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Get Site Traffic - How to Promote Your Website
Statistics say that thousands of websites appear every single day. People create them for various purposes and to satisfy various needs - some create them as a hobby, others as a trend, and most of them to "make money with it."
Expanding Your Brand
For a lot of companies they find a single product, which then becomes synonymous with their brand name. This can be an effective way of creating a very strong brand name and image very quickly if you have a successful product on your hands that generates a strong following. All of the color printing you do for your marketing material will sport your product along with your brand name to boost it up as much as possible.
How to Promote Your Website Without Paying a Dime!
One of the big heart aches for website owners is the promotion of the website without spending heavily. In this article I will show 3 sure-fire strategies for marketing your website and the best part of it is that you can apply these strategies without spending a single dime on promotional funds.
Website Promotion Methods
If you own a website or a blog then you should know a lot about it's promotion. Website promotion is needed to build strong traffic to your website. There are some basic principles which you should understand if you want to earn revenue from your website.
How to Build a Squidoo Lens That Drives Traffic to Your Website
Membership website communities are growing by the 100s daily. For those who want to take advantage of the traffic driving power of these sites it is important to choose one that truly delivers. If you've not built a Squidoo lens, what are you waiting for?
Getting Your Site Indexed in Google in 24 Hours
Getting your website indexed in Google and other search engines can be a difficult task if your doing it manually. Luckily easier and more efficient ways are available. Of course these are free tips.
Site Promotion - When Banners Can Be Better Than Using Pay Per Clicks For Tra...
Once everyone starts using a technique, its effectiveness becomes greatly compromised. That's what happened with banners. However, over the years, there has been a massive campaign against banners. But there are a few savvy marketers who have found a way of making them work like magic. In fact, if you know what you're doing, they can give you a better return on investment than the major pay per click search engines.
Interested in Site Promotion? Here's Something No Site Can Succeed Without
What do you think no site can succeed without? Is there really anything that all successful sites have in common no matter what niche they are in? Yes, there is. And, if you know what that is and ensure your site has it, you'll certainly join the league of successful businesses online. But if you don't have this you CAN'T succeed online. So please, cut the long introduction. I want to know what it is so I can have my own share of internet wealth.
Site Promotion - Can You Really Do it For Free?
If you have a site then you know that if you do nothing, NO thing will happen. You have to take active steps to ensure you promote your site. Billions of dollars are spent annually on site promotion. Is there any thing the average Joe can do? Can you really promote a site for free?
Branding Yourself Online - The Discovery Process
Branding yourself online is not an overnight process but it is a bit like building a building one brick at a time. Ignore people who tell you you can "get rich" overnight and resolve that you will take the time to build your business properly. Taking the time to do it right now will give you a business you can proud of and a sterling reputation online.
Why Should I Pay For Your Website Traffic? Will it Increase Sales?
Do you realize that you're potentially wasting your time with free website traffic? This is mainly because free traffic is nowhere near as targeted as paid traffic. Here's why you should pay for targeted traffic to your website
Creating Publicity For Your Website
There are two ways in which you can promote your internet business - either through advertising or publicity. Generating good, positive publicity for your website can fetch you customers who already have formed a favorable opinion about you. This is very different from advertising.
Ways to Increase Website Success
Do you own a small business? Does your business have a website? Do you wish your website would lead to more sales and less frustration?
Submission to Directories
One of the best ways to get more traffic to your web site is to the increase the number of incoming links ("backlinks") leading to the site. This is because people surf the web by clicking on links, and thus every link to your site represents a potential source of traffic. Additionally, search engines such as Google take incoming links into account when ranking the listings in their search results, and web sites with more incoming links tend to rank higher and generally receive more traffic from search engines.
Submitting to Directories
Internet directories contain listings of web sites, generally at least a title, description and link for each listing. Additionally, the listings are used organized in a hierarchical structure of categories and subcategories. For example, a web site about motorcycle repair might be found in the "maintenance" subcategory, which itself is "motorcycle" subcategory under the "vehicles" category. Some directories of course specialize in listing web sites relating to a particular subject or topic, whereas others contain listings of web sites about almost any topic (generally subject to some restrictions, such as not accepting illegal or offensive sites).

Newsfeed display by CaRP

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Displaying RSS Feeds on Your Web Page

 Sanjay Johari

RSS feeds have made it very convenient to syndicate information from various sources. Most of websites and services that publish fresh content, such as ezines, press release, new agencies, blogs make their content available thru RSS feeds. As new content is published the RSS feed gets updated automatically.

Adding RSS feeds to web pages has many advantages. Let us say you have added RSS feeds from a popular ezine on one of your web pages.

• The content of the web page is automatically updated as the ezine makes new content available via RSS feeds. Every time search engine spiders crawl your web page they are likely to find the web page updated.

• The visitors to your web site will also find new content on every visit and they might be tempted to visit your web page more often.

• You do not have to bother about writing fresh content as RSS feeds are updated automatically.

Earlier I had written an article on adding RSS feeds to a web page using java script. While this method makes fresh content available to the readers, the content of the feed cannot be “read” by search engine spiders. Therefore the web page does not get the benefit of changing content from the search engines.

On the other hand php based installation makes it possible for spiders to notice the changing content of the web page. This article is a follow-up of my previous article which outlines simple steps to put RSS feeds on a web page.

For the purpose of this article I have chosen the free version of software available from CaRP. The software can be downloaded from this site:

http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/carp/

The instruction manual which comes with the package gives detailed instructions for installing and running the software. Additional information is available from the site. While there are several options available for using the software, I am showing here the simplest steps to load and run the software:

1. Download the software on your computer. It comes in a zip file. After unzipping save the available folders and files on your computer. These files and folders will be available – carp (folder), img (folder), carpsetup.php, README.html .

2. Upload all the files and folders to the root directory of your website. This can be done by using FTP. If uploading is done file by file, ensure that the names of the files and folders, and location of files in their folders do not change.

3. Create a new mySQL database.

4. Run the setup file carpsetup.php from you web browser.

5. A new page will be displayed. On this page select mySQL database option which is easier of the two options given there.

6. Another new page will open in which you have to fill the details of mySQL database. Click on “Create Database Tables”.

7. The page which opens now will have code which has to be put on the web page where you want to show RSS feed. The code will be displayed in a gray box.

8. Within the code there is “setup code”. This setup code should be pasted into a file called carpconf.php . The file will be available in carp directory. On the html script of this file locate the line “//Add configuration code that applies to all themes here” . Just below this line paste the setup code.

9. Choose a web page where RSS feed has to be displayed. The file name of the page should have .php extension. If your page has .html or .htm extension, you can try replacing only the extension with .php . Normally this should not change the way the page appears in a web browser. If you encounter any problem you could make a new web page with .php extension.

10. At appropriate location of the web page, where you want RSS feed to be displayed, paste the code in the html script of the page. From there you can remove the setup code. It is not required to be added to all pages once it has been added to carpconf.php page in step 8 above.

11. If you now open your web page in the web browser it will start showing the RSS feed which comes along with the package. For changing this to RSS feed of your choice you will need to make changes in the code you have entered in step 10. In the code there is a URL after CarpCasheShow. Change this URL with the URL of RSS feed you wish to display.

Now the web page will display the RSS feed of your choice. You can choose to display more feeds on the same page or have separate pages for RSS feeds for different sources.

You can see this page on my website on which RSS feed has been added using exactly the steps shown here.

http://www.sanjay-j.com/RSSFILE/homebusinesspop.php

You can see some more pages from the links on left column of this page.

I have tried to make the process easy to follow. You can always refer to more detailed instructions which come with the package. Take advantage of the free content available and use them to boost your page positioning and traffic to your website.