Looking for a no-nonsense, take no prisoners free of cost website promotion plan? This article provides ten important steps you must follow and act on in order to ensure a safe and successful website promotion plan.

1. Define Your Objectives and Your Audience

Get out a piece of paper and spend ten minutes or more writing your answers to the following questions which will help you define your mission and target audience:

A) Do you want to promote through traditional marketing methods?

B)...
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When you are trying to measure your article marketing success, it is sometimes hard to know which indicators really matter and which don't.

Should you be looking at how many sites pick up your articles (how many links are being built), the clicks that your resource box generates, your article views, all of the above, or none of the above?

I don't blame you for being confused. Rest assured that measuring your success is pretty scientific and does not involve any guesswork.

It is important t...
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SEO still seems like a very foggy effort to many website owners. I still see people in the forums and blogs that seem to be stuck in search engine optimization circa 2001 by looking for directory submission services and articles “blasts” which do nothing but flood the web pages with junk. There is such a thing as good search engine marketing and it is important to fully understand this.
Let’s take a look at some of the largest SEO mistakes a website can make that will ultimately hur...
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Every website owner has heard of them, every search engine uses them, and if you are into SEO you just can't ignore them. Yes, we're referring to 'keywords'. Perhaps the most crucial aspect of search marketing are keywords, and choosing the most 'relevant' keywords can be the difference between success and failure of your web-based venture.

Search marketing and knowing your keywords

A keyword is as single word or a phrase which is used to help search engines index your site. Generally,...
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Not all your content will be accepted by authority sites. In fact, 50 to 75 percent of articles are rejected for a variety of reasons. It can be because your content is low in quality, you stole someone else's article, it's obvious that you're promoting your business or your product, or you failed to follow the guidelines. So if you don't want to find your articles and news releases in the dust bin of the World Wide Web, you should make sure your articles are of great quality and are good eno...
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