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$$$ More with Qassia???

2008-02-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

QASSIA????

Released on January 4, 2008, Qassia is currently in closed beta. That means, you can sign up and view intel if you were referred by someone who is already a member. The search function is not available to the general public.
What can I do at Qassia?

What is Qassia?

Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based directory. What the heck does that mean? It means that Qassia will change your life.

Only the Best!

Those of you interested in ad revenue sharing will be pleased to know that Qassia has by far the best ad revenue sharing system on the web. You can add your websites, and get unlimited quality backlinks. There is no need to pay, or to link back to Qassia. Websites are processed instantly and ranked by the amount of credits you have amassed. To earn credits, you can add intel, i.e. tidbits of intelligence.

Why is Qassia needed?

Promoting a new site has never been easy, and it's getting tougher every day. Site owners are forced to spend hours upon hours doing mundane and unproductive tasks such as exchanging links. Many give up, and splurge on advertising - which is why Google Adwords earns $1 billion per quarter.

How will Qassia generate traffic?

At Qassia, you will get credit for adding your intel. The more credit you get, the better your sites will rank. This provides incentive for site owners to contribute to Qassia. Thus harnessing the minds of millions, Qassia will become the largest repository of intelligence on the web.

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You'll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to "no-follow" backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for "intelligence", intel is a tidbit of information.

Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.

1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.

2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.

This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.

Inside Intel, rather than Intel Inside

Qassia is sometimes confused with sites like Wikipedia, Squidoo, most recently, Google knol. Qassia is fundamentally different from these sites, because Qassia is not about asking people to upload authoritative articles. You don't need to be an egghead at Qassia. You could upload a lengthy academic treatise if you want, by all means, but you can also get away with contributing a hastily scribbled tidbit of information about a person, a company, a place, an event, a thing, or anything you know about.

What we value is intelligence about the people, companies, and places around you. The people and places do not have to be famous, and the intelligence does not have to be earth-shattering.

Here are some examples of intel.

Qassia isn't a wiki. Your intel will not get edited (it will get rated, but not edited). You can write your intel in any tone or style you like. You can write in the first person, and you can write your entire intel without using the shift key.

By asking for less, we receive more

We are sometimes asked if it is free to join and use Qassia. That makes us chuckle. Not only is Qassia 100 percent free - we do not even ask for reciprocal links - but, in addition to promoting your websites and discovering stuff, you can also earn real money - very easily and without any hassle. We have the best, most generous, and most reliable ad revenue sharing program on the web. So if you're thusly inclined - and who wouldn't be? - you'll actually get paid for the effort you put in promoting your websites. No hitch, no catch. Now, if that ain't a sweet deal, we don't know what is.

We believe that, only by completely pampering our users and giving more than any other website, and in fact giving more than the users themselves expect, can we attain our goal of becoming the most incredible website the world has ever seen.

Qassia is a new era

Think of the bits and pieces of intel as the gravel which will fill the potholes on the information superhighway. While the Wikipedia and other knowledge repositories are huge, boasting tens of thousands of articles, less than 1 percent of human knowledge has been uploaded to the Internet. At Qassia, we are giving users the incentive and the freedom to add the remaining 99.9 percent.

The vast web of intel created at Qassia will produce more than a useful intelligence engine. The advent of Qassia is a cataclysmic event in the history of the Internet. We are redefining the web experience. Come be part of history and create your free Qassia account now.

Copyright 2008 Qassia Project. All Rights Reserved.

5 Things Not To Do When Advertising On Your Blog

2008-01-31T12:42:00.000-08:00

by Ramkarthik

Ever wondered as a blogger how to advertise and how not to? There are few things which you should not do when advertising in your blog/website. The following are the 5 things not to do when advertising on your blog:

1. Don't place ads at lower places:

When it comes to comes to the placement, you should place the ads where people can see it well. You should try placing your ads in top or right/lest side of your content. Your readers should be able to see it without scrolling.

2. Don't place your referral ads with the paid advertising:

I have seen few blogs which has their referral ads like Text link ads and others placed together with the paid ones. There are blogs which say Featured sites and have their referral ads to show that they have advertisers. By doing this you are only losing the opportunity of getting new ads.

3. Don't keep the prices costly:

When your blog is doing well and many advertisers are approaching you, you might ask for very high prices. You can increase a little but not too much. To check what is the correct price for an advertisement in your blog, you can calculate it using the Text Link Ads Tool. It shows you the best price. You can also calculate it on the basis of Cost per 1000 page views.

4. Don't Advertise Bad/Unrelated Sites:

If your blog is about money making and blogging tips or it is about technology, you should place the ads related to your niche and you should not be placing Gambling sites which will pay more. Placing such sites might even get you some bad results.

5. Don't Display all those Flash And Animation Ads:

These type of ads will get your advertisers a very good result. But using that on your blog will lead you to losing your daily readers. It is a distraction for your readers. You should care for your readers. After all without them your blog won't be having much page views. So place only the simple and effective ads.

For more on blogging advice and money making online tips, you can visit Daily Tech News.

About the Author

Ramkarthik is a blogger who is experienced in giving blogging advice and money making online tips.

7 Basic tips to Optimize your Own blog posts

2008-01-31T12:39:00.000-08:00

By Sharmistha Neogi (Pinks)

How to Optimize your Own blog posts both for your readers and search engines? Is it really possible to prepare an 'Optimal blog posts for search bots and online visitors?

The answer is 'Yes'. You may often find some considering 'Search spiders', some considering 'Visitors' as most important. But according to me, both readers (online visitors) and search engines are important for your blog. The visitors are more important because readers indirectly help your blog posts to appear in first or second Search engine result pages by linking to your own blog. Also do not ignore the search bots too because visitors are sent in bulk by the search engines, after the search query is being made. So always try to keep a balance between these two - readers and search engines. Make your best efforts to optimize both for your readers and search engines.

Here are some key aspects to see your blog right at the top.

1. Focus on quality content:

Good and quality content is the basic key. Nothing much can be achieved without having relevant content. So how to create quality content for your blog posts?

Quality content is the king. If you don't produce interesting, unique and quality posts, no one will ever visit your blog site. It's is very simple. More readers - More links - Rank in 1st or 2nd Search engine result pages.

Optimizing blogs (by following basic Search engine optimization techniques) will help you to rank in first or second search engine result pages and ultimately get more and more traffic for your blog site.

So just focus on generating quality content.

2. Research keywords and keyword phrases to optimize you blog:

Your blog post title should include the main keywords in it. Combine main, semi-competitive keywords for your blog title. Keyword research is needed before considering the 'best and unique' keywords for your blog posts. For keyword research you can use best keyword research tools like Goodkeywords.com ( http://www.goodkeywords.com ) , Overture ( http:// inventory.overture.com ) etc. Get the potential keywords and keyword phrases to optimize your blog. Do not go for highly-competitive keywords. Choose semi-competitive and low competitive keywords initially.

3. Use search engine friendly URL's

Always use search engine friendly URL's. I feel very irritated when I see blog Url's like http://www.profitimo.com/Blogs/tabid/84/Default.aspx..Does this URL give you any idea about what this is regarding? People intentionally commit such mistakes knowing the fact that it is NOT a Search engine Friendly! The url should be some what like this "blogdomain.com/articles/name of the blog.aspx". If your system allows you to choose a search-engine friendly URLs, by all means, set it up! Or perhaps while choosing a blog provider that has this feature.

Use keywords to your blog Url. Use the blog post title as the permalink. Adding keywords to blog urls acts as a real booster to search engine rankings. Using keywords in the blog post title will occur as anchor text in the permanent post link. This is one of the best SEO tips to help your blogs and blog site rank better and drive traffic each single day.

4. Submit your Blog:

Submit your blog to RSS, Blog directories, and Regular directories. Ping the major RSS feed and Blog search engines. For examples Google blog search, Digg, technorati etc.

5. Use headers to Highlight the main elements.

Bold and highlight the sub-titles and major keywords in the blog. The heading tags h1, h2 etc also help the search engines bots decide what the post is all about and rank them accordingly. Put your main keywords between the header tags. Highlighting the MAIN points on the blog helps your online readers to have a glance on it..in case they do not want to read the whole post due to lack of time. Moreover the search engines spiders consider 'Bold and highlighted' points very important. So this is a very useful tip to optimize your blog both for your readers and the search engines.

6. Always Pingback and send trackback:

Make sure that your blog software (wordpress,blogger.com etc) is configured to send a trackback ping to blogs that you cite within your posts. This is better for driving traffic than for link popularity. Make useful comments on other blogs. Your name will be linked to the blog url that you enter. Do not comment on other posts that offer no value to the blog post. Avoid using keywords in the field for your name, use your name or blog name. This is another great way to generate more and more traffic to your blogs and blog site.

7. Use Cascading style sheets in your blog:

Use Cascading style sheets in your blog template if possible. Use light designs to load faster. Do not use excessive Java scripts texts like "Widgets". Avoid using unnecessary use of "widgets' (I mean which are not important for your site). Having a large number of JavaScripts can slow down your site. Search engines too cannot read Java script links and texts. This is another good way to optimize blogs for visitors and search bots.

Make all best-possible efforts to market and promote your blog posts. Optimizing blogs is not a hard task. Just keep the above optimizing tips in your mind and implement them when and where necessary. Get stunner free traffic to you blog by the above proven strategies.

NB- I would like to share a good tutorial Video on "Optimize blogs". Please visit http://fly2.ws/2pF0CUc

Good luck and Happy blogging :)

About the Author

Sharmistha Neogi (she likes to be called "Pinks") has joined http://www.profitimo.com as a content writer/editor. She is currently involved in learning SEO,SEM and Application and Implementation apart from writing and Forums Administration. She enjoys working with people and she can be often found on other forums..So Catch her Up :)

How To Get Better Blog Traffic by Using Comments to Cement Connections

2008-01-31T12:35:00.000-08:00

by MorganLighter

Why don't I consider leaving comments a traffic method?

Because commenting isn't meant to generate traffic, it's more of a by-product.

And yes, there are some things we can use to generate traffic, even though that isn't their intended purpose, but only when it's ethical.

Leaving comments for traffic alone isn't ethical.

You're trying to take something from a community that worked hard to get it, instead of getting credit for sharing something with a community that you belong to, and reciprocating when it's given to you - these are two different things.

Think about how you'd feel if someone did that to your blog, everytime you want to evaluate a traffic method related to blogging. If you wouldn't mind and allow it at your blog, then knock yourself out, because whatever you are doing to others is about to happen to you.

Commenting to get traffic is also inefficient.

Why?

Let's say you leave one comment.

That comment will probably only bring you traffic as long as that post is new. When it fades into the archives, you won't get much traffic from it.

Let's say it's a DoFollow comment, and you're getting link juice. (A DoFollow comment is one left at the site of a blogger who is purposely not using the NoFollow attribute.)

Sure, your link will get followed by the search engines, and counted among the number of links to your site, which may give you a little boost.

But wouldn't it be better not to have to share that link juice with the other commenters?

Wouldn't it better to have a whole post dedicated to your site?

Wouldn't it be great to get a Permanent link to your site from their Blogroll, on a page that has more weight than a single post?

Wouldnt it be cool if someone discovered you by your link and then shared your link with other people?

So how do you get that kind of action?

Let's look at it logically.

Good Bloggers tend to make posts aboutâ€¦

* Quality tools, content, services, & products that will serve their community.

* People who are doing innovative, interesting, creative things that will interest their community, * Quality tools, content, services, & products that will serve their community and make them money, * News of interest to their community that will either save them from doing a full blog post or help them to do a full blog post,

.. just to name a few.

It follows, then, that if you want a blogger to blog about your site, to share your site with others, or to add you to their link roll, you should :

* Make comments that will both help and intrigue the blogger and his/her community, which make a good introduction to you. * Form a relationship with that blogger on the basis of what you have in common that could serve their community. * Form a relationship with other commenters in that community.

In other words, comment to give, not to get.

If you get the same amount of love back from comments you make, then great. If you don't, that's fine too, at least you got a link, and if you stick to it, you'll get that love elsewhere some other day.

Need more help getting visitors? Get more tips about blogging, social media, and traffic from http://freetraffictip.com.

About the Author

MorganLighter is a contributor to Free Traffic Tip.

SEO Tips for Your Blogs

2008-01-31T12:32:00.000-08:00

by Tony Markx

Originally conceived to be something like an online journal for individuals has become yet another tool businesses can use to market themselves online. Web logs or blogs are now being used not just for the sheer purpose of writing, but also as means SEO (search engine optimization) experts use to increase a website's ranking on search engine results pages (SERP).

An interesting thing about keeping and maintaining a blog (also known as blogging) is that anyone can blog. What will make a blog more successful than most is simply a keen sense of its target readership. Of course, it will not harm the blogger (a person maintaining a blog) to possess a few basic skills navigating the Internet and creating links to other websites and blogs. SEO is just as relevant for blogs, as it is for websites.

Bloggers today are finding that they can not only write and publish their thoughts for free, but they also can find themselves getting compensated for writing. This is because one of the techniques in SEO is to create content that is rich in keywords, which is basically what search engines look for in ranking web pages in its SERPs.

That said, here are some tips to make your next blog an effective SEO tool.

1, Choose a Theme (and Stick to It) Most blogs never gain a real readership because it simply is a mishmash of a writer's thoughts, with very little coherent theme to bind the entire blog together. If the blogger does it for the sheer purpose of a journal, there's really nothing wrong with that, it is there choice.

However, as an SEO tool, a blog has to have a theme that will tie all the posts (individual articles) together. This is because instead of just looking for keywords, a search engine will also assess whether the page just happens to have a lot of keywords mentioned in the post or whether the entire blog is about the topic it is searching for. The former will rank less than the first scenario in the SERPs. Given this point, it will do you well to pick a theme that you are interested in highly or have a large knowledge about and won't tire of writing informative, relevant pages or articles about.

2. A Place You Can Call Home Working alongside the idea of a theme, When creating your blog (whether with your own domain name or an a free blog site), give it a URL that has words related to the theme. For example, if you are going to blog about bonsai making, try to use words that are related to that in your blog's URL (such as www.bonsaienthusiast.com), etc, etc, please place some time into researching a relevant domain name, it is a very important step. Name your blog using words that are as relevant as possible to your theme as well. Search engines look at these things as well to determine how high your blog could possibly rank.

If you are blogging on a hosting site, it is possible to have your blog delegated into a proper category. This will help make it easier for the seafch engines to find your blog given that the category is strongly related to themes and search keywords.

On a related note, your individual posts should also be titled with words that are closely related to your theme. Again, working on a blog with a bonsai theme, one post could be titled :Miniature Trees: How to Get Started, while another one could be :Selecting the Right Pot for a Bonsai. This will give your posts a URL that is rich in keywords, which helps in a page's ranking on SERPS (but you already know that, right?).

3. Link And it Shall Be Linked Unto You Another thing about blogs that SEO experts are finding to become a great advantage is the fact that blogs make it easy to link to other blogs, which in turn makes it easy for other blogs to link to you.

This is yet another criterion a search engine uses to rank a particular page in the results pages. The more incoming links it possess about the keyword in search will increase ranking status because the page shows that a lot of people think what you've written is a good source of information.

So when writing on your blog, be sure to take the time to read other people's blogs and other online articles related to your theme. Create links to them so that you point your readers to more information. This will increase the chances of other people creating links that will point to your blog.

4. Keep it Coming Since blog content is so easy to create, search engines scour blog sites very regularly. That means if you keep on creating new content on a regular basis, search engines will have to keep up with what's new on your blog.

By regularly creating fresh content on your blog, search engines will tend to look to your blog first before others that are not maintained and renewed as regularly as you do. It helps in the rankings as well, which is the whole point of this article, right?

These tips are just to get started on using a blog for SEO. As you go along, you'll find more tricks of the trade that will help you push your hard worked-upon blog up the ranks on SERPs. Of course realistically, don't expect to rank on the top 3 pages on your first try. But give it a few weeks. And for as long as you keep to the tried and true principles, it may not be that far until you've captured a good ranking for your blog.

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Power Blogging - 3 Awesome Blogging Tips That Will Skyrocket Your Blog Business

2008-01-31T12:31:00.000-08:00

by sas_worldofwarcraftbuddy

This article is not intended to give you the newbies course about hosting, installing a blog on your domain and etc. It will give you some serious advice on your blog business

Bad blogging habits are easy to get into, and one of the worst is to leave your 'About' page unchanged. You know the page: it is provided by Wordpress as standard and a whole host of bloggers leave it unchanged. Why they do this is known only to them, because this is the first page that a large number of first-time visitors to a blog check out, and the reason why many of them leave without looking further.

All you have to do is to say a little about yourself, who you are, and what your blog is about, why you feel qualified to write a blog about this topic and how you can be contacted. If your blog covers a particular niche, rather than being simply a log of personal comments, then your potential readers will want to know why they should believe what you say by reading your credentials on the subject.

There is nothing wrong with having a personal blog about your personal thoughts on things, but if you are presenting yourself as a form of expert on a specific topic, then you will have to persuade readers that you have a right to do so. You should use your 'About' page to do that.

Another tip you should take is to claim your blog with Technorati. This registers it as yours with Technorati, and you can get a whole load more visitors. Since joining Technorati most of my blogs' traffic rocketed. It takes a while for new blogs to get going, but it's a lot easier if you make use of sites such as Technorati. The same is true of most of the social bookmarking sites if traffic is important to you. If you are using a blog to promote a product, then this is essential.

If you have a website then don't get lazy and be content to run your blog from a hosting site such as wordpress.com. It is better to download the software from wordpress.org, and host your own blog. You have much more control over the look and feel of it, and can use any of the thousands of plugins that are available online. You can also use any template you want, or even design your own. That way you get total customization of your blog pages, and can make it more distinctive than the majority hosted on Wordpress or Blogger's site. If you have tried and had problems downloading and installing it then send me an email. If needed I can take you through it online, or by telephone.

These are the two main tips that any blogger should take if they intend to blog seriously. However, was I to provide the third most important tip for anybody interested in blogging, then it would be to monetize your blog. Don't blog for nothing. If your blog concerns a specific niche subject you can likely throw up one or two affiliate programs on your sidebar so that they appear with your new posts. A three column blog is useful for this, since your regular sidebar will generally be full of permanent links.

If you monetize using Adsense, a three column layout is even more essential, since you will want a vertical block down one of the columns, in addition to some at the bottom and the middle. A good Adsense layout would be a column to the left or right of the main text column containing a vertical ad unit, a horizontal link unit at the bottom of the blog, and also a horizontal ad unit at the bottom of the latest post. You could also include a search box at the top or bottom of your main sidebar that allows a search either on Google, from which you get income, or on your blog.

You could also include one of your websites as a second search option, providing three altogether. The income might not be a lot, but most blogs with a few hundred visitors a day should be able to make from $10 to $20 daily minimum, depending on the niche. All you need are a few blogs like that.

These are my three main blogging tips. Yours would likely be different, since blogging is a very personal thing, but if you take these three on board you will likely find that you will get more visitors, have more fun and also be able to put a bit put aside for the holidays or that unexpected bill that always comes at the wrong time.

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Why Business Blogger have low Traffic and Terrible Conversion Rates?

2008-01-31T12:27:00.000-08:00

by Kamafairul Kamarudin

Hi, Guys. Before this we have been discuss about how to increase Traffic and Conversion Rates from post title How to maximize your Business Blog profit. Now we talk about the opposite factor that's why we having low traffic and terrible conversion rates.

First Banner ads!

Why does this happen?

Banners are cheesy and hurt your credibility. Because visitors simply arrive feeling "pitched" rather than informed. So they arrive at your Business Blog in a resisting mindset, rather than with an open, ready-to-buy attitude. Remember that example where you sent 100 visitors per day to a merchant and 1% bought? If you rely on flipping up a lot of banners, it will be more like 10 visitors per day and not one buys!

Want to make clear here, it is not an advertisement space that the problem here. Its tell you to reduce as many as you can, the graphic (banner ads) at your Blog.

If you simply must use banners, save them for the products that you don't feel absolutely great about recommending. That way, you don't hurt your credibility after all, it's "only advertising."

Save your "in context" text links for super affiliate companies and your own products that deliver true value to your readers.

Here some tips, If you really want to have banner ads in your Business Blog, why not sell the Banner Advertising Space to your readers. Just to let you know selling ad space on website is one of the most profitable businesses models you can find online Wright now.

However what you would want to avoid doing, is not to put too much ads on your blog when you just started! How much is too much? Well just do a simple test with 5 of your friends online and ask them for comments and you would know if you have implemented too much ads. As a rule of thumb, try not to make your website filled with ads but focus more on value content for your readers.

After banner advertising, it's the most common error. And it's an even bigger shame because this involves a lot of work... misplaced work. I mean, if you're going to fail, the best thing would be not to spend much time at it, right?

Here it is... SELLING instead of PRE SELLING.

Being a great Business Blogger is NOT about selling... It's about pre selling through information content.

Your Goal-of-the-DAY here is to understand, understand deeply, the concepts outlined here, culminating with the concept of PRE SELLING to maximize Conversion Rates about some information. It's the foundation of building income through information content with Business Blog.

Your success with anything you do in the world of Business Blogging flows from it. Internalize it and act upon it...... and you will succeed.

Blogging Reality.

"Nothing happens by accident in the world of computers, the Net, and customer response. There is always a reason for what happens, good or bad, and that reason is YOU."

So, How?

Not by working harder, but by simply channeling their motivation in a better direction.

Lets say that my Business Blog are SELLING (with sales copy) when they should be PRE SELLING (with great, and related, Information content that is of value to the reader).

There's really not much point in straight selling off your site - that's what your B-Blog is for. Picture this...

A visitor arrives at my Business Blog that is really just one, big sales site. Yes, I Am very honest to tell about the great product and all the words are sincere, But put yourself in these visitors' shoes for a moment. They don't see inspiring, editorial information content -- they see a sales effort.

But they were searching for content!

"CONTENT!" I said. (Sorry for yelling.)

People resist sales efforts, so your click-through actually goes down. And if they do click, what do they see when they arrive at your affiliate site or your product Web site. More sales effort. And, in some cases, many of the words on the affiliate site are similar to the words that they've just read.

Result? Poor Conversion Rate.

If your Business Blog is basically a "bunch of sales letters," you have not yet built your

credibility and likeability with your visitor. Your visitor ends up feeling "pitched." And then feels double-pitched if they clicks through to your affiliate or products site...

Conclusion?

Don't SELL! Instead, warm your visitor up for your affiliate or products by pre selling them with great content of information that they value and respect. They'll click-through with pleasure, arriving at your affiliate or products sites in an open-to-buy mindset.

It's your PRE SELL effort by your information and content that will boost your buyer's traffic to your affiliate/products site and will increase Conversion Rate at your Business Blog. Which in turn maximizes your income.

About the Author

Kamafairul graduate from Local University with Diploma in Computer System (Hardware) A+. A full time internet business explorer, will share with you his experience and his knowledge, perform to you by his technique and recipe with a lot of useful ingredient on how to become successful internet business owner and also will help you to generate your passive income!

Why Most Blogger Fails: Myth and Facts

2008-01-31T12:20:00.000-08:00

by azrizam mansor

Every blogger that start a blog want to be a professional blogger, fact that write a blog is a simple manner are wrong. Why most blog writer fails before the journey ends, why the new blogger fails to achieved their target. Below some of the reason why many blogger fails.

1 - Motivated By Money.

Myth: I can make huge income and money with blog, just start writing anything and put some ads. Just wait for the money pour in.

Fact: If motivated by money, go ahead for 6 month and yet just make a dollar a days with your ads network. The chance is sure you will give up before your blog achieved 10 months old.

Solution: Just blogging like usual, enjoying what you are doing now, put a passion along side without get motivated by money, place just a minimal ads not a big problem. The money will slowly generate by it self after that.

2 - Maintaining Too Many Blog.

Myth: If the A blogger can make $10k a month with just 1 blog maybe I can make even bigger income than that if I write a 5 different blogs. Let's say with 5 blogs maybe I can make $20k a month.

Facts: The blogger that make $10K a month know what his doing and achieve it with his passion on that blog. If you concentrate to maintain 5 blogs without know what you are doing - you are on suicide way. Jumping to many blogs without potential will wasted your time, money for hosting and your energy that you put on your first blog.

Solution: Just concentrate maintaining just 1 niche blog that you had a passion on, focus on what you are doing now without thinking to maintain other niche blog. Give some time to that blog to succeed.

3 - Write Just For You Not The Readers. Myth: I just want to write about my personal life and there is no readers want to read my life story.

Facts: Blogger that write for himself usually with neglected all the grammar, all the basic rules of blogging, and what other readers need. They just write what ever they want without show a care to other readers. When other post a comment you don't reply it, when other contact you just ignore it. Here you're wrong because even you write about your life other still want to read it, just communicate with other and make the story interesting. There are blogger that write about personal life succeed.

Solution: Communicate with the readers even you write about your personal life. Remember this; blogging is two ways process, if you put something valuable in your post sure other will stick to your blog.

4 - Write for Google not for Readers.

Myth: I must write a niche blog just for Google since Google will drive the traffics and reader to me. The readers will come if they reach my pages in Google.

Facts: If you write for Google, you're totally wrong and put the blog in a graveyard. When writing you put all the effort to make the post get ranked higher in Search Engine, all the linkbait you use, all the problogger technique you try out but still no readers. Why this happen? Ask yourself. Actually Google follow readers, if your post write for readers, even your blog look sucks, and its still can attract readers.

Solution: Successful blogger must write for the readers because high traffics blog know what the readers want. Why the readers visit the blog and what they want is your main target. Must put the value and good content in the post first, after that you can make it more with Google or other search engine optimization.

5 - Not Socialized

Myth: Waste time to join the socialized community like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and other social community. If I write a good content there is no need to join such community.

Facts: If you don't join these social communities likely you're the only person will read your own post. Social community directories actually will expose your blog to other blogger. If you write a good post, luckily the other tends to linkback to your blog.

Solution: Actively join the discussion, add other to your community and give some visit to other blog in the community. Give your comments in other blog. That the way other will notice you.

6 - Ignore Blog Update.

Myth: Just write 10 article pillar articles that can increase my traffic and readers in a month, after that I don't have to update my blog since I already post a great pillar article.

Facts: What makes blog and traditional website different is the blog ability to update the content often. That is why blog get more traffic exposure than traditional website. If you not updated your blog often, all the reader and subscriber that stick to you will go away. Why should they give a visit to your blog since there is no updated, just a crap of all post.

Solution: Just publish a post a day that enough because your readers know that you're still maintain that blog with nice post. Just write a 200 words post likely make your blog alive.

7 - Blog About Make Money Online.

Myth: I want to blog about make money online, I had the experience, I had the tools and I already signup with cool ads network. This is my time to blog about make money online.

Facts: Blog about make money online is the hardest topics a new blogger choose. If you're new starter blogger, don't write about make money online unless you can proved you're already make the big cash online. Prove is what hard to give to new blogger.

Solution: Don't blog about make money online if you only blog for 3 month. If you start blog about make money online then you're likely 90% to fails.

8 - Being Totally Copycat.

Myth: It's easy to write a blog, just copy other blog article and post it in my blog.

Facts: Try to 100% copy other content and publish it in your post. Just wait the time when the real author notices your act and make a report against you. Your post also will be ignore by Google.

Solution: You can copy other idea or content; BUT, please elaborated with your own words and give your own comments to make it more uniquely. Don't just copy and paste other content and material - do it yourself.

9 - Not Entertain Comments.

Myth: Comments is only a comment, let it be there - just ignore it.

Facts: Blog is two ways communication that involved the reader and the writer. That what make blog unique where readers can leave comments to express feelings. Better ways is to reply and answer the comments. Its enough to say "thanks you".

Solution: To make comments better you can install these plug-in. That is reward plug-in for top commentators- and the Brian Threaded Comments plug-in.

Now you know what is myth and fact about blogging. Ask yourself, why you're blogging?

About the Author

Dott-Com or Azrizam Mansor is a self writer on personal blog at Blog Branding, Blogging, Rambling & Fun. Where the main blog topics are focus on blog branding and general blogging issues. SEOing and other interesting stuff are likely related.

Getting Traffic to your New Website

2008-01-31T12:11:00.000-08:00

by David O Connell

So you've just finished creating your new website. It looks good and you are ready for the visitors, you can't wait for the traffic to come. So how are you going to get traffic to your new site? You will now need to promote your new site. Here are a few things you could start with:

1. Submit your site to the Search Engines. If you want people to find your site then you should start by submitting your site to the biggest 3 search engines, which are Google Yahoo and MSN. They will find your site eventually without submitting to them but why wait. You should also submit your site to all the other lesser-known search engines because some people don't or can't use the big 3. Can be time consuming to submit your site to most of them so Search Engine Submission Software is recommended for this.

2. Submit your site to Directories. People go here to find other websites. Provides good incoming links when your site is listed on directories, which can over time increase your website's popularity and SE rankings. There are so many directories that this can also be time consuming.

3. Submit your site to Classifieds. Was once considered to be an excellent way to get traffic to your site but not as effective today, however, it still could be worth your while submitting your site to the classified sites using Search Engine Submission Software because most of those sites are considered high traffic sites.

The above three methods are great ways to promote your site and start getting traffic but they can be very time consuming if you decide to submit your site manually to the above, however, there is a much faster and incredibly simpler way to get your site on over 700,000 Search Engines, Directories, Classifieds, Online Malls and Link pages by using Search Engine Submission Software like this http://www.easy.top5submitters.com

You could also consider other ways of getting visitors to your site like

1. Article Distribution - Writing articles about what can be found on your site and distributing them to article directories with a link to your site included in every article you write.

2. Participate in Forums that are related to your sites content - Post your opinion or expertise on the subject matter, and over time you'll be allowed add a link to your site with every post you make.

3. Add lots of related links to your site - This is reciprocal linking where someone adds your link to their site while you agree to add their link to your site - make sure the sites you link to are related to your site in some way, this will improve your search engine ranking for more traffic, eg. If you have a weight loss site you should link to other weight loss related sites like health, fitness, diet, exercise.

4. Use Pay Per Click (PPC) - Brings in quality traffic but it can get costly if you don't know what you're doing. Every time someone visits your site it will cost you a pre-determined amount usually a few cents. I recommend you learn all about this method before you dive in, however, you can at least set your limit on how much you are willing to spend on this.

5.Traffic Exchanges - This is where you view other people's sites to gain credits that will allow them to view your site. Most of the people viewing your site will have no interest in your site, they are only clicking on your site to gain credits. Worth a try because it's free to join.

6. Advertise in Ezines - This can be an excellent way to advertise your website. Only use ezines that are related to your site and have a large circulation. Allow your site ad a few months of advertising to get the best value.

7. Hit Boosters - Instant traffic to your site using software technology. Some can be quite useless but others can bring in truly remarkable results for your site. Here's a good one http://www.traffic.top5submitters.com

There are many more traffic gaining techniques. The above are 10 good ways that will get traffic to your site and a couple of solutions to your site promotion ventures. My advice is to try the above first and then when you are familiar with them you can look for other methods.

About the Author

David O Connell - Submit Sites to 700,000 SE's Directories, Classifieds http://www.easy.top5submitters. com Boost Site Traffic in Minutes http://www.traffic.top5submitters.com

20 Easy Techniques to Increase the Traffic to Your Website or Blog

2008-01-31T12:09:00.001-08:00

by Jo Mark

Traffic is the lifeblood of any successful Internet business. Following are 20 easy techniques to increase the traffic to your website or blog.

1. Write articles often and submit them to article directories.

2. Use compelling headlines/titles for your articles and blog to increase the number of page views.

3. Post to your blog often.

4. Post on Craig's list, make sure you mention your website in the listing.

5. Create a free product to give away on your site for people who subscribe to your list (ebook, software, pdf, etc.)

6. Network! Email other site/blog owners, call them on the phone, attend industry events and talk to people. If they remember you, they will be more likely to agree to a reciprocal business arrangement.

7. Leave comments on other people's blogs and link back to your site.

8. Exchange links with related sites in your niche.

9. Post often in forums related to your niche. Have a signature link that points to your site.

10. Submit answers to Yahoo questions along with a link to your site. 11. Add an opt-in form in a high profile spot on your site.

12. Submit your blog to a blog directory.

13. Send your product to other website owners in related niches to get reviewed.

14. Place classified Ads on Ebay with a link to your website.

15. Use an autoresponder for your mailing list to keep people coming back to your site for special offers and promotions.

16. Exchange products with another site and split the proceeds of any sales.

17. Post often to forums and use a link to your website in your signature file.

18. Advertise; use any method available, classified, free and paid, solos, forums, etc.

19. Develop your own product and affiliate program 20. Offer lots of downloads and products with Master Resell Rights on your site and watch the traffic pour in.

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How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods

2008-01-31T12:05:00.000-08:00

by moonswamp

Putting up a company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don't have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don't have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it's a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don't need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I'm not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I'm about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don't have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there's a great probability that they will go to your site.

Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality. Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

About the Author

Moonswamp is the owner of Your Traffic Package, where is your end of websites' traffic research!

Fast Traffic Building: 3 Steps for Traffic Building

2008-01-31T12:03:00.000-08:00

by G Allan Roberts

All webmasters have one common goal; to build enormous and steady traffic to their sites so they can earn profit by either selling their products or services or earning by selling ad spaces on their sites. Building traffic to your website is one of the most important elements in order for your website to get the exposure it needs. Thus, it is crucial for you to know the 3 steps for traffic building:

1. SEO. Optimize your website so your potential clients can easily find you when they use search engines. Pull up your ranking by using relevant keywords on your domain name and your content. In addition, you must also know how to sprinkle keywords on your page titles and page descriptions. It would also help if you can create a site map to list the pages that you would like to be indexed by search engines. By doing these, you can be assured that your website will appear higher on the search result page.

2. Social bookmarking sites. If you would like to gain steady traffic for your website, you should give social bookmarking sites a try. In this method, online users store your websites on their favorites making it easier for them to access it over and over again. This technique also allows your users to share your website to other members of the social bookmarking site that can give your website the exposure it needs.

3. Forum Posting. Forums are great way to drive targeted traffic to your site. All you need to do is join forums that discuss your interest and expertise. By posting your thoughts, tips, and advices, you do not only show your expertise to your future clients but you also generate one way links to your website by leaving its URL on each of your post.

About the Author

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3 Ways to Flood Your Website With Targeted Traffic

2008-01-31T12:02:00.001-08:00

by Raymond C

An affiliate marketer may have everything needed for him to succeed in an affiliate business. He has goals, determination, and a thorough understanding of how the system works, a professional website with a compelling sales letter. However, all of these means nothing if he is not able to bring in a huge amount of targeted traffic to his website. He could fail the business eventually.

After all, bringing quality and targeted visitors to your website is not as easy as what we think. While there are millions of websites and thousands of them promoting the same product as yours, how are you going to differentiate yourself? How are you going to compete with other webmasters for every single piece of traffic? Remember: every single visitor counts. They could turn up to be your prospects and eventually customer or even your referral / downline.

Listed below are 3 ways to bring laser-targeted traffic to your website and work together with the content and the sales letter to maximize your commission checks.

1. Search engine. Imagine if you want to search for some information. Where would you go? Bingo, search engines. Search engines are well-known for driving free targeted traffic, thatâ€™s why they should not be ignored. The key is to obtain top search engine rankings as the first 2 pages in search results always yields the best results. However, to achieve that, there are many things you need to look at, for example, targeted keywords, content, back links, etc. Once you have your website at the top of the list, you are ready to pull in boat loads of cash.

2. Link exchanges. Look for websites that have the similar topic as yours. Contact the webmaster and ask for a possible partnership in link exchanges. With this way, both you and the other webmasters are able to achieve a mutual benefit â€" share traffic and in a way, also helps you to increase your websiteâ€™s traffic. The key is to play smart: look for websites that have high volume of traffic to achieve optimum results. Also look for those who have high PR ranking as it also helps you to earn higher positions on search engines.

3. Article writing. Article writing remains one of the most effective and powerful way of pulling in traffic. What makes it even better is that its virtually free. Your only investment is your time and effort in writing the articles. If you think that its too tedious and time consuming or if you simply donâ€™t have the talent to write, you can hire someone to get it ghost written at a minimal cost. The mechanism of getting traffic using this method falls back to the basics of people going online: searching for information. When people search for info on your topic, then could come across your article and read it. You will be perceived as an expert in your niche and be able to get visitorsâ€™ trust more easily. When they trust you, they buy from you.

Using the right strategies and methods in generating tones of targeted traffic is crucial in the success of any online business. This is particularly important in affiliate marketing as in the field of affiliate marketing, visitors means profits.

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Five Brilliant Ideas for Traffic Generation

2008-01-31T12:00:00.000-08:00

by matthew faulkner / http://tinyurl.com/24lx4e

Five Brilliant Ideas for Traffic Generation

Have you ever wondered what exactly is up with traffic generation? This informative report can give you an insight into everything you've ever wanted to know about traffic generation.

If your traffic generation facts are out-of-date, how will that affect your actions and decisions? Make certain you don't let important traffic generation information slip by you.

The life of affiliate marketing business depends on traffic. No traffic, no site to exist. It will help you increase your click ratio and sales commissions. Here are the 5 ways to drive visitors to your website:

Blogging - like a web diary where you can write interesting articles for readers. The articles you made can be use to link your readers to your site also known as back links. Back links can help you to improve search engine ranking. Register one of your blogs on www.blogspot.com and Google will promote your blog in 2 days with RSS feeds to gain more traffic.

Forums - a fun way to promote your business where you can post questions and answers to learn a lot and help others. Advertisements are not allowed here but you can display your email signature every time you post.

Viral Marketing - one of the oldest and best forms of marketing. You can give away an e-book on your site and have a couple of links and a full-page ad in the back for your product or service. Grant permission to your readers to give away the book and see this promotion snowball.

Social Marketing - one good example is MySpace. Myspace is now being used as a popular way of marketing products and services.

Article Distribution - a powerful way to promote your business where you can write interesting and informative articles for your readers. It will bring many visitors to your site. If you want to save time, visit www.moreniche.com to get many resources including free weekly content that you can also use for your article distribution.

Avoiding Affiliate Scams

Affiliate marketing helps you in making your business profitable and fun at the same time. The key is choosing the right programs. You can benefit with the good programs either be involved with scams that will not pay you for your hardships and owe you the commission you deserve in the end.

How to avoid scams: The best way to avoid these scams, do your research well. Consider these points before joining:

1. Does the company have good support? Do they answer emails and have valid contact information?

2. Do they have a valid offline address?

3. What % of commission do they pay; 30%-50% is the best.

4. Tracking system - this should be in real time and accurate.

5. Products should be well targeted for your market and of good quality.

Where to research:

1. Forums related to your industry. There are many savvy people who use the forums for reference. You can ask advice from others base on the programs they use.

2. Discussion lists.

3. Look into the program carefully.

4. Put the company name, plus the word scam, into the search engines and see what comes up. Use your own judgment, as sometimes these reviews may not be 100% true.

GOLDEN RULE: Look before you join to prevent being victimized with these scams. It is advisable if you ask other people's opinions. Do not rush, choose good reliable programs wisely that will give you the profits you want for many years to come.

MoreNiche Affiliate Program is considered one of the highest paying affiliate programs with a complete transparent operation. See a credible detailed statistics and a dynamic top 10 performer's page at http://tinyurl.com/24lx4e

When word gets around about your command of traffic generation facts, others who need to know about traffic generation will start to actively seek you out.

About the Author

matthew faulkner / http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=matthew faulkner born Cuba NY reside in Port Charlotte FL

Tips to Get Repeat Web Traffic

2008-01-31T11:58:00.000-08:00

by CL Talbert

1. Update the pages on your website frequently. Stagnant sites are dropped by some search engines. You can even put a date counter on the page to show when it was last updated.

2. Offer additional value on your website. For affiliates and partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

3. You can allow customers to 'opt in' to get discounts and special offers. Place a link on your site to invite customers to 'opt in' to get a monthly newsletter or valuable coupons.

4. Add a link to your primary page with a script 'Book Mark or Add this site to your Favorites'.

5. Add a link 'Recommend this site to a Friend' so that the visitor can email your website link, with a prewritten title, "Thought you might be interested in this", just by clicking on it.

6. Brand your website so that visitors always know they are on your site. Use consistent colors, logos and slogans and always provide a 'Contact Us' link on each page. 7. Create a 'Our Policies' page that clearly defines your philosophy and principles in dealing with your customers. Also post your privacy policy as well so that clients know they are secure when they visit your site.

8. Create a FAQ page which addresses most of the doubts and clarifications about your product or your company that are likely to be asked. This helps to resolve most of the customers doubts in their first visit to your site.

8. Ensure that each page on your website has appropriate titles and keywords so that your customer can find their way back to your site if they lose the book mark.

9. Never spam a client, who has opted for newsletters, with unsolicited emails. Later if they decide they want to 'opt out' of the mailings, be sure you honor their request and take them off the mailing list. They may still come back if they like your products. But they will certainly not come back if you continue to flood their email box with mails they no longer wish to receive.

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Visit http://www.articleunderground.12w.net/ for a free special report on how you can increase your website's traffic and earnings.

The Free Ways to Generate Traffic To Your Website

2008-01-31T11:51:00.000-08:00

by Scott Bamboo

The internet is flooded with zillions of websites and millions of internet surfers are looking for information and products online. Everyday a few hundred thousands of internet marketers are generating huge profits by diverting partial of these internet traffics to their websites. But, the common issue faced by most internet marketers especially who are new in this field is how to effectively generate steady and constant traffic to their website.

You can choose to generate instant traffic to you website by using paid advertisement such as Pay-per-click or paid inclusion to popular high ranking websites and directories. However, there are a few ways to generate free internet traffic to your website without spending a penny. Here are a few tips to get you website flooded with free traffic:

1. Submit To Award Sites

Everyday, thousands of internet surfers visited the award sites to search for websites that they can trust if they want to purchase physical goods, buy information products or to enroll into the membership where they can learn in their area of interest. If you website wins awards from popular award winning sites, your website will be surged with traffic.

So, whenever you see that popular websites give award certain awards, make sure that you apply for them. You can easily search for award sites from search engines by typing "web site awards", you should get a list of websites that offering awards to other website.

2. Article Submission

Articles are always the number one traffic magnet. You do not need to be an expert to write an article for a certain topic, what you can to do is putting information or news that you read from somewhere else into a short 400 to 600 words articles with your own words. Then, submit these articles to popular and high ranking article directories. Internet surfers who read your article from these article directories or blogs which use your article can follow the author link at the bottom of article and land on your website. Besides, opening traffic stream to your website, article submission is one of the best ways to generate incoming link from high ranking sites.

3. Link From Social Networking Sites

MySpace, YouTube, Friendster and FaceBook are among the social networking sites loved by online users. The sites allow online users to share ideas, entertainment, news and making friends among each others. Beside that, these sites can provide the best exposure to drive tons of free traffic to your website. Hence, you should not miss this important traffic driving techniques. Join these social networking sites, develop your network within the sites and divert the traffic from these sites to your website.

4. Submit to Free E-Book Sites

Free stuffs always get the best response from online users. Internet surfers who are looking for products or information on the net will definitely look for information from free resources first. Free E-Book is one of the best examples. There are many websites provide downloadable e-books for their visitors. You can use these sites to gain exposure for your website. You either write your own e-book or buy re-brand e-books and include your website URL. Then, submit the e-books to those free e-Book sites.

Summary

A website only can survive if there is traffic. You always have two options to drive traffic to your website, free or paid. The best option of driving traffic is always the free traffic from search engines. There are many ways to drive free traffic to your website, what you need to do is learn these techniques and implement to generate the free traffic stream.

About the Author

Scott Bamboo is the author for http://www.onlinebusinessrevenue.info You need the right tools to help you to become Affiliate RockStar. Find the required information & resources on Expired Domain Traffic

Top 10 List of the Best Affiliate Networks by Titus Hoskins

2008-01-24T04:08:00.001-08:00

First, if you're new to affiliate marketing, some preliminary explanations may prove helpful in your quest for becoming a part-time or full-time affiliate marketer.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is quite simple to explain: you promote and market a product or company in return for a commission if a sale or lead is made from your marketing efforts. With online affiliate marketing you simply place your affiliate ID embedded links on your web pages and if a customer clicks your link and proceeds to that designated company's site and makes a purchase or signs up for a service, you earn a commission.

Affiliate marketing, if done right, can prove to be a very lucrative venture. Commissions can run anywhere from a few pennies to thousands of dollars for just one click or sale. Professional marketers develop affiliate relationships with hundreds of companies and build sites to promote these companies and products.

Needless to say, the advent of the Internet has been a golden opportunity for affiliate marketers to really expand their promotions and marketing. As more as more customers choose to buy online, advertising and purchases keep increasing at a maddening pace.

To accommodate all this online ecommerce we have seen the birth of large affiliate networks, operated by large corporations. Make no mistake, affiliate marketing is big business, accounting for billions in sales and commissions.

What is an Affiliate Network?

An affiliate network is a third party facilitator which brings affiliates and companies together. It connects Advertisers (companies with products or services to sell) together with Publishers (those who display and promote these products or services) so they can do business. The affiliate network does all the tracking, accounting and payment of commissions.

The following Top 10 list of the best Affiliate Networks is compiled by an actual full-time affiliate marketer who has worked these programs for over five years. This list is subjective and based on first-hand experience. It should be seen in this light and every marketer probably will have a different list or have these in a different picking order depending on the type and nature of their marketing.

But this list of the 10 Best Affiliate Networks will give you a general rundown on these affiliate networks and how they operate.

1. Commission Junction (www.cj.com)

Now owned by ValueClick, Commission Junction was one of the first affiliate networks. It is also one of the most important with many of the Top Fortune 500 companies listed here.

CJ is an international network with excellent stats and tracking (some of the best you will find), along with regular monthly payments makes this the obvious first choice for anyone wishing to try affiliate marketing. For those new or old at affiliate marketing, CJ also holds regular seminars and training sessions.

Most merchants offer pay-per-lead or pay-per-sale, one of the best features is the performance bonuses and incentives. As most experienced marketers will know, selling 50k to 100k each month for merchants will bring in the big incentives or bonuses.

Commissions run as high as 50% but most are in 3% to 15% range. You have the option of direct deposit for your payments. One major plus, CJ will tell you which merchants and ads are earning the most revenue for affiliates so you can easily choose which merchants are worth promoting.

2. ClickBank (www.clickbank.com)

ClickBank is another professional affiliate network with excellent stats and tracking. Easy to use and pays every two weeks.

ClickBank is slightly different from the other networks in that it deals mainly with digital download products. The commissions from ClickBank are usually much higher than the other networks, around 40% to 50% or more.

ClickBank has over 10,000 products but keep in mind, info-marketing products will have stiff competition from all the savvy and well established Internet marketers promoting these same products. Consider youself warned!

The most successful marketing tactic here is to first dominate your targeted niche with your blogs and sites, then find affiliate products to match your content or niche subject matter, whether it be gardening equipment, gaming laptops or Mediterranean cruises!.

3. LinkShare (www.linkshare.com)

LinkShare is another excellent affiliate network. It is one of the oldest affiliate networks on the web. LinkShare was recently acquired by the Japanese Portal Rakuten, with a price tag of $425 million.

Very good stats and reporting with their Synergy Analytics system. Many Top Fortune 500 companies are presented here so you will no trouble finding products and services to promote. LinkShare pays commissions as they receive them from merchants - monthly checks.

4. Affiliate Window (www.affiliatewindow.com)

Affiliate Window is an UK based affiliate network which offers top brand companies and good commission rates. Pays once a month and has excellent stats.

Savvy affiliate marketers know promoting in other countries can be much easier than promoting in the American market place. Mainly because these other countries haven't become saturated with online marketers, little competition means more sales.

5. Amazon (www.amazon.com)

Amazon is another excellent affiliate network to join if you want to sell products from your site or blog. Amazon has excellent stats and the links are very easy to create and place on your web pages.

You also have the option of creating your own store with Amazon aStores. Amazon also now has context link ads and Widgets!

Commission rates are somewhat lower than the other networks but making sales thru Amazon is much, much easier. You will make more sales mainly because Amazon is a well known and trusted online company. Amazon now pays monthly.

6. Shareasale (www.shareasale.com)

Shareasale is yet another easy system to work with good stats and simple to create links. With 1,700+ merchants to choose from, Shareasale is another good affiliate network to promote.

The control panel is easy to use and the reporting is very good. Usually pays the month following your sales.

7. Google (www.google.com/adsense/)

Many won't think of Google as an Affiliate network but it does run affiliate products thru its Adsense program. Very few products but like everything from Google it is professionally run and top caliber all the way.

Please note, top marketers know affiliate links/products on their content pages will return 10 times what Google Adsense will give them. However, these marketers will also know using Google Adsense on less targeted pages throughout your sites or blogs will give you a healthy return.

Besides receiving that monthly check from a multi-billion dollar company like Google will put a smile on your face every time.

8. LinkConnector (www.linkconnector.com)

LinkConnector is a relatively new affiliate network which launched in 2004. It has Pay Per Click, Pay Per Sale and Pay Per Lead. Good stats and reporting. Worth checking out for their different types of new affiliate technology such as Direct Linking which passes pagerank along to the merchant's site.

9. CPA Empire (www.cpaempire.com)

Great CPA (Cost Per Action) network especially if you do a lot of email marketing and promotions. Geared towards acquiring leads and sign-ups but does offer other merchants as well. Good stats and reporting.

10. Independents

Individual affiliate deals with different companies which may or may not be listed with the major networks above. Your independent affiliate deals will be some of your most lucrative since you can sometimes work out separate private commission rates and bonuses. Aim for residual income here. Don't ignore this aspect of affiliate marketing as it will pay the highest dividends.

Keep in mind, all the above affiliate networks are middlemen, they come between you and the merchant you're promoting. For affiliates with a proven track record, who have shown they can deliver the customers and sales, a private deal cutting out the middleman/fees can prove very beneficial for both parties. If you're fortunate enough to become known as a super affiliate, these private deals will become more common and more profitable.

Professional affiliate marketers use all of the above networks to create multiple income streams from their marketing efforts. In the process, they build a healthy monthly income for themselves and their families. There is no reason why you can't do the same.

About the Author

The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites, including two sites on Internet marketing. For the latest and most effective web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools Copyright © 2007 Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Promote Your Products For Free by Secret Affiliate

2008-01-24T03:59:00.000-08:00

One of the things that strikes you as soon as you make the decision to start affiliate marketing is this: the dearth of helpful information on what you can actually do to get your affiliate marketing efforts to pay off. Of course, bare-bones guides tell you that you can start by registering a domain name and creating a sales page. Then all you have to do is register with some service for pay-per-click ads and money will start flowing in, they say.

Unfortunately, this is a "pipe-dream!"

But it is possible to promote without spending a fortune on advertising. There are several ways to generate free traffic to your domain name that actually work...

1. Forums

With their popularity rising every day, forums offer you a great opportunity to promote your affiliate link. Visit forums related to your product and give helpful suggestions or useful information. Don't forget to include your signature file at the bottom of the post. This is how interested clients will find you.

My guarantee: if you've contributed something useful, you will see an immediate rise in traffic through your link.

2. Blogging

Search engines simply love blogs. So you really can't imagine earning 'super' money without setting up a blog. There are a number of free blogging services available. Sign up with one of them and follow their easy instructions. You will be ready to go in less time than it takes to bake a cake!

Target your blog tightly around the exact niche you are promoting and add to it regularly. The incoming traffic will blow you away! This is one of the top ways to earn affiliate income from your domain.

Another neat technique: Visit related blogs and post your comments. This will bring links back to your own blog. Of course, spamming is a big NO!

3. Set up a fantastic squeeze page

Your 'pre-sell' page or landing page is like the appetizer before the main course: just good enough to whet your reader's appetite for more. Just give your visitors enough to make them leave their email address with you.

Squeeze pages help you build your most important affiliate tool - your lead list. This list is the pulse of your online business because it contains the names of all those people who might be interested in the product you offer.

Another important tip: Utilize technology to your advantage. Place a short video or audio on your squeeze page. This is the easiest way to punch up customer responsiveness.

4. Write a complimentary report

The web is all about offering quality information for FREE!

Write a free 5-8 page report and advertise it using blogs, forums and social bookmarking sites. Include your affiliate link in the report. If your report is genuine, many people will check back and discover your product.

Paid ads can break your marketing budget even before you start. So stay away from paid advertising.

A new affiliate marketing campaign must always start out with the lowest possible investment on your part. If your product is brand new in the marketplace, diving directly into a Pay Per Click campaign will lose you money. Before making the decision to pay for ads, exhaust all free methods. Once the existing channels start paying up, you can experiment with paid advertising.

This simple blueprint will help you generate massive income from your site.

About the Author

To see a great example of a video squeeze page (mentioned above), and to get more insight on driving visitors to your website, visit TheSecretAffiliateFormula.Com. For a limited time, you can also sign up for a free training course worth $67.

9 Questions to Ask Before Committing to an Affiliate Program by Digital Info Diva™

2008-01-24T03:55:00.000-08:00

Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on.

1. Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

2. When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.

3. What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

4. How are referrals from an affiliate's site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

5. What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site. Impressions are the number of times the banner or text link was viewed by a visitor of your site. A hit is the one clicking on the banner or text links.

6. Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

7. Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

8. Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.

9. Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? 20% - 80% (and some cases, 100%!) is the commission paid by most programs. .01% - .05% is the amount paid for each hit. If you find a program that also pays for impressions, the amount paid is not much at all. As you can see from the figures, you will now understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important. Digital products pay the highest commission; many of the merchants you find in affiliate programs like Commission Junction, LinkShare, etc. pay as low as 3% - 15%.

These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website. Try to ask these questions before committing to an affiliate program. These can help you make the right selection for your site from among the many available.

About the Author

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Business Blogs - A Revenue Earner by John Mathews

2008-01-24T03:54:00.000-08:00

How about starting a business blog and making money from it. Business blogs cater to the specific niche of business it targets. For example if you are financial wizard and have knowledge of investing in shares, why not start a blog about investing in shares? And if you are fond of books why not write book reviews and make some money out of it. Here's how you go ahead.

Get a blog first

You will need a blog to start in the first place. Blogger and Wordpress are two blog service providers who would give you a blog for free. There's an easy signup process that can give you a brand new blog within minutes. All you have to do is give your email address, enter a password, choose a display name, and do word verification in Blogger to get a blog. Blogger is quite popular and has interfaces for language blogging also.

On Wordpress the process of getting a blog is similar. Enter a username, password, email address, and accept the terms and conditions to begin blogging on Wordpress. Wordpress also gives you the option of creating just an identity without opting for a blog.

Focus on the theme of your business

Focus on the theme of the business you will be writing about on your blog. If it is books you are writing about, write all you know about them, review books by your favorite authors, and interview them if possible.

If it is about the stock market, write about the companies that ar doing well and are worth investing. Copy and paste the company's share movements (there's no ban on copying charts, as far as we know). Make your analysis in-depth and incisive and your readers would love it.

Similarly, if your blog is about technology, subscribe to the RSS of all popular technology blogs and sites and embed them on your blog. Your readers would love to visit your blog again if you have a variety of information related to the theme of the blog.

How to make money

Now the vital question: How do I make money from my business blog. Have patience, this is not a get rich overnight business. Making money from business blogs takes time and hard work, so proceed slowly one step at a time.

www.google.com/adsense

You can join Google adsense advertising program which is simple enough to implement. Go to the above link and create an account if you don't have one already. Go to the Adsense Setup section and choose between Adsense for Content and Adsense for Referrals. In Adsense for Content you can generate the code for the ads you would like to feature on your blog. This can be copied and pasted on your blog. In Adsense for Referrals also you can generate code which you can copy and paste on the blog.

Monitor the adsense program closely and see which keywords are working for your blog. This you can do by checking how many dollars are accumulating in your account by clicking on the Account tab.

www.g2bux.ccom

G2bux has a free blogging interface that rewards you for posting blogs on them. The rewards are in G2points, which when accumulated can be exchanged for cash. What is really exciting about this program is the fact that you can slowly accumulate points by contributing a few blogs a day and steadily building up your points. You can even Digg your blogposts and submit it to Stumble Upon - two review sites.

www.Linkshare.com

Linkshare is an advertising program in which you as a publisher can publish advertisements of several advertisers such as Western Union, Ebay, Amazon, etc. It works on the basis of click through from your blog to their pages that feature the product/service that is being sold. You have to first apply for participating in an advertising program, consent of which is with the advertiser. Linkshare has functionality to apply to multiple advertising programs and once you are approved as a publisher of the ads of a particular company, you can go ahead and feature their advertisements on your blog.

Business blogging is the sure way to grow your income through blogging. Many people are making a living out of it, so can you.

About the Author

John P Matthew is a business writer, blogger and web content writer. He is one of the founding members of two writing-related message boards Caferati and Shakespeare and Company. At present he is with g2bux.com. To get more details, please visit http://www.g2bux.com/ . Please feel free to write feedback on this article. John P Matthew can be

Affiliate Marketer Beginner- 3 Important Beginner Tips by DeBora Collins

2008-01-24T03:47:00.000-08:00

If you have just begun your quest as an Affiliate, you probably have done the easy things, like signing up with the popular affiliate networks like Clickbank.com, LinkShare.com, CJ.com, and PayDotCom.com just to name a few. These are some of the most popular affiliate networks. Of course your next step would be to choose products that you would like to promote or advertise. This step also seems easy, as most people would just pick the product or products that pay the highest commission, right? Well...as a affiliate marketer and beginner, you need to choose products that are wanted and needed by consumers. If you really want to make some money doing this business, you are going to have to take the time to analyze what people are searching for online. One of the biggest mistakes affiliate beginners make, is they skip that part altogether, they try to promote something that is not in demand now or they don't brainstorm to see what the market is in need of. As you might not know, what's hot today is not necessarily hot tomorrow or next month. Do yourself a favor and do some research, find what people want or need and then match the product to that need, or want. To really prosper in the affiliate business, you have to keep up with, not only what's hot, but what search terms people are typing into the search engines. These keywords are the meat to your prosperity because your ad or article for your product will show up in the search engines if you know what search terms consumers are typing into the search engines. It sounds hard but it really isn't when you know how to implement certain strategies from finding a niche product to represent - to driving traffic to that niche product. Of course this process requires patience and perseverance but before long you will reap what you sow, if you don't give up. The strategies I will present here are for those who are just beginning and I am assuming you don't have a website and you want to spend as less money as possible or none at all to begin as an affiliate marketer. Here's 3 tips to getting started for the affiliate marketer beginner:

1. Brainstorming Ideas - Write a list of ideas you are interested in, or know about, or research them if you don't. Perhaps you're a great cook, and with the holidays quickly approaching, you may have some special recipes you would like to share. Very Important - always try to give your potential customer something free and beneficial to their need. So say you give up a few recipes in your article, but you are also promoting a great recipe book. A person would be more inclined to clicking your affiliate link because you gave up some great recipes, and they want more. Sowing and reaping here. Now let's assume this person is a beginner cook or is recently married and unskilled at cooking They don't only need holiday recipes but recipes for everyday cooking. They want to learn, and you will help them by providing the product that fills that need or desire. So give your potential customer something of value freely, and then let them know about your product - that will further enhance what you've already given them for free. Here is a website, www.google.com/trends. You'll see the top ten trends. You can click on "More Hot Trends," this list has a 100 trends listed that have been recently searched for and updated hourly. Perhaps this will get your mental juices flowing on brainstorming ideas.

2. Keyword Optimization - Keyword optimization is when you do a search on keywords you think people are typing into the search engines for whatever it is they're searching for. The objective of this search is to see if people are actually looking for what you have with the keywords you think they would use to search for what you are promoting.(Think like the searcher would). Here is a free trial tool that will help, although it is limited, but will do for the affiliate beginner, who can later on get the paid full version. This tool called Wordtracker - www.wordtracker.com will give you the count on how many searches were done using your keyword or keyword phrase and how many in the last 24 hours. It will also give you the amount of competing websites for that given phrase. You want your term searched with a count of at least 100 times, with few competing websites between 1000 to 5000. You simply type in your keyword or keyword phrase, and wordtracker will give you other related keywords , you can ignore these if you feel they are not related enough and just click on the keyword or phrase you typed in and wholla, the information is provided. You may have to try several keywords before you come up with a profitable one or you may even have to try another niche idea altogether. Now, being that Wordtracker extracts the amount of competing websites from MSN, which represents only a partial amount. You can really see the competition by going into Google and typing your phrase in quotes, like this: "leasing homes." This will pull up a more accurate count of competing websites which are usually higher than MSN. Wordtracker gives words with a low count and zero or few competing websites a higher KEI (keyword effectiveness index). Don't use those words, what good would it do to use these words and no one was actually using them to search. You only want keywords with a high KEI, if they are searched for a lot, not less than a 100 times, with not very much competition, 1000 to 5000 competing websites or less.

3. How to use the keywords Effectively - If you have decided to write articles which is a free method of advertising, then you must use these keywords in your title and throughout your article naturally. Be careful not to over use your keywords purposely to get a high ranking through the search engines, they will pick up on this. Write an article that is content rich, meaning very interesting and informative which is beneficial to the potential customer. Give them something that will peak their interest enough to want what you have or at least allow them to remember how informative your information was to the point, that even if they don't purchase then, they may later, and they may also recommend your article and product to others. Keep writing rich and informative content with your keywords inserted naturally within your article.

Summary: Find a targeted niche (a specialized interest), not one that is too broad and therefore too competitive for a beginner just starting in the affiliate business. Choose a niche that is more targeted to a specific group. Painting, Guitar Lessons, Eczema, etc. Find a need and offer your product to fill the need. Remember to give something of value and free in the process and then offer your product to enhance what you have already given. You will learn a lot in your affiliate business, and can later implement other techniques that would allow you to target broad audiences such as the weight loss market, or even the making money market. For now, stay narrow. Think like your potential customer, when coming up with keywords they would use when searching for your product in the search engines. Optimize these keywords with the free tool, Wordtracker, then go to google and type in the keywords or search phrase in quotation marks to assess the full competition. Use these keywords in your article or ad. The title should contain the keyword or phrase. Use these keywords and phrases naturally throughout your article. Of course these keywords should be relevant to the product you are promoting. Don't write an article about candy and then promote peanuts as your product. Relevancy counts! These methods are free but if you have a little cash to implement into your business for more advanced tools, then by all means use them. This is for the affiliate beginner who is short on cash, but have time to implement these strategies.

About the Author

DeBora Collins is an affiliate marketer, if you are short on time and would like a quicker method on finding hot products, and their keywords, Go Here http://hop.clickbank.net/?topnotch34/aequalizer

Two Tiered Affiliate by Bruce Fulmire

2008-01-24T03:30:00.001-08:00

Two Tiered Affiliate

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online. There is very little if any costs that need to be incurred, you don't need to deal with customers, and you do not have to touch any inventory.

Whenever you sell a product, you get paid a commission. These commissions can be well over 50% of the product price and merchandisers are glad to pay that much. For them, it is a matter of someone else doing the advertising for them. What they are essentially doing is trading one dollar for two. That is a trade I would make all day long.

Some programs go deeper than that even, which is what brings me to the subject of two tiered affiliate programs. They work similar to Multi level marketing programs except there are fewer ranks of people "under " you. What I mean is that these programs usually go as far as commissioning you on all that you bring in, and then a bit of all that your referrees bring in.

For example, an affiliate program that is two tiered can pay a commission of 14$ to you for each customer that buys through you. Lets say you got 5 people. Good job! Everyone is congratulating you and you are getting the recognition you deserve. If this is a program that bills people every month, then that 14$ per person comes to you every month. This equals $70 per month residual income that you will never have to work for again.

Lets say out of those 5 people each of them on average signs up 3 more. Some will sign up one, zero, or ten, so on average lets say three. Also, lets say that this program pays two additional dollars per month for everyone your referrees bring in.

3 people X 5 referrees= 15 additional people. 15 additional people X 2 dollars = $30 per month.

30+70= 100$ per month, not a bad chunk of change.

I hope you have learned the benefits that a two tiered affiliate can offer you as an income source.

I am also in a two tiered program. A link to that site and how you can join to is in my bio. Stop getting paid only once for the hard work you do and start learning to relax knowing that money will flow two you once you've dug a decent channel for it to flow through.

About the Author

Bruce Fulmire is an Alaskan born entrepreneur. He is a contributor to several forums and has his own blog. Online, Bruce has accredited much of his success with the principles obtained by http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/?a_aid=ZDGAdZo9 In addition to his online contributions, Bruce is a licensed real estate consultant in the south central region of Alaska.

Linkshare Tutorial - What's LinkShare, And Do I Need To Use It? by Jack Rose

2008-01-24T03:26:00.001-08:00

Online affiliate marketing is one of the most effective, cheapest and fastest ways to promote merchandise. With millions of people getting access to the Internet everyday, theres a great chance for a merchant to introduce his products and services to a wider market, thereby, maximizing his revenue.

Likewise, affiliate marketing is an excellent way to generate full-time income for a home-based affiliate marketer. For someone who is jaded of going through a grueling eight-hour work routine, affiliate marketing offers a great opportunity to earn big without wearing himself out "physically, mentally and emotionally.

In affiliate marketing, both parties are benefited since as the merchant earns from each item sold, the marketer likewise earns a commission.

If you are interested in affiliate marketing but are finding it hard to look for affiliate programs, affiliates or merchants, you can start by checking sites of various affiliate networks. Many affiliate programs in the Internet are being offered through an affiliate program network, which acts as a link between the merchants and individual affiliates.

Among the most popular is LinkShare, it is through it that merchants and affiliates meet. LinkShare maintains and manages affiliate marketing programs for a great number of merchants with various kinds of businesses, products and services. It also has over 6,000 affiliate site members in its network. It gains profit from the set-up fees, monthly account maintenance fees and commissions.

Joining networks like LinkShare can be of great help in establishing your online marketing business. Whether you are a merchant or an affiliate marketer, you need to research well on your partners in order to choose the best for you.

LinkShare provides the facility of acquiring access to a large network of advertisers (merchants) who offer their affiliate programs to publishers (affiliates) who are willing to promote their products. In the same manner, it gives the merchants access to a large network of affiliates who are searching for affiliate marketing opportunities.

LinkShare is especially beneficial for an affiliate in choosing his partners since he can find his options all in one location. It would be easier for him to compare products, commission rates and other benefits given by the merchant. The merchant usually just waits for interested affiliates to sign up in his affiliate marketing program but being in the network increases his chance to promote his products to a larger market, thus, maximizing his potential to gain huge profit.

To help you decide whether to use large affiliate networks such as LinkShare or not, let us try to look deeper into its positive and negative sides. The primary advantage of LinkShare to you as an affiliate is convenience.

As earlier mentioned, you find different pieces of information about your choices simultaneously all in a single location, so you save time and effort looking for affiliate programs or merchants.

Its also easier to track your business partners performance through monthly reports and statements, as well as its sales and commission rates, so you know whether the affiliate program is still worth continuing. If you have signed up for several affiliate programs, you can check all your statistics for each merchandiser you are affiliated with by logging in just once.

LinkShare helps you manage and maintain all records of your visitors click-throughs and sales transaction. It takes care of your commissions and gives it to you monthly in lump sum. Especially when you have more than one merchant partner, it would be easier for you to manage your accounts and track your earnings when you are affiliated through a marketing program network. Furthermore, every information you get is accurate and secured, so you are protected from all the risk you might encounter. Above all, you can enjoy LinkShares benefits for free. You just have to go to their site and register your website. Instantly, you get access to a great variety of affiliate programs available for you.

So, whats on the negative side? Although, it is indeed helpful to join affiliate marketing networks such as LinkShare, there are some disadvantages, too.

For one, merchants offer lower commissions to affiliates who partner with them through the third party program network. This because they still have to pay for the use of service and the technology provided by LinkShare.

Direct partnership with the merchant cuts costs of advertising through the network and so the affiliate has bigger potential to earn more. Moreover, it is possible that your payment may be delayed for a month or more since program networks would pay you only after the advertiser or the merchant has paid them. Do you need to use LinkShare or other networks? It depends, actually. You can opt for direct partnership with the merchant, but this choice is not applicable all the time. There are a lot of merchandisers who offer their affiliate program only through affiliate program networks and thus, you have no choice other than joining the network to get into the affiliate marketing program.

So you are faced with take it or leave it situation. But LinkShare and other program networks are not that disadvantageous. After all, whether you join it or not, earning big would depend more on your promotional strategies and persistence.

About the Author

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The Key Reasons You May Fail In Affiliate Marketing by Scott Bamboo

2008-01-24T03:25:00.000-08:00

Affiliate marketing is the easiest and most excellent way for people who like to start their online business. The bad news is just a small percentage of affiliate marketers will success in this business. Why so many people failed to make a fortune out from this business? What are the key reasons you may fail in field? By understanding the potential failures that you may face will help you to avoid the common mistakes made by most internet marketers. Here are among the key reasons that might causes you fail in your affiliate business, don't let these affect your success.

1. Wrong Mindset: The Quickest Money Making Channel

You might think that affiliate marketing is the fastest way to make money online and with the minimum efforts you can easily see money roll into your bank account. If you have such mindset, then you most probably will be disappointed. No doubt, affiliate business let you get an easy start, but it is not a "get rich quick" scheme. In order to make a success, you need to put in time and efforts to implement the right marketing techniques.

You may see some very attractive ads like "Make $10,000 a week by working only 1 hour a day". Also, you might hear on how those gurus are making million of dollars monthly. In fact, yes you can achieve such status but not overnight, not within short period of time and definite not without any effort, but after you have put your hard work using the correct marketing techniques and then, put in place an auto pilot system that help you to generate passive income stream so that you can just work a few hours a day to enjoy luxury lifestyle.

2. Join Too Many Affiliate Programs

This is the most common mistake made by newbie: registered with too many affiliate programs and try to promote every of them. Those success in this business normally just choose a few programs to focus on and work out their marketing plan to promote the products of their selected niche. If you are a newbie, ClickBank, LinkShare and Commission Junction are your good options to be considered in selecting your affiliate programs.

3. Just Give Up Too Soon

The time to success vary from one person to another, some may take 3 to 6 months to success, other may need 2 to 3 years depends on their efforts and techniques to promote their affiliate products. Most people think that affiliate business is easy and can be success within a few weeks and with least efforts. That's why when they see no positive result after 2 to 3 months, they give up. Don't ever give up too soon if you do not spend enough time and efforts try to make it a success. You may just need one more step to achieve the success but because of you give up too soon, you will never see the result.

Affiliate marketing is a proven success business, if you did not achieve your success, there must be something wrong either with your marketing techniques or the approaches that affecting the result.

Summary

You definitely can success in affiliate marketing if you are using the correct methods and try to avoid the common mistakes made by most affiliate marketers who have failed in this business.

About the Author

Scott Bamboo is the author for http://www.onlinebusinessrevenue.info Find the FREE resources on home-based business, affiliate marketing, internet marketing

Top Affiliate Products- Clickbank and Kickbank by Vijay Dandamudi

2008-01-24T03:23:00.002-08:00

I am often asked, 'Where can I find the best affiliate products to market?' The best affiliate networks to find top affiliate products are

1. Clickbank

2. CJ

3. Linkshare

Finding the top affiliate products is half the battle. Promoting top affiliate products is the key because you want to make sure that the products are really good so that you gain the prospect's trust which is the way to do business. Once a prospect buys your affiliate product and is satisfied with the experience, it is easier to generate more sales- for the simple reason that once you gain their trust that you are selling no BS, they will eventually buy products that you recommend.

Below, I have listed down some top products for the different niches.

Affiliate Marketing Ebooks

1. Rich Jerk

2. Beating Adwords

3. Google Assassin

4. Google Payload

5. Project Quick Cash

6. Who Loves Money

Affiliate Marketing Programs

1. Wealthy Affiliate

2. Rich Jerk

3. Ewen Chia's Super Affiliate Program

Affiliate Marketing Software Products

1. Get Google Adwords Free

2. Keyword Elite

3. Micro Niche Finder

4. BANS

5. Forex Killer

6. Doubling Stocks

Health and Fitness

1. Fat Loss 4 Idiots

2. Truth about Six Pack Abs

3. Burn the Fat

4. Anxiety and Panic Attacks

5. Truth about Building Muscle

6. 12 Hour Cure for Yeast Infection

7. Acne Free in 3 Days

Business to Business

1. Salehoo

2. Paid Survey

3. Forex Enterprise

4. SEO Elite

5. Xoftspy

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About the Author

Vijay Dandamudi is a Top affiliate marketer. For free tips/tutorials on Affiliate Marketing, visit Internet Money Marketing.

How An Affiliate Marketing Business Can Make You Money by TIm Ng

2008-01-24T03:23:00.001-08:00

Affiliate marketing is a great way to either make a few extra bucks to pay some bills with or to kick your day job for good. However you must learn to do affiliate marketing the right way by avoiding the pitfalls and con artists associated with trying to make money online. Here are a few tips that will help you make money online as an affiliate marketer.

#1. Join a proven affiliate marketing network. This means to join a reputable network that offers good affiliate programs. This way you can be certain that you'll get paid (yes, there have been companies that don't pay their affiliates) you'll receive a good amount of help from the program affiliate managers to get going and you can be pretty certain that the products that they're offering are good quality, because the affiliate network is staking their reputation on it. Some good places to start are companies like Clickbank, Linkshare, ShareaSale, Performics, Commision Junction and more.

#2. Build a professional looking affiliate website and do product reviews. This means to stay away from these free page builders, free autoresponders and free hosting plans. These things look cheap and have other people's ads all over them. Your visitors WILL KNOW that you're too cheap to spend $10.00 per month to at host a blog or other professional web page.

#3. Generate large amounts of relevent, TARGETED traffic to your website by using articles and pay per click advertising. Learn how to do these types of advertising right away. Article marketing is free, but very time consuming, whereas, pay per click costs money, but will bring you immediate, targeted traffic. Be careful using pay per click! Don't try for the most popular keywords, keep your bids way down to begin with and DON'T FORGET to set your daily budget for what you can afford to spend. If you can only afford to spend $5.00 per day, then set your daily budget at $5.00 and your ads will stop once you've reached your limit. If you don't set your limit you could lose HUNDREDS of dollars or more!

About the Author

Tim Ng is a seasoned affiliate marketer and a student of Ewen Chia - "the World's Top Affiliate Marketer". Tim frequently guides people on how to make money through affiliate marketing. For a more in-depth free education on â€œSuper Affilates Secrets Exposedâ€, not available in the market out there, do refer to http://www.wealthtreasure.com

The How To Of Affiliate Marketing by Andrew Lee Witherspoon

2008-01-24T03:22:00.001-08:00

Affiliate Marketing is the greatest and easiest way to start an online business. Read on to find out the who, hows and why of it all.

To a large extent it really just depends on how you approach the whole subject of affiliate marketing. The best approach is to simplify the whole thing and understand the key elements or things you have to do that will impact on your sales directly.

Affiliate Marketing does require some investment. Affiliate Marketing is a business. The more time and the more money you invest in it the more successful you will be. Diversity is the key to being a successful Affiliate Marketer the more sites, or more programs you have invested in the more you will make.

Success means doing what you love.

In affiliate marketing, there are different kinds of business models that you can choose to promote your affiliate product. One of the ways is call the affiliate content site or blog model. So what the affiliate will do is to marketing purely through providing relevant content to the visitors. This can be in the form of articles, products reviews or even content that comes come multi media like audio or video.

There are some articles on affiliate marketing that says in order to be successful in affiliate marketing business, you need to take in and develop these traits: persistence, patience and thirst for knowledge.

In doing what you love you must continue to learn about it.

To be proficient in search engine optimization, link exchanges, email marketing, newsletter marketing, reciprocal exchanges and advertising in forums. You will surely find it hard to learn these things alone and without the supervision of a mentor.

If you ever begin to feel overwhelmed repeat this to yourself. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he/she has overcome while trying to succeed." Remember this quote from Booker T. Washington in all of your plans, goals, and ventures.

Every new affiliate is bound to be looking for the top paying affiliate program that they can join to make their fortune. They usually fail to realize the important truth that the top paying affiliate program really varies from individual to individual because it is entirely based on the quantity of quality traffic that an affiliate can drive in the direction of their affiliate site.

Become an expert in your field and the money will follow.

Affiliate marketing is picking up and already it is a multi - billion dollar industry. It is challenging the traditional way of marketing.

Make no mistake Affiliate Marketing is Work. This is the number one basic concept to successful affiliate marketing that cannot be stressed enough. The harder you work, the more research into winning strategies you do, the more seminars you attend, the harder you work at being successful Affiliate Marketer the more money you will make.

Garner trust and dependability and people who trust and depend on you will buy from you.

The first step in developing a strategic affiliate marketing campaign is to find a niche. Your best bet is to find a subject that you are interested in or passionate about. Having a fair bit of knowledge on the subject won't hurt either.

Clickbank, Commission Junction and Linkshare are some of the programs that have affiliate marketplace. Just sign up with them and start to promote. It free to sign up

You will want to carefully screen any potential affiliates to make certain that they are reliable and reputable. Your affiliates reflect on you.

Never forget to always place yourself in the shoes of your customers so as to keep up front that they come first.

About the Author

Andrew Lee Witherspoon
Affiliated Commerce
http://www.affiliatedcommerce.com

Starting With Affiliate Marketing by Andrew Lee Witherspoon

2008-01-24T03:19:00.002-08:00

Affiliate Marketing is the greatest and easiest way to start an online business. Read on to find out the who, hows and why of it all.

Amazon. com, Ebay are few examples of one of the first users of this methodology, and now have thousands of affiliate relationships contributing to their sales. It is now rare to find online business models where they don't have affiliate programs.

In profitable affiliate marketing, it is vital that you initially discover the niche and targeted markets in which your own products or services will enjoy the greatest success.

The hard truth is that there is no shortcut to earning the big bucks.

Success means doing what you love.

You do not need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to affiliate marketing. Is better to learn through the example of others.

A lucrative affiliate business is a great method to make your internet marketing career easy. Also, a strong affiliate business is a great method to enable you to go full time online.

Content - Fine quality content is always beneficial for affiliate marketing and needed for profitable affiliate marketing.

In doing what you love you must continue to learn about it.

When you add quality content to a website, people come in groups to find out what is there.

Professional assistance can be a fundamental key to your own affiliate marketing success.

Learn to integrate article writing and article marketing into your affiliate business.

Even if you just write one article a day, that is an awful lot of good promotion from just 20 minutes per day, and the effect is truly cumulative.

The best Internet affiliate marketing has to focus on the two most important factors that are bound to greatly increase your income from you affiliate programs.

Become an expert in your field and the money will follow.

And that is the volume of targeted traffic that is being directed to your affiliate site and the conversion rate.

Affiliate marketing is picking up and already it is a multi - billion dollar industry. It is challenging the traditional way of marketing.

To learn the best ways to promote your website, you must do your research. Read everything you can on strategic affiliate marketing, advertising techniques, and website promotion.

Garner trust and dependability and people who trust and depend on you will buy from you.

Knowledge is the key to unlocking your success as an affiliate marketer.

A lucrative affiliate business is a great method to make your internet marketing career easy. Also, a strong affiliate business is a great method to enable you to go full time online.

Clickbank, Commission Junction and Linkshare are some of the programs that have affiliate marketplace. Just sign up with them and start to promote. It free to sign up

About the Author

Andrew Lee Witherspoon
Affiliated Commerce
http://www.affiliatedcommerce.com

Get Your Affiliate Marketing Niche by Andrew Lee Witherspoon

2008-01-24T03:19:00.001-08:00

Affiliate Marketing is the greatest and easiest way to start an online business. Read on to find out the who, hows and why of it all.

In profitable affiliate marketing, it is vital that you initially the niche and targeted markets in which your own products or services will enjoy the greatest success.

If you want to be involved or you've already joined an affiliate program, but you have misconceptions regarding affiliate marketing, then, you might need a mentor to help you figure out where to start and what to do in order to do well.

Success means doing what you love.

In doing what you love you must continue to learn about it.

The best Internet affiliate marketing has to focus on the two most important factors that are bound to greatly increase your income from you affiliate programs. And that is the volume of targeted traffic that is being directed to your affiliate site and the conversion rate.

Learning from other internet marketers is a good step to starting in affiliate marketing.

Go to the forums like the warrior forum, Affiliate Marketing forums etc.

Professional assistance can be a fundamental key to your own affiliate marketing success.

Become an expert in your field and the money will follow.

Learn to integrate article writing and article marketing into your affiliate business. Even if you just write one article a day, that is an awful lot of good promotion from just 20 minutes per day, and the effect is truly cumulative.

Clickbank, Commission Junction and Linkshare are some of the programs that have affiliate marketplace.

Garner trust and dependability and people who trust and depend on you will buy from you.

Just sign up with them and start to promote. It free to sign up

You will want to carefully screen any potential affiliates to make certain that they are reliable and reputable. Your affiliates reflect on you.

Content - Fine quality content is always beneficial for affiliate marketing and needed for profitable affiliate marketing. When you add quality content to a website, people come in groups to find out what is there.

A lucrative affiliate business is a great method to make your internet marketing career easy. Also, a strong affiliate business is a great method to enable you to go full time online.

About the Author

Andrew Lee Witherspoon
Affiliated Commerce
http://www.affiliatedcommerce.com

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners by Regine Hehn

2008-01-24T03:16:00.000-08:00

The following article is the result of years of ongoing interaction with enthusiasts just like you. The article was written to answer some of the most frequently asked questions, as well as address common issues that people have with this topic. I hope that you will find the information in this article helpful. http://affiliate.mynew.ws/best-affiliate-programs/best-affiliate-programs.phpAffiliate marketing is defined as a widespread method of promotion in which an affiliate (or associate) is rewarded for every view, sale, and/or registration produced through the affiliate's effort.

It's similar to collecting a finder's-fee or the commissions typical of retail store clerks. The more one sells... the more one gets paid.

Compensation calculations vary and could be based on any of the following:

PPC (pay-per-click) a specific amount is paid for each visit

PPL (pay-per-lead) where registration or sign-up counts

PPS (pay-per-sale) a specific commission per sale is paid

If your goal is to generate your total income online, you can drive traffic from your subscriber lists to affiliate links just as easily as to your own product links.

What About Product Sales and Marketing?

You'll want to watch for great products and services with the potential to benefit your niche and your mailing lists. To build trust and income, it's best to recommend only those products that will be of specific interest to them. It's a win-win situation for everyone that way.

When an affiliate is marketing any product, the cost of advertising the product is absorbed by the affiliate. It's important to keep this cost in mind when promoting products. The higher the percentage of affiliate income possible from any quality product, the more that product is worth promoting.

When a product is sold through the affiliate's link, depending on the service used, the total sale is divided up among the vendor or service, the affiliate, the taxing authority, the shipper (if any), and the payment processor.

It is common and expected that all affiliate details be spelled out in the affiliate sign-up process. However, you needn't be afraid to contact any vendor to clarify their affiliate program if you have questions. Often you can telephone or email for a fast reply.

Is a Digital Lifestyle for Me?

Many standard retailers offer very small rewards for affiliate sales while most internet marketers offer around 50%. This is why being an affiliate of digital products can be very lucrative in a relatively short period of time.

Although the number of affiliate programs for tangible goods and off-line services is rising, a completely digital lifestyle can be developed solely from digital or downloadable affiliate products that may never take physical form.

Of course it's important to note that as an affiliate of any tangible product, you generally never do more than promote a link to the product online. So in that sense it's the same as a digital product.

One of the best places to find digital products to affiliate with is ClickBank.com. They have an automatic affiliate 'hoplink' program built into their payment processing service so that affiliate payments are not left up to the product owner to process.

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Three other good affiliate programs to check into are:

Amazon.com http://www.amzon.com/gp/browse.html/102-3525955-0485737?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3435371 (not an affiliate link)

LinkShare.com http://www.linkshare.com

CommissionJunction.com http://www.cj.com/solutions/online_marketing.jsp

Staying with reputable, well-known internet vendors makes a great deal of sense because you know you will get paid, when to expect a check or bank deposit, and you can see your account details online at any time.

How Do I Get Started?

There are many ways to approach affiliate marketing, but a basic starting point is to have a web site with text or image affiliate links to products you want to promote. Generally you want to stay focused within a niche or interest group to increase your sales potential.

If you have used the products, your promotional efforts could include a product review based on your own experience along with images and other supporting information.

Developing an email opt-in list is helpful in affiliate marketing as it gives the promoter an opportunity to find the products with the most potential benefit for a group of like-minded individuals.

When providing a service such as this, most affiliate marketers are able to reach enough potential customers to produce some affiliate income.

When a lot of products are promoted to several targeted niche markets, it is possible to create an income of substance over time. Especially when the affiliate marketer is only promoting quality products with a real potential to benefit customers within the niche.

In summary, affiliate marketing is a great way to build an income without having a product of your own, and without having to do much more than get interested people to view product information

through your affiliate links. It's very easy to get started and can eventually put a lot of money in your pocket.

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Adwords google secret for free by Dennis

2008-01-24T03:14:00.000-08:00

Do you believe that you can be able to get google pay per click advertisements for free.it sounds impossible but true story it actually isnt.how about you and your internet business enjoy millions worth of google pay per click advertisements for free.Which will automatically result in $1000 worth of profits.seems hard to believe but: http://riungu.freegoogle.hop.clickbank.netAm not kidding you people are getting it and its not a scam its true and its happening right in front of you.This people are shattering competition out with this google adwords secret and you to are not a formidable competition to them if they have a leverage above you.This amazing system was created by Dr Jon Cohen, MD (retired) who found a little-known "twist" in how to use the pay-per-click (PPC) and paid-for targeted advertising programs at Google™ and the other search engines. Dr Jon has personally used this to: * Eliminate over $87 million in otherwise paid-for and PPC ads at Google™ and other search engines over the course of about 9 years now! * Generate over $314 million in product sales as a result of this incredible savings! * Acquire a personal wealth of more than $68 million! (Net) * Start and develop 16 online ventures of his own. * Has coached "live" where he taught others this same amazing formula - including 198 executives from major Fortune 500 and FortuneSM 1000 companies, 14 representatives of publicly-traded companies on the New York Stock ExchangeSM (NYSE), 82 more on the NASDAQ®, 5 members of investment houses on the American Stock ExchangeSM (AMEX), as well as at least one former US Congressman (now retired also) who now stays at home and runs a home-based online family business, among countless others.

This system has nothing to do with Google "vouchers" or "AdWords™ credits."

Also, it has nothing to do with adding any special magical "code" or "script" to your website that will bar Google and other search engines from being able to bill you.

Instead, Dr Jon's system is very unique to say the least, and allows for the elimination of advertisers having to suffer the burden of costs of their Google and otherwise paid-for search engine advertising expenses!

It can even create many additional streams of income flooding money directly into your pocket very quickly! http://riungu.freegoogle.hop.clickbank.net

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FINALLY AN AFFILIATE SCHEME THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

2008-01-24T03:09:00.000-08:00

by Donna Percival

Since having my son four years ago i have spent lots of time looking online for an authentic business opportunity and unfortunately have spent some money on schemes that have proved to be no more than scams. Dis-heartened, I started to believe that it was impossible for anyone to actually earn through the net.
I am not very good at selling things that i do not believe 100% in and so there was my first problem!! In my experience any scheme that asks you to pay out for joining rings alarm bells very loudly, i have been burnt!!! I find it hard to try and convince people to join something just because i want to make money on it, i feel too guilty as i know the disappointment it can cause.
I have worked at home for the past three years as a childminder and had my second child in June 2007 so once again started to actively look on the web. I became more interested in affiliate programs rather than all business opportunities and this time decided not to spend any money.
I came across the Affiliate Junktion completely by accident but started reading their website and started to think about it seriously. They are a New Zealand company that guarantee that you will be earning $150 a day in 30 days but the best bit about it is that you can join for free. Once you join they supply you with a free website, free hosting, credits for google and yahoo search engines, 24/7 support centre and your own affiliate manager who is there to guide you. I joined only a week ago and I have already made $450 New Zealand Dollars, not bad for a few hours work. I have seen my daily income increase and have no doubt that this could be a very profitable venture.

If anyone is interested in an affiliate programme that actually works then please take a look at www.referralsontheweb.com it costs nothing to join.

About the Author

I am a work at home mum who is always looking out for new opportunities.

Success with Clickbank

2008-01-24T03:06:00.000-08:00

Clickbank.com is one of the most widely used and recognized websites devoted to help affiliate marketers find products to sell. It is completely free to sign up and start selling, and its easy to use formate makes it attractive for novice and expert alike.

To become an expert, it takes action. Sometimes it feels uncomfortable but after you do sell once and succeed you wonder how you ever got along without it.

To take action, you've got to first find out what your niche is. Some people break this process down into many steps, but to begin and start taking action the main thing you need to know is that a niche only means a category of product that people can and want to buy. Thats it. Cell phones are a product for the niche of people with a desire to communicate from anywhere.

The way I usually do niches is I define who my audience is by more specific terms than just a cell phone. An example would be: a "cell phone that downloads music". This niche would be people who want the simplicity of not having to carry around multiple gadgets just to talk and listen to the music they love. People who search for something like this are more likely to buy than someone looking through the internet shop windows and not buying anything.

Heres another one: investing. That is too vague to get buying customers to come to you because you are competing with billions of other sites, therefore confusing the searcher. A better example would be "real estate investing in chinese apartments". People looking for that specific type of investment would see your site if you made that your niche and would be more willing to look there than if you made a website that only used the keyword: investing.

You may not find chinese apartments for sale on clickbank, but there may be products in there that explain how to invest in foreign markets. You can then take a product like an ebook on the subject and then, after you find out what is in the book, promote it by advertising to people in niches specific as the chinese apartment example.

To have success with clickbank , it is important to break down your niches into specific targets so you know who to advertise to. It will save you loads of time and make you more money.

About the Author

Author Bio:
Bruce Fulmire is an Alaskan born entrepreneur. He is a contributor to several forums and has his own blog. Online, Bruce has accredited much of his success with the principles obtained by http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/?a_aid=ZDGAdZo9 In addition to his online contributions, Bruce is a licensed real estate consultant in the south central region of Alaska

Lyric : Coldplay - Yellow

2008-01-15T06:55:00.000-08:00

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do
Yeah they were all yellow

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn
Into something beautiful
You know
You know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh what a thing to do
Cause you were all yellow

I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn
Into something beautiful
You know
For you I'd bleed myself dry
For you I'd bleed myself dry

Its true
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you

Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And all the things that you do

Lyric : Colbie Caillat - Bubbly

2008-01-15T06:49:00.000-08:00

Will you count me in?

I've been awake for a while now
You've got me feelin' like a child now
Cause everytime I see your bubbly face
I get the tingles in a silly place

It starts in my toes
And I crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go

The rain is fallin' on my window pane
But we are hidin' in a safer place
Under cover stayin dry and warm
You give me feelins that I adore

They start in my toes
Make me crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go

What am I gonna say
When you make me feel this way
I just-mmm..

It starts in my toes
Make me crinkle my nose
Where ever it goes
I always know
That you make me smile
Please stay for a while now
Just take your time
Where ever you go

Dada dada dadada dada dum..

Mmm mmm..

I've been asleep for a while now
You tuck me in just like a child now
Cause every time you hold me in your arms
I'm comfortable enough to feel your warmth

It starts in my soul
And I lose all control
When you kiss my nose
The feelin shows
Cause you make me smile baby
Just take your time now
Holdin' me ti-i-ight

Where ever,
Where ever,
Where ever you go

Where ever,
Where ever,
Where ever you go

Lyric : Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats

2008-01-12T22:00:00.000-08:00

Right now he's probably slow dancing with a bleach blonde tramp,
and she's probably getting frisky...
right now, he's probably buying her some fruity little drink cause she can't shoot whiskey...

Right now, he's probably up behind her with a pool-stick, showing her how to shoot a combo...

And he don't know...

That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

Right now, she's probably up singing some
white-trash version of Shania karaoke..
Right now, she's probably saying "I'm drunk"
and he's a thinking that he's gonna get lucky,
Right now, he's probably dabbing on 3 dollars worth of that bathroom polo
And he don't know...

That I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats,
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

I might've saved a little trouble for the next girl,
Cause the next time that he cheats...

Oh, you know it won't be on me!

Ohh... not on me...
Cause I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats...
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...

Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats.

Ohh.. Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats...

Ohh... before he cheats...

Lyric : Timbaland feat One Republic - Apologize

2008-01-12T21:57:00.000-08:00

I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say
But I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down
But wait...
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around and say..

That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
(But that's nothing new)
Yeah yeah

I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
And you say
Sorry like the Angel Heaven let me think was you,
But I'm afraid

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
Woahooo woah

It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, yeah yeah
I said it's too late to apologize, a yeah

I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground...

Lyric : Nelly Furtado - All Good Things Come To An End

2008-01-12T21:50:00.000-08:00

Honestly what will become of me
don't like reality
It's way too clear to me
But really life is dandy
We are what we don't see
Missed everything daydreaming

[Chorus:]
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Traveling I only stop at exits
Wondering if I'll stay
Young and restless
Living this way I stress less
I want to pull away when the dream dies
The pain sets it and I don't cry
I only feel gravity and I wonder why

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Dogs were whistling a new tune
Barking at the new moon
Hoping it would come soon so that they could
Die die die die die

Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
Flames to dust
Lovers to friends
Why do all good things come to an end
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to end?
come to an end come to an
Why do all good things come to an end?

Well the dogs were barking at a new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon
And the sun was wondering if it should stay away for a day 'til the feeling went away
And the sky was falling on the clouds were dropping and
the rain forgot how to bring salvation
the dogs were barking at the new moon
Whistling a new tune
Hoping it would come soon so that they could die.

Recipee - Fruit Trifle

2008-01-12T21:42:00.000-08:00

Ingredients:

200g plain sponge cake

100ml Fruit Preserve

(I used Strawberry Crush)

500ml thick custard

300ml sweetened, whipped cream

Fresh or Canned Mixed Fruits

Method:

1. Arrange half of the cake slices at the bottom of your serving dish. Pour the syrup of the canned fruits and allow to soak for 10 minutes.

2. Beat the custard, then pour half of it over the sponge cake.

3. Spread 1/3 of the fruits, pour 1/3rd of the strawberry crush and spread 1/3rd of the whipped cream. Repeat the process to get two layers each of cake, custard, fruits and cream using the remaining half of the custard and 1/3rd of the fruits, crush and cream again.

4. Spread remaining fruit on top and pour the remaining crush over it. Arrange fruit slices attractively. Alternatively, use sweetened whipped cream to decorate.

5. When serving, take care to insert the spoon till the bottom to scoop out all layers of cake, custard, fruits and cream.

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Recipee - Strawberry Muffins

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Ingredients:

2 1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cup buttermilk

1/3 cup melted butter

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and chopped

1/2 cup strawberry preserve or softened

jam strawberry halves for decorating

Method:

Pre heat oven to 400°F. Spray muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray or line muffin cups with paper cupcake liners.

On a large bowl combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt, stir well until all ingredient are well blended.

In another bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, butter, eggs and vanilla. Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour liquid mixture in and the strawberries. Reserve some strawberries for topping.

Using a large spoon, gently fold ingredients just until moist. Do not over mix.

Spoon the batter evenly into 12 muffin cups.

Pour 1 tsp. strawberry preserve or jam onto each muffin and sprinkle some strawberry pieces.

Bake 20 to 25 minutes or till done.

Decorate each muffin with strawberry halves.

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Shape your body by Walking

2008-01-12T21:29:00.000-08:00

The greatest myth about walking as an exercise is that walking helps only in reducing your weight and not toning your body the way you want it, by removing fat from specific parts of your body. Gym exercises and Swimming are looked upon as better options when body toning is in question.

This is not true, however. There is more to walking than just pleasure-walking and fast walking. There are many ways of walking and each of your body parts benefit from some way or the other.

Here's how you can shape your body the way you want, by walking.

1. Flat Stomach - Walk downhill with small, fast steps, stomach in, shoulders straight.Make your steps as small as possible and very fast.

2. Shapely Thighs - Walk uphill with long steps, without bending your knees, stomach in, shoulders straight. This will shape your hips as well.

3. Slimmer Arms - Swing your arms freely as you walk. Feel the pressure in your upper arms as you stretch your arms back and forth.

4. Slim Waistline - Walk at a medium pace with your hands held high in the air above your head. Keep your hands straight and maintain a perfect posture as you walk.

Continued exercising in the correct way will bring you desired results. I suggest continuing any kind of exercise regularly for at least 40 days before expecting results.

About the Author

Lata Tokhi is the Founder and Editor of Dot Com Women, a premier women's website and fast-growing online community, and Celebrating Christmas, a resource for celebrating Christmas in style.

Visit her websites for lots of homemaking and business ideas, free downloads, free Ezines and message boards for women to network and share.

What Women in Business Want

2008-01-12T21:25:00.000-08:00

By Lata Tokhi (Founder, DCW)

The number of women doing business is going to amaze you. It is predicted that by the year 2005, 40% of all firms will be woman-owned.

What is it that drives women into business? A lot of things, probably. But a few commonly known are financial security, additional income, sense of achievement, productive accomplishments etc.

Once into business, Women part ways with their male counterparts. Their ways, their means and even their goals take a different path. They arehardly interested in the usual clichés of 'Hardcore Business Tactics' like Professional Ethics, Business Etiquettes, Corporate-Wars and the stuff, ifstretched beyond a line.

A Woman in business cannot derive any satisfaction from stealing away business from a fellow business owner. Much less will be her satisfaction in drawing attention to her business by cold advertising or bad-mouthing a competitor.

Why so? Because this is NOT what a women wants from her business! This is not what she believes will help her business! If you are of the opinion that steady sales will put a business woman's mind to rest, you've got it wrong. Nor can a big, one-time deal do that. Some green bucks may bring temporary happiness and comfort, but definitely not what a woman seeks in order to keep her business going great guns.

Then, what is it that a woman wants? If not money, steady sales, exposure to public - WHAT ELSE? Here's the answer to this age-old stumper - Relationships!

It's Relationships, long-lasting business and semi-personal relationships that spell the success of a woman-owned business. It is only when she develops strong business relationships and a satisfactory level of networking, that she is assured of a good footing for her business. She is assured that these relationships will help her when nothing else is working for her business.

If you are a business woman, it is possible that you have still not realized what you exactly want. But, some more time, experience and meditation upon this subject will bring you to the same conclusion - that you are looking for Relationships! Relationships with your clients, fellow business owners and even competitors will be the strength your business will be based upon.

Start building relationships this very moment. Do an 'extra little thing' for your clients, know your competitors, mix-up with fellow business women. Some places to start are
http://www.dotcomwomen.com/forums
http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/bb
http://www.mothersworkathome.com/phpbb2

Keep in mind that WOMEN WANT RELATIONSHIPS! Network with other women, make your clients feel special, love your competitors and before you know, your business starts thriving on relationships.

About the Author

Lata Tokhi is the Founder and Editor of Dot Com Women, a premier women's website and fast-growing online community, Celebrating Christmas, a resource for celebrating Christmas in style and i love to CRAFT, a craft site full of free craft projects.

Visit her websites for lots of homemaking and business ideas, free downloads, free Ezines and message boards for women to network and share.

Balancing Work and Home

2008-01-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

Work is addicting...and more so when your computer is your office or shop! And while you spend hour upon hour to network with other netpreneurs and provide online customer services to your clients, you tend to neglect a dozen odd household jobs.

Hours seem to fly by when work online. As for your household duties, with great effort, you just take care of the most basic ones like fixing dinner, driving your kids to school etc.

Cleaning, Organizing, Buying Groceries, paying your bills, going to the post office etc. are postponed till the last hour. So how do your balance your work along with your home?

There are two important steps to do this.

First, make yourself realize the fact that you HAVE TO take some time out for your home and there is no excuse in the world to avoid that.

Secondly, start organizing your available time. Here are some quick steps to help you balance your work as well as your home.

1. Divide available hours between your home and your work diligently.

2. Set timers when you are working online.

3. Maintain a 'To Do' list or a diary.

4. Picture yourself going through the troubles of paying your bills later than allowed.

5. Set aside some time for all those jobs which require you to go outside. For e.g. going to the market, post office, bank etc. Try to coincide these with each other. Say, for example, you could take care of these after driving your kids to school.

6. Make up your mind and start some kind of organizing/ decorating/ renovating activity around your house. These are so addicting that once you start, you will enjoy yourself a lot.

7. Similarly, take up your favorite hobby in the afternoon. You will love the change and enjoy getting creative.

8. Plan weekly activities. Take up cleaning once a week. Go for outings once a week. Call upon a friend once a week. This will help you maintain your social life as well.

9. Surf the net for information related to a hobby. This will get you started with that hobby and also give you the much needed break from work.

10. Surf the web with your hubby or children. Show them websites of their interest. That way, you will also get to spend more time with them.

Just like the old saying - 'You Eat to Live, You do not Live to Eat', I'll say 'You Work to Live, You do not Live to Work'. It's no use being successful on the cost of your home and your family.

The 'Dot Com Women' of today are not women who stay online for hours with a guilt feeling on the back of their minds. They are women with a strong desire to succeed in their personal and professional lives. And you are one of them! That's why you chose to read this, isn't it?

Good Luck with your efforts to striking a balance between your work and your home!

About the Author

Lata Tokhi is the Founder and Editor of Dot Com Women, a premier women's website and fast-growing online community, and Celebrating Christmas, a resource for celebrating Christmas in style.

Visit her websites for lots of homemaking and business ideas, free downloads, free Ezines and message boards for women to network and share.

Music Web Sites

2008-01-12T21:09:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/music_and_movies/article_909.shtml

by: Soli Katir

About The Author

Soli Katir http://www.solikatir.com/Free-MP3-Download.html Click on these websites to get unlimited download access from wide ranges of music network, absolutely free!

Let us examine these requirements for a successful music download. You can also download music tracks of your choice and save on your phone. Apple also brands iPod in conjunction with iTunes, its music web site where iPod users can purchase and download songs for less than $1 a piece.

But where do we stand in the eyes of the law, if we decide to download music. You could download your favorite videos and music tracks from the internet and play them on your phone. Most latest models have features beyond sending text messages and making voice calls—including Internet browsing, music (MP3) playback, personal organizers, e-mail, built-in cameras and camcorders, ringtones, games, radio, Push-to-Talk (PTT), infrared and Bluetooth connectivity, call registers, ability to watch streaming video or download video for later viewing, and serving as a wireless modem for a PC.

Any artist can have an online presence, promote their music to an audience of millions, and let consumers download their music to their hearts content. These music download sites include, believe it or not, Napster, with over 500,000 digital music downloads, eMusic, where you can get 50 free music downloads just for starters, Musicmatch, who has a great membership package, Realrhapsody, which offers a very nice two-week free trial, and one of my favorites and their “Always Low Prices” is the Wal-Mart music download. With microSD support of up to 2GB, users can download more music tracks, video clips and images.

You could listen to your favorite music tracks; you could also download the songs of your choice to your handset and drive away your blues. Download your favorite soundtracks and enjoy listening music tracks wherever you go. Moreover, you can download music, photos and Java games to make the maximum use of your leisure time.

Well here is a quick guide for beginners, on how to convert your current music files into PSP format audio files: Step One --- Download The Software First of all, you need to download software onto your PSP that allows you to convert MP3 files into PSP MP4 format.

Legal Tunes Download Sites For Your Mp3 Player

2008-01-12T21:04:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/gadgets_and_gizmos/article_994.shtml

by: Jeffrey Wolf

About The Author

Jeffrey Wolf For more detailed information on legal music, movie and video downloads; go to: http://Top10Downloads.org

Existing technology makes music videos more accessible than ever, with a enormous percentage of people now downloading music from the internet to their MP3 player or ipods. Many people use file sharing sites to find their MP3 player files, but these sites do not have copyright ownership. This alters the stability and condition of the product, and can also develop into legal proceedings being brought against the buyer. Thus, the best way to download music to your audio player is to find a legitimate site.

Online MP3 player downloads from a legitimate site have the advantage of being certified by both the record company or the musician. This means that there is no infringement of copyright laws and allows many advantages for the buyer. Approximately 35% of all MP3 player owners now use this reasoning to download music files. Of course, certified MP3 file downloads come with a cost but this is nominal when compared with the price of CDs and minidisks.

There are two methods of paying for MP3 player downloads. The first is one off fee or monthly payment that acts as a subscription. This process permits subscribers to download infinite music files to their audio apparatus, and is cost efficient for any consumer who requires ordinary use of the services. The second process of payment entails a pay per download or burn scenario. This is more cost efficient for those who will use file downloads less frequently. Both payment processes will permit the customer to take advantage of the benefits of legitimate MP3 file downloads.

The basic advantages of with a legitimate MP3 player download site is that the sound quality is the best viable as state of the art digital recording device is used. The download speed is also superb, and many download sites have great additional extras such as MP3 ripping and MP3 tagging services. Licensed MP3 player files will not harm part of the way through, and so you can be certain in the service expected. The licensing means that the download site will not be blocked due to copyright infringement, which is usual among file sharing sites. One of the primary advantages of using a legitimate site is that there is little chance of encountering and obtaining a virus. Approved MP3 player download sites have excellent security measures which are revised frequently to guarantee the best viable product is expected by customers. There is also better privacy guaranteed, with spyware detected and deleted, keeping customers secure from risk.

Of course there are some disadvantages to be had. Licensed MP3 player download sites have a much lesser selection of music existing than the file sharing sites. There are also very few qualified mp3 download sites around, so there is little choice in terms of which service provider you can use. However, the quality of the websites available is very good, so this should not be a hindrance. The price concerned with qualified MP3 player websites is off putting to many, but the complete advantages of subscribing outweigh the disadvantages. The licensed site guarantees a quality product for your audio player, which is secure for your computer and which follows laws and regulations. It is fast, accessible and cost effective.

Many MP3 player and iPod download sites offer free trials of its services so that you can examine the website throughly before committing to any purchase. This is about being able to download a specificed number of download files or being able to use the services for a set length of time before a payment is required.

Using Niche Marketing To Find A Niche

2008-01-12T20:55:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_3919.shtml

by: Cliff Posey Jr

About The Author

Cliff Posey, owner of CRP Marketing, owns and operates http://webbusinesstoolsonline.com. Cliff Posey has also operated several other successful web businesses including Love Song Cards and Radio Career Consultants. The content in this article was developed from his experience in these businesses.

Niche markets provide a product or service for a specific group of customers who have very specific needs. One of the biggest mistakes that new online business owners make is ignoring the concept of niche marketing and focusing on big markets that appear to be big moneymakers.

While this can be quite tempting, there is simply too much competition in the big markets. Those who are new to the online business world don't stand a chance of competing against companies who have already cornered the market.

With niche marketing, it is a different story. Entrepreneurs can significantly increase their chances of success by focusing on specific niche markets. You determine a need and develop products and services that will satisfy that need.

Niche marketing also provides you with an opportunity to market to a very specific audience. By targeting your audience, you can easily tailor advertising and promotional campaigns that are almost guaranteed to work.

By now, you're probably wondering how to go about finding niche markets. Fortunately, it's much easier than one would think. The key is to find a group large enough to produce a reasonable volume of business, but small enough to be looked over by your competition.

The following steps will teach you the ins and outs of finding a niche market.

Step One

The first step involves research and may take some time on your part. If you need to, break these research sessions up over a span of a few days. This will ensure that you have ample time to properly research potential niche markets.

To start, open two Internet windows. Set one at www.google.com and set the other at http://inventory.overture.com.

Step Two

To find niche marketing opportunities, start doing a few searches in these search engines. Try basic products that you may be interested in selling, such as digital cameras, computer software, or Siamese cat toys.

y entering products into these two search engines, you can find out the number of searches the products have per month and determine how much competition exists in the market. Google and similar search engines will tell you how many results pages are out there for a specific search term, allowing you to gauge the extent of your competition, and http://inventory.overture.com will help you determine what sort of customer base you have be telling you how many people entered a specific search term in a given month.

Step Three

Analyze your findings. The level of competition that can be found in the market determines the best niche markets to get into. Though some competition is good, too much competition is bad. Niche marketing only works if there is demand and a market for the product or service that is being sold.

Though opinion varies when it comes to the numbers, in general, a word that has between 10,000 and 2,000,000 searches per month is considered an opportunity for niche marketing.

Let's see some examples:

Example 1 Digital Camera

The term yielded 1,312,659 searches and 239,000,000 results pages. This is a big market with plenty of competition.

Example 2 Computer Software

The term yielded 101,294 searches and 1,550,000,000 results pages. This is a big market with HUGE levels of competition.

Example 3 Siamese Cat

The term yielded 16,314 searches and 1,800,000 results pages. Niche marketing could work here!

This has high search volume relative to competition.

Step Four

Choose your niche. Now that you have some niche markets to choose from, you can find the one that is the best fit for you. Afterwards, all that is left to do is enjoy your niche marketing experience.

5 Free And Essential Marketing Tools To Ensure Any Affiliate Partner’s Success

2008-01-12T20:43:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_3971.shtml

by: Nial Robbins

Time and time again, it has been said that affiliate marketing is, without a doubt, the quickest and most efficient way of earning a living online. There are a variety of reasons for this. For starters, most affiliate programs do not require any enrollment fees. There is no financial investment on the part of the affiliate. Secondly, the affiliate is only tasked with pre-selling the affiliate merchant’s products. The sales page, the payment processing, the digital delivery, and the post sales services shall be borne by the affiliate merchant.

These shouldn’t mean that the affiliate should want in commitment, however. As a matter of fact, an affiliate’s success wholly depends on how much commitment he could give the program, and how much effort he could invest to pursue such commitment.

Sometimes, this requires some monetary expenses. Getting a web host, for example, as well as a domain name, would necessitate some cash to be laid out. Getting professionally made graphics to make his website attractive can also cost some dough, in the event that the affiliate cannot do this for himself. PPC advertising can equally be just as costly, if not even more, if the affiliate would ever decide to utilize this option.

But not everything needs to come at a price. There are vital tools that would help ensure the affiliate’s success, and they can be availed of for free.

Here are the top five tools under this category. Knowing them would give you the edge you need. Using them would give you the head start that would push your online enterprise to the next level.

1. WordPress.

WordPress is a movable-type blog. It is a software program you could download and use to create your own blogs which you could upload in your own server. You won’t have to settle for the words “blogspot” or “livejournal” or “xanga” to be attached to your URL. You could host your blog under its own domain name, or as another page in your main website. Blogs are great marketing tools. They get indexed quite quickly by the search engines, and often, the figure prominently well in the search engine results pages (SERPs). They could also give your main website the backlinks it needs to boost its own page rank. Additionally, a blog can be customized to become your main website. The primary advantage of this approach is the convenience you’ll receive when it comes to publishing content. Download the WordPress client for free from http://www.wordpress.com.

2. NVU Website Creator.

Macromedia Dreamweaver is too expensive? Microsoft Front Page is too complicated? Then the NVU Website Creator is the program for you. This software program streamlines the website creation process through an interface that is easy to use, but powerful enough to make professional-looking web pages. Download the client for free from http://www.nvu.com.

3. Backlink Builder.

If you’re maintaining your own website, either as a review center for your affiliate program’s products, or as an affiliate mall for the same, or even as a blog which promotes the aforementioned digital items, you will need to build a thorough list of backlinks to increase your page rank. The higher your page rank is, the better chances it will have of appearing in the first few pages of search engine results. Don’t know where to start? Use the free tool available at http://www.webconfs.com/backlink-builder.php to discover all the places where you could leave some links to your website.

4. Keyword Selector Tool.

Keywords are the primary ingredients of any search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. You will use them for your meta tags, your h1 tags, your ALT tags, your page title, and your content. You will even use them for the articles you will submit to the many article directories in the World Wide Web. The proper use of keywords would result in the more efficient documentation of your website so that the search engine spiders will have an easier time finding your web pages for any relevant query. And since 80% of the traffic that you will be able to generate for your website would come from the search engines, keywords become the most essential aspects of your site building efforts. Need to find the right keywords? Go to http://www.nichebot.com and use their powerful tool to determine the profitability of the keywords related to the affiliate products you will be promoting.

5. Statcounter.

You will need to study your website’s statistics so that you’ll know what you’re doing wrong, as well as replicate what you’re doing correctly. For this purpose, simply copy and paste the code that will be provided by http://www.statcounter.com to get in-depth reports about the performance of your website.

All of these tools would improve your performance as an affiliate. And the fact that they all come without charge just makes the deal even sweeter. Try them out. Chances are, you will realize that the best things in life can be free after all.

NOTE: You have full permission to reprint this article within your website or newsletter as long as you leave the article fully intact and include the "About The Author" resource box. Thanks! :-

About The Author

Nial Robbins owns the work at home directory website located at: http://www.NDR-HomeBiz.com Come by and visit us today! Also, be sure to check out our "top pick" work at home opportunity at: http://www.NDR-HomeBiz.com/pips.html

Internet Marketing - FREE Blogs To Boost Internet Marketing Sales

2008-01-12T20:36:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_3976.shtml

by: Jeffrey Wyrick

Wikipedia further goes on to say that many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) and are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts.

TECHNORATI (dot) COM TRACKS MORE THAN 100 BLOGS

Recent research about internet marketing strategies shows that one of the most commonly used tools for increasing website traffic is the blog or "web log". The reason that people are responding more to this form of internet marketing is that they have a unique opportunity to interact with other like minded people, not only the person that is promoting the product or service, but also other people who are willing to give their unbiased opinions.

INTERNET MARKETING GETS BOOSTED BY PR PIGGYBACKING

What I mean by this is that the companies that are setting up internet marketing campaigns have learned that they can increase their search engine ranking by setting up a blog on HIGH PR FREE BLOG WEBSITES like the ones shown below.

* PR 8 - Wordpress (dot) com
* PR 6 - Joomla (dot) com
* PR 6 - Blog (dot) com
* PR 6 - Blogspot (dot) com
* PR 4 - Bloggit (dot) com

THIS LOOKS AWESOME, BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE COMING

Seeing this HIGH DEMAND in internet marketing search engines and social networks wanted to get in on the fun. Using these other FREE WEBSITES to market your own service, products or affiliate programs is HOT HOT HOT ! ! !

* PR 7 - 360.Yahoo (dot) com
* PR 8 - MySpace (dot) com
* PR 8 - Facebook (dot) com
* PR 7 - Squidoo (dot) com
* PR 6 - Tagged (dot) com

NOW LET'S TIE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION TOGETHER

You're probably sitting there wondering WHY all of these HEAVY TRAFFIC websites are doing so well and WHY is it that people are now using these FREE blog websites for their internet marketing campaigns. The answer is much simpler than it might seem at first when you look at it. We start with the well known fact that CONTENT IS KING and the search engines LOVE websites that provide fresh relevant keyword or keyword phrase rich content.

With blog posters all over the world posting and doing internet marketing on these FREE blog websites, FREE search engine landing pages and FREE social networking websites the search engines are eating up all this HOT FRESH NEW CONTENT that is being delivered by internet marketing teams who are making hundreds of posts to these websites every day.

PIGGY BACKING OFF OF THE PAGE RANK / PR ON THESE SITES

In short what this means is that when you are able to set up your internet marketing campaign on these HIGH PR websites you are automatically going to get indexed by the search engines. The reason for this is that when the search engine queries the main blog or social network website (such as Squidoo) it finds relevant content that leads it to a link that might say.....

"Click Here - To Follow Your Internet Marketing Dreams"

The search engines will follow this link to your main website and automatically spider YOUR WEBSITE searching for relevant keywords and keyword phrases that million and millions of online users are searching for every day. This is a little different than the traditional link exchange programs used in early Web 1.0 internet marketing strategies where you would get reciprocating back links from random websites that more often than not didn't have any relevant content to offer the search engines.

Now you have websites with HIGH PR / PAGE RANKING linking directly to your website, best of all these websites offer relevant content that the search engines can index for their own viewers future searches. This method of internet marketing will bring in more traffic to your website and ultimately it should increase the number of sales made each day.

SOME NEXT LEVEL INTERNET MARKETING BLOG STRATEGIES

Now for a nice finishing touch. Go to your favorite search engine and type in "swicki by eurekster". I get the best results when I go to Google and MSN to run this search. Now using this SWICKI tool you will create two incredibly powerful internet marketing SEARCH TOOLS, one that will search your main website from your blogs, the other one will search your blogs from your main website. Remember these blogging and social network websites have HIGH PR / PAGE RANK and now you have just set up multiple keyword and keyword phrase rich reciprocating link with them!

Another thing that will help you bring in even more traffic using your keyword and keyword phrase rich blogs is to use social bookmarking tools that are also provided FREE by companies such as StubleUpon, del.icio.us or Digg. The search engines love social bookmarking websites because they establish the popularity of the website. Using this internet marketing strategy will help to increase your own websites PR / PAGE RANK as more and more people choose to bookmark your blog.

REMEMBER TO INCLUDE A BIO LINKING TO YOUR WEBSITE
As you finish things up the link or links at the bottom of your internet marketing blog post will then lead the viewer back to your main website. You have now established yourself as an expert. Over the course of just a few short weeks, or in some cases even as fast as a few short days, people will begin to respond to your posts. As time goes on more and more people will want to link to your FREE blog if it's set up correctly.

About The Author

Jeffrey Wyrick Learn More About Internet Marketing With Your Blog For Only $1 HIGHLY EFFECTIVE internet marketing strategies, videos & Audios! http://internetmarketingdreams.com/FreeOffer.php

3 Marketing Methods That Will Cost You Less

2008-01-12T20:33:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_3999.shtml

by: Jason Pearson

About The Author

Jason Pearson is an online marketing expert who wants to share his secrets with the world. To find out more visit... http://www.thewinningbusiness.com

When you are first starting out in the online marketing field, you’ll find that there are a number of different marketing methods to choose from. However, not all methods will produce the same end result. It’s a good idea to start with the lowest cost methods available while your business is in the developmental stage. This will allow you to discover which method is best for you, without investing your dollars in something that might not produce a profit.

The 3 methods listed below are free or cost very little. You will find that each method has it’s own pros and cons. Take time to study all three and find out what method will best suit your style of business.

1) Traffic Exchanges.

This method operates off of credits that are built by viewing other members’ websites. Once you have a certain number of credits built up, your website will be able to be viewed by the other members. Some are free and some may charge a monthly fee. A nice feature of this method is that it will create a large amount of traffic in a short amount of time. Something to keep in mind is the amount of time involved with viewing websites. It’s also helpful to know that this method typically works better for businesses that attract a wide audience because the traffic is not targeted.

2) Online Forums.

Internet forums are web applications that allow discussions and postings by other viewers. The forums consist of a topic, which could be about just anything. To get started, do a search for forum and the topic you choose. Another way to locate them is through Google. Go to ‘Groups’ and search for your topic there. Most forums are free. Another advantage to this method is that the traffic is targeted.

The focus of forums is on the exchange of information. Be prepared to follow the rules and to take time posting comments that are useful. In some cases they will allow you to attach a signature to your comments. This is where you’ll put your website in order to trigger search engine spiders and get even more traffic to your site. If you can gain the reputation of an expert on your particular topic, while offering free advice whenever you can, it will build credibility.

With this method it may be a challenge to get past the ‘spam’ label. Another piece of advice is that the amount of traffic initially will probably not impress you.

3) Newsletters.

Newsletters are important for site development, which will benefit the visitors who do come. You will be able to find the code for collecting emails from your host provider (free) or an auto-responder (could either be free or paid).

Set up a place on your website where visitors can enter their name and email address. Then you will have the opportunity to send them a free report about your topic. The report could include tips or news that would be of interest to them. This will give you an opportunity to build a relationship with prospects as well as maintain contact for future offers.

Keep in mind that this method requires an investment of time and effort to keep the information current. Newsletters are typically written on a regular basis. Also, this method will not provide a way to attract new visitors.

As you think about these three strategies, consider what you have to offer when it comes to what will fit your model the best. Ask yourself the following questions: How much time do you want to invest? How will my business benefit from each method? What information can I provide? If you start by using two or even three of these methods you will likely establish a firm foundation for your business.

Internet Marketing Strategies That Work

2008-01-12T20:29:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4000.shtml

by: Jason Pearson

About The Author

Jason Pearson is an online marketing expert who wants to share his secrets with the world. To find out more visit... http://www.thewinningbusiness.com

One way to increase traffic to your site is through teaching a course. Choose a topic that you are well versed in, and write out step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow. Then separate each part and include them in an autoresponder where emails can be sent out with your ads attached to the top or bottom of each page. You can also use your autoresponder service to invite visitors to join through an online form. The more that sign up, the more will discover your products and services.

A good way to get free advertising is to create your own directory. Use a specific industry topic and place your own ad or banner at the top. Then you can make it available for others to list themselves in your directory by inviting them to add links to their website through an exchange program. Soon your directory will grow and advance while links to your site can be found across the web. If you need a guide to help your setup process go smoothly, search for “link exchange software”.

Another strategy is to publish a significant e-zine that comes out monthly. The recommended method is with an Adobe .PDF file as a book format. Each issue could include several articles as well as features like industry tips, advice, popular sites or quotes. Take advantage of multimedia technologies and full-color graphics. You would then have the potential to charge a monthly rate as well as sell advertising spots.

Lastly, setting up your own “Tip of the Day” can be a great way to target your area of expertise. There are many ways to make this work to benefit your products and services. Here are a few of the ways: an autoresponder, a blog, an audio file, an RSS feed or even in a targeted box on your website. Have your tip include your own ad that is specific to your product or service that you are targeting. This will provide a subtle reminder of where to go to find out more.

If you find ways to customize Internet Marketing strategies to your products of services, you are likely to experience more traffic as well as sales. You will find that the Internet provides many affordable options to help expand your business.

How To Increase Your Business Sales With Ebooks

2008-01-12T20:23:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4004.shtml

by: Brian Scott

About The Author

Brian Scott Learn how to become a published book author! Download Brian's free e-book, Book Writing for Fun and Profit, at http://www.BookCatcher.com. Visit Brian's blog, at http://bookpublishingnews.blogspot.com

Businesses of all sizes are generating more sales and increasing their revenue with ebooks. An ebook is a paperless book in digital format that you can download to your computer, handheld or other reader device. Readers use a software program like Adobe (for .pdf formats) or Microsoft Word to read it.

Here are five ways to increase your business revenue with ebooks.

Method # 1: Marketing

An ebook offers an inexpensive means of producing full-color marketing materials complete with graphics and audio components. Find good software or hire someone to help create your ebooks. Grab a digital camera and start snapping shots of your products, people using your products and services, your workers, etc. Then show off your photos and your products. Describe your services with power-packed presentations; web pages with interactive links for sound, visual presentations, communications (emails or forum posts) and more.

Method # 2: Education

When you need to explain your products or services to prospective buyers, educate your prospects and clients with ebooks. Have sample or short versions available for trial offers or free downloads. Then include full-fledged detailed editions with product / service purchases. Educate with visual, sound and interactive point-and-click methods. Invite questions and feedback from recipients for improvements on future products and services.

Method # 3: Communications

How often do prospective buyers and customers email you with a similar question that requires a book-length answer? Questions like, “How do you create a basic website?” or “How can you market on a tight budget?” inspire lengthy replies. Well, now you can write one long reply, turn it into an ebook and send it out – repeatedly. You can free up more time for other things. Include your own marketing information inside your ebook so readers can look you up on the Internet, pass your information along, and give others the opportunity to find you, too.

Method # 4: New Product

Use surveys and take polls for new product creation. Include a link to a web page with a questionnaire and free download for recipients upon completion.

Method # 5: Sales Reps

Arm your sales representatives with professional, top-notch full-color media / product / service information kits presented via your ebooks to share with local newspaper, radio, television and other media reps, visitors and potential clients at trade shows and other events. Set up an introductory page in your ebook, then an index where people can click and quickly find your history, mission statement, product and service descriptions and images, contact information, testimonials, etc. Then copy the ebooks to disks and CDs to distribute at events. This gives people the opportunity to learn more about you when they have more time afterwards.

How to Develop Ideas for Your Ebook

As you gain experience with your topical area you'll probably be able to identify some of your target audience's problems or concerns. And, knowing their concerns or problems, you'll likely be able to offer a few solutions.

Once you have identified some solutions, you can expand your thoughts to a few paragraphs. To explain them clearly and give examples, each solution may be become a chapter of several hundred or even thousands of words.

You can often research your topic and look for additional solutions by using the search engines or by searching various article sites. Once you locate material that describes solutions you can express those solutions in your own words. You can add your own examples to make your expression of the solutions unique and more personal.

Preparing and Publishing Your Ebook

Most people use a product like Microsoft Word to prepare their ebook or article. With it you can check spelling and grammar, create chapters, headings, bulleted lists and a table of contents. You can also add photos and clip art to help explain and illustrate your ideas.

You may already have access to a commercial clip art package. Many packages are available at your local computer store.

Microsoft allows you to download and use any of over 150,000 images and sounds from their online library. To search and download art from Microsoft using Microsoft Word, select Insert -> Picture -> Clip Art. Then select the Clips Online tab. You will then be able to search photos, clip art and sounds for just the right images to illustrate your ideas. As long as your purpose is to enhance your own product, you can freely include Microsoft's images.

Once your ebook or article is complete you'll want to create a PDF file. This is the most popular format for downloadable ebooks and articles. People using both Windows-based PCs and Macintoshes can view documents in PDF format.

You can "print" your document to a PDF file using any of several free conversion applications. Newer PCs often come with this conversion software preloaded. If your PC does not have this software you can get it free from several sources. Three free products that create PDF files from virtually any Windows applications are:

- PrimoPDF (http://www.primopdf.com/)
- PDFCreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/)
- doPDF (http://www.dopdf.com/)

After creating your PDF file you can then upload the PDF to your server. You'll need to upload it in BINARY format rather than ASCII format. To make sure you did everything correct you should download your PDF and test it to make sure it is viewable.

Effective Email Marketing Campaigns

2008-01-12T20:20:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4006.shtml

by: Len Hutton

About The Author

Len Hutton is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home based business. You can read up on how to create your own info products in one day without writing a single word by going to http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/

How To Turn Other Peoples Hard Work Into A Part Time And Instant Internet Business http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/underground.htm

Are you interested in using email marketing to enhance the traffic and sales of your website? It can be a confusing process if you don’t know where to start. You will need to establish your goals before you send the first email. What are you hoping to accomplish? Make sure these goals are clear and realistic. This will help you measure the success of the email marketing campaign. This is a great way to learn what works and what doesn’t for future email marketing campaigns. While your particular goals will vary, some common ones include increasing sales, getting more traffic to the website; improve awareness of about your company and what products or services you offer, and building a solid relationship with your customers.

As you start measuring the success of your email marketing campaign, make sure you are comparing the data only against your own information not that of the industry. For example did your sales increase by 10% and traffic to your site increase by 25% after your email marketing campaign rather than discovering the rate that sales and traffic increased for the entire industry you are in.

Don’t be discouraged if your first email marketing campaign doesn’t do as well as you hoped, especially if you are a new business. It takes time to build trust with consumers. Make sure you use your original email address when you send out the emails. This will help it get past the spam filters.

Make sure you take the time to update your email listings. Remove any requests to opt out quickly and efficiently to respect the consumer’s privacy. You will be wasting your time to email to incorrect addresses or those who don’t want your materials. Never change the first part of a person’s email address even if the mail is undeliverable. However it is a good idea to look for misspellings in the email service provider name such as Yahoo being Yaho or Hotmail being Hotmall.

Some businesses like to use an email marketing template. Don’t get too comfortable with a successful marketing campaign though! This is because customers become bored easily with the same format. You need to keep their interest by mixing things up a bit in future email marketing campaigns. Opt in email marketing software collects email addresses from your website. This is a great method that is simple for getting you a data base started. As your data base grows you can choose to send your future email marketing campaigns to everyone on the list or just a select target group based on their purchasing history.

You will need to design your email marketing campaign very well. It needs to be attractive to hold the attention of the consumer long enough for them to decide it is worth reading. You don’t want your efforts to be mistaken for common spam or junk mail right? Make sure all the content is spelled correctly. Keep the text short and to the point. Readers who open your email may choose to delete it or save it to read later if it looks to lengthy. You want them to open it, be captivated, and read it. The first sentences need to identify your company and what you are offering. Place the important information first. Then reader is likely to keep reading. Give them a sense of urgency for responding by clearing stating the day the promotional offers expire.

Email marketing is an effective tool if you take the time to use it properly. It is anticipated to be the most used method of advertising on the internet by 2008. While this means you will have lots of opportunity to market your business, it also means there is going to be a great deal of competition trying to get consumers to look at their business. You will have to be creative and work hard to develop effective email marketing campaigns that are attractive, informative, and encourage the consumer to take action. Len Hutton is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home based business. You can read up on how to create your own info products in one day without writing a single word by going to http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/ How To Turn Other Peoples Hard Work Into A Part Time And Instant Internet Business http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/underground.htm

Find Out All Keywords That Bring You Sales Within 3 Minutes

2008-01-12T20:16:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4009.shtml

by: Egidijus Andreika

About The Author

Egidijus Andreika is a creator of Click2Sell.EU Affiliate Network. Click2Sell provides its members the opportunity to track pay per click campaign keywords that bring real sales. Sell products online with Click2Sell.EU . Visit: http://www.click2sell.eu

The effectiveness of an internet marketing campaign can be summed up in three words: search engine ranking. The higher your website’s position is in search engine results, the more popular it is. Popularity means two things – increase in revenues and greater traffic. To bring these good fortunes into your website, you need to pinpoint the keywords that bring customers and potential new clients to your website.

See these examples: “Snag PGA-standard Golf Shoes at Half Price Now!” vs. “Avail of Golf Footwear like the ones used by Players in the PGA at discounted prices!” Which is more effective and delivers the most impact? If you go for the latter, you must seriously reconsider your banners and ads. Both deliver the same message but the first ad is more likely to draw in a lot of clicks. Why? It uses strong words and a focused keyword. You can use SEO campaigns and pay-per-click advertising services in order to boost your sales and traffic but how do you find which keywords reel in the money? Here’s how:

Measuring click-through rates

Click-through rates are simply the number of times people clicked on your advertisements. Where is the keyword in this scenario? Do not forget that the life of your banners and other advertisements is built on words but not just any word. Banners and advertisements reel in potential customers by being targeted and focused.

There are two ways by which you can measure click-through rates: PHP and ASP Scripts and CGI Script.

There are plenty of CGI Scripts for tracking click-throughs available online. Install the script in your website but make it invisible so that visitors will not feel that they are being watched or something. You can also opt to have a CGI Script custom-designed for your website if you have extra cash. You can also inquire about CGI tracking scripts from your web host.

If a CGI script is passé for you, you can opt to go for PHP and ASP scripts in tracking your keywords’ click-through rates. Ask your web hosting service provider if it supports the script you want. You can also inquire about server-side scripts to find out which is more compatible for your website.

Online tracking services

If scripts are too technical for you, there are online tracking service providers you can sign up with. These providers usually let you try the free version of their tracking client so you can shop around for the best deal before upgrading to a paid version. Paid versions are generally more useful since the providers let you have automated reports detailing click through rates and other important information you can use to beef up your internet marketing campaigns.

You can also sign up with internet marketing and affiliate networks like Click2Sell.EU for a marketing campaign. Affiliates can use your own advertisement materials to ensure consistency and quality in your ad campaigns. By using its own software, the network can provide you with updated reports about your traffic, click-through rates, lets you track keywords and sales each keyword bring and even lets you manage your affiliates for maximum efficiency.

Tracking which keywords bring you the money lets you streamline your internet marketing efforts so you can focus on the keywords and methods that produce results.

Choosing a Network Marketing Company

2008-01-12T20:09:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4012.shtml

by: Troy Rocavert

About The Author

Troy Rocavert is the author and webmaster of http://www.network-marketing-business-school.com also, be sure to check out his http://www.network-marketing-business-school.com/network-marketing-blog.html blog.

Choosing a network marketing company can be a difficult task. There are Literally hundreds of network marketing business opportunities to decide from and you could spend hours, even months finding the best one. Many people who search for a network marketing business will not get past the first step as the amount of opportunities and misleading information presented on the Internet is confusing.

We support you to keep strong, go after your dreams and keep on your journey to finding a home business that is right for you. The optimum way to keep on-course is to read through this article and apply our simple six step process.

1. Where to start?

The Direct Selling Association (DSA) web site is a great place to start when choosing a network marketing company. The Direct Selling Association (DSA) is the national trade association of the leading firms that manufacture and distribute goods and services sold directly to consumers. In fact, you will find 70 different categories of products and services, and over 200 different companies you can potentially choose a home based business from. These categories contain everything from financial services to Animal Care industries.

This means you automatically have a list of 200 companies and 70 different products and services that you could potentially partner your self with. You are not just limited to this list either. There are many more companies in network marketing who are not members of the DSA and there is a good reason for this. So we strongly recommend that you choose a company who is a DSA member for your own good.

2. What do you love to do?

One of most significant criteria when choosing a home based business opportunity is; will you love it? The most successful people in the world become successful because they really love what they do. Donald Trump, for example - property investor, over 60 years of age and still working, not because he needs to but because he loves to, there is a major difference.

Imagine a MLM business where you can wake up in the morning feeling energised and thrilled to go to work. Most people that are searching for a home based business do not enjoy their current employment, under paid or would prefer to be at home with their family. Whatever the reason, you must love what you do.

3. Look for a trend

In addition to working out what you love to do, you must look into the service or product the company has to offer and in particular the opportunity it has to grow. If you do some study into this topic you will find that one of the driving forces behind many of the economic trends over the past 60 years was directly related to the baby boomer’s spending. Why you may ask? Well, the baby boomer period accounts for one third of the world’s population and two thirds of the world’s spending. Leading economic forecasters have used these trends to predict where the baby boomers will next spend their dollars, namely Health and Wellness, and Financial Service industries.

4. Compensation Plan

What you need to look for is a lucrative Compensation Plan that allows anybody to succeed and succeed equally, not just those who are at the top. Personally we are big advocators of the Binary System, not because it is the most lucrative of compensation plans, but rather because it is the fairest compensation plan. If you been in the industry for numerous years and you are a power house, which only accounts for 1% of the network marketing population, then the Stair Step Breakaway plan will be the most lucrative for you, but for the rest of us regular people, we suggest that you stick to the binary system.

5. Choose a solid company

If you are going to put all your blood, sweat and tears into a MLM business, you want to choose a company that is going to be around for the long term. Research suggests that 90% of all MLM companies FAIL within their first 2 years, slightly stronger than a traditional small business where 80% will fail within their first year. There would be nothing worse than putting four or five years into a home business for it to fold, leaving you with no business and no residual income. So we strongly recommend you choose a MLM company that has been around longer than 5 years and is still growing.

6. The Product

There is two criteria that your product must meet, (1) your product must be consumable and (2) would you use it yourself? If the product meets these two requirements then the MLM Company receives a tick in this section.

Once you have finished this six step process, you will observe that you will be able to abolish 99% of the MLM companies and make your decision quite easy. But always remember, even the best MLM deal in the world will not make you wealthy without consistent hard work. We wish you all the best in your journey.

How To Find Free Internet Marketing

2008-01-12T19:50:00.000-08:00

Source : http://www.articlecity.com/articles/marketing/article_4013.shtml

by: Mark Walters

About The Author

Mark Walters is a third generation entrepreneur and author. He offers free training andinvesting videos designed to speed you towards financial independence at http://www.cashflowinstitute.com/videosignup.htm

New ecommerce businesses are caught up in SEO and web optimization. They view Google as the holy grail of making profits via the internet. Their internet marketing budget is sank into buying traffic, optimizing pages, and establishing major PayPerClick programs with the major search engines. All the work, and expense, involved in following the pack, is virtually unnecessary in today’s ecommerce world.

Marketing the Website

Submitting to search engines is only the first step toward a strong Internet Marketing campaign – it should never be the full focus. There are several ways to market a website.

- search engine optimization
- Pay Per Click
- Search Engine Submission
- Generating Inbound Links and increasing Page Rank
- Building Content
- Adding Social Networking Tools such as forums

Each one of these tools have a benefit. Recently a blog community went from PR0 – PR4, and receiving 300 000 hits a month with a budget of $50 a month. The blog community invested $20 a month in a PayPerClick program to ‘boost’ their exposure on Google and be accepted and ‘ranked’ faster.

www.communati.com submitted the website to more than 3000 search engines, free, using www.webceo.com. Despite the ‘old’ search engine hype, this should only be done once or twice a year. They embarked on an article writing, forum promoting, and encouraging members to ‘put the word out.’ The inbound link campaign increased their Page Rank to PR4 within 5 months, an incredible feat.

Next, communati added social networking features like points and a chat. The important ‘trick’ to remember is that search engines give more rank to pages inside the website, not the index or home page. Building links to the home page is becoming a waste of time. Five articles with specific topics that contain high keywords, links to the rest of the ecommerce website, and ‘hooks’, will generate more PR than links to a buy now page, the index page, or a page with heavy images and graphics.

Marketing the Blog

All websites should include a blog. Not because a blog is necessary, or because people read them. The number one reason for putting up a blog is to increase keyword density, but keep in below the 5% ‘red flag’ level. It also generates dozens of extra content pages, increases the number of ‘in house’ links which are also important to increasing page rank.

A blog can also be submitted to blog directories. The best way to submit is using a service. When an Internet Marketing manager submits a blog to a directory, they must include a backward link. When they use a service they can submit to about 1000 directories without back links. The price ranges from $200 - $500. http://www.lazyurl.com/, http://www.submitcomfort.com/

One advantage of a blog is that it is submitted to the blog directories every time someone writes a new post. Web sites that are submitted more than 4 or 5 times a year may find themselves banned. However, a blog can ping the search engine several times a day without risk of being banned.

In turn, the blog search engines ‘ping’ the big search engines who give the ‘new’ content high page rank for the first few hours.

Marketing The Podcast

No podcast on your ecommerce website? Why? Submitting it to the podcast directories is another way to generate free exposure. The podcast only needs a few streaming or downloaded files to qualify. Podcasts can also be listed on dozens and dozens of free services, each building links to the main site, as well as increasing the exposure to the website. AmigoFish.com, Digg Podcasts , Podcast Pickle , www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts or http://podcasts.yahoo.com.

The most popular podcatcher software is iTunes, which is available as a free download from www.apple.com/itunes/download.

Promote Video

Does your product Appeal to younger people? Then load video at facebook, youtube, etc and then submit those videos. Don’t make a dry workshop or seminar style tutorial, but make it interesting. It is amazing how many younger people click in keywords, and then use the ‘search video only’ link to view relevant videos instead of reading articles.

The list continues. Submit your newsletter, forums, and chat directories. A single article can be submitted to more than 50 000 article submission ‘free content’ sites. No cost involved, except time, and the exposure will create a ripple effect sending your message farther across the web than a $100 000 SEO, traffic buying, and search engine submission campaign.

Sad Love Poem

2008-01-10T07:07:00.000-08:00

Love Hurts© By Jenny C. Bringman

You told me that you loved me
why did you leave me to cry in the cold
you swore this time was different
why does that line seem so old

You told me I was the only one
who could make you feel that way
you told me that you cared about me
so why didnt you stay

All the nights you laid with me
alone in the dark in my bed
now I finally realize
you were just messing with my head

Love is such a powerful word
a word people often misuse
something they take for granted
something they beat and abuse

My wounds run deep inside me
there's blood all over the place
I think I’ve really lost it this time
I'm ashamed to show my face

Lyric : The Rock feat Dhani Ahmad - Munajat Cinta

2008-01-05T05:21:00.000-08:00

Malam ini kusendiri
Tak ada yang menemani
Seperti malam malam
Yang sudah sudah

Hati ini selalu sepi
Tak ada yang menghiasi
Seperti cinta ini
Yang slalu pupus

Tuhan kirimkanlah aku
Kekasih yang baik hati
Yang mencintai aku apa adanya...

Mawar ini semakin layu
Tak ada yang memiliki
Seperti aku ini
Semakin pupus...

Lyric : Andra & The Backbone - Musnah

2008-01-05T05:01:00.000-08:00

Bukan maksud hati
kuacuhkan dirimu
didepan mataku
tapi ku tak bisa lupakan
saat dirimu membuat diriku terhina

Sakit hatiku
Remuk jantungku
tuk membencimu
Musnahkan cintaku

maksud hatiku
lenyap senyumku
saat kita bertemu
tapi ku tak bisa singkirkan
enyahkan fikirku
diriku terluka

Bukan maksud hatiku
Tak bisa singkirkan
Diriku terluka

Musnah Musnah..... Wo.....

Lyric : Andra & The Backbone - Sempurna

2008-01-05T04:58:00.000-08:00

Kau begitu sempurna
Dimataku kau begitu indah
kau membuat diriku akan slalu memujamu

Disetiap langkahku
Kukan slalu memikirkan dirimu
Tak bisa kubayangkan hidupku tanpa cintamu

Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku
Takkan mampu menghadapi semua
Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa

Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begituSempurna..
Sempurna..

Kau genggam tanganku
Saat diriku lemah dan terjatuh
Kau bisikkan kata dan hapus semua sesalku

Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku
Takkan mampu menghadapi semua
Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa

Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begitu Sempurna..
Sempurna..

Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku
Takkan mampu menghadapi semua
Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa

Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begitu

Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begitu
sayangku, kau begitu Sempurna..
Sempurna..

Lyric : Keane - Everybody's Changing

2008-01-05T04:50:00.000-08:00

You say you wonder your own land
But when I think about it I don't see how you can

You're aching, you're breaking
And I can see the pain in your eyes
Says everybody's changing And I don't know why

So little time
Try to understand that
I'm Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

You're gone from here
And soon you will disappear
Fading into beautiful light
Cause everybody's changing And I don't feel right

So little time
Try to understand that
I'mTrying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

So little time
Try to understand that
I'mTrying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing
And I don't feel the same

Lyric : Coldplay - Fix You

2008-01-05T04:47:00.000-08:00

When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse

When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

High up above or down below
When you too in love to let it go
If you never try you'll never know
Just watch and learn

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Lyric : Coldplay - In My Place

2008-01-05T04:43:00.000-08:00

In my place
In my place
The lines that I can change
I was lost, oh yeah

And I was lost
I was lost
Crossed lines I shouldn't have crossed
I was lost, oh yeah

How long must you Wait for him?
Yeah, how long must you Pay for him?
How long must you Wait for him?
For him?

I was scared
I was scared
Tired and underprepared
But I'll wait for you

If you go, if you go
And leave me down Here on my own
Then I'll wait for you

How long must you Wait for him?
Yeah, how long must you Pay for him?
How long must you Wait for him?
For him?

I said please, please Come on and sing to me
Come on and sing it out

In my place
In my place
The lines that I can change
I was lost, oh yeah

Lyric : U2 - Beautiful Day

2008-01-05T04:31:00.001-08:00

The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there's no room, no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck and you're not moving anywhere.
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace

It's a beautiful day,
the sky falls
And you feel like it's a beautiful day,
Don’t let it get away

You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if that doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over and it’s been all over you

It's a beautiful day,
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day,

Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me love, I know I’m not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
A beautiful day

Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
You don’t need it now

Lyric : U2 - With Or Without You

2008-01-05T04:26:00.000-08:00

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And Im waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, shes got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I cant live
With or without you
With or without you

Lyric : U2 - One

2008-01-05T04:21:00.000-08:00

Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame

You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it'sToo late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light

We're one, but we're not the same
We get to carry each other
carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot.
You gave me nothing,
Now it's all I got

We're one
But we're not the same
See weHurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love is a higher law

You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't keep holding on
To what you got
When all you've got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should

One life
With each other
Sisters and myBrothers

One life
But we're not the same
We get to Carry each other
Carry each other

One...
One...
Lord Can You hear us call Feel us knocking
We're knocking at Your door

Lyric : Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

2008-01-05T04:16:00.000-08:00

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?[break]

Oh simple thing where have you gone
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Maybe you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go
So why don't we go
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know

Mulai Internet Marketing???

2008-01-05T00:17:00.000-08:00

Gue sebenarnya penasaran banget tentang internet marketing. Banayak banget tulisan di website tentang internet marketing. Banyak juga testimoni keberhasilan orang mendapatkan uang dari internet marketing.

Ada yang bilang susah, ada yang bilang gampang. Gue sendiri bingung memulainya darimana. Dibilang gaptek juga gak yah! Tapi untuk mendalami semua hal tentang internet marketing sepertinya membutuhkan waktu yang banyak, rajin dan tekun. Sesuatu hal yang sulit dilakukan buat gue yang kerja jadi karyawan di perusahaan orang.

Tergiur? Iya sih. Tapi tetep bingung euy.... Semakin banyak informasi semakin bingung juga yah! hehehe.....

Kalo ada yang bisa ngajarin gue secara gratis face to face sambil dituntun pelan pelan selama 1 minggu aja mungkin gue bisa pinter cari duit dari internet marketing. Tapi dimana coba ada yang ngajarin internet marketing gratisan trus ditahan seminggu pula dirumah gue.... ???? hehehe.... Sampe budek deh 24 jam x 7 hari gue bela belain belajar dari guru tercinta.... kekekeke.....

Asli... bingung ah! Ini juga ngisi blog masih asal aja dulu.... yang penting ada isinya getooo..... hehehe.....

Tapi sumpeh deh gue tergiur meraup dolar sambil pake daster tanpa jadi TKI.... hehehe....

Anybody interest to teach me?

Tarot Deck

2008-01-04T23:52:00.000-08:00

I have my own tarot deck.

Everything about Tarot is a mystery. But it helps me to socialize.

Friends love to ask their problem to me with the help of Tarot Card.

I'm not an expert in Tarot kinda thing but not an idiot also... hehehe....

My tarot type is universal waite tarot deck.

Here's a glance of tarot card :

Interesting pictures rite?
There are major and minor arcana. The card above are major arcana.

I still learn about all the meaning of each card though....

More Details on this topics will be discuss later okay....

My Family

2008-01-04T23:19:00.000-08:00

My Hubby & My Daughter

My Husband's name is Dicky Satrya Adhitama.

Everybody call him Dicky.

My Daughter's name is Ruthfi Azzahra Adhitama.

Everybody call her Lula.

I love them very much....

We've been married for more than 10 years. We managed to escape great challenges in our relationship. We had our ups and downs moments many but we're still together. Not much i can share with all of you married couple. Communication is the key to maintain your relationship for a long time... I do believe it!

My Husband is not a talkative person... He's introvert and likes to live in his own world.

Me, I'm a talkative person, extrovert, easy going and like to share everything.

We hardly click for each other, rite?

But maybe that's the main factor to make us complete each other with our own plus minus.

My daughter?

Ehm... thanks God her personality is a mix from both of us! Hehehe....

She is the one that always made us forget every difficulties we were facing.

She's our angle for every step that we make.

She's the air for every breath that we take.

I thank GOD for everything that has been given to us....

Alhamdulillah....

Lyric : Coldplay - Warning Sign

2008-01-04T22:35:00.000-08:00

A warning sign
I missed the good part then I realized
I started looking and the bubble burst
I started looking for excuses

Come on in I’ve gotta tell you what a state I’m in
I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones
I started looking for a warning sign

When the truth is, I miss you
Yeah the truth is, that I miss you, so

A warning sign
You came back to haunt me and I realized
That you were an island and I passed you by
And you were an island to discover

Come on in I’ve gotta tell you what a state I’m in
I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones
That I started looking for a warning sign

When the truth is, I miss you
Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so
And I’m tired I should not have let you go Ooooooooooooooooo

So I crawl back into your open arms
Yes I crawl back into your open arms
And I crawl back into your open arms
Yes I crawl back into your open arms

Lyric : Once - Aku Mau

2008-01-04T22:27:00.000-08:00

Kau boleh acuhkan diriku
Dan anggap ku tak ada
Tapi takkan merubah perasaanku
Kepadamu

Kuyakin pasti suatu saat
Semua kan terjadi
Kau kan mencintaiku
Dan tak akan pernah melepasku

Aku mau mendampingi dirimu
Aku mau cintai kekuranganmu
Selalu bersedia bahagiakanmu
Apapun terjadi
Kujanjikan aku ada

Kau boleh jauhi diriku
Namun kupercaya
Kau kan mencintaiku
Dan tak akan pernah melepasku

Aku mau mendampingi dirimu
Aku mau cintai kekuranganmu
Selalu bersedia bahagiakanmu
Apapun terjadi
Kujanjikan aku ada

Aku mau mendampingi dirimu
Aku mau cintai kekuranganmu
Aku yang rela terluka
Untuk masa lalu

It's Me and My New Blog!

2008-01-02T18:20:00.000-08:00

It's Me!

You guys can call me Tessa.
I'm new with this blog kinda thing... Hehehe...
But I'm sure I can catch up fast and can fill my blog with variety of contents and topics.

If you want to share your knowledge about making cool blog, google adsense or even internet marketing, please don't hesitate to contact me or just leave your comment on this blog.

Have a great day guys!

Test My New Blog

2008-01-02T18:17:00.000-08:00

This is my first time to have a blog. I never knew that it's cool, easy and can help me explore anything on internet. Quite a bit hard at first, but then it gets easier when you open all links in this blog.

And you know what? This blog can help me to earn money as well... hopefully.

I can't wait to see my blog full of contents and topics....

Ciaoooo......