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The Quest for the Golden Google PageRank
5 Tips To Use Search Keywords Of Internet Business Ideas In Headline And Among 100 First Words
Blog Marketing Tips - Technorati Explained
How to Get Free Traffic for Your Web Site (Or Blog)
Learn To Do Effective SEO In Less Than 350 Words
How To Make Money With Blogs
How To Get Traffic To Your Blog And Make Money With It
10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates
Seven Steps To Get Anyone Do What You Want

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5 Tips To Use Search Keywords Of Internet Business Ideas In Headline And Among 100 First Words

5 Tips To Use Search Keywords Of Internet Business Ideas In Headline And Among 100 First Words by Juhani Tontti

Despite of the fact that SEO is important for the efficiency of your internet business ideas, the article must always be written to the reader. It is an art to include the search keywords into the copy in the natural way. You can bookmark this page, press Ctrl+D .

1. Do The Search Keywords Research For The Internet Business Ideas With Care The internet is an information highway. People are searching things from search engines by using search keywords. The more specific or niche the search keywords are, the more relevant are the search results. This is important for the internet business ideas web site and makes it look more special.

The search keywords are the tools to find new markets from the internet and the number of good relevant keywords is practically limitless.

An article needs from 2 to 3 relevant search keywords, which can be picked by some the most respected tool online.

2.Do Not Slaughter The Innocent Copy. You sell the business ideas to the web site visitor, not to the search engines. The most important job of the copy is that the reader gets the feeling that this is for me, this is what I searched. So the search keywords must be included naturally and that requires that a writer has picked them before he has started to write.

On the other hand, the search keywords are important, because those are exactly what the reader has used in his search and they make the reader convinced that the copy is exactly from the topic.

3.Target The Long Tail Search Keywords. The long tail keywords are phrases, which are built with from 3 to 4 words. With the long tail search keywords the article of the business ideas can be targeted to the very narrow and relevant target audience, actually to many, because one keyphrase will include several keywords or -phrases.

According to the many researches, the long-tail search keywords will convert better and rank better in the search engines.

4.Add Some Useful Hyperlinks. The role of hyperlinks in the internet business ideas article is not to sell but to offer more information or, for instance, a practical tool related to the topic.

5.Distribute The Articles Widely And Measure The Results. The marketing of internet business ideas is a numbers game and the wider is the distribution, the better are the results. The simple and affordable method is to use ArticleMarketer, which distributes articles to the widest distribution list online.

It is very interesting and useful to measure the number of hits and visitors of each internet business ideas article. This happens by adding a small code from some of the free tracking services on each article.

About the Author
Juhani Tontti, B.Sc., Marketing. Got Interested? You Can Download One SEO eBook For Free And See How I Have Optimized My Web Site About Internet Business Ideas.

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Saturday

Blog Marketing Tips - Technorati Explained

Blog Marketing Tips - Technorati Explained
by Simon Akers.

It's well known that using a blog on your website can dramatically increase your traffic and because its search engine friendly your website will rank higher in the results pages but you may not be aware of a service called Technorati that can take your blog to the next level.

Technorati is a search engine specifically for blogs and it enables visitors to find content quickly and easily by searching for related keywords on their website. There are now over 55 million blogs listed with Technorati and its becoming more and more popular.

Its similar to normal search engines but instead of crawling websites and ranking them using complex algorithms, Technorati allows bloggers to tag their posts with relevant keywords so that the content appears in the results pages when those keywords are searched.

This means that you don't have to wait for Technorati to find and index your blog because each tag will automatically get your post listed for that keyword. Each tag will help Technorati categorise your content and all posts with the same tag are grouped together and ranked with the most recent at the top.

Even if your website is only a few days old, you can still get the content on your blog listed in a matter of days (unlike traditional search engines that can can take months to index new websites). This enables you to immediately get more exposure and attract more people to your blog.

As well as tagging you can also list your entire blog by creating a free account and this will allow other bloggers to add your blog to their list of favourites. If your content is good you will quickly find that other blogs start linking to your blog and this will increase your rankings in their listings.

It only takes a few minutes to create your Technorati account and its very easy to implement on your blog. All you have to do is add simple tags to the end of your posts and your content will be listed very quickly. The best thing about this service is that its totally free and it can dramatically increase your traffic.

The internet is changing and this is all part of social media optimization which is the process of allowing people to organise relevant content themselves, not search engine robots. So if you want to take your blog to the next level you should seriously consider using Technorati.

To see an example of how to use Technorati on your blog just go here.

About the Author
This article was written by Simon Akers who is the editor of the Marketing Oasis newsletter, a free internet marketing ezine packed with tips to help you succeed and increase your profits: Marketing Oasis.

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Friday

How To Make Money With Blogs

How To Make Money With Blogs
by Codrut Turcanu

If you're a newbie with a burning desire of learning more about making money with your blog, pay close attention.

NOTE: believe it or not, making money with your blog is free. Yes, making money with your blog does not require you to buy domain names nor order web hosting to host web sites.

While making money with your blog is not easy, it's free and requires you take into consideration some suggestions and apply a few quick tips.

This article reveals little-known secrets about making money with your blog, secrets that just a few people know.

Want to join the elite of top blog earners?

Here are the nitty-gritty tips on how to make money with blogs.

First of all, you need to visit Blogger and set-up your free account. The steps are easy:

1. You create a blogger account

2. You name your blog

3. You chose a blog template

Secondly, you are going to decide on how you want to monetize your blog. If you don't have your own product (I highly recommend you create one as soon as possible), you should go about picking one, two or three top affiliate products (or services).

These affiliate products or services need to be 100% related to your blog theme (niche audience) if you want to get maximum results from your promotions.

HINT: you get to generate more affiliate sales if the affiliate product you recommend is highly targeted to a specific audience. In fact, the success rate of closing the sale depends on how precise you can target your market.

One of the best affiliate program directories can be found at Associate Programs

Here you get free access to thousands of pages of affiliate programs, useful tips, money-making articles, researched recommendations, and a helpful affiliate forum.

Besides affiliate programs you can also monetize your blog by applying for Google AdSense Program.

You can get full info about this service here:

Google AdSense

The beauty of this program is that you get paid a percentage every time someone clicks on an AdSense ad from your blog.

Making money with affiliate programs require you to actively promote the affiliate product and you only get paid when you generate a real sale, and not just a click.

AdSense is the lazy way to making money with your blog.

After you decide which income stream you want to go after (I suggest you go with both affiliate products and Google AdSense) you need to take into consideration this...

Final tip - regardless your blog theme, if you want to make real money with blogs, you should copycat top blog experts into your field.

You need to spy on your competitors and find out how and why they are successful.

Try to contact them and ask them to share with you some tips about building a successful money-making blog. Most will gladly help you with some quick tips.

You'll never know when that secret tip will make you a top blog earner and well known expert into your field.

It's not that hard to find blog expert or spy on your competition. In fact, here's how you can quickly and easily find blog competitors:

1. go to Google

2. type into the search bar "your niche topic" + "blog"

e.g. "dog training" + "blog" or "acne treatment" + "blog"

I'm sure you get the picture. Once you find some listings go and browse the related Web Sites that fits your blog theme.

Make a list with top 10 blogs that you'd want to model.

3. Contact each owner of those 10 blogs and ask for help.

You don't have to be shy. Ask any question that comes into your mind. Ask your most burning questions. I highly suggest that you do not ask more than 3 quick questions.

Most people don't have time to write long e-mails. You'd want to keep your first e-mail quick and to the point.

In conclusion, if you put these quick blog money-making tips into practice, you too can become a top blog earner. That's the only way to do it. Take action now!

About the Author
Codrut Turcanu is a full-time Top Marketer from Romania. Sign-Up for his 6-part FREE eCourse (A $29.95 VALUE) and discover How To Make Real Money With Blogs

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Wednesday

The Quest for the Golden Google PageRank


Google assign PageRank based on the
way different websites link to each other.

Introduction of Google PageRank.
Google PageRank (PR) is a measure of how important a particular web page is compared to other pages online. Web pages are assigned a PageRank score between 0 and 10. A PR0 site is least important and a PR10 site is most important according to Google’s reckoning. Webmasters strive to get as high a PageRank as possible. A high PageRank means higher standing in the search engines, increased traffic, increased product sales and brand awareness and personal satisfaction on the part of the webmaster. There is also a high degree of kudos attached to having a high PageRank site. Google are very secretive about the process of assigning PageRank values. One of the key factors they do reveal is that the link structure to and from your site is crucially important. PageRank is not determined by how much traffic your site actually gets, but rather the potential it has to attract future traffic through links. There are many, many reviews that claim to give you the secret of getting a high PageRank quickly – I am making no such flamboyant claims. What I present in this article is a consolidation of the key points I have found elsewhere.

The PageRank System.
The PageRank system counts a link from one site to another as a vote for that site. The site that has the most inbound links, having given fewest outbound links in return stands highly in this head-to-head system of voting. Another detail that Google reveals is that sites which are them self important (high PageRank) have more weight when voting (linking to) for a site of lesser importance (low PageRank). Google update the PageRank assigned to every website on three or four occasions a year.

The content of the link origin and destination pages is also important. It is advantageous to attract links from web pages with similar content. A link from a PR2 page about holidays to a PR0 page about holidays has more weighting than a link from a PR2 page about pets. The actual anchor text, the text containing the hyperlink, is also very significant. It is desirable to have specific keywords in the anchor text, which relate directly to the content of the destination page.

Content is king. Google indexes pages using an automatic crawler called the Googlebot. Googlebot explores all web pages on a regular basis and can detect which pages are active (eg. regularly updated) and inactive (eg. dormant or rarely updated). Pages which are actively updated are crawled more frequently than those that aren’t. A site updated daily can certainly expect to be Googlebot crawled once a week. You can check this out for yourself – do a Google search on a particular keyword and compare the cached pages of a frequently updated site and a dormant site – you’ll see the active site has been cached, hence crawled by Googlebot, more recently than the inactive site. The fresher your content, the greater its depth, the more likely it is to be thoroughly explored by the crawlers. Original content is better than copied content – avoid cannibalising Wikipedia to bulk up your pages.

Building PageRank – Getting Links.
I’ve already said that the ultimate aim is to have as many inbound links, preferably from relevant high PageRank sites, and as few outbound links as possible. Links to your site can be either reciprocal, where you link back to a site linking to you, or non-reciprocal, where a site links to you but you don’t link back to it. It goes without saying that non-reciprocal links give you an advantage in the head-to-head voting stakes, but these are inherently difficult to obtain. The internal link structure of your site is also a consideration – a good flow of easily navigable pages is preferable to a disorganised mess.

Reciprocal links are worth chasing, but will only be beneficial if you link exchange with a relevant site of equal or higher PageRank. Obtaining reciprocal links is simply done by firing off a polite email to your target link partner. You will have even more influence over your potential link partner if you compliment their site and explain how relevant it is to your own. Better still if you tell them you and have already linked to them - nine times out of ten, if you say you have already linked to someone, they will feel obliged to return the favour and link back to you.

Non-reciprocal links are harder to come by, but a good place to start is the online directories – specialist directories of high PageRank being the most effective option. Aim for those directories that don’t require a reciprocal link. To avoid spammers most directories will require you to register. I recommend starting a new email account specifically for this purpose – the directories will invariably try and spam you themselves! Entering the same data in the registration forms of many directories can be a very tedious process, but persevere and consider the long term benefit instead of the short term inconvenience.

Forums are a brilliant hunting ground for Googlebot because they have a very high turnover of new content. Capitalise on this by joining a few different forums, posting regularly and appending your link in your signature block. Very shortly you’ll have your link on hundreds of different forum pages, multiplied by the number of forums you’re involved with.

Buying links is also another option but I’d personally avoid it and look for organic, content-based links every time.

PageRank Summary.
PageRank is a measure of how important your website is compared to others. A high PageRank leads to increased traffic, increased product sales and brand awareness. As a webmaster you should try and increase your PageRank by:

Trying to get non-reciprocal links.
Obtaining links from sites with a similar theme.
Obtaining links from sites with an equal or higher PageRank.
Keeping your site original, fresh and regularly updated.


I hope you’ve found this article useful. With a little extra effort link building now it really is possible to achieve a reasonable PageRank in the future.

Mike's Comment: My thanks to Tom for the use of this article. You can read more of Tom on his blogs:
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10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates

10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates
by Ken Hill

1. Create an infopacked mini site. Build your mini site for a specific niche audience and then choose affiliate programs specifically for that niche audience.

2. Test and track your ads and promotions for your affiliate programs.

Tracking and testing your ads will show you exactly which ads, promotions and affiliate programs pay off the most for you and are excellent choices for you to continue to promote.

3. Publish an ezine.

Your ezine will give you a powerful way to promote your affiliate programs to your subscribers.

Choose affiliate programs that relate to the content of your ezine and that make it worth your while to promote them.

4. Promote your affiliate programs by recommending their products.

You could recommend your affiliate programs to your ezine subscribers in your publisher's note or you could create a recommended resources section where you promote your affiliate programs in every issue.

You could also recommend your affiliate programs to your visitors by creating a recommended affiliate programs section where you list your favorite affiliate programs along with descriptions of their products or services.

In addition, you could create a best affiliate programs section that helps you build up your second tier by listing the affiliate programs that have paid off the most for you.

5. Write product reviews where you detail the benefits you like about your affiliate program's product.

Make your product reviews honest and hype f~ree and post them on your site along with your other articles.

6. Write your own ads for your affiliate program.

A good way to create your ads is to look at the ad copy on the site of the business you want to promote and also ads they provide for their affiliates to use, and use their unique selling proposition or USP to write your ads.

Their unique selling proposition is a unique benefit that they promote in their ad copy that their competitors don't stress or offer to their visitors.

It could be that their product saves lots of time, is easy to understand, that their product is a complete answer to a problem, or it could involve their price.

Some businesses develop more than one USP so you'll be able to choose the one that you think works best in getting more targeted visitors to their site.

7. Try out the support of the companies you want to promote by asking questions.

This will help you to find out how long it takes them to respond to emails (if they respond to emails) and how professional they are.

8. Create freebies that promote your affiliate programs.

You could offer your visitors a free email course, an ebook filled with your tips or articles or an ebook that provides your visitors with places to promote their businesses.

When creating freebies for an affiliate program that is 2 tier, increase your profits by letting your affiliates in your second tier use your freebies as a promotional item.

9. Create a directory.

Your directory could be an article, ezine, ebook or affiliate program directory.

List your own resources within your directory to increase your commissions. For example, you could add your own affiliate programs to your affiliate programs directory or your ebooks to your ebook directory.

Add a what's new section to your directory to garner more repeat traffic from your visitors.

You could also provide a tutorial on the subject of your directory, or add things to your directory that your visitors can use on a regular basis to get more repeat traffic.

10. Run ezine ads for your affiliate programs.

You could purchase sponsor, feature, classified or solo ads for your affiliate program.

Choose ezines with subscribers targeted to be interested in the products of the business you want to promote.

Run your ads for multiple issues in a row when possible to maximize the profit you get from your ads.

You can also run free ads in ezines as many ezines offer free advertising on a weekly, monthly or per issue basis to get more new subscriptions.

Running free ads can help you find out which ads work best, and which ezines are most responsive before you purchase ezine advertising.

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How To Get Free Traffic For Your Web Site (Or Blog)

How to Get Free Traffic for Your Web Site
By Kevin Sinclair

Getting traffic to your web site is the most important task for a web master. Though paying for traffic is one option, it might not be a profitable source, especially if the web site does not have a direct source of revenue via sale of products. In such cases getting free traffic to the web plays an important role. There are many different ways in which you can generate free traffic. Some of the methods that you can use are listed below:

1. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories. Almost all article directories provide a form field to include you copyright notice and the resource box. You should use the resource box not just to talk about your self but also to entice readers looking for more information. The resource box for your articles should be used to offer a freebie e-book or a report or even an attention-grabbing headline to attract the readers to click the link and visit your web site.

You can also end the article with a question and link to your web site to find the answer. Since web masters looking for free content on their sites also use the articles you publish in article directories, it creates a viral affect with your site getting traffic from varied sources. You also gain credibility as an expert with articles. Your article displays your knowledge and shows readers how much you know, about a specific topic.

2. Creating and distributing a free report on a specific subject also helps to get free traffic without putting in much effort. You should include a link to your site or link to a squeeze page to capture readers name and email. Having a link to a squeeze page automatically builds your own list of readers who can be contacted later with affiliate programs in the related subject. You should send your paid traffic to download this free report and allow them to redistribute the report. Giving the report for free attracts readers, and by allowing them to distribute freely ensures that your web site gets free traffic, long after the report was distributed.

3. You should regularly post on forums related to your site. This is perhaps the easiest and quickest way to get free traffic. You should use these forums to make useful and interesting posts, and include a signature file that allows readers to click through to your site. If you are not an expert in any niche and are unable to have a discussion around a topic, you can always post questions. Asking for help will get your site noticed and get you some good incoming links.

4. Another option to explore for free traffic is to find link partners and exchange links. This will not only get you direct click-through traffic from other sites, but it will also get you search engine traffic once those sites are indexed and your site is given credit for the inbound links.

5. If you maintain a blog on your site, submitting your blog feed URL to various RSS sites also helps getting exposure to your site very soon. You should consider submitting feeds or sites to blog directories with a high PR to make sure you are getting quality incoming links. You should also not ignore submitting to sites with low PR in the later stages. If these web sites "make it big" you do not want to be left out. You should not submit to millions of web sites or directories using some software. Trying to submit your site to millions of other web sites may just work against your site.

6. You should look at submitting your web site to the social book marking sites like Squidoo, del.icio.us etc. This helps in getting good exposure to your web site.

Whatever the way you choose to get the visitors to your site, you need to be careful to do it naturally and never stop your hard work on your web site. After all patience really pays!!!

Kevin is the publisher and editor of besuccessfulnews.com, a site that provides information and articles on how to succeed in your own home or small business.

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Wednesday

How To Get Traffic To Your Blog And Make Money With It

How To Get Traffic To Your Blog And Make Money With It
By Pawel Reszka


Everyone wants to make money with their own blog today. It usually starts with creating your own blog on Blogger and putting up some Adsense ads.

The real problem is that not everyone knows how to drive traffic to their blog to make it profitable.

I would like to give you some tips and tricks on how you can drive traffic to your blog and get it into search engines

Once you create your blog using Blogger.com you should edit the template you selected for your theme. You will need to add description and keywords meta tags first.

To accomplish that simply click on your template tab in your main Blogger account and add the meta tags right below your title tag.

If you don't know how to generate meta tags please visit: addme

Next, I would suggest you to get an account at feedburner.com to create your feed. Go to feedburner

Optimize your feed at feedburner so it only displays about first 150 characters of each post. I do this to minimize the risk of duplicate content. So each time you make a post only a part of that post will be displayed on your feedburner page.

Next, link to your feedburner page from your blog to make it visible to search engine spiders and get it indexed. This will give you backlinks to each new post you make.

Now you should add some feed subscription buttons on your blog, so people can bookmark it and add it to their feed readers.

I found a great feed subscription button maker at Twister MC

Simply fill out their form and generate the html code to place in your blog template code. I would insert it into your sidebar section of your blog.

Next, add your own blog to your personalized Google home page, My Yahoo, and My MSN. This will get the search engine spiders to revisit.

Create an account at Technorati and add your blog to your favorites.

You will now need a lot of backlinks which can be easily done by writing a few articles and tagging all your blog posts. Write an article that is relevant to your blog niche and submit it to major article directories for distribution. I would suggest using isnare.com

You could also write a press release using prwebdirect.com and use the paid option to get some decent exposure and lots of backlinks.

Make sure your blog is somehow optimized for search engine rankings. Add your main keywords in your blog title and description. If you decide to exchange links with other webmasters make sure to use anchor text in your links.

Now simply keep up with updating your blog frequently and you should start seeing some great results as far as traffic.

The real power of this process is in duplication. If you can duplicate this process many times over you could earn a substantial amount of money every month.

It would require you to hire people to post in your blogs which falls into another topic called outsourcing.

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