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Expired domains, how can I receive traffic from them? Can I profit from expired domains?

Those are two very important questions you are asking yourself. Here is the bottom line. You are probably like most on-line entrepreneurs. You have been struggling to snatch your share of that whirl wind of traffic that you hear about from every guru wannabe out there.

Chances are you have probably invested strongly in banner ads, classified ads, search engines or even spent a pile on so-called “safe lists” only to find yourself disappointed again and again.

There is a perfectly legal, outrageously effective, traffic generation technique that, until now, has gone relatively unnoticed by the masses.

What if you could recover existing web traffic that is currently being overlooked and basically being flushed down the toilet?

What if you could grab one of those prized listings in Yahoo that cost $200 with no guarantee you’ll even be included in the directory?

What if you could get that traffic for a fraction of what other advertising methods charge?

Expired domains might be an option to mull over. Every day over 3 million hits of targeted traffic are lost due to abandoned web sites.

Why does this happen?

Webmasters may lose interest or they don’t have the money or time to manage the site. Occasionally they just forget to renew. A large part of these expired domain clicks come from sites that were never developed. BUT, some were once solid sites generating traffic and sales.

Expired domains is all about capturing all the effort, time and money that the previous owner developed and putting it to good use for yourself.

What if a domain name had link popularity, had a coveted dotcom (.com) extension, or was even listed in Yahoo or had Google Page Ranking?

What is Link Popularity? Simply put, Link Popularity is the number of other websites that link to your site. Doesn’t it stand to reason that if a domain name previously had Link Popularity or was one of those coveted dotcoms or was even listed in Yahoo, that it might have once been a thriving website?

Not only that, but with a little time and effort, you might even be able to pick up some popular domain names just for conjecture or to resell on eBay ! Many of the domain names that expire every day could be resold even without Link Popularity or any of the other “carrots” because they just happen to be highly regarded as a tangible asset. Short, descriptive domain names that end in a “.com” or “.net” are examples of this.

The best part is that you can get these names for the price of registering them, often for less than $10!

Even if you didn’t use the domain name to redirect traffic to your own web site, if you find a couple and sell them at auction for $25, $50 or more, that’s a pretty suitable return on a very small investment.

A certain amount of caution needs to be taken when using this tool for any purpose. Make certain you do a bit of homework to make sure the previous web site was not an adult site. Occasionally the domain name may not necessarily reflect the former content. There is a tool that can be used to determine the history of the site. Best of all, it’s free! Here is the link:

http://web.archive.org

If you are looking for alternative ways to generate traffic to your site, expired domains might be a good investment.

Dean Morken is the creator of Affiliate Marketing Info Center. Your on going informational guide to promoting your site. http://www.affiliate-marketing-info-center.com

Content is King! Have you heard that saying yet? Search engine experts are practically using it as a mantra. What does it mean and why is it true?

In the context of websites and search engines, when experts say that content is king, they mean that building additional pages of text is one of the best things you can do to improve your search engine rankings and number of visitors. Anyone that has attended any of my classes or asked me to work on their internet marketing has heard me include this in my recommendations. In fact, I tell everyone that search engine optimization (SEO) basically comes down to three factors: On-page factors, linking, and content. Most people generally think of the first two when trying to rank better.

So why is content so important?

For starters, search engines don’t rank websites, they rank web pages.

Read that sentence again and think about it for a moment. What it means is that the more pages you make on your site, the more chances you have of any of those pages ranking better. To start with, it’s simply a law of averages. To illustrate, if you want to win a raffle, you might buy more tickets. The more opportunities you have, the higher probability of coming out on top. Of course, this is over-simplifying a little. After all, you can buy a whole lot of lottery tickets (which I don’t recommend) and will still typically lose the lottery.

To increase your chances, each page of content should center around a keyword phrase or two. Use that phrase several times within the text. Use it in the Title tag and in a heading or two. Now repeat that process over and over again. Make a page of content every day if at all possible. If not, make one per week. This is work that will definitely pay off over time.

As a side-benefit, content can also be distributed to other sites and newsletters. Put a nice bio about yourself and a link to your website at the bottom, and you are on your way to gaining traffic and growing links. Another nice side-benefit is that if your content is good, others will link to you. And we all know how important inbound linking is to search engines.

So what exactly is content? What pages of content could you make for your site? We’ll discuss this in a future newsletter.

Corey Creed is a internet marketing consuntant and trainer at Hippo Internet Marketing, an Ashville North Carolina search engine optimization company. Learn more at http://www.HippoIM.com and http://www.HippoSentMe.com

Writing Articles and submitting them to article banks all over the internet can help boost your web sites traffic more than you can Imagine. It is cheap, sometimes almost free, hassle free and you can have the challenge of actually having to think for more than ten minutes while your computer is open.

Articles are needed in the internet, either for research, general knowledge, even for entertainment, and there is no end to the demands for articles on the net. So why not take advantage of authoring articles to promote traffic to your web site?

First thing you may ask, is how can articles promote massixe traffic to your web site? Easy, there are three ways that an article can do that for you and here they are:

One: You utilize the popularity of other web sites.

Most of the time when people browse through other web sites, they will find your articles title and headings, and once they click to it, they will find themselves in your web site. If your article isnt a link back to your web site, the about the author part of your article should be enough to promote your web site to the reader

Two: You utilize the traffic of article banks

Article banks are a good source of information on the web, theyre easy to use and they are free. When you pass your article to be published on an article bank, you get the free exposure just like what you get when you post your article on popular sites.

Three: Traffic from search engines

Search engines search text and not graphics, when your article tackles or contains the keywords that readers are looking for, chances are youll be found by a search engine. And when they do read your article, they will see your web address, and there would be a chance that they would be interested enough or curious enough to see your site, especially if the topic of your article is related to the overall theme of your web site.

Submitting the Articles

So where do you submit your articles? Well article banks are web sites that provide articles that can be used on any other web sites. By submitting your articles on an article bank there is a chance that it may get distributed and used on other sites, blog or newsletter. Just dont forget to keep your web address within your article.

The good thing about submitting your article on article banks or any other site for use, is that it creates a permanent source of traffic for you. As long as the article banks and the web sites use your articles, you are getting free exposure and thus traffic for your web site. Writing your Article

Now that you know the benefits of writing an article and how it can be used to boost traffic to your web site, all you need to know is how to write articles.

You dont have to be a writer to write articles. The good thing about the internet is that most people that use it have short attention spans. You dont have to write long windy statements with deep flowery words to get a reader interested in what you have to say.

Writing for the internet only needs short burst of ideas in short sentences and short paragraphs. Make sure that each paragraph contains only 2 -3 sentences and use common words.

Tips, or how-tos are easier to write than an opinion article. Most of the time if youre writing something, itll be themed with your site and what better thing to write about than tips about your products, you can even write about some new ideas that youve thought of and share them with the readers.. When you do write an article, make sure that they can trace it back to you, either by a web address that you plugged into the article or by the theme that your article uses. Its best to theme your article into something that is related to your website. If you can, write from personal experience. Most people sympathize and relate more to something that they know has been experienced by another person, than if they think theyre reading an echo of someone elses experience. Never forget a resource box or an about the author baox at the end of oyur article, this will be the readers link back to you, the readers link to oyur site.

We will start with one Internet Marketing myth – the pop-ups do not work today. They give no effect to the web site, they do not bring any traffic, just distract the attention. This myth is partially true: old-fashioned pop-ups do not work. Modern pop-ups have advanced much further: today they give fresh look to the web site.

Who can say that pops-ups do not work if Corey Rudl – a very famous Internet marketing millionaire, let God take his soul to heavens – made huge money with his hovers (it is the way he called pop-ups)? So, when someone says about poor marketing effectivity for pop-ups, you have a reply, “Maybe you talk about old pop-ups. I know that a famous Internet marketer made $2,064,000 in 2004 with a new-styled pop-up window. Don’t you think it is quite effective with such profits?”

Now let’s try to figure out difference between old and new pop-ups and why modern pop-ups are so important for targeted traffic and sales on any web site.

The old pop-ups were a real natural disaster. They always popped out, bothering you from viewing and using web sites. When web sites even used multiple pop-ups: imagine you found a web site and then 5-10 pop-ups appear on your display. It is not marketing, it is torturing!

Old pop-ups looked very similar. Once pop-up window appeared, you already new it is not interesting to look what is written inside. Even perfect copywriting could not save old pop-ups from being closed by angry web surfers.

No wonder that the producers of web browsers decided to stop this “pop-up tragedy”. They made special functions for their browsers to recognize the pop-ups and block them. It was a saving step for Internet users. But it was not the end of pop-ups.

When something has sound ideas (and pop-up idea is very interesting for marketing), it will not disappear. And pop-ups were reinvented soon. The changes were really favorable.

First of all, they started looking like a real picture which shows the professionalism of web site owner.

The pop-ups today can emphasize the idea of what the clients will after clicking on the link of this window or after subscribing to web form in it. For example, if pop-up window promotes subscription to free educational course, pop-up can look like a book with high quality design. If pop-up promotes a discount limited in time, the window will be looking like a countdown link, etc.

So, the pop-up changed its philosophy. Instead of distracting the attention of web site visitors, it focused their attention. That was a huge step for online marketing. Some pop-ups started looking like real masterpieces.

ADVANTAGES OF PROFESSIONAL POP-UP WINDOWS GENERATOR:

1. Pop-ups are highly customizable – you can set the parameters for pop-up window: height, width, left or right positioning on the web site page.

2. Pop-ups have different algorithms for moves – they can float from left, right side, from the above and from the bottom and also go away to the left and right side, to the bottom and to the top.

3. Pop-ups have a collection of ready-made templates: you can save time and choose the template to create pop-up, you can edit the template or create your own template.

4. You can easily edit the content inside the pop-up – if you need to change the text inside the pop-up, you are free to submit any text you wish.

5. You can preview pop-up window with a special test option – so you do not jeopardize yourself with making a bad looking pop-up. Test it and make changes until it will look perfectly.

6. And this pop-up cannot be blocked by any web browsers. Your pop-up window enjoys absolute freedom for its display. And you do not lose potential clients.

WHY SHOULD YOU USE POP-UPS?

Pop-up window with an autoresponder will never let your potential customers to run away.

With pop-up window your clients stay in close touch with you. You continue motivating them for the benefits and advantages of your product, they remain in close touch with these benefits, get informed about your products – they are 100% with your web site.

Pop-up give some activity to your web site, this gives a fair feeling that something is going on the web site. Action brings more action and gives action to your visitors.

Pop-up can work as a tool for qualifying the “targetness” of your audience. You can ask different questions in the very pop-up – thus you will know what your clients need and want.

So, Generally You See The Potential Of Using Pop-Ups For Any Online Business.

Use Pop-Up Windows And Drive Targeted Traffic To Your Web Site!

Nickolay Bokhonok – CEO And Owner Of DesktopMoney LTD. Inventor of Internet marketing software and scripts. Successful Internet entrepreneur. Learn more about web site traffic building strategies, tips and tools at Free Traffic System web site.

Free Traffic System – Your Web Site Traffic Doctor.
info@FreeTrafficSystem.com

The world wide web or www is a wonderful, inspiring, endless, fantastic place. They do call it a web for a reason – there are hundreds of thousands of websites all linked together out there. You want to be sure and get yours linked to plenty of those sites for a better position in the web.

When you are getting your link exchange campaign ready,
keep these tips in mind:

1. Link to sites that are rich in content.

2. Choose sites that are complimentary to yours,
example: if you have a site that sells pet supplies, link
to sites that give info on how to care for pets, or where
to get pets, etc.

3. Make sure your link text contains targeted keywords.

4. Stay away from link farms, which are sites that just
have links of all kinds, good or bad, relevant or not.

5. You also want your site to be rich in content, so
more sites will link to you.

6. Set up a main/category page for your links directory and
then have each category have it s own page. You don’t
want just a jumbled mess of links.

7. Do not call you links page, links – call it a resource
directory or something similar.

8. You could set up an ezine directory similar to your
resource directory for even more web connections.

9. When you find a site you like, email the webmaster,
using their name and tell them why you like their site.
Give them your url so they can take a look at your site.
Introduce yourself ask them to consider your site for
an exchange.

You resource exchange request would look something
like this:

Hello (webmaster’s name),

I have just visited your site and was very impressed
with the content and design. I would like to discuss
the possibility of a link exchange with you.

My name is Terri Seymour and I own Seymour Products
at http://www.seymourproducts.com – a home,
family, and business resource site.

I would be interested in exchanging links with your
site. Take a moment to visit my site and let me know
what you think. I will be looking forward to your
reply. Thank you for your time.

Warm Regards,
Terri Seymour

To help save time, have a copy of this request saved on
your desktop or in a email folder or where ever you prefer,
so you can just open it up and make any changes and send.

I had a link exchange directory earlier on my old site, then
decided to remove it (big mistake) because I was adding
a paid home business directory. Well, shortly thereafter,
I noticed a drop in my traffic and in my sales. I am now
building a bigger and better Resource Directory at
my site.

So, let’s get going on getting a good spot in this tangled
web of sites. Good luck in your linking campaign!

Find tons more tips, information and articles at
http://www.SeymourProducts.com

Terri Seymour and
her husband Terry also offer a no-cost, non-MLM home
business opportunity. They strive to help you build a
successful home business. Take advantage of the tips,
support, resources, and more for your home & business.

Developing and implementing a strategic marketing plan is an essential part of your success. However, unless you’re testing and tracking your strategies, you may be losing a great deal of time and money.

You can dramatically increase your sales simply by taking the time to test and track your results. Not only will it help you to determine what’s working and what’s not, but it will also enable you to focus your efforts on the strategies that produce results.

When testing your marketing strategies, keep in mind, a strategy that produces results for one person may not produce results for you. There is no ’set in stone’ strategy that works for everyone. You must develop your own style and technique and test your results to determine what works for you. Below are some ad tracking resources to assist you in your testing and tracking endeavors.

Ad Tracking CGI Scripts

LnkinLite http://www.dtp-aus.com/cgiscript/lnkinlte.shtml

If you’re looking for a simple way to track clickthroughs, then LnkinLite may be your answer. This free script will enable you to easily keep track of the number of clicks a specific link receives. Instead of using your standard link within your advertising, you can use a link created by this script. It will track the number of clickthroughs and instantly redirect your visitors to your URL.

Willmaster’s ProLinkz http://www.prolinkz.com/

This powerful script is a link creator, tracker, disguiser and manager all in one. It will enable you to create uniquely coded links that redirect to any URL you specify and count all hits and referrers. Cost – $45.00

AdTrackZ http://www.adtrackz.com/

This script will enable you to set up an entire ad tracking campaign including statistical reports for referring URLs, what browsers your visitors have installed, what operating systems your visitors are using and much more. Cost – $47.00

Ad Tracking Services

LinkCounter http://www.linkcounter.com

A free service that tracks the clickthrough rates of your links. In addition to tracking your links, LinkCounter hides the URL of the link destination. This will prevent users from removing or changing your affiliate ID when visiting an affiliate site through your link.

HyperTracker http://www.hypertracker.com

The PRO version of HyperTracker contains a number of advanced features including: unlimited advertising campaigns, tracking of sales and actions, special scripts that let you promote your own website address in your campaigns and much more. Cost – Starting at $10.95 mo. They also offer a free version.

Adminder http://www.adminder.com

An online tracking system that will enable you to track an entire advertising campaign. It will enable you to see how many visitors were generated by each of your ads, keep track of sales that were generated by each ad and calculates the cost-per-click, cost-per-sale, and click-to-sale ratios for each ad. Cost – $19.95 mo. (for a limited time)

ROIbot http://www.roibot.com

ROIbot is a complete collection of tools for increasing your “Return on Investment.” One of their many tools is the ROIbot Ad Tracker. This powerful system will enable you to track your clickthroughs, where they come from, what browser your visitors are using, what operating system, and more. Cost – $17.00 mo.

Statcruncher http://www.Statcruncher.com

Statcruncher tracks and reports exactly which ads, banners and links are producing results. They provide you with access to their powerful web-tracking system that will enable you to track your ad campaigns 24 hours a day in real time. Cost – $49.00 yr.

If you’d rather not use any of the products and services listed above, you can use some alternative methods. Below are some example tracking methods you can use to track your response rates:

URL

You can track your ads simply by adding some special coding to your URL. To code your URL, add a question mark followed by a special tracking code to the end of your web address. Your coded link will still open your web page. Your code should look something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/?ad1

The text after the question mark should identify a specific ad. You can code it however you’d like.

To view your results, you’ll need to look at your log files. Your code will be displayed within your log files beside your URL.

Email

You can track your email responses to specific ads by using the email subject. Select a specific word to be placed within the email subject for each ad. Although you can request that a certain word be placed within the email subject, many times it won’t be supplied. To avoid this problem, you can create a special email link that will automatically fill in the subject when clicked on. Your link should look something like this:

mailto:you@yourdomain.com?subject=ad1

Testing and tracking your strategies is an essential part of doing business. By concentrating your efforts on strategies that produce results, you can not only increase your sales, but you’ll also save yourself a great deal of time and money.

How to Build Web Traffic Daily —————————————

I – Introduction II – Web Directories III – Search Engines – Rankings III – Link ahoy! IV – Messageboards and Forums V – Conclusion

I – Introduction ——————————–

The one thing that webmasters wish for is a steady flow of web traffic to their website.

My aim with this article is to give you a few ideas for bringing web traffic to your website. Once your web traffic is up and flowing, what you do with the web traffic is up to you.

First and foremost, web traffic mainly comes from the following areas; in no particular order 1. Web Directories 2. Search Engines 3. Link ahoy! 4. Discussion Boards/Forums

We go into each of these in detail below.

II – Web directories ——————————–

A web directory is not my favorite medium for building web traffic; but it can be useful to build PR which can help to achieve better rankings in the Google Search Engine. PR (range of 1-10) is one of the factors Google uses to rank its results when someone does a search. Basically, with a higher PR; it is believed that your listing should rank better than those with other PR.

With a quick overview about PR; PR is determined by how many backlinks you have, and the quality of those backlinks. The more backlinks you have from quality websites you have, the higher PR you will generate; and as a result; better rankings.

Thats the beauty about some web directories and link pages. According to how high the PR values are for the webpage where you want to place your link; your webpage PR value would increase. If you could manage to get many links on various PR6 websites for example; your PR value should increase and your rankings should get better and should drive more traffic.

How to find web directories you ask? Its a simple task: All you need to do is to go to www.google.com and type in your keyword and the word directory For example, if the keyword was ‘Cat’, the search term would be ‘Cat directory’ are various Cat directories should come up.

III – Linkahoy! ——————————–

Ebaumsworld is a very popular website for finding jokes. It currently enjoys over 750, 000 unique visitors a month. Yet, on typing ‘jokes’ and performing a search, ebaumsworld is not present in the top 100 results. How then can Ebaumsworld enjoy so much web traffic a month?

Ebausmsworld mainly achieves this through backlinks. Interestingly enough, on doing a backlink count with Google, Ebaumsworld chalked up 9,550 in backlinks.

Now lets face reality: Manually creating 9,550 backlinks by manually going to web pages and submitting your link is a very tiring task.

The only way to create so many genuine backlinks is by having GOOD CONTENT.

After studying major websites, I’ve found that they are two great ways of creating this:

1 Media/Downloads 2. Articles

With Ebaumworld.com, their key is loads of media, not necessarily article writing. Web surfers are attracted to downloads and media in general; It’s a much welcomed difference to all of the text found on web pages.

Once you start to create a number of articles and media/downloads, you will find that persons start to visit your website more regularly to check for more media/downloads; Your web traffic will increase especially when the articles and downloads are really great ones.

The added advantage with articles as well, is that you can post them on other related websites. By doing this, you can create numerous backlinks by including your link at the end of your article.

Search engines love Article content; but we’ll go more into Search Engines in the next section.

IV -Search Engines ——————————–

Search engines are great for driving web traffic if you can get into about the top 30 results for popular search terms. With Google, rankings depend largely on backlinks and PR.

In addition to these two variables; another variable is Onpage Optimization.

Onpage optimization is basically the editing of your HTML code so that its ideal for placement in search engine results.

This editing may including the editing of meta tags, descriptions, keywords and content realignment.

Quick tips for Onpage optimization for web traffic

1. Use H1 header tags

Make sure that this tag contains your keyword.

2. Use H2 tags.

Largely taken as a subheading, make sure this also contains your main keyword;

3. Evenly spread keywords

Also, with regards to the content, try to make reference to your keyword regularly, but not too often. Try to mention it evenly throughout the document. This is where the article writing from the previous sections comes in handy. With your articles, make sure that

There are numerous other Onpage Optimization tips I can give you, but I go into that more in the Optimization tips article HERE.

V – Discussion Boards/Forums ——————————–

Discussion forums are a great way to get your message out and generate even more web traffic.

To find these forums use your keyword and the word ‘forums’ with www.google.com

For example, ‘Cat forums’. Make sure that you keep a log of all of them. You’ll want to be making regular posts here.

On registering, try to include your URL and a brief description of your website in your signature. If you make regular posts on the forums, and change signatures every once in a while to reflect what’s going on at your website, you will have a steady stream of visitors.

For example, an example signature could be ‘Catland.com – ‘How to make cats happy’ article just posted 12/34/04′.

On these boards, you will also realize that there are several recurring questions new persons ask.

With reference to the Cats forums; there may be a question which you find reoccurs ‘How should I groom my Cat?’.

If you can create an article to answer each of these questions, you can always post the link to your article everytime a newbie asks question. This will drive fresh users to your website and once your website has in great content; will ensure repeat user and more web traffic.

VI – Conclusion ——————————–

There are always new ways of finding means of developing web traffic. Offline promotion such as developing business cards can also help. You’ve only just begun your journey! The last thing I want to say is that fresh content ALWAYS brings return vistors; keep adding content; and your visitors will return time after time.

With that said I wish you all the best with your web traffic quest!

Beijing residents have been wowed by the clear blue skies which have been exposed due to the emergency pollution controls implemented for the Olympics and the citizens are clamouring for a continuation of these measures which are helping to bring the cities air quality closer to international standards.

Due to traffic restrictions, closure of the worst industrial polluters and a construction ban, the cities air is cleaner than it has been in decades. Although the city is far from being unpoluted. The Chinese are revelling in the splendour of their Olympic ceremony, however should the environmentally beneficial changes be lapsed with the closing of the Games?

As the 29th Olympic Games drew to a close on Sunday, many citizens, at least in Beijing, seemed concerned about the long term practical impact the games would make on China. There is a great deal of national pride from the Chinese however, it seems prudent for them to appreciate how behind the rest of the world they are in terms of cutting pollution and protecting the environment, rather than getting carried away with their success during the Olympics.

Progress is beginning to be made, in the province surrounding Beijing as factories are not permitted to reopen until they have upgraded their facilities to meet basic emissions standards. “This is not just about making sure the air is clean for the Olympics, we intend to clean things up over the long-term as well.” Guo Jun, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Bureau in Langfang city.

In Chinese internet chat rooms, the political issues and debates concerning rising powers have taken a back seat to those commenting on the clear blue skies and demanding that the government should maintain at least some of this pollution control. “I never realised Beijing could be so fresh,” wrote ‘Mumu’ in a blog. “I don’t want to be stuck choking on exhaust fumes in traffic on September 21″, (when they will see an end to the emergency pollution measures with the closing of the Paralympics).

According to the coordinator of a survey addressing the publics’ opinions on the restrictions allowing car owners to only drive every other day, Zhang Shiqiu, professor of environmental policy at Peking University and an adviser on air quality to the Beijing Olympics says that people are very satisfied with the results.

Public transport had been vastly improved for the games. It is possible that the government will consider extending the clean-up plan beyond the remit of the Olympics. “Although traffic restrictions are temporary they are a good example for future policy-making,” Zhang Shiqui said. “We have seen how the restrictions work by easing traffic jams and improving air quality.”

Zhang Shiqui spoke about the positive effects the Olympics had had on citizens environmental awareness, “The biggest effect of the Olympics has been to change people’s concept of environmental protection … It’s given them an understanding that sacrifices must be made if they want clean air.”