Brick and Mortar: Offline Techniques to Drive Traffic to Your Site

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Internet marketing, believe it or not, is not just about the Internet. It is not only about tailoring the contents of your site to fit the requirements of search engines, and neither is it simply making a site that has good text content for your customers to keep reading and coming back to. It is not only about making a site that is easy to navigate, with good graphics and animation, or with good videos, software, wallpaper, and other things that are good for downloading. In fact, in this day and age where people are more conscious about the value of human communication, Internet marketing can be more about offline techniques than online techniques. People may be excited about meeting new people online, but they are thrilled no end with meeting these same people offline. There is nothing like personal interaction to get a real relationship going, so if you are planning to drive traffic to your site, you need to take a look at this dimension of human interaction as well. There are many different offline techniques that you can use to push traffic toward your site. You can create forums on your site, complete with moderators. A forum can allow your customers, potential clients, and website visitors to interact with each other. Such a forum can be a good place for people with the same interests to meet, hook up, help each other, and simply be good friends both online and offline. With the help of moderators, you can help people meet each other and give each other tips. These forums can be a start for offline meetings, which are often referred to, formally, as eye-balls, or EBs. An EB can be officially organized for your forum participants and members, and it can feature your products and services, and some free things that your participants and members might like. These free things can have your URL or your company name on them, which can turn your participants and members into instant advertisers for your company and website. Another offline method would be seminar organizing. You can organize a seminar around a topic that is related to your product, service, website, or company. This seminar can be for your forum participants, or it can be for professionals, or it can even be for government officials. Whatever the case, you need to carry out some viral marketing and get your name out there. If you think that organizing a seminar might be too much work, then you can also sponsor a seminar that is related to your website, products, services, or brand. If you do sponsor such a seminar, be sure to have things to give away, such as brochures, free product samples, or coupons. You can also have advertisements at the seminar site, such as banners, posters, or flyers. Another method is to advertise in print, such as in magazines or newsletters that are related to your website. Although this can be costly, it can be a good investment if you are investing for space in magazines or newsletters that have a wide readership. Just be sure to negotiate prices with the ad agent, and be sure to provide an ad that is attractive and uses its space efficiently. These are only a few offline methods that you can use when you are considering marketing for your website. With more technology, as well as a bigger budget on your part, you can probably have more profits in the long run. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout the Auto Affiliate Program -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Earning Your Popularity Through Social Media: Can It Truly Drive Traffic to Your Website?

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So social media can drive traffic to a website. It's not a big secret. However, not everyone who tries this method succeeds. There are certain techniques that get lost in the excitement of a first appearance in a social media site. And therein lies the problem. With hope, strategy can get pushed in the sidelines. To find out how social media can drive traffic to a website, it's important that the nature of these sites are understood. What are social media and how do they work? Social media, by definition, encompasses a wide range of activities. In general, though, these are forms of communication and promotion that uses means of connection and display using different types of social groups. In the internet, these groups can include message boards, forums, blogs, video, audio, podcasts, images and wikis. Social media can appear as blogs, e-mails, instant messaging, VoIP, vlogs and other sharing functions. They can be used for a variety of functions, such as for reference, image sharing, virtual reality, social networking and file sharing. Some examples of social media sites are Google, MySpace, Digg, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr and Second Life. As you can see, social media varies and while their purposes may seem similar, no two always have the same functions. Google, for example, may be used to look for and view videos but it is still not utilized in the same manner as YouTube. So how do social media drive traffic to a website? There are several ways social media can drive traffic to a website. These include: Exposure A website that makes an appearance in social media is not guaranteed instant popularity but it has the potential to grab attention and drive traffic its way. Let's say a website selling photographic images submits one of its images to a social media site like Flickr. Provided the image is tagged using targeted and relevant keywords and offer enough quality, it can find its own audience there. If the website owner provided a backlink to the website where the image is sourced, viewers will find their way there through the image. Using just a few strategically placed text or button links, a simple image can drive traffic to a website by getting viewed from a social media site. Popularity Social media are known for making superstars of websites and the personalities behind them. Just review the kind of hype people who appeared in videos through YouTube have received. By giving a website a boost and a chance to shine, social media can be used to effectively drive traffic to this site. As more people get to view it, vote for it and recommend it, a website can begin enjoying a surge in popularity. It shouldn?t be long until it starts enjoying a good number of hits. Relevance Another way social media can drive traffic to a website is by allowing it to appear due to relevance. Google, for example, lists websites and web pages depending on their relevance. A simple keyword search may produce numerous entries (some even reaching the millions mark), depending on the subject. Since web pages are displayed according to their importance, all a website owner has to do is to ensure that their page appears on the first page of the results list. A semblance of reliability and respectability Social media can be quite finicky but it can also be exclusive and protective. People will often gang up on a web page or website that doesn?t deliver on its promise. Conversely, they will also tirelessly promote a website that they like, without even getting paid for it. Once a website receives the approval from members of a social media, it would have earned respect. Since the site will be viewed as trustworthy and dependable, it's only a matter of time before this results to a good amount of traffic, majority of whom will be a targeted audience. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.  Checkout the Autopilot Affilate Program --> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Earning Your Popularity Through Social Media: Can It Truly Drive Traffic to Your Website?

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So social media can drive traffic to a website. It's not a big secret. However, not everyone who tries this method succeeds. There are certain techniques that get lost in the excitement of a first appearance in a social media site. And therein lies the problem. With hope, strategy can get pushed in the sidelines. To find out how social media can drive traffic to a website, it's important that the nature of these sites are understood. What are social media and how do they work? Social media, by definition, encompasses a wide range of activities. In general, though, these are forms of communication and promotion that uses means of connection and display using different types of social groups. In the internet, these groups can include message boards, forums, blogs, video, audio, podcasts, images and wikis. Social media can appear as blogs, e-mails, instant messaging, VoIP, vlogs and other sharing functions. They can be used for a variety of functions, such as for reference, image sharing, virtual reality, social networking and file sharing. Some examples of social media sites are Google, MySpace, Digg, Del.icio.us, Wikipedia, YouTube, Flickr and Second Life. As you can see, social media varies and while their purposes may seem similar, no two always have the same functions. Google, for example, may be used to look for and view videos but it is still not utilized in the same manner as YouTube. So how do social media drive traffic to a website? There are several ways social media can drive traffic to a website. These include: Exposure A website that makes an appearance in social media is not guaranteed instant popularity but it has the potential to grab attention and drive traffic its way. Let's say a website selling photographic images submits one of its images to a social media site like Flickr. Provided the image is tagged using targeted and relevant keywords and offer enough quality, it can find its own audience there. If the website owner provided a backlink to the website where the image is sourced, viewers will find their way there through the image. Using just a few strategically placed text or button links, a simple image can drive traffic to a website by getting viewed from a social media site. Popularity Social media are known for making superstars of websites and the personalities behind them. Just review the kind of hype people who appeared in videos through YouTube have received. By giving a website a boost and a chance to shine, social media can be used to effectively drive traffic to this site. As more people get to view it, vote for it and recommend it, a website can begin enjoying a surge in popularity. It shouldn?t be long until it starts enjoying a good number of hits. Relevance Another way social media can drive traffic to a website is by allowing it to appear due to relevance. Google, for example, lists websites and web pages depending on their relevance. A simple keyword search may produce numerous entries (some even reaching the millions mark), depending on the subject. Since web pages are displayed according to their importance, all a website owner has to do is to ensure that their page appears on the first page of the results list. A semblance of reliability and respectability Social media can be quite finicky but it can also be exclusive and protective. People will often gang up on a web page or website that doesn?t deliver on its promise. Conversely, they will also tirelessly promote a website that they like, without even getting paid for it. Once a website receives the approval from members of a social media, it would have earned respect. Since the site will be viewed as trustworthy and dependable, it's only a matter of time before this results to a good amount of traffic, majority of whom will be a targeted audience. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout the Auto Affiliate Program -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/.

Dear Diary Getting Traffic Through Blog Marketing

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In this world of the Web 2.0 paradigm, everyone and anyone who has a computer and an Internet connection can use them to express themselves. There are people who upload videos onto free websites, and thereby become famous because of their antics or their technical prowess. There are people who post their opinions on forums, and thereby become famous as well because of their logic and opinion skills. And there are people who keep online diaries, and who use the blogging phenomenon in order to earn money, be famous online, and show off all their skills, whether technical, visual, or literary. Blogging is a general term for keeping a regular set of chronicles online, all of which can be archived according to date, and classified according to content. This means that essentially, the process of blogging is comprised of managing content. Blogging can be used to keep archives of a person?s artwork. It can be used to keep an online diary which may contain prose entries, essays, opinion pieces, poems, parts of a novel, reviews, or other contents that might be useful or entertaining to blog readers. Not all blogs, however, earn the traffic that they deserve, simply because some blog owners believe that their blogs will be picked up immediately by search engines and will earn them fame even if they do little or no marketing. This misconception has resulted in many good blogs? disappearance. Blogs, because of their content, are prospectively good sources of marketing. You can in fact get traffic into your site because of a blog. This is because people can easily browse through blog entries and look through archives; and because most blog entries are classified under a certain title or topic, your visitors can easily find what they are looking for without having to go through page after page of text. If you are looking for marketing strategies for your site, turn to the two side of blog marketing: you can make your own blog and link other blogs, and you can post opinions on other blogs giving a link to your blog. The key is to make yourself visible, but in doing so, you have to make yourself useful. Nothing turns people off online more than someone who is being visible for the sake of being seen. Have a blog on your site, or software that resembles the content management system reminiscent of a blog. Your blog can contain entries on issues relevant not only to your business, but to your prospective customers. You can also blog about tips that your customers might need in order to use your products and services better, or to have better lives, in general. The more useful your blog is, the more visitors you will have. Don?t forget to post your URL in other blogs that are of the same nature as yours, and do so as you post useful opinions on these blogs. Link these blogs, moreover, in your blog site, especially those that can also be useful to your customers. You may also want to enroll in an affiliate program, in which you can have advertisements on your site that your visitors can click on. Once they click on these advertisements, you get commissions. This is only one way that your blog can make money, and that your site can get visitors. If you are able to utilize the power of the blog to your advantage, then you will be able to be more visible, and useful, online.

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Everything Good Can be Free, Too: Methods to Drive Traffic to a Website

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The act of making a website and the process of maintaining one can be a lot of hard work, and it can cost a lot of money. When a website is first conceived, designers and writers come together, consult with marketing strategists, and plan out a website that is easy to navigate, calming to the eyes, exciting to the senses, and food for the brain. In other words, the best websites have to be a breeze to go through, visually stimulating, and filled with great content. Without these elements, a website will not be profitable, and it might even be considered useless. Even the best laid plans, however, cannot easily drive traffic to a website, and it is this traffic that spells the longevity of a site. People have to keep on visiting a website in order for it to prosper, but even then, visits are not enough. People have to translate their visits into profitable activity, say by clicking on ads and giving the website owners commissions; or by downloading software from the site, or by buying products or services from the website. Moreover, people have to spend a long time on a site, exploring it, reading through its contents, and looking at it from every angle. Traffic, therefore, is not all about website hopping: it is staying at a site and translating visits into money. The main aim, therefore, of website owners, is to not only create a site, but to drive traffic to the website and have as many visitors as possible. Thankfully, there are free techniques that can allow traffic to move past other websites and into the website of interest. All these techniques need is a bit of web savvy and a lot of people skills. The Paradigm of Web 2.0 is all about social networks, and this entails the fact that people now interact with each other more ? and not just through email. There are social networks online where you can make new friends and stay in touch with old ones. There are forums and groups where you can post your opinions for all to see. Now imagine, if you could use these networks and post your URL for people to see, then how many visits might you get? All you need to do is to join these networks, which are most often free, and join a forum or group that contains members of your target market. There are also free video posting sites online. Sites such as YouTube will allow you to post your videos for free, so if you have an advertisement that might be exciting and entertaining to web users, add it in video format to your free YouTube account. If you like, you can even make videos about tips and tricks that are related to your products and services, and then put your URL up for your video viewers to see. Another free way to direct money to your site is to make your URL as visible as possible, say through email or ezines, also known as electronic magazines. When sending out emails, attach your URL; better yet, pick a select group of your target market to send an email campaign to. Offer incentives for bringing in more customers. This may not sound like it?s free, but any incentive is also a great investment for your company?s longevity in the long run. These are only a few free ways by which you can redirect traffic to go to your website. The key is to know your market well, and to meet its constantly changing needs and desires. If you are able to tap into your market, and if you are able to identify immediately who your target market is and what its needs are, you will be able to earn more from your online endeavors. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout the Auto Affilate Program -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro

Corporate Internet Marketing Strategy-Internet Marketing Not As New As Some Believe

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There is a lot of attention being paid to the world of internet marketing, but it isn't as new as some media outlets would like us to believe. Having a corporate internet marketing strategy is more important than ever, and not having one could be costing your business a lot of money. It's easy to get confused with all of the information floating around on the topic, but let's try to clear some of it up so you can take advantage of all the internet has to offer you and your business. "Why are you in business?" "To make money!" That's all there is to it, right. After all, you wouldn't be in business if you weren't planning on making money. While that would be one of the reasons you are business, it's not actually what will make you money. Your customers don't care about your desire to make money; if they did, they would just give you money without you giving them anything in return. That simply doesn't happen in the real world. Your corporate internet marketing strategy has to be based on what your customers want, not what you want. To be more specific, your strategy needs to highlight the benefits to your customer (what they want) so you can generate higher profits (what you want). Before you can give them what they want, you need to know who your ideal customers are and what it is that they really want. The cool thing is that the internet is an ideal way to get your marketing message out there, and it can be done for a relatively low investment when compared to traditional advertising. Of course you should also include traditional media in your marketing campaigns, but be sure they complement your online marketing and vice-versa. Internet marketing covers everything you do online that could be even remotely associated with your business. A comment on a message board, a blog post, an update to your personal Facebook page, anything, anywhere will all add to the public perception of you and your business. That doesn't mean you should be afraid to have an online presence, but it does mean that you should carefully consider everything you say and do online. There may have been a time when a business, any business, could gain a foothold in the market by simply having a website, but those days are long gone. However, if you don't have a website and a full corporate internet marketing strategy then you are losing ground to your competition. Speaking of competition, it has changed, too. It used to be that you knew who your competition was and that they were of the same relative size as your business. Today, your competition could be a single person with little more than an internet connection. It's debatable whether there was ever time when you didn't need an online strategy, but there is no doubt that you now need a corporate internet marketing strategy if you wish to have a successful business. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Check out Auto Affiliate program ->  http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro

8 Tips on How to Use Free Ebooks to Drive Enormous Traffic to Your Website

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Creating your own ebook is not an easy task but consider creating one for free nonetheless. It may seem like an act of insane generosity at first glance but there?s a method to this madness. With the right techniques, one free ebook can help drive enormous traffic to your site. Tip #1 Be sure you are using the right keywords for your website. The keywords ?free ebooks? are among the most powerful generators of website traffic. People love to get things for free and if they find out you?re offering a free ebook in your website, they?ll definitely come and visit. Once they get there, it?s up to you to make the most out of their visit. Tip #2 Set conditions for people to comply with before you let them download your free ebook. It doesn?t mean you?re making it harder for them, but rather, you?re just maximizing on the opportunity provided by your free ebook. You may, for instance, require them to provide you with your email address before they can download the ebook. You must of course be honest with what you?d do about it. Be clear that you will only use their email address to contact them about updates on your website and that you won?t share their information with other parties. Tip #3 Establish short-term agreements with other ebook authors. You can write a review for them on your website, with the said review containing a link to their website and vice versa. It?s all about give and take! Tip #4 Promote your ebook in all possible places. You can talk about it in forums you frequently visit and participate in, blogs you commonly visit, other websites you can submit entries to, and anywhere else that gives you adequate space to talk about your free ebook. Tip #5 Change the signature in your email to one that will invite readers to visit your website so they can avail of your free-ebook offer. Because you?re offering something for free, people are more likely to respond to it than any other invitation that does not mention those two magical words: free ebook. Secondly, using it as your signature will eliminate the possibility that you?ll forget to include the invitation in your email. It will always be there because the signature is part of your email template! Do the same with any other systems that require use of signatures. Tip #6 One part of your ebook should contain an interesting anecdote as well as a link to your website. This must also contain essential information about the main topic of your ebook. Use this as an excerpt. People who read it will not only have a taste of your free ebook but also get to see the link to your website. Tip #7 Insert the URL of your website in all possible places of your ebook. This should be done without destroying the coherence and flow of your writing. You want readers to remember that you have a site they can visit to without making it so obvious! Tip #8 Create podcast discussions about your free ebook offer and of course don?t forget to mention your website link. Create the video version and upload it in You Tube. Follow all eight tips and you?re sure to find the traffic to your website soaring high! John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout the auto affiliates profit program - > http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro

Four (4) Great Ways to Drive Ebay Traffic to Your Site

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Who needs traffic? Everybody does. Traffic is the single most common concern among website owners and internet marketers, regardless of their reason for being on the internet. But did you know that you can actually use internet giant eBay to send traffic to your site? Yes, even eBay, which enjoys millions of traffic each day, can throw a good percentage of its visitors your way. Here are ways you, too, can optimize your presence on eBay. Give away something for free. If you're wondering why in the world would you give away something for free when you're trying to run a business, read on. In the world of commerce, nothing is actually for free. They just seem that way. Giving away something for free now will mean a lot of returns later. And we're not talking karma. Use a free report or e-book and give away free advice. Include links to your website in the document. If you want to cash in a little bit, offer to auction your work for just 1 cent. These acts will do a good job at exposing your site (and business) to prospective customers, who will appreciate your taking the time to give them something for free (or at least really cheap). You get something for giving away something. Don?t be shy about your 'About Me' page. The 'About Me' page exists for a reason and that is to give a face and an identity to people who use eBay. If you're an eBay seller, take advantage of this free method to promote yourself and your website. In fact, you can even link your About Me page to your website. Don?t worry about violating any eBay rules because they allow this. Your visitors and customers not only get to know you, they also find out about other great offerings you have on your site. Use eBay auctions for advertising your website. EBay is every advertiser's paradise. You have the platform and you have the audience. All you have to do is tell them who you are and what you can offer. Each time you participate in an eBay auction, you'll have to put up your ad. When you do, always mention your site's name. If your site's address is: http://www.mywebsitebusiness.com, simply write a sentence informing your visitors that they can view more information about the auctioned product and other similar items on MyWebsiteBusiness.com. You don?t have to mention the full address in your eBay ad. This short piece of information about what your visitors can find will help whet their appetites and show them you offer more. Don?t break the communication link. Each time you do business with a customer, always follow-up with a short, personalized e-mail. This is a good way to let your customers and site visitors know that you appreciate their business and presence. To make sure they don?t forget about your site, always include a link to your website in your signature. You might also want to mention your site and some of your other products or features that your recipient may be interested in. Driving traffic to your site from eBay EBay is a massive opportunity for millions of online entrepreneurs. In fact, it has launched many of today's home-based businesses and online ventures. Find out more about the ways you can monetize your eBay presence through 'EBay Traffic' from the Barking Videos series. The specific steps toward making your eBay venture a success are presented in this video. You'll also find plenty of trade secrets from experienced eBay entrepreneurs here, along with tips on how to drive strong traffic to your website and grow your business. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Check out Auto Affiliate -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Wp and Guide to Working Securely

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Wordpress Marketing Security Tips Against Cyber Intruders It is true Wordpress marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools available on the internet today, but it can be abused. What is even better, is against popular belief, Wordpress can be used for more than just blogging. You can even create your own website through Wordpress. When you are using your Wordpress Marketing software, however, there are a few security measures that you should be aware of or you can risk being deleted from the Google search engine. 1. Plugins: You need to be sure that you check all plugins before you add them to your site. A lot of the third party plugins sometimes are created by untrustworthy people. They create them in an effort to steal your blog or site. Some of these plugins have also already been banned from Goggle, for your protection and if Google sees that you are using them they will delete your site from their search engine as well. 2. Recent Version: Make sure that you are using a recent version of Wordpress. This is due to the fact that every software has bugs or errors that are corrected each time a new version is released. When you use the latest version of Wordpress you are avoiding these issues. You need to understand though that even the most recent versions can have errors; so you need to be careful. A good practice to get into is before you download the most recent version do some research. Look for possible problems that others have encountered. If there seems to be a lot of problems do not download it till they have the issues resolved. 3. Admin Account: All hackers know that Wordpress has a user admin feature. This feature will allow you to do just about any administrative job available on the Wordpress software. Slow these would be hackers down by removing your admin feature. Instead create a Wordpress admin privileges by using the administration feature. After you have done this then you will need to log out of Wordpress and log back in. Then you should delete the admin user. The new admin user should be different from your original one. 4. Password Protect: You need to be sure that you password protect your Wordpress software the minute you install it. This will give you an extra layer of protection against would be hackers. Please note though if you have a weak password the hackers can still break through so come up with one that contains a combination of both numbers and letters. The harder you make the password, the less chance the hacker has of gaining access to your Wordpress site. 5. Rename Your Database Tables: Hackers who attack your site will need access to the database table names. The Wordpress Marketing software allows you to change your table names in order to prevent these would be hackers from attacking your tables. These are just a few of the security measures, which you can use to prevent your Wordpress from getting banned from Google; when you are hacked. There are many others available and you can find them by typing in security for Wordpress into any search engine. Practicing these steps now can save you a lot of trouble and money later. Wordpress Plugin How To Guide And You A wordpress plugin how to guide can easily be found on the internet. For those who don?t know, Wordpress is a powerful open source tool or application that allows for easy and heavily customizable blogging. Essentially, it offers a blogger a series of templates or pre-set layouts that they can use in their blog. Each and every template can be changed or manipulated to serve both the user?s needs and tastes and is easily understood with some work. Some settings don?t even require knowledge of HTML, making it the ideal tool for the beginner. Now, the way Wordpress is designed also allows people to create plug-ins or add-ons that can greatly improve the interface or give you even more control over how your blog looks and performs. These plug-ins can make an already heavily customizable blog into a dream, where-in you can shape it into just about anything you want. Need some simple "wordpress plugin how to" help? In order to use a plugin, you simply have to download, unzip and upload it to your server under the public_html/yourblogdirectory/wp-content/plugins directory. Then you log into your blog and activate the plugin from there. There are a number of fantastic Wordpress plug-ins out there that can give your blog the extra edge that it needs to be one of the best. Once you learn the wordpress plugin how to basics you can begin taking advantage of them. The post-by-post comment system is one of the most important systems available. It allows the blogger to create banter with their viewers and between the viewers themselves. Some plug-ins look into both monitoring, controlling and easing the commenting. A plug-in, Comment Relish, is a plug-in that actually sends an email to first time commenters who give their email. Another Wordpress plug-in offers bragging rights and proof and loyalty by putting in a system that is on forums into the comments page, showing the number of posts beside their name. There are also a number of Wordpress plug-ins designed to combat the growing number of spammers present on the internet. Bad behavior and Defensio are only two of the many plug-ins that make sure that you bandwidth isn?t wasted by a spammer looking to cause some trouble or spread a virus. Still other add-ons look into making navigation easier for viewers. Having an easily navigated blog can draw in visitors looking to catch up on all the entries or those who are simply looking for one of their favorites. Random Redirect is one that actually allows viewers to randomly view one of your many entries, while Popularity Contest is an add-on that can actually show people which of your entries is the most popular for a variety of reasons. No matter what add-ons you have, at the end of the day it?s the quality of your writing or topics that will really get your readership hooked. You need to know your stuff and you need to be able to write to run a successful blog ? making it easy on the eyes and offering neat options for your readers is icing on the cake that is your writing. Hopefully, this wordpress plugin how to guide has helped you realize just how far you can go with a simple, personal blog. How to Install Your WordPress Theme Installing a WordPress theme is easy to do and can be done many times through the life of your blog. It is also fun to do and can be addicting. The best part about it is that many of the themes you can use are free so you can change the look of your site as often as you want to try and find that perfect look for your blog. There are many places that you can go to download a theme for free. You can look for them usually in a few different formats. There are three major types of themes available to you to get your free blog looking like a professionally designed website or weblog. They can be found in basic themes, advanced themes, and widget-friendly themes. Basic themes are the standard types of themes. They are the easiest to use and great for those new to web design. The templates are all very attractive and although you might be a bit limited as to what you can do. You will still find it easy to get it looking as sharp as you want. Advanced themes are a bit more difficult to figure out for the new person but it is a great second step in learning about how to use website templates. Website design is made easy when you learn more about this type of theme. You have more options but it can be a bit complicated to figure them out. The widget-friendly themes are ones that enable you to make use of the various WordPress widgets made available to you that can help your new knowledge of website design be taken to a new level. WordPress widgets are things that you can put into your weblogs sidebar to make your website more interactive for those visiting your blog. The great thing about them is that you don't really have to know much of anything about how they work. All you do is plug the thing in to your free blog and let it go. You will be surprised to find out how much more attractive your page can be once you learn how to install this into your WordPress theme. After you have gone to one of the free WordPress theme sites and selected the one you want just follow the instructions on the page to download it. Once it is downloaded to your computer you can extract the theme and then upload the directory and all the other files to your wp-content/themes folder. Once you have uploaded it you can hit the presentations button to see a preview. On that preview, after you have seen that it looks just like you hoped it would, hit the image to activate. Play around with the admin area. Once you have done this you will find more easy ways to customize your very own website and will learn how to build more complicated websites. It may seem difficult to build a web presence for yourself but once you learn how to install your WordPress theme you will find it a much easier endeavor. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout affliate program on autopilot -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro.hop/

Tools That You Can Use To Make Your Twitter Page More Interactive And Successful

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Whether you want to generate more traffic to your site or you want to increase your social relationships, Twitting is a fun and exciting activity that you can quickly master and use to achieve your goals. We already know that Twitter keeps people connected at all times. Some people send tweets regularly (every day) and others only a few times a week. Since you are planning on using Twitter to build your IM business the latter is the best option for you. That leads us to our first tool, Future Tweets. This works great if you aren?t able to send important tweets because you have other commitments. It only takes a few minutes to set up and you can use to automatically post your prepared tweets. It is very important that you don?t use this tool to auto spam your account with worthless information and constant offers. That will only lose you followers. Here is an example of proper ways to use this tool would be to remind your followers of upcoming seminars or meetings, maybe even let them know about products and offers to help build a buzz. You can find out more about Future Tweets here: http://futuretweets.com Sharing pictures and product images is also possible with Twitter by using the tool Twitpic. When you make new contacts there may come a time when you want to share some of your pictures with them so that they can get to know you and your business better. Once you?ve created your Twitpic account you can upload your pictures and quickly post them on Twitter. Another great thing about this tool is that it is also compatible with mobile devices which make it easier to share pictures from your mobile device. You can find out more about Twitpic here: http://twitpic.com If you are using Wordpress for your blog, there are quite a few tools that you can use to automate your Twitter activities from inside your dashboard including: TweetThis plug-in - It will encourage your visitors to tweet your blog post. TweetThis also adds a Twitter link in every blog post you create plus gives you the ability to shorten your blog post URL to fit the 140-character limit. TweetMeme button - Helps other people to easily retweet your post on Twitter and it also shows a count of how many times your blog post has been retweeted. Twitter Tools - This plug-in integrates your blog with Twitter by pulling all your tweets into the side bar of your blog. You can also use it to post new tweets from inside your WordPress blog. You can find these and a whole slew of other tools specifically for wordpress by doing a search for " Twitter Wordpress plug-in" Now let's talk about Twollo. It is another Twitter tool that you can use to find people you want to follow. Just type in the subject or topic that interests you and the tool will find people who are talking about the same thing and automatically follows them for you. And the list goes on. I could literally list hundreds of tools that work with Twitter for you, but then we would be stuck on this lesson for days, so instead I am going to suggest that you do a little home work after you are done reading this lesson. All you have to do is open up your favorite search engine and do a search for "Twitter tools, plug ins and add-ons" you will find more that enough to meet your needs. You can narrow your search even more if you are looking for something more specific. For instance I did a search for "Twitter tools business" while I was writing this lesson and came across some that I didn't know about. Before we close this lesson I do want to tell you about one more tool that you can use to find out who you are following that isn't following you back. It's Tweepler and all you have to do is type in your Twitter username and password and it will give you detailed list of who is following you and who you are following. It also has a very nice point and click interface, so that you can quickly sort through your peeps. It does take it a few minutes to populate the list but it is well worth the wait. You can find it here: http://tweepler.com So, go do your homework and find some Twitter Tools that will work in your niche and start using them to make new contacts, automate your posts and promote your site even better with Twitter! John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Check out Auto Affiliate program ===> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/AutoAffPRO . Check out Google Sniper w/ a nice bonus offer --> Check out Google Sniper 3.0 -> http://www.InstantComputerBiz.com/?rd=jm5SZ09d.

Generate Competitive Affiliate Marketing Campaigns With These Suggestions

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The business of affiliate marketing doesn't only deal with one type of marketing. You will not always be earning a single commission from a single sell. Pay attention to this article and learn some of the finer points of becoming an affiliate, so that you can better succeed in this highly competitive marketplace. If you plan to have reviews of several products at your site then consider putting them all on one page. Why? Well, quite obviously, it gives all of your visitors a chance to see your other offerings should he not be interested in the one you directed him to. When writing copy for affiliate marketing advertising, make it easy for your reader to draw out the information they want. Avoid complicated terms or technical jargon, keep your paragraphs short, and use bullet points whenever possible. Readers are more likely to scan your review quickly and make a decision than they are to read through a lengthy article. If you are experiencing great success with the affiliate marketing programs you have joined, be sure to contact your partner vendors and inquire about leveraging your rewards. Your partners appreciate the business you bring them, and once you have proven your capabilities you are entitled to ask them about earning greater profits. Creating eBooks or viral reports is a great way to build up a strong base as an affiliate marketer. The more information you're willing to offer on any product or service, the more legitimate you will appear in the eyes of a potential customer. As long as you're willing to invest the time here, you can get great results. To increase the success of your affiliate marketing, hold out for a product with a generous commission, somewhere between 20 to 50 percent of the profit after sale. Companies who offer such commissions understand the importance of the new customers that you will refer to them, and will pay you accordingly. Be a specialist. Find something you love and create your website or blog around it. You are not the only person interested in such a thing. Link up to relevant affiliates, from sites you would like to buy from. Doing this will ensure that your customers match your base, and will increase your sales. When choosing a topic for your affiliate marketing-driven website, pick something that appeals to the broadest audience. For example, everyone asks "how do I" or "how can I" all the time, so a website offering articles with advice on completing a variety of projects will reach the broadest audience. You can also specify that it's home repairs, upgrades or organic recipes for food and cleaning supplies, to catch an audience more specific to the affiliate marketing links you may be using. You will need to know your target audience when putting affiliate marketing material on your site. Know why they are coming to your website and what it is that they are looking for there. If you don't capture their interest quickly, they will leave the site without participating in anything. Make sure that you are ready to commit time and resources to your affiliate marketing program. Success will not come overnight. You need to be in the mindset that success will probably come slowly at first, and that only through hard work and dedication will your business reach the level of success that you want. As you've just learned throughout this article, a lot of the tips and tactics of affiliate marketing are very easy to comprehend and are the same bits of wisdom regular business people have been using for decades. The difference, of course, is how you put this information into action. It's not enough to know; you have to show. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout the Auto Affiliate Program --> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/AutoAffiliatePro Check out Google Sniper 3.0 ->  http://www.InstantComputerBiz.com/?rd=jm5SZ09d

Affiliate Marketing Commissions Good Money

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Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make a real full time income from home. This is one of the few businesses where you are almost completely in control of how much your affiliate marketing commissions are. With the seemingly infinite possibilities that the internet offers, all you have to do is find one or two effective strategies and implement them consistently and your commissions will skyrocket. One note of caution though, while it is true that you can make virtually unlimited commissions with affiliate marketing, please don't fall for the scams that tell you that you won't have to do any work and that you can be making a six figure income in 30 days. That is simply not true. While affiliate marketing is an easy business to learn and run successfully, it will take work and time to get your business to the point you want it to be. There are several things you can do to increase your commissions, but one of the best, and most simple, things you can do to earn higher commissions is: build an opt-in list. Most people don't realize that up to 98% of the people who visit a website not only won't make a purchase...they won't ever be back. In order to convert more of your visitors into customers you need multiple contacts with them. Having multiple contacts with them can lead them to trust you and feel more comfortable about spending money with you. But how do you do that if 98% don't buy? Simple, you build an email list. You can do this on autopilot simply by signing up for an auto responder service. When you set up an account you can pre-load a series of emails into the auto responder and they will go out over a period of time, whatever you set up. That way you can not only be building trust by providing the people on your list with valuable information, you can also, subtly, remind them that the product you are selling can help them achieve the results they are looking for. When you have an auto responder you will need to get your visitors to opt-in to your list. By doing this they are giving you permission to contact them by email so you avoid any spam complaints. But how do you get them to opt-in? Well, one of the most common practices is to bribe them! Don't worry, I'm not talking about anything unethical. You simply offer them something of value in return for them signing up to your email list. It doesn't have to be anything expensive, just something with a high perceived value...something that they will find helpful and consider valuable. For this purpose a free ebook or report is great. Just make sure that the free gift you give them isn't some junky thing that you threw together in 10 minutes. Provide them something of real value so they will trust you and feel more inclined to not only sign up for your list, but purchase products from you. One very common mistake people will make with their list is to make every email nothing but a sales pitch. If you do that they will unsubscribe and you've lost a potential customer. Instead, give them valuable hints, tips in every email they receive from you and only occasionally pitch a product to them. This technique will work much better than if you're always asking them to dig into their wallet. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make a living, and there are easy ways to greatly increase your affiliate marketing commissions. Using an auto responder is the quickest, easiest way to make more money.

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IT & eBiz Condulting/ Internet Marketing Consulting-Get This Biggest Bang For Your Buck

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What does an internet marketing consulting firm do? They help their clients effectively market their online products or services to the general public for a fee. A good consultant will help you get the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to putting out money for advertising. From Banner ads to PPC, or pay per click, to search engine optimization, or SEO, a good internet marketing consulting firm should be able to do it all. The more they do for you the better you time could be spent on customer service and satisfaction. Let them do the behind the scenes stuff while you are out there glad-handing. If you have the budget, pay per click, or PPC, is a great way to go because you pay only for the people who actually click through to your site. Search engine optimization helps you get to the top of the search engine results page and, with a little tweaking here and there, being able to stay there. You might be asking yourself, "How does someone get to be a consultant?" Education, education, education. To be a consultant you need to have a bachelor's degree in business, computer programming, or systems analysis. You can take courses in IT, or internet technology as an addendum to your regular courses. Other qualifications include excellent communication and analytical skills for working with and dealing with the general public. These skills aid the consultant in determining the best path to take with each client. Not everyone can be a master of every aspect of business or life so be willing to admit where you are weak and excel where you are strong. Your client deserves the very best treatment you can give them. Each client is different and each client needs to move in a different direction. Obviously, each client wants to make money but the needs of each one will be different and may even change as you go along. You will have to be flexible enough to roll with those changes and come up with a workable model that your client can live with. The number of IT jobs is increasing, including those for consultants. In the decade that began in 2008, the number of these jobs is expected to increase by approximately 83% by 2018 with salaries rising also. As it stands right now a good consultant can start making upwards of $100,000 or more in some states. Not too shabby. Once your schooling is complete there will still be some learning going on. All the time as a matter of fact. You will need to stay abreast of what the competition is doing, and keeping up to date on how users continue to change the way they use the internet. Also, keeping up with the latest and greatest technology and information sources out there like webinars and video content is very important. Increasing demand for internet marketing consulting firms will increase the competitiveness and therefore increase the salaries, too. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Check out the Affliate Program on Autopilot -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Money-making Schemes with Your Captivating Ebook

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You can never underestimate the power of the ebooks. After all, there are too many benefits a reader can get from them. First of all, they?re quite easy to make. As long as you have a topic to write about, outline, and a compiler or converter, you?re good to go. Also, you can allow your ebook to earn higher revenue for you and your business. Here are the different ways on how you can increase your profits by selling or creating your own ebook: 1. Create your own ebook. This is one of the traditional ways on how you can earn your money through your ebook. You can then sell them for a good price, depending on your topic. Easier ones can go as low as $5; those that are more difficult to discuss can be as expensive as $20. Nevertheless, you can?t simply produce your own ebook. There are a number of things that you have to consider. First of all, it?s ideal if you can develop your outline. This is to ensure that you don?t get lost while you?re in the process of building up your pages. Because you?re banking on your contents, you also have to focus on your writing style. The best-sellers are those that sound conversational, where technical terms are carefully explained in layman?s terms. You can also try to add some images and tables to further emphasize the different points of your ebook. Don?t forget to include subheadings. It will be more convenient for your readers to scan and read your ebook. After all, you can?t really expect them to read the ebook from cover to cover. 2. Sell your ebook rights to your buyers. When it comes to your ebooks, you don?t have to limit them to your direct customers. It can even be viral if you can allow your buyers to resell them to their own targeted customers. Moreover, it will also increase the traffic going into your website, if you have embedded links into your ebooks. 3. You can carry advertisements in your ebook. Do you have some free space in your ebook? Why don?t you sell them to different advertisers? This is also one of the best ways on how you can practically earn more money through your ebooks. However, don?t wait for your ebook to be near completion before you can actually look for advertisers. Even in your planning stage, you can already approach some of them. Nevertheless, because there are a number of them who may not be too keen on having their ads on your ebook before it?s finished, you can talk to your webmaster-friends. Surely, they?ll be glad to put up some of their banners and text ads in your ebooks. 4. Sell your licenses. You can actually sell the license of your content to companies and markets that may be related to your chosen niche. A good catch, though, is to provide a license fee for your ebook. This way, they can make use of the data and information in your ebook to further their growth while you continuously earn from their usage of your material. You see, there?s definitely money in ebooks. What?s more, you don?t have to settle for long pages. What?s basically essential is you can express your thoughts properly and concisely. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout Auto Affiliate Program ==> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Money-making Schemes with Your Captivating Ebook

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You can never underestimate the power of the ebooks. After all, there are too many benefits a reader can get from them. First of all, they?re quite easy to make. As long as you have a topic to write about, outline, and a compiler or converter, you?re good to go. Also, you can allow your ebook to earn higher revenue for you and your business. Here are the different ways on how you can increase your profits by selling or creating your own ebook: 1. Create your own ebook. This is one of the traditional ways on how you can earn your money through your ebook. You can then sell them for a good price, depending on your topic. Easier ones can go as low as $5; those that are more difficult to discuss can be as expensive as $20. Nevertheless, you can?t simply produce your own ebook. There are a number of things that you have to consider. First of all, it?s ideal if you can develop your outline. This is to ensure that you don?t get lost while you?re in the process of building up your pages. Because you?re banking on your contents, you also have to focus on your writing style. The best-sellers are those that sound conversational, where technical terms are carefully explained in layman?s terms. You can also try to add some images and tables to further emphasize the different points of your ebook. Don?t forget to include subheadings. It will be more convenient for your readers to scan and read your ebook. After all, you can?t really expect them to read the ebook from cover to cover. 2. Sell your ebook rights to your buyers. When it comes to your ebooks, you don?t have to limit them to your direct customers. It can even be viral if you can allow your buyers to resell them to their own targeted customers. Moreover, it will also increase the traffic going into your website, if you have embedded links into your ebooks. 3. You can carry advertisements in your ebook. Do you have some free space in your ebook? Why don?t you sell them to different advertisers? This is also one of the best ways on how you can practically earn more money through your ebooks. However, don?t wait for your ebook to be near completion before you can actually look for advertisers. Even in your planning stage, you can already approach some of them. Nevertheless, because there are a number of them who may not be too keen on having their ads on your ebook before it?s finished, you can talk to your webmaster-friends. Surely, they?ll be glad to put up some of their banners and text ads in your ebooks. 4. Sell your licenses. You can actually sell the license of your content to companies and markets that may be related to your chosen niche. A good catch, though, is to provide a license fee for your ebook. This way, they can make use of the data and information in your ebook to further their growth while you continuously earn from their usage of your material. You see, there?s definitely money in ebooks. What?s more, you don?t have to settle for long pages. What?s basically essential is you can express your thoughts properly and concisely. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout Auto Affiliate Program ==> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

Coming Up With Catchy Advertising Slogans

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I want to get this started off on the right foot, so there are no confusions or hurt feelings. I am a big fan of creativity. I think it?s so?unique. If you have that creative energy and use it, I tip my hat to you, for you make the world a better place to shuffle around in. Disclaimer finished, let?s get going. Did you go to college? Did you major in advertising? Hahaha, really!? Did you party a lot? I bet you did. Did you enter school with the intention of majoring in advertising? I bet you didn?t. Oh you did? I bet you partied a lot in high school. My point here isn?t that advertising isn?t a serious career that only a select few people can do well, because I think it is. But, that?s the problem, only a select few people can do it well. With that said, advertising is one of the most majored in fields in universities and the general field of advertising has come to permeate nearly every facet of our daily lives. This tells me that a lot of these graduates are getting hired to do what they studied. Which is funny to me, because advertising seems to be a major that everyone can at least pass. But, once they have the diploma they?re qualified. Or are they? I found an automated advertising slogan machine online. It generates advertising slogans for whichever word you enter into the text box. I have to say I think that it did a pretty good job. But, can it do as good as actual studied experts in the field of advertising. To compare I found a few slogans that were ranked as some of the best slogans fromthe "old" days Take a look and see if you can tell which slogans an educated advertiser that makes an excellent living off his/her razor sharp wit conceived and which one was made by the automatic generator. ? Lipsmackin' Thirstquenchin' Acetastin' Motivatin' Goodbuzzin' Cooltalkin' Highwalkin' Fastlivin' Evergivin' Coolfizzin' Perpendicular. ? Reach out and touch someone ? I Wish I Were a Fuscia Weiner. ? Don't be vague. Ask for Haig ? I Saw Strategy and I Thought of You. ? We try harder ? It's Just For Me And My Range. ? You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent ? Puts the Pickles in America To be fair I want to reiterate that the actual corporate financed and okay?d slogans were chosen among a group recognized as the best of their respective years; whereas the auto-generated slogans were simply the first to pop out of the machine. Again, I?m not bashing the profession or the professionals, but somehow I feel confident saying that a majority of the advertisers out there took on their most ambitious and creatively convincing efforts in their job interviews. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Check out Auto Affiliate Program -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro 

At A Social Media Marketing Loss Try These Tips To Jumpstart Your Brand

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At one point in time, many businesses viewed the world of social media as a playing ground for kids. Those days are long gone. In today's society, social media sites provide a valuable tool for marketing and branding any business. With such a level of importance placed on these sites, it is equally important to make your social media marketing plan an effective one. In this article we will give you a few tips for starting out right. Near the top of your blog, add a Facebook "like" box. People will find it easier to like your page and give you more of a fan base. When you have this box on your blog, it makes it easy for your visitors to show their appreciation without being distracted from your page. This makes it simple for people and helps expose your presence more. To help you attract more visitors, you should promote your site through niche social media sites. What's great about niche social media sites is that they can send you a lot of targeted traffic. Even if the niche site is small, it can still send you quality visitors who are more likely to purchase something from your site because they already have an interest in your product. To create social media marketing materials that get noticed, learn how to write attention grabbing headlines. It does not matter how good your products or pieces are unless the headline is good enough to draw in a reader. Facebook fans are skimming over many posts within their feed. How do yours stand out worthy of a closer look? Provide a way for people to sign up for email alerts when you post new blog posts. Whether you're just putting up a post rehashing a previous topic or writing about a new product, giving followers a way to stay connected works, even if this type of social media marketing is more recognized as older way to utilize Internet marketing. Patience is necessary when creating a network through social media. It is extremely unlikely that you will have thousands of followers on your first days. It has happened in rare occurrences, but it is unlikely that you will receive viral following in just one night. Provide good content, frequently update your page and interact with your visitors and in good time you will gain a substantial following. When dealing with social media marketing, make sure you are remaining active. You need to be seen if you want anyone to follow your profile. If you don't have any activity, then your social media campaign is not going to succeed. Being active can spark the interest of your followers and help you be more successful. You will be more successful if you can come up with new and interesting content. People will share something they believe is worth their time or provokes a pleasant reaction. Look at successful campaigns and identify the type of content that people will want to share with their friends on social networks. Social media is an immediate way to disseminate information globally. It can be used to effectively market and brand your unique product or service, and provide you with exposure to millions of potential customers. In the preceding paragraphs, a number of fundamentals about social media marketing were covered. John   Silva is the Owner of John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout ==>  Check out SEO Pressor -> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/seopressor  Checkout ==>  http://InstantComputerBiz.com/autoaffpro/

7 Uncomplicated Tips on Making Squidoo Lens to Generate Traffic for Your Website

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Squidoo was only set up in late 2005 but it has become one of the Internet?s Top 500 websites with a worldwide audience since then. Squidoo as your co-op partner will not only generate income for your website but much-needed traffic as well. How You Earn from Squidoo Before we start talking about generating website traffic through Squidoo, let?s focus on another main benefit of working with Squidoo and that?s earning revenues. Squidoo is a network of lenses. These are single pages containing a user?s sole perspective on any topic he?s an expert in. Lenses can be about anything under the sun and usually focuses more on recommendations and linking to other websites than creating only original content. A user of Squidoo is called a lensmaster. His Squidoo earns through advertising. Share of revenues goes as follows: five percent for charities, 45% for Squidoo, and the remaining half for users. Tip #1 Start by creating a fun but detailed Introduction Block about your lens. This is the first thing that people will see of your lens so you have to work on making it attention-getting. This is where you explain what they can expect from your lens, maybe also what your qualifications are for creating this kind of lens, and why you?ve created such a lens. End with an invitation to get more of the stuff you?re offering on your Squidoo lens by providing a link back to your website. Tip #2 Whatever kind of lens you?re doing, make sure you use a variety of content for it. Besides providing the requisite outbound links and content, consider also adding images and other graphics, videos, and other kinds of visual effects. When you are using images, make sure you write enough text to surround the image. Tip #3 Squidoo is all about posting recommended links. Your list should always include but never limited to your website. It?s understandable and acceptable that you?re recommending your website, especially if you truly have valuable content to offer. But look for other websites to recommend, too. Choose your recommendations carefully; if you just link to anybody, people might soon lose interest in checking out your lenses. Tip #4 Provide a brief personalized description for each link you provide. That includes describing your website as well! Tip #5 For revenue modules, don?t just choose the first group of products that come up for your targeted keywords. Take the time to check them out one by one. Choose the products that appeal to you best; this will make it easier for you to describe and recommend them to your readers. Tip #6 Use as much original content as possible. It doesn?t have to be all factual; your opinions would do as well. Personalization is, as always, the key to good online content. Secondly, don?t write irrelevant text; if readers realize you?re just wasting their time beating around the bush to make your lens appear content-packed, there?s a very good chance they won?t come back after this. Tip #7 Use content from your website but don?t display it all on your Squidoo lens. Display the second best content then tease them with hints about something better ? and which they can get when they visit your website. For more information about using Squidoo to generate traffic, please visit www.thebarkingvideos.com and check out How to Send Traffic to Your Sites through Squidoo. . John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout ==>> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/AutoAffPro/  Checkout Google Sniper==>>  http://InstantComputerBiz.com/Gsniper/

10 Habits of Highly Successful Online Marketers

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By George... I think he's got it! 1. Successful online marketers know that marketing must be done as consistently as possible. Marketing and promotion must be scheduled, frequent and without fail. 2. Successful online marketers know that the money is in the list and thus list building strategies MUST be integrated into all marketing campaigns. 3. Successful online marketers know that landing pages, also called squeeze pages are what will generate leads NOT a static website. 4. Successful online marketers know that you must continually seek out NEW advertising sources. Don't stop when you find a few good sources, keep looking for new sources to expand your marketing reach. 5. Successful online marketers know that paid ads produce the best results IF the source is trusted and proven, but a combination of free and paid ads is still smart marketing. 6. Successful online marketers know that ad swaps are both cost effective and a clever way to reach your target markets. 7. Successful online marketers know that having access to a number of quality products, services, affiliates or referral programs produce multiple streams of income is the key to generating online income. 8. Successful online marketers know that you need a reliable way to track your ads so you know exactly where you are getting results for your efforts and advertising dollars. 9. Successful online marketers know that one cannot know it all, and investing in proven-effective reputable training programs for access to software, list building techniques, and mentoring can save a lot of time, money and frustration. 10. Successful online marketers know that it takes time to build a successful online business. George Kosch is the Home Business Bootcamp Instructor at Worldprofit Inc., a web-based company providing training for people who want to learn how to earn at home using the power of the Internet. This summer Worldprofit celebrates its 19th birthday! Get a free Associate Membership and join over one million Worldprofit Members around the world benefiting from the home business resources, training, software, marketing assistance, traffic generation and mentoring program. http://InstantComputerBiz.com/AutoAffpro/ Republished with author's permission by John Silva http://InstantComputerBiz.com

How To Get People To Notice You Online

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The most successful businesspeople you will ever see online have one thing in common. They learned how to market online before just simply jumping in. Whether it took a long time to learn or whether they picked it up quickly, nobody ever made money online without knowing how to. Read this article so you can find out how it's done. The first thing you should learn is not to approach internet marketing like you would any other advertising medium. It is completely different and requires a unique mindset compared to other, more traditional methods. Entering this world with a fresh outlook and open mind will help you climb to the top. Include additional offers that everybody would be interested in. You can include a free product related to what your customer just bought, or give them something that everyone needs. For instance, a coupon for food or a gift card at a popular store will encourage people to buy your products. To improve the exposure that you have, search some of the most important questions being asked on sites such as Yahoo Answers and provide a respectable answer. Try to make your name identical to your brand name, as this can serve as a free way to help increase the exposure of your company and increase page visitors. A good internet marketing tip for everyone is to make sure that your website looks professional. No matter how big or small your budget is, it is imperative that your website look professional in order to give off the aura that you are running a successful business. This is sure to get you more traffic. Try bundling some of your products into one major package that includes deals with another company. You could even create a separate website and advertise it on there to double your overall traffic. It doesn't even have to be just one business, it could be multiple. Just be aware that if they are a competitor, try to offer a neutral product. Since most ad clicks will put a few pennies in your account, many new marketers assume that they need to drown the site in ads in order to get more clicks and ultimately more money. This is a very bad approach. You do not want to put multiple ads on your site. A header, a footer and possibly one sidebar ad, is more than enough. Review your website to see what improvements you can make. While you may think your website is perfect, customers may not like it. Look for ways you can change it or make it easier to navigate. Making small changes, can attract more customers and generate more traffic to your site. Once you have gotten a little experience under your belt it is important that you start trying to diversify. This will split up your risk and chance for rewards as well. This is a great way to have a higher chance of having at least one company really take off and make money for you. A successful internet marketer knows his customers, especially his best ones. Pay attention to your customers' preferences. Find out if they use Facebook or lesser known social networking sites, such as FourSquare or Tumblr. Are they enticed by free shipping, special offers or clearance items? What forums or blogs do they use? The more familiar you are with your customers' inclinations, the easier it will be for you to reach them and motivate them. Realizing how you can use certain tips and tricks that are out there, to plot a strategy of success, is how you will, ultimately, profit in any type of online business. Maybe you're already doing well and just need a boost or maybe you're brand new to it all. Regardless of which, use the easy tips above to help you profit.

John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout ==>>  http://InstantComputerBiz.com/cashblurbs

Coming Up With Catchy Advertising Slogans

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I want to get this started off on the right foot, so there are no confusions or hurt feelings. I am a big fan of creativity. I think it?s so?unique. If you have that creative energy and use it, I tip my hat to you, for you make the world a better place to shuffle around in. Disclaimer finished, let?s get going. Did you go to college? Did you major in advertising? Hahaha, really!? Did you party a lot? I bet you did. Did you enter school with the intention of majoring in advertising? I bet you didn?t. Oh you did? I bet you partied a lot in high school. My point here isn?t that advertising isn?t a serious career that only a select few people can do well, because I think it is. But, that?s the problem, only a select few people can do it well. With that said, advertising is one of the most majored in fields in universities and the general field of advertising has come to permeate nearly every facet of our daily lives. This tells me that a lot of these graduates are getting hired to do what they studied. Which is funny to me, because advertising seems to be a major that everyone can at least pass. But, once they have the diploma they?re qualified. Or are they? I found an automated advertising slogan machine online. It generates advertising slogans for whichever word you enter into the text box. I have to say I think that it did a pretty good job. But, can it do as good as actual studied experts in the field of advertising. To compare I found a few slogans that were ranked as some of the best slogans fromthe "old" days Take a look and see if you can tell which slogans an educated advertiser that makes an excellent living off his/her razor sharp wit conceived and which one was made by the automatic generator. ? Lipsmackin' Thirstquenchin' Acetastin' Motivatin' Goodbuzzin' Cooltalkin' Highwalkin' Fastlivin' Evergivin' Coolfizzin' Perpendicular. ? Reach out and touch someone ? I Wish I Were a Fuscia Weiner. ? Don't be vague. Ask for Haig ? I Saw Strategy and I Thought of You. ? We try harder ? It's Just For Me And My Range. ? You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent ? Puts the Pickles in America To be fair I want to reiterate that the actual corporate financed and okay?d slogans were chosen among a group recognized as the best of their respective years; whereas the auto-generated slogans were simply the first to pop out of the machine. Again, I?m not bashing the profession or the professionals, but somehow I feel confident saying that a majority of the advertisers out there took on their most ambitious and creatively convincing efforts in their job interviews.John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout ==> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/CashBlurbs

Simple Ways to Obtain and Use Moneymaking Keywords

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Hunting for the most profitable keywords is no joke to many internet marketers and website owners. In fact, people will pay good money just to be able to obtain these moneymaking keywords because they know that these can translate to incredible earnings. If you're a little apprehensive about paying for keywords, take heart. There are some cool resources on the internet you can use for free. That's right ? at no cost. Here are ways how you can make use of stuff online to hike your popularity factor: Find out how certain keywords perform from search engines. Before anything else, remember that not all moneymaking keywords are right for you. What's the point of using keywords pertaining to techno gadgets if your website is all about scrapbooking? Find out which keywords work best for your website and then use search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. These are free resources you can use on the internet that will give you an idea of how many searches are performed on a given keyword/s and/or keyword phrase. The number of searches you'll find will help you determine the kind of keywords that will land you on the SERPs or Search Engine Results Pages. Submit your website for indexing. It's tough to get noticed online especially if you're just starting your website. Be proactive about letting others know about you by submitting your site to the most popular search engines. The three most popular search sites are Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Go to their websites and add your URL address, start building your site's traffic volume and watch your income grow. Link up. Another great internet resource that is used by many website owners is linking. You can exchange links with other websites who belong to the same industry as you or are at least related to the type of business you have. Linking with other websites is free, fun and very productive. Consider it as being referred to by a friend of a friend. If you link your website to a reputable site, traffic from that site can get directed your way. Imagine receiving just 10% of the traffic from a site that receives 2,000 visitors a day. That's 200 more clicks on top of the ones you already receive on a regular basis ? from one site alone. Be careful, though. Some sites with less-than-good reputation can damage yours as well. Search engines prefer linking sites that offer quality. If you're linked up with a site that pulls you down, consider asking that site to remove links to your website. Use your own resource. We mean your common sense. Some keywords have a lifespan while others shine brightest during a particular season. Keywords such as 'Halloween costumes' and 'costume masks', for example, are much more in demand during the months of September and October. When November and December come along, you probably don?t need a free resource on the internet just to find out that certain keywords related to Thanksgiving and Christmas are much more in demand. Keywords are some of the most valuable resources you can use online. They can help you build your business and drive traffic to your site. They can even be a direct source of income for many individuals. Learn everything you need to know about how to use keywords to increase your site's exposure from 'Keyword Research' from The Barking Videos series. Using keywords to increase your site's traffic can be tricky and you'll need all the help you can get. Learn as much as you can so you don?t waste your time on keywords that will do nothing for your bottomline. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.

Try These Social Media Marketing Tips Out

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Getting yourself set up online with social media is now becoming an absolute necessity for any business, whether based in a physical location or explicitly online. This article will show you how to effectively market your company using this new marketing outlet. It's not as hard as you might think it is. Before you get started in the area of social media marketing, come up with a plan. You need to know the basics: how much time and money to spend, who to put in charge of social media accounts, and what you want each page to look like. You need to have a time in which you plan on reaching the goal that you have set. Stick with your schedule the best you can, so you can find results from social media. Be patient in forming your overall strategy. If you just throw money at the newest and latest social trends and the quickly move on to the next, you'll never get anywhere. Lay out your strategy before you make any commitments and include every avenue of marketing you wish to use. Before developing a specific social media marketing strategy, figure out which social networking site you want to use. Each social networking site works differently, so it is important that your strategy will work with the site you pick. For instance, on Facebook you can create a poll, unlike most sites. If you want people to be interested in the social media marketing campaign you're running, have specials that people can take advantage of by adding you onto these social media sites. If they're noticing deals that they can't get elsewhere on their page, they will pay a lot more attention to your social media marketing. This leads to them telling their friends, which costs you nothing. Social media is a great tool to build trust and relationships with your customers. When marketing your business on social media, you have to be honest and always communicate with your customers. Listen to what they are saying and learn from it. You are not giving up control of your business to them, but you can learn from what they are saying and adjust your business to be more consumer friendly. Your marketing potential will benefit when you consistently and promptly reply to comments and reviews. Ultimately, this may be the deciding factor in whether or not a social network marketing strategy achieves the desired results. It is particularly important that you respond to negative reviews and comments. If left unresponded to, posts like these can really tarnish your online reputation. Responding quickly, professionally, and with empathy, will actually help your reputation to be even better. Always remember who your audience is in your social media marketing campaigns and what matters the most to them. You need to post content that is applicable to them and focus your efforts in ways that keep their attention. Your posts should be relevant and of high quality that your followers and fans do not just skip them over because they are not interested. Use the Facebook poll feature. This tool allows you to create a poll with as many different answers as you want for your friends to complete. This could be a great opportunity to get some feedback on your products and encourage your friends to interact with you and with each other. As you can see from this article, while social media can seem intimidating for someone who hasn't spent much time on it, it is really quite simple. As far as marketing goes, social media is actually something that is free and simple enough to do yourself without having to hire a professional. John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter. Checkout ==> http://InstantComputerBiz.com/CashBlurbs

10 Quick Tips on How to Generate Website Traffic from Yahoo Answers

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Yahoo Answers is the 100th most visited website in the world and just imagine how much you could benefit if you're able to use the popularity of Yahoo Answers to generate traffic for your website? Sounds impossible? Well, it isn't and we'll teach you how to do it in simple steps.

Tip #1 Create a Yahoo account that?s very close or exactly the same with your website?s domain name. If your website?s URL is, for instance, www.mylittlestore.com then find a way to create a Yahoo username similar to that. If ?mylittlestore? is not available then perhaps, you could try ?my_little_store? or some other similar variation? As you go on using Yahoo answers, people will find it easier to remember your website because it?s close to your username.

Tip #2 Read the terms and conditions for use of Yahoo Answers carefully. Make sure you don't violate any policies while working on generating traffic for your website. If you play your cards right, you'll be able to get around the policies and continue marketing your website.

Tip #3 Choose niche categories. Yahoo Answers has a fairly good classification system for its categories so you won?t have a hard time looking for the categories closest to the products or services you're selling. Concentrate on answering questions from these categories as this will make building your credibility easier.

Tip #4 Answer just a few questions each day. If you post too many answers everyday, no matter how informative, Yahoo Answers could still find a reason to accuse you of spamming and proceed with deleting your account.

Tip #5 Take your time answering the questions you've picked for the day. Always aim to giving the ?best answer? for the question because this can only help improve your reputation. While you don't need to have to provide overly long answers, your replies must be at the very least, informative and hopefully unique as well.

Tip #6 Remember to include targeted keywords in your answer. Since questions and replies in Yahoo Answers also show up in search engine results, use of targeted keywords will enable more people to see your reply and consequently, generate traffic for your website. Avoid flooding your answers with targeted keywords. Mentioning them once or twice would be enough.

Tip #7 Preview your answers and check for any errors in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. These little mistakes could hurt your credibility in the long run so it's best to get them out of the way as early as possible.

Tip #8 Post important links together with your answer. The links must, of course, provide additional information that people would desire to know. Last but not the least, remember to include a link to your website.

Tip #9 Take note of how the question was phrased and make sure you match it in tone and style. These usually have to do with the question category as well. If you're selling microscopes, you?ll no doubt find yourself in the science category and most questions there are technical. You?ll have to answer in the same vein if you want to gain people?s trust and respect.

Tip #10 Lastly, create other Yahoo accounts for yourself and use this infrequently to vote for the answer you?ve posted with your primary account. Don't let yourself get carried away voting or you could get all your accounts banned.

John Silva is the Owner of http://InstantComputerBiz.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.

5 Essentials every online marketer must know. If you are a new Affiliate Marketer read this!

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So you want to make some extra money online by being an Affiliate Marketer. Affiliate marketing is fun and you've got lots of choices for what you can promote PLUS lots of places to advertise at no cost or low cost. I don't have to even tell you what to market, you have so many choices. Companies want people to become an Affiliate and market their product online and pay you a commission for doing so. A great gig for anyone who wants to work from home. Amazon may be one of the largest companies familiar to you that offers an Affiliate program. Clickbank is another very familiar name, allowing you to promote thousands of digital products and earn a commission for your efforts. It's free to get started so you can sign up for a free account and learn more about how affiliate marketing works without making an investment. If you are new to online marketing, here are five essentials you need to know so you can maximize what you earn as an Affiliate. 1. For those serious about building an online business and who want to market a number of programs, product, services or opportunities, you will want to start with a home base for your activities. The best way to do this is by booking your own domain name. This will cost you as little as $10 a year and establishes a permanent, reputable home for your business. If you are doing affiliate marketing on the side from your full time occupation (like so many do), it will also help your activities separate. Having your own domain name makes you and your business look more solid, accountable and professional. Your domain name can be your name, a business name, a catch-all name for your online activities that includes a few key words. You can book a domain name with any domain registrar, do a search at Google or Bing to find an option that works best for you. 2. In my role as a consultant to small and home business owners, I also recommend a system for organizing your business. A pen and paper will work initially. Over time you will come to recognize that as an online marketer time, and the saving of time, is critical to being able to market often and efficiently. You see, most websites that offer advertising require you to sign up for Membership account, and that means multiple user name and passwords at what could eventually be dozens and dozens of sites. So I recommend, a Password Manager program called Roboform. As your online business grows and you start to lose your sanity keeping track of all your user names and passwords you will come to realize the incredible organization value of a program like Roboform. It will make your logins or form filling, much faster and that means less time trying to recall or find passwords and more time for doing what makes you money - promotion. 3. If you are new to online marketing you need to understand that it is not enough to promote. You need a reliable method for tracking your ad results. In other words, if you post an ad, you want to know how many clicks you got on your ad. If you don't know what kind of hit rate you are getting you have no idea of the effectiveness of your ad, or the advertising source. These programs that allow you to do this are called Ad Tracker Software or Ad Analysis software. Most are free or very low cost. You can get started with a free Webmaster Tools account from Google. Some of the companies you advertise with may also offer you an ad tracking tool within their member area 4. I talk to many new online marketers, and they will tell me they have some amazing product that will sell itself it is so good. This is absolute nonsense. ALL products, no matter how good they are, need to be promoted to sell. If you want to make online sales you need to promote constantly. Understand that PROMOTION is what drives sales - it is so important that 80 - 90% of your time in building your online business should be devoted to promotion. I don't mean surfing, researching, or face booking and tweeting with your friends. I mean time spent actually posting ads online at classified ad sites, forums, blogs, safelists, traffic exchanges, pay per click, joint ventures, ad swaps, and email marketing. If you want to make money online as an affiliate marketer know that constant, consistent promotion is critical. Some see this as a very boring part of being an online marketer, get over it, promotion is what you have to do to earn money. 5. Don't do this alone. Affiliate marketing can be very frustrating if you don't know what you are doing and not seeing any results for your efforts. If you are determined to make money online, then invest in yourself, take a course, download eBooks, participate in a webinar, find a coach, training program or otherwise so you can learn the best methods. My company offers online training, software, advertising and resources for people who want to learn how to earn at home. Get a free Associate membership and get on your way to learning what works so you can join the growing ranks of people working from home and benefiting from affiliate marketing. About the Author Sandi Hunter has been an online marketer for nearly 20 years. Sandi and her team at Worldprofit Inc., provide a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate (Affiliate) Membership today. Be sure to ask for a free copy of Sandi's new book,   "inetMarketing  Secrets for Newbbies," and signup for a cutting edge newsletter.... Republished with author's permission by John   Silva http://InstantComputerBiz.com