Internet Marketing, SEO, and an extra Scoop:

There are lots of crap (yes crap) websites in the internet that are getting tones of traffic. I just envy on them and envy more when I come to know its free traffic.

Guys like us that has some knowledge and website design and development are all sitting and thinking only about how better we can create a website. We hardly are satisfied with the website’s design and we keep changing the theme, color, layout very often. We strive for perfection and we think that people visit only those sites that are perfectly done. This is one bad practice that every website needs to know when to come out of it.

No ones 100% perfect. Even Google.com is not 100% perfect. compare their site when launched initially and how its now.

1. Only concentrate on the main functionalities of your website. Do not sit on the breadcrumbs and design items much.
2. Launch your website immediately, else it may get rotten along with your plan for it.
3. 70% completion is enough for a website to be rolled out successfully.
4. Once you launched your website, your first and foremost thing should be working on increasing its popularity and gaining visitors.
5. You may complete the remaining 30% on a later point of time. Who knows your site visitors may be satisfied with that 70% itself. Doesnt it save your development time?
6. Any upgrade or improvement that you make to that initial 70% will be highly appreciated and received by your visitors and now you are serving your visitors loyally.
7. The first and foremost aim for this post it to stop procrastinating from your website launch

Many webmasters, including me, are idle and want to launch their website only when its 100% completed and they think only then it will be received. This is not true and we need to accept and acknowledge the reality.

So, launch your website today, after you wrap up its main functionalities.

All the very best for your launch!!

After having WordPress, your favourite blog software, installed, you will need to complete the following 10 activities which by default many of the bloggers miss to. I still see many blogs with good quality content but with incomplete settings. The following 10 settings forms the basic and any complex customizations can be built over them.

1. In the general settings give a proper blog name and tagline for it.
2. Correct the url structure also to show “http://www” in general settings.
3. Make your blog visible for search engines, this is very, very important and some may miss this due to oversight. Go to privary in settings option and select the first option and save the changes.
4. Complete your profile info, with proper email, password in the users section
5. Add necessary plugins like all-in-one SEO, Google XML generator, and Socical bookmarking buttons. Socail bookmarkign buttons are very important for having your posts bookmarked. You may also have seperate twitter and facebook buttons. You can try a combination and use the one which helps in your blog traffic.
6. Change default theme to a clean custom one like thesis.
7. Remove the “Hello World” post and sample comment shown by default after you have your blog up.
8. Create About us and other mandatory pages and link them in your home page. New page can be created through page section in the dashboard.
9. Add sidebar widgets from widget section, add necessary widgets like recent posts, category, pages, and tags
10. Edit the links in link section, remove wordpress links and add your blogroll links if any.

Notes:

• Install your blog and have it up, only when you have your content, at least one post, ready. A blog with hello world or zero post is worthy nothing.
• Use the preview option after posting to your blog, this option is for testing the blog post and when you are okay, use the publish button. Publish your post only when its complete, else save the post as draft.

Bounce rate: Its one fantastic data from Google analytics that helps webmasters the most than any other data.

It is the % of visitors that simply leave your website without actually visiting any other page except the gateway page, the page where he landed, mostly the gateway page is the home page.

These % of visitors spend less than 5 seconds in your website and leave without visiting any other page.

When you run a PPC campaign like Adwords, You should be aware of the % not exceeding, Keep a tab on this % and make sure it gets improved with your campaign changes.

Surprisingly, this blog jaiganeshv.com has a 0% bounce rate until last week. Provide quality and unique content and you can achieve the 0% bounce rate. When your blog or website is not updated often and if it has outdated info. the visitor simply closes your site from its gateway page.

So update information very often, this is the best way to achieve 0% bounce rate

You can read my previous post what is Google Analytics and More on Google Analytics to get some good insight on Google Analytics.

Internet Marketing Guide – For your handy reference, I have made an effort to research and compile all the websites and tools needed for internet marketers from newbie to expert. I hope this work would be useful for you guys and I’m sure it saves you plenty of your searching time

Product Marketplace :

http://www.Clickbank.com

http://www.Paydotcom.com

http://www.Click2sell.eu

Web Directory:

http://www.Dmoz.org

http://www.Directory.google.com

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/submit.html

Article Directory:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.searchwarp.com

http://www.buzzle.com

http://www.amazines.com

IM Forum:

http://www.warriorforum.com

http://www.sitepoint.com

http://www.wickedfire.com

http://www.forums.digitalpoint.com

http://www.daniweb.com/forums

Bookmarks:

http://del.icio.us

http://digg.com

http://reddit.com

http://www.stumbleupon.com

http://technorati.com

RSS:

http://www.bloglines.com

http://www.feedburner.com

http://www.google.com/reader

WordPress:

http://wordpress.org/download

http://install4free.wordpress.net

http://themes.wordpress.net

http://www.ninjablogsetup.com

Freelance:

http://www.elance.com

http://www.rentacoder.com

http://www.scriptlance.com

Auto responders:

http://www.aweber.com

http://www.trafficwave.net

http://www.getresponse.com

Blog design:

http://www.theblogstudio.com

http://www.solostream.com

Hosting:

http://www.hostgator.com

http://www.dreamhost.com

http://www.bluehost.com

Domain names:

http://www.moniker.com

http://www.namecheap.com

http://www.godaddy.com

Best free FTP:

http://www.filezilla.com

Help Desk Software:

http://www.kayako.com

Designs:
http://www.99designs.com – 99Designs has created a revolutionary design process where you actually have multiple designers competing to win your bid. So you can have hundreds of different designers creating multiple designs for you and you only have to pay the one you like best.

http://www.DesignGuruRyan.com – Top online graphic designer. Used by Mike Filsaime, Chris McNeeny, Ewen Chia, and many others.
http://wowminisites.com – WowMiniSites creates GREAT looking graphics at a great price.

Top Copywriters:
http://haddadink.com – Chris Haddad
http://www.rogerscopy.com – Kevin Rogers
http://www.montellomarketing.com – Vin Montello
http://www.mikejezek.com – Mike Jezek
Voice Broadcasting:
http://www.voiceshot.com – Web-based voice broadcasting allows you to send voice broadcasts to your subscribers. Extremely powerful!

Top Autoresponder Copywriters:
http://anitaashland.com – Writes autoresponder emails for Stephen Pierce and many other top marketers.
http://www.emailcopymadeeasy.com – Jay White – Has written emails for Mike Filsaime and many other top marketers.

Keyword Tools:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal– The Google Keyword tool is one of the most accurate keyword tools online because Google own a majority of the search market, and therefore a majority of the data.

http://www.keywordspy.com – Find out your competitors keywords.
http://www.domaintools.com – Allows you to find out who owns a particular domain along with what other websites they own.
http://www.backlinkwatch.com – Analyze your competitors backlinks
http://t3report.com – Find out who your competitor’s top affiliates are.

Testing & Tracking:
http://www.google.com/analytics– Tracks exactly where all of your traffic is coming from and allows you to measure your conversion rate.
http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer– The best free website testing and optimization tool available online.

Productivity:
http://www.TheActionMachine.com – Hands-down one of THE best tools online for increasing your productivity.

http://www.RescueTime.com

http://www.RoboForm.com

Traffic Assistants:
This is a list of top-notch companies who will completely automate
the marketing and traffic side of your business.

http://www.trafficassistant.com

http://www.trafficsage.com

http://www.agentsofvalue.com

Top Web Programmers:
http://www.interberry.com – A Top-notch team of programmers. Read a complete review at:

http://www.expert-web-programmers.com

Submit Videos:
http://www.TubeMogul.com – Free online video distribution. Automates your video submission to over 20 of the top video sites online. Also allows you to track your stats so you know exactly how many people are viewing your video.

Social bookmarking distribution:
http://www.OnlyWire.com – Automated Content and Bookmark Distribution.
http://www.Ping.fm – Update all of your social networks at once.

This list contains some of the very good, free classified sites/forums where you can post your ads free.

Hope this list helps in getting some free ads for your product/website.

A
adlandpro.com http://www.adlandpro.com
adpost.com http://www.adpost.com
adquest3d.com http://www.adquest3d.com
albertarose.com http://www.albertarose.com

B
backpage.com http://www.backpage.com
bestadforum.com http://www.bestadforum.com
buysell.com http://www.buysell.com

C
caklassifieds.com http://caklassifieds.com
chooseyouritem.com http://www.chooseyouritem.com
ClassifiedAds.com http://www.classifiedads.com
classifiedextra.ca http://www.classifiedextra.ca
classifiedsforfree.com http://www.classifiedsforfree.com
ClassifiedsForFree.com http://www.classifiedsforfree.com
classifieds.myspace.com http://classifieds.myspace.com/index.cfm
classifieds.spokane. http://classifieds.spokane.net
classifieds.yahoo.com http://classifieds.yahoo.com
craigslist.org http://www.craigslist.org

D
domesticsale.com http://www.domesticsale.com

E
Ezclassifieds http://www.ezclassifieds.org
e-classifieds.net http://www.e-classifieds.net
economist.com/classifieds http://www.economist.com/classifieds
expo.live.com http://expo.live.com/default.aspx
ezilon.com http://www.ezilon.com

F
Free ads planet http://www.freeadsplanet.com
Free classified ads forum http://www.freeclassifiedadsforum.com
freeadvertisingboard.com http://www.freeadvertisingboard.com
freeadvertisingzone.com http://www.freeadvertisingzone.com
freeadvertisingforum.com http://www.freeadvertisingforum.com
Freeclassified.jmcweb.org http://freeclassifieds.jmcweb.org/classi
freeclassifieds.va-web.com http://www.freeclassifieds.va-web.com/ca
freeads.biztop.com http://freeads.biztop.com
freeadpost.freeforums4u.com http://freeadpost.freeforums4u.com

G
google.com/base http://www.google.com/base
gumtree.com http://www.gumtree.com

H
hoobly.com http://www.hoobly.com

I
iclads.com http://www.iclads.com
inetgiant.com http://www.inetgiant.com
isell.com http://www.isell.com
InetGiant.com http://www.inetgiant.com
itsmymarket.com http://www.itsmymarket.com

K
kijiji.com http://www.kijiji.com

L
la.kaango.com http://la.kaango.com
livedeal.com http://www.livedeal.com/index.jsp
london.kijiji.ca http://london.kijiji.ca
loot.com http://www.loot.com

M
morefreeadsforum.freeforums4u.com http://morefreeadsforum.freeforums4u.com

N
northbay classified http://www.northbayclassifieds.com

O
oakvilleclassfied http://www.oakvilleclassifieds.ca
oodle.com http://www.oodle.com
olx.com http://www.olx.com
ozfreeonline.com http://www.ozfreeonline.com

P
postyouradforfree.com http://www.postyouradforfree.com
postfreeadvertisements.com http://postfreeadvertisements.com

S
salespider.com http://www.salespider.com
seethisitem.com http://www.seethisitem.com
sell.com http://www.sell.com
selloutads.com http://www.selloutads.com
skelbimai.co.uk http://www.skelbimai.co.uk
subblurbs.com http://www.subblurbs.com
sunrad.com http://www.sunrad.com

T
TheFlyer.com http://www.theflyer.com
thefreeadforum.com http://www.thefreeadforum.com
traderonline.com http://www.traderonline.com

U
usfreeads.com http://www.usfreeads.com
uscity.net http://www.uscity.net

I am just browsing to register a keyword rich .co.uk name and to my amusement found these names listed below are still available to register These are all keyword rich names worth an investment.

Just go to your favorite registrar and grab these names. If you find this post useful you may comment your thanks and i will be obliged

rentdress.co.uk
rentcoder.co.uk
rentfurnitures.co.uk
rentcomputer.co.uk
spaceads.co.uk