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Hen Party Ideas Blog

2010-03-28T00:43:00.000-07:00

A couple of new blogs I've been working on.

Hen Party Ideas: "#

Stag party Ideas

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

2010-03-25T11:47:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Marketing (SEM): "Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
Search Engine Marketing Evolved from SEO, making your website easily findable in Search Engines."

Website Traffic The Truth By Trevor Kugler Platinum Quality Author

2010-03-24T02:23:00.000-07:00

Website Traffic – The Truth
By Trevor Kugler

When you start a website, many people don't realize how important traffic is to get. Not only is traffic difficult to get, if you can’t get it, there's no point in having a website. Many times this isn't realized. I think many people labor under the delusion of, "If you build it, they will come.", meaning of course that if you build a cool looking website, with relevant content and products, that people will automatically visit your site and like it. My friends, in case you didn't realize it, this is NOT true. A website can just be out in cyberspace forever and no one will ever know it's there if you don't literally go out and get traffic.
I know when I first started a website, I though that traffic would just come…the 'if you build it' philosophy. I quickly found out this was not the case. And unless you have a big budget for advertising, that means you're going to have to spend a lot of time writing articles and such. Otherwise, you might as well not have a website. Because without traffic, a website means less than a fart in the wind, and in case you didn't know a fart in the wind isn't worth a whole lot.
So now you're left with this cool looking website that's all ready to go and parked out in the parking lot known as "cyberspace". What do you do, to make your car stand out from all the others, so people will take a look at it? The best way I've found to accomplish this is through writing articles. It's the only effective way that I've found to drive traffic to your website that's truly FREE. Everything other method that I've seen (that doesn’t cost money) to drive traffic to your website is complete BS! Article writing is real and works.
So you begin writing articles and finally getting some traffic to your website, good for you. Now have you heard of something called "conversion". Oh yea, if you thought that getting traffic was a veritable open can of worms with worms EVERYWHERE, just wait until you begin studying turning that traffic into real money. Fun, fun. Hey! Who thought that making a living on the internet was a piece of cake? Oh yea, that was me about 3 years ago, then as with most things, I realized the truth.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!
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The Truth about Website Traffic

Bruno Movie Costumes

2010-03-05T20:36:00.000-08:00

Bruno Movie Costumes: "Bruno Costumes for Stag Parties
In New Zealand Bruno Lederhosen Costumes Were seen at the Rugby Sevens Game in Wellington. The infamous Pink Bruno Costume is becoming a favourite for stag party (Stag Parties are the New Zealand and England version of the American Bachelor Party)

In England a with airfares to anywhere in Europe being so cheap the old Stag Party or Stag Do, has gone from a 'Night Out with the Boys' getting horribly drunk and hiring a stripper, to now the groom to be and all his friends pop over to Amsterdam, Prague, Budapest, Riga, Bratislava for a long weekend of partying drinking and general fun, miles away from anyone that might know the bride to be."

Cheap Bruno Costumes in New Zealand

Cheap Bruno Costumes in UK/Europe

3 Key Ways to Create More Money In Search Engine Optimization

2010-03-03T21:40:00.000-08:00

The best way to generate quality, targeted traffic to your site is through search engine optimization. When you know how to optimize every page of your website, you are increasing your chances of being indexed by major search engines. The goal here is for you to make it on search result's top 10 so your website will be highly visible to online users. This can lead to dramatic increase in traffic and eventually more profit. Here are the 3 key ways to create more money in search engine optimization:
1. Use relevant keywords. Keywords play a crucial role in optimizing your website. Make sure that you use them on your domain name, title tags, header tags, and description tags. However, make it a point that you do not abuse the use of keywords so you will not be tagged as keyword spammer. To look for other keywords that are relevant to your content, use keyword suggestion tool.
2. Obtain inbound links. Search engines consider the quality and quantity of your inbound links. They must be coming from well-established websites that share your website's topic or theme. The easiest way to earn inbound links these days is through article marketing where you have to write quality articles and submit them to publishing sites. You can also earn links through forum posting where you are allowed to post comments or replies together with your website's URL.
3. Launch reciprocal linking campaign. This can be a time-consuming and tedious task but the results can be extremely rewarding. In this process, you are required to research for websites that target your niche and request for reciprocal linking. In order for the other webmasters to exchange link with you, you must make sure that your website has quality content.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article writing success, 'Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide'
Download it free here: Secrets of Article Writing
Do you want to learn how to build a big online subscriber list fast? Click here: Secrets of List Building
Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.

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List Building - What The Weasels Won't Tell You

2010-02-26T01:52:00.000-08:00

List Building - What The Weasels Won't Tell You

First of all, when I say weasels I want everyone to realize what I'm talking about. I'm referring to those "experts" that want to sell you e-books and software on how to build lists and make money. In my humble experience, most of these weasels simply want your money. They want your money and give you very little actual information in return. For example, I've personally purchased e-books that reiterate over and over again how you must build your list, but offer no solutions on how to actually do it. I've also been involved with companies that push you incessantly to build your list (which in theory is true), and guess where you're supposed to get the names from? You're supposed to buy them from the very company that pushes you to "build" your list! It's a vicious cycle that I want to help people avoid, if at all possible. The first order of business is to decide which kind of list you want to build. For the most part, there are two types of email lists:

1) Lists that you Buy - These are names that you purchase related to your newsletter, e-zine, or proposition. If you're going to go with this route, be ready to spend quite a bit of money. Not only do you spend a lot of money, the quality of the email addresses is usually suspect at best. This is the easiest way to build a list, but by far the least effective.

2) Opt in lists - These are names that the individuals decide to give you. They voluntarily decide to receive your emails. This is the kind of list that everyone wants, but very few people are honest about building. There are various ways of getting people to sign up for your information, all of which you should begin researching.
The bottom line is that it takes time to build a quality email list. You can buy names all day everyday, but you will run out of money before you see any real results. The real way to build an email list is to invest the time educating yourself on the subject. The more educated you become on the subject, the better off you will be. Just beware of anyone who claims that it's as simple as buying names and sending them some sort of newsletter. Like most things of value in this world, building a quality email list doesn't happen overnight.
That's the biggest hurdle that the weasels won't tell you about. That hurdle is that there is no simple and easy solution to list building. You have to keep at it and demonstrate a little patience. The weasels always want to make it seem like you don't have to "do" anything. I would like everyone to consider one thing: If making money were as easy as buying a bunch of names and then sending those names an email once a week or so, wouldn't everyone do it?

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com Trevor has more than 15 years of business experience and 25 years of fishing experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country - Montana.
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List Building - What The Weasels Won't Tell You

Your Virtual Assistant, Providing Solutions to all areas of Business Administration

2010-02-23T19:38:00.000-08:00

Your Virtual Assistant, Providing Solutions to all areas of Business Administration: "From the Desk of a Small Business - Part Four: How to Market on a Budget

Not all businesses can afford to place a full page advert in the Yellow Pages or promote themselves on prime time television. Marketing on a budget does not mean you have to compromise your campaign or results!

I have summarised 10 ways to market your company without having to call your bank manager. Not all of the ideas mentioned will work for you, find the ones you think will work the best and give them a try. Marketing opportunities for a small business are endless!"

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Article Marketing and Its Impact on SEO

2010-02-22T21:37:00.000-08:00

Over the course of the past three to four years an ever increasing number of individuals and businesses who are desirous of increasing traffic to their Internet websites have taken to article marketing. Article marketing has been discussed rather generally elsewhere in this ebook. In addition, article marketing has been presented as a tool for the promotion of your website in different ways throughout this ebook.
If you properly utilize article marketing, you can have a significant positive impact on your overall SEO efforts. By understanding the ways in which you can best utilize article marketing, you will enhance the traffic to your website and, as a result, will increase your revenue and profits in both the short and the long term. Through this ebook, you are provided with a myriad of techniques that you can employ in order to enhance your overall SEO efforts.
First of all, through article marketing, you are able to write about topics that are specific to what is going on at your Internet website. Within the article, you can embed a link to your own website. People interested in the subject of your article (which will track with the products and services at your website) very well may be inclined to click on the link and visit your website.
Second, articles that you have marketed also have the ability of setting yourself up as an expert in a particularly arena. You can also subtly – and not so subtly – establish your website as being integral to the subject of the article you have marketed. Many successful business owners, operators and managers on the Net have really established themselves as experts through their own efforts at Internet article marketing.
In the end, you can join the ranks of many business owners who are operating on the Net today who have greatly enhanced the value of their overall business operations through the use of article marketing as a means of making their SEO efforts all the more effective.

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How Much Traffic Is Enough Traffic

2010-02-17T01:45:00.000-08:00

How Much Traffic Is Enough Traffic

If you have a website you a well aware of the fact that without traffic, you might as well not have a website. So how much traffic is enough traffic? Website traffic is an interesting thing. You can never have enough traffic. Traffic is the lifeblood of a website, and website owners are constantly looking for ways to drive traffic to their sites. Traffic, traffic, traffic. Anyone who intends to make any kind of money from a website quickly realizes that the first thing that they have to do is drive traffic.
If, for some reason, you haven't realized this little tidbit of information you soon will. When I started my first website, I thought that traffic would somehow magically appear. I'll give you one guess as to what happened? No traffic appeared. I quickly figured out that you had to literally go out and get it. That is unless you have a big advertising budget. And if you do have a big advertising budget, get ready to waste some money figuring things out because there are a ton of unscrupulous companies making unrealistic claims about bringing traffic to your site.
The traffic puzzle is a tough one, there's no question about it. If you're attempting to generate money on the Internet, traffic is the key. Not just traffic, but quality traffic and lots of it. So if you have a website, and have the intention of generating money, start researching ways that you can drive traffic to your site. By the way, one of those ways is through writing articles. Just remember: you can never have enough traffic and traffic is harder to come by than you may think.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com Trevor has more than 20 years of fishing experience, and raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country....Montana.
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How Much Traffic Is Enough Traffic

Fancy Dress Costumes UK

2010-02-15T11:34:00.000-08:00

Fancy Dress Costumes UK: "Stag Party Ideas"

6 Steps to Excel at Search Engine Optimization

2010-02-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

Quick search engine optimization--or SEO--is a method of attaining high search engine rankings by using the correct words, correct placement and frequency of those words, and more. If you follow these 6 steps, you will be able to do your own search engine optimization for your website.
Step 1: Register
Get your domain name into the big three search engines--MSN, Yahoo, and Google. You don’t even need your site to be operating.
Step 2: Know Your Potential Customer
The vast majority our ideal customers will probably enter the same search terms to find you--use those terms in your content and titles for the writing on your website.
Step 3: Friendly Design
Don’t create a site that doesn’t appeal or write copy that doesn’t make sense. It wouldn’t matter how many keywords you put in, you will not get good rankings or have many people staying on your site.
Step 4: Keywords
These are very important to quick search engine optimization--know the exact words your ideal client or customer will enter into search engines to find you and get that phrase in your content at least 2% of the time (no more than 4%).
Step 5: Stay Fresh
Keep your writing, your links, and your design all fresh and current. A design that looks stale will make the writing seem stale even if it was posted yesterday.
Step 6: Get Backlinks
These are links that other companies provide to your site on their own web page. Don’t trade links, and don’t get links from just anyone. Quick search engine optimization is sometimes a little slower in the making.

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Fancy Dress Costumes UK

2010-02-03T01:37:00.000-08:00

Fancy Dress Costumes UK: "What is a Stag Party"

A new blog I'm working on, on a different subject, and a subject I know nothing about... makes life interesting, writing about something I have no experience and never will have experience of...

Several Tips For Effective SEO Keyword Work

2010-02-03T01:13:00.000-08:00

Several Tips For Effective SEO Keyword Work

Geography Helps
SEO does pay attention to geography. It's also helpful if you pay attention to geography if you have a particular region for a niche in mind or if you want Google to be aware there is a local area that has an interest in your sites. It's much easier to get noticed in a particular region if you use keywords with the name of the city in them. So, maybe you have a business that is selling to writers (a publisher or self-publishing company), and most of the writers are located in New York. Then, you would want to do keyword research on writing as well as New York as that can help you sell your services.
Overlap Keywords
You saw this strategy used in some of the examples I listed at the start of this ebook. For example, the title "Learn Social Media Marketing" can be used to find the website by using typing into the search engine "learn social media" or "social media marketing." This is a way of overlapping two great keyword phrases to get more bang for the buck, so to speak. If you have the opportunity to do this, go for it.
Don't Focus Too Much On Density
You don't have to be compulsive about the keyword density anymore, except to realize that it shouldn't be overdone. You can get penalized for using too many keywords in an article or web page by Google. So, stick to keyword relevance and don't focus as much on creating a high density keyword page.
Test Your SEO Results
If you do decide to use a formula for your keyword density, you should try to ascertain what works best for you, the readers, and the Google search engine. You can do this by have different pages with different densities and then seeing which generate more ad revenue or sales.

By the way, are you a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, speaker, small business owner or online marketer who is tired of getting paid less than you are worth for your coaching and consulting?
What if you could learn how to package and sell your coaching packages for $4k, $8k, even $12k or $25k and enroll multiple clients per month at those prices?
To begin learning how you can sell your own coaching for between $4k and $25k per client, download my new recording: "How to Sell High Ticket Products Online" here:
High Ticket Selling Secrets
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Sean Mize teaches coaches, consultants, and small business owners how to package their knowledge and sell it in high priced coaching, consulting, and online class packages. Sean says "If you have an existing marketable service or skill that you can teach others, I can teach you to package it into a high-priced class or coaching program, guaranteed"

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Advanced Tips to Create More Money in Search Engine Marketing

2010-01-18T21:34:00.000-08:00

In the pool of the websites you have to bring your website to the surface. This can be well done by search engine optimization of your website. Once your website is search engine optimized, it increases its search engine rating. Here are discussed advanced tips to create more money in search engine marketing.
To begin with the search engine marketing or SEM, pay attention to your web page content. Make the content according to the search engine specifications. Also make use of keywords that best describe your website in the web page. Also pay attention to the keyword density. The keyword density decides the rank of your page in search engine results.
Another thing to make use of is to bid for some appropriate keywords in the search engine directories. This way you need to pay for the click that leads to your website. The advantage of this type is that you need to pay only for the users that come to your site. This is effective only when the targeted users come to your site.
Updating your web content also helps you to come in the top search results of the search engines. Regularly update your website. Make use of other methods to project such as RSS feeds. This will give your website a dynamic nature and also increase your search engine rating.
Search engines also look for the link popularity. Project your link in forums and blogs. This will make your link famous and come in to account more frequently. This will also increase your search engine ranking. This is a good practice to make use of forums to discuss the shortcoming of your website and rectify it immediately.

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7 Easy Steps to Search Engine Optimization

2010-01-12T18:36:00.000-08:00

Want to know more about search engine optimization? Well, it is one of the methods used nowadays in internet marketing. These search engines are very excellent tools to promote and advertise your products in a snap. You can use this to spread information about your company, your products and the services that you offer. There are also many other web sites that you can link with to generate more traffic. Here are some easy ways to increase your knowledge on quick search engine optimization.
1. It is very crucial that your site must contain all the necessary information about the items, products and at least have a guide so that your customers know where to look.
2. Use search engine sites to increase your traffic. It is best if you submit your web page to as many search engine sites as possible. Use it to promote your products and make sure to have a good-looking web site.
3. You can have your own search engine if you like. You can just link with a site and then share your links with sites of the same category and this will surely widen your scope.
4. Use keywords that are appropriate and fast-selling. Search engine sites sometimes base their rankings on keywords that is why you should know about search engine optimization.
5. You can use tags. Meta tags can help you increase the number of visitors each day.
6. Enter social bookmarking. There are so many social network sites out there. All you have to do is to register and make your own profile. In this way, you can interact with so many others and share the information about your products.
7. Make sure that you keep your web site in good working condition. Moreover, updating it regularly would be much recommended. You do not want your customers to see the same things all over again.

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Write Well For SEO

2010-01-02T01:12:00.000-08:00

Write Well For SEO

Once you've done your research on top paying niches, you've already gotten started on a good foot. It doesn't mean you'll end up with high paying advertisements though, even if you use Google. That's because you still haven't written the copy to make sure that the Google advertising server understands which keywords you are targeting. So, it will serve up whatever it wants, regardless of whether it is high paying or not. You get much better results when you also target keyword phrases that have a high CPC too.
When you write copy for the Google search engine, you want to include the keyword phrases in the title as well as the body of the copy. Certain areas in the content are weighted more than other in the algorithms and the title is one such area.
Another area is headings for chapters. Anything bolded, like a subheading, generally receives more attention. Finally, if you use the keywords across the entire article or blog post, that will increase the probability that you've optimized in a density that doesn't trigger any keyword stuffing alerts on Google's side.
If you are writing blog posts as your website, you want to include the keyword phrases in any tags or categories too that you might be posting for people. Indexing your content with keywords is a great way to make sure they are picked up by the Google search engine. This strategy doesn't just increase your potential monetary payout, but it also increases traffic significantly.
Original content is also important when you are trying to get noticed by the Google search engine. If it sees duplicate content across the web, the Google search engine will penalize such a site that uses duplicate content excessively.

By the way, are you a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, speaker, small business owner or online marketer who is tired of getting paid less than you are worth for your coaching and consulting?
What if you could learn how to package and sell your coaching packages for $4k, $8k, even $12k or $25k and enroll multiple clients per month at those prices?
To begin learning how you can sell your own coaching for between $4k and $25k per client, download my new recording: "How to Sell High Ticket Products Online" here:
High Ticket Selling Secrets
Sean Mize teaches coaches, consultants, and small business owners how to package their knowledge and sell it in high priced coaching, consulting, and online class packages. Sean says "If you have an existing marketable service or skill that you can teach others, I can teach you to package it into a high-priced class or coaching program, guaranteed"

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3 Advanced Ways to Achieve Best SEO

2009-12-28T21:40:00.000-08:00

Every webmaster's dream is to have an enormous traffic to their site. This doesn't only make their site popular but it also make the site earn money through the huge number of visitors accessing the site on a daily basis. Increasing the traffic to your site can be relatively easy especially if you know your way to SEO. Optimizing your content and making your articles rich in keywords are the basic SEO steps. For more advance tips, refer to the information below:
a. Learn from those who lead the rank. These people may be considered your competitors towards the highest rank but while yours is not soaring high enough yet, these "competitors" that you consider may be the same people who can help you boost your rank. Try to study and investigate the things that they are doing on their own site and make a comparison. You will soon realize that there are a lot of things that you do not have on your site that made it not rank on the search engine page results.
b. Evaluate your keyword components. Search engine optimization is primarily dealing with keywords - that is a fact that you should learn to accept. Try to determine if your keywords are making it on the search terms. If they are not, then it is time for you to modify and change the keywords on your site content. Do not think that popular keywords are more likely the ones to generate better ranking. On the contrary having these keywords on your content will make your site suffer more because of the higher competition that these keywords have.
c. Develop content and develop more. One of the main reasons why sites are being visited is because of the contents that they bear. If your site has relevant contents and more relevant contents, then you can expect that people will start flocking on it.

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Basic SEO For Site Monetization Using PPC

2009-12-26T21:38:00.000-08:00

In order to use programs like AdSense and to also increase the chances of being noticed by Google's search engine, you will have to learn a little about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While the term may sound intimidating, luckily understanding SEO is not really all that difficult.
The concept of SEO is to write content that attracts readers of certain interests, by using relevant keywords in your page title, headline, sub-titles and the body of the text content on your page.
That same information also tells Google what kind of ads to serve to your site assuming your readers will have interest in ads that have to do with your content. If you don't use SEO, Google may decide to serve up adds that pay very little because they don't have any really good keywords telling them what higher paying keywords your site is related to. Whereas, if you just spent a few more minutes adding the right keyword phrases to your content/posts, you could generate a much better payout from the higher paying keywords.
There are some people on the Internet who believe that SEO is dead just because Google doesn't pay much attention to meta tags anymore, and the only way to get high search engine results listings is by having a massive number of back links from popular authority sites is simply not true. It can still help to learn a lot about SEO and use it to increase the power to attract traffic and also to increase your bottom line if your choice of ad programs is AdWords or any ad delivery system that runs on the same premise.
In addition, you can use SEO to target your articles and press releases to make them rank higher in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Positions). By adding a few keywords that tell the search engine that you have a specific market niche in mind, it makes it really easy for it to rank your content and serve it to the people looking for just this niche. And, that's the other reason why you will want to know SEO even though you may be using Bidvertiser.com as your choice of advertiser. That knowledge can help you target profitable niches even before you decide to create a web site or write a single post.

By the way, are you a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, speaker, small business owner or online marketer who is tired of getting paid less than you are worth for your coaching and consulting?
What if you could learn how to package and sell your coaching packages for $4k, $8k, even $12k or $25k and enroll multiple clients per month at those prices?
To begin learning how you can sell your own coaching for between $4k and $25k per client, download my new recording: "How to Sell High Ticket Products Online" here:
High Ticket Selling Secrets
Sean Mize teaches coaches, consultants, and small business owners how to package their knowledge and sell it in high priced coaching, consulting, and online class packages. Sean says "If you have an existing marketable service or skill that you can teach others, I can teach you to package it into a high-priced class or coaching program, guaranteed"

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Article Marketing to Generate Backlinks for Search Engine Optimization

2009-12-24T21:38:00.000-08:00

Article marketing is one of my favorite methods of generating traffic to my web site, and one of the ways I do that is through the creation of backlinks to my web site via the article marketing process.
One of the widely popular uses of article marketing is that of creating multiple backlinks which the search engines can use to estimate the popularity of a website. The theory is this: if one website has more webpages from other websites linking in to it than another website, it must have a greater ‘popularity’ than the other websites. And the process of article marketing, when done correctly, can add to the number or websites you have linking to your web site.
Some search engine formulas are purported to use this concept as one of their main ranking criteria, so a popular form of search engine optimization and promotion is that of creating backlinks. Obviously those backlinks can be created through a number of methods, including website submission to web directories, link exchanges, link purchases, and simply asking webmasters to link to one’s website. Article marketing provides a powerful method of creating backlinks to your web site while simultaneously creating exposure for you and your name online.
However, writing articles, including a link to your website, and submitting that website to multiple article directories can create a massive number of backlinks that are relatively inexpensive (only your time if you do all the work yourself) and do not involve swapping links or otherwise personally asking for favors or reciprocity. So article marketing is one of the easiest ways to generate these back links and create credibility.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, 'Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide'
Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion
Do you want to learn how to build a big online subscriber list fast? Click here: Secrets of List Building
Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 9034 articles in print and 14 published ebooks.

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Find a Babysitter from New Zealand

2009-12-23T18:16:00.001-08:00

Babysitters, Special Needs Caregivers, Au Pairs, Home-helpers, Nannies from New Zealand
http://www.babysitme.co.nz/

in reference to:

"Babysitters, Special Needs Caregivers, Au Pairs, Home-helpers, Nannies"
- Babysitter, babysitting, childminding, Child-Minding & Special Needs Carers listing Directory (view on Google Sidewiki)

Analysis of Competing Sites to Create Strategy to Outrank Top Ten Ranked

2009-12-20T21:36:00.000-08:00

Like I said before, it is not always going to be clear cut.
Here are some examples. Perhaps you find that for your keyword, most of the top ten ranked pages have over 500 inbound links. In that case, you know you need more than 500 inbound links, and you probably need to pay special attention to the anchor text on the inbound links of your competitors.
You also know that this is going to take some time to do – perhaps over a year. So you need to choose some other keywords that do not have as much competition.
Here is another example. Perhaps you discover that most of the web sites with which you will be competing have less than 10 inbound links each, except for a few that have over 100. You can be reasonably sure that you can achieve a ranking here with more than 10 inbound links.
Now of course you have to look at the quality of those links. This is where the pagerank checker comes in handy. Although you could go through each of the inbound links and check them individually for pagerank, if you simply have checked the pagerank of the web sites with which you are directly competing, you will get a good feeling for the average pagerank of the web sites that are linking in.
This is not in any way a scientific or definitive assessment of inbound link quality, but it should suffice for your purposes. You see, your purpose is to break into the top ten results, not to quantify the quality of the entire web of inbound links. And my feeling is that if you can approximate that, and work on getting yours to a higher level, you will have done enough.
Now your next step is to devise a plan that will enable your web pages to rank higher in each of the areas I have just discussed.
Perhaps you find that the bulk of the sites with which you are competing for a specific keyword have an average of 50 inbound links, and average pr of 5, and high concentration of the keyword in the anchor text on the inbound links.
What would your strategy be?
Mine, of course, would be to outdo each of those categories.
1) I would set a goal of 100 inbound links showing up in the yahoo search engine (so that I am comparing apples to apples).
2) I would duplicate the anchor text strategy of my competitors
3) I would shoot for a pr of 5+. To do this, I would make sure that my web site included at least 10 linked pages with content on them (at least 300 words per page) and I would attempt to link to web sites with at least a pr of 5.

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Advanced Ways to Create More Money in SEO

2009-12-18T21:35:00.000-08:00

Search engine optimization doesn't have to be a pain not only to your wallet but to your brain as well. Here are excellent advanced ways to create more money in SEO.
1. Learn to commit to the entire process. Speak of SEO and you know that you are in for a long haul. You should be able to understand that it's not going to give you the kind of result you've been expecting overnight. In fact, it will take at least 3 to 6 months before you can actually feel the outcome. Commitment also means always keeping up with the changes that comes along with search engine optimization. This is to ensure that your website will always remain indexed in search engines.
With your commitment, you should also learn to be patient. This means that you shouldn't resort to black hat techniques that will only damage your reputation and possibly your search engine ranking.
2. Be a good student when it comes to SEO. There are a number of people who are taking the DIY route with regards to SEO. If you decide to pursue such, you need to read a lot of materials about the subject. You can download eBooks, read blogs from SEO experts, join groups, or participate in forums. Don't forget to ask questions if there are things that you don't understand. You can always leave a message to the veterans.
3. Make your Web addresses SEO friendly. There are certain rules you have to keep in mind for our URLs. It's advisable that you avoid using a domain name with more than three hyphens. Otherwise, it will be viewed as bogus not just by search engines but by Internet users as well. You can also install a web analytics software so you can keep track if your strategies are working or not.

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8 Steps to Make a Profit with SEO

2009-12-16T21:33:00.000-08:00

Whether you are promoting your own site or someone else’s, you need to pay attention to the techniques in SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Here are 8 steps to help you write better SEO for more profit.
Step 1: Before you do anything else, get into the web directories on Yahoo, Google, and MSN. You don’t need a functioning website--you are simply trying to get your domain name in to the big search engines so you don’t have to wait to get noticed.
Step 2: Learn who your customer really is. You will need to know the language they use so you know what to put into your content and how to write it.
Step 3: Make a good website. SEO involves as much keeping customers as getting them to visit, so don’t assault their eyes with flashing banners and bright colors.
Step 4: Content and Keywords, part 1
Write good, understandable content, and use words your customers will use when they enter search terms in the search engines. Make sure they find you by using a keyword density of about 2%.
Step 5: Content and Keywords, part 2
Be careful of oversaturation of your keywords. Don’t put in any more than about 5%--the search engines will pick up on this and may boot you from the top rankings. SEO is not an exact science, but there were ways to cheat in the past that were nipped in the bud.
Step 6: Give and Get Backlinks
This doesn’t mean trade links to your website with a friend. Search engines also pick up on that and frown on the practice. Get links from appropriate websites that are important, even if you have to trade a free article for it.
Step 7: Check Content
Like cheese, your content has an expiration date, after which it’s just stale old news. Update often.
Step 8: Check Website
In addition to keeping your SEO writing fresh and updated, check all your links and links to your own website--eliminate any that no longer work.

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8 Key Ways to Advance in Search Engine Optimization

2009-12-14T21:32:00.000-08:00

Search Engine Optimization is the very backbone of any website. It directs online visitors to your site when internet users key in the keywords that are relevant to your site.
Here are 8 key ways to advance in search engine optimization:
1. Discover the most relevant keywords for your website. You can make use of various keyword suggestion tools in determining which keywords are related to your business and are most searched by Internet users.
2. Study your competitors. Since you're competing with other websites, you must be able to analyze their SEO strategies and improve them so you can beat them.
3. Optimize your content's title. To make sure that your pages can be indexed in search engines, use different titles as well as meta tags for every page of your website.
4. Optimize your site's meta tags. Meta tags are only for web crawlers, but they're still very essential. You can help search engine spiders identify which keywords you are using for your website.
5. Create a site map. A site map can help search engine spiders navigate all over your web pages so it can index them more quickly. This way, you can get your well-deserved page rank and boost your rankings in search engines faster.
6. Add a text file for your robots. Robots will help alert search engine spiders what pages you want to get indexed as well as when is the right time to check out your site for any new content.
7. Validate your website's code. Doing this will help you determine if you have broken links and prevent having supplemental results in search engines.
8. Follow appropriate keyword density. When writing contents for your site, keep two things in your mind: Search engines and online users. Sprinkle the right amount of keywords to your content so search engines can easily find you and don't overuse the keywords so your content is reader-friendly.

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7 Best Ways to Make More Profit with SEO

2009-12-10T18:35:00.000-08:00

Profitable SEO (search engine optimization) can involve many things, from placement of certain words in an article to writing titles for your content. Here are 7 of the best ways to increase your SEO profits.
1: Registration

This should be your first step for profitable SEO. Even before your site goes live you should get registered with Google, MSN, and Yahoo. This will save you time in getting noticed.
2: Use Keywords

When you write your content, make sure you use good keywords and keyword phrases--this means you will be using the exact terms people will be searching for in the search engines when they look for your business.
3. Use Good Titles

You should use the same keywords in your titles that you do in the text. Keywords should appear close to the beginning of the article as well.
4. Don’t Oversaturate Keywords

Search engines pick up on keyword padding, so only use about 2% to 4% concentration. Heavy keyword use also cuts down on readability; search engines like readable text.
5. Clear Content

If you can’t be understood, chances are you will not get good rankings and will not have profitable SEO. If you have to hire your material written, it will be worth it.
6. PPC Ads

If you use PPC to boost your profitable SEO writing, make sure you use the same principles--clarity, keywords, and keywords in the title.
7: Get Links

Whether you need to offer articles in exchange for backlinks or you can just get them by request, get them--links tell the search engines your site is important.

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6 Quick Steps to Make a Profit with Search Engine Optimization

2009-12-04T18:33:00.000-08:00

Lucrative search engine optimization (or SEO for short) is often simply a matter of understanding exactly what your customers are going to look for on the internet when they are looking for your business. Here are 6 quick steps to help you with your search engine optimization.
Step 1: Get Registered

Even before your website is live you can register with the big search engines--Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Get your domain name in and you won’t have to wait for six months to get noticed once you go live.
Step 2: Plan Keywords

You will want to use keywords in your content and your titles as well. Don’t use too much--2-3% is the maximum saturation of keywords before the search engines start thinking you are padding your keywords.
Step 3: Good Website Design

This helps your clarity. Even though it may not affect your placement in the rankings, it will keep customers on your site. Bad design will create click offs.
Step 4: PPC Advertising

This is an important aspect of any lucrative search engine optimization because you will likely use the same keywords as you do in your website.
Step 5: Get Backlinks

Write articles for free, offer to promote others’ websites in blogs and forum posts, etc., but get those links to your website. Just don’t trade links--this is a no-no for lucrative search engine optimization.
Step 6: Blog and Post

Lucrative search engine optimization also includes what you do when you’re blogging about your business. Use the keywords again and make sure you make sense.

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5 Ways to Search Engine Optimization

2009-12-02T18:32:00.000-08:00

Sometimes getting yourself listed in search engines requires following certain rules set by the moderators of search engines and those considered by webmasters as white hat or ethical.
What are these? Here are 5 great ways to search engine optimization:
1. Focus on your title tag. Title tags are important as they are the ones that come up when a person searches information through the Internet. Make sure that it is short, at most 60 characters, and are made up of between 8 and 10 words.
2. Go for light pages. Though HTML codes are friendlier than other types of website coding, it's still best to use them less. This way, your web pages can be indexed much faster. It doesn't take so long too for your visitors to download them into their PCs. Make sure it's just 100KB or lesser than that.
3. Avoid using Flash. Flash will not only make download time so much longer, but they aren't also indexed by search engines. Therefore, there's practically no use spending so much time to it. Rather, focus on your contents, such as articles and useful images.
4. Use static HTML. Unless it's very much necessary to settle for dynamic websites, when you constantly need to change your data, go for static HTML. It's much cheaper to build, easier to publish, and more convenient to index by search engine spiders. Moreover, it doesn't eat too much bandwidth, so your users can directly download them without much of a hassle.
5. Use PDFs sparingly. Though they do get indexed by search engines, they can hang a PC and are more annoying than HTML-based texts. Thus, use them sparingly. Only those that you think would be worthy to be downloaded and stored in your visitors' hard drives should be converted to PDF files.

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To Be Successful You Must Make Calls Everyday By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-28T02:18:00.000-08:00

To Be Successful You Must Make Calls Everyday
By Trevor Kugler

One of the hardest things for new salespeople to grasp is the fact that calls have to be made everyday, even when it seems as if they don't matter. It's Murphy's Law or something, but when a person is just starting out, it's tough to drum up any real interest in anything. Not to mention interest in whatever product or service you are trying to distribute.
The "pot of gold" at the end of the sales call rainbow only appears if calls are made everyday. A critical mass must be reached, and the only way to reach a critical mass is to make those calls everyday. Those calls can be phone calls or actual interactions in front of prospects; the point is that it must be done everyday. I'm sure you've heard the analogy, but much like a snowball, this is how the critical mass starts.
Does this make it any less frustrating when you are being told NO, over and over again, and not making any money? It sure doesn't, but it also doesn't make it any less true. If you're a salesperson (and who among us isn't) prospects are going to tell you NO a lot. That's just the nature of the game. This is another reason that calls must be made everyday. The more no's you hear, the closer you are to that YES.
This is all simple sales jargon, but again, it's true. The bottom line is that calls must be made every single day if you want to accomplish anything. If you're making calls here and there, you're not going to get anywhere and you'll feel like your spinning your wheels. Focus becomes a key. If staying focused isn't your strongest attribute, I would suggest getting to work on that as well. There are thousands of books and CD's on the subject, so get in there. Just make sure that while you're learning how to stay focused, you also make calls everyday, because that's where the business comes from.
It's helpful to remember what James Cash Penney said, "Salesmanship is limitless. Our very living is selling. We are all salespeople." And never forget to make calls everyday!

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country... Montana!
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We're ALL In The Customer Business

2009-11-22T02:28:00.000-08:00

We're ALL In The Customer Business

Has anyone ever asked you what kind of business you're in? Of course they have and it doesn't matter what your answer is. You could be in the insurance, automobile, restaurant, Internet, investment, network marketing, writing, publishing, etc. The type of business makes very little difference, because we're all in the customer business. If we don't attract and subsequently keep customers there is no business.
Many people think McDonald's is in the hamburger business. Or that Domino's is in the pizza business. How about Gateway being in the computer business? Nope, all of these companies are in the business of attracting and then keeping customers. The product is of little importance without customers.
This is a very important key to remember in any business, because without customers business as we know it would cease to exist. Let's not forget what W. Edwards Deming said, "Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them." So there you go, without customers there is no business.
We would all be better off spending our time focusing on both obtaining and retaining customers, because that's the key to business as we know it. You've no doubt heard the old saying that 'the customer is king'. Keep that saying in mind as you move forward on your quest to attract keep the most important part of your business...the customer. And never forget that whatever business you say your in, in reality your in the customer business.

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Who Wants To Be An Entrepreneur Anyway? By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-20T02:32:00.000-08:00

Who Wants To Be An Entrepreneur Anyway?
By Trevor Kugler

The dictionary described an entrepreneur as: One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. So, after reading the definition, and being one for most of my life, I have to pose the question that this article is titled. As I said, I've been an entrepreneur for my entire life and know from experience that it's not all it's cracked up to be.
I've often wondered why I have this flame burning in me that simply refuses to go out. I used to try to put the fire out by drinking, but that didn't work, so I quit drinking. I have tried getting jobs on various occasions and having a boss is just too much for me. The fire always seems to win and just can't be tamed. I simply like the idea of bringing my product, or someone else's product to the marketplace and getting paid for doing it. That and the idea of not having a boss.
Not having a boss is probably the biggest factor in all of this. Something about that fire burning deep inside of me tells me that having someone tell me what to do and not do is no good. In the past I've gotten jobs and was the model employee, but in the back of my mind, I never liked it. All because I was born with the entrepreneurial fire deep within me that I can't put out.
So I'm left to continue trying, but from time to time I can't help realize that it would sure be easier to just get a job and be done with it. I'll never forget what Ted Turner said about the subject, "My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job." That quote really hits the nail on the head.
So the next time that you think you want to be an entrepreneur and change the world, you may want to think again. Just getting a job would sure be a lot easier. Unfortunately if you've got the same fire burning in you that I've got burning in me, you've got no choice. Your going top have to just get out there and change the world.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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Why Web Traffic Is Everything

2009-11-18T02:35:00.000-08:00

Why Web Traffic Is Everything

Many people, especially when they're just beginning in the website game fail to take into consideration the importance of traffic. I know for me, I had some delusion of grandeur that like the movie Field Of Dreams, "if you build it, they will come". I quickly found out that this wasn't the case. As a matter of fact it was the furthest thing from the truth. The truth is that thousands of websites are being created every single day and put on the World Wide Web. Your website is just one of those thousands and thousands, all stacked on top of each other. Unless you figure out a way to generate traffic to your website, it's literally just sitting there adding no value to anything.
The first thing that comes to peoples mind, at least the first thing that came to my mind when I first started was search engines. Search engines are by far the most popular way for strangers interested in what your website is about to find your website. There's no doubt about that. The problem is that you need to be really careful who you listen to about search engines and getting listed on search engines, because it seems like everyone and their brother is a freakin' expert on the subject. And when you start tiptoeing through this minefield, you quickly find out that they all want your money!
When we first started our webmaster told us that for a mere $50 bucks a month he could have our site 'submitted' to all of the search engines and before long we would rank well for our chosen keywords. This all sounded great to us so we went ahead and did it, only to realize that it didn't freakin' matter art all. Just having your site 'submitted' is only a small piece of a very large puzzle. But did our webmaster explain any of this in order to help us out? Nope. He was only interested in our $50 bucks a month. So I made myself an expert on the subject of search engines and quickly realized that he was more or less stealing our money from us.
My point is that many times webmasters know a lot about creating a website (which ours does), but nothing about actually making that website worth anything to anyone. My main point is that none of this matters without traffic. So how do you go about getting people to your site without an advertising budget worth thousands of dollars? Without giving all of the same tired answers like message boards and banner exchanges the best way to get traffic to your site for free is to begin writing articles about your subject of expertise.
The key here is not to write 1 or 2 articles. You have to write a lot of articles and give them some time to do their work. You see, at the bottom of every article you write, there is a resource box with all of your author information and links to your website. Writing articles is like planting seeds. If you're constantly digging up the seed to see if it's starting to grow, it won't grow. And if you plant just 1 or 2 seeds, what are the chances of those plants growing to be healthy plants? But what if you plant 5000 seeds? Are you following me? The bottom line to all of this is that without traffic, having a website means very little and the best and most inexpensive way to generate that traffic is through the writing of articles.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of http://www.JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!
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Without Traffic Having A Website Means Nothing

2009-11-14T02:38:00.000-08:00

Without Traffic Having A Website Means Nothing

This might sound like a completely obvious statement, but it's a fact that I didn't fully understand when my company started it's website. I think I figured that somehow, just by having a great looking website, interest would follow. Let me clue you in on some of what I've learned.....it doesn't. Traffic doesn't just happen. You have to literally go out and get it. I've also came to the stunning realization that without traffic, you might as well not have a website. The exception to this rule is if you have a strictly informational website with no intention of making any money. In the case of a purely informational website, traffic actually does mean nothing. I'm of course referring to a website that has the intention at turning a profit.
If you have any intention of turning a profit everything begins and ends with traffic. You must have a lot of people visiting your website in order to make any money. There are various ways of bringing traffic to your website and most of them cost money. I'm not telling you this to discourage you, just to make you aware. You must have traffic and getting traffic in most cases costs money.
Being at the top of search engine results would be a great way to get traffic, right? There is no question that being in the top results of search engine phrases will bring traffic. The thing that you need to be aware of is that it isn't easy or cheap to get in the top search results. Not by a long shot. It takes time, money, and work to get your website to the top of search engine results. It's as simple as that.
The important thing to remember is that you have to get traffic to your site. So start educating yourself as to how you're going to get traffic, because it doesn't just magically appear. As I said before, in many cases you have to go out and get it. Just keep in mind that what your grandmother said is true......there are no easy fixes in life. And the subject of traffic is no different than anything else.....there are no easy fixes.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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You Too Can make Money By Writing An E-book!

2009-11-13T02:41:00.000-08:00

You Too Can make Money By Writing An E-book!

How about this claim, Huh? Believe me my friends; writing an e-book isn't the issue. Anyone and their brother can write a freakin' e-book. The issue is how you make money from the e-book once it's written. All of the weasels out there claiming how you can make a ton of money writing e-books leave this little tidbit of information out of the equation, and do you know why? Because they want your money
There are a ton of weasels out there that want to sell you their e-book on how to make money selling e-books, and from what I can tell it's all a vicious circle. A circle filled with outlandish claims and pissed off people. Because nothing that I've ever seen actually enlightens the reader as to how to actually find customers to buy your e-book. They simply make claim after claim, while showing big number after big number until you're so jacked up that you purchase it.
But is this actually any way to make a living? Basically by lying to people. The make claims like how they send their offer to their list and get orders that way. The problem is that when you're starting out, you have no list. Another that I read one time was that you start a blog reviewing the book you've written in order to get sales. If you're a rookie to the Internet this sounds good, the problem is reality. Just because you start a blog, it doesn't mean that people will read it! Just as when you write an e-book, it really doesn't matter if no one BUYS it.
The deal is that you can make money by writing an e-book and selling, but you better have a plan as to how you are going to get people to buy it. The bottom line is that you don't get anything for writing it. You only get something on the back end when someone actually buys it. So just be careful of all the hype out there surrounding e-books and there is a ton of it. Remember, in 97% of the cases, these hype masters are weasels just trying to get your $35 bucks for their e-book!

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IIW AWARDS THE 2009 WOMAN OWNED BUSINESS GRANT

2009-11-11T18:36:00.000-08:00

"Investing In Women has awarded a $500 “stimulus package” to a woman owned business, The Underground Railroad To Success. The URS was started by Tanisha Cunningham to teach independence to foster children. This grant will give the non-profit a chance to market their business.

- Investing In Women has awarded their first grant to a woman owned business in the USA. The recipient of the award is Tanisha Cunningham, founder of The Underground Railroad to Success (www.railroad2success.com). The URS is a non-profit that provides a service to foster children aging out of the system to live independently as adults while becoming an integral part of society. This is great for foster children and also has a positive affect on our society as a whole.

“Aging out” is the term used for children who go into foster care, but are never returned to their families of origin or adopted by others. They stay in the system until they turn 18, or graduate from high school, and for the most part, are left to fend for themselves as best they can.

Tanisha Cunningham started URS in January of 2009. A child of foster care herself, she saw the need for foster kids to have additional support when they were no longer eligible for state run services. Soon after her foster care ended, she began a career in child welfare

“I wanted to stay there because my passion had always been to give back, because I knew the struggles of living in foster care, and the fear of leaving unprepared, not having a place to go or having the skills to obtain a job.”

Investing In Women (www.iiWomen.com) is a free business resource site, grant program and marketing venue for entrepreneurs. The organization plans to offer several micro grants in 2010, including grants that are not awarded based on gender."

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The Simple Truth About Making Money Online By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-11T02:12:00.000-08:00

The Simple Truth About Making Money Online
By Trevor Kugler

In my experience there is a ton of misinformation floating around about making money online. It seems as if everyone has the next big idea about making money online. The problem is that most of these ideas revolve around you giving someone a bunch of money, and them giving you the 'secret'. As a person who makes some money online, let me clue you in. There is no secret. Making money online is just like making money anywhere else.
You see, making money is a process. Much like learning to ride a bike is a process. Did you wake up one day and start riding a bike? Of course not! To begin with you had training wheels. Then you practiced and practiced. Then you tried riding without training wheels and fell down again and again. And then one day, you rode off and you knew how to ride a bike. Riding a bike was a process and making money is exactly the same.
It makes no difference if the money is made online or offline, the bottom line is that you want a business that makes money. For this article though, we're focusing on the truth about making money online. And the truth is (as mentioned earlier) that making money online is just like making money offline. It's just that the process is a little different.
People run into trouble when they start buying into all the hype out there about making money online. If you believe the hype you won't make money, because hype causes you to do things that you normally wouldn't. Then the next thing you know you're out a bunch of money and no better off. All because you bought into a bunch of hype like: Never make another cold call, or we'll do the selling for you, or pick out your favorite 'style' of site, etc. etc. None of this hype will get you any closer to making money online.
The truth is that if you aren't passionate about what you're doing, you have no chance of making money either online or otherwise. If you want to make money online, there is most likely going to be a website involved. You better believe in this website and be passionate about the subject that the site is based on. If your online money making venture revolves around your passion, you've got a good shot of making money online. Just keep in mind that's making money online is a process and won't happen overnight. Just like with learning to ride a bike, you need to keep practicing and getting back up when you fall down. If you do, you'll be making money online sooner rather than later.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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The Top Ten Things No One Told You About Having Your Own Website

2009-11-09T02:15:00.000-08:00

The Top 10 Things No One Told You About Having Your Own Website

Like many things on this earth, having a website sounds great on paper, but what you don't consider are some of the most important aspects of having the site. These are my top ten in no particular order.
1) Having a website means absolutely nothing without traffic. That is without visitors. Without visitors a website is like a piece of paper you jotted a note on and forgot about. What's that piece of paper worth to you?
2) Getting traffic is not an easy thing to do. Don't let anyone tell you that it's easy or quick to get traffic. Unless you're willing to spend a lot of money, getting traffic quickly is not going to happen.
3) Once you start to get a little traffic, expect to get inundated with unwanted emails like you were some porn addict putting your email address into any box that pops up on the screen in the hopes of getting a quick 'peek'.
4) If you pay someone else to do your site, and you need changes it's going to cost you a lot of money. (And by the way, you will want to make changes).
5) Making money on the internet is not easy! It can be simple, but not easy. I've seen a lot of crap out there that makes it seem as if making money on the internet is as easy as brushing your teeth, but this is not the case.
6) To have a decent site, it's going to get changed more than a teenager with a two hundred and fifty dollar gift certificate to the Gap, especially in the beginning.
7) Everyone says that you MUST have a newsletter. But without significant traffic, it doesn't matter, because no one will sign up for it any way. You can of course buy a list of names to email your precious newsletter to, but this will cost you a decent amount of money, just like everything else.
8) Search engine Optimization is not everything everyone makes it out to be. Many times it's made out to be the be all and end all. But you must pay attention to where all the hype is coming from. Normally it's coming from someone trying to sell you SEO services. Just paying someone fifty bucks a month for these services is not going to bring you five hundred dollars worth of business a month.
9) Very few people mention article writing as a means of promoting your website, but it's a good one. And in most cases it's free. That's probably why it's not mentioned a lot, because some dorky tech guy's not going to make a buck off of it. But, no matter what you hear, article writing is a good thing.
10) Just keep at it and trust your instincts. There are many people on the internet trying to squeeze money out of you, especially if it's a subject that your unfamiliar with nso just trust your instincts. They will rarely steer you in the wrong direction.
Those are my top ten things that no one told me about having a website. Hopefully they can help you save some time, money, and heartache.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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The Top Ten Things No One Told You About Having Your Own Website

The Best Kept Secret To Online Success

2009-11-07T02:09:00.000-08:00

The Best Kept Secret To Online Success

If you're reading this article you're obviously interested in online success. And I'm going to give you the best kept secret of online success that no one will tell you about. But before I get to the secret, if you're interested in the quick and easy approach to online success, STOP right now. You're never going to find it. There is nothing quick and easy about online success, so get that idea out of your head right now. Just stop and go spend your money on a fistful of lottery tickets… your chances of making money the quick and easy way will be greatly improved with lottery tickets.
There seems to be a common misconception out there that online success is as simple as building a website putting that website on the world wide web, and bingo your good to go. For the uninitiated, this is a complete fallacy. Simply slapping a decent looking website on the World Wide Web doesn't amount to a hill of beans. That is of course unless you simply want a "billboard" sitting in the midst of infinity.
You see, making money online is exactly like making money in any other endeavor. It just seems (to the average person) like making money online is somehow different than making money anywhere else. This may be due to the fact that anyone and I do mean anyone, can have a live website up and working in a day or so. As I've alluded to though, just getting a website up and running has little or nothing to do with online success.
Online success is a process. That's the secret! Contrary to what many of the so called "experts" say, there is no substitute for hard work when it comes to becoming an online success. Many of the "experts" out there make it seem as if becoming successful online, which more than likely Means making money, is as simple and easy as scratching your head. This simply isn't true. The secret, that none of them want to tell you is that success online is a process.
You, as the person interested in having success online, are going to have to work your butt off. You, or someone that you hire, is literally going to have to go out and get traffic for your website, because if you don't realize it, without traffic, there will be no online success. And getting traffic is a continual process. There, in a nutshell, is the key to online success. Yes, the key to online success that no one will tell you about is the fact that it's a process! Online success isn't something that happens with the snap of your fingers or that happens just because you think it should.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com and founder of yourmoneyconnection.com Trevor has more than 20 years of fishing experience, and raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country....Montana.
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Should You Waste Your Money On SEO By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-05T02:06:00.000-08:00

Should You Waste Your Money On SEO

Do you have a website? And when you got that website looking like you wanted it, and everything seemed to be good to go, what happened? If you're situation is anything like mine, you then discovered, like someone quietly wrapping their hands around your throat and squeezing the life right out of you, that it didn't matter much. You see, once everything was as we wanted it, we then realized that none of it mattered if no one visited our site.
So we asked our webmaster what he thought should be done? His suggestion was a search engine optimization service he was selling for fifty bucks a month. He said that if we did this, our website could be in the top 10 results on various search engines. This sounded wonderful, and we assumed it would bring a ton of visitors. In theory it would, however your website doesn't end up in the top ten results! Actually we were in the top three results for terms that people would never search for, simply because the terms ar5e an unknown entity. Would you search for the term, 'gang hook'? I think not, but we were number 1 on most search engines. I remember our webmaster actually saying to me once, "that's a good term, you're the first result." The thing that I quickly realized about being in the top ten search results is the fact that it doesn't matter if no one searches for that term!
At that point we were eight months intro our little internet venture and becoming more and more frustrated by the minute. I would think to myself, "Screw this, you're not going to be able to make money on the internet. It's a big scam!" And to be honest, I still think that much of the internet is a scam.
Then I discovered things like article writing websites like this one and things began to change. I could actually see results from writing articles on a site such as this and it didn't cost anything but a little time. And there were real results, as apposed to some techie filling my head with utter gibberish!
I suppose the bottom line is that much of the stuff you read and hear on the internet is garbage, especially when you're just starting out. I've found that the internet is exactly like everything else on this marvelous pebble we call earth. About ninety five percent of what you hear is junk and the rest is worthwhile. The internet is just like everything else; you're going to have to invest some time and money to make it work for you. But beware; there are a lot of people trying to take advantage of those of us who don't completely understand all of this 'tech stuff'.

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Should You Waste Your Money On SEO

SEO-What The Weasels Won't Tell You By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-05T02:04:00.000-08:00

SEO-What The Weasels Won't Tell You
By Trevor Kugler

In my experience as a non- techie, there's a ton of misinformation out there about search engine optimization and how it can help your website. The basics fact sound great: Pick out key words and phrases that people will type into search engines and then have your website show up in the top ten results on said search engine. That's sound wonderful, right? Being in the top ten search results for given phrases would be great, the problem is that it's not as simple and easy as paying someone fifty bucks a month to 'submit' your site. Many companies make it seem as if you give them your ten search words or phrases, along with fifty bucks a month or more, and bam your wonderful website will be in the top ten results for those phrases. This is not true.
Unless of course your search phrases are so unique that no one would search for them anyway. For example, if you have a product that’s brand new to the marketplace and the phrase used to describe that product are unique. In that case your phrase will climb rank in the search engines, buy it's because no one searches for it. If you're trying with words and phrases that people search for such as 'book deals' for example, you won't sniff the top ten search results. Not without spending a lot of time and money. No one tells you this though. Our webmaster simply wanted to make the fifty bucks a month, without explaining what we should actually do.
In order to optimize your website for search engines, you need to build it that way. The phrases you decide on need to be incorporated into the site and page titles. These are the types of things that no one explained to me about search engine optimization. I was just told things like, "pick some phrases that you think people will search for and we'll submit those phrases to the search engines." This, of course, accomplished nothing, other that us wasting money.
My point to this entire article is to tell you a few of the things that no one told me, in the hope that you won't have to go through the same experience. There's no easy fix to the search engine optimization puzzle and the bottom line is that it's not simple and easy to get in the top ten search results for phrases that are worth a plugged nickel. It's rather difficult as a matter of fact. I simply think that anyone who wants more traffic should be aware of this little fact. Do your due diligence, and don't ever expect something for nothing. It's simply a fallacy that you can spend fifty bucks a month and end up in the top ten search results. There's a lot more involved in the mine field known as search engine optimization.

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Put It On The Internet You'll Make $1,000,000

2009-11-03T02:03:00.000-08:00

Put It On The Internet - You'll Make $1,000,000

Have you ever been talking to friends when someone mentions their idea for this or that and someone blurts out the wonderful option of putting said product or service on the internet and then just sitting back and making a ton of money. Most everyone has experienced a situation similar to this right? Or at least thought about it? I think there's a huge misconception out there that a person can just put a product or service on the internet and bam... make money.
Well, if you've done any research on this subject (that subject of course being making money on the internet) you realize that this isn't at all the case. It isn't as easy as just putting a product 'out there' and making money. I sure wish it was but unfortunately we live on the planet earth, and it doesn't work that way. Think about it, once your site or product is 'out there' how are people going to find it? I've learned from experience that there's not some internet fairy out there flying around making millions of people aware of whatever it is that you're offering. I used to think this fairy was real, but now I realize that it's not. There's much more too it. Making money on the internet with whatever product or service you want to offer requires work.
The first thing that has to be done is for you to figure out how you are going to drive traffic to your website. There are many ways to drive traffic to your product or website, but very few are free. Most options will cost you money and what does the fact that people want money from you bring? The fact that people can make money off of this type of information brings a can of worms bigger than anyone could imagine. Not only does it bring a BIG can of worms, but the can has fallen over and there are worms everywhere!
It seems like everyone has the answer to driving traffic to your site and they would be more than happy to provide you with that answer for a price. My webmaster charged me fifty bucks a month for "search engine optimization" and all that was happening was my site being submitted to search engines! After six months of everything remaining exactly the same, except for me being three hundred bucks lighter, I told him to stop the madness. I told him there was no point in me paying for something that wasn't helping my website or product. So be careful about all of the SEO stuff out there.
There are many ways of driving traffic to your website and some of them are actually free. Some of them would include: Article submission (a great one), free press releases (this one doesn't seem too effective), a newsletter or e-zine (getting subscribers can lead to the same can of worms spoken of earlier), message boards, and others.
The bottom line is that a person can't just 'put it on the internet and make $1,000,000.' Not without the effort that having anything worthwhile takes. With persistence and faith it can be done, it's just not as simple and easy as many would have you believe.

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Online Business And Customer Service By Trevor Kugler

2009-11-01T01:59:00.000-07:00

Online Business And Customer Service
By Trevor Kugler

Have you ever noticed that with many online businesses customer service seems to be at the bottom of their agenda? It almost seems as if people think they can slap a website on the internet, offer a product or two, and be done with it. Let me ask you a question. If this were true why wouldn't everyone do it? The answer to that question is really quite simple. Because if you don't provide excellent customer service, you won't last long. I believe that online business and customer service should go hand in hand, and I think you should as well.
It perplexes me that most online businesses don’t seem to feel this way. Most online businesses seem to think of customer service as an after thought. This simply shouldn't be the case. Just because the customer isn't physically being spoken with, it doesn't mean that you can't develop a relationship. Taking care of the customer should be every businesses first priority, whether that business is an online business or traditional businesses.
How many of you have emailed a company asking them a question, only to receive a response days later or not at all. I know I emailed and affiliate of mine months ago, and still haven't heard anything from them. Guess what this means? They are no longer an affiliate of mine, and I tell anyone who's interested not to do business with them. My company is a small fish right now, in a very big pond, but to me it makes no difference. The principles are the same. Eventually, the company I'm referring to will fall by the wayside, because they aren't truly interested in the customer.
Don't you think dealing with a company who's interested in taking care of you is a pleasure? If this company treats you well, aren't you likely to tell other people about it? And aren't you likely to use them in the future? Of course you are. It only makes sense. So always keep in mind that your online business and customer service go hand in hand. Care about your customer, no matter how small your business is, and you customer will carte about your business, it's as simple as that.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of http://www.JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!
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Tips For Effective SEO

2009-10-31T01:15:00.000-07:00

Tips For Effective SEO

When Google changed the rules for SEO to make it harder for black hat Internet marketers to game the search engine, many people felt that SEO was dead. However, there is still a place for SEO techniques, not just to attract traffic, but also to monetize your site. The problem comes in when people start following formulas that don't change and adapt with the market.
SEO is time-sensitive.
What may be a brilliant strategy in one time-frame can end up being panned by Google in another. That's what happened with all those people who took such great care to stuff their meta tags with keywords. Now, they're basically ignored. If that was their entire SEO strategy, it would have left them with a rapidly declining page rank and virtual anonymity in the search engine result pages. So, try to follow good, time-tested, rules of practice that can keep your site active and ranking near the top of the search engine pages.
These strategies may sound like common sense, and they are. You should try to keep up with changes as Google changes their algorithm so that you don't end up being affected negatively by a change in their policies. But, using straightforward common sense can also help to keep you doing fine when others are scrambling to implement new strategies to make up for poorly thought out choices earlier. So, let's review some ways to make the SEO in your articles and press releases have a timeless quality to them.
Choose Familiar Words
Don't try to get too fancy or hog all the trendy words coming out for SEO keyword phrases. While they are great for a short time, they'll eventually fall out of favor and so will your traffic. Try to stick to keyword phrases with familiar words in them that also have been checked for low competition, high CPC and search volume. You may not get everything you want from those criteria, but try to get whatever you can.
Choose Words That Follow The Goldilocks Rule
The keywords you want to focus on shouldn't be too narrow or too broad in scope, just like your website niche. That's to help you target the demographic in a way that generates the most traffic that you can from it.
Start Small
If you don't have a whole lot of time to devote to SEO, don't worry about it. What's most important is to get a start on it. You can start with just developing a niche from SEO research or using it to add value to your advertising campaigns. Don't feel like you have to go whole hog and flood every press release with tons of keywords. Don't think you're not doing it right if you don't have time to join a social network or write for article directories. Do what you can and learn as you go.

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Tips For Effective SEO

The Price for Lying

2009-10-30T12:03:00.000-07:00

The Price for Lying: "The Price for Lying
PostDateIcon October 22nd, 2009 | PostAuthorIcon Author: John Berling Hardy

People lie so easily these days. There are overt lies, such as how old we are, how much money we make and where we were last night. Then there are the covert lies — lies of omission. For instance, when an executive tells his wife he will be travelling abroad on business but neglects to add the fact he is also visiting his mistress.

Then there are lies of implication – we know, in saying one thing, there is a whole series of implications our listener is likely to make based on their character and previous experience. Of course these do not count as lies in court of law, but they are no less misleading than the other two categories.

An example that comes to mind was when my friend Chris referred to his friend Lex, saying, “That boy, I worry about him. I do my best but I don’t know…”"
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The Price for Lying

Making Money On The Internet Is No Easy Task

2009-10-29T01:54:00.000-07:00

Making Money On The Internet Is No Easy Task

There are many so called experts on the internet that claim that making money on the internet is every bit as easy as wiping your butt after using the bathroom. And they of course will give the "inside secrets", for a price. In my experience many such offers are a scam, and the information that you receive for your money is full of more fluff than crème filled donut from your local supermarket. In most cases you can get information that's just as good by searching article directories.
Don't let anyone fool you, making money on the internet is exactly like making money in any form of business. Remember the Internet is just a way to do business. Just like the telephone or direct mail are ways of doing business. Contrary to popular belief, making money in any form of business is a process and not at all an easy task.
The task can become easy and fun in time, but it's not going to start out that way. There are many things that you must learn in order to make money on the Internet, or anywhere else for that matter. It's kind of like riding a bike. Did you jump on a bicycle the first time you ever saw one and ride off? No you had to fall down and keep trying in order to learn how to ride a bike. Making money on the internet, or anywhere else, uses the same principle.
The bottom line is that making money on the internet simply isn't a simple and easy task, and anyone that tells you that this is the case has their best interest in mind, not yours. You can make money on the Internet, just realize that it takes time and effort, and it's not going to happen overnight. The best weapon that you have at your disposal is educating yourself. Good luck and remember what Henry David Thoreau said, " Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it." Your internet venture should be done because you love it, not for the money.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country... Montana!
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When It Comes To Selling Something Is Honesty Actually The Best Policy?

2009-10-25T01:49:00.000-07:00

Is Honesty Actually The Best Policy When It Comes To Selling Something?

Is honesty the best policy when it comes to sales? I believe that honesty is in fact the best policy, but unfortunately it seems that most business people don't necessarily agree. Whether it's making statements such as "you will never have to make another cold call" or "Sure, it's got fifty thousand miles, but they're highway miles" the end result is almost always the same. Many businesspeople think these kinds of statements are fine, because they are "technically true". But in reality, these kinds of statements aren't at all honest.
So is honesty the best policy when it comes to selling something, or can the truth be massaged to make your product or service seem better, when in fact the product is sub par? Is honesty the best policy when it comes to selling something? In my opinion, yes, honesty is the best policy when it comes to selling your product or service. In my experience many of the "technically true" statements simply mean that the product or service is less than high quality.
The bottom line is that many businesspeople in the world today just don't seem to think being totally forthright about their product or service will be beneficial to them. Once again, in my experience, this simply isn't the case. Being forthright and honest about your product or service tends to pay much longer term benefits to you as the salesperson.
It's unfortunate that so many people and businesses feel the need to say anything in order to get the sale. In my opinion this approach hurts everyone involved. The bottom line is that some people will like your product and service and some won't, that's it. The weasels (that use statements such as the ones listed above) seem to have a different approach. They live by the motto that everyone is a sale, and although this is technically true, it's just about as true as the "you'll never make another cold call", which of course isn't really true at all. It's just plain dishonest.
So rather than getting caught up in the semantics of this argument, let's simply end the discussion by saying that honesty is the policy when it comes to sales, that is if you're interested in sleeping well at night. I think Plato said it best when he said, "Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty", which of course is the reason that a question such as the one posed in this article even exists. I still say that honesty is in fact the best policy when it comes to selling something, no matter what that something might be.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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Is Honesty Actually The Best Policy When It Comes To Selling Something?

Get A Website Going And You're Good To Go

2009-10-20T01:43:00.000-07:00

Get A Website Going And You're Good To Go and make Money

Have you ever had this thought, or heard someone say such a thing? Because I want to be the first to tell you (if you already didn't have an idea) that it's not quite that simple. No not by a long shot. As a matter of fact, a statement like gat a website going and you're good to go, is tantamount to saying "get yourself a couple of lottery tickets, and you're good to go."
Having a website is exactly like having any other business, although you do tend to run into a lot more nerds in the website world. Imagine That! But it's true, having a website is just like having any other business, and it takes work to make successful. There are no quick fixes, although there are a lot of weasels out there that will try to convince you otherwise.
The bottom line is that it's a complete fallacy that you can simply put a website on the internet and be good to go. If you don't put some work into it all you have is a billboard among about fifty million other billboards. And if you have a billboard among fifty million other billboards, you're chance of being seen are slim to none. So being good to go should be the furthest thing from your mind.
Getting a website going is the easiest part of the process. From that point on, the real work begins. This is a simple fact that you need to be aware of before you make the decision to start a website, because if it's not understood, you'll probably quit before you even have a chance. This is probably the biggest reason websites fail…..they quit before they even have a chance.
So perform your due diligence so that you're aware of what you're getting yourself into and learn some of the simple steps that can tip the odds into your favor. I just don't want you to assume that it's as simple as getting a website going and being good to go. Unfortunately it's just not that simple.

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Get A Website Going And You're Good To Go and make Money

Fishing E-books - Should They Cost More Than Traditional Books?

2009-10-17T01:36:00.000-07:00

Fishing E-books - Should They Cost More Than Traditional Books?

Have you ever noticed that fishing e-books, actually almost all ebooks, cost twice as much as traditional books? Have you ever asked yourself why this is? I'll tell you why, because the weasels who sell most e-books have no problem taking their customers for a ride! It simply makes no sense to sell an e-book for more than a traditional book just because of some sort of "perceived" value. Well, not if you're an honest and forthright business/person that is.
I have seen many fishing ebooks out there being offered for thirty dollars or more, when if you go to any bookstore you can buy any fishing book on the shelf for well under this amount. Oh sure, you get the "perceived value" of five or ten bonus reports, and all kinds of supposed guarantees to make the offer seem better, but it seems to me that something is just "off" about this whole process.
Again, should an ebook cost more than a traditional book? Let's think about this for a moment. With an e-book, you download it onto your computer. If you choose to print it out, you're using your ink and paper. So why should it cost more than a traditional book? In my humble opinion, it shouldn't. The information is no different, all that's different is the hype. I'm sure this is true with all e-books, but I know it's true for fishing e-books.
I've seen many fishing e-books being pimped out there and every one I've seen costs at least twenty dollars, and in some cases upwards of forty dollars! It seems to me that this is a complete rip off and an e-book, which puts all of the "labor" on the buyer of said e-book, shouldn't cost more than ten bucks. In any case, that's my opinion, and I could most certainly be wrong.
If you happen to be in the market for fishing ebooks keep an eye out for affordable alternatives to all the options out there, and be careful. There are a ton of less than scrupulous people and companies out there, which have no problem taking advantage of anyone they can. The bottom line is that an e-book shouldn't cost any more money than a traditional book, no matter how many "free" gifts they include. Keep this in mind the next time you're in the market for a fishing e-book.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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Making Awkward Keywords Sound Natural in Website Content

2009-10-15T01:08:00.000-07:00

Making Awkward Keywords Sound Natural in Website Content

Punctuation and stop words can be used with the keyword phrases you choose to make the copy sound more natural and less search engine oriented. A stop word is a word that is ignored by the Google search engine when it is scanning the copy, so they don't have any effect on the actual keyword phrase, even if they're plopped right smack in the middle.
Google Stop Words
Stop words in Google are words like "and," "the," "for," and "a." There are actually many of these words you can use to help add a little sense to some nonsense sounding keyword phrases that you've found are highly profitable to target. To find a list, just Google; "Google stop words" and you'll get a nice list of them.
Punctuation is also ignored by the Google search engine when scanning the copy for keywords. Even capital letters are ignored. So, if you have a keyword that can end one sentence with a period and start another sentence with a capital, Google will read it as a connected keyword phrase. This type of tip is very useful for the regional keywords that might be something like, "New York Publishing Arts" or something odd. In that case, if you kept repeating this phrase, it wouldn't be hard for a reader to tell that you're trying to feed the search engines the same keyword phrase, and it also sounds very repetitive to the reader.
To keep that from happening, you can use stop words or punctuation. So, the keyword phrase might end up looking something like this in copy:
"The publishing world centers around New York. Publishing arts have grown and matured due to the number of quality writers attracted to this great city."
Or, if you are using stop words:
"Go to New York for publishing arts exposure. You won't regret it!"

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Free Lifetime Traffic

2009-10-13T01:41:00.000-07:00

Free Lifetime Traffic for your Website

I heard it said recently by a less than honest person that you could receive free lifetime traffic if you only signed up for this weasel's service. Free lifetime traffic? What in God's name does this even mean? For a neophyte that's new to the Internet, it might sound great, but as someone who runs an online business and actually provides an honest service to customers, I can tell you unequivocally that the term 'free lifetime traffic' is complete and utter BS!
If you have a website of any kind, you need to be weary of weasels making claims like this. Traffic is the lifeblood of any successful website, but there is no person, company, or banner exchange that's going to give you traffic for free. As a matter of fact the only effective way that I have ever found to get free traffic is by writing articles. While this is in fact free, it does require time and effort. The entire prospect of this weasel claiming 'free lifetime traffic' and then attaching a monetary value to it, is just infuriating to me.
If you want traffic for your website you're going to have to invest in it. Either by investing money through advertising, or investing time and effort through writing articles and such. The bottom line is that you must bring value to the marketplace, and in this case the marketplace is the Internet. There are many ways to do this, just make sure you stay away from weasels claiming things such as 'free lifetime traffic'. Remember; anytime someone claims that you can get something for doing nothing, beware!

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of http://www.JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!
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E-commerce – Learning To Make Money Online

2009-10-12T01:34:00.000-07:00

E-commerce – Learning To Make Money Online

That's what we're interested in, correct? Making money online, and making money online is accomplished through E-commerce. That is, having a website with a product to sell, and with any luck, selling that product via the World Wide Web. E-commerce isn't as simple as having a product that you think will sell, slapping a website up, and selling it.
I used to think this is how it worked. I thought if you had a professional looking website, with products I thought would sell, I would receive orders. Then I realized that nothing could be further from the truth. Why I would have thought that the internet was any different from any other business, I'm not sure, but that's obviously what I thought. It may have something to do with all of the crap floating around about people becoming "overnight successes" on the internet. It seems like everywhere a person turns, there's another story in the media about someone making it big on the internet. In any case I fell into the trap of expecting the impossible. Namely, expecting to have a successful website without much effort.
Then after about six months of spinning my wheels, expecting the impossible, I realized a lot more effort was going to have to be put forth. I realized E-commerce was a process. I had to convince people to buy my products, just as is done in any other business. It wasn't enough just to have a page with a product on it, you have to convince the public that they need it.
While learning to make money online, I also realized that many of the people that you talk to, want to make money off of you, and don't truly have the best interests of your website in mind. For example, for months and months our webmaster was pushing a certain product on us to create newsletters. It seemed like a great product, but we had no one to send a newsletter to. Did he have any suggestions for getting subscribers? No, he just wanted us to buy the product. He wanted us to buy the product, because he got a piece of the action. He didn't care whether or not we actually needed it. This kind of thing seems to happen a lot on the internet. I suppose to be truthful, it happens everywhere, not just the internet.
The biggest thing to remember is that making money online is a process and doesn't happen overnight. If you want to make money online, the best thing you can do is start educating yourself. The more educated you can become about the process, the better. You didn't learn how to do long division all at once, right. You learned through a process and making money online is no different.

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The Truth about E-Books

2009-10-11T01:31:00.000-07:00

E-Books - The Truth

So you've got a great idea for an e-book, huh? That or you've recently purchased an e-book that tells you how to sell e-books, right? This is great, but do you really think it's that easy? You know, just put one of those long, really long, single page websites out into cyberspace explaining everything about how your e-book will change their life, business, or whatever, and the people will buy it. This is the theory, right?
I've even heard it said that that you don't need to know much about a subject, simply do research and write an e-book, and you'll be good to go. This is BS, my friends. All of this garbage comes from people trying to sell you their e-book. Writing the e-book is only a small piece of the puzzle. The weasels want it to seem as if writing the e-book is most of the work. Let me ask you a question, if this were true, why wouldn't everyone write and sell e-books?
What everyone seems to fail to talk about is how you are going to get traffic to this wonderful website promoting your e-book. This is the work my friends, because without traffic, you might as well not have a website! Someone said to me once, "I'm just going to buy a list of names, email them, and a percentage will buy." Again, if it were as simple as buying a list, then emailing that list and making money, why in God's name wouldn't everyone do it?
The truth is that it doesn't work this way. If you truly want to make money with an e-book (or anything else for that matter) you have to work at it. There are no magic formulas out there. The only magic formula is to work at it and bring value to the marketplace. If you're getting into the e-book game just to "make money" you're going to have real problems.
The bottom line is that you're going to have to put whatever your offering in front of potential customers and then convince them that they need your product. The truth is that putting that offer in front of potential customers is the work, and there is nothing that simple or easy about that. Selling e-books (as well as anything else on the internet) takes work my friends, there's simply no way around this 800 pound gorilla that no one wants to talk about.

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E-Books - The Truth

Do You Want To Make Money Online?

2009-10-09T01:30:00.000-07:00

Do You Want To Make Money Online? Then You Must Read This Article

There are many people that want to make money online, and that's wonderful. The problem is that there are a few things that must be considered before you embark on becoming the next internet millionaire. Contrary to popular belief, making money on the internet isn't as easy as say.....winning the lottery. Making money on the internet is just like making money doing anything.....there's work involved. Before you make the decision to attempt to make money online, consider these points.
1) Traffic doesn't just magically come to your website. You have to "go out and get" traffic. Most people don't realize this. They have the Field of Dreams mentality, "if you build it, they will come." Let me clue you in.....they don't just come, in many respects, you have to go get them.
2) Simply being an affiliate for other products isn't going to make you wealthy. For example, many people believe that slapping an Amazon banner on their site will generate orders. Nope, without traffic it doesn't matter who you affiliate with. Being affiliated with good companies is great and something you should probably do, but again it doesn't matter without traffic.
3) Like any endeavor that you undertake with the goal of generating abundance, there's going to be an investment of money involved. To actually make money online, you're going to have to invest money into your online business. It's as simple as that. If you opened a pizza shop, it would require you to invest money. The online arena is no different.
4) You've probably heard a lot about lists. Email lists to be exact. All of the experts say that you must have a big list, and to continually build your list. If you're just starting out, this means that you have to buy email addresses. This costs money. You hear a lot about opt-in lists, which simply means that a person decided to sign up for your newsletter or e-zine. This is absolutely the best kind of list to have, but what the "experts" fail to mention is the fact that it's difficult (at best) to get people to voluntarily sign up for your e-zine or newsletter. Impossible.......absolutely not, just more difficult than most people let on, and you should be aware of that fact.
5) Making money online is exactly like making money in any other business, the method is just a little bit different. Many so called experts make the internet out to be something that it's simply not. Making money online requires work, just as making money anywhere does.
Keep these points in mind as you move forward. All the success in the world is available; I just wanted to clear up a bit of the misinformation floating around out there. If none of these points scare the living daylights out of you and you still want to make money online, good for you! Keep in mind what Jim Rohn says about money as you move forward, "Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing and founder of yourmoneyconnection.com Trevor has more than 15 years of business experience and currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country - Montana.
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Getting Your Site Indexed by Search Engines

2009-10-07T01:04:00.000-07:00

Getting Your Site Indexed by Search Engines

Not to be mistaken for new page indexing that Google now offers 24 hour on demand page indexing for existing sites that have deployed Google Site Search on their sites. However "On Demand Indexing" now offered by Google can be useful if you decide to get serious about your hot trends business and run a Word Press Blog on your own domain. More on that later.
Site indexing is just that. Getting your new web site or blog's domain name (URL), indexed into it's search engine database. There is no hope of attaining any search engine position, low or high, without Google first doing what is called spidering the Internet with "Bots" that go out and search for new sites and new information on existing sites. These bots are generated from the numerous data centers Google has around the world. When they spider for indexing is a closely held secret. It is not on any regular schedule.
I can remember before Google was even in existence and it taking weeks to sometimes months to get a site indexed in what was the hot search engines and directories of the day. Old systems like Netscapes search engine, Web Crawler, Magellan, Excite, and others have been folded into the biggies we know today. A Few like MSN and Yahoo are a couple that have stood the test of time and the onslaught of Google. One relatively new one "Ask.com" (Used to be "Ask Jeeves), is the only newcomer in years to grow and remain a semi major player. So when I hear people complain about it taking a week to get their new site indexed on Google, I have to laugh just a little. They don't know how good they have it.
Getting your site indexed quickly in the search engines is still not an exact science. At least not in the time frames we need to get them indexed in. so we're not going to rely on them being indexed and certainly not getting 1st page search engine results. Be proactive and getting our own traffic is the key.
However I have seen the methods listed below get a brand new blog indexed in less that 24 hours. That is livable in the fast paced world of hot trends marketing. I will occasionally not mess with the following processes if I found a hot trend that is pretty iffy. I won't take time spending time on something that is a long shot. Why do I take iffy long shots? Because I can afford the time or am between other projects when I do. And it's kind of a kick when I do go for a long shot and it pays off.
With that in mind, it is still worth employing a couple of tricks I've learned along the way. These action steps will only take you a few minutes once you have the process down.

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Do You Need Traffic To Your Website? Then Go Get It

2009-10-06T01:28:00.000-07:00

Do You Need Traffic To Your Website? Then Go Get It

If you've had a website for any period of time, you've realized that traffic doesn't magically appear. When I started on the Internet I think this is what I thought. I must of thought that the Internet was like the movie Field Of Dreams, and if you built a website, the traffic would come. I quickly found out that this wasn't at all the case, and actually not even close to the case.
As a matter of fact I found out that you don't magically get any traffic. You have to go out and get traffic. What do I mean by go out and get traffic? You have to write articles, and do book reviews, and go to forums, basically anything where you can get your website "out there" via a resource box. You simply can't expect the traffic to magically appear, because it doesn't.
You also need to optimize your site for the search engines. This should be done while you build it, or you will simply have to redo the stuff that needs done. I'll let you research the SEO process yourself, because once you open that can of worms, you're going to have worms freakin' everywhere! Just don't fall into the trap of thinking you can pay someone 50 bucks a month and be dome with SEO. This is not true.
The bottom line is that if you don't have a big budget to spend on advertising and employee's you need to get creative and go out and get traffic for your website, and if you're reading this article I would have to assume the big budget and team of employee's isn't a viable option. So stop reading this article and start writing some, because writing articles is a good way to drive traffic.

Trevor Kugler - Co-founder of JRWfishing.com
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Then Stop Kidding Yourself Do You Want To Make Money Online?

2009-10-05T01:25:00.000-07:00

Do You Want To Make Money Online? Then Stop Kidding Yourself

So you're interested in making money online. I'm assuming that because you're reading an article with this title. The biggest obstacle to making money online is navigating through all of the crap floating around the making money online toilet. And let me tell you something, there's a lot of crap. My first piece of advice is to stop kidding yourself into the fact that it's simple and easy to make money online.
Before I go any further, let me make it abundantly clear that I have no vested interest in you making money online. I'm not selling any e-book or trying to recruit you into a program. My website has nothing to do with any of those things, it has to do with fishing. I simply want to tell you some of what I've learned with the hopes that it may save you some time and money. I realize how incredibly frustrating figuring this "online" thing out can be, so I just wanted to offer my take.
The first thing, as I eluded to before, is that you need to stop kidding yourself into thinking making money online is simple, easy, or quick. Many people, myself included, fall into the trap of thinking that money can be made hand over fist simply because there's a website involved. This is simply not true. Making money online is exactly like making money anywhere else. Many people who want to sell you a "business opportunity" will lie about this fact and make it seem as if making money online is somehow different. Making money online is in no way different than making money in any other business, and surely not because it has the word 'online' attached to it. But these weasels want to make it seem as if it's different simply to get your money.
If you have the intention of making money online you need to educate yourself about the internet before you begin. These 'weasels' that I'm speaking of prey on people who aren't aware of some of the simplest things. I'm not saying that you have to become a tech dork, just educate yourself a bit as to how the Internet works. Look into things such as: affiliate marketing, driving traffic, SEO (search engine optimization), and article writing. Especially the subject of traffic. You need to have a plan in place as to how you're going to get people to your website. Don't do what I did, and jump in to the swimming pool known as the Internet with no real Internet experience or self education. You might almost drown while trying to get a lot of it figured out.
My last piece of advice is to not think that you can solve this puzzle quickly. As I've said making money online is exactly like making money elsewhere, and making money almost never happens overnight. Again, this is where the 'weasels' do their best to convince you otherwise. They will make it seem as if making money with their "system" is easier than taking a breath! Remember what your Mom told you, if it sounds to good to be true, it IS. If you want to really make money online make sure that your passionate about the subject as well. You see, if your passionate about the subject, you won't care about money, and then the money will follow. It's when we do things simply for the promise of money that we get in trouble.

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How to Optimize Your Website For Better Page Ranking

2009-10-01T09:02:00.000-07:00

As an online entrepreneur, it's very important that you have high page ranking. You would want your website to show up on the top 10 search page results so your target market can easily find you online.
Here's how you can optimize your website:
1. Use keywords on your web content. You will need to sprinkle generous amount of keywords not only on your home page but also on all pages of your website. They must be strategically placed on your content in such a way that you'll be able to help search spiders in analyzing your web content. Use keywords on your headings, on your tags and on your descriptions. However, make sure that you adhere to the appropriate keyword density to avoid being penalized by Google.
2. Build links. Inbound links tell Google and other search engines that your website is informative thus, it's worth linking to. Do an extensive research and find those people who are running a website that compliments your website's theme. Get their contact information and convince them to link with you. I wouldn't lie about it; this can be a time-consuming and overwhelming task but your effort and time will surely worth it.
3. Off page optimization techniques. Aside from emailing webmasters and getting them to link with you, you can also obtain high quality inbound links from other relevant sites through article marketing, blog hopping, and forum posting. Share a slice of your expertise to online users and post your site's URL on your resource box or on your signature. If your audience were impressed with the information you offered, they are most likely to give your site a visit.

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Affiliate Marketing - What's True And What's BS

2009-09-30T00:09:00.000-07:00

As with many things on the internet affiliate marketing has a lot of stigmas attached to it. There are many individuals out there who make affiliate marketing seem as if it's the next big get rich quick scheme. That you can add code top your website or emails and BAM, make a ton of money. This is not true my friends; so don't buy into the hype. Remember the people hyping such things as the "next big thing" all have their own best interest in mind. They are simply trying to get your money by selling you something.
In all honesty affiliate marketing is a wonderful way to make money, it just doesn't happen overnight. Not by any stretch of the imagination. The premise behind affiliate marketing is simple. Companies pay you a percentage of each sale for referring visitors to their site. In other words if someone click on a link for a widget on your site, the link takes the person to your affiliates site. If they then purchase the widget, you get a percentage of that sale. The percentage varies by company and product, but is normally between 5% and 25%.
Affiliate marketing is truly a wonderful system. You never have to touch a product, and you get paid. You don't have to have a warehouse full of product, you don't have to ship anything, you don't have to complete the transaction, and you collect a piece of that transaction. Now, before dollar signs start ringing in your head, that's just how it works. Getting people to convert, that is buy something, is the work. You don't have to do all of the things mentioned earlier, but you do have to help people make the decision to buy.
Not only do you have to help them make the decision to buy, you have to refer a lot of people to your affiliates site in order to get sales. So affiliate marketing is really about getting traffic to your site first and then referring that traffic to your affiliates site. And my friends, getting traffic to your site is not an easy thing to do. That's where the work comes in. You may not have to stock or ship the product, but you do have to get visitors to visit your website and then visit your affiliates website, which is by no means a quick and easy thing to do.
That, in a nutshell, is what affiliate marketing is and how it works. The premise is wonderfully simple and affiliate marketing is a wonderful way to make money. Just don't think of it as a way that you're going to get rich quickly. As with anything of value on this spinning rock we call earth, making money doesn't happen quickly. You must provide value to your customer, or in this case your visitor in order to make money. And remember, just slapping a flashy banner ad on your website isn't going to amount to anything more than having a flashy banner on you website.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country.....Montana!
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Small Business Staffing and Scheduling During a Large Local Event

2009-09-18T19:11:00.001-07:00

One of the most difficult things for a small business to do is to try to meet the demands of a specialty event that is coming to town. You have to have more workers on duty to handle the increased volume, but you never know how many people will come in. Worse, if you over staff you will not make any money and waste a potentially very high profit day(s). Needless to say, you cannot make a mistake, and you need all the extra bonuses that you can get. Meaning you must capitalize on them.

More importantly, when you ask your best employees to work extra-hours, you must make sure they also show up to work with their best attitudes and on their best behavior even if they do not wish to be there. Additionally, under such extreme circumstances, with lines out the door during a large event, it no time to be training new employees; you don't just need bodies, you need a crack team to move the customers through and keep the lines going.
Small Business staffing and scheduling during a large local event can turn a one-day bonanza into an entire week's or one month's profits, but only if you plan ahead. You may indeed, also need to re-arrange how you take orders, for instance; put someone in the front of the counter and allow them to take orders and write them down, to prevent folks from trying stare at a menu, while ordering causing everyone else to wait. Please consider all this so you can make the most out of this bonus of an opportunity.

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Small Business Credit Card - Solution of Your Quick Loan

2009-09-18T19:07:00.000-07:00

We all know that business credit card brings various benefit to the card holders. Do you know that business credit cards are not only addressed to big corporate? Instead they are also often to be offered to small medium business.
There are organizations as well as companies that are not able to manage monthly cash flow and business cycles without it. Such small business credit card usage is usually optimized by finance division to track business monthly expenditures and simplify bookkeeping process. In the purpose of expanding businesses and organizations, having a small business credit card is essential because it can also support business credibility as well as legitimacy.
Reviewing The Advantages Before You Apply
There are many financial sources offer business credit cards with best rates. As many of them have variety of product advantages, business owner must smartly consider which card is best to be optimized to the business. So here they are the points that need to be review.

Card purchases and transfers on the balance
Personalization
Annual fees
Cash rewards on purchases made by additional card holders
Liabilities from fraudulence
Cooperation with other industry or retail
Travel supporting programs
Additional credit cards

Benefits for Small BusinessesGetting support on financial aspect from small business credit card is definite. It is not the only one benefit you can get using business credit card in the operation. It can also build rewards to the business owners. In case there is an emergency case and meanwhile your business has limited budget to release, or maybe you need to serve your client unexpectedly, and you don't bring any money in hand, this card will help you channel the money in advance.
The timeline to pay for the service is also manageable. The benefit can be brought and delivered to you first, and when the time comes usually on the next month, you have enough time to repay for the money you had used before. It gives you flexibility to manage your cash flow as of course the result of income should be seen clearly on the next month before you pay the expenses.
Moreover, the statement of accounts that are printed in details where you engage your business transaction can help business owner to track the business expenses easily. The flexibility you can get from the services is very effective to enhance business operation in the condition of your business is able to optimize the card smartly.

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Competing With the Big Boys

2009-09-18T19:02:00.000-07:00

We all know that there will always be competition. In fact many would argue that a large pool of competing companies is actually a positive sign. After all, if there is more than one company doing the same thing that you do, then it's very likely that your target market has plenty of potential customers. When only few companies service a given market, they either have the market cornered, or it simply isn't large enough to for more than a few to survive in this area.
That being said, in many cases the existence of only a few large companies in a market may serve to scare off any one seriously considering a business in this area. This of course applies to those markets tied to geographical locations or online enterprises. Can a small enterprise truly compete against such monstrosities? In many cases the answer is a resounding no. In some areas however, a small company can actually thrive in the shadow of a large corporation. There are several reasons for this.
The foremost reason for this is the fact that many customers feel disenfranchised with large box stores or large online retailers. If the product they are interested in very specific, then the depth of knowledge a large chain may have may actually be less than one might expect. If you interested in learning the Zulu language for example, you may very likely find greater expertise and greater awareness with smaller stores than you might with a large language company that only produces the top thirty or forty languages.
Another issue is that many large companies, especially online, are often reticent when it comes to provides live operators or even direct phone numbers. Even regular and long term customers can grow quite frustrated to learn they must file an electronic ticket to have their complaint or question answered. Answering phones can certainly a be concern for a small shop, but a live person is often what reassures the person that they their orders will be handled probably and their future inquiries will be addresses by a real person.
Despite their deficiencies, this is not too say that large companies don't have clear advantages.
They have seemingly inexhaustible funds when compared to most endeavors, and their reach in terms of branding can seldom be surpassed. Picking the right niche and understanding your competitors' weakness however can produce a long lasting alternative for many customers and allow you to compete successfully.

Jacob Lumbroso is a world traveler and an enthusiast for foreign languages, history, and foreign cultures. He also is a music fanatic and has a website where he provides information on Used Electric Guitars and Cheap Electric Guitars.

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Let's Complain About the Recession Only If These 4 Are True

2009-09-10T19:05:00.000-07:00

If only I had a dollar for each time I get asked "How's the recession affecting your business?" My answer? "It's not. I've got my own bailout plan."
I feel like I'm almost expected to complain at the sound of the "R" word when it comes up in conversation. But see, I refuse to complain. In fact, I say to business owners, let's complain about the recession only if these 4 things are true for you in your business:
1) You obsess about marketing your biz
And I mean obsess in a good way - an unwavering determination to do consistent marketing. Most of the folks I work with are solo entrepreneurs who sell a service. We do our own marketing. Unfortunately, our marketing tends to be inconsistent. And from my experience that was true long before the "R" thing hit. It may be more accurate to say the recession exposed the flaws or weaknesses in many of our businesses - one of which is inconsistent marketing.
And I don't mean spending more money on marketing necessarily. I mean we get creative and we become determined to discover more no-cost/low-cost marketing options. There are countless no-cost ways you can implement immediately.
As I always say "Marketing is the gas in your business engine." So my question is this... How much are you obsessing about having a multi-pronged approach to consistently marketing your business in this new economy. If you're not, you may not want to complain about recession just yet. You've got some untapped, income-generating marketing actions to take.
2) You have a consistent lead-capture strategy

Running out of leads/prospects? It may not be the economy's fault. Take a look at your web site for starters. Make sure the very first page of your web site invites the visitor to take action - to give you their contact information in exchange for a valuable freebie. This grows your list of prospects every single day and gives you people to follow-up with.
And consider your other forms of marketing and how you make connections. Do you have a way to consistently identify your ideal prospects? And when they show up, do you have an irresistible freebie they would definitely want? If not, then you may not want to complain about the recession just yet. There's an opportunity to plug up the holes in your prospect-attracting and prospect-capture process. The more you grow your list of prospects, the greater your opportunity for increased revenue.
3) You have a tenacious follow-up process
Of course, it's not enough to get leads/prospects. We have to follow up. Take a look at your office desk. Is there a stack of collected business cards, notes to call someone back, and other clues that you have a flawed follow-up process? Here's a true story... right now I'm practically begging another business owner to take my money. I'm the one doing the follow-up phone calls. I truly want what they're selling yet they're a little too busy to sell it to me. Hello?
If you're guilty of not following up with prospects and other contacts... or, if you haven't picked up the phone to connect with some strategic partners lately, then you may not want to complain about the recession just yet. There's a golden opportunity to create a consistent, reliable follow-up process that turns into cash for your business.
4) You commit to massive profit-focused action
As entrepreneurs, we typically are not short on ideas for growing our businesses. We tend to be very creative. But we are often short on action. We get bogged down in the minutia of our businesses.
Might there be a stash of incomplete brilliant ideas that you can turn into money for your business? Is there an opportunity to change how you work each day so that you're truly focused on profit-producing tasks vs. minutia? Then it may not be time to complain about the recession just yet. Wake up tomorrow with a bold and unstoppable determination to bring that idea to reality. Or, take a no-excuses approach to completing that major profit-generating project or task. It may just be the thing that brings in the clients and cash you need.

And now I'd like to offer you the FREE one-hour audio seminar for solo entrepreneurs on "How to Create a Steady Stream of Clients For Your Solo Business" at: http://www.moreclientsaudio.com Allison Babb is an author, speaker and Small Business Coach to solo entrepreneurs at: http://www.GreatSmallBusinessAdvice.com

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5 Keys to Get Started with SEO

2009-08-28T18:31:00.000-07:00

Do you know how to exactly start with your search engine optimization? Oftentimes, webmasters are faced with problems on how to get the most desired spot in search engines: the first place. It is thus very important that you are equipped with the right tips so you can succeed in optimizing your websites.
Here are 5 keys to get started with SEO:
1. Label your images. Search engines, by nature, cannot read images, per se. That's why to have your images indexed; you need to add an Alt tag to them. Doing this will also help Internet users who only have browsers that are text only to get an idea as to what image you have attached in your website.
2. Don't abuse directories. There are different standards uphold by directories, and one of them is to limit your website submission to only once, unless it says you can resubmit after six months just in case you didn't pass their qualifications. Otherwise, you will be viewed as a spammer.
3. Add a .robots text file. It's very essential that search engines can follow all of the links in your pages. That's why you have to include a .robots text file into your web pages. You can also instruct search engine spiders as to what pages you want to get indexed in search engines.
4. Follow the rules. If you like to get indexed in search engines, you have to stick to the rules provided by Google, MSN, and Yahoo, among others. One of these is to never cheat, which means you shouldn't resort to all black hat techniques.
5. Monitor your performance in search engines. There are new tricks being introduced almost every day when it comes to SEO. Hence, you should monitor your rankings and implement the right ones to see if there's any improvement.

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5 Easy Steps to Get Started with SEO

2009-08-22T18:30:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization plays a key role when it comes to promoting your business through website. When your site is considered to be highly optimized, your webpages are then indexed in the database of search engines. When someone searches for information through a keyword that is relevant to yours, you will then appear in search engine results page.
However, the competition for first place has never been this tough, and you need to make sure that you are doing SEO techniques the right way. Here are 5 easy steps to get started with SEO:
1. Use Alt tag. By nature, search engines cannot read images, only texts. Adding an alternative tag will provide texts to your pictures, so even your images can get indexed by search engines. Your website also becomes much friendlier to users who are only into text-only browsers.
2. Submit your site once alone in various directories and search engines. There are some sites that give penalties if you submit your site even twice. They see it as spamming. Submit your site just once, and read when you can possibly expect a confirmation or denial.
3. Sprinkle keywords. You need to use keywords in your articles to make your copies searchable in search engines. However, it doesn't mean you have to abuse such strategy. Make sure that you don't sacrifice the quality of your articles for the sake of keywords.
4. Include keywords in the title tag. Doing this will give hints to robots about the nature of your webpage. It will be also easy for search engines to determine the relevancy of your website to your chosen keywords.
5. Deep link. Don't just submit your homepage's link. For better optimization, submit links of your internal web pages to directories, with their corresponding title, keyword, and description tags.

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5 Easy Steps to Advance in SEO

2009-08-20T18:30:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Optimization is probably one of the oldest traffic generating techniques in the internet. Due to its proven success in pulling up website's ranking on search engines, almost all webmasters are utilizing it. If you would like to advance in SEO, here are some simple, easy steps that you can take to attract more visitors to your site.
1. SEO almost equates to keywords. Use appropriate keywords that represent your products or services then match these with the ones that online users are using when they search for similar products. Your keywords should be easy to remember, short, and very descriptive.
2. Use keywords and keyphrases appropriately on your content. You must be able to follow required keyword density so search engines can easily find you site when online users key in your keywords. However, do it in moderation. Do not saturate your whole copy with keywords, it wouldn't make sense to your readers.
3. Submit your site to leading search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. This can tremendously pull up your rating as online users can easily find you when they use these search engines and use your keywords when they are searching the web.
4. Utilize other SEO techniques that include link building and buying text links. These will make your site appear on other similar websites so online users will know that your site exists.
5. Use Meta tags. Place keyword tags on your website to alert search engines that these keywords are particularly relevant to your site. Arrange your keywords by presenting the most important first to give valuable information to search engines when they present search results to online users.

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4 Ways to SEO

2009-08-18T18:29:00.000-07:00

How do you get yourself listed in search engines? This is one of the most prevailing questions among webmasters. Indeed, there's no simple route. However, if you are familiar with proven and tested SEO techniques, search engine spiders will be crawling on your contents in no time.
Here are 4 ways on how to do SEO:
1. Know your audience. It is important that you have clear idea as to whom you're creating your website for. It will be one of the aspects that will determine almost all components of your website. For example, the kind of keywords that you're going to use depends on them, as different demographics have various means of searching the products or services that they need.
2. Choose your keywords very carefully. There are many criteria that you consider when it comes to choosing your keywords. For instance, you may select keywords based on the features or benefits of your products and services. You may also take note of the competition, what keywords they're using and how they are making use of them. Most of all, your keywords should be based on terms commonly searched by your target customers.
3. Update your content. Make sure that you encourage search engine spiders in coming back to your website by updating your contents. The more they see that your contents are fresh, you will have more chances of climbing into the rankings of search engines. Moreover, it will also invite more traffic going into your website.
4. Maintain relevancy. All aspects of your site should be correlated, from the title to your contents and meta tags. The more relevant they are, the more you are favored by your search engines. You are also less likely of being viewed as spamming or a website scammer, which is an ultimate scare to your customers.

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4 Steps to Make Money With Search Engine Optimization

2009-08-16T18:19:00.000-07:00

It's always best that when you have a website, you aim of getting indexed in search engines, such as in Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You cannot definitely imagine how many Internet users all over the world are visiting them every day. Certainly, when you gain a good spot in them, you can generate the traffic that you've always dreamed of for your website.
So how do you list yourself in search engines? Here are 4 steps to make money with search engine optimization.
1. Vary your anchor links. You may make use of the same anchor text, but make sure that they direct to different pages. Better yet, to be in a safer position, vary your anchor texts and links all together. You don't like to make your articles appear like they are only created to stuff all of your links.
2. Provide your target customers some more. There are many benefits you can get when you give your customers more than what they want. If you can offer them ezines and even free stuff such as ebooks, courses, tutorials, and what-have-yous, they will be more than willing to link to your or share your website with others.
3. Create variations in your title tags. Never dare to underestimate the smartness of search engine spiders. They can definitely detect if you are doing black hat techniques to increase the popularity of your website and get a page rank right away. Thus, to avoid getting penalties from search engines, create different titles in your title tag. For one, it should match the webpage. Second, it's simply the right thing to do.
4. Avoid keyword stuffing in keyword tag. The keyword tag of websites allows you to identify the keywords and phrases that can best describe your website. It makes you more search engine friendly. However, keyword stuffing or spamming is definitely frowned upon.

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4 Keys to Make Money with Search Engine Optimization

2009-08-14T18:19:00.000-07:00

Search engine optimization plays a critical role when it comes to online business. After all, one of the main objectives of a website owner is to get indexed by search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. There are millions of people who surf through them, looking for various kinds of information and shopping for great items.
So how do you make your website friendly to search engines? Here are 4 keys to make money with search engine optimization:
1. Use bold tags. When you change the font style of your keyword to bold, it means you're giving emphasis to it and that it's highly relevant to your articles. However, too much of something is bad. If you abuse this technique, you will then be viewed as spammer. To prevent it, bold the keyword only once.
2. Submit your newsletters to ezine publishers. There are hundreds of ezine publishers that keep archives of their ezines. You can submit yours so that your links will remain active even for several years. This way, you will also have active inbound links to your various web pages.
3. Avoid keyword stuffing. All too often, people are so conscious of keyword densities that they end up stuffing too many keywords in an article. Besides rendering them incomprehensible, they are frowned upon by search engines. You will probably end getting a penalty from them or, worse, banned from search engines, which means your pages won't become searchable.
4. Avoid linking to link farms. Link farms are not friendly to search engines. This is because their links are often not totally relevant to the overall theme of the website. It's better to settle for 50 or less well-established and relevant links. To avoid ending as link farms as well, scatter your links to different web pages, not just to your homepage.

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4 First Steps to SEO

2009-08-12T18:18:00.000-07:00

The enormous number of websites on the World Wide Web has led to the invention of search engines to search the required website. But to get on the first page of search result is a very important milestone for your website. According to an online survey ninety percent of people get their search result on the first page itself. Here are discussed four ways to quick search engine optimization.
First step is to start from the very basic element. That is your website. Make your website search engine optimized by making use of keywords that define your website in the website content. The key word density is also very important. The search results are displayed according to the keyword density. So make judicious use of the key words and key word density.
Second step is to make use of RSS feeds. This will ensure that your website is updated regularly and latest information on your website is carried to the people. This also increases your search engine ranking as search engines are on a look that are regularly updated and have a good keyword density.
Third step is to make use of web directories and search engines. Give your link to the search engine companies and web directories. Also pay for some keywords. This will give you a better standing in the search results.
Fourth step in quick SEO is to take professional help in designing and updating your website according to the formats laid down by the search engines. This will help you get a search engine optimized website and in turn more traffic and more business.

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3 Top Ways to Search Engine Optimization

2009-08-10T18:17:00.000-07:00

The track of the number of websites on the World Wide Web is a Herculean task. And searching for a particular website in this jungle of websites is an even harder task. To make your site stand out you must have your site search engine optimized. Here are three top ways to search engine optimization or SEO.
First way to search engine optimization is to make a good professional website in which the content is updated regularly and the content is search engine optimized. This can be done by giving some consideration to the keyword and keyword density in the word content. The search engine detects the website that is keyword rich and regularly updated.
Second way to get search engine optimized is the use of RSS feed. By the RSS feed you can have your website link to all the major sites and have your updated content sent to the subscribed users immediately. Also this will give your website a dynamic nature which in turn will increase your search engine rating. The use of RSS feed also give your website a professional look that will help you increase your public presence.
Third way to go for search engine optimization is to submit your website link to the search engines and web directories. You can also pay for some keywords that best describe your website. This will help you improving your search engine rating. Here the keyword should be chosen carefully as you need to pay for the keywords. So make a list of keywords and then bid on the keywords according to the applicability list of the keyword.

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3 Steps to Achieve Fast SEO

2009-08-06T18:16:00.000-07:00

When one wants to achieve a faster indexing and a higher ranking with the search engines like Yahoo, Google, or MSN, then a correct and proper usage of the Search Engine Optimization strategy should be employed. Not only will this bring about big traffic on your site, but also more essentially, it can bring about a faster way for your site to be indexed and ranked. So, does one go about achieving a faster search engine optimization? Are there any tricks that one can use? Believe it or not, there are a handful of techniques that you can use.
1. First, you have to determine the purpose or the type of website that you are getting into. Normally, expert sites are the ones that immediately get a faster indexing and better ranking from the search engines rather than a sales site. Nonetheless, if you are targeting a sales site, it is not impossible to be earning an expeditious indexing and a good ranking provided that the site has enough back links on it.
2. Second, the website that you want to be searched by the engine optimally must have a landing page that is going to be seen and visited by the search engine. That page may not necessarily direct to the pointed page but to the least must be leading you to some functional web pages.
3. You can also engage into writing and submitting articles. This will enhance the visibility of your website to both the net users and the search engines. By so doing, you are immersing your site to be potentially recognized on the net, thus making search engines to believe that your site is essentially a searchable web site.

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How to Optimize Your Website For Better Page Ranking

2009-08-02T18:15:00.000-07:00

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Babysitting in New Zealand

2009-02-23T21:31:00.000-08:00

Babysitting how much to charge In New Zealand

How do I know how much to charge to babysit?
Several factors affect the answer to that question. The area in which you reside is a major factor. Pay could be from $15 to $19 per hour if you live in a ritzy area. For those who reside in a middle class neighborhood, $10 to $15 dollars an hour should cover it.

How many children you are babysitting should be considered.
Babysitting on nights like New Years Eve can be most lucrative. Years ago for the year 2000 New Years Eve, I babysat 5 children from 5 families, and was paid and was paid $150 per family.
Are you babysitting for 2 or more families?
Are you babysitting at your home or theirs?
Whose paying to get you home, or does the job involve you staying over and feeding children the next morning?
Your age is also something that has a bearing on how much you charge. Now that I am 18, I get paid more than I did when I was 13.
My best advice is check with your friends to find out what they charge per hour. This will give you a better feel for how much to charge.