Effective Ways to Be Productive Online

To be productive online is to be effective and efficient doing less and getting more done. Here are the ways to harness internet technology to get more traffic to your site and be noticed

1. Content: If you have time for only one thing to do online, what would you do? The obvious thing is to write articles on your blog simply because people visit your blog to find out what’s for them from what you have posted.  Without articles, there is nothing to offer to your readers. You will notice that your articles are more than just good for solving people’s problems.  Read on.

2. Keywords: Keywords are words used by people who search for things online. When one of your pages contains matching words, it is shown among other pages with similar keywords. You can use a keyword tool such as Google AdWords to find out what words people use to find content. The best thing to do is to write useful articles with relevant keywords in your titles, headlines and in the body of your articles. Keywords are used to optimize your web site for search engines. However, the most important thing is to write naturally for readers.   

3. Titles: Use this tool, Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer, to write effective titles. According to the site, this free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, reaching your customers in a deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use to reach prospects.

4.      Search: According to the latest article by Google, Finding more high-quality sites in search, they are looking for quality sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on. Write unique and original articles which are beneficial for the readers and get noticed by search engines. Don’t send your articles to article directory sites to avoid duplication.

5. Technorati: How do you build trust and authority online? Build and establish your authority through Technorati. As you have already had so many useful articles at your site, just use your articles to join relevant blog carnivals at http://blogcarnival.com/. Whenever an article is accepted by a carnival host, there will be a link to your site. Technorati will pick up the link to your site. The more links you have from authoritative sites, the more authority you will gain from Technorati.  

6. Subscribers: The wonderful articles that you have written are your life and soul of your site. Install Feedburner at your site to facilitate readers to subscribe and read your future posts by RSS feed and email. Your success and effectiveness of your blog are measured by the number of subscribers you have.

7. Social media: Invite people to connect you at Facebook by including a Like box at your site. Insert a button to get more followers to your Twitter account. These two sites are the most popular networking sites you can find on the Net. You can also Join LinkedIn for more online exposure.  

8. Google Analytics: Monitor the performance of your site and make changes accordingly to optimize the performance of your site.  Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. With Google Analytics, you're more prepared to write better

9. Blog Followers: Having many blog followers is a great way to achieve a viral effect to generate more traffic to your site. Add this feature and promote your site effectively.

10. Business cards:  According to Wikipedia, a QR Code is a specific matrix (or two-dimensional code, readable by dedicated QR barcode readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data. You can print unique business cards incorporating QR code to attract the attention of others. Be different, be smart and get noticed. Go to http://qrcode.kaywa.com/  to generate your QR code.

    

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Take advantage of advancements of technology to promote your site productively.