Technology and market trends are changing fast, which means that the survival of a business in this jungle becomes possible only by choosing the right strategies and Internet marketing solutions. It involves constant adaptations to the world wide web trends, financial liquidity to constantly cover the advertising part necessary for the business progress and the success of all your efforts. Lots of marketers have taken up the habit of paying for professional consultancy, which considerably increases the level and the terms of the competition. What Internet marketing solutions are there available with a professional service provider?

Web design starts it all: the website or the home page is the first step for online business development. You can use the website as a platform for reaching clients, presenting your products and the benefits they have for the clients. It is at the stage of the web site design that you can integrate most valuable elements to support the implementation of the remaining Internet marketing solutions. You can avoid being aggressive in the approach of the customer and still be able to design a very good web site. If the web visitors finds useful information in the contents, he/she will choose to return on a regular basis. Other than this, you should reward the presence of your visitors on the pages.

There are all sorts of Internet marketing solutions for attracting relevant traffic to a web site. In fact, the majority of marketing campaigns aim at traffic enhancement, because the more people visit the site, the higher the chances to get financial transactions in the form of sales. Search engine optimization, pay per click, pay per impression or pay per lead advertising models, keyword bidding, keyword performance monitoring and many more, represent in fact the list of Internet marketing solutions regularly implemented to make an online business profitable.

It is wrong to assume that you should search for professional Internet marketing solutions only when you are in trouble and your business is going wrong. Expert measures are more than a last resort as they are part of daily activity on the world wide web. You can choose to seek help at whichever moment you see fit, but the wisest strategy is to avoid business failure and anticipate the possible periods of drawback by actually implementing professional Internet marketing solutions from the very beginning of your activity. Profit will follow and loss will be minimum afterwards.

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Back to the days I built my first website, I was worried on how long I had to wait before Google notice my site and got indexed, at that time it was about 10-14 days with 3 domains at least, namely 2-hosts.com, 18affordablewebhosting.com and oneseoasia.com. Oneseoasia.com is a testing site, testing my SEO abilities, while others two are hosting site which I managed to sell hosting as my first online business. At that time, I was tweaking my websites, getting links and with the hope rank well in search engines. In fact some of my low competition keywords such as “seo asia”, “affordable Web hosting hong kong” did rank well in Google, (top 10). Later on, I found there are skills to make sites that index faster, some claimed less than 24 hours, some claimed 2 hours, etc. But in this post, I shows you what I know and works which got most of my website 10-14 days to get indexed in Google database.

(1) Getting links from high “Page Rank” site.

Page Rank basically is algorithm of Google that shows how important a web page is. The values typically start from 0-10; being 0 the less important while 10 the most important. To get links from high page rank site, these days is by using Web2.0 properties such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Wikipaint, WikiHow and something like that. (Their page rank are from All you have to do is write in some articles that related to your site topics and add a link back to your new site. Now all you have to do is gather links for your articles in Squidoo or Hubpages and get your site indexed faster. The reasons why I suggest you to add an article in Hugpages and Squidoo are they are well established web site. and 10 thousand of new contents added everyday, so Google robots do come back often and check their contents. Once they come and found there is a new article that links back to your site, the robots will follow it hence start to store in the search engine database.

(2) Gather links from relevant online forums.

When gather links, we always want to link some relevant resources that might help our readers so it is the best to gather links from relevant sources. One way of doing it is to search for online forums in your niche that allow you to put a “DO Follow” link with NO javascript or other form of redirect in the signature file. For instance, for “make money online” or internet marketing niche, search for any relevant forums such as internet marketing forums, domain forums, web hosting forums, seo forums, and so on will do. I will pick the top 10-20 most relevant results in the niche and sign up as a member one by one. But before you do that check:

1. if other members have a link on the signature file. If it is the case, most likely the forum you interested allowed a link
2. check the link if already indexed by Yahoo search engine by using an advanced command:
   [quickcode] link:yourdomain.com site:SomeForumhere.com [/quickcode]. If there is a result returned, most like the link is indexed by search engine
3. check the page of that forum source code of the link you investigated above has rel=”nofollow” or rel_external=”nofollow” tags on. If it is the case, the search engine robots will not follow that link and you site will NOT be picked up fast nor affect its site search ranking. (see the follow picture for example)

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4. similar to above, this time, check with if there is a redirect at that link as well. If there is a redirection, your link will not be get indexed as well

That’s about what I know for forum link building. One note is don’t gather links too fast as you may raise a red flag that Google thinks you are doing something naughty. I will say at the maximum 10 sites per day when you use forums to gather backlinks. You may also submitting articles to articles directories such as ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, articledashboard.com or others high traffic articles directories to gather links. However, your articles have to be first get human approval before being listed. As for our purpose is getting your site index fast in Search Engines. Article directories submission should be your last resort of this strategy.

How Do you Know Your Site Got Indexed?

To know it basically type in the following command in Google search box for example:
[quickcode] site:xyz.com [/quickcode]
and if Google returned one of your web page as the result your site is indexed.

That’s it for today. As at the end, I am challenging myself to get a new website indexed in 2-3 days in Google at the date of domain purchased. I am confident that it could be achieved and I will post the result here so stay tuned!

Recently I read a question that asked how one can block a web page from being indexed by search engines, since I think it is a popular question and it will benefit to my readers so I decided to post my
answer here:

Generally there are 2 methods that you can block search engine accessing your web page, one is by adding a simple META exclusion tag on the web page and the other one is by using a robots.txt.

Now how exactly can you do this?

META robots exclusion

<META name=”robots”, content=”nofollow, noindex”>

The second part “noindex” tells the search engine not to list, index or store your page in their database. The “nofollow” basically tells the search engine ignore any URLs that appear on your page.

When you add the above code, you have to add it between and in the HTML code otherwise it won’t work

Robots.txt exclusion

The other method requires you to create another file named robots.txt (you have to name it exactly as I showed in ALL small letters for it to work) and upload it to your web server ROOT, home directory or home folder. You can use a notepad or any programmer style text editor (NOT MS office) to create that file. The format will looks like this:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /your-disallow-directory/your-disallow-file.html
Disallow: /your-disallow-directory-2/

etc

The big advantage of using robots.txt is you can actually hide the block search engines to access the entire web directory. Let’s say you have some digital products and the download page that only allow your customers to download. You place all the downloadable files into a separate directory. So you can block the whole directory with this bit of code :

Disallow: /your-disallow-directory-2/

or you can just block a particular page from accessing using this line:

Disallow: /your-disallow-directory/your-disallow-file.html

Note the asterisk of the first line “User-agent: * ” means disallow all search engine robots. You can specify which search engines robots that you want them not to access your directories or web pages.
For example, if you don’t want Google to access you pages, you can use

“User-agent: Googlebot”

for Yahoo you can use
“User-agent: Slurp”

and for MSN, use:
“User-agent: MSNBot”
beware of the capital letters of the robots name and also the directories or webpages name, since they are case SENSITIVES!

when you want to apply?

Web pages like admin directory, private messaging on online discussion forums, digital products page, sign-up page and so on are the common examples on how you would apply the exclusion.

If you are seeking more tips on how you should prevent your digital products page, be sure to check out my latest blog post on 5 Simple Steps to Stop Your Digital Products From Being Stolen