Sebuah website yang sukses tergantung pada pengunjung yang kembali ke website anda, oleh karena itu, buat pengunjung datang kembali ke situs Anda dengan cara berikut:

1. Gunakan forum, chatroom atau shoutbox Ketika Anda memulai suatu forum, chatroom atau shoutbox, Anda menyediakan pengunjung Anda tempat untuk menyuarakan pendapat mereka dan berinteraksi dengan rekan-rekan mereka - semua dari mereka adalah pengunjung situs Anda. 
2. Memulai web log (blog) Jauhkan jurnal online, atau lebih dikenal sebagai blog, di situs Anda dan tetap diperbarui dengan berita terbaru. Manusia adalah makhluk penasaran dan mereka akan menjaga mata mereka terpaku pada monitor jika Anda memposting berita segar. 
3. Melakukan jajak pendapat atau survei Jajak pendapat dan survei merupakan bentuk lain dari interaksi yang Anda pasti harus mempertimbangkan menambahkan ke situs Anda. Mereka menyediakan cara cepat bagi pengunjung untuk menyuarakan pendapat mereka dan untuk terlibat dalam situs web Anda. Pastikan untuk mempublikasikan jajak pendapat atau survei yang sangat relevan dengan target pasar website Anda untuk mengikat mereka kedalam website. 
4. Buat teka-teki, kuis dan permainan Coba bayangkan berapa banyak pekerja kantor menunda-nunda di tempat kerja setiap hari, dan Anda akan dapat memperkirakan berapa banyak orang akan terus mengunjungi situs Anda jika Anda memberikan cara yang sangat menarik atau addicting hiburan.
5. Update blog atau website dengan konten baru Perbarui situs Anda dengan konten segar sehingga setiap kali pengunjung Anda datang kembali, mereka akan memiliki sesuatu untuk dibaca di situs Anda. Ini adalah metode yang paling banyak dikenal dan paling efektif untuk menarik pengunjung kembali, tapi ini juga paling tidak dilakukan satu karena kemalasan webmaster. Tak seorang pun akan ingin menelusuri situs yang tampak sama lebih dari sepuluh tahun, sehingga menjaga situs Anda diperbarui dengan gigitan segar! -->

Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.

The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your salesletter, not to your whole audience. 

The second method is to publish testimonials and comments from your customers. A good idea would be to publish both good and bad comments; that way prospects will be really convinced that these testimonials are real. When prospects see testimonials on your website, they will have the confidence to buy from you because human beings follow the herd mentality; when others have bought and proven it authentic, they will jump on the bandwagon and buy too. 

Use visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website. Offer quality bonuses to accompany the product. When you offer bonuses that complement your product, your prospects will feel it's a very good deal and it would be stupid to miss it. Be sure to state the monetary value of your bonuses so that people will be even more compelled to grab your good bargain. Lastly, ask for the sale! Many people entice their prospects with the benefits of their product, sell to them with stories of how it has solved many problems, even offered killer bonuses but forget to ask for the sale. Give a clear instruction on how to buy your product (e.g. "click the button to buy now!"). -->

Affiliate marketing is one way in which bloggers utilize their blog to generate revenue. The amount of revenue generated by a blog featuring affiliate marketing links may vary significantly depending on the amount of traffic the blog receives as well as the compensation offered for the affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing essentially entails creating a link on the blog to another company’s website. The other company then compensates the blog owner according to a previously agreed upon contract. This compensation may be awarded in a number of different ways. 

The blog owner may be compensated each time the advertisement is served, each time a unique website visitor clicks through the advertisement or each time a blog visitor performs a desired action such as making a purchase or registering with the website. This article will discuss some aspects of affiliate marketing which bloggers should understand including selecting opportunities carefully, maximizing the income potential for these opportunities and understanding the requirements associated with these affiliate marketing opportunities. 

Selecting Affiliate Marketing Opportunities

There is a wide variety of affiliate marketing opportunities available. Many different companies and websites offer affiliate marketing opportunities. In most cases the blog owner simply needs to submit the website address of his blog along with some other basic information for approval. In most cases the company is not likely to reject the application unless the content of the website is deemed to be objectionable or otherwise in conflict of interest with the company’s goals. However, although getting approved to display affiliate links on your website is a rather simple process, this does not mean blog owners should select these affiliate marketing opportunities without discretion. It is a far better idea to carefully select affiliate marketing opportunities with companies who are of interest to the target audience of the blog.

A well focused blog that is reaching a specific target audience should seek to display marketing links directing website traffic to companies which complement the blog without acting as direct competition to the blog. This helps to ensure the blog visitors will not only be interested in the affiliate marketing links and therefore more likely to click on the links but will also help to ensure the blog visitors do not find the affiliate marketing links to be bothersome. Maximizing Affiliate Marketing Opportunities Once blog owners have selected affiliate marketing opportunities it is time to consider how they can maximize the profit generated by these links. There are a couple of critical factors which blog owners should carefully consider to help maximize their profit from affiliate marketing. This includes regularly evaluating the effectiveness of the affiliate links and promoting the blog to maximize traffic.

Blog owners who incorporate affiliate marketing into their blog should regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the affiliate links. This can be done by comparing the percentage of blog visitors who click on the affiliate links to the overall blog traffic. A blog which has high traffic but a relatively small percentage of visitors who click on the affiliate links should consider making changes to attempt to entice more blog visitors to click on the links. These changes can involve the aesthetics, size or location of the advertisements.

Making only one change at a time is recommended because it makes it easier for the blog owner to evaluate which changes are most beneficial. Blog owners can also help to maximize the profit from their affiliate marketing opportunities by doing self promotion to drive additional website to the blog. This will likely be beneficial because higher website traffic will generally translate to greater profit from affiliate marketing. Additionally, the blog owner may want to occasionally mention companies for which they are an affiliate to generate interest in the advertisements on the website.

Understanding Affiliate Marketing Requirements Finally, blog owners should pay careful attention to the affiliate marketing agreements they enter. This is important because some companies may place restrictions on the usage of a link to their website. This may include restrictions such as avoiding objectionable content, not including links or advertisements for direct competitors or restrictions on the appearance of the affiliate links. Failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in the blog losing affiliate privileges and the blog owner being denied compensation. -->

Sebuah mailing list adalah darah kehidupan bisnis online Anda. Pepatah lama "Masukan uang dalam daftar" tidak benar cukup - jika Anda memiliki daftar target adalah prospek untuk menghubungi setiap kali Anda memiliki produk baru, Anda dapat menyimpan banyak usaha untuk pemasaran yang terdaftar dalam prospek yang ditargetkan.

Anda benar-benar dapat membangun sebuah daftar target prospek yang tertarik dengan produk Anda dengan menawarkan download yang relevan di situs Web Anda. Sebagai contoh, mari kita lihat contoh yang sangat baik - apple.com. Ketika Anda men-download iTunes gratis dan software Quicktime dari situs mereka, mereka akan meminta Anda untuk mengisi nama dan email sehingga mereka dapat mengirimkan menawarkan lagu-lagu yang dapat Anda beli via iTunes! Pada kenyataannya, Anda tidak perlu menawarkan seperti "kalimat yang berat" download seperti software full-fitur seperti iTunes. Anda dapat menarik prospek sama baiknya dengan menawarkan download gratis, wallpaper gratis, dan sebagainya.
Yang penting adalah bahwa Anda telah men-download nilai yaitu dengan mendapatkan email yang menjadi target kedepan pemasaran Namun, menempatkan link pada situs web Anda tidak akan cukup untuk menarik prospek yang berkualitas. Anda akan harus melakukan beberapa pekerjaan rumah dalam rangka untuk memimpin-menghasilkan mekanisme Anda untuk bekerja dengan baik untuk Anda. Pertama-tama, Anda harus menempatkan bentuk download Anda jelas di situs Web Anda.

Sebaiknya, mendedikasikan halaman untuk itu dan link ke halaman tersebut dari setiap halaman lain dari situs Anda. Dengan begitu, tidak ada cara pengunjung Anda tidak dapat menemukan halaman download, dan ketika mereka lakukan, Anda akan mendapatkan beberapa dari mereka diubah menjadi prospek Anda! Juga, Anda harus meletakkan sedikit usaha ke dalam mempromosikan download Anda. Jelaskan dan menguraikan nilai-nilai download, dan mengapa pengunjung Anda harus mendownloadnya. -->

Ketika datang ke website Anda, perhatian ekstra harus diberikan untuk setiap detail menit untuk memastikan ia melakukan secara optimal untuk melayani tujuannya. Berikut adalah aturan penting praktis untuk mengamati dan memastikan website Anda berkinerja baik.

1. Jangan menggunakan halaman splash Halaman splash adalah halaman pertama yang Anda lihat ketika Anda tiba di sebuah website. Mereka biasanya memiliki gambar yang sangat indah dengan kata-kata seperti "selamat datang" atau "klik di sini untuk masuk". Pada kenyataannya, mereka hanya disajikan halaman tanpa tujuan yang nyata. Jangan biarkan pengunjung Anda memiliki alasan untuk klik pada tombol "back"! Beri mereka nilai situs Anda di depan tanpa halaman pembuka.
2. Jangan menggunakan iklan banner berlebihan Bahkan sedikit orang telah melatih diri untuk mengabaikan banner iklan sehingga Anda akan membuang real situs berharga. Sebaliknya, menyediakan konten yang lebih berharga dan menenun link afiliasi yang relevan dalam konten Anda, dan biarkan pengunjung Anda merasa bahwa mereka ingin membeli bukan didorong untuk membeli.
3. Memiliki navigasi sederhana dan jelas Anda harus menyediakan menu navigasi yang sederhana dan sangat mudah sehingga bahkan seorang anak muda akan tahu bagaimana menggunakannya. Jauhi menu Flash yang rumit atau berbasis multi-tier menu dropdown. Jika pengunjung Anda tidak tahu bagaimana bernavigasi, mereka akan meninggalkan situs Anda.
4. Memiliki indikasi yang jelas tentang di mana pengguna Ketika pengunjung sangat asyik browsing di situs Anda, Anda akan ingin memastikan mereka tahu bagian mana dari situs mereka di saat itu. Dengan begitu, mereka akan dapat menelusuri informasi yang relevan atau menavigasi ke bagian situs dengan mudah. Jangan membingungkan pengunjung Anda karena kebingungan berarti "meninggalkan kapal"! 
5. Hindari menggunakan audio di situs Anda Jika pengunjung Anda akan tinggal lama di situs Anda, membaca konten Anda, Anda akan ingin memastikan mereka tidak terganggu oleh beberapa perulangan audio pada website Anda. Jika Anda bersikeras menambahkan audio, pastikan mereka memiliki kontrol atas itu – dengan menyisipkan volume atau mute control. -->

Blog marketing is something that all blog owners do. They market their blog so that they can get readers, and make a profit from their blogs. Marketing their blog means to get it out there so that others that are interested in it can find it and read it. It is also a great way to sell things by using affiliate links and programs. Blog marketing can very well become a home business if that is something that you are interested in. 

Having a home business by blog marketing would definitely entail that you have more than one blog. If this is something that you are considering, you will want to make a list of markets that your blogs can cover. You will find that your blogs will do best when you only have one market per blog. For example, if you have a blog about cats, you will not want to include anything on the blog about kitchen appliances. 

This is because the readers that read your blog and visit your blog to learn more about cats and what you have to say about them will not be interested in learning anything about kitchen appliances. Once you have overcome the relevancy issue, you will be ok. You can however, have a blog about pets, and then blog about all of the many pets that you want to include. In order to make a living by blog marketing, you need to know every aspect of it. You need to know what needs to be done to get readers to your blog, how to write about the things that you are promoting and how to get it up in search engine rankings. Doing so will lead to successful blog marketing and making a home business income with it. One big aspect of blog marketing is SEO. 

SEO is search engine optimization and it consists of optimizing your blog so that the search engines will find it and rank it as high as possible. Which also leads to more traffic and leads from your blog. If you do not have time to learn SEO, and apply it to all of your blogs, hiring someone to do this for you might be something that you want to consider. Especially if time is an issue. Outsourcing much of your work is something that you will need to get used to if you plan on making a substantial amount of money with your blogs. 

You may want to hire bloggers or writers that can write the content for your blogs, and someone else that can leave comments on other blogs with a link back to yours. Spread out all of the duties on a spread sheet and decide how often each thing needs to be done for each blog. Doing so will help you to be more organized and know what you need to do when, as well as prioritize. Using a spread sheet will also help you to keep track of who is doing what, and keep you from asking more than one person to get one job done. 

Blog marketing for a home business is not much different from any other home business. You are going to get out of it what you put into it. If you only put in a couple of hours a week into your blogs, you can not expect to make a full time income with them. However, being consistent and working on your blogs every chance that you get will pay off in the long run. You will also discover that there is no better feeling in the world than owning your own home business, and working for yourself. Just remember to start small, and work hard. That is all you need to become successful at blog marketing and make the income that you are dreaming of. All of your hard work will pay off if you are persistent and keep it up.

Beginner Blog Marketing Blogs which are also known as web logs are the new thing on the internet. They are pretty much a platform that you can use that will allow you to post your thoughts on most any subject that you want to. They can be used for journaling, promoting, writing, and publishing, anything that your heart desires. However, if you are a beginner and new blogging as well as marketing, there are some very important things that you will want to know.

Blog marketing is pretty easy if you have a marketing mind. You are going to find that many people use blogs as a diary, and many times these blogs that are used for this purpose are not intended to make them money, but simply a way to put there thoughts out there and find others that are going through the same thing. If you have never even had a blog before, the simplest thing that you can do is to start one, and just journal in it for a while. This will allow you to learn just what it takes and what it is all about to keep up a blog. When you are just journaling your thoughts and what is on your mind, you have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. You don’t even have to make your blog public if you don’t want others to read what you have to say. That is a personal preference. However, doing this will let you see how it works. Then you can move on to trying to market a product or a service. 

Using a blog to market something is cheaper than using a website. This is because there are so many free ones out there that you can use to get the word out, and they are really just as good as having a website that you pay for. There are of course some advantages to having your own URL, but for a beginner, a free one will work until you get the hang of it and want to move it all over onto your own server. The free blogs are just not that customizable. If you are not familiar with HTML, you are going to find that your blog will look like everyone else’s. But, that is ok in the beginning. You can always make changes later on once you are becoming successful. When you have your own blog, you are in charge of the content that is posted on it. You can decide what is said, and what is not. You are after all writing it all, right? So, the sky is the limit. Whether you want a blog that does website reviews and takes nominations, or you want to sell things that you make out of your home, the choice is yours. 

Using a blog to get the word out about whatever you want too is a great way to market and promote something. Blog marketing can get complicated if you let it. It is really only as hard as you make it. While there are some bloggers out there that are making a six figure income with the use of blog marketing, we all know that it can be done. We just want to know how. Well, for any beginner, start small, and be consistent. The six figure bloggers all did. They started with one, built it up, and then added another blog, built it up. Then, keeping up both blogs and not letting them fall behind, they continued to add more and more. Of course they had help, and they outsourced a lot of their work. If you are looking to make a massive income with blogging, you will need some help. Blog marketing is a great thing to learn. If you can sell things from a blog, you can sell them anywhere. Making money by using a blog is one of the most satisfying things that you will ever learn how to do. Just do not expect to make money over night, know that you have to work at it consistently everyday, and remember to put into it what you want to get out of it. -->

Apakah halaman website Anda masuk dan ditemukan posisi atas di hasil mesin pencari ? dan apakah orang disekitar anda mengetahui tentang website anda. Internet terdiri dari Milyaran halaman website dan jutaan lebih muncul setiap harinya. Pada kesempatan kali ini saya akan membagikan tips bagaimana membantu meningkatkan peringkat mesin pencari untuk menemukan website anda. Berikut ini sedikit tips mempromosikan website anda : 

Sisipkan alamat web Anda dalam e-mail
Saat membalas atau mengirim e-mail, pastikan email anda berisi signature yang berisi dengan nama perusahaan Anda, alamat web, dan e-mail Anda. Hal ini sangat membantu mengingatkan pengguna dari alamat website Anda dan merupakan metode gratis yang sangat baik dari iklan gratis. Namun  perlu digaris bawahi bahwa dalam penulisan signature tidak lebih dari tiga-baris teks. Serta jangan kirim SPAM. Sebagian besar penerima Email mengabaikan SPAM Email, 

Bangun Links
Bangun Link ke halaman website populer  atau berpartisipasi dalam Pertukaran Link .  Ini adalah satu cara Mbah Google memberikan peringkat halaman, dengan melihat kategori seberapa populer situs mereka.
Teman dan keluarga
Biarkan teman-teman, keluarga, rekan kerja tahu tentang situs web Anda. Tidak hanya ini cara yang baik, apalagi jika memasang status di Blackberry, Yahoo Messanger dengan begitu sekaligus promosi tentang situs web Anda.

Jaringan sosial
Berpartisipasi secara online baik di Forum, News Forum atau situs komunitas yang berhubungan dengan topik website Anda sementara yang lain membiarkan tahu tentang situs web Anda melalui tanda tangan atau link. Namun, jangan hanya mengunjungi untuk mempromosikan, memberikan umpan balik yang konstruktif dan saran, ajak pengunjung blog atau website anda memberikan saran dan masukan atau memberikan pendapat tentang salah satu artikel

Facebook fanpage dan Twitter
Ciptakan Facebook Fanpage dan Twitter, dengan menyisipkan di blog atau website anda, bukankah  menjadi cara yang sangat baik untuk menjaga komunitas Anda up-to-date dan cara yang hebat untuk promosi postingan artikel blog atau website anda. Dan tambahkan dengan menggunakan layanan seperti tombol Share .

RSS feed
Ciptakan RSS Feed untuk menjaga pengguna selalu up to date artikel website anda dan tambahkan di blog atau website anda kolom berlangganan feed

Optimasi SEO onpage pada blogspot. Apa itu onpage seo ? 

Sebenarnya di blog selain bangelan sudah banyak yang menjelaskan tentang ini, tapi saya akan coba menyegarkan kembali, mungkin terbesit di benak rekan-rekan bagaimana caranya blog kita masuk urutan 10 besar hasil pencarian google untuk kata kunci “Tutorial, Belajar, Website”. 

Maka pastinya kita harus mengoptimasi seonya kan ? nah ,onpage seo itu adalah usaha kita dalam membuat ketertarikan desainnya lebih bersahabat dengan Mbah  google. Jadi intinya seo dari desain dan setting-an dari dalam. Bagaimana cara optimasi onpage seo pada platform blogspot ? Cara optimasi pada platform blogspot adalah dengan penambahan meta tag deksripsi,keyword,perintah2 kepada robots, dan berbagai meta tag lainnya,berikut ada tambahan meta tag yang bisa ditambahkan ke blog kita :  

<meta content="all-language" http-equiv="Content-Language" />
<meta content="Global" name="Distribution" />
<meta content="Indonesia" name="geo.country" />
<meta content="tempat tinggal sobat" name="geo.placename" />
<meta content="nama sobat" name="author" />
<meta content="all" name="robots" />
<meta content="all" name="googlebot" />
<meta content="all" name="msnbot" />
<meta content="all" name="Googlebot-Image" />
<meta content="all" name="Slurp" />
<meta content="all" name="ZyBorg" />
<meta content="all" name="Scooter" />
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta content="true" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" />
<meta content="blogger" name="generator" />


Letakkan kode tersebut dibawah kode meta deskripsi dan meta keyword yang telah rekan-rekan punya.

Original artikel :  blogjuragan
Modifikasi artikel :bangelan

Cara Mengetahui Alamat Feed Blog. Mungkin diantara rekan-rekan ada yang belum tau cara mengetahui alamat URL feed blog atau website? Alamat Feed blog ini sangat berguna sekali dan digunakan untuk keperluan rekan-rekan mendaftar di Technorati, Email Berlangganan artikel, mensubmit ke direktori website dan lain-lain. langsung saja.bagaimana sih caranya mengetahui alamat feed blog kita ? ikuti tutorial dibawah ini lengkap dengan ilustrasi gambar. Cara Mengetahui Alamat Feed Blog sbb :

• Buka blog kita di browser Mozilla Firefox Lalu klik kanan disembarang halaman blog kita Klik "View Page Info" (lihat gambar dibawah ini)

• Akan muncul jendela pop up lihat gambar dibawah ini. 

• Klik tab "Feed", Nah di halam popup itu akan muncul URL feed blog sobat ( jika memang blog sobat mendukung script RSS feed, tapi biasanya untuk CMS umum, sudah disediakan script RSS feed nya
• Klik pada salah satu URL feed yg ada Lalu copy dan simpan sebagai data jika suatu waktu diperlukan untuk submit RSS feed blog kita.