Some of you might recall the piece I did about 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.

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.

How to Use Google Adwords Keyword Tool in a Way to Get You Hot Keywords

If you're doing keyword research and you're not using the Google adwords keyword research tool, you're doing yourself a great disservice. However, most people who do use Google adwords keyword tool don't use it properly. In this article I will give you step-by-step sequence on how you can use the most powerful free keyword research tool available on the Internet. Follow the advice given in this article, and watch in amazement as you discover time and time again long tail keywords that you have previously been missing.

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.

How to Use Squidoo to Make Money

If you're looking for ways to expand your Internet marketing business, one of the most exciting opportunities is Squidoo. It's free, it ranks high in the search engines, brings traffic to your site and lets you promote products. In this article I will give you a brief overview of what Squidoo is, and get right into it with some strategies you can use to turn it into a profit center. After reading this article you have a good understanding of some different strategies you can start employing with Squidoo to increase the profit in your Internet marketing business.

Squidoo is what Web 2.0 is all about. You set up a page (called a lens) about a certain topic and then add modules to it in an attempt to create value for your visitors. Visitors then vote on your lens, and the better your lens to hire your ranking will be. You can use videos, surveys or simply write articles to build your lens. Squidoo offers a very easy-to-use interface to build very professional looking pages in a matter of minutes.

However, your lens mean nothing unless you have people looking at it. In order to do that, before creating a lens on any topic, do some research for it. Make sure people are searching for that topic on the Internet, and that there isn't too much competition for it. You can use different keyword research tools to accomplish this.

If there are people searching for it, that means they might be interested in finding out what you have to say, but aren't interested in spending any money. You want to look at niches where people are searching for information and are willing to pay money to get it. That way you can offers them some viable information for free, which will entice them to purchase your product (or product you're promoting) to get all your viable information.

You can't simply just put a lens up and expect it to make money for you though. You have to update it and track where your visitors are coming from, and what other things they are interested in learning about. It's worth it though. If you continue to add to your lens, you will find that it gets rank high in Google very quickly. Now you'll get search engine traffic, so you have more people to market your message to.

In conclusion, Squidoo is definitely something to look into to add to your Internet marketing bag of tricks. If you do it right, it will be another profit pulling weapon in your Internet marketing business.

If you're interested in making money with blogs, then this article was written for you. Specifically in this article I'll give you a brief overview of what it takes to have a successful blog, and some strategies you need to incorporate for your blog in order to get maximum profit from it. After reading this article, you should have several ideas you can use to start earning money from your blog immediately.
The main reason blogs aren't profitable is because they are neglected. The first rule of creating a profitable blog is to make a schedule for updating it regularly. A blog is nothing more than a fancy name for a website. And all websites need to be updated in order to keep visitors coming back to them. Set a schedule to post something of value to your blog once every few days. If you don't do this, the none of the other strategies work.
In addition to updating your blog, the single most important thing you can do to get people coming back to it is to capture their e-mail address so you can tell them when you update your blog. The way you do this is to sign up for our and not a responder service, which will generate the code for you to put on your blog to get people to sign up. They can either sign up for a newsletter where you send them information on a regular basis, or simply sign up to be notified when you post something new on your blog or when you want to tell them something.
By having their e-mail address, you can promote products to them were you get a commission if those products sell. Or you can put Google adsense on your site, and by getting people to continually come back to your blog and telling others about it, you'll earn money because a certain amount of people will click on your adsense ads.
Finally, in order to really get people to come back to your blog, it must be interesting and innovating. It can't be the same old thing as all the other blogs out there. Look at your blog compared to other blogs that revolve around the topic you're writing about. Now ask yourself what you can do to add more value to your visitors than what everybody else is doing. You will be surprised at the good answers you come up with.
In conclusion, turn your blog into something that generates profit is easy. First, updated regularly. Second, give people a way to constantly remember to check your blog often. And third, be unique so you can catch people's attention and keep it. Do these three things and you should start earning some money in your bank account from your blog.

Michael Ullman is President of (http://AnalogyMarketing.com)Analogy Marketing, a leading NY-based Internet Marketing company. Analogy Marketing focuses on Affiliate Marketing, and markets the tools they use in-house to other Internet Marketers.

Keyword Research -- a Secret Trick Most People Don't Know

If you're interested in doing keyword research before entering into a niche or market, then you will want to read this article. Specifically, we will discuss how to do keyword research for free, and the proper way to assure you get the most accurate data so you know which keywords to optimize for. After reading this article, you should have a strategy you can use to start all your keyword research.

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.

A Google Keyword Research “Trick”

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you know my philosophy – it all begins with good keyword research. Whether you’re doing minisites, PPC, article marketing, etc., good keyword research is the single most important factor in success.
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