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		<title>How Social Networking Is Changing the Advertising Landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The truth is that these instruments define a website through mysterious algorithms known only to high level search engine employees. In the end, the algorithms target potential users who, if interested, have an opportunity to click on a banner or text advertisement which takes users to a website that presumably fits within their internet searching demands. It is an effective tool with adequate reporting that enables a thorough statistical analysis of marketing results. Marketing teams then pore over those reports and click through rates making subtle adjustments while their respective organizations continue to leave money on the proverbial table. The reason is that this is where the typical small business stops.</p>
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<p><strong>Demographic Shift in Social Networking: </strong>The reason for this fundamental shift comes as wireless telecommunication technologies merge with the Internet to maximize information accessibility. On a large scale, people now have the ability to interact with each other in a way that is different than filling out website forms and sending emails. Consequently, has shifted in an effort to capitalize on the sheer volume of users that frequent these social networking websites.<br />
<strong>Advertising Challenges and Social Networking: </strong>Like any marketing attempt, simplicity and focus cannot be understated. Advertising on social networking websites requires a firm understanding of the target demographic, a focused campaign that adequately communicates value to the target audience, and a call to action that tells the users how to take the next step, regardless of what that step may be.<br />
Is Creating a Social Networking Presence Really Important? Creating a presence should not only be seen as vital to nearly any business, but it should be considered a starting point for each and every marketing campaign. It should contain a message that reinforces brand value with a focused approach that targets the specific demographic and has a call to action which can allow for quantifiable results.<br />
Let the numbers do the talking and disregard any previously conceived notions of what social networking is. It isn’t just teenagers talking about music anymore; social networking is here to stay and is only beginning to unveil the advertising potential that was once restricted to conventional marketing, SEO and organic keyword usage. This is only the beginning of the social networking advertising industry, and some early birds can still catch a worm before saturation becomes a factor. Just be sure to remember who you are talking to.</p>
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		<title>SOCIAL NETWORKING AND ONLINE MARKETING</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>My long life invested on the internet has not been a waste it has earned me a profession as an internet business geek, it has paid off time and time again in the form of referrals, more new prospects and customers. Outside deliberate advertisement, I have touched many lives, received many inquires about my services that has been responded to and make quite a few good clients from my online activities. I’ve made a lot of friends through the internet and connected with other internet savvy that I can spy or collate ideas off, sometimes leverage on and partner with on creative pursuits, all online. Great that is what makes the internet a blessing to me.<span id="more-85"></span></p>
<p>One outstanding reason why it has remained my favorite to promote my business is that it’s fresh and cheap, almost and sometimes free. Therefore online marketing through social networking is an interesting way to get your business out to the world at no geographical limitation without using any paper or creating any trash. One sure way to launch your stuff into the world of online marketing is to first launch an outstanding website or blog for your business. This will be your prospects’ first conviction of your business existence, over a time it will become an important investment in both time and money. Once you have a website, connecting to people through social media and network sites will become a great way to market and generate traffic to your site. Online marketing is a means that has come to stay, now a days it becomes more popular among entrepreneurs, large corporate organizations who knows the essence remain strong in their various fields and on the top of the game<br />
We have a good number of social networking and media websites out there. I don&#8217;t think it is news anymore to know that when creating a business/personal profile on any social media site, you only share the information that you want the world to see, by this I mean you shouldn&#8217;t share your secrets and avoid making your profile too personal. You can always create a personal profile as well, just keep the two separate. Once you discover a new site you like, spend a good time on the site and try to understand the flow of the operation before posting stuffs. More idea you won&#8217;t want to use social media for direct marketing of post marketing oriented post at all times, so make sure you keep your marketing subtle and remain relevant to the issue discussed. As for me all I really do is to attach my site links to my profile and my signature.<br />
Below is a list of some social media sites that I’ve found useful for networking, bringing in traffics to my website, and networking peoples. I actually use a good number of them from Reddit, Digg, Mixx, and Yahoo Buzz[http://buzz.yahoo.com/], facebook.com, myspace.com, hi5.com, friendster.com, Bing.com, friendfeed.com, bebo.com etc but I&#8217;m only going to examine few of them that include:<br />
http://www.linkedin.com is a network site for professionals where business owners find help. It’s a site where one can manage and make connections, rub minds with like professionals, find jobs or employees. There are groups within LinkedIn such as Sustainability Working Group that cater to various niches.<br />
http://www.stumbleupon.com is very popular among the social media sites. You can install the toolbar to cache some useful web addresses, keep track of your favorite bookmarked sites, and build a followers of stumbles’. Submitting links to stumble upon is a great way to drive traffic to your site.<br />
http://www.twitter.com is becoming the rage of the moment; it allows you to create your own user login, post news from time to time, buld follers and can follow others as well. So it acts as a hub generating traffics to your site.<br />
http://www.treehugger.com Hugg. It’s a collection of green news, articles and web sites submitted by the community, so it’s a great place to post your most recent green-themed article from your business blog brought to you by the folks of Tree Hugger.<br />
http://www.responsibleworldcitizen.com is a niche online network dedicated to promoting social responsibility and sustainability. It’s a community for conscious business owners and entrepreneurs, so I’m sure you’ll fit right in! There are a lot of great opportunities to network with like-minded.<br />
There are many more social media sites, from biznik.com, efactor.com, cofoundr.com, that can help you network and generate in traffic to your web site. Many require groups you can join on specific niches and can be a great place to find potential customers, clients, and vendors. Be sure to look for groups that fit your market niche and industry, as well as those promoting green living and sustainability. With online marketing, it’s helpful to cast a wide net so that links to your company site are all over the web. But as with anything, the more time and effort you put into each social media site, the more you’ll get out of it. So it may be wise to pick a few sites to focus your efforts on. There are definitely enough to keep you busy, the hard part is choosing just a handful and not becoming a complete internet junkie. For some of us, it’s far too late for that!</p>
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		<title>COMPARISON OF NICHE AND INTERNET MARKETING</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Niche marketing and Internet Marketing niche are both forms of Internet marketing but the differences are that of apples and oranges. &#8216;Niche marketing&#8217; means selling a specific product to a specific type of buyer. There are far less competitive niches than an Internet marketing niche. Most niche markets are more open to the latest marketing strategies, as well. Small niche markets are much easier for the new marketers to break into. A niche market allows you to promote your own niche product or that of a niche affiliate product.</p>
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<p>There is a niche market for anything and everything you can imagine but it takes is a good idea and a good product that will appeal to certain people, some advertising and the desire to succeed to break into a niche market. Internet marketing niche, on the other hand, means that you will be promoting your own Internet marketing product. This is a very crowded field of endeavor and really difficult to break into. It&#8217;s a world filled with gurus and wise men who have been playing and winning the game for a long time. Internet marketing niche is built on demand, which means that if you have a product that can compete and if you have the willingness to play hard ball with the big boys then you can succeed at the Internet marketing niche game. Bear in mind that there are easier niche market nuts to crack.</p>
<p><strong>INTERNET MARKETING NICHE</strong></p>
<p>Internet marketing niche does not require a large financial investment to begin an online business. One doesn&#8217;t need to invest heavily in product development. This can simply begin by writing e-book and promoting it or obtaining a website and promoting products that are produced by others. Think of the people who promote products that are produced by others as the modern version of the old door-to-door salesman except instead of knocking on one door at a time they knock on the doors of millions of people at the same time by way of the Internet.<br />
There is no need to incorporate any partner; a sole-proprietorship does the job nicely. One person working from one computer these days can accomplish the same things that once required many people working many hours to accomplish. The Internet isn&#8217;t called &#8220;The Information Super Highway&#8221; for nothing. A person can make a very good living selling nothing but information on it. The populations of every industrialized nation in the world have learned that if you want to know anything about anything, you get on a computer and ask the question.<br />
It is understood that all information has to be paid for, so they are more than willing to do that. A person who has special knowledge of a subject is considered a &#8216;guru&#8217; has a market for selling that information on the Internet. All that needs to be done is to set up a website, publish the information, advertise and sell the information. There is no inventory to maintain and no shipping or handling costs involved to deliver the product. The seller gets paid for delivering information to a person who wants that information; everybody gets what they wanted happily.</p>
<p><strong>NICHE MARKETING TIPS</strong></p>
<p>I have been an advertising executive and an academic for the past 10 years, Niche marketing seems obvious to me but it amazes me how few people are aware of this concept. Advertising and marketing dominate almost every aspect of our lives nowadays; but I think everyone would know almost every common definition of marketing. Unfortunately, they think marketing and advertising a pretty trivial topic which is not so. Knowing what niche marketing is, is crucial to knowing why our culture is the way it is today, from the shows we watch, to the movies we see, to the music we listen to and our day-to-day activities.<br />
In knowing what niche marketing is, you don&#8217;t need marketing case studies, you only need to look around you. Look at high scholars for example, in a certain geographic location; they will all look much like each other. They will all fit into one of a couple or three different groups, defined by the music they listen to, the fashion styles they wear, and the books they read.<br />
Understanding what niche marketing is, is important to your average consumer, but it is crucial to businesses. We live in such an individualistic society that no business can hope to market to everyone. This is why businesses have different brand names for different products.<br />
If they did not know what niche marketing is; each would try to be the biggest and the best. Instead of marketing to a specific subgroup, they would try to market to everyone. Companies that do this make no one happy. None of their consumers will be very loyal, and they will leave at the first sign of something better coming around. Understanding what niche marketing is, is the only way to keep your customers on the scene.</p>
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		<title>HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE VOL. TWO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<li>Participate in Get-Paid-to Websites: Websites that pay you to complete offers are worth examining because they usually include affiliate programs with recurring commissions to be earned. The benefit of get paid to websites is that you don’t need to have your own website or any personal skills at all. The downside is that there are a lot of get-paid-to scams around and finding websites that are legitimate can be fairly difficult. Scam.com is a forum you should visit to learn if the get-paid-to website you’re interested in actually pays its members. There are also several Web 2.0 or social media websites out there that will pay you to participate in their community. This collection of social media websites usually operate via a revenue-sharing system, which allows you to earn a share of the overall ad revenue. How much you earn depends on how much your submitted article, video or image is viewed.</li>
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<li>Find a Virtual Job or Make Use of Your Expertise: Online jobs in the new economy include virtual assistants, gold farmers, online life coaching and support for open source software. So all you need to get started is a home computer with a steady internet connection because most of these virtual jobs involve direct communication through electronic mediums like internet telephony, instant messengers and emails. If you are an expert in a specific topic, you can offer consultation via websites or participation in online competitions in areas such as photography, writing, designing and even gaming.</li>
<li>Freelance and Work on a Contract Basis Online: Traditional freelancing jobs include transcription, proofreading, translation services etc. Online marketplaces that you can use to offer your services include Guru.com and Elance. One of the best ways to find freelance jobs is to visit webmaster forums because webmasters usually require a variety of web-based services, which range from programming and content writing to design work. If you’re focusing on writing if don’t own your own blog, you can still make some money by registering for websites which will pay for your content. Another alternative is getting paid to write for other blogs either as a staff or guest writer.</li>
<li>Create Your Own Product and Sell it: If your specialty is images and photography, citizen journalism websites like Spy media and Citizen Image will pay for your images. You can also try using Shutterstock, the most established and lucrative micro-stock photography website or you specialized in creating website templates, sound clips or even your own ebook. Websites like Lulu allow you to easily develop and sell your own collection of electronic products like calendars, brochures, artwork, and ebooks without a third party.</li>
<li>Get Involved in the Online Retail Trade: if you are planning to get into the online retail trade EBay and Craigslist are the two of the most popular websites you can use to purchase products from either website to sell to the other or you can use site-specific methods of participating in the online retail trade. For example, Ebay dropshipping and arbitrage is a method whereby you’ll with offline retailers or exporters in other countries, or buy from one seller and sell to another.</li>
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		<title>HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE VOL. ONE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Why make $7 an hour selling coffee behind a counter when you can easily earn the same amount by spending 10 minutes to write an article on your blog? The internet offers a viable source of money which can help to supplement your regular income; the internet is lucrative and has personal freedom that comes with working without a fixed schedule or geographic location. There is no need to suffer through monotonous day jobs which offer poor returns for the time invested.</p>
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<p><strong>Cataloging the Different Ways to Make Money Online:</strong>A basic search on Google will reveal many ways to make money online; categorize and compile a list of the online money making methods available so that future visitors can have reference point which provides them with all information they need. Make sure it covers most of the ways to make money online, more methods and examples of how to make money online will be added to this list, which can be considered a work in progress.</p>
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<li>Set up a Blog or Website for Profit: Some of the best ways to make money online is to create a website or blog which allows you to earn money from the display of advertisements or the sale of products and services. There are many different types of money making blogs which will help you make money and you’ll need to pick a model that suits your interests, schedule and skill levels. A simple no frills blog will allow you to easily pull in at least several hundred dollars in a month through the use of paid blogging websites alone. For more information, check out Dosh Dosh’s archive of articles on how to make money blogging. Apart from blogs, other websites can easily help you to generate passive income as well. These can range from e-commerce websites, social communities and information portals to basic landing pages for affiliate programs.</li>
<li>Learn about Affiliate Marketing and The Art of Selling: Affiliate marketing is a big and profitable industry that covers a wide spectrum of topics and fields. If you’ve got an interest in fitness, you can make money promoting fitness videos or courses. In terms of fashion wear, you can earn commissions by recommending friends to clothing or t-shirt companies with affiliate programs. The amount of money you make depends on what you are selling. Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful ways to make money from the web. Amazon, Commission Junction and Click Bank are three of the biggest affiliate marketplaces you can use if you’re branching out into affiliate marketing.</li>
<li>Start an Online Business: It isn’t difficult to start a business; it’s all about hiring the right people, having enough knowledge and connections within a specific industry. You should do some in depth research before you decide to settle on a specific niche for your business. Starting your own online business or company allows you to make money off the provision of specific services or products you may have. Some examples of popular online trades include web design, copywriting and internet marketing. Entrepreneur.com has a good collection of tips on how to start an online business.</li>
<li>Try out Domaining and the Online Real Estate Trade: This business involves buying, selling, developing and making money from domain names. A domainer purchases many domain names and sells them to interested buyers. This is similar to real estate investing offline and domainers also make money by developing websites and reselling it to a buyer. This practice is known as site flipping and can make you a tidy sum of money if you know how to build an attractive and profitable website. For a rough estimate of how much money you can earn from site flipping, check out the Site Point Marketplace to browse through the collection of websites for sale.</li>
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<p>Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online. This is because unlike most high schools, colleges, or workplaces, the internet is filled with millions of individuals who are looking to meet other internet users, to gather and share information, experiences about any number of topics, and developing friendships, or to start a professional relationship.<span id="more-68"></span></p>
<p><strong>Build a Strong Profile</strong></p>
<p>7 ways to Building Powerful Profile If you’re a new or not yet established brand, how should you use social media to build a reputation for yourself? Apart from making sure your product/website is relevant to the social media channel, it is also useful to participate in social media communities as an end-user or brand representative. These characteristics are no secret and they apply to both new social media users as well as already popular brands seeking to leverage the exposure that social media gives. Instead of explaining in an abstract manner, I’ll try to link these points with what I’ve done with existing social media profiles.</p>
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<li><strong>Strong Profile Visibility (Developing Brand Recognition):</strong> A good social media profile is highly visible in multiple channels. The more people connect your social media profile to your existing brand or website the better. Start to increase your visibility by inter-connecting all your social media profiles and web properties. Visibility is also reliant on your participation levels i.e. how often you post submit good deal of stories, always voted new stories religiously and maintaining the high submission volume.<br />
When you think about visibility, think about it in terms of familiarity or brand recognition as well. You not only want people to see your profile, you want them to know and recognize it instantly. Broad visibility will give you a lot of opportunities for networking, which helps you along the way.</li>
<li><strong>Active Participation (Maintaining a Continuous Presence):</strong> You must not only be active but regular, the more active you are on a social media channel, the more you build a strong reputation. The amount of time you spend on the site is directly proportionate to the growth of your brand presence. Social websites should be treated like email. It should be checked on al list two times a day, morning and night. Only when I come across interesting content to share with other users. I’ve done the same for many months and it has become a habit of some sort the best thing to do is to maintain a continuous presence from the start.</li>
<li><strong>Practice Reciprocity (Seek Win-Win Outcomes): </strong>Reciprocation is not just a mechanical game of blind, circular support but a pro-active tactic. Instead of reacting, take the initiative doing someone a favor, and ask nothing in return. The unspoken rule of reciprocation will ensure that it’ll come back to you. Even if you don’t get anything in return, at least you’ve made a friend.<br />
But instead of merely trading votes, trade attention and other assets, when someone shows interest in your social profile by linking to or promoting it, keep an eye out for t his/her profile or interests as well. Go beyond mere site-specific functions and think about how you and the other user can collaborate in mutually-beneficial ventures.</li>
<li><strong>Effective Communication (Conversations Are Important):</strong> Communication is an integral part of building relationships and it’s a good way to make new friends or acquaintances that may benefit in the future. Talking to other people is also fun and it enriches the social media experience. A good social media profile is always open to communication. Request and listen to feedback. Learn from the people around you. Make it easy for others to contact you away from the social media channels by providing your contact information.</li>
<li><strong>Support The Community (Putting the Collective before oneself):</strong> A successful social media profile is one that is well integrated with the collective. And that integration is naturally developed when one is passionate or supportive of other users in the community and the site itself. Offer constructive criticisms of these websites and help other users to get heard.<br />
While there aren’t many of these users, they demonstrate a mentality that I think should be adopted more often in social media. When you build a profile or enter into social media, think in terms of the collective first before you focus on yourself. This not only allows you to develop credibility but naturally leads me into the next point on providing value.</li>
<li><strong>Provide Value Above All (Gaining Trust and Attention):</strong> The sad truth is that if you focus on providing value, other users will trust and follow you or your site more closely. You gain attention and your brand grows, which often leads to greater benefits in the future in terms of traffic, reputation or connections. Build profiles on every social site you’ve used, Provide value above all. Don’t over focus on extracting benefits. You can’t go wrong with this strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Demonstrate Integrity:</strong> Make sure you develop a legitimate social media profile because many people are keeping their eye on you. There’s no point in creating a strong social media presence only to do something stupid to mess up your reputation. Talking about ethics, this refers to personal principles, unwritten community rules and each site’s Terms of Use. Don’t do anything that violates each social media website’s rules. Even if you really want to do something against the regulations, at least make sure you don’t get caught. You can bend the rules a little and experiment with social media but make sure that what is visible to your audience is legitimate. A large part of the social media audience will not appreciate you breaking the rules if they discover it. It only takes a few people and a few words to damage your social media profile. In short, take a stand on what you believe in, demonstrate integrity and use each social media website ethically to protect your established reputation.</li>
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		<title>WHAT IS SOCIAL BOOKMARKING?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata, typically in the form of tags that collectively or collaboratively become a social tagging. Social tagging is the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content. It is also a process of tagging a website and saving it for later. Instead of saving them to your web browser, you are saving them to the web, because your bookmarks are online, you can easily share them with friends. If you are the type that e-mail a friends or family member and sent them a link to a website you thought they might find interesting? Then you have participated in social bookmarking. <span id="more-64"></span></p>
<p>Social Bookmarking is known as the system through which Internet users having similar tastes, interests and preferences to store, organize and manage bookmarks of web pages on a remote web server with this, they have the ability to access it from anywhere without being tied  to any specific computer or browser. The word social is derived from the Latin word “socialis” meaning companionship and signifies the tendency of people with shared interests to come and interact on a common platform that the present day social networking sites offer. Read the basics bellow.</p>
<p><strong>SOCIAL TAGGING</strong><br />
Tags are often used in social bookmarking, it is a keyword used to describe an article or website. It is also used in social news and blog entries to help users search for relevant content. Tag can also be used as a verb, as in tagging a blog entry or searching for articles tagged with &#8220;sports&#8221;.<br />
A box that contains a list of tags with the most prominent or popular tags receiving a darker and bigger font than less popular tags is called a tag cloud.<br />
Finally, we have to know what social media marketing is.  It is known as marketing via new media technologies like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. All of these are known interchangeably as social networking, social media sites, they allow you to connect with a wider community. They are another means of communication. It allows you to network online much like you would in the offline world via Chamber of Commerce meetings, Rotary Club meetings and a host of other professional networking events.</p>
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		<title>DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>There are many examples of the differences between search engines. For instance, for Yahoo! and MSN, on-page keyword factors are of primary importance, while for Google links are very, very important. Also, for Google sites are like wine – the older, the better, while Yahoo! generally has no expressed preference towards sites and domains with tradition (i.e. older ones). Thus you might need more time till your site gets mature to be admitted to the top in Google, than in Yahoo!  The basic principle of operation of all search engines is the same, the minor differences between them lead to major changes in results relevancy. For different search engines different factors are important.<br />
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<p><strong>CHOOSING WHICH KEYWORD PHRASES TO OPTIMIZE FOR YOUR SEO</strong></p>
<p>You already know your niche, and some central keyword phrases may be evident. These are probably very hard to compete for, since all your competitors will be targeting them too. But you will have to work on them, nevertheless. Focusing only on the long tail phrases will not be enough in the long run.</p>
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<li>Know Your Enemy: analyze your best competitors to find more keywords, Search for the most evident keyword phrases and notice which sites appear on the top ten lists for these phrases. Use your SEO Tools to analyze for which key phrases they have optimized their pages. Check their site, look at the content of their pages, under what categories they present it, analyze html titles and meta descriptions, check out their backlinks, and so on. This will give you a good picture of what&#8217;s going on in your niche. You should now have a list of key phrases, some more important, some more exotic, some with heavy competition, some that will be easier to claim for yourself. Perform searches with the key words in your list. What do you find? What do the Google Adwords display for these search terms?</li>
<li>Go After The Most Profitable Key Phrases: The more popular a keyword phrase is in the search engines, the more business it generates and that also means that there will be much harder competition for the visitors on this search term. As a starting affiliate, you&#8217;ll probably find it most profitable to focus your energy on intermediate keywords, where you have a chance to claim a top ten position in Google. But remember, as stated above, the most important key phrases in your niche will also be the most important ones for your site in the long run. Remember that your starting page is the most important page of the site, and you should optimize it for the most important keywords.</li>
<li>Create Quality Content: To speed things up with the search engines you&#8217;ll need to produce fifteen to twenty pages of good, relevant content to start with and try to get a couple of backlinks from some authoritative sites in the niche. Once the site has been noticed by the search engine spiders, you can start your regular updating routine and publish a couple of new pages each day, or each week, to prove that the site is alive and interesting for visitors. By building a site with high quality content, you&#8217;ll automatically catch the &#8220;long tail&#8221; of search phrases that any niche entails. Search engines are getting more and more refined. Nowadays they&#8217;ll even track the &#8220;success&#8221; for visitors that they send to your site. If the visitors tend to stay on your site rather than coming straight back to the search page, this is a sign that your site matched what they were searching for, and the ranking of your site will profit from this.</li>
<li>The Value of Good Landing Pages: you need to create landing pages for each for your keywords to optimize. Landing page is to &#8220;take care&#8221; of visitors that come in from the search engines, so you need to give them what they were looking for as they supplied their search term, and you need to make them click through to your merchants. If you can deliver this, you&#8217;ll be on your way to making a living by guiding web visitors!</li>
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		<title>WHAT IS SEO?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>SEO (Search engine optimization) is one of the Internet marketing strategies that consider how search engines work and what people search for. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural organic or algorithmic search results. The earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Do not be confused about content linking or what keywords to use, we’ll help you to become the SEO expert you were born to be. Learn everything you need to know through our articles.</p>
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<p><strong>ON SITE SEO</strong></p>
<p><strong>THE IMPORTANCE OF KEYWORDS:</strong>When you build your website in a correct and optimized way, you give the search engine the best possible chance of seeing what your site is all about especially when you start with what is called <strong>on site SEO</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Don’t Do Messy Work:</strong> The importance of a correct and well-written code cannot be stressed enough. The website might look great on the outside, but if the code doesn&#8217;t contain all the right information in the proper order it will only make it harder for e.g. Google to scan it, categorize it and rank it.<br />
The Best, cheapest and often the most effective way to market your website is through a search engine. So if you don&#8217;t have a big advertisement budget, like any other marketing strategy you primarily have to define your target group I.e. your market niche. A group of people that simply might find your website useful, you then have to figure out what kind of keywords to optimize; what key phrases your target group might be using when searching for information on the Internet. If you sell flowers your target group might use keywords such as, hibiscus, roses or bouquet. Ask around, talk to people for suggestions of keywords. Remember, sometimes it can be valuable to implement misspelled key phrases on your web page. This may result in higher ranking in the search engine if somebody types in a keyword incorrectly e.g.  folwers instead of flowers.<br />
<strong>Body text:</strong> make sure that the keywords are included in the body text, though it&#8217;s important that they don&#8217;t occur too often. The search engine might define the content as spammed, banning your web page, if the keyword appears in every second sentence. Try to implement selected keywords into your webpage content.<br />
<strong>Meta Description and Keywords:</strong> this is an important source for the search engine to gather information about your web page. The more time and effort you spend on formulating a good Meta description the better, so it will not be time lost.<br />
Do not use the same keyword in all contexts e.g.<br />
URL, Title Tag, Alt Tags, Headers, Your creativity and language skill will be tested, we know! This is vital to avoid being penalized of the search engine.<br />
Be sure to have studied the major keywords used for search on Google, this helps to increase the traffic on your website. Keywords are words form into meaningful sentences, articles, tips and information you can expect increased traffic to your website.</p>
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		<title>THREE STEPS TO FINDING YOUR NICHE   Vol. Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Developing your own niche can be expensive and usually a very difficult task to try, but it’s better to identify and plan on addressing an existing niche that has good potential for using your unique product or services. E.g. you have invented a fantastic energy drink and you want to market it. <span id="more-54"></span></p>
<p>Here are the three steps you must take to find your niche:</p>
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<li>Assess yourself and determine what areas of life you are most interested in and how it will interface with your product.</li>
<li>Search for areas that could use your services by assessing your potential market. An easy way to make this is to talk to the people in your targeted community, or join groups of people who have similar interests in your products.</li>
<li>Once you find a promising niche, you can then determine if you can be comfortable with the anticipated income from it.</li>
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<p>Target your area of interest, sponsor program that are related to your area of interest, and then make samples available for product promotion. In addition, do not depend on one niche; develop more niches in other to avoid putting all putting all your hopes into one basket.<br />
You should not only be able to offer fantastic products, but also you should be able to offer your expert advice on how it’s use relates to people’s daily live and your expert advice will differentiate you from other manufacturers that manufacture same product as you.</p>
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