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IDN Buying Tip: Do Your Research

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Do your research into the meaning of the names you are purchasing and decide what you are trying to accomplish with your site or sites. Choosing your IDN or group of IDNs is not unlike selecting a standard domain name. There are a few key questions to ask yourself before deciding on the IDN or IDNs that will work best for you.

What are you trying to accomplish with your site(s)? Is the site being used to generate traffic for an active business, or are you hoping to flip the domain and sell it for a profit in the future?

Is the domain name easy to remember? Is the name short and sweet and to the point? The most value comes from sites that have not only memorable names but names that hint at or state exactly what the site is about. It may be a household name now, but Pandora.com may have been hard to remember at first because it did not imply a radio music offering in the name.

How about the variations? Another hard rule for any domain purchasing; you may want to lock down a specific and popular name or word. But, have you thought about variations or accounted for typos? If you are going to put the money into a powerful short name, it’s worth it to buy the variations too. For example, many big name sites take this into account and make their “typo pages” redirects for their actual site. For example Wal–mart.com redirects to the stores actual site, Walmart.com. Try to be intuitive for your prospective visitors or buyers needs and typos!

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Three Traditional Marketing Tips to Use for Network Marketing

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Use Social Bookmarking Sites

As you may have noticed, beneath each post on this blog there area a few counters and logos for sites. The Affiliate Blog uses the Share This tool to easily let any of our readers share our blog posts easily on Facebook, Twitter, through email or through social bookmarking sites. If you aren’t familiar with social bookmarking sites, they are a lot like their name implies. Social bookmarking sites allow you to create an account and profile so that you can favorite or bookmark any links you want, these favorite links then become part of the profile you have created with these sites, and people can browse your profile for links. Your favorite links are also shared in a feed for anyone one to stumble upon. You can use social bookmarking sites to bookmark your own important blog posts and encourage your visitors to do so too. This is great for SEO and just sharing your site in every way possible.

Create Content Ahead of Time

As we’ve shared in past posts, a great way to increase SEO and your visitor base is to ensure you always have fresh content. It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you visit your website and realize you need to update it and write something right NOW. But instead of getting in moments of panic, create content ahead of time and create a schedule. If you have WordPress you can even schedule your posts to be published on specific dates in the future. You site is going to look more viable when your content is new and relevant to your readers.

Explain Things Simply

The GDI opportunity may be simple to you, but remember that people visiting your site might not quite understand it yet and need a little guidance. This is where it is ok to be very simple and straight forward in your writing. Explain the GDI opportunity to your site visitors and why it is important to them. Be clear and concise to help answer some of their first questions. Bullet points, images and personal success stories can help to make your point as well. The better you explain the opportunity and benefits, the better chances you have to succeed with GDI.

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More SEO Tips and Tools for GDI

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Website Design

Your website design is important for search engines to be able to find you. Flash only webpages do not rank well in search engines as they can’t tell what your text is. Your site should have a good balance of keyworded text and images as well as all the content you want to share.

Fresh Content

Try to change your content every now and then. Sites that are updated often tend to rank higher in search engine results. This can be as simple as a weekly update on your news or adding timely material that you know needs to be changed out—like a short lived contest or discount. This way you will have hold yourself accountable for updating content and removing dated material.

Links

Links are an extremely important part of SEO and specifically backlinks. An easy way to add backlinks without the help of other sites is to link back to your own content. For example, if it is a blog post and you are referencing a past post, put that link in.

Links back to your blog rank especially high if they are coming from outside pages. So connect up with other affiliates and marketers and share links. Submit content to other websites and request they link back to you if they use it. These are all super simple ways to get your page rank higher in search engines, while simultaneously advertising your site and opportunity.

Blog

If you don’t have the skills or time to update your main website content every so often, consider adding a blog to your site. As we showed you in this post, getting started with your own WordPress blog is easy, and posting is even easier. Take the time to write a quick update and post it to your blog, search engines will see this is part of your website and that it is being updated frequently, ranking it higher.

Captions

If you use photos on your blog—add captions. This is a simple trick to allow more keywords on your site. Label captions as what they are but use careful consideration or the keywords you want people to hit your site with. You can caption an image of GDIs top tools like Inviter as “Use the tools shown above to be a successful network marketer.” This uses the keyword “network marketer” and explains what your image is a the same time giving you better SEO.