<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:14:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Internet Marketing Blog</title><description></description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>104</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-380321610316550970</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-09T16:28:27.036-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>affiliate sales</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>affiliate marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>viral marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>internet marketing</category><title>Viral Marketing - Powerful Strategy</title><description>Viral Marketing: The key to increasing your Affiliate Market empire Have you ever tried to market and spread your online affiliate product only to face hardships and failure? Have you been trying to increase the reach of your online affiliate product but are failing quite miserably? Do you need a new method to increase the worth and customer base of your affiliate product? If the answer is yes then you have come to the right place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effectively marketing your affiliate product is one of the main things that one should have in mind if one wants to be successful. You do not want that you lose out on your profit because of the lack of proper marketing. Without a god marketing strategy people may not be able to recognize or even find your what your are selling. So what are the ways of spreading your business on the internet? Well there are many different methods that could help you market and spread your affiliate product. These include methods such as marketing through advertisements, offers, email marketing, use of affiliates, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But all these methods are quite difficult to implement and rather slow and inefficient when it comes to increasing the size of your internet business rapidly. So there is a need for a way that is both fast and highly efficient and that could help spread information about your product like a wildfire in the jungle. One such method is viral marketing. But before we look into this method we must understand what viral marketing is. Viral marketing is the use of social networking websites to spread awareness about your product and attract potential clients. So how can one start off with viral marketing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, let me give you a demonstration of a method that is both easy to use and provides an efficient way of attracting customers to your affiliate product. The first thing to do while starting with viral marketing is to set up an account on a popular networking site. Try to look for sites that offer you the opportunity to display your products and product information on your profile page. After this has been accomplished, the next step is to add contacts and make connections. A lot of effort should be given to this because the larger your contact list the larger will be your business exposure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next and the most important step in viral marketing is supplying information about your products to the people in your contact list. But this is not easy, if you try to market them your products in the traditional way they would most probably ignore you and your campaign may go down as a complete failure. The best way you could accomplish this is by creating a nice little video and putting your website and product links in that video.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This method is good because of the fact that if your video is liked by the people then they would share it further with their friends and this would make the video quite popular and your video would generate a lot of traffic and the links in your video would surely be noticed by potential customers who would come to know about your product, thus generating leads for you. This can help by spreading information about your affiliate product across the internet like a virus. And can lead to a large number of leads generated for your product which can in turn get converted into customers thus insuring success and profit for your affiliate marketing business.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-380321610316550970?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/viral-marketing-powerful-strategy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-6919992818758640909</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-02T21:20:43.879-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>affiliate sales</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>affiliate marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>viral marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>internet marketing</category><title>Viral Marketing: The key to increasing your Affiliate Market empire</title><description>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;By Melanie Ullman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever tried to market and spread your online affiliate product only to face hardships and failure? Have you been trying to increase the reach of your online affiliate product but are failing quite miserably? Do you need a new method to increase the worth and customer base of your affiliate product? If the answer is yes then you have come to the right place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Effective &lt;a href="http://freeiqmarketing.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Internet marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for your affiliate product is one of the main things that one should have in mind if one wants to be successful. You do not want that you lose out on your profit because of the lack of proper marketing. Without a god marketing strategy people may not be able to recognize or even find your what your are selling. So what are the ways of spreading your business on the internet? Well there are many different methods that could help you market and spread your affiliate product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These include methods such as marketing through advertisements, offers, email marketing, use of affiliates, etc. But all these methods are quite difficult to implement and rather slow and inefficient when it comes to increasing the size of your internet business rapidly. So there is a need for a way that is both fast and highly efficient and that could help spread information about your product like a wildfire in the jungle. One such method is viral marketing. But before we look into this method we must understand what viral marketing is. Viral marketing is the use of social networking websites to spread awareness about your product and attract potential clients. So how can one start off with viral marketing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, let me give you a demonstration of a method that is both easy to use and provides an efficient way of attracting customers to your affiliate product. The first thing to do while starting with viral marketing is to set up an account on a popular networking site. Try to look for sites that offer you the opportunity to display your products and product information on your profile page. After this has been accomplished, the next step is to add contacts and make connections. A lot of effort should be given to this because the larger your contact list the larger will be your business exposure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The next and the most important step in viral marketing is supplying information about your products to the people in your contact list. But this is not easy, if you try to market them your products in the traditional way they would most probably ignore you and your campaign may go down as a complete failure. The best way you could accomplish this is by creating a nice little video and putting your website and product links in that video. This method is good because of the fact that if your video is liked by the people then they would share it further with their friends and this would make the video quite popular and your video would generate a lot of traffic and the links in your video would surely be noticed by potential customers who would come to know about your product, thus generating leads for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can help by spreading information about your affiliate product across the internet like a virus. And can lead to a large number of leads generated for your product which can in turn get converted into customers thus insuring success and profit for your affiliate marketing business.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-6919992818758640909?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/viral-marketing-key-to-increasing-your.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-2563212395555190177</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-26T01:54:13.357-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>online business</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>home-business</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>home-based business</category><title>Business Success Tips...What Everybody Should Know... About How To Make More Money</title><description>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;by Dennis Stokes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For great tips, ideas, and inspiration, go to &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.homebusinessreader.com/"&gt;Home Business Reader&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think everybody's goal in business is to simply...stay in business. And build that business into something that makes a great profit for years to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although so many businesses large and small are started every year, over 90% of businesses fail. Why is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are 3 proven business success tips that will give you a great chance for massive success in the long term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Make a definitive decision to succeed. What else can be said about this business success tip? You need to decide that losing isn't an option. I recall listening to my high school history teacher talk about how the Vikings prepared for war. They prepared with that no lose option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These ultimate warriors would come to war with a no lose mentality. Before taking the offensive, they would burn every single boat they arrived with. This would seal their resolve to either conquer or die....simple as that. They left themselves with no other options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how does that relate to your business? If you thought like the Vikings of old, do you think you could succeed in your business? I would have to say...YES...to that mindset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's extremely vital that you know where you want to go. If you have a clear vision of your outcome...then all you have to do is set your goals in a backwards fashion. You will then have the steps needed to progress in your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's critical you do something...this business success tip can't be neglected. Take the needed action and keep doing. Don't get caught waiting for things to happen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Be actively compiling a database of customers. Of all the business success tips, this can't be overlooked. This list will no doubt become your number one asset. If you want long-term success in your business, take this as seriously as breathing. Never stop building your list...never!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your customer database will be your best asset in your business. You have the power to literally generate profits year in and year out with a loyal customer list. Selling your products and also those of other companies that closely relate to yours. Just be certain other companies products aren't competing with yours. Use this business success tip and see your business succeed for the long-term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A business success tip of doing the work once and get paid over and over from that effort. This is the kind of result I'm looking for in my business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want to know what it takes to compile a large, responsive customer list... go to listbuilding.com. Tellman Knudsen practices what he preaches and knows all the ins-outs of list building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Track and evaluate your business. The final one of the successful business tips is to track. Any successful business tracks everything...They know exactly what results they are going to get because of this business success tip. By knowing the real scoop on what's working or not.....you can add or eliminate what's working and not working and cut out losses that could eventually put you right out of business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So to conclude, take these business success tip to heart. If you do them and act like the Vikings in approaching your business, you will succeed and be so glad you did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the Author:&lt;br /&gt;Come visit my website and be taught how to implement these &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/lcghk5" rel="nofollow"&gt;home-based business success tips&lt;/a&gt; Get my special report "24 Hour 'CMPS' Web Cash Secret" and be taught what it needed to succeed in your very own home-based business.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-2563212395555190177?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/business-success-tipswhat-everybody.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-6835632017921453146</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-19T21:40:03.810-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>dieting</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>foreclosure</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SEO</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ranking</category><title>Two Simple Steps To Improve Search Rank</title><description>&lt;div class="uawarticle"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;This article talks about various ranking strategies. I've begun taking advantage of these methods while writing an article for a dieting piece entitled "&lt;a href="http://www.americanheartdiets.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;American Heart Association Diet Plan Online&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;", as well as another in the real-estate niche "&lt;a href="http://www.helpingforeclosures.com/how-does-foreclosure-work/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;How Does Foreclosure Work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Ralph Xysllion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of the various SEO techniques, I have learned that two are the most prominent. So what have I learned? Perhaps too much to tell, but to condense what I have learned, there are two basic techniques to growing back links to your website to increase the site's rank on the primary search engines. The first phase is to find and secure organic back links with anchor text from the billions of sites that are in the world. The second method is to create your very own sites that you control and place your back links onto those sites that link back to your own. Both methods can be performed legitimately, or through less scrupulous methods, but combining both methods together is a great way to propel your site's ranking to the top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first method is pretty straight forward and self explanatory, so let us instead focus on how to use the second approach. The second method is what I want to talk about because we are talking about establishing good page rank links back to your website from other websites that you manage. What are the steps to get started? I have developed the list below to help get you started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) You would be surprised how high social networks rank. Strangely enough, pageflakes and not so weirdly facebook rank very well on search engines as does Linked In links. Use online social networks to establish some authoritative links back to your site as well as increase your online footprint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Take a look at Hub Pages, Squidoo, and even Tumblr: Use these sites to get some basic and relative back links. These sites rank relatively well and by using them, you can get a great deal of authority with very little effort.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) For more advanced web surfers, there is always the option of creating a directory or forum. There is a lot of software available in the open source area that you may use to develop unique websites that focus to your area of specialization or your region. Create them and sponsor them from your home page with anchor links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Blogging tools. I understand that blogging takes a commitment, but as a Google product, Blogger has a very high page rank; which means any links from a blogger site will have a high weight. Develop numerous blogs, (don't link them together) and add back links with anchor text to your focus website. Recruit guest bloggers or pay per article ghost writers to create content. There are software programs out there that will actually scrape content from other sites, but these will get you banned from blogger. Unique original and legitimate content is best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By taking this approach, you can increase your online presence and increase traffic to your site. Use the free blogging and website tools that are available online to create links and drive traffic to your website. I know that time is valuable and what I have reviewed above may initially take a lot of time, but the real estate market is becoming extremely cutthroat and your success may ultimately rely on how many people can find you online.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic;" class="uawabout"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   About the Author:&lt;br /&gt;   Randy Xysllion controls &lt;a href="http://www.lockbox.me/" rel="nofollow"&gt;lockbox&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.mlsni.us/" rel="nofollow"&gt;mlsni&lt;/a&gt; as a service for midwest mls and real estate. Located in Illinois, Randy provides service to the real estate community both online and off &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-6835632017921453146?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/two-simple-steps-to-improve-search-rank.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7905361906753700323</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-30T21:39:43.959-08:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>backlinks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ezinearticles</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>article marketing</category><title>Get 100’s of Links To Your EzineArticles</title><description>&lt;p&gt;There's a terrific post on &lt;a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/quickies-how-to-get-100s-of-links-to-your-ezinearticles/"&gt;Improve Your Internet Marketing&lt;/a&gt; that talks about boosting your returns on article marketing. Specifically, leveraging the effort you've already made creating and submitting articles to Ezinearticles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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?&lt;span id="more-179"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here’s how you do it:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Go to your expert author page where you see all your articles listed. The url is something like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fezinearticles.com%2F%3Fexpert%3DAuthor_Name" target="_blank"&gt;http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Author_Name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here’s a list of RSS directories to start with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dotsauce.com%2F2007%2F06%2F06%2F55-active-rss-directories-to-help-promote-your-feeds%2F" target="_blank"&gt;55 Active RSS Directories to Help Promote Your Feeds!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(not my site - got it from Google search)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I hope my above trick helps you in your Article Marketing efforts.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you follow the above ‘formulas’, you will begin to generate traffic, it will build steadily, and your SERPs ranking will improve steadily.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Guaranteed.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks to Zuber (&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ninecolour.com/"&gt;http://ninecolour.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) for this great tip!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7905361906753700323?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-100s-of-links-to-your-ezinearticles.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7848533054463134814</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-31T19:42:34.536-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>open source</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>shareware</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>freeware</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>product creation</category><title>Creating Your Own Product - Not From Scratch!</title><description>Creating your own product is perhaps the best, surest ways to build your &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/creating-your-own-products/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"&gt;Internet marketing business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Info-products can be the "simplest" route, but is only one way to have your own product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Software, scripts, widgets, and the like can often command higher prices and differenciate you in the marketplace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Developing your own software isn't as difficult as it might sound. One of the best ways is to begin with something already created!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some resources to help you get started:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scripts, freeware, shareware, etc.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tucows  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tucows.com/"&gt;http://www.tucows.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cnet Download.com  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.download.com/"&gt;http://www.download.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Freeware Files  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freewarefiles.com/"&gt;http://www.freewarefiles.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free Utilities  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.software995.com/"&gt;http://www.software995.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open Source &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Free Software Foundation  = &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://directory.fsf.org/"&gt;http://directory.fsf.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Source Forge  = &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/"&gt;http://sourceforge.net/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source.org  = &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opensource.org/"&gt;http://www.opensource.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;OS Alt  = &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.osalt.com/"&gt;http://www.osalt.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source Mac  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opensourcemac.org/"&gt;http://www.opensourcemac.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source Windows  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opensourcewindows.org/"&gt;http://www.opensourcewindows.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Apple Open Source  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.opensource.apple.com/"&gt;http://www.opensource.apple.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source Living  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://osliving.com/index.php"&gt;http://osliving.com/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Open Source Directory  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://osdir.com/"&gt;http://osdir.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gnu.org  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gnu.org/"&gt;http://www.gnu.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Freesoft  =  &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.free-soft.org/"&gt;http://www.free-soft.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7848533054463134814?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/creating-your-own-product-not-from.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7291781790542895973</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-18T03:01:34.780-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bum marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>article marketing</category><title>Article Marketing, Bum Marketing: Free and Effective!</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;Article marketing and Bum Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two significant advantages for Internet marketers are exposure and backlinks. Article marketing provides exposure, and generates valuable inbound links or IBL's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7291781790542895973?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/article-marketing-bum-marketing-free.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-1977982597907510552</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-23T21:29:51.425-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>niche marketing</category><title>Test Your Niche Marketing Ideas FIRST!</title><description>Here’s a really simple, quick, and easy way to test your &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/easily-test-your-product-niche/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"&gt;niche marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ideas: run a brief Adwords campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many Internet Marketers put the “cart before the horse”, jumping into a niche, even creating a product before they know whether people will buy. &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-1977982597907510552?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/test-your-niche-marketing-ideas-first.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-3438642614942350810</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-09-08T13:29:53.635-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>outsourcing</category><title>Tip For Successful Outsourcing</title><description>When it comes to &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/how-to-insure-successful-outsourcing/#more-154"&gt;outsourcing&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-3438642614942350810?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/tip-for-successful-outsourcing.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-2994467214366886373</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-31T09:52:18.546-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ultimate IM toolchest</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pagerank</category><title>Blog Commenting For Links May Not Be What You Think!</title><description>Getting &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/fallacy-of-high-pagerank-links/"&gt;backlinks&lt;/a&gt; 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).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, it isn't as straightforward as it may seem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unlike traditional static web sites, blogs are dynamic. What's on the home page - the index page - today, may not be there tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Blog commenting is a good strategy for building links, just make sure you understand it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UPDATE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can now purchase "&lt;a href="http://www.internetmarketingalmanac.com/IMToolchest.html"&gt;The Ultimate IM Toolchest&lt;/a&gt;", the last Internet Marketing product you will EVER need - and it's only $27!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-2994467214366886373?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-commenting-for-links-may-not-be.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-3073745326181017847</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-12T21:49:24.302-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>search engine optimization</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>traffic</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>SEO</category><title>What is SEO and How Does One Get Started?</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SKJZbSRPx4I/AAAAAAAAACY/QF8e1-tjVTw/s1600-h/seo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SKJZbSRPx4I/AAAAAAAAACY/QF8e1-tjVTw/s200/seo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233844042253453186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/improveyourinternetmarketing"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.  &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/improveyourinternetmarketing"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt; is not easy and needs to be maintained regularly in order for a page to stay on top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does one get started in &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/improveyourinternetmarketing"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt;?  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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/improveyourinternetmarketing"&gt;SEO&lt;/a&gt; is an extremely powerful tool and should be used wisely!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-3073745326181017847?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-seo-and-how-does-one-get.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SKJZbSRPx4I/AAAAAAAAACY/QF8e1-tjVTw/s72-c/seo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7056610404728713157</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-12T19:05:27.027-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>traffic</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>internet marketing</category><title>Tips to Get More Traffic to Your Site</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SJqMonQ6U1I/AAAAAAAAACQ/6GIds8Ss6os/s200/website-traffic1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231648546506822482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most important process in &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/"&gt;Internet Marketing&lt;/a&gt; is getting traffic to your site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are always looking for means to drive traffic, and I am going to share some of them with you.&lt;br /&gt;Most of you are probably doing some of these already, but I'm sure everyone will find some beneficial tips here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Write and submit articles to the article directories.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Post in forums along with a link to your site.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Start a blog and submit it to free blog directories.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Submit your website to the major search engines.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Optimize each page of your site for a particular keyword or search phrase.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Add an RSS feed to your blog.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Start a page on social bookmarking sites.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Start a lens on www.Squidoo.com&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;To see other tips on how to get more traffic to your site, &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/quickies-50-tips-on-getting-more-traffic-to-your-site/"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7056610404728713157?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/tips-to-get-more-traffic-to-your-site.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SJqMonQ6U1I/AAAAAAAAACQ/6GIds8Ss6os/s72-c/website-traffic1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-4601505112181108635</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-01T10:35:27.967-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>website flipping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>internet marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pagerank</category><title>Easy Way to Get a PR-3 PageRank within 24 Hours!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SJNJE3OiLTI/AAAAAAAAABo/BUEcoolROL0/s1600-h/pagerank.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SJNJE3OiLTI/AAAAAAAAABo/BUEcoolROL0/s200/pagerank.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5229603940200492338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can easily get a PR-3 website within 24 hours!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How?  Simply by buying a good domain.&lt;br /&gt;A good expired domain with PR-3 can be purchased for as little as $10 at &lt;a href="http://www.freshdrop.net/"&gt;Freshdrop.net&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see more information on how to get a PR-3 PageRank within 24 hours, &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/want-to-have-a-pr-3-pagerank-tomorrow-easy/"&gt;Click Here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-4601505112181108635?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/easy-way-to-get-pr-3-pagerank-within-24.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SJNJE3OiLTI/AAAAAAAAABo/BUEcoolROL0/s72-c/pagerank.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-8492095091859688551</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-30T15:40:31.491-07:00</atom:updated><title>Part I - How to Lose in Internet Marketing</title><description>A similarity &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/internet-marketing-how-to-fail-part-i/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Internet Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; shares with any business, is that it is easier to lose than to succeed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yet another common mistake Internet Marketers' make is spending too much time on things that aren't going to help them build their business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A day of an Internet Marketer should be spent doing things that are productive, moving you  forward, and building your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Part II,  we'll dig into the specifics and the activities and tactics that look good but really aren't.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-8492095091859688551?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/part-i-how-to-lose-in-internet.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-5867710126699412274</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-26T11:40:38.177-07:00</atom:updated><title>The Best Keyword Research Tool</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SItsZKpIdKI/AAAAAAAAAA4/c_qb05H1muk/s1600-h/keywords.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 169px; height: 168px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SItsZKpIdKI/AAAAAAAAAA4/c_qb05H1muk/s320/keywords.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227390972102997154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you’ve been at Internet Marketing for more than an hour, you already know this; &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/its-the-best-keyword-research-tool-and-its-free/#more-62"&gt;Keyword Research&lt;/a&gt; is the &lt;em&gt;foundation&lt;/em&gt; of Internet Marketing. &lt;p&gt;Whether you’re writing PPC ads, sales copies, articles, trying to rank your site - it all begins with adequate Keyword Research.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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: &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/research-resources-tools/" title="Research Tools"&gt;http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/research-resources-tools/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-5867710126699412274?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/best-keyword-research-tool.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SItsZKpIdKI/AAAAAAAAAA4/c_qb05H1muk/s72-c/keywords.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7494384604565957162</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-07T21:09:44.083-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>hypermiling</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>gas for less money</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Water4Gas</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ultimate gas saver guide</category><title>New Clickbank Product - BETTER Than "Water4Gas"</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.gasforlessmoney.com/affiliates/index.html"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SHLl-1p5pyI/AAAAAAAAAAg/qfHCIsQ88HQ/s320/Hypermiling+Guide+cover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220487785793300258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gasforlessmoney.com/affiliates/index.html"&gt;The Ultimate HyperMiling Guide&lt;/a&gt;" 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The main product is listed in Clickbank Marketplace searching "Water4Gas". There's also some more info, plus how to create your hoplink at &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/is-this-the-best-clickbank-opportunity-ever/"&gt;Improve Your Internet Marketing&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is also a niche blog for the product set up &lt;a href="http://www.gasforlessmoney.com/"&gt;Gas For Less Money&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. "&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.gasforlessmoney.com/UltimateGuide.html"&gt;The ULTIMATE Gas Saver Guide&lt;/a&gt;" is a better product and will likely have far fewer returns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It pays 75% of its $47 price tag, coming out to about $33 for each sale.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7494384604565957162?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-clickbank-product-better-than.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CkE7WBCdlbU/SHLl-1p5pyI/AAAAAAAAAAg/qfHCIsQ88HQ/s72-c/Hypermiling+Guide+cover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7432469159279780142</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-21T19:22:34.498-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>traffic</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>website flipping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cpa offers</category><title>Website Flipping</title><description>We referenced some interesting CPA offer marketing ideas which were also referenced by an &lt;a href="http://melaniesaffiliatemarketing.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Affiliate Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original post, about using Youtube for CPA offers was from the post on the &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Improve Your Internet Marketing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; blog. This blog has been writing about innovative and creative ways to market online for quite some time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The post is part 1 of a series. We'll continue to follow the series. After all, web site flipping can be extremely profitable!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7432469159279780142?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/website-flipping.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-6578037742976026895</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-14T10:33:07.865-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>traffic</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ppc</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>article marketing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pay per click</category><title>Free, Quality Traffic, Guaranteed...?</title><description>Traffic is the lifeblood of Internet Marketing. Of course conversions are the goal, but without traffic, there isn't anything to convert!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There isn't anything magical about getting traffic. The familiar, "tried &amp;amp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPC (Pay Per Click) is wonderful, but it isn't free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is an excellent step-by-step plan. Follow this precisely, and you will in fact generate quality traffic - free: &lt;a href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/free-guaranteed-traffic-formula/"&gt;http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/free-guaranteed-traffic-formula/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-6578037742976026895?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/free-quality-traffic-guaranteed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-2051427444802054797</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-11T06:32:34.351-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a title="Permanent Link to 5 Ways To Make $1000 In 30 Days" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/5-ways-to-make-1000-in-30-days/" rel="bookmark"&gt;5 Ways To Make $1000 In 30 Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 […]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="Read the rest of this entry" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/5-ways-to-make-1000-in-30-days/#more-92"&gt;[Read more →]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-2051427444802054797?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/5-ways-to-make-1000-in-30-days-one-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-8730117536563440392</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-10T05:38:54.723-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Want to Have a PR-3 Pagerank Tomorrow? Easy!" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/want-to-have-a-pr-3-pagerank-tomorrow-easy/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Want to Have a PR-3 Pagerank Tomorrow? Easy!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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! &lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/want-to-have-a-pr-3-pagerank-tomorrow-easy/#more-100"&gt;[Read more →]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-8730117536563440392?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/want-to-have-pr-3-pagerank-tomorrow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-7135453204609876108</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-09T11:01:03.344-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a href="http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-identify-profitable-niche.html"&gt;How To Identify Profitable Niche Markets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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. &lt;a href="http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/"&gt;...[read more]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-7135453204609876108?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-identify-profitable-niche.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-3644325179504472809</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-06T02:26:09.734-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Using Youtube for CPA Offers" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/using-youtube-for-cpa-offers/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Using Youtube for CPA Offers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title="CPA Offer" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.youtube.com');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4W6AzEVpI"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We all know Youtube can generate huge traffic numbers, but how many of us are using it for direct marketing?&lt;br /&gt;As an example, I created a short &lt;a title="CPA Offer" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/article/www.youtube.com');" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ4W6AzEVpI"&gt;video to promote an interesting CPA offer&lt;/a&gt; that allows someone to make a $3 donation to charity in return for filling out a brief survey. &lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/using-youtube-for-cpa-offers/#more-102"&gt;[Read more →]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-3644325179504472809?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/using-youtube-for-cpa-offers-we-all.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-2526617316925810573</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-04T13:29:17.436-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Write an Ebook Over the Phone" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/write-an-ebook-over-the-phone/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Write an Ebook Over the Phone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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 &amp;amp; editing PLR material, to hiring a copywriter on Elance.&lt;br /&gt;Here’s a new, interesting, and (potentially) free method: dictate it over the phone! &lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/write-an-ebook-over-the-phone/#more-106"&gt;[Read more →]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-2526617316925810573?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/write-ebook-over-phone-one-of-best-ways.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-965129601019260670</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-03T06:08:07.054-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pay-per-clickmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/06/adwords-success-secrets.html"&gt;AdWords Success Secrets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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&lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?AdWords-Success-Secrets&amp;amp;id=1191706"&gt;.[ ... read more...]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-965129601019260670?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/adwords-success-secrets-unless-you-have.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1478866243260632508.post-4228319499355071436</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-30T06:10:56.345-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><description>&lt;a title="Permanent Link to Xsitepro2: A Great Program Gets Better" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/xsitepro2-a-great-program-gets-better/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Xsitepro2: A Great Program Gets Better&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Regular readers of this blog already know we promote &lt;a title="Xsitepro2" href="http://improveyourinternetmarketing.com/xsitepro.htm"&gt;Xsitepro&lt;/a&gt;; 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. &lt;a class="more-link" href="http://www.improveyourinternetmarketing.com/xsitepro2-a-great-program-gets-better/#more-103"&gt;[Read more →]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1478866243260632508-4228319499355071436?l=yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://yourinternetmarketingblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/xsitepro2-great-program-gets-better.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Melanie)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>