Small Business Web Development Services

Have A Web Presence, Not Just A Web Site.

Why do you need a Web Presence?

Well in the 21st century a business without a Web Presence is like a store without a window.

There are many things to consider when building a Web Presence for a business. Looks are only one of pieces.

1. Most of your competitors are probably already on the Web attracting the people who could be your customers! That could be frustrating, because you know that your products and services are superior to those of your competitors! Small business web development services can help you reach those customer that are looking for a solution to their problems.

2. Your customers and potential customers are already searching the Web - for the very services you offer. Even as you read this there will be someone on the Web looking for a business like yours. SEO web site development will put you into the right position to be found by those potential customers.

More and more people are using the Internet to purchase products and as a means of gathering initial information about products and services. The attraction to this medium is that the customer is relaxed because he can read and research the information at his own pace and without any “hovering salesmen”.

It is quite feasible that the surfer will visit a number of sites before he/she decides on their final choice of product. You need to be certain that you are one of the sites that he/she has visited if you are to stand a chance of gaining their business. If you have no web site, you have no chance.

3. Your web site presence will promote your business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even when you’re sleeping your web site can be working for you.

Yes …… but I use the yellow pages. The yellow Pages is generally only available on a local basis; not to mention the fact that unless you can afford a very large advertisement (more then the annual cost of a web site) the information you can present is very limited. Surveys show that the trend today is away from the yellow pages and on to the internet.

Your web site can be viewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. If you are selling your products internationally then this is a major advantage as visitors from all over the world can, for example, view your wares while you are asleep! An email enquiry will be waiting for you when you get up in the morning!

But even if your business is restricted to the U.S., you will be amazed at how many people research for products and services at the weekend and in the evening. They are busy business people and very often this is the best time for them to concentrate on researching for a new product or service.

Research shows that over 70% of the people interviewed use the internet rather then the yellow pages to find a new business, or to research a business/product before making a purchase. Of those that use the internet 30% NEVER use the yellow pages.

4. Your customers can buy your products and pay for them while sitting at their computers. It is estimated that it costs 8 times more to sell a product from a shop than from the Internet. It also saves your customer gas.

Selling online has to be one of the most cost efficient means of doing business. Night or day, you can do business with a customer in any part of the world, and his payment is made directly into your bank account -without you even knowing! All you need to do is to print off and process the orders. Of course if you have a product that can be sent via the Internet you don’t even need to do this.

5. Your web site gives you more advertisement for less money.

You can have pages and pages of information about your company and your products or services - in much more detail than you’d ever be able to pay for in more traditional media.

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locations for vending machines

When you are first beginning in the vending machine business and if you do not have a bunch of cash flow you might want to start with some basic strategies like cold calling for example. Now sure it’s really not a captivating way to build your business but it does work.

So here are a few things that you can do to get started with cold calling.
first prepare yourself by having a business card or at the very least a one page simple flyer.

With a business card just have some basic information on it about your service and your contact information.

If you desire to use a one page flyer then this method will allow you to have more information on it. Here are a few things that you can put on your flyer.

Vending services available to your business. We provide full service vending, fresh products and have excellent quality vending machines. We will allow you to use our vending machines for free and we restock our vending machines on a regular basis. Please call and then put in your phone number.

That’s it. Keep it nice and simple! Very short and not to complicated. The goal here is to just get your message across quickly and without delay. We want them to contact us so we can get our vending machines into their business.

Then take your flyer to as many local businesses in your community and start asking questions about any vending service providers that the local businesses are using. This is a interesting way for you to do some constructive research and homework while scouting out locations.

vending machine location

You would be astonished at how much information you can get by just asking questions to the staff at each location. You can find out what kind of vending machines the have, pricing, service and many other things as well.

I would move forward in this manner until you have a few locations under your belt then look at re- investing some of your earning s and then widen your business by using some advertising as well.

When searching to advertise just be careful how and where you spend your hard earned cash. You want to be sure that you are getting a good return on your investment and a good return means leads and locations. So choose wisely.

You need leads and people calling you period. Then it is up to you to do the rest and close the deal on the location. So get your cards in order and the first step to do that is to learn as much as you can about the vending machine business. This will help you in all aspects of your business and most importantly keep your hard earned cash in your pocket.

At the end of the day this is in my personally opinion the best way to get started especially on a low budget. I have been a vending machine business operator for over ten years now
and I know this works. Just remember as long as there are local businesses in your community there are always going to be people who need help.

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When you hear about Black Hat SEO, you might be thinking about some dark, ominous and unethical doings. However, not all Black Hat Search Engine Optimization is the same and you don’t have to be unethical in your internet marketing to indulge in the black hat techniques that give you the edge against your competitors.

Black hat techniques at Black Hat SEO System is Revealed also including the way to hide content strategically within your web pages and this is basically the concept of putting content and keywords within the html code on your website so that it is not visible to your web site visitors.

The reason for doing that is that there are so many black hat hackers who will copy your html code and use it to their advantage. After all that hard work, I am sure you would not want someone to just come along and reap the rewards, would you?

You can do this easily with the use of comment tags within the html code. Here is an example of how that would look:

<!– put your web site keywords within this space –>

A programmer developer uses these comment tags for including notes while they are doing their programming. This helps them to mark the starting point of the programming and ending point. The difference in Black Hat SEO is that these comment tags are not filled with notes, but with keywords instead, which helps you to earn search engine ranking with your web page promotion.

You can also use noframes tags in your html code, form inputs that are hidden, text size and text color changes that are not seen by the visitor, but are still on the page.

These black hat SEO techniques protect you from black hat hackers, but you have to be careful because the search engines don’t know that you are only trying to protect your work from hackers. Search engines see it differently and you can get your site banned if you use certain black hat SEO techniques.

Another black hat method is cloaking. In the black hat SEO world, cloaking is used most frequently and its popularity is known among many affiliate marketers who want to hide those long URLs.

However, there is a different kind of cloaking, which involves placing duplicate content on your web page in such a way as to trick the search engine crawler to think that the content is fresh and unique.

If this type of content is done for the intention of only getting traffic to your site and not valuable to your visitors, then the search engines consider this as Black Hat SEO on the dark side.

However, if it is relevant and valuable content, it may be considered as White Hat SEO instead of a Black Hat system. The kind of Black Hat technique that I want you to know about is ethical because it will be following the rules of the search engines while looking for loopholes to get traffic to your website.

Howie Schwartz has released this new kind of Black Hat tricks called, “Black Hat is Back,” and you will feel more comfortable using these methods that legally put you at the top of the search engines in no time.

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Getting the word out on the services that your business offers is the key to get your business running. Today, website creation has been one of the most popular means that business owners have resorted to in order to get themselves known. The work does not end, however, as soon as you have accomplished putting up your website. You have to make sure that the pages are updated accordingly from time to time. More importantly, you have to optimize your website to be able to generate significant traffic from the audience that you are aiming to reach.

Optimization can be tricky, but you do not have to do it on your own. Key Scouts, a top Internet Marketing firm, offers SEO packages that you can avail to drive traffic to your website. These packages have laid out strategic plans to ensure that your website achieves top search engine rankings. The best thing about these packages is that they are affordable!

Each week there is a new “must have” marketing course that hits the internet. You see email after email in your in-box from all the gurus. They claim simple “new” tactics will flood your bank account once you get the new course.

So you click over to the sales page to find the usual $1,500+ days from a guru’s Clickbank account. Some go as far as to show off their fancy cars and homes to you as well.

If the truth is to be told most people can only dream of that kind of money. I know when I started out the thought of making more than one thousand dollars in one day was far from my mind!

Heck, I was trying to figure out how to earn enough just to pay my utility bill. Wouldn’t it be nice if some of these gurus gave real examples of real people making real money with their system?

This is what SEO Press Formula has in its arsenal that other gurus don’t offer. With the SEOPress Formula System, there are real people who have already achieved success with the SEOPress system.

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What the heck is SEOPressFormula?

SEOPressFormula is a new course that was created by an underground marketer (Brian Johnson) that has been using wordpress to simply dominate Google and other search engines for years.

Be Warned - This Is NOT BLOGGING!

I have received a few emails from folks about SEOPressFormula and the most common question is:

Is this another “blogging course?”

The answer is no way, not even close.

SEOPressFormula is your *free* traffic blueprint that combines
search engine optimization with wordpress.

SEOPressFormula Is NOT About:

- Blogging
- PPC
- An Affiliate “Secret”
- Squidoo, Hubpages, ect ..
- Google Adwords
- Is Not The Same Old Tired “SEO” Book You Have Already Read

What is the one common element that all successful online
business posses?

Can you guess what it is?

It’s traffic.

** Those that drive traffic make money, it is just that simple.

However, traffic is the one element that eludes so many marketers. Maybe you have tried Google Adwords, you can drive traffic all day long with Adwords. But you need to turn a profit in order to continue, and truth be told most lose money with Adwords.

- But what if their was a system you could use to drive traffic.

A system that was easy to use, was not based on Adwords or PPC and most important.

Can you imagine being able to drive highly target traffic from Google day in and day out to various affiliate offers for profit? Imagine being able to dominate the search engines at will.

That is exactly what SEOPressFormula will do for you.

SEOPressFormula is a comprehensive course on SEO and driving free traffic from Google. Wordpress is simply a tool that is used to create a powerful website quickly and easily.

When I saw this course I was amazed at the depth of instruction!

- 5 Hours Of “How To” Video Tutorials
- 70 Page Core Training Manual
- 2 SEO Optimized Wordpress Themes

I cannot think of a better course to get started with than SEOPressFormula at SEOPressFormula - Is it a scam or not. With it you have all the tools you need to drive free traffic and make money.

When looking for a good internet marketing consultant to do SEO work for you there are some thing you should be aware of. The main thing is “Dirty Tricks”, by that I mean doing things that may get you on the first page of Google one day and BANNED by Google the next. Here are a few things that are a no no.

Here at the Arizona Internet Marketing Consultant Co. we do not do things in this manner.

Hidden Text

Invisible or hidden keyword rich text. That is done by making the text the same color as the background.

The casual visitors cannot read this, but the search engines crawlers or bots can read the text. But if the search engines find this out your web site will be taken off their ranking permanently.

Wrong submission

Some people think that submitting their web page using automatic submission software will get instant results. Some such packages promise submission to 500 search engines and more. Don’t fall for it! Such submission can be “Spam”. In addition, there are at best, 8 - 10 good search engines that are worth the trouble of submitting to. You will only be wasting your time and money by using these useless submission software’s. It is better to concentrate on a few good search engines and submit your site once a month for good results.

My Flagstaff Arizona Internet Marketing Consultant office only concentrates on the big three. Google has almost 60% of the search engine market. The rest is divided up between Yahoo and MSN. Sometime we will submit to a smaller search engine because it will give a site a good backlink, that Google will pick up on. There is a small segment of special search engines, but you don’t have to worry about them.

Doorway Pages

Some web masters create doorway pages specifically for search engines and not for human visitors. They are not ethical, as they do not provide any information to the visitors. You might initially get very good ranking on the search engines but once your doorway pages are caught by the search engine, they will ban your web site forever.

Free for all Links

FFA links are a useful way to get listed on top of the search engines. However, don’t link to all kinds of FFAs.

Again, some FFA companies offer you huge number of links at a very low cost but watch out to which type of sites get linked to your site. Check the sites to which you are likely to get linked before you decide. If you do not take proper care before selecting a FFA, you might end up spending huge amounts with no results!

Not only that you may get flagged by Google because you all of a sudden have over thousand non-relevant links to your site.

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If your website rely heavily on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to delivery traffic and sales, you must read this article. Normal SEO is consider a long term strategy that requires a lot of time and effort to get traffic… But everybody always missed this startegy that will deliver great result in the shortest time possible!

We call it the low hanging fruit SEO - long tail keyword strategy.

When you do keyword research, you will identify the major keywords in your market, but normally these keywords are highly competitive, and many SEO expert will start to optimize your whole site for the main keywords, hoping to get tons of search engine traffic and always failed to do so, which is a stupid strategy!

You should try to find the long tail keywords related to your market and easily tap into search engine traffic with the least competition, and because long tail keywords are targeted, you can convert your visitors to sales easier. Here is the reasons:

Reason #1 - We can easily “steal” main keywords’ traffic with long tail keywords, because Search Engine prefer long tail over general keywords, and they will redirect the traffic to long tail keywords from the more general keywords, and at the same time you are building your authority to the major keyword!

Reason #2 - Less competition long tail keyword will be easier to rank high. You can easily use web 2.0 ranking power to easily rank on page #1 for any long tail keywords, and with minimum back links effort, you can out rank any competitors easily!

Reason #3 - Long tail keywords deliver result faster! You can easily get into search engine first page within the shortest time if you target the correct sets of long tail keywords.

Forum and community websites are the best research tools for long tail keywords, you can find many related long tail keywords from Yahoo Answer and forums, and the searchers are actually using Google to find their answer with those keywords, many SEO experts ignored them!

What if you could have a software that helped you to track all your Google Adwords campaigns, website traffic and article marketing efforts so you could tell which keywords brought targeted prospects to your website? Affiliate Prophet Brings More Web Traffic.

Wouldn’t that be really neat? Tracking is very important to your online success. Instead of marketing blindly, you need to know where traffic is coming from especially with Google Adwords campaign.

You will lose a lot of money if you don’t manage your campaigns wisely through tracking.

Keeping a closer eye on your keyword conversion rate will help you to realize which keywords are working and which ones are not. Marketing has a lot to do with testing. However, the only way you can test the market is to have a resource that will help you to measure your efforts so that you focus on your marketing methods especially the ones that are bringing more traffic to your website.

This will allow you to tweak your web page copy by adding the keywords that are converting. You would also be able to extract or remove the keywords that are not converting from your Google Adwords campaign. Affiliate Prophet Brings More Web Traffic.

This is called performance marketing. If a keyword is not performing, then it affects your bottom line. You can use tracking software to test and pull your keywords in a narrower time increment. Armed with this key information will give you the edge over your competitors and make your ad campaigns more effective. You will be able to improve your ads or select the best keywords for your ad campaign.

Google Adwords does offer a free keyword tool that gives a lot of information that you can use to monitor your keywords and see what other competitors are paying for each keyword. However, this is not the only aspect of performance marketing. You want to know which keywords are profitable for your target market. It is better to know the exact keyword that brings a prospect to your web page.

There are many things to factor in with determining adword conversion so having software that can track your efforts is vital for generating sales and not just visitors to your website. When you are promoting a product, you need to have organized information and details that will give you enough leverage to make advertising decisions that will make you money.

Internet marketers who engage in tracking their marketing efforts do fair better than those who don’t. Affiliate Prophet software is a new tracking software that gives you the tools that you need to be profitable online.

It is a handy tool that increases conversion and sales and allows you to organize your marketing efforts. You can read more about the concept of Affiliate Prophet and how you can use it in your online business on my Affiliate Prophet blog here at Traffic Conversion with Affiliate Prophet.

Traffic Exchange Sites

Traffic Exchange Sites are websites where you get page views of your own site in exchange for visiting others.

Many such sites are available. However, choosing the right one or a combination of them can be a very time consuming process.

Basically there are two types. Manual surfing and Auto surfing.

Manual surfing - This requires your input by clicking a button after a specified time period, generally 15, 20 or 30 seconds, although there are a few other variations. With manual surfing, the surfer is expected to view each site. However, with most exchange sites, it is possible to minimize or resize the windows. This defeats the purpose because it allows multiple sessions to be run simultaneously. On the better exchange sites, security measures are often used to deter this.

These are normally random prompts that require user input. For example, after x number of page views, you may be required to enter a code, select a color or image or perform some other variation of this.

Auto surfing - This requires no input. However in reality, your input may be required because of popup or frame breakers. Some traffic exchange sites require that the pages run are maximized and although you can minimize the page yourself, it will automatically maximize at the next refresh.

Both manual and auto surfing will bring traffic to your website, but there is a much greater likelihood of your web pages being actually seen with manual surfing.

Credits - As well as surfing, credits are usually acquired for subscribing, for referrals and for any winnings associated with exchange site lotteries, games or competitions. These credits can then be used to increase the traffic to your site. Some exchange sites will also allow you to sell your credits to other members.

Free or Paid - The majority of Traffic Exchanges offer a paid option. This option may give you a better surf ratio, bonus credits, money for referrals or other benefits. Before paying however, it is important that you test how targeted the traffic is that you receive.

Click for Credits or Buy Credits - Is it worth buying credits?

This can depend on a number of reasons. The two main ones are time and money.

Let’s take an example

At the time of writing the cost of 2000 credits for free members of a well known Traffic Exchange Site was $40. This works out at $0.02 a click. For pro members the same $40 bought 2200 credits.

With the number of clicks limited to 250 per day and page views of 20 seconds this means that in theory it will take you 250 X 20 = 5000 sec or 83 minutes 20 seconds to view the 250 pages. However in practice you must allow extra time for clicking the next button, clicking the title of the page you will be viewing and any sites worth looking at.

Since I am a firm believer in practical results, I viewed the 250 pages. It took me 2 hours and 12 minutes to accomplish this. During that time, I accumulated 854 credits. To buy these credits would have cost $17.08 as a free member and approximately $15.53 as a pro member. Allowing for rounding up, this equates to almost 390 credits per hour or $7.80 per hour cash value.

Now ask yourself this. Would you work for $7.80 per hour?

It is shown here only as an example and to give you an idea of the cost implications for one particular traffic exchange site. The cost of credits may differ dramatically for different exchange sites. If you buy or intend to buy credits from a traffic exchange site, you can apply what is shown in the example.

If you enjoy this sort of thing or want a break from train spotting, you could expand on this. Increase your sample size, increase the number of samples, select a good representation of traffic exchanges and tabulate your results. Choose enough sites and you will be able to create your own league table. There?s a market for everything.

Whether you use traffic exchange sites or not in the quest for more visitors to your site, you should at the very least know what they are and what they do. But don’t totally dismiss them. They are part of an expanding market. I recommend that you try at least one traffic exchange site.

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7 Essential Steps to Web Site Promotion

Web Site promotion should be the major part of your web sitemarketing plan. It’s not enough just to design a beautiful website and put in on the Net. Promoting your web site has to be done constantly if you want to get a continuous stream of traffic to it. If you don’t drive traffic to your web site, youronline business venture will soon fail.

1. Create a web site marketing plan - if you fail to plan then you default to a plan for failure. When designing your web site, create a plan on how to market it as well. This is part of promotion strategies. Try to put yourself in your customers shoes when doing this. It’s too easy to just view your web site from your own perspective.

2. Define your target market - many online marketers promote their web site aimlessly in a field which is too large i.e. they may use bulk mailing as one of their promotion strategies. Of course you may get some visitors but the chances are you will not make many sales. Why? You have not narrowed your field of customers and targeted them.

Getting targeted customers to your web site, will increase sales, because they will have more interest in your product or service than marketing to a general audience.

3. Use several promotion strategies - don’t just stick to one form of promotion because you never know which one will work the best for you. If you use many channels i.e. search engines, email marketing, forums, writing articles etc you have a greater chance of getting more traffic to your web site.

4. Promote continuously - if you want to drive constant traffic to your web site, you must promote it continuously. Web trafficis the life blood of your online business. For example, you could constantly optimize your web pages for the search engines, resubmit them if needed, visit discussion forums every day and write an article for online publications every two weeks.

5. Calculate your return on investment (ROI) - this means keeping track of how much money you invested in your marketing plan and what profit you received in return.

If you calculate it takes 100 visitors to your web site to generate one sale and with each sale you make $10, then you shouldn’t spend more than 10 cents to get each targeted visitor and still make a profit.

In order to know which aspects of your marketing campaign bring the most visitors, you must be able to monitor visitor activity to your web pages.

6. Analyze your web site traffic - by analyzing your web site traffic, you can determine what marketing strategies are successful.

Your analysis may include what keywords your visitors are using to find your web site, which web pages are the most popular andwhere your visitors are coming from. These are essential statistics you should know, instead of blindly promoting your web site and hoping for the best in reaching general audience.

7. Test, monitor and track your results - to run an effective online marketing campaign, you need to constantly test what works and what doesn’t. Tracking the response to an ad may cause you to refine it until it generates a great return on the money you invested. Once your results are satisfactory, you can then roll out your ads on a larger scale and spend greater sums of money. This will come in hand with online selling tips.

Web site promotion strategies will differ for everyone, and will depend a lot on your product, web site and your personality. Try everything you can, record the results, and see what works for you.