New Orleans Internet Marketing

I’ve long known about email marketing and Aweber’s Autoresponders, but until recently, I didn’t have any ideas on how I could integrate one into any of my own personal websites to make them more profitable for me.

Email newsletters are great for reminding customers and potential customers about your products and services. If the newsletters give something away – like high quality free information, discounts on products, or news about something the consumer cares about, they will generally stay subscribed. And when they keep getting that reminder from you, they’re a lot more likely to turn to you when it comes time for them to make another purchase. They also do great at generating conversions from potential customers who were reluctant to buy when they first found your website.

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I’ve been seeing some ads around for therapysites.com for a little while now, and I thought it seemed like a great idea for therapists who want to have their own website built. They provide a lot of tools that make website creation easy, using their customizable themes and their pre-built content management system.


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If you read my post entitled “How Much Should My Website Cost?” you already know that decent web design can start in the $2k range, and go up over time with different cost factors. The thing I like about TherapySites.com, is that while more expensive than just plain website hosting, you save all of the money that’s usually spent on the initial design process. Plus you get their content management system so you can easily make your own changes to the site.

The other thing I like is that the company seems focused on the business of therapists, which means they will likely be equipped to deal with common problems that therapists face when it comes to web design; usually companies like this improve over time also.

I haven’t tried their sites out yet, and I haven’t heard any feedback on them from my advertisers, but they offer a money-back guarantee, and a free month if you mention that you were referred by The FMC Directory (my other website), so it may be worthwhile to try if you’re in the market for a new site.

Here are a few popular article publishing websites. The first one, Squidoo, is a little more than just an article publishing site. On Squidoo, you create a page, or “lens,” where you can add different types of content like graphics, rss feeds, affiliate links and more. Articles submitted to many others typically rank well themselves in search results.

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.buzzle.com
http://www.articledashboard.com
http://www.e-topic.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
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I used to do this using Google’s API, and it was very tricky. Now, it’s a cut and paste operation that takes less than 5 minutes:

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Not all Web Directories are Created Equal.
These are a few I know about, as well as some links to other lists. Getting your site listed in web directories is a small way to help your site’s relevance and link popularity in the search engines.

Most Important:

Yahoo! Directory

ODP – Open Directory Project

Best of the Web Directory

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There’s a new service available to mental health professionals called @ Counseling.

http://atcounseling.com

@ Counseling is a place where counseling professionals can sign up and create their own web site, choosing from a variety of different templates. It all takes place through your browser window, and is a very simple and straightforward process. Best of all, it is completely free for any licensed member of the helping professions.

The service is provided by The Family & Marriage Counseling Directory, but therapists do not need to advertise in the directory to be eligible. I hope people will take advantage of it.

This list isn’t entirely ordered. It shows the number of backlinks using “link:” in Yahoo!

Delicious del.icio.us 5,579,588
Digg digg.com 2,283,589
Technorati www.technorati.com 3,213,234
Yahoo! MyWeb myweb2.search.yahoo.com 114,464
OnlyWire www.onlywire.com 5,990
Reddit reddit.com 638,239
Furl www.furl.net 1,207,958
NewsVine www.newsvine.com 14,200,000
Slashdot Slashdot.org 2,829,533
Spurl www.spurl.net 431,483
StumbleUpon www.stumbleupon.com 1,012,186
BlinkList www.blinklist.com 1,037,723
Magnolia ma.gnolia.com 397,948
Netscape www.netscape.com 2,397,215
Rojo www.rojo.com 118,189
Simpy www.simpy.com 492,336
RawSugar www.rawsugar.com 3,220,000
Shadows www.shadows.com 8,862
Twitter twitter.com 1,211,217
TailRank tailrank.com 174,043
Linkarena linkarena.com 1,651,575
Squidoo www.squidoo.com 36,354
Netvouz www.netvouz.com 543,097
Feed Me Links feedmelinks.com 122,461
BlinkBits www.blinkbits.com 942,937
Delirious de.lirio.us 5,021
Scuttle scuttle.org 48,523
Connotea www.connotea.org 17,540
Kinja kinja.com 87,776
DZone www.dzone.com 161,684
CiteULike www.citeulike.org 483,291
Blue Dot bluedot.us 349,000
Wink wink.com 30,005
Diigo www.diigo.com 407,128
LibraryThing www.librarything.com 541,094
Wists www.wists.com 121,024
BlogMemes www.blogmemes.net 3,438
Hugg www.hugg.com 81,045
Rollyo www.rollyo.com 122,714
Searchles www.searchles.com 25,212
Backflip www.backflip.com 9,5010
Unalog unalog.com 54,805