Life As A Web Marketer
A life of a web marketer can be a very relaxing one with the ability to choose your own hours and to work when you want to work. I have been involved in this business since 1999 and I have had a large number of satisfied web promotion clients. In this article I will be describing what a typical day used to be like for me prior to the children being born. I love my current life however I do sometimes miss those happy quiet days when I could do
what I wanted to when I wanted to.
I am working for eight companies and it is the year 2000. These are people who have contracted me to help them to obtain a higher ranking within the major search engines.
I have learnt rather a lot about SEO, webmaster resources and link building services up to this point mainly from reading the views of the established specialists from the industry in the webmaster forums.
I would usually work between 11pm and 3am is this is when my concentration seemed to be at its best.
This would be my typical day:
7am - This is the time that I would normally wake up; I would clean my teeth and go to the toliet before going back to bed.
10am - It is now time to start my day, out comes the laptop and we are in business. At this stage I am merely going to check my e-mail; the news, the stock market and read through a couple of sites that I like to keep an eye on such as seroundtable.
10.30am - I make myself some breakfast and head in to the lounge; I turn the fire and television on. I think it is time for a chill out, it has after all been a rather busy start to the day!
1pm - I walk to the shops; firstly for some much needed exercise and secondly to buy a newspaper.
2pm - I drive to the tennis club as I have arranged to play a game with a good friend of mine.
6pm - I eat my evening meal which would normally consist of pasta or chicken and rice.
A quick break from the t.v to check my e-mails.v. I speak to a good friend of mine on the telephone who is arranging a service for me where by I will be able to make cheap calls.
9pm - The company who provides my article submission services e-mails me with their latest works - most impressive I have to say!
The time has come to do some real work - believe it or not this is the time of the day that I love the most.
3.20am - After cleaning my teeth is time to get some much needed sleep.
Professional Web Promotion Strategies That Work
I have been a web marketer for the last ten years; there have been many changes to the way people should go about promoting their websites in this time and it can prove to be a bit of nightmare trying to keep in touch with the latest SEO changes. What worked only three years ago could now result in your site receiving a ban or penalty on the major search engines. Paid links and over-excessive reciprocal linking are seemingly a thing of the past. So as we move through 2009 what types of web promotion strategy should a webmaster be following?
I am also involved with helping people to discover how to stop stuttering and I also work within the leaflet printing sector.
Only a couple of years ago a webmaster or their web promotion specialist could simply purchase a backward link on a high power website and that on its own would catapult the site up the rankings. It did not even seem to matter if the site that was providing the link had anything to do with the site purchasing the link. Many a website could be seen buying up multiple links on high page rank sites in the hope and belief that it would in turn help their own site. The trading of backward links became big business with many people making a large amount of money.
Google, the daddy of all of the search engines, then decided to change the rules and I for one am very happy that they did. They decided that it was no longer ethical to buy or sell backward links. This upset a lot of people, this tends to happen when money is involved, with many accusing Google of acting as God. The reply from Google was short and to the point and went along the lines of; it is our search engine and we therefore decide our own guidelines; if you want to sell text links that is fine but it may result in some form of penalty as this goes against our current. They were basically saying you can do whatever you want with your website and at the same time we can do whatever we want with our search engine. Fair play, I say. I am actually very happy with the new guidelines; it was very hard to compete with webmasters who had deep pockets etc. Now the one-man band can compete with the big corporation; hard work, keeping up to date with the latest guidelines as well as learning from the SEO experts will once again prove to be very beneficial.
2009 brings about a new watch word in the world of web promotion; relevancy. What does this mean? Well quite simply the backward links that you attempt to obtain now need to be relevant to the site that you run for them to have a real benefit. Again this surely is common sense. If a website about gardening has a link pointing to a website about camping, is this offering any value to its site visitors? Not really.
2009 is also the year when those who are willing to work hard will finally get their rewards. Some of the old favourites such as article marketing are becoming more popular than ever but quality is now far more important than quantity. Only the best articles will be chosen to be published on other people’s websites and let’s face it they have enough articles to choose from.
Ensuring that your website is optimised correctly with the main keywords placed naturally within the text of the homepage will also be essential, be careful not to “keyword stuff” your homepage though.
Four Web Promotion Techniques
So you have paid a lot of money for the web design and now have a professional looking website. It has been “live” on the internet for at least a month but you are not receiving any visitors to the site. What can you do? It is now the time to start promoting the website. Oh no, you may be thinking. “I do not really have the cash for web promotion after paying for the web hosting, the domain and the web designer to build the site. I do not have a lot of money left over to promote the site as well.
This is an all too common theme and one I hear time and time again. I offer an web promotion service in the UK and I have a lot of enquiries from people who had just presumed that their site would be able to achieve high rankings within Google purely by the skill and knowledge of the web designer. This unfortunately is rarely the case unless, of course they have paid for such a service.
So for those of you who are seeking a higher search engine ranking position here are four website promotion techniques. They have worked for many websites including a friends bargain holiday deals website.
1. Start by deciding which phrases or keywords that you are hoping to achieve a high ranking for and ensure that they appear on the homepage.
2. Start a link building campaign where you are primarily attempting to obtain one-way backward links.
3. Write quality articles and submit them to the popular article marketing directories. This is of benefit for a number of reasons; it helps to spread the message of the service/products that you provide; it enhances your reputation within the market plave and it also enables you to gain backward links
4. Add additional fresh and unique content to the site on a monthly basis.
As well as being a web promotion specialist I am also offer an article submission service.
They are sure to help the readers of this article as well.