One way to get better rank and positioning in the search engines is to allow your website to grow over time. This is, obviously not for a mini-site (created solely for the purpose of selling an ebook) although I have certainly taken a mini-site and grown it into a larger content site behind the sales letter in the past. Building Value into Your Website If you are redesigning your website, or growing it for search engine boost and traffic, don’t just add more content on the same topic. Spin off your topic to something closely related and incredibly useful to your visitor. A few ideas are: Add...

If you’re brand new to website ownership, your site is launched and you’re not getting any visitors or website traffic… It’s time to tell the search engines your website exists. These numbers are not exact by any means, but depending on your market, 40-60% of all search engine traffic that is sent by any website will come from Google. Yahoo will send another 30-40% and MSN will follow closely behind Yahoo. There are a number of smaller search engines that both humans and the search engine robots use to create listings and links, but these are the big three. Perhaps the easiest...

It’s time to switch things up a bit on makemoneywithyourideas.com. For the next few weeks I’ll be talking about website traffic; getting qualified and targeted visitors to your online business and a few tricks to website promotion. You know, whether you’re building your site for advertising revenue (you create content and your advertisers pay space to be ’seen’ on your content), you’re building your site for affiliate revenue (you promote other people’s products or services for a commission), or you’re building your site to make sales of your products...

Some would tell you that online promotion and marketing is easy, common sense, or that a successful online business can be established overnight. Others will tell you to buy their ebook or home study course where in 2 days, 3 audio files and 40 pages you can begin raking in big fat world wide web checks. Learn to Market and Promote in 40 Pages or Less – Ask Laura (July 20/06) “Ha!,” I say! Internet marketing, website promotion, online business building is indeed very easy – to those that know the game or have already established a presence. But to the un-initiated, the un-taught,...

This email writer is asking how to make money online with free articles and a Google Adsense account. Although this may have been a great way to make some decent cash a few years ago – too many competitors exist now and the work getting any site established in the search engines using duplicate content is very difficult. Earning With Adsense and Free Articles – Ask Laura (May 22, 2006) Hi Laura, I have a question that never has been answered clearly by others so I thought maybe you might be able to enlighten me. My daughter and I are working together …edited location… and...