Getting Relevant, Effective Links!

Once upon a time a website owner looked for and secured links from other sites simply to get traffic from that site and send some traffic back for the privilege.

There was no Google, Yahoo, or MSN setting rules about reciprocal links which have now somehow become "the law."

Links were for traffic...targeted traffic.

Since, to this day, nothing does your site more good than a good, visible, relevant link from a site which caters to your perfect market base, I propose a test you can run in your marketing for a couple of months.

Get links from sites based upon factors that matter most:

1. Good content
2. Strong reader base
3. Willingness to link from a prominent place

Let the engines worry about their silly algorithms for a couple months. Pretend they are not there. I think you will be surprised when you come back and see that they actually like you more than before!

Google "banned" reciprocal linking because it was being abused and they set about to detect the abuse and rectify their rankings by giving you no love (PR) for the links you got (if you used automation and got a lot of senseless links).

The solution for you? Don't go grabbing links from link directories and non relevant sites, no matter how high their rankings or PR.

The rule is: less links, higher value, less time spent getting them.

Choosing the right sites...

Good Content

A site that does a great job on real content (not just sales material and pitches) is a great link partner.

People flock to content and appreciate it. Get your links in front of people who appreciate the content they are reading. They will be in a good mood when they hit your link.

Strong Reader Base

Does the site have an obvious following? If it's a blog, are there a lot of comments and conversations going on? Are they from today or last year?

Willingness to Link from an Obvious Place

Links need to come from pages on other sites that actually see human visitors in as high number as possible. And the owner must be willing. It shouldn't be hard to convince someone or you should move on.

Easy Ways to Get Links (Reciprocal and Non Reciprocal)

*Be a part of something. If you are in a halfway decent niche, there is a wider discussion going on around you. Are you listening, commenting on blogs, doing trackbacks, and participating in forums?

*Do content exchange rather than link exchange. Write original content for someone in your niche and host their content on your site.

*Write exclusive content for another site in your niche just for the link. If someone wrote killer content for my blog that was perfect for my visitors I'd have a hard time turning it down!

There's no better place to be than in the posts of another popular blog!

Links make the web work. Now that there is a difference between good and bad links, just focus on what would be best for your site and your readers when acquiring links. That's all Google wants after all.

Jack Humphrey is the editor of The Friday Traffic Report. For more linking and website promotion tips, head over to the Friday Traffic Report and get some free targeted traffic.

Article Marketing - Stay-at-Home Moms Give a Variety of Solutions and Then Identify the Best

Moms can use these techniques to help their customer first learn what their options are and then help them see which solution best fits their needs. This way when they get to the website or sales letter, they are already educated on the best benefits and features to look for. Of course you are not going to write about problems you don't have solutions for.

One of the most common mistakes that people just getting started with article marketing make, and one that every stay-at-home mom should really make an effort to avoid, is they write about the things that they think would be the most interesting to their potential customer. This alone is not enough.

The most effective method of writing articles is to understand the mindset of your customer. What does that mean, and how do you do that? Instead of thinking in general terms what might be important to a potential customer, you first need to identify specifically who the ideal customer is.

For example, if your ideal customer would be a stay-at-home mom trying to find ways to earn some of her own money, you might want to think about her motives for doing that. For example, some women before staying home to raise their children had good jobs and were use to having their own money.

They miss the independence they once felt from earning their own money. Maybe they just want the freedom to have and spend some money that they don't have to account for.

Another possibility might be that a woman is grateful that her husband has made it possible for her to stay home and she knows that he really hates his job, and as he is getting older, it is taking its toll on his body. In this case, maybe her motivation is that she wants to be able to develop an income that her and her husband can rely on so he can quit his job.

In either case, she may not have a lot of money to start something from home, so she will want to find something that she can begin to generate money through her own efforts rather than spending a lot of money on marketing.

Knowing these things about your ideal client, and making sure you address these issues when writing articles and copy, can help them feel better understood. Having their specific concerns being addressed makes it easier for them to be able to make a buying decision, or to feel comfortable to try and get more information.

You may have the best product or opportunity in the world, but if you don't talk about how its features and benefits specifically address the concerns of your ideal customer, you can't expect that they will easily make the connections themselves.

It is your job, in article marketing, to PREsell the potential customer by giving them information that is specific to them, their wants and needs, and to make the connections between the different solutions -- then help them identify which features and benefits will best satisfy their specific wants and needs. In other words, not talking about how a specific feature will help them make money, but talking about how the specific feature making them more money will help them regain the sense of independence they once felt, when they were making money on their own. See the difference? If you can do this they will want to get more details.

If you can do this, they are going to want to see your offer. You do this, and they are going to get excited about getting started because they know the sooner they get started, the sooner they can have that independence and freedom they so miss.

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Internet Marketing - Oh So Attractive!

Internet marketing seems to be appealing to a good number of people as the first thing they think about when they hear "internet marketing" is... financial freedom, no boss, working from home, and having all the time in the world.

Now, let just say that is not always the case. First off, to achieve incredible success online, it will require an incredible amount of effort on your part. Success doesn't just happen to a few lucky people; They work for it. You see... the law of cause and effect is universal. You want to see extra ordinary results, you better prepare to back it with some extraordinary energy.

Look at internet marketing as you would at a lotion commercial. The model looks great, her skin is smooth and boy she's hot. Little do you know how many hours of photoshop work went in to that commercial. Every dimple and every not so smooth spot was worked over with a photoshop paint brush and it's hard to believe, but by the time you see it, not half of the actual image is left. Think about it...

Isn't that the same with internet marketing? You are shown this great picture of what money has done for other internet marketers, but little do you know that thousands upon thousands of hours of hard work went in to their great success. It did not just happen over night!

If you develop the right mindset towards internet marketing, and are ready to do what it takes to succeed on a grand scale, you will become unstoppable and are destined to incredible wealth and success. First the command, then the sacrifice, and then the glory!

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Internet Marketing and List Building - Squeezing Traffic

Do you have a great looking squeeze page? Is your headline killer? Do your bullet points rock? And what about that opt-in box? Did you spend some time giving it a custom facelift? Sounds pretty cool.

"But nobody's coming to see it," you say.

Well, I have a few easy solutions to make your squeeze page much more popular:

1. Ezine Advertising (Paid, not free): Find ezines in your Internet marketing niche by searching Google for a main keyword. See if the top listed sites have ezines, and place spot ads in them. You can also sign up for an ezine directory that gives you a lot of the information, like which ezines exist and an idea about their circulation. If they don't have thousands of readers, chances are you won't get much traffic.

2. Article Marketing: When you write an article that solves a problem for people in your niche, something they're eager to know, it will give you some great status. Because people found your information so exciting or helpful, they're more inclined to click on the link to your squeeze page, which you've put into your author's resource box.

3. Viral Video: Make a short video about your Internet marketing niche. If you give some great information or can be funny, you'll see people putting your videos all over the Web. Be sure to include the URL to your list building page in every frame so that people will type it into their browser windows to see more about you.

4. Pay-per-Click Ads: Google AdWords is the most popular pay-per-click service, mainly because Google gets the bulk of searches. But there are other services as well, such as Yahoo's Overture or AdBright. Come up with a great keyword-heavy spot ad and you'll see traffic.

5. Blogging: Write what you know about your niche. When you give great information, people will go to your squeeze page to learn more about you, if you display the link prominently. Plus, you can put an opt-in box at the top of your sidebar and have people joining your list from there, too.

Using these 5 ways of traffic generation will surely get the traffic you want coming to your squeeze page, but there are many other ways you can try, as well. The idea is that you have to get out there and do something. Traffic won't just come to you in the Internet marketing world. You have to go out and get it.

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Information About Article Marketing - An Overview of a Process That Really Works!

Information about article marketing - If you're looking for any kind of information about Article Marketing today, you've probably had no luck finding a process that really works.

Well, the information about article marketing that I'm going to give you in this article really does work. And I'll spell it out for you, FREE!

Most information about article marketing consists of a plan that probably involves a variation of the process (information about article marketing ) that I use and recommend:

1) You find the niche market that you're going to target.

2) You do keyword research to evaluate your market to make certain it's viable and profitable.

3) You put together a basic website.

4) You start writing articles based around certain keyword phrases you've targeted in Step #2.

5) You add new pages to your website written around the different keyword phrase in Step #4.

6) You rewrite the article and then submit the new version of the article to a number of Article Directories where it will quickly draw Google's attention because, for whatever reason, Google loves these particular 7 Article Directories (hence the name "Big 7").

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Quick Tip: Step #6 is essential to your plan of attack (the information about how to improve your article marketing). However, you'll find it takes a lot of time & effort to submit your articles to the "Big 7". That's one reason I developed my software "Your Article Marketing Assistant". It makes the tedious parts of the process as easy as possible. It turns a tedious (but necessary) process into a "Semi-Automatic" process that gives you the control that purely manual article submissions do along with some automated processes that make the process faster & easier! You'll get the best of both worlds!

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7) After creating a number of articles and submitting them to the "Big 7", you then start submitting the website itself to a number of Website Directories that accept submissions.

Here's the theory behind all of this information about article marketing in a nutshell.

You want your website to show up in the Natural Search Engines Ranking Pages (SERPs) of the Big Three Search Engines (Google, Yahoo! And MSN).

Gaining Incoming Links will make your website more & more visible in the Natural SERPs which is what we are after. Incoming Links are one way links that are on other websites that point towards your Home Page. Links that you trade with other websites are called "Reciprocal Links" and while they're good, especially from other websites in your niche market, they're not considered to be as good as pure Incoming (one way) Links.

Steps #4 & #5 combine to do a number of things. The "Big 7" that I suggest submitting your articles to are recognized very strongly and quickly by all three of the major Search Engines. One of the things accomplished by Steps #4 & #5 is to gain Incoming Links from very well respected sources.

The entire point of Step #7 is to begin getting a massive amount of Incoming Links pointing towards the Home Page of your website. The more links you can get, the better - hence use of the term "Massive".

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Quick Tip: You'll find Step #7 to be labor-intensive and boring. That's why I developed "Your Article Marketing Assistant" - to make the process faster & easier!

My software makes it quick & painless to submit your website to almost 500 Website Directories and it's not done in a way to make it seem like an automated submission (most Website Directories frown on automatic submissions.) Our package is a "Semi-Automatic" method that combines the attention to detail that you get with purely manual submissions while automating the task a bit to make it much, much faster and easier.

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Article Marketing (done properly the way I've suggested) is one of the most powerful SEO techniques in use today, the end of February 2007.

When coupled with Website Submission to the directories I suggest (the 2nd prong of this powerful 2-Pronged Attack Plan, you have one of the most powerful strategies for quickly and easily getting a website indexed in the Natural SERPs being employed today!

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How To Write Your Resource Box To Get People To Click

In this article you will read how to solve a big problem for effective article writing and marketing and be provided with an easy solution that works.

I get dozens of questions everyday from people asking how to improve their sales using their resource box at the end of every article submitted.

There is NO one single formula. You really need to test, test and test again.

As your potential customers read through your article they will arrive at the resource box at the end of it.

This is where most article marketers fall short. Yet, it's a vital aspect because without a compelling resource box aka bio you are simply wasting your valuable time.

If you have a website about puppies and dogs you could write an article about "3 Fantastic Ideas On How To Train Your Puppy Within Minutes".

When your reader gets to the end of your article they will see the resource box and a link to your site.

You want them to click on the link and see what you have on offer on your site. This could be items for dogs and puppies, books or services such as dog training, dog-sitting etc.

You are probably asking "What should be in the resource box to make it more effective"?

Here is the simple answer to a problem most people have.

The resource box usually contains the name and a brief description of the author. It should also have a short description of the site and a link to the site.

Just as the article needs to "grab you by the arm" so does the resource box in order to grab the attention of the reader.

Here are two very important aspects you need to remember to be effective.

1. The resource box is small and will be limited in the number of words that can be used. Therefore, it's important to use the right keywords and entice the reader to click on the link and visit your site.

2. Every person that clicks that links and visits your site is a potential customer. As there is so little space you need to learn about proper keywords that people are searching for.

There are plenty of free keyword tools online that can help you to determine what the best keywords are for your niche.

In your resource box make sure you are as creative as you can be and make the most of the space that is available to you.

You always want to make sure that you capture your reader's attention so that they visit your site to look into your product and or service that you provide.

When you use the proper content and trigger their imagination you can make them intrigued enough to click on your link which leads to the desired outcome.

Always be sure that you use keywords and phrases that are targeted to your type of site and do not try to mislead your potential customer.

If your site is about golf and golf tips and you only deal with one particular brand then make sure you make that known in your bio.

Once you realize that you only have one chance to create a lasting impression and to grab your reader, you will never again underestimate the potential of the proper 'grab you by the arm' resource box.

Even if it's very small, it can still be a very powerful way of driving quality visits to your niche site.

A boring resource box will not help you at all and will not produce the amazing results that you could get which means lost sales for all your hard work.

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This Article Marketing Website Traffic Generation Formula Can Make You Rich

Article marketing is one of the most powerful website traffic generation strategy available today. The reason behind this is its capability to drive thousands of visitors to your website instantly as well as on a permanent basis.

It can do this all for free. Then why do people fail using this powerful traffic generation strategy. You can see people hunting for quick traffic generation softwares, instant traffic solutions and a number of ways that can get them instant traffic to their website.

Doing all this they are sure to fail. But why aren't they using this powerful article marketing strategy to its fullest extent? The reason is simple, they are not aware or frightened to perform the exact steps that is required to create and distribute traffic pulling articles.

In this article you will learn the exact steps to create a quality article and distribute it over the net to get permanent incoming links to your website and quality targeted traffic.

People are frightened of doing research. You need quality content to create an article. The first step to create a quality article is to do a thorough research on the topic of your website.

You can easily do this by visiting search engine like google.com and article directories like ezinearticles.com

These sources have the power to give you hundreds if not thousands of pages of information on the topic of your website. Just read few articles out there, generate ideas and from these ideas create your own unique article of around 500 to 600 words.

Arrange your article in point format, create headline, header and footer and attention pulling resource box with a link to your website.

This will make sure to get you a unique piece of article created within an hour.

The next problem writers face is that it is extremely time-consuming to submit articles and spread them on hundreds of websites. The solution is simple.

If you have lots of time but no money then you can research around hundred article directories and submit your articles manually. Once you have researched these directories it should not take you more than a few hours to submit your articles to all these directories.

If you are lacking time but have some money to spend then you can use article submission service and they will make sure to submit your articles to hundreds of article directories on the net.

This will make sure that your article gets maximum exposure and gets you traffic beyond your wildest dreams. Write and submit around five to ten articles every day using the tactics I have shown you above.

If you do this on consistent basis, I am sure you will never ever worry about getting hundreds of targeted visitors to your website on a daily basis purchasing your products and services. Make sure you get started today. You can thank me later.

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Avoiding Banners and Direct Email Campaigns

There are a number of ways to maximize your profits and often they have nothing to do with increasing revenue. Case in point, if you are pulling in $1,000 a week in your internet business and spending $1,100 you are losing $100 and if you are pulling in $400 and spending $300 you are making a $100 profit. Sadly, many people look at the person "earning" $1,000 as successful despite the fact that this person is overspending with little result. Such is the case when it comes to online marketing and the traditional banner advertisements and email campaigns of prior years.

Yes, at one time these methods of advertising were successful ways of drawing in a potential buyer. Placing a low cost banner advertisement on a website leads drew great attention to products in the past. Ditto email marketing which essentially took the age old concept of direct mail marketing and made it electronic. Times, however, have changed and these methods of marketing - while still somewhat useful - really can no longer be the strategic basis of a marketing campaign.

With banner advertisements the actual purchases on "click throughs" have diminished. Also, the number of people clicking on banners has diminished as well. Part of the reason for this is that people have become wary of the spyware intrusions that banner ads often bring. For email marketing, it was overexposure that killed the beast. Essentially, people have become tired of receiving absurd amounts of "spam" emails everyday and this has led to greatly tuning out on advertisers who use such campaigns. This is to say nothing of the increased costs of dealing with bulk email marketing providers.

One can simply take a test of their own daily internet activity to prove that these methods no longer work as effectively. People spend more time on social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace and video sharing sites like YouTube than reading through emails or clicking on banner ads. This alone is proof that the internet is moving in a different direction to which there are no signs of turning back. People are searching for content, and it makes far more sense to advertise for little to no cost on these types of sites versus paying thousands for outdated methods.

The landscape of internet marketing has changed greatly from prior years. These days, it would be far more effective to look into search engine optimization, blog advertising et al for ones online marketing needs. Economics simply dictate as such.

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$1 Million in Google AdSense Earnings

They are calling him the million dollar man. Jason Calacanis recently revealed in his blog that he is on track to earn a million dollars from AdSense over the year ahead.

And if that number doesnt wake you up and have you sitting on the edge of your seat, consider for a moment that he reached this level in less than a year. His company only started using AdSense in September 2004.

Calacanis runs Weblogs Inc., a network dedicated to creating trade weblogs across niche industries. And hes quickly proven that AdSense is a credible advertising partner.

As their network has grown, so has their AdSense revenue. In January 2005 they earned an average of $580 per day. In March it was $737. In May it was $1,585. One day in July, just before he made the blog entry referred to above, they earned $2,335. Remember that is just for one day. If they can take that daily average to $2,740 theyll be earning a rate of $1 million for a year. And Calacanis predicts that reaching daily earnings of $3,000 or even $5,000 is quite achievable.

Thats quite an achievement. Keep in mind that Calacanis has 103 bloggers on the payroll and nine staffers. Even so, many webmasters would give an arm or a leg to have even a third of that.

Googles AdSense has been revolutionary. It has become firmly established as the darling of the online advertising industry. Although rumors are heard of major competitors launching a similar service, AdSenses premier position seems secure for now.

In essence, AdSense has made it possible for almost anyone with a web site or blog to earn some revenue from advertising, without having to employ sales people or spend precious time searching for advertisers.

AdSense works like this. Webmasters sign up for an account in just a few minutes. They receive a small snippet of code to include on their web pages. Google will then automatically serve advertisements that are relevant to the content on the webmaster's pages. When someone visits the webmaster's site and clicks on one of Google's AdSense advertisements, the webmaster earns a fee. Advertisers can pay anywhere from five cents to a hundred dollars per click, and the webmaster receives a percentage of that fee.

Many webmasters are content with earning five to ten dollars from AdSense to cover the cost of web hosting. But many, unsurprising, have higher ambitions. At a popular WebmasterWorld forum, participants share tips and encouragement on reaching a goal of $300 per day from AdSense. So it is no wonder that Calacanis created quite a buzz when he made his million dollar blog entry.

Google have proven once again that they excel at designing innovative Internet services. If you are in the web industry and have not yet used AdSense, then perhaps you should try it out. Or if you are already using it, perhaps Calacanis impressive results will encourage you to track the performance of your AdSense units more closely, fine tune their positions and formats, and take your earnings to a new level.

Calacanis million dollar blog entry can be viewed at:
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Powerful Internet Marketing - Revealed - 5 Hidden Ways to Grow Your Internet Marketing

If you have gone online to promote your products and services, you have won half the battle of growing your business. In this article, I will share with you the 5 hidden ways that can help you succeed in internet marketing so you can increase your sales potential and reap amazing profits.

1. Email marketing. With the help of your email list, you can send newsletters to promote your products and services. You can also use this tool to build rapport and trust with your target market by constantly sending them useful, relevant information that are targeted to their needs and demands.

2. Search engine marketing. This is one of the most effective marketing tools that aims to promote your website and your products by making them highly visible on search engine result pages.

3. Affiliate marketing. This is considered as the more aggressive approach in selling your products online. It involves the employment of several affiliates to market and sell your products in exchange of commission. This method is preferred by a lot of webmasters as it doesn't require them to put in much effort and learn the ropes of internet marketing. Everything will be done by affiliates who are armed with latest marketing tools and techniques.

4. Display advertising. This is commonly referred to as banner advertising. It is the process of posting your banner ads to websites that are frequented by your target market to generate traffic on your own website.

5. Blog marketing. This is another way to drive traffic to your website while you create and maintain dialogue with your potential clients. In this web page, you can post articles, product reviews, recommendations, or even testimonials to better build your products and create brand awareness. You can also use this as a venue where you can answer the questions of your potential clients about your products and services.

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Super Charge Your Affiliate Marketing With Articles

If you're new to affiliate marketing online, you may not have much money to spare for marketing and advertising efforts. Thankfully there are some great alternatives that cost little to nothing, other than your time. One of the best known is Article Marketing.

Article Marketing is the process of writing quality articles which are then given out free to various places around the web. These articles have your name and information on them, along with a link or two to your website. Your website should then have some kind of information available about the affiliate program or product you're promoting.

When you give away your articles at no cost, more people will read them around the web. And each person that reads the article could potentially click your website links and visit your site. If you've done a great job of introducing your affiliate product on your website, they may then click the affiliate link and make a purchase. This of course earns you money.

Not all affiliate marketers promote a product on their website though. Instead, they use article marketing to get visitors to an email sign up page. When the visitors sign up for the information you're offering, they'll start getting regular email messages from you. And your email messages are the ones that will promote the affiliate products for you instead. This allows you, as an affiliate marketer, to build your own targeted prospect list around certain topics. And over time you'll be able to promote additional affiliate products to that list which are related in topic, so you can make even more money from the same people.

Whichever way you decide to use it, article marketing can be one of the simplest, most inexpensive ways to start making money as an affiliate marketer. And there are just four simple steps:

1. Find a great topic. Sometimes this is called finding a niche, but the point is the same: Figure out what people are really interested in - or even desperate for - on any given topic. If they're really itching for information about something, they're more likely to buy without thinking twice about it.

2. Find a great affiliate product. The affiliate product you choose of course should be related to the topic you found in the previous step. Make sure the product has an excellent sales page, so the traffic you send to that page will be more likely to convert. Also of course, make sure that product is as great as it seems, so you don't end up with lots of sales that end up being refunded.

3. Start writing articles. These don't have to be perfect and they won't be graded by your English teacher either. Just write the article about small pieces of the topic you chose in step one. Write as if you're talking to just one person, and that will make it more conversational and engaging.

Your articles don't have to be long essays either. Most good web based articles range in size from 300-500 words, but you can make it as long as 1000 words if you have that much to say. A better option though, would be to break a longer article into two parts because that will give you two articles to distribute instead of one.

4. Distribute your articles. This is the easy part. Once you've finished writing, be sure to create a signature style area at the end of your article which has your name, copyright, a bit of information about you or your website, and a link. Then simply submit the articles to various directories and distribution sites around the web.

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Affiliate Marketing - Top 10 Reasons to Use Squidoo

Squidoo is quickly becoming THE place to market your products and services, especially if you are new to the world of affiliate marketing. This article will give you 10 of the best reasons to get over to squidoo and get started.

1. It is FREE!

What else needs to be said about that. The new affiliate marketer can get started for free.

2. You don't need a website.

Many new affiliates worry they don't have a website. Let squidoo become you website. You can make as many pages as you need, for any topic you want on squidoo.

3. You don't need to know anything about SEO.

It's all built in. The makers of Squidoo made it so lenses would come up quickly and highly ranked in google and other major search engines.

4. You can brand yourself.

Branding yourself is easy with squidoo. People will see your name in relation to your lens topics and will remember you.

5. You become an expert.

The definition of expert is knowing more about a topic than other people. When you make a lens on a topic you love you quickly become an expert in other's eyes.

6. Easily feature affiliate products.

You do not have to hide your affiliate links at squidoo. You can make entire lenses about 1 product or many.

7. Make money from squidoo.

You may have your own affiliate products you want to feature, but squidoo helps you make money through some of their modules as well. You don't have to join a program, just build a lens.

8. Easily add video.

One of Squidoo's modules is youtube. You can quickly add one of your own videos, or someone else's to any or all of your lenses.

9. Easily build an opt in list for free

You can easily add an opt in form to your lens and build a targeted opt in list you can later send more offers to.

10. Easily ping and bookmark lenses.

Web 2.0 is becoming an important part of any marketing strategy. Since each lens has an RSS feed you can easily ping them to blog and RSS directories. You can also add an "add this" button to your lens making it easy for others to bookmark it!

These ten things should have you excited about the possibilities for affiliate marketing at Squidoo. It's easy and fun. Now go get started!

Jackie Lee has been an internet marketer for the past 5 years. She left her corporate job 18 months ago when her daughter was born and has been solely working from home since. She uses Squidoo as a main building block of her marketing strategy. Visit her blog to learn more about Squidoo and internet marketing

Article Writers - Computer Generated Systems, Key Wording Bandit and Fake Poser (BS'ers)

Today in online article marketing we find that there are many things that writers will do to churn out lots of material. Some online article marketers will use computer-generated software to help them write their articles faster. This also helps them with the proper buzzwords which assist in keyword marketing on the search engines. Unfortunately a "key wording bandit" is doing a disservice to the Internet by putting debris across the subject matter or domain of worthless information.

By doing this some writers are clouding the Internet and yes it makes it more difficult for readers to find exactly what they're looking. Instead they are diverted to a web site where someone is trying to sell them something and make money rather than to a place where they can find the information they're looking for as a type in their search on the Internet.

But even worse than this scenario is an article writer who is a faker or a poser and creates content very rapidly which is nonfactual, misleading and completely inaccurate. I call these people BS'ers or posers and they do a severe amount of damage to the credibility of the Internet. Those who use the Internet expect to be able to find what they're looking for when they do a search.

When the search engines bring back nothing but junk we can immediately see the problem. Article writers and online article marketers should be more careful with the information they distributed to prevent themselves from being delisted in the major search engines. When a few people take it upon themselves to manipulate or game the search engines everyone loses.

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How To Make Money Online

There are a million ways to make a million dollars online and I mean that with all sincerity. The opportunities are endless and it is a matter of how bad you want it. The fact of the matter is that most give up when they hit their first road block. The bottom line it takes a mindset and a serious determination to develop a skill set that will make you a successful online entrepreneur.

Between creating websites, Google AdSense, blogging, affiliate marketing, network marketing, social bookmarking, etc, etc...the possibilities are truly endless. With a Global Market Reach and new advancements in technology, you can expect that this is only the beginning of the E-Commerce Revolution. New programs are being introduced every single day that have predetermined the next 10 million millionaires. It is the smartest who are harnessing technology to create supplemental income that will possibly one day replace their current income.

It is no longer the business man in the suit that can have clients in Asia, Australia, and Europe. The high school dropouts, the stay at home moms, and pretty much anyone can surpass even the highest paid executives through earning income online. The internet is growing exponentially and as it grows, so does the opportunities. People are looking more and more everyday to the internet to establish a home based business that will set them on their way to financial freedom. It is the "New Gold Rush" of the 21st Century. Are you taking advantage of it?

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Internet Marketing - On A Fast Track

While marketing has unlimited means of reaching its target audience, Internet marketing has grown to be the most popular marketing medium. Companies are aggressively using search engine optimization and other techniques to reach remote consumers. Businesses use constant emails and video advertisements on websites to woo customers. popular Internet marketing is emerging as the favorite marketing strategy of both small and large enterprises.

Online Shopping this Holiday Season

According to eCommerce research firm comScore, shopping by online customers grew significantly this holiday season. Spending grew to $28 billion, up 19% compared to last year. On December 26 (the day after Christmas), sales touched $545 million, a record 50% jump compared to the same day last year. December 10 was recorded as the heaviest individual spending day of the season. Online retail giant Amazon.com announced its "best holiday season ever."

However, with the sub-prime crisis hitting the U.S. markets and with talks of a jittery U.S. economy, it is not surprising that the growth in online shopping was not as robust as the 2006 holiday season.

Advertising on the Internet

A study by AT&T conducted by Western Wats revealed that approximately 65% of small enterprises advertise in the yellow pages directory. However, about 53.1% of the small business respondents said that in the next two years they expect to advertise through online videos. AT&T noted that although many consumers are still using the yellow pages for business information, they search on the Internet before actually buying a product.

With the Beijing Summer Olympics approaching, spending on advertisements in every sector is expected to accelerate. Multinational corporations are sure to make further inroads into China's fuming economy.

Studies reveal that in the coming years, more companies will resort to advertising with Internet videos. People now have less time to read through text-dominant advertisements; plus, videos have proved to be more appealing.

Though the U.S. economy is said to hit a recession track, online ad spending is expected to be resilient.

Marketing through Social Networking Websites

Sending bulk emails is a marketing stunt used to date. Many companies are now switching to social networking websites to market their products so these are known as marketing medium. MySpace and Facebook are expected to be major players in the online social networking space. These sites in the future would be top destinations for online shoppers through Internet marketing.

Online Customers Rank High with Retailers

The Customer Respect Group's "Customer Respect Index," has ranked retailers high in respect to handling their online customers. The study evaluated retail websites on three parameters - usability of sites, communication in respect to emails and online chats, and trustworthiness. In all three situations, retail websites such as Ralph Lauren, Gap, and Old Navy outperformed the industry average. v 2008 is predicted to be a good year for Internet marketing. Companies are gearing up not to miss a piece of the cake.

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Do You Know About These Make Money Online Opportunities?

What are the top make money online opportunities available online? Obviously it would be very useful for anybody looking to start a business online to take a close look at what other people are doing successfully to earn a dollar on the World Wide Web.

Interestingly there are numerous different ways being used by home business entrepreneurs to generate revenue online.

Make Money Online Opportunities At Ebay

It has been proven time and again that the easiest way to start making money is to join Ebay and to find something to sell at the wildly popular trading site. Many of them start off looking for items in their homes to sell online. Although this usually runs out pretty quickly this initial experience is invaluable in helping the home business owner and Ebay seller to pick up the initial critical skills required.

Next you can graduate into getting brand new items on wholesale prices from multiple distributors and wholesalers and then re-selling them at Ebay. Tens of thousands of successful sellers at Ebay do exactly this.

Ebay is one of the leading sites that has made a big difference for online small business entrepreneurs many of whom have risen from zero income to pretty good regular revenue generation with the help of the world famous popular sellers and buyers web site.

Make Money Online Opportunities With Personal Blogs

Many specialists and experts make serious money online by exploring the opportunities that emerge from starting a personal blog. Apart from selling their expertise directly, many of these personal blogs make huge sums of money from popular affiliate programs like Google's Adsense and Kontera to name just two that pay affiliates every time somebody clicks on the ads on their sites.

Here there are plenty of other make money online opportunities from affiliate programs that are very closely related to the area of expertise that is covered by owner of the personal blog.

Profits From E-books

Yet another example of the many make money online opportunities available on the web is creating e-books based on your special knowledge and skills and then marketing and selling them online. This can be quite a lucrative undertaking, if executed properly. Millions of people log into the World Wide Web every day looking to solve their various pressing problems. All an alert home based online entrepreneur has to do is to position their e-book to solve some of these problems and the sales will surely follow. This is in fact one of the very solid make money online opportunities that has not been exploited enough.

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How To Get Instant Traffic And Sales To Any Given Product

A lesson on maximizing your viral marketing.

Simplifying your viral marketing can mean instant traffic and sales to any given product.

Focus your viral marketing along with quality lead capture or squeeze pages and the results will never cease to amaze you.

"What is focused viral marketing and how do you simplify it?".

First off I would like to clarify, that viral marketing comes in many forms i.e. article writing, ebook publishing, etc., but for this lesson I am talking about viral marketing in the sense of free viral traffic generation sites such as Banner, Exit, Slide-In Ads, Tool Bar and Web Ring, type advertising exchanges.

Wherein you join and in return for placing the program's exchange code on your site to show other member's ads, you also get your ads shown on the sites of those members.

Focused viral marketing is the combination of several quality viral traffic programs all advertising the same URL for you. Then you divide these viral traffic programs between a series of 4 to 5 lead capture or squeeze pages which advertise a certain affiliate program or one of your products. Each page has a sign up form which is tied to a quality autoresponder system. In this autoresponder system you have a series of letters all with information on this product or service.

Every viral program you have featured throughout this series of pages is also set to advertise these pages. And as you advertise the pages, they in turn get you credits in all the exchanges and also gather leads for you from the autoresponder form you have on the pages.

To simplify your focused viral marketing, you use a central URL, in which you place this series of lead capture pages and where you have access to change the program this URL is advertising. i.e. via a quality tracking and rotator system. A tracking system is recommended. But use your rotator URL in it, so you can add the various pages that have the different viral traffic codes on them into the rotator. Then when you want to change programs you simply change the URL's in the rotator.

To maximize your traffic to this series of pages you put them into all the start page and traffic exchanges you belong to. Some of these sites will not take rotators, so simply put in as many of the pages as they will allow. Keeping note that when you do change your program pages in the rotator you will also want to change these various exchanges as well.

However, also keep in mind that the traffic exchanges that don't allow a rotator will serve to help you continue to grow traffic in the viral programs during times you just want to change the rotator to a single URL. You won't always have time to create a series of pages for every program or product. So you simply keep the same series going in one of your auto surf programs or other quality exchanges you gather frequent credits in and thus continue the focused viral traffic generation with ease.

Once you master the above you can start sending 100's or even 1000's of hits to any product or service you want instantly, by simply going to the one rotator system and changing the URLs it promotes.

I can give you a live case study on this - me - :). I recently created a free report, in which I was able to instantly change my on going focused viral marketing within a matter of seconds by logging in to my rotator and changing the URLs in it. Then once I did that all my current live ads started promoting this one report. Literally within a matter of minutes I was receiving sign ups to the autoresponder and people were downloading my free report. In less then a week I had 50 members in this autoresponder system and the numbers continue to climb as we speak.

Each time I do this I can focus 100-500 + hits a day to any given program or product and instantly generate sign ups and purchases of my products. If I want to bump that up even more. I just surf more in my traffic exchanges that day. It is that simple!

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to do this. So much so, that on this last round I even logged into all my banner exchanges, etc. I have been using and realized there was no need. I already had them promoting my tracking / rotator URL and I was set, didn't have to do another thing except watch the sign ups pour in.

Once you have the above set in motion you can instantly have traffic coming from all over the Internet, to any product or service you want. You can do this too! It just takes a little focus and determination.

Sincerely, Debbie Ducker

About the Author
Debbie Ducker is the owner of: DuckerPromotion.com
And author of many articles and How To marketing materials.
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Some Important Methods To Get Higher Rankings And Maintain The Rankings In Search Engines

Every online marketer desire for a top place in search engines. Every search engine has different algorithms for rankings, but there are few things that are common to all and are highly beneficial to attain better search engine placements.

No Quick Fix
There are no hasty remedies in attaining high rankings in search engines. It will take time for your efforts to bear fruits. Hence, it is imperative to develop and implement a SEO strategy before starting optimizing your website.

Keywords
Keywords are the most significant part of search engine optimization and keyword research is the foremost step in the SEO process. Don't spend time on keywords with high competition, target high potential or focused keywords. Use key phrases of 2-3 words instead of using a single keyword, this way you make a search more specific and easy for visitors. Some of the good tools for keyword research are: wordtracker, google adwords, SEObook, etc.

Meta Data
Create Meta title tags and description tags; write the essence of the website with the targeted keywords in it. This is the only other part of the results you have any control over. Google will also highlight the keywords in here that match the search query. Remember to keep it descriptive and readable.

Domain Names
If you can, try and include your main keywords in your domain name. Google will highlight them when they match the search query. This can give your ranking a little boost bcause it will show that your website is relevant to the search query.

Quality Content
Content is still the king. Write quality content on your website. It should be meaningful, relevant, grammatically correct and informative. From SEO perspective, include the targeted keywords, but make sure keyword density doesn't go beyond 3% of the entire content. Use targeted keywords in the headings, initial text of the content and sprinkle them in- between.

Link Building
Today, the most successful way to enhance your rankings is link popularity. Try to get as many one-way links as you can. Although two-way links are good, but weightage is given to non-reciprocal links. Write articles; submit them to article directories, social media sites, etc.; you can also write blogs, but don't forget to include a brief author's biography which should incorporate links to your website.

Reciprocal linking can easily be attained. You may not get desired results initially; once you gain a better page rank, the process will be easy for you. Always exchange links with relevant site. Hundreds of irrelevant links won't help you in anyway. Check out the history of the website sending you links for link exchange program.

Submitting Site To DMOZ
Submit your website to DMOZ because several search engines including Googles use DMOZ results in their organic results. Your website may rank without its presence in it but there are chances of receiving more backlinks with DMOZ.

Create Blogs
Start writing blogs on your website. Google gives weight to blogs as they contain good amount of content and are consistently updated. Incorporate stories, articles or anything relevant to your website, if the information is liked by visitors, they will return back for more and link to you.

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Article Marketing Secrets - How To Get Rid Of The Writers Block Forever!

Writers block is a really big problem and I am going to give you some tips to be sure that you always have something to write. When you write articles for a living, you can't afford to stay one hour or more in front of your computer without actually typing your money making words.

Let's see what are the exact steps you can follow to get rid of this problem...

Get out of the grey zone.

If when you come in front of your laptop and don't know what to write, it may be an alert. I mean that your mind could be in the "grey zone".

Get out of the grey zone as soon as you can. Many writers don't realize that their mind need to have some rest, like their body.

Can you imagine running for 4 hours non stop? Nobody will do this, but writers are doing it. They can sit down and write as much as twenty articles in less than 24 hours.

Some of them are doing this several weeks in a raw.

This is bad for your mind.

Another problem is that writers think that if they have some rest or sleep an hour or two, they will get themselves out of the "grey zone". This is not true.

You don't need to relax your mind only to be able to write quality articles. You also need to take care of your body. If you don't practice any physical activity, your mind will suffer. Please understand that your mind and your body are one.

You absolutely need to do something. For example, you could run twenty minutes every morning or do some push ups. I don't care, but do something.

If you follow my tip above, writers block will become a remembrance of the past.

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Fast Article Marketing - Revealed - 4 Intriguing Secrets to Increase Your Article Marketing

Article marketing can easily give you great online revenue as it is proven to boost both your web traffic and your sales potential. The keys here are focusing on your content and being consistent in delivering excellent articles on a regular basis. These will help you create a strong online presence that can potentially lead to huge following and wider client base.

1. Limit your topics to the issues relevant to your target niche. If you are selling diet pills or promoting weight loss program, you should focus on writing about weight problems and tips on how to resolve them. By doing so, you will be able to attract people who would like to lose weight. These people are the best online visitors you can ever have as they are more likely to become interested on what you offer, thus increasing your sales potential. As this secret is truly impacting, let me say it again. Keep your content focused on your target niche so you will be able to drive qualified traffic to your website.

2. Submit your articles to publishing sites and article directories. Millions of people are accessing these sites on a regular basis when they are looking for specific information. These are the sites that can give your articles maximum exposure so they can reach your target market and hopefully, have them republished by other webmasters and bloggers.

3. Sprinkle keywords throughout your articles. With the popularity of search engines, online users today are searching for information with the help of keywords and key phrases. To make your articles easy to find online, make it a habit to incorporate highly searched keywords on your articles that are relevant to your target niche.

4. Consider keyword density. While it is important to make your articles keyword-rich, you must be careful not to stuff your content with too many keywords to avoid being penalized by search engines for keyword abuse.

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Profitable Article Marketing - Latest Profitable Steps to Accelerate Your Article Marketing

When expert marketers say that article marketing is the best tool to generate traffic to your site, they were not lying. In fact, this technique has become so popular that almost all webmasters and even blog owners have started writing and submitting articles to publishing sites. The reward that you can get from utilizing this method is truly amazing. Aside from improved traffic, you can also expect higher page ranking and better profit as long as you are consistently writing and submitting quality articles.

Here are the latest steps to accelerate your article marketing:

1. Widely distribute your articles. Contrary to popular belief, you can also market your articles to other avenues aside from article submission sites. You can post them on your blog, on your website, or turn them into an eBook. By doing so, you will be able to reach more online users and draw more visitors to site.

2. Focus on one niche. Specialize and choose a field that you are an expert on and write articles about it. Make sure that all your articles are directly relevant to your main topic so you can make your content more targeted to your potential readers.

3. Write more. As you know, the quantity of your article submissions determine the number of links to your website. In order to get the maximum exposure, I suggest that you write at least 5-7 articles per day.

4. Promote your articles. One of the most effective ways of enticing your potential clients to read your articles is through forum posting. You can join online discussion and offer solutions to your target market's problem through your article content.

5. Make your resource box enticing. Remember, one of your main goals in utilizing article marketing is to drive readers to your site. You can easily do that by making your resource box powerful and compelling.

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How To Establish A Strong Marketing Strategy

As a business owner, you won't have any difficulties looking for marketing strategies to help you stay in the game. In fact, marketing strategies are a dime a dozen, and you can find them almost everywhere - in the Internet, books, reference materials, and even on cereal boxes.

The fact is, there are a lot of tips and suggestions that you can apply to your own business to help you achieve your goals. The thing you have to remember though is that the key to having an effective marketing campaign is in the implementation. When you execute successfully even if the odds are against you then you can truly say that your efforts have not been wasted.

So what is the best marketing strategy for your business? How can you develop a strong marketing plan to help you grow your business?

First of all, a marketing tactic that is focused on your customers' needs is the best plan yet. When you are able to have a campaign - say a marketing collateral that uses color printing as its method - that is based on providing a solution to your target market's needs then you would have a successful one.

Second, combine this strategy with a flexible one that can easily adapt to the changing environment, and then have the strength as well as resources to implement it then you'll definitely have the competitive edge over the rest in the industry.

In today's world, the only way you can survive in your chosen filed is to get people interested in what you have to offer. You have to have the benefits laid out for them that your target audience would be hard put to resist your products and services.

You, as the business owner, ought to consider the benefits yourself of targeting your particular customers and focusing on their needs. When you are able to satisfy their needs better than your competitors, not only do you increase your sales but most importantly, you will be able to build a stronger and lasting relationship which can get you repeat business from your target market.

Nevertheless, we have an ever changing environment, and people do change. That's why your marketing strategy also needs to be flexible to the changes occurring regularly. Your marketing strategy needs to function properly for it to be effective.

A marketing strategy that is adaptable to any change in the business climate and opportunities has the most to gain.

So how can you establish a strong marketing strategy for your business? By looking at your target market, focusing on their needs, and creating something that is flexible to the needs of the times.

Most of all, you have to set up a marketing campaign that is appropriate to your business needs too.

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Charen Smith writes articles about Internet Marketing. She has an extensive knowledge and experience when it comes to business strategies, techniques and business solutions.

Internet Marketing for Small Business

One of the coolest things about marketing in the 2000's is that even the tiniest of businesses can compete for business internationally.

A level playing field

The Internet has leveled the playing field in a manner of speaking. Because all businesses, regardless of their size or location, have the same opportunity to create a web presence and market online.

Easy on your budget

And, because it doesn't take a huge budget it's a great marketing strategy for small business owners and solo-professionals with very little to spend on marketing.

In fact, it's one of the most effective and economical marketing strategies you can use.

Are you making the most of the Internet to market your business?

Here are 10 easy ways to market your services online and generate tons of new clients for your business.

(1) Create a website

(2) Optimize that website for your keywords

(3) Publish an ezine or e-newsletter

(4) Write and post articles on article directories

(5) Use pay-per-click advertising, like Google Adwords

(6) Use autoresponders

(7) Publish an e-course or special report

(8) Create and sell information products

(9) Create a blog

(10) Start podcasting

You don't have to do all 10

If you can add even a couple of these strategies to your marketing plan you could immediately start generating more clients for your business, for a whole lot less than you might think.

Because Internet marketing is not only a very cost-effective way to market your business, it also yields immediate results. So you'll know right away if it's working or not. That alone can save you a bundle.

Low maintenance marketing

And the best part is, once you get things up and running, it takes very little maintenance and it begins to take on a life of its own. Pretty soon your little business has a great big web presence.

Perhaps you have a website but that's the extent of your presence online. If that's the case I encourage you to learn more about some of these other online marketing avenues and start using them to grow your business.

(C) Copyright 2006 Debbie LaChusa

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Debbie LaChusa created The 10stepmarketing System to make marketing your own business as simple as answering 10 questions. Learn more about this unique, step-by-step system and get a free 10-week Marketing E-Course when you subscribe to the free, weekly 10stepmarketing Ezine at http://www.10stepmarketing.com