Yahoo Local is offering one month free to promote their new & improved Yahoo Local. That means you can sign up, sponsor, and feature your website in as many local categories for one month and not pay anything. Yahoo Local does not have any long term contracts so you can cancel after 29 days and not pay a dime.

You can sign up here: http://listings.local.yahoo.com/prlfl_v2.php

The first page of Yahoo Local’s sign up page is important for SEO purposes. Your business name & products & services you offer are important. Your company description is not. Yahoo Local is starting to list their local listings ahead of their web listing so being listed is now very important.

How many keywords should he focus on/site?

Each website I would focus on 2-3 main keywords. This does not mean these 2-3 main keywords can break down into 200 to 300 keywords. If your main keyword is “file sharing” this keyword can break down into 1,000’s of keywords.

How long should a meta tag title be?

A meta tag title should be between 50-80 characters including spaces. Internet Explorer (IE) will display 95 characters but Google will only use 66 and Yahoo 120. So how should you write your titles?

Download Free Peer to Peer (P2P) File Sharing Programs – DVD, Images, Music, MP3, Software

Remember, the Title Tag not only displays at the top of the browser window, but also appears as the linked text in the search results. The page Title is indexed by all the major search engines — Google, Yahoo! and MSN — and is used as part, or in whole, for the page listing in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages).

How long should a meta tag description be?

Keep your meta tag descriptions less than 200 characters long. If you do not include a Meta Description, most search engines, by default, will use the 30-40 words of your copy, which could look very unappealing to a prospect. Be careful not to keyword stuff your description.

Google has publically stated the following, “accurate meta descriptions can improve clickthrough, they won’t affect your ranking within search results.” This means you should be writing your meta tag description for users searching, not for search engine spiders. Read more here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/09/improve-snippets-with-meta-description.html

These will be 2-3 page sites so how long should his h1 tag be or should he have it?

There are six types of headings: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, and h6. They also rank in the same order for importance, so h1 is the most important in terms of On-Page SEO.

You can use the headings to list your “headline” (h1) with its “tagline” underneath (h2). For example:

H1 Tag: Download File Sharing Software:

H2 Tag: P2P File Sharing Software 2.0 – New & Improved

In the above example, it allows for the key phrase “file sharing” to be used naturally in both headings, thus increasing the on-page optimization score for the key phrase.

How to organize his bread crumbs?

Main Keyword >> Section >> Category >> Title

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Becoming an expert in your industry can effectively start with article marketing. Article marketing is the process of creating & publishing quality information offline or online.

Today I will be discussing three simple techniques that will help you when promoting an article online. If you follow these three steps you will find success with building links, brand awareness, and increase, traffic to your website.

1. Create Content: Create 2-3 articles a week that relates to your industry. The articles can be web pages, blogs, news, or even videos. It is better to create one quality article than 100 average articles so always ask yourself, will people want to read this? Make sure you create a catchy title and include keywords you are optimizing for in the title; people link to web pages usually using article titles.

2(A) Publish Content: Do not mass submit articles. Search engines love unique content and frown upon duplicate content. Submit your article to the following sites:

0. Find Partners - More than 50% of web sites online are just informational websites. Just because a website does not allow others to submit an article does not mean asking them won’t. You will be surprised what webmasters will do when you call them and ask.
1. EzineArticles.com
2. GoArticles.com
3. ArticleDashboard.com
4. ArticleCity.com

2(B) Submit Content: Sign up at OnlyWire.com and bookmark each article you submit. Bookmarking your own article is not the most effective way to use social bookmarking sites but it is effective in long non-competitive keyword phrases. I will write a post soon on how to properly use social bookmarking sites.

3. Don’t spend money on submitting articles. (i.e. don’t pay to mass submit articles)

***Tip: create a very organized library of the articles you write. Writing 3 pages a week will produce 150 articles a year. Online article marketing can turn into great material for offline marketing once you find what works & doesn’t work cost effectively online.

Microsoft’s new advertisement features Jerry Seinfeld. The 10 million dollar contract is to help the Vista brand improve their “coolness.”
The majority of critics have been fast to bash the new ads. “Bill Gates is old,” “just as stupid as the software,” and of course “the ad never mentioned the product” are among the most common remarks.

But if you look beyond the text you see a subtle, gentle comedy, commercial that puts Bill Gates in Jerry Seinfeld’s world. Whether the ad agency is trying humanizing Bill Gates or humanizing Microsoft Vista the underling point of the ad were missed by many.

The ad may not have made much sense but did the early Seinfeld’s make any sense? It took a while for the ‘Zen’ of Jerry to be found by the rest of the word. Look for 3-4 similar commercials to come out that will hook, line, and sinker Microsoft into the minds of….some.

Look for the “Vista Helps Connect” promotion to be thrown in eventually.

Rebublican vs. Democratic - Daily Vistors

The Republicans are beating the Democrats on total time spent on a domain

Rebublican vs. Democratic - Velocity

The Republicans are beating the Democrats on Velocity. This reports the relative change in daily Attention. Velocity is used to determine the relative growth of a domain over a particular timeframe or compared to other sites. Looks like a greater number of people are interested in viewing the Republican’s website as their convention draws near.

Rebublican vs. Democratic - Unique Vistors

The Democrats are beating the Republicans on Unique Visitors. The Democrats have around 70,000 & the GOP has around 50,000 different people viewing their website a month; these numbers don’t reflect August.

Rebublican vs. Democratic - Irony

With the Democratic National Convention being held in Denver & the Republican Convention being held in Minneapolis our company couldn’t help posting a blog about the irony.

Effects of Democratic National Convention

• $1.2 Million In Police Overtime
• $50 Million federal grant to cover expenses
• Multiple Schools Closed Downtown
• I-25 Interstate closed

Effects of Republican National Convention

• Bars Open 24 hours

Although our employee’s in Minneapolis Web Design employees will enjoy the drinking we just can’t help from laughing at the message the politicians are making. Our Denver Development team isn’t too happy with the traffic but us coders & marketers tend to be glued to our computer anyway. Hope you enjoyed the information.

Would you like a way to increase sales & customer interaction for your eCommerce site? Would you like to allow your customers to customize the products you sell? Do you want the technology that CustomInk.com & CafePress.com have?

Picnik’s Developer API now allows you to do all of this. Picnik’s software allows you to integrate a solution that will allow a user to upload a photo, edit it, write text, and then see how all of it will look on your product! Let me give you an example:

We manage a website called Wholesale Keychain. The website sells automotive, sports, and a few other kinds of keychains. The site needs a better way to reach a broader audience than just car & sport lovers. We decided to start offering users the option to personalize each keychain with their own logo or message.

Using Picnik’s Developer API we could have users:

1. Select Keychain Style

2. Add Text to Keychain

3. Choose Color

4. See & Order Final Product

So instead of just spending $100,000+ building your own Personalization Software you can hire WebBizIdeas to build you a Personalized eCommerce Website Design and instruct use to use Picnik’s Developer API to save you a load of cash.

Indaba Music is a great example of how to monetize the online music industry. Indaba is a music sharing site that allows artists from anywhere in the world to collaborate. An artist in New York can record with an artist in Minneapolis using their service.

More information on Music Sharing Website Design
More Information on Music Sharing Software

Google Alerts is a wonderful reporting tool that helps internet marketers increase search engine traffic, stay ahead of their competition, and improve search engine rankings. This is a video tutorial to show how a website marketer can use it to his/her advantage.

Read the full Google Alerts Article

I have been helping many clients start blogs (including starting this blog) and wanted to answer the question, Do Blogs Make Money…and if so How do They Do It? I have analyzed in detail blogs Business Week Reviewed and one I read occasionally….hope you can tell which one.

1. ICanHasCheezBrger

This blog allows users to upload/share funny animal pictures. Once you upload it you can add a funny caption to the image and share it with friends & family. An extremely simple concept but obviously very effective:

• 600k unique visitors a month
• 25,000,000 page views a month
• charges $500 o $5,500 a week for banner ads
• Been featured in The New York Times, The WSJ, C|NET, Business Week, and Wired.

They make money off Google AdSense, Banner Advertising, Widgets, and their store. I feel a great monetization of their blog would come from offering the ability for users to buy t-shirts, pins, badges, mugs, and other products with the pictures people upload to the site.

2. Boing Boing

This blog was started by Mark Frauenfelder in 2000. To me the site is about nothing and everything. But the site is updated 20-30 times a day making it a big in the search engines.

• $1,000,000 in ad revenue a year
• 1,500,000 unique visitors a month
• All ads sold through Federated Media

3. John Chow

John Chow used to work in the printing industry until he decided to quit his job and start online businesses. The blog is about making money online, internet business, internet marketing, and just as the slogan says.

• Affiliate Sales: $7,244.00
• ReviewMe: $4,200.00
• Private Ad Sales: $2,370.00
• Text Link Ads: $2,157.88
• Kontera: $1,000
• Google AdSense: $490.94
• FeedBurner: $131.18
• Buy Me a Beer: $117.99
• TTZ Media: $66.62
• Subscription: $50.00
• Grand Total: $17,828.61

4. Entrepreneurs Journey

Yaro is a blogger that WebBizIdeas.com has advertised with for years. His target market is Entrepreneurs, Internet Marketers, and Bloggers who are looking for advice. Recently he started promoting products & services through his blog that has added to his revenue. It works out well because the products & services he is promoting relates to his site and helps his target market.

• Total Sales: $10,000+
• Affiliate Sales: Not Sure
• Sponsors: Not Sure
• Unique Visitors: 150,000 a month

Seesmic has a new module that can be easily installed into a wordpress blog. Wordpress currently allows users to interact with a blog by typing a comment, but with Seesmic you can know post a video comment!



If you would like this installed in your blog please Contact WebBizIdeas.com