Great free 7 day eCourse for Twitter on Business at http://www.TwitterReviews.com. Lots of good info

What’s this blogging to the bank all about? http://bit.ly/rb8Vy

We have just tested and put into permanent service amongst all our accounts, a new Twitter tool called TwitterAdder.

We were especially impressed by its ability to:

Increase Twitter and Site Traffic to your event, charity, service, business, band, or website.
Find like minded Twitter followers in seconds
Auto Follow up to 1,000 targeted profiles per day
Get up to 500 new Twitter followers per day, per profile
Multiple accounts, unlimited Twitter profiles & chaining
Automate Twitter Posts, Scheduled Tweets, stay active without actually being active
Automate scheduled Direct Messages
Auto Unfollow, VIP Safe List
Best Twitter Search, including global location and multi language searches
Set it and Forget It! Runs daily, automatically
Every Twitter feature imaginable
Spend time with your family, take off for the weekend, go on vacation! It’ll do the rest

This has made a huge difference staying up with our multiple (remember, we have over 150 properties under development not to mention our customer projects) Twitter accounts and meeting new people who have something in common with us.

Absolutely amazing! but it isn’t cheap. If you would like help getting more targeted followers and managing your Twitter account, check out our Twitter account management options for less than $1/day. You’ll be glad you did.

We are pleased to announce our newest product launch, Voted5Stars.com, a premium business directory with a unique marketing system that offers local businesses:

Traditional directory advertising

Unique Referral system and Marketing platform

Search Engine Optimization functions and tools

Social Network integration (i.e. Twitter, LinkedIn)

Banner advertising options built right into the profiles

Exclusive training from My Internet Consultants

This premium directory will offer local customers the ability to post FREE local Events, FREE local Classifieds and receive FREE Coupons from merchants that have been Voted 5 Stars by their own communities.

Voted5Stars.com will premier August 3rd, 2009 in Dallas, Texas and be rolled out to all other major cities approximately every two weeks.

Select a Voted5Stars.com professional, and you’ve chosen someone endorsed by the communities who use them.  These corporate and individual achievements bring a loyal following to share with other like minded professionals in an environment that is one of a kind.

Our customer fan base is known for their loyalty and also willingness to share their experience with friends and family to ensure that everyone they know enjoys a service level unmatched by anyone.

Nominate your favorite service provider to be considered by the Voted5Stars.com team and ensure that they will gain an unmatched notoriety upon acceptance.  Be sure to share you own experience with us here.

Window Sticker Award

Before you seek another service provider, make sure you look for a Voted5Stars.com 2009 seal of approval in their place of business and presentation materials.

Our members are “one of a kind” and provide unmatched customer service and products.

We are so confident in our system, that if you don’t your subscription costs back in 60 days, we’ll give you a 100% refund and you get to keep the training materials that we provide as a gift from us.

No Questions Asked!

Excellent video showing how businesses can utilize Twitter to enhance their models with speed that they have not imagined before.

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SEO – Keyword Research

Keyword research is about the most important part of your success. You can be great at implementing all the proper SEO techniques, but it will all be in futile if you target the wrong keywords .

Before you code a line, or write a single word down, you should begin doing your keyword research.

The first thing I want you to do is go to goodkeywords.com and download the keyword tool they have there. It will allow you to search a keyword and for that search keyword it will also tell you the number of times a keyword or keyword combination has been searched for over a time period.

Now you’re just starting out, and your chances of getting ranked highly for a generic keyword is very slim. Instead of trying to optimize "keyword", try to optimize something a little narrower like, "Keyword Research".

You really shouldn’t write for the engines. Write your content so it’s readable, fresh, and above all navigable.

If you write about your keywords, and use them in your content you will be just fine.

Remember, sites that are written for HUMANS, with SEO in mind will do better in the long run , than sites that cheat.

Your ultimate goal when you do research for keywords (both high paying keywords and keywords that get a lot of traffic), is to find a happy medium between the amount of traffic you can expect if you rank well and the amount of competition you will have. If you can’t rank well for your chosen keyword, try to rank well for a keyword combination.

In order to be successful in getting the high positions in the search engines you also need to know how much competition there is for a word. Keywords or keyword phrases that are very competitive need more than just a well optimized page to rank high in the search engines. Off-the-page factors like link popularity and anchor texts in the links that point at your web page are very important to consider when choosing keywords.

In conclusion keyword research is the first and most decisive step you will take when optimizing your web site. It will determine how successful you will be.

Your keyword research should be a factor in your meta-tag writing and your page titles.

Converting Visitors into Sales

Tracking and analyzing website conversion rates is essential to the success of your online business. At My Internet Consultants, we consider the monitoring of conversion rates to be as important to the life of your website as SEO. Adding our state-of-the-art analytic reporting to your Website Management Program will ensure that we remain aware of what drives visitors to your site and ultimately converts these visitors into sales. To keep ahead of your website’s competition, we consider the following three components vital to Website Management:

1. Reporting of Comprehensive Website Analytics. Understanding the web components that convert visitors into sales – and striving to keep these components in place – is the key to raising conversions and managing a profitable website. To monitor these elements, MyInternetConsultants uses a state-of-the-art analytics software that identifies visitor entry/exit points and “time spent”, visitor geographic, click streams, click origin, popular (and unpopular) site content usage, marketing channels, visitor trends, conversion keywords, and other visitor behavioral data.
2. Chart/Analyze Website Analytic Data. Analytic reporting provides “behind-the-scenes” non-biased information about the inner workings of your website. By analyzing analytic data on a regular basis, your Website Management team can make the necessary changes and/or additions to your website that may improve conversion rates. The process of improving conversion rates is a “work-in-process” for any website. Tracking visitor trends, monitoring web page stats, and continually tweaking the elements that keep your site user-friendly will naturally create an environment that encourages your visitors to purchase your products or services.
3. Test, Improve, Convert. Success does not happen overnight. Improving website conversion is an ongoing process that should always be included within your plan for site maintenance. Because visitor trends, habits, and behaviors invariably change over time, our objective in managing your website is to study patterns and make adjustments accordingly.

Choosing professional SEO Website Design for your business will lay the foundation for high conversion rates well before site launch. Creating an appealing website with quick-loading pages, easy-to-read text links, seamless navigation, and plenty of keyword-rich, informational content will naturally encourage high conversions. Analytic reporting provides tools for making information-based decisions. Contact a SEM Specialist at MyInternetConsultants to discuss how SEO Website Design and analytic reporting can greatly benefit your online business!

Pay Per Click is one of the most effective methods of advertising you can use to generate targeted traffic to your website. Where Pay Per Click was once was considered too expensive for smaller online business budgets, it is now used regularly by large and small alike. At MyInternetConsultants, we understand that, as a new online business owner , you have many elements to consider when planning your company’s financial future. We offer our expert services for handling the vital, knowledge-based tasks that you simply do not have time for. Pay Per Click advertising may very well be one of those tasks. From researching keywords , to creating a budget, to writing and then monitoring the progress of your ads, MyInternetConsultants will handle every aspect of your Pay per Click Campaign.

Although you and not the PPC site always determine the price per click, the potential for spending huge amounts of money with no ROI is unfortunately very high if you do not understand clearly the PPC/keyword connection. One reason for the very recent onslaught of Pay Per Click users is the fact that internet marketers are finally learning to use the complex search engine/search term relationship to their advantage. The better PPC users become at choosing relevant, refined keywords for their PPC ads, and the more savvy they become at keyword bidding and ad testing, the less expensive it becomes per click. Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing – the two most popular PPC sites – now reward well-written ads and keyword relevancy with lower per keyword click rates and top positions on search pages even if competitors showing lower quality ads have bid higher.

Competitive per click bids range anywhere from 0.05 to $3.00 (some keywords go for over $10.00)  per click on most PPC sites. Those bidding on broader keywords will always have to bid high for top slots. The trick is to find a more refined version of broader terms and bid lower prices for top positions. Once you have chosen your keywords and carefully written your ad, you set a budget and daily spending schedule for your ad campaign. A cost-effective PPC Campaign takes time and effort to plan and implement but it is an effort that you will find most beneficial. The wonderful advantage of Pay Per Click is that due to the highly targeted ads and keywords, about 98% of the traffic it sends to your website is traffic that wants to see what you are selling.

Conversion/Click Through Rate reports are available on most PPC sites along with keyword research tools. MyInternetConsultants.com uses innovative marketing and SEO software to create the most cost effective, successful Pay Per Click Campaign possible for your online business.

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Search Engine Marketing is the practice of specifically  advertising your website via search engines such as Google, Yahoo, AOL or MSN. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is essential to the longevity of any business website and may consist of one or more of the following components:

•    Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – the practice of applying specific techniques to the design/content of a website in order to satisfy the guidelines of a search engine and, subsequently, raise its listed or Organic ranking position on the pages that result from specific keyword searches.

•    Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) – Also called Sponsored Results. Carefully written, keyword-targeted text ads are presented for placement on the results pages of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other engines. The more relevant your keywords , and by outbidding competitors on the price you are willing to pay each time someone clicks on your ad (i.e. pay per click), the higher your ad will appear in the search engine results.

•    Website Evaluation – Still not sure where to start?  We can help with a professional website evaluation of your website to determine where you place in the search engines, if you have broken or sloppy programming code within your site (search engines punish sloppy coding), broken links, the usability of your website (how easy it is for users to navigate) and many other features that will be vital to a new or existing business.

Why is Search Engine Marketing Important?

Today’s highly competitive business climate expects businesses of all sizes to own their own website and most do. Search Engine Marketing Campaigns can encompass many methods, including those listed above, as a means of driving targeted traffic to your website.  Ideally, this targeted traffic will lead to higher conversions and increased revenues for your online business. MyInternetConsultants will monitor your SEM Campaign around the clock while you attend to company details. We will work together in creating a comfortable budget for your marketing needs and then design strategies that are both highly effective and cost-efficient.

Compared to other means of marketing/advertising , search engine marketing can bring you more bang for the buck! My Internet Consultants will implement inexpensive SEO techniques geared towards organic, or natural , high search rankings. Our expert Pay Per Click copywriters will create highly successful PPC Campaigns , driving traffic to your website quickly!

Let us create the perfect SEM Campaign for your online business.  Contact us today (toll free 800.270.4125) for a free consultation.