Archive for December 12th, 2009

Loads of free traffic through article marketing with Google.

Loads of free traffic through article marketing with Google.

It’s exciting when you finally decide to embark on a new online career that promises to make you a heap of cash whether it is through affiliate marketing, selling goods on EBay or just offering your particular skill set or services through the World Wide Web. Is it enough to just be up and be online though? No. It’s certainly not! The one thing many new internet business owners overlook is the effective tool of article marketing which generates free Google traffic straight to their website. Without target traffic their website remains invisible unless they opt for some form of paid advertising. Nevertheless that’s quite costly, especially for the internet newbie. What’s the answer?


The importance of article marketing is often disregarded because most of new business entrepreneurs are totally unaware of the serious quantity of promotion required if they want to be successful. So often they are equipped in many areas but lack skill or knowledge in others that are also necessary to create the results they so desperately crave. Whether you want to quit your day job or just make an extra few dollars each week to save for that trip you’ve been wanting to take- article marketing is the answer.

Chances are that you could write the articles yourself but the reality is that you either don’t have the time to do that or you really don’t enjoy writing articles. It’s most likely a combination of both! How do you go about finding a good quality copywriter that won’t charge you the earth for original content and will certainly write fantastic articles that will attract free Google traffic from your particular niche market? Read on.

It’s always nice to give new writers a chance, whether you are looking at article marketing, website content or a virtual assistant to help you cope with your website’s writing requirements but an experienced copywriter is always your best choice.

What Things Should You Look For When Choosing A Copywriter?

1. SEO Writing Experience: Writing SEO is quite different to run of the mill or ordinary articles, as they seamlessly integrate specific keywords and call-to-action hyperlinks within reader-friendly articles that will attract traffic.

2. Quality Writing Samples: These should demonstrate the copywriter’s superior writing ability which includes correct grammar, spelling, tone and voice as well as excellent research skills.

3. Affordability: There are plenty of copywriters for hire but not all of them are equal. You shouldn’t have to pay exorbitant prices for great articles or web copy; but please respect that professional copywriters do need to make a living from their writing services.

Questions to ask when you are looking for the perfect Web host

There are a sea of options out there when you are looking for a web host for your new web site. With so many different configurations and arraignments that you can make with a web hosting provider it is hard for an experienced person, never mind a beginner, to make the correct decision. There are a couple questions that you should ask your web hosting provider before you decide to commit to them and also a couple of questions that you should ask yourself as well. This will help you, at the very least, get started on the right path.

When you are searching for that perfect web host, which there is no such thing, a question that goes neglected but should be the first one to be asked is “who is your bandwidth provider”. A lot of web host sub lease their bandwidth that they provide to you from someone else. This is not a bad thing and is quite common in the world of web hosting. The thing that you would want to be concerned about is whether their provider is known to be reliable. After they give you an answer, do a quick google check on them. All bandwidth providers will have complaints but make sure that theirs is not out of the ordinary and not a consistent problem. Another issue that people that are new to creating or owning web sites forget to address is how does the web host deal with scaling issues. Most people have web sites in the hopes of becoming popular, scaling issues can impede your progress in a major way. Ask if they have any examples sites of people that they are hosting that have a large amount of visitors coming to them. Also make sure you question them on what their procedures are if you exceed your bandwidth for any period of time. You will want to try to avoid a shutdown that will leave your daily visitors wondering what happened.

There are a couple of questions that you can ask yourself as well before you go searching for a web hosting provider. Getting the answer to these questions can make your web hosting life a lot easier. The first question should be what are you looking to get out of your site? If your site is a personal web site and you are not trying to grow it, then a free or minimum cost web host is maybe all that you will need. If you are trying to create a web site with growth or profit in mind make sure that you pick a web host that can accommodate these needs. You are going to need plenty of hosting space as well as bandwidth, so shop around for the best deal. Remember that cheapest does not equal the best deal.  Also you should ask yourself or your developer what are the tech needs of your web site? Does it run on PHP or does it run Ruby on Rails? These are very important questions that you have to figure out before picking your host. Picking a web host that only provides Linux hosting and your application that you ordered to be build runs on ASP.net with Microsoft technology can be a very sticky situation. You need to have these issues worked out before you continue your purchase of a new web host.

There is a lot to consider when you are picking a new web host. Your site is very important to you and you will want to make sure that you are doing everything that you can to keep it running smoothly.