Monday, February 25, 2013

5


Question-Answer sites are very helpful to generate genuine traffic for your site. It is one of the methods that I use myself. You just need to spend a minute or two promoting your site in a proper fashion on those question-answer websites, and you can wait and see the traffic flowing in. What you need to do is, go to these sites and find some questions related to your niche, then answer the question properly giving a link back to your own website. Sometimes, I do create questions on my own and answer them myself. It is a promotional strategy but I don't think it is bad in anyway - the question-answer site gets more question and I get more traffic. It's a harmless method. I suggest you people to try it, if you haven't done so already. Remember, it's okay to link to your site but do not Spam the links on every question!
Here are some question-answer sites which you can try to generate traffic :
The best one I have found so far. Both Question and Answers need to be approved by the staffs before it is posted.
Another Question-Answer site that works like a charm. No approval is required to post question and answers.
Answers community with lots of users. If you can promote your site properly here, you can get lots of traffic. Yahoo Answers is very strict though. So do not try to spam or even post the same answer on many questions; they'll get suspicious and ban you immediately.
4. Quora
You can start asking questions and answering them, immediately after you register. You can easily log-in with your Facebook or Twitter account.
Answers community similar to Yahoo Answers. However, they are not strict and you can even post same message or links on many questions without getting banned. Just make sure to post on the appropriate questions.
Others.
Here are some other Question-Answer sites to try :

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

4


This is often a situation when your Emails get deleted accidentally. This action could sometime happen unwillingly but some time it may be due to a purpose. It may be done by an ex-girlfriend, colleague or friend who somehow managed to gain access to your Gmail account. The other possibility may be a successful hacking attempt and a hacker who likes to be destructive, or a service provider issue.
Whatever the reason is the point to discuss is if emails get deleted which you still needed then you need a way to get them back. For the purpose I am advising you to create regular Gmail backups you can access the deleted emails right from within the program’s interface. This guide parenthetically explains how to backup emails from different providers including Hotmail.
The folks who have no mail backups still may have a chance to restore their deleted Gmail messages, if the following requirements are met:
  • Mails have not been deleted from the Gmail trash
  • Less than 30 days have passed since the deletion
In Gmail when the user deletes emails, they are not deleted completely but moved to the trash of the service instead where they are kept until they are deleted by the owner of the account, or after 30 days of being stored in the trash.
For checking the emails that you have deleted and want to recover from trash, you have to do the following:
Open the Gmail homepage and sign into your account
  • Locate the trash on the left sidebar. You may need to click on the more link before you see it.
  • You can alternatively enter in:trash in the search to display it directly.
  • If you find your deleted messages here, you can restore emails by selecting them and then using the move button to move the emails to the inbox or another folder.
  • You can alternatively use the select all option to recover all emails found in the trash at once.
In case the deleted messages are not found here, you can try the following alternative options to recover them:
  • Try to search for them. Maybe the messageshave not been deleted but only moved to another folder. By searching for the messages, you make sure that this is not the case.
  • Check the All Mail folder which you find listed on the left sidebar. You may need to click on the more link before it becomes available here
  • Check mail forwarding settings. While that won’t let you recover your emails, someone may have configured Gmail to automaticallyforward some or all messages to another email address.
  • While you are at it, check filters as well to make sure that mails do not get automatically deleted because of filtering rules


Monday, February 4, 2013

3


The length of time that you can keep your visitors on your website can be a crucial factor in determining how successful your blog will be.
Simply getting traffic in the form of thousands of unique visitors daily is meaningless if the time they spend on your site is less than a few seconds or your bounce rate is more than 95%.
There are certain things you can do in the way you present your pages and posts which will maximize the chances of your visitors sticking around for a longer period on your site.
The longer people stay the greater your opportunity to monetize their visit or convince them to take your desired call to action.
call to action is an Internet marketing term which refers to the primary action that you want your visitors to take when they land on your page or website. One example of a call to action  is where you want someone to click your “buy now” button and purchase your product. Another might be that you want to get people to download your free ebook after signing up as members.
Below are some tips which will help you to keep the attention of your visitors or at the very least keep them interested long enough to stay and explore your site and ultimately perform the call to action you want them to.
  1. Remove unnecessary external links from your landing pages and use internal linksTrying to increase the average visitor time on your site is one of the ways that you can decrease your bounce rate and increase your rankings.If you use Google Analytics you’ve probably already heard of the term “bounce rate”.Bounce rate (as defined by Google) is:“..the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page”.
    Therefore plastering your affiliate banners and links all over your pages can work against you if your visitors leave your site immediately from the page they entered from.
    Try to entice your visitors to read more by offering them some relevant links to another internal page or post where you provide a useful review and which ultimately contains your affiliate banner. This way you are not pushing people straight out of the same door they entered.
  2. Use emotion to present your messagePeople most often buy from emotion whether they admit it or not. This is because the actions which emanate from emotion are quite often subconscious.
    Hence, an emotional response is much more likely to achieve a call to action than a logical one.For instance if you are trying to convince someone to buy your product by using logic, then the chances are that they will also look at your argument from a rational point of view and they will weigh up the pros and cons of buying versus not buying.If you introduce an emotional element to your message such as presenting a benefit or selling a solution to a problem or highlighting how people can get closer to achieving their dream, then you will appeal to the emotional decision making areas of the brain.
    This will maximize the chances of gaining a customer because it will create an emotional connection between your message and the reader.Therefore once you have successfully forged a positive emotional relationship with your readers, they will happily want to come back to your site to explore further or even become regular customers.
  3. Include video content on your posts and pagesVideo is one of the most effective ways to communicate a message to people. Even short videos of just a few minutes can often deliver more value to your readers than multiple pages of writing can.
    Therefore in the cases where you would usually get people browsing through an article in 10 to 20 seconds before leaving, the added benefit of using a short video is that it increases the likely-hood that people will stay on your site for longer because they are watching your video.
    Video on the Internet is really just a modern extension of TV but the great thing is that you get to be the producer of the content.
  4. Use captivating images in conjunction with your copy or content
    Quite often the right image coupled with the relevant content can induce an emotional response and it can help lay the foundations for the right mindset you want to create before somebody reads your sales pitch or post.
    Humans are quite easily visually stimulated and you can exploit this by using effective images and colors with your message.
  5. Focus on providing value and informative content rather than blatant advertising
    Your content and the value which it provides is the sticking point which helps to build a relationship with your readers. A relationship needs some measure of trust by both parties but when you successfully gain this trust from your readers or clients then you are also creating a longer term investment where current customers also become future customers.There are many ways you can provide value for people who will in turn be very happy to return the favor by becoming a customer. For instance you could offer free online courses or a series of tutorials which people can access after they sign up as free members.
    You could also set up your own forum or support system which provides help to people but also an opportunity for people to interact with each other.