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List of High Paying Keywords

2010-04-11T21:01:00.001+07:00

How to Find High Paying Keywords in Google Adwords to Increase Adsense Revenue. Google Adsense Ad type currently displaying on your page is solely depends on the keyword in your content, as every adsense users know that the ads are displaying on the page are automatically comes in contrast of your blog title, url and content. so if you use high paying keywords then you will have a better chance to earn more, if you display higher CPC (Cost Per Click) keywords then when user clicks on that ad you will get higher benefit. so now i will demonstrate what to do for finding high paying keywords with the use of Google Adwords and Earn more money with Google Adsense.

Steps to find High Paying Keywords in Google:

Step 1. Open https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.

Step 2. Enter Keywords (Enter one keyword or phrase per line) and Click on the Get Keyword ideas Button.

Step 3. Now Click on the Choose columns to display Dropdown and Select the Show Estimated Average CPC

Step 4. Change the Dropdown value in Calculate estimates using a different maximum CPC bid to US Dollars (USD $)

Find the Highest CPC Keyword from the list and use them in your post content. you will get higher paying ads.

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SEO: 8 Successfull SEO techniques

2007-05-04T11:45:00.001+07:00

1) Title Tag - The title tag is the most powerful on-site SEO technique you have, so use it creatively! What you place in the title tag should only be one thing, the exact keyword you used for the web page that you are trying to optimize. Every single web page should have it's own title tag.

2) ALT Tags - ALT tags were meant to be for text browsers because the images didn't show in text browsers and the ATL tags would tell the visitor what it's about. You should put your main keyword(s) in the ALT tags, but don't over do it because you could get dropped in the results or even worse banned for life!

3) Link Popularity - Link popularity is the most powerful SEO tool out of all them. Most search engines don't even consider web sites if there is not at least one or two links pointing to the web site. Having another site(s) link to your web site is important when it comes to getting your site a good ranking. Your keywords should be in the links you get and keep the keywords short. When you receive requests for a link exchange, check the site out before linking with them, check for spam (Repeat keywords, hidden text, etc.).

4) Keyword Density - This is also vital and should be used with research. You should use the keyword(s) once in the title tag, once in the heading tag, once in bold text, and get the density between 5% to 20% (Don't over do it!). Also use your keyword(s) both low and high on the web page, keyword(s) should be in the first sentence and in the last one.

5) Page Size - Your web page's speed is important to your visitors and the search engines. Why? Because the robots will be able to spider your web page faster and easier. Try your best to keep your web page over 5k and under 15k in size.

6) Rich Theme - Search engines are looking at themes more and more. Build content (Articles, FAQ, tips, etc.) much as possible and keep the web pages around 200 to 500 words. Create content that's related to your market and link them out to other related content on your site. Try to get 200 web pages or more.

7) Web Site Design - This is also important, if you want to get indexed! Text content should out weigh the HTML content. The pages should validate and be usable in all of today's leading edge browsers. Stay away from flash and Java Script, search engines dislike them both a lot.

8) Insite Cross Linking - This will help you get all of your web pages indexed by the search engines. Your web pages should be no more than three clicks away from the home page. Link to topic related quality content across your site. This will also help build you a better theme through out your web site. On every page you should link back to your home page and your main service(s).

Matt Colyer is the owner of the Superior Webmaster. He also is a php, CGI and ASP developer.

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How To Get To The Top For Blog In Search Engine

2007-02-25T09:09:00.000+07:00

It is generally easier to improve search engine rankings for a dynamic blog than it is for static website pages. Blogs and blog posts are liked by search engines because they are frequently updated with new content, they are rich in text and links , and they tend not to have complicated HTML.

Optimizing a blog to improve search engine rankings is similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post is similar to optimizing a single web page. By using the following tips and techniques, you can achieve an impressive search engine ranking for your blog. For additional tips to optimize your blog, visit http://www.optimizeblogtips.com

1) Ensure that your blog can be easily spidered by the search engines. 'Spidering' refers to the process by which search engine software robots crawl web pages. A navigation sidebar should be present on all pages of your blog. You also want your previous blog posts to be accessible from each page of your blog so that they can be spidered easily.

2) Obtain links from other blogs and websites. Links pointing to your blog or blog posts are vital to improve search engine rankings. These backlinks should come from websites and blogs dealing with similar topics to your blog ie. they should be related in some way to your blog. To get high-quality links back to your blog, submit your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines. Blogs based on similar themes are often willing to exchange links with other blogs which creates blog networks. Some bloggers use 'trackbacks' to build links( a trackback is a form of communication between blogs).

3) Frequently update your blog content. Search engines love fresh content. Make regular posts to your blogs in order to improve your search engine ranking.

4) Include your primary keyword in your blog's URL. Your domain or subdomain should include the main keyword that you want to optimize your blog for. If you are wanting to brand yourself or your business, consider including your name or the name of your company in the domain. For more information about personal or business branding, visit http://www.onlinebrandingsecrets.com

5) Place your main keyword phrase in both blog header meta tags as well as in the title of your blog posts. For example, if you are trying to optimize your blog for the keyword phrase 'natural asthma remedies', make sure this phrase appears in title of each of your blog posts as well as in your H1 or H2 meta tags.

6) Don't forget to include your keywords in the anchor text of links if you are linking to other pages in your website or to other blog posts. Linking your blog to your website is a great way of generating quality traffic.

7) Place your other keywords in the body text of your blog posts as well as intermittently in your article titles and links. Don't overuse keywords in your text as your posts will tend not to make sense and they won't read well.

8) If you change the domain name and hosting for your blog, you run the risk of losing loyal visitors, traffic and search engine ranking. If possible, keep the same blog domain and host.

By using these simple, yet effective blog optimization techniques, you too can achieve a top search engine ranking for your blog. Only once you have done this, can your blog start reaching its true profit potential.

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What is Blogger ?

2007-02-08T08:02:00.000+07:00

By Jakob Jelling

In the late 1990’s three San Francisco based web developers came up with the idea of being able to share information about anything on the web. The terminology they used was called blog. It's use was considered a mix of web page / personal journal. It's original usages were vast and wide, but more and more people came to use them as a personal tool that is available anywhere the Internet is. The three friends would eventually create Blogger.com one of the largest blogger sites on the Internet today. Blogger, which stands for Web Logger, has increased in popularity over the past three years. There has been so much interest in what capabilities it holds Google.com purchased them. Eventually, Google assimilated their technologies and imported them into the popular plug-in, The Google Toolbar.

Blogger.com allows a user to create a userid. Depending on the userid and password the user creates a specialized link namely “yourlinkname.blogspot.com”. This space can be saved as a bookmark and published to the public or through a distribution list to a select few people. Your site is logged as a “webring” type of atmosphere, should you decide to take the information public. You can see all users who have published blogs and even enter in information on the blogs should they let you. Discussion groups and personal files are housed all within this environment making it a fun place to surf about and learn about different people and things.

You can create a private discussion group and send out information via email to let people know when content or a thread has changed. Blog is like a portal for individuals, instead of business. There are many robust features involved to keep your blog private should you not want to share information publicly. Its interface even includes a word processing editor so you can format the background and font all from one simple location. The ideas are simple; you can share information around the world without having to let everyone on the Internet community know your blog exists.

The necessity for a personal online portal or “blog” has considerable potential, as the Internet continues to evolve.

Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.sitetube.com. Visit his website for the latest on planning, building, promoting and maintaining websites.

Become Productive Blogger

2007-01-21T08:50:00.000+07:00

People often ask me how I’m able to keep my sites moving forward and updated with (hopefully) good content as often as I do. I’ve actually talked about this several times over at my “flagship” site, Asterisk and I’m thinking about a book/site dedicated to the idea of successful content creation.

The thing is, I go to great lengths to keep my sites up-to-date, interesting and moving forward. My off-the-cuff answer is that I “write fast”, and that’s true, but there is a bit more to it than that. To be a productive content provider (blogger) you need to be organized, do your best to hold on to good ideas and know when to work and when to wait.
Here are a few quick tips that might help:

* Set aside time for writing (or podcasting, etc.) and stick to it. Sounds simple, but life (and work) has a way of intruding on these times. You need to hold on to your creative times at all costs!
* Create (and stick to) a publishing schedule. I used to do this quite a bit when I was first getting started. It really helped keep me on track and motivated. Now I’ve got a loose schedule I use, but there are times when I try and plan out something more solid to help make sure I don’t fall too far behind.
* Keep an Idea Journal. I’ve taken to having one by my bed, one on my person and if all that fails, I’ve got idea pages set up in Backpack. You never know when you’ll need a good idea!
* Take advantage of creative highs. This is huge. There are times when I’m literally flooded with ideas, when this happens I drop what I’m doing, if possible, and write, write, write. During these times I can build up a surplus of good content to use when I need some time off. Which brings me to…
* Take some time off. There is little better for fueling your creative engine than a few well timed days off. As much as I create, there are many times when I just relax and enjoy the fruits of my labor. I need this time to keep me going.
* Read. A key to being productive is having things to talk about. Spend some time each day reading. And I mean reading, not skimming! This will often times give you small ideas that can lead to big things.
* Start with a title. Sometimes just coming up with that initial idea and writing down the title for your post will get the words flowing.
* Adopt a conversational tone and style. This helps your words flow more freely. It might not be the “best” way to write, but it’s served me well and it saves me time.
* Connect and motivate. I’ve found that community is a great way to keep your energy level high. Talk to people, create content centered around discussion. This leads to more energy and more ideas. As well, it’s very motivating to know that people are into the same things as you and dealing with the same issues.
* Don’t fear failure. Through failure comes some of the most profound learning. Fear can really put a damper on being productive. I’ve found that it’s best just to keep moving forward and tackle the mistakes as they come. And they’ll come, regardless of how much time you spend worrying about them.
* Don’t get too hung up on grammar (or pronunciation if you’re a podcaster). People aren’t perfect and while I’ve high respect for editors and hold great value in editing, you need to realize you’re going to let a few (or if you’re like me more than a a few) typos and spelling errors though. Don’t beat yourself up over it. It’s the message that matters most.
* Stay positive. ‘nuff said.
* Try something new. If you’re finding that you’re falling into a rut, or talking about the same-old, same-old, get out there and try something new. This is exactly what I’m doing with To-Done and it’s not only opened up a whole new world for me with new friends and new things to discuss, it’s also got the creative juices flowing on other fronts. Write for a different audience, take up a new hobby or learn a new technology. These things all come with ideas and things to write about and they’ll keep your mind sharp, creative and ready as well.

I’d love to hear some of your tips on being a productive blogger (or writer, or podcaster) so, please, share them here if you’ve got any.

Look at My Top Ten Website

2007-01-17T09:05:00.000+07:00

by Nancy Barney
I do a lot of surfing on the Internet. I’m always Googling something. Sometimes I’m doing business research. Other times I might be shopping, looking for fun stuff, free stuff, product reviews, or news. The Internet is a wonderful thing when it’s done right. When websites are designed poorly, it can be very annoying.

Here My top ten pet peeves about the design of web pages:

10. Websites with nothing on the home page to identify itself.
You’ve seen them. Nice graphics, artistic, elegant looking home pages with no information. It might say “ BXY Inc.”, with a link for ‘Contact’ and a list of clients. You click on every link, but you still don’t know what the company does. Hmmm - must be top secret … or they are spies … nobody knows.

9. Flashy, sparkly, swirling intro pages.
You click on a link, expecting to get someone’s home page with the information you’re after. What you get is a page with pretty pictures flashing or blinking or swirling around. It does this for several seconds, or longer if you’re not lucky.
Website programmers enjoy playing with these fancy features (ooh, aah!). They look cool, but they waste the reader’s time. They serve no useful purpose, unless you’re selling flashy, sparkly things.
Another kind of intro page that is slightly amusing … you click on the link to a website and you get another page that just says “click here to enter”.

8. Music, or any other sound, that starts up when you click on the home page and you can’t turn it off.
In the first place, I resent it when people assume I want to listen to their choice of music. There should at least be the option to turn it off.
I find a website that has some good content that I’m interested in, so I go to their home page and the music starts playing some sentimental, mushy song like “Feelings”. So I hit the ‘stop’ button on my browser, but the music goes on … and on.
OK, fine, I click on one of their interesting links and thank you God, the music stops. When I’m finished with that page, I have to go back to the home page to get to the next link and guess what happens! That’s right – “Feelings, whoa, whoa, whoa, feelings….” So I quickly hit the next link. They have several interesting links on their homepage so I’m am going back and forth 15 times and the music is going off and on 15 times.

Pretty soon, my husband says, “What the heck are you doing over there?” So I either give up on that website or mute my sound.

7. Excessive drop down menus.
Drop down menus have their place when you have an option of 50 states or 100 countries, but I think they should be avoided when there are only a few menu options. This is another one of those cool features programmers like to play with that isn’t necessarily productive for the user.
One problem I have with drop down menus is that too often they are coded in text about the size of the width of my cat’s whiskers. You have to have the dexterity of a Swiss watch maker to click on the right option.
If the drop down menus have several nested levels – one wrong click on level 5 and you have to start over!
If you have a drop down menu with 100 items, for heaven’s sake, please have them in alphabetical order! I was filling out a form with a drop down menu with about 100 countries listed in random order. I had to read the whole list and I finally found my country near the bottom listed between China and Transylvania!

6. Too many moving parts.
Too many moving graphics on every page make it hard to read the content. I know, it’s fun to have cutesy animated graphics on personal web pages, but they shouldn’t get in the way of reading the content. A little animation is interesting and artistic – too much is annoying and cheesy.
Oh, let’s not forget the most annoying graphics of all – animated banner ads that talk to you! Excessive animated banners are distracting and annoying and they look unprofessional on business pages. If a page has too many of them, I won’t stay there long.

5. Web page that is too long or too big.
Long web pages are too hard to follow. These are the web sites where the first page goes on and on with no discernable structure. It’s like trying to read a 400 page book on 1 very long sheet of paper with no chapter breaks.
Web pages with huge pictures are a problem, especially for Internet surfers on a dial-up connection. Pictures should be resized to no more than 50k-100k and/or compressed. When someone is on a dial-up connection, it can literally take 5 or 10 minutes for a bunch of large pictures to be displayed.
Couple a bunch of large pictures with a web page that never ends and you might as well go watch your favorite movie while the page is loading. People on a slow connection will just give up and go to someone else’s website.

4. Totally invalid search results.
If you spend a significant amount of time researching on the Internet you have probably run into this. You enter ‘cat jewelry’ in the search engine and you get a page that is selling a bunch of stuff, but it has nothing to do with cats or jewelry – and it’s not a rock group called Cat Jewelry either.
This happened because the keeper of that website is using the search keyword phrase ‘cat jewelry’ for their website because they found out it is a popular keyword. This is known as keyword spamming.
What are these people thinking? I guess they think if you throw enough spam against the wall, some if it will stick.
If Google catches you keyword spamming they send a burly guy named Bruno out to stomp on your keyboard. No, seriously, they drop you from their ‘lists’ and act like you don’t exist.

3. Websites that look like they were shot out of a shotgun.
These websites often have the #5 problem also – going on and on with no structure. They have tons of obnoxious banner graphics with no common theme. ‘Save the Orphan Rats’, ‘Best Long Distance Rates’, ‘Are you a good kisser?’, ‘Free Insurance Quotes’. They have all kinds of unrelated text links in different text sizes and colors, with no organization or relationship.
Often these unorganized, unfocused websites use about 15 different fonts, sizes, and colors, giving it the look of the work of a 10 year old.
Somewhere on this website there must be something related to what I Googled to get there, but darned if I can find it!

2. Text size that is too small or too large.
Have you ever seen a web page where the text size is so large you have to scroll down to read 3 words? Does the author of that website think they will get their point across by shouting at the top of their lungs? How smart does that make the author of the 4 inch letters look?
Sometimes the text size is way too small. It must be wonderful to have such great eyesight that you can comfortably read letters the size of the year on a penny from 18 inches away. It’s ridiculous to go to all the work of creating a website with great content, but it’s too hard to read. I know sometimes you can change the text size in your browser, but sometimes you can’t.

1. Content is hard to read because of text and/or background colors.
The purpose of having written content on your website is so people can read it, right? So why make it hard to read by having light pink text that you can barely see on a pink background. Add to this scenario text that is too small (see #2) above and have some butterflies or fairies flittering across the screen, and you have a pretty picture that is impossible to read!
The easiest to read is a very dark text on a very light background. Even white text on a black background is harder to read.
When you create a website or web page, avoid anything that wastes the reader’s time or causes confusion. Too many fancy features slow down the loading speed. If you want people to read your content, make it easy to read. Your structure and design should be straightforward and organized. When you are building a web site, you need to consider what is best for the readers and they are more likely to stay on your website longer.[/size]

About This Author
Nancy Barney is the owner of http://www.writing-planet.com, Article Writing Planet, which has free articles, free article submission and free writer's resources. Also visit and make donation click at http://info-user.blogspot.com

3 Things to Help Google Trust You

2006-12-30T09:21:00.000+07:00

by Mark Daoust
Google is all about trust. Who knows, maybe they were in a bad relationship, but if you want to rank well with Google, you need to be trustworthy. And let me make the bold assumption that you are currently not trustworthy (most sites are not – especially new sites).

So how do you get Google to trust you? The most obvious answer, and most commonly quoted answer, is to get inbound links from trustworthy sites. Any webmaster who has been around the block a couple of times knows that this is a bit of a catch-22. Sites that are high in Google's trust typically do not just hand out links to small startups – those go to sites that are already established.

Unfortunately, while this is probably the most frustrating answer you can receive, it is also the lions share of building trust with Google. There are, however, a few other things you can do to help Google trust you more. While having these things may not rocket your site to the top of the rankings, they will bring you closer to finding a good relationship with Google.

Define a Privacy Policy
A privacy policy is a page that explains to your users what information is collected, how it is being used, and what options they have to access or change that collected information. It may be a bit ironic that a major search engine would place any emphasis on privacy in light of the recent AOL data release scandal, but having a privacy policy in place shows a certain level of trustworthiness.
This may seem like a very small step when we look at the big picture, but keep in mind that Google is looking for responsible and reliable websites to send their users to. A privacy policy, while non-consequential for many websites, shows an attention to detail and a sense of responsibility to user's privacy.

Offer Detailed Contact Information
For many small website owners, this is a step that can be quite tricky. Offering detailed contact information on your site shows that responsibility and reliability that Google is looking for, but at the same time many small website owners are not running their websites as a full-time business.
You should always offer some sort of contact information on your site. At a minimum, you should offer an email address (I was surprised at how many websites – specifically blogs – did not offer any contact information at all). If possible, you should include your address and a phone number where people can contact you. Of course, if the only phone number you have is your home phone number, this may not be the most ideal option.

Show Consistency Over Time
This may be the single most important tip in this article. Google has shown an affinity towards sites that remain consistent in structure, growth, content, and popularity. At the risk of sounding prosaic, outside of receiving highly trusted inbound links, the best way to bring Google to trust you is to show Google over time that you are trustworthy.
Think about your relationship with Google as you would any other relationship. Relationships take time, they take commitment over time, and trust in a relationship needs to be cultivated. If you happen to screw up, it takes time to regain any trust that was lost.

With your website, show Google that you are consistent, that you are dedicated, and that you actually care. Do not change your website's structure or focus entirely just because you feel like it, spend time every day for months, even years, growing your site and promoting your site. Take the time to make sure it is as user friendly as possible taking into account issues such as accessibility. And whatever you do, do not take the chance of trying to cheat on Google by using a 'shortcut' – it can and will set you back in your relationship several months, if not longer.

It May Not Be the Best Model
Far be it from me to be a Google apologist – I certainly do not agree with everything that they do. The move towards a trust-based system is one that has received both praise and criticism, and both praise and criticism is deserved. While Google might be doing well in fighting search engine spam, they have simultaneously (if not inadvertently) hurt the small business owner who does not know any better.
There are many who complain about Google being 'unfair' towards website owners. Whether or not they really are being unfair is ultimately a moot point, Google is what Google does. If you choose to continue to care about having quality rankings in Google, complaining will not bring you higher rankings, adapting to their changes will.
These days Google wants to know that they can trust you. If you have been around long enough, they may already trust you, but if you are starting fresh, or if you have made mistakes in the past, you may have a long road ahead of you to prove to Google that they should care about your website, and that it is suitable for their rankings. Keep in mind that high trusted, one way in bound links will always be the fastest route to rankings, add a privacy policy and good contact information, follow the typical guidelines that make a site reliable (see Google's webmaster guidelines), and be consistent with your site.

About This Author
Mark Daoust is the owner of Site Reference. Recently he just launched the nice site Brewing KB. Take a moment, if you will, to visit Brewing KB, a community for home brewers.
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Tips How To Create, Send & Track HTML Email Campaigns in Minutes

2006-12-25T21:12:00.000+07:00

No Technical Expertise Necessary ....

Keep customers and readers informed of the latest news and updates, announce special website or in-store promotions, or create a regular newsletter.

Whether you have no technical expertise or you're a technical guru, VerticalResponse's web-based email marketing tool makes it easy to grow your business and establish stronger relationships.

EASY & POWERFUL - Choose from over 250 design templates, type your copy, select recipients and schedule the mailing. It's that easy! Or if you prefer, use your own HTML.

GET NEW SUBSCRIBERS - Our Free opt-ín form builder helps you collect website visitors' email addresses and demographics.

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Blog Marketing Tips

2006-12-24T13:34:00.000+07:00

15 Top Blog Marketing Tips

1. Place all your feeds on the following website and the directories listed on this page - http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/blog_lists.html

2. For fast inclusion into yahoo, get yourself a "my yahoo" page - http://my.yahoo.com/ and place your rss feed on that page.

3. Have a link which allows other people to put your rss feed on their own "my yahoo" page. See "my yahoo" for details.

4. For fast inclusion to msn, also open a "my msn" account and add your rss feed to that page.

5. Place your blog on all the major search engines - http://www.thewebtrafficco.com/search_engine.html

6. Join this site and add your blog (free) - http://www.BlogExplosion.com

7. Ping your blog after every post at - http://pingomatic.com/

8. Place a "blogroll" on your blog using - www.blogrolling.com

9. Make a blog post at least every day or less. Why? - http://www.feedforall.com/why-use-rss.htm If you don't think you can write enough content on a daily basis, there are many free articles out there you can use.

10. Invite other editors/writers or webmasters to write on your blog as co-editors. Make sure you allow them to include their "resource box" at the bottom of each post and set up an "about our editors" page.

11. Place a link and description to your blog on all your websites, out going emails and any autoresponder courses you have set up.

12. Announce your blog at forums you currently use/participate in.

13. Place informative responses in the "comments" box of other highly trafficked blogs in your field of business.

14. Once you have 10 to 15 posts on your blog, announce it with a press release.

15. Download this free rss marketing ebook by top Rss expert, 'Rok Hrastnik' - http://www.rss-feeds-directory.com/rss_the_business_case.zip

Chris Taylor, online marketer, author and business owner hasbeen running successful websites since 2001. His sites andblog cover all areas of planning, setting-up and marketingyour own profitable web business.

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Rawsugar’s Benefits For Bloggers

2006-12-22T15:57:00.000+07:00

By: Danny Wirken
Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly, usually on a daily basis. RawSugar is a guided, tag-based search engine that is said to offer a multitude of benefits to bloggers. The most notable of which is the impact it could have on regular search.

What is RawSugar?
RawSugar delivers guided search for tagged content. Guided search provides the users the most relevant topics for results at each level of the search. Through this, results can quickly be narrowed down, enabling users to select the topics/tags and subtopics that are most relevant to them.

Guided search is preferable to users since search results are organized by descriptive topics at every level. This makes finding what they need faster and simpler. A typical category list provides only a single level of classification and requires readers to scroll through the lengthy results before finding the entries they deem important. Known also a faceted search, guided search is used by on-line retail and large corporate sites such as Amazon and eBay. The software and services necessary for guided search are sold by companies such as Endeca, but implementation cost can be over $ 100,000.00, aside from taking weeks to set-up. RawSugar offers similar results at no cost and can be set-up on a site in minutes.

The tags used by members and the relationship between these tags make up the essential elements of guided search. Groups of parent-child relationships between tags known as Tag Hierarchies are used to improve search results surpassing machine-driven algorithms. Every time a user searches for the parent tag, all the tags with the same parent can be retrieved together. Tag hierarchy relationships are assembled to provide users a superior guided search even for those who don’t specify their own.

It is important to use as many relevant tags that are considered useful for retrieving a particular page or blog entry. Child tags should be a subset or a subtype of the parent. Separate characteristics should be separate tags instead of being sub-tags of another.
When searching RawSugar, use the tabs at the top of the search area to select the scope of the search. Search can either be confined to a single RawSugar directory, all the directories and blogs in the watch list, popular blogs or simply all of RawSugar. Hundreds of the web’s most popular blogs are set-up and ready to be searched with RawSugar.

RawSugar’s search extras include creating a watch list from favorite blogs and RawSugar directories to quickly see new additions and easily search the archives. Web pages can be saved into the directory directly from RawSugar results or from anywhere on the web. Organizing saved favorites with as many tags as deemed useful and arranging hierarchies is also possible. Choices for privacy settings of each entry made in the directory can either be visible to everyone, visible to those on a watch list or visible only to the user. RawSugar directory can be accessed from anywhere the user has net connectivity.

A RawSugar directory contains a directory which is a set of resources on the web selected by the user, searchable for him/her and friends. These resources are generally web pages but may also include other items like images, PowerPoint and PDF files that have a public URL. Signing in is a requirement for the use of RawSugar to create a directory to publish the user’s directory. This is necessary to gain access to this directory and personal settings available only to the user as well as to separate the contributions made by the user from everyone else’s. This is the reason why RawSugar can be used from any PC. However, signing in or creating a directory is not required for the use of RawSugar’s search functionality.

RawSugar for Bloggers
RawSugar represents better navigation and search for any blog which translates to happier users and higher user traffic. It is free, easy and leverages existing efforts in categorizing and tagging posts. RawSugar’s guided search can be added to any blog by going to the Topic Navigation of the site. The simple configuration options are to be set and the provided JavaScript to be copied and pasted to the blog template where the tag box should appear.

Guided search indexes blog contents by using the tags and categories for which posts have been assigned by the blogger. This adds real value to the efforts already made by the blogger. A blog can be synced with RawSugar so that new posts are automatically tagged by going to the blog import screen and pasting the RSS or ATOM feed URL into the text box and clicking Add Blog. Existing archives can also be imported if a WordPress blog is used.
Adding RawSugar to a blog greatly improves the reader’s experience. It also attracts more readers who search for blogs through RawSugar. There are also possibilities to earn cash through the RawSugar Rewards.

All elements of appearance are controlled through CSS styles. However, bloggers can customize RawSugar guided search to match the blog’s look and feel by overriding the default styles to match color, font and layout. Even the tag hierarchy can be tailored to fit the site. Bloggers and taggers can manually create the tag hierarchy for their account. It can also be done by the system which automatically bases it on relationships created by users. The parent/child relationship can be specified by the bloggers directly into the blog by using Technorati-style tags while taggers can include them in the RawSugar’s tag field. The hierarchy can be changed later on by both bloggers and taggers.

A RawSugar Tag element can be added to a website by going to My Directory>RawSugar for blog or website and going through the options to set the number of columns of tags, to have a free text search box, to show sub-tags and the specific tags to be included. The update button should be clicked to make sure that the JavaScript has all the choices which shall be copied and pasted into the web page or blog. For WordPress and other blogs, this can be contained in the sidebar. If more control over the appearance of the widget is desired, the link at the bottom of the page labeled “want to change the stylesheet we use?” should be clicked. Instructions on using CCS to override the default display should be provided.

RawSugar makes use of the linkblog to benefit readers. A linkblog is a blog that focuses on sharing useful, interesting or important web resources that contains a minimal amount of added comment or explanation, sometimes none from the blogger. This is to bring these resources to an audience’s attention, to trace them for personal research or to create a focused, edited knowledge based on a particular topic. RawSugar’s free and ad supported service aims to help web publishers and bloggers to improve their respective site with guided navigation through hierarchies. Its service is still being actively developed and improved to provide more useful features and modify the way pages appear and make existing features work better.

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How To Make Associate Programs an Extra Income

2006-12-21T01:25:00.000+07:00

These have become very popular for both companies who are looking for an increase in sales and websites who have been inadequate in producing some earnings. Whether you have a website that sells a certain product/service or a website that has nothing to sell, you should not stop from joining related associate program for your website, product or service because it can give you additional earnings.

Do you have a connection with another site that can offer something new? Then you should know more about an associate program or sometimes called partnership program. This is where the companies selling products or services online gives a part of their profits as a commission on any sales you create for them by introducing new customers.

Some companies who offers associate program usually weigh their compensation rates in terms of those sites that send the most clicks and converted actual sales. When somebody reaches an industrial site and make some purchase from the site, you will get a commission for that as a return.

You will greatly benefit when you join any associate programs that are related to your business that definitely would sell other products or businesses to your clients. Indeed, it’s really an additional source of gaining cash.

The examples of companies that have affiliate programs are the software retailer Beyond.com and bookseller Amazon.com wherein anyone can have affiliation with these commercial sites and direct people to visit them.

By using the associate program, every one has a chance to add a significant value to any website. And a good quality website can become more valuable and dynamic if it offers a wide variety or different products and services as an associate.

There are also several types of associate programs like the Web Cards. This is an associate program that pays one dollar to affiliates each time a consumer asks for a free sample of their merchandise. The product is actually a postcard of an image or a website. Wherein the user does not need to spend some money yet an affiliate gets a small fee for it.

One should remember that associate programs increase the usefulness of a site only if the commercial site offers the users something valuable. An associate program may affect the accessibility of a site, but it will make it easy and convenient for users, they may visit a site searching for a product or service that it does not offer. However, the site can at least direct the customer to another site that offers that particular product or service. People would definitely like to revisit a site that leads them to a good purchase. That is a very important factor to have a good rapport with the client.

For the success of an associate program, it is necessary to make sure that the content of a site matches the program. Otherwise, the visitors may get irritated. For example, if one has a website on watches, it is better to keep away from giving a link to a pastry shop. It will just give a negative impression to the customers about the products and the company.

When joining an associate program and reselling their products or services, there are critical things that needs to be considered because your customers are also counting on you for the good recommendations that you will make and your reputation will depend on it.

It is really valuable if one would join an associate program because of the benefits that they will get, but if you are serious in joining a program you should first get and try the product or service of the company before recommending it to somebody or to a customer.

Steven Gerber is a protégé student of Dan Lok – The World's #1 Website Conversion Expert. Find out how Dan’s webmaster affiliate program has affiliates making thousands with the best affiliate programs.

Thinking about Blogger hosting

2006-12-17T20:22:00.000+07:00

Today, like many days, I find that I can't read the weblogs of several of my friends whose blogs are hosted by Blogger (i.e. the ones that have "blogspot" in their URL). It's gotten to the point with Blogger sites where if the page starts taking too long to load (which is an even more prevalent problem than the complete outages) I simple cancel the process and skip their blog. Then I summarily assume that Blogger is experiencing a complete outage and avoid visiting any Blogger hosted site until the next day. Perhaps I'm too impatient, but the whole point of the web is to make it easy and convenient to retrieve information. I use RSS so as to avoid having to visit multiple sites just to see if they've updated; I'm not going to start visiting the same site multiple times just to see if it has recovered from an outage.

I know that Ev Williams is a great guy and I'm glad people are supporting him by staying with Blogger, but I wish my friends would move to another location. Anyway, it's not about Ev Williams anymore. Google runs Blogger, and has for quite a while now. Certainly for long enough to have sorted out the problem of outages and server overload. Didn't Google acquire expertise in running battalions of servers years ago? How hard could it be to properly run the servers that host Blogger sites? Maybe Google doesn't care about those sites, which would actually make sense for a corporation that didn't derive significant revenue from that service. Corporations don't like things just because they're cool and innovative; they like profits and there's nothing wrong with that.

And I think there is nothing wrong with abandoning a web-hosting service that doesn't provide the level of service you'd like to have.

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How To Publish Blog and E-newsletter

2006-12-16T13:58:00.000+07:00

In this article you will learn the 3 major reasons why we have to publish e-newsletter and blogs. With spam filters on high alert, delivering a newsletter by email is not as easy as it was even one year ago. Should it reach your subscriber's inbox (without getting siphoned into a junk folder), it still has to vie for attention amongst dozens ? or even hundreds ? of new messages.

1. A blog is not "email"

A Weblog or blog, on the other hand, is a page on your site that can be updated several times a week with fresh content. If a reader has "subscribed" to your blog, he or she gets an alert (consisting of the headline and brief summary) every time you post new information.

I.e., much the same way you can include a teaser paragraph in your e-newsletter with a link back to the full article on your site.

If you're thinking that subscribers have to proactively "visit" your blog (a "pull" tactic) vs. having an ezine or e-newsletter delivered to them (a "push" approach) there's good news.

You can subscribe to a blog using downloadable software called a newsreader. NewsGator www.newsgator.com is a popular one as it integrates seamlessly with Outlook. There are lots of newsreaders to choose from, many of them free. Once installed on your desktop, the newsreader (also called a news aggregator) grabs the latest updates to your blog via an RSS feed.

No need to worry what RSS is (it stands for Really Simple Syndication). Just have faith that RSS is a new way to publish and distribute content on the Web without using email. And that's the point. No email. So, no worries about spam filters or delivery problems.

2. A blog is an instant publishing tool

A blog is an easy-to-use content management tool. When you "blog," you are instantly adding new content to your site via a Web interface. No technical or programming skills are necessary. Anyone can update the copy and content on your site. In fact, think of a blog as just another page on your Web site.

Key point: a blog doesn't have to be "cool." A steady stream of short tips with links to other sites or articles can be extremely useful. (See my article 5 tips for a useful resource blog.) In fact, this is the same kind of useful information you may be cramming into each issue of your newsletter. With a blog, you can parcel it out in digestible bits - with more impact.

3. A blog makes your site search engine friendly

Search engines love blogs and will index individual entries (no matter how short) if you've got your blogging software configured to create a separate page for each new post. In other words, think of each blog post or entry as a Web page with its own title.

By incorporating a blog into your site you are creating multiple new mini pages. Search engines crawl sites which are updated regularly with fresh content. So "blogging" raises your site's rankings in search results.

OK, but are blogs a fad or a trend?

I love this question. Here's my answer:

Newsletters or ezines are still the e-vehicle of choice for most marketers. Two things are slowing the adoption of blogs as a channel for business communication:

1. The term blogging is associated with online journals; personal, unedited writing; and, er, needless bloviating.

2. Most folks don't know what a news reader is and why you need one to subscribe to a blog or any other RSS feed. (Again, don't fret over RSS. Visit www.newsgator.com for a good explanation and to see how easy it is to download a newsreader.)

Use a blog to extend the reach of your e-newsletter

My advice for now is to continue publishing an e-newsletter. If you're sending it in HTML, trim your design down to the bare minimum and make the file size as small as possible. This will give you a better chance of getting past the spam filters and other blocking tools being used by major ISPs like AOL.

Of course, don't forget to link back to your blog through each issue of your e-newsletter. You'll probably need to explain to your newsletter readers what your blog is, where to find it and how to subscribe to it.

If you think your email subscribers are not ready to embrace "newsreaders," then don't mention this downloadable software - or RSS for that matter. Simply include a prominent link to your blog in the layout of your newsletter and remind readers to "visit" often for updates between issues.

Bottom line, consider adding a blog to your site for two reasons: as an instant publishing tool and as an adjunct to your email marketing efforts. You may find you can use a blog to trim down the extraneous information that's clogging the regular issues of your newsletter and making it less effective.

Debbie Weil is the publisher of award-winning WordBiz Report, read by close to 15,000 subscribers in over 80 countries.
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Very Useful Information About Blogging

2006-12-15T21:47:00.000+07:00

A few months back, at the ITEA conference I saw this guy sitting next to me typing constantly into his wireless laptop. He was making notes on what the speakers had to say, was finding relevant links and then hitting the send key - instantly updating his Web site. No sooner the site was updated; he would get responses back from readers around the globe. He was a Blogger.

About Blogs

Several years ago, surfers started collecting information and interesting links they encountered in their travels through webspace. As the time passed they started creating logs of the information they collected and soon they started creating their own web logs. The web logs enabled them to update the information and links as often as possible. This was what the guy in the conference was doing. Improvements in Web design tools have certainly made uploading and updating easier for them.

Blogs are more permanent than posts to an online discussion list, more dynamic than older-style home pages. They are more personal than traditional journalism, and definitely more public than diaries. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary site. So, there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.

These are a few common characteristics of a blog, but blog types may slightly vary. Some blogs provide succinct description of judiciously selected links. Some others contain commentary and links to the news of the day. Few are endless stream of blurts about the writers day. Few others are - political blogs, intellectual blogs, some are hilarious and some topic driven. They are all - Weblogs.

More than a list of links and less than a full-blown zine, weblogs may be hard to describe but easy to recognize. A blog can be recognized by its format: a webpage with new entries placed at the top, updated frequently. Often at the side of the page is a list of links pointing to similar sites. Some sites consist only of a weblog. Others include the weblog as a part of a larger site. Even though there are so many different blogs, there is one thing common about all the bloggers: most are noncommercial and are impassioned about their subjects.Defining Blogs

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

Blogs are alternatively called Web Logs or Weblogs. However, "blog" is used unanimously because it seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.

Blogs & The Worldwide Web

Both personal sites and lists of links have existed since the web was born. Indeed, the ability to link one document to the other that existed on the global network drew early enthusiasts to the Web. They published pages and eagerly perused the pages published by others. That was the time when the accessibility to the pages from any computer with a modem and a browser was more important than the content of that page. For a while, webpages became an interesting addition to the cyberspace. Then the space got crowded. As a result the web grew at an exponential rate and search for the required information became difficult and simultaneously more time consuming.

Until, a few of these enthusiasts decided to put the links they collected daily onto a single webpage. These people placed their stuff descriptive text and link/s, for example: their travel records, on the web. The text enabled the reader to know why they should click the link and wait for the page to download. And so a particular type of website was born.

The New York Times article about a website named LemonYellow, published in July 1999, didnt say a word about weblogs, but affirmed the notion that webloggers were onto something.

Most of the early weblog editors designed or maintained websites for a living. Few of these editors just knew HTML - the simple coding language used to create webpages.

With Weblogs becoming popular, the personal websites became extensions of their day-to-day lives. Webloggers started rolling personal journals ongoing links-laden riffs on a favorite subject. Soon they linked to general interest articles to online games, and often to Web-related news.

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Tricks for more clicks Using Images

2006-12-12T19:38:00.000+07:00

As I do, I will find more tricks to get more visitor to clicks my website and my ads. Few tricks I've learn now this is the best you can do.

Human visitors and search engines robots that visit websites and index information about them look for different things in a page. People like to see an attractive layout with nice pictures and graphics, animation, easy-to-locate navigation, and friendly greetings like "Welcome to Annie's Online Shop" at the top of a page. Search engines, on the other hand, like sites that have lots of textual content, good site structure (sitemaps, consistent linking style), and a meaningful phrase such as “Chicago Area Florist” as the heading of a page. While search engines can read the "alt image” tags of graphics, they can not "look at" pictures the way a human visitor can, and far prefer text.

Replacing Text with Images

One way to work around this paradox is to shift some of the text that search engines have no interest in over to graphics. For example friendly greetings like "Welcome to Our Site" or "Annie's Online Shop" work best as header graphics.

Creating a header graphic in a graphic editing program like Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks has the advantage of letting you know exactly what that part of your site will look like to visitors. If you create a header or navigation bar with text, you are limited to a common set of fonts. If you use a fancy font that is installed on your computer, your page will look great to you, but when a visitor who does not have that font on their computer visits your site, their browser's default font will be used and that nice aspect of your site will disappear. By making your header or navigation buttons images, you are free to use any of the fonts on your computer, and can be sure they will display the same way to your visitors.

Another advantage of using a header graphics is that you can remove words irrelevant to your target keywords from your textual content. When search engine robots visit a site, they read pages from left to right, top to bottom. The first 20-25 words and last 20-25 words of your text content are especially important, and you want to make sure to include your target keywords within these sections. If at all possible, your primary target keyword phrase should be the very first text in your page. That is, if you are able to make a natural-sounding sentence beginning with it. If your page begins with "Welcome to our site!", then you are pushing your keyword further away from the starting point of your text.

The first line of the main text on your page should be in heading format, with H1 tags (In html code it will look like this:

London Hotels

), and should contain your target keyword. However, you may want to add a greeting above the heading ("Welcome to Our Site!” for example). As this is a very general phrase, with no relevance to any target keyword, it is best to make this a graphic.

If your site already has a greeting such as "Welcome to Our Site" in text at the top of your main page, it is relatively easy to convert this to a graphic, as follows.

-Open your page in an internet browser.
-Push the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.
-Open a photo editing program, such as Photoshop.
-Create a new document and select Edit>Paste or Ctrl+V on your keyboard. The screenshot will be pasted on the blank document.
-Crop the image down to just the word or phrase you would like to replace, with only a little blank space around the edges.
-Choose "Save as" or "Save for Web", saving the file in the "Images" folder of your site.
-In your site editor, such as Dreamweaver, simply open your page, delete that text, and drag and drop in the image you created. Save and upload your page.

Replacing Images with Text

Of course, the opposite might also be true of your current site: Your keywords might be displayed as graphics rather than text. In this case, you should either repeat those keywords in text in a way that looks natural, or get rid of the graphics all together and replace them with text. The important thing is that your target keyword appears as text, as close to the beginning of the page as possible, and within H1 tags.

Alt Image Tags

"Alt image" tags are short pieces of text that are associated with a graphic. If the graphic can not be displayed for some reason, or if someone has set up their browser to block images, the text is shown instead. (The "alt" is short for "alternative".) Also, browsers designed for the sight impaired read out the text content of pages, and read the alt image tags as a way of describing a page.

Here is what an image tag looks like in html code:

The alt image tag is this part:
alt="YOUR KEYWORD image"

You can type the alt image tags directly into the html code. However, most html editors, such as Dreamweaver, give you an easier way to add an alt tag, and you should check in your software's “Help” section.

Search engine robots do read and index alt image tags. However, since this text is normally hidden from human visitors, it is especially susceptible to keyword spamming (i.e. entering a massive string of keywords that "hide" behind the picture). For this reason, search engines are giving less importance to alt image tags. They still are important, though, and having the tags on your pages can give you a slight edge over competitor sites that don't have the tags. When adding alt image tags to your pages, keep the following points in mind:

-Don't go overboard. 4 or 5 words are plenty. Resist the temptation to pack in a long list of keywords, as this will potentially get your site penalized by search engines or blacklisted from their directories.
-The alt image tag should include the primary target keyword of your site.
-The tag text should make sense if someone actually read it, and actually describe what is shown in the graphic.
-Include "image," "photo," or "graphic" at the end of your short phrase. This prevents the search engines from flagging the tag as spam.

Using these techniques to organize the graphics on your site will give you a slight edge over the competition in the search engines.

Create blogs to network marketing tools

2006-12-09T19:17:00.000+07:00

by zhack jolliena

Now this year you will find many sites offering free blogs, free hosting as well, there can be no excuses for not creating your own blog. Most people loves to get much traffic as soon as possible and added to your own affiliate links, and one way to do that is create blogs.

Imagine that your own blogs as a virtual real estate. When your presence on the internet is greater than the more chances the people receiving exposure to your offer.

Just create a unique subject of your blogs, a lot of things you can do. By posting some articles you write by your own that relate to the program you are promoting on your blog, or just simply post other people's articles. I personally recommend writing your own articles and posting them on your blog because this way you will be adding a new fresh unique content, and therefore you will be rewarded by search engine rankings. Make sure that you submit your articles to the article directories at least one week after posting them to your blog. This ensures that the search engines have plenty of time to spider your site and credit you for being the original publisher.

Else If you don't wish to put articles on your blog, you could talking about your own experiences of some products or program that you are promoting, on an ongoing basis. You could also write your own review of the program, making sure to not only mention the major benefits and features of the program, but also to highlight any slight faults inherent in the program for added credibility. People will appreciate your honesty as most so-called reviews are nothing more than hyped-up sales pitches.

Whatever you post on your blog, you should make sure that you include prominent links to your own affiliate links. You can try by putting these links in both the side bar, and at the end of every post you make, if appropriate. Talking of which, after every post be sure to notify the various search engines by using 'ping' services like Pingomatic and Pingoat. This is a very simple process and will help you to get more extra traffic to your blog in the long run.

Now you're know that Blogs are a great tool for many network marketers, including myself, are using with great effect. With all things being equal, blogs tend to rank higher than conventional websites, helped by the fact that they are generally updated with fresh content. Combine this with a good link campaign, and we can start to receive a lot of exposure for your network marketing program. All this from a free blogs that will takes just a few minutes to create.

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Let's Build Incredible Adsense Empire

2006-12-08T02:35:00.000+07:00

As soon as you've mastered Adsense on one site the natural thing to do is build another. Another becomes another and so forth and within about a year or two you can have your own empire generating a massive monthly income.

The hard thing about succeeding online is the learning curve. You've got to put in a good 6 months to a year absorbing everything before you start to come out the other side.

Money is harder to find in this time but once you're afloat applying what you've learnt to many different markets is a doddle and you make more than enough money to compensate for the harder times before.

With Adsense based websites there's no point building wide until you have mastered the fundamentals.

For an Adsense site this includes - website building, understanding Adsense, search engine optimization and link building. A good grasp of affiliate programs will also help you supplement your Adsense income and knowing how to navigate your way around Adwords will allow you to test your templates and integration before finalising a particular model.

Once you've mastered these things then this is the forumla for Adsense Empire Building:

1. Choose a Niche - A niche is a self-contained market which focuses around a particular question or type of product. An understanding of the internet, the different markets and the tools available to assist your research is critical.

2. Working out the keyword pyramid for that niche - every niche has a keyword pyramid which is made up of the words people use to find things related to that niche. At the top is the most commonly used search term (Adsense would be Adsense), and at the bottom, the multitude of variations, for example - "which adsense ad color generates the most clicks" To maximize your free search engine traffic, your content will want to cover as much of this pyramiid as possible.

3. Planning the website - Now you've chosen your niche and have sketched the content that will be neccessary to meet it you'll then need to create this content, be it your own or from a third party and also work out how to integrate Adsense into it.

4. Build the website - Putting the bricks and mortar together - if you're not already using XSitePro you should be!

5. Get some traffic to the website - Basic directory submissions, preliminary reciprocal links, using Adwords, forum and blog postings will all start the trickle of traffic to your website. This will allow you to:

6. Optimize your Adsense - by testing your Adsense Format, Placement, Colors etc on your traffic you'll be able to work out which combination(s) they are most responsive to. The aim is to reach the optimum for that website so that it can be left pretty much on auto-pilot.

7. Focus on getting more traffic - This is the real task behind your project and will require link building and search engine optimization in all of it's variations.

8. Monitoring and Maintenance - Keep an eye on your Adsense reports and optimize if you still feel there is room for improvement, plus have some type of ongoing but easy to manage link building strategy in place so that your website keeps developing in the eyes of the search engines.

9. Repeating the process - that's one site down, onto the next.

I'm in the process of doing a lot of research into Adsense Empire Building so there will be lots of new material appearing on the site in the coming months.

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Quick Tips about writing blogging Topics

2006-12-07T19:46:00.000+07:00

Do you blog on a regular or somewhat regular basis, but sometimes have trouble coming up with topics for your blog? Here's a few helpful hints to get you going when writer's block strikes.

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1. Google is your friend

Search Google to see what questions people have about the field you're in. Try combining one of the following phrases with a keyword related to your field of expertise.

How do I
I'm having problems
Is it possible to
I need help
Quick question

For example, if a cartoonist who gave advice to other cartoonists were using this method, he might search for the following:

"How do I" cartoonist

or maybe...

"I'm having problems" cartoon

or even...

"Quick question" "comic strip"

Hopefully you get the idea.

2. Sign up for a forum

Sign up for a forum or even an email discussion group that's about the same topic your blog is about. That way you will always have a source of questions. People often drop into such forums with a question or two.

And don't worry if others have answered it on the forum. Your blog will likely have different readers. While you shouldn't plagiarize, you can certainly use their post as a jumping off point.

3. Read other blogs

Read the blogs others have on topics similar to your own. And again, while you shouldn't just copy their post, you can use it to spur yourself on. You might even mention that you were inspired by their post and put a link to it. Then say where you agree and disagree with them.

An added bonus to this is that you can email that blogger and let them know you linked to their post. They may even be willing to link back to your blog, giving you another source of readers.

4. Ask your readers!

This one is a no-brainer. Seek out input from those who know your readers best. Your readers! Occasionally (or frequently) ask them for topic suggestions. At the very least, make it easy for them to contact you with any questions if they already want to do so.

These tips are simple, but can be effective if you ever hit a brick wall when trying to start your blog post of the day.

While we're on the topic, feel free to let me know of any web-related topics you'd like me to cover.

Tim is the owner and senior web designer at T&S Web Design. His company has developed and maintained website for dozens of small businesses and organizations. Tim also maintains a blog with free website advice for small business owners, GetASiteOnline.com. All articles about blog at http://info-user.blogspot.com/

The Easiest way for websites crawler

2006-12-05T18:17:00.000+07:00

Making sure that your websites are fully crawlable is a key component for any search strategy, especially if you want your sites to rank well for multiple related keyword phrases or different products.

One of the ways that you can insure that a search engine spider crawls your site deeply is to provide it a road map of your site. This road map, called a "site map" is a very simple page (from a design standpoint) that only serves one purpose from a search engine optimizers point of view, to get those interior pages into a search engine's index.
A brief history of site maps . . .

Before site maps were recognized by the search engine optimization community as a tool for good search results, it was used by fortune 1000 companies to help visitors to their site find out where a particular service or product was located.

For example: If you want to do some sort of business with your bank online, you might find that their home page doesn't quite get you to the exact location on their site that you want.

After all, a typical bank might offer car loans, student loans, home loans, credit cards, investment accounts, mutual funds, etc.

If per chance you arrived at this banking site on a page other than the home page, you might get a little turned around from a site navigation standpoint.

So, site maps were created.

What is a site map?

A site map is a page that contains a basic HTML link to every page on that web site. Every page, not just your main topics but every page.

Site maps do not need to be fancy (in fact, it's better if they are not), they just need to contain a logical order and links to all of your pages.

How does this benefit us? Three ways . . .

First, a site map gives your customers an easy navigation system to every page in your web site. Now, don't confuse the use of a site map as a replacement for logical navigation on your regular pages. You want to make sure that your site can be navigated simply and easily from any page on your site.

However, some folks (a very small percentage) prefer to see the entire site's structure on one page and choose their destination from it.

Second, a site map is a fantastic way to get a search engine spider to see and crawl every single page in your site. When optimizing different pages in your web site for different keywords, a Site map is a perfect solution for ensuring that a spider can get to every one of those optimized pages.

Third, and this is big: A Site Map provides an opportunity to send link reputation to a particular page. Now, link reputation is a discussion that's beyond the scope of this aricle, but it is perhaps one of the most important factors in off Page search engine optimization.

You want the links on your Site Map Page to Say the right thing about the pages that they are linking to. It's like a vote. So, make sure that your site map is voting correctly for all of your interior pages.

Fourth, site maps are also an additional way to distribute Google page rank. If your site map is just one link off of the first page, it can pass a significant amount of Google page rank deep into your web site. This helps create a site structure where just about every internal page has the same chance of ranking as well as your home page.

Finally, site maps allow you to use dynamic linking strategies to control where page rank does and does not go throughout your site.

For example, a common mistake is to have a normal link to your privacy policy on every page of your site. In actuality, giving your privacy policy page the same page rank as every other page of the site is a big waste of whatever page rank you have available.

So use a good site map and you will reap the rewards.

About the Author: Pat Johnson - is a successful Internet Marketer and the owner of www.RichJerkReviews.com - Check out his website to read what others are saying about The Rich Jerk e-Book., and about the Rich Jerk himself.

Tips Why Rss Beats Email Marketing

2006-12-04T14:37:00.000+07:00

A brand new marketing tool predicted to replace email iscurrently sweeping the World Wide Web like a storm.

The Internet is experiencing the so-called "orange" revolutionand there's no stopping to it. The online marketing world isrigorously seen chanting a 3-letter mantra, R-S-S.

Yes, RSS is here and it's got substance, material, style,sophistication?

In a word, it's got the 'X' factor.

RSS, which stands for "Really Simple Syndication", is the newestand the fastest growing technology online. Many publishers,webmasters and marketers are adopting RSS. It has helped spam godown to a great extent and made bulk messages a thing of past.

No wonder spammers are shaking in their boots all over the web!

Here are 6 strong reasons why RSS beats email marketing to thecore:

1. Kiss Spam Filters Goodbye - RSS can help you distribute yourcontent directly to your subscribers, without any spam filtersinterfering. Your messages will never get blacklisted andblocked and will always be delivered promptly, unless and untilyour subscribers choose to end the relationship themselves.

2. Subscribing Is Easy - Your subscribers don't have to worryabout giving out any of their personal details to subscribe andread your RSS feeds. All they need to do is, add your feed totheir online or desktop RSS reader and that's it. They are readyto receive and read content from you without any hassles.

3. Un-subscribing Is Easier - Removing your subscriber's emailfrom your email list automatically has it's own share ofproblems, and it doesn't work all the time. However, when youtalk about RSS, it's easy for your subscribers to unsubscribefrom your publication. They can stop receivingmessages from you any time by simply deleting your feed fromtheir RSS reader. Simple as that!

4. Get Your Message Out In An Instant - Whenever you havesomething new to publish, all you have to do is update youralready published feed and your message gets updated everywhereit's subscribed. No more worrying if your subscribers got yourmessage or not.

5. Never Get Accused of Spam - It's very easy to get accused ofsending unsolicited mail nowadays since people forget they evengave you their email address. RSS solves this problemcompletely, as the messages which you send out, will appeardirectly in your subscribers RSS reader. So the question ofcontacting them illegally does not even arise.

6. Build Long Lasting Relationships - Not only RSS builds astrong relationship with your existing subscribers but alsohelps in attracting new potent subscribers who are interested inwhat you offer. People who subscribe to your feed want toreceive content from you and hence, can be regarded assubscribers you can count on.

RSS can work like a charm for your business and help you gainthousands of quality subscribers and leads within a few weeks?

You just have to become a part of the orange revolution!

Mustafa Khundmiri is the co-founder of http://www.rapidfeeds.com- A Free online service, which helps anyone, create, edit, publishand track RSS feeds online. Sign Up for your FREE account on hissite and start publishing your own RSS feeds!

Must Read the 10 Benefits of Being Blogger

2006-12-03T01:18:00.000+07:00

I have been a blogger since September 2004 but only began to take it seriously this year. My blogging journey began when I stumbled upon a company owned by Google named Blogger.com that offered free tools to build a website. In fact Blogger provides you with free several templates which you can customize in addition to a domain name hosted on their server. You can host your blog on your domain if you like to. Here are some benefits I found while blogging:

1) Easy to manage.
A blog can be set up by even a novice in no time. All you have to do is post and publish. Blogging can get as simple as that or even more complex.

2) Easy to update.
Blogs can be updated weekly or daily instead of sometimes monthly for a static website. Even adding a few paragraphs a day can be done in no time and can be beneficial to your search rankings.

3) Get spidered quickly.
Search engine spiders crawl blogs with greater frequency than static webpages. I have had webpages that took over eight months to be indexed in Google where as Yahoo sometimes index my blogs in weeks sometimes days.

4) If you write articles
then you can post all of them on your blog in addition to free reprint content that is widely available everwhere. The more content you have the better.

5) You can get your website indexed quicker.
An article or a piece of news about your website with an optimize anchor link will send the spiders your way in no time.

6) Sell advertising space.
If you have a popular blog then you can create a revenue stream by selling ad space. Blogads is one of several places where you can sell your ad space to major companies.

7) you can add Adsense to your blog to monetize your content.
What I love about Blogger is that once you plug in the Adsense code into your main template, a new page is created and Adsense is automatically displayed when you make a post.

8) Review your affiliate products.
If you have a blog that is in a niche then you can find affiliate programs for that niche and do reviews of them for a commission. Every time someone purchases the product or service through your link you make money.

9) It is still early to catch on. Blogs and RSS feeds are used by the minority of internet users which makes it excellent for you to start blogging right now. Less than 10% of the Americans which is the biggest online market use this emerging trend.

10) Can be syndicated.
An easy way for your readers to stay in touch with updates is to add your blog to their My Yahoo and My MSN. They can see the latest information and how long ago it was added.

11) Yes a bonus! Savvy marketers know that if you add your blogs to My Yahoo you can have it indexed in no time by Yahoo. You can use these two websites to inform blog directories thatyou have updated your content.

a) http://WWW.Ping-o-matic.com
b) http://WWW.Rssfeedpromoter.com

So with all those benefits in mind there is no reason you should not start your own blog. So when do you decide to go blogging?

Nicholas Dixon has successfully use free articles as his primarysource of marketing.
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How To make Inbound Link - Boost Your Page Rankings

2006-11-30T00:12:00.000+07:00

Hopefully you will have read the fascinating story of search-advantage . com and how they have used Ecademy to boost their search engine ranking by linking.

This story alone proves the success sites are having with boosting their Search Engine positioning using links. However, once you have built your Ecademy link, what next? What else can you do to build quality inbound links?

The keywords here are quality and inbound. Preferably one way links, so they link to you and you don't have to link back. This kind of link is seen more as an endorsement rather than a two way link which is seen more as a commercial transaction.

So how do you get one way quality inbound links?

To be really honest, it is a fairly simple process yet will take time and you will want it to take time. Having no links one day and have 2,000 links the next does not look natural to any search engine and could flag your site as a bit spammy. Use the four techniques below to drive links to your site slowly. Make sure you do all four techniques, as in this way, you will be building a huge array of links for different sources. Some of these sources will take on a life of their own and you will start to get links automatically.

Technique 1

One of the best ways to get quick inbound links and traffic is to write and submit articles to Article Directory sites. There are lots of sites which are set up just to collect content. They allow visitors to copy the content and use it on their own websites.

You will add a resource box at the bottom of each article and it is here that you will be able to add links directly to your site. Normally you can have two links so use one for the home page and one for a product page. Keep them relevant to your business.

There are literally hundreds of article databases on the web where you can submit articles too. There are even tools to do this automatically for you.

Technique 2

Press Releases are a great way of getting inbound one way links for Newswires and it may also get picked up by Google News. You will not only get inbound links but real traffic directly from the stories you publish.

The best place to start submitting Press Releases is to PRWeb.

Technique 3

Submitting your site to Web Directories. These are a great way of building inbound links. Some charge a fee and some are free. For fee paying links, pay to be listed in the Yahoo! Directory. You can easily find hundreds of directories relevant to your site by searching Google. All the links for Web Directories will link to your home page but still mix up the link text. This works better than anything else and shows you are building links naturally.

Technique 4

Finally, you can buy inbound text links. Now while this sounds like the easier option, do not solely rely on this source of links - you still need to implement the other techniques to really make it work. They vary in price and are usually charged on a monthly basis. Make sure any links you do buy are only from topic related sites. Having links in from sites outside your industry will not do you any favours. You can find other Link sellers on Google if you search for Link Brokers.

In summary, these techniques are easy to implement into your marketing strategy and there are many ways to outsource all of this work.

Jason Hulott is owner of Speedie Consulting, a website aimed at website owners who need help. We provide a range of consultancy services and offer lots of freebies. Visit the site now to download your FREE detailed Inbound Link Building Guide with a spreadsheet of over 200 quality sites that could link to you

How To Earn MONEY As An Affiliate

2006-11-28T19:25:00.000+07:00

by Maya Jakes

The answer is a most definite yes!
After researching the topic of Affiliate Marketing for a few months (I like to be thorough!) I decided to run a little test and see if I could earn some real money – not pennies. I used strategies that top marketers appear to have been using for years and to my surprise and delight the results were simply amazing.

Over 1 month I wrote 3 ebooks and started my own newsletter. I’m now starting to see results and am very impressed with the financial rewards I’m receiving. Best of all, some of the cash is a monthly recurring amount that will simply be paid into my bank account each and every month without me having to do anymore work to get it – as my daughter says, cool!

How am I earning money without my own website? I simply include relevant affiliate links in my ebooks, articles, reports and monthly newsletter. I also make sure that each email I send to a customer includes 1 relevant, recommended affiliate merchant link in the main body and of course, I also include my own website links as part of my signature. I already have the customer’s trust so get a high response rate.

Writing articles and ebooks is a fantastic way of generating targeted traffic to your website (if you have one) which in turn generates more sales and that means more money :). I sell my ebooks on the World’s biggest billboard – Ebay!

So far all of my ebooks have resell rights included. Basically, I sell 50 copies of each ebook, from just 1p, and then hopefully at least 1% of the buyers will resell it for me and then 1% of their buyers, etc., etc. While everyone else is busy selling my ebook I get to work on the next one. I’m not really bothered about making money from selling the ebook as I’m more interested in earning commission from the affiliate links inside it.

I have Outlook set up as an auto responder so that when Paypal send me a payment notification, an email is immediately send to my buyer so they can download their eBook. I follow up a few days later asking if they’d like to sign up to my monthly newsletter and offer them another free eBook every month as an incentive. Now I can get some of my affiliate links in front of them every month without too much effort required.

Hopefully, you see the potential in affiliate marketing and are maybe considering it yourself so you’re probably asking where to begin writing your own ebook or article. I found a brilliant website with pre-written articles on health and wellbeing. Health is an area that never seems to go out of fashion so is always popular and therefore anything relevant sells very well.

I take the pre-written content, dress it up and add my own affiliate links to basically make it my own. Again, the ebooks always have a link to my website and newsletter sign up. I’ve found that usually after 3 or 4 months I start to see my affiliate links working their magic for me and depositing cash in my bank account.

3 or 4 months may seem like a long time to wait for the money to roll in but once you start to reap the rewards you should hopefully continue to reap them for years to come so it’s definitely worth the initial wait.

Now I’ve successfully tested the market and am more than happy with the results, I intend to make it a top priority to write at least 1 new ebook and article every week and multiply my profits. I know it’s a cliché but, if I can do it then anyone can! :)

I hope you enjoyed reading this article and that you found it both helpful and inspiring. If you’re interested in affiliate marketing then I recommend you don’t delay any longer and just go for it. For more detailed information and resources just visit my website.

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The Cheap and Effective Ways to boost Website traffics

2006-11-26T05:47:00.000+07:00

Traffic is the life's blood of your website. If you're not getting any visitors to your site, you are certainly not going to make any sales, and that means your site is a hobby instead of a money making business. If your site is indeed a hobby then the amount of traffic you get doesn't matter, but if it is a business, then it's an entirely different story.

If you are just starting out, you may be low on cash to throw at your new website. Being a little strapped for cash doesn't mean that you can't get the traffic you need to start making sales. There are several low cost ways to start the traffic ball rolling in your direction, and they are thing which you can do yourself with relative ease.

Writing and submitting articles to article directories is a highly effective way to establish both a link back to your site and to gain the attention of the people who would be interested in what you have to offer. Articles are good for establishing a long term pathway to your website. You can even find niche article sites that cater to specific niches, so make sure you search for those when finding directories to submit to.

Using Search Engine Optimization will also increase your chances of showing up in web searches for your site's topic. Some people think SEO is really difficult to understand and implement, but it's really not hard at all. Having your keyword in your domain name, title tag, image alt tags and on the first paragraph is the type of things which SEO encompasses. See, it's not that bad at all is it?

To get a little quick exposure for your site, you can create a blog account at Blogger.com and then link back to your site. The posts made at a Blogger.com blog are easily picked up by the search engines. To make the most of your new blog, be sure to post three or four times daily with short posts which contain your keyword. Your site will be frequently updated if you link to it in your Blogger.com account. Blogging is easy and using Blogger.com is free.

Remember that forums can be one of your site's best friends. By frequenting related forums and participating by making well informed useful posts, you can increase traffic to you're your site. Most forums allow signature files, and you can put your site URL in your signature file for the forum visitors to see and search engines to find. Never set up a new account for any forum just to go post one liners or non informative posts. This not only makes you a forum spammer, it ruins any chances you had to develop any networking relationships within the forum community.

So there you have some simple, very effective and cheap ways to get visitors to your new or existing website. By implementing the techniques discussed, you should be guaranteed a steady stream of targeted traffic.

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HOw To Drive Traffic to Your Blog

2006-11-22T16:36:00.000+07:00

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines: http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor stats: how many unique visitors, how many page views, average length of visit. You can get a free hit counter at http://www.sitemeter.com

Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

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Take a Closer Look at Key Email

2006-11-18T09:38:00.000+07:00

by Daryl Eames
Email marketers rely on customers to tell us if we are doing a good job in delivering relevant content. We receive and interpret that customer feedback through email metrics. These metrics tell us if people are opening our email when they receive it, what action they take after reviewing the content, and if our message has successfully prompted them to action. We then analyze the information provided to us by our metrics data and adjust our email program strategy--continuously fine tuning the process and gauging our success.

But are these metrics we rely on to guide us accurate? And just how reliable are the industry benchmarks we measure ourselves against? What do all these metrics truly speak to? To answer these questions we start by looking at the human behavior behind the metric.

The process looks something like this:
1. We produce and send an email.
2. The recipient checks and receives our email.
3. The recipient either opens or deletes the email.
4. If the recipient has chosen to open, their options are either to click a link or delete after viewing the content.
5. Finally, they either convert or leave our site.

Three key metrics relate to these behaviors--open, click through, and conversion rates.

Dissecting the open rate
The industry standard for measuring open rates is opens-to-emails delivered. Open rates speak to the quality of list, cleanliness of list, segmentation, brand loyalty, perceived value, subject line etc. This equation makes sense for the most part, since a cleaner list should equate to higher open percentages. However, it assumes a constant cleaning cycle for your list. Those marketers who clean their list infrequently will see dramatic increases in open percentages after a list cleanse that is not supported by an increase in the actual number of emails opened. This gain slowly decreases over time as the list grows, until the next cleanse takes place. Therefore, these percentages do not compare apples to apples when reviewed against one another. Take a look at the fluctuations in an actual case sample below.

Email 1: (Pre cleanse) 19.7% Open Rate. 11,342 Opens.
Email 2: (Post cleanse) 40.0% Open Rate. 11,007 Opens.
What appears to be a 20.3% increase in the open rate is actually a 2.9% decrease in the actual number of opens.

The click through quandary
But wait, it gets worse! Should your email recipient open your email, they will review the content and then choose to either click a link, or delete the email. The industry standard for measuring this action (or lack thereof) is click thruoughs-to-emails delivered. What? Was I absent from class on click through equation day? How does the number of emails that get delivered speak to the content and message of my email?

The answer to how this equation developed can be found within the history of the Direct Marketing industry. This equation was developed in the early days of technology- limited email marketing, when direct marketers were measuring direct mail response rates based on the number of orders against the total pieces they mailed. Direct marketers had no way to track how many people actually opened and read their marketing piece. Technology quickly advanced to where we can now measure how many people open our emails, but the click through rate equation has failed to reflect these advancements.

A click through relates to the relevance of content, perceived value of the content, effectiveness of offers, sense of urgency, timeliness etc. Since someone who does not open your email cannot ‘vote’ on your content, why would we measure our click through rate against the number of emails delivered?

The result is that when you clean your list, your click through percentage increases dramatically, even if the actual number of clicks doesn’t change much at all. If we rely on this information, we make inaccurate determinations about the content of our email. Look at what happened in our actual case sample.

Email 1: 4.7% Click Through Rate. 2,685 Unique Clicks.
Email 2: 10.2% Click Through Rate. 2,795 Unique Clicks.
What appears to be a 5.5% increase in CTR is really only a 4% increase in the actual number of unique clicks.

The true measure of content is how many people click, measured against how many people actually see your content. Take a look at what happens in our actual case sample when we measure clicks-to-opens.

Email 1: 23.7% Click Through Rate. 11,342 Opens. 2,685 Clicks.
Email 2: 25.4% Click Through Rate. 11,007 Opens. 2,795 Clicks.
We see an increase of 1.7% in CTR based on how many people actually opened and reviewed the content of the email and then clicked. This is a much more accurate gauge of your content and message.

Conversions--this one must be easy!
Now that we are all scratching our heads in a state of confusion, we have to move on to calculating and analyzing the next step in recipient behavior--conversions. How do we calculate conversions to provide meaningful data? This is a scenario where you will want to look at two equations--conversions measured against opens and against clicks.

Conversions-to-opens is a good indicator of the actual value of your content and call to action to the people who reviewed your email. Conversions-to-clicks is an important gauge of the success of converting those who were prompted to action by your content and message. Both have value in their feedback to us as marketers. Let’s look at our actual case sample.

Email 1: 11,342 Opens. 85 Conversions. .75% conversion rate.
Email 1: 2685 Clicks. 85 Conversions. 3.2% conversion rate.
The first metric speaks to how well you convert those who viewed your message. The second speaks to how well you convert those who were prompted to action by your message.

How about those industry benchmarks?
The first problem is that only those benchmarks best segmented for your industry are remotely relevant. But what about the accuracy of those benchmarks? If you consider the problem with the industry standard equations discussed above, add to that the varying list growth and cleansing strategies of the companies they measure, we can conclude that these benchmarks are misleading at best. Since this is the only conceivable reason to calculate click through percentages using the industry standard equation, it completes the argument for moving to the new conversion rate calculation of click throughs-to-opens.

Take those pesky industry benchmarks, and file them in the cylindrical file. Create and set goals based on your own benchmarks over time, and strive to focus on what really does count--the experience of your email recipients!

About This Author
Daryl is the Director of E-Commerce for Duncraft.com. A direct marketer of backyard birding and garden decor products. More articles visit and make donation click at http://info-user.blogspot.com

Blogger Tips: Money With Adsense

2006-11-06T19:28:00.000+07:00

Adsense is one of the most effective ways of monetizing your traffic and the deeper you delve into it the more it will reward you. Understanding Adsense.com has been set up to help you do just that.

It covers everything from building your first website to building a virtual real estate empire. Things like how to target your keywords, how to find and target niches, how to optimize your ads...

We are researching and building Adsense monetized sites constantly and many of our methods and ideas find their way into these pages.

This site is one of a growing number which are part of the "Take Over The Web" Network - what will be the largest free webmaster resource network the internet has known. If you're new to our sites - welcome to the world of building successful sites that make money.

How To become Successfull Blogger

2006-10-22T16:00:00.000+07:00

Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.

1) Where to start?

You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home or Blogger. Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service is, in the case your blog doesn't become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog is that they are organized in chronological order, your latest entry is displayed first. When your blog traffic grows greatly and you are ready to upgrade to your own domain then you can simply make your last blog entry the announcement of your "move". Simply add a last entry stating that your blog has "moved" and type the new blog URL address. Which directs visitors to your new blog site, keeping your following, without a major inconvenience to anyone. Upgrade as you need to...but only when you need to!

2) Niche

A niche is a targeted product, service, or topic. You should first decide on a product, service, or topic which interest you. Choose an area which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics. It does NOT matter if your topic is popular as long as there is a audience for your topic and the topic is precisely focused then your blog should be successful. Anything can be considered a niche as long as it has a target audience no matter how large or how small the audience is. A blog about your cat can be a niche or a blog about the species of the cat family can be a larger niche market, if there are people who are interested in hearing about your cat or the species of the cat family...you can even choose to build your audience for a market which an audience does not exist, but first you must build your blog.

3) Update Daily (nothing less)

This step is a must and not a suggestion. Updating your blog daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it more appealing to search engines. Not updating your blog on an occasional holiday or one day here and there is understandable to most, but missing days at a time or weeks is unacceptable and will most likely result in your blog being unsuccessful. To keep your blog traffic and retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog daily with multiple entries. You should try to update your blog everyday with at least 3 or more daily entries. The best way to accomplish this is to set aside 1-2 hours a day for tending to your blog and adding new entries. It may even be wise to schedule a set time which you dedicate to your blog each day. Give yourself work hours and treat your blog as a job, what happens if you don't come to work for days or weeks...you lose money or worse you get fired! Same applies here...if you don't update your blog for days or weeks you'll lose visitors.

4) Traffic

It's no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories. You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and Blogdigger. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates. Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or ArticleCity.com. Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others. The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the "About the Author" passage. What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the "About the Author" passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. The search engines is bound to find your site in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.

5) Track Your Blog

How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn't mean your blog isn't growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors. I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what "you" have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors.

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com or Active Meter will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.

6) Listen to Your Audience

When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog. If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.

7) Multiple blogs

Use multiple blogging accounts to attract more people. This means you should have a blog with JournalHome.com, Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, Blog-City.com, tBlogs.com, etc. The more blog accounts the better. You can copy/paste from 1 blog to all others. Having different blog accounts is like having a publication in different newspapers. This enables you to attract more visitors and this also increases the chance that 1 of your blogs will be in the search engine results for your focused keywords.

8) Short & Concise

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic.

9) Digital Art

Try to include non-advertising graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries. Not too much. Once a week is fine. Graphics can sometimes bring your blog to life. Of course, the content of the blog is the most important aspect and you do not want to overshadow your content with graphics, but displaying graphics can add a bit of spice to the blog. Be choosy about your graphics and make sure they fit your entry topic. You should add content with the graphic, at least a caption. Original graphics, photos, pictures, and art is recommended.

10) Keep it Personal

A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write with a more personal style and use first-person narratives. Do not write any of your entries as sales letters, instead share product reviews and personal endeavors.

11) Interact With Your Visitors

You now have the traffic you deserve. You should begin interacting with your visitors. Create a regular theme such as: "Monday Money Tip" or "Picture of the Week" which entices your readers to look forward to each week.

Give your readers advance notice about a product, service, or topic which you are going to review and then talk about later. If the President was scheduled to give a speech then in your blog you should state that you "will discuss the speech and give your opinion after the speech airs. Comments will be appreciated".

Try your best to find exclusive information that not many have. Do not disclose any confidential or secret information which is deemed illegal or can potentially get you into trouble, but try to get the scoop before everyone else does. Such as: If your blog was about Paris Hilton (the socialite) and you had a blog entry about "Paris Hilton Getting Married" then it would be interesting to your readers if you had a actual picture of Paris Hilton engagement ring. Give your best effort to dig and search the internet for exclusive information and you will possibly come up with something useful. Your readers will appreciate this and they show their appreciation through word-of-mouth referrals. Imagine how many readers will tell their friends, family, and others about information they only can find at your blog.

12) Make Money

Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog traffic is increasing then it is time to start thinking about turning your traffic into profit. You should use contextual advertising, like Google Adsense or Chitika. Contextual advertising is usually text links which use the content of your blog to publish targeted ads on your blog. The payout is usually based on a pay-per-click model, meaning for ever click an ad receives you are paid a small percentage of the profits. In addition to contextual advertising it is good to also use graphical advertising such as: BlogAds.com, Amazon.com, MammaMedia, or General Sponsored Advertising.

13) You're a Professional

You're a professional now! What are you still doing with that free blog hosting service? It is time to upgrade to a domain hosted solution. You need to get a web host and choose a domain name for your blog then check its availability. Select the blogging software you wish to use, such as: Squarespace.com, WordPress.org, MovableType.org, etc. When you have your new blog domain setup and ready for traffic then it is time for you to announce your move on all your previous blog accounts. Your last entry to the blog should be a "move" announcement. The title should be "Moved" and the blog entry should state something like "Old Blog has been moved to New Blog please follow and bookmark this link for future reference: http://www.YourNewBlogDomainName.com". This way all returning visitors and new readers should not have any problem finding your new blog domain.

At the level of a professional blogger you may want to team up with 1 or more other bloggers. This will create a more interesting and more powerful blog. The old saying "two heads is better than one", more authors mean more advertising and exposure because each author will have a vested interest in the blog. The idea of a team blog is to make it profitable and rewarding for all authors, while continuing to target the blog topic and keeping the blog interesting for visitors.

Following these blogging techniques should make your blogging experience much more rewarding. There is no guarantee that your blog will become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer. Making money online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.

About The Author
Ant Onaf is the owner and founder of http://www.JournalHome.com He is an online internet marketer, content writer, and IT consultant. Ant Onaf has years of IT-related experience and Internet-related experience. His ingenuity, dedication, and passion for technology, internet marketing, & writing have made him a monumental icon in the World Wide Web. His blog can be visited at http://www.journalhome.com/AntOnaf

4 Step to get Google Crawl Your Site

2006-10-16T01:14:00.000+07:00

Want your site quick spider by google ? Here the tips.
By Creating a Google Sitemap using free online tools you can get Google to crawl your site within 24 Hours. As an Added bonus after Google Crawls your site they give you feedback about any problems they encountered. To take advantage of this amazing service from yahoo just follow these 4 simple steps.

Step 1 Get a Google Site Map Account
In order to create a Google Sitemap account just cut and paste the below URL in your browser and follow the simple directions, https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login)

Step 2 Create Your Site map
You can create your Sitemap either as an XML file or a TXT file. XML is the PPreferred method since you can give Google more information about your Web Site. You do not need to know XML to create a Google Sitemap. Not with this free web based tool. Simply go to the below web site type in your domain and it will automatically spider your site and create a Google Site Map for you. http://www.sitemapspal.com/

If You prefer to use a text file simply following the below direction taken directly from the Google Help File (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/other.html)

Google accepts simple text files that list URLs. As the text files contain only a list of URLs, Google prefers that you use the Sitemap protocol so you can provide additional information about your URLs. The text file must follow these guidelines:

# The text file must have one URL per line. The URLs cannot contain embedded new lines.

# You must fully specify URLs as Google attempts to crawl them exactly as provided.

# Each text file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs. If you site includes more than 50,000 URLs, you can separate the list into multiple text files and submit each one separately.

# The text file must use UTF-8 encoding. You can specify this when you save the file (for instance, in Notepad, this is listed in the Encoding menu of the Save As dialog box).

# The text file should contain no information other than the list of URLs.

# The text file should contain no header or footer information.

# You can name the text file anything you wish. Google recommends giving the file a .text extension to identify it as a text file (for instance, sitemap.txt).

# You should upload the text file to the highest-level directory you want search engines to crawl and make sure that you don't list URLs in the text file that are located in a higher-level directory.

Step 3 Upload your Site Map File To Your Web Page
Once you have created an XML or TXT Sitemap using the instructions in Step 2 you would just upload it to your web page either by FTP or by using the Cpanel from your Web Host.

Step 4 Tell Google
The last step in this process is to tell Google about your Sitemap. You simply Log In to your Google site map account and add the URL of you Site Map. Be sure and check back a few hours later to make sure it uploaded correctly. https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

Now be sure and repeat the above 4 Steps whenever you change your website

Bonus Step 5
After Google has read your Sitemap and crawled your site (usually 12-24 Hours) you will see a verify link next to your Sitemap name. Click the link and Google will instruct you to create a blank file and place it on your Web Page, Once you have done that Google will tell you any problems it encountered crawling your Page

About The Author:
Mike Makler has been Marketing Online Since 2001 When he Built an Organization of over 100,000 Members. More articles please visit new blogger

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How to make your Blogs Can Save Your Money

2006-10-09T16:18:00.000+07:00

Even though I've had several personal blogs for years, I've only been officially business blogging since 2003. So in going back over expenses for the last quarter, you can imagine my shock when I realized that my overall business costs were down about 19%. What saved me so much money? Surprisingly, blogging.

How can you save money with your blog? It's pretty simple, so I'll be brief.
Attract search engine traffic without paying the big bucks
If you want Google, Yahoo and MSN to pay attention to you, blog.

It doesn't have to be a whole new site, just add a directory to your existing site and start blogging. Most blog software solutions are either cheap or free.

And you can find out most basic blog information online for free (really, sometimes just typing your question into Google will do it.) by people who've actually done it. For less than $100, you can build a small library of blog tips and secrets, written by successful business bloggers.

Instead of buying links, get one-way links from blog search engines and directories, as well as getting your RSS feed content displayed at other sites.

Linking is a great way to get search engine attention and click traffic. Some people get links by trading; others by including their links at the end of freely distributed articles. Others pay to be listed, or to get linked.

In each of these scenarios, some type of trade takes place, money, free content, or a link back.

When you blog, you'll find plenty of search engines and directories that are willing to list you free of charge. For the most part you won't need to link back - you'll get a one-way link from site favored by search engines, often using text that you select yourself.

If 90 or more of these free, legitimate links back to your site is worth your time, then get you blog in motion.

Not only that, if you update frequently, other sites may want to display your RSS feed content on their sites. To encourage them to do so, put a link on your page with instructions on how to do so. Ever since I put one on the front of my site, various feeds from my main site have turned up in the most unexpected places.

Cheaper way to study your audience.

As your blog gets more popular, you may start to find that on any given day, you have a representative cross-section of prospects and clients at your site. If you have a question for them, you can just... ask.

True, you can post a link to a survey in your newsletter or on your site, but these are not as interactive as the ability for your audience to comment. They will comment, and you can reply to ask them to expand, or clarify. Conversation gets going and before you know it, a bond is formed, a much stronger bond than occurs in a one-way conversation.

Cheaper (and faster) way to start a resource or authority site.

Five years ago, if you wanted to start an authority site, your best bet was to build a portal with a specialized directory at its core. Three years ago, you were better off starting a forum with a resource section attached to it. Last year, your top bet was a feed-enabled content management system, especially as more parts of content management systems began to have content feeds related to them. (I have 12 feeds for each of my PHP-Nuke based sites, though they don't work as well with Google Tap.)

Now, if you want to be the expert, you want to start a blog.

If you're blogging consistently, you have a hub of information collected that will inspire return traffic. You have a collection of links to articles, sites, and tools. You can constantly write up your own opinion editorials on each of these items, as well as fact-based analysis of news and events that can help your audience make better choices.

As blog software matures you can now categorize, and alphabetize your links, and with the ability to ping multiple sources as well as leave trackback links to other sites, you can send your readers through a ring of related, freshly updated information that ultimately leads back to you.

Spend less money on advertising as your blog becomes more popular

I can't promise you that you'll never spend another red cent on advertising costs. However, the amount of free advertising you get from having your blog link or RSS feed listed in dozens of search engines and directories, and popping up in feed readers is not to be underestimated.

You'll probably still want to do some ezine advertising when your new ebook or software release is debuted. But you may not need to buy as much advertising or purchase as often.

Then there is the fact that many newsletters that are also published to RSS feeds have wider reach. I've found that it's worth the extra money to appear in both versions ? ask your favorite publisher for details. For publications that allow this, it's normally only 20% extra

Save money by retaining visitors

You've probably heard a thousand times that it is easier to sell repeatedly to an existing client than it is to find a new one. So how do you get that visitor to come back, and possibly buy again?

A constant stream of new information on a particular topic work is enough to keep people buying a daily newspaper, subscribing to a magazine or viewing a television series.

Frequent updates can work the same way for your site.

With bloggers being named People of the Year by Time magazine last year, if you're not blogging in 2005, you're going to be left in the dust by other sites in your industry that do. It doesn't have to take up a lot of extra time, and the time it does takes is made up for in the money you can save.

Read more about how a blog can help you get spidered by search engines within 24 hours at http://www.freetraffictip.com/gbc.

Information you need about Blog

2006-10-08T15:53:00.000+07:00

About Blogs

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

Blogs are alternatively called Web Logs or Weblogs. However, "blog" is used unanimously because it seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.

Blogs & The Worldwide Web

The New York Times article about a website named LemonYellow, published in July 1999, didnt say a word about weblogs, but affirmed the notion that webloggers were onto something.

Most of the early weblog editors designed or maintained websites for a living. Few of these editors just knew HTML - the simple coding language used to create webpages.

V.Anantha Krishnan is a resident webmaster of http://www.ebook-retailers.com/index.htmlYou will find great ebooks on various topics here.

Also please visit : http://clearblogs.com/seo.

Optimization using images on your website

2006-10-06T19:43:00.000+07:00

There are several important factors to consider when optimizing images on your site:

File Names:
Giving pictures an appropriate filename will help search engines determine its contents, especially for image specific searches like Google's Image Search. For example, naming a picture of a butterfly "butterfly.jpg" is better than naming it "1234.jpg".

Image Size and Quality:
The fact that both image size and quality are important causes problems for site owners. Lower quality images increase loading speed, but hurt rankings in image searches and detract from the overall user experience. Higher quality images help in image search rankings and look great, but cause pages to load slowly, which can be a problem for visitors with slow connection speeds.

I've found that the best way to get the best of both worlds is to have a small, lower quality image on the page that links to a higher quality image file. That way the page can be loaded and viewed quickly, but users wanting a closer look can click the image, and image searches will have a high quality image to index (increasing your chances of ranking high). For example, on an e-commerce site, it makes sense to place small thumbnail images next to the description of an item and then link the thumbnail to a higher quality image of the item for potential buyers looking to get a closer look.

Alt Text:
All images should include short alt text that describes the image. Alt text helps search engine spiders understand what your image contains, which will help them to understand the context of your page better, and in turn pass you more targeted traffic via search and image search. Alt text also helps screen readers tell disabled visitors what the image contains, enhancing their experience on your site.

A properly formatted HTML image tag with alt text looks like this:

Surrounding Text and Captions:
It is important that the surrounding text and image captions are consistent with the content of the picture. According to the Google Images FAQ:

"Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content. Google also uses sophisticated algorithms to remove duplicates and ensure that the highest quality images are presented first in your results."
Avoid Putting Text in Images:
There are some occasions where text in an image is necessary, but in general it should be avoided at all costs. It's common practice to use images with text in headers or other important parts of the page, usually because of the background or surrounding logos. While alt text certainly helps, it's best to have the text actually readable by search engine spiders and screen readers.

A simple alternative is to create your graphic with everything but the text, write the text by itself (formatted to your liking using CSS), and then make the graphic a background image of the text (also using CSS). This makes it look like the text is part of the graphic, when in reality it is part of the HTML.

You can see an example of this by going to http://www.seo-playbook.com/image_example.php. You'll notice that both images look the same, but the second one doesn't include the "Page Title" in the image. Instead, it is part of the HTML code on the page. When Googlebot comes and visits a page like that, it will be able to read that "Page Title" is a page heading and incorporate that accordingly into their results.

About the Author: Adam McFarland owns iPrioritize - simple to-do lists that can be edited at any time from any place in the world. He also provides SEO consulting for small businesses looking for a cost-effective way to drive more traffic to their site and convert more visitors into customers.

Why RSS so important - place it in your sites

2006-10-04T23:22:00.000+07:00

RSS and Blogs are the topics of the moment. Seems like everyone is talking about it. Granted, thereis too much hype about RSS and Blogs.

But where there's hype - there's interest!

And with good reason - RSS is posed to be the break out technology of 2005. Those who don't takefull advantage of it will be left behind.

If you need convincing - here are 10 reasons why you should put RSS on your site:

1. It's easy and fast! Not to mention Free! You can use a free service like eBlogger and publish your Blog and RSS feed within minutes. You can even place or publish your Blog/RSS Feed on your own site without knowing 'html' or 'xml'. It's all done for you!

Repeat - it's simple to use and very convenient. Publishing your blog is only a few clicks away. (If you need help - just use the link at the end of this article.)

2. Syndicate Your Content. RSS stands for 'really simple syndication' and it's just another way of passing along your information. With the popularity of 'MyYahoo' and the 'Firefox' browser (which has abuilt-in RSS feed reader) - syndicating your content has gotten even simpler.

The next version of Windows is reportly scheduled to have a RSS feature. If this happens - RSS will explode.

3. Get Your Content Indexed. Using blogs to publish your content is a neat way of side stepping the regularindexing procedure. It gets your content indexed very quickly in most of the search engines.

Search Engines are constantly on the lookout for 'fresh content' - these 'link rich' blogs are a good source of this content. Because blogs are on specific topics - they have a concentrated source of good quality informational material to serve up!

4. Instant Contact. Blogs give you instant contactwith your readers or viewers. We live in an 'instant'society - we want everything five minutes ago. Blogs provide this instant gratification. Readers or viewers using MyYahoo have an instant link to your information or postings.

RSS Feeds will instantly spread your information to all interested parties - bringing in targeted traffic.

5. Building Your List. People who pick up your RSS feed or add you to their MyYahoo site - become your subscribers. You are really building your contact list. Have a popular blog or RSS Feed and you can build a large targeted contact list very quickly.

It might not replace your old opt-in email list - but it can be a lucrative addition to it! Take advantage of all those targeted contacts.

6. Link Building. Blogs are link heavens! Build your links thru blogs. All these links will boost your linkpopularity and increase your search engine rankings.

Plus, by giving viewers/readers a way of adding your RSS Feed creates targeted links to your site. Thisreason alone is why your site should have RSS!

7. Viewer/Subscriber Feedback. Instant feedback from your subscribers or viewers is easy with blogs. Creatingtrust and credibility is so much easier when there isimmediate communication between the two parties.

8. Keyword Content Building. Blogs are especially good for building 'keyword targeted content' for your site. All these links will boost your keyword rankings in the search engines. Google places a high value on 'anchor text' and blogs are a good place to put all those links.

You can also start different blogs targeted at 'specific related keywords' covering the major topics of your site. Again, search engines love related keyword linking so you can boost your site's rankingsby using blogs.

9. Monetize Your Content. Blogs are an excellent wayof monetizing your content. Blog sites like Eblogger(owned by Google) even encourages you to use the'adsense code' in your blogs. If you have a popular blog - this may bring in extra income.

Plus, publishing your ezine or newsletter in a blogcan bring in revenue for months if not years to come.All those affiliate links and product promotions get indexed by the search engines and become accessible to a wider audience, i.e. market.

10. Because Everyone Else is Doing It! Might sounda bit 'Jonesish' but you do have to keep up with what other web sites are doing. To remain competitive - you MUST put RSS on your site.

Sites without the 'AddtoMyYahoo' link or the 'xml' button will be the exception rather than the rule in just a few years - if not months. It's simply another way of getting your information 'out there'. It's an opportunity and advantage that you cannotafford to miss.

Proceed without RSS at your own risk!

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Your First Adsense at Blog site

2006-10-02T02:37:00.000+07:00

Learn from successful blogsiter about How To Build Your First Adsense at Blog site
The best way to learn something is to start doing it. This is a guide to get your up and standing on your own feet and making money with Adsense in a relatively short space of time. There's a lot to take in here but don't be put off by the foreign sounding nature of it all. If you persist everything will come together.

The fundamental fact is that Adsense is the easiest way to start making money online. With a very basic blog / website and just a few people coming to it you will start to earn money. As you develop the site and bring more traffic to it an average Adsense monetized website will make between $500 and $1,000 each and every month with little work needed.

Here's an example of a blogspot site that I built two weeks before starting to write this guide - http://home-interior-design-tips-article.blogspot.com It is a very simple concept which provides interior tips for home owner, designer or decorators. Some of these tips I wrote myself and some I got from the article directories. It took just a couple of days to build and then a couple of days to do the basic search engine optimization and link building necessary to start bringing traffic to it.

It is monetized soley through Adsense and is the easiest way to understand how the program works. I have included three different ad units on each of the tips pages - If you open this page you can see one Adlink at the top, one 336 x 280 rectangle inside the article and another 336 x 280 rectangle at the bottom of the article next to the newsletter subscription box.

Each time a visitor clicks on one of these ads (bearing in mind that the Adlinks requires a visitor to click on the topic and then to click on an ad inside that topic) Google will charge the particular Adwords advertiser the amount that they have said they are willing to bid and will then pay me as an Adsense publisher a percentage of this amount. (This percentage is not released to us but testing suggests it is around the 50% mark).

After two weeks this site is making an average of $5 a day from Adsense. In another 3 weeks it will consistently be making $10 and within 2 to 3 months it will average $30+ a day. All it requires from me is to add a few more tips in to keep the content growing and get a few more inbound links to assist my search engine rankings - I will repeat this process on the first of every month and it will take me a couple of hours.

I'd say the most this site could make from Adsense is $50 - $60 a day, but even if it levels off at $30 a day that's $10,950 a year. With little maintenance work it will do this for 3 years which means for the four initial days I spent building it and the one day a month I improve it I will earn $32,850 - Not bad.

This is how simple it is to make money with Adsense but the reason thousands of people are struggling is because they are not breaking each aspect of the process down to its basics and are focusing on earning $32,850 in one lump sum next Thursday. That's not possible.

People who make a lot of money with Adsense have done one of two things:

1. They have Integrated Adsense into a website that already has high traffic (About.com is the extreme example of this), or

2. They have built a large network of niche websites each of which generates $500 - $1,000 a month. If you build 50 (which over the space of a year or two is completely feasible if you take my above example), you can earn up to about $50,000 a month which equals out to $600,000 a year - pretty good for a network of what are fundamentally very basic websites. This is Adsense Empire Building territory.

Creating one very high traffic website or a large number of small niche websites requires a whole host of skills which you will not yet have. You only get these skills by learning, implementing what you've learnt and reflecting on what your implementation has told you.

As a beginner you have to start at the beginning - that's the rule of any game. As you learn and do more, building effective websites that make more and more money will get easier and easier. Don't be one of the many that are making marketeers rich by buying into their rhetoric of making big money quickly and without any effort. These people end up stopping before they even started.

So How Do You Get Started?

To make money with Adsense you need two things:

1. A website, and

2. Traffic to that website

The Adsense ads are integrated into number one (your website) and are clicked on by number two (your visitors). Without these two things you cannot make money from Adsense. Below is a simple step by step guide of what you need to do and when.
1. You Need to Decide Which Topic You Are Going To Build Your Website On

Adsense works best on websites that provide information. Understanding Adsense provides information about how to make money with Adsense and you have come to this site to learn more about that topic. The Adsense ads are related to this topic and so are more likely to get clicked on. GetGoodatGolf provides information on how to improve different aspects of your golf game. Another website may review a particular product or type of product. For example, independentwebhostingreviews.com which gives information on hosting accounts in the form of an opinion on the best deals.

The easiest way to start is to build a website around a topic that you know something about. Don't look at this as the website that is going to make you rich but as a testing ground to learn all the skills you need to know to build succesful websites in different markets that will make you rich. Money comes after learning and doing. If you chase the money you'll learn and do nothing.
2. You Need to Be Able to Build This Website

First things first - don't buy an Adsense Ready or Turnkey website. If you don't know, these are content websites that have been built and optimized for Adsense. The seller packages together a few hundred articles around a particular market, eg health and then sells this package to a thousand people like you and me. Adsense Ready Websites will give you the first thing you need to make money with Adsense - a website, but you'll find it hard to get the second - traffic - as the search engines penailze duplicate content and without traffic Adsense is useless.

The other problem is that they isolate you from the most important aspect of making money online - and that is building a website.

To us as internet marketeers, all a website is is a vehicle for converting traffic into money. A good website is one that does this effectively. If you don't learn how to build one yourself you are trying to row a boat without an oar.

The good thing is is that you no longer need to learn html code to build your website. Programmers have come to our rescue and over the past few years better and better website creation tools have become available.

The one I recommend is XSitePro. It's made the process of building a website so easy and is streaks ahead of all the other tools on the market. Within two to three hours you will have worked your way through the tutorial and will be in the position to build your own successful money vehicle. It really is the internet marketeers dream come true and on my Golf website I mention above I will have paid the cost back within 7 days. It's literally built to facilitate what this website is talking about and even has an insertion facility for Adsense. It'is one of the few products I sincerely recommend. You can pick up yours here
3. You Need to Buy a Domain Name and Get a Hosting Package For Your Website

Now you've decided the theme of your website and have bought your website creation tool you need to buy a domain name and a hosting package. I now use and recommend Blue Host. They've got a special on at the moment where if you set up a hosting account you get a free domain name. This will save you going to a domain registrar to register a name but you'll have to move.
4. You Need to Create the Content For Your Website

There are two ways of getting content - by writing it yourself or by obtaining it from a third party. The options open to you will really depend on the theme of your website. For a first website I generally recommend that you write it yourself. You can learn how to manipulate other people's information later once you've grasped the basics of website building, Adsense and traffic.
5. You Need to Join Adsense

This is simple - once you have built your website follow this link, click on the "Click Here to Apply" button, fill in your details and wait for your approval email.
6. You Need to Bring Yourself Up to Speed on Adsense

For the complete newbie to Adsense, UnderstandingAdsense.com has it's limitations as it doesn't go into the very basic stuff of how to get the code, how you change the variables etc. The site focuses on what actually makes money with Adsense and this is down to building the right websites, integrating Adsense correctly and bringing traffic to that website. Therefore your'e going to need another source so that you can get to grips with the basics. There are three that I would recommend:

(i) The Google Adsense Help Center - From the people who made the program this is a good tour de force of Adsense and how to use it. They also have some good "heat maps" which give you ad placement ideas depending on the type of website you are building.

(ii) Adsense Forums - Digital Point and Webmaster World both have good Adsense forums if you're the type that can happily sit and sift through thousands of posts.

(iii) Joel Comm's Adsense Secrets Ebook - A quicker way to get to grips with Adsense is to buy this ebook. It's a little pricey at $97 but his book breaks down what you want to know quickly and efficiently. I've read it three or four times and would recommend it to someone like me who prefers to have a start-up manual in front of them rather than having to trawl through thousands of forum postings - a valid shortcut for the newbie to Adsense who is intending on making much more than the $97 cost of the book.
7. You Need to Successfully Integrate Adsense into your website

Now comes the fun part. You've got your content, you've built your website, you understand the fundamentals of Adsense. Integration and optimization now become crtical and these articles explore how best to do that:

An Adsense Ad is More Than an Ad
Adsense Psychology
The Perfect Page -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/the-perfect-adsense-page.htm
Ad Format -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/adsense-ad-format.htm
Ad Placement -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/adsense-ad-placement.htm
Ad Colors -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/adsense-ad-colors.htm
Number of Units -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/number-of-adsense-units.htm
Adlinks -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/adlinks.htm
Ad Relevancy -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/adsense-ad-relevancy.htm
Monitoring -- http://www.understandingadsense.com/monitoring-adsense.htm

8. You Need to Do What Is Necessary to Get Traffic to Your Website

The more relevant people who come to your website the more Adsense clicks your website will generate. The other half of succeeding with Adsense is getting more and more relevant traffic. These articles explore what you need to do and how you do it.

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Use RSS for Your Blog - Get benefit

2006-09-30T04:11:00.000+07:00

RSS can benefit your blogging activites in two different ways: it can help you generate traffic and it can help you retain traffic. RSS can benefit your traffic-generation efforts by adding fresh, optimized content to your blog automatically; and it can benefit your traffic retention rate by providing better, updated content for your blog visitors.

If you own a blog, you will have to constantly update it with fresh content, so you can ping more often and so you can get higher rankings for your targeted keyphrases. Aggregating and using RSS feeds can benefit your blogging activities significantly by allowing you to add fresh, targeted content to your blog without actually updating it yourself. Whenever a search engine visitors your blog, it will record your RSS feed updates as fresh and possibly unique, targeted content.

Now you can further enhance the amount of unique visitors you get by using RSS to syndicate your updates. In addition to netting you several backlinks on blogs and websites (which will increase your offpage search engine optimization score), it will also net you some unique visitors through direct links from other blogs and sites.

If your site aggregates a number of important authority sites via RSS feed, you will become an authority site aggregator at the very least, which is useful for people looking to find authority sites on your given topic.

RSS can benefit your blog by generating traffic – by improving your actual search engine rankings and by increasing the amount of direct click-thrus you receive – and by helping you retain traffic – by positioning your site as an authority aggregator and by providing better, original content for blog visitors.

How to build your Website Traffic Statistics

2006-09-29T06:44:00.000+07:00

By TA Honey
When visitors arrive at your website, what are they doing? Are your potential customers discarding your site just seconds after their arrival? If you are confused because you do not know what your visitors are doing, or why, then how could you create a good strategy to offer your visitors a better experience on your website?If you want to know who visits your website, what other websites referred them, what country they are from, etc then continue reading this article. This information may interest you just for curiosity or because it’s important to develop your business or project. It’s very difficult to take right decisions if you don’t have complete information.

There are many companies that offer hit counter and web site traffic statistics services on the Internet. Some of them are free, some of them are paid. Some of them are very simple and provide you with minimal information, some of them provide in depth information about your website visitors.

Benchmarktracking.com provides the most comprehensive Website traffic reports and tracking statistics to measure the performance of your website as well as the effectiveness of the search engine marketing (SEM) efforts. The web site visitor tracking report gives you a detailed overview of your unique visitors, returning visitors, source of your visitors, and the popular search engines. Real time reports identify the top performing Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign.

Some features you may require for your site are:

Pay-per-click results: You can get Pay-per-click results and conversions on your campaigns. This includes analysis of conversions by search phrase and search engine. Also, you can import PPC data from your Search Engine campaigns and compare them.

Internet traffic: You can get an overview of the Internet traffic. It's a simple snapshot of some of your other reports, presented in an easy to view format.

Time Spent By Visitors: You can see the average and specific time visitors spend on your site. Determine and analyze the exact paths your visitors are following. Determine the time spent by specific search phrases of your visitors, both unique and returning visitors.

Page views per day: You can determine your single most active page. Review the total number of page views per day as well as average page views by both returning and unique visitors. See which of your files are being downloaded most often.

Tracking web site visitors: Review your last visitor details by either a) Page views b) Time spent or c) Most current visitors.

This report provides you with an easy trail to follow. In essence, it shows you how people are navigating your site. See the trend of both your unique and returning visitors.

Demographics: What country, state and city are your visitors coming from? What language do they speak? This can be important information if you are trying to target geographically or globally.

Unique visitors and page loads: More page loads per visitor means your visitors are more interested in your website, but may also imply they are looking for something and they are not able to find it on your website.

Referring URLs: Know what other web sites are driving traffic to your website. Search engine statistics and keywords used.

Popular pages: What are the most visited pages on your web site, and which ones nobody sees. Most active countries, browser used by the visitor, screen resolution, operating system, etc.

Your web site traffic statistics are extremely valuable information for your business. You will be able to make decisions on improving your site through the information they give you. Observing your visitors’ behavior will help you address the issues they are having with your website.

T.A. Honey is professional writer who writes articles on various topics this time writing on web stats for www.benchmarktracking.com. They provide the most comprehensive Website traffic reports and tracking statistics to measure the performance of your website and measure the effectiveness of the search engine marketing (SEM) efforts.

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2006-09-25T23:25:00.000+07:00

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Blogs can Explode your Business

2006-09-25T04:56:00.000+07:00

By: Shakil Zaman

How Blogs can Explode your Online Business. They’re popping up everywhere. Your favorite website has one. Your favorite television show has one. Even your teenager has one. Blogs. What are they? Why are they everywhere you look? Should you consider creating one to complement your online business?

Most simply put, blogs are like journals—only, instead of being made of the paper and cardboard kept secret by an even thinner piece of cardboard and a lock your baby brother frequently opened with a paperclip, these journals are online. Why does it seem like everyone has one? Well, because almost everyone does. And there’s good reason. Blogs can be used as journals, both private and public; they can be used as ways for fans to discuss the latest episode of their favorite sitcom; or, they can be used by major companies, especially those that are Internet-based, because unlike the traditional forms of advertising, blogs bring in more traffic.

For business purposes, there are many ways companies use blogs. For example, a company may have several blogs on its website, each one dedicated to something different: customer concerns, product updates, etc. In addition to being helpful to customers and other website visitors, these blogs bring in more traffic to the website, as well. Depending on the website, more traffic usually means more money. And more money means—that’s right—you’re on your way to that summer home in the Hamptons!

So, how exactly do blogs bring in more traffic? Well, Adsense ads with Google are a good starting point. The search engine visits your page more each time your update, ultimately moving your blog higher and higher on the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) and leading to more revenue from the ads being represented in your blog.

Some pointers? First, the blogger will need to decide what he or she is going to write about. Choose a popular topic, one that people are interested in. “Underwater Basket Weaving” probably wouldn’t be a very wise choice as not many people seem to be interested in it. Unless, of course, you’re business is underwater basket weaving, in which case you should by all means write about it.

Next, focus on some keywords—these are the words that search engines are going to pick up on. Don’t dowse your blog in these words, but use them whenever you effectively can, ideally at the top of your own posts either in the headline or first few paragraphs. Lastly, make sure you write content that will attract, and keep, a strong readership. You want your readers to keep coming back, right?

Also, ensure that you are adding valuable content related to your online business to your blog on a regular basis, at least once every two to three days. Everytime you update your blog make sure to ping your blog using a service like Pingomatic. Pinging your blog lets the blog directories know that you have just updated your blog. One reason why blogs are powerful is that the search engines love blog sites since they are constantly being updated with fresh new content.

Submit your blog to the blog search engines by simply doing a search for ‘blog search engines’ in Google or Yahoo and then submitting your blog url to them. A great way to increase traffic to your blog is by visiting blogs in your niche of similar content and leaving useful comments regarding topics posted in those blogs. When you leave a comment, you are also allowed to leave your blog url so when others read your comment they can then go to your blog to find out more about you.

Last, but not least, you must have a passion for the topic you have chosen in your blog. Remember, other people are looking to get value from the information
on your blog so if you are not passionate about your blog’s topic then it will show in the quality of the information on your blog. You must love what you do
or at least learn to fall in love with it.

Go ahead, join the millions of people and businesses alike. Get yourself a blog. Or corner your boss and suggest writing one for your company. Explain how blogs bring in more traffic, more traffic means more money, and more money means—that’s right again!—you’re on your way to the Hamptons.

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Does The World Need Vista?

2006-09-23T13:53:00.000+07:00

Trully that I am not oftenly seen Vista on internet. Does the World Need Vista? I'm not so sure that Vista is even necessary at this point in time. As I continue to use Vista and Microsoft continues to refine their betas (Currently at 5472), this has been a question that has been nagging at me. The biggest reason that's offered up when I take this topic to the forums is that Microsoft needed to create a new OS because of security concerns with XP. That there is a void for a really secure Microsoft OS. Does any mature Microsoft user REALLY think that with all the new code being introduced into this OS, it's going to be much more secure?

Ummm it's going to be different..maybe a little more secure but much more secure?? I doubt that.

Why do I doubt that? Two fundamental reasons.

1) History (look at all the releases that have come before)

2) The beta process. This open beta process has been interesting and along with all the good civil people helping to beta test, hackers now have a head start on exploring and cracking this O.S.

So we can argue security (especially for the enterprise) and Vista all day long but I would also like to explore another angle.

If you take a look at the features that Vista is offering, you'll see a lot of stand alone products.

Microsoft Mail (Basically Outlook express)
Microsoft Defender
Windows Media Center
Windows DVD Maker
Windows Fax and Scan
Windows Calendar
Windows Meeting Space
People near me
Windows Photo Gallery
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Contacts
Windows Sidebar

It can be argued that these and several other Vista offerings could have been offered as updates to XP and/or separate products. This is where the concept of Microsoft as a monopoly comes in. These products (if released separately) would probably not be able to dominate their respective markets.

For instance:

Media Center is cool but there are much better media players (WinDVD etc).
Defender is cute but there's Spysweeper, Adaware and Spyware Doctor.
Meeting Space would face stiff competition from several collaboration software vendors.

You get the picture.

BUT, if you had a new Operating System, well, instantly you have millions of customers who would not ordinarily have touched these products..

Now, I like Microsoft. I also think the idea of a new O.S. is healthy and exciting for the marketplace. It keeps Apple (the competition) on their toes and thus fulfills the mandate of a capitalist market.

I wanted Vista to be exciting and offer exceptional value but it seems to me, Vista should have had one major objective:

To be MUCH MUCH better than XP and Windows 2003.

Windows XP and Windows 2003 were really good Operating Systems and it would be hard to claim that they didn't provide overwhelming value compared to their predecessors.

Today, I use a dual boot PC with Windows 2003 and Windows Vista (5456) installed.

It's a testament to Microsoft that today I can dual boot into Vista beta and use it for days on end. It is a solid beta. It is a strong product. It is very stable. It's pretty.

A Tale of Internet Shenanigans

2006-09-22T13:50:00.000+07:00

by Gene Heratori
This had been a notable week in terms of the deluge of news articles regarding Internet fraud. Perhaps the summer heat and the forecast of temperatures rising into the 100s have an overall noxious effect on people’s behavior, compelling them to acquire the demeanor of cyber-villains in the same way that a full moon has been known to induce aggressiveness. Whatever the case may be, here is a recap that pushes the limits of the imagination:

I. The Trojan Horse and The MySpace.com Space Out

Remarkably, an online advertiser managed to insert the coding of a Trojan horse program into a banner advertisement running on the MySpace.com network. Visitors using older versions of Internet Explorer may have been infected. In effect, the way older versions of this browser process Windows Metafile images would have left them vulnerable to both hackers and adware programs alike. All of the estimates I’ve read indicated that the number may have been over one million MySpace.com users.

The Trojan horse coding itself does not distribute the unwanted pop up ads that plague infected computers. Rather, a Trojan horse covertly installs itself onto the user’s computers opening a line of communication with an outside server that downloads adware programs and other malware onto the users’ hard drives. I wonder why online advertisers are willing to subject themselves to lawsuits and criminal prosecution by choosing a ride on the Trojan horse??

What you can do to avoid this from happening to you: A tech-savvy friend once told me to download Mozilla Firefox as a way to avoid having my computer infected by simply visiting a page with a Trojan type program on it. Internet Explorer has also developed a patch that resolves this vulnerability to Windows Metafile images for aficionados who are loyal to this browser. If you’re a content publisher looking to earn revenue by displaying banner ads on your site, you should set in place a system of monitoring banner ads that you receive from your individual advertisers. Content publishers using third party advertising networks to distribute banner websites, should make sure your networks have taken appropriate measures to screen the banners before distribution.

II. Click Fraud Practitioners Beware!

Google is becoming even more proactive. Guys: do you remember your high school quarterback who was good looking, got into an Ivy League on a full scholarship, and yet still managed to be humble about it? Didn’t it annoy you! That must be how Google makes the competition feel. Last week, an Information Systems Professor at NYU by the name of Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin indicated that Google is and has been taking appropriate measures to handle the problem of click fraud for the benefit of their advertisers. According to Tuzhilin, Google’s team of Click Quality inspectors systematically covers all four corners of “pre-filtering, online filtering, automated offline detection, and manual offline detection” while screening for invalid clicks.

Furthermore, a New York Times article indicates that Google plans on telling advertisers how many clicks are fraudulent. This transparency would be most reassuring, but for me this comes as no surprise. I remember receiving notice from Google that I had received a reimbursement in my Adwords account without me even having to ask for it. In my opinion, Google has already been on the ball in detecting click fraud for quite some time. Communicating this news to the public is done in order to reassure the nervous nellies of our space.

What you can do to avoid this from happening to you: If you’re a paid search advertiser, certain tracking and analytics software packages offer fraud detection tools. Keyword MAX for example offers a device called Click Auditor that appears on your screen as a gauge that looks like a speedometer, only instead of indicating speed, it detects the degree of fraud in your various paid search accounts. Paid search providers can detect an invalid click if it comes through a proxy server, through which a robot can send a request from more than one IP address.

Click fraud unfortunately happens, but with the proper tools, training, experience, and gut feeling, you can reduce the threat that it poses to you.

Look for more installments for this series in the next issue. Stay tuned!
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How to set up Your Site Perfect

2006-09-22T09:04:00.000+07:00

It’s not talked about much, but woodland animals are notoriously unresponsive to advertising. That’s why you don’t expect to see many billboards when camping. The website of a brick-and-mortar business acts much like a cyber billboard, a vitally important informational hub placed on the Internet with anticipation that visitors will come across the site to explore its content. Yet, many businesses, particularly the small-to-midsized, have their websites built with no thought of its positioning or upkeep; inevitably these websites are parked in the interactive weeds, lost in the woods of a different sort. Too many of these smaller businesses don’t realize the missed opportunities of an improperly aligned website. A representative website isn’t a box to be crossed off a to-do list for a business, but instead an integral component of today’s successful business.

Think of haphazardly positioned websites as being interactive slouches of sorts; they are out of shape web entities sure to be overlooked by search engines. In order to shape up, the sloppy website must shed its baggage and get toned. And like physical fitness there is no finish line, just positive results from proper maintenance. While no one will confuse ICMediaDirect.com with Bally’s or Equinox Gym anytime soon there are some common solutions hammered down for clients. Websites have got to become web conditioned or else stay unnoticed.

Hup, two, three, four…a web site in boot camp is treated a little differently than our GIs, perhaps more harshly even. The first thing we do is slap the website out of its isolation by building some links. This isolation, this lack of “link love” as it’s known, accounts for a great deal of why websites will sit unnoticed – and too often business owners are too busy to notice that their website is being ignored. And unless the business manager wants to drop everything and learn a new skill, he or she must find someone, a professional hopefully, to do this. There isn’t any getting around this. Search engine algorithms study links (as links serve as efficient e-recommendations) and do not reward an absence of them – at all.

A classic example of an isolated website that of a restaurant owned by a friend of mine. In the first dot-com boom he spent a good deal of money to build a state of the art website for his place. He loved the site, the staff and his friends loved the site, and everyone who was shown the site just loved it. But this was 1999 and search wasn’t a high priority; maybe it wasn’t wrong back then to just assume that people would find the site somehow.

The search process has improved like gangbusters since then and good real estate on the search engine results page (SERP) is at a premium. My friend’s website had been rendered invisible, lost in the weeds. People could only find it if they looked specifically for it by name; when using descriptive words such as “Lounge + New York City + Dancing”, it was not even in the top 100 mentioning of the major search engines. As far as interest generated via the Internet, he might as well have built a billboard in the woods.

And like an army recruit, candidates for web conditioning are broken down before they’re built up again, better and stronger. This means that instead of merely posting the facts of the website’s business with some nice pictures, we emphasize about what prospective customers might want it. For instance, an antique dealer specializing in foreign goods might think about what the kinds of items are most popular before creating a keyword list that people might enter into search engines when looking for those kinds of things, as opposed to just announcing themselves as a top dealer in foreign antiques. People want to find what sellers have, not just to find dealers. It sounds too obvious, but just look at how much advertising is wasted in announcing greatness – web copy for a business should be designed along the lines of appealing to the visitor, in anticipation of what they want. It’s how search works.

And once the visitor finds this site, the battle begins anew. The language, the same language that includes strategically placed keywords must now double as effective copy. The visitor’s attention must be held. This is the optimizing process, this is reworking a website. There are no shortcuts, no easy way to do it, but conditioning your website is like maintaining good health – it takes a bit of thought, some balance in the means of action, and regular check ups. It’s a lot to list now, but thinking right about websites done wrong is the first step to getting a website well again. If you have a friend or relative whose website is listless and ignored – do him or her a favor and tell them to get with the program.

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3 Secrets how to Improve Rss Marketing

2006-09-20T18:00:00.000+07:00

In this article you will learn 3 Tips how to improve your RSS marketing.
You have created an RSS feed, or maybe you have several feeds and you post at least once a week to keep your RSS subscribers interested. So now you can sit back and watch your hit counter tally up all those extra visitors. Well you may think you have finished but there are a few things you can do to improve things still further.

1. Let browsers and search engines know you have an RSS available.

To do this you need to add a line of HTML to every page that has a link to your RSS feed. The link will be:

link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="title" href="http://www.site.com/rss.xml"

This line will need to be enclosed by angled brackets and placed between your HEAD tags of your page. Once you have done this some search engine bots and web browsers such as Firefox will know you have an RSS feed available.

2. Submit your RSS feed to the RSS and Blog directories.

Like you would submit your site to search engines you can submit your site to RSS specific directories. This will give your RSS greater exposure to an audience that is already interested and educated about the benefits of RSS. This is a list of Alexa ranked RSS directories and another can be found here.

3. Announce that your RSS feed has been updated.

Every time you add a new item to your RSS feed you can announce it to the world, or at least many of the RSS directories. To do this you need to ping each service. If you are using Blogging software your software is probably already doing this for you , check your documentation.

For those of you who do not have software set up to automatically ping for you there is no need to worry. There is a free service at Ping-o-matic that will do this for you.

Allan is the webmaster at NewsNiche an RSS resource for webmasters. Learn how to use RSS to attract and retain visitors to your site.
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3 Way To Get Hundreds Of Links To Your Blog

2006-09-16T23:06:00.000+07:00

Everyone want to get hundreds even thousand links. How to get those links? Now you have to learn. Did you know that there are free ways that you can get links back to your blog overnight? That after a few days they can number in the hundreds?

No matter what you market on the internet at some point you'll face the issue of increasing the number of visitors to your site. What most people don't know is that there are literally hundreds of ways to get free traffic. Here we'll focus on three overlooked ways to get additional traffic to your site using a blog.

The third most overlooked way to bring traffic to your site with a blog is to read and comment on other blogs.

Now, maybe you've done this before but stopped, because you're
becoming concerned about being considered a link-spammer. In
that case, leave a link to your site after your comments, instead of in the comment form that hot links it.

In the near future, blogmasters will be able to use special code to prevent spam in their comments section, so this will become less of a concern.

Besides, getting clicks from people who read comments, or visits from search engine spiders through your comments, isn't necessarily your direct objective, though it's definitely a plus.

What you want to do via commenting is to enter the blog community that corresponds to your target market. Get to know who the players are and make agreements with them to cycle traffic between you.

Or lurk to find out where your target market typically hangs out when they're online ? you'd be surprised at how many inexpensive and targeted advertising sources you can find through this method.

(If you're looking to get linked, there's another way that we'll go over next.)

This tip alone has earned me a few dozen links from prominent blogs in the past four days alone.

These links are worth ten times a reciprocal link because they send targeted traffic from established sources, and come from experts with records of proven results.

You can be sure these kinds of people will check you out before they linked to you, since they may be judged by the quality of the information they share.

The second method to more blog traffic is the most confusing for newer people, and this is probably the reason its benefits remain overlooked.

In the simplest of terms, Trackback is kind of a remote commenting system that incorporates linking. It allows the reader to follow a topic around the web to see other bloggers remark on the same subject. It enables the publisher to remotely cite references to the issue on which they've written.

Once you've made yourself familiar with the blogging community you have entered, you can often pick up the pulse of conversations within your site's theme. Then, when you see issues that you want to expound on, you can send the other site a notification to let them know you cited them on your blog. That link will appear on their site, and often draws visitors to you.
Bloggers who use Trackback often enjoy greater control over
this function in their blogs than they do over linking, as they have the option to reject your reference - so there is a lesser incidence of fraudulent linking. That also gives your link a greater chance of being displayed.

So why don't more people use Trackback?

One reason is that what is arguably the most popular free blog system, Blogger, doesn't have Trackback. However, Haloscan.com can remedy this with their free service ? it's a cut and paste away.

Many new bloggers don't get what it is and how it differs from commenting. And of course, the dynamics of it are a little more complex than I've stated. But learn to use Trackback properly, and you won't need to beg for links to your site ever again.

It's harder to estimate an exact number of visitors that come as a result of trackback links. But if you posted five days out of seven, and was able to get a trackback link to your site three times a week, by the end of the year you'd have almost 150 topical links back to your site, which are more valued by search engines than a typical link trade with an unrelated site.

The most overlooked source of traffic for a blog is through article submission. To start with, turn your longer posts into articles and submitting them to ezines or directories. Look especially for directories that ask for the direct link to the article on your own site, and input the permanent link to the post on your blog.

Make sure that your Auto-Discovery tag is in place and it can mean hundreds more prospects, links and subscribers.

It's a shame this is the one of the least used traffic methods for most sites, let alone for blogs. In four days, this method generated just over 1000 visitors. 157 newsletter leads, 98 new feed subscribers, and 206 links to my site. You may not get these same results right away, but using these simple strategies can still get you more exposure than you have now.

These aren't normally the highest quality links, as they rarely make sure of anchor text. However, bloggers are citing me using Trackback, sometimes in lieu of linking to the site where they originally found the article.

To see this in action, do a search on "Can A Ping Really Help Your Blog Get Top Search Engine Rankings", the title of an article I submitted earlier this week.

That article was published within a week of this one- the results speak for themselves. Many of these sites aren't the ones where my articles are normally published.

There are, of course, plenty of other ways you can leverage the content in your blog or RSS feed to increase the traffic to your site. The methods outlined here may be a bit outside the norm, but, as you'll soon find, that's part of the reason they are so effective.

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Learn Blog Common Mistakes

2006-09-15T19:52:00.000+07:00

Become real Blogger you must learn from the beginning, start from the blogs rule, blogs software, content, trick, tips and other important information that you should know better.
I prefer go to blogs forum to know something that I missed, until now. I keep read what other people said, recommend and sometimes read other people blogs, contact them and make a litte chit chat.

As much as this might surprise most bloggers, the #1 mistake most blogs are doing is not publishing their content via e-mail, as a supplement to their RSS feeds.

Just think about it: while RSS is growing strong, it still only penetrates about 5-6% of the American online population. Furthermore, according to a recent BlogAds survey, "only 12 percent of the blog reading audience said it used RSS always or often".

If you're delivering your blog content only via RSS, you're missing out on about 80% or more of potential regular readership/followship.

THE KEY BLOG PROBLEM
There are millions of blogs already, but really few people have the time to watch more than a few daily. But if they come back just once a week, they can be quickly overwhelmed with the amount of new content.

That's why it's crucial to provide a "best of", a helping hand to guide your readers to the "must-read" content you publish ? and delivering this content either as a standalone "blog-zine" or as part of your regular e-mail newsletter.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Deliver your blog posts as they are written via RSS, but then also publish a regular (weekly or monthly) e-mail e-zine with your "top blog posts" for those that are still not in to RSS.

Don't do just one channel, do both.

E-mail is still the #1 end-user content delivery channel ... whether we like it or not. Using e-mail (as a supplement to RSS) to deliver our content is just good business practice, at least for now.

THE CHRIS PIRILLO EXAMPLE
Chris Pirillo is the publisher of one of the most popular sites on the net, Lockergnome.com. He was actually the first to proclaim e-mail as being dead.

But still, while he preferrs for his subscribers to use RSS instead of e-mail, that isn't stopping him from using or promoting either RSS or e-mail.

COMPARING BLOGS, E-ZINES, E-MAIL AND RSS
If you're reading this article and thinking that blogs are actually "beyond e-mail", just consider the following reality.

RSS and e-mail are content delivery channels; the tools that enable us to deliver our content to end-users. Blogs and e-zines on the other hand are two different internet media content formats, differing in how/what content is provided and presented through them.

RSS/e-mail and blogs/e-zines cannot be directly compared. Blog content and e-zine content can both be delivered via RSS and e-mail, and there is no direct business/logical relation between, for example, blogs and RSS.

Blogs are "personal" conversations, opinions and news, delivered in a linear structure, usually written in a more personal style, and confined to a limited number of content types.

E-zines on the other hand are more similar to magazines or newspapers, carrying content presented in a complex non-linear content structure, and having the ability to carry many different content types that do not mix well together if provided through a linear content structure.

A typical e-zine might include:

- an editorial;
- a leading article, representing the prevailing topic of a specific e-zine issue;
- supporting articles, clearly structured to show they are secondary to the leading article;
- links to "best of" blog posts in the given timeframe;
- links to the most relevant forum topics and posts;
- a news section;
- a featured client case study;
- different advertisements (banner ads, textual ads, advertorials etc.);
- a featured consultant;
- a Q&A section;
- a featured whitepaper;
- etc.

Providing all of this content demands a complex content structure and a strong and experienced editor. The blog format simply does not provide the level of structure needed to effectively present such a complex content mix.

But that's not to say that blogs are in any way inferior to e-zines, they're just different. And businesses need both, and they need to deliver both via RSS and e-mail.

Personal preferences towards content delivery channels and internet content media formats have no place in business. What matters is what our audiences want and how they want it.

Rok Hrastnik is the author of »Unleash the Marketing & Publishing Power of RSS«, acclaimed as the best and most comprehensive guide to RSS for marketers by leading RSS experts.

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What will visitor eyes see through your website

2006-09-14T17:39:00.000+07:00

By Kim Roach
When a visitor comes to your site, they take a particular path. Their eyes move in quick motion, hopping from one hotspot to the next. If you don't know how your visitors are traveling, your conversion rates will suffer dramatically. Fortunately, there is a company who has performed in-depth testing for you, revealing the common behaviors of people viewing web pages.

They track eye movements as a visitor travels through a website and how they scan any individual page. With this information, they have created heat maps to show where visitors focus most of their attention. On these heat maps, red areas are the most popular and blue areas are the least popular.

The company is known as Eyetrack and they began studying online behavior in 1999. Because of these studies they have been able to help web masters to improve their site designs, headlines, font sizes, navigation, article formats, and even their ads.

However, since the results comprise over 300 pages, I've provided you with the golden nuggets that can be gleaned from this study below.

Article Formats
Your visitors are certainly not reading your website word for word. They are scanning and picking out relevant information that they feel is important. Fortunately, you can attract your visitors to certain content simply by placing it in the right spots.

These simple changes can increase your sales, subscriber sign-ups, and your return on investment.

The headline, for example, is often the first element that people see on your site. To draw people into an article, you must have a compelling headline that speaks directly to your visitors needs and wants.

In fact, a change in the headline on a sales page can produce a 1,900% increase in sales. This is certainly an element that should not be taken lightly.

You might also want to begin your articles with a boldface introductory paragraph. 95 percent of readers in the Eyetrack study viewed all or part of the introduction when presented with an article to read.

On the Internet, where information abounds and the majority of people are paralyzed by information overload, most appreciate the addition of an introductory paragraph that summarizes your article.

Once they have come to the actual content, however, how do you get them to continue reading? There are a few formatting issues to keep in mind when designing the layout of your article.

You will definitely need to use short, snappy paragraphs. Eyetrack III research found that shorter paragraphs received twice as many eye fixations as those with longer paragraphs.

Most people also seem to focus on the left side of the page and look for related words that might entice them to read closer. Therefore, you will want to include some important keywords on the left-hand side of the page so that readers can quickly see them out and be pulled further into the material.

You can also encourage your readers to continue reading by using bolding and enticing sub headings.

Font Size
The Eyetrack III research discovered that smaller type encourages focused reading rather than scanning. Very interesting. In general, their testing found that people spent more time focused on small type than large type. The larger type resulted in increased scanning of the page. Of course, you don't want your visitors to be squinting to try and read your text. The key is to find the appropriate balance that will encourage readers to focus on your text more than they scan.

It was also found that underlined headlines discouraged readers from viewing the following text. Overall, visual breaks (such as a line or rule) discourage people from looking at items beyond the break.

Now, on to one of my favorite web design topics...

Navigation
Eyetracker found that navigation at the top of a homepage performed best, meaning that it was seen by the highest percentage of test subjects and looked at for the longest duration.

Your navigation is best placed on the top or left side of the page. Why? Simply because this is what people are used to. If you go along with the crowd, people are much more likely to effectively browse your website.

Advertising
So, what about ads? As you have probably heard, many people ignore ads. The online world has a massive case of banner blindness. However, good placement and design can often improve your results.

For example, ads in the top and left portions of a homepage receive the most attention.

Ads on the right side of the page don't do as well.
In addition, ads that are placed next to important editorial content can really help attract attention to the ads. These ads perform best when they are truly integrated into the actual content of the page.

If you are using images within your advertising, keep the following in mind.

Images receive much more attention if they are larger. For example, one of the test pages in the Eyetrack III test found that a postage-stamp sized image was viewed by 10 percent of the participants while an average sized photo (about 230 pixels wide and deep) drew the attention of 70 percent of the people.

Their research also showed that clean, clear faces in images attract more eye attention on homepages. So, if you are using small images within your advertisements, you may want to enlarge them a bit if you want people to be drawn to them.

On the other hand, people seem to avoid ads when a visual barrier is placed between the ad and the content.

These breaks can consist of either white space or a border.

Ads that blend into the look and feel of the page draw the most attention. In addition, text ads were also found to receive the most response.

By now, you may be wondering what these studies have shown about search engines. Exactly what do people look at when they are presented with a list of search engine results? Well, that is an excellent question and one that has been studied extensively.

A joint eye tracking study performed by search marketing firms Enquiro and Did-it and eye tracking firm Eyetools has shown that the majority of eye activity during a search happens within a triangle at the top of the search results page.

This area of maximum interest has been referred to as the "golden triangle". The study showed that the top 5 results (ones above the fold) received the most exposure.

Here is a chart showing the organic ranking visibility of the top 10 positions.
Rank 1 – 100%
Rank 2 – 100%
Rank 3 – 100%
Rank 4 – 85%
Rank 5 – 60%
Rank 6 – 50%
Rank 7 – 50%
Rank 8 – 30%
Rank 9 – 30%
Rank 10 – 20%

Side sponsored ads receive significantly less attention. Here is an overview of the visibility of the side sponsored ads based on position:
1 – 50%
2 – 40%
3 – 30%
4 – 20%
5 – 10%
6 – 10%
7 – 10%
8 – 10%

This is largely due to an "F" shaped scan pattern in which the eye tends to travel vertically along the far left side of the results and then scan to the right occasionally if something catches its attention.

These statistics show the importance of ranking well and also of using relevant keywords within your title and description. With a relevant and interesting title and description, you can attract more eyeballs within the search engine results.

As always, keep in mind that the information gleaned from these studies are simply a guide. Nothing can beat your own testing. If you don't have good content it doesn't matter how good your layout is.

However, by using some simple layout techniques, you can influence the path your visitors take within your website.

About The Author
Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for the SiteProNews and SEO-News newsletters. You can also find additional tips and news on webmaster and SEO topics by Kim at the SiteProNews blog.
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How To Build An Internet Business Sucessful

2006-09-13T20:08:00.000+07:00

I want to start build an internet business, but I just a beginner. If you can tell me how to build an Internet business fast and sucessful. This question was always say bye almost people to start business in internet. Everyday I talk with people who want to get started on the internet with their own business.

But the whole process seems a mystery to them whether they have an affiliate marketing program, a real estate course or they sell health and fitness products. The easiest way I found to walk people through the basic building blocks is to use a real life example of building a brick and mortar business. Success on the internet is possible when you know how to build it and drive targeted traffic to your website.

Let's say you wanted to open a coffee shop that would rival Starbuck's?. Where would you begin? You would probably want to do some kind of research to see how many coffee shops were in your town or city. After all, if there are 5 in a ten mile radius, you might want to think about a different location or how you would make your coffee shop unique enough to slaughter the competition.

1. Identify your niche
Well, it's not much different on the web. You want to first identify your niche. First, let's quickly explain what a niche is and isn't. If you are selling every affiliate marketing program under the sun, this is not a niche. A niche would be to focus on affiliate programs in a specific field like health and fitness. Then you want to find out what the top websites are by typing 'health and fitness' into Google. Here you can see the top 10 sites that Google says are important. Remember that even the category 'health and fitness' can be broken down into further niches like weight loss for women or top 20 health products for longevity. See what your competition is doing and how you could do it different or better.

Another way to look for niches is to use Overture's search term tool. Place your keyword in the box and hit go. Overture will spit out anything relevant to that keyword. It will show you possible niches you hadn't thought of and how many people search for that keyword. For example, you may put in coffee beans and it may show you that organically grown and processed coffee beans are all the rage.

2. Build a user friendly website
Back to the coffee shop. Next thing you might do is have the shop built in a good location where traffic can come and go easily. You too must build a website that has what people are looking for, is easy to navigate, easy to shop and checkout with friendly customer service. Tip: If you are selling weight loss products, don't try and sell power tools. While this may sound obvious, many people try to take the 'sell everything' they can approach and what happens is they end up selling nothing.

What will the environment of the coffee shop be like? What experience do you want your customers to have? Your customers will be entering your website with expectations of finding the information they need and the products they want. In that order. You might invite them to sign up for a free 7 part report on 'how to lose 10lbs guaranteed over the next 30 days eating healthy.' At the end of that report you can encourage them to look at your weight loss supplements or vitamins.

3. Good navigation
As in the coffee shop, have your items for sale laid out in a well organized fashion so the buyer can order exactly what they want with little effort except to give you their credit card number. It is best to have your products grouped and images optimized for fast page loads. Think about what you like. Do you want to see ten products described well on a page or fifty crammed in? As you would have nice displays in your coffee shop so will you on your website.

4. Offer something better than your competition does
What other things could you do to enhance your buyer's experience? In a coffee shop you could offer free samples of new drinks or have a discount card for people who drink coffee with you every morning. On your website, you can offer free tips, reports and discounts on volume buys
or repeat purchases.

5. Market wisely
So, how do you get people to come try your coffee shop? Typically, a brick and mortar business will advertise in the local paper. It may be that you have the coffee that is guaranteed to get them going in the morning, free internet access, homemade muffins or the freshest coffee beans
available. With your website, you may do pay-per-click advertising, exchange reciprocal links or write articles.

Traffic must come in the door of your website, like what they see and hopefully buy from you.

While most of these tips are common sense, it is amazing how few people actually use these critical ingredients in their online business. Pretend you are a customer arriving to your web store for the first time. What could you do to make the whole experience better?

About the Author:
Jan Peterson founder of http://www.goldstarreview.com , http://info-user.blogspot.com researches and reviews business opportunities including internet marketing, real estate investing, affiliate marketing, financial investing http://credit-card-tips-info.blogspot.com and more.

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Tips To Get Indexed By Google In 5 Days Or Less

2006-09-12T21:19:00.000+07:00

In the internet world "Google" website is the biggest search engine now with more than 300
million searches PER DAY. In other words you are losing out big time if your websites are not
one is listed in Google. Of course your web pages must be indexed by them in the first
place to guarantee any rankings.

Note : you will not get a lot of traffic if your site's not listed in the first 2 pages for all your correct keyword searches.

You can use any tools to get it. The best tool for generating focused keywords is really Ad Word Analyzer by Jeff Alderson. Alot of website did this.

Another software to achieve high rankings for these keywords, I'd recommend using a software like Traffic Equalizer, also by Jeff.

Now there are two easy way and tactics to overcome if you want to be indexed successfully:

(1) Your page should have at least one incoming link from another Google listed web page

(2) It takes at least 4-6 weeks to be indexed

I'll give you a no-brainer secret to solve these two obstacles, while virtually getting your web page to be indexed in 7 days or less. And this has got nothing to do with AdWords or paying thousands to SEO companies.

How?
You can use Google itself to get your own site indexed quickly!

The method’s to simply write articles, participate in forums or list your website in active directories.

Here’s what you have to do :
Search http://www.google.com for highly ranked and active article directories, forums, discussion lists related to your niche markets.

Submit your articles, link or posts to these high traffic sites. An example, participate in popular forums with your link in your signature file.

Google normally re-index such high traffic active sites every 5-7 days. When that happens, your own website url will be picked up and rotated to be indexed within 24 hours too.

Can you see how this method solve the two obstacles easily? You get a quality incoming link and get your site indexed at the same time.

Get Googled, get indexed, get going!

Note: The above technique may be affected by changes at Google.com in the future. However it’s still relevant at current time of writing.

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An Adsense Ad Is More Than An Ad

2006-09-10T02:47:00.000+07:00

Most of you that read this article already knew about Adsense Ad, how to used it and etc. But for successfull adsense you need more information about it. Please read this article to know more.

You will succeed with Adsense when your visitors wilfully look to them as a source of supplemental information to what your webpage provides. Therefore, if there is such a thing as a trick to succeeding with Adsense it is not to see Adsense Ads as advertisements.

The reason for this is that no one likes ads. Why? Because we're surrounded by the buggers.

Advertisements are viewed as an intrusion, Adsense Ads should be seen and integrated as a further resource for your website visitors.

The reason this is achievable with Adsense is down to the very nature of the ads:

1. The Adsense Ads are related to the content of the page that you put them on

The reason that Adsense is so popular and so effective at monetizing traffic is that the ads that appear on your website will be related to the content of each individual webpage. If you build a website about home insurance, then the ads on it will be about home insurance, if you build a website about Nike shoes then that's what the ads will be about and so forth. If integrated into your website correctly they're actually useful to your visitor and if something is useful it gets paid much more attention!

2. Adsense Ads are customizable

To not just be an ad, real integration into your website is necessary. The different format sizes and the color palettes all facilitate the integration of the ads into the fabric of your website.

3. The quality of the Ads

In the internet world Google is on top. Consequently, Google's advertising program - Adwords is used by thousands and thousands of quality businesses to reach their intended audience. This means that every niche market has a good selection of advertisers all writing carefully scripted ads to relate to the people using your website.

4. Because the Ads automatically change

Not only is the ad pool very large, the advertisers and the ads keep on changing. This keeps all your ads abreast of market trends as the advertisers constantly strive to better each other and themselves. The ads appearing on your site will evolve as your market evolves. Secondly, and this is important for sites that receive repeat visitors - your ads will often be different. If the same person reads the samepage twice in a two week time period they're more likely to click on ad both times if they are different each visit.

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Create Adsense Domination fast

2006-09-10T01:28:00.000+07:00

By Keith Baxter
When you make your living online, you realize the need for multiple streams of income.
One of the easiest and most lucrative ways to generate a secondary income, which also happens to be passive, is via Google's Adsense program. I'm sure you 've read the claims of a few individuals generating five figure monthly incomes from Adsense. For many of you, I 'm sure you are wondering why you aren 't making this same income yourself.

If you follow my simple six step system, you will be well on your way to healthy Adsense profits within three months.
Are you ready? It 's now time to pay attention.

Step 1 ' Preparation.

The key to making money with Adsense is all about numbers. BIG numbers!
Sure, there are a few people making serious money with less than ten sites, but these are the exception.
Your goal will be twenty-four sites in three months. That 's just TWO sites per week!
In order to accomplish this, I recommend one of the many available page generation tools available today.

Step 2 ' Determine Your Markets.

In order to maximize Adsense income with only twenty-four sites, you must know which markets are paying well.
To break this down even further, you need to know which keywords within those markets are paying the most.

Step 3 ' Register you domains.

Once you 've identified and chosen your markets, you must register domains appropriate to those markets. For example, if your market is 'Cabbage Patch Dolls ', a domain such as http://www.cabbage-patch-doll.com/ would be appropriate.

Step 4 ' Create your site.

Using your favorite page generation software and keyword list, it 's time to develop your site. There are several key points to bear in mind when you develop these specifically for Adsense.
1. Format ' Always use the large 336x280 large rectangle.
2. Border ' Match the same color as your background.
3. Background color - Border ' Match the same color as your background.
4. Link = "0000CC"
5. Color_url = "999999"
6. Color_text = "333333"
7. Position ' Far left or center and just above the page fold (Top 25% of site)

Step 5 ' Verify and track your site

Visit your site and make sure all links work and that the sites appear to your satisfaction. You should also check out the ads Google is displaying. Are they targeted to your primary high paying keyword? If not, recreate your site using your high paying keyword in a higher density throughout your site.
Make sure you track your Adsense format, position, and traffic with a tracking system specifically designed for Adsense. Once you know your stats, you can adjust for maximum clickthroughs and higher revenues.

Step 6 ' Get your site listed in the search engines.

This is simple ' no tricks involved. Simply rent links to your site. A PR7 or PR8 link will do the job.
While I 've simplified the process here, you are now armed with enough information and resources to make some serious money with Adsense.

About the author:
This article has been authored by Keith Baxter, the founder of http://www.topkeywordlists.com
If you want to maximize your Adsense income and learn how to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website from the search engines, visit the site now.

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Inside Linking Strategies

2006-09-08T01:09:00.000+07:00

by Kim Roach
The mysterious links strategies already open talks between each webmaster forum and other blogger also. Basicaly the Links are the pathways by which all information on the Internet is connected. Whether you are traveling your preferred search engine or your favorite website, your paths are directed by the links you come in contact with.

Hence links have become the lifeblood of the Internet. Major search engines like Google evaluate your incoming links to help determine your search engine positions.
However, a link is much more than just a ranking factor. A quality inbound link can bring your website a steady stream of targeted traffic and buyers.

In this article I will reveal the untapped methods of obtaining quality inbound links. We all know that reciprocal links are dead. Smart internet marketers also know about the power of article marketing and rss syndication. This article looks to explore beyond those techniques, unveiling linking tactics that are largely undiscovered.

Read on to find out about which links you can gain to build buzz, how to leverage the power of wikis, why everyone needs an affiliate program, and how to use the web 2.0 craze to garner hundreds of high quality inbound links.

We will begin our journey with editorial link opportunities.

The right links can generate massive buzz and word of mouth marketing. This type of marketing can occur from links like Yahoo Picks, Forbes Best of the Web, and USA Today Hot Sites. Get listed on the following sites and you've certainly got a winner.

Yahoo Picks of the Day/Week
Forbes Best of the Web
USA Today Web Guide/Hot Sites
NY Public Library Best of the Web
Exploratorium Ten Cool Sites
Librarians Internet Index
Reference Desk

Wikis
Wikis are some of the best sources for link building. With a bit of digging, you can find plenty of wiki pages with high link popularity and PageRank. Not to mention, many wikis rank well in the search engines. This is especially true for Wikipedia.
However, like everything, there is a wrong and right way to go about it. Many people try to spam wikis with hundreds of links. Because of this, there have been strict measures taken to find and eliminate these culprits.

To benefit from the Wiki community, you must be an active participant adding quality and relevant information to their collection of content. You must add value to a page. Once you have done this, you can then incorporate your link if it's a good fit.

However, don't just add information to pages that present linking opportunities. You should also be contributing to the wiki just for the sake of adding great content to the database. When appropriate, add quality links to articles, even links you do not control. Using this strategy, it is much more likely that you will be able to benefit from the many wikis available online.

To find potential linking opportunities, simply go to Google and type in %22your keywords%22 inurl:wiki. This will help you to find sites that have wikis related to your keywords. For example, if you are looking for wikis related to search engine marketing, you would type in %22search engine marketing%22 inurl:wiki.

For a comprehensive list of wikis you can start contributing to , go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wikis.

Library Sites
Ok. Are you ready for the MacDaddy of all links? You may be surprised to hear that some of the best links on the Web can only be obtained from public shool library Web sites. Yes I know, it's hard to believe that an unattractive school website that lives out in the .us or .org jungle would be of value to you. But in fact, these are some of the most trustworthy links you could ever hope to obtain.

Library web sites are some of the most trusted sources on the Internet and Google knows it. So, if you have an extremely valuable site that would prove a valuable resource to people around the world, then you should certainly get in contact with a librarian to suggest your site as an addition to their list of resources.

Below is a list of library sites to get you started:
Virginia Pubic Library Websites
Ohio Public Library Web Sites

Affiliate Links
Affiliate programs are one of the best ways to obtain thousands of inbound links to your site. With the right software, you can use an affiliate program to super charge your search engine rankings.

Using an affiliate program, you can get hundreds and even thousands of other people to promote your products with no risk on your part. Your affiliates send visitors to your web site using banner ads, text links, articles, and email promotions. For every visitor who decides to buy, you pay your affiliate a percentage of the sale.

The beauty of this system is that it allows you to create extra revenue without spending any additional advertising dollars. You can use affiliate marketing to explode your online sales and catapult your search engine rankings with no risk to you.

However, you have to make sure you have the right software to do this. Some affilate tracking software doesn't lend any link popularity back to your site.

Go to Assoctrac.com to find out about some very powerful affiliate software.

Press Releases
As I wrote about in a previous article, press releases enable you to tap into multiple news sites across the Internet, including Google News, Yahoo News, and MSNBC Searchbot.

In addition to attracting thousands of targeted visitors to your site, press releases can also create thousands of quality inbound links.

However, to realize the full potential of your press release campaign, you must take time to optimize your press release properly. Press releases should be optimized in much the same way that search engine optimization specialists optimize ordinary web pages to achieve higher rankings. By optimizing your press releases for the search engines, you will receive much higher visibility.

For example, one press release from MarketingExperiments.com resulted in 2,200 visitors and 5 interview requests by journalists. This is the power of a highly optimized press release.

Some of the best places to distribute your press release online include:
prweb.com
internet.com
businesswire.com
prnewswire.com
bacons.com

e-releases.com
prfree.com
pr.com
webwire.com
marketwire.com
24-7pressrelease.com
pressreleasenetwork.com
i-newswire.com

Start your own press campaign to begin creating invaluable buzz, attracting targeted visitors, and gaining thousands of inbound links.

Social Search Engines
With the growth of Web 2.0, social bookmarking services have become extremely popular this past year. However, these search engines are much more than simply a tool for searching and saving your favorite websites. These social communities can also drive massive amounts of traffic to your site and build brand awareness.

Popular submissions can expect to receive an onslaught of traffic. In addition, popular sites also receive an abundance of link love. These social search engines influence bloggers, publishers and journalists. On average, a website that is Dugg receives an average of 500 to a thousand new inbound links within a short period of time.

If you have a very informative site, your traffic may increase permanently after being Dugg. The key to succeeding with social search engines is to be a true contributor to the community. You must have quality content if you want to submit any of your links. Otherwise, you are simply wasting your time.

In addition, don't just submit your own links. Share the love and submit other sites that you feel would provide a great resource to the community.

Some of the best online social communities include:

Digg
del.icio.us

Furl
Shadows.com
MyWeb
StumbleUpon
PreFound
Technorati

In today's generation of web 2.0, publishers have been given multiple outlets for their work. It's time that we start taking advantage of the changes occurring in the online publishing world.

Podcast Syndication
Another publishing opportunity that is undergoing rapid growth online is podcasting. The Internet is changing. Broadband Internet connection is allowing millions of Internet users to start downloading podcasts on every imaginable topic, from search engine strategies to the adventures of parenting.

According to Forrester Research, podcasting will reach 12.3 million households by 2010. Unfortunately, many webmasters are not taking advantage of this amazing opportunity.

To begin marketing your own podcasts, submit them to the following directories:

PodcastingNews.com
MasterNewMedia.org

Integrating these new distribution models can vastly increase your exposure online.

New Forms of Article Syndication
Article syndication has become quite popular among internet marketers. It has enabled writers and website owners to gain hundreds of quality inbound links simply by syndicating their articles to article directories, article groups, related websites, and newsletter publications.
However, web 2.0 has transformed the publishing platforms that are available today. Because of this, there are now many more outlets for your articles and your valuable resource box. Fortunately for you, many online marketers have not spotted these opportunities so I advise you to jump on them quickly.

One of the most exciting new publishing platforms is Squidoo.

Squidoo was created by a revolutionary online thinker named Seth Godin. At Squidoo, you can create your very own lens, which is simply your view on a particular topic. This is a single web page that can point to blogs, favorite links, RSS feeds, Flickr photos, Google maps, eBay auctions, Amazon books and other resources.

Best of all, these lenses are getting traffic, credibility, and even showing up in top Google results. You can use a lens to increase the number of authoritative inbound links to your site, position yourself as an industry expert, announce the latest news within your niche, or promote your podcasts.

I've seen lenses ranging from a pagerank of 3 to 5. Below are some great examples:
FxBootcamp : PR4
Cool Latop Bags : PR5
To start your own lens, go to Squidoo.com.

The last linking opportunity in this series taps into one of the largest sites on the Internet.

Craigslist
Craigslist was founded in 1995 by Craig Newmark and serves billions of unique visitors each month. So, how can you use this to your benefit?

Classified ads can be very lucrative when used correctly. Since Craigslist is free, this is a great place to start with absolutely no risk.

Your presence within this massive site will increase your exposure and link popularity. Many of the ads also appear in Google and Yahoo. This is especially true for those who optimize their ad properly.

I would highly suggest that you incorporate CraigsList into your overall business plan. You can begin placing your own ads at CraigsList.

Now that you know about many of these untapped linking techniques, I urge you to begin your own campaign. Just remember, if you're not distributing quality content, you are simply wasting your time. The first step is to become an authoritative site. After that, you will find that links come quite naturally. In fact, many of them will come without ever asking for them.

About This Author
Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for the SiteProNews & SEO-News newsletters. You can contact Kim at kim@seo-news.com. Please feel free to check other articles at http://info-user.blogspot.com/ .This article may be freely distributed without modification and provided that the copyright notice and author information remain intact.

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The Secrets of Media with Blogs

2006-09-05T05:08:00.000+07:00

By: Penny Sansevieri

Secrets of Striking Media Gold with Blogs. If you’re in the midst of your media campaign don’t overlook pitching bloggers, especially those who are opinion makers in your industry.

Why?

Because in the last twelve months bloggers have gone from on-line journals and opinion pieces to newsworthy opinion drivers and in many cases, the single most reliable place to get an accurate assessment of a news item, product, or service. One of the main reasons blogs have taken this turn is because the public is increasingly distrustful of mainstream media and media outlets.

Why?

Because these are often viewed as being somewhat biased and beholden to sponsors, organizations and in some cases, even the government. Blogs and bloggers are beholden to no one because they are a free, unfunded source for media. Consequently the public is turning their attention more and more to these bloggers, and media relations professionals are using bloggers to help them further their efforts by spreading the word about a topic related to a book/author. We’ve seen this in our company as it relates to our Virtual Author Tours, one of the main reasons these tours are successful (read: sell books) is because whenever possible we push bloggers who are opinion makers in their industry.

So if you’re convinced that bloggers need to be a part of your media campaign, what’s next?

Well, first you need to find the right bloggers for your story and you need to remember that above all else be honest and disclose everything. If the blogger finds out on their own that there are parts of this story you didn’t mention, they’ll address them and this might cast a bad light on you.

Bacon’s Media Group recently published a report on pitching bloggers; here are a few things they address (as well as a few ideas of our own) when going after a blog:

Know the blog.
Don’t just pitch randomly, know the blog and blogger you’re going after. This means reading past blogs – all of them Don’t worry about exclusives. Bloggers love community and aren’t hungry for the exclusive like the traditional media.

Follow the links.
Most of the more popular blogs have links to other similar blogs; follow those links and check out those blogs because they might be worth a pitch as well.

Create your own blog.
It’s that community thing; bloggers want to see you’ve got an active blog as well and are a joiner.

Personalize.
As with any pitch you want to personalize, don’t send out a standard, generic pitch. Even truer than in traditional media, bloggers hate generic. Understand the ‘blog food chain.’ Not unlike traditional media, the bigger the blogger the tougher it is to break in so be patient and when you’re targeting bloggers make sure you have a blend of first and second tier bloggers so you don’t get discouraged.

Become a source.
Once you’ve tapped into a blog, become a source for that blogger, even if it means turning a story over to someone more qualified. Try to stay on a blogger’s radar screen with relevant tips, insights and news to keep the blogger updated on their (your) industry and help them make their own blog cutting edge.

Monitor the ‘blog-osphere.’
Keep an eye on other blogs by tapping into blog monitoring services like Technorati and Blogdex. This will allow you to not only follow bloggers (who may not have RSS feeds - for the full scoop on RSS sent away for our free article on Really (really) Simple Syndication but also help you determine how many times your name and book has been featured in one of the blogs you’ve pitched (bloggers may not always tell you). The mainstream media reads blogs. If you still aspire to attract traditional media air time, know this: the media reads blogs and will often consider people “experts” who are featured on a number of blogs. Also some bloggers might be attached to media outlets, which allows them to expand on stories featured in the mainstream media and offer daily updates on particular topics.

Finding news-driven blogs.
While you’re searching for topic-related blogs don’t overlook news-driven blogs. These are blogs that vary in topic but are driven by daily news items. If you have a story that ties into a hot news topic these blogs might be the best place for you to go. (We’ve listed a few of them at the end of this article).

Saturate the market.
Get your topic/story/book out there, since bloggers don’t need exclusivity you can go crazy with your pitches. But remember, the more saturated your category (for example, money, relationships, diet, and health), the tougher it might be to get to those crucial bloggers’ attention. We addressed doing a mix of first and second tier bloggers, but you might also want to consider doing second (or third) tier bloggers exclusively so you can build your reputation within the on-line market and use that as a springboard to up-tier to more prominent blogs and catch the rising stars.

Separate the good from the bad.
When it comes to blogs nearly everyone has one now so how you can find those first, second and third tier blogs while staying away from the “mom and pop” type blogs that can’t really further your message? Well, first you’ll want to start with a Boolean search on Google (search string: “your topic” AND blog) and begin reviewing the various blogs that pop up.

You’ll want to look for frequency in blogging (daily, weekly, etc.), tone, relevancy of material and topics/content addressed. A good way to determine this is in the posting. If the postings are all “banter” about recipes, family vacations and other personal anecdotes sprinkled in with relevant on-point material you might want to stay away from these.

Why?

Because good bloggers stay on-point, which also helps drive traffic to these sites. Bloggers who are just hobbyists and not opinion drivers, will differ in their postings and because of this, probably won’t attract the level of traffic other blogs get.

To give your new blog campaign a kick start, I’ll a few of the major news blogs here. If any of these blogs seem relevant to your campaign, add them to your list of blog media and start following their entries:

mp3-player
digital-video-camcorder
digital-camera
skin-care-body-treatment
skin-care-acne-treatment
home-interior-design
it-technology

Using SEO and other methods to help Brand and Market your business online

2006-09-04T13:40:00.000+07:00

by Joe Balestrino - Mr SEO
With so many new busineses hitting the Internet on a daily business, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate one's company from others. You need to constantly get your brand in front of people. The Internet has not only made it easier for people to start a business online, but that same simplicity has made the competition enormous. The potential to reach millions of people is as close as your own computer. However, many companies don't know the first thing about promotion and branding.

Articles have always been a way to market a business on and off the net. A well written article in a newspaper or a column would generate some business years ago. Today with so much content available and few publications writing articles about specific businesses other than from a strictly newsworthy standpoint, marketing professionals must strive to create well recieved ad campaigns. Articles are still a great way to boost internet businesses and can provide SEO backlinks and anchor text. Articles also help drive in quality traffic. The most important use of articles, however, is to help brand your company. Informative articles are a great resource for the Internet. The better an article is written, the better chances of it being placed on other sites. The article will be viewed as an extension of your company's knowledge, policies and mission, so make it count. Regularly written articles will help ensure not only a steady flow of traffic, but will help get your name in front of more people. RSS has made it easy to not only have your content syndicated but it also makes it easier for people to know when you have new content available.

Organic search is a necessity in today's online business. If your site can rank well for it's key terms, people who search regularly for your type of business will become familiar with your name, which consequently increases your chances of making a sale. You could also purchase paid listings on search engines. If your URL shows up for keywords and paid listing on the same page, it may help push a visitor to your site. The problem is you don't have control over what sites your ads are placed on. It could hurt your brand if your link was found on an inappropriate site. Some search engines like Yahoo have become smart enough to associate a person to a website or a company. A search on Yahoo for my name, Joe Balestrino, returns my site www.mr-seo.com as the #1 position.

Give your business a human presence. The Internet for the most part is just words and images. Letting people associate a name and a face with your company will let then know that there is a person in charge and that he is accessible, whether it is through email, telephone or instant messenger. Letting them know you are there if they need you can be a big selling point.

Podcasting is a new way to get the word out about your company. Podcasting is basically audio to go. People can download the audio files to their computer or ipod. You can provide news about your industry, tips, ideas etc. This powerful marketing tool is growing by leaps and bounds. If your industry doesn't already have a few podcasts, start one. Be the pioneer in your field, or do something that separates you from the others. If it's informative as well as entertaining, you can grow a steady fan base. The fans are a very important resource to you. You can ask them for feedback, concerns or problems they have in your area of business. Sometimes free advice can go a long way. Also, If your make it entertaining and informative enough, people will tell others.

Blogs are a great way to let people know what is going on with your company, offer tips, insights and provide other information. Many large companies use blogs as a way for consumers to see the company on a more personal level. Companies also use it as a way to release information and to acquire feedback.

Another useful tip is to get your logo out there. Some article sites will let you upload an image. Most message boards allow you to use an avatar. Take advantage of those. Message boards are also a great way to get your name and brand out there. Share some insights or help others with their questions. People do get business from message boards.

These are just some basic ways you get get your business and your brand in front of people. This is not an overnight process. Hard work, persistence and a steady stream of quality content will get you on your way to becoming recognized in your field.

4 Key Things To Start Your Online Forum Community

2006-09-03T09:12:00.000+07:00

by Cosmin Ghiurau
I know there are a lot of you who are have heard about the awesome power of having an online forum community. You have probably already been active in numerous forums and have begun to create a network of friends on these forums.
Next thing that goes through your mind is, “Why don’t I start a Forum of my own!” So you go ahead and begin to research on how to do it and realize that starting an online forum community is a lot harder than you thought!

Well, this article is about how to go about starting your own online forum in the easiest way possible. So lets here we go:

1. Establish Your Niche Topic for the Forum.
I have seen a lot of forums that I go to and they cover anything and everything in their forum. Now it is always good to have a “Chit Chat” or “Lounge” area of your forum to give members an opportunity to talk about anything. However, the success of your forum is to have a specific niche topic that will not only get your forum indexed by the search engines, but something that will attract your core audience.
This is one of the biggest obstacles to overcome even though it may seem the easiest thing to understand. Many novice forum webmasters see that they can add as many categories and sub-forums as they can in their overall website forum, and the main topic gets lost. In turn, when a visitor does happen to come the website, they are turned off by a ‘General’ forum.

2. Select the best Web Forum Script
There are so many forum scripts out there in which this is another huge major obstacle a novice webmaster comes across.
Your first tendancy will be to use the forum script that the forum you are most active on uses right?
Now there is nothing wrong with this, but sometimes these forums scripts are so modified and ‘hacked’ as is sometimes referred to modified forum scripts that it will be hard for you to create one just like your favorite forum.
I would suggest to start off with a free forum script that has the feature to ‘migrate’ forum information to another forum script. For example. Start off with the free forum script phpBB. This is by far the most powerful free script available. Even most web hosts have it part of their package that you can install on a single click (we’ll talk more about web hosts later).

Once you have phpBB installed, this is by far the best forum script in which other ‘paid for’ forum scripts have what is called ‘migration tools’ for. These migration tools is a script or tool that can transfer all of your forum information.
So for example, you website is successful and you wish to ‘change your forum foundation script’ to a ‘paid script’ such as vBulletin. vBulletin has a migration tool for phpBB, the process would be seamless and you wouldn’t lose any forum information.

The worst thing for a forum community is to have a lot of activity on the forum and then the webmaster decided to change the forum platform because the free one they started out with just doesn’t have all the features of other forum communities. So the webmaster changes the forum script and loses the forum information. I guarantee this will KILL your community.
So starting off with a wise plan in the beginning to grow is a huge step.

3. Selecting Your Web Host
The next thing after selecting what forum platform you wish to use, is the painfully hard decision of finding the right web host.
A web host is basically a company that ‘rents’ you space on their server for typically a monthly payment.
Now depending on your budget to start off with, I would say do a search on Google for the keyword: “Cheap Web Host”. You will see millions of results. Go through the websites of the top 10 results on your Google search and decide which one you need.

Please don't start a forum off in a ‘free web space’ or ‘free forum’ community. You are tied to that that web host and more than likely you will have tons of advertisements on your site that will annoy your members and more than that, it really screams that that your website is not a ‘permanent’ home for your members. Perception plays in key role in the success of your forum. If you forum looks and feels hard to use. No one will use it. Would you?

Please stay away from free forum web hosts!
Either way, you’ll be spending a few bucks a month on web hosting, but as you build your community you can slowly introduce your own Google Adsense or Banner Ad campaigns that will make you enough money to cover your web hosting costs and in many cases, enough to pay for your gas that month and more even more! Select a web host within your budget, and make sure that the host you select allows you to have forums. Since forums consume a lot of what is called ‘bandwidth’ and web space, some budget web hosts have a maximum on how much bandwidth and web space to use.

From my experience, if you start off with at least 1GB of space and 5 GB of bandwidth. That is MORE than you will need until your forum community is large enough to pay for itself on a larger web host, or even lease your own what is called ‘dedicated server’. Do a web search on Google for what a dedicated server is to find out more. A solid and reliable web host is one that answers customer support in a timely manner. Make sure that before you decide on a web host to contact that web host via their toll free phone number or support email. If they don’t answer quickly back to a potential customer how would they respond once they know you are a customer?

Do you homeword and make sure you are comfortable with the web host you choose because the last thing you need is to have to move web hosts and lose potential forum community information.

4. Driving Traffic to your Forum
Once you have everything up, you selected your niche, you found your forum community script, you installed it on a reliable host, you expect a flood of visitors to join as a member!
This is where the make it or break it part of the forum comes into play. If you have no visitors or members participating, your forum won’t grow.
My advice is to start off the circle where you began. Within your network of online friends. These days with so many forums and social networking websites, there are so many to choose from why should anyone join YOUR forum?
Well, you can use this network of websites to your advantage. Start off with the forums you are active in. If they allow you to advertise your forum or website, do it. Otherwise add a link to is in your signature. If you have thousands of posts your link on that forum will appear in thousands of places instantly!

Then go to other forums relevant to your topic and try to be active there with a link in your signature back to your website.

Announce your website launch to your friends in your Messenger systems.
Better yet! Try to do a marketing trick of giving away something to a random member once a week.

Above all, make sure YOU are active. Even if noone posts anything that day. Go in and post. Try to provoke a conversation with your posts. Once members join and are active give them the honor of being initial moderators of your forum. This will encourage them and make them feel like they are part of your forum community and will keep their loyalty to your forum. In turn what will they do? Tell THEIR friends about it. Now you are beginning to see what is called a ‘viral’ effect to driving traffic to your website.

Most of all, do not give up. Keep talking about your forum and inviting people to join. The more passionate and excited you are about your forum, the more others will see that in you and your friends and will be willing to spend time on your forum to build it up.

Once you go through these initial steps to starting your online forum community you are on the right track to have a successful community. Once this happens, you can easily think about even being able to earn money from your website that will cover your costs and place some ‘spare change’ in your pocket. This is all of course if you have the right niche, the right forum script, the right webhost, and the right methods to drive traffic to your forum! To your success!

About This Author
Cosmin Ghiurau is founder and admin of a successful online forum community for the ethnic Romanian Christian Youth. Also please visit and make donation click here and http://info-user.blogspot.com

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The Future of SEO: its all OLD News

2006-09-01T09:26:00.000+07:00

I was talking to an industry acquaintance today about a problem we had with an SEO client which highlighted what I feel is a fundamental problem with the world of SEO as a whole. Reliability and consistency are two areas seemingly lacking in the world of search marketing, especially in the Organic SEO realm.

The original seeds for this particular ‘Rant’ were sown during my recent journey to ‘Demystify the Google Toolbar PageRank’. The truly amazing extremes in understanding and perception of PageRank led me to look deeper into the causes of such widespread differences in opinion by professionals and SEO enthusiasts alike.

Although the PageRank 'Rant' was supposed to be more about perceptions of pagerank within the SEO community (theoretical and otherwise), it served to highlight some systemic problems within the world of SEO itself. I think some of the most interesting and telling reactions to the first article were average end-users (surfers) whom seemed not only have an inkling of what PageRank is, in many cases did not even know what SEO meant. Average end users are, in many ways, in an SEO knowledge vacuum.

Self importance seems to have a place all too often with SEO professionals and the TRUE value, providing a quality service and educating their clients, seems almost secondary.

Latest Case Study
The self importance that seems to reign in the SEO industry is placing a growth barrier on the SEO industry. A recent case study highlights this very point.

I had a conversation with my favorite link spam fighter recently – it went something like this:

"We have a client with a nasty looking link profile. There are Plenty of spammy links and non-relevant links. Do we try to clean it up?"

“I dunno, but going through 13 000 or so back links is a daunting task. This is where I need a copy of 'Link-Spam Assassin', know where to get one?”

“We're considering commissioning software to take a list of potential 'spammy' links and contact the owners to be removed. Manually contacting 200-300 potential spammy links is quite the investment in time or data entry staff expenses.”

Until I can figure out if these potentially spammy links should cleaned up where possible, I can’t advise a direction. (Back links like 110673.tld or 1stlinkexchange.tld or 4-gayhosting.tld yada yada .. ad naseua ). This client is a fairly well known marketing/SEO resource, and so I'd expect to see a wider variety IBL (inbound links), some of these though, are obviously spammy.

Do we need to try and repair the damage done before us or merely move ahead with sound SEO work?

It seems like we'll be fighting a five alarm blaze with a water pistol here.... I figure cleaning up the existing mess is the place to start. Without documentation on link profiles, placing the blame for this client's poor search engine performance on a bad link profile is pure conjecture. We can not show this client a potential return on the investment necessary to take up a damage control strategy, and as a result, the entire SEO industry looks less legitimate for being an 'indefinite' science.

The Second Cousin: SEO is not an Accepted Marketing Tool
Something we face a lot. The SEO industry, as a whole, will remain a ‘second cousin’ to other more accepted areas for marketing, (print, television, direct marketing and the like) until it can ‘grow up’ with tighter industry wide standards that make it a measurable tool - not a mystical black art. This is business NOT Las Vegas. We need the appearance of consistency here folks, it’s that simple. There are many areas that make this difficult.

The above Link Profile scenario highlights the issue. We are still ‘magicians’ not ‘tacticians’ in the eyes of most SMB (small and medium sized businesses) owners and need to work to legitimize the entire SEO/SEM industry through education and consistency.

If I cannot tell a client what we should do about a bad link profile, how is he supposed to believe me when I tell him he ‘has a bad link profile’?

“Sir, the breaks are shot on your car. Fix them? Not sure how... Let’s TRY this.” – Not a tasty pitch now is it? Even building contractors have ‘Building Codes’ that allow for some form of order within the chaos.

Not always having the answers, or a central location to even seek them out, can make us look illegitimate. The industry as a whole becomes more of a mystery than a science. Credibility and our ability to grow to be a part of the marketing family, not merely a ‘second cousin’ of marketing, will rest on the leaders of the community doing just that, ‘leading’.

I have encountered far too many ‘self-inflated’ SEO community leaders that seem out of touch with the largest market segment in North America, small and medium sized business owners. Most SEO providers are NOT large companies working with Fortune 500 firms. They are small operations providing services to the mass of SMBs that cannot afford to pay the fees asked by larger SEO operations that most of the industry leaders hearken from. Could it be that they have lost touch with the largest market segment? Where, I would ask, are they leading us in the SEO community then?

Words from our Leaders
I was researching the whole PageRank phenomenon when I decided to contact a few luminaries in the SEO field. These were people whom I considered to be at the top of the game since they were heavily quoted and represented at various high level events (a few are speaking at SES 06). When I asked them about why they felt the PR thing had gotten so convoluted I was told the following:

“It's kind of old”
“anyone experienced in SEO hasn't relied or paid much attention to the Google Toolbar PR for years.”

--- Odd I wondered. How then, were such massive widespread misconceptions able to still permeate the SEO world? That’s on just ONE element, PageRank.

Another said that pagerank,
“is old news and nothing we haven't been saying here for the past few years. ”

Ok, I have an ally right? Consider then being told that I should, “choose a more timely subject” – Whoa... pull the train back into the station. I had just witnessed whole sale forum slaughter of the whole PageRank controversy. Also, if I am talking about this, is it OLD news?

Gas prices being unbearable to the small business ‘could’ be old news, but it is still current because it now has new connotations and relevance. Or am I wrong here? Hasn’t the actual VALUE of page rank changed over the years (post-Florida for algo junkies)? So what was old is new again, right?

The SMBs are adrift in bad information and growing frustrated with SEO providers and enthusiasts (forum flies) in general. They pay one professional that says they need 2000 directory submissions and then another comes along and says, “WOW! That may have not been a great idea there”.

Each and every day we see more and more clients that have had ‘bad’ SEO Outsourcing experiences and are quickly losing faith in the whole ‘science’ of SEO. I spend a great deal of time defending the industry instead of actually working. The bad press on SEO is getting expensive.

We need clarification, and we need the leaders of the SEO industry to realize that small and medium sized business owners are not aware of modern SEO standards. In fact, SEO standards has become an oxymoron! Those who are leading the SEO industry have a responsibility to help the industry change from a 'black magic art' to a real, actual, measurable science.

What is at Stake?
The Engines I for one want better search results. I use the internet a great deal for research as well as personal use. Getting fast access to the ‘relevant’ information I am after is of great importance. It is company policy here that we don’t work for ‘Scraper’ type sites (created for the sole purpose of getting AdSense clicks), Link farm/directories, websites built with RSS feeds or other aggregated content and many others.
The more the Search Engines participate in the development of standards the less work, (hopefully) they will have getting sites more ’compliant’ and make a better end product (search results) for us all.

The SEO Industry We have been working in building the web since 1998, (business development since 1987) and the web development community certainly went through much of this in its infancy. Organizations such as the W3C (and relative organizations) have gone a long way in legitimizing the web design and development industry. I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt that our web development clients are far more informed than our SEO clients as far as the goals of a project going into it. The housing contractor/renovation providers had some ‘reputation’ problems back in the mid 1980’s (oh so many contractor jokes) and the rise of Bob Villa and the whole DIY craze helped average every day consumers understand and even take an interest in an industry known for loose pants and ‘butt cracks’. Quite an image make-over huh?

Who’s Steering This Ship Anyways?
So, while so many are chatting in forums and at conventions, touting the wonders of SEO and the internet in general, there is a massive segment of business population that is quickly becoming ‘disillusioned’ with the SEO industry and the providers thereof. This SHOULD be of concern for the SEO professional. Economies turn, over and over. We are in good times my friends, when the next down turn comes and investment dollars (business development and marketing) start to dry up, where will the axe fall first?

I thinks it’s safe to say, with the lack of perceived and real value, the SEO industry is going to take the hit.

When that happens, the quality of results will also suffer. It’s a simple trickle down effect here. It is in everyone involved interest to create a stronger sense of ethics and education towards making the SEO industry a stronger and more ‘valuable’ option for SMBs and marketing professionals alike.

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How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic

2006-08-27T22:41:00.000+07:00

How To Increase Targeted Web Site Traffic, Author: Titus Hoskins

I get on average around 10,000 to 12,000 unique visitors to my main site each month. Actually, when you're speaking about the Internet, that's not too much to brag about, but it's better than getting say 1000 or 2000 visitors; that was my usual rate until I aggressively went after targeted traffic for my site.

I thought I would briefly and in very simple terms explain how I increased the targeted traffic to my main site from around 1,000 to 10,000 unique visitors each month. That's a ten-fold increase -- I am aiming for a hundred-fold increase but would gladly settle for thirty or forty times the traffic.

How did I increase my site's traffic? The answer might just help you get more traffic to your own site. Most of these techniques are very simple to implement and if you're serious about building an online business, lets face it, the first thing you're going to need is targeted visitors to your site.

I hope you have noticed I have mentioned the words 'targeted visitors' several times already. I did this to bring home the fact that you're not just after traffic but targeted traffic or visitors to your site. You want visitors to your site who are already interested in your site's topic and who are more likely to benefit from your site's content or products.

It's the first ingredient for a successful web site.

Below are my 5 main sources of targeted traffic to my site. Along with a short explanation of how you can create or put the same practices to work for your own site.

1. RSS EMPOWERED One of most effective sources of traffic to my site would have to be my blogs and RSS feeds. Notice I said blogs and feeds; I have created simple blogs and feeds for the major topics of my site: on rss resources, web hosting solutions, notebook computers, etc. These blogs and feeds bring in a great number of targeted visitors to my site.

With the introduction of Google Blog Search, my blog traffic is increasing even more. Within minutes of posting to my blog - I am getting targeted traffic from Google. You are instantly indexed by Google Blog Search; it's reason enough for every webmaster to put at least one blog on their site.

Try to imagine the traffic you'll get when the next RSS empowered Windows browser arrives from Microsoft. Get your own site ready and prepared for RSS to take advantage of all this traffic. Just use Google owned blogger.com to create your blog -- it has that all important blog search bar at the top!

2. SEO EMPOWERED Seo optimization should be your goal! Still the main source of traffic to my site are the search engines. Mainly from Google, followed by MSN and Yahoo. You must optimize your site for the search engines. This includes off/site links and on/site tactics.

I have been online since '98 so I thought I knew how to optimize a website. Boy, was I ever wrong! I didn't notice a big jump in my traffic until I stumbled across a SEO expert, actually stumble is the wrong word, I actually sought out the best SEO expert I could find. His name is Brad Callen. He offers a free email course on how to optimize your sites for the search engines. His main product is SEO Elite.

Just the free course and his helpful newsletter have really fine-tuned my site, which resulted in a major increase of traffic especially from Google. You should try the same for your site or sites and see the results for yourself.

3. ARTICLE EMPOWERED This one works. Article marketing for me has been the major reason for the turn around in the amount of traffic my sites were receiving. It's one of the most effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site.

Getting your articles published in ezines and on sites such as addme.com or sitepronews.com will generate an enormous amount of traffic to your site. As a bonus, you even get 100's of subscribers to your own ezine in one day!

The trick is to write helpful how-to articles on current topics that other webmasters want on their sites, this will boost your link popularity with the search engines and increase your rankings. You must also very carefully choose the right keywords to target in your articles, matching the content on your site. One way to do this is with a site like www.nichebot.com -- it will show how to pick the right 'competitive' keywords for your site. You must target keywords that have high traffic, yet little competition from competing web sites.

My main sources of traffic from article sites include www.ezinearticles.com and www.buzzle.com.

4. EZINE EMPOWERED Building a large opt-in list or subscribers to my ezine is another method that brings in a lot of traffic to my site. You can use an ezine to offer helpful tips to your subscribers. It is a very easy way to get repeat visitors to your site and build up a relationship with your visitors.

Your ezine should relate to your site's theme and offer more information on the same. Whether you believe it not, if you operate a site on a particular subject for a couple of years, you will fast become an expert on that subject. People will regard you as such and this will also bring in visitors to your site.

5. VIRAL MARKETING EMPOWERED Another way to attract targeted visitors is to offer a free product or service. I use free brandable reports that visitors can download and use. These reports and ebooks have links back to my sites. One of my most popular ones is a timely report and guide on how to use and benefit from RSS on all your sites. It brings in a lot of traffic.

Similar to the one above, I use other free viral techniques to build targeted traffic to my site. These are products that can be branded with your links and passed around. Helpful software programs that match the theme of your site are good choices to make.

Another popular one that I have on my site is the DATEwise eCalendar and personal planner that visitors can download and place on their desktops. It has hotlinks to my site that brings in traffic. It can be customized with your site's products so you get targeted visitors or customers.

OTHER SOURCES There are other sources of traffic for my site that I find effective but they bring in lesser traffic than the methods listed above. But they are still worth mentioning, one of these is regular posting on major online forums. This brings in very good targeted traffic, so too, is posting comments in online blogs.

Another good source is a traffic exchange called 'Traffic Swarm' - most sites where members exchange traffic don't work. You get worthless hits to your site. However, Traffic Swarm is one exception that your should try. You just set your start page to this exchange, and click on sites you want to visit.

Increasing targeted traffic to your site is an ongoing struggle for every webmaster. I hope you can try some of the techniques that have worked for me. I am sure they will also work for you.

Empower your site with targeted traffic!

Are Online Blogs a Good Idea for My Kids?

2006-08-26T21:44:00.000+07:00

"Are Online Blogs a Good Idea for My Kids?"
Online diaries -- aka blogs -- can be fun and innocent, or they can lead to trouble. Here's what parents need to know. By Stephanie Emma Pfeffer

The explosion of online diaries, or blogs (short for Web logs), has been fueled by adolescents: Of the estimated four million blogs, more than half were created by 10- to 19-year-olds. In these musings for public consumption, bloggers unload their innermost thoughts about everything from love to politics.

But what if some content is obscene or just plain nasty, especially about other kids or teachers? Can your child get in trouble, or can you? "A school can take disciplinary action if administrators believe it's warranted," says Kevin Leander, PhD, who studies technology use at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville.

The First Amendment protects most name-calling and statements of opinion, but making false statements that injure a person's reputation could provoke a lawsuit, with parents held liable for their minor's behavior, warns Sandra Baron, executive director of the Media Law Resource Center, in New York City.

While the majority of teens use blogs harmlessly, "many adolescents are not fully aware of the legal and moral consequences," notes Dr. Leander. So if you know or even suspect that your teen keeps a blog, talk to him about what's appropriate and ask permission to read it. You may need that clearance in any case, because a blogger can block access to a particular reader. Yes, Mom and Dad, that means you.

Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal magazine, April 2005.

Show Consistency Over Time

2006-08-25T22:31:00.000+07:00

This may be the single most important tip in this article. Google has shown an affinity towards sites that remain consistent in structure, growth, content, and popularity. At the risk of sounding prosaic, outside of receiving highly trusted inbound links, the best way to bring Google to trust you is to show Google over time that you are trustworthy.

Think about your relationship with Google as you would any other relationship. Relationships take time, they take commitment over time, and trust in a relationship needs to be cultivated. If you happen to screw up, it takes time to regain any trust that was lost.

With your website, show Google that you are consistent, that you are dedicated, and that you actually care. Do not change your website's structure or focus entirely just because you feel like it. Spend time every day for months, even years, growing your site and promoting your site. Take the time to make sure it is as user friendly as possible taking into account issues such as accessibility. And whatever you do, do not take the chance of trying to cheat on Google by using a 'shortcut' � it can and will set you back in your relationship several months, if not longer.

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Should You Blog in Your Business?

2006-08-24T21:57:00.000+07:00

Although blogging did not begin as a business pursuit, it did not take the business sector very long to begin using blogs in a commercial manner. Some businesses first became aware of blogging because they discovered an employee's personal blog had commented on their company or other employees, or they discovered an employee using company time to write to their personal blog. In these cases, the company learned about blogs, but the employees usually lost their jobs. Because of these experiences and the resulting publicity surrounding some especially high-profile cases, more and more businesses have learned about the potential power of blogging as a marketing tool.

As a business owner, you may wonder if you should jump into the blogosphere and begin a company blog or not? There are, as with all business decisions, many things to consider. Here are 10 facts or ideas about business blogging that may help you make up your mind whether a business blog should be something that you should try.

* Business blogging is rapidly spreading throughout companies with an online presence. This applies not just to IT-related companies such as search engines like Google (which has innumerable employees all blogging merrily away about the latest and the greatest at Google), but also to other companies that sell everyday products. Every company, even the smallest, with any Internet presence should at least consider the idea of starting a company blog while the genre is still so popular.

A great example is the Tinbasher Blog, which is a blog written by the owner of a small sheet metal company in England. This blog has become very popular, however, because the blog usually showcases the part of its business that will appeal to the average Internet reader, not necessarily its large customers who buy huge amounts of sheet metal products (other advertising sources may work better there). Their target audience, as any business blog's should be, is the end-user and usually an individual.

By chance or design, The Tinbasher Blog is widely referred to by other blogs who comment on their cool consumer items (like metal soccer balls/footballs, plant holders, etc.), and since these other blogs are read by people in many different parts of the world, this small British company is selling its products to markets it could never afford to penetrate by traditional advertising means They may not be making a billion dollars, but sales are up and visits to their website are up. If you are a small business, you can't afford to buy this type of worldwide publicity, yet they get it via a blog that costs them very little to produce. The key is that it is a successful blog - that's the difficult part about company blogging - it has to be done right or it really is a waste of time.

* Blogging software and even webspace for your company's blog may be free, but even if you choose not to have your blog on your website to save money, you still need an employee to write the blog. It is vital that you chose someone who knows your company's purpose for the blog and what tone you wish you set. Business blogs that are successful have a feel of casualness to them that is not forced - they don't read as if they are an advertisement for your company, but more like the day-to-day life of your company.

Finding the right person to write your blog is often the most difficult part of business blogging. They must have the knowledge (or access to it) of almost everything about your company, be able to write coherently, and be able to add that almost indefinable something that makes a blog different from an advertisement. In a small organization, in particular, often the CEO or founder becomes the blogger, if only because they know everything that has happened to their company and assuming they have been successful so far, they know something about how to be persuasive in selling products/services without necessarily being very obvious about it.

* If your company is large and has many different departments or divisions, consider multiple bloggers. Each one will present a different view of the company from their angle and provide more variety for the readers of your company's blog. You may have one blog and still have many different people contribute to it. Just be very careful about who you choose to blog for your company - they must be able to write, but they must also WANT to do this job of blogging because the basic nature of a blog's success is the degree of passion that is put into it. Without dedication and passion for your business blog, your bloggers will not succeed in bringing more exposure of your company to the online community.

* Don't start a company blog unless you are willing to be completely honest when writing it. You must be prepared to own up to any mistake your company may have made and try your best to do damage control via your blog. Actually, blogs are great places for damage control, precisely because they have more of a personal feel to them.

If a business apologizes for a mistake they made in their company's blog, and demonstrates their commitment to customer service in that blog entry, this can go a long way towards repairing the damage that mistake may have caused in your clients' eyes. It's about appearances - you seem more like a person than some impersonal corporation in a company blog, and most clients appreciate the personal touch and will forgive a lot if they feel they have been dealt with fairly and, most importantly, honestly.

* Company blogs are a great way to answer questions you may receive from potential or actual customers through your regular email process. By putting the question and answer in your blog, you are now generating the information out to potentially huge numbers of potential or actual clients, instead of just that one person who wrote in.

It looks even better if someone writes you an email with a suggestion to improve your service, you decide to follow his or her suggestion, and then talk about it in your blog. Otherwise, it may be more difficult for your clients to know that you have instituted what might be too small a change to advertise, but that might make a difference to them as well in terms of how they feel about your company.

* Think carefully before you decide to allow comments to your blog entries. When you have a company blog, by allowing comments, you will encourage people to ask you questions and make comments that may be helpful, but you will also find that people post derogatory comments or ask questions that are difficult for you to answer, because of internal company policies. However, if you don't respond to comments, you will be criticized for not doing so.

* Keep in mind that a blog entry doesn't have a specified length. Even company blogs can have individual entries as short as a sentence or as long as an article. You can include links to other blogs, articles, pages in your website, or any other place on the Internet to illustrate a point rather than write at length about it. In fact, the most interesting blogs seem to be the ones that vary in length - sometimes they have longer entries and other times just short entries - plus this gives your company blog the appearance of a personal touch. Blogs originated as a sort of online personal journal, and personal journals rarely have entries that are approximately equal in length each and every time.

* However, if you do decide to start a company blog, be sure to make entries frequently. There is no requirement that you make an entry every day, but don't let too long go between entries. In fact, with company blogs especially, some readers expect some kind of "schedule" because the originators are a business. Readers may expect to see an entry every second day or every third day or whatever.

If you do set up an informal schedule, and find that on a day you are supposed to make a blog entry that you either can't or have nothing to say, make an entry that is a generic comment on the local weather or some other inane remark and leave it at that. The important thing is to keep to your informal schedule if you set one up so as to not disappoint regular readers.

Varying the length of your entries can make a blog with a time schedule for entries appear not to have one, especially if some of the short entries consist merely of personal remarks by the blogger on an uncontroversial topic or a short anecdote about something that happened today that doesn't reflect badly on the company or its competitors (or anyone at all).

* If you are a small company, you might want to consider making a company blog the highlight and center of your website. This really only works well if you are a company that serves a local customer market, rather than appealing to a regional or national/international market.

Prime examples are restaurants that are not chain restaurants. Sometimes adding a blog and making it your website is what will bring more customers to your establishment. The personal nature of blogs allows you to persuade the viewer that your restaurant is THE place to go, and so sometimes you feel freer to express yourselves and the personality of your business via the blog. Of course on your website you would also include information about where you are, what you are, your hours, your services/products, etc., but this information typically does not take up a lot of room for a smaller establishment, leaving space for the blog to be the centerpiece that draws it all together.

* Finally, if you are thinking about adding a blog to your company, never forget that it is just another business tool. As much fun as blogging can be, once it is tied to your company, it reflects your company's image and your company will be judged by the quality of your blog as well as the quality of your services/products. Plan a blog carefully, put the right person in charge of blogging, ensure that it sends out the message you want it to send, and with any luck, word will spread and you will see more traffic to your website.

The search engines do index blogs as well as websites, so it will show up in search results and people will find it on their own or on the recommendation of others. Give it a little time to get its roots planted in the Internet and it should bring more traffic and more sales. If it doesn't or if you can't get the equation quite right, don't be afraid to stop blogging. A bad blog can hurt a business just as easily as a good blog can help a business.

There are many other aspects of company blogging that could be brought up, but the above points are among the most important to keep in mind if you are even thinking of starting a company blog. A company blog is a large undertaking, because it is a commitment that you must consistently keep up with if you wish it to work as a marketing tool for your company. Company blogs fit some corporations better than others, but small businesses are especially good candidates for blogging if they already have someone on the payroll who they are willing to allow the time to do a good job on a company blog and who wants to do it and is capable of producing good material. If those three conditions exist, consider giving a company blog a try and see if it brings more interest in your company from others online.

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Top 7 SEO Tools

2006-08-23T21:56:00.000+07:00

by Kim Roach
Search engine optimization is a complex process with many facets.
Some of these include keyword research, on-page optimization,
off-page optimization, acquiring inbound links, and tracking your
rankings.

Fortunately, there are many tools that have been created to aid
web masters in each of these tasks.

Below I have reviewed 7 of the top SEO tools so that you can
quickly find out what your site needs to rise in the search
engines.

First up is the "Cool SEO Tool". I'll let you decide whether or
not it lives up to its name.

Cool SEO Tool
This tool allows you to compare your site against the top 10
listed sites in Google for a particular keyword or phrase. You
simply enter your keyword and the system will begin comparing
9 different metrics for the top 10 rankings. This allows you
to quickly compare the Yahoo rank, MSN rank, Google pages
indexed, altavista pages indexed, backlinks to page, backlinks
to domain, allinanchor rank, age of url, and whether or not
the phrase is on the page.

This tool can unveil extremely valuable information on how you
can break into the top 10 search engine positions. Try it out at
http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/

XML-Sitemaps
Google wants to make sure that webmasters have a way of
communicating information that is important about their sites. To
accomodate this, they created Google Sitemaps in 2005. Using this
tool, you can tell Google when you have created new pages and how
often your pages are updated. To get your pages indexed as
quickly as possible, it is in your best interest to create a
sitemap for Google as well as for Yahoo.

Unfortunately, finding a sitemap generator that is easy to use
can be a frustrating task. However, after a lot of digging, I
think I've found one that you will like.

At xml-sitemaps.com, they have created a sitemap generator that
enables you to create a xml sitemap for Google and a text-based
sitemap for Yahoo. In addition, the generator can also create an
optional HTML sitemap for human visitors.

Go to http://www.xml-sitemaps.com for step-by-step instructions
on how to get started.

Ultimate Keyword Tool

Keywords are the lifeblood of any site. Choose the wrong ones and
your site will quickly fizzle. Choose the right keywords and you
will start to see an abundance of traffic as well as sales. The
key is choosing keyword phrases that aren't viciously competitive
and convert well into sales.

For example, did you know that keyword phrases that are 3-5 words
long convert into sales much more often than any other keyphrase
length? Not to mention, these longer keyword phrases are also
usually much easier to rank for.

One of the best keyword tools is provided by SeoBook.com.

You simply enter in a keyword or phrase and hit sugggest. Once
you have done this, the keyword tools will return a variety of
data, including:

overture suggestions of additional keywords
top overture bid prices
estimated monthly search volume
number of Google, Yahoo, and MSN search results
Wordtracker keyword suggestions
Google traffic Estimates
synonyms and....
additional related keywords using the Adwords keyword tool

For a keyword tool that has it all, go to
http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/

Link Popularity
For many of the top search engines, link popularity is one of the
top ranking factors. Because of this, there have been a large
number of link popularity tools to be released. However, after
trying out quite a few of them, I settled on URLTrends.com. This
site enables you to find out your link popularity on 8 different
search engines.

Monitor Your Search Engine Positions
Monitoring your search engine positions is crucial to any
successful marketing campaign. To obtain the highest possible
search engine traffic, you must be able to monitor any sudden
drops in your rankings. If you don't know where you stand, there
is no way you can take corrective measures.

Fortunately, there is a tool that allows you to track all of your
keywords for free.

This tool allows you to track:
numerous keyword rankings
backlinks
pagerank and...
daily, weekly and monthly changes in your rankings.

Take control of your search engine rankings at
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/

Link Harvester
Are you looking to do some in-depth link analysis? If so, the
Link Harvester is certainly for you. This tool is much more
advanced than most link analysis software currently on the
market. Link Harvester:

quickly finds almost every single site that is linking to you
reports how many pages of your web site are indexed
reports how many links are pointing to any specific page
provides links to the Wayback Machine and WhoIs source next
to each domain
reports the total number of inbound links, home page links,
and deep link ratio
quickly grabs the number of .gov, .edu, and .ac.uk inbound
links
indicates if a site links to your site more than 5 times by
bolding that particular link in the list of results.

If you find this tool useful, you can even add it to your own
site. Link Harvester is open source, so web masters are free to
share it and developers are free to improve upon it.

Do your own link analysis at
http://www.linkhounds.com/link-harvester/

Web CEO
I consider this the macdaddy of all of the seo tools. Web CEO
combines many of the tools above into one solution. In one tool,
you can:

perform keyword mining
use Web site analysis to improve your rankings
create link popularity reports
quickly and easily find potential link partners
use automated, semi automated, and guided submission to
search engines and directories
manage your PPC campaigns
analyze your search engine rankings

Take this tool for a spin at http://www.webceo.com/

Search engine optimization can be quite a chore, but with a few
simple tools, the process is made much easier. Start putting
these tools to use and see how they impact your own online
business.

About This Author
Kim Roach is a staff writer and editor for the SiteProNews ( http://www.sitepronews.com )
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Duplicate content

2006-08-14T10:28:00.000+07:00

The strength of my site is that I have a lot of good quality original content. If I reuse some of the content on a blog with blogspot.com would search engines notice and penalise me for duplicate content?

Now this is the good trick from Laurie and David :

1) The site and the blog will have compleatly different templates including the little add on bits you have on each, so they are not identical.
2) Take the leading paragraph from each of ten site pages and use these to form one blog page with links to the original pages to read the whole article. Inline text links would be good.
3) Don;t publish it in entirety. As mentioned LINK to the full article. The gernal rule of thumb is at least 60% original conent on a page.
4) I've been doing this for 3 years and have good PR, traffic and great SE results. I was worried about duplicate content when I first heard about it, but apprently this isn't duplicate content. I do it a little different. I truncate the articles on my blog and put them on my main web page with a link back to the complete article. Another thing is I'm using java RSS to do this, so the engines can't really "see" it.

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You Don't Need More Traffic to Make More Money

2006-08-12T13:34:00.000+07:00

by Adam McFarland
Every website owner has a somewhat unhealthy obsession with driving more traffic to their site. We all want more traffic, if for nothing else to be able to brag to others how many unique visitors we've received. Competition among web owners aside, actually doing something with that traffic is equally as important as getting it. Yet for some reason, most site owners make the mistake of focusing most of their time on getting more traffic and rarely, if ever, focus on improving their conversion rate.

What is a conversion?
A conversion happens whenever a visitor to your site performs a desired action. It might be purchasing a product, signing up for a newsletter, signing up for an account, or even clicking on an advertisement (although I'd advise against making the goal of your site to have someone click away from it). One way or another, if you have a site, you've got a desired action that you want the user to perform.

How big of a difference can it make?
Consider Company A and Company B. Both sell online subscriptions to their news services for a one-time fee of $100. They each attract 1000 unique visitors per day. Company A converts 2% of their visitors whereas Company B converts 5%. Big deal right? How much does 3% really matter? Well, Company A sells 20 subscriptions per day, or 7,300 per year for $730,000 of revenue. Not bad. But Company B sells 50 subscriptions per day, or 18,250 per year for $1,825,000 of revenue!

Without any variation in traffic, you can improve conversion rate on your site and drastically increase revenue. Now, is increasing from 2% to 5% going be a challenge? Certainly, but it is by no means impossible and in most cases is probably easier than you think.

What's a good conversion rate?
Some people will tell you that an “average” conversion rate is 2%-5% and an “amazing” conversion rate is 10%-15%. To me, that's a broad statement. I'm not saying that you should completely ignore those numbers, just that you should understand where they are coming from. Those numbers tend to apply to e-commerce sites selling to consumers. They also don't factor in where traffic is coming from, product pricing, and about a hundred other potential factors that could affect your conversion rate.

There are times when a 2% conversion rate is phenomenal. For example, if you are selling software licenses for $20,000, converting 1 in 50 visitors is pretty exemplary. On the flip side, if your goal is to have people sign up for a football newsletter and all of your traffic is coming from an ad you placed on NFL.com, 15% might be considered really poor.

My answer to “what's a good conversion rate” is any conversion rate that's better than your current one.

Start by doing a self-evaluation and set a baseline
Before you can even think about trying to increase your conversion rate, you need to have a system in place to track your current conversions. In its simplest form, conversion rate can be calculated by dividing the number of conversions into the number of visitors to your site for a specified time period. Most site owners will want more in depth statistics (such as what page visitors came from and what pages potential customers left their site from) so I would recommend a web analytics program like the free Google Analytics that provides in-depth reporting and can calculate your conversion rates for you.

How will I know if my changes worked?
In my mind, the only way to think about conversion rate is to start at your current rate and start striving to convert 100% of the visitors to your site. Is that ever going to happen? Probably not, but as Les Brown said - “shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” Shoot for 100% conversion rate and even if you don't get there, in attempting to do so you'll be instilling the necessary qualities for amazing improvements.

With that in mind, you should begin the process of trying to improve your conversion rate from your baseline. The bad news when it comes to increasing conversion rate is that there is no “one thing” that every site owner can do to increase it. The good news is that there are literally thousands of things that you can try that might increase it. Each one of those things might help, or each might hurt.

And therein lies the key to success in increasing conversion rate – testing, evaluating, and then testing and evaluating some more. Each time you should be striving to “beat your previous best.” If you went from 2% to 2.2%, keep the change and try for 2.5% with your next change. If you went from 2% to 1.5%, undo the change and try to get back over 2% with your next change. In general, you should give a sufficient amount of time to evaluate a change – I generally use one month as a rule of thumb, but you should factor in how much traffic you get and how large the change is when determining how long collect data for before evaluating a change.

What type of changes should I make?
As I mentioned before, there are thousands of things that you can change that can affect conversion rates. So where should you start? Start by walking in the shoes of your customer. Using the example of an e-commerce site, there are several types of customers that find your site. For the customer looking to buy immediately, is it easy to find the “buy” button or do you have to look around for it? For the customer wanting more information (product info, shipping info, or info about your business), is that easy to find? And for customers just browsing, do you have a way to entice them to buy, or at least entice them to sign up for a newsletter so that you can try to convert them at a later time?

Asking yourself those questions should result in several subtle changes and probably a few not-so-subtle changes that you can make. In addition, ask yourself whether or not the design of your site - logo, layout, colors, and font - appeal to senses and make it easy for people to find what they're looking for.

You should also seriously consider the content of your text. Is it possible that some people don't understand what your product or service does? Could international users interpret your phrases differently than domestic users, and if so, is there a way you could re-word your copy to avoid confusion? Ad copy is a funny thing – a subtle word change can often drastically affect conversion rates. The only way to know is to test.

Remember, you should only make one change at a time to be able to properly evaluate it. Each change will help point you in the right direction of the next change. Much like SEO, increasing conversion rate is not a one time event, it is an improvement process that you facilitate over the life of your site. That said, it is not an extremely difficult process, and when used in conjunction with sound SEO it can bring results to your site that you could have never imagined.

Free SEO Tools

2006-08-07T19:32:00.000+07:00

by John Case

Here are some essential free tools that will help make the effort of optimizing your websites for search engines faster and more efficient.

1. Good Keywords - As the name implies, this is a tool for helping you find good keyword phrases. The very first step of optimizing a site for search engine traffic is to select your target keyword phrases. You have to do this before you do anything else. Using this software, you can enter a simple keyword and get suggestions for a more specific phrase. You can also get search stats from Overture US for the previous month. This is only a portion of total searches on all search engines, but it does give you an idea of the popularity of search terms.

2. Google - Of course everyone knows and uses this search engine. However, paired with Good Keywords (described above), you can quickly find the ratio of a given keyword's popularity versus its competitiveness. Doing a simple search on the keywords you choose using Good Keywords, will quickly show you how many pages are competing for that keyword. The total number of results are displayed in the upper right hand corner of the page. If you discover that a keyword has far too much competition, you will want to return to Good Keywords and look for a more specific keyword.

3. Broken Link Detector - Having a neat, clean site structure free of broken links is key to getting good page rankings, as well as getting all of your pages indexed. This free software spiders your site and gives you a report of broken links and orphaned pages (pages that are not linked to any other page).

4. Robots.txt Generator - Use this site to quickly generate a robots.txt file that tell search engine spiders where to search, and where not to search, your site.

5. Free Site Map Generator - Free software that spiders your site and creates an xml format sitemap. An xml format sitemap helps search engines spider your site. Once your sitemap is created and uploaded to your site, go to Google Sitemaps (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/) and submit your sitemap information, so Google will know where your where to look for it.

6. Link Popularity Checker - Website that lets you quickly check the number of backlinks pointing to your site, with results from Google, Hotbot, MSN, and Yahoo.

7. Google PageRank Indicator - Find out your site's Google PageRank even if you do not have Google's Toolbar installed. Also, download code that will display your page rank on your site to users who don't have Google's toolbar.

8. Page Rank Predictor - Predicts future page rank for your site.

9. Directory Submission Tool - Submit your site to multiple web directories simultaneously.

10. Keyword Density Checker - Submit any URL and get a report on the keyword density for up to three separate keywords. This is a helpful tool for optimizing your own site, as well as checking out the competition.

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Using Blog PR to Promote Your

2006-08-07T19:28:00.000+07:00

by Adam McFarland

The recent trend of using the press release to promote an online business has emerged with good reason – good press costs very little and can do more for a business than thousands of dollars of marketing. Most businesses use press distribution services like PR Web or PRFree to get the word out about their news. While distribution services certainly can be effective, they tend to miss out on arguably the most influential group of the press – bloggers.

Bloggers mold and shape the opinions of their readers, who are normally the most important in their particular industry, many of whom are also bloggers. Not long after a post from an influential blogger, your news has been picked up by several other bloggers and within days you are all over the blogsphere. Before you know it your site is getting more attention than it would if a story ran in the local newspaper! So how do you get the influential bloggers in your industry to run a story about your business?

Why Would Anyone Do a Story About Your Business?
Are you a new company? Did you just launch a new product that they could review? Did your business win an award? Are you a group of college kids who started a company on savings from your summer jobs? You get the idea. There needs to be a reason that someone would want to read about you. Bloggers take pride in the content they feed their readers. You don't stand a chance of getting a blogger to write about you if you don't have a story that their readers will be interested in.

Research Bloggers in Your Industry
More is less when it comes to contacting bloggers. Buy a list of 1,000 bloggers and send out a generic email to all of them and you'll likely get no response. But send a small amount of personalized emails to the appropriate bloggers and you'll be shocked at how many positive responses you get.

The first step is to make a list of the bloggers that would be interested in your story. You can generally get a feel for whether or not a blogger would be interested in your story by reading a couple of posts and checking out their bio. If they've done a few similar stories in the past or they are heavily involved in your industry, there is a good chance they'll want to hear your story. If not, leave them off your list and move on.

The single best method that I have found to research blogs is the Technorati Blog Directory http://www.technorati.com/blogs/. You can peruse blogs in your industry in order of “authority” - how important Technorati thinks a blog is. This is extremely useful. For example, if you are in the travel industry, you can view a list of the most influential blogs in the world of travel.

Another great way to find the right bloggers is to search through your competitors press sections on their websites to see what blogs have mentioned them. You can also find out who has mentioned your competitors by looking at the sites that have linked to them (type in “links:www.theirsite.com” on Yahoo!). There's a good chance that if they found your competitors story interesting, they'll find your story interesting as well.

Compose Your Email
The best way to contact bloggers is by email. The good news is that most bloggers make themselves easy to access and provide their email addresses on their blogs. The bad news is that most people don't know what to do with said email address once they get it. Use the following outline for your email and you'll see amazing results:

Have a simple subject. You probably won't get many responses by treating your email like a press release and writing RELEASE in the subject line. Try something simple like “fan of your blog” or “comment about your blog.” You want to make sure they actually read your email and don't mentally mark it as SPAM when they see the subject.

Start by complementing them. Since you've read their blog and learned about them from their bio, you know quite a bit about them. Use it to your advantage. Complement them on your favorite post, or how cool it is that they worked for XYZ company.
Request them to post about you (be direct). In three sentences or less, tell them your story, why you think it would be of interest to them and their readers, and respectfully ask that they write a post about it. Be direct and to the point. They will respect that.
Offer something in return. You have something that could help them. Maybe it's a link back to their blog from your personal blog, or maybe you could provide them with a free product or service that could help them or their business. One way or another, there's something you have to offer them in return for the time spent on a post about you.

Close with something nice. Thank them for their time and wish them luck with their blog and/or business ventures.

Notice that of the five components of the email, only one is about your story. The rest of the email is spent complimenting them and offering them something. Your chances of getting a positive response have just gone through the roof. Every blogger, no matter how large, likes to hear that people are enjoying their posts.

Respond Promptly and Respectfully
Not everyone is going to agree to run your story. Some will say that they don't do that type of thing or that they don't have time. Since you have been so nice as to compliment them, they will still usually reply either way. Regardless of the response, be sure to thank them for their time and wish them luck with their ventures. You never know when they will encounter someone who needs your product or service in the future (remember, they are in your industry) and if they have a positive image of you and your company they will undoubtedly give you a good recommendation.

Sit Back and Watch the Traffic Roll In
Over the course of the next few weeks you will see post after post appear about your business. Be sure to send another thank you email to the blogger after the post and also be sure to promptly provide whatever you offered them in return. At this point you have developed a mutually beneficial relationship with someone important in your industry that can become invaluable over time.

That wasn't that hard was it? With a little research and a carefully crafted email, any business can effectively use blog PR to drive traffic to their site.

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Three Free Marketing Techniques

2006-08-07T19:16:00.000+07:00

by Michael McLaughlin

If you have zero budget then this is the article for you. In this article I will discuss the best ways to market your website for free.
#1. Articles: An example of using articles to promote your website is this article. At the bottom of it should be my author bylines. If you are a good writer and know were to submit your articles then this can be possible they best traffic generator ever. By submitting articles to ezine editors, website owners, and publishers, you can generate traffic through your bylines. If you even get 1 ezine editor to publish your article in a popular ezine you can generate 50 visitors for free. The best way to get targeted visitors is to write something that people who buy your product would be interested in. For example I wrote this article because I know that webmasters are always looking for marketing techniques and my website is for webmasters.

#2. Ebooks: People love free information and ebooks are one of the main sources for this. Ebooks have the potential to keep on growing if they provide important and unique information. Though the only way they can grow rapidly is if they have distribution and resell rights. Ebooks like articles are viral because they provide free information and information is shared quickly if it is quality. If they have distribution and resell rights then people will customize the ebook with there links but as long as you have your links scattered in the ebook then you will generate many visitors. The best technique is to email all your affiliates and tell them they can customize the ebook with there affiliate links making them some money and you to in the process. This gives them incentive to distribute them.

#3. Search Engines: This one doesn't seem to go with the first 2 but it is the 3rd best free traffic driver. The reason this is third and not first though it brings more traffic than ebooks and articles is because it is an art to getting top search engine ranking for your keywords. Search engines drive approximately 40% of my traffic, I would rather this number be closer to 20% because it is not good depending on one source of traffic especially one as unstable as search engines. For example goggle's Florida update.

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Adsense Ad Format

2006-08-03T19:39:00.000+07:00

Optimization ....
The trick with choosing the Ad Format that you are going to use is to actually choose it and not let your current website structure which you built before you decided to monetize your website with Adsense choose it for you.

This is what the average Adsense Publisher says to him or herself - "This is how my site is built - I can make that space available there and so I'll have to place Adsense there which means I'll have to use that ad format". This is not a choice and needless to say it will generally not convert aswell as rejigging your page layout so as to accommodate the ads that will perform best into it. What this also means is that placement is more important than format.

The basic Ad Format rule is that wider is better and Google gives a neat explanation of why this is so here. Note, wider doesn't mean width of the whole ad (otherwise we'd all be using leaderboards) but the width of an individual advertisement inside the ad block.

This means that the large rectangle - 336 x 280, the medium rectangle - 300 x 250 and the wide skyscraper 160 x 600, other things being equal all perform better.

In content sites I always try to use at least one large rectangle but remember that a webpage can often accommodate more than one ad unit.
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Profitable Adsense Niche

2006-08-03T19:30:00.000+07:00

How To Find A Profitable Adsense Niche? The profitability of an Adsense niche is primarily based on the amount that Adwords advertisers are spending to compete in that niche.

Remember that an Adsense ad is only an Adwords ad that is appearing on your site and not Google. The amount that an ad generates per click is therefore directly related to the amount that Adwords advertisers are paying per click. Bottom line - if they are paying more we earn more.

So how can you find out which niches (and which keywords inside those niches) advertisers are spending more money on?

I use two different methods:

1. Keyword Research With Keyword Country

As you will have probably have started to gather I cannot lay enough praise on this tool. In fact I struggle to understand how I researched, chose and targeted niche sites before I got hold of it...it's that good. Aswell as being able to search by category or keyword you can also search by price range. For example, you can decide to find keywords that have an average cpc of say between $18 and $20. If you enter this price range it will return a list of keywords which fall inside that parameter - in this case - 3957 different keyword phrases.

The top 5 rated keywords in this cpc range were: "credit card", "free credit report", "mortgage rates", "consolidate debt" and "website hosting". All you need to do is go down the list work out which ones would be suitable for an Adsense monetized information site, extend your keyword research by taking your chosen phrase and entering it into the search box, build the content, integrate the Adsense and promote your new website.

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Adsense Psychology

2006-07-30T02:55:00.000+07:00

The first rule of integrating Adsense into your website is to acknowledge that your visitors will see and interact with your Adsense ads the way you see them and have consequently integrated them. If you think of the time you have spent deciding colors, site structure, images and everything else that makes your website, the same amount of energy and precision should go into getting Adsense just right on your webpages.

As you have complete control over the design and layout of your webpages, you also have complete control over how a visitor interprets and ultimately interacts with your pages - and this includes your Adsense Ads.

First and foremost, the size and placement of your ads suggests to the visitor how he or she ought to interact with them. For example,

1. If you use a 728 x 90 leaderboard at the top of your page you are saying to your visitors - "here are some ads which I do not consider to be actually part of my website but I hope that they will catch your eye as you look to the actual content of my website".

2. If you use a 120 x 600 skyscraper in either your left or right navigation you are saying to your visitor, these ads are like my navigation, something extra to the page which you are currently on and to be used like the rest of my navigation if something in them takes your fancy.

3. If you use one of the square or rectangle shapes inside your actual page content, you are saying to your visitors that "these ads are integral to the content of this page and should be read as you are reading the rest of these words - as content relating to the actual page topic".

Needless to say the last of these will always perform better than the other two examples.

View Adsense ads as supplemental content to your page content, integrate them into the structure of your webpages that way and your visitors will interact with them that way giving you a much higher click through rate.

This is the first step to success with Adsense. If you view Adsense as just an easy way to make a couple of extra dollars that's all you will do with it. If you take the time to structure your website and integrate Adsense so as to supplement the page content your click through rate and your earnings will go through the roof.

There are many ways to do this successfully and many different sites that Adsense can work on.

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Blog RSS

2006-07-29T05:17:00.000+07:00

By: Veronica Azam

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tool useful for saving or retaining updated information on websites that you frequently visit or websites that are your favorite. RSS utilizes an XML code which scans continuously the content or subject matter of a certain website in search for new information then transmits the information updates by way of feeding the information to subscribers.

RSS feeds are generally being utilized in blogs or news sites, though any website wanting to broadcast and publish information can use them. Once new information is sent, it will contain a headline, a little bit of text, and either a rundown or a brief review of the news or story. A link is needed be clicked upon to read further.

So as to accept RSS feeds, a feed reader is needed, called an aggregator. Aggregators are widely and freely available online, and all that is needed is a bit of searching, you will be able to locate a certain interface that best interest you. What’s more, RSS feeds can likewise be read and retrieved from cell phones and on PDAs.

Once you encounter upon a website that you want to add or insert to the aggregator, the process can be done in two ways. Almost all sites offering an RSS feed displays an “RSS” or “XML” button in their homepage and with one click, it promptly add that particular feed to one’s aggregator. Some aggregator however, requires the need to copy and then paste the URL of the feed unto the program.

Whatever the method used, you can be certain that the feed will be accessible soon as you have inserted it, likewise, in just seconds, the next update can arrive. In the event that you do not anymore would want to accept or take in updates, you may simply delete or erase the feed from the aggregator.

Through e-mail subscriptions, you can receive newsletters. RSS feeds on the other hand, can be more convenient in keeping up with newsletter updates since they are prompt and available in an instant; you no longer have to wait for a scheduled time or day to obtain a news summary, plus, these news will never be detained through a spam filter.
RSS feeds are widely used everyday by individuals who understand and appreciate the accessibility of fast reports and news that can be readily read and only read certain updates that appeals to them.

Aggregators

Aggregators are popular use of feeds, having several kinds. Web aggregators or portals as they are sometimes called, create this view which is then made available in a Web page. Also, Aggregators have been incorporated into e-mail patrons, users of desktops, or dedicated and standalone software.

Offering a collection of special features, such as combining more than a few related feeds in just a single view, hiding certain entries or statements that has been already viewed, and classifying entries and feeds, the aggregator is a versatile component.

Why make a feed available?

You will have more viewers, since now, your viewers can conveniently see your site without even going out and looking for that certain site. While at first, it may seem corrupt, it will in fact enhance the visibility of your site; this is so because users can easily keep up or keep tract with your site, to allow them to view in a way that they want to; it’s more probable that guests are aware should something that is in their interest is available or accessible on your site.

For instance, every month your website broadcasts a new feature. Having no feed, your viewers will always have to keep in mind to go to your site in a certain time to see if they discover something new; that is, if they can remember, and if they still have the time. However, if you supply a feed for your viewers, they can just point to their aggregator and it will instantly provide them a link along with a description of happenings or events at your site immediately.

What format to choose?

Syndication is very confusing as it uses a lot of formats that can usually be come across in the web. However, this can easily be solved as in general, syndicated libraries are used by aggregators which conceptualize a particular format that a feed is in, in order that they can utilize a certain syndication feed.

With this, whatever format to pick is just a matter of personal preference. RSS 1.0 is far reaching, and practical should it be integrated into Semantic Web systems. RSS 2.0 is very easy and simple create by hand. And atom is an IETF Standard, does it brings constancy, stability and a natural and accepted community to support its usage.

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Blogs Optimization Can Get You A PR6 In One Month

2006-01-16T17:14:00.000+07:00

By: Laura Cozzi

Blogs Optimization, Blog Business Network, Optimize Blog.
I wasn't aware of the existence of this fabulous software until I read a brand new ebook about blogging. The writer of this ebook was recommending a totally new software that I have never heard of , so I was curious like a cat and went to the web site to check it out.

All that I could say was: "Wow".

Let's just put it this way:

What a webmaster or blogger needs: templates, content - lots of it, back links - tens of thousands of them, capacity of manipulating all this from one place plus SEO optimization, traffic, high PR, etc.

Now, we all have CPanels and loads of other softwares, each of them doing its thing.

But look at this testimonial here: "Considering my domain of only 1 month old using BlogSolution has gone from PR0 to PR6 and every site that I linked from my BS site is also a PR6. I am in absolute shock. Just from using BlogSolution."

Now, what can you say about that? Do you have that kind of software?

I looked up the blog solution forum ( yes, they have one). And guess what I found; that actually yes, the BlogSolution users do get those results.

I am totally amazed about how such a tool goes totally unknown to the majority of bloggers. Do you know how this software helps? Put your seat belt on:

- creates 1000s of blogs per second ( no BS)
- BlogSolution blogs: provide 1000s of one way links to your sites, get your sites indexed FAST in the search engines, draw thousands and thousands of SE spiders, can dramatically help your other site's rankings, and make adsense and affiliate income.
- all the blogs are keyword optimized - title, subtitle, etc.
- all the blogs have RSS feed - keyword optimized
- you can add /delete link(s) to one or all blogs with one click
- it has a clocking feature - if you are into that stuff
- BlogSolution grows and adds blogs naturally. This means it creates, updates, pings, etc etc without you having to lift a finger. They're called SmartJobs - create blogs even when you are not around.
- BlogSolution is the fastest mass blogging and pinging software on the internet. Of course, totally automated.

Completely plug and play. Effective for both beginner and expert. Flexibility. This system bends to what YOU want.
My article doesn't tell the whole story. Follow my link and get the whole thing. It will knock your socks off!

More About Laura Cozzi: Successful Online Marketer. Tons of Online Marketing Resources can be found at: www.affiliates-help.com Check Out The BlogSolution Software : www.affhelp.titanpay.com. More articles at http://info-user.blogspot.com