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		<title>Effective SEO Strategies for High Search Engine Rankings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>The best cost effective way to <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>promote your business</a> through ads is the online marketing. High search engine ranking can be achieved only be effective strategies of SEO writing. Almost all the businesses want to get a position for their website in the some first pages of search engines. So, there is need for some effective strategies to be followed while writing SEO content. A content that is keyword rich and informative can get better ranking in the search engines.</p>
<p>Professional SEO content writer has to make and follow some effective strategies to write the content, in order to enable it to get <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/">high ranking in search engines</a>. The keyword should be used in the URLs, main headings, sub headings and title tags. Getting a professional SEO writer is not difficult. Online businesses will be no more difficult for you if you find a reliable and experienced SEO writing service provider. The efficient and professional SEO writer combines the methods of keyword analysis, usability analysis, website maintenance, sound navigation, promotion, search engine ranking report etc for optimization.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/seo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-842" title="seo" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/seo-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
<p>An effective strategy for better ranking in search engines is the identification of the keywords that are searched recently by the buyers of the product type you are going to sell online. Keyword suggestion tool are available online to help you getting the most searched keywords. Look for synonyms too while searching for the proper keyword because you have to avoid using he keyword excessively. You can do so by using synonyms of the keywords that have the probability to be used by the visitors. Online reader will not stay on your website if the content is boring.<span id="more-837"></span></p>
<p>There are a lot of things to be considered when you are building your site to get maximize search engine ranking. Best way to start is to consider yourself as reader and think what you would like to read in the relevant content and what would you type to search your desired product or service. You can also take idea by searching the websites that are ranked in the first pages of Google. Explore what keywords have they used and with what intensity and tactics. Keywords are important definitely but remember you are putting content online for the people to read it for information about your product. If they get bored and don’t like it they won’t return to it. So, remember that there is a lot f difference in what the people like to read and what is required to get maximum ranking in the search engines.</p>
<p>Your strategy for effective SEO content should be to convince your readers about the opinions and facts of the specific product. You can do that by providing them user friendly content. An original and informative content keeps users to come back to your website and the web traffic increases as a result. An effective SEO writing will than convert the readers into the buyers of your product and your profit will increase as a result.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internal Linking</a> is the internal links, which inter- link the different pages of your website. They help you to go from one topic to another easily and the most important part is that you have complete control over these links</p>
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		<title>Suggested SEO Tools and how to use them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>It is very easy to conceptualize and create your own website in any way you can imagine. But, it is equally difficult to optimize it for <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization" class="kblinker" title="More about seo &raquo;">SEO</a> and get it to the top rankings in the search engines. There are so many small things and details, which you have to consider like the structure of your website, the content, the unique and general keywords, the headings, the title tags and the Meta tags, the anchor texts and the links.</p>
<p>When you are <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/">optimizing your site for the search engines</a>, you have to do many things, which are repetitive in nature. These SEO tools make it easier for us to perform these tasks.</p>
<p>There are many other advantages of using the SEO tools like:<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-812" title="seo-tools" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/seo-tools-150x150.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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<li>They save your time, as they are able to perform the      tasks within minutes.</li>
<li>They make your optimization convenient as they      automate the SEO at every step, thus making your optimization better      organized and more efficient.</li>
<li>They use proven techniques, which give good results      and hence you don’t waste time in using ineffective methods.</li>
<li>They allow you to multitask, that way you can perform various tasks simultaneously.</li>
<li>They allow you to analyze all the data.</li>
<li>They can even work automatically.</li>
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<p>Your work history is automatically saved, as the SEO tool collects and archives the information and other changes that you have made, so that you can see at a later stage, if you have made any mistakes. The most important point being that they are automatically adjusted according to the needs if the SEO environment changes.</p>
<p>Now that we are aware of the benefits of the SEO tools, lets us talk about the different types of SEO tools. Depending upon the type of work they are able to perform the SEO tools can be classified as:</p>
<p><strong>Keyword Discovery Tools</strong>, which are important to find the keywords that your site needs.</p>
<p>Some of the popular keyword discovery tools are:</p>
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<li><a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">Google Adwords External Tool</a> is very relevant as it gives the actual number of the searches a keyword has generated per month.</li>
<li><a href="AdCenter Keyword Group Detection" target="_blank">AdCenter Keyword Group Detection</a>, which is a Microsoft’s tool that helps in analyzing the words or phrases.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-extractor" target="_blank">Term Extractor</a> extracts the keywords form any given URL.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.searchmarketingmaven.com/top-seo-keyword-research-tools-part-1-keyword-volume/" target="_blank">Keyword Volume Tools</a> give you an estimate on how many clicks and search traffic has a particular keyword generated. Some of the popular keyword volume tools are:<span id="more-791"></span></li>
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<p><a href="http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/">SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool</a> uses the word tracker’s API to get an estimate on the volume generated by the keywords.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/keyword-density/" target="_blank">Keyword Density Tools</a> help in analyzing how much the keyword is targeted in the specific webpage. The most popular keyword density tool is—</p>
<p><a href="http://www.seomoz.org/term-target" target="_blank">Term Target Tool</a>, which takes the URL and the keyword and tells you how much you have scored.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/backlinks/" target="_blank">Backlink Tracker Tools</a> keep track of how many sites are linking to your site. Some of the backlink tracker tools are:</p>
<p>Yahoo “<a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://brandonsheley.org&amp;y=Explore+URL&amp;fr=sfp" target="_blank">linkdomain:</a>” query prepend, where by typing the link and the domain name, you are able to get the number of links that domain has.</p>
<p>Sign up for <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en" target="_blank">Google Webmaster Tools</a>, You&#8217;ll be able to see every backlink to your site if you submit a sitemap.</p>
<p><a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Site Explorer Tool</a> is the Yahoo’s backlink tracker tool, which keeps and eye on both the inbound links and the outbound links.</p>
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		<title>Twitter Software &#8211; Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a> is a simple <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/twitter/">social micro blogging site</a>. The main page on Twitter has only one message box which you can use to post your tweets. Apart from that you have the <a href="http://twitter.com/#/list/BrandonSheley/awesome-tweeps" target="_blank">followers list</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/BrandonSheley" target="_blank">profile tweets</a> of your followers and those whom you follow. On second thought you may be wondering how such a simple site can be called revolutionary! Twitter might be simple. However, there are many third party Twitter applications that are making Twitter much more interesting and integrated.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com/" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tweetdeck.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-783" title="tweetdeck" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tweetdeck-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Tweet Deck </strong>is the most famous Twitter third party application. Tweet Deck calls itself “a simple and fast way to experience Twitter.”  It allows you to tweet from your phone. Tweet Deck allows you to integrate many of your other social networking sites at one place. The web is so complex and we do so many things that we do not have the time everyday to see what is happening everywhere. Tweet Deck solves that problem by integrating all your social sites at one browser. You will get to see in a snapshot, which sites are updated and where the action is. Moreover, Tweet Deck organizes the tweets in directory formats which allow you to add to your list, the tweeters who share the same interest as you, much faster! Apart from that, Tweet Deck shows you the most popular tweet lists as well.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.grouptweet.com/" target="_blank">Group Tweet</a></strong> is another third party application of Twitter which is very useful. You may have many different interest and ay want to run your campaign or post issues based on certain topics. Maintain group on Twitter and use activate that group on Group Tweet to send messages to relevant groups. This way, the tweet will only be viewed by the people on that particular group list. Group Tweet helps businesses, classrooms, friends of different interest groups or projects to send private messages to one another without tweeting to the entire list of followers.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.digsby.com/" target="_blank">Digsby</a> </strong>is as revolutionary as Twitter itself. Tweet Deck allows the integration of social networking sites. Digsby takes it one step further and allows you to integrate your email and chat accounts as well; Hotmail, Yahoo, AIM, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more applications are brought together by Digsby on one single platform!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://twitpic.com/photos/brandonsheley" target="_blank">Tweetpic</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.bubbletweet.com/" target="_blank">Bubble Tweet</a>,</strong> allows Twitter users to share pictures and videos respectively. Twitter was supposed to be a simple 140 character text social micro blogging site! Tweetpic and Bubble Tweet have brought Twitter to another level and attracted many more users to tweet with integrating pictures and videos in the tweet!<span id="more-770"></span></p>
<p>There are many more third party Twitter applications on the web. Via trial and error, you will be able to find some applications that you can use to integrate with your Twitter account get more mileage on your <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/">Internet marketing</a> activities.</p>
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		<title>Advantages and disadvantages of using Twitter for Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p><strong>Advantages and disadvantages of using <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a> for Internet Marketing </strong></p>
<p>Twitter is a great tool. There are millions of people who are <a href="http://twitter.com/BrandonSheley" target="_blank">tweeting this very moment</a> and the phenomenon is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not going to end anytime soon</span>. The idea of tweeting “What are you doing right now” has caught on so well that we see even President <a href="http://twitter.com/BARACKOBAMA" target="_blank">Barack Obama</a> on Twitter! Twitter is here to stay, at least for a while till something much simpler than Twitter comes on the net.</p>
<p>As such, should you get on the bandwagon and tweet your Internet marketing collateral online? Twitter is a great business platform and it helps the consumers as much as it helps the businesses. However, just like any other thing, Twitter has its good points and bad points. Using Twitter for business purposes, hence, has its advantages and disadvantages.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Twitter-Logo.png"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-716" title="Twitter-Logo" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Twitter-Logo-300x300.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Advantages of Twitter</strong></p>
<p>Your <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internet marketing</a> can be done free of cost if you use Twitter wisely. Your target market is out there for you to seek and understand. Understand from their tweets, their passion and interests. Do your research on your target market by following the tweets of your target market for better understanding. Identify the strategies used by your competitors by following their tweets as well.</p>
<p>Twitter allows you to network efficiently and with large groups of people. Twitter and its third party applications allow you to segregate and interact with your target markets effectively. You can direct your Internet marketing campaigns at relevant groups efficiently by using Twitter</p>
<p>Twitter allows you to communicate directly with your target market instantly. Normally, the process of communication takes time. For example, if you have a Website, the communication would be via polls, which are not personal or though contact forms which are time consuming and impersonal as well. With twitter, you can expect instant communication with your target market. You may have just posted a tweet, but a reply from your target market could come in an instant as well. Twitter helps you to gather real time intelligence from your very own target market as well as obtain valuable feedback. The speed of communication is just fantastic with Twitter. Moreover, your near approach helps to builds lasting relationship as you will come across as a company that cares for its consumers instead of just hard selling.</p>
<p><strong>Disadvantages of Twitter</strong></p>
<p>Twitter is the number one site for spammers. You will have to filter and weed out spammers from your lists from time to time, if you want to have a good gauge of your target market. Otherwise, the followers total will be an inflated number which will not help in your Internet marketing campaigns. Filtering spam tweets is a lot of hard work. Other means of Internet marketing may seem feasible in the long run.<span id="more-713"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/twitter-addiction/" target="_blank">Twitter is addictive</a>. It is very easy to get distracted as you join in the conversations or receive tweets outside your business interests. You will have to strike a balance with getting friendly with your followers and meeting your Internet marketing objectives</p>
<p>In conclusion, how you want to use Twitter is up to you. Like any other means of communication, Twitter has its own advantages and disadvantages. Advantages far outweigh disadvantages. Hence, use Twitter for your Internet marketing needs and ensure that Twitter is used sparingly. Your tweets can be classified as spam as well, if you are just posting tweets with inks and not connecting with your followers.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>When a new online business is starting up, their main issue usually falls at marketing, the problem that is usually faced with both new and existing business marketing is the fact that they are not getting the number of sales or online traffic that they desire, a solution to this problem may include consulting with a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> company.</p>
<p>What the these business owners need to know is that marketing is not just putting out a few ads and hoping for the best, but rather a process that involves <strong>lots of strategies and planning</strong>. Although marketing is a process, it does not have to be complicated; you would simply have to set a goal and then make a plan with strategies on how to achieve them, if you have a website, this can be done with the aid of a search engine optimization consultant.<a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-708" title="seo_services" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo_services.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="153" /></a></p>
<p>Depending on the type of product and / or service that you offer, you may want to get the services of a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> company who will help you to select the correct keywords and implement them in the correct places on your webpage. The aim of this will be to increase traffic to your website and in turn increase your sales and revenue.  If you are not clear as to what a search engine optimization service can do for you, simply ask your search engine optimization consultant to give you an overview, but all you need to know is that persons search for products on services on the web by entering certain words that they think will give them a list of websites that offer the type of product or service that they are looking for.<span id="more-705"></span></p>
<p>These are called keywords or key phrases; this is what leads a prospective customer to a website, as the search engine will return a result page with a list of websites that matches the keywords that were entered for the search. It is therefore imperative that your website has the correct keywords necessary to ensure that your webpage is among the results lists. Any professional search engine company that you choose to hire will already know how to perform a search engine optimization on your web pages to get more traffic to your website, and not just random traffic, but traffic that will lead to optimized sales and a better ROI.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/search-engines.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-709" title="search-engines" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/search-engines.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="275" /></a></p>
<p>Another simple and inexpensive way to get your business out there is to utilise the many <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/" target="_blank">social networks</a> on the web, you can start by creating your own blog or <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forum</a> which will talk about your company’s products or services, customers can leave comments and prospective customers can ask questions.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>While advertising is always a good strategy, try to add other forms of promotion in the mix and if you company is an online company, get yourself a search engine optimisation package  from a search engine optimization company, all these put together will promote customer growth and sales.</p>
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		<title>Search engine optimization services for your online business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>When an online company makes the decision to get a <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/<a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vbulletin</a>-services/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>professional SEO service</a>, the aim is to have more traffic coming to their website from the implementation of a good search engine optimization service. Not only will they have a higher traffic rate, but they will also have that traffic being converted into customers and thus increasing revenue. Search engine optimization services and the use of search engine optimization company can significantly aid a business that is looking to <a title="Marketing" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">market their online company</a>. As a matter of fact search engine optimization is become essential as most business owners for these online companies do not know how to make there web pages keyword and content friendly so that they have a good ranking in search engines and generate traffic.</p>
<p>There are many companies that extend a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> service and are on high demand by online companies who wish to make there website and company do better. There will be lots of people who claim that they can help to optimize a web-page, but as a online company owner, you must be wary and vigilant in your search for a search engine optimization company, because some of them will try to incorporate some forms of black hat methods that may work for a brief period and then result in your website being penalized or worse; banned. You must therefore ensure that you select a professional SEO company that offers good search engine optimization services.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-676" title="Search-Engine-Marketing" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Search-Engine-Marketing-293x300.jpg" alt="" width="293" height="300" /></a><br />
Once you understand that search engine promotion is not a short term deal, you should set about finding a search engine optimization specialist who understands the terms and conditions ser forth by the search engine companies, but also the strategies and methods that will result in your business being more popular and result in a higher ROI. SEO services are not just limited to keyword optimisation but also incorporate an overall revamp of your website. A <a title="vBulletin Services" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">good search engine optimisation consultant</a> will know if the content on your webpage needs to be more user friendly, if your web page design needs to be altered to be more eye catching, they will be efficient in link building and the management of par per click programs (PPC).<span id="more-673"></span></p>
<p>The major benefit of hiring professional SEO services is that your site will have the vital tools and these experts know precisely what needs to be done in order to ensure positive results. In addition to all the various SEO techniques, the company which you hire will also help you generate a significant <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">social media</a> presence. Enlisting for professional SEO services is very affordable and just by getting onto the internet and with a few clicks of the mouse; a website owner can find all sorts of relevant information that is connected with companies that offer these types of services.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-681" title="seo-blocks" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/seo-blocks-300x231.gif" alt="" width="300" height="231" /></a>With the assistance of a <a title="SEO" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">search engine optimization</a> services, online companies can now have there websites rank higher in the search engine index, thus leading more prospective customers to their websites, because the higher the rank of a website, the more likely that they will fall on the first page of a result list that is generated from a keyword search.</p>
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		<title>Internet marketing for small business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>Marketing is an essential part of business, be it a small or mid or large scaled business. Marketing is a form of advertisement of a <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">service or a product</a>. Advertisement can be done through newspapers, radio, television, banner, hoardings, pamphlets, word of mouth, street plays, and Internet. Is your business based on Internet? <strong>Do you want to increase its visibility</strong>? <strong>Do you want more customers to boost your business</strong>? If the answer is yes for all these questions, then you can adopt <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internet Marketing</a>. Through Internet marketing, even a small business reaches the entire world, and can increase the sales of your business. Without proper planning and marketing, small businesses cannot target proper or appropriate <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/clients/" class="kblinker" title="More about clients &raquo;">clients</a>. Moreover, if you want to save some money, and are not inclined for Internet Marketing, you may end losing the business itself.<br />
There are different forms of Internet Marketing. They are</p>
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<li><strong>Pay per click advertising<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Internet-marketing-for-small-business.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-664" title="Internet-marketing-for-small-business" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Internet-marketing-for-small-business-300x239.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a></strong></li>
<li><strong>Banner ads</strong></li>
<li><strong>Interactive advertising</strong></li>
<li><strong>E-mail Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Search Engine Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Blog Marketing</strong></li>
<li><strong>Article Marketing</strong></li>
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<p>You may have a small business; however, for Internet Marketing, you need a web site, because a good web site can market your business. To get a web site, you can even try the small business promoters who can design, develop and host a web site for you, and submit your web site to the search engines and directories. However, it is very important that to get good visibility and effective business, you need to remember these points:</p>
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<li><strong>Your web site should be professional and not      jazzy.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Language used in the web site should be simple,      professional and to the point.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Brief about your business should be in an      effective manner without any jargons, or unnecessary and vague words.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Make sure that the web site is not cluttered      with too much information. Neither keeps the pages too small nor too big,      but appropriate and informative.</strong></li>
<li><strong>Make sure that the advertisements on your web      site do not disturb your customers.</strong><span id="more-662"></span></li>
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<p>Before developing the web site, you should know the type of customers you are looking for, how to attract them to your web site, and how to avoid large businesses from squeezing your business. After going through the preliminary planning, then try Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>Email marketing, the least expensive form of Internet Marketing, which allows you to send emails to old customers, by being sent as ads in emails of other companies, and potential customers, who would have just registered themselves with you.</p>
<p>You can even adopt <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/search-engine-optimization/" target="_blank">Search Engine Optimization</a>, a popular and widely used form of Internet Marketing used by mainly small business or businesses that are just budding. Search Engines use a specific program that searches for particular keywords that a user wants to know about and displays the results in the Search Engine Resulted Pages or SERP. Most of the users would not be interested in checking the results in more than three pages of results. It is very important that your web site be listed within the three pages. Therefore, use appropriate keywords in your web site. By choosing this method, the relevant keyword’s ranking is improved while searching for them, in turn improving the ranking of the web site featuring them, if the website’s structure is revamped in such a way that it is easy to find relevant topics.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on Internet Marketing? How have you used the forms above, or do you have suggestions on items I may have overlooked?</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>I’ve been playing with <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media" class="kblinker" title="More about social media &raquo;">social media</a> sites like Twitter and Facebook for a little over a year now, but really got into them the last 10 months when I saw the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">enormous opportunity</span> to get my name out and find others with similar interests as myself. I’ll outline a few of the tools I use, how I use them, and examples of what I’ve done. This article is going to be geared towards <strong><a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vBulletin</a></strong> owners and using <strong><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a></strong> to build traffic and brand recognition, but could easily apply to other websites.</p>
<p>I’ll try to keep this thread updated if you have any questions, along with any new tips or tools I find along the way.</p>
<p><strong>The Tools of the Trade</strong></p>
<p>First off we need a few <a href="http://twitter.com/" target="_blank">Twitter</a> accounts. They are easy to make, take less than 30 seconds and you’ll have your very own Twitter account. You might want to start with one, but if you get all the tools that I’ll talk about, it’s a good idea to make a few and build them all at once. You might be asking yourself what username I should use. If you have a site of flying kites, and “square red kites” is one of your busiest sections @square_red_kites might be a good username to get. I would suggest checking out the <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">google adword keyword tool</a> and see if you can refine your username a little more. Maybe “red square kites” gets more searches. This just takes some playing around with, I wouldn’t suggest something real spammy like @free_free_kites, you can always change the name later but I would try to get it right the first time.</p>
<p><a href="http://tweetfollowing.com/" target="_blank">This is the tool I use to auto-follow users on Twitter</a>, it allows me to follow users by a search phrase or follow users who follow others, or who they follow. I could also upload a text file if I had a list of users I wanted to follow. I’m sure there are many tools like it, a quick search of google for “<a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=twitter+adder" target="_blank">twitter adder</a>” will show quite a few. I paid $10-$20 for this program 10 months ago. It was a right place at the right time deal for me, getting it when it was in early beta stages. I see a purchase link for $50; I would look around if you are considering getting a program like this.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/twitter-award.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-645" title="twitter-award" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/twitter-award.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a>Next thing we’ll need is a Twitter client, I’ve been using <a href="http://seesmic.com/" target="_blank">Seesmic</a> lately but started off with <a href="http://tweetdeck.com/" target="_blank">Tweetdeck</a>. I really liked the look of Tweetdeck, you can make columns and searches to see “live search” updates of anything you want. I would use it to see if; anyone was talking about me or my business, and to see if anyone had questions I could answer such as “vBulletin” questions. I’ve been using Seesmic lately because of the ease of managing multiple Twitter accounts in one small easy to navigate screen. I suggest checking both of them out, as well as the numerous other Twitter <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/clients/" class="kblinker" title="More about clients &raquo;">clients</a> available for your computer or phone.</p>
<p>Twitter has following limits, so sometimes you need to unfollow a few people to follow more. You can find out who is and is not following you. I would suggest if you do have to unfollow a few people in order to follow more, you unfollow those who aren’t following you back. A great webpage that will show you who is and is not following you is called <a href="http://friendorfollow.com/" target="_blank">Friend of Follow</a>. You don’t need to hand over your login, just your Twitter username and it’ll display a list of your friends. You can than manually click a user and unfollow. When I started I would use this and unfollow those who hadn’t even changed the default icon, which at the time was the ugly brown o_O. These next two tools ask for your username and pass, I’ve been using both these for 10 months and NEVER had a problem. There are many bloggers who have written about these, I trust them but use at your own risk. <a href="http://dossy.org/twitter/karma/" target="_blank">Twitter Karma</a> is a page similar to what you’ll see with Friend or Follow, but you can sort all by those not following, one click and check all, and one click and unfollow all. It’s a great tool, but has a limit of 10,000 follow/following count. Once I hit 10 followers, I had to find something else, I found <a href="http://huitter.com/mutuality2/" target="_blank">Twitter Mutuality</a> (now version 2) This tool is very straight forward, it will find all who aren’t following you and start unfollowing. You can stop it at any time by closing the browser.<img title="More..." src="../wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /><span id="more-642"></span></p>
<p>Oh, btw.. The reason why we follow more and more people is because I’d say 4 out of 5 will naturally follow you back, the other 2 might considering what you tweet about.</p>
<p>Okay, so now we have a good twitter account with a high number of followers, we have to give them some content. You can do this a variety of ways in vBulletin, the easiest is <a href="http://twitterfeed.com/" target="_blank">Twitter feed</a>. If you want to do it the right way, I would an application for the section or forum as a whole and user <a href="http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=216346" target="_blank">vBulletin Tweet poster</a> by Milad. It’s a great product that will give your <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forum</a> it’s own “source link” which doesn’t have the nofollow attribute attached. The idea is that you have an RSS feed of your forum or category, and we can make our Twitter account post updates with links and snipits to the threads being created.</p>
<p><strong>Examples of what I’ve done</strong></p>
<p>Here are a few examples of what I’ve done, 2 will be with forum sections and 2 will be with local blogs that I’m a part of.</p>
<p>We have a lot of WordPress styles that are posted on the forum, so I made <a href="http://twitter.com/WordPress_Style" target="_blank">@WordPress_Styles</a> to help distribute to those looking for free WordPress themes.</p>
<p>I’m part of this program called <a href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f4/driving-revenue-your-forums-11461.html" target="_blank">Driving Revenue</a> that will credit your account if someone clicks a link to a site like ebay from your site. I have a webmaster auctions section that I use RSS feeds from sites like ebay and other sites, to post the latest deals. I made <a href="http://twitter.com/Driving_revenue" target="_blank">@Driving_revenue</a> as more or less a test account just to see what I could do as far as building traffic to that section.</p>
<p>Here is an account (<a href="http://twitter.com/topekatweetup" target="_blank">@TopekaTweetup</a>) I made for a local tweetup group I’m helping with. I use Twitterfeed to publish the lasts post as well as tweetup updates. We use the same <a href="http://twitter.com/hashtags" target="_blank">#hash tags</a> when we talk about the tweetups.</p>
<p>Another one I have is <a href="http://twitter.com/transformtopeka" target="_blank">@TransformTopeka</a>, it’s one of the “automated” ones that we as a group try to actually chat with local users with as well as it publishes are feeds. Both these Topeka ones also will update the status when someone on facebook comments on our Fan Pages (which I strongly recommend building for your business but that’s for another article)</p>
<p>My best example is my old vBulletinSetup account, <a href="http://twitter.com/vBSetup" target="_blank">@vBSetup</a> is the one I use each and every day to carry on conversations with our members, with local people and with strangers who are talking about things I’m interested in</p>
<p>The one I&#8217;m working and focused on now is my <a href="http://twitter.com/brandonsheley" target="_blank">@BrandonSheley</a> account, I&#8217;m just over 7,000 followers as of this post, but I&#8217;m been growing about 1500 new followers each month and that will grow exponentially as I get more followers and can follow more. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">You can follow 10% more then the people following you.</span></p>
<p><strong>To wrap this up</strong></p>
<p>I suggest adding your forums icon or a category icon to your Twitter account. You can also upload your own background. Branding your background with your forum or category logo is also a good idea. You want this account to be an extension of the support you offer to your forum members. As you may notice from above, my strongest account is one that I carry on conversations with other users on Twitter. Speaking of conversations, a tool I didn’t mention because I ran out of time is <a href="http://tweetboard.com/" target="_blank">Tweetboard</a>. It’s a fabulous addon for any community that is tapped into Twitter.</p>
<p>As I said, I’ll try to update this post and reply to any questions you may have. I may even be back to write another article on getting the most out of Facebook and LinkedIn. If you want to read a few more articles on <a href="../category/social-media/" target="_blank">Social Media</a> I have a few on my blog.</p>
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		<title>Advantages of Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>Marketing is an essential component for product proliferation and adoption across the targeted audience. Conventional marketing strategies have always been associated with a hefty budget and market research requirements. As the world is becoming smarter and more efficient people across the globe have started realizing the benefits of Internet Marketing. Internet has been able to penetrate all parts of the globe. Businesses and humans are not limited to a particular geography and all corners of the world are facilitating from the ease and use of Internet marketing initiatives.</p>
<p>There are too many advantages of using Internet marketing as the modern tool and strategy to draw more customers to trigger unprecedented growth. Let’s explore some of the key ones:<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/internet_marketing.www_.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-629" title="internet_marketing.www" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/internet_marketing.www_-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/marketing/" target="_blank">Internet marketing</a> has been more effective when measured on the aspect of product meeting the eyes of an end user.</li>
<li>You can design and woo your customers in a better way without much time and investments on an Internet Marketing enabled campaign. With less cycle time you can meet more needs of your customers when compared to conventional channel.</li>
<li>One of the best aspect of an Internet Marketing campaign is that it meets the eye of the target much faster and in a concentrated way.</li>
<li>You can manage your leads and convert them into opportunities in a faster manner too.</li>
<li>It has proven to provide a clear cut communication between the customer and the service provider.</li>
<li>Internet marketing leads to product innovation. Vendors are informed about the preferences and likings of the end user and they manufacture or present the services in a desired manner.</li>
<li>Proliferation of your service portfolio is pretty easy and simple online. Within no time you can create a campaign and send it across to major social networks including <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/BrandonSheley" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. <a href="http://twitter.com/BrandonSheley" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a></a> or <a href="http://brandonsheley.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank">Stumble Upon</a>. You can better your online revenues and increase your bottom-line over the period of time.</li>
<li>With better customer satisfaction and increased bottom-line you are sure to become a prominent entity in the segment of your industry.</li>
<li>More people admit to the fact that Internet marketing and an online presence can provide a more trustworthy image of self or business online. It has helped in new customer acquisition and growth even in the challenging times of recession.<span id="more-620"></span></li>
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<p>Internet as an arena is growing year by year. More number of users are buying or are interested in <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/vbulletin-services/" target="_blank">buying products and services online</a> than ever before. Challenges will lie ahead for the vendors to differentiate themselves in order to stay in the hunt of customer acquisition, Retention and growth. Innovation through Internet and Internet marketing can help companies to stay afloat and nurture their talent pool and strengths in correct direction.</p>
<p>So if you have been interested all this while in carrying out Internet Marketing efforts, make an attempt now. Just ensure that you know your niche and the demands of customers well enough. You are sure to grow your online business if you can offer value to your customers online.</p>
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		<title>What does it take to be a successful forum owner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll go over what it really takes to be a successful forum owner and how you should go about building your empire in the following weeks. I have a few people that I’ve already mentioned this blog post to, and they are very interested in being showcased. If you’ve built a successful forum and would [...]]]></description>
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<p>I’ll go over what it really takes to be a <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>successful <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forum</a> owner</strong></span> and how you should go about <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>building your empire</strong></span> in the following weeks. I have a few people that I’ve already mentioned this blog post to, and they are very interested in being showcased. If you’ve built a successful forum and would like me to do a blog post on you, please <a href="mailto:brandon.sheley@gmail.com">contact me via email</a> and I’ll consider adding you to the list.<br />
Some of the topics I’ll highlight will be.<a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/community.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-453" title="community" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/community-150x150.jpg" alt="community" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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<li> How you can easily build backlinks and traffic to your forum.</li>
<li>What you should consider when building your community (members point of view)</li>
<li>What topics/threads should you start up on your forum?</li>
<li>Should you use a CMS?</li>
<li>Types of sites you can build to support your forum.</li>
<li>What forum script I would suggest.</li>
<li>Check out the competition.</li>
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<p>I’m looking forward to writing these reviews, I’ve had the privilege of watching these forums grow up while I ran <a title="vBulletinSetup" href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com" target="_blank">vBulletinSetup</a> and I’m honored to have known these admins.</p>
<p>Here is my first article in the series. (I&#8217;ll update this list as the articles get published)</p>
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<li><a title="running a successful niche forum" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/running-successful-state-forums/" target="_blank">How to run a successful state niche forum</a></li>
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		<title>I sold vBulletinSetup to Crowdgather</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been running vBSetup for years, since June of 06 actually. I’m not going to lie and say I won’t be sad to sell, but it had to be done. I just don’t have the time to commit to the forums like I did before Leo came around.  I’ll still visit the forums a few [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/vbsetup.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-434" title="vbsetup" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/vbsetup.jpg" alt="vbsetup" width="292" height="79" /></a>I’ve been running <a title="vBulletinSetup" href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com" target="_blank">vBSetup</a> for years, since June of 06 actually. I’m not going to lie and say I won’t be sad to sell, but it had to be done. I just don’t have the time to commit to the <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/forums/" class="kblinker" title="More about forum &raquo;">forums</a> like I did <a href="http://baby.sheley.org" target="_blank">before Leo came around</a>.  I’ll still visit the forums a few times a week, but not having to worry about software/hardware updates and issues is going to be a huge relief for me. I <a title="vBSetup purchased" href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f4/vbulletinsetup-has-been-purchased-crowdgather-31650.html" target="_blank">announced to the members yesterday</a> of the purchase and had an overall positive take on the acquisition. I look forward to seeing what <a title="crowdgather" href="http://www.crowdgather.com" target="_blank">Crowdgather</a> does with the site. I know they have some great resources and can really push the forum to the next level. I’ll miss being able to email or market anything to 12,000 users with a flip of a switch, but I think I’ll still be talking to all the active users via <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/social-media/twitter/" class="kblinker" title="More about twitter &raquo;">Twitter</a> or other forums.</p>
<p>I’m not leaving the forum scene all together; I had purchased <a title="IP.Board Help Support Tips" href="http://ipbhelp.me" target="_blank">IPBHelp</a> a few months back when I was thinking about expanding my services to IPB. I got a <a title="working for KDOT" href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/working-at-kansas-department-of-transportation-kdot/" target="_blank">job with the state</a> shortly after I purchased that license and URL and didn’t really have time for it. I still don’t have a lot of time, but enough to tinker around with it once a week. I’ve already added a WordPressMU to the root as well as <a href="http://sync.ipbhelp.me" target="_blank">IP.Converge</a> which will allow users to login to the forum and their blogs with the same login (email &amp; pass). I don’t have it working 100% yet, but it shouldn’t take me much longer. I’ll always love <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vBulletin</a>, but doubt I’ll ever own another vBulletin license unless I win the lotto and free up all my time, which I don’t even play so that’s not likely..lol<span id="more-425"></span></p>
<p>Everything else is going great; <a title="Leo Mason Sheley" href="http://alissa.sheley.org/category/baby/" target="_blank">Leo</a> is crawling and getting close to walking. I’ve been busy “baby proofing” the house because Leo likes to open the cabinets and any drawer he can reach. He is finally sleeping through the night which is AWESOME! It only took him 7 month but his mother and I are very grateful for the added hours of sleep.</p>
<p>Well that’s a short update of what’s going on, I plan to post a disc golf blog post at some point, so that will probably be the next update you see on this blog.</p>
<p>Have a good one everyone, and thanks for reading this blog post. <a title="vBulletinSetup Sold" href="http://twitter.com/home/?status=RT+%40BrandonSheley+I+sold+my+forum%2C+vBulletinSetup+is+now+owned+by+Crowdgather+http%3A%2F%2Fcli.gs%2FdGttq" target="_blank">Please Retweet it</a> (if you’re on Twitter) or share the link with your friends. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising.</p>
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		<title>digiXMAS Automatic Directory Submission Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.brandonsheley.org/digixmas-automatic-directory-submission-tool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manual directory submissions can take days and days to do currectly. With digiXMAS you can cut that time down to a few hours. The most important thing about directory submissions is getting the most accurate category and unique descriptions for your listings. With digiXMAS you can enter in as many sets of titles and descriptions [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/digixmas1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1311" title="digixmas" src="http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/digixmas1.png" alt="" width="138" height="53" /></a>Manual <a title="Directory Submission" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">directory submissions</a> can take days and days to do currectly. With <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">digiXMAS</span></strong></a> you can cut that time down to a few hours. The most important thing about directory submissions is getting the most accurate category and unique descriptions for your listings. With <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>digiXMAS</strong></span></a> you can enter in as many sets of titles and descriptions as you want. This program will rotate those within the listings. You can also enter in a few keywords when searching for the most accurate category for your site and this program will automaticity sort and display the most appropriate section for your keywords.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS"><img src="http://www.digixmas.com/images/digi-banner-1.gif" alt="digiXMAS Directory Submitter" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">With about 10 minutes of prep time you can be <a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS" target="_blank">submitting your site</a> to over 1600 web directories. In the image, you can see how many have page rank. Many of them don’t even have a captcha spam verification, so you can blow through a good 500 directories by just holding down on the enter button</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a program I’ve been using off and on since I started my <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vBulletin</a> forum. It’s grown into a <a title="Directory Submission Tool" href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">great automated  program</a> with many more features that I don’t even use and haven’t mentioned. Options like being able to add your own directory list, so you’re not limited to the 1600+ that you see in the screenshot.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS " target="_blank">Check it out</a>, it doesn’t cost a thing to use but the number of directories is limited. You could literally have over 700 visitors to your site 30 mins after reading this post!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bit.ly/digiXMAS"><br />
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		<title>Sheley Enterprise has Officially been born</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Sheley</dc:creator>
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<p>Well it&#8217;s official, You are reading the blog of a business owner <img src='http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I have started &#8220;Sheley Enterprise&#8221; Basically I&#8217;ll be doing the same thing as I was doing before but I&#8217;ll have keep track of revenue for tax purposes.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve made a page that explains some of what I offer to <a href="http://www.brandonsheley.org/category/sheley-enterprises/clients/" class="kblinker" title="More about clients &raquo;">clients</a> here &#8211; <a href="http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/custom-pages-vbulletin-services.html">vBulletin Services</a> I&#8217;ve been getting strong support from some well known <a href="http://bit.ly/1ZqXYW" class="kblinker" title="More about vbulletin &raquo;">vBulletin</a> sites and developers about my services. So all as been good as far as the websites go.</p>
<p>I should be getting a cell phone in the next few weeks and will be posting my number for clients and friends <img src='http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Maybe I wont post it publicly on my vB site, but I&#8217;ll post it here in case any family is wanting to chat.</p>
<p>We just got back from an art show this afternoon and picked up our first original piece by Terry Maxwell. It&#8217;s bad ass, like 36 x 8 inches. Alissa and I both had a good week so we had a little extra cash. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll post a pic on her site <a title="Alissa Sheley" href="http://www.a-sheley.com" target="_blank">A-Sheley.com</a></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been working on a new shed out back. The last one was rotten and falling over, we needed a new one. The one we&#8217;re building now is about the same size as the last, just a little taller.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of disc golf with some friends on mine during the day, it&#8217;s a fun game and best of all.. It&#8217;s Free ! Topeka has 3 or 4 course, but I&#8217;ve only made it to two of them. The others are pretty much in the getto, so no rush to go down there..lol</p>
<p>Thanks for reading <img src='http://www.brandonsheley.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Cheers</p>
<p>-Brandon</p>
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