4 Key Reasons Why Articles Are The Best SEO Tools
October 24, 2007 by Rhonda Crosby
Filed under Blog, Search Engine Optimization, Traffic Generation
There are many tools and strategies that you can use to improve your ranking on search engines and drive traffic to your website.
Among all the different search engine optimization (SEO) strategies, writing and submitting articles remains the best strategy. This article outlines the key reasons why articles are the most powerful SEO tool.
- Article writing is powerful in SEO because it allows you to use many keywords and phrases that apply to your niche. If you know all your essential keywords, you can use them in your articles. The articles you distribute that have your keywords will get picked up by search engines such that when people surfing the internet type in these keywords, your website comes up. You can rank high on search engines for all your keywords through the articles that you write and distribute on the internet.
- Article writing brings life long results in SEO. All the articles that you write are stored and archived on the directories in which they are published. This means that all your articles can be read by anyone and can still drive traffic to your website. Unlike other tools of driving traffic to your website, articles bring long term results.
- Articles create many back links to your website, which improves your website popularity rank and ultimately drives large volume of traffic to your website. If you write high quality articles, your articles will get published by many websites and e-zines, hence increasing back links to your website. Having many links pointing back to your website is important as it improves the position of your website on search engines.
- Articles are an affordable SEO tool. Writing and submitting articles is not expensive. You can write your own articles or you can hire a ghostwriter. You can manually submit your articles or you can use some software to automatically submit your article to many directories. Generally, use of articles to improve your position on search engines is not expensive and anyone can afford it.
Writing and submitting articles is clearly the best strategy for improving the ranking of your website on search engines. If you want to succeed in SEO, it is important that you write and submit more articles.
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10 Ways Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant Helps Grow Your Business
October 2, 2007 by Rhonda Crosby
Filed under Blog, Outsourcing, Smart Business
Most internet marketers and small business owners try to wear too many hats! They try to do it all themselves and only end up wasting productive work hours.
Is your business running YOU instead of you running your business? Do you find yourself doing the same repetitive tasks day after day? Ever wonder how the most successful marketers manage to get everything done while you seem to be treading water?
What’s their secret? Outsourcing!
Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or services to take on part of your business workload. You may want to outsource part of your work because you don’t have the room, you need an expert, you have periodic busy periods, or you need more production to get orders out on time, etc.
If you’re so busy you need an assistant, yet you don’t want the hassle of dealing with an employee, keeping track of employment records, and paying out a full-time salary, a virtual assistant may be the answer for you.
Virtual Assistants offer a creative staffing alternative that provides practical solutions for small businesses.
Virtual Assistants, (VA’s) work from home, offering services for businesses which might not have enough work to justify employing their own full-time administrative staff.
With more and more businesses utilizing the internet and technology, it just makes sense to hire a Virtual Assistant. The following are ten ways a Virtual Assistant and outsourcing can save your business time and money.
1. You won’t have to take the time to train employees. This will allow you to spend more time working on your marketing and advertising campaign.
2. You won’t have to do time consuming tasks like adding on new equipment or learning new software to
complete certain tasks. This will allow you to spend more time testing your advertisements.
3. You won’t have to interview employee candidates. This will allow you to spend more time improving your
customer service, in return you will get more repeat purchases.
4. You won’t have to fill out all the employee paper work like tax forms, scheduling, retirement plans, etc. This will allow you to spend more time developing new products.
5. You won’t have to buy extra office or work space to complete certain tasks. You can use all the money you
save on other business expenses.
6. You won’t have spend money on employee costs like taxes, medical, vacation time, holidays, workers comp., unemployment costs, etc. (These may vary depending on which country you do business in.)
7. You can speed up you order and delivery system with the extra help. Your customers will appreciate the fast service and you’ll have a higher chance that they will buy from you again.
8. You could expand your market share by becoming a middleman and offering your subcontractors products or services. This will increase your business profits and give you multiple income streams.
9. You can take on extra or large orders your business couldn’t handle before. This will expand your market
share and you could also offer to take the work your competition can’t handle.
10. You could get end up receiving orders from your VA. Your VA may also tell other people about your business.
As the founder of eBusinessAssistant.com I know firsthand from helping our clients get their online business off the ground, that without outsourcing, many would not be in business today.
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