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Gold Investing Beginner

2011-01-20T10:40:00.000-08:00

Gold is forever ,it is something that we can invest,it look beauty, rarity and because of its status as a means of exchange and universal currency par excellence for centuries.Invest in Gold is a way to earn big money buying selling gold.Some people do earning decent money just investing on gold trading.

As you night already know,it been thousand years gold as a medium of international exchange,it can easily concert to money,Keeping good volume of gold also known as a store of wealth and in order to increase and preserve power.

There are several ways to invest in gold to earn money, however before you take the plunge you need to do your homework and understand what you need or expect from your gold investment journey.

Individuals have used gold as a store of wealth and as insurance against the fluctuations and depreciation of paper money and to protect against other macroeconomic and geopolitical risks.

Throughout history, perhaps no other asset in the world has had the universal appeal of gold and this appeal has increased in recent times due to the very significant macroeconomic, geopolitical, monetary and systemic risk facing our modern global financial system and economy.

Successful investing is about the diversification and management of risk. In layman's terms this means not having all your eggs in one basket. We know from history that markets can and do crash and if you are not properly diversified your nest egg can be severely affected.

So a healthy portfolio will include a wide range of assets including a variety of equities with exposures to different market sectors and regions; a variety of different countries' bonds of different durations; a diversified property portfolio; a cash component and a 5-15% allocation to gold related investments and gold bullion. In these uncertain times, caution and risk consciousness is crucially important and counter party and systemic risk should be considered.
The key is to determine what amount of each asset class to have and to own assets that will whether the onslaught of inflation, deflation, stagflation and even hyperinflation.

Some exposure to gold should be included in all diversified portfolios. A good rule of thumb would be a minimum allocation of around 10% to gold and related gold-investments.

One's motivation for buying gold is fundamental to deciding in which form you should buy it. Are you a speculator, investor or saver? Do you wish to take a short term speculative position in gold? Are you investing for the short, medium or long term? Or are you diversifying, saving or using gold as a form of financial insurance?

X-Robots-Tag Directive

2008-12-18T11:10:00.001-08:00

X-Robots allow webmasters flexibility control over which pages and documents are crawled and indexed by search engine.

Currently Yahoo X-Robots Tag Directive provide control for archiving and summarization of ANY file type with following tag:

NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOSNIPPET, NOFOLLOW

Webmasters no longer need access to html templates in order to express exclusions for html files. Previously, these page level tags could only be expressed within html pages through the META directive (for e.g. <META NAME="Slurp" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">), with X-Robots Tag Directive .

Webmasters has flexibility to achieve exclusions on PDF, Word documents, PowerPoint, video, and other file types, including html files, and increasing their coverage through a simplified process. Simply add the following page level tags to the X-Robots-Tag directive in the HTTP Header. Here are a few examples:

X-Robots-Tag: NOINDEX —Do Not show the URL in the Yahoo! Search results.
Note: They'll still need to crawl the page to see and apply the tag, so if you don’t wish to have the page crawled, use robots disallow on robots.txt.
X-Robots-Tag: NOARCHIVE —Do Not display cache link in the search results page.
X-Robots-Tag: NOSNIPPET — Do Not display summary in the search results page.
X-Robots-Tag: NOFOLLOW — Do Not crawl links in the page.

If you use the apache server, you may use the htaccess document to make the revision to a HTTP document. Revises a HTTP document with caution, if revise wrongly will possibly cause the search engine not to be able to carry on the index to your page. You may also use the following Meta label to replace X-Robots-Tag, they have the same function.

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Take Control of your Money Before It Controll You

2008-11-19T13:18:00.001-08:00

Cornie Herring is an finance author of personal finance, debt management & bankruptcy alternatives. You can find useful information and resources to reduce and eliminate your debt issues at her website.

Certainly, you should try to save and invest as much of your monthly income as you can at all the times, but realistically your priorities change depending on which financial phase of your life your are in. "

How to Effectively Take Control of your Money

Do you often find yourself running out of money even before payday? Do you wonder why you can't afford to buy a new car or take the vacation you w*ant when other people who make as much money as you do can? If you have these feeling, you are not alone. This is the common feeling for many people, money always run short. Most of the time, the problem may not be cause by the level of income, but what most of us doing with our income that drag us to the shortage of money. Take control of your money is the solution to make your money do more for you. The question is how to effectively take control of your money?

In fact, you do not need to have a complex formula in taking control of you money, a simple formula such as be aware of how and where you spend it, and invest it is the most effective way to create a wealthy financially lifestyle for yourself. In order to implement this simple formula in taking control of your money, you need to generate an effective plan for your money that can encourages you to develop a set of priorities that helps you to achieve your financial goals.

"What are my financial goals?" You can always start your financial goals setting process by asking this first question. Always start with your short-term goals. Set up a four-column list on a piece of paper, list down all your wishes of things like new cars and vacations which should also including upcoming financial obligations such as taxes and insurance premiums.

In the first column, write down your financial goals, and put the estimation cost into the second columns. Every goal should have a date of realization; place these dates into the third column. From the estimate cost stated at second column and the date of realization, calculate how much money you will need to start saving each month so that you have enough money to realize your goal, write the monthly savings amount into the forth column.

The ideal case is your income is enough to cover the total monthly savings for all your financial goals, but in reality it may not be true. What if you find that you can't save enough money each month to meet all of your short-term financial goals?

Then, you have to one of two things:

1) Reduce your price expectations. For example, spend less on your vacation coming up in 6 months. Or change your vacation location from oversea to domestic.

2) Increase the amount of time before you achieve your goal. For example, delay the purchase of your new car for another six months.

Basically, your financial goals should be flexible enough to inline with your financial affordability and the goals should be reachable.

Once your have set your short-term goals, do the same for your long-term financial goals. In setting your long term financial goals, you also need to figure out how much money to be set aside for emergencies uses. The costs of retirement or college education for your children that won't occur for a number of years are both certainly moving targets. Your long-term goals should be reviewed from time to time to ensure you are on track and if not, what are the adjustments should be made.

Certainly, you should try to save and invest as much of your monthly income as you can at all the times, but realistically your priorities change depending on which financial phase of your life your are in. Invest your money wisely to generate profit out from your money, not the opposite. Most investments have certain risks which you should consider before you put your money in, generally high gain high risk, follow your own risk profile and select the investment portfolio that suit your own risk profile.

Summary

You need to take control of your money so that your money can do more for you; give your money more purposes by documenting your financial goals that involve how's your money is going to help you to realize your financial goals.

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Collection of Top SEM Tools online

2008-11-15T22:16:00.001-08:00

Aaron Wall.Author of leading SEO blog , offering marketing tips and coverage of the search space, free SEO videos, and free SEO tools.

The number of internet marketing tools(SEM) launched over the past couple years has been staggering. Many of them are both free and highly valuable. SEO, which was once considered a bit of a seedy niche, has grown with search to become a mainstream marketing practice."

Top Top Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Tools

The mainstream marketing practice:

Google providing Webmaster Central, a blog for webmasters, & many of the best free SEO tools
Yahoo! offering a paid inclusion service & a webmaster focused tool by the name of Site Explorer
Microsoft offering SEO services

This article aims to highlight the best search engine marketing tools.

Keyword Research

Keywords are at the core of search, so any effective SEO campaign starts with keyword research. My 4 favorite keyword research tools are

Google AdWords Keyword Tool
SEO Book Keyword Tool
Google Traffic Estimator
Microsoft Ad Intelligence

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

Given Google's enormous search marketshare they have the most keyword data, though typically they have been less open than others with sharing data. Recently the Google AdWords Keyword Tool has started to show estimated search volumes using numbers (rather than graphs).

Cool features:

Match Types: Shows search estimates for exact match keywords (the exact keyword), phrase match (searches containing that keyword as part of the search), and broad match (additionally related searches that may have words in a different order).
URL Related Keywords: Allows you to enter in a specific page and/or site and find relevant keywords based on that page/site.

SEO Book Keyword Tool

I partnered with the fine folks at Wordtracker to create a free keyword tool powered by their API. The SEO Book keyword tool acts like a meta search keyword tool, where the results are powered by Wordtracker and link to other related keyword tools.

Cool features:

Cross referencing: Like search engines, all keyword tools have some biases to them, so the quick ability to compare results from different sources makes this the first keyword tool I typically use.
CSV Export: This tool offers a quick CSV export option, which makes it easy to create a keyword list that can be inserted into other tools for further analysis (which I will mention in the Google Traffic Estimator & Microsoft Ad Intelligence sections).

Google Traffic Estimator

Google Tra*ffic Estimator is a tool which estimates the number of ad clicks that a particular keyword would get at a particular bid price. Given how ad clickthrough rate can vary greatly based on ad copy the estimates can be a bit rough, but this tool does give relative volumes AND values for keywords.

The addition of click cost estimates makes this a nice tool to submit a keyword list to in order to find out which keywords are the most valuable.

Cool features:

Bid Price Estimation: If you do not enter in a bid price, they return a bid price that should return your ads in the top position 85% of the time.
Match Types: Shows search estimates for [exact match] , "phrase match", and broad match. In this context it is easy to see how long the tail is for a keyword.

Microsoft Ad Intelligence

Microsoft Ad Intelligence is an Excel Plug In for Excel 2003 and Excel 2007.

It is similar to a combination of the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and the Google Traffic Estimator, with a couple additional features included.

Cool features:

Real data: One of the ways Microsoft is playing catch up in search is providing their actual search data via this tool (these search counts are the same data set that they use internally). Most search services offer somewhat doctored up estimates.
Near realtime: This tool offers many advanced filters, which allow you to sort data as recently as yesterday.
Category based keywords: You can find the all time top category based keywords, or category based keywords that have recently become popular... a service that is great for niche publishers.

Search Analytics Tools

If you are not using web analytics you are flying blind. Analytics data gives you the power to refine your strategy based on what is working and what is not. 3 of my favorite analytics tools are:

Google Analytics
Clicky
Mint

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a robust free analytics tool. The only concern I haveGoogle Trends for Websites with using it is that if you are profiting from a market inefficiency you might be revealing that inefficiency to the largest online ad network... which may then reveal it to other people. With their large search marketshare, their free keyword tools, industry benchmarking data, and the launch of Google Ad Planner (still in beta), Google Trends for Websites, and Google Insights for Search, Google is the leading source of keyword and market data for many online businesses.

Clicky

Clicky is an inexpensive web based analytics tool. In addition to being fairly feature rich, they also offer a white label service that allows webmasters to resell their analytics product.

Mint

Mint is an analytics program you can install on your server for a one time $30 licensing fee. It offers realtime data and has a wide array of extensions that display information in convenient panes, but is not as feature rich as the above options.

More Analytics Tools

There are a wide array of analytics tools on the market. There are niche tools specifically for PPC campaigns like Optimize My Site and Tracking 202, as well as higher end offerings from companies like Omniture... finding the right tool for your needs is largely a function of defining your needs and budget, and if your budget is quite extensive it might make sense to program something in house.

Search Engine Rank Checkers

While most successful SEO professionals pay more attention to traffic trends, conversions, and profits - it is still helpful to track where some sites rank for certain keywords. Tracking how sites move in the rankings for specific keywords gives you clues as to when search engineers change the weightings on things like domain authority, anchor text, and related words.

While Google Webmaster Central shows you some keywords you rank for, they do not show you the keywords you rank on page 5 or 6 for... just the keywords where you show up near the top of the search results often. Years ago Google had a useful search API, but more recently they have been using an Ajax API which does not work well with rank checkers.

My 2 favorite rank checkers are

SEO Book Rank Checker
Advanced Web Ranking

SEO Book Rank Checker

This free rank checking tool is a Firefox extension which allows you to track how you rank in the search engines for a variety of keywords.

Cool features

International: It works with international versions of Google.
Automated: Allows you to create preset lists which automatically run at a set periodicity .
Exportable: Allows you to export the results and see how rankings for a keyword have changed over time.

Advanced Web Ranking

Starting at $99, Advanced Web Ranking is one of the more popular desktop search engine rank checking tools.

Cool features

Graphs: Allows you to view graphs of how your rankings change over time.
Wide Selection of Search Engines: If you live in China, Russia, or another market where Google is not the clear market leader, then this tool will still work for you, as they allow you to track rankings in hundreds of search engines.

Link Analysis Tools

Link analysis is a field which has lost a bit of its importance over the past couple years. Google has clamped down on paid links, web directories, and article directories. At the same time more people are blogging online, and more webmasters have become aware to the field of public relations and the value of links. These combine to make it is much harder to catch up with a competitor if you are trying to duplicate their link building strategy.

To some degree link analysis has moved away from PageRank and anchor text toward analyzing news in the marketplace and understanding why stories are spreading (link analysis is evolving into media analysis and public relations). Here are 6 of my favorite link analysis tools

Yahoo! Site Explorer
Google Blog Search
Google Webmaster Central
SEO Link Analysis
Xenu Link Sleuth
Advanced Link Manager

Yahoo! Site Explorer

Google and Microsoft generally show rather limited link data to the public. Yahoo! Site Explorer shows a much deeper and more representative sampling of inbound link data.

SEO Link Analysis

SEO Link Analysis is a free Firefox extension that adds link anchor text, PageRank score, and if a link is nofollowed to Yahoo! Site Explorer results.

Google Blogsearch

While Google tends to show a small sample of backlinks their Blogsearch is much better at detecting new links from blogs.

Google Webmaster Central

If you verify you own a website inside Google Webmaster Central, they will allow you to download a list of links pointing at your site. If you notice your rankings for a keyword are decent (but could be better) you could look through some of the people linking at your page and ask them to link at your page using more specific anchor text.

Xenu Link Sleuth

Xenu Link Sleuth crawls websites looking for broken links. This helps you keep your website maximally clean and functional by finding any broken internal links and any references to documents that are no longer online.

Advanced Link Manager

Advanced Link Manager is a paid software package starting at $199 which allows you to automatically track new backlinks obtained by competitors. It also crawls pages to find anchor text, if the link is using nofollow, and the PageRank score of the linking page.

We also created a free tool somewhat similar to Advanced Link Manager, named Backlink Analyzer. We have not updated our tool in a while though, and it is sorely in need of an update.

PPC Tools

As search ad networks have become less transparent many PPC tools that did things like bid gap management have been rendered useless, while Google has built out a powerful AdWords API, an ad platform that allows you to bid per click or per conversion, and the Google AdWords Editor.

Google AdWords Editor
Google Website Optimizer
Speed PPC
PPC Tools suite
PPC Analytics Tools

Google AdWords Editor

Google AdWords Editor is a free desktop tool advertisers can use to quickly edit their AdWords campaigns in bulk.

Google Website Optimizer

Google Website Optimizer is a free tool that makes it easy to test and improve your landing page and conversion process. Conversion Rate Experts offers a great overview article about how to take advantage of Website Optimizer and other conversion boosting tools.

Speed PPC

Speed PPC is a paid desktop software program which makes it easy to generate many cross referenced ad campaigns and landing pages for geo-targeted keyword combinations. At $497 Speed PPC is not cheahow to take advantage of Website Optimizer and other conversion boosting toolsp, but if it is beyond your means and you are a good programmer then Zipcode Guy offers a free database of U.S. cities and zip codes.

PPC Tool suite

My wife has build a free collection of useful web based PPC tools including a keyword list generator, a keyword list cleaner, a typo generator, a keyword wrapper, an ad group generator, and a ROI calculator.

The keyword list generator can be good for creating a quick list of keywords to plug into a PPC account to see what variations get the most search volume, then trim back the fat after you collect some account feedback data.
The keyword list cleaner is good for taking a dirty keyword list and making it useful. For example, lets say you have a list of MP3 player related keywords. This tool allows you to quickly filter out any keywords related to car and automotive MP3 players.
The ad group generator makes it easy to create ad groups for Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Microsoft adCenter at the same time.

PPC Analytics Tools

Many big affiliate marketers create their own bid management software, but newer affiliates may find tracking tools like Optimize My Site and Tracking 202 useful.
Many enterprise level websites create custom bid management software for their company, but for enterprise level merchants who do not manage paid search in house, firms like Efficient Frontier can help with management.

Competitive Research

Services like comScore and Hitwise have been around for many years for the people who could afford to buy their data, but their price points are north of what most people are willing to pay. Competitive research is one of the areas which has improved the most in the past few years, largely by a number of companies making products and tools at a more accessible price point. Here are 5 of my favorite competitive analysis tools.

Compete.com Search Analytics
Google Website Trends & Google Insights for Search
Microsoft Ad Intelligence
KeyCompete
SEO Digger

Compete.com Search Analytics

Much of the consumer facing innovation in the competitive analysis industry stemmed from Compete.com launching with free basic analytics data, and using a credit based system that allowed anyone to buy competitive data for as little as $20. Since then they have changed their pricing model to one based on a flat monthly fee starting at $299 a month. Here are some of their top keywords for blogoscoped.com... and they offer the option to download hundreds more

Cool features

Category based top keywords: they were one of the first services to offer top keywords by category (this feature has since been cloned by Microsoft Ad Intelligence and Google Insights for Search).
Weighting based analytics: they not only show popular keywords sending traffic to competing sites, but they show the approximate percent of traffic driven by each keyword.
Organic vs paid breakout: they break out which traffic came from organic search vs paid search ads.

Google Website Trends & Google Insights for Search

Google Trends for Websites displays related sites, related search queries, and what countries a website is popular in. Google Insights for Search shows category related keywords, top search terms related to the keyword you entered, and top rising related keywords.

Microsoft Ad Intelligence

Microsoft Ad Intelligence, also covered in the above keyword tools section, offers top category based keywords and allows you to research keywords based on campaign association with competing advertisers (along with confidence estimates).

KeyCompete

KeyCompete is a paid tool that lets you find what keywords competing advertisers are buying. This tool is especially powerful for affiliate marketers, where many of them resell the same product or service and need to get a baseline idea of what competitors are doing. SpyFu offers a similar service.

SEO Digger

SEO Digger is similar to KeyCompete, but is free and works on showing what organic keywords a website is ranking for. URLTrends, which is currently undergoing redesign, is similar to SEO Digger.

By:Aaron Wall

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Your Website from the Ground Up in 10 Steps

2008-11-10T11:18:00.001-08:00

By Scott Van Achte.A Senior SEO at StepForth Web Marketing Inc.; based in Victoria, BC, Canada .Visit news.stepforth.com or contact them at StepForth.com, Tel - 250-385-1190, TollFree - 877-385-5526, Fax - 250-385-1198

Make sure that the content you write reflects your industry and target keywords. You don't need to flood the content with your target keywords, but make sure they are in there a few times. When it makes sense to do so, also include some acronyms to help Google establish the overall relevance."

Your Website from the Ground Up in 10 Steps

So, you have finally decided to build yourself a website, but really have no idea where to start. The following 10 steps will give you some insight into what you need to address when creating a search friendly website from the ground up.

While this article is not an exhaustive líst of everything you need to know, it does touch base on many of the important aspects of creating a new website.

Step 1 - Keyword Research

Even before you choose your domain name, you should put a little time into some keyword research. Research all the possible keywords that will fit your industry and the website you plan on building. Having a clear idea of what your end targets are will make the rest of your job much easier and help things to just fall into place. Take a look at Keyword Research for SEO, written earlier this summer, for more help on this. Your Vote Counts!

You can try Wordtracker . a keyword research tool.or Vvsit Digital earning resources blog for more keyword tools.

Step 2 - Domain Selection

If you already have an established brick and mortar business and the website will be an extension of that business, using your company name as the domain name is in most cases the best idea. If your company name is either irrelevant, or simply unavailable, you may want to consider a domain that has your target phrase listed as part of the domain.

A great example of this is if your site is focused geographically. Using the location as part of the domain when possible will give you a little extra juice with the search engines and help draw people to your site as they instantly can see the relevance in the domain.

Let's say that you are building a website focused on your home town, "Somewhere USA". A domain you may consider could be "Somewhere.com"; however, this would probably be already taken. Other options such as "SomewhereInfo.com" or "SomewhereGuide.com" may be good alternatives. The same goes for retail stores. "SomewhereCameras".com or "SomewhereBakery".com would also be good choices.

Avoid excessive use of hyphens; sometimes it is appropriate to use one, but if you can help it, avoid more than that as it can appear messy and even spammy in some cases.

Step 3 - System Back End

If you plan on having a large scale website that will grow and change constantly then you may want to consider a content management system (CMS) such as Joomla. If you decide to go this route, you want to ensure that whichever CMS you choose is search engine friendly and offers items such as unique title tags, custom URL's, and full control over content, heading tags, image alt tags, etc.

Starting a website using a non-friendly CMS is like buying a car without an engine. Sure it may look great, but it won't get you anywhere.

Step 4 - Site Structure & Navigation

This is really one of the most fundamental aspects of your site creation. If the structure of your site does not work well, then your site may be doomed from the very beginning.

Take a look back at your keyword research and brainstorm all the areas of your site that you may want to develop content for. In some cases you may find valuable keywords that would fit perfectly into a few pages of content for your site. If the phrase and the content would be a good match for the theme of your site, go ahead and note them as pages to create. Get a líst, or flowchart, of all the content you plan on adding and sort those pages into relevant categories.

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Be sure your site files are saved in a way that makes sense - this includes both the file name, and the complete path to the file. Save files, including similar content in a relevant subdirectory, with simple file names representing each. Let's take an example of an informational site dedicated to a specific geographic location. If you have a series of pages dedicated to recreation, you may save them as:

/recreation/parks.html

/recreation/trails.html

/recreation/beaches.html

Keeping your URL structure clean and tidy can not only help with search engine rankings, but it will give a good visual impression to the site visitor as well. Often, using each of these categories as main points for your primary site navigation may make the most sense.

Also be sure to keep your site relatively flat, with as few layers as possible. Don't make the search engines follow a dozen links to get to the deepest levels of your site. Unless the site is literally tens of thousands of pages, there is no need to click more than 2 or 3 links to get to any deep content. The shorter the path to an internal page, the more credít by the search engines.

Step 5 - Navigation

When developing the end site, you also want to make sure that your site navigation is search engine friendly - this is critical if you ever want free organic listings.

If possible, use a text based form of navigation. You can use CSS to style the text links to fit into your graphical design. Text links are the best method, but image based navigation and even some forms of drop down menus are also search engine friendly.

If you choose to use image based navigation be sure to include image alt text relevant to the link to give something for Google to associate with the linked page. If you absolutely must use Flash, or any form of navigation not friendly for search engine spiders, be sure to supplement this with text based links on another location of the page.

Step 6 - Analytics

It isn't ever too early to start thinking about your stats. Before your site goes live you must have some form of accurate analytics in place so you can measure your site's traffic and progress.

There is an endless supply of analytics options out there to choose from. You can simply use the stats software that comes free with your web hosting, however, more often than not, they tend to be very basic with no flexibility. Advanced choices such as ClickTracks can give you rather in-depth statistics, but for a very small mom and pop operation it may be too expensive. Google Analytics, is a free option that can give you most, if not all the data you will need and does not require access to your raw log files.

If you do opt for an option such as ClickTracks, check with your host to ensure that you will have the raw log files you require. StepForth can also help you with your statistical analysis and offers a number of inexpensive ClickTracks service packages.

Step 7 - Content Creation

Now is the time to get that new, fresh content posted to your site with the SEO in mind. Make sure that the content you write reflects your industry and target keywords. You don't need to flood the content with your target keywords, but make sure they are in there a few times. When it makes sense to do so, also include some acronyms to help Google establish the overall relevance.

If you perform a search in Google for "~keyword", any words that Google bolds in the search results will be acronyms that Google deems relevant. Include some of these where possible.

Step 8 - Basic SEO

Ensure that ALL pages of your site include Title and Meta Description tags. This is one of the core fundamental aspects of an optimized size and it does play a significant role in your search rankings. Make sure that these tags are not only unique but are accurate representations of each page. Also be sure to place your target phrase in heading as well as image alt tags where applicable.

check out my previous post :Using Internal Linking To Get Better Search Engine Exposure

Step 9 - Initial Promotion / Launch

Now that you have your new site all up and ready to go, let's drive some traffi*c. It will be a while before the search engines fully index your site and even longer before you start to see organic rankings for your target search phrases. It is important to start off right away to get the ball rolling.

Start off by issuing a press release to announce the launch of your new business website. Press releases are a great way to get some tra*ffic and a rather valuable first link into your site. Submitting your press release using a company such as PRWeb will get your link in the engine's path and should help your site to be initially indexed by Google right away.

Next submít your site to some relevant directories starting with DMOZ. It can take months, even years, to have your site listed in DMOZ, so it is important to get it submitted right away. Consider submittíng to other industry relevant directories. For some information on how to select the right directories take a look at Building Links with Directory Submissions.

Work on getting as many links from relevant industry websites as possible. The more links you can get from reputable sources, the better the overall performance of your site.

Step 10 - Ongoing Promotion

Once you have completed the site, the content looks great, and all appears finished, you've still got work to do. For long term success, especially for a brand new site, you need to continually promote your site. You should always be looking at ways to build your inbound links and your relevant content.

Consider creating accounts with various social media platforms to help promote your site. These can not only give you a link back to your site, but they can help you drive traffic and raise awareness about your business and product.

A site that is always growing, and always getting new links, has the best chance of getting a stable top 10 listing in Google.

Using Internal Linking To Get Better Search Engine Exposure

2008-11-10T10:22:00.001-08:00

By Randy Zlobec (c) 2008
RZ Concepts a search engine marketing company specializing in website promotíon and internet marketing.

Your internal linking structure will not only benefit your visitors, but it will help you rank better with the search engines as well.

Using Internal Linking To Get Better Search Engine Exposure

Anyone who runs a website should be aware of a few basic search engine linking tactics. Used properly you can interlink your website so that Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines will rate you higher in both page rank and search engine results for your keyword/key phrase niche terms. If you're unaware of what internal linking means, here's a basic overview.

Internal linking involves the links on your website that point to other pages on your website. Internal linking is very important because it allows the search engine spiders, those automated bots that scour the Internet looking for information, to find all of the pages on your website. In comparison, external linking are links that are on your website which link out to other websites, and there are specific tactics for those as well. In this article, however, we're going to cover a few simple tactics and strategies to get your internal linking up to speed.

You Can Have the Number One Position on Google!

When you're developing your website, you will tend to put a whole lot of pages of similar information tailored to a specific niche or subject that you going to convey to your visitors. You probably will have information, news, how-to articles, tips and sales pages, where informed visitors can buy your products or services. Your internal linking structure will not only benefit your visitors, but it will help you rank better with the search engines as well.

Having a good navigation system makes Google and Yahoo happy, and in turn, they will reward you because you are doing things to improve the visitors' website experience. So, for example, if you have an internal linking structure that is seamless, intuitive and allows your visitors to quickly find what they're looking for, search engines will give you more page rank, index more of your web pages and return higher search results for user queries.

Why? You have taken the time to help your website visitors have an excellent customer experience. As a result, your tactics and strategies should be geared towards giving arriving visitors not only the information that they seek, but have it presented in a way that they, and search engine bots, will love.

So how do you accomplish this? There are a few basic tactics, you can use that will improve your internal linking structure right off the bat.

Number 1 - use the rel="nofollow" HTML tag for pages that you don't wish to pass rank to Google. For example, let's say you had a three-page site. Now, we all know that most people have more than three pages for an entire website; however, this will make it easier to follow.

The first page is your home page which gets 100% of the search engine ranking and love. The second page is an information or information/sales page, with the third being a checkout page.

If you don't use the nofollow tag on one of the pages, both pages will be passed half of 50% each for the link from the home page. So, they'll each get 25% of the ranking and love passed through from the spiders.

The search engine spiders will naturally give your home page the best page rank and index it first. Say, you plan to link to the information/sales page and make sure that a lot of people find it, because the information page is what will sell your product or service.

For ranking and indexing purposes, you consider the checkout page as useless, so you don't care if the search engines find it or not. In fact, you'd prefer it if they didn't index it all. What do you do?

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When you link from your home page, you can do one of two things.

Link to the information page only from the home page.
Link to both pages but use the no follow tag to the checkout page. In that way, if someone arrives who is already sold on your product, they can go directly to your checkout page and buy the product.

Two things happen with scenario #2. You give the customer/visitor the option. Because, the search engine is applying SEO love to one page and not two, the page rank passed will not be 25% and 25% for each page, but 0% for the checkout page and 50% for the information page which needs it. You maintain the search engine indexing and page rank for those pages that are important.

This is just one thing that needs to be considered when setting up your website. Professional SEO firms use this algorithm in order to get specific pages on your website to rank higher and return results in the search engine results pages that are much higher than other pages like your checkout pages which you don't care about.

Number 2 - Add extra links in your navigation area or footer area that link to important pages and main sections on your website.

This extremely easy tactic is often overlooked by many websites, but it does return very good results for deep linking, and most SEO firms will review your footer links when they take you on as a candidate in order to utilize that other form of deep linking.

The reason for this is that so many people forget to do it, and many Web designers add really cool buttons, images and all kinds of funky image stuff that do nothing to improve your page rank or your results in a search engines.

You should remember that search engines can't follow image links or links created in JavaScript. So, you want to add simple text links that the robots can follow to index your website more fully.

These are only two of the tactics that are covered when you hire a professional, savvy SEO firm to optimize your web layout and linking structure.

10 Secrets to Using Twitter to Attra More Followers and Get More Clients

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By Donna Gunter (c) 2008
Online Business Manager and Online Business Coach Donna Gunter helps independent service professionals learn how to automate their businesses, leverage their expertise on the Internet, and get more clients online. To claim your FREE gift, TurboCharge Your Online Marketíng Toolkit, visit her site at OnlineBizU.com . Follow Donna on Twitter: http://twitter.com/donnagunter

Twitter can be a great time-waster or a wonderful way to market your business and leverage your expertise online. Follow these 10 strategies and you'll begin to attract more followers and get more clients through social networking.

10 Secrets to Using Twitter to Attra More Followers and Get More Clients

I do wonder at times if some Twitter users have any time to get any work done. Several of the more prolific ones that I follow swear they spend no more than 30 minutes a day on Twitter, but I really find that hard to believe. Many times it seems they are twittering just to say something, like "Good morning Twitterverse" when they begin their day, give more details than I want to know about what they had for lunch, what their children said to them, or when they take a nap.

I realize that this is part of the "like, know, and trust" process that enables people to get to know each other, but sometimes it's simply too much information..LOL. I'm Twittering primarily to market my business. Consequently, I try and limit my personal twitters to no more than 2 per day. My clients, who create Twitter accounts for marketing, as well, tell me, "I'm signed up. Now what in the world do I Twitter about? How do I market my business with this tool?"

Here are 10 strategies that I use regularly to market my business and my expertise via Twitter. Remember, you have only 140 characters for your tweet (Twitter post).

1. How you're helping clients . Talk about specific ways that your business helps clients and use their Twitter ID if you have their permission, i.e. "Just finished @clientname brainstorm great Internet marketing plan for 2009" or "Finally finished setting up Quickbooks for local hardware store -- now they can invoice their clients"

2. What you're doing in your business. This is a perfect time to tell others when you're blogging, writing an article, creating your weekly ezine, recording your podcast, i.e. "Had great interview with Jane Smith today on speaking to grow your biz. Great ideas! Subscribe to podcast & listen here (URL here)'

3. Useful tool or resource you've found. I run across these all the time in my daily activities, and Twitter is a perfect place to share,. i.e. "Found great new Firefox plug-in to monitor & check multiple Gmail accounts at same time at (URL here)" or "Read great blog post on workíng at home with kids under 5 at (URL here)"

4. Ask a question. Need some ideas or some quick brainstorming? Twitter is an ideal place to gather opinions, i.e. "Help! Desperately seeking new laser prínter. Recommendations?" or "How do I find training organizations online?"

5. Conduct a survey. What do your Tweeps think about a particular issue? Ask them via Twitter, i.e. "Quick poll: Do you get more clients from Facebook or Twitter? Respond at (URL here)"

6. Report on live events. The latest Twitter trend seems to be tweeting what's happening at conferences or workshops. In order for Twitter users to follow a particular event, it's usually referred to by a name preceded by a # sign, as in #JVAlert, for example, to make it simpler for people who want to follow those posts. So, if you were at an event, you might tweet "#JVAlert John Smith speaking on affiliate programs. Just got great idea on training affiliate managers!" Just don't get so wrapped up in tweeting that you ignore the content delivered in the conference!

7. Product or service launch. If you're about to launch a new product or introduce a new product, let your Twitter followers know, i.e. "Pre-launch pricing for new DVD set about how baby boomers can start an online biz. Get $100 early bird discount at (URL here)"

8. Responding to others with advice or answers. The way to build professional relationships on Twitter is to help your tweeps. So, if someone asks a question, comments about something to which you have a response or an idea, or you want to ask a followup question, this is the perfect place to do so.

9. Acknowledging new followers. I've noticed a recent trend of acknowledging people who've decided to follow a Twitter user in the past day or so. I initially thought that others were doing this as a measure of popularity, but what I've come to realize is that it's actually helping out the new followers because it exposes their Twitter profiles to others who may have never heard of them and who might like to follow them. So, to thank your followers, you'd tweet, "Welcome new followers @twittername, @twittername, etc."

10. Automate your tweets. Many of my tweets have been automated and connected to other things I do. TwitterFeed turns all of my blog posts into tweets. aWeber turns each ezine issue into a tweet. EzineArticles.com tweets my followers every time I publish an article through their service. Typically all that's involved here is connecting the particular service to my Twitter account. Once all the services are connected, I get free and automated Twitter posts with no additional effort on my part.

Twitter can be a great time-waster or a wonderful way to market your business and leverage your expertise online. Follow these 10 strategies and you'll begin to attract more followers and get more clients through social networking.

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7 rules To Put The "Ad" Into Adwords

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AdWords' power comes from the ability it gives you to intercept prospects at the exact moment they're looking for what you sell. The basic PPC ad format is simple, and works best with a single clear message and a strong call to action.

7 rules To Put The "Ad" Into Adwords

When you're new to AdWords, it's tempting to devote far too much time and energy in trying to craft that "killer" ad. But the truth is that writing ads is a science, not an art. Here are a few of the rules.

1) Don't Fly Blind...

In over five years developing AdWords campaigns, we've haven't ever seen a profitable example that didn't track conversions.

AdWords Conversion Tracking is simple to install and a "must" for measuring ad performance. Remember, by itself the Clíck-Through- Rate (CTR) of an ad tells you nothing about the ROI it's delivering. We've seen many examples of ads with a lower CTR, but higher conversion rate.
Universal Log File Analyzer - Advanced Web Analytics!

Google Analytics obviously adds a great deal more data, but takes time to master. However, one feature worth using immediately is its ability to tell you which ad position yields the best results.

Finally, don't forget the AdWords Reports section. This has improved significantly over the past year, and the Search Query Performance report is a real asset in optimizing keywords and ad copy.

2) Cut out the Middle Man...

In this case, the "middle man" is Google. When developing and testing your ads, it's vital to put yourself in control as far as possible:

Delivery Method: By default, Google spreads the delivery of your ads evenly throughout the day, ensuring you don't exhaust your daily budget (and they get to spend as much of it as possible). However, it also serves to mask the true demand for your product or service. We have seen many cases where ads are more profitable at certain times of the day.If you have a limited budget, spend it when you'll get the best return. We recommend running campaigns using Accelerated delivery. Keep an eye on your daily budget and adjust accordingly.

Ad Serving: If you're running multiple ads, Google will automatically start favouring the one with the highest CTR once a certain volume of clicks have been receíved. We don't use the default Optimize option, and recommend you select Rotate for ad serving.

We have AdWords campaigns for some of our clients that have been running for over three years, but we always maintain at least two ad variations per ad group. Even if there's only a single word difference, one ad will ultimately prove superior and deliver an improved ROI.

The Rotate option also gives you more granularity when testing ad variations. Say you can creat a 1/3-2/3 split; you simply create two copies of ad "A" and one of ad "B". Using the same principal allows you to create 60/40 and 70/30 splits, which are very useful in some circumstances.
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Network Options: Start your testing using Google's Search network only. Uncheck both their Partner and Content networks. Once you have some solid data from mainstream search traffic, you can add their Partners. Google's partners are a pretty "mixed bag", and you may decide to exclude them altogether (we often do).

Enable the Content network and Content Bids. Don't run on the Content network with the same bid as Search - you're just handing Google money. By default, we set Content Bids at 1/10 of that on the Search network: so if your Search bid is 0.50p, set your Content bid to 0.05p for openers.

If you find your product or service has "traction" on the Content network (true in about 25% of cases in our experience), it may be worth running separate campaigns for Content searches.

All these options can be set from the Campaign Management tab in your account. Select a campaign and clíck the Edit Settings button.

3) A Stitch in Time...

It's important to optimize your ads (and separately your keywords and bids) to a fixed schedule. By default, we run a three-month cycle: Every three hours for the first day. Every day for the first week. Every week for the first month. Every second week for the second month. At the end of the third month.

You can adapt this schedule to suit your clíck volume, but make sure you have a schedule and stick to it. You'll learn more about your target audience, and employ your time more efficiently. Don't forget to take weekdays, weekends and seasonal trends into account.

4) Study your Competition First...

Before writing your first ad, take time to study your competition using a selection of core keywords and phrases.

This is particularly important if you're thinking of using Google's Keyword Insertion feature. This is becoming increasingly popular and can be counter-productive; making your headline look identical to the competition.

5) All for One and One for All...

Achieving a good Quality Score, and providing visitors with a rewarding experience, means treating your keywords, ads and landing page as a single unit.

Ensure your most popular keywords appear in your ad's headline and copy. If you cannot accommodate core keywords in your ads, segment your ad groups further.

Make sure core keywords follow-through to your meta data and landing page copy. Try to write ad copy that flows naturally and qualifies visitors to your site. If you sell software for Microsoft Outlook, for example, a headline such as "Using Microsoft Outlook?" will help avoid Apple users, who might find your product of interest, but are unlikely to become customers.

6) Simplicity Sells Harder...

Capitalize letters and words in your ad copy for emphasis (not all the time). Capitalizing the first letter of every word in your copy actually makes reading more difficult.

Be honest and don't use words like "free" unless you're really giving something away for free within 3 clicks of your landing page.

7) Understand what Matters...

According to research undertaken by Google, the headline of your ad represents 40% of its impact. The first line of copy accounts for 25%, the second line 20% and the Display URL 15%.AdWords' power comes from the ability it gives you to intercept prospects at the exact moment they're looking for what you sell. The basic PPC ad format is simple, and works best with a single clear message and a strong call to action.

Helpful Resources:

Google AdWords Learning Center.

The 10 Step Plan To Successful Email Marketing

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By : Matt Jackson, founder of WebWiseWords, offers SEO copywriting and a range of other web content writing services.

"once a list member purchases from you, and presuming that everything goes smoothly during and after the sale, they will be more inclined to purchase from you in the future. You will have won their trust, gained their favor, and they can be relied upon to help you with extra sales in the future."

The 10 Step Plan To Successful Email Marketing

When website owners and marketers talk about online marketing, they often refer to SEO and PPC. Email marketing can sometimes be overlooked despite being one of the most powerful methods to reach potential customers and to keep existing customers coming back for more. Perhaps a factor in this is that direct email campaigns are commonly associated with spam emails, but careful list management ensures that this need not be a problem.

There are a number of stages to a successful email marketing campaign and by nailing as many as possible you can improve your results. The key to success, though, most commonly lies in the planning stage if this is your first foray into email marketing then be prepared to treat it as a test run. The more direct email marketing campaigns you run, the more opportunity you have to optimize the process and improve your results. Here are ten of the most important steps to an effective email campaign.

1. Determine Your Ultimate Goal

This might sound obvious, but having a clear goal in mind will help to concentrate your efforts. There are many effective uses of an email marketing campaign from increasing brand awareness to pushing a new product or seasonal promotion. Each of these uses typically demands a different campaign with its own style and its own components.

Increasing traffic to your website is not usually a bottom line target. The reason for increasing traffic to a website is normally to improve sales and increase profits. In the majority of cases, it is more desirable to attain greater sales through fewer visitors, than having a site awash with visitors but with a poor conversion rate.

A prolonged and careful email marketing campaign will naturally help to improve brand awareness. Your readers will naturally remember your name and the products or services that you sell as they gain more and more exposure to your marketing emails. Similarly, as long as you produce relevant and useful emails, your potential customers will grow to trust you making it more likely that they will purchase from you now or in the future.

2 - Your Opt-In Email List

There are a couple of key aspects to this section. YOUR opt-in list will generate better results than the use of somebody else's list. If you have taken the time and put in the effort to grow your own list, then the members of that list will already have some degree of awareness for you, your products, and your website.

Developing your own list can take time and money. To get a head start it is possible to buy or rent email lists from others. In these cases it is particularly important to pay attention to the second important factor of the list MUST be an opt-in list. Every member of that list must have opted in to receive marketing communication from you and they MUST be given adequate opportunity to opt out of future communication.

Particular care needs to be taken with your list management techniques to ensure that you are not deemed as being spam. If you purchase lists or partial lists then members that opt out need to be recorded separately. If you purchase another list that includes the same name and you subsequently email that person without their express request to be re-included in your list then you face the very real possibility of being flagged as sending spam email.

3 - Establish Performance Tracking Techniques

Tracking the performance of any advertising campaign should be foremost in your mind. This is the only true method of determining its worth and is the only way you can optimize your advertising to generate the best possible results. Web analytics are an absolute must-have, and with the wealth of affordable and even free choices available today there is no reason not to have a good analytic package in place.

Tracking code can also be placed into an HTML email. You need to operate a degree of caution when implementing code into HTML emails, because it could lead to your email being blocked by over zealous spam filters. If you can use hyperlinks that include tracking code, and your analytics package includes referral data, then this can generate the majority of the information you require.

The more information you can gleam from an advertising campaign, the better. You will be using these results to fine tune future advertising campaigns, so too much information is better than too little. If in any doubt then consider using an email marketing management service to conduct the tracking on your behalf.

4: Web pages are optimized to complete the sale

Directing visitors to your website is only a portion of the battle ahead. Once they clicks through the links in your email, you then need to be confident that your web pages are optimized to complete the sale. Conversion rates need to be high on the pages you direct traffic to, but you also need to target the traffic to the most appropriate pages and vice versa.

Consider the anchor text, or link text, that you will be using in your email. If you are encouraging readers to learn more about a product then don't direct them straight to the purchase page unless that page includes the inferred information. Similarly, if you have pre-sold your readers so that they are poised and ready to buy, and your CTA (Call To Action) indicates that this is the next step then you can navigate readers through to a more direct sales page.

Introducing a new product or a new concept will usually take more information than you can provide in a single marketing email. If necessary, add a page or multiple complementary pages, to your website. Direct readers to these pages so that you can combine the use of your email marketing and your optimized and informative content to really persuade and hammer the message home hard.

5: An Effective Subject Line

The subject line of your email is the first thing your readers will read, and you need to ensure that it won't be the last. Human spam filters can be just as difficult to avoid as software spam filters, even for genuine email. You should certainly avoid the use of typically spammy subject lines and opt for a more effective approach.

There are many ways to write an appealing subject line. A newsworthy subject line will often grab the attention but only works effectively in limited cases. Otherwise, try to evoke an emotive response from the reader. The strongest emotions include greed, love, and even hatred or controversy. With these latter two it is again important that you exercise appropriate caution otherwise you may alienate your readers against this and future marketing emails.

Intrigue and appeal work very well. An intriguing headline will draw your readers into the main body of the content and the subject line will have then done its job effectively. Never mislead in the subject of your email but do try to peak your reader's curiosity to the extent that they can't help but open the email and read it fully.

6 - Email Body Content

Finally we reach the main body content of the email. That it's taken to point six to do so is an indication of how important the planning and preparation stages are. The subject line has hopefully driven a good portion of your list to open the email, and those readers should be intrigued enough to want to read more.

Research shows that the more personalized the message, the more likely it will be to succeed. Start with a personalized greeting and use a friendly, even conversational tone, throughout the message. Inform readers of what they need to know but do so informally and in as friendly a manner as is possible by email.

The email absolutely has to be grammatically and factually correct, and must not contain typos. These types of errors can be an instant turn off for readers. Run a spell check. Twice. And then check it manually and have somebody else check it again for you. At the same time check the links and ensure that they do indeed direct to the proper pages.

Include a Call To Action, or CTA, rather than just a link. A CTA is a direction that points your visitors to perform your desired action. This could be to click a link, make a purchase, or even forward the email to friends. The CTA needs to be clearly defined an, obviously, as effective and accurate as possible.

7 - Hyperlinks To Your Site

The entire point (although probably not your ultimate goal) of your email is to get readers to click on links and visit your website. Include two or three links in the body of your email and make sure they are relevant without being too obvious. Lead you visitors to click the links rather than directly point it out and find something more effective than "click here" to use as your anchor text.

Two to three links is the ideal number. Too few links and your email won't prove effective at driving traffic, while too many links will detract from the actual content of the email. If your email is very short then offer two links, or offer three links within longer messages. Contextual links (that is, those that appear within the body of the email rather than at the end) are usually significantly more effective.

Check and double check that links work and direct to the correct page. Once you've done this, have somebody else check them too. The number of marketing emails that have failed because of broken or incorrect links is alarmingly high and this is not a trap that you want to fall into.

8 - Choose The Best Time To Send Your Email

The time you send your email can have a significant impact on its effectiveness. During the night, most people's emails fill up. In a lot of cases, this can mean that your reader will be faced with tens of emails in the morning, many of them rubbish. This leaves a very real chance that they will simply ignore or delete your email without noticing who sent it, what it is about, or whether they have any interest in reading it.

Consider your target market and when they are most likely to be sat in front of their email. Those with a global market may find this more difficult because of the time difference, but otherwise bear this in mind too. Not every website or marketing email is geared towards residents from the same country.

9 - Test Email

Initially, send a test email to yourself, friends, family, or colleagues. This is more to determine that it arrives looking as expected. Once you have done this and are happy with how your email looks, you should then move on to send a second test email to a small selection of your list. This gives you ample opportunity to make any last minutes changes or tweaks according to how this small test run performs.

You might even consider sending several tests out to different groups, if you have a large enough list. This enables you to test the subject line, content, and product price, by making alterations before each test run. Be sure to test the different components separately, though, so that you can determine what needs changing and what works well.

A test email also gives you chance to check that you are set up and able to track the results and any other information you want to track. A good email marketing service will do this by default, because the test email can prove to be one of the single most effective ways to improve the performance of a one-off email shot.

10 - Monitor, Optimize, And Start Again

Being careful not to send emails too frequently, you should send regular communication to your list. An unloved list will be more likely to unsubscribe and readers become most responsive after approximately seven items of communication from you. Monitor results, check bounce rates, and look for ways that your campaign could be improved.

Once you've found the best ways to improve a campaign make the improvements and begin the procedure again from the beginning. This process of monitoring, optimizing, and starting again will help to increase exposure, improve brand awareness, and generally improve results and profit levels.

Why Your List Is So Important.

A list can last you a lifetime and it is possible to continue selling to the same list members over and over again. In fact, once a list member purchases from you, and presuming that everything goes smoothly during and after the sale, they will be more inclined to purchase from you in the future. You will have won their trust, gained their favor, and they can be relied upon to help you with extra sales in the future.

Take care your list and your list will take care of your profits.

Keyword Research and Analysis - The Art of Internet Marketing

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By:Keith Raymond .AVancouver Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization .Specialist. Internet Marketing includes keyword research and analysis, search engine optimization (SEO), creating compelling web content, and producing online marketing strategies. Visit Netsurf Marketing to learn more about Internet marketing strategies to turbo charge your web presence.

Different search engines have different rules about how these tags are used and how many characters they should contain. Of importance to the process is if you know how the big three - Google, Yahoo and MSN - review the tags, then you'll be targeting 90% of potential web surfers.

Keyword Research and Analysis - The Art of Internet Marketing

The first step in successful SEO copywriting is choosing the right keywords to make them very specific to your market. You can survey your target market for their keyword usage or use more thorough keyword research tools. When conducting the keyword research and analysis:

4 Keywords rules for Your Website.

1) Use keyword phrases containing two to four words

2) Be specific - geographically, topically, or by product

3) only use the keywords that are important to your web business

4) Avoid very competitive keywords or general keyword phrases

Use focused and targeted keyword phrases that are common enough so the web searcher will use them, but selective enough that they don't return millions of matches. Most web surfers use a two to four word phrase when they search online, so phrasing is very important. For example, if you are offering a service like dog training or Internet Marketing, you wouldn't target the key phrase "dog training" or "SEO", but something more specific like "Chicago dog trainer" or "Vancouver Search Engine Optimization". Very specific keywords generate highly qualified, targeted traffic that increases your sales opportunities.

The Wrong Keywords for Your Website

Single words cannot promote ranking or sell effectively, for example you wouldn't and never target "dog" as a dog trainer in Chicago. Avoid the most popular keyword phrases or general keyword phrases because you'll be competing with millions of other web pages for a search engine ranking.

It's unrealistic to think that a new web site could rank number one on a popular phrase like "Marketing". You are better to target "Internet marketing strategies" or even better, "Internet Marketing Strategies Vancouver". More established companies who have been on the Internet for several years will have the advantage of link popularity and a high Pagerank and therefore better rankings in the search results for these broader or general keyword phrases.

Search Engine Optimization - Feeding the Search Engine Machines

Another critical factor to help drive the targeted visitors to your site is optimizing the site using metatags. Metatags, often overlooked and misunderstood, are elements of HTML coding on a website. Search engines use these metatags to help them determine what the site is about and assist with indexing a website. Most metatags are included within the 'header' code of a website. The most important tags are the title tag, description tag and the keywords tag. Different search engines have different rules about how these tags are used and how many characters they should contain. Of importance to the process is if you know how the big three - Google, Yahoo and MSN - review the tags, then you'll be targeting 90% of potential web surfers.

To make good use of your metatags use your targeted keywords that you found during your keyword research and analysis in the site copy and the metatags.

By reviewing or crawling your website content and metatags, search engines will find out what your web site is about. As soon as search engines consider your web site relevant to the topic or search, the easier it is to get high rankings for your keywords and key phrases.

*More: 4+ Keyword tools to Research and Analyzer your keywords

Two pronged approach to building links

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By:Bruce Swedal - Gain an online presence for your Website by getting listed on The Authority Website Directory.

You can have the best website on the internet, but without proper promotion your visitors will never find you. If they do not find
you, they cannot use the services that you provide

Two pronged approach to building links

You should consider taking a two pronged approach to building links. The first method for building links is through submissions of your
site to quality webs directories.

Every link you get to your site is not only a vote in popularity, but also a doorway for new fresh visitors. Every quality link you can get through directory submissions will bring more relevance to your site.

How you can use article marketing.

The first way you can use article marketing is by going to article directories. If you can't write your own unique content (which is
preferred) for your site, you can use the content from article directories to place on your site for content as long as you retain the
authors resource box. You need the content there for the search engines to spider when they visit through all the linking pathways you
created when submitting your site to quality web directories.

As we covered the internet contains a massive amount of information and people search for it every day. The more links you have pointing
to your site and the more content you have on it relevant to your sites niche, the better you will rank for search engine queries.

Another way to use article marketing is by writing your own unique articles on topics related to your websites niche and submit them for
publication to the best article directories. These articles will create some links to your website to increase its popularity and with
each link comes another doorway for traffic to find you.

When you write and publish these articles, you are also letting the public know you have expertise and knowledge on the subject. To get
the reader's attention, give them a quality, well written article filled with information.

Build links through quality directory submissions to increase your site's popularity and create doorways to traffic and search
engines. Then use article marketing to provide quality on-site content for the search engines to spider when they arrive.

The more quality web directories you submit your site to, the more article content you provide on your site and the more articles you
submit for publication on article directories, the more search engines will love your site.

These are some of the key elements to creating traffic and building a successful website. You can have the best website on the internet,
but without proper promotion your visitors will never find you. If they do not find you, they cannot use the services that you provide.

Now it is time to get started.

7 basic rules to follow for Internet Marketing

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By Mark McCullagh .Author of the internet marketing strategies that work, especially for network marketing.

Simple changes DOUBLE the productivity of an ad. It's not only amazing, but also a lot of fun! Marketing takes
work. You simply cannot get something for nothing. Massive action creates massive results.

7 basic rules to follow for Internet Marketing

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Internet marketing strategies involve driving targeted (people who are interested in what you have to offer) traffic to your website, blog, or sales page.That traffic then has to be converted into sales. This simple formula illustrates this process:
Traffic + Conversions = Sales
Keeping this formula in your mind will help you in your internet marketing efforts because you will realize that you not only have to generate traffic, but also turn those visitors into buyers.Furthermore, here are 7 basic rules to follow when applying this formula. These rules are relevant to all forms of marketing but are especially important for online marketing where inexperienced people can "burn" a lot of money quickly and become very discouraged.

1. All marketing involves RISK.
Whether you are trying something new or "copying" a strategy that has brought good results for others, there is still an element of risk.
When speaking of risk, you tend to think of gambling which makes for an appropriate analogy here.
For internet marketing, we try to reduce the risk and swing the odds in our favour by doing keyword research, learning skills like ad writing, article marketing, and pay per click, and other general marketing activities such as knowing what your target market is interested in.
2. Test small first.
Reduce your risk by testing a marketing approach on a small scale first. If it works, then increase the scale and create momentum.
This is how to make money!
3. Be consistent.
Successful marketers do something to propel themselves forward everyday. That is their secret.
A good practice is to create a to-do list every night featuring 5 actions that you must complete the following day.
By doing this at night before you go to sleep, you engage your subconscious mind and the next day you will know what you have to do and be on target to complete these tasks.
This is a very powerful process. Try to do this, one day at a time, until it becomes a daily habit.
4. Set a budget.
Determine what you can afford to spend on advertising on a monthly basis. In this way you can set and manage your expectations.
This should also prevent you from trying things you cannot afford.
5. Diversify.
Spread your efforts as much as you can over many different sources. This will also reduce your risk and help you to discover what works.
Remember that if one internet marketing method that you try does not produce results, you have not failed. This just means that you are one step closer to finding something that DOES work.
6. Learn how to write effective copy.
The skill that will make or break you in internet marketing is copywriting.
It is especially important to learn how to write headlines. There is a ton of good information online that is free regarding headlines and copywriting. Just do a Google search.
7. Take action, test, and track.
Tracking is essential because you absolutely need to know the results of your marketing efforts.
Once you start getting results, you can employ simple tests to see if you can improve. Often this testing involves strategies that are free.
One such strategy that comes to mind is split testing. You can do this for free, and it can provide incredible returns. Generally speaking, split testing involves making slight changes to a landing page or adwords ad, often just the wording of the headline, and testing it against a current version.
I have seen very simple changes DOUBLE the productivity of an ad. It's not only amazing, but also a lot of fun! Marketing takes work. You simply cannot get something for nothing. Massive action creates massive results.
So take action and do not be afraid to fail. Remember to minimize your risk.

How to Use Offline Advertising in Internet Marketing

2008-10-06T12:03:00.001-07:00

By Andre Sanchez - How to Use Offline Advertising in Internet Marketing was originally published at http://www.affiliatemarketinglife.com.

Online advertising methods are very effective in internet marketing, since they can be visible to people all round the world, but if you know how to use offline advertising it can also work very nicely for you, and bring you a lot of business you would not otherwise have

How to Use Offline Advertising in Internet Marketing

Knowing how to use offline advertising in internet marketing can give you a significant advantage over your competitors, since many do not use offline methods to advertise their products.

Offline advertising is particularly relevant if you are selling a product, or offering a service, that attract customers locally. For example, you could offer a fitness aid at your local leisure center. Many leisure or fitness centers will allow you to put a free poster offering your product, but even if they charge you for it the price is usually small. Perhaps you have a golf training aid that you can advertise at your local golf club.

Local classified ads are also a good means of getting your product some local publicity. The classified ads pages or even adverts placed on selected pages of your local press, frequently provide you with local orders. The beauty of these is that they are very easy to follow up, either with back-end products or new ones. You need not even restrict yourself to the local press. How often have you seen an internet marketing advert on the national press? They are not uncommon, and although expensive, they must produce a good return.

If you have a niche website, it could be worth your while browsing round your local newsagent and checking out the magazines on display. You know the kind - all these racks upon racks of magazines on every topic you can think of. Have a word with the newsvendor and find out some of the more popular magazines that cover your niche. These could be good publications for placing your adverts, especially if they are not too expensive and they have a good circulation.

Poster campaigns can also work well. You can advertise with posters in many shopping malls, and some stores also offer you the opportunity place an A5 poster for only pennies a week. Have your own business cards printed with your internet business contact details, such as website address and email address in addition to your phone number. Put your website address on everything, and have a signature that use on all correspondence. Not just emails and forum postings, but also offline correspondence such as letters, invoices, receipts and anything else you send to other people.

Another form of offline marketing that most people have never heard of, let alone use, is buzz advertising. This type of advertising has been growing in popularity recently, especially by offline businesses. It is used extensively by some auto companies and by cosmetics companies. Buzz advertising involves getting a verbal buzz going about your website or product. Some companies pay people specifically to verbally promote their products by approaching strangers, striking up conversations and bringing up the product in the conversation.

"Say, have you heard about the latest perfume from ----!" While not yet common it is getting more popular. Of course, the buzz need not be started off by someone you have employed to do it, but you can do it yourself. You can get your family and relatives involved as well. Before you know it, everybody might be talking about your product or your great new website. That's how YouTube and MySpace got so popular.

If you have a van or pick-up get your business name and website address painted on the site. It's easier to get a buzz going if people see your website in their face all the time, on vehicles, on posters, in newspapers and magazines, and even chalked on walls! Well, perhaps not the last one, but that would sure get people noticing your website! Do you get the idea? Get your website name known in every way that you can.

How about a local radio slot, with you explaining the virtues and benefits of your product, service or website? Stress the benefits, and you need not restrict it to local radio. Try for a national radio slot or even TV if your business is sizeable enough. There are no restrictions to the advertising methods you can use. Hire a loudspeaker and shout it from the rooftops!

Online advertising methods are very effective in internet marketing, since they can be visible to people all round the world, but if you know how to use offline advertising it can also work very nicely for you, and bring you a lot of business you would not otherwise have.

Top 10 Tips For Good Web Design

2008-07-11T13:51:00.001-07:00

Designing and building a website is one thing, designing and building a website that sells is another.

If you're committed to creating a website that drives customers to buy and keeps people coming back for more, you\'re going to need to do more than just throw together a bunch of content and graphics. You\'re going to need to put up the effort needed to make a great website.

These web design tips should help you along the way towards making that happen.

Tip #1 - Know your site\'s purpose and always keep it in mind. It\'s easy to get sidetracked into all kinds of plans and ideas about your website. First and foremost in your mind should be the purpose behind your site\'s inception. Of all that you read here, this web design tip should be tops in your mind. A website without a clear purpose can quickly become incoherent. Stick to your purpose.

Tip #2 - Don\'t get too excited about those graphics. Yep, you heard me. Design isn\'t all about graphics, it\'s also about great content and easy functionality of the site. With all three, you\'ve got a great site. With only one or two, you\'ve only got a mediocre site.

Tip #3 - Keep the site interactive, but not "blocky" or demanding. You want your visitors to be interested in the site, to feel involved a little in the site\'s "flow" as it moves them towards your goal (a purchase, contact, whatever). It\'s a very thin line between this objective and the blocky, hard to use sites that often are the result of attempts at this. Just keep these two web design tips in mind: interactivity without too many demands=KISS (keep it simple, stupid).

Tip #4 - Do not over advertise yourself on your site. Very rarely is a website, by itself, an advertisement. Usually it is where people go after seeing an ad, whether it was a paid click on a search engine or a traditional TV, radio, or print ad. Regardless, they most likely came to your site looking for more information, not a heavy sales pitch. So keep the sales copy light and be gentle as you push them towards buying.

Tip#5 - Be careful how you use that "magic" audio, video, or other widget on your site. I know the latest buzz is all about audio, visual, and other widgets to make your site unique. This might work if you\'re in a mass-market where anything that makes your site stand out is an advantage, but most of the time, that\'s not really your situation. Often, these widgets are added to sites with the result that the site looks amateurish, or the widget distracts from the site\'s goal rather than aiding it. And by all means, if you\'re going to ad audio or video, make it professional: hire someone to do lighting, sound, and other things for you so it looks like more than just a YouTube broadcast from a web cam.

Tip #6 - Your site is never finished. You might think it is, but it\'s not. Always be evaluating, checking, double-checking, tweaking, and otherwise eyeballing your site. There\'s always a typo to be found, a broken link to be corrected, an element to ad or remove, and more.

Tip #7 - Make finding information on your site easy. Navigation is usually the first thing you\'ll notice that sets apart professionally-designed sites and amateur ones. Rookie sites will have bulky navigation, hard-to-use controls, and links that go nowhere. A professional site will be easy to use, intuitive, and clean.

Tip #8 - Keep navigation organized. a site can have great navigation, but still have very little information organization. After all, easy to move around and easy to find things on are two different and important aspects of a website.

Tip #9 - Include your contact information. If this site is for professional purposes, then you want your potential (or current) customers and clients to be able to contact you easily. This means you need to have contact information on your site. Form-to-emails are fine, but you should have more than that: phone/fax number, physical address or mailing address, etc.

Tip #10 - Optimize your site for users, not search engines. If you believe all the marketing hype (usually from marketers, of course) about how essential it is that your site rank high on the search engines, then you\'ll believe that this is the only way to get anywhere on the Web. That\'s only partially true. Sure, being ranked high on searches is good, but if the customers who do the searching then find an incoherent site full of keywords and no full sentences, they\'re going to leave without buying. Make the site user friendly FIRST, then worry about SEO.

Keep those are ten tips in mind while you\'re designing, building, and implementing your site, you\'re likely to go far.

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Link Building Basics

2008-05-16T22:25:00.000-07:00

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Link Building Basics
A good analogy for links is votes, each link to your site is a vote in your favor and the sites with the most votes tend to get the highest rankings. Google & Yahoo place a lot of importance on the quality of your links in determining rankings.

In this article I will be sharing with you some important info on link building and some strategies to help your one way link building.

Before we get started, it's important to understand the fundamentals...

Beginning with the very basics, a link is a way of navigating from one webpage to another. To have a link within the same website is called an 'internal link'. An 'external link' takes you from a webpage in one website to a webpage in another website. The meaning of 'backlink' is that your site is being linked to from another website.

There are 4 different types of links:

* URL Link - This is simply a website url that is a link.

* Text Links (aka static links) - This is the most common type of link (when you click on a word or phrase and it is a link)

* Image Links - An image link is simply an image that you click on to navigate to another webpage.

* Dynamic Links - These types of links are in another programming language called Javascript and while they also take you from one webpage to another, they have 'extra codes' to perform special functions.

(these types of links can appear in many different forms)

It is important to be able to recognize these types of links, even if you are not familiar with web design and programming. You don't have to memorize the codes, just learn to identify each type of link.

Links provide navigation for human visitors and for 'spiders' (aka: crawlers, robots, bots). Simply put, a spider is a computer program that goes to websites and gathers information. Search engines use spiders to visit and 'index' your website. This means that they gather information about your site in order to list it in their search results.

When the search engine spiders index your website, they follow the links to get from one webpage to another. It's important to know that search engines cannot follow 'dynamic links' and do not follow html links that have a special code in them that says 'no follow'.

The place where 'no follow' is commonly found is in the "meta tags" section of the website. Meta tags are basically information that only the spiders see and not for the human visitor. You can see the code for any website in your browser by choosing 'view source'. (From Internet Explorer, choose Page » View Source. From Firefox choose View » Page Source)

If a search engine spider cannot follow a link from another website to yours, you can still receive visitors but the link will not have any value from a search engine optimization perspective.

What different kind of links could you get?

There are 2 types of links that you can get:

* One-way links - A one-way link is when another website links to you and you don't link back to them.

* Reciprocal links - A reciprocal link is when a website links to you and you link back to them.

One-way links are more valuable in the eyes of the search engines. However, each link has its own individual value based on: how relevant it is to your site, the text in and around the link, how much authority the website that links to you has, etc.

However, there are links that the search enginges rates as 'no value' links, even though they are bringing you boatloads of targeted visitors every day...

Generally speaking, the more websites that link to you the better. Link building is a time consuming task and to put your energy on getting 'high-quality links' will give you more value back on your invested work. 50 high quality links can be much more valuable from a search engine optimization perspective than 1000 'low quality links'.

What's a high quality link? - Links that brings you Page Reputation (which shows the search engines that other related websites consider you to be important), and links that give you PageRank. Sometimes both together and sometimes not...

To get high rankings on your website, you want to obtain links for targeted keywords. For this reason it's necessary to start with Keyword Research.

If your website is about "bird watching", the first step is to 'do keyword research' and find out which keyword you should aim for. While you could just start getting text links for the keyword phrase "bird watching", if no one is searching for that - you won't get any visitors. There's no sense in ranking on the first page for a keyword that no one is looking for.

Or, if there is a lot of competition for that keyword, you might want to pick a "lower hanging fruit".

This is an excellent free keyword research tool. (The numbers you see are searches/day.)

Another important part is making sure your page is optimized for the keyword you are targeting. If you are focussed on building one way links to your site but the links have anchor text which doesn't even appear on your page, you will likely be wasting your time. (I say likely assuming that you have some competition for your targeted keywords, if there is no competition then it doesn't matter).

In this case a site that has fewer one way links but much better on-page optimization is likely to rank higher. Or maybe you are building one way links to your site but they are just url links and not anchor-text links. Another site that has less links than you but better quality (anchor-text) will be likely to rank higher.

Ideally, you want to build a lot of one way links that have anchor text which includes the primary and secondary keywords that your page is optimized for. Google also uses Latent Semantic Indexing which (in a nutshell) means that they study the synonyms of the keywords on your page. This is to prevent spammers from just loading every second word with their keywords. Their algorithm looks at all the words on your page and how they relate to each other.

So, there's no sense in building one way links if your content is not worthwhile. The first thing you want to do is to optimize your sites for you visitors. Then, you can go through and "sprinkle" your keywords. Then, go out and get one way links with the anchor-text of your targeted keywords, ideally getting most of these links from websites that are related to yours.

Yes, Google looks at how the content on your site and the content on the site you link to relate with eachother. Fewer links to your business site from other business sites will be more valuable link-wise than more links coming to you from a site about video games..

Don't make these link building mistakes:

* Don't spend all your time getting one way links from sites with no Page Rank. One or two links from related Page Rank 5+ sites can be worth more than 100 links from sites with no PR.

* Be careful about buying links or you can get banned. Site Wide links is something you should be extra careful about. To go from having only a few backlinks one day to having hundreds one day later is something that can lead to penalizion by Google.

* Don't spend all your time building one way links that are url-links, you want to get anchor-text links.

*Important is to NOT get "No-Follow" links, since they don't bring any value to your site.

Happy Link Building!

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Differences Between Online and Offline Business

2008-05-16T22:19:00.000-07:00

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Differences Between Online and Offline Business
Online marketing is a billion dollar industry that is fast overtaking the traditional means of advertising. Online marketing, (also known as web marketing, search engine marketing, SEO or internet marketing) is vital in today's internet savvy world. It has been proven to be the most cost effective investment in capturing targeted product enquiries and online sales, resulting in a growth for your bottom line and your business. It helps you to promote your business and is extremely cost effective and measurable. Differences Between Online & Offline Business

Business

Internet marketing is associated with several business models. More and more flea market sellers are putting their items up for sale online and running their business out of their homes. For both companies and consumers that participate in online business, security concerns are very important. The main models include business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C). Are only experienced in some areas of online marketing and will sell you this whether its right for your business or not. Most companies will promise you the world to get your business. It allows people to stay in touch, information to be found quickly, and businesses to reach potential clients all on a much more cost effective basis than ever before.

Media

The Internet has brought many unique benefits to marketing including low costs in distributing information and media to a global audience. The interactive nature of Internet media, both in terms of instant response, and in eliciting response at all, are both unique qualities of Internet marketing. Internet marketing is the process of growing and promoting an organization using online media. Compared to traditional media, such as print, radio and TV, Internet marketing can have a relatively low cost of entry.

Strategy

Internet marketing strategy includes all aspects of online advertising products, services, and websites, including search engine marketing, public relations, social media, market research, email marketing, and direct sales. But what most companies overlook is that before you do any form of web marketing you need to have a clear out that will work for your particular business, in your particular industry. Do not focus first on understanding your business and creating the correct marketing strategy, instead they blast away with your dollars and hope for the best. A well thought through this system strategy demands thorough understanding of the internet. Online marketing website providing simple easy to understand tactics and information on how to implement a successful online marketing strategy for your website. Due to the increase number of search engine users it is advisable to have an impelling Online Marketing strategy to make a good business.

Conclusion

Online marketing has been proven to be the most cost effective investment in capturing targeted product enquiries and online sales, resulting in a growth for your bottom line and your business. Online marketing is helps you to promote your business on the Internet and eMarketer provides the information marketers need to keep up-to-date with trends and developments in online marketing and emerging media. Therefore, the website owner could make use of the many online marketing companies.

Increase success rate on make money online

2008-05-16T21:14:00.000-07:00

Cost of fuel prices and stress in the traditional work place has turned million of people thinking to make their living via Internet,Large numbers of {online opportunities" are popping up to meet the demand. Some are good and some are not.

Some are simply trying to rake in some quick cash and offer nothing in return. This always happens when there is money to be made. The scam artists will show up taking advantage of people that do not do their research. Can this be avoided? Well the truthful answer, in my opinion, is that it can be minimized.There are several ways to increase your chances for success and minimize your risk level. They are as follows:

1. Research needs to be done before you join any program. I suggest either using a website like mine, but not necessarily mine, that has done some research for you or be prepared to spend the hours doing so yourself.
2. Make every effort to join programs that offer money back guarantees. That does not mean every program that does not offer a money back guarantee is bad, but make every effort to protect yourself. In fact the most popular Rebate Processor on my site does not offer a money back guarantee.
3. Check what is popular with other people. If many people are using the programs than one can assume they must be doing something right. I, like I would imagine other web site owners, rate programs on my Top10 page in order of popularity and feedback from visitors who frequent my site.

You can further increase your chances for success by matching what I call your work at home profile. What is your work at home profile you may ask?

It is understanding your current skill sets, comfort level, available time to work at home, income objectives and income goals. Many times people give up in failure when they are asked to do something they are not comfortable doing. Don't join an affiliate program if you don't like dealing with people or talking to people. It's not a good fit. There are plenty of other programs to choose from.

If you are online your most likely have everything required to do any task required by a work at home or home based business opportunity. What should you do next? Here is what I recommend:

1. Research programs that meet your work at home profile.
2. Narrow down your choices to 2 - 3 programs.
3. Join and read the step-by-step guidance.
4. Exercise patience and work from home performing the task required.
5. Once you have worked the 2 - 3 programs for 3 - 6 months you can focus on the ones you enjoy the most.

Do not simply join the first program you see when you Google for programs. This is a recipe for disaster. Take your time and give yourself the best chance for success.

Start a home base business online without spending a lot of money

2008-05-16T13:12:00.000-07:00

Are there any ways to start a home base business online without spending a whole lot of money and even no money at all?

Let’s take a look at a few ways to advertise your home business that will cost you a lot of money that most people just don’t have the money to do right up front.

If you are doing pay per click advertising online you will need a lot of money to keep it going especially if you do not know what you are doing. Believe me I know I burned through a lot of money before I figured it out. You will need a constant flow of money to keep the ads going long term. Whether it is ppc on Yahoo, Google, banner ads or any other form of ppc when your money runs out you get no more traffic at all. No traffic no profits. If you are on a budget this way may not be for you. Of course if you are making money with your pay per click campaigns then keep going.

Now if you are buying leads and cold calling for your home business good luck. This is probably the hardest way a build a business. Once again when you run out of money the leads stop right there. Most of the leads you buy don’t even qualify to be a lead or business owner. I have been this route and it is brutal. Most people don’t even remember filling out any form online. They are just surfing the web kicking tires. A total and complete waste of money, time and frustration for you and your business. Very few people actually succeed doing this method.

If you are doing any kind of offline marketing, same thing you will needs lot’s of money to keep it going. Postcard marketing does work if done right. You would need a few thousand dollars up front to start a postcard campaign, so it can get costly right up front, but also profitable. Any other kind of advertising whether it is in classified ads, magazines or any other kind of print publication you still need a constant flow of money to keep it going.

In summary most people who start their own home business are living paycheck to paycheck and don’t have a lot of money for huge ad campaigns although they do work if done right. There are plenty of ways you can advertise your business online without spending any money at all.

Home Business motivated

2008-05-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

To stay motivated and working towards making your business successful.we need to know the great benefit of having our own home business.

Here are some of the more common reasons why we starting our own home business.

1. To be their own boss. you are the one that controls everything over your business if you are the boss...

2: Financial freedom .Its possible be financially free with your own home based business if you put in the time and effort it takes to achieve that goal.

3: Not having to worry about being laid off or fired . Don’t ever have to worry about this again because you are the one that will now control your future.

4:Work any time you like day or at night. A lot more freedom with your own home business.

5.Spending more time with your friend and family .

You need to know your reason so that when you start getting discouraged or frustrated you can remind yourself why you started your own home based business.

Keep learning and doing the right thing is very vital to the success of long term home business. Make sure you know what your ability and don't even thing about overnight success.And don't get scammed.

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2008-05-12T21:58:00.001-07:00

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Do you think work at home mean 100% Freedom?Think again.

Being able to stay at home avoiding the twice daily commute and office gossip is an attractive alternative to many people and many have found great success in using their skills and experience in a home based business. However, it does not matter what type of business is being worked in the home, the bottom line is it takes work.

In reality many home workers forget that they have to work to pay the bills when they see a few dished left in the sink or dirty laundry piled up in the laundry room. They may think that it will only take a few minutes to finish up these chores and then they will get right back to work, well, maybe after they catch the news. The problems is no matter someone works interruptions rarely take just a few minutes and then takes time to get back into the swing of what they were doing before they were interrupted.

It takes self-discipline to manage a business in the home and not just from their perspective but also from a spouse, friends or family members. Everyone involved has to be made to understand that work from home means work and not that they are home and open for visits or trips to the store or the dry cleaners.

They have made commitments to their clients that have to be kept or they will be back out looking for a traditional job working for someone else.

A part-time job working at home without deadlines is the easiest to work around a home schedule but everyone who works at home has to establish a set number of hours to devote to their job. The hours may vary by day but if promises were made to clients or customers and it will take a determined amount of time to finish the project, then, distractions have to be minimized during those hours in order to succeed in a work at home position. Clients will not care that the floor needed scrubbed because the kid dropped a glass of milk they only want their work done when it was promised.

Many folks who decide to work from home may suddenly realize may claim it is taking more time than they realized. What they are seeing is the amount of distractions posed by family and friends that they had not counted on in the beginning. They also sometimes forget that if they worked outside the home, whatever seemed to be so pressing at home would still be there when they got home after the drive from work and need to have that same attitude when they have a job in the house.

That is not to say they need a babysitter while they are working. They will usually have the luxury of determining which hours they will work but when that time comes they will need to work regardless of how tired they may be from chasing children around al day.

By: mahrouqi
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Essential points for the Prospective Home Buyer

2008-03-17T20:57:00.000-07:00

One Essential point for the Prospective Home Buyer is Good Credit --How to we build a good credit record?and how it effect us?

Credit is a funny thing. It can be a useful tool in the hands of an informed individual, or a weight of burden to the unsuspecting. One thing is for certain, you must have a decent credit score to attain a quality mortgage loan.

We speak to hundreds of individuals each month that are in the market to buy property. Unfortunately, many of them have less than desirable credit scores, and because of this, are not able to get prequalified for a loan.

There are numerous reasons for bad credit scores: bankruptcies, late payments, large credit balances, and a host of others. There are many legitimate reasons a person may have bad credit, but frankly, most of the people we talk to have simply made poor financial decisions.

In most cases, bad credit can be easily avoided:

1. On revolving credit card balances, make sure you pay your minimum balance each month. You will even receive a slight credit boost if you pay over your minimum amount, so do it if you can.

2. Avoid "maxing" out credit card accounts. Credit cards are good to have to build your credit, but make sure you keep your spending under control. Preferably, you should be able to pay off any CC balances completely in the same month you spent the money.

3. If you need to make any big purchases, avoid the temptation to place the entire purchase on your credit card. Instead, put money aside each month until you have enough for the purchase. Remember, just because you have a big spending limit on your cards, doesn't make it your money! You have to pay every penny back plus interest!

4. Try to think of a credit card as a tool for building credit as opposed to a tool for buying the things you want. You spend a small amount each month, and pay it off immediately. This will spike your credit score, and keep you out of CC debt.

5. Make sure to pull your credit rating at least twice a year. This will give you a good feel for what your score is, and most credit score reporting services will give you a detailed explanation for why your score is where it is. If you find any errors, make sure you report and resolve them immediately. It can be long and gruesome work to get a negative mark removed from your credit record, but it can be well worth it when it comes time to buy a house.

I hope some of these tips will be helpful for you as you try to be a good steward of your finances.

free resources:

www.FamilyCredit.org
www.DebtFreeChristian.org

By:Justin Smith

Justin Smith is the President of the Christian Real Estate Network - http://www.HisMove.com

20 Golden Tips for Happiness

2008-03-17T12:25:00.000-07:00

Learn these 20 Tips towards the golden moment of our life...Take Every moment count.

20 Tips for Happiness
Tip 1
Have a positive attitude. One of the most significant, contributing factors to happiness is optimistic thinking. Although you won`t always have a choice in determining what goes on around you, you will always have a choice in determining how react to what goes on around you. This will largely determine the extent to which you are, or aren`t happy.

Tip 2
Make happiness a priority. If happiness is not at the top of your list then other things will take your focus. We become what we think about all day, so think, positive happy thoughts. It's a choice, moment by moment.

Tip 3
Live your values. Be true to yourself. By living your life according to your values, you will develop an attitude of true acceptance of yourself. You will realize that you are fine the way you are. You may choose to make some changes in your life simply because you realize that you have greater potential than you have utilized so far.

Tip 4
Love Yourself. High self-esteem is crucial for a happy life. Healthy self-esteem means relying on what's on the inside, rather than what's happening in the outside world to make you happy. Self-esteem is the core of your power and all else stems from this.

Tip 5
Set goals for success. Give your mind a positive goal to focus on. Just like in any other life area, the successful pursuit of happiness requires planning. Planning requires effective goal setting. And don't forget to make sure your goals are SMART (specific,measurable, achievable, relevant and timed).

Tip 6
Do things that make you happy. Although this sounds obvious, many people simply forget to do things from which they gain pleasure. And do them as often as possible.

Tip 7
Live in the present moment. Remember that life is finite. The author, Henry Miller once said "Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. "The only moment in which we can truly be happy is the present moment. The only moment over which we have control is the present moment. So be happy now! Because if not now, then when?

Tip 8
Have a laugh Laughing is one of the quickest ways to send our happiness levels soaring. A Stanford University study showed that one minute of laughter equaled 10 minutes on a rowing machine in terms of warding off stress.

Tip 9
Engage in random acts of kindness. Did you know that by simply being kind to another person or witnessing a kind act boosts your serotonin levels in you and the other person? It also increases the levels in another person witnessing the act. Happy people are more generous and altruistic.

Tip 10
Eat your way to happiness. Fuel up on fish: Fish are high in omega-3s which boost your happiness. Eat complex carbohydrates - this means wholegrain bread, starchy vegetables, beans and pulses, and wholegrain cereals. MIT scientists say these boost the brain's levels of serotonin, which plays a big role in how happy we feel. Take Trepidation. Found in turkey, avocados and bananas, trepidation promotes the production of serotonin. A study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity found a lack of trepidation can lower your mood levels. Don't forget to take a good amino acid supplement- more and more information is coming out that we need to be supplementing our diets with the building blocks of protein- amino-acids.

Tip 11
Go, go and keep going all the way. We all face obstacles and problems at times. Happy people expect this and adapt to them. All of the components outlined above are skills that can be learned. Just like any other skills, you`ll get better at utilizing these strategies with practice and perseverance. Stick at it and happiness will be yours.

Tip 12
Focus on your strengths, not weaknesses. Work out what you`re good at and find ways to do it as much as possible. Happiness is not as much about fixing your faults and overcoming your weaknesses as it is about finding ways to focus your life on and around your talents and qualities.

Tip 13
Have fun and enjoy humor Take delight in life and create fun experiences for yourself. Don`t make life be too heavy!

Tip 14
Control what you can control. Cultivate the feeling that you are in control of your own destiny. Happiness can be enhanced by maximizing the control you have over your life. So learn and practice skills such as problem solving, time management and meditation and communication. At the same time, however, no one has complete control and so it is also important to be realistic and to accept that over which you have no control. Accept what you can't control. And learn to change problems into opportunities for growth and development.

Tip 15
Invest time and energy in to your key relationships. Happy people spend more time working on, and in, their relationships. Happy people tend to be more supportive of other people in their life.

Tip 16
When a problems arises see what you can learn from it Everything you do and every person you meet, in every situation, presents an opportunity to learn, change and grow. Every situation you find yourself in can be a great opportunity to expand yourself. There is always something to learn from a problem. This is the same for problems in a relationship. Look at problems as challenges to learn and grow from both for yourselves and your relationship.

Tip 17
Replace negative self talk with positive self talk .The Dalai has been quoted that "The central method for achieving a happier life is to train your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and strengthens positive ones." Learn first to identify your negative thoughts and then begin to challenge those that are negative and unhelpful.

Tip 18
Ensure you get adequate sleep, rest, exercise and water Listen to your body and what it is telling you. You need to take care of yourself and this also involves getting plenty of rest, drinking at least 8 glasses of water each day and relaxation and/or meditation strategies. Exercise regularly. Exercising produces endorphins or "happy" hormones.

Tip 19
Develop a sense of life purpose. Developing a sense of life purpose will also markedly increase your chances of experiencing true happiness. As well as working out where you want to get to, make sure you have a good reason for why you`re trying to go there.

Tip 20
Be grateful and appreciate what you have. We all have many choices in life, one of which is whether to focus on all the things we don't have (of which there might be many), or to focus on all the things we do have. There's no doubt, that gratitude and appreciation will significantly increase your chances of experiencing happiness

By:Michelle Rowley

Master Practitioner of NLP, Timeline Therapy? and Hypnotherapy and is certified by their respective American Boards. She is the author of Personal Growth Strategies. http://www.personal-growth-strategies.com

What's The Secret of Home Business Success

2008-03-17T12:22:00.000-07:00

What's The Secret of Home Business Success?The ability to set goals and effectively motivate yourself to achieve them are two essential skills that will help you achieve success in you home business.

To try and start a business without goals could be compared to throwing a baseball pitch, blindfolded in the dark. What would be your chance of getting your pitch on target? Never mind getting a strike-out. Unless you are very lucky it is unlikely that you will have any success without properly setting out goals.

If when you start your home business, in what ever field it maybe, if you have no goals and aim at nothing, is it not unlikely that you will hit nothing and achieve nothing?

To set effective goals there are a few things you need to know about yourself which will affect how you set your goals. You are affected by, the environment in which you live, your experience and knowledge, your attitude and dreams and visions for the future.

When you set your goals you need to decide what you want and when you want to achieve each goal. You should spend time writing down your goals and display them in a prominent position where you will see them daily to remind yourself to stay motivated and focused. Cross off your goals once they’ve been achieved, adding new ones to ensure your business keeps growing.

“Don’t set your Goals to low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much”. - - Jim Rohn - -

I’m sure you will have come across the SMART analogy, with regards to goal setting. It contains the most important concepts to consider and adhere to when setting your goals.

Goals should be; Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time related.

For example it would be unwise to set a goal of making $10,000 in a week, it’s just not a realistic goal for the average person, unless you have a lot of experience and knowledge in your field or receive help from someone who has these attributes. When you failed to reach this goal your motivation would suffer and you might start doubting your decision to start your home business.

Before you start setting your goals I want you to write a list of all the things you want; whether it is a new car, watch, house, to send your kids through college or a successful home business, write them all down and say why you want them. When I did this I had a list the length of my arm and I’m still working through it 3 years on. By doing this it will help focus your mind and motivate yourself to succeed.

Now set your goals, they need to be SMART and you need to set both short term and long term goals, and also daily goals. One of the best techniques I use is to set 6 goals before I go to bed for the next day and prioritise them so I know clearly in my mind what I have to do the next day.

All successful people set goals and prioritise them in order of importance. Remember your time is your most important asset; you simply cannot afford to waste it.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle –

When you are in business for yourself, you are the primary motivating factor, if your truly want your home business to succeed you will do whatever it takes to make it happen.

By making goal setting a habit there is no reason why you cannot achieve excellence.

By: Ian Canaway

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What to consider when Investmenting.

2008-03-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

What to consider when Investmenting?When you choose to invest your money, the final decision is yours alone. The risk of the investment is also yours.

Before you invest, consider your complete financial situation, looking at both your current and future needs. In general, investors should avoid higher-risk investments unless they have a steady income, adequate insurance, and readily available cash reserves in case of a loss.

Remember these investment basics:

Rule one:
No matter how you choose to invest your money there will always be a degree of risk involved.

Rule two:
Risk and return go hand-in-hand. Higher returns mean greater risk, while lower returns promise greater safety.

Rule three:
Do not invest in anything you do not fully understand.

Setting your Investment Goals
Ask yourself, “What do I want to accomplish through my investments?” For most investors, the following investment goals or objectives, or some combination of these, provide an initial answer to that question:

Safety
This objective reflects a conservative investment philosophy with minimal risk of loss of the original investment (the “principal”).

Income
An “income” objective is achieved by purchasing investments that provide a stream of income through regular payments, which may or may not decrease the invested principal.

Growth
This category refers to investing for long-term growth or appreciation in market value. Growth investments carry a higher risk than either safety or income oriented investments. Growth investments generally provide little or no dividend income.

Speculation
Speculative investments carry a higher-than-average possibility of loss. This strategy often includes short-term trading of new or unproven companies’ stocks or options. Although there is the possibility of higher and faster rewards, speculative investments also are high risk, meaning there is also the possibility of larger and faster losses of some, or your entire principal.

Balancing “Risk” and “Return” to meet your goals
As an investor, you choose your investment goals with an emphasis on one or more of the above categories. You may also wish to allocate portions of your investment portfolio to more accurately express your investment goals.

For example, if you have $10,000 to invest, you may choose to invest 70 percent ($7,000) in income securities, 20 percent ($2,000) in growth securities, and 10 percent ($1,000) in speculative securities.

Of course, setting a goal and reaching it are two very different things. You may need professional assistance to realize your investment goals and to achieve your financial objectives. If you choose to work with a broker, communicate your investment goals and financial objectives clearly. Put it in writing and keep a copy for your own records.

Remember, the more money you want to make from your investment, the more risk you must be willing to take. Risk means that you may lose all or part of your principal. If a high level of risk makes you uncomfortable, select your investments accordingly.

Get More Information
There are many sources of information about a company in which you are interested in investing. In most cases, securities must be registered with the securities section in each state where they are sold. Information about the company may be available to the public. You should also ask your brokerage firm or investment adviser to assist you in gathering information about the company in which you may invest.

Most public companies are required to file “full disclosure” reports on a regular basis with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These comprehensive reports are available free online at http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml or for a modest copying charge by writing to:

Public Reference Room, Mail Stop 1-2
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549-1002

Pay close attention to business and financial newspapers in your area. Often, these periodicals provide in-depth coverage about a specific company or segment of the industry. Check with your local reference librarian for assistance in identifying appropriate investment related materials.

Things To Consider
U.S. Treasury Bills (“T-bills”) are the benchmark of minimal-risk investments. If an investment is presented as a very low risk, it should produce a rate of return similar to the rates paid on T-bills. If anyone guarantees your investment against loss, you should immediately contact your state’s Securities Enforcement Branch.

Additional considerations
* Always set aside some of your money for emergencies before you invest.
* Ask for advice from a trained and licensed professional.
* Be selective in your investment choices. Exercise your right to say
“No.”
* Develop a sensible investment plan and follow it.
* Judge each company on its own merits. Do not invest on a company just because it is part of a fast growing and successful industry.
* Never invest based on information obtained from an unsolicited telephone call.
* Check the credentials of anyone you do not know who offers to sell you an investment.

By:Larry Westfall

ebay No need our feedback

2008-03-17T11:59:00.000-07:00

2008 is bringing some interesting times for eBay. Its CEO Meg Whitman, one of Silicon Valley's most long-lived and controversy-free CEOs, is stepping down in March. Rumors of a big acquisition are flying. And now, some changes are in store for people who actually use the site to buy and sell stuff.

The big news: Come May 2008, sellers will no longer be able to leave negative or neutral feedback for buyers. eBay's rationale is that it will encourage buyers to leave more honest feedback for sellers. Negative feedback from buyers is rare because of the fear of reprisal from a seller leaving negative feedback against you out of spite.

And while this should remove the fear of leaving negative feedback against crooked sellers, longtime eBay merchants are already upset with the change, as it takes away their lone mechanism for fighting buyer fraud in the auction process. Just about every seller (including myself) has faced a buyer who refused to pay, or who just didn't understand how auctions worked, and once in a while I've hit these buyers with negative feedback.

I can understand where eBay is coming from: Protecting buyers is critical in an auction system. But could this move backfire? eBay has historically placed more and more restrictions on its sellers over the years. Could this be the straw that breaks the camel's back? (I'm not sure it is, if for no other reason than that auction sellers really have nowhere else to go.)

Other changes are also in the works, including the removal of all negative/neutral feedback left by suspended members, switching the time you can leave feedback from 90 to 60 days, and additional ability for repeat buyers to leave more feedback for sellers. (Today, your feedback for a seller counts only one time, ever.)

Ref:http://www.boomj.com/