If you use Twitter here is a cool and free twitter tool. It creates ribbons that you can add to you web site. This way people visiting your site can also follow you on Twitter.

You can see an example in the upper right hand side of this site.

Click on the ribbon above to follow me.

And… If your already on Twitter send me your Twitter name and I will make sure I am following you.

Just shot me an email with your Twitter name and I will make sure and follow you. Send your email to joe @ joe-marsh.com.

Claim your free Twitter ribbon here:
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God Bless…
Joe

Traffic Generation Through Social Bookmarking

Today we are going to look at something that is still relatively new in the Internet Marketing arena Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is essentially using a social bookmarking service to bookmark your web pages or blog posts so that other users of the bookmarking site can visit. When you bookmark a site you tag it with keywords and people can search for the keywords that reflect their interests at the social bookmarking site.

Does it work? Absolutely! In fact this is a very fast way to generate really good traffic to your site – for free. Again you will want to try to get them on your opt-in list once they arrive at your site so that you can bring them back again and again. Notice that I said ‘really good traffic.’ This is good traffic because the visitor finds your site by searching for the keywords that you’ve used when you bookmarked it. They are essentially looking for you. For this reason it is important to use keyword tags for each page that are absolutely relevant to the content on that page. Don’t try to use unrelated keywords this tactic simply won’t work.

There are numerous social bookmarking sites out there and hitting them all to bookmark each page of your website could literally take days if not weeks. Fortunately there are social bookmarking services that will send your bookmarks and tags to numerous social bookmarking sites in one fell swoop.

You want a service that targets the best social bookmarking sites and that service is Only Wire at http://www.onlywire.com. Only Wire is free to use (another bonus). Getting set up with Only Wire takes a couple of hours because you will need to go to each of the social bookmarking sites that it lists register and then put your username and password for each site into the list at Only Wire.

Once that is done you will add the Only Wire icon to your browser toolbar (very easy to do – you just click hold the mouse button down and drag and drop it up there). Now you are all set up. When you are ready to bookmark your pages first go to the Only Wire site and login. Leave that window open. Open another window (tabbed browsers work great for this) go to your site go to a page that you want to bookmark and hit the icon.

You will be taken to the Only Wire add a bookmark page. Here everything is filled in except your keyword tags. List the keywords that are associated with the page you are bookmarking and hit submit. You’re done with that page – move on to the next one. Nothing could be easier and again it is very effective.

Let's review todays lesson… Join Only Wire at http://www.onlywire.com . Register for each site on the list and get Only Wire all set up. Add the bookmark icon to your browser toolbar and go to each page of your website click the icon and add it to the social bookmarks and tag each page with keywords. http://InternetMarketingMadeEasier.com

Article Marketing and Forum Marketing

You’ve probably heard about Article Marketing and Forum Marketing. In fact you may even be sick of hearing about it. But are you doing it? The reason that you hear so much about these two marketing techniques is that they work!

Yes article marketing and forum marketing builds traffic slowly. There are faster ways to get traffic. But when you build traffic using these methods as well you are also building your credibility. You are drawing responsive people to your site and if your site is doing its job as well and you get those people on your list you can draw them back time and time again.

Quick side note… If you are not collecting email addresses at your website the traffic that you bring there is essentially wasted. By building an opt-in list you can bring traffic back to your site over and over again and this is essential to online businesses. Email addresses and first names should be collected with an opt-in page or with subscribe boxes located on every single page of your website!

Now let’s start generating some traffic with articles. The concept is that you write an article which should be anywhere from 350 to 750 words in length. You include an author’s resource box at the bottom of your article and your website link is included in that resource box. You submit the article to article directories and ezine publishers.

If you can’t write you can get article written for less than $10 each by a ghostwriter. If you don’t have the time it takes to submit articles you can hire a service to do that for you as well. It is essential that you do article marketing. Article marketing is viral your articles will be used on other people’s websites blogs and in their ezines – spreading the word about your site.

Forum marketing is also important. To do forum marketing you find good well populated forums that relate to your niche. You simply participate in those forums and include a signature file at the bottom of all of your posts that lead people to your website. Forum marketing does not take much time at all once you’ve found the forums that you want to participate in.

Another quick side note… A must of forum marketing is that you contribute to the posts. When you post to the forums make your information helpful don’t just post spam about your web site. Spam being.. hay look at me and go to my site blah blah blah. If you do spam you will quickly find yourself being banned from the forum.

Again these are slow but effective (and free) ways to generate traffic. But no matter how slow they are they are essential to your overall online business because of the virility of these techniques and the credibility that it gives you.

Let’s review what you can do… Write and submit one article each week. Participate in your niche forums on a daily basis posting one message in each forum per day using a signature file that brings people to your website. Create a simple and easy system for yourself.