2008 was the year of Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed. Twitter especially was phenomenal. People just seem to love twittering. If they aren’t socializing they twitter simply to promote their web presence. Hope you too did a lot of twittering for whatever reason you actually had. In 2009 there are predictions that Twitter could be a acquired by any large corporation – though nothing official about it yet.

By the way, if you are submitting your site regularly to services like Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed you can consider this cool service called Ping.fm. It’s a major time saver as it posts your message to more than 20 services including mini-blogs and even a few blogs.

Social media marketing will continue to rule and develop into an essential part of the marketing campaign for all businesses in the future. Watch this video where Evan Williams, the CEO of Twitter, claims that the future of Twitter is with marketers. More and more e-Commerce, Business To Business will all begin entering the social media field like never before.

Apart from social media the other thing that will continue to grow big is of course the video sharing sites. If you aren’t leveraging the power of the web video sites like YouTube you are certainly leaving money on the table. YouTube is well on it’s way to become the second largest search engine leaving Yahoo behind. I heard Ed Dale telling that a couple of month back and now it seems that he can’t be more right.

Also, keep an eye on Google Friend Connect. We will have to wait and see if that’s going to be a game changer.

So, that’s it for today. And before I go, best wishes for 2009 again.

Submitatonce Site Love Toolbar. I don’t know why, but I found both Social Marker and Social Poster a bit . . . . . well, the idea was great but it wasn’t for me. Onlywire is a great time saver but I don’t know why it often fails with some of the services mentioned in their list. There is a workaround like you need to be always logged in to all the services  during the bookmarking process which kills the push button type usability it is known for.

So what I did at that time was developed my own system which involves a tabbed browser like Firefox and RoboForm (not just the best password manager around but more than that …) .

Lately Shareaholic, which is a Firefox (and Flock) add on, is in the news and it really is very user friendly. No wonder it is enjoying a huge fan following. I also like Shareaholoic and actually have it installed in both Firefox andFlock. But then again, I found that there are a few services that are not included in this excellent extension. Faves, Propeller, Soup etc. to name a few of them.

I was discussing about it with one of my friends who gave me a simple yet effective solution – “Why don’t you amke your own extension or a may be a toolbar”. “But I know nothing about it”, I said. “Then find out how to do it”, replied my friend. And soon enough I learned how to make a toolbar and decided to create one to make my tagging exercises fast and easy. And here it is – the Submitatonce Site Love Toolbar. I primarily made it for myself but some of my friends tested it (I asked some of my friends to test it) and they appreciated my work. Encouraged by the appreciation I decided to go ahead and put it up here for you to download and install. I don’t know if you are going to like it, but I love my stuff .

Here are some screen shots of  Submitatonce Site Love Toolbar which, I believe, would be able to describe it’s features. Oh, by the way, I have’ shamelessly’ added a few links which will take you to my web site promotion and diectory submission service site pages. Hope, it’s OK with you . . .  may be you might require that too.

What do you think ? Want to give it a try ? Great. It’s right up there on the top of the sidebar. Firefox and Flock users can install it instantly as usual, while if you are still using Internet Explorer only, you have to download the toolbar first ( some services  might just not work in Internet Explorer ). You may get warning like always and have to allow the installation.

Enjoy and don’t forget to let me know if you like it ( or not).

Until next time . . . . .

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.

The first step in driving traffic to one’s website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.

The second way in driving traffic to one’s website is by contacting other web masters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to one’s own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between web masters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.

The third way is through writing one’s own articles. This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.

The fourth way is through joint venture marketing. This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.

The fifth is through joining affiliate programs. Having affiliates to do the work means allowing them to bring tons of traffic to a website. Skyrocketing sales would be realized as a result, and both the affiliate and the website owner will benefit from the situation.

The sixth is by having a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of auto-responders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.

The seventh is by knowing one’s market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of one’s website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his effort is worth it.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one’s affiliate marketing career inch forward. It is always advantageous to plan one’s moves in any business that he might undertake. This is particularly so in affiliate marketing. If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track.

 Recently I installed the Flock browser using it along with Firefox and Internet Explorer. I won’t use the word “switch” because I haven’t switched from Firefox to Flock, only added it to my arsenal. And Flock is an awesome browser. Simply brilliant. Since Flock is built on the same engine that runs Firefox (Gecko), the browsing experience is very much similar to Firefox. It’s like a powerful enhanced version of Firefox. But while Flock may initiate with the Gecko rendering engine, it considerably individualizes itself from Firefox by integrating features intended to facilitate you keep up with all your contacts in the social networking arena. That’s a huge plus for all Firefox lovers. Moreover most of the Firefox add-ons are good for Flock as well. So, you don’t have to worry about losing your favorite Firefox extensions.

So, what makes Flock to score over Firefox as the preferred browser even to the one Firefox fans?

Usability which results in saving a lot of time has made the browser that Flock is. Flock is built specifically for a new, emerging generation of Web users, one that isn’t satisfied passively browsing media online. Flock expects to transform the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other Web 2.0 activities that have make the internet sizzling hot in recent times. Here’s a full review of the Flock browser.

But it’s only the beginning of what that’s going to change your browsing patterns for ever. The end user benefits as the war for excellence hots up. Firefox recently launched the all new Firefox 3. Added features and enhanced usability are the highlights of this brand new version of Firefox.

Download Flock

Download Firefox 3

Is there any relation between Firefox and Flock apart being buit on the same engine ?

Flock is powered by Mozilla, the same fast and secure engine that powers the Firefox browser! Here’s the full story . . . .

The annual Thirty Day Challenge is almost here again. Ed Dale raised the curtain by announcing the beginning of the Pre Season earlier today on the Thirty Day Challenge TV. TDC 2007 was my first ever and I did make the $10 well before it was over. And it was my first affiliate commission ever. What a feeling that was. Web 2.0 and social bookmarking and using them to build and promote your site was the highlight of the 2007 version of the Thirty Day Challenge. Tens of thousands of people joined the challenge last year. And this year it could only get bigger and better. What should be this year’s highlight, will teaming up be as important as it was in last years challenge, there are rumors that Twitter and twitting is going to take a very important role – the guess work is on.

Soon we will know everything as the pre-season training gets underway. I’m sure you are already a part of the Thirty Day Challenge. However, if you just happen to land on the Internet Marketing planet, here is your passport to the Thirty day challenge 2008.

New To Thirty Day Challenge? Start Right Here.

This is the last post of the sitemap submission series. We are already through Google and Yahoo and now it’s Live.com (or MSN). The process is pretty much similar. If you have submitted your site’s sitemap to Google or Yahoo or both, you must have created the file sitemap.xml and it’s still there in the root directory of your site.

Before you do anything else just go to Live.com Webmaster Center and log in using your Live Mail or Hotmail Account and hit the ‘Add a site’ button.

When the page loads completely provide information like your web site’s url and the url or location of the site’s sitemap.xml. Please note here that this is not the regular site-map (generally sitemap.html) you used to have on your site but a specially generated xml file. You can have a sitemap.xml for your web site generated for free here – http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

After you submit your site details, you need to verify or authenticate the web site which is pretty much like Google and Yahoo. Create a HTML file by copy and pasting the code provided in the page that loads on submission in Notepad and name the file as suggested. Here is an example -

That’s it. You are done. Just hit the ‘OK’ button and you will get the confirmation that your site has been aded to Live.com Webmaster Center.

Submitting your sitemap and other site details to Google, Yahoo and Live.com is very important as it helps the search engine robots to index your site properly and hence help you achieve higher positions in the search engine result pages.

“You give ‘Site Seer’ your URL and it will instantly extract and display all of the features of your site that the search engines use to rank you.”

To get this ‘must have’ tool you need to go here and opt in /register first. So, go ahead and do it if you haven’t done it already. There are some great videos to watch once you are registered and have access to the Site Seer page. These videos are parts of the Stompernet Going Natural 3.0 which was launched recently.

I have already tried this tool and it returned (actually emailed) with a real eye-opening report on the SEO status of one of my web sites. Here are some screen shots of the tool and the result.

It’s pretty easy to fill up the fields and submit your site details. And soon the system will send you an email containing the link to the result page. Here’s a few screenshots of the result page.

I must admit that I’m pretty impressed with the tool though it’s not ground breaking but still it’s very handy to have all information about your site in one place. And you will feel good to learn that there’s someone or something to look after the SEO of your site. It also suggests what you should do to promote your site including submitting your site to several resources.

So, without wasting any more time just rush to the Stompernet Going Natural 3.0 or simply go straight to the Site Seer page and get started right now.

Until next time.

Step 2: Notice the My Sites box on the right. Enter your web site’s URL and hit the Add My Site button.

Step 3: You will be prompted to login to Yahoo.

Step 4: You will be taken to a page which is kinda dashboard where you will find all the sites you have submit or will submit. Check the site you wanted to add and hit Manage.

Step 5: Hope you have already created and uploaded your sitemap.xml . Simply type sitemap.xml in the field provided and keep the sitemap type as Web Site Feed (from the drop down box). And click the Add Your Feed button.

Remember we are yet to authenticate our website, which will be the next step.

Step 6: Hit the green Authenticate button on the right when then page loads.

Step 7: The Verification page that comes up is very comprehensive and need no explanation. Just follow the steps and you will authenticate your site without any trouble. Download the verification file (you can also create it), upload to your server and hit the Ready to Authenticate button and you are done. You can also choose the Meta Tag method which is very similar to Google.

Step 8: Your site is pending authentication.

Do not remove the verification file from your server or delete the Meta Tag (should you opted for the Meta Tag method) and check back a couple of days later. Your site would be authenticated and will be indexed and get exposer in a far better way.

Firstly, open up the following sites in 3 different tabs of your browser (Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 supports tab browsing. however it’s not a criteria and you can do it by opening new windows or just do one by one on the same window).

• Google Webmaster Tools
• Yahoo Site Explorer
• Live.com Webmaster Center

Login or sign up if you don’t have an account already. First we will learn to submit the site map to Google.

Google Webmaster Tools

Step #1 – Add your site

Step #2 – Click Verify your site when the next page loads.

Step #3 – You have to choose the verification method to verify your site. You have two options – you can verify by inserting a META tag or by uploading a blank file.

First, let’s see how the META tag works -

Insert the Meta tag in your site’s Home page source code as it is. Don’t change anything, just copy and paste the code between the head tags. Note the Meta tag just below the Meta keywords tag.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
<title>Title of your site goes here</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Give a cool description of your site here.” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”keyword 1, keyword 2, keyword 3″ /><meta name=”verify-v1″ content=”9tW7D7+GgFDxvZKbaRFcqFlNOETT0NZ+8ehKmg48BY8=” />

<link href=”style.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” />
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”images/favicon.ico”>

</head>

Save, Upload and Verify.

But, I prefer the File Upload method as described below.

Select the “Upload an HTML file” option instead of the earlier “Add a Meta Tag” from the drop down menu.

Create a blank HTML file and name it exactly as suggested by Google. To create a HTML file right click on your desktop or on the white space inside a folder and select New. Then select “Text Document” from the sub menu to create a text document. Rename the text document by replacing New Text Document.txt by the name provided by Google (for example, googleabCDEFgh12345IJKL67890m.html). An alert will pop up asking you whether you really want to rename the file. Hit Yes. And voila, your HTML file is ready to upload to your sever. Upload it to your root directory and first verify if it is really there by clicking the link provided. A blank page is what you are going to see but if you follow the address bar you will notice that url you just clicked a second back. If you have done something wrong the browser will return the “The webpage cannot be found” message.

Once you are satisfied, hit the Verify button.

Congratulations. You have successfully verified your site. Now proceed to upload your sitemap. Hope you have already created one and uploaded it to your server.

Step #4 – Now click the Sitemap menu from the left sidebar. Now click the Add a Sitemap link on the page which just loaded.

Step #5 – Choose your sitemap type as Add General Web Sitemap

Step #6 – You will now be prompted to add your sitemap. Just complete your Sitemap URL by typing sitemap.xml in the blank field. And hit the Add General Web Sitemap button.

Congratulations again. You have just added your sitemap to the Google. You can now expect better indexing of your pages.

Coming up next . . . how to add your sitemap to yahoo and MSN or Live.com.

Stay tuned.

If you are not a complete newbie in the internet marketing arena you should have known by now that the in order to get free traffic you have to depend on the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN or Live.com. Search engines crawl your sites and index them. whenever a searcher searches search for a topic by typing one of the keywords around which we have created your web site or blog, the search engine returns with several search result. You goal is to be among the top 10 of those search results. Easier said than done. But you can do it. Yes, with sincere effort you can beat all your competitors to the first page of any search engine, if not achieve the top position. It depends on your targeted keywords, your contents and whether you have optimized your web site for the search engines. SEO is vital. It’s the backbone of free organic traffic.

You have to make sure that your web site or blog is optimized. You need both on-page and off-page SEO for all your web pages and blog posts. Selection of keywords and using them effectively throughout your web pages – that’s on-page optimization for you in a nutshell. You should utilize your web page meta tags to the fullest extent especially the Title tag and the Description tag. Your main content should also contain your keywords and key-phrases you are targeting. The search engine spider follows a typical pattern when it crawls your web pages. You should design your web site to take full advantage of it.

The article will continue . . .

Best wishes for the new year. May 2008 be your most successful year online.

Again, a very happy and prosperous new year 2008.

See you soon.

Here is the link –   Ka Boom Marketing

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Merry Christmas !!!

Until next time. Enjoy.

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