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		<title>The ABC’s of Search Engine Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engines plays a vital role for online and offline enterprises.  This maybe the main reason why optimizing your website to web searchers  is essential for YOUR web success. You may have a  simple and visitor-friendly site but what will be its advantage to other  sites if you gain poor number [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Search engines plays a vital role for online and offline enterprises.  This maybe the main reason why optimizing your website to web searchers  is essential for <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>YOUR</strong></em></span> web success. You may have a  simple and visitor-friendly site but what will be its advantage to other  sites if you gain poor number of visitors?</p>
<p>SEO is a  process in which you can gain extra traffic to your site via search  engines. To do this, you must be focus on your site&#8217;s content and  accessibility.</p>
<p>To start, letter <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>A</em></span> will  stand for <strong>Accessibility</strong>. You can have a well-designed page made  by your thoughtfulness. CSS and table-less designs are great use in your  site. CSS allows less code to be used which means it creates a higher  content-to-code ratio. Just so you know, search engines use top-down  logic in determining the nature of your content that&#8217;s why webmasters  can arrange their content code into a higher level or in the more  accessible portion of the page. We also have sitemaps which are XML  files listing the web pages residing on a domain to provide an easy  access of the search engine in your site&#8217;s content.</p>
<p>Then  next we have the letter <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">B</span></em> which stands for <strong>Breadth of  content</strong>. We know that the quality of content or in any means of  lacking some greatly affects your SEO effort. The breadth of content is  very important since you are encouraging the search engine that your  site have enough information for web searchers. Content Management  System or CSM is a helpful way of administering content and also the  standard way on how the users interact with their company and brand  online. Many site optimizers also notice that users somehow navigate the  pages on finding the company behind the website. With regards to this  matter, search engines rank highly the sites which reveals their  guidance and mission.</p>
<p>And then lastly, we have letter <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>C</em></span> for <strong>Commitment</strong>. This is the most important part strategy for  SEO. This commitment must include the will of providing an accessible  site, creating content, offer innovative product and services, and  lastly the high number of testings. Testing your tactics and techniques  is imperative to your success. You must know why your site got a high  rank because if you just accidentally made it, then you can never do it  again. Perhaps, if you&#8217;ll try testing though.</p>
<p>Now, you  know the ABCs of SEO. IT is really not that hard if you just have the  will in believing that you can have a successful SEO campaign.</p>
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		<title>A Guide to Help You Get Your SEO Started</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process which deals with step by step perspective so that you can gain extra knowledge on optimizing your web presence. This fresh perspective will guide you in attempting to help your web success.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a process which deals with step by step perspective so that you can gain extra knowledge on optimizing your web presence. This fresh perspective will guide you in attempting to help your web success.</p>
<p>To start of, lets discuss about the first perspective which is <strong>focusing on the brand</strong>. The brand represents a company while the company itself provides protection to their brand. The brand has so many roles in SEO and one of them is by using a domain.  By choosing the right domain, you should consider these three things in mind; brand sensitivity, link-ability and rank-ability. As the web experts&#8217; advise, it is best if your domain is short, memorable and easy to spell. Consumer&#8217;s first impression with your brand is very important that&#8217;s why your domain should reflect your brand and industry. The success with the said brand will definitely reflect on how your domain will work in the link-ability and rank-ability process.</p>
<p>Then we have the <strong>content optimization</strong>. Content is what search engine wants, but still the main question, what will be the quality content? This question is answered by so many web experts yet there is no exact answer about it. One idea which is common by their answers is the relevancy. This might be the main reason why you should start content optimization and keyword discovery should be considered first. As of today, there are so many keyword research tool which you can avail both free and payable software. Well, it is much appreciated if you use several variety of keyword research tool since they may not be able to give you the exact keywords. By doing so, at least you can attain an accuracy with the keywords. After creating a master list with the terms, you may also separate them into groups. After this, we will move to the nitty-gritty of your SEO campaign. This process will allow your site to attract more visitors. To do this, you will use the data you gathered and establish them to your site&#8217;s primary structure such as title tags, header tags and anchor text.</p>
<p>After which we have <strong>link building,</strong> Links are considered to be the fuel you must feed in you SEO. Link building is getting external websites link to your own site. This process is the far most important factor for a successful SEO campaign. To start off, you may begin in blanket submissions of your website to many online directories. If your done doing so, you may proceed in looking the pages of your competitors. You can do this one by checking on the back-links of the competing websites in Yahoo Site Explorer. One effective way also is by networking.</p>
<p>Then next we have the <strong>site structure refinement</strong>. With regards to this matter, I can give you some basic tips. First will be the revisiting of existing pages and incorporate keywords in the anchor text of external links. You must also keep the site shallow like avoidance of creating unnecessary sub-folders. And also, make your internal site structure consistent.</p>
<p>Then lastly, we have the <strong>analytics</strong>. Analytics simply shows how your SEO campaign is performing. You can install different kinds of web analytics like the Google Analytics which is for free. These website analytics are very helpful in a way that they can show you what keyword is providing you much traffic. Analytics are vital to any online enterprise but to have a true holistic analysis, you must find out what the people really think about the brand and not just by having insight in how many views you got.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am getting more and more people wanting me to build their websites and handle their PPC campaigns. With that being said, I do not have any contracts. I am looking to get some contracts that you use. Here is what I need:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I am getting more and more people wanting me to build their websites and handle their PPC campaigns. With that being said, I do not have any contracts. I am looking to get some contracts that you use. Here is what I need:</p>
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<p>When you send them to me let me know if i can post them online. I would of course remove all business names from them. Email me @ casey (@) caseywatkins dot com</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Watkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WP Smart Tools provides the full affiliate marketing toolkit to WordPress. With WP Smart Tools you may do things in WordPress like &#8220;fake dates,&#8221; where a hyperlink or other block of text shows some sort of &#8220;relative&#8221; date. This is one of the finest tricks used by affiliate guru&#8217;s to enhance their conversion speed on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a title="WP Smart Tools" href="http://aff.wpquickaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=141_0_3_11">WP Smart Tools</a> provides the full affiliate marketing toolkit to WordPress. With WP Smart Tools you may do things in WordPress like &#8220;fake dates,&#8221; where a hyperlink or other block of text shows some sort of &#8220;relative&#8221; date. This is one of the finest tricks used by affiliate guru&#8217;s to enhance their conversion speed on every kind of landing page: showing consumers that a given offer expires in &#8220;+1 days&#8221; puts stress on them to take action now. You can add &#8220;geotargeted content&#8221;, where content is only shown to individuals from a given location, or sentence says anything like &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m from [your city].&#8221; You can add exit popups to your internet site. You can mask your hyperlinks. All of these things come together and create a simple, user-friendly and uncomplicated toolkit that streamlines your entire affiliate marketing business inside of the sole system: WordPress; and this is just a sampling of the features.</p>
<p><strong>Artificial dates.</strong> This feature of WP Smart Tools enables you to utilize a shortcode such as [smartdate pattern="+2 weeks"] anyplace within your subject material, and it will be swapped out with the date of 2 weeks in the future. You will be able to command the formatting of this date, the pattern (2 weeks in the future, the first Monday in September of this year, literally everything you want!). This is generally used for keeping subject matter looking clean long in to the future, or for positioning pressure on users to act swiftly.</p>
<p><strong>Geotargeted locations.</strong> Geotargeting has two key uses within WP Smart Tools: you can type in anything like &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Ashley and I&#8217;m from [smartlocation level='City'].&#8221; and it will be swapped out with the city the current client is from (or you may do country, province/state, whatever). The other use is to show deals only to particular folks (if, for example, the affiliate offer you&#8217;re looking at using is only obtainable in certain areas). Using [ifsmartlocation country='Canada']This text only reveals to people in Canada[/ifsmartlocation] you can easily generate &#8220;intelligent&#8221; areas of your website.</p>
<p><strong>Cloaked links.</strong> Specialized looking hyperlinks like www.yoursite.com/ResV are effortless to create with WP Link Engine Basic, a componentof WP Smart Tools. Link Engine lets you rotate links (so that /ResV link could try out 10 different offers), geotarget shortcuts (so that whenever a consumer from Canada clicks your ResV url they go to a Canadian offer, and when a user from the U.S. or somewhere else clicks it they go to a different offer), and a lot more. This is an crucial part of your toolkit for sure.<br />
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Exit popups.</strong> &#8220;How about adding a popup to people departing my product site offering a 25% discount. I mean, if they&#8217;re departing my merchandise article, they were at least attracted enough to search: how about we sweeten the pot a little? Yeah, took all of 5 minutes to get it rigged, [and I got] 3 25% off sales in the next 36 hours. That&#8217;s three sales that were leaving my web page that this tool saved in 36 hours.&#8221; Income that would be lost, is no longer lost. Exit popups are that simple. Use them. Make money with them.</p>
<p>Safeguard yourself from landing page thieves. Everyone is doing it. Stealing landing pages. Affiliate marketers are immoral people or something. I don&#8217;t know why, but it is unbelievably common for affiliate marketers to just save landing web pages that appear to be successful, bid on the same keywords (increasing your cost) and ultimately, make the marketplace you&#8217;ve found unprofitable. <a title="WP Smart Tools" href="http://aff.wpquickaffiliate.com/idevaffiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=141_0_3_11">WP Smart Tools</a> protects your landing sites from thieves &#8211; in fact &#8211; it does better than that: it lets your landing pages be stolen. How could that be better? Stolen landing pages guarded by WP Smart Tools will have the affiliate links point to whatever web page you wish, even when the thief replaces them with his own. This is executed with a little Javascript trick that foils the vast majority of thieves and gets you free traffic from the thief&#8217;s efforts. Astounding.</p>
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<p><strong><strong>1. AVOID CUTTING YOURSELF WHEN        SLICING VEGETABLES BY GETTING SOMEONE ELSE        TO</strong></strong><strong> </strong><strong>HOLD        THE VEGETABLES</strong><strong> </strong><strong><br />
</strong><strong>WHILE        YOU CHOP.</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>2. AVOID ARGUMENTS WITH THE        FEMALES ABOUT LIFTING THE </strong>TOILET        SEAT<strong> BY        USING THE SINK.</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>3. FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE        SUFFERERS ~ SIMPLY CUT YOURSELF AND BLEED FOR        A</strong></strong><strong> </strong><strong>FEW        MINUTES, THUS REDUCING THE PRESSURE ON YOUR </strong><strong>VEINS</strong><strong>.        REMEMBER TO USE A</strong><strong> </strong><strong>TIMER.</strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>4. A </strong>MOUSE TRAP<strong> PLACED ON TOP OF        YOUR </strong>ALARM        CLOCK<strong> WILL PREVENT YOU FROM        ROLLING OVER AND GOING BACK TO SLEEP AFTER YOU HIT THE SNOOZE        BUTTON.</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>5. IF YOU HAVE A BAD </strong>COUGH<strong>, TAKE A LARGE DOSE OF        LAXATIVES. THEN YOU&#8217;LL BE AFRAID TO        COUGH.</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>6. YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN        LIFE &#8211; WD-40 AND </strong>DUCT        TAPE<strong>. IF        IT DOESN&#8217;T MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40.. IF IT SHOULDN&#8217;T MOVE AND DOES,        USE THE DUCT TAPE.</strong></strong><br />
<strong><br />
<strong>7. IF YOU CAN&#8217;T FIX IT WITH A        HAMMER, YOU&#8217;VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL        PROBLEM.</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>==========================================</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>THOUGHT FOR THE        DAY:</strong></strong><br />
<strong><br />
<strong>SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES &#8211;        NOT REALLY GOOD </strong><br />
<strong>FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY        BRING</strong></strong><strong> </strong><strong>A        SMILE TO YOUR FACE</strong><strong><br />
<strong>WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE        STAIRS.</strong></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<dc:creator>Casey Watkins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Here are some hazard signs and dangerous waters you shouldn’t be treading on in the affiliate marketing scene!</p>
<p>So listen up…</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning some money online. This program gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet. Since these affiliate marketing programs are easy to join, implement and pays a commission on a regular basis, more an more people are now willing in this business.</p>
<p>However, like all businesses, there are lots of pitfalls in the affiliate marketing business. Committing some of the most common mistakes will cost the marketers a large portion taken from the profit they are making everyday. That is why it is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end.</p>
<p><strong>Mistake number 1: Choosing the wrong affiliate. </strong></p>
<p>Many people want to earn from affiliate marketing as fast as possible. In their rush to be part of one, they tend to choose a bandwagon product. This is the kind of products that the program thinks is “hot”. They choose the product that is in demand without actually considering if the product appeals to them. This is not a very wise move obviously.</p>
<p>Instead of jumping on the bandwagon, try top choose a product in which you are truly interested in. For any endeavor to succeed, you should take some time to plan and figure out your actions.</p>
<p>Pick a product that appeals to you. Then do some research about that product to see if they are in demand. Promoting a product you are more passionate about is easier than promoting one for the sake of the earnings only.</p>
<p><strong>Mistake number 2: Joining too many affiliate programs. </strong></p>
<p>Since affiliate programs are very easy to join, you might be tempted to join multiples of affiliate programs to try and maximize the earnings you will be getting. Besides you may think that there is nothing wrong and nothing to lose by being part of many affiliate programs.</p>
<p>True, that is a great way to have multiple sources of income. However, joining multiple programs and attempting to promote them all at the same time will prevent you from concentrating on each one of them.</p>
<p>The result? The maximum potential of your affiliate program is not realized and the income generated will not exactly be as huge as you were thinking initially it would. The best way to get excellent result is by joining just one program that pays a 40% commission at least. Then give it your best effort by promoting your products enthusiastically. As soon as you see that it is already making a reasonable profit, then maybe you can now join another affiliate program.</p>
<p>The technique is to do it slowly but surely. There is really no need to rush into things, especially with affiliate marketing. With the way things are going, the future is looking real bright and it seems affiliate marketing will be staying for a long time too.</p>
<p><strong>Mistake number 3: Not buying the product or using the service.</strong></p>
<p>As an affiliate, you main purpose is to effectively and convincingly promote a product or service and to find customers. For you to achieve this purpose, you must be able to relay to the customers that certain product and service. It is therefore difficult for you to do this when you yourself have not tried these things out. Thus, you will fail to promote and recommend them convincingly. You will also fail to create a desire in your customers to avail any of what you are offering.</p>
<p>Try the product or service personally first before you sign up as an affiliate to see if it is really delivering what it promises. If you have done so, then you are one of the credible and living testaments aware of its advantages and disadvantages. Your customers will then feel the sincerity and truthfulness in you and this will trigger them to try them out for themselves.</p>
<p>Many affiliate marketers make these mistakes and are paying dearly for their actions. To not fall into the same situation they have been in, try to do everything to avoid making the same mistakes.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Time is the key</span>. Take the time to analyze your marketing strategy and check if you are in the right track. If done properly, you will be able to maximize your affiliate marketing program and earn higher profits.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your won website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.</p>
<p>Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?</p>
<p>Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.</p>
<p><strong>1. Know the best program and products to promote.</strong></p>
<p>Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.</p>
<p>There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.</p>
<p>There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.</p>
<p>Write free reports or short E-Books to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.</p>
<p>In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With E-Books, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.</p>
<p><strong>2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free E-Books.</strong></p>
<p>It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times to make a sale.</p>
<p>This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and E-Books. You can make follow-ups on these contacts to remind them to make a purchase from you.</p>
<p>Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.</p>
<p>But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.</p>
<p>Publish an online newsletter or E-zine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.</p>
<p>This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.</p>
<p><strong>3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants.</strong></p>
<p>If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.</p>
<p>If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.</p>
<p>Write strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.</p>
<p>Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.</p>
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