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<title>Work At Home - Scams And How To Identify Them!</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <p>To protect yourself from the merciless tentacles of the scam monsters, especially in the "work from home" field, you must know certain facts. Learn to identify which sites are possible scam sites. There are many signs and to a trained set of eyes, it is very easy to spot the motive of any site offering jobs. On the contrary, a simple person, who has no such knowledge is liable to fall prey to these scams. It is imperative, therefore, to know how these sites operate, and then how to stay away from them.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>The site that advertises great moneymaking jobs are obviously trying to attract the attention and money of the anxious job seeker. The "get rich fast" schemes and "make more money by working less" type of advertisements are the best examples of how a scam site works. There are absolutely no known "get rich fast" practically working schemes. Even if there were such schemes, who would give them away to strangers? If such schemes worked effectively every time, then there would be no poverty, and no need to seek any job! Such sites are definitely trying to cheat the expectant job seekers, and are to be avoided.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>The sites that require you to pay up front for their services can be scam sites as well. Although some sites do ask for up front payment, most of the other sites will definitely cheat you after getting the payment. A good job-providing site will never ask for any sort of up front payment from job seekers. The sites that do not ask payment up front are to be marked as potential legitimate sites and researched further.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>Ask the site managers some job related questions: A site that is legitimate and offers genuine jobs will definitely answer your questions. They have nothing to hide and require more people to use their web site. They will display sections on frequently asked questions and can display the names of the companies that use their services. These factors build the trust in the mind of job seekers. Any job is a contract of trust to begin with, and a website that builds genuine trust is a site to look for. Of course, a further investigation is needed before you fill the forms on these sites.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>In case you have joined a scam site and have recognized your mistake, do not wait any further and stop working for them. If you have not been paid even after working for them for a couple of months, stop working immediately. The site is definitely a scam site. If you have already given your personal details, including your credit card details, your credit card details must have been passed by them to many other criminals. So, immediately contact your bank, take their advice, and get a new credit card.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>There could be many people including your own friends who are successfully earning money online through some genuine company. If these people are getting regular payment, then use the services of such companies. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>Do a complete research on each website or company that you suspect. Google and Yahoo! Search engines will provide you many search result pages displaying any complaints about such sites.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>Protect yourself and your hard-earned money from the scams.</p><br /><br />--<br /><p>Get work at home jobs without the need to pay any upfront fees at http://www.WeworkAtHomeOnline.com or http://www.MumPassiveIncome.com</p><br /><p>Be also look out in our educational website for ways to earn online at http://www.InternetBusinessModelOnline.com</p><br /><br /><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Little known secrets of getting free website traffic from YouTube</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ What is YouTube? YouTube is basically a free online video sharing website whereby any visitor can upload, watch and share their video clips. Did you know that YouTube serves up over 200 million video clips per day?<br /><br />It's true...people are flocking to online video sites that even network television is worried that they'll become obsolete. Online video will probably be the biggest fastest growing advertising media for the next few years.  It's so wonderful because barely any marketers really know how to use it as a promotional method.<br /><br />A savvy internet marketer will find that this service will drive traffic to websites, get sales messages to potential buyers, and to market products and services.<br /><br />If you understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO), it is difficult to get great rankings and results are rarely if at all guaranteed, even with the hard earned money you spend. It is, however different from online video as the competition is not that fierce compared to SEO.<br /><br />Let me share with you some of the tips to drive traffic using YouTube service taking consideration that you already have an YouTube account and some interesting videos to upload.<br /><br /><b> Customize your profile and channels </b><br />You should always customize your profile and channels. Create play list if you have more than one video. This will certainly give you a big advantage when people sort for channels, groups or play lists.<br /><br /><b> Tag your keywords </b><br />You should try to tag as much keywords you have in mind. This will helps the visitor to find your video easier. If you are not sure what keywords to tag to your video or you have run out of keywords ideas, you could just simply do a search based on your video content and see what are those keywords used for the top video that appeared.<br /><br /><b> Videos that work </b><br />There are certain characteristics about successful and profitable videos. They are either funny, weird, shocking, sexy, inspiring, demonstrates or instructional. If possible, you should also try to put other people in the videos as well. Why I say that? The reason is simple. If those people are being featured in the video, they will show their friends those videos and those friends may show other friends and so on. In this way, more and more people will get to view your videos.<br /><br /><b> Build a community on YouTube </b><br />To further promote your products, you should create a community to cater for those groups of people that share your passion. This could be easily done by creating 'groups' using YouTube service. With that, you are likely to attract the right type of people and it could be potentially your buyers or business partners.<br /><br /><b> Go Viral </b><br />By getting your videos posted in the YouTube is just not enough. You will also need to post them in your blog or any social network website such as facebook or myspace. Besides, you should also email these videos to your friends, relatives and family.  <br /><br />With the above knowledge and skills learned, you should now know how to take advantage of this medium and gain a huge competitive advantage.<br /><br />--<br /><p>Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. </p><br /><p>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. </p><br /><p>Check out more about him @  http://www.income-internet-business.com for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business | Find work at home jobs http://www.WeWorkAtHomeOnline.com and get paid</p><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Video marketing, worth the effort?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <p>To better communicate your product or services to your potential buyers within the shortest possible time effectively, there is nothing else that comes close to the effectiveness and persuasion power of a well designed video message.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>No doubt...video has taken the internet by storm. So many people are watching so many videos online, that even the Major Broadcast Network Television companies are scared that they'll become obsolete in the internet world. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>However, do you know that there is more to effective video communication than just slamming some video content up on your web pages or blog? It is definitely not that simple as what you are thinking. Basically, you will need to present them in a simple and yet convincing ways for your audience. </p><br /><p>In addition, you will certainly need to make your video a short one.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>No one will ever want to sit through a 30 minute presentation on the product, service offered, or even you're your company history. Visitors are not paid to sit through your video presentations. Besides, you must also remember that there are still some visitors that could be using a much lower network connection speed and the long video could be a burden to them. They might give up seeing your video anytime,</p><br /><br /><br /><p>Personally, I would think that a two to four minutes video presentation should be more than enough.  Having said that, you should also make sure that your video is lively. In the internet video world, a two minutes video can seem like an eternity if the content is dull and lifeless.</p><br /><p>You must also know that video is not just purely a visual medium. An effective video should combines sound and vision towards a perfect synergy. Do you know that there are still countless product demonstrations on the web that do not use sound or music at all? A video with no sound or music will not have any hope of sustaining your visitor interest.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>The most important thing here is that you must always include your web link through visual and audio in your video clip. Spell them clearly so that your visitor will be able to check for more information through this web link if they are interested.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>Besides knowing the above techniques to create video, you must also know how you could leverage on it and market your video. The theory is just like web creation and marketing. Your website or video is nothing if no one knows about it. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>As such, you will need to market your video well. There are a lot of ways to market your video. You could leverage on some of the popular video sharing websites such as youtube, VideoEgg, Dailymotion, Veoh and Google Video. They have tons and tons of viewers every single day. You should always try to promote your video through many of these video sharing websites instead of just focusing on one of them which everyone did.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>The other ways to promote your video is through classified ads. However, you may need to pay some possible charges to them in order to be listed you're your videos. In addition, you should also get your video clip housed in your blog or website to get more viewers.</p><br /><br /><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br /><br />He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone <br />and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. <br /><p>Check out more about him <br /><br />  @ <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com">http://www.income-internet-business.com</a> <br />  for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business and get <br />  his FREE google adsense tips @ <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com/Adsense">http://www.income-internet-business.com/Adsense</a></p><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Adsense, Adsense, Adsense… How can I earn through you?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <p>"Our AdSense Templates Will Make Your Thousands Of Dollars With No Effort!" </p><br /><p>"Use Our Software To Make Hundreds of Content Pages and Make A Fortune!"</p><br /><p>"I Make Millions and Millions With AdSense and I Can Show You How for Only $147!"</p><br /><br /><br /><p>It seems like there are lots of new AdSense tools and e-book promising you to make a fortune. Each claims that they are the easiest way to make money with AdSense within days and with little or no effort. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>These promises are all Very Tempting. So you decided to buy what they are selling, along with other people. But in the end the only person getting rich is the guy you are buying these products from. And do you know why...</p><br /><br /><br /><p>"You've Been Lied To!"</p><br /><br /><br /><p>Thinking aloud....Do you think that you could have a pre-made template that makes you money when a thousand other people are also using it? How can a software program that spits out hundreds of pages of auto generated content make you money? How can a simple e-book take you from zero profit to a million within days and without much effort? </p><br /><br /><br /><p>No! You can't. So why are these people still selling these dream products? To get rich from innocent people trying to find a way to start their own online business, of course! </p><br /><br /><br /><p>I strongly believed that when people are given the right resources, tools and trained with the right techniques, as well as some hard work put into it, he could easily start a profitable Adsense business. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>What I am going to share with you are some of the little known facts, as well as those tried and proven techniques to increase your revenue significantly through the use of Adsense. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>It's True...Setting up AdSense sites is not rocket science. But you need to do it the right way and what you need is for someone to show you how. </p><br /><p>I have listed some of the quick tips about earning incomes through Adsense. Basically, you will need to :</p><br /><br /><br /><p>1) Blend your ads and appeared as part of your web content. You could easily achieve that through the use of the background, border and text color.  </p><br /><p>Use multiple ad units. According to Google's TOS you are allowed to post up to three ad units per page.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>2) Place the advertisements wisely. Don't inundate your visitors with advertising, but make them prominent enough to be noticeable. You will also need to position the ads with the highest CTR, as high as possible in the page. Normally, the first ads that appear in the pages (in the source's order) get the most income per click.</p><br /><br /><br /><p>3) Determine your web site's focus; consider how much the advertisers pay for the advertisements. In other word, you need to know what those high paying keywords are, and customize your website in order to get high paying ads. </p><br /><br /><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br />He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. <br /><br />Check out more about him <br />@  <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com"> Internet business </a> for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business and get his FREE google adsense tips @ <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com/Adsense"> Adsense </a><br /><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Untold secrets for generating tons of web traffic</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>You can earn money from an unprofessional website with lots of traffic, but it is extremely difficult to earn money from a good and professional website with little traffic. This may seem an obvious point, but many companies believe that if they have a good and professional website, people will automatically visit it. This is simply not the case. </P><br><BR><br><P>So how could we generate web traffic and yet keep the cost low?</P><br><BR><br><P>One of the methods is to use the Trafficswarms services. They will modify the startup page of your browser. When you open your browser, you will automatically visit a member's website. And this is where it gets exciting! For every two browser startups, your website will receive 1 visitor back! That is a 50% conversion rate and yet costing you absolutely nothing. </P><br><BR><br><P>The other method is to spend a few dollars on Ehits services and they will deliver real visitors and full page window of your website. You would just need to choose the number of visitors you want. 10,000, 10,000,000 or whatever you choose is what you get guaranteed. When a visitor leaves one of the websites within their network, he will see your website loaded in a full browser window. This is the most effective way to drive high quality traffic to your website. </P><br><BR><br><P>You could also spend some dollars on Adblaster service. They will send your ad to more than 2,500,000 websites and you will also get 500 hits per hours. </P><br><BR><br><P>The next method is using Screen Blaze. It is a traffic exchange programme which operates through your screensaver. In other words, for each and every minute that your computer is showing the ScreenBlaze screensaver, you'll earn credits. Those credits will then be spent on showing your web site to other people who are running the screensaver. </P><br><BR><br><P>For each minute your screensaver or someone in your downline's screensaver is running, you earn 1/10 of a credit. Your credits are redeemed automatically as your own site is shown to other people running the screensaver (i.e. in a category you select, so it's targeted).</P><br><BR><br><P>The last method is to use Pay Per Click Search Engine. Pay Per Click (also known as Pay Per Ranking, Pay Per Placement or Pay Per Position) search engine enables you to list your site at the top of the search engine results. You pay only when a searcher or clicker clicks on your listing and connects to your site. You don't pay to list, you only pay for clicks or click through. You list your website by selecting keywords that refer to your product or service. For each keyword, you will determine how much you are willing to spend. The higher you bid, the higher your website will appear in the search results. Some of the recommended sources are Googles Adwords and Overture.</P><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br><p>Check out more about him @<br>  <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog" target="_blank">http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog <br>  </a>and<a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com" target="_blank"> http://www.income-internet-business.com</a> <br>  for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.<br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Important factors to consider when getting a Web-hosting company?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>So, you want to start up an internet business. You are now ready to approach a web-hosting company for hosting your website. </P><br><BR><br><P>Be selective when choosing your web hosting company. Web Hosting isn't like buying groceries. Why, because there are a lot of areas that you have to consider even for a simple and straight forward web page. </P><br><BR><br><P>It would be helpful to you if you could consider the following areas when approaching your potential web hosting company I have also included some of the rational behind just for your knowledge. </P><br><BR><br><P>Any sound customer support systems in place? </P><br><P>Nowadays, there are many web-hosting providers in the market. Some of them serve their customers promptly while some don't. </P><br><BR><br><P>One of thing you could do here is to ask some pre-sales questions. Wait and see their response period. The industry standard calls for 24hrs respond time. If they don't respond within 24 hrs, you may likely do not have a good services in future if you subscribe to their host. </P><br><BR><br><P>Knowing their Server systems, technology, Data Centers, and Back-up schedules. </P><br><P>Web-hosting provider typically uses a server to host the websites which forms his basic infrastructure. Back-systems are scheduled to run automatically and these servers are backed-up as frequently as daily with some hosting providers. </P><br><BR><br><P>Check out with your potential hosting company what kind of technology they use and whether they have any reliable back-up systems at traceable data-centers. You could also check out whether they are equipped technically and whether they have technical people on roll. </P><br><P> </P><br><P>Understanding their company data, financial standing and profitability: </P><br><P>You must be thinking what is it to do with the web-hosting provider's financial standing. This is just to make sure that you will not be talking to that fly-by-night operator. </P><br><BR><br><P>Checking the scope of service provided</P><br><P>Of course, you must also know what type of services your potential web hosting company can offer to you. Do they have the range to suit your requirements with your allocated budgets?</P><br><BR><br><P>If you intend to expand your internet business, you may like to check with them different application platforms such as forum, shopping carts, autoresponder, etc</P><br><P>Some of the web hosting company may have difficulties providing autoresponder.</P><br><BR><br><P>If you intend to add in video, audio clips, and those interactive contents into your webpage, you will need to more about the bandwidth that they will be providing.</P><br><BR><br><P>Hosting reliability and up-time guarantee</P><br><P>This is the most important areas that you should be consider. What is Up-time?</P><br><P>Up-time is the time (expressed in percentages) the host is available to access through the Internet. </P><br><BR><br><P>You would have seen a lot of hosting providers mention a 99.9 % up-time guarantee. But then, you ought to realize that any hosting application environment calls for maintenance too. You should ask how the web-hosting provider manages to shuffle this time efficiently and how do they manage their maintenance. </P><br><BR><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. <br><br>Check out more about him @<br><br><a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog" target="_blank">http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog</a> <br>and <a href="http://www.income-internet-business.com" target="_blank">http://www.income-internet-business.com</a> <br>for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.<br><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Guaranteed ways to get surfer stay longer at your website or blog</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>Have you ever encounter that your website is not profitable although you have done much to promote your website and getting lots of traffic? This could due to the fact that your website visitors are not staying there for longer time. </P><br><BR><br><P>There are some of the consideration you could take note of and these will be explained below:</P><br><BR><br><P>Giving direct website</P><br><P>When a visitor surf and come to your home page,  he or she will get his or her first impression. As such, the home page should be professionally designed. It should be appealing to the visitors. You could easily outsource to some professional website design company if you are not trained to do it. </P><br><BR><br><P>Your website must contain four important information. You must tell the surfer what your website is exactly about and what is there for them. At the same time, you must also tell them why should they get Product/Services from there and why now. The last important information you must convey to your surfer is what is the benefit they will get from there </P><br><BR><br><P>These messages should described in a short and precise words so that they could easily understood at one look. </P><br><BR><br><P>Restricting from showing flash animation and pop ups</P><br><P>You must know that your target audience is world wide and there are many surfer who have slow internet connection or they do not have flash animation plug in. You must assume the worst scenario of your surfer. </P><br><BR><br><P>As animation typically will takes up some time to load, it could be annoying for visitors just to wait to view the page. The situation will be even worst if their internet connection is slow. </P><br><P> </P><br><P>For your information, those web pages with flash animation will also be difficult to index on most search engine.</P><br><BR><br><P>Your web pages should try not to have any advertisement pop ups. Surfers could be annoyed. They may not be interested in these advertisements especially when they are surfing for something.</P><br><BR><br><P>Saving surfer's time</P><br><P>Now, think as you are a web surfers who are surfing for information. The key thing is that we would always want the information fast.  As such, as a web master, we should also try to make our web page load faster. This could be possible if we could include less graphics and flash animation. If there is a real needs to include graphics or flash animation, you should try to reduce their file size so that they could be loaded faster.</P><br><BR><br><P>Ensuring that pages are satisfaction in different browsers</P><br><P>Since your target audience is world wide, you must also know that appearance of a page could be different in various browsers. The appearance of a page should always be consistent in different browsers. After you have created your web site, you must always test the site in different browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape.</P><br><BR><br><P>Making your webpage consistent</P><br><P>The next important thing here is to get your webpage to be easily navigated. Viewers should be able to navigate without difficulties. They must be able to move forward and backward and to any place from every page. Content of the page must be able to explain itself with suitable heading in consistent manner on all pages.</P><br><BR><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. <br><br>Check out more about him @<br>http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog and  http://www.income-internet-business.com  for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.<br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Jaw dropping way to jumpstart your online business</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>Do you know that there is an easy way to jumpstart your online business?</P><br><P>Simply by using an expired domain name, you should already have an established web presence in the search engines and a regular stream of traffic. Do you know that expired domains get millions of visitors each and every day?</P><br><BR><br><P>If you are thinking to start an online business and are planning to register a new domain to start promoting your website, you should know about this mind blowing way. It is all about using the value of using expired domain names. </P><br><BR><br><P>Some fact you should know about expired domain name. When a domain is registered for a year. and the original domain registrant does not pay for the renewal by the end of that period, the domain will expire and will then be available to whoever would like to purchase it. </P><br><BR><br><P>There are advantages for going with an expired domain over registering a new one. The best part about an expired domain name is that the website usually already has its own existing traffic. Often an expired domain will already have numerous back links (i.e.  What are back links? They are links on other websites that point to this website). As most of the expired domains already have a Google Page Rank value and had indexed in most of the major search engines, it will be good if you can purchase an expired domain name that has back links. This will certainly helps to have a significant head start on gaining traffic to your new website.</P><br><BR><br><P>When registering a new domain name, no one knows about your website. None of your listings are listed in the search engines. You need to spend much effort to get your website listed and constantly promote it.</P><br><BR><br><P>On the other hand, when you purchase an expired domain name, you may not need to work as hard as most part was done for you. However, you will still have to continue to promote your website and get the appropriate backlinks.</P><br><BR><br><P>In other words, you will be taking advantage of the work that someone else has already done to promote the website when you purchase an expired domain..</P><br><BR><br><P>One thing you need to do here is to find out what expired domain you would like to purchase and how well the domain is doing in the search engines. You can do a quick check of the backlinks and the Page Rank. At the same time, you should check with Alexa to see what sort of traffic the site is getting. </P><br><BR><br><P>Most of the time there are legitimate reasons for a domain expiring. It could be the original owner has lost interest in their site or didn't have the time to manage it. There are also cases that a domain name expires because the original registrant is deceased. Rarely, a domain is allowed to expire because the website has been banned by search engines. You can do a quick check by just do a Google search for the domain name and see what comes up. If you see listings you can rest assured that the domain hasn't been banned. </P><br><BR><br /><br />--<br />Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. <br>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. <br><br>Check out more about him @<br>http://www.income-internet-business.com/blog and  http://www.income-internet-business.com  for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.<br><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Search Engine Optimization Techniques, the Illegal Way</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>Search engine optimization, known far and wide as SEO, is an important factor in the success of websites small and large. No matter how popular you think your site is, it's vital that you and your team put some thought and energy into optimizing your search engine rankings and your visibility within search results.</P><br><BR><br><P>Do you know that there are some illegal search engine optimization techniques? Prevent these pitfalls before being sued by others. Let me share with you some of these illegal ways that you should not be following.</P><br><BR><br><P>Using Trademarked Keywords in Domain Names and META Tags</P><br><P>You should not be using trademarked keyword such as YAHOO, GOOGLE to register as your domain name to attract customer. This is totally illegal. It violates federal trademark law, which prohibits the use of someone else's trademark, </P><br><P>It is illegal as it will cause a likelihood of confusion among consumers.</P><br><BR><br><P>Although it is not necessarily illegal to use trademarked keywords in your META tags. But you could get sued, and people have. It all depends on why and how you are using the trademarked keywords. If you used the keywords in what is deemed a deceptive manner, then you're likely to lose your case.</P><br><BR><br><P>Pagejacking</P><br><P>Pagejacking is copying someone else's web page and submitting it to the search engines as your own, in hopes of getting high rankings. Pagejacking is no more than stealing copyrighted content. </P><br><BR><br><P>Doorway pages </P><br><P>Doorway pages are web pages that are created for spamdexing, this is, for spamming the index of a search engine by inserting results for particular phrases with the purpose of sending you to a different page. They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, zebra pages</P><br><BR><br><P>Deep Linking</P><br><P>If a site you intend to link onto your webpage has stated that linking is prohibited, or requires permission first, it will be wise not to link the page.</P><br><BR><br><P>Deep Linking Within A Frame</P><br><P>If you link to another site's content by displaying it within a FRAME on your site, and your ad in another FRAME, you will be asking for trouble.</P><br><P>What you're basically doing is stealing other people's content to generate advertising revenue. This is strongly not recommended.</P><br><BR><br /><br />--<br /><P>Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. </P><br><P>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. </P><br><BR><br><P>Check out </P><br><P>http://www.income-internet-business.com for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.</P><br><BR><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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<title>Effective Ads that create higher click rates</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ <P>Do you know how you could create an effective Google AdWords ad using pay per click advertising system and helps to drive traffic to your website?</P><br><P>These tips will help you create ads that generate higher click through rates, and lower cost per click.</P><br><BR><br><P>Going for correct audience</P><br><P>It is obvious that you will need to target for the right audience. You could do that simply by selecting the language and countries that you want to target. For example, we could exclude all countries where English is not understood by a large percentage of the population.</P><br><BR><br><P>Refining your keywords</P><br><P>You could refine your keyword and aims at sub-topics in your areas to cut cost if you have any budget constraints. For example, if your topic is on Golf, you could select Golf Club Your ad will only show when the search is for the exact keyword phrase you have included within the brackets. </P><br><BR><br><P>Performing a slit test</P><br><P>You should always test two or more ads simultaneously. This is what is known as an split test. You will find out which one will produces the higher click through ratio. After which, you should proceed to replace the weaker performing ad with a new one. This process should always be continued so as to identify the highest click through ratio possible.</P><br><BR><br><P>Tracking the return-on-investment </P><br><P>Although Google tracks the click through ratio of each ad, it doesn't really track the conversion ratio. You will need to use a special tracking link in each ad to track its conversion ratio. One of the ways is to attach each ad with an affiliate tracking system link. This will helps you to better monitor whether each of ad will produces a return-on-investment.</P><br><BR><br><P>Including targeted keywords </P><br><P>You should always include the targeted keywords in the headline and the description of the ad. Google will highlight searched keywords in bold in the ad.This will certainly help to catch the reader's attention. For this reason, ads with searched keywords usually perform better than ones without.</P><br><BR><br><P>Selling the benefits</P><br><P>As the ad spacing is limited, you should go straight to the point and spell out one or more major benefit in your ad. For example, get healthier, make more money, lose weight, get healthier, and etc.</P><br><BR><br><P>Including attention grabbing words </P><br><P>Start your headline with an attention grabbing word. For example, Free:, New:, Sale:, etc. Make sure you stay within Google's editorial guidelines.</P><br><BR><br><P>Using POWER Words that provoke emotion & enthusiasm. </P><br><P>You should use some of the POWER words. Examples of such words are: Limited offer, free, free shipping, cheap, sale, special, limited time, tips, enhance, discover, fact, learn, at last, etc. In addition, you should also use call-to-action phrases. Some of these examples are Buy Today - Save 80%, Download free trial now, etc. You need to ensure that these phrases are specific to your business, or Google may reject the phrase.</P><br><BR><br><P>Selling Unique Selling Proposition (USP)</P><br><P>You need to spell out in your ad why your project or service is better or different from your competitor.</P><br><BR><br><P>Linking To Relevant Landing Pages</P><br><P>If an ad is for a specific product or service, you should create a landing page for the ad. In this landing page, you should also include relevant, appropriate and useful information to convert the potential customer. Normally, a well designed landing page will almost always convert more visitors than if you simply sent the visitor to the home page.</P><br><BR><br><P>Removing Common Words</P><br><P>As space is limited, you should always try to remove common words. Some of the words are a, an, in, on, it, of, etc. Remove every word that does not absolutely need to be in the ad. You certainly need to make every word count.</P><br><BR><br><P>Detering Freebie Hunters</P><br><P>Includes the price of the product or service at the end of the ad. This will improve your overall conversion ratio and lower your average customer acquisition cost. However, it will let the potential customer know what they will be expecting. </P><br><BR><br><P>By doing so it may reduce your click through ratio, but will increase the chances of capturing potential customers. In most cases, freebie hunters will never become paying customers. </P><br><BR><br /><br />--<br /><P>Patrick Sia is the man behind Income-Internet-Business.com. </P><br><P>He's a passionate believer in the power of technology to better the lives of everyone and his passion and drive are hallmarks of his attitude to doing business. </P><br><BR><br><P>Check out </P><br><P>http://www.income-internet-business.com for his step-by-step guide to startup a successful internet business.</P><br><BR><br><br>Source: <a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">http://www.articletrader.com</a> ]]></description>
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