Increase Your Credibility Online With Web Site Awards

Web Site Awards are given from other sites to reward your site for a specific reason. They will usually give you an award graphic or text link to include on your site if you win. Awards are great to display on your Web site because they will give your business more credibility to your visitors and customers.

Some things your Web site could be awarded for are;

Web Design
Content
Load Time
Web Features
Ease of use
Originality

If you think you have a chance to win one of these awards submit your Web site to the sites that give out web awards. Visit other peoples Web sites and see what awards they have won. Only register for awards that are related to the content of your Web site; this helps promote your site to your targeted audience.

Before you register to win an award, make sure your Web site is ready. Your sites content spelling and grammar should be correct. It should be easy to navigate through your Web site. Graphics should be related to the content on your page.

Create your own awards site for other Web sites. Give the winners a graphic or text link to place on their Web site when they win. Thiswill link your Web site to theirs and draw more traffic to your Web site.

Ways To Get People To Visit Your Web Site Again And Again

1. Polls

Hold an interactive poll on your web site. Ask visitors a poll question. Have them e-mail their vote or opinion. People love to give their 2 cents worth. They would also like to read the
results the next day or week on your web site.

2. Prize Drawings

Hold an ongoing prize drawing on your web site. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your subscribers. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site
to get the results.

3. Original Content

Give your visitors content they can't read anywhere else. I'm not saying all your content has to be 100% original, but a portion of your web site should have original information. People will usually read information they haven't read before.

Online Joint Venture Ideas

A joint venture is when two or more businesses join together to work on a project for a set period of time. Doing online joint ventures can increase your chances of beating your competition, increasing your sales and profits, saving time and money, getting valuable referrals, and increasing your market share. The following are ten online joint venture ideas:

1. A simple joint venture would be exchanging text links or banners with other related web sites.

2. Share a web site with another business with the same target market. You both will be marketing and advertising the same web site which means double the traffic.

3. Exchange testimonials or endorsements for each others products or services.

4. Combine your products or services together with other businesses into one big package. You could split the profits.

5. Do you have and product or service that doesn't sell good? Offer it as a free bonus for another businesses product or service. In exchange ask for a small portion of the profits.

How To Use Bartering To Gain An Advantage Over Your Competition

If you have a business on the Internet you should be bartering goods and services with other businesses. You should always try to trade for something before you buy it. Barter deals usually require no money. Although sometimes you may need money to offset the value of the goods or services being traded.

Bartering will give you many advantages over your competition. It can save your business money. You can spend the extra money on a buying paid Internet advertising. It allows you to offer your products and services at a lower price than your
competition. You can afford to get the higher priced goods and services to compete on the internet.

There are numerous ways to find barter deals online. Set up a barter message board or chat room on your web site to get more barter offers. Note on your web site or e-zine you are willing to barter for goods and services. Join newsgroups or e-mail discussion groups that are about bartering. Join an online barter club to meet other businesses that barter. Find web sites that barter by looking up the keywords barter, trade, or swap in your search engine of choice.

How To Double Your Online Sales Anytime

Create a discount sale on your web site. Use the sale to get rid of excess inventory, gain new or repeat customers, and increase your sales. Most businesses pick a theme for their sale, like a Halloween Sale. Below are six unique sales themes you could use:

Nobody's Visiting Today Sales

Every online business has low visitor and sales day through the week. My days are Tuesdays and Thursdays. You could sell your products or services for cheaper to increase and sales on your slow days. You could have this advertised right on your web site.

Time Of The Day Sales

Periodically, pick out a time of the day like 5 to 7 pm to lower your prices. With online sales you need tell people the time zone. Announce your scheduled times ahead of time in your e-zine. This will give people enough time to plan when they will visit your web site.

Product Or Service Of The Day Sales

Each day offer different product or service at a lower price. This will draw people back to your web site every day. This is a high traffic generating sale. If you don't have a lot of products and services you may want to run the sale weekly or monthly.

How To Create a FREE Blog

You can BLOG for free, if you created a free blog, using the free blog site. There are very many free blogging sites, but the most recommended is BLOGGER, which is powered by GOOGLE. The free one, which is blogger, ends with “blogspot.com”, though the blogspot.com can be removed if you buy a custom domain for your blog. I am letting you know how to create a free blog of your choice and free of charge. This is a very good teaching for you if you are interested in how to create a free blog on blogspot.com.

A blog is being used to share things online. You can use it to share news, videos, tutorials, pictures, etc to the whole world and even make money online or offline while doing it. Because some peolple pay money only to learn how to create a blog, and now I am teaching you a free blog creation.

Let’s get started……………..

STEP 1
go to www.blogger.com or www.blospot.com (They are all the same, the difference is just the addresses)