Adopting a Local Search Strategy for Multi National Clients 0 commentaires

By Jennifer O.

When you say `Local Market Strategy`, most people think of local as at the city level. In search that means Google Local, using Geographic delimiters in keywords, Local Directories, etc.

But for large enterprise sized clients, a local search strategy is one for a particular country. Multi nationals typically are faced with the decision:

Are they going to have one overriding strategy for all markets

or

Are they going to have a local strategy (including different products, pricing, etc) for each market (country) that they play in.

and how this question is answered has a HUGE impact on your Search Strategy (at least it should).

Why is a Local Search Strategy Important?

Google gives preference towards local websites within the search results. Canadian companies get special treatment on .ca; Brit's on .co.uk and recently American's on .com.

As the search engine algorithms change, it is very likely that more weight will be given to local factors. Although it is currently very common to see a handful of large powerful sites dominating the results on a multitude of extensions, in the future it will become more difficult to rank in another country.

How does Google determines a websites nationality?

There are many factors that help the search engines to determine the nationality of a website:

1. the extension - is it a (.ca); (.co.uk); (.com.au); (.com); ect, etc.

2. Hosting - where is the site hosted?

The best way to be considered local to a particular extension is to either use that extension in your url or be hosted in that country.

If you have a .com and are looking to rank outside the US, beware of your hosting solution. Hosting companies may appear to be local when in fact they?re hosted in another country themselves.

Other signals to the search engines that help with the nationality of a website include:

3. Google Webmaster Tools - country selection

4. Whois - address of registervv

5. Contact us page

6. More difficult to control but - the country that most of your links are coming from. For those of you who outsource most of your link building to another country, this could have serious implications in the future.

What are the considerations when determining whether to adopt a Local Search Strategy?

Essentially there are three major alternatives to evaluate. Each with it?s own pros and cons.

1) Do nothing ? try to rank with the .com

Pro's

* Do nothing is an alternative that should always be evaluated. It?s the least costly of the alternatives (at least from a developmental standpoint) as there is no need to invest in a new website.

Con's

* This alternative is more viable if you are already a hugely powerful site.

If you're not, then chances are that it may take a lot of time and effort to catch up to your competitors. Sites that rank well for reasonable competitive terms on many extensions typically are older sites (5 to 10 years old) with typically '000's of links and '000's of pages indexed.

* This strategy may work in the short term but may be less reliable 2 years from now. If the search engine algorithms evolve to take more of a local market strategy you may find that you lose your ranking in countries that are not your local market.

2) Set up geographic specific pages using sub domains

For example http://targetedcountry.clientname.com. This strategy would be supplemented with a link building strategy focused on pointing links to the sub domain.

Pro's

* It is possible to associate the sub domains with a specific region to Google

* Sub Domains can be hosted separately from the parent domain so can make local to the search engines. * Also, you can define geographic region in Google?s webmaster?s tools at the Sub Domain level so targeting a specific country is do-able.

* There is speculation that there may be a ?sharing? effect on the link building so that links built to the Sub domain benefit the Parent and visa versa. If true, then this might reduce the ?sandbox? effect on the sub domain.

* From a branding perspective, this solution allows a company to keep it?s brand intact as each country lives off the Company?s domain.

Con?s

* There will be a lot of work involved in setting up the new domain including creating new content specific to each domain.

* There is likely be some "sandbox effect" on the new sub domain. This is an important consideration as it will impact the ability for the sub domain to rank within a period of time.

* This alternative splits up the link building effort across multiple urls

3) Set up entirely new websites for each country

Pro's

* This is probably the best way to rank in any one country over the long run

* This is definitely region specific to the search engines.

Con's

* Unless you had the foresight to buy up a bunch of domains years ago, it is unlikely that you will be able to obtain all of your brand?s domains for each extension that you need. If you haven?t? already done this DO IT NOW whether you?re considering a local market strategy or not.

* If you can't get all the url's that you need then there will be some impact on your brand.

* There will development cost and time involved in setting up new websites for each market.

* There is likely be a "sandbox effect" on the new site.

* This alternative splits up the link building effort across multiple urls

Ultimately there is a lot to consider when determining 1) if a local search strategy makes sense for your company and 2) how best to implement it.

This is definitely a case where one solution does not fit all.

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Start Your Own Work At Home Business-7 Tips You Need to Know 0 commentaires

By Graham Williams

Starting a home business is not tedious. In fact, there are many advantages in starting a home based business. You can savor the fun of working in your home atmosphere and can work at your convenient schedule. But running your own business calls for lot of commitment and effort. You must know how to handle time for work and family. Even So, your hard work and effort would be rewarded well.

Before you start a work at home business here are some points for you to consider:

1. Whether you would have the freedom to choose when and where to work?

2. Whether the home business would allow you continue your current job and work at home?

3. Would the business want publicity or gimmicks?

4. Will your home business require any investment?

5. Are there any hazards in starting a home business?

6. Do you need further training and support to better your home business?

7. Do you know with any one with a flourishing home business who can help or mentor to you?

Another significant thing for you to consider when starting a home business, is to do something you are truly passionate about. This is because you will put greater effort without any difficulty because you already truly love doing this.

Starting a child day care center, candle business, decorative gift baskets, wall paintings, fashion jewelry, photography, party rentals. All these are inexpensive ways to start. However, you may find that these businesses may require lot of effort and be time consuming. But once your business is up and running, you will be able to harvest the rewards for your efforts.

If you have a computer at home with an net connection, then your home business opportunities are enormous. You could start a work at home internet business if you have the sufficient knowledge to do so .One thing to consider is, beginning your own online dating site which will provide more profit from each member that joins your site.

However you would need some investment. The dating website can earn you handsome profits when members subscribe for premium membership and when existing members renew their membership. The main benefit of this business is that you need not have any previous experience for this.

You must take the time to get an prepared plan for your business, if you do then you can plan to fail. By making a plan it will help you to improve your home business and make it more efficient, which all leads to more profit.

You can allot a room in your home for business purposes. Then arrange for the needed things like a chair, computer, cabinet, phone etc. A comfortable chair is really important if you have to work for hours at your computer. Also consider filing the essential paper work in a cabinet. Keep it organized!

Time management is one of the most important things when you start a home based business. You require to have the ability to prioritize your work so that you can achieve success. Remember success equals profits.

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Unique Articles Submitter Reviews Unique Article Wizard Business 0 commentaires

By Unique Articles Wizard Fan

Unique Article Wizard is an article submission strategy. Every article you write becomes unique and is submitted to over 1,000 top article directories and ezine publishers. Getting your business to the top of google is simple and easy.

Article marketing and submitting unique articles is a great way to promote your online business. Articles can bring your business much needed traffic. It doesn't matter whether you're promoting affiliate programs, selling products, or displaying Adsense on your websites.

Article submission can transform your online business or mlm in a way you had only dreamed about. You will be thrilled at just how easy it is and the results your website will get finding and attracting valuable visitors to your site. It works for any type of business.

The more visitors to your articles mean more CREDIBILITY for you. More visitors to your articles equals more REVENUE & more SALES. In my opinion, this strategy is better than any other strategy on the internet.

Would you like your articles all over the web? Make search engines love you. Search engines will do what they do best - discover unique content and provide it to the public. The result will be motivated, targeted traffic for your business. Sound good? You bet!

Services like this can be very expensive. Most services want to charge you more to upgrade. The Unique Article Wizard allows unlimited submissions. You need a service that is inexpensive if you are planning to use it over the long term.

For just a couple of minutes work each week you could easily have over 50,000 links to your site. Your search engine placement and traffic will skyrocket. Since every article is slightly different, you have many more chances to be found. You will enjoy the benefits of this strategy.

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By LCD Monitor Fan

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Successful Affiliate Marketers - 6 Essential Steps 0 commentaires

By Anson Hall

There are a lot of people who would like to make more money. And one of the ways is to make money online. To this end some of these people will choose to work in the field of affiliate marketing. This is because of the earning potential of it.

You will never be able to make money if you do not work. This is also true in the field of affiliate marketing. Being an affiliate marketer does not mean that you can make money without the need to work. Yet, you should also know how you work otherwise you will just be wasting your time and effort.

1. You will need to first of all join an affiliate program. The most difficult part here is that you may not know what programs you should join. You will in fact find programs which have the kind of products you want to promote. Besides, you will only stick to programs with good reputation.

2. There are marketers who do not want to build their own affiliate sites. However, it is a crucial step if you would like to make money. You have to choose a domain name and start your own site. Make sure that the theme of your site will be relevant to the products you are promoting.

3. All affiliate coaches will tell you that it is important to build and find ways to grow your list. This is because you will have a lot of chances to pre-sell the products when you are sending emails to the subscribers.

4. SEO is very important in order to promote your affiliate site. Of course there are also other effective ways to promote your site. However, SEO is certainly one of the best ways to do so. The beauty of SEO is that you can have free and targeted traffic from the search engines. And the volume of traffic will surely be huge.

5. You can also write some product reviews on your affiliate site. Of course the products will probably be the products you are promoting. You may also try to compare different products so that you can make your site useful to the visitors.

6. Writing articles related to your affiliate products will also help. Of course you will need to take the time to write the articles and submit to the article directories. You will not get any traffic if you do not submit. And the articles will also bring you SEO values since you can build some back links. The most important reason for you to write and submit articles is that you would like to become an expert in your niche so that you will be promoting the products a lot easier.

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I found a better way and fired my sponsor 0 commentaires

By John Wallen

There's nothing better than having a successful home business. I really like this industry, there's a lot of great companies, and I think it's great to have the opportunity to become an affiliate with any of them. The only thing is, how come only 2 % make the kind of money to be able to do it full time, and actually get to stay at home.

There are those of course that had some sort of notion that all they had to do is turn the key and their business would make them rich. But there are those who put in the time doing what their sponsor and upline is passing down to them, and getting no where in their business.

I was the net worker that was in with the bunch doing everything my sponsor was teaching me. But for almost 11 months I had no positive growth in my business, and decided to fire my sponsor. I put a halt to everything he was telling me to do.

I'm not saying I stopped sitting in on internet seminars or anything like that. For sure, the more we keep learning in this home business arena the better. You never know when someone will inspire a great idea you can put to good use.

But it was crazy to keep duplicating things that don't work. I don't even make phone calls to purchased leads anymore. Why waste my time on things that have given me terrible results, It doesn't make sense.

As I said before, looking for new information and learning new things about this industry, I think is important. So I like to look through different ezines, and that's when I found something that blows the old school ways out of the water, and breathed new life into my business, big time!

If your dealing with this kind of failure, and keep getting told by your upline to keep at it, you'll get better it's just a matter of time. You might want to do what I did (fire them) an move on and put this system that has been working great for me to use in your business.

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The 3 Main Ingredients Of A Successful Internet Marketer 0 commentaires

By Kylon Trower

I'm sure you are aware that there is no shortage of people rushing to get their piece of the internet pie. There are already millions of online sites and businesses in existence and now here you are in the middle of all the noise. Standing above the crowd is the only way to succeed in this tough business.

Though it isn't that easy, it is quite simple. Consistency is the name of the game. Far too many times I see marketers advertising there business and next thing you know they vanish. Staying consistent with everything you do is vital to your success.

In my experience, there are three basic areas you must consider and maintain to stay on top of the game. As an analogy, I'll reference the sport of boxing in terms of your attack.

1. Knowledge is your most critical defense weapon. Through education you will more effectively execute your game plan. It will give you the tools to defend yourself against bad opportunities, minor setbacks and poor marketing methods.

2. Discipline is your steady jab and best ally. Your jab is the constant motion and focus you need to wear you opponent. Your opponent is all the competition out there going after your clients attention and credit card. Staying focused and disciplined will allow you to capitalize on your opportunities in the marketplace and steer clear of distractions and scams.

3. Credibility is the big right hook. This is where the business really happens. Its when people know like and trust you and feel comfortable doing business with you. Without this, you can have all the knowledge and discipline in the world but will still end up losing the customer.

Because credibility seems to be the cohesive quality that brings it all together at the point of sale you must stay focused on building this over time. Presenting yourself as a professional is just not enough anymore. You must possess leadership and a command for your subject matter that makes customers feel that you bring value to their lives.

The best way to do this is by sharing ideas, strategies and techniques with your visitors and position yourself as an expert. Anything you learn, be willing to share it and you will gain many trusting fans that will want to learn from you and purchase your goods and services.

There is way too much competition on the internet for you to expect things to come to you. If you want to succeed online you must be willing to stretch yourself and go the extra mile. People will appreciate you and look to you for leadership and direction. Once this starts to happen thats when things really start moving and shaking.

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Sirius Specifications and XM Radio Features on Satellite Radio 0 commentaires

By Louis Soul

There a lot of music programs that are hosted by international and national artist like Eminem, David Johansen Steve Van Zant, the Rolling Stone's producer who can be listen on the Underground Garage channel.

Sirius has a beautiful collection of uncensored comedy that is available to you. You only have to tune into Sirius's stream Raw Dog where you can listen to George Carlin, Margaret Cho, Cheech and Chong, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock

In comparison with the XM, the Sirius satellite radio has less quality in sound and the XM's stereo separation is wider. So, we all hope for improvement.

The XM radio

XM Radio provides over 150 programs that include music, sports and entertainment, traffic and weather channels.

There are entertainment shows on XM radio hosted by Tom Perry, Snoop Dog or Quincy Jones. Comedy shows may be found on the High Voltage channel where shock jocks Opie and Anthony do their job now uncensored. In totally, XM has three comedy channels including a family comedy channel. Beside these, there are more radio channels like Playboy Radio and Public Radio hosted by Bob Edwards which includes a line of NPR shows that you can enjoy whenever you like.

Satellite radio is great for you especially if you travel a lot. If you are traveling across the United States of America, for example, you can listen to the channel or channels you want during your whole trip, without losing signal or getting static. If you have a traditional radio, you will have to keep changing channels every hundred miles, but if you are using satellite radio you do not have to do that because the geographically availability of programs is not a problem. Satellite radio subscribers will soon get the chance to watch video programs as well. Both Sirius and XM services have announced their intention of introducing in the near future a variety of video satellite channels that will have some of the great advantages that are currently available to satellite radio: commercial free programs, great quality of sound and vast geographical availability.

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Make Money From Home Just By Taking Surveys! 0 commentaires

By Steve Halladay

Businesses all want to know what is on the mind of consumers. This information helps them to direct product development and drives other areas of their business operations. At some point, you've no doubt filled out some sort of customer survey, which was used for these purposes. The question people ask quite often is - is there money to be made by filling out surveys?

You are no doubt aware that there are companies who will pay people for their time spent filling out surveys and sharing their opinions. Their thinking is that the input they get from consumers is valuable enough that they are willing to pay for it.

We get asked a lot here if there is really money to be made by filling out these surveys and of course, others ask if these opportunities are legitimate.

We were skeptical about paid surveys ourselves - at least at first. It turns out that you really can make money filing out surveys. In fact, if you do things the right way, you can really make a pretty decent income this way. Let's take a closer look at how it's done.

The first step is to find an online survey network where you can access these surveys. You have two choices:

Option #1 - Free Survey Networks

These networks let you sign up for free and will send you email about available surveys. The downside of free survey networks is that most of their surveys only allow you to enter in a sweepstakes rather than actually paying you.

These networks are used by small businesses who don't have a large enough marketing budget to pay consumers for their opinions. While it can be fun to fill out the surveys, you're not going to make much this way - the odds of winning these sweepstakes are infinitesimal.

Option #2 - Membership Based Survey Networks

These networks are largely used by people who are trying to generate a second income or start a business venture.

These networks charge you a onetime membership fee for access to their lists of survey opportunities.

The membership based survey networks provide their services for bigger businesses which can afford to pay you for your time and opinions.

Membership survey networks also keep their lists of surveys updated so that you are able to get in on the latest opportunities. You can spend as much time as you want on surveys - the more time you spend, the more money you'll earn.

A good idea is to look for membership based survey networks that offer a money back guarantee. This lets you try out the service and if you don't find enough surveys to make it worth your while, you can just get your money back. The best networks are confident in their networks and offer a guarantee based on this.

If you're looking for an opportunity to make a little extra money, filling out surveys is an easy way to do just that from the comfort of your own home. If you have any questions feel free to get in touch. All the best!

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