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    Friday, December 30, 2005

    Write An E-book to Explode Traffic to Your Website

    Authoring an e-book is one of the key ways to get traffic to your website. Ellen Violette, a.k.a The E-Book Coach, wrote a special report, "Insider Secrets To Exploding Your Business by Authoring An E-book" that you will find very helpful. This report has inspired me to follow through with my own ebook which will be available early next year!
    Get Ellen's report now:http://www.theebookcoach.com/documents/insider.pdf
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    Thursday, December 29, 2005

    7 Steps Of Mega Adsense Earners

    by Andrew Daum

    The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street.

    Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense... Housewives, Retiree's, Mom and Pop's who've never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog.

    Then you have the "Super AdSense" earners. We have all heard of them... the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites. Do not be mistaken though... these people are not building like your Mom and Pop's do. They have systems in place that create sites for them... people who build sites for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

    While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can.

    Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success.

    1) Starting today... treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

    Begin tracking what you are doing that works... as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems... most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure.

    2) Utilize the latest tools and software available.

    The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are... but for the most part, they are regular non techie people. They are smarter in one respect though... they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.

    3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.

    You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then... but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.

    4) Choose broad niches and break it down.Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there... break it down into as many sub niches as possible. Using Computers as the example... you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme... choose another main theme and repeat the process.

    5) KISS

    Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends... the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple... dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars... they are distractions.

    6) What is the purpose of your web site?

    Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale... links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products... let it do that. Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that "Tell"... not "Sell."

    7) Be consistent.

    This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.

    Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured... you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant... the larger the harvest.

    To sum it up... utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building... treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.
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    Andrew Daum is the Publisher of the New Traffic Tools Newsletter. You can subscribe by visiting his web site at; http://www.newtraffictools.com and receive updates when the latest to be released traffic building software is available.
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    Wednesday, December 28, 2005

    Blogging For Business

    Blogs are gaining momentum in the business world and are a great way to promote your business or product. I don't do much active advertising for my blogs, but get decent traffic considering. If you have a business whether online or offline, I highly recommend having a blog where you can post special offerings or sales. You can even provide insight, trends, and news regarding the industry that you work in. Best of all, it's FREE advertising :)

    I came across a great source to read if you're new to blogging - courtesy of Lovell Technology. It's called "Blogging Made Easy". Click the link to download: http://www.lovelltechnology.com/zip_files/blogging.pdf

    Other great sources on blogging:
    The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog by Rebecca Blood

    Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World by Hugh Hewitt

    Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummies by Susannah Gardner

    Publish and Prosper : Blogging for Your Business by D.L. Byron, et. al.
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    Tuesday, December 27, 2005

    Send Spam-Free Emails

    If you're an online business owner who relies on sending newsletters and emails to your current subscribers, but don't want your email sent your subscribers' bulk folder or rejected as spam, I highly recommend this free service by Lyris.com. Complete a form with the email message you want to send out and you will receive a report with potential problems with your email and how to fix it.

    Visit: http://www.lyris.com/resources/contentchecker
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    Technorati.com: Let People Find You!

    If you blog about your business and you want people to find you, become a member of Technorati, an online directory of weblogs. If you don't know already, blogging has become a very popular way of attracting more business and providing information to potential and existing customers. There are literally millions of Internet users who are regular blog readers.

    Submit your blog to Technorati, visit: http://www.technorati.com
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    Sunday, December 25, 2005

    Happy Holidays~ $16,185.71 Worth of Gifts!!

    A miracle unfolded...
    I've come across a goldmine full of gifts for the online business owner. $16,185.71 worth of gifts for FREE! They'll be available until Jan 1st (I think).
    Visit: http://www.hunteridge.com/12days/refer.htm
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    Thursday, December 22, 2005

    Make Money with Google AdSense

    As I said in my previous post, there are different ways to make money with your website. One way to make some extra cash is Google AdSense. It seems that you can see ads from Google just about on every other website across the 'net. You can place these ads on your website, specify what types of ads will appear on your site, and specify the appearance of the ads so that they blend with the template of your website.

    Google will pay you when someone clicks on one of these ads. The amount you receive varies.
    For more information about the Google AdSense program, click the blue button at the top right hand corner of this blog>>
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    Saturday, December 17, 2005

    Do What You Love!

    When it comes to starting an online business, some people can't figure out what type of business to get into. My advice is simply to do what you love! What are your interests or hobbies?

    Six years ago I started painting and making jewelry as a hobby during college. It was something I did while sitting around watching TV. A few years later I began selling my paintings through online auctions and then decided to just build my own website and sell my goods that way.

    It's been quite a journey since I first started the website. I've learned so much about building a website and marketing a website. I'm still learning as new technology and marketing methods are introduced. I've also come to find out that I really enjoy building websites as well!

    If you're going to start an online business, invest your time in something that you enjoy. That way it won't really feel like you're "working". It will be a "hobby" that you make money from.

    You can make money selling your products, but there are other ways to make money from your website as well. Stay tuned....
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    Friday, December 16, 2005

    Search Engine Ranking

    By Maksym Nesen

    At least 85% of people looking for goods and services on the Internet find websites through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea of optimizing your pages for high search engine rankings is to attract targeted customers to your site who will be more than likely to make a purchase. The higher your page comes up in search engine results, the greater the traffic that is directed to your website. That's what search engine optimization is about.

    You can immerse yourself in all the technical information available online to figure out how to optimize your web pages to achieve higher rankings. Or you can look at a few simple items on your pages, make some small adjustments, and most likely see improved rankings quite rapidly.

    The first item you should examine is the title bar on your homepage. The title bar is the colored bar at the top of the page. Look at the words that appear there when you access your home page. To increase search engine rankings, the words on your homepage's title bar should include the most important keywords or phrases, one of which would include your company name.

    Then click on all your links and examine the title bars on the pages you access. Each title bar on every single page of your site should contain the most important keywords and phrases taken from the page itself. However, avoid very long strings of keywords, keeping them to six words or less. Avoid repeating keywords more than once in the title bars, and make sure that identical words are not next to each other.

    The next item to put under your microscope is your website content. Search engines generally list sites that contain quality content rather than scintillating graphics. The text on your site must contain the most important keywords - the words that potential customers will be typing into search engines to find your site.

    Aim to have around 250 words on each page, but if this is not desirable due to your design, aim for at least 100 carefully chosen words. If you want to achieve a high ranking on search engines, this text is essential. However, the search engines must be able to read the text, meaning that the text must be in HTML and not graphic format.

    Lastly, we come to the issue of link popularity. This is a factor that is extremely important in terms of search engine rankings. Almost all search engines use link popularity to rank your website. Link popularity is based on the quality of the sites you have linked to from your links page.

    If you visit Google and type in "link:" (without the quotations) followed by your site address (no space after the colon), you will be shown the sites that are linked to your site as per Google. Example link:www.yoursite.com. Note that searching link:yoursite.com will return different results than searching link:www.yoursite.com . To find your site's link popularity on other search engines search the phrase "free link popularity check" and try one of the many link popularity tools available on the Web.

    If you find that there aren't many sites linked to yours, or that the sites that are linked have low search engine rankings, you need to start promotion campaign. Filling blogs / wwwboards / message boards with your articles and link is one of the best ways. It directs more quality traffic to your website.

    We automated this process - filling hundreds of blogs is like a one button click with our product - Blogs Auto Filler. There is a free trial version and the manual available at nezabudka.oksima.biz Use Blogs Auto Filler and save your time and money!

    Search engine rankings are extremely important for a successful Internet marketing campaign. Before you go out and hire a search engine optimization company, try taking some of the simple steps listed above, and see if you can't boost your rankings yourself. Don't ever ignore this all-important factor in Internet marketing. Remember, the higher your search engine ranking, the more quality customers will be directed your way.

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    Read a previous post on website optimation:
    http://prosperityisyours.blogspot.com/2005/11/website-optimization-bring-more.html
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    Thursday, December 15, 2005

    HTML for Beginners

    If you've always wanted to build a website and need a tutorial, here's a website I came across today that has very simple and easy instructions on HTML: Dave's interactive HTML Tutorial

    Dave also wrote an article, "The Seven Steps To Creating Your Own Web Site" that you may find helpful...

    But creating a website is just not enough - stay tuned to find out how to optimize your website to achieve a high ranking with the search engines....




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    Wednesday, December 14, 2005

    Join the Online Business Advice & Resources Forum

    If you're looking to share your experience running an online business or would like to start your own business online, I invite you to join my new group on Yahoo!
    http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/online-business-resources/

    If you would like some one-on-one personal counseling on starting your online business, you can also reach me at: prosperouscareeronline@yahoo.com or 858-693-7834
    Your first 30 minute consultation is free!

    To Our Success,
    Maria Palma
    Salon de Maria
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    Tuesday, December 13, 2005

    Can You Really Make Money Online Taking Surveys?

    Although you won't made tremendous amounts of money, it is possible to make money online taking short surveys. I've researched many websites promising to pay you for taking surveys, but most of the time you have to sign up to purchase products to get "rewards" in the form of points or gift cards. And then you have to accumulate thousands of points to even receive any cash.

    So far, one of the only legitimate online survey sites I've come across is SurveySavvy.com. You can also make money with their affiliate program by referring others to their website. SurveySavvy's Referral Program offers the industry's most effective way to maximize your earnings! The SurveySavvy payment system pays you an average of $2 every time a member you refer completes a survey and an average of $1 every time a member they refer completes a survey.

    For more information on SurveySavvy.com, click here!
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    Monday, December 12, 2005

    "15 Top Internet Marketers Are Forced - At Gunpoint - To Make A Thousand Bucks In 48 Hours!"

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    Friday, December 09, 2005

    How To Get Rich Doing Joint Ventures

    Mark Hendricks is offering a free report titled, "How to Get Rich Doing Joint Ventures" This is an insider's guide to maximizing your profits online.

    From this report you will discover:

    -the relationships between the joint venture partners (and joint venture broker)

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