Tip and a helpful newsletter

Here's a quick tip I recently shared with my webmaster group -

When writing a URL in a sentence be sure not to put a period right after it. Example - http://www.web2webgroup.com. If people have to copy and paste you URL a lot of the time they will include the period and may not realize it and think your site doesn't work. Also some email accounts will include the period in the web URL. Always put an extra space before putting the period, if you put on at all. Of course it isn't just periods, it and mark after the URL or site address.

Here's a very helpful newsletter. It's one of only a handful of newsletters I receive. As you might know most sites offer a newsletter to help and then send nothing but affiliate links to you inbox. This one is different, they offer actual content. Stories about others working and succeeding online. They also send links, but only truely helpful sites. I usually print out this newsletter each month and read it. It allows you to keep really helpful parts to use as a reference. Here's where you go to sign up - http://www.associateprograms.com/

Article Writing = Free Advertising

A little known way to receive ongoing web visitors, a higher Google Page Rank, and inbound links to your site without having to exchange links. All for free...

Article Writing - Pick a category you're interested and/or know a lot about and write an article about it. It doesn't have to be too long, just have some facts about something or even your opinion. At the bottom of the article make a new paragraph 'About the Author'. Here you write a short summary about yourself and your site name and URL. You can even have related links in the article, this is especially good if you write an article pertaining to your site, than have links to your site to show examples.

Here is an example. Go to Google and type in - "Why Paid Inclusion Is Better Than PPC Advertising" be sure to use the quotations, you want to get an exact match. This is an article I wrote last year an already it's listed on over 600 websites. I didn't pay a dime. That over 600 links pointed to my website, because of my 'About the Author' section.

Another example is - "Dear Santa: Christmas Sucks!" also in quotation marks. My sister wrote this one and it is on over 400 sites. Again free advertising for your website because of the 'About the Author' section. Both of these articles are based on opinion and look how many sites listed them. Most people know to get a higher Google Page Rank you need people to link to your website. This is the easiest way, plus it's free.

WebProNews.com - An excellent site to be listed on. They list almost any article that is webmaster related. They also allow you to upload a photo of yourself. Your article will be seen by thousands of people here.

http://www.webpronews.com/submit.html

You also have to be aware of some sites that offer to publish your article to thousands of websites for a fee. As you can see above, this really is not necessary. Just search the web for free article submission sites and you're set.

Here are some more free sites that you can submit your articles to:

http://www.articlesubmission.com
http://ezinearticles.com
http://www.articlesfactory.com
http://www.infonexus.org
http://www.articlehub.com

Again the article you write can be about anything you have an interest in. Websites of all types will list your article. My sister has an article about Britney Spears that was picked up and listed on a wedding related website. That being said, if you do a specific article related to your website's content. For example let's say you sell vitamins on your website. If you were to write an article on why a specific vitamin is good for the average person and why it help the body. Your article will be picked up by more health related website than others, so you'll get targeted web traffic. Again all for free.

About Myself

I have been online since 1995 and been creating websites since 1997. I currently have two website that I actively work on. Links2See.com an internet directory that I started in February 2000 and DropSomeCoin.com a casino directory that my brother and I build in June 2003. I also run a Yahoo interactive webmaster group which can be located at Web2WebGroup.com . I decided to write a blog to write down some tips, tricks and helpful websites I've come across over the years. I hope this will be able to help other avoid the mistakes I've made in the past, as well as, help people with there web endeavors.