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With Google Adsense you could insert ads on you website, placed by advertisers through Google Adwords. Google in this case is actually the intermediary between the webmaster and the advertiser. These ads are what you see on top or on the right side of a search page when you search for a term in Google. They are actually mini-ads pertaining a couple of very short sentences with a link redirected to the advertiser’s website. When someone clicks on the ad, it will lead to the site of the advertiser.

To start with Google Adsense you could open an account with Google, get a code and insert it on your website, where you want to have the ad units. You could add up to three ad units or one link unit on one webpage. For the ad units, you can choose between text and image unit, or text and image units separately. Google will take care further steps. Based on the unique content of your site, for example, if it is about home business opportunities, Google will display ads relevant to home business opportunities. This is good for both the webmaster and the advertiser, since the visitors to your site would be interested in your content and the products advertised.

The Google Adsense program will compensates the webmasters for displaying the ads based on the pay-per-click principle. Google will pay you a certain amount each time an ad on your site is clicked by a visitor, and this amount is based on how ‘expensive’ the keywords are in the advertiser’s ad. It is therefore important for webmasters to target for high paying keywords, by optimizing these keywords in the webpages. In fact, there are Adsense websites designed only for making money purely from Google Adsense. Google will pay by checks delivered monthly, or directly into your bank account, when a certain amount is reached. Google Adsense also provides webmasters tools to track a certain ad and monitor the earnings from this ad.

In conclusion, by adding Google Adsense to you website and make sure that your website is rich in relevant contents webmasters could easily make extra money online to keep their site running, next to the earnings you already get from the website. In fact, if you could get a reasonable amount traffic to your website, you could make a nice monthly income with Google Adsense.

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Diep Tran is MD, working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Please visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/business/advertising/internet-home-business-ideas-niche-marketing.html http://www.articletrader.com/business/advertising/internet-home-business-ideas-niche-marketing.html Mon, 21 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Using this definition, niche marketing is the process of finding and serving market segments, that are too small for big companies to serve them profitably defined by the volume of sales. The key to niche marketing is to find and develop a service or product that is in high demand for the small group of potential customers, but the number of these customers is still high enough, so that you can be potentially profitable nonetheless. The service or product should be selected based on the unmet customer need. To maintain a profitable volume of sales, niche marketers are reliant on the loyalty of customers. To increase the customer loyalty it is important to focus on the quality of the product or service provided, this will generate customer satisfaction, trust in the product or service, and consequently sales.
How to find a niche that is profitable?
The most important and difficult task to do when starting niche marketing is doing site research. As with any business it is much easier to start with something that you are interested in and excited about. Since this is an internet home business, and most traffic (85%) to the websites will be determined by the big three search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN, it is a good place to start your research from. This research should focus on the following three aspects, as described above for a niche market:
High demand: Using tools like Inventory Overture (http://inventory.overture.com) you will be able to find out whether the product you have in mind is wanted. Type in your niche market term describing your product and you will see how many searches for this term and other related terms were done in the past month. The number of searches per month will depend on the niche market, but in general look for terms that are not higher than 20,000 a month.
Low supply: Take the selected terms and type in these terms in the search engines. The results will give you an estimation how much competition there is or how many sites are available on the internet for these niche marketing terms. Ideally there should be a good balance between the number of searches and results a month. As a thumb rule, you should look for terms that have less than 1,000,000 searches per month for Google, 400,000 for Yahoo and 250,000 for MSN. Based on the balance between demand and supply you could reduce the number of terms and narrow down your market niche.
Profitability potential: Once you have the reduced list of niche market terms, you also need to know much advertisers would like to pay for each term. Use for example Google Adwords, and select for the last time based on the results terms with the highest pay per click.
With these definitive niche market terms in mind, you could be able to optimize your website for two or three of terms, by adding relevant content to your site, concentrating around these terms. Because the chosen terms (and related product) have been selected based on three criteria which are typical for a niche market and your research conducted ‘life’ with the three big search engines, you have already all the conditions to be successful in niche marketing. In internet marketing in general, most are aiming for the big fish with a lot of competition. In contrast with niche marketing, you are looking for small fishes. But if you know where they are by conducting sound research, the catch might be greater and more frequently.

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Diep Tran is MD, working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Please visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

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What is affiliate marketing?
According to Wikipedia affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber or customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts.

Based on this definition, the website owner or affiliate (publisher), uses their site for the promotion of the merchant's products by inserting link(s) to the merchant's website. When visitors visit a website and click on a link, which results in a purchase, the merchant will pay a commission to the affiliate. This is based on the pay-per-performance principle, so the merchant will pay the affiliate for every click on the link on the affiliate website which results in a sale.

Affiliate marketing has grown significantly on the internet due to enormous reductions of operating costs both for the merchant and the affiliate. It is a win-win situation for both sides, the merchant and the affiliate. There are many benefits for the merchant. The merchant does not need to pay the advertising costs –which will be done by the affiliates-, these are a great part of the operating costs, normally. Due to the internet the advertised product or service will get the maximum exposure that it may not get with other traditional advertising techniques.

For the affiliate, there are also many benefits. It is very easy to make money online by inserting an ad or a link to the merchant’s site. When visitors click a link on your website, which will be redirected to the merchant’s website, and which results in sales, the merchant will pay a commission. These commissions could be between 30 and as much as 80%, depending on the types of products. Your task is primarily to refer customers to the merchant’s website. The more referrals, the more profit you can get from the merchant.

Affiliate marketing is ideal to start an internet business working from home. Because the merchant will provide you with a product , which is tested and proven, there are no production costs involved. For most of the affiliate programs, it is free to sign up, so there are very little or no start-up costs. There are literally thousands of products on the internet, so it should be not a problem to find one or more products that suit the content of your site.

To start an internet home business with one or more affiliate programs, you don’t need previous internet marketing or sale experience. A good affiliate program will provide you with internet marketing training and support. Many opportunities have a website with product information, sale and marketing materials to help you promote the products on your website. Very often there is also a help desk and a forum, where you can have questions or need help.

In conclusion, affiliate marketing is the first internet home business opportunity you should try when you have a website. It is easy to start, no start-up costs, and it is a great opportunity to increase your income. There is no risk involved and you can start the internet home business next to a full time job. It will take some time and efforts to learn the internet marketing techniques, before you will make some extra money online, but the earning potential is huge. Indeed, affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and most effective home business opportunities online today.

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Diep Tran is MD, working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/business/advertising/internet-home-business-ideas-for-those-without-any-money-blogging.html http://www.articletrader.com/business/advertising/internet-home-business-ideas-for-those-without-any-money-blogging.html Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 -0500
Blogging is basically writing an online journal (or blog) wherein you can pen down your ideas, opinions, thoughts and every thing you can think of.

Setup and Host A Blog

Unlike a website you can set up a blog and hosted for free. If you don't have computer savvy then Blogger.com is the first hosting company to be considered. It is first very easy to set up and maintain and secondly Google owns Blogger.com and they visit web pages on their servers very often and fast, compared to a website. There are also other possibilities to host your blog on e.g. Wordpress.com or Moveable Type.com, but you will need more computer skills to install your blog on these hosts.

Advantages of a Blog in Comparison to a Website

There are many advantages of a blog above a website, except it's easy to setup and free. You can put every thing in your blog: from a couple of lines what it is on your mind or your new article just published elsewhere, or a product review. In principle, a blog is the same as a website, but you will need to update more frequently to get the visitors to your site. A major advantage of a blog here above a website to getting major search engines like Google and Yahoo to visit your blog frequently is a technique called "pinging". It's a method of notifying all of the major search engines and blog directories, each time that you have updated your blog. The search engines will come and to take a look at your blog, thereby increasing traffic to your blog. If you link your blog to your websites, the search engines will follow the links from the blog pointing to your sites. This will help the search engine rankings of your sites as well!

How to Make Money with A Blog?

You can monetize your blog by creating a blog on a topic people are searching for and that they are spending money on. Do some research of niches based upon pay-per-click advertisers (e.g. Google Adwords) are willing to spend their advertising money on.

Adding Google AdSense ads on my blogs is a good way to make money from your blog. Simply insert these ads in the menu bar and other strategic places on your blogpage. You could also consider other paid advertising on your blog.

Advertise affiliate products in your blog. You could register for an affiliate for free at companies like Clickbank, PayDotCom.com or Commission Junction. Choose products that you would like to promote and incorporate links on your blog.

In conclusion, blogging is an effective method to make money online, and above all it is free. It should be considered by some one who is new in internet marketing and by who have been in internet marketing for a significant period to improve the business from their websites.

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Diep Tran is working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

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When an internet user searches information online, the search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant, fresh and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. The search engines use sophisticated algorithms by which they find quickly relevant websites for certain keyword or -phrase. It is therefore absolutely important to update your website regularly and adding new materials will help you get noticed by the search engines.

There are many SEO techniques, when used effectively that will improve the ranking of your website in the search engines results. These methods are divided into on-page and off-page optimalization.

On-page Optimalization:

- Once you have decided on the keywords or phrases for your website, try to describe the webpage around these keywords that will provide the visitors interesting and well-written information. Ideally, it is best to optimize one web page for two related keywords and two sub-keywords. The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some search with those words. You should spread the keywords strategically through the webpage, but include the most important keyword in the first sentence of the first and the last sentence in the last paragraph and in the headings.

- Another important aspect, which is mostly ignored when you have a duplicate website, is to optimize your web page with the keywords in the meta tags. The meta tags are part of the invisible html source code on your webpage that give information to the search engines, so that they can index your internet home business website properly. The title and the description meta tag will show up in the search engine results, so it is important not to make these tags as 'attractive' as possible, but also descriptive as possible what you internet home business has to offer. In the keywords meta tag, you could include related keywords, but not use the same keyword more than twice, since this will be regarded by the search engines as keyword stuffing and your site could be penalized or banned for this.

- Since it is difficult to put many keywords on one webpage, an easy way to develop much more content on your website is writing articles and post them on a sub-directory for articles. For the search engines, content is king and the best ways to have more keywords or phrases on your site is to have more articles on your site.

Off-page optimalization: These SEO techniques are focused on getting links from other websites back to your site. The most effective methods to get backlinks is to write and publish articles in article directories or e-zines, by including anchor text (clickable text) containing the keywords that link back to your site. Other ways to get links is to submit your site to other directories or reciprocal linking with other related websites. Also posting on newsgroups and forums that allow you to have a signature attached to your posting (with your URL or domain name in it) will help to get links back to your site.

After you have optimized your site using these techniques, it will take some time before your site will show up on the first page of the search engines. But don't forget to update your site frequently by adding more information whether on the webpage itself or adding more articles in the articles directory. By keeping these SEO methods in mind and applying them consistently you will be able to developing your site's popularity and high ranking by the search engines, and boost your sales and increase your internet home business.

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Diep Tran is working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

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It’s very easy today to start a home business on the internet. There are opportunities with a free website, internet marketing training, and a good support network like a forum and helpdesk. To look for a home business opportunity online, you should check for these criteria first. There are other conditions that you should also know before choosing the internet business opportunity.

1. Your own domain name and website. Although it’s easy to start with an internet home business opportunity with a free website, it’s better to be sure whether it’s allowed by the opportunity that you can have your own domain name and change the website. The disadvantage of these duplicate websites is that they are identical with very little content. If you just start with a new website it’s difficult to compete with older sites and your site will be ignored by the search engines. It’s therefore important to learn some search engine optimalization (SEO) techniques to add content on your site and make it unique, and get traffic to your website.

2. Little start up costs. Since it’s difficult to make money online in the first months and the focus is on learning internet marketing, it’s wise to look for internet home business opportunities with little start up costs. The fee for the domain name and web hosting is necessary, but check for opportunities with affiliate programs that allow you to sign up for free in the beginning and you are able to upgrade to the paid level when you want to.

Because there are many methods, both free and paid, to advertise your website, try some free methods first like article marketing, forum postings and blogging to get some traffic to your website. You could also explore some paid methods, like pay per click (PPC) with for example Google Adwords, but make sure that you should invest first in knowledge, buying software to be able to track the ads, analyze the results and select the best ‘profitable’ keyword list. This technique seems easy, but probably it’s the most complicated internet marketing methods, where you need more skills than other methods to achieve results. As long as you don’t have the ‘profitable’ keyword list, you will loose money. Most of the home based business owners make the mistake in the beginning to spend money on many marketing methods at the same time without doing them optimally. The trick here is just learning one or two methods simultaneously and master the technique(s), before starting with a new technique. A good indicator of your success with a marketing method is trying to get some sales with this method. Use the money you have made to reinvest in the same or a new method.

To start an internet home business this way, you won’t be quick rich. But you will learn the basic internet marketing techniques that will help you further in your internet home business venture. You will also see the results of your SEO work on your website and other efforts like article marketing as a continuous increase in traffic to your site. Although this increase will not translate directly in sales in the beginning, it will stimulate to work harder till to get enough traffic to your site and make money online.

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Diep Tran is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

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Article marketing is probably a free and quickest way to get traffic to your site. The gurus and the books on article writing tell you to write articles and submit them to article directories or e-zines, so you can get backlinks to your own website, which will boosts your PR (page rank = how important Google thinks a website is). They also tell you that your articles might get picked up by another website owner with high traffic or an e-zine publisher, and put them on their sites, that in turn could generate some traffic for your site. This is all true, but it could take a couple of months to build up a significant number of backlinks before you will get enough traffic to your site, and to make some money online.

While building traffic to your website you could also use articles to make money online at short term. By using one or a couple of links back directly to a company which you are promoting or to your own website which gives the information about this company or product you can make sales quickly. There are many companies online where you can sign up as an affiliate for free. Many internet marketers start with one of the biggest and most respected companies on the internet called Clickbank.com. Here you will find thousands of E-books and digital products you can sell. The average commission of the products is about 50%.

Article directories like EzineArticles and Goarticles have a high PR (6 or 7) and are favorites of Google. EzineArticles, for example, could get your article listed on the first page in a few days with a keyword phase up to 10,000 competing results. Similar results could be achieved with Goarticles. This site is perfect for a new person to internet marketing since it allows you to have an affiliate link. EzineArticles does not allow you to link directly to the merchant website. In this case, you will need to point the link to your own website with the product or webpage that redirects to your affiliate site. On the other hand, it's probably the most popular article directory and more e-zine publishers and website owners go to EzineArticles for good content than any other site. There is a chance that your article could be picked up and used in a large site or online publication, which means that you can have more sales, if this happens.

In combining the two internet marketing strategies using articles both for short and long term, you can make money online immediately and after couple of months when you get sufficient traffic to your site.

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Diep Tran is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Based Business Opportunities. To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/sfi-marketing-group-the-no.-1-of-internet-home-business-opportunity.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/sfi-marketing-group-the-no.-1-of-internet-home-business-opportunity.html Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500 Today, with tens of thousands of affiliates in over 200 countries, it is considered the #1 affiliate program/internet MLM home business opportunity on the Internet today. It has just added 30 new countries to the total database. The original wealth creation course provider has expanded their product range significantly from business tools to nutritional supplements and telecommunication products.
SFI's long-term success has been largely attributed to the unique makeup of its affiliate/internet MLM home business program—a hybrid combination of the best parts of traditional direct sales and network marketing, combined with the technological advantages of the Internet.
SFI is revolutionizing the way companies market their products and services (over one million today!). With its enormous base of independent affiliates/MLM network, SFI has the power to reach tens of millions of consumers and businesses worldwide. SFI affiliates can also aggressively target niche markets with high market penetration.
The secret formula of this ground-breaking internet home MLM business program is that you can literally start making money today using nothing more than your computer and an internet connection. It’s totally free. Basically you can earn money just to refer to your SFI websites. You can choose you websites for different languages and products.
There are different ways to earn money from SFI:
- As an SFI affiliate, you'll earn commissions on any purchases made by people you have personally referred to SFI. This is a nice benefit and this is how most affiliate programs work.
- As an Executive Affiliate (EA), you can earn commissions more than just one way and at multi-levels. You can earn from several ways including: commissions, bonuses and pools.
- SFI has added the Powerline in the program since the January 1st 2007. As starters, you can earn a percentage of each and every sale generated by every SFI Affiliate below you (whether you recruit them or they are put there by those above you). In total there are over 7 million affiliates worldwide. It's called Bonus Pools and you can earn this by becoming an Executive Affiliate (EA). A condition to become an EA is to subscribe to the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (IAHBE).
- As AE you can earn residual income, that is income that keeps coming in month after month, year after year, from work you do just once. For instance, once you are EA and you sell one monthly subscription to the IAHBE you will receive a commission every month if the purchaser remains a member of the IAHBE.
- As AE you can earn leveraged income, that is earning money through other people's efforts. In SFI, that means that you can earn income when your affiliates refer other affiliates to SFI...and when your affiliate's affiliates refer other affiliates...and so on, to infinity.
Two to three years of consistent effort can produce a sizeable ongoing residual and leveraged income for you. The simple rule is just focus on generating new referrals.
You can do this two ways:
1. Using your own promotional efforts (classified ads, offline ads, etc. that SFI provides, or promoting your SFI website through Pay Per Click Search Engines). You can also offer valuable FREE incentives that people can sign up for 24 hours a day.
2. If you don't have the time, experience, or desire to generate your own leads, you can participate in the SFI "Eagle Co-op." Eagle Co-op pools together the advertising dollars of thousands of SFI affiliates. SFI then places advertising on your behalf. Leads generated from the Eagle Co-op Advertising Co-op are then rotated equally amongst all Co-op participants and automatically placed by the SFI computer system. As an SFI affiliate, you can participate in Eagle Co-op for as little as $1.50 a day.
SFI is the exclusive marketing arm for the IAHBE, Veriuni™ (a line comprised of nutritional, cleaning, personal care, pet care, telecommunication products, etc.), and Great Domainia.com for website domains.
In conclusion, SFI Marketing Group has a track records of more than 20 years as a successful internet home MLM business opportunity. It has been probably the best home based business in the industry. It’s international, has many products and services that you can promote. Above all, it’s free to start to learn internet marketing and the program, before you need to commit more resources to the EA level. I should recommend for these reasons as the first program to begin with for someone who wants to start a home MLM business on the Internet.

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Diep Tran is Internet marketer, owner and webmaster of http://www.Internet-Wealth.biz. Visit his website for Internet Home Business Ideas and OpportunitiestoMake Money Online.He is also Executive Affiliate of the SFI Marketing Group.

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These are the most important reasons why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses around – internet home business. It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around. There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to. One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.

Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in internet home business? What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry? There is a lot of competition involved in internet home business, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward. There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this home business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.

The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in internet home business is the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.

The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait. It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.

The third quality one must possess is self-determination. If one wants to conquer the home business marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead. Never having to say die is a quality each and every home business networker should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take a home business networker there.

The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.

The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism. Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage a home business networker from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.

The ingredients to success in a business such as internet home based business are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone. It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.

Internet home business marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands. The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s destiny to the dreams one has.

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Diep Tran is Internet marketer, owns a Plug-In Profits Site and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities | Online Home Based Business Opportunity. For An Internet Home Business Opportunity To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz

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Seth Godin founded Squidoo and launched the website in October 2005. It is a platform designed to make it easy for anyone, for free, to set up a single page on a topic he or she knows or cares a lot about. It’s a social network of user-generated lenses -single pages that highlights one person's point of view, recommendations, or expertise.

Users of Squidoo, or lensmasters can use a lens template to create links, feeds, abstracts, and lists for other users. There are different modules that allow you to create Flickr photos, Google maps, blogs, eBay auctions, YouTube videos, iTunes music, Amazon products, and other links. You can get all these functions on your lens for free within an hour. You can even earn money with Squidoo since there are standard incorporated Adsense ads on the lenses, and you can sell for example (e-)books or other products for Amazon or other shopping chains. Squidoo splits its revenue with its "co-op" of lensmasters. 5% goes straight to charity, first. Then 50% goes to the lensmasters. 45% goes to Squidoo.

Because Squidoo is quite popular with Google, and if you have an internet home business, with or without a website, then it is advisable to employ Squidoo as one of the internet marketing tools to promote your products. No matter what of internet home business you are involved in, everyone's dream ticket is a first page ranking in Google's search results.

I you have an existing website with a page rank (PR), link your lens to the website pages to improve the ranking of your lens first. Over time your lens will be indexed by Google and will give a PR link (and traffic) to your website in return. You could promote the same or different products on your website and lens.

If you don’t have a website, you can create a lens and promote your products immediately. Over the past months, Squidoo lenses have been showing up on the first page of Google for very competitive search terms.

In fact my first lens was about a very competitive internet marketing keyword phrase (135,000,000 results). In a couple of days my lens showed up as No. 27 in Google.....and it didn't cost me a penny to get there. For comparison, it took me four months hard working on SEO to get to the same position in Google for the same search term, while I had to pay web hosting fee monthly and other costs to do the SEO. Although my lens in this case was “pulled up” by my website with higher Google position, it is easier to get it ranked by Google.

In conclusion, Squidoo is an easy, excellent, and above all free internet marketing tool. It should be employed to promote products and increase sales in every internet home business.

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Diep Tran is working in the pharmaceutical industry, is Internet marketer, and webmaster of Internet Home Business Opportunities | Online Home Business Opportunity. For An Internet Home Business Opportunity, To Make Money Online, Visit: http://www.internet-wealth.biz

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