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A really great way to build your prospect list is to find similar companies in your niche or industry that target the same customers and partner up with them also referred to as joint venture. If the company sells related products, you can both get together and form a joint venture. By forming this joint venture, you can offer a special promotion involving products from you and your joint partner which can bring great benefits to your customer as well as their customers. You will promote the new product along with your product to your customers which adds that extra value to your site.  And of course, your joint venture partner returns the favor! It’s a great way to generate traffic and definitely a win-win situation for both partners.

Unless you have a straight sales site that you are getting traffic to with paid advertising, you will need to create some
content to help get traffic to your website.

If you don’t know by now, the search engines (especially Google) love fresh relevant content. By adding articles and information focused on good keywords that are specific to the theme of your website you will get better listing results. The better the keywords you generate the less competition you will have.

If you can’t or do not want to write the content yourself you can hire a ghost writer to do it for you. Or you can purchase ready made private label right that will allow you to sign your name to it as the author. Just make sure you are getting what you pay for. You can expected to pay more for original content that is written for you and less for ready made content.

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Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google which notifies you by email, or as a feed, about the latest web and news pages of your choice.  It  allows you to register words or phrases that you want to track. So your probably wondering what does Google Alert have to do with Internet Marketing and my business? Lots buddy…

Here’s how you can use Google Alerts as a powerful Internet Marketing tool. You can use it as follows:

• To keep an eye on your competition by tracking their press releases, blog posts and product posts
• To stay current in your particular business industry news
• To know what your consumers are saying about your products or service (really important for tracking your online reputation)
• To track if your marketing efforts like your articles and blog posts show up in the Google top page results
• To participate in topic discussions by leaving comments which is good for backlinking to your site

Few people are using Google Alerts and it has proven to be an invaluable internet marketing tool for my virtual assistant business.  This free tool is a great way to stay connected to what is going on across your specific industry and to read about what leaders  in your market are saying. It’s important to stay ahead of the competition as much as you can to be a thriving business.

Set up your free Google Alerts account here now:  www.google.com/alerts

Are you tracking your site’s traffic?  Do you know which of your marketing strategies are paying off?  One tool to help you answer those questions and more is by using a site tracking tool like Google Analytics.

Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed site statistics about the visitors that arrive to your website.  When you open a Google Analytics account, it generates special code to place on your website to begin tracking your websites traffic.  With Google Analytics monitoring your site, you’re more prepared to write better-targeted advertising, strengthen your marketing efforts and create higher converting websites and landing pages.

If you want to be successful online, you ought to know where your traffic is coming from. With that said, sign up for Google Analytics today.  Heck it’s free…why not? =)

http://www.google.com/analytics/

Have you pinged your blog today?

It’s a good idea to “ping” your blog whenever you add a new post. “Pinging” is a way of letting the search engines know that you have added content to your blog.

Pinging is very simple just go to a pinging site such as www.feedburner.com or www.pingomatic.com and fill in the details of your blog. Then when you add posts to your blog, just go to their site and click the ping button.

This will get your blog post added to their news feed much faster than waiting for the search engines to find it.