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What is LutLot?

2009-01-09T06:05:00.000-08:00

Have you ever heard of Lutlotters term? I bet some of you did. This is a term that kinda come out of my mind when I sign up at lutlot.com. What is exactly this site? This is a new breed of auction site or as this site put it, online liquidators that have the same function as ebay.com but have a twist in it system. Like all Internet Marketing website, it has an affiliate system and provide a free inclusion of ads.

I don't know about you but a free ads online for selling stuff is quite attracting to me. Not to mention lutlot.com has it own affiliate program. You can buy and sell or bid (like ebay.com) in lutlot.com and you can sign-up for free. So, if you are interested, come and see what lutlot.com have to offer for you. Maybe you can win the $100 reward they are giving out to those who sign-up? Just head to lutlot.com. See you there!

Do Sell Online?

2008-12-07T18:06:00.000-08:00

It's been a month since I upgraded this blog. I've been caught by my life...everything from work to my church activities and my home responsibility. I have been divulging my self to Internet oppotunities since I found blogging a year ago and I have found another opportunity that we can use to have side income, i.e to sell real things online.

Maybe for you who had already known ebay.com, this is not a new thing and yes, for me, it is not a new thing but I just want to write something for the new surfer on the net. I actually want to promote a local based ebay-like website (in Malaysia) and I'm currently using it to sell of a few of my 'unwanted' things. Currently, I'm selling a Nokia E61 at that site. This is the link http://www.lelong.com.my/Auc/List/2008-12DeStd23241962_AUCTION_Nokia_E61_Original_Smartphone_WiFi_1_GB_MicroSD.htm

But this website is more on local delivery. There are a few stores that willing to send out to foriegn country but you have to find it for yourself. There is another place for local to find second hand items that suit their need. The website is callled mudah.com.my. As the website named, 'mudah' means easy, it is very easy to submit an ads because it is free of charge. This site is strictly for Malaysian.

Now, another matter. My hosted blog have some kind of problem which I don't know how to fix. If you go to nimrodjo.com it will redirect to some kind of ads website. I don't know why is this happening. Well, if somebody out there with some kind of website mastery that could help me out of this problem, I really appreciate it. That's all from me for now. I wish I have more time to blog but I will when I can. See you again...SILOPO!

Do You Want To Be Black or Jack?

2008-11-04T00:59:00.000-08:00

Growing up, I learned many card game, the game according to us. One of my favorite card game is black jack or as we called it here, the '21' card game. It does help a bit in my Math subject especially the addition topic. So, who say playing black jack is a bad thing.

Well, maybe if you are addicted to gambling especially black jack, it may some how affect you as a whole person. Whole person here means that you can control your self in everything that you do. But if you are interested to learn this game of black jack, you may want to visit this black jack instruction.

All these links are in German, so if you cannot understand it, you may check out the English website for this online casino. Playing black jack require a lot of luck and 'six sense' especially when you are playing online. If you are playing on the real table, with real people, at least you can look at them to see their reaction but when you are playing online, it is you against the computer. So, wish that lady luck is on you side and may you become one of the winner.

SUPERBID! Bid For The Item You Want!

2008-08-21T07:49:00.000-07:00

Hi, Friends!

First time in Malaysia, Superbid brings you Exciting Live Bidding Experience Every Wednesday, 12noon - 1pm, Online!

Check out Superbid Item Preview Every Friday!

Visit Superbid now! But if you can't find what you want, shout at iWant!
You can spread the good news and stand a chance to win RM8,000 cash!!

Please visit http://www.lelong.com.my/MGM/yeyuku

Do you want to buy this?

2008-07-26T01:19:00.001-07:00

This is a mobile phone that I don't intend to keep because I'm already waiting for my new purchase online (HP with wifi). This phone no wifi, only GPRS. Read on.

RELIST DUE TO UNPAID ITEM IN THE RANGE OF TIME THE SELLER GIVE. MARKET PRICE IS AROUND RM 1, 200 - RM 1,500.

FUNCTION

-1.3 mega pixels DC
-Classic Game Simulator ( NES supported )
-Sound Rec.
-Video Rec.
-MP3/ MP4 player
-WAP
-SMS/ MMS / Email / Voice Mail / Broadcast message
-PhoneBook Mem0ry: 1700 Entries
-vibra&ring / ringtone only / vibra only / no ring & vibra
-Incoming call Photo/Video
-Handsfree speaker
-E-booK

-FM STEREO

FEATURES

-Dual band GSM 900/1800
-Dimensions: 117 x 60 x 22mm
-Unit Weight: 180g (Included Battery)
-Li-ion Battery 3.7V 1600mAh
-Standby 240 hrs Talktime 6-12 hrs
-Digital Camera: 1.3 MP
-Internal Memory:21 mb
-Bluetooth (Handsfree, A2DP, FTP supported)
-2.4" Front LCD + 2.8" Internal LCD
-64 Polyphonic / midi / MP3 Ringtone
-WAP, GPRS, SMS, MMS, Voice Mail, Email
-Music and Video: MP3, MP4, 3GP
-Stereo Speaker
-QWERTY keyboard
-Language: English, Simplified Chinese

PACKAGE

1. E90 mobile phone x 1
2. Wall Charger x 1
3. 2-Eared Handsfree x 1
4. USB Cable x 1
5. Free T-flash card 512mb x 1
6. Battery x 2
7. Stylus pen x 1

Interested? Click the title or HERE for more info.

My Latest Online Business Updates!

2008-07-23T19:07:00.000-07:00

It's been ages since I updated this blog. Well, I'm kinda busy with...LIFE. No need to elaborate more on that. I just want to say that my online business have come to a new level whereby I'm now trading online using the all-time-favorite-site, ebay.com.my (note the my because I'm from Malaysia) and the best local auction site, lelong.com.my under the ID: yeyuku.

So, just search for my items. I don't sell many but I do buy a lot from that sites. Currently, I already sell 2 items. Both are mobile phones. I don't know what I'm going to sell in the future but let the future tell it own story. By then, I encourage all of you to trade with ebay.com (International) and lelong.com.my (if you are a Malaysian). Until next time (I don't know when), all the best to our venture in online businesses.

Care To Share?

2008-05-13T09:26:00.000-07:00

I was searching for song today online and I stumbled upon (but not through SU) a site called 4Shared.com. It is an awesome site where you can download mp3 and video, in one simple click. Of course the files are from users, thus came the name 4shared.com. If you notice, I already put up their site banner on my sidebar.

Back to the topic at hand, the tagline for this website is Free File Sharing meaning it is a free online storage. They have 5 kinds of account for you to choose from. Free, Silver, Gold, Platinum, SBE Solution and Enterprise Solution. You can download the pdf file for the package comparison HERE. Most surfer would opt for the FREE account which gives you 5 GB of free space to upload you files. The only setback for the free account is you can only upload maximum 100 MB for the files.

If you want to know more before signing up, you can go to the Quick Tour section to find out more. Or if you have questions in your head, just head to their FAQ page. If you have made up you mind, Join 4Shared Now!!

Where Did I get My Online Income?

2008-05-10T22:00:00.000-07:00

Well, this going to be short. I get my online income mainly from doing PP. I do PP mostly from my personal blog (you can click the title to jump to my personal blog). Even if the god of the SE (Mr. G), doesn't approve but that is the only thing that I'm good at. Rely on adsense? I haven't reached my first payment amount yet. The other affiliate programs? Nope. Maybe because I'm not so good at advertising other people products or maybe my blog isn't getting enough traffic.

Well, I do register in the Social Networking site (esp. for blog) and other traffic resources (link submitting directory) but still no changes in the traffic-depended income. So, I will continue blogging without thinking much of the income. I may start as a blogger making money online but I end up as a blogger who blog for fun and according to my heart. See you next time (not that I'm leaving town...)

How To Optimize For Google

2008-05-08T06:59:00.000-07:00

In today's online world search engine rankings can make your business succeed, and while rankings in Yahoo and MSN are very valuable, their combined market value is still less than that of Google. This makes achieving top rankings in Google that much more important.
In this three-part series on How to Optimize for Google we will touch on a number of important aspects for top Google rankings including website optimization, links, Google Webmaster tools, and a number of other considerations.

The focus of Part 1 will be with on page website optimization.

THE RIGHT KEYWORDS: This article is not about keyword research so I will not spend too much time on this topic, however, I felt it was important to at least brush on this slightly. If you are interested in reading more, please see Keyword Research for Organic SEO.

Make sure that your targets are achievable. If you select the wrong keywords, it can make your entire optimization experience essentially a waste. Choose keywords that are attainable but yet still provide a reasonable search frequency for your industry. Your phrase selection should also be targeted to bring qualified traffic to your site.

Using the hotel industry as an example, targeting the word "hotel" would make very little sense but by narrowing it down to "Victoria BC hotel" you now have less competition, and a more qualified audience. Keep your targets in perspective and go after the obtainable rankings.

WEBSITE OPTIMIZATION: Here are many on-site factors that play a role in your search engine rankings. Here are a number of those factors and what you can do to increase your chances of success.

1. Title Tag - The title tag plays one of the most important roles in search results at Google, and is almost always the heading Google chooses for each of its listings. Placement of your target phrase is best used near the start of the tag and repeated again in the middle or near the end. Three uses of your target phrase may be helpful in some instances, as long as it is not too overwhelming. For best results each page on your site should have a totally unique title tag.

It is also important to remember that because Google will use this title as the main heading for your listing, you will want to keep it attractive to potential searchers. Try to also add a call to action, or other wording to help make your listing appear attractive to searchers.

To help illustrate the fact Google takes this tag into consideration, simply do a search for your target phrase and take a look at the titles of the top 10. I tried a search for a rather broad term "hotel" and saw that all 10/10 listings had it in the title tag, and 6/10 had it as the very first word. A quick scan showed that the entire top 30 either had the word hotel, or hotels in their title tags.

If you do only one thing to your website, make sure that all your title tags are relevant, unique, and contain your target phrase for each page.

2. Meta Description Tag - The Meta Description tag is still occasionally used by Google as the description which appears in the search results themselves. While this used to be a more common practice Google tends to use it most often on sites with very limited content, or those which are flash based. I have seen it still used for content rich sites, however this is less common.

The Meta Description tag still has an impact on search rankings. Your best bet when using this tag is to keep it short and sweet with your target phrase close to the start and not repeated more than 3 times. Like the title tag, each page on your site should have its own unique description tag.

3. Meta Keyword Tag - When it comes to Google this tag is useless, and won't influence your rankings. There is some speculation as to whether a spammy keyword tag can however, have a negative effect on Google rankings. As a result, if you do utilize a keyword Meta tag for the smaller engines, it is best to keep it clean and play it safe.

4. Keyword Density - Keyword density plays a role in overall rankings; however, it is not as cut and dry as it once was. Once upon a time there was a magic number that when used could almost guarantee top rankings.

This is no longer the case. Today the ideal density varies from industry to industry, phrase to phrase. To find out what density you should aim for, take the top 10 or 20 search results and see what percentage those sites are using. In most cases you will find that the majority of these sites have a very similar density to one another, and this average density is a good estimation of what you should aim for.

5. Body Text and Keyword Placement - The location of relevant text on your site will help establish the overall importance of your target phrase. While you do not want to overwhelm the engines and site visitors with a bombardment of target phrases at the top of the page, try to sprinkle in some instances as close to the top of the page as possible.

6. Synonyms - Be sure to include various synonyms for your target phrases within your body text on your site. Google will use these synonyms to tie in the overall relevance of the page for your main target phrases, which in turn can improve your odds.

To find possible synonyms you can use a thesaurus, but the best way is to search Google itself and see exactly what they consider to be similar. Simply search in Google for your target phrase preceded with a tilde, such as "~hotels". Next scan through the search results for any text Google has bolded. These are all words that Google considers to be related. Using the "~hotels" example Google brings up phrases such as 'travel', 'tourism', 'accommodation', as well as various hotel chain names such as 'Hilton Hotels'.

7. Keywords in Domain - There is still some speculation if having a target phrase as part of your top level domain (TLD) is of use to search rankings. From my experience, yes, there is value here, although, nothing like it was several years ago.

If you are starting off in the online world and are contemplating which domain to go for, consider one that uses your target phrase, assuming that it is both relevant to your business name, and uses no more than a single hyphen. While multiple hyphens in a domain can be successful, they are very common with highly spammy websites, so it is best to not take that route if possible.

While having a keyword located within your domain can provide some ranking juice, I would not suggest heading out and doing a domain swap. In most cases you would be better off working on your existing site than starting from scratch with a new domain.

8. Keywords in page specific URL - Using keywords for specific page URL's can also help add a little bit of value to your site, providing you use them responsibly. Consider using a keyword as a directory name and as part of a file name where it naturally makes sense to do so. If you have a website that focuses on tourism and includes local hotel listings, you may want to consider the following structure for your page on the Hilton:
MyTourismSite.com/Victoria/Accommodations/Hotels/Hilton.html

9. Heading Tags - Placement of target phrases within heading tags helps to establish the importance of those given phrases. That said do not over do it, or abuse it. Only place target phrases within a heading tag if it makes sense to do so, and don't flood a page with numerous tags. Heading tags are not as critical as they once were, but still a good contribution to a well optimized page.

10. Link Anchor text - This is the actual text you clíck on as part of a link. When full or partial target phrases are used within your text links they help pass on some value to the linked page for those phrases. This is also true when considering surrounding text. When the content around the link is also relevant, the link holds slightly more value.

While a link that simply states "clíck here" or "http://www.domainname.com/" does have its place, they provide considerably less value than a link that would use "discount hotels" as its anchor.

11. Image Alt Text - While image alt text still plays a minor role, its biggest part is within the use of image based navigation. If you have an image linked to another page, the alt text will be attributed much the same way as standard link anchor text is.

Image Alt text should always be short and to the point and should accurately describe either the image itself, or the page the image is linking to. Do not use alt tags as a place to stuff keywords.

12. Inline Links - These are links that are found mid sentence or mid paragraph as opposed to a simple listing of links as found in a menu or possibly on a sitemap. Links found mid paragraph tend to pass on a little more value from the surrounding text and can provide more relevance to the linked page.

13. Site Navigation - It is absolutely imperative that your website be fully spiderable by the search engines. This may seem obvious, but often webmasters overlook Google's ability to crawl a website. Google has become very advanced in what links it can follow and how it can spider a website, but there are still some things that can cause significant roadblocks.

- Flash: One of the most commonly made mistakes is the use of flash. If flash is used as a sole means of site navigation then you can count on Google not viewing your internal pages, and having a significant disadvantage in terms of site rankings.

- Java Script / DHTML: These days most Java Script and even DHTML menus can be spidered by Google, however, this is not always the case. If your site utilizes any kind of fancy navigation and you are wondering why Google has not indexed your internal pages, check out Google's Cached Text version of your page. If you do not see any text links, then your navigation may be invisible to Google.

- Images: Image based navigation has been safe for many years now, but if your site uses this form of navigation it is essential to have brief, relevant alt text on all your buttons. This alt text will act much like standard anchor text for text based links. This is not only for the purpose of search ranking value, but take a look at Google's cached text version of your page. If you have image based links that do not have alt text, those links do not appear. This doesn't mean Google won't follow them, but for anyone viewing your site on a text based browser, your links will be invisible to them.

14. URL Structure - Avoid long elaborate URL's with extraneous characters. While Google has reached a point where they can index massive URL strings, it is best to avoid them if at all possible. For dynamic sites consider utilizing mod rewrites to significantly clean up the URL to not only make it more search engine friendly, but more user friendly as well.

MyTourismSite.com/?locid="victoria"&catid="accommodations"&type="hotel"&comp="hilton"
stands a better chance if cleaned up to read:
MyTourismSite.com/victoria/accommodations/hotels/hilton.htm

SUMMARY: Basic website optimization is a critical component for successful placement in Google but is only part of the overall picture. Stay tuned for "How to Optimize for Google - Part 2 of 3" where we will discuss Links and Google Webmaster Tools.

About The Author
Scott Van Achte is the Senior SEO at StepForth Web Marketing Inc., based in Victoria, BC, Canada and founded in 1997. You can read more of Scott's articles and those of the StepForth team at news.stepforth.com or contact us at StepForth.com, Tel - 250-385-1190, TollFree - 877-385-5526, Fax - 250-385-1198

The Basics of RSS

2008-02-01T16:41:00.000-08:00

Another article about RSS but we musn't get tired of this thing because we never know that we may learn a few new tricks. Enjoy reading..

What is RSS?

You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website. A RSS feed is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they can decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source.

What are the Benefits of RSS?

RSS provides benefits to both readers (users) and web publishers.

1. It gives you the latest updates. Whether it is about the weather, new music, software upgrade, local news, or a new posting from a rarely-updated site, you can learn about the latest as soon as it comes out.

2. It saves on surfing time. Since an RSS feed provides a summary of the related article, it saves the user's time by helping s/he decide on which items to prioritize when reading or browsing the net.

3. It gives the power of subscription to the user. Users are given a free-hand on which websites to subscribe to in their RSS aggregators which they can change at any time they decide differently.

4. It lessens the clutter in your inbox. Although your email address will be required to enjoy the services of online RSS aggregators, RSS does not use your email address to send the updates.

5. It is sp@m free. Unlike email subscriptions, RSS does not make use of your email address to send updates thus your privacy is kept safe from sp@m mails.

6. Unsubscribing is hassle-free. Unlike email subscriptions where the user is asked questions on why s/he is unsubscribing and then the user is asked to confirm unsubscribing, all you have to do is to delete the RSS feed from your aggregator.

7. It can be used as an advertising or marketing tool. Users who subscribe to or syndicate product websites receive the latest news on products and services without the website sending sp@m mail. This is advantageous to both the web user and the website owner since advertising becomes targeted; those who are actually interested in their products are kept posted.

What are the Drawbacks of RSS?

The disadvantages of RSS stem from user-preference concerns and the fact that it is a new technology.

1. Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed.

2. Graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds. For conciseness and ease of publication, RSS feeds do not display the photos from the original site in announcing the update except for some web-based aggregators.

3. The identity of the source website can be confusing. Since RSS feeds do not display the actual URL or name of the website, it can sometimes get confusing on what feed a user is actually reading.

4. Publishers cannot determine how many users are subscribed to their feed and the frequency of their visits. Moreover, they do not know the reasons why users unsubscribe which could be important in improving their advertising.

5. RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server. Most readers still prefer the whole update over a brief summary of the entry, thus they still access the site.

6. Since it is a new technology, many sites still do not support RSS.

How Do I Start Using RSS?

There are two things needed: an RSS feed and an RSS aggregator or reader. The RSS feed comes from an RSS-supported website. There are also websites that provide a directory of RSS feeds from different websites. An RSS aggregator is used to read the RSS feed from the source website. It scans and collects data on the latest RSS feeds from the worldwide web.

An aggregator comes in two forms: a downloadable program, also known as a desktop aggregator, and an online or web-based aggregator. Downloadable aggregators may require payment before they can be acquired, while internet-based aggregators are usually free. All you need to do is to register an account and you are ready to use their services. Both versions allow you to customize, or choose, which RSS feeds to enter. Paid aggregators are usually chosen by more experienced users and they usually allow more freedom in customizing feeds.

Editor's Note: A selection of top RSS Desktop Aggregators can be found at:

About.com
or
RSS-Specifications.com

1. Choose an RSS aggregator to use. For beginners, web-based aggregators are recommended since they are usually user-friendly.

2. Scan the homepage of your target website for the RSS or XML button. It contains the RSS code you need to enter in the aggregator. Copy this code. Syndic8 provides a directory of websites that support RSS.

3. Paste the code (which contains the URL of the website) in your aggregator. There is a space provided for pasting the code.

After you have done these three easy steps, you can start reading the RSS feeds coming from the website. New postings appear as they are published in real time at the source website.

RSS and Internet Marketing

The original idea of RSS came from Netscape, where the intention was to provide a means for users to customize their personal homepages with links to websites that were of interest to them, similar to bookmarking websites.

The application of RSS to internet marketing was an unforeseen development to RSS technology developers. Since users are given the freedom to add RSS feeds to their aggregators, those who are interested in particular products and services available on the internet can now be notified real time. Marketing becomes more specific to interested people and not a hit-and-miss operation.

Medium to big-scale companies who intend to use RSS for marketing their products and services should consider linking up with email account providers, (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google mail); networking websites (e.g. Friendster, Multiply, My Space, Hi5); websites of newspapers and television network websites (e.g. New York Times, CNN). Smaller companies can also look at networking websites as well as personal blog websites (e.g. Blogspot) and websites of clubs and organizations that would probably make use of their products or services e.g. a fishing supplies store can look for the website of their local fishing club for possible RSS marketing.

Clearly, RSS is an innovation in worldwide web information management as well as online marketíng. We can expect better RSS technology in the not-so-distant future as its popularity increases among users and website owners alike.

About The Author
Werner Schamberger is CEO of Homework Online and Best Articles Online. He is an entrepreneur and author.

Successful Internet Marketing Without Search Engines

2008-02-01T16:36:00.000-08:00

Now, this is an interesting article to be read by IMers out there. Can we really be a successful IMer if we don't rely on Search Engine as a part of our business tool? Read on...

Believe me or not, a business can survive and thrive on the Internet without good search engine placement. That does not mean that a Webmaster should not strive to get good rankings in the search engines, but it does mean that a Webmaster should not throw his or her entire advertising budget towards search engine optimization (SEO).

The SEO guys are rolling in their Ferrari's as you read this. I would have said that the SEO guys are rolling their graves, but they are not dead, yet.

There Can Be Only Ten

How many web pages will be listed on page one of the search results at Google? How about on Yahoo or MSN? That is right; there can be only ten web pages listed on page one of the search results.

According to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), there are currently 85 billion web pages on the Internet. But, if you have ever used the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, then you know as I know that they have not archived everything that is out there, so that 85-billion number is actually smaller than the real number of existing web pages.

With only ten listings on page one of the search results, there are going to be a lot of disappointed people in the world. They cannot all be on page one of the search results.

First Things First

Search engine optimization is an expensive undertaking, so it shouldn't be taken lightly. I talk to people everyday who are building their first website for the very first time. These folks, bless their hearts, know just enough about Internet marketing to blow their savings on a website that may or may not deliver a profít to them.

There are steps that people should take when they start their website, and SEO is not one of those first steps.

Here is a checklist of steps that the new Webmaster should use in the development of his or her website:

Step One: Select the products or services that the website will sell.

Step Two: Determine if there is a market for what will be sold.

Step Three: Analyze the competition and determine the competition's weaknesses. Competition is about building a better mousetrap or reaching customers that another might be under serving.

Step Four: Build the website to sell the chosen products or services. Sales conversion is the most important element in any successful business model.

Step Five: Run test advertising to figure out what will generate traffic to your website, and more importantly, to figure out what one needs to do in order to sell goods and services.

Testing And Tracking Advertising Results Is Essential

I once sold advertising in my newsletter to a guy who paid a nice fee to have his advertisement run in my newsletter, but he did not invest any money in writing or testing his ad first. The advertisement itself was written very badly.

I asked him if he would like to tweak his advertisement before I ran it in my newsletter. He said he did not care what the ad looked like. He just needed me to run his ad.

I offered to rewrite his ad for him to enhance his chances of getting traffic from my newsletter. He agreed and I did.

As the newsletters I subscribed to began rolling in the following week, I noticed his bad advertisement ran in dozens of those newsletters.

I asked him later about his results, and he said he had spent $10,000 running that advertisement and closed four sales at $25 each. He spent $10,000 to make one hundred dollars. Needless to say, his website closed down just a couple months later.

The problem was clearly his ad, but his website may have contributed to his lack of sales conversion.

Starting Small Serves A Very Real Purpose

As we saw with the guy who spent ten grand to make one hundred, starting small would have been beneficial. It is all a matter of figuring out how to get traffic to one's website and more importantly, how to convert traffic to sales.

One should start small with his or her advertising to find the ad formula that will actually deliver traffic to the website. Once the traffic is coming to the website, the webmaster needs to tweak his or her sales copy to make sure that the copy will close enough sales to justify the expense of a large advertising run.

SEO should be treated in the same way. By using Pay-Per-Click advertising (PPC), a webmaster can get an idea as to which keyword phrases will actually generate traffic to a website, and with the right analytical software, the Webmaster can determine which keyword phrases generate clicks that will lead to a sale.

Google Analytics is a good program to help webmasters figure this out and it is free, but it has its shortcomings.

Popular paid programs include:

* OpenTracker.net
* KeyTrail.com

Another two-dozen web analytics applications are reviewed at Cumbrowski.com .

SEO campaigns shouldn't be undertaken until one knows exactly which keywords will actually generate sales for a website. To do otherwise, one runs the risk of optimizing a website for keywords that will not help the website convert traffic to sales.

Advertising Lessons Learned

While testing your advertising and your PPC advertising, a few very important lessons can be learned.

First, you learn how to tap into the Law Of Attraction to bring people to your website.

You learn what keywords you should target, if you decide to optimize your website.

You learn how to track your successes and your failures with your website analytical software.

And finally, you learn to tweak your website for the purpose of increasing your sales conversion.

All are very important lessons, because each will contribute to how much money can be earned from a website.

Building Links Is Not About PageRank

If you remember, the title of this article is, "Internet Marketing Without Search Engines." That should imply that this article is not about getting good rankings in Google. By extension, the title should also imply that what I am telling you has "nothing" to do with PageRank.

The fact is that every person using the Internet is clicking on links to take them from one website to another. Some links are in emails; others are in paid adverts on websites, or in informational web pages. Even social bookmarking websites have links to other web pages.

Building links to your website is about getting your sales message, with its accompanying link, in front of the people most likely to buy what you are selling, in a way that encourages your potential customer to click your link and visit your website.

Once you understand who your customers are and where you might be able to reach them, then you will know what steps you need to take to get your link within reach of their mouse.

You may need to buy advertising at that location. You might be able to write an article to give to them, in exchange for a link to your website. You might be able to participate in the website's forums and leave a breadcrumb trail of links for your potential clients to find. You can even create social bookmarks that will point to your website or to a page that points to your website.

The goal of linking is to give your potential customers more ways for them to find your website.

An Ironic Twist To This Tale

Although this article is about thriving on the Internet without relying on search engines, any person who undertakes linking for the sake of attracting customers will find their websites climbing in the search engine results, due to all of those links on targeted and relevant websites pointing to their own website.

Imagine that --- a link that will attract and deliver potential customers to a website AND influence how well a website might rank in the search engines.

About The Author
Bill Platt has been writing reprint articles for the promotíon of his websites since 1999, and now he has written an ebook to share what he has learned. His book is called, "Article Marketing For Traffic, Sales and Profit". Included in the book are many examples and the Five Essential Elements Of Creating A Successful Article. To learn more about Bill's business, visit thePhantomWriters.com .

Your Logfiles May Be Missing Important Data

2008-02-01T16:29:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody. Once again apologize for not updating this blog as frequent as it should be but I'm caught with busyness and I can only manage one blog at the moment, which is nimrodjo.com. I present to you yet another interesting article that I found. This stat tools will be an alternative to Google Analytics.

In this article I am going to explain logfiles and their importance in website analytics from my perspective as a ClickTracks user. Before I begin, however, I want you to know that although I provide essential analytic consulting, I am a certified ClickTracks Analytics Professional and have dabbled in books on analytics, I don't consider myself to be an analytics expert. In fact, I constantly find myself humbled by how much more there is to know. That said, I do know more than the average site owner and I hope that this article can shine a little light on this often confusing subject and save you some future headaches.

As many of you may know I am a huge fan of the logfile version of ClickTracks Professional, a website analytics package that I find indispensable for myself and my clientele. ClickTracks can do a lot to determine what is or is not working on a website; much more than expected in most cases. The one thing, however, that ClickTracks or any other logfile-based analytics tool cannot do is interpret information in your logfiles if it is not recorded. Unfortunately this is a common occurrence and many site owners have no idea that their hosting company is not saving information that could help them now or later when they find they need it.

The reality is that over ninety percent of the hosting companies I have dealt with have not been saving the vital data that a higher level analytics program needs; to work at peak performance if at all. In this posting I will provide an overview on this issue so you have enough information to approach your hosting company about making the required updates to their systems. If you are unsure, you can even refer them to this article and/or the set of questions and details I provided below.

What is a Logfile?

First, let me explain the very basic idea of what a logfile is and how one is created.

Whenever you visit a website your browser requests information from the server hosting the website. This request is passed onto the server and in turn the server delivers the information requested by your browser. Whenever this exchange takes place your server saves the request along with a host of information about the requesting browser such as:

the internet address (loosely connected to location) known as the IP
browser type (Internet Explorer or Firefox or..)
the screen resolution of the browser used
time and date of the request
the page requested for viewing
the website the visitor came from (known as a Referrer)
if applicable, the keyword(s) that were used to find your website on a search engine
etc.

Once this data is collected it is saved on the server in a logfile for later use and over time it is often overwritten with new data so the files do not get too large; they bulk up very quickly especially on high-traffic websites.

How Can Logfiles Help Improve Your Website?

Now that you know what data is collected it is time to explain, in general terms, how this data can be used to help your website. There is a wide variety of information that can be gleaned from a complete logfile such as:

How long visitors stay at your website or on a particular page.
What pages they visited.
Where visitors are viewing your website from geographically.
What keywords were used to visit your website and which search engines were driving the highest volume and/or quality traffic.
Which pages had the highest or least traffic.
The average time a visitor stays at your website: often a great indication of the 'stickiness' of your website.
You can determine the effectiveness of your pay-per-click campaign by tracking visitors specifically delivered from the campaign.
Identify potential pay-per-click fraud using tools like ClickTracks Professional that has a click fraud reporting tool.
and much more...

So What's the Issue?

Many hosting companies are smart enough to include a basic web analytics program with every account. These programs are decent for anyone who wants to simply find out the traffic to their website and a myriad of other basic stats. However, there is often a pitfall to these basic programs. You see in order to save on computer performance the hosting company usually sets their servers to collect only the minimal data these basic systems require. As a result, more complex logfile-based analytics programs may find themselves starved of the data they need to operate fully. This is where my clients have found themselves before; they have sub-par logfiles and are forced to try and convince their hosting company to change their data collection methods to meet more advanced standards.

If you have no interest in website analytics you may find this whole scenario to be a non-issue. I completely understand, however, put yourself a year or even a month down the road when your website is taking off and you need to know more about the visitors to your website. You just might find yourself in this same frustrating scenario and it will seem absolutely insane how hard you have to push to get this data properly collected.

Unfortunately, unless you are leasing a private (dedicated) server from the hosting company they tend to set up their shared servers with only the basic needs of the majority in mind. As a result, the only way to force change is if more customers consider it a basic need - thus the reason for this article. Help me affect change so that you save yourself a headache in the future!

How to Be Sure Your Server is Collecting the Right Information

Most of you cannot check your logfiles for completeness with an analytics program so you will have to trust your server administrators to do their due diligence based on the following question.

Note: If you like you can just copy and paste the following question (noted in red) and send it to your hosting company support staff:

Hello, I would like to make sure my website's logfiles have the necessary information to run a higher end web analytics program. Is your server set up to collect the data on my website? I need this data to properly analyze the traffic on my website.

Date and Time
Client IP Address
HTTP Method
Requested file and Query string
User Agent
Referrer
Status code
Cookie (preferable, but not required)

If you are unsure of the answer or you need to set this up then please review the settings that need to be enabled on Apache servers or Microsoft Internet Information Servers; these pages include instructions if you need them.

Sincerely,
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My Hosting Company Disregarded This as Nonsense

I fully expect some will and that is because many website owners still care little or nothing about web site statistics so they have not even used the basic data to its fullest yet - and hosting companies are aware of this. In fact, a good fríend who owns a hosting company himself guessed around 95% of his website clients don't even look at their stats. This is all true, however, does that mean that important data should not be collected for those who do want to delve deeper into analytics? I don't believe so and the changes you are requesting will only raise the size of the logfiles for your website a small amount. Unless of course you don't even have logfiles which is enough for me to recommend you take your services elsewhere.

Why Not Use Google Analytics Instead?

Google Analytics is an awesome solution for many small businesses. It does not require logfiles and it takes a marginal amount of work to begin acquiring proper data. In fact, I think it is a great tool for the majority of businesses that want to wade into a mid range analytics solution providing you are comfortable with Google having access to your stats. That said, there is one MAJOR flaw in using Google Analytics... it does not have reliable click fraud reporting. You see many of my clients use ClickTracks to monitor their pay per click campaign for click fraud which is not something I would ever trust Google to police itself on. That does not mean I do not use Google Analytics. In fact, whenever possible I use both ClickTracks and Google Analytics in tandem for redundancy especially when certain capabilities such as cookie tracking are not available from a hosting provider - Google includes cookies by default.

In Summary

Many website owners have no idea what they will or will not need in the future to properly administrate their online marketíng campaigns. This article discusses a simple adjustment to the accumulation of website logfiles that I strongly believe all competent hosting companies should implement in order to provide scalability for their clientele. The adjustment will provide the additional information that a competent analytics solution will need to provide accurate statistics.

About The Author
Ross Dunn is the CEO and founder of StepForth Web Marketing Inc, a web marketing company founded in 1997 and based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. StepForth provides cutting-edge web marketing services that provide highly successful, targeted results for its clientele. Ross Dunn is a Certified Internet Marketing and Business Strategist (CIMBS) with a background in web design and online marketíng. His broad Internet experience in combination with a talented staff has made StepForth a name synonymous with top results.

YOU'VE BEEN LIED TO...

2008-01-07T23:25:00.000-08:00

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Advertising's Most Important Word

2007-12-12T07:13:00.000-08:00

This article is written by Jerry Bader (c) 2007. If you are into advertising and online business, this article is a compulsory for you.

If you had to guess the single most important word in advertising what would it be: free, special, discount, sale, new, improved, bígger, better?

So many words have lost their meaning or been corrupted by misuse or abuse that it is not an obvious choice. The words luxury, exclusive, and world class have been rendered meaningless after being applied to everything from eight hundred square foot condos to restaurants that serve microwave frozen dinners. We can't even rely on light, diet, or low carb to actually describe what's inside a package.

What advertisers have done is create a hyper cynical marketplace, where the audience for whatever you sell has lost faith in what is being said. The Web with its emphasis on content gives advertisers a chance to redeem themselves and to deliver meaningful information to its audience.

All Content Is Advertising, All Advertising Isn't

Some may cringe at the thought, but in the final analysis all content is a form of advertising. Content is rarely if ever neutral, even if it doesn't overtly promote a product or service; content always has a point to make, or an idea, concept, or position to advance. If content doesn't provide some perspective, some meaningful knowledge, then does it really qualify as content? The same can be said for advertising, if it doesn't explain, enlighten or engage, it is just noise.

What Is Advertising's Most Important Word?

My vote goes to the simple innocuous word "like": a nondescript word that carries with it all the conceptualization power you need to create a business identity, to form a brand personality, and to position your product or service in the mind of your audience. A previous article of mine "A Website Without Video Is Like..." uses the power of metaphor to illustrate how this little four-letter word can crystallize an idea in the mind of an audience.

Metaphor + Analogy + Stories: The Adman's Best Friends

A metaphor explains complex concepts and hard to comprehend processes by comparing them to common everyday knowledge. We use metaphors everyday without even realizing we're doing it. We 'race' to the office. We work like 'dogs." And we all know, it's a 'jungle' out there. Metaphors are critical to the way we communicate with each other and to the success of our marketing communication and advertising.

Metaphors can be extended into analogies, and analogies into stories, and stories into campaigns; and campaigns developed in this manner have a higher probability of achieving the elusive status of meaningful content that embeds your message in your audience's collective consciousness. There is no better way to overcome a client's objection than to put that objection into perspective with an appropriate allegorical story.

Overcoming Objections: How Long Is Too Long?

We've all heard the constant bellyaching from impatient Web users about how long they have to wait for everything on the Web. Every time I hear this from somebody, I am reminded of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the early introduction of the Polaroid Land camera.

Before the days of one-hour photo shops, digital photography, and immediate video feedback, people had to wait up to a week for their pictures to be developed by the local pharmacy or camera shop. When Polaroid came out with a camera that delivered a finished photograph in sixty seconds, people were amazed; the era of ínstant gratification had begun.

So the story goes, a group of adventurers traveled deep into the Brazilian Rainforest to learn about the indigenous people. When they came across a tribe who hadn't seen outsiders before, they befriended them and took pictures of them with the Polaroid cameras they brought along. The natives loved the pictures since they hadn't seen anything like this before, but they did have one complaint, 'why did it take so long for the pictures to develop?'

The problem is not technology; the problem is one of perception. Like the natives who perceived the sixty second developing of photographs to be slow, so to do many Web-users perceive the Internet to be slow when in fact it is an incredible technological achievement where anyone with a computer and Internet connection can access information from all over the world in seconds or, heaven forbid, minutes.

The Better The Story, The Better The Communication

The solution to the problem is better communication, making yourself and your message instantly understood. People who are truly interested in what you have to say will wait for your Web page or video to load. What gets them frustrated is when they wait, and instead of getting a meaningful message, they get a bunch of nonsense that is irrelevant, self-congratulatory or completely incomprehensible.

A video or audio message on your website is more easily grasped than a page full of densely written text or cryptic bulleted points. But you will loose your audience quickly no matter what the form of your message if it's confusing, muddled, overly complex, or buried in b-school platitudes and industry jargon.

You need your message to be understandable, engaging, and memorable and one of the best ways to convey that message is to compare it to something your audience can relate to. It's like teaching your kids a life lesson by reading them one of Aesop's Fables.

Finding Your Metaphor

Some people have a knack for expressing things in a way that an audience will instantly grasp and more importantly remember. For those of us in the communication, marketing, advertising, and creative development businesses it is a necessary skill learned over the years. But for those in the day-to-day grind of business's nitty-gritty it is rarely an ability that ever gets developed.

Creating a Web video campaign that your audience is going to watch, remember, and pass on to colleagues requires a commitment of time and funds, and you want to make sure it communicates your message effectively. Rather than using your traditional approach concentrating on features and facts, try something different; try developing a campaign based on a metaphor that delivers your brand's personality and emotional value-add.

Where to begin? You need to set yourself free from the concrete, and concentrate on the conceptual. If this seems like a difficult thing to wrap your head around, then start with baby steps.

Concentrate On The Conceptual

Any effective marketing campaign whether it's a series of Web videos, direct emails, magazine display ads, banner ads, outdoor billboards, television and radio spots, or any combination there of, will only work if it focuses on a single message.

At the heart of all advertising is the promise you commit to delivering to your clients. No matter how clever or memorable your marketing, if you fail to deliver on that promise, you will fail.

Learn a lesson from the politicians. The general publics' opinion of politicians is about on a par with having a prostate exam. Politicians can't help themselves, they promise the electorate what the electorate wants to hear, and then fail to deliver on promises that can't be kept. Consequently, people become cynical and distrust everything politicians say.

Failure to deliver on your promise to be the cheapest, the best, or the guy with the most features, is like a politician promising no new taxes. Read my lips! Those kinds of promises are a prescription for marketing disaster.

Taking the conceptual approach requires a certain degree of confidence and an understanding that you are going to have to give something up to get something in return. If you present your identity as the Timex of widgets, inexpensive and ubiquitous; then you are giving up the audience looking for the Rolex of widgets, expensive and exclusive.

Audience Resonance: It's All About Striking A Nerve

One of the most memorable commercials ever to appear on television was the 1985 introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer. The anti-big brother message said nothing of bits or bytes, or anything else computer related, but it did establish Apple's character and personality with its allegorical message, a message that is still valid today.

If your marketing message lacks this kind of power and personality; if your advertising is getting lost, or drowned-out by the competition, try finding a metaphor that instantly tells your audience who you are and why they should care.

About The Author
Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. Visit www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads, www.136words.com and www.sonicpersonality.com. Contact at info@mrpwebmedia.com or telephone (905) 764-1246.

The Online Opportunities For Making Money

2007-11-25T07:53:00.000-08:00

This blog was created by me to provide any information about web home business that I think worth the time of my blog visitors. I do slip in a few articles or rambling from me. I don't know which level am I, in Internet Marketing but I do involve in some kind of online business or affiliates (the term they used). I think this offer that I'm going to reveal is suitable for all kind of surfer but there are many opportunities involving those who loves videos. Read the excerpt from the sales page (by a establish IM...who is it? Read on to know..) below:

What I am now about to reveal to you in this Social Media Riches Report contains the keys to unlock 35 different sites that are currently sharing their revenue with the public, just like YouTube now is! That means YOU!

________.com pays $25 for every picture that makes it into their gallery!
________.com pays $2,000 for original flash games (Can you say Elance?)
________.com pays $5 for every 1,000 views of your video. (Now, I'm sure
MySpace can help you get a few views, right?)
________.com shares its revenues 50/50 with John Q. Public!
________.com will even allow you to use their API to build a “YouTube” style website!

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! This report is jam-packed full of real ways to get paid! Can you do any of the following:

* Post In Blogs
* Take Digital Photos
* Upload Digital Videos
* Write About Topics That Interest You
* Submit News Stories

If you said YES to any of those, you could be making real money online RIGHT THIS SECOND! As a side bonus, you can also generate loads of traffic to your website!

You won’t find such a complete and comprehensive list of this kind ANYWHERE ELSE! I can almost guarantee that nobody knows all the different companies lined up to pay you RIGHT NOW, contained within this report! I’ve included 35 such companies to get you started and every single one of these websites is independently owned and will PAY YOU to: create and share videos, pictures, articles, expertise, and much more!

But that’s not all! I also have included 7 of my personal “get paid right out of the gate” tips to help you get started. It’s not only simple, easy, and fun, it also will get you paid!

For ANYONE looking to start earning real paychecks over the Internet, without changing anything that you are already doing, this is THE MUST-OWN REPORT OF THE YEAR!

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I've read the report (by Vince Tan) so I know it worth my blog visitors and readers time. It is just a matter of time before you start earning cash online (if you haven't been earning). For newbie (new online surfer), this is an offer you must not pass!

Is This Christmas Tree Really Represent Who You Are?

2007-11-24T08:16:00.000-08:00

I've done this kind of quiz befoe in Blogthings.com. I always like their quizzes because it show how provide an acurate representation of your answer in many ways. In this case, it is represented by a Christmas Tree.

You Are a Minimal Christmas Tree

You're not a total Scrooge, but you feel no need to go overboard at Christmas.
Less is more, and your Christmas reflects refined quality.

What Christmas Tree Are You?

So, what kind of Christmas Tree are you? A traditional one or a Scrooge like me or a Grinch?

First HBP Blog Meme

2007-11-22T20:23:00.000-08:00

Since I got tagged by kljs, I am play along anyways. I will use my name of N for Nimrod.

Simple instructions :

Use the first letter of your name to answer each question. Must be places, names … nothing made up. You can’t use your own name for the boy/girl’s name question. If you get stuck, skip to the next one.

Famous Singer: Norah Jones
Four Letter Word: NRJO
Street: Neerim South
Colour: Near Ultraviolet (this is one is very hard to find)
Gifts/Present: Nivea
Vehicle: Nissan
Things in Souvenir Shop: Nokia Casing (can ah?)
Boy Name: Nexon
Girl Name: Naomi
Movie title: Nightmare
Drink: Nescafe
Occupation: Nanotechnologist
Celebrity: Nicole Kidman
Magazine: Just Pick One
U.S. City: New York
Pro Sports: NASCAR (racing)
Fruit: Nenas (B.M boleh ka?)
Reason for Being Late to work: Now sir, I have a sleepless night
Something you throw away: Nubbish…just kidding…Newspaper (old ones)
Something you shout: NOOOO!!

Sentencing the next crimi…eh, bloggers
I hereby tagged:

Do if you want to. Don’t do if you don’t feel to make meme.

Memes

T forTak Feng & Li Li
M for Maruica
J for Jean Chia
K for Kenny
L for LemonJude
P for Pang Kim Fei
Y for Yung .

20 Must-Have Search Engine Marketing Tools

2007-11-22T20:10:00.000-08:00

This yet another great article that I found a MUST read for all. As long as you are in the website categry, SEM tools are compulsory for YOU.

Anyone working in Search Engine Marketing knows that this industry travels at warp speed. If you're trying to market your web site or the web sites of your clients via search engines, chances are your time is limited - severely limited.

To squeeze as much into my schedule as possible without resorting to self-cloning, my daily routine involves the use of a range of time-saving tools and software. I use such tools on a daily basis and I truly don't know how I'd function without them. I'm not the only one. I've talked to other SEM experts and they also rely on various tools to help them through their hectic schedules.

Here is a líst of 20 must-have tools used by busy SEM professionals:

1. Freshbooks Invoicing and Timesheets
Freshbooks is an online estimating, invoicing, project management and time tracking service that gives your business a professional image, no matter how small. I use it to invoice all my clients online and it can even be set up to automatically bill and debit the credít cards of recurring clients every month. It also has built in staff timesheets and project management tools for online collaboration.

Price: Free for 3 clients or less

2. XML Sitemaps Generator
The XML Sitemap Generator trawls through all levels of your site to generate an XML sitemap. It also gives you a running count of pages, provides a text-based URL líst and a HTML sitemap you can import straight into your site. The online version of the generator is free for sites of less than 500 pages, but there's also a low-cost script-based version for large sites that can be set up to automatically index your site, upload an updated XML file to your server and ping Google and Yahoo when done.

Price: Free for sites of 500 pages or less

3. Proposal Kit
ProposalKit takes the chore out of creating and tailoring client estimates and proposal contracts. With over 200 pre-designed self-guiding templates ready to fill in the blanks with your company, project/product/service and client information, ProposalKit has already half completed your proposal for you.

Price: From USD 47.00

4. ClickTracks
As far as site analytics goes, the depth and accuracy of data provided by ClickTracks just can't be beaten, in my opinion. The visual analysis ClickTracks provides is probably its best known feature, with statistical data overlaying actual screenshots of your web site pages. The ability to flag individual visitors or groups of visitors based on unique identifiers (such as all persons who visited page x or all persons who bought product d) provides a level of analysis that other analytical packages can't compete with.

Price: From USD 79.00 per month

5. AWeber
AWeber is a multiple auto responder and mailing líst management service rolled into one. Members can send an unlimited number of campaigns, follow up messages, and newsletters to an unlimited number of approved opt-ín lists. For newsletter purposes, a wide range of templates are provided, as are free training guides and videos to help you create campaigns.

Price: From USD 19.95 per month

6. JROX
JROX Affilíate Manager software (JAM) is a super powerful affilíate program that includes follow up email tools, email broadcasting, custom URLs and the ability to create up to 10 affilíate downlink levels. It offers affiliates groovy 3d Flash-based graphs and charts displaying their referrals and commissions and an organized marketing tools area for storage of banners, links and promotional materials.

Price: Free for 50 affiliates or less

7. Keyword Discovery
Keyword Discovery is an advanced keyword research and search term suggestion tool produced by Trellian.

Price: From USD 69.95 per month

8. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is free web-based site metrics / analytics software hosted by Google. After you include tracking code on all selected pages of your site, Google collects data regarding visitor activity and then you are able to log into an Analytics interface and view site activity and produce reports.

Price: $0

9) Backlinkwatch.com
Type your URL into Backlink Watch and get complete detailed information about the quality and quantity of backward links pointing to your website. It will show you anchor text, Google Toolbar PageRank, total outbound links on that page and nofollow flag for each of your inbound links available.

Price: $0

10) Jim Boykin's tools
A collection of 17 free SEO tools developed by Jim Boykin and his staff, including a cache analyzer, Backlink checker, keyword density tool and multiple inbound and outbound link checking tools.

Price: $0

11) Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmaster Central is Google's one-stop shop for webmaster resources. It contains answers to common questíons about Google crawling and indexing and guidelines for webmasters to follow when publishing their content. It also provides statistics, diagnostics and management of Google's indexing of your website, including Sitemap submission and reporting.

Price: $0

12) Yahoo! Site Explorer
Yahoo! Site Explorer is Yahoo's version of Google Webmaster Tools. It allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search, view the most popular pages from any site, view a comprehensive site map and find pages that link to that site or any page.

Price: $0

13) Ranks.nl
Ranks.nl is a keyword density and page prominence indicator. Type in a URL and target keywords to determine the page density and prominence for certain keywords within the page text and/or HTML tags.

Price: $0

14) Rex Swain's Tools
Rex Swain is an independent software developer who has uploaded a range of his custom server tools and demos to his web site. Tools include an RGB color sampler, HTTP Cookie Demo, a HTML sampler and an email form demo.

Price: $0

15) SearchStatus for Firefox
SearchStatus is a toolbar extension for Firefox and Mozilla that allows you to see how any and every website in the world is performing in the search engines.

Price: $0

16) Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is probably the world's most popular spreadsheet application. Apart from its powerful formulas for financial reporting, Excel charts and spreadsheets are great for site analytics analysis and sharing, sitemap creation, SEO/PPC campaign reporting and tracking link building campaigns.

Price: Bundled with MS Office from USD 180.00

17) Google Reader
Google Reader is a RSS and XML feed reader that constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content and presents them to you in one interface. It also allows you to share sites/pages of interest with others.

Price: $0

18) Blogger
Blogger is a popular online blog provider and templating service owned by Google, where you can quickly set up a blog of your own to post thoughts, interact with people, and more.

Price: $0

19) The Lynx Viewer
The Lynx Viewer developed by YellowPipe allows webmasters to see what their pages will look like when viewed with Lynx, a text-mode web browser. This view is very similar to how search engine robots see your site.

Price: $0

20) Basecamp
Basecamp is an online collaboration and project management service designed for staff and clients to manage internal and client projects from multiple locations.

Price: Free for 1 project

So there you have it - 20 of the most popular time-saving tools to help you with your search engine marketing efforts.

About The Author
Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business, Kalena is Director of Studies at Search Engine College - an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and other Search Engine Marketing subjects.

Links Range from Good to Bad to Ugly: Ride Your Links to Success

2007-11-22T19:39:00.000-08:00

This article id done by Frederick Townes. You can read more about him below. Enjoy reading this article.

As a site owner, it's important to devote what link building time you have to creating connections that count – really count – as far as search engine spiders are concerned. In fact, there's a range of site link types – links diversity. Some are more valuable than others. Spend your time and resources building the highest quality links and you'll quickly see the value of these efforts.

Hosted Content

Hosted content, also sometimes called pre-sell pages, makes your site look very good. The problem is, there are usually costs involved. Here's how it works.

You, the content expert, write an article. It should be longer than 600 words but no longer than 1200 words. It should be well-written, completely researched, edited, re-edited and finally proofed so that it's letter perfect. Okay, now you have host-worthy content.

Hosted content is content that's placed on another site for a fee. In other words, you rent a page on another site to display your work. Now, what do you get for your money?

First, position your article on a site that's (1) related to the topicality of your site and (2) has a tons of one-way links to content that's "deep" in the site (in other words sub-pages that rank well in SERPs based on their title tags, for example). These two factors are the best way to measure and quantify the strength your page has in the target site, and ultimately, the link love it creates passes to your site. As you already know hosted content creates editorial inbound links, also known as pure gold.

Second, because it's your article and you're paying for the space, you can embed text links directly to specific pages of your site. This does a couple of things. First, you spread your web net further. Links to your site now appear on other sites – some several incarnations removed from your own site. This, ultimately, increases your site traffíc as people read your interesting commentary and click on those embedded links to see what else is on your mind. That's good. More hits. More page views. Higher conversion ratios.

Third, if you spread your words across the web, you start to develop some name recognition within your niche. Unless you're Dan Kennedy or Skip McGrath, it's tough building name recognition. However, by crafting numerous, informative articles you'll start to be recognized. And wait until you Google your name and find 15 SERPs because your articles appear on dozens and dozens of sites.

The downside is the cost. Site owners charge you for the use of their space. If you're well capitalized, no problem. Spend the money to spread your words. If money is a problem, choose your host sites carefully. Use Google Analytics or ClickTracks data to determine not only number of unique visitors you create from these pages of hosted content, but quality of traffíc as well. Look for sites that match the two criteria above. Very important.

Article Submission

Okay, money is a problem. You don't have a lot. You can still get your name and your opinions out there through various article submission sites.

Once again, site owners need great content and many rely on article submission sites to pick up fresh content for free. Here's the deal. You write an article and go through the same steps of researching, editing and proofing until the piece is pristine and makes you sound like a savant. Perfect.

Now you place that piece on sites like www.goarticles.com or www.ezinearticles.com for free use by other sites. The plus side is, if the content is solid, you'll get picked up by literally hundreds (even thousands) of sites. And in return for the free use of your written brilliance, the sites that display your content are obliged to include a link back to your web site. So, you put out 10 articles on topics related to your business, each one gets picked up and used by 20 other sites and you've got 200 non-reciprocal inbound links. Well done.

But isn't this the same model as hosted content except it's free? No. There are two key points to consider. First, with articles you syndicate it's much more difficult to embed editorial links to your targeted web site. Instead, you take advantage of the target link and anchor text in your bio box that appears at the end of the article.

What does this mean? Ultimately syndicated articles are not unique content like hosted content is, and ultimately it's more challenging to place links to your own site editorially without appearing to be hyping your goods or services. So there's a tradeoff when you go the article syndication route. The key, just as with hosted content, is to have killer, useful information in order to entice webmasters to repurpose the article for their communities and give you credít, a bio and a back link.

But, it doesn't cost you anything but your time, assuming you can string words together into cogent sentences, or at least your brother-in-law can.

If you're good at syndicated content or article submission, you control the anchor text – the actual links readers click on. You can also embed editorial links in syndicated content. Now, these aren't links directly back to your site, but they will take the readers to a target page that you want them to read, so if you're building links for other sites in your portfolio, this approach has a proven track record.

Reciprocal Links

Sites still exchange links. The concept isn't moribund, but it certainly doesn't have the impact a non-reciprocal link has. Reciprocal linking is simply an exchange of links. You link to my site; I'll link to yours. And since spiders follow links, it's not a bad arrangement.

A couple of warnings, however. Any site with which you exchange links should be related to the topic of your site. If you're selling baby clothes on your site and you've got a link to a transmission fix-it site, you'll get nicked by the search engine. Remember, the whole purpose of a search engine is to provide useful, relevant content to users so any links you exchange should be considered from the point of view of the site visitor. Is that link going to further the search of the site visitor or is it a dead end?

If a site appears to have a significant number of back links, and better yet, ranks well in the SERPs, it's a likely candidate for a link exchange even if it's a PR 2. Look for quality sites, or at least quality characteristics.

One-Way Link Building

This comes in several forms. First, there's the ever-popular 'link begging' where you contact a site owner (you can find that information in Whois, if it's not on the contact page) and basically plead your case to have that site owner accept your link. This is a tough sell because, naturally, the site owner wants to know what's in it for him or her. Custom written, tailored emails tend to do better than form letter emails, obviously, and there's definitely nothing wrong with a telephone call provided you make it abundantly clear what you have to offer.

There are paid links programs. For example, www.textlinkads.com lists web sites willing to sell links to your site. You can bid on the cost of the link, agree to the length of time the link will appear and where it will appear. There are other programs that will hook up sites – usually with decent PRs – with site owners looking for good deals on paid links. Again, don't forget to buy links with relevance to your site.

You can pay to advertise on another site with banner ads, though this has been shown to deliver lukewarm results unless you know your market very well. Do a competitive analysis and see what's working for the competition. The click-thru rate on banners is less than 3% but they aren't usually too expensive.

Finally, you can post your thoughts and opinions on forums and blogs related to your site. Each post will create a back link, but one that spiders will recognize as a blog back link – not a bad thing, just not a gangbusters way to build site credibility, especially considering that most links have a nofollow added and forums capable of giving any link love tend to moderate (and eliminate link sp@m) quite heavily. Don't be fooled though, links even with a nofollow attached still have some magic – even on Google.

From hosted content to blog posts, anybody can get a little recognition on the web. And if you've actually got marketing capital, you can pay for hosted content and watch your site grow quickly.

Very quickly.

About The Author
Frederick Townes is the the owner of W3 EDGE Web Design. W3 EDGE is a Boston web design company that provides extensive conversion optimization, SEO-friendly web designs and Internet Marketing services. W3 EDGE is also pleased to provide their clients reliable professional web hostíng solutions with tons of features and extremely fast servers.

Window Film?

2007-11-21T21:11:00.000-08:00

Here comes a new product. At first, when I came across these words, I thought it is a new kind of film but actually it is talking about window tinting. So, I then Google the word tint and found this site called SnapTint.com, which specialize in Window Film DIY (Do-It-Yourself) installation.

They even have their own installation videos, so that you can easily DIY at your home. This company also provide DIY car tint Kit, pre-cut for easy installation and came with lifetime warranty. Their car and home window tinting kits are made for easy installation, and are pre-cut to the precise measurements you need. Window film comes in many colors and varieties. It can not only enhances the look of a car or home, but also provide many practical benefits like:
* Glare reduction
* UV protection
* Heat rejection

So, be sure to purchase your DIY Home/Car Tint Kit from SnapTint.com

What Is Blog Readability?

2007-11-21T07:33:00.000-08:00

Blog readability is simply pointing to the level of education required by the reader in oder to understand the blog. I came across this Blog Readability Test at Kenny's blog, and decided to put this blog to the test. To my surprise,

my blog require a blog reader that graduated from college. I think this is due to my recent inclusion of articles from other authors that seems to use very complex words because I never use many sophisticated in my normal post or even, my paid review (shhh...Google is listening. So, here is the result:

Stupendous eh...I never thought my blog will be so hard to understand...I hope everybody can understand this post though...LOL

How Can I Forget This Blog?

2007-11-21T05:56:00.000-08:00

It is been a while since I wrote a very personal note on this blog and it been 5 days since I last blogged. I've not been in the mood to blog because my other blog is somehow mysteriously gone blank. I'm actually have a lot of time to blog since it is a school holidays in Malaysia. Today, I just remember that I do have other blog to take care of, and it is this blog. This blog was my first ever blog creation but since I got my own hosted blog, I spend a lot of my time there. I do come back to this blog to post some great article and do my PPP post, including one successful PPP Direct post. So, if anybody want my honest review for your blog or website, my fee (if I can call it like that) is only $5. How can you pass such a low price?

I do get some traffic to this blog through MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. So, your money will be worth it if you want an honest review of your site. Ok, moving on to the next topic. I just have to thank a few person that supported my blogging effort. Firstly, to PapaJoneh as my inspiration to blog and for his attempt for trying to revive my other blog. Secondly, to Kenny and GeminiGeek for answering my help request in Malaysian Blogger Forum. Thirdly, special thanks to Diana and Ben for their moral support when I faced some sort of problem. So, in the future when my other blog is down or something, you guys can always find me here, at Home Based Product.

New SEO Company

2007-11-16T21:43:00.000-08:00

When is the last time you stumble upon a new SEO Company? It is my great pleasure to introduce this new SEO Company to all of you. On top of your browser, you will see the title for this site is 'ROI Focused International Search Engine Marketing..'. When I read it, my first thought is 'what is ROI?'

I googled the word and found out the meaning. Then, I realize that it was stated in the second paragraph of their homepage. What can I say about this website? Firstly, I like it when I open a website especially company website and immediately can read about the company background. That's exactly what you can get from this website. In the 1st paragraph, you directly have the overall idea of this company, a search engine marketing firm.

The next thing that I like about this site is they offer a FREE SEM evaluation. Now, who can top that? (Tell me..tell me...if there is any..) but you need to wait for their reply. You need to fill in a form and give your basic detail. The web design is neat and easy to navigate. The only thing to do is a simple but creative logo. That should be a bonus for this website. So, if you have time, give this new SEO Company a visit.

Signs It's Time To Redesign Your Website

2007-11-16T20:44:00.000-08:00

This is an article for those websites that really need a makeover. Read this author statement.

Designing your first website is a stressful undertaking. It requires you to dig deep into your business in order to write the copy for your site. You need to work with a designer and go through the process of creating a site that looks unique and works well. Plus you'll end up investing a lot of time, energy and money. And finally, after all that, you're finished and it's time for the site to go live. What a relief!

Many business owners go through this same process. By the time the process is finished, many entrepreneurs are very glad that it's over - and don't want to do it again anytime soon

Unfortunately, websites don't last forever. Even if you plan your site to work for the current vision for your business, you can't accurately account for the entire future of your business.

Eventually you'll have to make some changes to your website. Some of these changes can be accomplished with simple maintenance, and by making updates to your site. But there's only so far that patching and revising your current site can go. If your site is particularly outdated, or if it's not working well for you, it's probably time to consider a full-scale site redesign.

Some signs that it's time to redesign your site include:

Your Business Has Changed or Grown

If your business is no longer the same as it was when you designed your site, chances are that you should redesign your website to reflect that. If you've only had a few small changes, you might be able to just update your current website. But, if you've changed your business direction, decided to provide new products or services, or if your company has grown significantly, it will pay off to redesign your site. Reconsider how the changes to your business should be reflected or addressed in the structure, design and strategy behind your website.

Your Site Looks Like It Was Designed in 1995

Some signs of an outdated web site include: chunky, slow-loading graphics, old-style "framed" coding, where the site is divided up into panes that load separately, little animated cartoon clip-art throughout the site, and text created as images instead of in HTML. Having any of these on your site could reflect poorly on your business, making you look 'behind the times'. It can also make you look like you don't care enough about your business or about technological advances to keep abreast of them. Keeping your company's website looking modern will improve its credibility.

The Information on Your Site Isn't User-Friendly

If you cringe when you read your site text, or if you regularly get questíons on your site text from visitors, re-structuring your copy or rewriting it can help to fix these problems. If you've been adding to your site over time and the navigation has become unwieldy or confusing, restructuring your navigation could be another pressing reason to redesign your site. You want visitors to be able to easily find their way around your site and to be able to access all the information you have within a few clicks. Laying out your site to make that possible can make your visitor's experience on your site a lot easier.

You Apologize for the Site When Referencing It or Handing Out Your Business Cards

Your site should be a source of pride. It should provide your clients and prospects an easy way to get a lot of information about your business. And, if you have to apologize for out-of-date information, broken images, poor design, difficult navigation or anything else on your site, it makes you look unprepared and unprofessional. Make sure your site is in top shape and looks impressive, so your clients believe your business is in good shape too.

You're Not Getting Good Results in the Search Engines

Poor rankings in the Search Engines can be a result of not optimizing your site well. Poor search engine ranking can also be a result of bad design choices or coding on your site. Make sure that your site isn't designed using frames and that the text is coded in HTML. Flash sites are also more difficult to optimize for Search Engines.

It's Not Bringing in inquiries and Helping You to Make Sales

If your site was designed long ago, then there's a good chance that it was designed as "brochureware". This means that the site was designed just to act as an online brochure. This was very common a few years ago, when websites were new. But recently businesses have realized that a website can do a lot more than just impersonate your brochure - it can help you close sales, bring in new prospects and make your business easier to run. To bring in more inquiries and make more sales include the following when you redesign your site:

Calls to action to encourage your visitors to take specific actions - like purchasing something, contacting you, or signing up for a newsletter.
Forms, scripts, or programs to make your business easier - like contact forms, project estimating tools, and an autoresponder email series that can help you keep in touch with your clients and prospects. Including a shopping cart or Paypal buttons on your site can also help you to make more sales without any additional work.
Downloadable information packets, articles, questionnaires and white papers can answer a prospect's questíons about your products or services and help them to move closer to buying. And, if you require the prospect to enter their email address or other contact information, it can help you to grow your prospect líst as well. These are just a few of the functions that your site can perform for your business. To get ideas for other ways that your site can help you improve your business, look at the other sites that you visit and note the functions they perform.

Your Site is Costing You a Fortune to Update

If you're racking up huge bills because of changes and still have a lot to go, it might be time to consider a whole site redesign. Make a líst of everything that you want to do on your site and consult a web designer about redesigning your site with those changes in mind. Often, if you have extensive changes to make to your site, it can be less expensive to just start over.

If your site is designed in Flash or coded in such a way that you can't maintain it yourself, redesigning and re-coding your site could allow you to do so. Having the ability to make changes and update your own text will let you make revisions quickly, at no expense. And you can play with your site and make revisions to see what will work best for your business and clients.

If your site has any of the problems mentioned here, it's time to redesign. The steps needed to update and revise will differ depending on the problems and issues that your site has - you may not have to start from scratch. But, do make sure that you address all of the problems that your site has so that you won't have to redesign again any time soon!

About The Author
Erin Ferree is a brand identity designer who creates big visibility for small businesses. Her workbook, "Design a Website That Works", will walk you through all of the questíons that you need to answer in order to create the best possible website. Elf-Design.com Web Workbook.

Cornerstones of an Effective Website

2007-11-16T20:34:00.000-08:00

This article is recommended for those who are thinking of building a websites or starting a blog or anything that concerning website. Do give credit to the author of this article.

Just about everyone has a website today. Certainly, if you're in business one way or another, you have a website. And people have different objectives behind their sites. Some are content-driven. Others provide an online service and have sophisticated user interfaces. Others still are designed to entertain and amuse their visitors. But regardless what your website is designed to do, there are a few primary objectives you should keep in mind before you start building.

Focus
This first website objective is FOCUS. Your site needs to have a narrow and specific focus. Why is this? Because there are literally millíons of websites out there and the visitors you're lucky enough to attract will only take a few seconds to decide whether they'll stick around or whether they'll simply click the back button and continue browsing elsewhere. Within those few seconds, your site needs to communicate exactly what it's designed to do so the visitor can decide if it meets his or her needs or not.

One of the best exercises to enhance the focus of your site is to establish a 15 to 25-word positioning statement that guides all your development activity going forward. Think about it like a mission statement. It should articulate exactly what your website does in just 15 to 25 words.

Another way to look at it is to do a Google search for a keyword in your field and see what comes up in the results page. Under each listing, there's a short description of what that site is all about. As it turns out, the search engines get that description from the meta tags on those websites but it's exactly the same thing. What do you want YOUR description to say?

Once you've established a positioning statement, you should display it prominently on your homepage. It should be one of the first things visitors see when they land on your website. And as I mentioned above, the same statement should be included in your meta tags as your site description. That way, the search engines know exactly what your site is about at the same time. And if your site shows up in a search results page, that description will show up as part of your listing.

Depth
The second objective is DEPTH. Again, this objective serves your visitors as well as the search engines. Build a massive amount of content all about your narrow business focus. That way, if a visitor lands on your website and decides in the first few seconds that they need what you're providing, they'll go on to find a ton of resources all about that topic, satisfying their need and establishing trust along the way.

Depth of content helps your website with the search engines as well. Google uses complicated algorithms to assess value to different websites and one of the biggest things they look for is content. If your website has a narrow focus and lots of content about that focus, it will get ranked higher within your area of expertise. Google will consider your site a good resource for people searching for your narrow focus.

Sticky
The third objective is to make your site STICKY. This is a relatively new term that describes a website's ability to keep a visitor on the site. A lot of sites do a fairly good job of attracting visitors but many of those visitors take one look at the site and leave within a second or two. As I mentioned earlier, the positioning statement can do a lot to help someone understand what your site is designed to do. But you need more than that to keep them browsing.

The visitor needs to see immediate value when they visit your site. They need to see something that will benefit them right away. They need to see something they can use to make their own lives better. This is the foundation behind today's value-first marketing moniker. People have been over-marketed and have become skeptical in clever marketing slogans. They want to see the value. They want proof that you can deliver. They want to sample your product or service before they buy anything.

You should spend some time and think about what you can provide your website visitors as soon as they land on your site. It could be information. It could be a tool or calculator of some kind. It could be a free subscription. It could be an entertaining video or an interactive game they can play. Whatever it is, you need to capture your visitor within seconds and guide them to something that will benefit them.

Once they've received one piece of value, give them a second and then a third. Guide them through a maze of value, encouraging them to continue browsing and discovering even more. This is the key to a sticky website and you can get a good idea of your progress by measuring your average time on the site through your analytics platform.

There are a million different websites out there and they're all designed to achieve different objectives. But each one of those websites can be a bit better by incorporating more focus, depth and stickiness. All three improve your website's effectiveness and all three provide benefits with the search engines as well.

About The Author
Tactical Execution with Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a strategic company focused on growth marketing and program implementation across business markets. Visit the website for actionable guidance for revenue generation.

Travelling Is Fun

2007-11-09T07:16:00.000-08:00

Me and my wife always discuss about going oversea to take a vacation or simply just travel to a place that we never visit. One thing that all traveler required is a place to stay and the common place to stay is at a hotel. If you are planning to travel oversea (like us), then you need to make a Hotel Reservations, and be sure to make a reservation at HotelReservations.com. Why do you need to make reservation there?

There are a few highlights that needed to be mention here:

1. You can make reservation prior to your travel without actually being there, physically. That is the wonder of hotel reservations on the Internet, without compromising the important information that need to be known.

2. HotelReservations.com offers to lowest rates and they guarantee it. You can get $100 rebate when you make your Hotel Reservations on this site. It is also stated on their homepage that you can save up to 70% when you do your reservations.

3. You can make reservations, not only for hotel or motel, but you can also make reservations for car rental, flight rental and even vacation rental. Check out their vacation packages also.

So, make sure if you want to travel to USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Spain or other interesting country, do make your Hotel Reservations at HotelReservations.com, because if we (me and my wife) travel oversea, we will definitely book through this website.

New Website? It's Time To Think Links

2007-11-02T09:17:00.000-07:00

Another interesting article that we can read through especially for those of you that recently build a website.

By Matt Jackson(c) 2007

Link building has long been the staple dietary topic for SEO and Internet marketing experts, but with good reason. This is hardly ground breaking news but having a powerful link profile will help you to rank well in the search engines. Having an especially powerful link profile will also drive traffic directly to your website.

As the webmaster of a new site, there are several things you must do. First, you need to create a genuinely useful website filled with equally useful and informative content. You need to ready yourself to add fresh content on a frequent basis, in order to retain existing site visitors and to attract the search engine spiders. You also need to start building links – a good link profile takes time to develop so it is essential that you start as soon as possible. Below are some of the more and less effective methods of building quality inbound links to your new website.

Create Quality Content

OK, we've already mentioned this in passing, but it's important. Linkable content will get linked to (eventually). You may not have the traffic base to command links organically in this way yet, but you will do soon. Unique, informative, and even controversial content will ultimately see other sites willing to link to your own.

Video marketing has become especially popular because of its viral nature. You can create a good video clip, embed it into a page of your site and include "email to a friend" links. Also ensure that it is well branded so that everybody knows where the video first came from.

Free Directory Submissions

You should submit your site to a lot of web directories over time. If your domain is brand new then you should attempt to limit the amount of submissions you make in the first month. Google is believed to penalize sites that build too many links too quickly in this way. However, free directories can take days, weeks, or even months before they get round to accepting your submission so do start early.

As well as general category directories for your search engine link profile, you should research industry specific directories. These will also help your search engine ranking, but they can drive excellent levels of targeted traffíc to your site. Consider paying some of the bigger and more influential directories for an annual submission.

Paid Directory Submissions

Free directories typically only allow you to link to the main page of your website, but most also allow you to choose the title of your link. This gives you the opportunity to build your links according to your keywords, which is an essential component of link building for search engine rankings. Paid directories, on the other hand, also usually allow deep linking to individual pages of your website.

Consider paying for one or two annual subscriptions to the better directories. Yahoo is perhaps the most expensive at $299 per annum but it commands a lot of respect and a lot of traffic. Business.com isn't much cheaper ($199) but is almost on an equal footing. Less expensive directories include Best Of The Web and Uncover The Net.

Join Forums And Post Relevant Comments

Forums are, in reality, becoming less popular. The advent of the oft discussed web 2.0 means that the forum is seen as something of a dying trend. However, a lot of people do still use them and they do offer the opportunity to garner your website with some traffic and provide you with signature links.

Join forums that are relevant to your industry, create a signature link using your more important keywords and then browse. Find topics that genuinely interest you, or areas where you can offer assistance. Post comments, without linking to your site, and rely on your signature link to do the rest. If you provide genuine, helpful information then you may find that you pick up some very interested leads along the way.

Request Links

You don't get anything if you don't ask. Find relevant websites, though not in direct competition to your own site, and request a link. Point out a particularly useful section of your website content that is easily linkable and offer the HTML code to provide a link.

This isn't, in all honesty, the best way to spend your linking time. It can take many attempts with various websites before you get an acceptance and a link to your site. Webmasters will usually link to sites they have genuinely found themselves, or else sell their advertising spaces. Alternatively, they may only link to other sites within their own network.

Tagging And Social Bookmarking

So, you've read all about social bookmarking and tagging, but don't know how it can help your site? Well, the principle is fairly simple – join the social bookmarking sites, create a list of useful sites including one or two of your own, and then publish them. Some search engines are known to be particularly fond of using links found in this way. Also, if your list is genuinely useful then you should find some traffic diverts to your own site as a result.

Blog Commenting

Find blogs that are relevant to your industry and your site and sign up. Most blogs provide the opportunity to link to your site via your name so pick a name that includes relevant keywords. Like forums, only post relevant content and comments. Answers like "me too" do not count. If you don't have something valuable to add, then don't add anything, and move on to the next link building venture, please!

Article Syndication

Write articles, or have them written for you, and submit them to syndication websites. GoArticles and EzineArticles are among the more popular syndication sites and the article pages typically rank well. You have the opportunity to include two biographical links with most article directories, and these should point to the relevant pages on your site and include keywords as the anchor text.

Article syndication is a very good method of building links, but only if you can create article content that is appealing to visitors and to webmasters. However, one good article could generate many links and hundreds or even thousands of visitors to your website.

Offer Content To Other Sites

This is similar, although more specific, than article syndication. Contact webmasters of websites that operate in the same industry as you. Offer unique content in exchange for a link or links to your website. Again, if you can write well, then you shouldn't find it too difficult to find an avenue for publication of your work.

A lot of sites actively look for submissions in this way, so keep an eye out when you are next browsing the web.

Press Release Submissions

Press releases have been around a long time, and are still going fairly strong online. Again, press releases offer the opportunity to drive interested traffic to your website and some PR wires allow authors to include links to their website. PRLeap and PRWeb are among two of the more popular and beneficial sites to submit your PR to.

Reciprocal Links

I find myself sitting on the fence when it comes to reciprocal links. Once upon a time, a reciprocal link campaign was the most popular way of building links. You exchange links with another website and you both benefit. They do still have their place, if you can negotiate a well placed link on a relevant website with a lot of traffic. However, in terms of SEO, reciprocal links are known to have been devalued by the search engines. Consider every reciprocal link opportunity based on its own merit and, in most cases, ignoring the search engine optimization possibilities.

Don't Spam Blogs And Forums

Above, we have detailed a couple of link building methods that include posting on forums and blogs. Please, don't spam. Spam is the scourge of the online world and something that every site owner could do without. Spamming will make you unpopular, may get your site delisted, and it sure won't make you any friends.

Don't Use FFA Link Farms

A FFA (Free For All) website enables any website owner to place their link on a web page. Don't do it. Search engines despise this practice and you will not gain any benefit in any way from the use of this kind of site.

Avoid Any Dubious Link Building Practice

If you see a link building opportunity that looks dodgy, ignore it. At best you will waste your time, but at worst your site could be penalized and you may never be able to recover. If it looks too good to be true... you know the rest.

About The Author
WebWiseWords offers an article writing and submission service as well as various other forms of website content writing and creation. Visit us today for help in creating compelling content and marketing your website.

47 Simple Ways to Build Trust in Your Website or Blog

2007-11-02T09:13:00.000-07:00

By Miles Galliford (c) 2007

If your website does not create a sense of trust in your visitors, all your efforts will be in vain. Your online business will not succeed. That's the bad news. The good news is that it is very easy to create and build trust in your online visitors. Below, I have listed all the techniques used by the hundreds of websites I have helped launch. If you have additional techniques, please add them to the líst.

As the old saying goes, you have only one chance to make a first impression. Building trust cannot be achieved by one single action. Trust is achieved by hundreds of little things you do throughout your website that, when taken together, give readers a sense of honesty, legitimacy and stability.

The other bit of good news is that few website owners focus on building trust in the minds of their visitors. If you do it well, it can become a real and sustainable competitive advantage.

Here are 47 simple actions you can take to get started.

1. Trust is built by lots of small actions on every page of your website.

2. Your website design is the first impression. Make sure it is professional and relevant to the subject matter.

3. Navigation must be intuitive. If visitors can't find what they are looking for easily, they will question your competence in providing what they want.

4. Make the website personal by giving it its own tone and voice. People buy people.

5. Follow the HEART rule of creating online content. (Reminder: HEART stands for Honest, Exclusive, Accurate, Relevant and Timely.)

6. Use language that is appropriate to the audience. It will build empathy.

7. Regularly add new content to your site. It shows that the business is alive and kicking.

8. Review all links. Doubts will quickly form in your visitors' minds if links don't work or, worse still, take them to error pages.

9. Good grammar and spelling matter. Errors give the impression of sloppiness and carelessness.

10. Don't make outrageous and unbelievable claims, like "Read this blog and you'll be a millionaire by the end of the week." People are used to scams, get-rich-quick schemes and rip-offs.

Get Top 10 Rankings on Google & Yahoo!

11. Publish REAL testimonials and third-party endorsements. Try to always use real names and link to websites where possible. Some sites show images of letters sent by happy customers.

12. Publish case studies about customers you have helped, who use your product, etc.

13. Don't put down, curse or insult competitors. It's unprofessional. It is better to offer an objective comparison of competitive services or products.

14. Focus on building your long-term reputation, not on making quick sales.

15. Write articles for humans, not search engines.

16. Make your 'About Us' page personal and comprehensive. It plays an important part in making visitors feel comfortable that real people are behind the site.

17. Publish your photo or the photos of the key people involved with the site. Again, this reinforces the fact that there are real people behind the screenshots.

18. Clearly identify who is behind the site. Nothing creates more suspicion than a site that tries to hide the identity of its publishers.

19. On the 'Contact Us' page, provide an email form, telephone number, fax and address of the company. In Europe, it is a legal requirement for sites taking funds, but even sites driven by advertising will benefit from openness.

20. Provide a telephone number that people can call and talk to a person.

21. Provide Web addresses linked to the website domain, not addresses from free webmail services such as Hotmail and Gmail.

Forget Expensive PPC Advertising - There is an Alternative!

22. Don't lie to make money. The most common way is to write a glowing report about a product or service to earn affilíate revenues. It is very short-sighted to lie to visitors to sell them rubbish. They'll won't come back or, worse still, they'll actively condemn your site on forums and blogs.

23. Think carefully about reciprocal links. If your site is about organic food and you have links to Party Poker, people are going to question your integrity.

24. Think carefully about the adverts you display on your site. Ensure that they are relevant to your subject and audience.

25. Be explicit when you are being paid to endorse a product or service. An advertorial is fine as long as it is transparent. Paid-to-post is corrupting the Web and will experience a user backlash. I don't read websites that accept payment for posting.

26. Write and publish your privacy policy. Be clear about what you will and will not do with any personal data you collect. State that you adhere to all data protection laws. Make it easy to read and don't use legal gobbledygook.

27. Write and publish a security policy. State what measures you take to ensure that all transactions are secure.

28. Ensure that you have a security and privacy policy which is linked from the footer on every page. Make the link more prominent on all the order pages.

29. Clearly publish your guarantëe. I would recommend making it a 100% money-back guarantëe if possible.

30. Clearly state your refund and returns policy.

31. Piggyback off reputable brands. If you use PayPal, put the PayPal logo on your site. If you have a merchant services account with a major bank like Citibank or HSBC, put its logo on your site.

32. Use Google search on your site for two reasons. First, it is a great search solution which will help your visitors find what they are looking for. Second, having the Google name on your site instills trust.

33. If there are well-known industry associations for your subject, join up and put their logos on your site.

34. Have a forum on your site and respond quickly to questíons. Have the attitude that you are happy to help others without receiving immediate reward. As the old saying goes, 'Givers always gain.'

35. Allow people to comment on articles. Interactivity and an exchange of views build community and a sense of involvement.

36. If people provide constructive criticism or comments in the forum, don't delete them, but respond with your point of view.

37. Put photos on the website of the owners, publishers and/or team. Let visitors know there are real people behind the business.

38. Put images of the credít cards you accept on every page of the order process.

39. Use the words 'secure website' whenever you try to get any information from visitors, including newsletter sign-ups, forum input and payment.

40. On every page, state, "We take your privacy and security very seriously." Link the statement to the security and privacy policy.

41. Remember, reputations take years to build and seconds to destroy.

42. If you are selling a subscription, offer a low-cost, entry-level option. This could be a one-day taster, 'a week before billing starts' or a monthly tríal.

43. Use a high level of security when processing credít cards. Make sure you make your clients aware of all the steps you are taking.

44. Don't send credít card information or personal details over the Internet unencrypted. Tell your customers that their data will be encrypted.

45. Only ask for information from customers that you really need. For example, for an email newsletter sign-up, the only information you REALLY need is an email address, so that is all you should ask for.

46. If you have pricing on your website, make it transparent. I recently went to buy a book which was advertised for $10. When I checked out, they added tax, post and packaging, and the final bill was $19.50. I didn't buy it as I felt they had deliberately tried to mislead me.

47. Keep your SSL certificate up to date. Let people know you are using SSL encryption and who the provider is.

You can't do too much to build trust. Most of it comes down to common sense and good business practice. To ensure that you are continually improving your trustworthiness, every time you go to a website, ask yourself whether you trust it or not. Then ask yourself why you have formed the opinion you have. Continually try to learn what makes a site trustworthy or untrustworthy and implement the relevant changes to your site.

If people trust you, the revenue will follow!

About The Author
SubHub provides an all-in-one solution to enable you to rapidly design, build and run your own content website. Publish for profít on the web. Website: SubHub.com SubHub Articles Feed

Cornerstones of an Effective Website

2007-10-15T01:57:00.000-07:00

Do you want an effective websites or blogs. Well, you have come to the right place.

By Patrick Schwerdtfeger (c) 2007

Just about everyone has a website today. Certainly, if you're in business one way or another, you have a website. And people have different objectives behind their sites. Some are content-driven. Others provide an online service and have sophisticated user interfaces. Others still are designed to entertain and amuse their visitors. But regardless what your website is designed to do, there are a few primary objectives you should keep in mind before you start building.

Focus
This first website objective is FOCUS. Your site needs to have a narrow and specific focus. Why is this? Because there are literally millíons of websites out there and the visitors you're lucky enough to attract will only take a few seconds to decide whether they'll stick around or whether they'll simply click the back button and continue browsing elsewhere. Within those few seconds, your site needs to communicate exactly what it's designed to do so the visitor can decide if it meets his or her needs or not.

One of the best exercises to enhance the focus of your site is to establish a 15 to 25-word positioning statement that guides all your development activity going forward. Think about it like a mission statement. It should articulate exactly what your website does in just 15 to 25 words.

Another way to look at it is to do a Google search for a keyword in your field and see what comes up in the results page. Under each listing, there's a short description of what that site is all about. As it turns out, the search engines get that description from the meta tags on those websites but it's exactly the same thing. What do you want YOUR description to say?

Once you've established a positioning statement, you should display it prominently on your homepage. It should be one of the first things visitors see when they land on your website. And as I mentioned above, the same statement should be included in your meta tags as your site description. That way, the search engines know exactly what your site is about at the same time. And if your site shows up in a search results page, that description will show up as part of your listing.

Depth
The second objective is DEPTH. Again, this objective serves your visitors as well as the search engines. Build a massive amount of content all about your narrow business focus. That way, if a visitor lands on your website and decides in the first few seconds that they need what you're providing, they'll go on to find a ton of resources all about that topic, satisfying their need and establishing trust along the way.

Depth of content helps your website with the search engines as well. Google uses complicated algorithms to assess value to different websites and one of the biggest things they look for is content. If your website has a narrow focus and lots of content about that focus, it will get ranked higher within your area of expertise. Google will consider your site a good resource for people searching for your narrow focus.

Sticky
The third objective is to make your site STICKY. This is a relatively new term that describes a website's ability to keep a visitor on the site. A lot of sites do a fairly good job of attracting visitors but many of those visitors take one look at the site and leave within a second or two. As I mentioned earlier, the positioning statement can do a lot to help someone understand what your site is designed to do. But you need more than that to keep them browsing.

The visitor needs to see immediate value when they visit your site. They need to see something that will benefit them right away. They need to see something they can use to make their own lives better. This is the foundation behind today's value-first marketing moniker. People have been over-marketed and have become skeptical in clever marketing slogans. They want to see the value. They want proof that you can deliver. They want to sample your product or service before they buy anything.

You should spend some time and think about what you can provide your website visitors as soon as they land on your site. It could be information. It could be a tool or calculator of some kind. It could be a free subscription. It could be an entertaining video or an interactive game they can play. Whatever it is, you need to capture your visitor within seconds and guide them to something that will benefit them.

Once they've received one piece of value, give them a second and then a third. Guide them through a maze of value, encouraging them to continue browsing and discovering even more. This is the key to a sticky website and you can get a good idea of your progress by measuring your average time on the site through your analytics platform.

There are a million different websites out there and they're all designed to achieve different objectives. But each one of those websites can be a bit better by incorporating more focus, depth and stickiness. All three improve your website's effectiveness and all three provide benefits with the search engines as well.

About The Author
Tactical Execution with Patrick Schwerdtfeger is a strategic company focused on growth marketing and program implementation across business markets. Visit the website for actionable guidance for revenue generation.

Special Occasion!

2007-10-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

I think this is my post of the year. Why? Because this is the first time I announce to the online community that today is My Wife's Birthday, 15th Oktober 2007 and the same date every year. With my wife permission, I can put up my beautiful wife photo.

With this, I would like to say "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAYANG (DEAR)!". I will ask her to read this entry later. She is busy preparing for tonight birthday party. I know I should serve her but she is a better cook than me. At least, I pay for her cake. If you want to know my wife's name or how old is she (this is highly confidential), you have to ask for her permission, through me in the comment section or I will have her read all of the comment to this post. I will be waiting for my online friends to do so.

She's been asking for extra storage. I know that CarGuyGarage.com can give the storage solutions that we need but not for the time being. Maybe I will check it out next year after I had done enough sponsored post to be able to have that extra storage. This site I talking about have more than 1,000 products for our home garage. Unfortunately, my home doesn't have garage. Maybe I just opt for the products the site offering. I hope there will be enough money for next year.

Maybe you are interested to try out their services? Just go here to check it out.

Advertising's Most Important Word

2007-10-14T20:28:00.000-07:00

This is an interesting article for all online marketer to read. I find this article very useful. Read on.

By Jerry Bader (c) 2007

If you had to guess the single most important word in advertising what would it be: free, special, discount, sale, new, improved, bígger, better?

So many words have lost their meaning or been corrupted by misuse or abuse that it is not an obvious choice. The words luxury, exclusive, and world class have been rendered meaningless after being applied to everything from eight hundred square foot condos to restaurants that serve microwave frozen dinners. We can't even rely on light, diet, or low carb to actually describe what's inside a package.

What advertisers have done is create a hyper cynical marketplace, where the audience for whatever you sell has lost faith in what is being said. The Web with its emphasis on content gives advertisers a chance to redeem themselves and to deliver meaningful information to its audience.

All Content Is Advertising, All Advertising Isn't

Some may cringe at the thought, but in the final analysis all content is a form of advertising. Content is rarely if ever neutral, even if it doesn't overtly promote a product or service; content always has a point to make, or an idea, concept, or position to advance. If content doesn't provide some perspective, some meaningful knowledge, then does it really qualify as content? The same can be said for advertising, if it doesn't explain, enlighten or engage, it is just noise.

What Is Advertising's Most Important Word?

My vote goes to the simple innocuous word "like": a nondescript word that carries with it all the conceptualization power you need to create a business identity, to form a brand personality, and to position your product or service in the mind of your audience. A previous article of mine "A Website Without Video Is Like..." uses the power of metaphor to illustrate how this little four-letter word can crystallize an idea in the mind of an audience.

Metaphor + Analogy + Stories: The Adman's Best Friends

A metaphor explains complex concepts and hard to comprehend processes by comparing them to common everyday knowledge. We use metaphors everyday without even realizing we're doing it. We 'race' to the office. We work like 'dogs." And we all know, it's a 'jungle' out there. Metaphors are critical to the way we communicate with each other and to the success of our marketing communication and advertising.

Metaphors can be extended into analogies, and analogies into stories, and stories into campaigns; and campaigns developed in this manner have a higher probability of achieving the elusive status of meaningful content that embeds your message in your audience's collective consciousness. There is no better way to overcome a client's objection than to put that objection into perspective with an appropriate allegorical story.

Overcoming Objections: How Long Is Too Long?

We've all heard the constant bellyaching from impatient Web users about how long they have to wait for everything on the Web. Every time I hear this from somebody, I am reminded of the story (perhaps apocryphal) of the early introduction of the Polaroid Land camera.

Before the days of one-hour photo shops, digital photography, and immediate video feedback, people had to wait up to a week for their pictures to be developed by the local pharmacy or camera shop. When Polaroid came out with a camera that delivered a finished photograph in sixty seconds, people were amazed; the era of ínstant gratification had begun.

So the story goes, a group of adventurers traveled deep into the Brazilian Rainforest to learn about the indigenous people. When they came across a tribe who hadn't seen outsiders before, they befriended them and took pictures of them with the Polaroid cameras they brought along. The natives loved the pictures since they hadn't seen anything like this before, but they did have one complaint, 'why did it take so long for the pictures to develop?'

The problem is not technology; the problem is one of perception. Like the natives who perceived the sixty second developing of photographs to be slow, so to do many Web-users perceive the Internet to be slow when in fact it is an incredible technological achievement where anyone with a computer and Internet connection can access information from all over the world in seconds or, heaven forbid, minutes.

The Better The Story, The Better The Communication

The solution to the problem is better communication, making yourself and your message instantly understood. People who are truly interested in what you have to say will wait for your Web page or video to load. What gets them frustrated is when they wait, and instead of getting a meaningful message, they get a bunch of nonsense that is irrelevant, self-congratulatory or completely incomprehensible.

A video or audio message on your website is more easily grasped than a page full of densely written text or cryptic bulleted points. But you will loose your audience quickly no matter what the form of your message if it's confusing, muddled, overly complex, or buried in b-school platitudes and industry jargon.

You need your message to be understandable, engaging, and memorable and one of the best ways to convey that message is to compare it to something your audience can relate to. It's like teaching your kids a life lesson by reading them one of Aesop's Fables.

Finding Your Metaphor

Some people have a knack for expressing things in a way that an audience will instantly grasp and more importantly remember. For those of us in the communication, marketing, advertising, and creative development businesses it is a necessary skill learned over the years. But for those in the day-to-day grind of business's nitty-gritty it is rarely an ability that ever gets developed.

Creating a Web video campaign that your audience is going to watch, remember, and pass on to colleagues requires a commitment of time and funds, and you want to make sure it communicates your message effectively. Rather than using your traditional approach concentrating on features and facts, try something different; try developing a campaign based on a metaphor that delivers your brand's personality and emotional value-add.

Where to begin? You need to set yourself free from the concrete, and concentrate on the conceptual. If this seems like a difficult thing to wrap your head around, then start with baby steps.

Concentrate On The Conceptual

Any effective marketing campaign whether it's a series of Web videos, direct emails, magazine display ads, banner ads, outdoor billboards, television and radio spots, or any combination there of, will only work if it focuses on a single message.

At the heart of all advertising is the promise you commit to delivering to your clients. No matter how clever or memorable your marketing, if you fail to deliver on that promise, you will fail.

Learn a lesson from the politicians. The general publics' opinion of politicians is about on a par with having a prostate exam. Politicians can't help themselves, they promise the electorate what the electorate wants to hear, and then fail to deliver on promises that can't be kept. Consequently, people become cynical and distrust everything politicians say.

Failure to deliver on your promise to be the cheapest, the best, or the guy with the most features, is like a politician promising no new taxes. Read my lips! Those kinds of promises are a prescription for marketing disaster.

Taking the conceptual approach requires a certain degree of confidence and an understanding that you are going to have to give something up to get something in return. If you present your identity as the Timex of widgets, inexpensive and ubiquitous; then you are giving up the audience looking for the Rolex of widgets, expensive and exclusive.

Audience Resonance: It's All About Striking A Nerve

One of the most memorable commercials ever to appear on television was the 1985 introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer. The anti-big brother message said nothing of bits or bytes, or anything else computer related, but it did establish Apple's character and personality with its allegorical message, a message that is still valid today.

If your marketing message lacks this kind of power and personality; if your advertising is getting lost, or drowned-out by the competition, try finding a metaphor that instantly tells your audience who you are and why they should care.

About The Author
Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia, a website design firm that specializes in Web-audio and Web-video. Visit www.mrpwebmedia.com/ads, www.136words.com and www.sonicpersonality.com. Contact at info@mrpwebmedia.com or telephone (905) 764-1246.

Do You Play Soccer?

2007-09-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

It is been while that I posted in this blog. I'm doing this one because I love soccer and of course because of the opportunity behind it. Soccer or football (as it is known in many countries except USA) is a team work sport. I was a talented (self-praise here) player before my ankle was fractured because of an unavoidable incident when I was in varsity. My son is beginning to kick the ball around. If you have a child that is interested to play soccer, you might

want to check this website, soccergoalzinc.com, which offer a variety of soccer product such as pop up portable junior target soccer goal. If you can get your child this product, then he or she (soccer now is genderless, but of course it is still man dominated sport) can try to produce as many soccer goals as possible. I always like to watched soccer especially when they aired the remarkable Soccer Goals in any league in the world but I prefer EPL because I'm a Gunner fan (Arsenal). Kudos to Arsenal for winning their away match against Tottenham. The Gunner win 3-1 even though they were trailing from behind. Adebayor is my man of the match because of his 2 goals that put Arsenal in front. Not to forget, Fabregas, the young maestro in the midfield.
I think Arsenal can certainly put up a fight for the EPL championship title this season.

Hooray to Arsenal! I hope someday my two sons also can play football or soccer well. Maybe one day, I, myself will buy products from soccergoalinc.com if needed.

*This is a sponsored post.

The Vine Store

2007-06-27T11:05:00.000-07:00

THIS IS AN ADVERTISEMENT:

Once again I have to rewrite this ad because I realize that I make several grammatical error and confusing sentences. So, here we go. After YOU see the the title of this post, maybe your first impression is that this company is selling wine or selling vine woods. You are partially correct.

Another 1st impression, do they have physical store?. Maybe none of you think like that but for me, that's it one of my thought. Afterwards, I found out they don't have a physical store but surely, they have a center or factory to build up their products.

In this case, I think their factory must be a home based because since the boom of dot com, many entrepreneurs around the world is working directly from home. That is why I'm reviewing this website or online store in this blog, Home Based Product.

Actually, The Vine Store specialize in selling wine racks. According to their homepage, this is what they are offering to you:

1. Wood Wine Racks,
2. Metal Wine Racks,
3. Hanging Wine Racks,
4. Wall Mounted Wine Racks,
5. Wine Rack Furniture,
6. Specialty Wine Racks, and
7. Wine Glasses

If you are interested in buying wine racks, then The Vine Store is the place for you and they even provide 100% satisfaction guarantee. Furthermore, they will refund your purchase if you are not happy with it within 15 days. What is the catch? Read more on their info page. So, you will be happy and the company will be happy to served you again for another product.

Nowadays, online security is one of the factor that need to be taken seriously if we want to sell products online. With The Vine Store you can be sure of the security because they partnered with Yahoo! Store (that's why they are using Yahoo! favicon). Meaning all the transaction is handled by Yahoo! Store' s server. So, don't worry about divulging your personal information. This mean you can shop securely online. That's what The Vine Store promised to you.

Several suggestions from Home Based Product to the admin of The Vine Store is to put their important fact on their homepage and make it interactive if possible because their site look like a blog. Give a space for the user to give out their opinion on their product. This is good for their future products, i.e to build their wine racks according to user demand.

Now my dear reader, if you want to know more or you already decided to buy one wine rack, you can visit The Vine Store.

YouTube video to AVI, MPEG or MOV?

2007-06-23T08:50:00.000-07:00

If you have a video from internet that you like to convert to other format, then you need to read on (if you haven't found the correct tools or software). When, you downloaded YouTube video (most people downloaded video from YouTube) using VidoeDownloader or DownloadEmbedded (Both Firefox plug-in) or Pimpfish (for IE user; trial only), the video format is FLV.

Unfortunately, FLV is not really one of the most common and popular video format. MPEG, Xvid or DivX are compatible with almost every PC. Moreover, most importantly with these formats, you have editable material in case you want to make any changes in the video clip yourself. The easiest method involves using the online service KeepVid to download and then immediately, downloading an AVI or MPEG instead of a FLV file.

In case this is not possible, use a special tool like the free Total Video Converter. You can find the tool at effectmatrix.com. Amongst other, the program support FLV, MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, WMV, MOV and Rel Videos as input and output formats.

A practical option to burn DVDs, video CDs or Super VCDs for film projects id to create MPEG filrd in PAL reolution. However, with this freeware version, the tool adds an Internet address as a watermark (top left) in every converted video.

Notice Any Difference?

2007-06-17T08:17:00.000-07:00

Well, recently I make one changes to the way my post should appear. This way of presenting post really suit my blog and I like it very much. I notice that some blogs are using the same method whereas others enjoy the full display of their post. So, which one you like better? Short description of post or the full post at once? I hope to get some comment on this because I will be doing a

FREE review for YOUR blog if YOU commented on my blog. If you notice on top of my blog, I do participate in PayPerPost and ReviewMe for reviewing other blogs but I want to do this Free review for the moth of June and July. I don't know what will happen next but I'm pretty sure YOUR blog will get additional traffic once YOU respond to my offer. Actually, my blog visitor have reach 1,000 over but currently I'm using free neocounter and you can see for your self, how much visitor that I have, currently. So, hope to hear form YOU soon.

P.S. - YOU can leave a comment here or in my other blog, nimrodjo.com

Sorry x 1 million times = SORRY!!

2007-06-14T09:28:00.000-07:00

I'm very sorry to all my blog visitor because I didn't update my blog as frequently as possible but I'm not to blame 100%...WHY? Because no one ever mention to me about updates for my blog...maybe because my blog is not as popular as John Chow blog or as noticeable as Sabahan.com but I'm trying to put up some decent post here...anyway, another reason that I haven't updating this blog is because I'm busy updating my other blog, nimrodjo.com...this blog got all of my attention because I'm trying to build up content for that particular blog...if you have extra time, do visit it and leave your comment...

Now back to business, even though I'm not publishing this post to PlugIM.com anymore but one of my passion since I started blogging is writing about PlugIM.com especially for YOU that called yourself 'Internet Marketer'...I think I'm gonna change my tag line because I can't called myself an Internet Marketer until I got my own original product for YOU...anyway, for my blog reader...this is the new mid-month newsletter that I got from Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles, himself...if you didn't subscribe to his newsletter, then don't have this piece of update...this is special to my blog reader....Below is the exact email that I received...
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Hi aryst,

Like last month, there's so much going on at PlugIM that I wanted
to give you a quick little midmonth update before the official
newsletter comes out at the end of the month.

Web2Submitter Now Supports PlugIM

When fellow PlugIM member Jack Humphrey told me about his new
Web2Submitter software the first thing I asked him was "Does it
support PlugIM?" Not even a week later, the latest update is here
and now it supports PlugIM along with 9 more of the most popular
social news sites on the web. I've installed it and used it and
can tell you that if you submit links to social news sites on a
regular basis, this is a no frills, easy to use application that
absolutely WILL save you a significant amount of time. There's a
video demonstration of Web2Submitter here:

http://www.plugim.com/web2submitter/

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PlugIM Monthly Link Giveaway - June

Every month PlugIM gives away a free text link and all you need to
do to enter is participate in the community. The winner will have
their text link posted on PlugIM.com for the entire month of July
(a $72 value). The more you participate (by commenting on stories)
the better chance you have of winning and because posting comments
is the only way to receive entries this month, your odds of winning
are better than ever! If you want to know more, full details about
the giveaway can be found here:

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/06/plugim-monthly-link-giveaway-june/

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New Feature - Story Subscriptions

Now you can easily subscribe to any story on PlugIM and you'll
receive an email notification any time anyone comments on the
stories you're subscribed to. There is a new 'subscribe' button
under the comment box on each story, simply click the button to
subscribe to the story. There are a couple of new subscription
settings in your user profile as well. More information about the
subscription feature can be found here:

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/06/new-feature-subscribe-to-story-comments/

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New Version of the PlugIM Votebox WordPress Plugin

Michelle MacPhearson has released a new version of the PlugIM
votebox WordPress plugin. The latest version allows for custom
positioning of the votebox in your blog posts rather than having it
always appear in the upper left-hand corner. You can download the
plugin here:

http://blog.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-plugim-votebox/

That's all for now, as always if you have any questions about
PlugIM or any suggestions for new features you'd like to see please
let me know, thanks!

Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles
CEO Knowles Marketing Group LLC.
http://www.PlugIM.com
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Thanks for reading....for every comment that YOU give for this post, I will reply it and I will do a personal review about your site...FREE OF CHARGE...enjoy!

Web 2.0 Sites!

2007-05-26T10:18:00.000-07:00

I read about this 3 amazing Web 2.0 sites. I'm gonna do a brief review about this sites.

Twitter.com

So how does this site work? Twitter memberuse the website or their own cell phones to compose missives up to 140 characters in length, almost always answering their trademark Twitter questions, "What are you doing?". Once a member submits a message to the site or texts it to a UK mobile service provider number (that would cost you 20 cents per sms), it goes out to the phones or browsers of the people who've joined that member's social network-his or her 'followers', in Twitter lingo. Every four minutes, the accumulated messages are also posted briefly to Twitter's public timeline, which anyone can read on the Web.

IMified.com

This site is a web instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications from within you instant messaging client (IM Client). So what does this mean to you? Rather than go about different sites or different things, it means you centralize you Internet experience around your IM client (via ICQ, MSN, YM, or Google Talk) turning it from a mere chat application to a control hub for your Internet activities. For example,
- you don't have to open Google Calender every time you want to setup a new appointment (but you cannot edit or delete it).
- you don't have to launch your blogging tools when you want to make a quick blog post (without pictures).

Betting 2.0

Bets have now been given a Web 2.0 touch. www.betsgowild.com is a completely legal site where you can bet on just about anything, against anyone, anywhere. What makes www.betsgowild.com completely legal is the fact that you use their official site currency called "WildBucks" or a Prize (anything you would like to bet on). There are 6 basic rules to follow:
1. You may create a bet on anything you like, as long as it's legal
2. Choose whether the bet is for site currency or for a Prize
3. When you created your bet, make sure it can be answered by a simple 'Yes' or 'No'
4. When the bet has ended, remember to post the outcome before the outcome date is over
5. Bet participants can give positive or negative feedback after you post the outcome
6. Anyone can join a bet as long as they do so before the bet end date

You get 10000 "WildBucks" (WB) by default when you sign up. There are ways to get more 'WB':
1. By winning Bets (for sure!)
2. By visiting a sponsor (100 'WB')
3. By sending a feed back (200 'WB')
4. By filling a survey (500 'WB')
5. By reffering a friend (1000 'WB')

PlugIM Top Users!

2007-05-21T02:09:00.000-07:00

I was checking my stat as one of PlugIM user. PlugIM have this stat that show how many post you have submitted to PlugIM.

Finally, I've made it to the first page of top news submitter in PlugIM.com. I'm number 23, just below mjesales who won the May link giveaway by PlugIM.com. For those who haven't heard of this contest, below is the prizes provided by PlugIM.com:

Prize details:

1 Month Front and Center on 10,000+ Pages of PlugIM.com
Your Choice of Anchor Text
Direct Link – No nofollow tag – No redirects
Google PR 5 – Alexa Rank 19,212
$72 Value! (Current package price through Text-Link-Ads)

Intrigued? Visit PlugIM.com for more detail and join the crave.

Link Exchange: An Experiment!

2007-05-20T09:43:00.000-07:00

I have been in the world of blogosphere about 6-7 months already. I have seen a lot of ways to attract traffic to a blog. Other than paying for traffic, the most effective way is joining a web 2.0 community like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog or OthersOnline or PlugIM or BlogExplosion etc. As long as you join these community, YOU can find a decent traffic to your blog.

So, what am I offering to you? I offer a simple link exchange by doing a short review about your site and you can use the post in your site to gain extra traffic. What info should you give?

1. You blogs/websites URL (of course!)

2. Your main keyword

3. Short description of your blogs/websites

So folks, start sending your info and let the traffic comes!!

P/S: You can choose to enter your blogs/websites either in NimrodJO Blo g or Home Based Product.

Brand New Audio Membership Site 100% OFF!

2007-05-20T09:14:00.000-07:00

Hi to my blog visitor,

I just had to tell you about a brand new audio membership
site called the 'Secret Audio Sessions' from my marketing
buddies Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason.

These guys never do things by halves and they created a
two hundred dollar membership site and are now just giving
away free memberships.

They're basically giving away all their marketing secrets
for nothing - Don't miss out on this:

http://audio.marketingmainevent2.com

Best Wishes

nimrodjo@gmail.com

Few Tips To Help You Improve Your RSS To Podcast Experience

2007-05-16T18:43:00.001-07:00

Here are some suggestions to maximize the advantages of transforming your blog into a self-standing podcast:

* Don't generate a podcast of your blog's homepage

Remember that if you enter the URL of your homepage in the blog-to-podcast service, it will generate a podcast that will include only the text that is displayed on the homepage. Hence, if you are used to posting one paragraph of the article in the homepage with a link to the extended entry, the blog-to-podcast service will read only that paragraph.

* Make sure you have your rss feed set to display the full post, and not just an extract

For the above mentioned reason, it is better if you paste a link to the podcast at the beginning of every article you publish: by doing this, readers will be capable to listen to the whole article, and not just to the first paragraphs that appear in the homepage.

* Pay attention to the text included in the podcast

Make sure the service you are using does not include images, ads and all those textual elements that are not your content. If not, the tool you are using to convert text into audio might not recognize the difference and it would then generate a confusing audio file.

* Podcast comments to your blog posts

It might be a good and original idea to provide also a podcast of the comments posted to your articles. If your readers are particularly interested in following the comments to a specific article they might like to have the possibility to "listen" to them as soon as they appear online.

Link Exchange Guy!

2007-05-15T08:46:00.000-07:00

My first encounter with this guy is from his easywordpress offer on the net...My first impression is who is this guy? He got a great offer...since then I knew he is one of Malaysian top Internet Markerter doing successful Internet Home Business...and then, I got my self into blogging and created my first blog, Home Based Product...After that, I found out about this great site, MyBlogLog and then search for this guy name...and 'walla', this guy was in the same site as me...a web 2.0 community...in short, this guy knew the Internet Home Business inside out because he got a few great site under his wing...what are those site? That is for you to find out...I already mention one site (other that his blog)

Recently, he write on one interesting topic about Creating Information Products and you can just click the link to read about it...this guy provide TOP 5 Easy Ways in creating the products...I might as well follow one of his idea but not now because I'm concentrating on blogging...so who is this guy? I give you a link that introduce this guy...you can click HERE for the info...Why did I write this review? Simply because he asked me to do it (not only me, but those who are interested to link to his site)...so if you are into this Internet Home Business, this guy is surely one of the 'Gurus' that you must know

Actually, I had already added him at my blogroll...which one is it? It should be obvious...so I hope I can gain additional traffic to my blog because this guy literally got hundred of visitors daily...if you are interested in this link exchange, just click the word Internet Home Business to get the complete info...keep on posting...

Another Search Big Daddy Post!

2007-05-15T07:10:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I've made the introduction to SBD site...if YOU haven't made up you mind to join this wonderful site, then perhaps this post may help YOU...as I mention in the previous post, SBD are providing an opportunity to YOU for putting the keyword of your site on top of that particular keyword search..as for my site keyword, below is a screen shot of it...

So, are you convinced?...If not, it your choice...if yes, than head off to SearchBigDaddy.com for the complete picture...Get your site on top the SBD search engine!!

Be successful,

Why Search For Big Daddy?

2007-05-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

Well, today I will talk to YOU about this site that I stumble upon when surfing Clixsense.com (read about it in my previous post), which give us numerous opportunity in advertising...I always find it difficult to decribe a company benefits, so below is the email that I received when I sign-up with SearchBigDaddy.com...read it and benefit from it..

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May 14, 2007

From the Search Big Daddy desk of Troy Warren

LIVE Support: 1(480)214-4030 9am to 5pm Mon - Fri Mountain Time USA
Support Ticket System: http://searchbigdaddy.helpserve.com/

Dear Nimrod,

CONGRATULATIONS! I'm glad you joined us!

Start with your FIRST Small WORD (keyword that is) by CLAIMING
YOUR FREE Keyword TOP Position. PLUS, you now have your own FREE
Search Engine Portal located at:

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst

You are NOW empowered to GIVE AWAY UNLIMITED FREE Keyword TOP Positions AND FREE Search Engine Portals at:

http://www.BigDaddyPays.com/aryst

By doing so, you'll be empowered to earn a barrel full of Advantage Points and $$CASH$$ commissions!

Login to your Back Office through your Search Engine Portal at:

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst
(click the link that says: LOGIN)

To CLAIM your Keyword TOP Position, click on the link located at the TOP center of your Back Office.

STEP 1: Look for the link that says My TOP Positions. Choose the KEYWORD of your choice.

STEP 2: Input your Web Address (URL)

STEP 3: SUBMIT

To check your NEW Keyword TOP Position go to:

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst

Search on your selected KEYWORD (you'll receive your FIRST Advantage Point too). You should NOW see your Web site display in the TOP iFrame of the search results.

To maintain your Keyword TOP Position it only takes 30 Advantage Points per month. That's just 1 search per day to maintain your TOP Keyword Position.

As a BONUS for signing up today, we've started by depositing the first 50 Advantage Points into your account so that you can start receiving targeted traffic to your Website in the next 24 hours or less.

Your current Advantage Point balance is: 50.00

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GET STARTED the FAST WAY Nimrod!
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STEP 1: Visit the Big Daddy Friends network at: http://www.bigdaddyfriends.com JOIN! It's FREE and POWERFUL. Meet your NEW Big Daddy Friends.

STEP 2: Visit the Search Big Daddy FREE eCards site at: http://ecards.searchbigdaddy.com JOIN! It's FREE and build your list.

STEP 3: Visit the Search Big Daddy VIDEO site at: http://video.searchbigdaddy.com REGISTER! It's FREE. Learn how to place Video Ads FREE.

STEP 4: Within your Back Office click on the FAQ link. Watch the HELP video's.

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ADDITIONAL $$BONUS$$
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Most people on the Internet are aware of ALEXA.Com. It is the leading AUTHORITY in measuring traffic on the Internet and ranking Web sites accordingly.

Visitors to your Web site who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their Web browser send information via their browser to ALEXA. It mainly lets ALEXA KNOW how often you visit a particular site and the pages you visit on that site. NOTHING personal is transported to ALEXA. IN FACT, they do not know who you are, and cannot obtain email addresses or ANYTHING for that matter on your computer. So you are COMPLETELY safe there. ALEXA is an Amazon.Com company and follows the strictest of guidelines.

This is a tool in my opinion that you should NOT be WITHOUT. Once I started using it I was hooked. With the ALEXA toolbar installed, you can see INSTANTLY the ranking for the site you are currently visiting. It is extremely valuable from a marketing point of view. You'll know the statistics of a Web site in seconds. You'll know how long they've been online, and their traffic patterns.

Download and use the ALEXA toolbar, not only when you visit SearchBigDaddy.Com, but when you visit and surf other Web sites.

IN FACT, you should WITHOUT QUESTION urge your visitors to download the ALEXA toolbar since it will ONLY HELP in receiving better ALEXA rankings for your Web site(s).

By agreeing to download the ALEXA toolbar for your browser, I am prepared to offer you 50 Advantage Points as a THANK YOU for doing so, but more importantly because I know HOW MUCH it will help YOU Nimrod in evaluating Web sites that you visit for the FIRST time or sites that you visit often.

To INSTANTLY CLAIM your 50 Advantage Points for downloading the ALEXA Toolbar, Click on the link for ALEXA on the home page of your Back Office.

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As a new Affiliate, you earn Advantage Points in a couple of ways. First, each unique and valid search you perform on your Search Engine Portal at:

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst

is worth 1 Advantage Point (can be used for advertising credits). So just 30 searches a month will maintain your Keyword TOP Position. Its really simple to perform a couple of searches everyday. In fact, I'm guessing you already do it at some other search engine. You'll get the same or similar search results, so it just makes sense to start using your Search Engine Portal for all of your searching needs. And you'll get PAID in Advantage Points to do it!

Should you choose to obtain additional Keyword TOP Positions, it only takes 199 Advantage Points and a low 30 Advantage Points to maintain it.

BETTER STILL . . .

For every FREE direct referral sign-up to your Affiliate site located at:

http://www.bigdaddypays.com/aryst

you receive 25 Advantage Points once they ACTIVATE their new account.

Additionally, each time they perform a unique and valid search on their own Search Engine Portal, you receive 1 Advantage Point! Now thats what is called LEVERAGE!

Your new Search Portal will be significant for YOU as the SearchBigDaddy.Com network grows. SearchBigDaddy.Com is one of the fastest growing search engines on the Internet today, and will continue in this hyper growth mode for many months to come. Click on the "Alexa Ranking" link on your Search Engine Portal to verify that SearchBigDaddy.Com is on the move and trailing close behind search engines that have been out there for 5 years or more.

Also, you'll be able to create your very first listing on the home page of your Back Office. In fact, you can create UNLIMITED keyword listings.

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Turn Those Small WORDS into WEALTH
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Nimrod, remember when GOOGLE launched in late 1998? Everyone said "Who's GOOGLE?" Less than a decade later they have emerged into the #1 search engine on the Internet with forecasted advertising revenues of $12 plus BILLION dollars in 2006!

And speaking about those search engines, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE FOR YOU LATELY? When you perform a search on one of those other engines, do they give you Advantage Points?

What does this information have to do with your NEW Search Engine Portal? EVERYTHING in a word (keyword that is)! Even though Google and Yahoo are doing BILLIONS now, the truth is that the advertisers want MORE. So they are on the hunt in large crowds looking for ADDITIONAL solutions to create more targeted visitors to their Website(s).

YOU are the answer for these Advertisers. You are empowered to GIVE AWAY FREE Keyword TOP Positions Nimrod! How many advertisers are there on the Internet? Millions! So the only question is . . . will you get your share?

SearchBigDaddy.Com is taking traffic from all across the Internet for a broad span of categories and keywords. The time is NOW for YOU to benefit.

Nimrod, position yourself amongst the FIRST MOVERS and profit in a BIG way from this tidal wave of Advertisers looking for ADDITIONAL solutions. PLUS Affiliates seeking easy and effortless revenues.

Nimrod, login to your Back Office now to begin your profitable journey into the #1 business that is spewing out Advantage Points and CASH commissions faster than a broken gasoline pump!

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst
(click on the LOGIN link in the top right)

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:

Your referrals are LIFETIME referrals. What does this mean? Simply put, EVERYTHING that your referrals do in the way of commissionable activity is paid to you each and every time for the life of that customer. SearchBigDaddy.Com has monthly plans, so you can easily create a monthly residual income.

I'll check back with you tomorrow to see how you're getting along. Happy Searching!

Profitably Yours,

Troy Warren & your entire team here at SearchBigDaddy.Com
President - Asystems Group, Inc. DBA SearchBigDaddy.Com
77 W. Chicago St., Suite 2
Chandler, AZ 85225
1(480)214-4030

UNSUBSCRIBE OPTIONS:

To update your notification options, login to your Back Office at:

http://www.searchbigdaddy.com/aryst
(click on the LOGIN link in the top right)

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One additional features that I like is the SBD blog...I fell in love with it the first time I use it...the blog can generate PPC for us as we post on our blog...Here is my first post...so, I got my Free Advertising Credits....how about YOU?

What is Clixsense?

2007-05-13T20:41:00.000-07:00

The banner on top probably summarize it all for YOU...the term I alway use for this kind of offer is 'online opportunity' because what you will do next is UP TO YOU...it is an opportunity, whether you take it or not, that's totally another matter...so here is a little info about Clixsense.com

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ClixSense.com – About Us

ClixSense.com, Inc.
2115 Old Ashland City Road
Clarksville, TN 37043

Advertisers:
ClixSense is an industry proven method that allows website publishers of every size or budget to direct targeted and unique traffic to their website. This is the same system that the largest online retailers in the world take advantage of for their advertising needs. ClixSense offers this opportunity to every web merchant whether you are a start up business with a minimal advertising budget or if your business is already established but you are desiring additional web exposure. For as little as $5.00 you can position your website to be exposed to potential customers. ClixSense has developed sophisticated online tracking and monitoring systems to ensure that every dollar you spend advertising with ClixSense delivers to you the most bang for your hard earned advertising dollar. Our industry leading software virtually eliminates any type of Internet bots that automatically click through your ads. For this reason, you can rest assured that your ads are being viewed by real customers with true buying power.

Customers:
By taking advantage of the ClixSense online advertising program, as a potential online consumer, you can actually get paid for your web browsing, up to $5.00 for every 30 seconds worth of work. The income you earn is paid directly to you every month. The best part about the ClixSense program is that as a potential online consumer, there is no charge to register your new account and begin earning money immediately.
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So, what is YOUR ACTION?

Be succesful,

Top News Submitter

2007-05-12T10:01:00.000-07:00

I was clicking the PlugIM.com menu and came across the top user label...so I click it and try to find myself on the list...The list was arrange in alphabetic order...so I click the news label and got the result as shown below...

I was no. 29 after submitting another post before...I can't believe my eyes when I see Gobala is just 4 number below me...I knew Gobala is one of Malaysia top IM...maybe he don't post that often but he send quite a number of email (generated by his auto responder)...it is making me proud that I'm a part of something in buiding...I will keep on posting until I get to the first page of this top news submitter...let's keep on posting!

PlugIM.com Updates!

2007-05-12T08:17:00.000-07:00

Hello again everybody! It is time for another round up for PlugIM.com where Internet Marketer should be lurking...I do this updates in my blog so that those who are not a member of PlugIM.com (yet) can have a little bit of info about this (one of my favorite) website...and a special KUDOS to PlugIM.com for reaching 1000 member milestone...this is a great news (for those who love PlugIM.com)

I wonder how many are blogger from Malaysia are there? So Ryan, can you tell me this stat? This might be a feature that you can put up at PlugIM.com so that those blogger from one country can keep in touch and more interaction from another fellow countrymen blogger...I'm not trying to instill a country sentiment but I feel the urge to know how many are PlugIM.com member from my country...so don't get the wrong idea...

Without further a due, below is the complete updates from Ryan himself...check it out...
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This isn't an official newsletter but there's been so much going on
recently I wanted to give you a quick little mid-month update.

PlugIM Monthly Link Giveaway - May

Every month PlugIM gives away a free text link and all you need to
do to enter is participate in the community. The winner will have
their text link posted on PlugIM.com for the entire month of June
(a $72 value). The more you participate (by posting, voting and
commenting on stories) the better chance you have of winning.
Here's a list of the top 5 entry leaders as of today:

mjesales
targetedtraffic
tsb3esg
pajamaprofessional
sempro

If you want to know more, full details about the giveaway can be
found here:

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/05/plugim-monthly-link-giveaway-may/

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SEOMoz 2007 Web2.0 Awards - PlugIM Takes 3rd in Marketing

On Wednesday SEOMoz announced the winners of this year's Web2.0
Awards. There were 41 different categories including Marketing in
which PlugIM placed 3rd! The judging panel consisted of several
industry leaders including Danny Sullivan (SearchEngineLand.com),
Michael Gray (Wolf-Howl.com) and Rand Fishkin (SEOMoz.org). I
highly recommend checking out the list of winners because there are
hundreds of great Web2.0 sites listed here, many of which you
probably haven't heard of before:

http://www.seomoz.org/web2.0

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Google Toolbar PlugIM Button

If you're a fan of the Google toolbar then you've got to check this
out. A fellow PlugIM member, Mark Blair of www.smoblog.com,
developed a PlugIM button for the Google toolbar and it's packed
with functionality including: PlugIM search, post to PlugIM and
PlugIM top stories list. Find out more and download the button here:

http://www.smoblog.com/plugim-toolbar-button/

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PlugIM Votebox Widget WordPress Plugin

Dozens of internet marketing blogs are using Michelle MacPhearson's
WordPress plugin for the PlugIM votebox widget. It takes all of 2
minutes to download and install it on your blog and once you do,
each one of your blog posts will have a built in PlugIM vote box to
make it easier than ever for your readers to plug your posts. You
can download the latest version of the plugin here:

http://blog.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-plugim-votebox/

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PlugIM Milestone

We hit the 1000 member milestone earlier this week thanks to all of
you who've been spreading the word!

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/05/plugim-turns-1000/

Have a great weekend!

Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles
CEO Knowles Marketing Group LLC.
http://www.PlugIM.com
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After reading the updates, I hope I can once again compete for the giveaway link (can I win?)...there are so many great guys out there that blog almost everyday...is there a hope for an occasional blogger like me?...As Ando in Heroes say "You look for power (is this the word, I can't remember it, plz correct me if I'm wrong), I look for HOPE"

Keep in touch,

Ultimate Income Plan!!!

2007-05-11T09:07:00.000-07:00

Finally, I got my own web home business running as you read my post. This something that I learned from many 'Gurus' out there. This is just a minisites that offer an infoproduct for you benefit. This infoproduct is in an eBook form. I won't write so much here because YOU better read my sales letter in order to understand what I'm offering. YOU can go here for the complete offer I have for YOU.

Once again, YOU will regret it if YOU didn't take the opportunity that I present to you here because the price of the eBook is so DAMN CHEAP. How cheap? So YOU need to grab this opportunity. You need to found out HERE for rest of the story.

Be succesful,

Want your own Niche Site EMPIRE?

2007-05-10T11:15:00.000-07:00

Here's How to Build An Empire Of Highly Profitable Niche Sites On AUTOPILOT!

This will seem a bit out of the blue but to be
honest I can't believe I hadn't heard about this
sooner myself...

Recently I've been in contact with a guy called
Andrew Hansen. You might have heard of him as the
guy from that report with the crazy name, Niche
Marketing On CRACK...

If you hadn't heard, Andrew teaches a method of
creating super profitable mini sites that revolves
around the creation of ever SEO friendly but very
specifically designed and researched Wordpress blogs...

On his page he has some testimonials that
demonstrate how powerful these blogs really are...
One of his students made over $700 in her first month
with just ONE of these blogs that took just a few hours to
create (that was before the new development I'm about to
tell you of - now the same blog/mini site can be
created in just 5 minutes.)

People who start in Niche Marketing often find
that it can be hard to maintain and manage more than
a few mini sites because updating the sites, managing
them, and still having time to build more to grow
the empire is too much of a task... but that's about
to change.

May 9th saw the release of what I think is to be
a revolutionary piece of software for Niche Marketers.

It is called Niche Empire Generator...

If you're thinking this program is another site
generator you'd be hugely mistaken. As the name suggests
this thing can actually give you the ability to
build and manage a niche site EMPIRE, all from one
single control panel.

What exactly do I mean by this?

Well, to give you an idea, owners of this software now have:

1. The power to be able to create profitable niche sites
at light speed.. (I'm talking within 5 minutes... if you
saw the video you'll know what I mean)

This includes:

- Adding Adsense and affiliate links to your sites
with the click of a button, no editing HTML code.

- Adding a theme or template that you want the blog
to have, with one click.

- Adding CONTENT, to your site, any content
you choose, formatted however you choose, with your
chosen links automatically embedded.

- Adding and activating a bunch of wordpress plugins to ensure
your blog is easy to navigate, super SEO friendly,
social bookmarking benefiting, and much more, in
fact with no clicks, all automatic...

- Submitting your sites RSS feed to RSS directories
on the web for instant backlinks and exposure for
your site.

- Automatically pinging the major ping services,
helping your sites get ranked in the SE's faster.

2. The ability to have those sites frequently and
automatically updated. You can select what content
you want to be posted to the blog and WHEN it is
to be posted, at any date in the future PLUS it will
automatically assign intervals that you chose so
you don't have to select a date each time.

3. It can do this for as MANY blogs as you create,
running an empire of blogs for you automatically!

4. It manages each of your sites from a single
control panel... If you want to change any feature
of any site you have ever made, update anything
manually, OR check where your site is ranking
in the search engines (to know how much more work
has to be done on it) you can also do so from
a single control panel.

I could go on and on but I feel it would only
shortchange what Andrew has done here.

If you are looking to increase your online income
with minimal additional effort I strongly recommend
you get yourself a copy of this software today.

Click the link below now, to witness Niche Empire
Generator in action and learn more about how this new
tool could easily add another stream of passive income to
your online business:

http://www.nicheempiregenerator.com

To Your success,

Nimrod

P.S. I'm not sure what Andrew's doing with the price
on this one but I know it's worth a hell of a lot
more than what he's asking. I wouldn't be surprised
if we see it jump up significantly in the next few
days.

Pool Installation...Anybody?

2007-05-08T11:05:00.000-07:00

This is my second review for a home product. I f you want to install a swimming pool with one great offer, this is the company that YOU should choose. They offers $50 rebate to visitor if YOU use their service to get an in ground or above-ground swimming pool installed. The following is their heading for their homepage...
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Swimming Pool Installation in St. Louis MO

Thinking of buying a pool? SwimSTL is proud to be the only website in St. Louis that pays its visitors when they buy a pool.*

How do we do it? Simple. We've enlisted the top pool installation companies in the St. Louis area to bid on your pool installation project. If you end up accepting a proposal from one of our referrals, we pay you!

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So, for those who live near St. Louis, you have the pool contractors in St. Louis to do the job for YOU plus $50 rebate. And if you want to find out what they are offering for your pool, please check them here. They have a various kind of pool supplies for you.

If you are unsure whether to install a pool or not in your home, check out their top 10 reason to own a swimming pool. So if you are interested, make sure these pool contractors in St. Louis are the people YOU contact. How to get the $50 rebate? Just fill in the form that they have on their homepage. What are YOU waiting for? Have your pool install now!

Disclaimer: Once again, this is an advertisement. Home Based Product cannot be held responsible for any damage or loss you will face after installing the pool.

New PlugIM.com Widget

2007-05-02T09:07:00.000-07:00

Another month has passed and another newsletter is out...I was surprised by the announcement of the the April link giveaway winner because mjesales was below me when Ryan announce it last time but anything can happen in a competition...one thing for sure, new PlugIM.com widget is out...so check it out..
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May 1, 2007 - PlugIM Newsletter Issue #8 - New PlugIM Widget Available!

In this issue of the PlugIM Newsletter:

1. April's most Plugged Stories
2. Latest Blog Posts: PlugIM Widget
3. PlugIM Learners Corner "What is the PlugIM Widget?"
4. Traffic Trends - April
5. Link Giveaway News and April's Winner
6. Bonus for the First 10 to Respond

Greetings aryst,

Welcome to the latest edition of the PlugIM newsletter! Thank you for subscribing and being a part of the PlugIM community. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you up to date with the stories receiving the most attention at PlugIM as well as giving you tips on how to use the site and inform you of special offers available only to newsletter subscribers. The PlugIM newsletter is published at least once a month.

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If you haven't used Text-Link-Ads before, use this link for a $100 discount:

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1. April's most Plugged Stories

38 Plugs: Inside Market Research: Prevalence of geography in SEO & SEM
29 Plugs: Have Your Top Competitors Do Some Of Your SEO For You
22 Plugs: Technorati Favorite Blogs Exchange
22 Plugs: AdSense is Stupid When...
20 Plugs: Get the PlugIM Widget for your Site

See more of April's top stories here:
http://www.plugim.com/view/all/popular/30days

2. Latest Blog Posts: PlugIM Widget

This post tells you all about the new PlugIM Widget. What it does, how it works, how to use it and how to implement it on your site. It's incredibly easy to put on your site, you just need to insert a couple lines of code where you want the widget to display and that's it.

Get the PlugIM Widget for your Site

For those who have a WordPress blog, implementing the PlugIM Widget is even easier thanks to Michelle MacPhearson. Michelle is an avid PlugIM user who turned the PlugIM Widget into a WordPress plugin! All you need to do is download it from her site, upload it to your WordPress blog and activate it. You don't even need to edit any template files! Here's where you can download the plugin from her site:

Wordpress Plugin: PlugIM Votebox

3. PlugIM Learners Corner "What is the PlugIM Widget?"

The PlugIM Widget is a way for you to maximize your exposure on PlugIM without only relying on the PlugIM community to vote for your stories. Implementing the PlugIM widget on your site makes it so your readers can vote for your stories without even having an account on PlugIM. I'm sure most of you are familiar with the Digg vote box widget. Basically when you implement it, you get a Digg vote box on your site that keeps a running tally of how many diggs your post currently has. When one of your readers clicks it to Digg your story, they're sent away from your site to Digg where they must have an account and be logged in to digg your story. So not only are you losing your visitor (because they end up on Digg) they're also forced to have an account to vote for your story.

When I designed the PlugIM Widget, I wanted to correct this fatal flaw. The end result is a PlugIM vote box that your reader can click without leaving your site and without needing a PlugIM account. The vote tally is incremented right before their eyes without a page refresh using AJAX just like on PlugIM. So now you've turned your reader into a vote without them leaving your site. Heck they don't even need to know what PlugIM is and they've increased your odds of getting on the front page of PlugIM where the majority of the traffic is.

Here's another scenario where the widget is useful. A visitor is browsing PlugIM and your post catches their eye. They click on the link, read your post and enjoy it enough to vote for it. Unfortunately we all know web surfers are lazy and from there, they either move on to some other site or close their browser. Only a few will take the time to click the back button and plug your story. Well if you have the PlugIM vote box right there on your site, they can read your post and then vote for it right there, without needing to return to PlugIM.

Implementing the PlugIM Widget is going to play an important roll in getting your stories to the front page. As more and more people submit stories to PlugIM the competition to reach the front page is becoming more fierce and stories that don't get votes are buried quickly under piles of new submissions. Since the release of the widget a couple weeks ago, I've already noticed a trend where those who have the widget implemented are reaching the front page more often than those who don't. Be sure to read the blog posts mentioned above to learn how you can implement the PlugIM widget on your site and if you need any help, please email us with your questions.

4. Traffic Trends - April

I feel it's important to keep you informed about the traffic on PlugIM so you have an idea of how many views your stories are getting. Once again traffic trends continued steadily upward from the previous month. Here are some cold hard facts:

Total Visits: 41,062
Total Page Views: 368,018
Current Alexa 3 Month Average: 20,919

5. Link Giveaway News and April's Winner

Congratulations to mjesales (Matt Ellsworth) who won the April link giveaway.

The link giveaway has been such a great success we've decided to hold another one this month. So starting right now, all your participation on PlugIM for the month of May will count toward the drawing at the end of the month. The winner will have their text link posted on PlugIM for the entire month of June. I'll be posting the May giveaway rules on the blog shortly but for now it's safe to assume the rules will be very similar if not exactly the same as they have been in the past. Until I get it posted on the blog, consider this time as a bonus head start for newsletter subscribers only!

6. Bonus for the First 10 to Respond

The first 10 people to reply to this newsletter with their PlugIM user name will get their Adsense revenue sharing percentage bumped from 50% to 100% for life! This means every time one of your stories is viewed on PlugIM the Adsense ads displayed will be yours. Just imagine a year or two from now, when we have 1000's of members and millions of page views per month, what that could do for your Adsense revenue. When you reply, make sure you include your PlugIM user name.

That's all for this issue, remember, if it's internet marketing related, plug it on PlugIM!

Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles
http://www.PlugIM.com
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Once again, if YOU are interested in Internet Marketing world...then you should sign-up in plugIM.com...I can only offer...the rest is your effort...

Keep in touch,

My First Review Me Offer!

2007-05-02T08:11:00.000-07:00

At last, I can do some review. The first one is about furniture at home especially door...I know that this is not what I usually review or post...but I have to do something with the offer I get from ReviewMe.com...In their site, YOU can find the Door Furniture Guide...YOU can even find that Newsweek also giving positive opinion about this site, www.architecturalclassics.com...

In the homepage of this site, they have their list of product (not only door)...I'll give you a glimpse of info provided by this site...normally door are made from brass, bronze, cast iron, wrought iron, cooper, porcelain, crystal glass, enamel, chrome and nikel...to choose your door furniture, here are the door furniture items items...to read for yourself, click HERE

You can become affiliate to this website or company...YOU can also sign-up for their newsletter... I will be reviewing another product related to home and health...give me your feedback on this matter either YOU like what I review or I need to work more on how to review other website or blog...until then, KIT

Regards,

Ranking Down!!

2007-04-28T09:31:00.000-07:00

It's time for me to share about my standing in the PlugIM.com Leader Board for the month of April....my ranking went down from the 2nd place to 7th place...I'm not very happy with the situation but as I write in my previous post, I didn't stand a chance competing against those full time blogger....but I'm still grateful because I'm on the top 10 list of PlugIM.com...

Another factor that contribute to the falling in my ranking (I think) is I wasn't posting for a while....but this is something that I personally thank Ryan for giving me a platform to introduce my blog and myself...below is the email that PlugIM.com sent to me...
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aryst,

This is your last chance to enter the link giveaway at PlugIM.
The entry period ends at midnight eastern time on April 30th.
You could have your text link on PlugIM.com for the entire month
of May (a $60 value).

If you're all ready participating in the giveaway, here's a look
at the drawing entry leaders as of today:

214 targetedtraffic
191 bhartzer
126 tsb3esg
125 Bonnie
118 AndyBeard
112 d1taylor
104 aryst
96 VladTheAffiliate
95 mjesales
93 gathersuccess

If you're curious about the giveaway and would like more details,
check out the following post:

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/04/the-link-giveaway-is-back/

Remember, if you blogged about PlugIM for the 50 entry points,
you must leave a comment on the post in the PlugIM blog!

Thanks for participating, and good luck!

Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles
http://www.PlugIM.com
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Now, if YOU are my blog visitor...You will notice that this is my 100th post :>...and I've promised that during this meaningful moment for Home Based Product blog...I will give YOU something...Firstly, I will give YOU my new blog URL (this is still considered giving, isn't it? :>)...i.e www.nimrodjo.com, my self hosted blog...if YOU like my free blog, then you will love my paid blog...currently, I'm posting about blogging...so, if YOU got the time...check it out..

Secondly, I'm going to give away a few of my eBook collection (which I have a ton of them)...I'm going to give away 5 FREE eBook (blogging traffic, turbo marketing secret, blogger guide to profit, unlimited traffic secret, spm report) for my blog visitor...If YOU are interested you can download these file by filling up the form (at the right) that I've just created...I hope YOU enjoy your FREE stuff...KIT

AdlandPro Community

2007-04-24T09:46:00.000-07:00

This post going to be short and direct to the point...Recently, I've joined AdlandPro Community...This community is very good if YOU are looking for new friends in business...I was overwhelm by the members here because even before I finished completing my profile, I received the 1st request to become my friend...new message also filling my inbox while I was filling up my detail...so if YOU want traffic or list of business individual...this site is definitely for you...

Tyr Ot Raed Tish!!!

2007-04-22T08:42:00.000-07:00

I CAN READ IT! CAN YOU????

Fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Gmail Got Drive For Storage?

2007-04-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

Gmail is one of the popular web emails. It offer the storage space of 2.8GB and still growing every second. People try to store their own data in Gmail but it limmits the file size to a maximum 10MB. Hence, Gmail Drive was created to solve this particular matter. It creates a virtual drive on your system, which allows YOU to connect to YOUR Gmail account and copy as much data as you want regardless the size.

WHAT SOFTWARE WE WILL USED: Gmail Drive ver 1.0.10 http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

1. Download the file
Go to the link above and locate the download link. Click either one of the link. Download the file. Once it's downloaded, extract the files and run the setup. Your installation start instantly.

2. When did that thing get there?
A new drive called Gmail Drive will automatically appear in "My Computer" folder along with other hard drives.

3. Log in to your Gmail account
Double click the drive and a window will pop up, prompting you for your Gmail username and password.

4. Funny faces appear
You will have to wait for few seconds depending on your connection while your Gmail Drive accesses your Gmail online storage.

5. Loading time
Once logged in, you will notice that there nothing inside the folder. So, try copying a file and paste it inside the folder. A progress bar will appear as the file is being copied.

6. Out you go
After the copying is done, you can log out.

7. Where is the file?
Now open up you Gmail account in your favourite Internet browser. After logging in, you will notice a new email with the subject "GMAILFS" on it. Check it out.

8. Walla...
You will see the file attached to the email. So, go ahead and copy more stuff to your Gmail!

Enjoy,

P.S. For those who already know this, give me your comment on this small piece of software...for those who used this Gmail Drive for the 1st time, do give me your feedback...keep in touch...

UNBELIEVEABLE!!

2007-04-17T10:01:00.000-07:00

Once again, I'm overwhelm by an email from Ryan (PlugIM.com) even though it is not a personally meant for me but what lie beneath the simple email is a huge thing for my blog and me. This email is entitled 'Link Giveaway Update: Are you on the Leader Board?'. I don't want to drag this matter longer, just read the actual email below:
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You know we're giving away a free link on PlugIM.com this month
right? It's not only a good way to increase visitors to your site
but also a great tool for SEO since you can use whatever anchor
text you'd like in the link and it'll be on the front page of
PlugIM.com for the whole month of May.

Entering the giveaway is simple. Just participate on PlugIM,
post some stories, comment on a few posts and cast some votes.
Each time you participate, you accumulate more chances to win.

Here's a look at the drawing entry leaders as of today:

101 Bonnie
86 aryst
84 AndyBeard
78 tsb3esg
73 d1taylor
69 gathersuccess
60 bhartzer
59 mjesales
59 kapengbarako

There's still plenty of time to enter, you have right up until the
end of the month. If you're curious about the giveaway and would
like more details, check out the following post:

http://www.plugim.com/blog/2007/04/the-link-giveaway-is-back/

Thanks for participating, and good luck!

Ryan 'Dravis' Knowles
http://www.PlugIM.com
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So, my answer for the headlines that Ryan put for this email is YES, I'm on the Leader Board. Even if I don't win this month link giveaway, I satisfy to be on the Leader Board for the 1st time.
Bonnie way up there already with over 100 points and AndyBeard is breathing closely behind me already. Not bad for a small town blogger eh....

I think the different in points here between me, Bonnie and AndyBeard is the amount of plugged on our story and the frequency of our blog being posted on PlugIM.com. Anyhow, we have our own style of blogging and my wish to all on the top Leader Board, may the best man (Bonnie is a woman) win...SILOPO!

Let's keep in touch,

Did The Goverment Try To Ban This?

2007-04-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to let you know about some great free software I've just downloaded.

It's called Subliminal Desktop and it helps improve your life by changing the way you think about things... all by using subliminal messages.

It works by flashing powerful, positive affirmations on your screen which your subconscious mind sees and acts on, even if you don't see them yourself!

I know it sounds crazy, but you really need to check out this software right now:

http://www.subliminaldesktop.com /

Like I said it's a free download, perfectly safe and and there's an upgrade to a even more powerful version if you want it. Go here now:

http://www.subliminaldesktop.com/

Keep in touch,

Hot Download Vault

2007-04-17T08:15:00.000-07:00

I found this great site that's giving away over 100 Internet marketing products and there's no catch! In fact, it also has a special twist where the site will actually build YOUR LIST for you! I thought you might want to check it out for yourself, and I hope it helps!

http://www.hotdownloadsvault.com/

Keep in touch,

Contribute and Earn

2007-04-15T10:21:00.000-07:00

Just want to let my reader know that I'm currently making post at myLot.com. This site is purely a social networking sites which couldn't exist unless there are active contributor. Besides that, member also benefit from what they post or comment because myLot is giving you money. Maybe some of YOU already making a great deal of income from myLot.com.

By the way, in case you are interested to read what I post there, here is myLot User Profile. I hope YOU can participate too in myLot.com.

Regards,

Paper Power

2007-04-15T09:44:00.000-07:00

If YOU are a frequent visitor of my blog, you will notice that I have change one of the headlines of my blog (top of browser) to tech...starting from today, I'll be blogging about technology in my blog, other that home based business or internet marketing.

As the title suggest, I will be writing about can paper provide power? Paper batteries? Who'd a thunk we needed those? Rocket, a Korean maker of batteries, has developed flexible, thin, paper batteries targeted at smart-card manufacturers, RFID users and drug-delivery systems. The goal is to provide inexpensive battery power on objects such as RFID cards.

Rocket's move comes only months after NEC released its flexible, rechargeable ORB batteries. The ORB batteries use organic-radical polymer as a cathode and can be recharged in 30 seconds.

So, what do YOU think of this post?

Keep in touch,

Coming Soon : The Semantic Web

2007-04-13T08:32:00.000-07:00

You've heard of Web 2.0. What about Web 3.0? Will 2007 usher in anew era for the web? That's what a few stealth-mode software entrepreneur are aiming for. One big benefit this may bring is much-more targeted Web searching.

The semantic Web has made the rounds as a buzz phrase, as has Web 3.0, and usually refers to attaching metadata to information stored on the Web. Think of it as building a rich card catalog to sit on top of online content.
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This short post is taken from PC Magazine (Malaysia) article. So bloggers, what do YOU think of this so-called Web 3.0? Give me your opinion

Keep in touch,

Don't Just Choose Any Random Webhost

2007-04-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

If you are actively looking for a good webhost or you already have one but
wasn't sure you made the right choice, then you definitely want to listen to
this call that Mike Filsaime did with premier web hosting company Kiosk's
President Joel Therien.

You can download the call now by
Clicking Here

On this call, you'll discover the secrets to finding a good web host even though
there are hundreds to choose from.

You'll also find out what top marketers know about hosting that 99% of others do
not.

You'll get all of this inside info right here

Regards,

Few New Things

2007-04-10T09:50:00.000-07:00

Salam Sejahtera kepada semua (means, a very good day to all)...it's time to do the segment called 'things I have done'...I have made a few updates in my blog...If YOU notice, I have put up 3 visitor tracker to my blog...the first one is the widget we all familiar with MyBlogLog widget...the second one is the Blogwoods.com widget and the last one is from OthersOnline.com

Questions: Why I am telling YOU this?

Simple..because I want YOU to know the changes I made in my blog so that you can comment on the changes...bellow is a web shot of Blogwoods.com

What I liked about Blogwoods.com, apart from getting traffic from the site, is that visitors can vote for the blog...there is also a segment called my little blog...I think this is cute...I also get the widget from OthersOnline.com...I copy down a short post about their widget design
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March 06, 2007

New Widget Designs and Wizard

Mike published a handy dandy new "widget wizard" today, along with 3 new formats. We're not yet done with Web site edits, so it isn't publicized on our site, but we do pitch it to new users on the last page of registration. Speaking of that last page, that has been overhauled too. GAWD, it was just horrible -- looks much nicer now. We love comments and feedback!

Here are screenshots of the new widget designs:

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I also want to tell you about this new social networking site called myCuteGalaxy.com....this site is still new with member just around 20 person...what I liked most about this site is the BATTLE tab which is actually a battle between photos...you are given 2 photo to click and you can click the photo you think should win the battle...bellow is an ongoing BATTLE of photos

Anyway, my profile at this site is www.mycutegalaxy.com/yeyuku...if you are interested, join this site here...lastly, on OthersOnline.com, there are opening for jobs for senior user interface design and senior software engineer... if you want to know more, you can go to their blog here...I hope YOU find the info I gave useful as I found it very much useful to me...until next time

Regards,

Your Signature Live | Branding Yourself

2007-04-07T09:39:00.000-07:00

We always see in sales page of today Internet Marketer that they use special signature to end their sales page. They can use many method to create that signature i.e through scanning their own made signature or use Adobe Photoshop or Gimp to create their signature.

One best solution that I find that is easy for you to use is the one provided by My Live Signature.

MyLiveSignature offers the services of creating and animating personal signatures. You can use it to easily create your own signature using a set of templates or to allow our designers to create your handwritten signature based on a scanned image. At the same time, our animators will give you the true impression that you sign your message with your own hand in real time. - MyLiveSignature

My Live Signature is a free to use service to create and use your signature image. However they also offered a few upgrade options especially if you’re interested in animating your static image of have them do it for you entirely.

Let’s proceed to the steps in creating your first signature with MyLiveSignature, click on proceed.

On this page you can choose to either create a new signature or choose from the other various option including putting an order for an animated signature. For now, let’s just create a signature.

You will than be asked whether you want to use the creation wizard or a scanned image. I’ll be using the creation wizard for now. You can used the scanned image option if you have a signature image ready.

The third page is basically for spam prevention purposes. Just enter the word/signature you wanted to create, fill in the capcha code and click on next step.

In the next steps you will enable to:

Select the font
Select the size
Select the color
Set the slope

Once done to will come to this page.

MyLiveSignature will give you a signature id for you to continue with the project or maybe edit it later. For those who want to use the image hosted with MyLiveSignature, just get the link from the following page or if you preferred a self-hosted version you can get it too by choosing the appropriate option as shown above.

I hope you enjoyed this review, feel free to test it out soon…

Keep In Touch,

Want Your Own Signature?
Visit My Live Signature

Dedicated to PlugIM.com

2007-04-04T19:04:00.000-07:00

Today, I'm free so I can blog for one thing that thrilling me right now....recently, I got I special offer from a site called PlugIM.com (which I have blog once)...I very proud to announce that I get my Adsense revenue sharing percentage increaser from 50% to 100% for life! (Thanks Ryan!)...This is quite difficult to get because PlugIM.com only offer it to 10 early bird who reply to the newsletter they send....below is the actually newsletter that they send:
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April 3, 2007 - PlugIM Newsletter Issue #7 - Link Giveaway is Back!

In this issue of the PlugIM Newsletter:

1. March's most Plugged Stories
2. Useful Blog Posts You May Have Missed
3. PlugIM Learners Corner "How to Display your MyBlogLog Avatar on PlugIM"
4. Traffic Trends - March
5. The Link Giveaway is Back!
6. Bonus for the First 10 to Respond

Greetings aryst,

Welcome to the latest edition of the PlugIM newsletter! Thank you for subscribing and being a part of the PlugIM community. The purpose of this newsletter is to keep you up to date with the stories receiving the most attention at PlugIM as well as giving you tips on how to use the site and inform you of special offers available only to newsletter subscribers. The PlugIM newsletter is published at least once a month.

Just For Fun

2007-04-03T07:37:00.000-07:00

Recently, I checked my hi5 account (yeyuku.hi5.com)and got this shout out...I figured that this is a very interesting words...ladys, do not feel offended....this is something that we share...but if YOU have comment on these, please do so...enjoy!
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"Words Women Use:

1.) FINE: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

2.) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five Minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

3.) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

4.) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6.) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7.) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome.

8.) Whatever: Is a women's way of saying screw YOU!

9.) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking, "what's wrong", for the woman's response refer to # 3."
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Why Start Your Very Own Newsletter?

2007-04-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

I pose this question to blog visitor because I know that a lot of IM website suing this technique for 'list building'. Do you know this? If not, then you shall read on. If your answer is 'yes', after reading this post, give your comment. If you find this information is useful, then share it with your friends. If not, you can keep the info to yourself.

A Good Reason to Start Your Own Online Newsletter
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Also known as eZine, publishing your own periodical newsletters can
be one of the most profitable businesses you can do online without
incurring such a high cost.

An ordinary individual like yourself can easily start and run your
own online newsletter. And in ways more than one, you have
advantages a conventional business which publishes your daily paper
does not have.

For starters, you save a lot of costs in printing your own papers
and a whole lot more of trees in the process. Secondly, all you
really need to start your own eZine are an auto responder equipped
with broadcast feature and some contents!

It Cannot Get Any Better, Can It?
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Now, here is yet another undisputed fact: the truth is that owning
a mailing list is more important than the product.

Why is that?

Quite simply, if you do not own a mailing list then you do NOT own
a business. Since businesses, regardless of any kind, involve
people, your prospects are none other than people themselves (who
else on Earth uses money to spend?).

If you would frequent Joint Venture clubs and forums often, you
will come to notice that product owners often want to cooperate
with mailing list owners who have the list of prospects they want.

While some product owners offer attractive incentives and
commissions to mailing list owners, the point I want to drive home
is that product owners are, most of the time, needing the mailing
list owner more than the other way round.

And mailing list owners are much rarer than product owners, since
products (even great ones) are created almost everyday - great
mailing list owners don't come by on the same frequency.

Therefore, you will do well to consider to make your own Internet
Marketing "checkmate" and cash your profits in by becoming the next
power mailing list owner!

Once you start to build your own mailing list, you
will find yourself flooded with lots of offers from product and
service owners waiting to have you as their partner in success.

Build your online business

2007-04-01T00:59:00.000-07:00

How's things? I hope you're feeling fantastic. I also
hope I can put a little smile on your face with a little
story telling :)

Once upon a time, there were three little pigs. They all
lived happily together with their family in the internet
forest. But as the little pigs grew older, they decided
to move out on their own, as little pigs will do.

The first little pig moved to the big city. He liked the
hustle and bustle and there were more business
opportunities there, he thought to himself. Every time
he turned around there was another business he could
join that promised him riches beyond his wildest dreams.

All he had to do was pay $50 a month and do nothing at all.
The money would just flow into his bank account. That's
what the website said.

So the first little pig hopped from business to business,
spending more and more money. Unfortunately, for the
little pig, the money was on a one-way street. It
flowed out of his bank account, but never back in.

Soon, the first little pig was dead broke and he had to
leave the big city that he loved so much and move in
with his brother, the second little pig.

The second little pig lived in a town nearby. It was a
bit quieter than the big city, but it still had lots of
opportunity.

The day the first little pig turned up on the second
little pigs' doorstep, he was taken by surprise. He
could hardly get in the front door. The second little
pig had printed out all the ebooks and websites he could
find about making money online. He had piles of paper
stacked up all over the house and had no room to move.

The second little pig studied and studied the
information, but never felt he was quite ready to take
that first step. Sadly, the second little pig lost his
house too. His inaction bankrupted him and both little
pigs had to move in with the third little pig.

The third little pig lived in the country. He loved the
wide-open spaces and had lots of time to take long
walks in the countryside. He worked on his online
business about 4 hours a day and then took the rest of
the day off to enjoy life.

The first two little pigs asked what his secret to
success was. Why had he been able to make a living
online when they had failed.

The third little pig explained that when they left home,
he had moved to the country and ordered a business
blueprint, Your Marketing Journal. Your Marketing
Journal was a hybrid business plan that connected a
book, a private member's website, and monthly
teleconference coaching.

Each day, the third little pig would open his book,
login to his private members' website and complete one
simple activity. Once a month he participated in a
coaching teleconference call where he could ask a
business coach and internet marketing consultant
specific questions that popped up as he was building
his business.

The first two little pigs were so impressed by the
progress that the third little pig had made in only
one year, they decided to change their ways and follow
the third little pig's lead.

One year later, the first little pig moved back to the
big city. He moved into a nice house, bought a new car
and lived a very comfortable lifestyle.

The second little pig moved back into town. He was
able to buy his house back from the bank and even paid
off all his debts he had accumulated. He too lived a
happy, comfortable lifestyle.

The third little pig went on to build several online
businesses, following the formula he learned in Your
Marketing Journal. Today he lives the life of his
dreams. He can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants,
and doesn't have to worry about the cost.

Thanks to a simple business blueprint, all three little
pigs are currently living the lives they dreamed of.
Are you ready to start living yours?

THE END

Are you ready to build your online business for REAL
this time? Don't fall into the traps that the first and
second pig fell into. Go directly to

http://www.yourmarketingjournal.com

and start building your business today.

Talk again soon.

Enjoy your day!
Nimrod J.O

PS. If you're stuck in the maze of scams and information
overload, follow the third little pigs' plan. You
probably won't get rich quick, but you'll create a solid
business that can afford you the lifestyle you want.

http://www.yourmarketingjournal.com/member/?thankyou-page=530

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2007-03-27T07:03:00.000-07:00

These past day, I've visited blog that belong to those whose visited my blog...these what I called reciprocal action...as the saying goes "do what thou want thy fellow being do to you" (correct my sentence if I'm wrong, not an Englishman) or something like that...I find hidden gems in one of my visitor blog that is spiralbutterfly (Kelly Brown, to be precise) blog...she had been trying these method and earning some money online...she had done her research and I want to share it on my blog too...I will put here the link to her label 'Money' in order for YOU to have access to all her related article on money making online...here, I copy a part of her blog
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I got my March check from TreasureTrooper.com - here's my proof of payment!

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Today, I received my March check from TreasureTrooper.com. I haven't really done a lot of work there, because I've been so busy at other places. But TreasureTrooper is such a fun place! If you decide to join, be sure to check out the forums, because there are always lots of contests going on. There's also plenty of help and support at the forums if you need it -- another (even better) reason to go there.
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For Things To Change You Must Change First

2007-03-27T03:07:00.000-07:00

People always say, "What if it is really not my fault? What if the
situation is totally out of my hands?"

In actual fact we always play a role in creating whatever is
happening to us, whether consciously or subconsciously.

We create our experiences either through our thoughts or our
actions. You can say something emphatically, but if you are
thinking something else, people can pick up the vibes, or it will
show up in your body language.

People who are in control of their lives believe that they create
their world. If everything is going great, then they created it,
not anybody else. If things are not going well, then they created
it as well.

Some people tell me that they never get a good break. They never
get lucky enough to land a great opportunity. They are never at the
right place at the right time. I believe you create your own luck.
Or I prefer the word opportunity or break.

If you never find any good opportunities, it could be because of
your limiting beliefs and thoughts. If you believe that there are
no opportunities around, your mind will tend to delete all the
great opportunities, even if they are there right before you.

Once there was a woman who had been looking for the right partner
for the last 20 years. She was in her late 30s and getting
concerned she would never find her ideal guy.

When asked what she was looking for, she started describing this
perfect man who had to be rich, handsome, humorous, sensitive and
charming.

When asked bluntly, 'Would this man with all these traits want to
marry you?' She had no answer.

If she wanted to attract the perfect man, she must first be that
perfect woman to attract him!

One single most important message in this article is, for things to
change, we must first change ourselves. When we take responsibility
for what we get and change ourselves, everything and everybody else
will change with us!

So,

If you want to attract the best staff, be the best boss
If you want to have the best kids, be the best parent
If you want the perfect wife, then be that perfect husband
If you want the highest income, add the greatest value
If you want to attract the best customers, become the best company

Focus on yourself and success will come.

Another Effort Rewarded

2007-03-25T07:12:00.000-07:00

Today, when I check my email, I got the second email that make me so proud of myself (for trying out)...the story is I give a comment to Hafiz Latib (MalaysiaPal) new upcoming product...he ask us 'why we need his ebook for free?' (not his exact question but the meaning is the same)...so I give a comment based on my opinion...and guess what? I won!!!...Hafiz had sent me an email, announcing I am one of the 20 winners, he is looking for...so, the conclusion: no effort of us should be done lightly...do it from the bottom of our heart...if YOU want to read
my award winning comment (hehehe), you can click here ....below is the email from Hafiz...enjoy! :D
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Hi,

Thank you for your great comment for my MalaysiaPal blog.
You are one of the 20 winners! Clap, clap!

Here I've attached the draft of the e-book. I need 5 minutes
from your precious times to give testimonial of the e-book.
The testimonial will be placed at MalaysiaPal website.

You have to send the comments with your name, websites and
personal photos to me. Just reply this e-mail to do that.
This Monday, 26/3/2007 I'll send the complete package so
you'll be the first that can make money during the launch.

Your help is much appreciated. Thanks

Thanks.
Hafiz Latib

p/s: It's a win-win situation as you're one of the 20 winners.
You save RM10 and can make money with the e-book and I've got
testimonial from you. Hope to get positive feedback from you ;)
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Updates On Blog...

2007-03-23T10:05:00.000-07:00

Just wanna thank those who visited my blog....deleted a few free resources for YOU...YOU can find it in my new blog...advertisetraffic.blogspot.com...so my reader, head out there to read about Google Adsense Alternative...will be updating the blog for more...till then, enjoy...KIT

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2007-03-18T10:33:00.000-07:00

I've done a search today on what blog is in the top 10 list of google search on the topic "make money online blog"...just out of curiosity....hope you find this resourceful as I am...KIT

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