Table of Contents
Forward
Chapter 1:
Save On Hosting
Chapter 2:
Save On Domain Names
Chapter 3:
Save On SEO
Chapter 4:
Save On Ghost Writing
Chapter 5:
Use Warrior Forum
Chapter 6:
Purchase Only What You Need
Chapter 7:
Stop Purchasing Traffic
Chapter 8:
Have A Look At Your Adwords Spending
Chapter 9:
Get Busy
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Synopsis
Do it yourself and save a bundle.
SEO Tips
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of taking steps to assure that your site is placed higher in search engine results than your competitors’ websites. Google, MSN and Yahoo have a hold on the vast majority of daily searches performed on the Internet. In fact, Google’s market share of search is so large that most SEO tips are geared toward them.
There are 2 basic types of search engine results – organic or natural, and paid. Becoming listed on the first page of results is pretty much vital as most individuals who search the Web won’t bother to look any further than the 1st page of search engine results to discover you.
You are able to pay for such high placement through Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising efforts, like Google AdWords or Yahoo Sponsored Search or Microsoft’s adCenter. If you outbid your rivals your site may get placed on the 1st page of search results.
Organic search results are where your site ranks on its own – without advertisement payments. Getting your site placed in the top ten search results for your targeted keywords may result in expanded traffic to your site and therefore, expanded sales for your home business. Organic SEO, then centers on improvements in your organic search rankings.
Organic SEO of your site for bettered search results is both an art and a science, but it’s not nuclear science. The science part of SEO is comprehending the algorithms, or formulas, utilized by the search engines to ascertain where sites rank and arriving at decisions on which keywords – terms or phrases individuals utilize to conduct a search – to target. The “art” part of SEO is how you approach applying strategies for search engines to discover you.
Regrettably, search engine algorithms change perpetually and the search engines do what they can to keep their algorithms and strategies hush-hush. While comprehending the factors that are utilized for search rankings is kin to cracking a code, there’s a wealth of info available on the web – some of it true and some of it not so true.
Keyword research is the procedure of comprehending what search terms or phrases your targeted site visitors may utilize to discover you, and then picking out the right balance between keyword popularity – the number of times the word or phrase is utilized in a search – and competitiveness – the number of additional sites that are attempting to rank highly for those keywords, quantified by the results returned by the search engine for the keyword phrase utilized. Discovering frequently used keywords that comparatively few sites are placing is the challenge. It’s the foundation for all SEO attempts and can’t be overlooked.
There’s no doubt that an ethical SEO firm may work wonders for your site traffic. But, depending upon your comfort level with HTML there are a number of things you are able to do yourself to optimize your web site for search and acquire more traffic without the expense of employing somebody to do it for you.
Conducting your own steps to improve your site’s rankings will save you money. While you might not be able to do all the things an SEO pro could do, if you have a restricted budget you’ll want to do what you are able to supercharge your site’s traffic. Here are some SEO tips that most of you are able to probably do yourself.
Choose the right keywords
Choose the right domain name
Utilize keywords in file names and folders
Utilize your keywords in your page titles
Produce useful keyword material – repeat often
Make keywords part of your META Description
Procure high quality incoming links
Utilize keyword text (not “click here”) in your links
Produce a site map
Although there are other strategies an ethical SEO pro will use to boost your rankings, these ten ideas will get you on the correct track, even with a seriously limited budget. Even eCommerce and other sites that are controlled by a CMS, which may make its own SEO challenges, may benefit by abiding by these suggestions. And, if your keywords are extremely competitive, you might not ever be able to rank in the top ten search results, but you’ll move up in the rankings and you ought to find traffic to your site on the rise.
Keep in mind that SEO takes time. You won’t see advances overnight, so don’t be disheartened if your traffic doesn’t leap through the roof immediately. And, don’t expect to utilize SEO once and then forget about it. Make it a pattern whenever you update your site, go through a redesign, or plan a fresh site. Likewise, keyword popularity and competitiveness shifts over time, so revisit your targeted keywords periodically to see if they still pull in traffic.
Synopsis
There are ways to keep costs from getting out of control when hiring a ghost writer. In fact, some of these ideas will literally ensure a better quality manuscript, irrespective of the quality of the writer.
Good Advice
Understand what type of audience you’re targeting; this helps to form the material and save time on discussions in advance or rewrites afterwards. If this is something you can’t do yourself, that’s all right; that may be among the reasons to hire a ghostwriter in the 1st place, so make certain this is among the first things you discuss with her.
Have an approximation of the genre and style you prefer to utilize. There are just so many to pick from, and it truly pays to get this correct from the beginning. This is particularly true if you’re paying hourly; you don’t want the writer to have to needlessly rewrite entire chapters because you hadn’t cautiously thought it through.
You’ll have to decide when you want the job completed. Ideally, you would like to give the writer enough time to do a suitable job without haste.
Have all the particulars ready. You can always ask the writer to do the research for you, but that may really sink you in the hole. This may be a bottomless pit of work for the writer; don’t let is become a bottomless pit of expenditures for you.
If you make it really clear from the beginning what you want, the writer won’t have to keep asking questions. Fewer inquiries, less to and fro and the less-frustrated, more-inspired writer will charge fewer hours.
Produce an outline or do a draft (if you are able to). This is a good way to make certain that your info is organized. It may save a couple of hours of to and fro with the writer.
There are 2 benefits to hiring on a project basis, and both have to do with the boring and time-consuming process of accounting. If a writer has to spend time and effort keeping track of hours, you pay for the time she spends on “accounting” matters and then for the material .
Ask for the lowest price. This is pretty obvious, and you might already be getting the quoted price, but it doesn’t hurt to inquire. If a ghostwriter is able to give you a better price, you’ll know immediately. If she states the quote is final, don’t become a pest; the price won’t shift. If the price is truly too high for your budget, the writer may suggest reviewing some of the items on the list.
The single most efficient way to cut down the price is to reduce the word count. In a few instances, this adds up. In others, it doesn’t. Ultimately, there’s an ideal size for almost every piece of material, and you don’t want to scrimp. But, I’ve seen times when cutting down the length of the book by as much as a one-third from the original intentions may save money without compromising effectiveness.
Ghostwriters often have questions for customers. It saves many disruptions if the writer can fire off a quick e-mail and have it answered in a timely fashion. E-mail saves a lot of time, because calls inevitably take longer and they often take time to arrange, let alone the distraction of attempting to arrange phone meetings. There’s a cost to utilizing the phone, and that cost is paid in both time (money) and distraction (quality).
Listen to your ghostwriter when she suggests a fresh story direction…it might cost you less in revision in the long haul! You may have a good reason to go in a different direction, but a pro ghostwriter also has a pretty good pulse on what people are looking for.
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