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		<title>Webmaster Tips for Emerging Webmasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ankit Puri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time at Extreme Trix, I shared Web Master Tips to Avoid future errors, and today I am going to share some tips for Emerging Webmaster. Previously when World Wide Web was like a village these webmasters have wasted their precious time, energy and intelligence to build it and to maintain it. There were days when [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/webmaster-tips-emerging-webmasters/">Webmaster Tips for Emerging Webmasters</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-662" title="Voice of Users" src="http://passionatebloggers.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/voice_of_user3-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" />Last time at Extreme Trix, I shared <a href="http://extremetrix.com/webmaster-tips-avoid-future-errors/">Web Master Tips to Avoid future errors</a>, and today I am going to share some tips for Emerging Webmaster. Previously when World Wide Web was like a village these webmasters have wasted their precious time, energy and intelligence to build it and to maintain it. There were days when they use to build a website using HTML codes and Java scripts manually.</p>
<p>Today there are many websites and applications using which you can design and build your own website and for doing this you need not have to possess knowledge of HTML codes. Still we need Webmasters around because we can build the website but we will not be able to host it and maintain it.</p>
<p>Webmaster over the years have mastered in the technique to maintain and manage different websites. Although some of the webmasters have moved on with time by integrating their knowledge with the SEO technique.</p>
<p>Today SEO also has become an integral part of Webmasters and eventually maintaining and managing a website. Most of the webmasters are responsible for bringing in traffic to the website as well to maintain the higher ranks in the search engines.</p>
<p>They have to integrate and optimize the website by considering all the possibilities of future maintenance as well future integration of website. They are concerned that their website has to be user friendly, easy to locate and at the same time eye catchy which will clear the main objective of their business.</p>
<p>Webmasters have moved along with the changing technology and they are aware of new software’s like Jhoomla, Drupal and all the functionalities Fantastico Library as well wordpress. Infact some of the templates, which we see on wordpress and on some of the sebdesigning sites, have been created by these webmasters. They are the ones who have to possess all the repeated knowledge of software’s as they have to dupe many roles at the same time. They have to try their hands in painting, designing, layouts, hosting sites in networking as well server maintenance also.</p>
<p>They ought to have knowledge of different scripts and languages, which will improve their working credibility. These Webmasters are generating whatever tips we are getting for the proper use of technology.</p>
<blockquote><p>A guest post by Bilal Ahmad write about seo, blogging and social media and review wordpress plugins like <a href="http://www.wppluginsblog.net/popup-domination-wordpress-plugin-review/" target="_blank">popup domination</a> to help bloggers in increasing mailing list. He has also reviewed <a href="http://www.wppluginsblog.net/keyworld-winner-get-first-page-ranking-for-non-competitive-keywords/" target="_blank">keyword winner</a> plugin which helps in getting top SERP on search engines. Follow him on @techmaish</p></blockquote>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why SIM Only Deals Are Better.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saksham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are thinking of buying a new mobile phone number, then there are chances that you might be being carried away with the temptations of the mobile marketing people and will start to think of changing your mobile also. Please, stop! Read this article on what makes SIM only deals much more advantageous. There [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/5-reasons-sim-deals/">5 Reasons Why SIM Only Deals Are Better.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>When you are thinking of buying a new mobile phone number, then there are chances that you might be being carried away with the temptations of the mobile marketing people and will start to think of changing your mobile also. Please, stop! Read this article on what makes SIM only deals much more advantageous.</p>
<p>There are a number of disadvantages when you buy your phone on a contract, for example, you will not be able to change your plan in between the contract or/and you will not be able to change the service provider. However, if you have your phone and would like a number from a service provider, there are number of benefits, which are listed below:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-640" title="Sim" src="http://passionatebloggers.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/sim-300x225.jpg" alt="Sim" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p class="help"><strong>You can change to the newest and the best plan:</strong></p>
<p>When there is an offer, and if you are on a mobile contract with the SIM included, then you will not be able to change to the most recent plan that seemingly looks like the most promising plan to cut on your mobile bills. Most of the SIM only deals will not put you on a contract. There are two types of SIM only mobile deals: prepaid and postpaid.<br />
Prepaid deals are the ones in which you pay as you go, and most of the time you get most of the beneficiary plans from this type of option, like an increase in the number of free talk time minutes, sms and validity. When you are on a postpaid plan, the chances maybe less that you will be able to go on different kinds of plans, and will offer you a credit limit facility, preset amount of talk time minutes that you will be given the option of opting into to increase you talk time minutes than the standard permitted time for the plan, which depends on your usage.</p>
<p class="help"><strong>You can change the number whenever you want:</strong></p>
<p>SIM only deals unlike the phone contracts will allow you to change the number whenever you want, mostly this being immaterial of the plan you are in, that is, even if you are a postpaid customer, you will still be able to close the old account and number and shift to a new number. Many of the mobile service providers will give you the option of changing your old postpaid number to someone else, while you can giveaway your prepaid number by filling out a form by yourself to someone else.</p>
<p class="help"><strong>You can change the service provider at your convenience:</strong></p>
<p>This is something, which many of the SIM only users are more than satisfied, as you will be able to change to any mobile service provider who is offering the best deal for you. You will be able to do this instantly at any time, and this works well for those who are on prepaid SIM only plans, wherein you can always shift between service providers for the same phone. However, postpaid SIM only customers have to go through a procedure of closing their account to avoid preset monthly bills.</p>
<p class="help"><strong>Better value for the money you pay:</strong></p>
<p>When you are using SIM deals, you receive a better value for the money you pay every month like free talk time minutes, text messages and data plans. You will also have the option of topping up as per your requirement at your discretion.</p>
<p class="help"><strong>You will avoid the burden of learning the new phone:</strong></p>
<p>SIM only deals are best for those people who are not quite tech savvy and are not interested in changing their mobile and/or not in a position to learn to use a new mobile phone at the pace that they do with their old phone. For these customers, SIM only deals are the best option, and they will keep saying that Old is Gold!</p>
<blockquote><p>This is  a guest post by <strong>Saksham</strong>, who loves to write on mobiles &amp; he is an active writer at SIM Only blogs. He is an activecontributor for a <a href="http://www.sim-only.co.uk/" target="_blank">SIM only</a> site comparing SIM only deals and <a href="http://www.sim-only.co.uk/iphone-sim-only-deals.html" target="_blank">iPhone sim only</a> contracts.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Blog, Domain and SEO!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saksham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days the Internet is jam-packed with blogs. There are lots of distinct blog podiums at present and several of them are without charge. I do not observe any “awful” thing regarding utilizing a free blogging podium, in actual fact. On the other hand, sincere bloggers would inform you that it is greatly superior if [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/blog-domain-seo/">Blog, Domain and SEO!</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>These days the Internet is jam-packed with blogs. There are lots of distinct blog podiums at present and several of them are without charge. I do not observe any “awful” thing regarding utilizing a free blogging podium, in actual fact. On the other hand, sincere bloggers would inform you that it is greatly superior if you bring into play your personal domain. This is matched up to the URL that you have from a blogging podium at no cost. If you utilize WordPress, you will obtain a URL including WordPress in it, if you draw on Blogger, you will pick up a URL as Blogspot in it and all that.<br />
<img class="size-full wp-image-633 aligncenter" title="Money" src="http://passionatebloggers.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/seo-optimization-blog.jpg" alt="Blog" width="347" height="346" /><br />
On the contrary is that sufficient motive to acquire your individual domain? I reflect the same. It seems as well as gives the impression of being extra professional as well as “genuine” if you get your personal domain. In addition, for SEO objectives, keeping your individual domain provides you an upper hand.<br />
Consequently what must you deem when opting for a domain pro your blog? If SEO is vital for you and also you like folks to find out your blog, it follows that you are supposed to confirm that your domain given name is key phrase rich. This does not signify that the URL ought to be lengthy – simply go for the correct words to submit there with regard to your blog as well as its subject matter.</p>
<p>This brilliant article is written by <strong>Saksham Talwar</strong>, who shares <a href="http://www.vidzshare.net/" target="_blank">funny videos </a>and<a href="http://www.vidzshare.net/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.vidzshare.net/" target="_blank">funny clips</a> in Vidzshare. Don’t forget to check his website!</p>
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		<title>Passionate Bloggers in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ronen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On describing the passionate bloggers the blogging system is analyzed for some performance of social networking and also advertising. The fundamental instrument of this is to affiliate some product or some service with the getting of some review and impression by the authority. The ultimate destination of passionate bloggers is to design and draw some [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/passionate-bloggers-business/">Passionate Bloggers in Business</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>On describing the passionate bloggers the blogging system is analyzed for some performance of social networking and also advertising. The fundamental instrument of this is to affiliate some product or some service with the getting of some review and impression by the authority. The ultimate destination of passionate bloggers is to design and draw some arts in human life specially the topics on which the authority concerned to. One gets benefits from the passion or the inspiration. Ultimately the bloggers work on comment and reviewing on the specific topics. Thus the networking or the absolute direction takes place by people say.</p>
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<p class="help">Passionate blogging</p>
<p>Most important examples of passionate blogging are share stock business plan, SME. By the draw of the decisions and review in normal life now SME loans become easily and familiar. Blogs in internet are now taking bid winning and corporation. Most of the blogger are starting the agenda for Times Online to provide the full list of top 50 blog alike corporate and anti-corporate. This list is still in progress.</p>
<p class="help">SME Loans</p>
<p>SME loans are collection of fundamental medium sized loans that reproduce the major function of the finance market. Capital is used to handle over market place in different forms like supplied, costs and prices. All the business is externally or internally supplied into the marketplace. Importance and economic providence of SME loans has well defined academic and policy value. It is defined as broaden and collateral on approach by financial department. The main troubles in market place are absent of evidence and witness so that the bank get some trouble recognizing or press monitoring of specific client. Viability based on the concern of the authority itself.</p>
<p>The next option is customer relationship management. This is an important phenomenon of the authority. They have to monitor every single client and have to manage a good relation to increase up their business. This is the main trade of the art of business of a simple or small company which gets larger or become popular by the attraction. So the authority has to maintain a good relation ship with the customers.</p>
<p class="help">Strategy</p>
<p>Their strategy can be complex for large businesses. Their strategy is limited for the contact management in recording and monitoring and also communication. Then come the tools for client reference as below. These tools are as usual before. During implementation by specific departments to address their own need. Systems usually stay that way for soiled thinking and also decision processes for leading to incompatible and separate systems and also for dysfunctional processes.<br />
Their analytic perfection is often interrelated to application for sales and also for marketing services. These facilities can be augmented and complemented with many other links to separate application for business intelligence.</p>
<p class="help">Marketing Applications</p>
<p>About marketing application it generally come with many predictive analytics with the improving segmentation. These kinds of analytics are improving their popularity and also their performance for correcting their problems they affect other levels.</p>
<p>For now business relationships are becoming a challenge for everyone. International fragmentation which is the outcome that is commented upon and observed by customer and becoming visible in the whole work and becoming era of the customers. Noticing this fragmentation requirement is needed for shifting mindset and philosophy within the organization to get consideration of everyone. Human response from all over the world of this level can affect customer experience.</p>
<p>Public interest can change a condition of a company just miracle. The big companies are at this condition with the public and customer satisfaction. With the use of social networking and maintains an equilibrium co ordinance anything can be done dramatically.</p>
<p>[<strong>Added by Editor</strong>: This is a post by  Ronen Vikki.Ronen has many hobbies and interests. As well being a keen blogger and article writer for many sites, he has also recently created a site focusing on <a href="http://www.smeloancenter.com/" target="_blank">SME loans</a>. The site is constantly being updated and has articles on <a href="http://www.crminfoline.com/" target="_blank">customer relationship management</a> to read.]</p>
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		<title>How do I make my Blogs popular?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networks are a great way to promote a blog as it helps in increasing traffic to your blog. Unless your blog is purely personal in nature and only meant to be shared with family and close friends, chances you want to bring in more readers. Nearly all bloggers also want to earn something from [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/how-do-i-make-my-blogs-popular/">How do I make my Blogs popular?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Social networks are a great way to promote a blog as it helps in increasing traffic to your blog. Unless your blog is purely personal in nature and only meant to be shared with family and close friends, chances you want to bring in more readers. Nearly all bloggers also want to earn something from there blogs. At least to cover the costs domain renewals and hosting services, but that requires a large traffic.</p>
<p>After SEO, Social Networking is only and the best way to popularize a blog and earn at least some money. Being a Social Media guy and a professional writer, the main question, which is asked by almost every fellow blogger is How Do I make my blogs and projects popular? My answer is always being the same, but I wanted to share with you all so writing this post. Best way is to do social bookmarking, also Explain Social Bookmarking to your users. Not everyone<br />
who crosses your blog will be familiar to the benefits of social bookmarking. So how to promote your blog via social networking or social bookmaking?</p>
<p>Well, I won’t write too much like those real *** bloggers write about, “Do this, Do that” seriously all those tips are useless and time consuming . Just remember to socialize and popularize a blog you just need to create a network of good fellow bloggers and bookmark or share the<br />
posts. Here is a list of top bookmarking sites:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>StumbleUpon Promotion</strong>: StumbleUpon is great source of incoming traffic.</li>
<li><strong>BlogCatalog Promotion</strong>: BlogCatalog, a network for bloggers, has several ways to promote your blog and articles.</li>
<li><strong>Twitter Promotion:</strong> Twitter is probably the simplest network to use to promote your blog. Simply post an eye-catching, 140 character or less tweet with a link to your new article.</li>
<li><strong>Facebook Promotion</strong>: Facebook offers a number of ways to promote your blog site and posts. For starters, you can create a Facebook Page for yourself or your blog.</li>
<li><strong>Digg Promotion</strong>: Digg allows members to share sites via voting, or Digging, them. The best method of sharing links via this site is not to do self-submissions, but to add a Digg submission button or badge to each article and let your readers submit your story.</li>
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<p>Tip: Remember just share a post once, or ask some of your friends to share the post as if you’ll keep on sharing posts again and again, it would make a bad impression on your readers as well as your followers too. They may think that you are spamming.</p>
<p>Tips by Patsy, who is working for Go-gulf.com, a <a href="http://www.go-gulf.com/web-design-kuwait.php" target="_blank">web design Kuwait</a> company that provides <a href="http://www.go-gulf.com/web-design-qatar.php" target="_blank">web design solution in Qatar</a>, Sharjah and Middle East.</p>
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		<title>Become a More Effective Blogger in Limited Time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 13:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping your blog up, running, and active when you’re short on time can be a chore. Not all of us have a lot of time to devote to running and organizing our blog, so sometimes time is of the essence. If that’s the dilemma you’re facing, here are a few tips that could help you [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/how-become-a-more-effective-blogger-in-limited-time/">Become a More Effective Blogger in Limited Time.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Keeping your blog up, running, and active when you’re short on time can be a chore. Not all of us have a lot of time to devote to running and organizing our blog, so sometimes time is of the essence. If that’s the dilemma you’re facing, here are a few tips that could help you stay effective when you’re blogging but are short on time.<span id="more-388"></span></p>
<h3>1. Social Networking</h3>
<p>For many, one of the most difficult aspects of blogging, and often most time consuming as well, is the promotional side of being a blogger. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and a host of other social networking sites can help you in promoting your blog while also saving you time.</p>
<p><em>Also read</em>: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com/when-does-social-media-strategy-fails/" target="_self">When does Social Media strategy fails?</a></p>
<h3>2. You Don&#8217;t Have to Design Your Own Theme</h3>
<p>If you aren’t really proficient at HTML or CSS, or just don’t have the time to deal with such matters, then you&#8217;ll be happy to know that there are lots of themes available for WordPress and Blogger blogs. Some themes are free and others are paid, but either way you&#8217;ll save yourself the hassle of actually designing your own theme.</p>
<h3>3. Write What You Know</h3>
<p>Yep, it’s the old adage, “write what you know.” Drawing from your knowledge and experience within an industry or niche can save time on research and writing for your blog.</p>
<h3>4. Brief Isn’t Always Bad</h3>
<p>You may not always have time to write an in-depth post, and that’s okay. Sometimes just doing a brief update or short comment on something in the news, or a post to let your readers know that you’re out there and paying attention may suffice. Some of the easiest and often most entertaining posts can be as simple as a funny image or interesting video you&#8217;ve found on YouTube.</p>
<h3>5. Pool Your Resources</h3>
<p>If you’re in a time crunch, you might be able to use articles or posts from article directories or other blogs who publish under the Creative Commons license. While this might not be a perfect scenario, it can help to keep your blog looking active. You may also be able to rehash or update old ideas or previous posts so that you don’t have to come up with a completely new post idea.</p>
<h3>6. Link to Other Content</h3>
<p>Even if you don’t own the rights to certain material you’ve posted on other sites, you still may be able to use that work by writing a brief summary and then linking to it as part of a link roundup. This can also be a great way to network with or drive traffic to work you’ve done for other sites.</p>
<h3>7. Invite Others to Contribute</h3>
<p>If you really just don’t have much time to spend on your blog, you might want to consider inviting others to contribute guest posts. This can be a great time saver for you and is a means to put some other opinions and knowledge to work on your site.</p>
<h3>8. Outsource Some of Your Work</h3>
<p>Getting others to contribute to your blog is often easier said than done, especially with newer or less popular blogs. If this is the case, you might want to consider outsourcing some of the work. There are plenty of sites out there where you may purchase reasonably priced content for your blog’s niche.</p>
<h3>9. Let Your Site Do The Work</h3>
<p>While you don’t want to overload your blog with gadgets, polls, surveys, and contests, sometimes they can work for you while you’re away. Utilizing such content can provide something of interest to your visitors that they can interact with other than just reading posts.</p>
<h3>10. Advertising Issues</h3>
<p>Looking for, dealing with, and handling advertisers and their issues can be time consuming. If this type of work really isn’t your thing or you don’t want to spend the time on it, consider letting someone else do the work for you. Programs like Google’s AdSense do the dirty work for you and let you reap the rewards. While over the long term this might not be the best strategy for maximizing advertising revenue, it can certainly save you time and allow you to focus on building and bettering your blog.</p>
<p><em>Also read</em>: <a href="http://extremetrix.com/tips-to-monetize-your-blog/" target="_blank">Tips to monetize a blog</a>.</p>
<h3>In Conclusion</h3>
<p>It’s important to remember that it isn’t always about the amount of time you spend on your blog but how you make the most efficient use of the time you do have. Just because you sit in front of the computer for hours, staring at your blog, doesn’t mean you’re making it better. Sometimes the best work is quick, efficient work!</p>
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		<title>Make killer Landing Pages! [HOW?]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first page of your website which your visitor sees after clicking a PPC ad, link in your email or a search engine result is known as the landing page. Landing page is not always the homepage of your website it could be any page where you are directing most of your traffic with the [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/make-killer-landing-pages-how/">Make killer Landing Pages! [HOW?]</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The first page of your website which your visitor sees after clicking a PPC ad, link in your email or a search engine result is known as the landing page. Landing page is not always the homepage of your website it could be any page where you are directing most of your traffic with the aim of converting your visitors in to customers.<span id="more-365"></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Why Landing pages are Important?</strong></p>
<p>The success of your online marketing campaign to a large extent depends on the success and failure of your landing page. The more effective your landing pages are, more will be the conversion rate and more successful would be your marketing campaigns.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter what methods you are using to get traffic – organic search engine traffic, PPC, email marketing or anything else, if your landing page can’t convince the visitor to take the desired action and convert them to customers then you are just wasting your money.</p>
<p>Here are some tips which will help you to create killer landing pages for your campaigns.</p>
<p><strong>Make them relevant</strong> – Your landing pages should be relevant to the advertisements you are using to attract traffic. The traffic you get from PPC campaigns and other paid sources is highly relevant and is searching for specific products. Directing such kind of traffic to non relevant landing pages will confuse them and may compel them to turn away. If you are using multiple ads then create customized landing pages for each ad which focus on one offer only.</p>
<p><strong>Proper positioning of call to action</strong> – Keep your call to action link above the fold so that it is easily visible to your visitors. Your call to action button should be relatively big as compared to other elements of your landing page. Use persuasive words on call to action button that can convince your users to take the action.</p>
<p><strong>Focus on Customer Problems</strong> – Content of your landing page should focus on your customer problems. It should explain that how your product will solve their problems and will make their lives easier. Don’t fill entire landing pages with company history and your experience because customers are not interested in it. They are searching for solutions of their problems and if they can’t find it on your landing pages they will just turn away.</p>
<p><strong>Eliminate distractions</strong> – Minimize the distractions on your landing pages. Don’t fill it with a lot of information or multiple offers that can confuse your visitors. Remove the links from your landing to other parts of your website which can distract your user mind. Control the content which your visitors can see and show them the things which you want them to see. Provide them with a suitable environment where they can take the decision which you want them to take.</p>
<p><strong> Easy to Use</strong> – Keep your landing pages simple and user friendly. Avoid usage of flash, iframes, pop-ups, heavy images and other obtrusive elements which can increase its loading time. Make sure that your landing pages works well in all popular browsers in default settings and don’t require any custom software to work properly. Try to provide them with the simplest path for completing the desired action. If you want your users to complete a form then try to keep it as short as possible. Auto-populate fields wherever possible. If you are trying to sell a product then provide multiple ways of payment to pay so that they can use any method according to their convenience.</p>
<p><em>Also read</em>: <a href="http://extremetrix.com/what-your-business-website-says-about-your-business/" target="_self">What your business website says about your business?</a></p>
<p><strong>Test, Modify and Test Again</strong> – Create multiple versions of same landing page and run them simultaneously to find out which page converts better and why. There is always a scope of improvement and sometimes very small changes can create big differences. So keep analyzing the results, make changes and then analyze the new results again.</p>
<p><em>Also read</em>: <a href="http://extremetrix.com/importance-of-landing-pages-in-your-affiliate-campaigns/" target="_self">Importance of Landing Pages in Your Affiliate Campaigns.</a></p>
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<p>This post is guest post from David Smith, who is a freelance writer for <a href="http://www.conversionrate.net/" target="_self">conversion rate optimization</a> company Invesp. Feel free to download free landing page <a href="http://www.invesp.com/blog/free-landing-page-templates" target="_self">templates</a> of Invesp. If you too would like to write for Passionate Bloggers or any other blog or site in our network and get paid per post, <a href="http://extremetrix.com/join/" target="_self">join now!</a></p>
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		<title>When does Social Media strategy fails?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact of social media on the behavior of your customers is increasing every day and nobody can deny it. According to stats, more than 90% of online consumers go to social media websites before buying a product and more than 50% of them take decisions on the basis of information they get from these [...]<p><a href="http://yahoo.com/when-does-social-media-strategy-fails/">When does Social Media strategy fails?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://passionatebloggers.com">Passionate Bloggers</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The impact of social media on the behavior of your customers is increasing every day and nobody can deny it. According to stats, more than 90% of online consumers go to social media websites before buying a product and more than 50% of them take decisions on the basis of information they get from these social media<span id="more-351"></span> websites, hence no business owner irrespective of the size, type or location of their business can afford to ignore the social media websites in their marketing strategy especially when nine out of your ten customers go to these websites before coming to you.</p>
<p>Although many businesses have already joined and created accounts on popular social networking websites, but still most of them are not able to leverage any kind of benefit from these sites, here we&#8217;ll discuss few of the reasons about why your social media strategy failed and what you should do to avoid such mistakes.</p>
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<p><strong>Using social media for broadcasting </strong>– Time and again, we see that most of the companies use their social networking accounts only for making new announcements related to their products and never participate in any kind of conversations. Social networking websites are created for doing conversations and your overall social media strategy fails at the moment when you stop participating in conversations with your target audience and start using your accounts as a medium to broadcast news related to your company.</p>
<p><strong>Lacks of consistency</strong> &#8211; Many businesses join social networking websites with great expectations, but they stop updating your accounts when they can&#8217;t see quick results in form of new clients and increase revenues. Developing relationships on social media websites is a slow process. So have patience and don&#8217;t leave your social networking accounts unattended for months because nothing hurts your credibility more than when a user found your account which was not updated from a long time.</p>
<p><strong>Having Nothing Valuable to Say</strong> – Your target audience expects you to be an expert in your niche when you are trying to sell something to them. Mostly, business owners don’t update their accounts for days because they can’t find anything that can be shared with their target audience. It gives bad signals to your target audience. So, if you want to establish yourself as an expert amongst them, make sure that you have something valuable to share with them.</p>
<p><strong>When you stop behaving like a person</strong> &#8211; It is easier to develop a relationship with a human being as compared to building relationship with a company. Your potential customers will always prefer to buy from a friend instead of buying anything from a logo or a company. Make your social networking accounts as human as possible. Don’t limit yourself to product announcements or to conversations related to your products. Take a leap and start participating in conversations which are of interest to your potential buyer. It could be anything from sports to politics, movies to food. And Yes, Don’t forget to enjoy.</p>
<p>So there are the four mistakes which according to us can kill your overall social media campaigns, but we now want to know what more mistakes you think one should avoid on social networking sites. Please share your opinions in the comments below.</p>
<p><em>[This is a guest post by Roger Rae, who is a freelance writer working  for Fortepromo <a href="http://www.fortepromo.com/" target="_blank">promotional  products</a>, a promotional tote bags company based in Minnesota. If you  too would like to write for our blogs and get paid per post, please  refer to <a href="http://extremetrix.com/join">this page</a>.]</em></p>
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