Then I sure that you’ve heard of these words on more than one occasion, and probably (like most people), are still in the dark about their true meaning.

  In this article. I will explain to you what the difference is between a hit and a web page view without using.

To many technical terms and Geek speak. But first, let me answer your question.

Do You Need More Hits To Your Website?

 Quick answer, YES and NO

A hit, as you understand it is, when somebody visits your website. But in reality a hit is a file sent to a browser by a web server.

Just to add to the confusion.

There are also 2 type of hits for you  to consider. The first one being hits recorded by log files.

The second is ‘hits’ which are counted and displayed by a simple hit counter.

It would be far to time consuming for me to explain in this article the difference between the 2 types of hits.

So , I will explain what web page views are instead.

A page view is each time a visitor views a page on your website, regardless of how many hits are generated.

Pages are comprised of files. Every image in a page is a separate file.

When a visitor looks at a page (a page view), they may see… numerous images, graphics, pictures etc. and generate multiple hits.

 ”Let’s say for example.” that your web page has 10 pictures. What happens next is a request is sent to a sever. To view the page generated.

The result  is,  that your web page will get a total of 11 hits. 10 for the pictures, and one for the html file.

You must also remember that any single page view can contain hundreds of hits. Just by looking at this example it is clear to see.

That hits are not a true and accurate way of measuring how much traffic is coming to your website.

Page views and unique visitors is what you should pay special attention to.

I have Google Analytics installed on my blog. Which is a excellent free tracking tool.

With it, I am able to track visits,bounce rates,traffic sources, and a ton of other stuff. Including page views and unique visitors.

So in closing this article.

You  should now know how important it is to track all visitors to your website and…

 …that Hits in and of themselves are nearly meaningless. Only hits that lead to results are of true value.

Starting a web page or website is very easy. But getting quality one way back links to your site is not. You can speed up this boring and tedious task. By simply using a free or paid link exchange service.

Maybe. you have already tried the link exchange services, and have got very poor results from them.

If you have, I can’t really say that I’m  all that surprised because… somebody probably told you that this link building lark is easy. “Let me tell you something.”  

 “I no longer have any faith in the word EASY.”  

In Affiliate Marketing circles you hear the word easy being banded about endlessly.

All of the so called GURU’S use it to sell products to you that are supposedly meant to help you.

Now. I am not writing this article to slag off any Affiliate Marketer in particular. (even though I could)

I am simply writing this blog post to inform you about what link building techniques I use that work for me, and more importantly.

I believe will still work for many years to come.

 So, without further delay, and in no particular order.

Here are my top five link building techniques.

 1)Quality Content If you want to attract good quality back links to your website, then make sure that you always have good quality content for your visitors to read.

I don’t care how well search engine friendly your page is.

Without good content, your website will die a slow death.

Content is the glue that holds everything together, and its the number 1 thing that must be present on your website at all times.

2)Video Marketing Submitting my videos to video directories is something that I do quite regularly.

I would say that my results so far has been steady but not spectacular.

How popular your video becomes on You Tube is more down to luck than anything else, as I have already stated in a earlier blog post.

One thing that I must add though, is that I get plenty of quality back links from video marketing.

 It is something that you could easily do yourself.

There are some excellent free and low cost video software and services that you can use. Such as Animoto and Jing. 

Both of which I use myself. After completing your short video. You can automate the video submission process by using websites such as heyspread.com and tubemogul.com

Video Marketing is big right now and I can only see it growing bigger and better.

 3) RSS aggregators Submitting my RSS feeds to RSS aggregators has given me a lot of back links.

It is a little-known seo link building technique that works very well for me. RSS aggregators are sites like feedagg.com that re-publish the entire content of your RSS feed on their own site.

So any links present in those RSS feeds show up on these RSS aggregators! To get the best results from this tactic.

You will need to have a decent amount of good quality content on your website first, before submitting your Rss feed.

Otherwise it will be rejected. 4)Social bookmarking my site Practically everyone in Affiliate Marketing is talking about Web 2.0 or is it 3.0

Which basically means adding more social networking in the promoting of your website or product.

 Apparently. Google wants you to be far more active online than ever before.

You can no longer just put up a simple squeeze page or website with no real value, and get long term profits like you use to a few years ago.

You now have to be actively involved online in many of the popular Social Networking sites like Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon if you want to keep your Google page rank.

5)Creating free blogs on authority sites This is one of the best ways for you to get started in Affiliate Marketing, and it is far more easier than managing your own blog.

I have a free blog on blogger.com, hubpages, and until recently Squidoo.

These websites are great for seo link building because they already have great authority with Google.

Since these websites have thousands (sometimes millions) of links coming to the domain.

Creating a blog on these sites means that your blog will have existing authority. Without much link building, it can be lingering on the first page of search results pretty quick.

It is because of these benefits that many people choose not to purchase their own domain. Instead, they prefer to create entire blogs on these websites and then…

…direct traffic to the pages that they have just created.

This system works really well but, if you decide to follow this route. Remember that your blog will be owned by the website owner and not yourself.

So there you have it,  5 powerful ways to get links to your site that will help you rank in the search engines.

If you’re not using any of the 5 methods above, make sure you get started right away!

Do you currently have your own web site, and are you wondering why it is only getting a trickle amount of traffic, instead of a FLOOD. 

If I were to take a shot in the dark about why this is happening. I would say that Its probably because you are not advertising your web site effectively.

There are many cost effective methods that you can use to get more traffic  to your web site.

One of the best is Traffic Exchanges.

Yes! “I know that you’ve tried them before and thought that they were crap.”

But they really do work, and you can get great results.

Providing that you don’t waste your time on doing silly things,  like surfing for hours on end for credits.

One of the most important things for you to understand about using Traffic Exchanges is that its all about visibility.

What I mean by this is that you want your web site to be seen by as many eye balls as possible.

You might be thinking that what I have just told you is obvious.

But is it?

“Can you honestly tell me that your web site is being seen by visitors. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 day a year?”

I didn’t think so but…

For the most part, this is what you want,  if you want to see any real rewards on the Traffic Exchanges.

You may recall that I said that surfing for credits is almost a complete waste of time. Unless of course, you like surfing for the odd free gift and a bit of cash.

You will get much better results on the Traffic Exchanges if you focus your efforts on building a active downline who will do most of you’re surfing for you.

Building your downline is not as hard as it looks.

All you generally have to do is upgrade your free membership to a higher level.

Depending on which Traffic Exchanges you are currently using at this moment in time. Upgrading your account has 2 major advantages over a free membership, which are…

1) Free additional credits added monthly

2) Random referrals added monthly

“Think about It for a minute”.The more credits you have at your disposal, the more you can advertise your business.

The more referals you have in your downline, the more credits they will earn for you.

Saving time is the name of the game when it comes to using Traffic Exchanges.

I don’t know about you but, I haven’t got the time or patience to surf everyday for page views to my web site.

Been there done that and its a whole heap of crap. “Have you noticed that this sentence rhymes.”

But, joking apart.

You cannot expect people to find your web site, or more importantly expect to earn enough money from it. If you only use free methods.

“YOU MUST INVEST IN YOUR BUSINESS.”

What I have just revealed to you in this article works for me, and it will work for you to.

 But before I go, I want to tell you another thing that you must do to get the best possible results from Traffic Exchanges.

Just be creative. Using your imagination will take you a long way in advertising your web site on Traffic Exchanges.

I’m not going to lie to you.

It will take a fair bit of you’re time before you get the results that you want but, the wait will be worth it.

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Eventually this will happen to you. There will come a time when you will feel creatively drained and will not have a clue what to write about next.

As far as you’re concerned you have written everything there is to know about “The Meaning Of Life” and you are struggling to find the motivation to write more on the subject.

Believe me when I say to you that this is something that happens to even the best writers.

Once you get into the habit of submitting your articles on a regular basis, it is only natural to expect your brain to seize

up every so often, and in so doing, make every little thing that you do online seem like HARD WORK!

I am writing this post as somebody who is not a natural writer. So I know what you are going through.

When I read other people’s Blogs and I see how much content that they write in a week or month, I am completely shocked and stunned in equal measure because.

 I write nowhere near as much content, and I know the reason why.

It is because I see writing as a means to a end, “What I really mean is that I recognize the importance and long term value of having my own original content on my web site”…

… but, I do not have a love for the English Language like a natural writer would, which is the reason why I am finding it

extremely hard to keep up with my current schedule of writing just 3 Blog post per month.

Why Do You Have Writer’s Block?

There are a number of reasons:

• You have gotten so used to writing about the same subject in the same way to the point where it has become tedious and boring.

• Your just plain tired “mentally fatigued”

• Maybe, your not being challenged enough, and have plateaued. You’ve reached all of the targets that you have set for yourself and are now wondering “What Next”

Whatever the reasons is, just remember that getting into a writing slump happens to virtually everybody.

How Do You Cure Writer’s block?

Fortunately, there is a very bright light at the end of the tunnel, Even if you haven’t written anything of note for months.

All that is required is a slight change of perspective from you. Which will then energize your creative juices and take your writing to new levels.

“As I have already mentioned, I am by no means a natural writer”.

So I have writers block every time I try to write something.

Here are some of the methods that I personally use, and believe will help you get out of you’re slump.

• Change the word count of each article
• Change the writing style of your articles
• Get more out of each article

In one of my previous articles, I mention, that I try to keep all of my blog posts between 300 and 800 words.

This is because in my opinion. I believe that most readers will loose interest and click away from my page if  I write anything much longer than that.

“You might want to try this technique yourself.”

 By varying the length of each article that you write. It becomes less of a chore, and far more manageable task.

Articles that begin with How to, or 5 and 10 steps to “da da da” are by far the easiest ones to write.

So many writers and non writers love this format, which is why you see so many of them all over the Internet.

I’m sure that you’ve already noticed that I am also a fan of this style.

However, it can become habit forming, which is not good over the long term.

“Its like eating your favourite meal everyday.”

At first you will enjoy it, but as time goes by.

 The meal stops being special and becomes normal…

…and do you know what happens when something that you use to love becomes normal?

It becomes BORING!.

Let me just be clear, that I am not telling you to stop, or not to write articles in the “How to” or “5 Steps style.

 I’m never going to stop using it, and neither should you.

I Just want you to be aware of just how habit forming it can be to write all of your articles in this fashion.

Whenever I write a article I promote it. This is because I am a Affiliate Marketer first, and a writer second.

Promoting my own articles takes up a lot of my time, but in the long run it will work out better for me.

Marketing your own articles on the popular social networking web sites is good because, you gain more exposure for your work, and if it ticks all the right boxes.

You will get a brand new audience all willing to to share your articles with their friends.

Maximizing the reach of each article that you write helps you overcome writer’s block because you will eventually get more readers for writing less.

This free’s you of having to write to strict deadlines all of the time.. 

…and you will have the added bonus of not being under the mercy of any one,  article writing web site owner.

Who could change their article submission rules at any time.

This will happen to your website one day.

You will check to see what is your web site current position in the Google Search Engine Results, and you will be shocked to see that it no longer has the Number 1 or 2 page ranking that it once had.

To fully understand the possible reasons why your web site has suddenly dropped in popularity, I will first need to give you

a clearer explanation of what the more commonly used SEO terms are, and how easily it is to get confused by them.

1.SEO: Stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, you will have probably heard this word being banded about quite a bit if you follow Internet or Affiliate Marketing.

 Using tried and trusted SEO techniques on all of your current web sites is something that I would highly recommend that you do at all times.

2.SERP’s: Stands for “Search Engine Result Page”  in the Internet Marketing World.  If you  live  in the UK. Then you might remember that  SERP’s also has other name…

 (State Earnings Related Pension Scheme) which has ceased to exist since April 2002.

3).Google PR: stands for “Google Page Rank”, this is where a lot of people get confused and mistakenly believe that Google SERP’s and Google PR are one and the same.

 but of course they are not. SERP’s is a ranking of one page on your website for a particular keyword phrase, that you are trying to rank well for in the Google’s free search engine results

Whereas having a good Google PR is, a indication of how much Google trust the overall information on your web site when comparing it to other web sites that have similar content to your own,

Page rank is scored from 1 to 10 with ten being the highest.

4.ALEXA: This word really does not stand for anything special unless, of course,  it just happens to be your real name.

However when you examine the meaning of the word Alexa in Internet Marketing terms. You will soon realise how important it is to the long term future of your web sites survival because,

 having a excellent Alexa rank means lots of FREE traffic to your website.

 Going back to my original question regarding the loss of your page rank.  to get it back…

…You will need to make sure that your website always has.

• A good keyword rich title
• A lot of good SEO web pages
• A lot of top ten positions in Google SERP’s
• A lot of good quality back-links to your web pages.
• A lot of good quality original content.

By doing all of these 5 things on a consistent basis you will see a steady rise in your Alexa web site rank and eventually in your Google page rank.

To give you some idea how long this will take you to achieve, I will use my own blog as an example.

I started this blog in August 2009 and  it has 3 written pages and 24 blog post. Each post consist of approximately 300 to 800 words, and I try to write no less that 3 posts per month.

At the time of me writing this post my web site has a Google page rank of 3 on my home page and a page rank of 1 on a few of my older blog post entries.

I should also add that I had already written and submitted other related articles to some of the more popular article online

directories for the purpose of back linking, before I even started writing on my blog.

My Alexa web site rank is rapidly closing in on being in the top 3% in terms of traffic in the world.

I truly do practice what I am preaching to you but, does this mean that my Alexa and Google rankings will never drop?

“Of course not” because there are just to many variables that Google takes into consideration. before deciding how well to rank my web site.

But despite me not knowing all of Google’s secrets, I am confident that you will regain or improve you’re current web site’s position providing that you continue to write good content with just a touch of SEO thrown in for good measure.

How To Earn Extra Money-Writing Tips For Beginners

“I write a fair amount of articles myself and I also read a lot of articles on other popular (and not so popular) blogs web sites, and article directories”.

What I have discovered is that the most successful writers are usually the most consistent on all of the topics that they write about.

 They don’t make the mistake of trying to pass themselves of as a expert on every subject under the sun.

 Instead they concentrate their efforts in specialising on one subject only.

You will achieve much better results from writing your articles if you follow their lead.

“I know from personal experience” that you will find it hard in the beginning to totally focus all of your efforts on writing

about one topic  but with just a little bit of time and practice you will soon get the hang of it.

As far as linking content to your own web site goes, Having the right article strategy in place right from the start is absolutely crucial.

Never write a article (unless you don’t care about ranking well in the Google search engine results) submit it to one or more

Article Directories, and link from your resource box to a unrelated page.

Your article should be on the same general topic as the website that you’re linking to in your resource box.

If your website is about music, then all of your articles should deal with music and related topics.

You can write about special equipment used in music, your philosophy on music, the benefits of listening to music, techniques

for recording different types of music, etc. Any topic having to do with music is fair game.

Try to get inside of the head of the person reading you’re article.

Just imagine, that they are really enjoying your article on music. There is more than a 50% chance that they will be

interested in more information on this topic. You’ve done all of the hard work by getting them curious enough to click on you’re link.

 Why waste all of that hard work by sending them to a web page unrelated to your article.

Imagine the disappointment from your readers perspective. He or she was expecting more relevant content on music.

Instead, your article resource box link. Sends them to a web site about baking a cake.

“Instant turn of, a BAD user experience, and not very good for your profit margins, I might add.”

Can you see why consistency in your articles is so important?

Your resource box is not just about the link. There will be actual human readers looking at your article and possibly

(hopefully!) clicking the link in your resource box to get back to your website. To maximize the number of readers who click

the link in your resource box, you need to write on the topic of your website.

If you think of it from a SEO perspective.

You always want to anchor your text link keyword phrase direct from your article resource box to a related web page on your

site for a couple of reasons.

1) It helps Google and the other major search engines discover what your website is about.

2) It confirms to Google and the other major search engines that your article resource box link is consistent with the information on your web page.

By always writing articles on the same subject as your web site, you will…

…increase the number of visitors to your site, get more of those vital one way backlinks, and if these 2 added benefits were not enough.

Every article that you write on your niche brings you closer to becoming a respected expert.

“As I mentioned to you before.” it takes more effort to write consistently on one topic, but the payoff is worth it.

How do you get your web site ranked highly in the popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing? Depending on what topic you’re Blog or Web site is about, getting it ranked highly in the natural search results can be extremely hard or, very easy.

For the purpose of this particular Blog post I will be concentrating on the Google and Bing search engines, showing you the differences between the two, and what factors they take into consideration before ranking your pages.

As a small business owner, I’m sure that you must get frustrated by having a web site that gets decent seo ranking in Google but ranks poorly in Bing, or maybe in your case it happens the other way around.

I have listed below possible reasons why this is happening and a few solutions to solve this problem.

1.Title tags: Google places more importance on title tags than Bing, so make sure that your keywords appear in your title at least once and no more than twice.

2.Google loves new content, and places a lot of importance to it. Whenever I write a new article or blog post, I always try to aim for a minimum of 300 to 400 words as I find that it increases the chances of my web pages being indexed and ranked higher.

 Bing doesn’t seem to place the same importance on new content as Google at this moment in time but I have no doubt that this will change in the not to distant future.

3.Relevancy: every article,landing page or blog post that you write, should be always relevant to the keywords that you are trying to rank well in the search engines for.

Once again, the Google search engine comes out tops for relevancy, I have experimented quite a bit typing in different keyword phrases in both the Bing and Google search engines, and I find that Google search is far more accurate.

4.Back Links and outbound links: Google and Bing will rank your website more favourably providing it has keyword rich anchor text back link phrases that are relevant to your web pages.

Bing likes outbound links more than Google but, I would recommend that you only give outbound links to web sites that you trust.

5. Domain age: Both Bing and Google seem to favor older domains, so if you are trying to start off on a new business, it is better to purchase a domain name, that’s been around for some time.

Following the above listed points will help get a higher page rank from Bing,Yahoo and Google, what you have to remember is that Search engine optimization techniques change on a regular basis so you need to stay up to date.

Getting large amounts of traffic from Google which is, in my opinion the best search engine is very important, but having good,relevant, and up to date content on your website will be the real key to your success.

 If you’ve just got your first website up and running, then you are probably eager to get as many eye balls as possible to see it.  

One of the most popular methods that you can use to get a lot of visitors is by way of the “Buy Website Traffic” route.  

Depending on where you decide to purchase your traffic from, You can easily find yourself a few thousand dollars out of pocket with little or nothing to show for your outlay.

I speak from experience because this is what happened to me when I first started out online.

Fortunately for me it did not cost me thousands, but only a few hundred pounds.  

 The name of the website that ripped me off  was Fast2net.com who have no doubt probably changed their name to something else by now.    

Instead of playing Russian roulette with those type of websites and wasting lots of you’re money.

I’m going to suggest  something slightly controversial to you, which is to use “TRAFFIC EXCHANGES” YES!

 ”I know that you have tried them before and got poor results” BUT did you follow these 4 steps that I’m about to reveal to you now exactly to the letter.

Before I go on, I will freely admit to you that I am far from being a fan of Traffic Exchanges.

However, through a lot of trail and error I believe that by simply following these 4 simple steps

 you will get ton’s of  visitors to any website of your choice,  at a fraction of the cost of the “Buy Website Traffic.” type of websites that by nature are costly and fraught with danger.

Anyway on with those 4 steps that I eluded to earlier.

1)Sign up to EasyHits4U.com  

2)Sign up to HitsBoosterPro.com  

 3)Sign up to AffiliateFunnel.com    

4)Sign up to PageSwirl.com

 As I’ve already stated to you, I am not generally a huge fan of using the Traffic Exchanges, but occasionally there are exceptions to the rules.

EasyHits4 and HitsBooster Pro both come under these exceptions.

What I like most about these two website’s is that they both offer FREE random referrals when you upgrade.

This is a very important feature, and it is the key to you being able to “BUILD YOUR DOWNLINE” across numerous exchanges that will in time allow you to…

 get potentially THOUSANDS of visitors to you’re website at virtually no expense to yourself.

You can also purchase traffic bundle packages, at EasyHits4u and HitsBooster Pro that are similar to the ones offered at  the Buy Website Traffic sites…  

but the BIG difference is that you can buy them cheaper. Affiliate Funnel is a website that ranks Traffic Exchanges.

What makes this site so interesting is that the ranking positions  are decided by the members of each individual exchange, and they are updated on a monthly basis. 

So you will always know which Traffic Exchanges are performing the best.  

PageSwirl is a web page rotator that will save you from hours and hours of tedious surfing for page credits.

If managed correctly you can get ton’s of web site traffic at a very fast rate, I personally would not bother using the Traffic Exchanges without a rotator.

Two important points for you to remember here is, that…  

you will continually get poor results in using the Traffic Exchanges unless you “UPGRADE”  

And the second point is that they are a low quality traffic source which means that converting visitors to you’re website into BUYERS will be harder than if you were using traditional SEO methods.

Despite these 2 draw backs, I would still recommend that you start off promoting your website via the Traffic Exchanges… because you will be able to send traffic continuously to your site at very low costs

I promise you that I haven’t been paid by Yoono to write this, and I don’t work for them, nor have I offered to give them a testimonial about their product.

This is just my honest opinion at this moment in time, and by the way, just in case I  forget, you can get this brilliant software application tool for nothing in other words it is totally FREE for you to download TODAY.
 

Social networking once thought of as just a fad, is now the dominant force on the Internet. You watch the news on your TV just like me.

So you already know about My Space,You Tube,Twitter, and Face-book. 4 of the most visited websites on the Internet today.
 
 What is Yoono?

 
 
Business or pleasure, what do you social network for?  If you use Yoono you’ve got both bases covered because you are  permanently connected to all of your friends on the most popular social networks just like the ones listed in the paragraph above.
 
To be exact…

Using Yoono will give you the ability to connect with all of your friends and business contacts on Friend  Feed,Twitter,My Space and Face-Book all at the same time. 
 
If you’re a social networking addict then this is the perfect software application tool for you.Yoono makes it easy for  you to book-mark,save, and send messages or web pages to everybody in your social network instantly and in real time.
 
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How Can Yoono Help You?

 
Speaking as a person who writes and maintains their own Blog, my time is important to me. I love using Yoono because it helps me organise my social networking activities.

I can for instance, write a blog post like the one you are currently
reading and still know what my friends and contacts are presently doing on their favourite social networking websites.
 
 
I have only just scratched the surface in explaining what the benefits of usingYoono will be to you.

Anyway, in my opinion  you will be mad not to give it a try, because for one thing it truly is an exceptional software application and it’s 100% FREE.

One of the best ways for you to make a little extra money online, (especially if your a bit of a technophobe) is to write articles.

You will of course need to have a love and passion for writing to get the best results.There are a host of websites that will pay you for writing for them.

You may have heard of Bukisa and eHow which are two of the most popular Article writing websites around, but the one that I think is by far the best of the bunch is Hubpages.

Reason’s For You To Love Hubpages

It’s Free To Join

It is a interactive website

It has a very active community

I have purposely not mentioned in my little list,  the fourth and most important reason for loving hubpages, (especialy if you are interested in making money)

Which is that you can plug-in 3 of the biggest affiliate programs right into the hubpage system, and in so doing potentially increase you’re overall profit margins.

Unlike other article submission websites, Hubpages rewards you for being an active member. as a matter of fact they almost insist that you actively participate.

If you don’t,  then you will quickly see your overall hub score rating drop quickly and believe me when I say that,  you’re hub score rating is very important.

Spam merchants are dealt with very quickly on Hubpages,(which is a feature that I like very much)

As well as being rewarded for being an active member, If you write about interesting topics you could easily find yourself being named as one of the top writers on the website.

Everything that you do on Hubpages is recorded in real time on their Hubtivity stream, I really love this feature because it allows people to find your work easily.

I will freely admit to you that I don’t spend as much time there as I would like, but this is due to my other online commitments.

You will find that HubPages offers the best online platform for your writing providing that you place importance on these three things.

1)Writing content that is findable on the web via the major search engines (Google/Yahoo)

2)Connect with other like minded people who share your passion and have similar interests

3)Be well rewarded for your work if you write good content Note: “HubPages gets Millions Of visitors per month”.

It is also a well know fact that Google loves Hubpages so, any decent article that you write will directly benefit from this.