Tag: targeted website traffic

Coming up with the right topic for a successful subscription website is usually the biggest stumbling block for those wanting to get into this business.

Choosing your site topic is a serious issue, as the topic you choose pretty much dictates your chances of success with a subscription website. However, more serious than the topic of … Continue

The Washington Post is instructing reporters on the importance of link building

How many times have you heard that building links are important?

Reporters at the Washington Post recently received a memo briefing them on the importance of linking content. … Continue

Client consultation opportunities available

As I mentioned yesterday, the Mequoda Team has been re-structuring my consulting programs over the past 18 months. Our new Minimum Consulting Unit is a two-hour quarterly WebEx meeting, which anchors a Mequoda Gold Membership Program that costs just $300 per month.

While the discussions I have with my clients take many forms, … Continue

How to Get Targeted Website Traffic with a Keyword Strategy – and Like It!

Whenever you get together with a group of editors from several different publications, you’ll always find yourself with a mixed bag of professionals who either love or hate search engine optimization.

In general, the editors who love SEO are the ones who have … Continue

Discover how Yahoo, InvestingDaily.com and Forbes.com are utilizing the portal subscription website model

A portal subscription website aggregates content from outside sources. Portals are intended to build and feed an audience; they are specifically designed for SEO, email marketing, list building, and lead generation. … Continue

The sole purpose of a dedicated landing page is to get that order.

Dedicated landing pages are designed to receive targeted website traffic and convert users into buyers or subscribers. They may attract organic traffic, but are dedicated to converting traffic, regardless of the source.

Generally traffic arrives at dedicated landing pages via links from sources the … Continue

The ultimate goal of all landing pages is to move users to action; how do you decide which landing page templates to use?

After reviewing literally thousands of media websites, we have identified two classes of landing pages, organic and dedicated.

Organic landing pages are composed of a mix of editorial and conversion architecture. There are eight … Continue

This free report from Mequoda Group discusses tips on successful methods for SEO copywriting

(Nationwide)—The ultimate goal in SEO copywriting, regardless if it’s for a sales letter landing page, an article page or a topic page, is to choose and include the right keywords, attract targeted website traffic and optimize the page to ensure it gets … Continue

Successful publishers evolve and so does their content marketing strategy

Smart publishers will tell you that once they started optimizing articles and landing pages for Google, search engines have become their biggest source of incoming traffic and email subscriptions. Social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin have become the second largest source of incoming traffic.

We … Continue

Identify your landing page templates and discover why articles are your #1 best sellers

Landing page templates aren’t just for taking names and selling products. Those are steps #2 & #3. Some landing pages, like an article landing page, is the introductory first step that convinces them to move on.

There are lots of landing page templates … Continue

These classic case studies are Mequoda best practice examples

Mequoda unlocks more free content. That’s right, now everyone has access to all forty of our Publishing Case Studies formerly part of the members only Mequoda Library.

What are they and what can you learn from them? … Continue

One of the twelve landing page templates found in our 12 Master Landing Page Templates free report

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As an online publisher, I was happy to see our publishing schedule increase. We are now releasing more content on a daily basis so our audience, new and old, can … Continue

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Begin experiencing organic growth by utilizing Google’s Keyword Tool in order to find the best keywords to target with your SEO copywriting efforts … Continue

2 Ways to Approach Search Engine Optimization, Link Building & PR
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Get ranked in Google and make search engines become your largest source of targeted website traffic! … Continue

Rapid Conversion landing pages drive website traffic 24/7/365

When you think of a landing page, what do you picture? A single page, long copy, highlighted text, lots of bolding and italicizing, strong headline?

That’s one design for a landing page, most likely a rapid conversion landing page or email capture page. Rapid conversion landing pages are … Continue

Article landing pages are search engine superstars

Article landing pages are most often associated with search engine optimization (SEO), but are also used for attracting any type of organic traffic. This would include any text link given by a webmaster or editor who is referencing one of your webpages as a source of good information on … Continue

Twitter is now the second largest source of Mequoda’s incoming website traffic, and a major audience development driver

Using social media marketing to drive targeted website traffic and build your online publishing community … Continue

Drive Website Traffic: How to discover online friends you didn’t know you had when a Google Alert tips you off to new link-building opportunities.

Our recent post about How to Defend Your Online Content from Theft prompted Michael Geneles, of 87 Interactive, to contact us with this tip:

Our recent post about How to Defend Your Online … Continue

Why it’s critical to have one authority page, ideally a Rapid Conversion Landing Page, as the reservoir for all your internal and external link juice.

We often write about the importance of researching, documenting and managing your keyword universe. It’s a process you must pursue and manage with discipline if you want any chance of getting … Continue

Claim your FREE digital copy of Blogging for Marketing 101: Blogging Advice for Publishers Who Want to Learn How to Monetize a Blog now. … Continue

Think about every page on your site as a landing page and start converting all of your visitors into subscribers or buyers.
Many people think that a landing page is just one type of page. When you think of a landing page, what do you picture? A single page, long copy, highlighted text, lots … Continue

Upsell Landing Pages are specialized landing pages that offer the user an additional product or service as part of the process that acknowledges a prior transaction. They are highly effective when properly executed delivering conversion rates as high as 20 to 30 percent, depending on the offer. … Continue

Sales Letter Landing Pages are traditional direct response sales letters that are used to maximize the conversion rate for a paid, usually credit-card-required offer for a paid information product. These same letters are often used in email and postal direct marketing programs. … Continue

Rapid Conversion Landing Pages are used to entice a user to enter into a low-risk (AKA low-friction) transaction. This type of landing page is used when there is no cost to the user (a free offer) or when payment is delayed and includes options (a bill-me later offer). … Continue

Glossary Landing Pages are landing pages that must both attract targeted website traffic and convert visitors into subscribers, buyers or registered users. These pages are most often associated with search engine optimization (SEO), but are also used for attracting any type of organic traffic (referrals where the referring website’s algorithm or operator is making the … Continue

Dedicated Landing Pages: Rapid Conversion, Sales Letter, Upsell, Access Challenge, and Priority Code. Dedicated landing pages are designed to receive targeted website traffic and convert users into buyers or subscribers. They can coincidentally attract organic traffic, but are dedicated to converting traffic, regardless of the source. … Continue

A directory landing page is an organic landing page. These are landing pages that must both attract targeted website traffic and convert visitors into subscribers, buyers or registered users. These pages are most often associated with search engine optimization (SEO), but are also used for attracting any type of organic traffic (referrals where the referring … Continue

These are landing pages that must both attract targeted website traffic and convert visitors into subscribers, buyers or registered users. These pages are most often associated with search engine optimization (SEO), but are also used for attracting any type of organic traffic (referrals where the referring website’s algorithm or operator is making the decision to … Continue

Access Challenge Landing Pages are the landing pages that a user encounters when trying to access premium (member-only) content from a site for which they are not a member, or for which they are not signed-in. … Continue

12 Online Business Models that Successful Publishers are Using to Distribute Content and Make Money Online … Continue

Choosing the Right Keyword Phrases to Attract Targeted Website Traffic and Using the Google Visibility Index to Track SEO Success … Continue

Learn the 12 Webpage Templates Used by Today’s Top Publishers to Convert and Monetize Website Traffic … Continue

Leveraging Content and Keywords to Drive Targeted Website Traffic, Build Email Circulation and Sell Information Products … Continue

Choosing the Right Keywords to Attract Targeted Website Traffic

Don considers this “the new direct mail”. Keyword research and implementation is perhaps the most complex, yet effective way to drive the most search traffic to your website. The idea is that if you research your keywords and compare the search to pages ratio, you can choose … Continue

Should your internet marketing system include earned media?

Email circulation and revenue per email subscriber are the two key metrics for every Mequoda Marketing System. The first priority for system operators is building email circulation. The goal is to attract as many subscribers as possible to the free email newsletter and let the newsletter’s content do … Continue

Requesting an email address in exchange for permission to send additional offers

Dedicated landing pages are hardcore, direct response pages. Their only goal is to get the user to complete a transaction.

Dedicated landing pages are designed to receive targeted website traffic and convert users into buyers or subscribers. They can coincidentally attract organic traffic, but are … Continue

The newest free report from the Mequoda Group

Looking for a crash course in landing pages? How about for free?

Well you’re in luck, Mequoda has a new free special report: 8 Master Landing Page Templates and When to Use Them. Just follow the link, submit your email address and the report is yours.

Landing pages are a … Continue

Use this simple process to make your Internet marketing system a continuous improvement machine that produces ever-increasing revenue and profit

About 80 to 100 times a year, I get hired to audit or review the Internet marketing strategy for a publisher who has a website that is making money. The goal of the review is to … Continue

Landing pages should convert targeted website traffic. That means having an organized system that matches the user with the right landing page.

The more targeted the landing page, the better the chance of conversion.

Your landing pages are the first place users encounter your website, so choose and design them well. … Continue

Attend SIPA’s June conference and take home practical methods to make your company more profitable.

SIPA’s 31st Annual International Newsletter and Specialized Information Conference is set to be three days of discussing the most powerful industry trends and best practices. It is being held from June 3 to June 5 in Washington, DC, and will feature … Continue

Take the information you have, profile your customer base and become an expert news-source.

There is nothing like free publicity. It is easy on the bottom line and draws more users to your website. It’s fantastic. Its only drawback is that free publicity can be difficult to generate—until now.

Scott Brueggeman, Socrates Media senior vice president for … Continue

A freelance writing formula suggests a time management model for online publishing success
Years ago, long before the Internet and the birth of online publishing, my old friend Alden Todd was a full-time freelance writer.

He had a regular desk at the Library of Congress and he spent his days researching subjects about which to write books … Continue

Mequoda views Internet Hubs as one of the most important website archetypes available to a publisher. Without a well-designed, well-marketed Internet Hub, an online publisher is forced to rely on other websites and other media to drive targeted website traffic. … Continue

Creating a Flexible and Adaptable Business Plan that Will Maximize Your 2007 Online Revenues & Profits

Perhaps the thing I like most about the Mequoda Marketing System is its flexibility.

This online publishing system is all about maximizing the value of online advertising inventory (website space, email newsletters and email promotions). This is true no matter how … Continue

Most Mequoda operators publish a variety of print information products. These books, magazines, newsletters and reports present an ideal opportunity to drive targeted website traffic to a Mequoda Internet Hub. … Continue

Call it damage control, call it public relations. Keeping tabs on what others say about you and your organization is crucial.

I introduce to you Google Alert. Google Alert is a service that monitors Google’s pages (and the entire Web) for your interests, and emails you when a new result pops up. They call themselves the … Continue