Ways to Promote Your Website

Part 3 of 3: Conclusion of Blast From the Past

21 Top Posts Everyone Needs to Read About Online Business Development Continued… A Series by Amber Ludwig.

This 3rd post in the 3-part series concludes “Blast From the Past” week where I deliver the top insights and training pieces I’ve written since starting this website. Print them out, share then on Facebook/Twitter, or just enjoy the content!

I hope you enjoyed this short series. Sometimes with blogs, new visitors just come in and don’t look back on all the incredible information written about in the past. Bookmark these posts if you want to refer back to them anytime.

Have You Thought of Facebook as Your Opt-In List Yet?

If you’ve studied Internet Marketing at all, you’ve heard “build a list, build a list, build a list!” This is sound advice. Building a list of email addresses, people that are interested in following you – this can be your greatest online asset over time. Of course you’ll want to handle your “list” with care. Don’t spam, don’t email every day, etc etc.

Follow my logic here for a moment… People are subscribing to lists less and less. Some have asked if that burst of squeeze pages, newsletter signup forms and ethical bribes (like an eBook giveaway) are going away for good even. No, I don’t believe they are.

Tynt Insight: Auto-Adds Your URL When People Copy Your Content

It’s free. It’s easy. It’s a must.

Tynt Insight is a company I found when searching for WordPress plugins. I was specifically searching for a plugin that automatically adds your URL to the copied content a visitor snatches. (No, I’m not an affiliate, just sharing a great tool.)

I’m all for someone sharing the goods. Some are not, and for you, there are plugins that don’t allow anyone to copy your content. They do this by disabling your visitor’s ability to right click, among other things. But, I’m all about sharing the wealth so feel free to share my content.

IM FacePlate: Another Internet Marketing Tool to Increase Traffic/Exposure via Social Networking

Within the past few posts, we’ve talked about Backlinks (and their awesome powers!) plus these Online Interactive Contact Cards (DooID and OnePage) that keep popping up everywhere. IM FacePlate is a new Internet Marketing tool you can use to create more traffic, more exposure AND give you more backlinks! I knew you’d get interested.

IM FacePlate is very similar to LinkedIn actually, but has some cool add-ons and an advanced internal marketing area to help you promote your faceplate. Here’s an image to give you an example of my IM FacePlate:

Click on image to see my IM FacePlate

Creating Online Interactive Contact Cards with DooID and OnePage

DooID and OnePage are websites that can provide interactive virtual contact cards – sort of a one stop info page for viewers to get the skinny on you and your business.

These sites basically allow you to upload a photo, add links to your social networks and include a short bio. You can add more bells and whistles if you want to upgrade from a free to paid account.

A Few Top SEO, Social Media, Copywriting, Design and Internet Marketing Resources I Use

Enjoy some of my very top resources below and enjoy all that you learn from them…

The Power of Social Media

An incredible video on the powers of social media for your business! This video will blow your mind away on the powers of the Internet and how you should be using it to gain sales, clients and visitors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

Search Engine Optimization Top Tips Combined

SEO insights from 9 top professionals and social media experts – Insights of key SEO tactics and strategies that we should be addressing in our small businesses. Very good tips you can implement right away!
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-expert-seo-tips-for-small-businesses.html

Custom Video Slideshows to Showcase Your Business

You have all watched as we create more and more of these slideshow videos for clients all over. Each video slideshow helps to promote the business, get visitors in the buying mood and increase online exposure.

Check out these slideshows below and let me know your favorite. Read on for details as well…

You’ll see this video sideshow allows new visitors searching on the web for a new guitar store, to see the inside of the store, see jam sessions and concerts. A great advertisement for all they offer.

Product Pre-Release Success: Using Twitter to Kick-Off a Buzz Building Campaign

“Buzz Building” is an important part of any product sales campaign and today I’m going to teach you how to leverage Twitter in your favor. Remember the few weeks before the iPhone was release? Apple spent millions and million of advertising dollars to get the word out that a hot new phone – unlike anything else on the market – was about to release. They teased us in their promotions. They showed us many incredible features of the phone, accompanied by catchy music and smart marketing messages. Buzz Building is essential to a sales campaign because you’d want to start your sales off with a bang on Day 1. The results of Day 1 will carry you through upcoming weeks and months. All of that success truly starts with the pre-launch Buzz Building.

2 Great SEO Tips You Need to Know + 1 More

Between yesterday and this morning, I heard 2 great SEO tips that I can’t help but share, plus, I’m going to remind you of another.

One Great SEO Tip:

This morning, I received my daily ProBlogger email as usual and inside was a blog post called, “Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO“.

The first SEO point of 4 was to find out which of your posts are ranked in Google’s 1st page (2nd-10th position) and then go back and optimize those posts to become #1 on Google. That is a simple but obvious idea that I hadn’t thought of directly before.

New WordPress Plugin, Scribe, Takes Bloggers to New SEO Level

This morning I got my usual ProBlogger blog post email. Inside were details about a new WordPress plugin called “Scribe“, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) evaluator and booster. After doing research and taking the Scribe plugin tour, I bought it and am testing it out as we speak.

Here’s how it works… Scribe has a killer special right now to get their highest package for only $27 per month (that’s the same price as their smallest package!). You download the plugin, then upload into your website. The beauty of this package is that you can use this plugin on Unlimited websites…Imagine the possibilities. Then, activate the plugin and start a blog post. You’ll notice a new section in your Add Post page called “Scribe Content Optimizer”. As I do certain SEO tasks, I see green checkmarks appear that I am on track to having a highly optimized blog post.