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Archive for August, 2008

How to incorporate an US company for your internet business

author Posted by: matthew on date Aug 30th, 2008 | filed Filed under: Misc

This post is for the non-US citizens that need to incorporate an US entity for business transactions at US side. Please take note that this post does not gives provide relevant information on how taxes and incorporation works in US side. If any one has comments, please contact me at my website http://www.internetcitymarketing.com

Non Us citizen can try to incorporate at Delaware using http://www.myUScompany.com and http://www.usa2me.com for mail forwarding.

This would provide useful for non-US citizen joining the ebay Partner network.

Free & useful SEO toolbar

author Posted by: matthew on date Aug 27th, 2008 | filed Filed under: SEO, SEO Tools

Just wondering how many of you understand whats the purpose of installing a SEO toolbar on your browser. Maybe for the easy search function? Why do these guys offer free stuff? Whats the catch?

There are 3 toolbars that i have installed on my browser:

Google toolbar

Alexa tool bar

SEOBook toolbar

Whats the use of these toolbars? Mainly i used it when i am studying which keywords to fight for?

For example i am interested in the dating scene. I have done my keyword search result searches and i used the results on google search engine to evaluate the competition. And this is when these 3 toolbars are useful.

Google toolbar is useful because it gives the Google Pagerank. Mainly because Google is such a powerful search engine now, so i need to have some indications on how google views it. But be warned that the page rank currently only gives a rough indication how google views you. Relevancy of your website to the subject is more important now.

Alexa toolbar gives you an indication of the traffic that the website is getting. Currently, Google Pageranks just gives you a rough feel of how is the website but it is no longer the deciding factor in how high the ranking Google would put you when it index you page. But Alexa measures the traffic that is flowing to your website and is a better indication of how strong is your competition.

The third tool that i have installed is the SEOBoook toolbar. It is useful as it complements the other two bars by providing additional information. For instance, after you have installed the SEOBook on your Firefox ( things to take note is that this toolbar can only works with Firefox browser.) and you turn it on. When you google for a keyword, it gives you information like how long is the website around, whats the yahoo ranking and links and many other information. In a nutshell, it simply gives you all the information you need to study your competition on the search engine results. In a way, you do not have to install Google toolbar if you have the SEOBook toolbar as it gives Google Pagerank

Enjoy! try them!

And need i mention that its all free tools? It can better help you with your search engine optimization.

Stephen Pierce’s free book offer for Make Real Money on the Internet

author Posted by: matthew on date Aug 22nd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Freebie

Got a great offer from Stephen Pierce! If you were to visit the site here, and you are willing to pay for the shipping charges, Stephen Pierce is willing to ship his new physical book to you for free. Grab it before its over.

As usual, there are some up selling involved at the website so…………..

Internet marketing strategy involving the use of subdomain.

author Posted by: matthew on date Aug 22nd, 2008 | filed Filed under: Affiliates Marketing, internet marketing

This must be one of the least optimized blog posting that I am posting as there are simply no relevant searches regarding the use of subdomain in affiliate marketing. That caught me by surprise, as I am assuming that most would realize that using a subdomain for affiliate marketing must be another internet marketing strategy or affiliate marketing strategy for people.

First of all, what is a subdomain? Main domain looks like this http://www.maindomain.com and subdomain looks like this, http://subdomain.maindomain.com

What is interesting about subdomain as an internet marketing strategy or affiliate marketing strategy?

1. It is free after you have registered for your main domain

2. Its versatile as you can change your subdomain whenever you want to

3. If you plan it properly, it looks great. For example, you can use your main domain which is http://www.business.com to include a subdomain that looks like http://food.business.com . Isn’t that great looking?

4. Most webhost do offer unlimited subdomain, hence for a busy affiliates marketer like you that has dozens of interesting ideas. That’s going to keep the cost low as you can try out using subdomains first before getting a maindomain for niche market that is more profitable.

5. Subdomain can also be used to optimize your blog or website for a certain keyword. For instance, it’s very hard to squeeze all the keywords that you want into one main domain and what you can do is to create subdomains to concentrate on a particular related segment of your market. In that way, you can create unique contents and keyword centered articles at the subdomain which would help improve the ranking of the maindomain. But be warned that the content created must be unique or else you would run the risk of being seen to spam the search engine and face “deindexing”

When you create a subdomain, you actually create another domain name and the search engines recognized it as a separate domain name from your main domain name. Hence, you can create your own mini sites or blogs or do some internet marketing or affiliates marketing from.

The main advantage that I see in subdomains is the cost advantage. How many times are we saddled with domain names that failed and we have to cut it off? By using subdomain names, we can try out the market first before getting a domain name if it’s profitable.

Hope you have fun with this idea I have. And if you have comments on this, please drop me a comment on my blog on http://www.internetcitymarketing.com

Thx!

Article Marketing as an effective way of internet marketing

author Posted by: matthew on date Aug 20th, 2008 | filed Filed under: article marketing, traffic

Keyword search tools allow you to see what people are searching on the internet. This is especially important to find out where the demand or the people want. You don’t want to spend time working hard on the niche to find that the number of search to be insufficient to support the conversion to sales. Hence, to drive traffic to your site, the natural thing is to write key word rich articles. Article marketing would prove to be an effective way of internet marketing

Why should you write articles instead of blogs? Blogs and articles work differently.

What are the advantages of article marketing compared to blogging? Articles are in general more well research and provide very structured information, but blog is mostly in comments. Article gives the writer a chance to fully develop the argument for something but blog is designed to invoke discussion with readers.

Hence what are the benefits to writing articles?
1. Articles can be freely circulated.
Typically, you can submit to article directory for free. If you find article directory with huge traffic, the exposure and incoming traffic would be huge.

2. You can build links with directory and users of your article
First, if your article is accepted, you get a back link to the article directory. Secondly, if users find that your article is good, they would circulate it and under the copyright law would maintain your website address on it. And you can drive more traffic and get more links from that.

3. Your website would be indexed
As mentioned, there is a lot of traffic flowing through the articles directories. Hence forth, spider from the various search engines would crawl through to your web faster and your website get indexed more often.

4. You are demonstrating to everyone that you know your stuff.
What thing really sells? You have to become a credible or trustworthy person that people can trust. There are simply too many scams out there in the market and people are getting more and more careful when making their purchases. But as you get your article out there and there are substances in it. People would notice you and as the chance arises, may buy from you.

5. Lead generation
You can generate sales lead from article marketing. As mentioned earlier, there are various ways that people search to get the information they required and articles are one place where they are searching at.

A carefully researched and written article would certainly guarantee that you get notice by people and that drive traffic to your site.