Having a website is a great way for your business to connect with new customers. Unfortunately, while building a website has bought instant success for some businesses, it has the potential to be an absolute disaster for others.

Often website design is given much attention, but a good website design is not enough to ensure that your business will flourish effectively. A poor SEO campaign is often the primary reason for a website’s failure.

You may need to add several features for you to be able to maximize the efficiency of your online marketing site. Aside from proper web design, you should also implement different strategies to entice users to view the contents of your website. These procedures are necessary to define the success of your online business. However, this is only half of the marketing process. You should also keep in mind that the accessibility of your website is also important. Even though you have a good-looking website, if it does not receive any traffic, it would not be very effective in boosting your sales. Therefore, search engine optimization strategies should be importantly considered on your marketing solutions.

For in the online business starters, you can easily be recognized in the competitive world of Internet marketing by utilizing search engine optimization techniques for your website. One good strategy for increasing the traffic generated by your website is to implement link building. This can be easily done by using the Link Wheel method. With this approach, you can increase the visibility of your home page and at the same time reach your target customers effectively. Link Wheel approach utilizes the availability of Web 2.0 property sites, which can be interconnected to generate a lot of traffic for a marketing Hub page.

You may want to try the following simple procedures to help your website achieve higher rankings on search engines:

Create a Squidoo lens regarding the topic that you are featuring on your website. Make sure that the Squidoo lens that you have written contains a back link to your website.

The next step is to create an article about the same topic and submit it to different article databases such as Ezinearticles or GoArticles. Just make sure that your article is unique and complies with the guidelines of the article directories. Aside from that, you should also not forget inserting back links to the Squidoo lens you have previously written.

Moreover, you can extend the link connection further and create articles about the same topic on other blog sites such as Hubpages, Google Knol, Blogger and WordPress. Just make sure that all of these blog entries are interrelated and contains links that would redirect back to your website.

You have the option to leave the Link Wheel open or you may also want to keep the cycle and insert links back to the Squidoo lens. The more blog sites that you will include on your Link Wheel, the higher the chances that your website would generate the traffic it needs.

The significant increase on your Page Rank would eventually be visible in a week or two. In addition to that, you can also expect your website to appear on the top pages of major search engines. This can be a great start for promoting your own website without having to spend too much on other SEO tools.

If you look back on the past year, 2010 was truly the year social media took off. Although social media has been in regular use over the past decade, only until recently was it considered a viable internet marketing tool for increasing traffic and popularity. As the year ends, nearly all SEO companies (including ourselves) are predicting the trends for the upcoming year. Climb The Net, for example, thinks that social marketing will have ROI value. And, perhaps, their predictions are the most accurate. Many SEO professionals are still wondering, “How effective areFacebook and Twitter accounts for my clients?”

Social media, however, still has not been studied or used widely enough to prove itself as a tool for increasing business. Of course, this may change.

So, what can and can’t social media do? Facebook, Twitter, and blogs have supplemented SEO efforts. Blogs, one of the older forms of social media, generate regular content, which search engines like to see. Blogs, Facebook, and Twitter can offer link popularity, provided that “no follow” tags are not used, and can increase traffic.

Once the visitors end up on a website, what do they do? Do they browse through the pages and purchase something, or do they quickly go back to Facebook or Twitter? Facebook has an advantage with paid ads, but aside from these, how effective is Facebook, Twitter, or a blog in making a sale? Considering each business takes its own approach to social media, can the effectiveness ofFacebook, Twitter, and blogs be determined?

2011 might be the year in which social media is revealed as an effective tool for increasing business – or a big timewaster. Presently it works with SEO, although traditional optimization techniques still drive traffic and influence search engine ranks. As Facebook “likes” and business page popularity could become the next one-way links, developing a social media plan may become part of the optimization process.

The rest of SEO should not be ignored, however. The most notable change this past year was the official union between Yahoo and Bing that occurred in August. As the Search Engine Land article explains, both now use the same algorithm and comprise nearly a quarter of all search engine usage. Although Google still dominates, ranks on Yahoo and Bing matter more. Ignoring these two search engines ultimately means a loss of traffic.

Content and links, as well, evolve with search engine algorithms. Optimizing a page for one keyword term, for example, only gives partial results. As internet users are more likely to enter a tail phrase, a content page, title tag, and meta descriptions now need to consider these more than ever. Tail phrases are not secondary; ranking for one may lead to a sale. Nevertheless, copywriters should not resort to spam tactics to fit all phrases on one page. Essentially, this would be one step forward, and two steps back – or, more precisely, enough steps to go back six years. The challenge for SEO in 2011, then, is developing an approach to incorporate all phrases without keyword stuffing.

Links, always a conundrum in SEO, may have finally reached a plateau in 2011. One-way links are extremely effective in increasing popularity, but relevant reciprocal links are still necessary. Although links are not in danger of going the direction of H1 and keyword tags, 2011 will undoubtedly lead to more minor changes in their usage.

Interview with Danny Sullivan:

Danny Sullivan: If an article is retweeted or referenced much in Twitter, do you count that as a signal outside of finding any non-nofollowed links that may naturally result from it?

Bing: We do look at the social authority of a user. We look at how many people you follow, how many follow you, and this can add a little weight to a listing in regular search results. It carries much more weight in Bing Social Search, where tweets from more authoritative people will flow to the top when best match relevancy is used.

Google: Yes, we do use it as a signal. It is used as a signal in our organic and news rankings. We also use it to enhance our news universal by marking how many people shared an article.

Marketers are investing heavily in social media, but measuring the return from those investments remains

elusive. Too many organizations are relying on gut instinct and crude metrics to assess payback from their growing social media presence. Without an accurate measurement framework, they risk misinterpretation that can lead to misinformed decisions on budget allocations and marketing mix.

This white paper explores the opportunities and challenges in social media marketing and outlines practical solutions for assessing the return on investment of your initiatives, from social networking sites to blogs to syndicated videos. It covers how you can:

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• Understand the total impact of impression-based campaigns

• An appropriate attribute credit to social media channels and campaigns

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Commercial loans to small and medium-sized business enterprises (SMEs) in the emerging markets would greatly benefit the economies of these nations and serve as the best kind of “anti-poverty” program through their ability to create jobs and provide innovative products and services.
Speaking at the G20 business summit in Seoul, South Korea, Eduardo Elsztain, chairman of Banco Hipotecario, an Argentine commercial bank, spoke on the SME issue.

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Cameroon mining projects

Below is a list of major mining projects in Cameroon, which is seeking to diversify its traditionally oil-driven economy, the largest in central Africa.