Get 100’s of Links To Your EzineArticles

There's a terrific post on Improve Your Internet Marketing that talks about boosting your returns on article marketing. Specifically, leveraging the effort you've already made creating and submitting articles to Ezinearticles.

I've posted part of the article here; check out the rest of the post, as well as all the other excellent tips for maximizing your Internet marketing efforts:

This is a very simple trick I have seen many articles authors using but I have never read about it here or in any ebooks. EzineArticles.com already have a high PR and if you manage to get more links pointing to your particular articles, they will have more chances of showing up high in the rankings. You know the SEO part right?

Here’s how you do it:

Go to your expert author page where you see all your articles listed. The url is something like this:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Author_Name

Right next to the header mentioning your name and your author status, you will find an “RSS icon”. Simply copy the url the icon points to.

Now, use this RSS url and submit it to the large number of free RSS directories available of the web and you have 100’s of links pointing to your articles in no time.

Here’s a list of RSS directories to start with:
55 Active RSS Directories to Help Promote Your Feeds!
(not my site - got it from Google search)

I hope my above trick helps you in your Article Marketing efforts.

If you follow the above ‘formulas’, you will begin to generate traffic, it will build steadily, and your SERPs ranking will improve steadily.

Guaranteed.

Thanks to Zuber (http://ninecolour.com/) for this great tip!

Creating Your Own Product - Not From Scratch!

Creating your own product is perhaps the best, surest ways to build your Internet marketing business. Info-products can be the "simplest" route, but is only one way to have your own product.

Software, scripts, widgets, and the like can often command higher prices and differenciate you in the marketplace.

Developing your own software isn't as difficult as it might sound. One of the best ways is to begin with something already created!

Modifying an existing product or building on top of something is usually quicker than creating something from scratch. Through outsourcing, you can create your own products quickly and relatively inexpensively.

I did this with an Open Source program for creating Camtasia-like screen capture videos. I spent a few hundred dollars at Rentacoder to take the Open Source version, change the GUI or interface, add some features, and create a Website around it.

Here are some resources to help you get started:

Scripts, freeware, shareware, etc.

• Tucows = http://www.tucows.com/
• Cnet Download.com = http://www.download.com
• Freeware Files = http://www.freewarefiles.com/
• Free Utilities = http://www.software995.com/

Open Source

• The Free Software Foundation = http://directory.fsf.org/
• Source Forge = http://sourceforge.net/
• Open Source.org = http://www.opensource.org/
• OS Alt = http://www.osalt.com/
• Open Source Mac = http://www.opensourcemac.org/
• Open Source Windows = http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
• Apple Open Source = http://www.opensource.apple.com/
• Open Source Living = http://osliving.com/index.php
• Open Source Directory = http://osdir.com/
• Gnu.org = http://www.gnu.org/
• Freesoft = http://www.free-soft.org/

Article Marketing, Bum Marketing: Free and Effective!

Article marketing and Bum Marketing have become the most talked about strategies for Internet marketing lately. As one of the chief components in the bum marketing, and its newfound popularity is due to two significant characteristics: it's free, and it works.

Two significant advantages for Internet marketers are exposure and backlinks. Article marketing provides exposure, and generates valuable inbound links or IBL's.

As with most bum marketing techniques, article marketing is a numbers game. In order to be effective, it requires ongoing and consistent effort. One article submission may not do much for you, but one article submitted every day for two weeks provides an overall benefit greater than the sum of its parts.

To get the most out of your article submission strategy, it's important to focus on one indivudual keyword or phrase for each individual article. It's also very important to optimize each article, in much the same way you would optimize a website. Once an article is submitted, it becomes a one-page mini site.

Optimizing an article for the search engines is very similar to optimizing a webpage. Use your keyword or phrase in the article title, the first paragraph, the last paragraph, and as the anchor text in your link or resource box.

By following a few simple steps, you will gain maximum return for your effort. As part of a multipronged approach, article marketing becomes an extremely effective and inexpensive technique in your arsenal.

Test Your Niche Marketing Ideas FIRST!

Here’s a really simple, quick, and easy way to test your niche marketing ideas: run a brief Adwords campaign.

Many Internet Marketers put the “cart before the horse”, jumping into a niche, even creating a product before they know whether people will buy.

You’re not trying to sell yet, and in fact anything past the click doesn’t matter - yet. You just want to see if there is QUALIFIED interest. If you display a price and people click, you know there is qualified interest.

Create just a single ad targeted to the niche you’re considering, mention a product, and INCLUDE A PRICE. If you get clicks on the ad, you’ve got a winner. No clicks? You just saved yourself a whole lot of time, money, and frustration.

Tip For Successful Outsourcing

When it comes to outsourcing, the most important factor that will determine if the job get done exactly how you want it to is communication. In order for a contractor to do a good job and complete a task according to your standard, you need to be able to communicate in detail exactly what they are supposed to do. Sometimes internet marketers have difficulty doing this because the person they are outsourcing a task to live halfway around the world and English isn’t their first language.

An easy solution to this problem is using screen capture software to visually show the person what they need them to do. This is a far more effective way of communicating what needs to be done, and it works better than giving instructions by email or over the phone.

By creating screen capture videos and giving them to whoever you’re contracting the work to, it’s like they get to stand over your shoulder and look and your computer screen and you show them what to do – even if they’re on the other side of the world. If you’re looking to outsource any part of your business, screen capture software is a must.

Blog Commenting For Links May Not Be What You Think!

Getting backlinks by commenting on high Pagerank blogs seems like a straightforward strategy. You find high-PR blogs that don't use the "no follow" tag, make your comment, and now you have a high value IBL (In-Bound Link).

Unfortunately, it isn't as straightforward as it may seem.

Unlike traditional static web sites, blogs are dynamic. What's on the home page - the index page - today, may not be there tomorrow.

The problem is that for most blogs that have decent Pagerank, most if not all of that PR is on the home page. Sub pages generally have much less Pagerank.

So what happens when you comment on a high-PR blog post? Well first off, comments usually aren't on the same page as the post anyway.

More to the point, however, that homepage post will quickly roll off the home page. Hence, your comment will lose much of it's juice.

Blog commenting is a good strategy for building links, just make sure you understand it!

UPDATE

You can now purchase "The Ultimate IM Toolchest", the last Internet Marketing product you will EVER need - and it's only $27!!

What is SEO and How Does One Get Started?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is one of the most popular free way of getting "traffic" to a site. "Traffic" meaning, getting interested people to click on the link of your website.

Internet Marketer's apply this skill because they want their products to be bought, so they optimize their site to show up on page one of the search engine page. SEO is not easy and needs to be maintained regularly in order for a page to stay on top.

How does one get started in SEO? Simple; you have to write interesting, relevant content that would want people to link to your website, since that increases your important and consecutive page number. The end goal is to create a site that contains words for which people will likely search when looking for information such as that contained on your site.

SEO is an extremely powerful tool and should be used wisely!

Tips to Get More Traffic to Your Site

The most important process in Internet Marketing is getting traffic to your site.

We are always looking for means to drive traffic, and I am going to share some of them with you.
Most of you are probably doing some of these already, but I'm sure everyone will find some beneficial tips here.

• Write and submit articles to the article directories.
• Post in forums along with a link to your site.
• Start a blog and submit it to free blog directories.
• Submit your website to the major search engines.
• Optimize each page of your site for a particular keyword or search phrase.
• Add an RSS feed to your blog.
• Start a page on social bookmarking sites.
• Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com

To see other tips on how to get more traffic to your site, Click Here!

Easy Way to Get a PR-3 PageRank within 24 Hours!

In Internet Marketing, PageRank is not considered to be as significant as it once was. PageRank is a number from 1 to 10, that Google uses to determine the rank of a site in our search results. However, when it comes to flipping your site, PageRank still has a lot of value. Flipping means buying a website, improving it, and finally selling it for profit. Building pagerank the traditional way can take a long time, but there is an alternative.

You can easily get a PR-3 website within 24 hours!

How? Simply by buying a good domain.
A good expired domain with PR-3 can be purchased for as little as $10 at Freshdrop.net.
They have hundreds of PR-3 domains for sale and tell you how old the domain is along with what kind of backlinks they already have.

To see more information on how to get a PR-3 PageRank within 24 hours, Click Here.

Part I - How to Lose in Internet Marketing

A similarity Internet Marketing shares with any business, is that it is easier to lose than to succeed.

One of the most common mistakes is lack of focus and the tendency to doing things that are non-productive. For example: There is an epidemic among Affiliate Marketers' who make the mistake of bouncing around from program to program.

Jumping from one thing to the next is a sure path to failure. Doing this will get you nowhere! It is best to make a commitment to anything you take under your wing, and give it time to grow into something.

Another big no-no that Internet Marketers' make is not organizing their day. To be successful in anything that you do, you need to set a schedule and stick to it.

Yet another common mistake Internet Marketers' make is spending too much time on things that aren't going to help them build their business.

A day of an Internet Marketer should be spent doing things that are productive, moving you forward, and building your business.

In Part II, we'll dig into the specifics and the activities and tactics that look good but really aren't.

The Best Keyword Research Tool

If you’ve been at Internet Marketing for more than an hour, you already know this; Keyword Research is the foundation of Internet Marketing.

Whether you’re writing PPC ads, sales copies, articles, trying to rank your site - it all begins with adequate Keyword Research.

And nowhere does it have a more dramatic and immediate effect than PPC. Even a poor ad will get clicked on eventually if you bid on the right keywords, but bid on the wrong keywords, and you can actually watch as your wallet shrinks.

We do a LOT of PPC here, spending over $100,000 of our own and other people’s money. And so we spend a LOT of time and effort on Keyword Research. We’ve even devoted a section of this blog to the matter with a category “Keywords”, plus an extensive list of research sites and ideas at: http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/research-resources-tools/.

New Clickbank Product - BETTER Than "Water4Gas"

"The Ultimate HyperMiling Guide" is a hot new report that takes advantage of the "gas prices" niche. It comes with Master Resale Rights, a sales page, and some ebook cover graphics. It's part of the marketing support for a new Clickbank product called "The ULTIMATE Gas Saver Guide" intended to take advantage of the current "Water4Gas" craze.

(The main product is listed in Clickbank Marketplace searching "Water4Gas". There's also some more info, plus how to create your hoplink at Improve Your Internet Marketing)

If you figure that no one actually wants to modify their car, it becomes clear that what they really want is a solution to high gas prices.

In a clever move to take advantage of what has become Clickbank's best-selling product, there is a water for gas conversion plan product included in the ultimate gas saver guide.

There is also a niche blog for the product set up Gas For Less Money.

With gas prices showing no sign of slowing, it's no big surprise that "Water4Gas" is Clickbank's best selling product. However it's now become oversaturated with affiliates. "The ULTIMATE Gas Saver Guide" is a better product and will likely have far fewer returns.

It pays 75% of its $47 price tag, coming out to about $33 for each sale.

Website Flipping

We referenced some interesting CPA offer marketing ideas which were also referenced by an Affiliate Marketing blog.

The original post, about using Youtube for CPA offers was from the post on the Improve Your Internet Marketing blog. This blog has been writing about innovative and creative ways to market online for quite some time.

Their most recent post, entitled "Secrets to Website Flipping" talks about flipping websites for profit. While this can be a very lucrative endeavor, they point out that it is different than 'buying and selling businesses'. Specifically, priorities may be a little different when you are building a website to sell than building one to keep.

The post is part 1 of a series. We'll continue to follow the series. After all, web site flipping can be extremely profitable!

Free, Quality Traffic, Guaranteed...?

Traffic is the lifeblood of Internet Marketing. Of course conversions are the goal, but without traffic, there isn't anything to convert!

There isn't anything magical about getting traffic. The familiar, "tried & true" techniques work. The problem most marketers face isn't that they don't have the "right" or "best" method to generate traffic, but rather they don't implement a step-by-step plan of action.

PPC (Pay Per Click) is wonderful, but it isn't free.

Here is an excellent step-by-step plan. Follow this precisely, and you will in fact generate quality traffic - free: http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/free-guaranteed-traffic-formula/

5 Ways To Make $1000 In 30 Days

One of the questions I see a lot on forums is “How can I make $xxx”. Invariably, many of the responses are along the lines of “Just pick something, take action, and stick to it”. I also see a lot of “Look, it takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears; don’t just come here […]
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Want to Have a PR-3 Pagerank Tomorrow? Easy!

PageRank, Google’s algorithm for a web page’s “Popularity” isn’t as significant as it one was. However, when it comes to showing some authority, and perhaps more importantly “flipping” your site, PageRank - or ‘PR’ - still has a lot of value. Unfortunately, it can take a lot of time and effort building PR the “traditional” SEO way, but you no longer have to do that. Want to have a PR-3 website tomorrow? Easy! [Read more →]

How To Identify Profitable Niche Markets

Did you know that one of the largest keys to success in Internet Marketing is finding the proper niche to market. There are several crucial reasons why picking a market determines whether or not the campaign will be successful. We will discuss a couple of the main ones. ...[read more]

Using Youtube for CPA Offers

We all know Youtube can generate huge traffic numbers, but how many of us are using it for direct marketing?
As an example, I created a short video to promote an interesting CPA offer that allows someone to make a $3 donation to charity in return for filling out a brief survey. [Read more →]

Write an Ebook Over the Phone

One of the best ways to profit in Internet Marketing is to have your own product - we’ve all heard this before. But how exactly do you go about creating your own info-product? There are many ways, from buying & editing PLR material, to hiring a copywriter on Elance.
Here’s a new, interesting, and (potentially) free method: dictate it over the phone! [Read more →]

AdWords Success Secrets

Unless you have been living under a rock for the lsat few years you will have no doubt heard of Google ADwords. Google AdWords is for driving loads of targeted traffic to your products and affiliate offerings. Or at least it should be! Unfortunately for many people they simply don't experience the success that they would like to see with their AdWords efforts. However, the good news is that this can be overcome by applying a few solid techniques to any AdWords campaign and letting the improvements multiply over time.[ ... read more...]

Xsitepro2: A Great Program Gets Better

Regular readers of this blog already know we promote Xsitepro; you also know we only promote products we use ourselves. We’ve been using Xsitepro extensively for over a year. With the exception of our blogs, everything we do, from websites to salespages, is done in Xsitepro. There simply isn’t anything comparable when it comes to ease of use and power. [Read more →]

Simple SEO Improvements Will Net Big Gains

Perhaps the most common misconception about Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is that it is a "Black Art", requiring intimate knowledge of search engine algorithyms and an engineering degree, not to mention months or even years for it to work. Another common but opposite misconception is that once you've built your website, you'll automatically start attracting visitors. Or that once your site has been indexed by the various search engines, you'll get a high ranking in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for any and every keyword you like. [...read more...]

Keyword Spy Review

Keyword Spy can cut the time it takes to build a keyword list down from hours or days to a matter of seconds. One of the best features is that their return for results happens instantaneously. Most keyword tools take minutes to hours to return results, but you never have to wait when using Keyword Spy. Simply put in a term like flowers, and it will return all the competitors on Google who are bidding on the term flowers. Then you can look at each competitor, and find out all the keywords with the word flowers they are bidding on. In a matter of moments, you can get someone's whole adwords keyword list -- sometimes having more than 27,000 terms! [read more...]

Setting Up Joint Ventures

How to Set up Joint VenturesIf you truly want to leverage yourself on the Internet, you need to do joint ventures. Joint ventures put you directly in front of a bunch of people who have shown to be interested in what you have to offer. And as an added bonus, you get enhanced credibility because you're endorsed by somebody else. In this article I will show you the proper way to go about setting up joint ventures. [read more...]

Simple SEO Improvements Will Net Big Gains

Perhaps the most common misconception about Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is that it is a "Black Art", requiring intimate knowledge of search engine algorithyms and an engineering degree, not to mention months or even years for it to work. Another common but opposite misconception is that once you've built your website, you'll automatically start attracting visitors. Or that once your site has been indexed by the various search engines, you'll get a high ranking in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for any and every keyword you like. [...read more...]

How To Identify Profitable Niche Markets

In Internet marketing one of the most significant keys to success is entering into the correct type of market. There are several reasons why picking a market is so crucial in determining whether or not the campaign will be successful and also of what magnitude that success will be. We will discuss a couple of the main ones.

Do They Have Money To Spend?

One of the biggest mistakes that many marketers make is they go into a market because they like the look of it or think that it is going to be successful without any real prior thought given to how they are going to monetize the site. It is vital to have a plan of action going in rather than just making it up as you go along and hoping that it will all turn out fine in the end. A little bit of planning done before hand can be the difference between creating a great little extra stream of income or wasting a lot of time and effort for very little return.

A good way to see if the niche has money to spend is to see what competitors are currently in your market and in what ways they have gone about monetizing their sites. Let's face it - you are an Internet marketer and this is not just a fun "hobby" or something you do to pass the time of day but in fact is the way that you put food on the table for your family and pay your mortgage so you want to make sure that there are viable ways to monetize the traffic.

It is possible that some of your competitors are selling eBooks or mp3 programmes and if this is the case then that should represent a good indication that there is money being spent in this market and that it might be worth your time and effort to get involved. Also if some sites are displaying Adsense then it also a good sign, however, it may also be a good idea to use some software like Keyword Elite to see if the clicks are worthwhile going after or if they are just too low a value to be worth the effort.

Are You Interested In The Market?

It is often a very good idea to be interested in the market that you go into if you are going to be creating content and products for it. Time invested in something you enjoy and that makes you money is time well spent. However, it is not essential because you can outsource the content creation or just get on with it even if you don't find the market that enthralling. In clonculsion, we have discussed a number of ways to identify profitable niche markets.

How to Set up Joint Ventures

If you truly want to leverage yourself on the Internet, you need to do joint ventures. Joint ventures put you directly in front of a bunch of people who have shown to be interested in what you have to offer. And as an added bonus, you get enhanced credibility because you're endorsed by somebody else. In this article I will show you the proper way to go about setting up joint ventures.

Most people don't try to do joint ventures because they believe they have to do one with a big name in order for it to be profitable. This isn't so. Many profitable joint ventures can be created by marketers with lists as low as 1000 people. The beauty of it is if you set up 20 of these joint ventures, you'll have got your message across to 20,000 people. Since it is very easy to have somebody send an endorsement to their list about your product, 20,000 extra visitors is well worth your time.

So how do you set these joint ventures up? Well it's not as easy as trying to convince them it's in their best interest to do so. This may work some of the time, but a better approach is to create relationships with them first before you propose a joint venture.

First, decide who you want to do joint ventures with now and who you would like to do joint ventures with in the future. Now make contact with these people, but do so in a way to offer them value. Let them know who you are and what you can offer them that will benefit them, without asking for anything in return. By getting your foot in the door, and proving yourself yourself, they will be open to do business with you. Most people don't want to do business with a stranger, so it's wise to start cultivating relationships before doing business.

Now, either by establishing a relationship you can ask them directly or you will find they will be asking you about how they can partner with you. This is ideal -- you simply propose a joint venture and watch them accept it instantly.

In conclusion, to really maximize the effectiveness of joint ventures you need to build relationships with other people. It is well worth your time, because you will be able to leverage all of their resources and customer base and use it to make more sales for your products and services.

Free Merchant Account, Step-by-Step Guide, PLR Software, Article Marketing Tips

Welcome to another Super-Action-Packed issue, Melanies Tips #22 where you’ll find out how to get a Merchant Account easy & FREE, PLR rights on a Camtasia-like program, a Step-by-Step guide to creating your own info-product and of course, tips on Article Marketing, and yet another Something For Nothing Thats Actually Worth Something… [Read more →]

Here, Let Me Give You $25. Really.We all know, and love (or hate…) Paypal, but whatever your feelings, there’s no denying they’ve cornered the market for what they do. There have been a few wannabe’s, such as Moneybookers, but no one has made any serious headway, not even Google Checkout.Well, there’s a new one, and while I don’t expect them to overtake Paypal anytime soon, they are giving it a shot. And there’s reason to think they may do well. [Read more →]

Quickies: Find the “Money” Keywords Quickly and EasilyMelanies Tips “Quickies”. The idea behind Quickies is to get you some of the many really good money-making and money-saving tips and ideas I’ve developed or come across, as well as examples of well-executed strategies, quickly. Hence the name!In todays “Quickies”, I’ll show you how to quickly and easily find those “money” keywords and phrases - not necessarily the ones your keyword tools give you, but rather the ones the search engines actually consider the most relevant! (And if you want to get REALLY creative, you can “supercharge” this method using KeywordSpy.) [Read more →]

Get a FREE Internet Marketing Merchant Account

If you’ve been involved in Internet Marketing for any length of time, you either have, or have considered a Merchant Account to allow you to sell products and take credit cards. If you are just starting out, this can be an important asset. However, Merchant Accounts can be difficult and costly to get.
2Checkout, or 2co, is a merchant payment processor. Similar in some ways to Clickbank, 2co handles customer payment for your product(s), and then pays you. Unlike Clickbank, however, you can market both digital AND physical products, PLUS, 2co pays you right away, and directly into your bank account! [Read more →]

Internet Marketing is a unique business for many reasons; technology, scale, growth, well you know, it’s the Internet! It does, however share one characteristic with most other businesses: it is easier to fail than it is to succeed. There are lots of reasons, some of them common to any business, some more Internet-specific.

SpeedPPC, a revolutionary PPC system that promised previously unattainable capabilities and near-insurmountable competitive advantage. The gist was, after investigating it, I became a ‘convert’, and even considered making it the first affiliate marketing tool that I use myself that I wanted to keep to myself.

Want to Have a PR-3 Pagerank Tomorrow? Easy!

PageRank, Google’s algorithm for a web page’s “Popularity” isn’t as significant as it one was. However, when it comes to showing some authority, and perhaps more importantly generating traffic or “flipping” your site, PageRank, or PR still has a lot of value. It can take a lot of time and effort building PageRank the “traditional” SEO way, but you no longer have to do that. Want to have a PR-3 website tomorrow? Easy! [Read more →]

SpeedPPC pay per click software for affiliate marketing
SpeedPPC pay per click marketing software is a boon to affiliate marketers. Recently, the folks at Analogy Marketing interviewed Jay Stockwell, the developer of SpeedPPC.When asked how he came up with the idea for SpeedPPC, he said ..."sounds like marketing talk, but that’s really how it happened. We’re not a huge outfit here (although growing), so we’realways asking ourselves, “is this activity hitting the bottom line?”. We used to be able to be a bit faster and looser with respect to making PPC work. But with the Quality Score noose getting tighter and tighter we decided to stop trying to beat Google, and just give them what they wanted."Improve Your Internet Marketing has a discount of $100 off the price of SPPC.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Article Marketing

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, works not only for Websites, but for article marketing as well.

Boosting the effectiveness of Bum Marketing means boosting the returns on your articles - namely, how much traffic they bring - you must think of them as miniature Web sites. When you use article marketing, these articles will behave just like, and usually better than your Web sites.

Ideally, your articles reach the first page in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages), as well as have many backlinks pointing to them, so that someone searching on a topic you submitted an article for will find your article.

Of course you should always strive for quality. Whether you are writing them yourself from scratch, modifying PLR articles, or out-sourcing them entirely, an informative, engaging article is better than one that isn’t.

Check out this article from the Internet Marketing guru's at Analogy Marketing and their web site Improve Your Internet Marketing!

Can a Newbie Make $1000 in 30 Days? Here's 5 Ways!

The truth is, it isn’t impossible to make $1000 30 days. In fact it can even be fairly easy if you want to make $1000 in the next 30 days. It doesn't require a huge learning curve or steep investment. What it does require is thinking outside the box, and the willingness to put in the effort. “Easy” doesn’t mean “effortless”, but in this case it does mean “very doable”.

Of course, if you intend to go the “traditional” IM route, it may NOT be easy, and you will spend a LOT of time, money, and effort if you want to become an expert in PPC, or a super-affiliate, or build up a large, viable list, etc.

Here is a terrific post with 5 ways to build an online business and make $1000 in 30 days!

Finding online profits through offline businesses

Most Internet marketing efforts tend to focus on traditional avenues such as pay per click and affiliate marketing. This can lead to crowded and competitive markets. Thinking outside the box is one of the keys to building and growing a successful online business.

Lucrative opportunities can be found by creating online profits from off-line businesses. Creating info products from traditional businesses or webpages for bricks and mortar businesses can be very profitable.

By looking for opportunities outside of the usual affiliate networks. You can find a huge untapped reservoir of ideas, products and services that can be marketed to, and marketed online.

New Version of SpeedPPC launched 4/8

By now you've no doubt seen or heard about the release of Version 3 of SpeedPPC. This already-capable Pay Per Click tool has been updated with quite a few new and enhanced features.

If you are in the PPC arena, it's probably something you should check out. Our friends at Analogy Marketing have been posting a series of articles about it. You can see an overview of the new release by reading their SpeedPPC Version 3 Overview.

A new version of SpeedPPC

There is a new version of SpeedPPC being released soon. You can see a "sneek peak" of the new version on this Internet Marketing blog.

There seems to be a slew of new features to help all those PPC (Pay-Per-Click) users create higher Quality Score ad campaigns on Google Adwords, better integration with YSM (Yahoo Search Marketing), improvements to the Datefeed Integration, and new video tutorials.

Check out the review, plus you can get a $100 discount off the $500 price tag as well.

If you do much with search marketing, or are a PPC wizard, this new version of SpeedPPC seems like just the ticket to higher CTR (Click Through Rate) and lower CPC (Cost Per Click).

Simple, quick tips for better SEO

You’ve built your website or sales page, submitted a Google site map, it’s been indexed, and now you’re checking Google and your weblogs every day to see where you rank and how many visitors you’ve gotten. But there doesn’t seem to be much happening, does there?

Learn some simple, effective SEO Tips here!

Huge Boost From PPCRiches

PPCRiches has given us a HUGE boost.
If you’ve been doing Pay Per Click for very long, you’ve almost certainly had that dreaded experience: logging into your Adwords account one day to see “xxx of your keywords are no longer active“. The dreaded “Google Slap” - $0.25 keywords suddenly requiring Minimum Bids of $1, $5, $10, even $20! [Read more →]

Niche Research Bonanza!By Michael Ullman

The idea behind niche research is to find a topic or need that you can exploit by offering a product or solution. There are as many methods of niche research are there are niches, some better than others. The objective of good niche research is to find a group that has a common need or desire, big enough to support reasonable sales, yet small enough that there aren't too many 'big guns' going after the same group.I recently came across what has to be one of the greatest 'niche finders' I have ever seen: 43 Things.43 Things is a Web 2.0 Social Networking site with a twist: it's based on people making a list of things they want to do ("43 things I'd like to do...")The site uses a Tag Cloud to represent these 'things' - the more people who list the same thing, the bigger the tag for that thing. In other words, this site gives you a graphical representation of demonstrated niche ideas! This is one big site of people saying in effect: "Here's something I want, or want to do"!Niche idea's on a Silver Platter!What's very cool is that you can refresh the page over and over, and watch tags grow and shrink. When I was on the site recently, "Get a Tattoo", "Learn to Play Guitar", and "Learn Massage Therapy" were particularly prominent.Guess what? Clickbank has Tattoo, Guitar, and Message Therapy products! Not sure what people are looking for? 43 Things will tell you, complete with a relative indicator of just how many people might want the same thing...Michael Ullman is President of Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing firm, and a Google Certified Professional. You can visit their blog Improve Your Internet Marketing for proven strategies from over 5 years of Internet Marketing success, or subscribe to their widely acclaimed free newsletter Melane's Tips!

How to Become an AdWords Expert!

Ok, I get an affiliate account at Clickbank or Commission Junction, pick a product, create a keyword list, write an ad that has my affiliate link, and sit back as……my ad gets lost eight pages down, or generates lots ‘o clicks with no sales, or just sits there. And my ROI drops like a stone… [Read more →]

Online Profits from Off-Line Products

Creating info-product profits from OPP (Other People’s Products)One of the best product categories for online marketing is info products. Distribution is easy, inexpensive and broad. Payment and delivery can be handled by third-party companies such as Clickbank. There is no inventory to store, boxes to pack, or invoices to collect. While even a marginal info-product’s can generate significant revenue, a good info-product can pave the way to an ongoing revenue stream, a strong e-mail list, and a loyal customer base for repeat and ongoing sales and upgrades. [Read more →]

Learning from the WORST…

A common bit of good advice is to learn from what works. So whenever I come across a great salesletter, I try to take something away: a cleaner layout, better use of graphics, and especially great copy. Like many of you, I keep a swipe-file open to save good copy when I come across it.While a great salespage can be invaluably instructive, there is also a lot to be learned from BAD salespages.[Read more →]

How to Use Google AdWords Keyword Tool in a Way to Get You Hot Keywords By Michael Ullman

While the google adwords keyword tool isn't technically free, it only costs $5, which you get as credit to spend on adwords. This will be the best investment you will make for keyword tools. Think about it. Google is the biggest company in the whole world created for giving data to people who are buying keywords. Google wants to give you the most effective real-time keywords so you will continue to use their services. Why would you want to neglect this resource?Here's how you get the most out of it. First, login to your adwords account, click tools, and then select keyword tool. Search for a broad term in the niche you want to research, and then select "use synonyms" and perform your research.The Google adwords keyword tool will return a list of keywords that have been proven to be relevant by Google standards. Now, take these terms, and put them into the search engine. Take the top 10 websites those terms deliver, then go back to Google adwords keyword tool, click on the site related keywords tab, and enter those 10 sites to get even more keywords.Now, use synonyms for each of these searches and add those keywords to your list. Continue this process over and over again until you get as many keywords as you think are necessary. Now you have a list of keywords that you can use with any other keyword research tools such as Word tracker, keyword analyzer, SEO Elite, and so on to scrape for long tail keyword searches. If you still need more words, you can take the list you returned from the other keyword tools, and then bring them into the Google adwords keyword research tool. You can also use the Google traffic estimator as a guide to see which terms have the highest searches.In conclusion, if you're not using the Google adwords tool as I have described above, you're missing out on some very important keywords.Michael Ullman is President of Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing firm, and a Google Certified Professional. You can visit their blog Improve Your Internet Marketing for proven strategies from over 5 years of Internet Marketing success, or subscribe to their widely acclaimed free newsletter "Melanes Tips"!

Keyword Research - A Secret Trick Most People Don't Know By Michael Ullman

If you're going to enter into any niche, you should start broad, then go narrow. This ensures you won't miss important keywords. For example, let's say you were going to do keyword research for dieting tips. To start broad, we'd want to research a term like diet. We are not looking for just keywords with diet in them however, because search engines like Google also analyze relevancy by latent semantic indexing (LSI). What LSI means is that search engines check for similar terms related to diet to determine how relevant the content website is.
To take advantage of LSI properly, do a Google search for diet, but put a tilde (~) in front of the term, so search would look like this: ~diet. Google will return related words in bold such as weight loss, recipes, wheat, meal, eating and foods. Notice the difference from these words and words you'd find in a thesaurus. If you're doing keyword research properly, your best to use terms that search engines tell you are relevant, and not what a thesaurus suggests.
You can then take each of these terms, and do another tilde search, and write down more related words that pop up. By going through broader words into more specific words, you'll be sure not to miss any words related to your keyword, and also have a list of an exact vocabulary to use in your pages to ensure Google will evaluate your content as being highly relevant.
In conclusion, the strategy I have given you something you should use every time you're going to do keyword research for a new niche. While this is not the only strategy you should employ, it is the best one to use for getting a list of terms to look at and consider as traffic sources. The next logical step would be to determine how many users are searching for each of those terms, and then locating ones with high searches so you can optimize for not just the keyword, but related keywords that the search engines also place value upon.
Michael Ullman is President of Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing firm, and a Google Certified Professional. You can visit their blog Improve Your Internet Marketing for proven strategies from over 5 years of Internet Marketing success, or subscribe to their widely acclaimed free newsletter "Melanes Tips"!

How and When to Build Landing Pages

One of the ‘building blocks’ of Internet Marketing is Landing Pages. I’ll share with you how I decide when to build a landing page, and how I go about it.Why and When to Create Landing PagesWhen I am ’starting out’ with a new offer or a new niche, I will always begin by […][Read more →]

SpeedPPC - Most Powerful PPC System Available

SpeedPPC is possibly the single application responsible for more of our revenue than any other. So much so that once we got our arms around it, we brought in another full-time assistant just to free up more time to take advantage of it's incredible power!First things first: I do not write about anything unless I can speak about it knowledgeably. Second, I DO NOT recommend or promote anything I don't believe in. If it's not something I currently use, have used, or have learned about from a legitimate, reliable source, I won't write about it at all.As PPC affiliate marketers, we always have to be on the lookout for tools and methods that will help us keep a competitive edge. SpeedPPC is a software program and system that claims to 'revolutionize' Pay Per Click affiliate marketing. We all hear similar claims on a daily basis, but decided to take a look. It was a decision that has fundamentally changed my outlook, my business, and my prospects as an affiliate marketer.As a successful Internet Marketer for over 5 years, I will be the first to tell you there are no "magic bullets". Successful affiliate marketing requires understanding and intelligent application of effective tactics.Further, let me say plainly that SpeedPPChttp://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/speedppc-most-powerful-ppc-system-available-plus-exclusive-discount/">SpeedPPC> is NOT a the place to first enter the affiliate marketing business. I would NOT recommend it unless:You are already set up with Adwords and at least one affiliate program, such as Commission Junction or Clickbank;You have already created at least 2-3 campaigns from scratch yourself;You understand the concepts of adgroups, match types, and Quality Score;Since that time, we've gotten involved with Jay Stockwell, the developer of the application. As a result of our experience and success with PPC in general and SpeedPPC specifically, we were asked to moderate the SpeedPPC Members Forum, something we now do.We decided to try and leverage our position - and so we approached Jay Stockwell to ask that in return for moderating his forum, he allow us to offer our readers something special. And boy did he!You can now get a Private, Exclusive, and Limited Time discount of $100 off the price of SpeedPPC and purchase it for just $397 - less than we paid!Click Here for the link to this Exclusive and Limited Time SpeedPPC Discount!Michael Ullman is President of Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing firm, and a Google Certified Professional. You can visit their blog Improve Your Internet Marketing for proven strategies from over 5 years of Internet Marketing success, or subscribe to their widely acclaimed free newsletter "Melanes Tips"!

The BEST Keyword Research Tool, and it’s FREE!

If you’ve been at Internet Marketing for more than an hour, you already know this; and if you follow this blog or subscribe to Melanies Tips you’ve heard me say it over and over: Keyword Research is the foundation of Internet Marketing.Whether you’re writing Pay Per Click ads, sales copy, articles, trying to rank your […]
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How To Brand Yourself An Internet MarketingBy Michael Ullman

There are two kinds of branding -- profitable and unprofitable. I'm profitable branding usually involves being entertaining at the sake of diluting the message. This branding often occurs because people are too afraid to ask for the sale, so they take the easy way out: they entertain you and make you laugh, and at the end they slip in a little blurb about the product they are selling.Profitable branding means creating a brand that people will instantly link to your product in a positive way. For example, if you're branded as a no-nonsense kind of person, and you're selling a product, other no-nonsense kind of people who are interested in that product will be more attracted to your message than someone else's. Or, if you're branded as being first in the marketplace in something, you instantly will be perceived as being better simply because you're first..... [read more]

Free Ad Spying and Keyword TrackingI just came across HexaTrack - a FREE Ad Spying and Keyword Tracking application. Back in early 2007, a number of applications gave birth to “Ad Spying” - automated tracking of PPC ads over time to see which ones ran consistently, the idea being that nobody would pay to run ads indefinitely if they weren’t profitable. The premise is a good one, though all of us who jumped into it quickly found that simply copying long-running ads wasn’t all there was to it. Still, Ad Spying works, and there are many benefits to tracking the competition. [Read more →]

Boost Your PPC Click-Through Rates (CTR)

Your Click-Through Rate, or CTR for any type of online sales is important, but it’s critical for Pay Per Click where it can determine how much you pay. It’s important, however, that what you do to improve your click through rate doesn’t result in lower conversions.[Read more →]

Learning from the WORST…
A common bit of good advice is to learn from what works. So whenever I come across a great salesletter, I try to take something away: a cleaner layout, better use of graphics, and especially great copy. Like many of you, I keep a swipe-file open to save good copy when I come across it.
While a great salespage can be invaluably instructive, there is also a lot to be learned from BAD salespages.
[Read more →]

Keyword Spy ReviewBy Michael Ullman

Keyword Spy can cut the time it takes to build a keyword list down from hours or days to a matter of seconds. One of the best features is that their return for results happens instantaneously. Most keyword tools take minutes to hours to return results, but you never have to wait when using Keyword Spy. Simply put in a term like flowers, and it will return all the competitors on Google who are bidding on the term flowers. Then you can look at each competitor, and find out all the keywords with the word flowers they are bidding on. In a matter of moments, you can get someone's whole adwords keyword list -- sometimes having more than 27,000 terms!You can export these terms with one click of a mouse button. This is another strong point with using this tool. [ read more]

3 Stumbling Blocks All New Internet Marketers FaceBy Michael Ullman If you would like to start making money on the Internet, but have had trouble doing so, then this article was written for you. Specifically in this article we'll talk about three major stumbling blocks for making money and the Internet. They deal with the areas of information overload, competition and mindset. After reading this article you should be able to develop a strategic plan to avoid these problems which keep many Internet marketers from succeeding.Most new marketers suffer from “analysis paralysis”. In other words there are so many moneymaking opportunities on the Internet, it's hard to decipher which ones are worth your time and which aren't. In fact some of the information you come across directly contradicts information from another source. Who is right? You must find out yourself through trial and error. The best way to avoid information overload is to set some goals with your Internet business. That way when you come across a new article, or product you will know if it fits into your business plan or not. Without a plan, you try to go in too many directions at one time. [read more]

Keyword Research - A Secret Trick Most People Don't KnowBy Michael Ullman

If you're going to enter into any niche, you should start broad, then go narrow. This ensures you won't miss important keywords. For example, let's say you were going to do keyword research for dieting tips. To start broad, we'd want to research a term like diet. We are not looking for just keywords with diet in them however, because search engines like Google also analyze relevancy by latent semantic indexing (LSI). What LSI means is that search engines check for similar terms related to diet to determine how relevant the content website is.
To take advantage of LSI properly, do a Google search for diet, but put a tilde (~) in front of the term, so search would look like this: ~diet. Google will return related words in bold such as weight loss, recipes, wheat, meal, eating and foods. Notice the difference from these words and words you'd find in a thesaurus. If you're doing keyword research properly, your best to use terms that search engines tell you are relevant, and not what a thesaurus suggests. [ read more]

Adwords “Cheat-sheet”There are two periods when you need to be particularly careful and aware in using Adwords: when you’re just starting out, and when you’re not just starting out! In the beginning, it’s easy to miss important steps because many of them are still new. Once you’ve been doing it for a while, it’s easy to […][Read more →]

SpeedPPC is a great way to take advantage of the affiliate marketing field. SpeedPPC, a revolutionary PPC system that promised previously unattainable capabilities and near-insurmountable competitive advantage. The gist was, after investigating it, I became a ‘convert’, and even considered making it the first affiliate marketing tool that I use myself that I wanted to keep to myself. SpeedPPC, is easily the most extraordinary, powerful PPC system available, is a bargain at $497.Readers of this blog or Melanies Tips already know we manage our own in-house Internet Marketing practice with over 5 years continuous success.Visit ==> Improve Your Internet MarketingSubscribe ==> "Melanies Tips" email newsletter

Online Profits from Off-Line ProductsCreating info-product profits from OPP (Other People’s Products)One of the best product categories for online marketing is info products. Distribution is easy, inexpensive and broad. Payment and delivery can be handled by third-party companies such as Clickbank. There is no inventory to store, boxes to pack, or invoices to collect. While even a marginal info-product’s can generate significant revenue, a good info-product can pave the way to an ongoing revenue stream, a strong e-mail list, and a loyal customer base for repeat and ongoing sales and upgrades. [Read more →]

Internet Marketing is a unique business for many reasons; technology, scale, growth, well you know, it’s the Internet! It does, however share one characteristic with most other businesses: it is easier to fail than it is to succeed. There are lots of reasons, some of them common to any business, some more Internet-specific. To find out more about Interent Marketing and how to get started in the field visit our website. Improve Your Internet Marketing or subsribe to our free newsletter: "Melanies Tips" email newsletter

How to Become an AdWords Expert!
Ok, I get an affiliate account at Clickbank or Commission Junction, pick a product, create a keyword list, write an ad that has my affiliate link, and sit back as……my ad gets lost eight pages down, or generates lots ‘o clicks with no sales, or just sits there. And my ROI drops like a stone… [Read more →]

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Niche Research Bonanza!

The idea behind niche research is to find a topic or need that you can exploit by offering a product or solution. There are as many methods of niche research are there are niches, some better than others. The objective of good niche research is to find a group that has a common need or […]
[Read more →]