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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Link building remains one of the most important tasks a marketer should focus on when building an Internet home business. Here are a few link building tips for your web biz. © GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.comDeveloping a strong, profitable marketing business online involves a variety of methods and good practices. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is often the first thing that comes to an entrepreneur's mind when thinking about creating a successful web biz. Effective SEO practices include an emphasis on link building. Search engines take notice to websites that have links coming from strongly related, popular sites. The more links you can develop, and the more popular the site, the better it is for your website. Link building can take on many forms. One excellent way to get links is to give other website owners a reason to want to link to your site. One way to encourage that interest is to offer them the opportunity to give some of your things away free to their visitors. Many website owners are looking for free things to give away because they know it draws more traffic to their site. They may not have the knowledge or experience or time to create the desired freebie themselves. If you have something of quality to give away that relates to or appeals to their targeted audience, they will be happy to post your website link on their site for the benefit of their prospects and visitors. Here's where this link building tip could get exciting. Visitors they send to get your freebie may decide to also give it away and this could make your traffic go viral! The more people that link to your website the more traffic you will get. What types of freebies are given away on the Internet to increase traffic? Here are a few ideas: Free Information: Free reports, articles, eBooks, online audio recordings, email courses are all popular if they are  designed well and offer valuable information. Free Affiliate Program: Software is readily available online to help you turn a product or a product line into an affiliate program where your affiliates earn commissions on sales. Free Software: If you do not have your own software products, many such resources are available online for you to offer to your visitors or other webmasters. Free Online Services: Offer a free service of some kind, like email accounts, search engine submission, basic SEO services, marketing consulting services. The more popular your website becomes, the more likely that other website owners will want to link with you for one reason or another. However, the most successful online businesses are the ones that take an active and aggressive approach towards link building. The process becomes standard routine for them no matter how popular or busy their website is. You must develop a link building strategy and continually work on it. The link building tips for your web biz presented here are worth considering if your goal is web biz traffic success.  Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Now! Profit From The Greatest Mastermind Ever Assembled!* An Affordable Business Opportunity - FREE to Join!* StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: internet home business, link partner tips, search engine optimization, seo, web biz, web biz marketing tips
    
   
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
You will find many great tools on the Internet to measure and monitor various elements of your web biz. Have you used the SEOCentro Keyword Rank Checker yet? You will get some very interesting results. © GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.comSEOCentro has numerous free web marketing resources you can use to measure, monitor or otherwise analyze the performance of your website and your web biz. One of the resources is the Keyword Rank Checker. This is an excellent tool to check your search engine position ranking in the major search engines for any keyword. This tool also produces an advanced report that includes related keywords. The Keyword Rank Checker is easy to use and the results are produced very quickly. All you do is key in the keyword or keyword phrase you want to check, plus the domain ( www.StarrBizz.com for example), a competitor's domain if you want (it is optional), and a verification or access code.  I entered one of my top keyword phrases - web biz opportunities - and was very pleased with the (expected) results! The phrase ranked #1 in Google, #1 in Yahoo! and ...what? Only #5 in Bing?Actually, when I looked at the Bing-specific report, while it did show one of my web biz blog posts in the fifth position, I was happy to discover that the #1 ranking website turned out to be ( drum roll) www.StarrBizz.com! I didn't check, yet, to see why that didn't show up in the condensed report, but I'm not complaining. The report also lists a series of related keywords and when you click on any of them, it brings up a new Keyword Rank report showing where your website sits with the selected keyword. Once again, it is very quick, very informative ... and extremely interesting. Give it a try. It's free. It's easy to use and the Keyword Rank Checker is just one of many free resources available on the site to measure and analyze the performance of your website and your web biz. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Now! Profit From The Greatest Mastermind Ever Assembled!* An Affordable Business Opportunity - FREE to Join!* StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: free resources, home based web biz, internet based home business, keywords, search engine optimization, seo, web biz, web biz marketing tips
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
High search engine ranking means better chances for increased traffic to your website. Here are some quick tips for search engine success. © GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.comRegular readers of my web biz blog will know that I've written on this topic a few times. For that reason, I'll try to keep this post short and I will refer you to another StarrBizz.com web page with a web biz review of the SEO resource I am highlighting today. Some of you know that I am a big fan of Suzanne Morrison and the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) training materials she has provided me with from time to time. One of my favourites is Suzanne's 3 Steps to Search Engine Success eBook. This eBook gives much more than what the title may suggest. Read my review, 3 Steps To Search Engine Success Review for more details on it. However, as promised, here are the bare-bones-basics from the eBook:  Step 1: Choose the Right Keywords. Suzanne notes that this is the foundation of search engine success and I can tell you from following Suzanne's advice, it is true! Many of my pages and blog posts quickly make it to the first page of the search results for the desired keyword phrases and have managed to stay on the first page with proper follow-up. Step 2: Optimize your Website: Thanks to Suzanne's eBook, I have learned how to improve my content in such a way so as to get the attention of the search engines. Suzanne's instructions include both the viewable text on the site plus the HTML code in the background. Step 3: Off Site Optimization: Ms. Morrison has taught me a variety of offline techniques to increase my site's exposure, plus she has included in her eBook a number of tools and resources that allow me to determine my site's popularity. That's all I'm going to say about it here! Read my Search Engine Success web biz review, then grab your copy of the eBook by Suzanne Morrison and begin applying her tips for search engine success today! Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Now! Profit From The Greatest Mastermind Ever Assembled!* An Affordable Business Opportunity - FREE to Join!* StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, home based web biz, search engine optimization, seo, seo ebook, web biz, web biz marketing tips
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Despite the changing face of Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is still vitally important to your online success. Here's how to get six free SEO videos to give your business a boost!© GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.comSome aspects of Search Engine Optimization are changing as the Internet evolves, but basic SEO is still important. I am so grateful for the SEO guidance I have received from SEO expert Suzanne Morrison over the past few years. I am still a student with much to learn, but without question, Suzanne's SEO guides have helped me a lot. I have used Suzanne's guides to improve my keyword marketing focus, helping me to get a higher search engine rank. I have found Suzanne's informative SEO materials to be extremely beneficial in helping me understand how to effectively optimize my website, both in the content and in the coding. And, following Suzanne's advice, I have improved my focus on offsite optimization techniques and practices. These three aspects of SEO are explained in full detail and with supporting links and resources in Suzanne's user-friendly eBook, 3 Steps to Search Engine Success. This eBook is especially handy for newcomers to Internet Marketing and those who are just beginning their journey into the benefits of proper Search Engine Optimization. Here is the best part: not only is 3 Steps to Search Engine Success priced very reasonably - just $37 - but for a limited time, Suzanne is offering some great bonuses to those who pick up a copy of the eBook now. The bonuses are listed and explained on the eBook sales page, but one of the bonuses is SEO Education 101 - a resource that includes 6 FREE SEO videos that explain some of the best techniques for getting backlinks to improve your search engine ranking. It's one thing to have the written word to coach you along, but instructional videos like the ones Suzanne is offering add an additional sensory element to the learning experience. Read all you can about SEO, but sometimes you just have to SEE how it works to be able to grasp the concept and do it yourself. If you are interested in learning SEO the quick and easy way, you owe it to yourself to pick up a copy of Suzanne Morrison's 3 Steps to Search Engine Success. As part of the bargain, you will also get 6 FREE SEO videos. Buy Suzanne's eBook today and start YOUR SEO program right away. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Greatest Mastermind Ever Assembled!* An Affordable Business Opportunity* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site* StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, search engine optimization, seo, seo ebook, web biz success tip
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
The nature of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) may be changing as technology advances, but standard website SEO is still very much relevant in today's world of Internet Marketing. Here are 10 Free SEO Tools to help your web biz.© GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.com My SEO mentor, Suzanne Morrison, has provided me with a variety of guides, reports and resources to help give my StarrBizz.com website a higher search engine rank. Various pages on my site appear regularly on the first page of the search engine results pages (SERPs) for several of my chosen keyword phrases. One of the resources Suzanne has given to me (and to other of her SEO students) is the report, 10 Free SEO Tools. I have Suzanne's authorization to pass this report along to my Web Bizz Blog readers and other contacts and customers FREE of charge. The 10 Free SEO Tools report explains that "Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing your website with the goal of increasing your search engine ranking and ultimately your traffic and sales." Effective SEO involves keyword research, strategic placement of the keywords, and a focused backlink strategy. Within the pages of 10 Free SEO Tools you will find web links to the SEO resources that Suzanne recommends, along with thorough explanations of the value and application of each resource. The report includes screen shots and other graphics to illustrate the use of the tools. The 10 free tools outlined in the report include:- Adwords Keyword Tool - Keyword Suggestion Tool - Sitemap Generation Tool - Social Marker Bookmarking Tool - Link Popularity Checker Tool - Keyword Rank Checker Tool - Website Grader - Google Webmaster Tools - Statcounter - Google Analytics If you do some research, you will be able to find all or most of these tools on your own. However, there are two particular advantages to accessing Suzanne's report: First, it presents all 10 free tools in one handy spot. Second, as mentioned, Suzanne provides explanations, examples and step-by-step instructions for each of the recommended SEO tools. To get the report, simply click on any of the corresponding links in this web biz blog post. There are no gimmicks, sign-ups or anything else. Just click on a link and the report will open. 10 Free SEO Tools is free and it is yours to use to help YOU achieve a higher search engine rank just as I am doing with StarrBizz.com ... all thanks to Suzanne Morrison and her excellent SEO guides, reports and recommended resources. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button. Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Home Based Web Biz Ideas and Opportunities and Work at Home Resources visit: * StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site* StarrBizz.com Recommends SFI 3.0 Online and Awesome! Read the blog post.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: free resources, home business resources, search engine optimization, seo, web biz success tip
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Ever wonder about your website Link Popularity, your PageRank or Keyword Density, Meta Tags or any of a number of other SEO aspects of your home based Internet business? Here is a site that offers an array of free SEO tools and resources.© GT Bulmer Web Biz Opportunities, StarrBizz.comSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to your online web biz success. Not only do you need to optimize your website effectively, you also need tools and resources to help you monitor and check the current state or results of your SEO efforts. The website I am going to tell you about to day was referred to me by home based web biz marketing associate Graham Maddison. The website is SEOCentro.com. SEOCentro offers a variety of web marketing resources, including: - Link Popularity Check- Rank Checker- PageRank Check- Keyword Analyzer- Keyword Density- Keyword Suggestion- Meta Tag AnalyzerA selection of additional SEO tools and promotion tools are also available at the SEOCentro.com site. Search engine optimization is important to the success of your home based web biz. Internet Marketing has become a highly competitive field, but with the proper SEO on your website, it is easy to rise above the majority of the sites that do not optimize properly. And it doesn't have to be difficult. What I do with my web pages, blogs and articles is optimize for keywords or keyword phrases, also called long-tail keywords. Additionally, I optimize certain components of the source code in my web pages, plus I spend time building up my backlinks. It's fine to do all these things, but you also need to know how well they are working, or if they have been set up properly. That's where web marketing resources come in and that's where FREE SEO tools and resources come in handy. SEOCentro.com is a great place to go to get free SEO tools and resources for your home based web biz or for any kind of Internet Marketing you do. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.==> SEO eBook review: 3 Steps to Search Engine Success ReviewResource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Home Based Web Biz Ideas and Opportunities and Work at Home Resources visit: * StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site* StarrBizz.com Recommends SFI 3.0 Online and Awesome! Read the blog post.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: free web biz tips, home based internet business, search engine optimization, seo
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Natural search engine traffic is the best traffic to get because those people want what you've got. To get that traffic, you need the right web biz keywords. Keyword research is vital.© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comNatural traffic from the search engines can produce excellent results but you have to be diligent in your keyword research to effectively position your site to attract search engine traffic. Keywords and keyword phrases are the words that people enter into an Internet search engine to help find what they are looking for online. The search engine then returns a list of websites that contain the keyword or phrase that has been entered. Your aim is to get your web biz website on the first page of the search results because most people click only on a few links on the first page and seldom look any further. The higher search engine rank you can achieve, the better. Web biz sites that have been effectively optimized for particular keyword phrases stand a better chance of showing up on the first page of the search results. There are several steps to effective search engine optimization (SEO). Keyword research is the first step. In the SEO eBook by Suzanne Morrison - 3 Steps to Search Engine Success - three important criteria are given to guide your keyword research: - Select keyword phrases that are relevant to your target market and your website; don't disappoint or discourage your visitors by attracting them with a keyword phrase that is not supported by related content on your site. Do that and you will lose them fast. - Research and choose keywords that get a good number of searches per month. Achieving a higher search engine rank only helps you if it is a keyword that people are actually searching for. - Find keyword phrases that are not overwhelmed by competition. You need to know that you have a reasonable chance of ranking well for your keyword phrase. Otherwise, you may not achieve the desired result. Web biz tools are available online to help with effective keyword research. Wordtracker is a paid service, but a trial offer is available to test it out. Google Adwords Keyword Tool is a free service. After selecting a keyword phrase that is relevant to your market and your site and that has a good number of searches each month, type it into the Google search engine and check out the sites that are returned on the first page of the results. Use the MarketLeap.com Link Popularity Checker to check how many backlinks your site has compared to what the leading websites have. Can you compete? Will you be able to build up enough web biz backlinks to make a run for that first page search engine rank? How well optimized are the leading websites? Have they used their keywords in the page title, the page headline and throughout the text of the site? Can you do better in this area? Attention to these details when doing your keyword research will help you make better choices. As mentioned, there is more to search engine optimization than keyword research, but keyword research definitely needs to be your starting point. If you hope to achieve higher search engine rank, this is a step that you must pay particular attention to. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesMore information about 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, the SEO eBook by Suzanne Morrison:* SEO eBook Review: 3 Steps to Search Engine Success ReviewYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Home Based Web Biz Ideas and Opportunities and Work at Home Resources visit: * StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site* StarrBizz.com Recommends SFI 3.0 Online and Awesome! Read the blog post.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, keywords, seo, seo ebook, web biz marketing tips
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Have you read my review of 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, the new eBook by Suzanne Morrison, author and SEO expert? If you haven't yet read this web biz review, now's your chance!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comI am not going to go into a lot of detail or depth in this Web Bizz Blog post because I've highlighted the benefits of Suzanne Morrison's 3 Steps to Search Engine Success eBook a few times already in my blog posts, plus I wrote a review on my StarrBizz.com site that says it all very well. ==> Point your browser to 3 Steps to Search Engine Success ReviewThe review highlights the importance of search engine success to any form of web biz marketing or home based Internet business. It also notes the value of learning and applying effective SEO (search engine optimization) methods and techniques. Suzanne's SEO eBook provides detailed explanations, examples and resources covering: - Keywords: Choice and use - On Site Optimization - Off Site Optimization Presented in plain language, the eBook is straightforward and effective. The 3 Steps to Search Engine Success Review offers additional details to demonstrate why every website owner and online marketer should consider reading Suzanne's new search engine success guide. It doesn't matter what kind of marketing you do online, or what home based web biz opportunities you promote, effective search engine optimization is a must. Read 3 Steps to Search Engine Success Review for more reasons why SEO is important and how this eBook by Suzanne Morrison can help. Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.==> 3 Steps to Search Engine Success Review - Read the review today! Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Home Based Web Biz Ideas and Opportunities and Work at Home Resources visit: * StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site* StarrBizz.com Recommends SFI 3.0 Online and Awesome! Read the blog post.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, search engine optimization, seo, seo ebook, web biz success tip
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Friday, January 2, 2009
It's a brand new year: what will you do differently this year to improve and accelerate your home based web biz marketing success? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a good place to start!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comIf today's blog post seems a bit like deja vu to you, that's great because it is intentional. It doesn't matter what kinds of home based web biz ideas and opportunities you promote, if you don't have your website or blog optimized properly for the search engines, you could be heading for disappointment. For many web biz marketers, effective SEO can make the difference between success and failure. There are three key elements to effective SEO and I've written about them numerous times in previous blog posts: get ready to experience that deja vu feeling again because here are those three key elements again: * First, you have to do your Keyword Research. * Second, you will want to work on your On Site Optimization. * Third, you will need to create strategies for Off Site Optimization, including creating backlinks, submitting to directories, Article Marketing and a few other recommended web biz practices. Of course, as mentioned, I have already written about, highlighted and elaborated on these in previous blog posts. Here are two such posts you can check out for more insight and detail: * Search Engine Success, Yours in Three Easy Steps (Web Bizz Blog post) * 3 Steps to Search Engine Success (Web Bizz Blog post) Regular Web Bizz Blog readers will know, and new readers will discover, that my SEO recommendations come primarily from successful web biz marketer, author and SEO consultant Suzanne Morrison. I have been following Suzanne's SEO recommendations for a number of months now and with very good results. More recently, Suzanne released an SEO eBook titled 3 Steps to Search Engine Success where she covers the three basic steps in great detail. Plus she provides a wealth of insight and resource recommendations to help guide any online marketer to greater web biz success. Because I know Suzanne's recommended SEO techniques to be effective, I do not hesitate to highlight her newest SEO guide here once again, even at the risk of sounding redundant. I know there are still many marketers who have not yet recognized the need to properly optimize their websites. Many people start the New Year off with new plans and revised marketing goals. I recommend that you include a renewed focus on Search Engine Optimization in your plans for the coming year. In 2009, let your business shine. Use Suzanne Morrison's 3 Steps to Search Engine Success eBook to drive your home based web biz opportunities to the TOP of the search engines! Sincerely, GT Bulmer StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this post or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to the "Post a Comment" button.Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Home Based Web Biz Ideas and Opportunities and Work at Home Resources visit: * StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, search engine optimization, seo, seo ebook, web biz marketing
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
This is an unexpected Part Three to my HTML How-To series. I'll try to focus mostly on the "How To" part in this post so you can focus on YOUR home based web biz marketing success, not mine!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comI hadn't originally planned a three-part personal introspection focusing on my HTML How-To experiences, but events conspired this week to cause it to happen. A construction crew tore up our telephone lines this week and it was several days before a temporary fix could be put in place. As a result, my Internet access was inhibited, and therefore my ability to effectively research and write articles or blog posts. I never knew how much I depended on the Internet for my home based web biz marketing and freelance writing activities! Okay. Back to HTML How-To: What Do I Know!We know from Part One and Part Two that HTML is a markup language: HTML stands for " Hyper Text Markup Language." * A markup language uses a set of annotations to text that determines how the text is to be displayed - for example bold, italics, underline, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. * HTML is written in the form of tags surrounded by angle brackets, like this: < >. In addition to describing the structure of text-based information in a document it is also used to describe the structure of interactive forms, images and various other page elements. * HTML tags usually come in pairs that include opening and closing tags. A start tag is placed before the text that is being formatted and an end tag after the text. For example, if you want to make the text bold, you would include a "b" tag or a "strong" tag before the text (with angle brackets around the "b" or the "strong" - not quotation marks). To close the bold tag, at the end of the text, you would include a forward slash in the tag - for example, /b or /strong surrounded by the angle brackets < >. * If you miss the opening tag, the formatting will not take effect. * If you miss the closing tag, you risk formatting the entire remainder of your document with (in this example) the bold command. Common HTML tags, and the ones I use most often, include: (angle brackets must be used but are not shown here) - b or strong - for bold text - u - for underlines - i - for italics - body - for the document text body - title - for titles - h1 and h2 - for headers or headlines - p - for paragraph - br - for line break (note: no closing tag used for line breaks) - a href="http://www.starrbizz.com" (with angle brackets before the a and after the .com") followed by YourName.com or any keyword text you choose, and closed with the /a tag (with angle brackets before and after the /a). This is a hypertext link or anchor text link. * Remember to always include the respective closing tag for each markup command you give (unless otherwise indicated). The tags I have included here are simply the basic ones I am most familiar with. Other markup tags are used to display various text and page elements to give your text and web pages more detailed structure. Many excellent HTML guides are available on the Internet and can be found by doing a search for HTML How To. * One guide is the Introduction to HTML available from w3schools.com. To create and edit your HTML documents and web pages you will need to use an HTML editor. Many free HTML editors can be found by doing an Internet search. As technology advances, the need for home based web biz marketing enthusiasts to know and use HTML is diminishing. Newer editing programs are making it simpler to do web page changes without HTML knowledge or ability. However, I still consider it valuable to have a basic understanding of HTML How-To. It can come in handy and it is one more resource that can empower your ability to advance your web biz marketing success. Works for me!Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Home Based Internet Business Ideas and OpportunitiesRead ... HTML How-To: What Do I Know! Part One and Part Two:* HTML How-To: What Do I Know! Part One* HTML How-To: What Do I Know! Part TwoYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.Suggested Resource:3 Steps to Search Engine Success - Recommended SEO eBookResource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Internet Home Business ideas and opportunities and Work at Home resources visit: * http://www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business* Reverse Funnel System - Fully Automated!* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based web biz, html how to, internet marketing, seo
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
For some home based Internet business marketers, learning HTML is a huge challenge. However, with a little patience and a little persistence, you CAN master the basics for Web Biz Success!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comIn yesterday's Web Bizz Blog, I mentioned the mystery of HTML, emphasized the importance and value of lifelong learning and the guidance of experienced mentors and outlined some of the HTML basics. Today: A Struggle, an Alarming Experience and a BreakthroughFor me, in the beginning, learning HTML well enough to make changes to my StarrBizz.com website was a real struggle. Some of the basics, like bold, underline and italics were easy. Setting up hypertext links wasn't too difficult. And I quickly got the hang of linking images. But working with other web page elements proved to be more challenging. Like how to properly place new text boxes so I could insert text or banners or other features exactly where I wanted to on the page. It was months before the HTML code to do that started making sense to the point where I knew what I was doing and understood why I was doing it. It has to do with how tables and frames are set up in the background code, understanding where they start and end, and how they relate to each other in that code. Then there was the alarming experience I had with my Web Biz Blog template. One time, early on in my HTML experience, I was making what I thought was a very simple change to the template and wham! There went the entire template formatting! All kinds of strange characters showed up on the actual web page; text was missing and replaced with HTML code and code words; links to other page elements, plus archived stories and a few other very important things no longer functioned properly. The whole thing was messed up. I looked at the source code and tried to correct the errors, but nothing I did would reverse or resolve the mess completely. As an HTML newbie, I was terror-stricken for the better part of a day as I tried to get my blog fixed. Eventually, I restored the template from my backup copy (thank goodness for the wisdom of doing a backup copy!), then went back and made that simple original change using a different method, and everything turned out fine. My struggles with HTML continued for a number of months until one day, a breakthrough! It was like an awakening. I was busy working on some site changes when suddenly it dawned on me ... I KNEW what I was doing! Whereas before I felt like I was flying blind, applying hit and miss changes, having to double check and review every little thing to see if it worked or not, this time I was zipping through with complete awareness, understanding ... and confidence! What a great feeling of empowerment. I still have a long ways to go to fully grasp the intricacies of HTML. But now that I know the basics and feel somewhat competent and confident, I am encouraged to forge ahead. If you are new to HTML, or have some experience but are struggling with the challenge, be encouraged: it does get better with time. Give it a chance, stick with it and chances are you will experience a breakthrough, too. Once again, I emphasize the value of lifelong learning and a commitment to practice and persistence. In the long run, you will benefit on a personal level and you will be better able to effectively promote your home based Internet business ideas and opportunities. Learn the basics of HTML how-to and you will enjoy greater web biz marketing success. That's what I know! Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.Recommended Resources:* 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, Recommended SEO eBook * Plug-In Profit Site, Website Setup Free in 24 Hours * PIPS Power Group - We Teach, We Share, We Care! Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Internet Home Business ideas and opportunities and Work at Home resources visit: * http://www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business* Reverse Funnel System - Fully Automated!* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: html, search engine optimization, seo, seo ebook, web biz marketing success
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When you're new to Web Biz Marketing, everything is a mystery, and I think for many home based Internet business opportunity marketers like me nothing is more mysterious than HTML!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comWhen I first started developing my home based web biz and started promoting Internet business ideas and opportunities I was a complete newbie to HTML. HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language" and it is a language that was totally foreign to me! Sure, others who had gone before tried to convince me that HTML wasn't all that difficult to understand and learn. But when you look at a page of text filled with odd characters in weird formations, and you know that altering or deleting even a few of those characters could mess up your whole web page (it happened to me!), you get a little leery about attempting the task. Fortunately, I have two things going for me: 1) I am devoted to lifelong learning, and even though I get frustrated easily (ask my marketing mentors!), I am able to stay focused and committed to learning the new things I want to learn. It may take time, but I manage it because experience has taught me that it is well worth it in the long run. 2) I found a mentorship group with the experience, knowledge and patience to guide and instruct me in my quest for home based web biz marketing success. And it turned out that several of them have great insight into HTML and SEO (search engine optimization). HTML, What Do I Know? A VERY Brief Overview of the BasicsHTML is a markup language. A markup language uses a set of annotations to text that determines how the text is to be displayed - for example bold, italics, underline, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. HTML is written in the form of tags surrounded by angle brackets. In addition to describing the structure of text-based information in a document it is also used to describe the structure of interactive forms, images and various other page elements. You can tell which files and URLs contain HTML - they usually have .html or .htm in the filename extension. Much of what I have learned about HTML and SEO has come from the guidance of web biz marketing mentors in the PIPS Power Group. - PIPS stands for Plug-In Profit Site, a complete Business-in-a-Box home based Internet business marketing plan that includes everything necessary for web biz success. - The PIPS Power Group is a group of experienced PIPS members who provide training, support and resources for other PIPS members. - 3 Steps to Search Engine Success is the newest SEO eBook by PIPS Power Group mentor Suzanne Morrison. This new eBook delivers! I attribute most of the web biz SEO success I have experienced to date to the information and guidance I have received from Suzanne. HTML How-To: What Do I Know! Part Two - A Struggle, an Alarming Experience and a BreakthroughIn tomorrow's Web Bizz Blog post, I will write about my early home based Internet business struggles with HTML, an alarming experience I had with my web biz blog page, and the HTML breakthrough that eventually came for me. Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.Recommended Resources:* 3 Steps to Search Engine Success - Recommended SEO eBook* Plug-In Profit Site, Website Setup Free in 24 Hours* PIPS Power Group - We Teach, We Share, We Care! ...  Resource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Internet Home Business ideas and opportunities and Work at Home resources visit: * http://www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business* Reverse Funnel System - Fully Automated!* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, html, search engine optimization, seo, web biz marketing success
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Thursday, November 27, 2008
The new SEO (Search Engine Optimization) guide by Suzanne Morrison, 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, is giving new life to websites. Do you have your copy yet?© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comWebsite traffic is one of the keys to success for every home based Internet business. When your traffic volume rises, your web biz sales and profits go up. It's that simple. Search engine traffic is a great way to drive highly targeted visitors to your site. But to get search engine traffic, you need to get your site on the first page of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) and to get your site on the first page you need to optimize it effectively. Suzanne's new eBook, 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, takes you through the basic steps in plain language and shows you exactly how to optimize your site for maximum search engine results. - Learn how to choose the best keywords, how to optimize your site for those keywords and how to build high quality backlinks. - Learn how to analyze your site for SEO effectiveness and how to monitor your progress, check your visitor statistics and compare your website to other web biz sites. - Suzanne also covers a number of search engine no-no's to watch out for to avoid getting banned from the search engines. - 3 Steps to Search Engine Success offers links to free tools and other resources and Suzanne provides examples, explanations and screenshots throughout the guide. SEO for your home based Internet business has never been so simple. If you want to see your web biz site on the first page of the search engines and experience a big boost in targeted traffic to your site, and if you want to experience a rise in sales and profits for your home based Internet business products, services and opportunities, then you need to pick up your copy of 3 Steps to Search Engine Success today! ==> Do it now: 3 Steps to Search Engine Success* Read this previous blog post for more info: Search Engine Success, Yours in Three Easy StepsSincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.3 Steps to Search Engine Success, Recommended SEO eBookResource Links:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find GT's best Internet Home Business ideas and opportunities and Work at Home resources visit: * http://www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business* Reverse Funnel System - Fully Automated!* StarrBizz.com recommends Plug-In Profit Site------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labels: home based internet business, search engine optimization, seo, web biz
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Monday, November 10, 2008
Finally, I can reveal the source of all my secrets to Search Engine Success. My favourite SEO expert's new eBook, "3 Steps to Search Engine Success" has just been released!© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comActually, I'm being a bit dramatic there. The secrets to Search Engine Success aren't really secret. And neither is the source of much of my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) information. Suzanne Morrison is one of my home based Internet business mentors and it is Suzanne's SEO expertise that has been guiding the progress of my StarrBizz.com website towards the top of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Suzanne's new eBook, 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, provides thorough, step-by-step SEO guidance in simple language. StarrBizz.com is improving in the SERPs weekly because of what I am learning and applying from Suzanne's guidance. For many struggling home based Internet business marketers, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and success in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) may seem like a difficult subject to understand and master, but really, there are three steps that make the task easier to grasp: 1) Keyword Research: Basically, you want keywords that get a good number of searches each month, but don't have an overwhelming amount of competition from other online marketers. 2) On Site Optimization: You want to optimize certain areas and certain features of your website; titles, tags, headlines, content, ALT tags in your images, even your choice of domain name. 3) Off Site Optimization: Off site, you want to focus on Article Marketing, building backlinks, submitting your site to directories, posting in forums, commenting on blogs and social bookmarketing. If you are an experienced online marketer, these three steps will not be difficult for you. If you are still building your knowledge and experience with Internet marketing and SEO, then you might benefit from 3 Steps to Search Engine Success because it explains these three steps in much more detail and provides you with links to tools, like: - Keyword Research Tool - There are several available, some are free. - Keyword Density Tool - Free ones available. - Backlink Checking Tool - Several available, most are free. - Page Rank Checker - Free ones available. - Website Visitor Statistics Tool - Free ones available. Between the explanations and definitions, the step-by-step instructions and graphics and the tools just mentioned, the new training guide, 3 Steps to Search Engine Success, makes learning and applying effective Search Engine techniques a breeze. Here are a couple of recent posts from my Web Bizz Blog that highlight a few elements from 3 Steps to Search Engine Success: * Keyword Phrases Are Vital For Search Engine Success* Search Engine No-No'sFew online marketers experience success who do not work on improving their Search Engine Optimization practices. There are no shortcuts to success; you need to follow the steps. Search Engine Optimization has now been simplified and you can experience excellent results by following this new 3 Steps to Search Engine Success guide, brought to you from my favourite SEO Expert, Suzanne Morrison. Home based Internet business ideas and opportunities are fine to promote, but unless you properly optimize your website for Search Engine Success, you might find yourself running around in circles. Pick up a copy of 3 Steps to Search Engine Success and save yourself a LOT of time and unnecessary hassle. Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.NEW SEO RESOURCE!
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) begins with choosing the right Keyword Phrases to attract targeted prospects. Internet Home Business marketers who focus on the use of proper Keyword Phrases enjoy the most online marketing success.© GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comAs a continuing student of effective SEO practices, I try to spend some time each week learning and applying effective SEO techniques to enhance the visibility of my StarrBizz.com Internet Home Business opportunities website in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). The first thing I learned about SEO was that your keywords must be relevant to your website. Visitors who have found your site via a search engine are looking for something in particular and you don't want to disappoint or discourage them or you will quickly lose them. The second thing I learned was that you need to choose a keyword phrase that gets a reasonable number of searches each month, but not a phrase with too much competition. Your goal is to have your website appear on the first page of search results with a phrase that a good number of people are searching for, but if that phrase is too popular with other Internet Marketers, your chances of making the first page are reduced. It can be quite a balancing act to find the right keyword phrase, but tools and resources are available to help make the process easier. One popular keyword phrase tool is the free Google Adwords Keyword tool. This resource will help you get an indication of the number of searches there are each month for your desired keyword phrase, or for any alternative phrases you want to check. In fact, the tool will give you alternative phrases. My SEO mentor, Suzanne Morrison, says that depending on your market, she does not recommend choosing a main keyword phrase that drops below 2,000 searches a month. To test how much actual competition a particular keyword phrase has, you can type it into the search engine with quotes. Suzanne does not recommend using a keyword phrase where the number of competing sites is over 100,000. "Anything under 1,000 should be easily achievable," she adds, and "anything in between should be achievable with some work."After choosing your keyword phrase, type it into a search engine (no quotes) and check out the first-page competition. What do you think? Can you compete? Is it worth working towards using the keyword phrase you have selected? Other factors to be considered in your decision are the number of backlinks the top competitors have and how well they have optimized their websites using the keywords in their page title, page headline and throughout their web page; also, whether or not they are a popular authority site or a major company. One thing to note is, even if they have more backlinks than you, you may still be able to compete with them if they are lacking in their keyword phrase optimization. Here is another handy tool that I use regularly to check the number of backlinks my Internet home business opportunities site has and my competitors have: Marketleap.com Link Popularity CheckSearch Engine Optimization is an important practice for any online marketer looking to gain an advantage on the Internet. Proper research and use of Keyword Phrases is vital to your Search Engine Optimization efforts. When you apply effective SEO to improve your ranking in the SERPs you attract more traffic to your website and you enhance the profitability of your proven Internet home business ideas and opportunities. Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.NEW SEO RESOURCE!
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a big thing for any Internet marketer trying to rank well in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). We all focus on positive SEO, but what of the Search Engine no-no's? © GT Bulmer http://www.StarrBizz.comLike many Internet marketers and home based Internet business enthusiasts, I work at improving my SEO knowledge and practices on a regular basis. Typically, I try to apply new, positive SEO techniques that I become aware of as quickly as I am able. But there are also a few SEO no-no's that a good webmaster needs to be aware of that could do their web site and SERP standings harm if they aren't careful. This is not a complete list, but it gives a few examples of things to watch for: - Keyword Spamming: Experienced SEO practitioners know the importance and value of selecting the proper keywords and then sprinkling those keywords throughout the text on the web page. However, loading the page or "stuffing" it with too many keywords might actually do more harm than good. Use a keyword density tool to adjust the number of keywords accordingly. - HTML Errors: A few HTML errors on your website won't be much of a problem, but too many errors on your web pages could prevent your site from being indexed. Use a website validation tool to check for HTML errors on your site. - Flash Intros: Search engines cannot understand flash technology, so while flash movies on your home page may enhance the look and image of your site, they may also prevent it from getting the search engine rank it deserves. A text-based home page is recommended. - Linking to Bad Neighborhoods: If you link to a site that has been penalized or banned by the search engines, your ranking can be negatively affected. Check the quality and appearance of a site first, before linking to it. Also, check to see if it is indexed in Google. Visit Google.com and enter "site:http://www.example.com" where example.com is the site that you want to check. - Spamming on Forums and Blogs: Forums are a great source for information and inspiration and they can be another way to get backlinks, via your forum signature. Commenting on blogs can also be a source of backlinks. However, whether in forums or in blog comments, it is important that you respond thoughtfully and in a way that supports or contributes to the topic. Otherwise, your comment may get deleted or you may develop a reputation as a spammer. If you are an Internet marketer or home based Internet business enthusiast interested in improving your Search Engine Results Page rankings, be sure to expand your SEO knowledge and practices, focus on the positives, but be aware of the SEO no-no's you need to watch out for. Sincerely, GT Bulmer www.StarrBizz.com - Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiesYOUR COMMENTS: Want to leave a comment about this blog post, or read comments from other visitors? Click on the post title, then scroll down the page to find the "Post a Comment" button.NEW SEO RESOURCE!
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