Traffic Magnet Articles And Blog Posts
A second way teleseminars can generate traffic for your website, products, and services is by turning into text.
Most people talk at about 200 words per minute, and within an hour, you can create a 50 page transcript. Simply by breaking apart that text, you can create a dozen articles and many more blog posts with just a single teleseminar.
You then submit those articles to article directories and ezine publishers to spread your message. Each article becomes a traffic magnet by connecting readers back to your website through a link at the end of the text.
You can “write” weeks worth of search-engine friendly content by taking the same articles and breaking them up into blog posts you publish on your own blog or on someone else’s.
Get Affiliates To Send You Traffic
My favorite method of getting traffic with teleseminars is by creating an affiliate program for the sale of your teleseminars, their transcripts, or additional calls you do in the future.
Even before you hold a call, people are willing to pay in advance for the transcripts and/or the recording of your teleseminar. And once you start selling something online, you can invite affiliate marketers to promote your teleseminar product for you.
In exchange for sending you traffic, you agree to pay a certain percentage of the profits – a simple arrangement that’s made very easy with software available today (ranging from free to quite expensive).
Affiliates then spend their time and energy sending you traffic and you can spend your time concentrating on holding an excellent teleseminar.
Start Getting More Traffic With Teleseminars
These are just 3 methods of getting traffic with teleseminars that you can put into action immediately. And once you get started, you’ll quickly realize that your traffic problems are suddenly not so large anymore!
Bob Jenkins is the creator of TeleseminarFormula.com, an in-depth training program teaching business owners how to use teleseminars to magnetically attract better customers, get more sales, and accelerate their growth using their phone. For your free copy of “The 7 Secrets To Success With Teleseminars”, visit TeleseminarFormula.com today.
Tags: affiliates, Teleseminars, Bob Jenkins, traffic, live seminars
Market Yourself, Market Your Business With Word-Power
Article Writing Can Bring You a Ton of Additional Business
Why use article writing for increasing your online sales? Well, as any great copy writer will tell you, the power of words is difficult to overestimate. By using article writing you can establish a powerful Internet business presence that will have people streaming in to your websites.
Why is article writing so potent? It’s because with writing and placing articles chock full of free, well-written, relevant information, you make yourself into an expert in your given niche or niche’s industry. People begin to view you as a fount of wisdom, and a generous fount that is always offering free advice that they can use as they see fit, or who is teaching them valuable stuff that they probably couldn’t learn about elsewhere.
On the Internet, content is king. People do a lot of shopping online, but the thing they most search for, even when they set out to do shopping, is content. The Internet is the world’s greatest source of free information. It’s vast, it’s diverse, and it’s much more conveniently indexed and searched through than the best library. Give people great content and they’ll soon want to learn more about you and they’ll become interested in your business just because it’s yours.
To be successful with article writing, you will write articles about a given topic–any topic that directly, narrowly relates to your niche market, that is–and publish these articles at article content sites. There is a wide array of these sites on the Internet already and more crop up all the time. A Web Crawler or Google search will find you plenty of them. They include places like Go, Articles Base, Ezine, Article Snatch, Article Biz, Search Warp, and on and on. These are sites where people go for two reasons: they want to find free information about something or they want to find free information that they can use at their websites.
Either one of these motives is perfect for your end purposes.
To place articles at these places you’ll need to create a free profile and account. In your profile you’ll include a link to your website. Different content sites have different rules about how shamelessly self-promoting your articles there are allowed to be; but at the very least you will always be allowed to get at least one linkback to your website with every single article you publish.
Don’t give away your article’s copy rights to a site. Publish at sites that permit you to publish that same article at dozens of other places at the same time. This allows you the maximum exposure.
Remember, the whole idea with article writing is to create an image of yourself as highly informed, professional, friendly, and potentially useful. Your articles should be grammatically and spelling-wise perfect; written with some pizazz; friendly but at the same time professional in tone; and focused on matters that directly relate to your niche. Have fun, be informative, and write, write, write!
Bruno Auger
Tags: content, Bruno Auger, articles, article marketing
Affiliate Marketing Training
Bob Jenkins also known as Bob the Teacher held a free affiliate marketing training live on UStream.TV late Saturday evening for 90mins.
He answered questions about affiliate marketing, and gave his affiliates ways to make referrals and sales for his products (specifically TeleseminarFormula, which has a contest running right now and gives you $98.50 commissions for each sale). He also helped his affiliates figure out what they were missing in the affiliate marketing areas. Here is is video below of the seminar.
Bruno Auger
Tags: affiliate marketing training, Affiliate Marketing, free training, TeleseminarFormula , Tele Seminar, Bob Jenkins, ustream.tv, Bob the Teacher
Generating Traffic through Forum Backlinking
An important part of generating traffic to your website or blog is to rank highly in the search engine result pages. In addition to having good, relevant content on your site one of the best ways to increase your search ranking is to get high quality backlinks to your site.
Backlinks are hyperlinks placed on another website which link to your site. The most powerful backlinks are one-way backlinks. This means that another website has links pointing to your site, but you don’t have reciprocal links pointing back to theirs.
Using forums is a great way to get high quality one-way backlinks to your site. These links can generate direct traffic to your site, as people browsing the forum click your links in addition to raising your search engine ranking. But you have to be careful when using forums in this way. Do it wrong and you will be branded a spammer and most likely get your forum account closed. But if done correctly, forums can be a very powerful tool in your traffic generation arsenal.
Step 1: Find relevant forums The key word here is ‘relevant’. You want to be sure to find forums related to your niche - the topic of your website. The easiest way to do this is to go to Google and type in your topic along with the the word ‘forum’.
Let’s say you have a blog on coin collecting. You’d type this into Google:
coin collecting forum
There are two reasons you want to find forums related to your niche. First, the search engines will usually give more weight to links pointing to your site if they come from sites centered around the same niche as your site. Secondly, you’ll get much more direct traffic from a forum where the members are interested in your niche.
Step 2: Pick the best forums and join them Now that you have found some forums you need to check them out and choose which ones to join. Click the links to visit about half a dozen of the top search results. Most forums will allow you to view the content without having to join, it’s only when you want to start posting that you have to register. If you land on a forum that won’t let you view unless you join, forget it and move on.
When looking for a forum to join you want to find ones that are popular, so look for those with a decent number of members. You also need to make sure those members are active. Go into one of the more popular forums categories and scan down the list of threads to see when the last posting was made. This information is usually in the right hand column of the forum threads table. If you see a lot of posts made in the last 24 hours, you’ve found a forum with lots of active
members. With the content changing this often, the search engines should be all over that forum, which means that your links will get picked up quickly. Search engines tend to love sites with lots of frequently updated, relevant content. This is the type of forum you want to join.
Now there is just one more step before joining. You need to make sure this forum allows you to have a ’signature’. Jump into one of the more popular threads on the forum. Scroll down and look at the posts to see if anyone has a signature showing at the bottom of their post. There will usually be a horizontal line after the body of the post and some text and/or links underneath it. Often people just have a quote or witty saying, but sometimes they will have links as well. Not
everyone will have a signature, but try to find some members who do. Signatures are crucial, because this is
where you are going to put the links to your site.
When you find a forum that meets the criteria, follow the steps to register and confirm your membership. If you find just three or four forums that’s plenty to start with.
Step 3: Set up your signature After you login to the forum you should see a link to your user profile. Often this will be called ‘User CP’ or ‘User Profile’. In the user profile area you can edit things like your avatar, your bio and preferences.
Look for a link that says something like ‘Edit signature’ and click that. You’ll see a text field where you can type in the text you want to appear beneath all your posts. This is where you’ll put the backlinks to your site.
Forums use a special kind of code to allow members to format their posts. It’s called BBCode and it’s quite simple to use once you get the hang of it. Copy the examples below and change the URL and text to your URL and some catchy keyword-rich text. Paste the code into you signature box and save it.
Link to your website or blog with this code:
Learn how to start [url="http://brixhost.net"]BrixHosters[/url]
gives you the freedom to have a web site with endless possibilities since our hosting plans are fair and resonable.the easy way.
You can see in the code above where you need to edit the domain to be your domain. In this example, ‘Coin Collecting’ will be the anchor text for the link. This is where you want to put your keywords. Almost all forums will allow you to have a link in your signature.
If you want to make your signature bold, just add the bold tags around it like this:
[b][url="http://brixhost.net"]BrixHosters[/url]
gives you the freedom to have a web site with endless possibilities since our hosting plans are fair and resonable./b]
Most forums will allow you to bold the text in your signature. If you add the bold code and your signature still doesn’t come out in bold then it’s you know the bold formatting is not allowed.
Some forums will also allow you to change the color of the text, although the anchor text will come out as the default link color, usually blue. Here’s how you change the text color:
[color=red][url="http://brixhost.net"]BrixHosters[/url]
gives you the freedom to have a web site with endless possibilities since our hosting plans are fair and resonable.[/color]
You can also combine formatting. This would make your signature red and bold (except for the link text which will usually be blue bold).
[color=red][b][url="http://brixhost.net"]BrixHosters[/url]
gives you the freedom to have a web site with endless possibilities since our hosting plans are fair and resonable.[/b][/color]
One final tip for creating your signature. Less is more. If you make your signature look spamming people will treat you like a spammer. You don’t have to use up all available lines in your signature. Make it short, sweet and to the point. If you post great content and people are interested they will click your link.
Step 4: Participate!
The first three steps were all preparation. Now you get to start creating backlinks to your site! It’s simple, just participate in the forum. Post good content, ask questions. Try to help people out by answering questions. Be nice, be helpful.
Every post you make will give you a backlink to your site. The higher the quality of your post, the more powerful your backlink will be, at least in Google. Because Google looks at the text surrounding a link to determine the relevancy of a link having good content in your posts is much more valuable than having a post that says something like, "great post, I agree". If you
simply participate in the forum and try to be friendly and helpful chances are your content will take care of itself.
Bruno Auger
Tags: work from home, forums, make money online, forum marketing, internet home business, home business
Are you Newsworthy?
Press Release helps to get traffic to your Site
Press releases are a great way to give your business visibility (online or offline). For SEO purposes, it’s a fantastic way to get back links to your site. When constructing a release for you business, you must not make it look like your selling a product. You will provide useful information about your business, product, or event.
Press Releases, if written well, will give you not only targeted visitors, but targeted and responsive visitors which will lead to higher conversion. I have researched around composed a list of press release places. There are both free and paid release sites to submit too.
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PAID PRESS RELEASE SUBMISSION SITES
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http://www.custompressrelease.com
http://www.pressrelease365.com
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FREE PRESS RELEASE SUBMISSION SITES
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http://www.prurgent.com
http://www.express-press-release.com
http://www.free-press-release.com
Bruno
Tags: backlinks, paid press release, free press release, press release, traffic, news
