[TIPS] How to Detect 'Fake' SEO Consultants

by Aniruddha Badolla

As a small or medium business owner, you may want to advertise and promote your website as economically as possible. In recent years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has emerged as one of the surest and cheapest way for long-term business promotion.


A typical business owner is not expected to be knowledgeable about SEO and its benefits. Even if the owner knows SEO, he/she may not be sure how to choose an ethical SEO who can get the job done at the best rates and within timeline. Choosing a SEO consultant or company for your website can be a tiring and overwhelming experience. Many SEO specialists will boast about adopting the latest path-breaking SEO techniques, use testimonials from clients and guarantees of #1 placements on Google. But how can you, as a non expert, select a genuine SEO consultant? Listed below, are a few of the main pointers used to detect 'fake' SEO consultants.
#1 Google ranking for Website:

If any company guarantees you that they can place your website in the number one position on Google, then take my advice - RUN in the opposite direction. It's obvious this company is desperate to get business and is willing misleading you to get your hard earned cash. No company can make such claims. Google's algorithms are one of the best kept secrets. What SEO companies can do is optimize and promote the website according to widely known principles, intelligent guess work, best practices and lots of hard work. At most a company can claim that they can acquire good rankings such as top 10 results. But even then, verify their past track record to measure how they fared with other clients.

Very Low Prices:

Many companies charge ridiculously low amount of money for a lot of services. As an astute business person, you can intelligently deduce that any work that requires hours and hours of hard work, research and analysis by a team of experts cannot come cheap. Most of the times, specialists from various fields such as programmers, content writers, SEO analyst, link builders etc. pool their resources to make a site successful on Google. Therefore quality services cannot come as cheap as many companies charge.

Secret and Proprietary Technique That Cannot be Revealed:

I don't think we even need to elaborate on this. As the owner of the website, you should be aware of what's happening to your site and what steps are been taken to optimize and promote it.

Recommending Black Hat Techniques:

Lot of companies recommends shady tactics known as black hat practices to get your site up in search engines. Not only do these practices have very short term benefits, but they can also be very counter productive since the search engines can eventually catch website following these practices. Many websites big and small have been heavily penalized for using such techniques. So play safe and avoid these SEO companies like the plague.

Using Outdated Techniques:

Once upon a time, techniques like reciprocal link exchange, keyword stuffing etc. were used to get good rankings. Google and other search engines have wisened up and rank a site for its worthiness and not just back links and keyword stuffing. Choose a company that will recommends steps to make your site useful & relevant and not take short cuts.

Keep these tips in mind while choosing an SEO company for your website and hopefully they will help you select an SEO company that knows their job and can handle your website promotion very well. Good luck!

Source: site-reference.com
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[TIPS] How To Use Twitter And Social Media Marketing To Explode Your Online Profits

by Jeremy Gislason

It’s not surprising that social media has become so popular in so short a time. Not only is it a source of entertainment for most people, it is also the newest strategy for acquiring customers for businesses. And with hot new tools like Twitter, social media marketing has only become more progressive and popular!


What Is Twitter?

In case you’re not familiar with Twitter, it is a social media tool that allows people to know what their fellow twitterers (people using twitter) are doing at this very moment.

Are you getting ready for bed? Put that on Twitter! Are you buying a new couch or writing a report on the effects of social media marketing? Put that on Twitter! Are you throwing a birthday party for your golden retriever? Well, you can put that on Twitter as well. There are no boundaries as to what you can put on Twitter. In Twitter, even the most mundane updates about your life can be pretty liberating.

Sounds simple, right? Perhaps, it is this simplicity that has made Twitter quite a sensation on the Internet. There’s also something amusing about knowing what other people are doing and letting them know your own business as well. This combination of fun and simplicity is what ultimately appeals to Twitter fans.

Applying Twitter In Business

If you’re business-minded, then you probably already have more than a few ideas on how to make this social media marketing tool work for you. Having a Twitter account allows you to inform your clients and would-be clients the progress in your company. You’re not putting up an ad every week (because that tends to be annoying). However, you get the chance to share with them what’s happening to your company’s products, people, tools, etc. right now.

Twitter, unlike MySpace and Facebook, poses an advantage for new and advanced marketers. As an efficient social media marketing tool, Twitter allows you to build a giant list of followers. It allows your clients and subscribers to see what you’re doing right now. It gives them access to your immediate profile and permits you to share your ideas with other twitterers. All free of charge.

How Twitter Can Explode Your Profits

While many people have other purposes and values for the use of the free service, the marketer can use Twitter to jumpstart a list of followers that can grow into thousands.

If you’re someone who sells used cars, you can use Twitter to attract members who are interested in automobiles. When a new shipment comes in, you can use Twitter to announce that the latest Ford model has arrived. Or if you’re having a sale, you can use Twitter to let everybody know about it.

These followers are the next best thing to customers. If they haven’t bought anything from you yet, then you can rest assured that they will be buying something soon. As long as you keep providing them something nice to look forward to, they will always be enticed to purchase something from your company.


Think of it as fishing. You already have the fish interested in your bait. All you have to do is wait for the fish to bite. According to quantcast.com, Twitter reaches about 6.1 million U.S. people every month. This social media tool has also reached other countries and is hugely popular in Japan. In fact, there are other Twitter-like applications that have popped up due to its insane fame!

Despite the huge popularity of Twitter, it is not a disorganized system that doesn’t have any limits. For example, you can only send 1,000 updates, 100 API requests and send 250 direct messages each day. And while there is no limit to the people who can follow you, the same freedom doesn’t apply vice-versa.

The maximum number of people you can follow is limited to 2,000. In Twitter-speak, to follow means to receive Twitter updates. This limit will only be lifted if you manage to attract more than 2,000 followers to your account.

According to Twitter, this is done to prevent SPAM users from adding up into their system and to prevent abuse from all current members.

It’s not that difficult to attract more followers into your account. In the long run, this will only make your Twitter account more meaningful because of the effort you’ve put into it.

The beauty at this stage is that once you are at such a level, it’s easier to attract new followers into your account. The benefits from taking such steps are acquiring your own list of eager followers (in which you can pitch your own products and services); and more importantly, gaining new business contacts.



Other Social Media Marketing Methods

There are other methods of social media marketing available for your use. Twitter isn’t the only way to enhance your business and get a constant flow of leads.

Other methods you can explore include:

1) Blogs

2) Community forums

3) Social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn.

4) Video-sharing sites such as Youtube, Metacafe, Google videos, Yahoo videos, and AOL videos.

5) Content sharing sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Wetpaint, Qassia, and Google Knol.

These days, you shouldn’t just limit yourself to one thing. With the Internet as vast as it is, you should use every opportunity to make new contacts and establish yourself. Besides, think of all the new things you can learn from interacting with other people online!

Leave comments on your choice blogs and participate in forum discussions that allow for signature files after every post. Make informative videos and upload them to video-sharing sites. Explode your list of contacts through social networking sites. Share your knowledge and be recognized as an authority by submitting your content to content-sharing sites.

Not only will these help you establish credibility, you probably won’t even have to worry or stress about making money in the future. Remember that social media marketing, like any other marketing methods, works if you work it! Now like many of our mentors say – get to work!

Source: site-reference.com
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[TIPS] Ten Ways To Get Web Traffic Fast - And Free

By James Gladwin (c) 2009

There are several ways to get website traffic fast and free, and I'm going to share ten niche ways with you.


Article Submission

You don't need to be an award winning expert on the topic you are writing about - just pick an area that is related to the theme of your website, do a bit of research using a search engine and before you know it you will have more knowledge on that subject than most. Write in a relaxed, straightforward way. And, of course, when you add your details at the end of your article, make certain that you include your web address as well.

URL Submission

This sounds so obvious, yet so many people overlook it. Website URL submission is about getting more links to your website to help your website get ranked high on major search engines, thus getting more visitor traffic by, well, submitting your website URL to the major search engines. You can buy or subscribe to software that will do this, but it is quite possible to get a good return by submitting manually.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way for internet users to store, classify, share, search and discover Internet resources that they find useful. Since social bookmarks are saved online, users are able to access them from anywhere - at home, at work or while travelling.

These lists can be accessible to the public by users of a specific network or website. What you need to do first is register with a social bookmarking site which allows you to store and tag bookmarks. Most social bookmarking services allow users to search for bookmarks which are associated with given "tags", and rank the resources by the number of users which have bookmarked them. This means that other visitors and members of social bookmarking sites can search for resources by topic, category, keyword, tags, or popularity to see what others have saved. As a user, social bookmarking sites let you find useful, informative resources through pages that have been tagged because others have found them to be valuable sources. Voila - more web traffic. Free.

Forum Posting

Forum posting is a hands down alternative to paid advertising methods. For only a few hours of work every week, you can capture batches of interested leads everyday. The more forums you contribute to, the more you will gain traffic. If you are an active forum poster, you will also get a good feel about the kind of products that are hot on the market.

Please don't overlook the forum signature or commonly called resource box - it's a powerful free advertising tool for you. What you must do is edit your forum signature. Basically, a curiosity inducing one-liner and a link to your website is great. Once you have edited and saved your signature, it will appear at the bottom of all your comments in the forum discussions. That means, the more you participate in the discussions in the forums, the more people see your semi-ad written on your signature. I promise, this will encourage people to visit your website, and hopefully buy from you.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to get the word out about your website and can be done with very little technical expertise and therefore is easy to start up. If you have a product or service you believe in, visit a site such as Clickbank and open an account. Follow the simple instructions to gain affiliates - and traffic.

Press Releases

It's a fact that a well-written Press Release can dramatically increase your sales, expose your company to the masses, and greatly enhance the image of your business or products. Publicity is the most cost-effective web traffic building marketing tool there is, and, surprisingly, web traffic can be generated by ink and paper!

Classified Ads

Again, it's easy to associate Classified Ads with yesterday's technology, but they are extremely cheap and a one line product or service description, together with your website, will pay dividends.

Blog Comments

If you are an avid blog follower, you have to include Blog Commenting in your web traffic arsenal. You will almost always find a "comments" link at the end of each post. Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged. Join them!

FaceBook

Don't forget that you can use Facebook to its full potential to attract more visitors to your website. You can get away from just interacting with your school or college friends and start interacting with people within your industry or other industries that you want to get into.

An easy way to do this is to join groups that interest you as well as make friends with people that you want to get to know. Fill out your profile (fully) - the best profile on Facebook is a complete one.

Videos

Finally, why not make a video and post to video sites too! This is not a Warner Bros. effort! Your PC or Mac may well have a webcam, or you can borrow a camcorder or Flip. Write a brief script - lights- camera - action - and upload to YouTube. (Just remember to be sure to link it back to you.)

Well - there you are. Not all of the ten suggestions I've outlined may appeal, but if you select three or four, stick with them, and implement them on a regular basis, you will see your web traffic increase significantly. My best to you.

Source: Site Pro News

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TDW University - Rencana Menjadi Kaya

Seberapa cepatkah anda menjadi kaya?


Keterangan :

Jika anda mau membangun rumah maka sebagian orang akan memanggil arsitek dan arsitek itu bersama anda membuat rencana. Tetapi ketika orang yang sama memulai membangun kekayaan mereka atau merencanakan masa depan, mereka tidak pernah mendesain rencana finansial untuk hidup mereka. Mereka tidak mempunyai garis besar rencana kerja untuk menjadi kaya.

Bahkan banyak orang tidak mempunyai rencana, mereka hanya menjalani hidup saja dan hanya bermimpi sewaktu-waktu mereka akan menjadi kaya. Banyak juga orang yang menggunakan satu-satunya jurus andalan, yaitu merencanakan untuk bekerja keras dan mereka tidak pernah kaya. Karena apa yang mereka kerjakan sekeras apapun memang tidak memungkinkan mereka untuk menjadi kaya.

Contoh,menjadi buruh pabrik atau kuli bangunan, walaupun sekeras apapun mereka bekerja akan sulit sekali untuk menjadi kaya.

Ada juga orang yang mempunyai rencana yang lambat untuk menjadi kaya, rencana tersebut yaitu bekerja keras dan menabung.

Dengan mengikuti rencana tersebut maka jutaan orang akan menghabiskan hidupnya dengan memandang keluar jendela dari kereta mereka yang lambat atau dari mobil mereka yang terjebak dari kemacetan lalu lintas menyaksikan limosin, helikopter, pesawat jet perusahaan, rumah- rumah mewah.

Dan yang paling menyedihkan ada juga orang yang mempunyai rencana untuk menjadi miskin. Begitu banyak orang mengucapkan kata-kata seperti ayah miskin Robert Kiyosaki “Ketika saya pensiun, maka penghasilan saya akan berkurang”. Dengan kata lain mereka merencanakan untuk bekerja keras seumur hidup hanya untuk menjadi miskin.

“Saya membutuhkan kecepatan.” Kata Tom Cruise dalam Film Top Gun.

Ide bekerja seumur hidup, menabung, dan menaruh uang dalam rekening pensiun merupakan rencana yang sangat lambat. Rencana ini bagus dan masuk akal oleh 90% orang tetapi bukan rencana bagi orang yang ingin pensiun muda dan pensiun kaya.

Berikut adalah beberapa ide tentang cara untuk membangun rencana yang lebih cepat:

1. Pilih strategi keluar anda terlebih dahulu . Kita harus mulai dari yang akhir, seperti yang dikatakan oleh Steven R. Covey dalam bukunya Seven Habits. Jadi kita harus menentukan dulu umur berapa kita ingin pensiun, berapa banyak uang yang kita miliki saat itu, atau berapa banyak pasif income kita pada waktu kita pensiun. Kemudian dalam logika saya sendiri maka kita harus;

2. Cari bidang apa yang kita suka atau mungkin kita akan suka yang bisa menghasilkan seperti yang kita tentukan sebelumnya. Apabila apa yang kita kerjakan sekarang tidak memungkinkan kita mencapai impian tersebut, Let It Go!

3. Kita cari orang yang sudah berhasil mencapai impian kita untuk diajak kerja sama atau belajar kepada orang tersebut.

4. Gunakan faktor kali atau leverage.
Maksudnya kita bisa menggunakan RICE (Resources, Ide, Contact, Expertise) dari orang lain.
Sudahkah anda membuat rencana anda untuk menjadi kaya, dan seberapa cepatkah rencana anda?

Semoga bermanfaat. Salam Dahsyat!

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TDW University - Mengapa yang kaya Semakin Kaya

Kenapa orang kaya semakin kaya, kelas menengah bergumul terus, dan yang miskin bablas miskin.


Kenapa orang kaya semakin kaya? karena begitu orang kaya penghasilannya bertambah besar maka gaya hidupnya sementara tetap (menunda kesenangan). Penghasilan yang lebih ini diinvestasikan kedalam asset (beli saham yang menghasilkan deviden, rumah kost kost-an, ruko yang dikontrakkan, Mall yang disewakan, sarang walet, usaha-usaha yang menghasilkan, dll). Sedemikian sehingga penghasilan mereka bertambah besar. Dan ketika penghasilan mereka bertambah besar lagi, mereka investasikan lagi ke dalam asset tersebut diatas, sehingga semakin kaya dan semakin kaya lagi.
Kenapa orang menengah bergumul terus secara financial? Ketika orang menengah penghasilannya bertambah besar maka dia mencicil rumah yang lebih besar, mobil yang lebih besar, handphone yang lebih canggih, komputer yang lebih modern, televisi yang lebih besar, audio yang lebih canggih dan banyak sekali uang untuk kewajiban sehingga masuk kedalam pengeluaran. Orang menengah ini bisa memiliki rumah yang besar, mobil yang besar tapi tidak mempunyai uang yang bekerja untuk dia. Dan seumur hidupnya menjadi budak uang karena membayar cicilan semakin besar seumur hidupnya.
Kenapa orang miskin bablas miskin ?
Orang miskin tidak perduli seberapa besar pun penghasilannya semua akan masuk ke pengeluaran.
Contoh :
Orang miskin begitu penghasilannya bertambah besar mereka beli TV yang besar, beli jamnya yang mahal, beli hp yang lebih baru, beli baju mahal, makan di restoran mewah, ikut keanggotaan fitness, ikut asuransi yang tidak perlu, dll.
Pertanyaannya :
Bila penghasilan Anda bertambah besar, Anda belikan apa? Hal-hal yang menghasilkan uang lagi atau hal-hal yang menghabiskan uang. Silahkan dijawab, Anda yang tahu termasuk golongan manakan Anda?
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TDW University - Rahasia Menjadi Kaya dan Bertumbuh Semakin Kaya

Kekayaan adalah sama dengan kemampuan untuk terus bertahan hidup dengan gaya hidup yang ada, tanpa harus bekerja.


Keterangan:
Penelitian yg dilakukan oleh Gallup International menunjukkan bahwa rata-rata eksekutif ibukota & Asia kaya mampu bertahan 90 hari dengan gaya hidup yang ada apabila besok dia berhenti kerja. Setelah itu mereka harus mulai menjual asset atau berhutang.

Kaya adalah relatif. Sebagian orang merasa kaya ketika mempunyai uang 10 juta rupiah. Sebagian orang merasa tidak kaya walaupun sudah memiliki uang 10 milyar. Menurut majalah Forbes kaya adalah orang yang mempunyai penghasilan 1 juta US keatas setahunnya.

Sedangkan menurut Robert T. Kiyosaki yang mengutip dari gurunya Buckminster Fuller bahwa kaya adalah bukan berapa besar active income anda melainkan kaya adalah apabila passive income lebih besar dari biaya hidup. Yang dimaksud passive income disini adalah uang yang masuk tanpa harus bekerja.

Sebagai perbandingan Mike Tyson, dia menghasilkan 300 juta USD sewaktu bertinju, tapi hari ini bangkrut dan masih berhutang 35 juta USD. Maka sebetulnya Mike Tyson bukan termasuk kaya, termasuk pula di dalam kategori orang yang bukan kaya adalah orang-orang yang punya penghasilan 1 Juta USD/tahun namun pengeluarannya 1,2 juta USD/tahun.

Pertanyaan penting kali ini adalah:
1.) Bila besok anda berhenti kerja, berapa lama anda dapat bertahan hidup dengan gaya hidup anda sekarang tanpa harus menjual asset-asset anda?
2.) Lalu bagaimana kita bisa kaya menurut versi Robert T. Kiyosaki dimana passive income lebih besar dari biaya hidup?
Jadi sebetulnya menurut Robert T. Kiyosaki, kaya adalah bagaimana menciptakan passive income lebih besar dari biaya hidup.

Cara membuat passive income:
- Royalti dari hak cipta
- Rumah yang disewakan/ dikostkan
- Saham-saham yang menghasilkan deviden
- Reksadana
- Usaha-usaha yang menghasilkan

Buatlah rangkaian rencana sumber pasif income anda. Sesuatu yang anda sukai dan dapat anda
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