The Importance of Backlinks
I have recently been asked some great questions about backlinks and how they can help your website marketing and SEO strategy. So today I am going to lay out the basics for you. Remember when implementing a new strategy for your marketing campaign start with the basics and then build on that. So when it comes to your back linking strategy for your website make sure you learn how to do it correctly and then work on increasing your efforts to building beneficial backlinks.
Back Links are a very important factor in your marketing strategy for many reasons. The most important reasons are simple: one – the more relevant back links you have pointing to your website the more importance google gives your site, and two - the more relevant backlinks you have pointing to your site the more likely your potential customer will find you through one of those links.
Think of it as roadmap –if there are no roads leading to your store then how is anyone going to visit it. Also if there are roads leading there but there is no clear relevant path like a map people will just be finding it randomly ~ and how effective do you think random is going to be on your bottom line. As I hoped you noticed I said “relevant” several times in the above sentences ~ that is one of the keys to a successful back linking strategy. Let me clarify what I mean more below by giving you some examples of the correct way to implement a back linking strategy.
There are several ways you can build back links including directory submissions, blog commenting, forum posts with your link in the signature line, blog posts on your own blog and other people’s blogs, submitting articles with a link to your site in the resource box, submitting press releases with a link to your website, submitting video, Creating Squidoo lens with a link to your site, Posts on Social sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linked in(which by the way are great for back links due to their high page rank), bookmarking, and so on. To create a successful back link campaign you should try to incorporate several if not all of these strategies into your campaign on a daily basis. But the key to all of this work is still how “relevant” you make your link.
Relevant back links mean the link pointing to your site has a relevant subject in relation to what your site is about. So as an example if I am trying to rank well in the search engines for “girls clothes” at my children’s boutique then when I am building backlinks to my website I want my links to be about girls clothes. So when I submit to a directory I want to use the keyword “girls clothes” as my title because in directory submissions the title becomes the active link. When I submit an article about girls clothes to an article directory when I write my resource box I want to have a link with the anchor text of the keyword “girls clothes” pointing to my website. And you want to repeat this process for any of the links you are working on for that particular keyword ~ making sure your active link has the keyword in it usually in the way of anchor text if possible so google and your potential customer knows what type of content that link will be leading them to on your website.
So now that you have the basics of how back links are relevant to your seo and marketing campaign you will need to set up a plan on how you will consistently build relevant back links to your site everyday if possible. A quick and easy way to find some great back links that you can work on building every day is by using a program like 5000backlinks created by Lynn Terry and Paul Short. Having a program like this simplifies the process and saves you a ton of time, time that you could be spending with your family and enjoying yourself!
To Your Success!
Kate Wilber
The Marketing Momma
PS Disclaimer: The link in this blog post is an affiliate link and if you decide to purchase from it I will make a small commission. Thanks! Just remember I only recommend products that I use myself and feel would be beneficial to you and your business!
Your “Focus 5″ Marketing Strategy
Marketing your business can be easy is you have focus and today I am going to give you your Focus 5 Marketing Strategy.
This strategy will give you the focus you need to pinpoint your daily marketing to save you time, money, and frustration.
Focus is the key! Once you know your focus the rest will come easy.
Your Focus 5 Marketing Strategy
- Who is your target market? The worst thing you can do in business is to try to be everything to everybody. In order to be successful you need to determine who you are selling to and why. Once you know that, you can focus all of your marketing to the exact people that are interested in what you have to offer. Focus on the people who want want you have — and yes I’m sorry not everybody wants it — so you need to find out who does.
- What is your USP? Determine your unique selling point — why would your target customer want to buy from you and not one of the other businesses that offer a similar service or product. Why are you different from your competitors — or why are you the same as your customer? How can you relate to your target customer to make them like, know, and trust you enough to buy from you?
- How are you going to get in front of your target market? Where does your target market spend their time? Forums, social media groups, blogs, local events? Find out where they are hanging out and become active, helpful, and visible in those places.
- What problem are you going to solve for them? You need to find out what your target client needs and wants and then provide it for them. How are you going to help them? How do you find this out? Well—just ask them!
- What type of product or service are you going to provide to solve their problem? Now that you know what your target market needs and wants, where to find them , and why you are the right person to provide it to them — provide it to them.
Now that you have the step by step Focus 5 strategy make a plan on how you are going to execute this strategy within your own business. Go through each step and develop your marketing strategy based on the answer to those 5 questions.
To Your Success!
Kate Wiber
The Marketing Momma
10 simple steps to market online today
Marketing your business online doesn’t have to be complicated you just need a marketig blueprint to go by and to be consistent with. Here are 10 simple steps you can take today to start your marketing.
- Do a blog post giving 10 tips about a topic related to your target market.
- Create a short video using a free service like animoto.com featuring some of your best products.
- Tweet a discount code that your Twitter followers can use at your business or website.
- Tell your friends at Facebook an interesting fact about your business or niche.
- Send an email to your existing customer list about an upcoming sale using a service like aweber.com.
- Submit your site to 5 online directories a day in the appropriate category for your business using a targeted keyword for your title (creates great backlinks and gets your name out there)
- Create a Squidoo lens focusing on fascinating facts about your company’s background, products, and or services.
- Use a free service like socialmarker.com to bookmark your favorite webpages about your company.
- Write and submit an interesting and informative article about a topic your target market is interested in to ezinearticles.com.
- Create and submit a press release to webwire.com about something new and exciting going on in your business.
10 simple marketing steps that you can do right now for free online to get your business noticed. Get started today!
To Your Success!
Kate Wilber
Easy Twitter Tips
If you have been doing any kind of marketing lately online for your business then you are probably familiar with Twitter. If you aren’t using Twitter to market your business then you should be — so go get started — TODAY! Twitter is an easy way to get your message out to your target market, find potential new customers, and follow up with your existing customers. All done with 140 characters it can be a quick and painless way to stay in touch with your market if used correctly.
Here are a few quick tips that will get you started in the right direction to using Twitter effectively and efficiently for your business.
- Create (or have one created for you) a custom background for your Twitter account. This will help brand yourself and your business to your Twitter followers and potential customers or clients.
- Use a personal picture for your profile pic — this is social media — so make sure you are being social by letting your followers get to know you in a personal and social way –what better way to do this then portraying a pretty smiling face for your profile picture.
- Update several times daily — Twitter likes activity — the more active you are the more successful you will be with your use of Twitter (just remember not to get sucked in for too long of periods at a time –schedule it, do it, and then get out of there and stay productive.
- Find relevant quotes that you can use that are relevant to your niche that your followers may enjoy (people love interesting quotes). This also helps you keep your account active without having to tell everyone every tiny little thing you do all day long –but you are keeping them interested and active.
- Use Twitterfeed.com to automate some of your posts by updating your Twitter account with relevant blog posts that you have created on your blog or even someone elses blog that is relevant to your niche and would be interesting to your followers.
- Make things easy and efficient for yourself when using Twitter by utilizing free and helpful tools that can keep you productive and organized — here are a few to check out Socialoomph.com and Hootesuite.com both are great and very helpful in your Social Media Marketing Strategy.
To Your Success!
Kate Wilber
PS Disclaimer: The link in this blog post is an affiliate link and if you decide to purchase from it I will make a small commission. Thanks! Just remember I only recommend products that I use myself and feel would be beneficial to you and your business!
The importance of backlinks
Today we are going to talk about backlinks and why they are important to your website’s success.
There are so many things that factor into the reasons why or why not your website will rank well in the search engines. Some of them only google knows and you could spend your life trying to figure it out — but don’t waste your time — because there are some things that we know for sure will affect how well your website will rank and that’s what you should focus your efforts on. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Find out what is already known to work and then go full force with that.
The correct use of backlinks is a website strategy that you want to learn, understand, and spend sometime everyday working on. It is a well known fact that the more links you have pointing to your website the more importance google and the other search engines give to your site.
A few tips to remember when building backlinks to your site are:
- The more relevant the link has to do with your niche the better
- Use targeted keywords for your backlink if possible
- The higher the page rank of the site that is linking to you the more relevance google will give it
- Try to get at least 8-10 backlinks a day
- Your backlink campaign can include directories, blog commenting, forum posts, sites like .gov and .edu, advertisements on other sites, reciprocal linking, articles, press releases, and social media
- Stay consistent and do a few each day and before you now it you will have 1000’s of links pointing to your website and ranking well in the search engines — Taking action each day is the key to success!
A tool that I have found to be helpful for my backlinking campaign is called 5000 Backlinks
Building links to your website can be a time consuming task – that’s why having a tool to make it easier is a necessity. This tool not only will save you time it will also make it more likely for you to stay consistent with your efforts because it makes it easy. Speaking from my own experience — once I found this tool my backlinking campaign increased by 10 x’s my normal efforts — because now it is fast and easy. And if you are anything like me anything that can make my life simpler is what I need and want!
To your success!
Kate Wilber
PS Disclaimer: The link in this blog post is an affiliate link and if you decide to purchase from it I will make a small commission. Thanks! Just remember I only recommend products that I use myself and feel would be beneficial to you and your business!
Easy Website Marketing Plan
If someone was to ask me what the most important business tool they needed to learn when starting an online business is — my number one answer would be Traffic Generation. You can have the greatest product or service in the world but if no one ever sees it it is worthless to you. Getting traffic to your website is how your product and services are exposed to your potential customer and it is the lifeline for any online business. So knowing how to get targeted traffic on a consistent basis to your business should be one of your main goals in your website marketing plan.
There are several ways to achieve targeted traffic but one of the key things that most people miss when focusing on traffic is consistency. There are so many different ways to drive traffic to your website that sometimes people get overwhelmed or distracted trying out every tactic and they never focus on one thing long enough to make a difference.
Here is a quick list of a few online business tools that you can use to drive traffic to your site.
- SEO
- Article Writing
- Press Releases
- Web 2.0
- Video Marketing
- Link Building
- Blog Posting
- Paid Advertising
- Bookmarking
- Affiliates
Those are just a few of the ways to drive traffic to your site. It’s no wonder people have a hard time staying consistent with their marketing — this is a lot of work and each marketing tactic should be done in a certain way to make a real difference — so if you aren’t knowledgeable in how all of these methods work — it is a lot to learn also.
I know how much work staying consistent with these marketing tactics can be and how much there is to learn when applying them correctly so that is why I created a solution.
The Easy Monthly Marketing Package
If you need some help with generating targeted traffic to your website on a consistent basis this is the package for you. It is an easy solution at a great price. Take a look at what is offered in this package and see if it is something that would be helpful to you and your business. Outsourcing is not for everyone but if you need more time to focus on other aspects of your business or you just need a little jump start to your marketing plan this might be just what you have been looking for.
To Your Success!
Kate Wilber
Blogging as a marketing tool
Today I have a great treat for you. I want to share with you a link to some awesome videos teaching you how to create a blog from scratch and then also a link to a roadmap teaching you how to use that blog to market your business.
10 Easy To Follow Videos Showing You How To Create Your Blog From Scratch!
Blogging is a great way to get your business brand out there and when used correctly it can become a business all in itself. A great example of this is my blog that you are reading right now. I use the Marketing Momma Blog in several ways to market my business.
The first way I use it is to keep my readers informed of what is going on in my business by sharing marketing tools that I find helpful, business models that I follow, and marketing strategies that I teach and offer as services to my clients.
The second way I use my blog is by taking advantage of keyword useage to help drive new customers or clients to my products and services by focusing on my target market using proper keywords–so basically using SEO to market my business and services.
The third way I use my blog is by recommending products that I have found helpful in my own business that offer a commission for my recommendation if one of my readers decides to purchase that product from my affiliate link. I only recommend products that I have used myself and feel confident hold real value for your business – so receiving a commission is just a great perk for me on top of the value given to my clients.
All of these methods are easily accomplished from one simple wordpress blog and with the help of these videos and roadmap you too can start using blogging as an effective marketing strategy in your business. It is simplier than you think.
Take a look at the videos and read the roadmap–and then let me know if I can help you with your blogging strategies by coming back and commenting here once you have had a chance to take it all in.
Here is the link for the roadmap
Here is the link for the videos
10 Easy To Follow Videos Showing You How To Create Your Blog From Scratch!
Remember blogging is a great way to start marketing your business so get started today–it’s easy once you have the roadmap to point you in the right direction.
P.S. Disclaimer: The links in the blog post contain affiliate links and I will receive a commission if you decide to purchase from these links. Thanks!
Small Business Online Marketing
Hi everybody! I am back from a long much needed vacation and want to get back in the swing of things for your small business online marketing tips. So today I want to ask you 10 questions that you should be asking yourself when you are marketing your small business online. Marketing online can sometimes be challenging so you want to make sure you are thinking of everything when establishing a marketing plan.
10 Questions to ask yourself about your small business online marketing
- Do you have a marketing blueprint and are you being consistent with your efforts?
- Do you have a traffic generation plan and set schedule to follow?
- Are you building your brand with your marketing and staying true to yourself and your business?
- Are you staying focused on your “target” market when marketing?
- Are you adding value to your customers time with you?
- Are you staying in touch with your customers?
- Are you conveying and displaying all you have to offer in your marketing efforts?
- Are you learning from your competitors?
- Are you taking advantage of offline marketing as well as online marketing tactics?
- Are you allowing your happy customers to market for you with their testimonials and recommendations?
Ask yourself these 10 questions everytime you start your marketing efforts for your small business and this will be a good start to keep you on track! Hope everyone had a nice Holiday and Happy New Year!! Now get out there and market your business! And remeber if you don’t have all the time it takes to all of the marketing yourself check out my Virtual Services Page to see if any of my services would be helpful to you.
PS: Disclaimer–the link in this blog post is an affiliate link and if you purchase from it I will receive a small commission. Thanks!
