Posted by: Deb | October 25, 2009

Free Website Hosting – Word Press

Word Press Free Website Hosting

Word Press provides free website hosting when your website is part of their free blogging format. This website is hosted for free on the Word Press hosting service. Free website hosting at Word Press and other blogging platforms has some limitations. For example, there is a possibility that some forms, shopping cart services and many auto-responders that utilize a form html code may not be embedded into the free format.

What Is Hosting?

The web host is a company who provides space on a server that gives your site connectivity to the internet. The internet terminology is not hard to comprehend. Think about the following terms in relationship to your home to get a better idea of what web hosting is.

  • Domain: The website domain name or url is your address.  In the world of cities, the url is like your street address so that the postman knows where to deliver you mail. This website’s domain is www.BuildrWeb.WordPress.com It is a Word Press domain and it is hosted for free on the Word Press hosting service.
  • The Internet/World Wide Web: is a big city.  The domain or url is the address within the city so that people know how to find you.
  • Host Service:  This is your house.  You build your website or build your house in a hosting service.  It is where you actually live.  This website is hosted for free by Word Press hosting service.
  • Forwarding Address:  I have this domain: www.HowToBuildAWebsiteQuick.com forwarded to another address because I did not build my own house on a paid service.  I use the FREE WordPress service as my house until I build my own so I have my mail forwarded to the other address. This web domain will be forwarded to the Word Press hosting service until I buy my own hosting service on a paid server.

Get it?

Build A Word Press Website

Posted by: Deb | September 22, 2009

What Is An Autoresponder?

Autoresponder Marketing

An autoresponder is a system of marketing that automatically sends out emails to your database. The software does not actually write the emails. It sends out email to your clients when you program it to. Online marketing depends heavily on autoresponder systems.

Autoresponder Messages

You can set up a series of messages in your autoresponder to send or broadcast a message at an appointed time. For example, I sell an online diet program. It is a series of 60 messages sent to joiners over the course of six weeks. When someone signs up for the natural diet program, they are then put into the autoresponder and immediately the messages start. In this case it is the messages that the dieters purchased. In many cases the autoresponder is a marketing system. You set up a sequence of pre-written email messages that are sent out to the prospects in your database at regular intervals, marketing your products to them.
The importance is huge. Internet marketing gurus say that the money is in the list. The more people you have on a mailing list who are interested in your products or services, the more sales you will make. I have heard that the magic number for generating consistent income is 10,000 members in your database receiving your messages or specials.

Free autoresponder Software

There are many companies that have a wide variety of autoresponder software and services. It is not necessary to download software into your computer, nor is it recommended. There are plenty of online services that are available for free trials. The one I use {Web Marketing Magic} also has a shopping cart feature as well as secure image sections, and newsletter templates. The free introductory autoresponder offer for their program gives you a good opportunity to try out the service without a major investment.

Best Auto Responder

Even the best autoresponder needs an enticement to get your potential clients to join it. What do you have that is of value that will encourage the visitors to your site to join? Are your website visitors landing on your homepage or somewhere else on your website and just disappearing?

What is the best way to get them to opt-in to your mailing list?

  • Free electronic book
  • An audio recording
  • A series of educational quick tips

Join This Autoresponder

When you join this autoresponder you will get all the announcements of the FREE tele-seminars for home business owners as well as an audio recording of the “8 Secrets To Success In Direct Sales”. Notice the form on the linked page for the home party plan training newsletter.

You can use an autoresponder to send messages out to people (with their permission) convincing them and educating them about your product and services. Autoresponders work best when your clients opt themselves in so that the email servers do not mark your messages as spam.

Posted by: Deb | August 15, 2009

11 Tips For Natural Search Engine Optimization

There Are 1000s Of Tips For Search Engine Optimization

SEOThese 11 tips for search engine optimization are a good way to get started in SEO for your site naturally.  Search engine optimization can be a lifelong study and this list could include 1000s of ideas.  These will get you started, then you can continue to learn as you become more experienced in SEO.

  1. Good content is the secret. Be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your main keywords or keyword phrases.
  2. Quality links are more important than quantity links.
  3. Build a network of quality backlinks using your keyword phrase as the link.
  4. Links must be from relevant sources to your keywords or keyword phrases.
  5. Be sure you have unique, keyword-focused title tags or phrases on every page of your site.
  6. Add new content regularly. Create a system to add new content and it will improve your rankings. Content freshness adds relevancy to your site in the eyes of the search engines.
  7. Be sure links to your site and within your site use your keyword phrase. In other words, if your destination page is home party plan games, then the link should be like this:  Home Party Plan Games instead of a “Click here” link.
  8. Focus on search phrases, not single keywords.
  9. Make sure your web designer understands your expectations for organic SEO. WordPress sites like this one are naturally search engine friendly.
  10. Submit your new site through Google’s regular submission form and also get it linked from other sites so that it gets spidered by the search engines.
  11. Search engines want natural content. Don’t try to saturate your text with keywords that do not fit. Search engines look at how many times a term is in your content and if it is abnormally high, will count this against you rather than for you.
Posted by: Deb | July 17, 2009

Internet Marketing For Direct Sales Business

Direct Sales Consultants Network On Internet

The internet can be used by direct sales consultants to network online and create a balanced sales business. Internet marketing is just one more system of lead generation that will work for all sales companies. Taking advantage of the internet for your direct sales businss will bring you one more way to network and grow your business.

Many Types Of Business Leads=Internet Marketing

Marketing is the art, science and skill of creating desire in the market place for your product, opportunity or services. There are many ways to market or create desire for your business on the internt. Some forms of internet marketing are:

  • Social Networking:  Marketing your business in social sites like MySpace, Face Book and others.
  • Directories: Submitting your blog or website to directories is another form of publicity on the internet.
  • Blogging:  Blogging on your business services or topic is a service that will generate desire for your services or product.
  • Article Submission:  When you submit your unique content articles to other sites, you will tap into their customers and open yourself up for more key word searches.
  • Press Releases:  There are many online free press release services that you can submit to.
  • Online Ads:  Regularly posting advertisments online with services like Hoobly or US Free Ads will also bring more customers your way.

All businesses should take advantage of every system available to market there wares.  The internet is just one lead generation system for direct sales home business.  When you take advantage of all the internet market options listed above your internet business will be using a balanced approach as well.

Posted by: Deb | June 1, 2009

Space Separated Key Words

What Are Space Separated Key Words?

When a site asks for space separated key words, the key words need a space instead of a comma.

Comma Separated Key Words

Comma separated key words would be entered like this:

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Space Separated Key Words

The same key words entered as space separated key words would be entered like this:

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Some social sites or other websites don’t say what kind of key words they want. I was just making an entry in the Cash Flow Forum which was created only about 60 days ago. I had never really looked at the key words before. I just noticed that the key words looked like this:

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That was because I entered them as comma separated words and they should have been space separated. The automatic system arranged them alphabetically and took out the commas. When you need space separated key words you should string the words together with hypens so that they stay together, otherwise they are meaningless.

Posted by: Deb | April 28, 2009

Use Key Word Search Tool To Determine Key Words

How To Pick Good Key Words

skeleton_key13How to pick good key words can sometimes be challenging. What words are people looking for and which ones will they click? If they do click your key words will they buy something? How qualified are they when they land on your website? Using pay per click advertising may be a way to figure out those confusing questions. Key word search tools can help you find key words that are in your niche. The right long tail key words will bring more qualified visitors to your site. Use a key word search tool to narrow down your niche.

Long Tail Key Words

Long tail key words are strings of key words that describe your niche. On my healthy living website I sell diet and natural living programs. Some good key words for the site might be diet, diet programs, weight loss, weight loss programs, how to lose weight, etc. Open a new browser tab right now and type into your search bar any of those words and then look at the results. The page lists the top 10 results. If you look at the top right part of the page it will say 10 out of 5,756, 234, 201 (five billion+) or some other ridiculously high number. Do you think it is possible for me to get into the top 10 with those numbers? Yet, my site is in the top 10 with long tail key words. Try searching for Affordable Diet Programs or Natural Weight Loss for Women, or Affordable Natural Weight Loss. These are long tail key words strings that establish what I am really all about on that site. They narrow down the competition considerably making it possible for well-written articles that are optimized for the search engine to find them with valuable content relevant to the key words.

Use Key Word Search Tool

There are many key word search tools available for free. Google has one, just Google key word search tools and you will find several. Then type in your basic or general key words like ‘diet programs’ and it will give you ideas for long tail searches that narrow down your niche.

Posted by: Deb | April 20, 2009

How To Pick Good Key Words

How To Get Search Engine Optimization With Key Words

Getting your website to the to of the search engines is not really as hard as it sounds or first appears. The search engines are searching the internet looking for key words and the content to go with the words so that they can optimize the site when someone does a search. Search engine optimization is not just filling your page with key words. When picking good key words it is equally as important to have the content to match up to your key words.

More Key Words Is Not Better

More key words is not the goal. Your page or articles should be focused on a specific purpose or subject that is carried through the article rather than trying to hit every key word in the book. When you create valuable content that repeats your key words without being forced then the search engines will see ladder in the search engines. An article should have a focused subject which is your key words then the article cascades down to support those words with relevant content. After deciding your key words for your article, then putting them into the article in a cascading style will enhance your ability to come to the top of the pile among thousands or even millions of searches.

Cascading Style Sheet SEO Friendly

One of the reasons that I recommend the WordPress format is that it is naturally search engine friendly because it is generated in a cascading style sheet or CSS. WordPress is a blogging format that is naturally a cascading style sheet also known as CSS. When your website has a cascading syle sheet and the articles flow down the page in cascading style using header lines of cascading size and keywords you will get picked up by the search engines. A header can have another set of key words that means the same thing and used different key words to give an article or page more exposure. For example take a look at the cascading style of this article. The title sets out the main key word: key words, or how to pick keywords. The title is written in what they call an h2 header. The blog title is the h1 header (How To Build A Website Quick). The subtitle is a h3 headline. It reinforces the key word by repeating it and also presents another key word: search engine optimization. Then the first paragraph reinforces both key words repetitively. Notice how the first header reinforces the title of the article then the key words are repeated naturally through out the first paragraph.

  • key words
  • how to pick good key words
  • search engine optimization

As the article proceeds the continuation of the key words is carried through in more subtitles followed by relevant content that cascade below the additional h3 headlines. These cascading paragraphs continue to reinforce the main key words and also introduced new ones.

WordPress Website Search Engine Optimized

It takes time to get your website to the top of the search engines through optimization. Using a CSS format like WordPress for your website makes it easier because the site automatically cascades. Word press is a terrific format for new website owners. This website was built on a three series webinar using the free WordPress blogging platform. It is a good way to get started in search engine optimization and key word research with a minimum investment. Clearly defining your purpose of each article and then optimizing your key words for a specific page will do more for you than trying to cover it all.

Posted by: Deb | March 4, 2009

Online Social Networking Brings Traffic

Social Websites Bring Traffic

Online social sites like MySpace, Face Book and other groups or forums can bring traffic to your website. Just the participation in these websites and adding valuable content to the site is a source of leads into your web site. During the month of January we started a series of training calls/webinars that focused on internet marketing. Having your own website, a personal website is an important piece of social networking online. Frequently your company site does not allow incoming links. When you have a personal website you will be able to attract or drive traffic to your personal site, then gather data through an email newsletter or other system of creating value. After the lead joins your newsletter list, it is easy to market your website to them. Although many direct sales companies restrict incoming links into the affiliate site, they do allow newsletter publicity of the website link. Join the Home Business Cash Flow Newz.

Personal Website Building Made Easy

We built this website in an hour then tuned it up in the next two calls. It is usually difficult to get online traffic to your company affiliated site. A company site is best marketed offline. A personal website can serve as a service to your customers and also a way to meet new people online who are interested in your niche. When you socialize through social sites, forums and groups that are in your niche, it is important to be able to list your website in your signature. Even commenting on a blog, you would want your signature to include your website. Your comment on the blog should add value to the article you are commenting to as well as create curiosity regarding you or your business so people click through to your site. If your company does not allow links in, then a personal website is the answer.

Social Book Marking

Social book marking is a tool used to keep track of websites that you would like to go back to. Originally designed so that you can book mark a website or article that you like at home then go back to your profile page on the site at another computer, maybe at work and see or access all your bookmarks. It is sort of an internet based save your favorite technique. Examples of social book marking sites include: Reddit, Stumble Upon and Diggit. Social book marking takes on another dimension in that you have your social page profile and also your bookmarks which become searchable in them selves so that others can see what you are book marking. It becomes a good way to draw attention to your website when other people are book marking your site.

Related Articles To Get Traffic To Your Website

Posted by: Deb | February 6, 2009

How To Get Started In HTML Coding


On the last webinar we discussed HTML coding. When you are editing your WordPress website as with most website editors you have the choice of working in the visual mode which shows your work as it will look on the site when it is published and you also have the ability to switch to html which stands for: HyperText Mark-up Language

The HTML is code that tells your website what to do.

This Is The HTML Code For H3 Headers

The first coding that a new WordPress website owner should learn is header tags. There are different sized headings and the search engines look for headlines in a cascading style or CSS (cascading style sheet). The progression is a series of headers or headlines that work together. The blog title is an H1 tag, the title of this post is an H2 tag and the title of this paragraph is an H3 tag. Put the code into your blog posts so that they cascade down from the top. This is the code that you enter to create an h3 headline.<h3>Your H3 Headline</h3>  When you enter that code into your HTML editor (not the visual editor) it will create this headline:

Your H3 Headline

Your headline should indicate and include key words that follow in the paragraph below it. So now you have a cascading style from the blog title to the page title, to the paragraph or section titles and then the words in the paragraphs that follow.

Posted by: Deb | February 2, 2009

Direct Sales Policy On Hyperlinking

What Is a Hyperlink?

A hyper link is an active link that links to another website or another page within your website. For example this is a hyperlink to my other website, Create A Cash Flow Show. Some direct sales companies do not allow incoming links to their website.  A hyper link would be considered an incoming link and would be in violation of company policy if it is not allowed. Make sure that you know what your companies policy is on hyperlinking before you link to your affiliate site.

Get Business To Your Affiliate Website

You can still get business to your company website although it is not as effective. Whenever you would like to hyperlink and are not allowed the alternative is to put the web address in as a static address in bold like this: www.CreateACashFlowShow.com I always capitalize the beginning of words to make it easier to read. Your reader will have to copy and paste it into their browser. You can even tell them to do that. I would also give them an active link to email you like this: Deb@debbixler.com

Linking Vs Forwarding

The home office will know that you linked to them because of a ping back which is generated every time a site is linked to. If your company has a policy of no linking they will be monitoring it and they will know that you did link to them. A forwarding address that is easy to read and type is not an incoming link.

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