Today I thought I’d write to other web developers and SEO marketers,

If your like me and follow other online marketers you can be over whelmed with all of them coming at you with this or that get rich jargon.  Don’t get me wrong there are some really great ones out there but so many “training programs” leave things out.
They tell you to “build a website” but don’t show you how.

Or they’ll show you how to put up a great search engine optimized site but will skip the part about monetizing it.

Maybe they cover monetization but monetization is no good without traffic generation.

And then there’s the programs you get that say it’s a “system” but that system involves buying another $500 worth of “stuff” to make it work - or worse, they want you to spend on PPC advertising.

Who wouldn’t be mad and jaded?

Instead of bouncing from program to program (and throwing your earnings down the drain looking for the “secret”), you can get everything you need to build a successful online business in one place.

The training: building optimized sites, configuration, plugins, market and keyword research formulas, monetization strategies, traffic generation, content creation, social media domination.
 
The tools: Hands-free link building, niche market spying, global task management for all your domains, RSS submission.

It’s the advanced techniques that really get help keep you above the curve.

It’s all in one place, take my advice and try it. Crowd Mountain

Want to build links and brand indentity and increase traffic ~ Yah me too. Here’s how I do it.

Submit content tothe top 5 article directories: making sure each is unique and original ~ Sounds harder than it is.. just change bits and parts title should be unique to each article house submission to avoid duplicate content. Besides our goal is to get the inbound links from these articles.

1. ezinearticles.com
2. goarticles.com
3. articledashboard.com
4. searchwarp.com
5. articlesbase.com

Now target Authority sites that have huge traffic already and cores of networks within them. Again re-write the article, Remember Original Content no duplicate content…. Rewrite your headline and re-write each paragraph of your article before adding to any of these following sites.

6. Hubpages.com
7. Weebly.com
8. Wetpain.com
9. Squidoo.com

And last, but not least, why not take a little extra time and make a VIDEO of your content! It’s easy, it’s fun, and if you submit it to this last site, your video will automatically be distributed to 23 video sites, including youtube, google, yahoo, and many more.

10. Traffic Geyser

Now in addition to these 10 essential traffic generating tools you should also utilize and market yourself in

11. Twitter.com
12. Facebook.com
13. Likeaholic.com
14. and a slew of bookmarking sites.

Now anyone that argues this isn’t a full time job isn’t doing their online marketing correctly.  If your marketing strategy includes all 13 of these tatics you’ll be amazed at how quickly your traffic, incoming links, and branding will increase!

Working Web Solutions offers these services to our clients and they see the results!

The Portland chapter of Social Media Club, SEMpdx and Software Association of Oregon had the first annual SoMē Awards to recognize outstanding Social Media projects and the people who created them.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend the Awards that night but I heard from Ericka, Andrea and others that it turned out great. The top winner was Eric T. Peterson from http://www.twitalyzer.com/twitalyzer/index.asp

Twitalyzer is a unique tool to evaluate the activity of any Twitter user and report on relative influence, signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity, clout, and other useful measures of success in social media. 

Eric Peterson who is from Portland (which I thought was pretty cool) and is Chief Executive officer, and Principal consultant for Web Anayltics Demystified, Inc., gave a great presentation as well.  He is an inovator and a numbers guy for sure. His presentation was on Attribution, Influence and Engagement. The Digital Marketer’s New Nightmare.  He discussed the need for accountablity in today’s digital market and provided a tool that helps respond to companies ceo’s cfo, cio and the other c’s  with actual numbers and tracking reports that they are used to from traditional marketing.  The cry for this type of reports was echoed from many of the antendees.  This topic of how do we track or justify our Social networking efforts and - or  digital marketing efforts to our bosses to get their support and buy off ~ was consistently discussed from every presentor throughout the two day event at InnoTech.   THIS IS A HOT TOPIC and I commend Eric for his development of  Twitalizer and know there will be many other tools like this since the need to justify expenses on SEM is so great.