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The only good lead is your own lead 20 Oct 2009, 1:01 pmI often hear the question, &#8220;Should I pay for leads for my business?&#8221; Let me ask you this. Have you ever handed over your best email address to someone and said, &#8220;Here you go. Please sell this to a marketer or ten. I [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/the-only-good-lead-is-your-own-lead/" target="_blank">The only good lead is your own lead</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 1:01 pm</span></strong><br />I often hear the question, &#8220;Should I pay for leads for my business?&#8221; Let me ask you this. Have you ever handed over your best email address to someone and said, &#8220;Here you go. Please sell this to a marketer or ten. I love to get email from people that I don&#8217;t know who are trying [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/growing-your-affiliate-marketing-business/" target="_blank">Growing Your Affiliate Marketing Business</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 1:44 am</span></strong><br />Affiliate marketing is a very popular business on the internet that involves a partnership between a merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate advertises or promotes the merchant&#8217;s products and services until a customer makes a purchase. Affiliates usually work on sales commission. Affiliate marketing has also been recognized as the best way for merchants [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/using-plr-for-traffic/" target="_blank">Using PLR for traffic</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 9:50 pm</span></strong><br />PLR stands for &#8220;Private Label Rights.&#8221; Private label rights products are products that you can claim as your own. For example, PLR articles are articles written by someone who is willing to give up the right to claim authorship. It&#8217;s like getting your own ghostwritten articles. You slap your own name on those babies and [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/keyword-research-a-brief-introduction/" target="_blank">Keyword Research: A Brief Introduction</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 9:44 pm</span></strong><br />On the internet, keywords are terms or words that relate to particular topics. Keyword research will involve various aspects, such as finding sales oriented keywords or driving maximum qualified users to increase their online sales. Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign. You have to be very careful when selecting [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/how-to-spot-work-at-home-scams/" target="_blank">How to Spot Work-at-Home Scams</a> <span class="date">10 Oct 2009, 6:43 pm</span></strong><br />Work-at-home opportunities abound, unfortunately many of them are scams and traps to take money and time from honest people. There are legitimate work-at-home opportunities out there for you to find. You just need a little common sense and some due diligence research. Keep in mind that there are no real ways to get rich quick. Never [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/3-ways-to-track-the-response-to-your-internet-advertising/" target="_blank">3 Ways to Track the Response to Your Internet Advertising</a> <span class="date">8 Oct 2009, 5:05 pm</span></strong><br />Each time you make a change in your marketing strategy, you need to evaluate the results of the change to determine whether or not it generated a greater profit for you. Tracking your results is important because it helps you determine what is working and what is not working. Evaluating the response of your Internet marketing [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/appeal-to-your-target-audience-when-marketing-online/" target="_blank">Appeal To Your Target Audience When Marketing Online</a> <span class="date">6 Oct 2009, 5:28 pm</span></strong><br />The Internet reaches a worldwide audience and is available 24 hours a day. For this reason, potential customers are turning to the Internet for a variety of reasons including researching products and services and making purchases. As more and more consumers turn to the Internet, it is important for businesses to establish an online presence. [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/3-ways-to-research-internet-marketing-techniques/" target="_blank">3 ways to research internet marketing techniques</a> <span class="date">3 Oct 2009, 7:05 pm</span></strong><br />Even if you didn&#8217;t like school, you can easily figure out how to do internet marketing. You don&#8217;t have to go back to the classroom. You can learn all about internet marketing on your own terms. This article will review 3 simple ways to learn more about internet marketing. Online research Rev up the old computer, jump [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/small-business-blog-marketing-the-what-and-how/" target="_blank">Small Business Blog Marketing: The What and How</a> <span class="date">30 Sep 2009, 6:19 pm</span></strong><br />People buy from people they know, or at least from people that they think that they know. The internet provides you access to the entire world if you know how to get their attention. One easy way to attract attention on the internet is with a blog. Blogs are like online journals. You write periodic [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/6-ways-to-keep-visitors-coming-back-to-your-website/" target="_blank">6 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back to Your Website</a> <span class="date">28 Sep 2009, 5:29 pm</span></strong><br />You want to drive traffic to your web site, but you want visitors to come back, too. How do you keep your traffic coming back for more? Let me suggest a few ways that you can use to encourage return visits. Post information-rich articles on your site People search the internet for information. Your prospective clients want [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/09/25/professional-link-building-tools/" target="_blank">Professional Link Building Tools</a> <span class="date">25 Sep 2009, 10:58 am</span></strong><br />Professional Link Building Tools This question comes up quite a bit. People want to know what I personally use to build links. And the answer is complex. I use a lot of tools, methods, and resources to do it… There’s no one tool I use that can do everything I need done [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/03/30/how-to-increase-search-engine-traffic/" target="_blank">How To Increase Search Engine Traffic</a> <span class="date">30 Mar 2009, 10:22 am</span></strong><br />Let’s face it. Search engine traffic is valuable. If it wasn’t, Google wouldn’t be making billions of dollars and Microsoft wouldn’t be spending a fortune on building a quality search engine. It’s high quality targeted traffic that converts into buyers. However, getting your share of search engine traffic isn’t always the easiest [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/03/30/why-you-don%E2%80%99t-need-submit-to-search-engine-programs-or-services/" target="_blank">Why You Don’t Need Submit to Search Engine Programs or Services</a> <span class="date">30 Mar 2009, 9:39 am</span></strong><br />A quick search of the results in Google will show more than 8 pages of companies advertising their services or programs to submit your website to the search engines. The prices varied wildly, but the fact of the matter is that any site submitter or company offering search engine submissions is just taking your [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/08/09/linkvana-case-study-my-results-over-6-months/" target="_blank">Linkvana Case Study - My Results Over 6 Months</a> <span class="date">9 Aug 2008, 10:15 am</span></strong><br />Okay, so nobody ever said I was good about putting up blog posts on a regular basis, but this is ridiculous. I haven&#8217;t posted anything here since February. Sorry &#8217;bout that. Anyway, I&#8217;ve had a few people email me and how Linksvana is working for me? I have a solid six months [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/10/how-to-easily-get-free-traffic-to-your-website/" target="_blank">How To Easily Get Free Traffic To Your Website</a> <span class="date">10 Feb 2008, 4:01 pm</span></strong><br />I see posts in forums just about everyday from somebody new wondering how they can get free traffic to their website or how they can get high search engine rankings. They want to know all the magical little “secrets” to getting tons of traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/04/linkvana-review/" target="_blank">Linkvana Review – An honest review of the Linkvana one way link system</a> <span class="date">4 Feb 2008, 12:52 pm</span></strong><br />If you’re wondering if the Linkvana one way link building system is a worthwhile investment, then this review if for you. When it comes to link building systems, I’ll be honest, there’s a lot of junk out there. And when it comes to link building a lot of people take the attitude [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/01/white-hat-search-engine-optimization-just-makes-sense/" target="_blank">White Hat Search Engine Optimization Just Makes Sense</a> <span class="date">1 Feb 2008, 3:48 pm</span></strong><br />In an online world where everyone is trying to make money quickly and where everyone wants everything right now without having to work for it, it’s easy to see the appeal of blackhat search engine optimization. With the relative ease of use (if you have the right tools and knowledge), and the speed at [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/01/30/what-language-do-your-content-writers-speak/" target="_blank">What Language Do Your Content Writers Speak?</a> <span class="date">30 Jan 2008, 2:36 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to hiring someone to create content for your website, it’s important to know what language your writers speak. First, you’ll want to consider what language is their FIRST language. If it’s not English, and they haven’t spent the last 10 years living in an English speaking country, then they probably [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/01/28/a-traffic-generation-strategy-i-didnt-know-about/" target="_blank">A Traffic Generation Strategy I Didn’t Know About?</a> <span class="date">28 Jan 2008, 3:26 pm</span></strong><br />I study traffic generation. I really do. I spend thousands of dollars each year buying products that promise to help me get an edge in the traffic generation market hoping that I might learn just some small twist I didn’t know before. I read tons of blogs every month looking for the latest [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/01/25/3waylinksnet-review-%E2%80%93-an-honest-review-of-jonathan-leger%E2%80%99s-3-way-links-system/" target="_blank">3waylinks.net Review – An Honest Review of Jonathan Leger’s 3 Way Links System</a> <span class="date">25 Jan 2008, 12:46 pm</span></strong><br />Have you been wondering if Jonathan Leger’s 3 Way Link Building system is actually worth the investment? 3WayLinks.net Homepage I have to admit that when I first heard about this system I was extremely skeptical. I was visiting one of my favorite Internet Marketing forums when I heard someone touting it as the greatest thing since [&#8230;]</li>
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How Bing Is Revolutionizing Search With Twitter 22 Oct 2009, 1:53 amWe&#8217;ve discussed before the importance of Twitter for search. Bing is ranking tweets and is in discussions with Facebook to incorporate its social media content in search results. No doubt that Google will follow this act. But the interesting thing about how Bing is [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/22/how-bing-is-revolutionizing-search-with-twitter/" target="_blank">How Bing Is Revolutionizing Search With Twitter</a> <span class="date">22 Oct 2009, 1:53 am</span></strong><br />We&#8217;ve discussed before the importance of Twitter for search. Bing is ranking tweets and is in discussions with Facebook to incorporate its social media content in search results. No doubt that Google will follow this act. But the interesting thing about how Bing is ranking tweets is that your Twitter followers can be a ranking [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/21/google-analytics-features/" target="_blank">Google Analytics Adds New Features</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 5:37 am</span></strong><br />If you use Google Analytics, which is perhaps the best free analytics tool online, then you should know that the Google team behind it has added new features. These features are designed to help power users make the most of the analytics tool and to make the tool more flexible. I think Google succeeds on [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/21/yahoo-online-life/" target="_blank">Is Yahoo! The Center Of Your Online Life?</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 1:46 am</span></strong><br />When Yahoo! brokered a deal with Microsoft to let the corporate monolith handle the former&#8217;s search functions, both companies were criticized all over the Web. Of course, there were the kudos as well. Some people thought the deal didn&#8217;t go far enough while others thought it went too far. But the bottom line, for Yahoo! [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/20/keyword-research-ongoing/" target="_blank">Is Keyword Research An Ongoing Activity?</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 10:52 am</span></strong><br />Is keyword research a one-time event or an ongoing concern? You might think it&#8217;s something you do today and forget about once your site is built, but it&#8217;s not. I&#8217;ll tell you why. What&#8217;s popular today may not be popular next year. Searchers could be hot on to a particular search phrase one day and move [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/20/plan-viral-marketing/" target="_blank">Plan Your Viral Marketing Campaign Carefully</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 2:15 am</span></strong><br />You&#8217;ve likely heard about viral marketing. That&#8217;s where you tell a couple of people about something and they tell a couple of friends who also tell a couple of friends and the message is carried on ad infinitum with each level of messaging spread further and wider than before. It&#8217;s about like network marketing with [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/19/base64-code/" target="_blank">Is Base64 Code Bad For You?</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 9:05 am</span></strong><br />Base64 code derives its name from the fact that it uses only 64 characters. MIME-based (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), Base64 uses only A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and the &#8220;+&#8221; and &#8220;/&#8221; symbols. That&#8217;s 64 characters, hence the name. In and of itself, Base64 is not bad. It has its practical uses. One of its widest applications is [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/19/online-reputation-management/" target="_blank">What Is Online Reputation Management?</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 10:07 pm</span></strong><br />Online reputation is more than monitoring to see who mentions your name. It&#8217;s really a combination of three things: Traditional marketing Public relations Search engine optimization Where these three online disciplines intersect has come to be called reputation management. Let&#8217;s dissect what that means. Here is a very helpful video that I found about online reputation management: In a traditional marketing [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/18/link-buying-important/" target="_blank">Link Buying – An Important Thing To Know</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 5:16 am</span></strong><br />Gab Goldenberg has an interesting post on 101 ways to buy text links. Understand that I don&#8217;t endorse any of these methods. It is your decision as to whether or not to purchase text links. You know how Google treats those links. Of course, what Google doesn&#8217;t know wont hurt you. But will you take a [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/18/hackers-people/" target="_blank">Are Hackers Friendly People?</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 10:46 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to getting hacked, you might think that the guys who did that to you are real bad people. Not necessarily. It could be your pharmacist or the good looking guy next door. You know, the one who took you to dinner last weekend at the five star restaurant? You didn&#8217;t know he [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/17/duplicate-content-deal/" target="_blank">Why Is Duplicate Content No Big Deal?</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 5:23 am</span></strong><br />Duplicate content &#8220;issues&#8221; still get a lot of airplay, except they aren&#8217;t really issues. For one thing, you can have two pages on your website with exactly the same content and your site won&#8217;t be penalized. That&#8217;s a common misconception. (unless of course your content is a standard reseller or partner content, ecommerce websites [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/17/drop-in-serps/" target="_blank">Drop In SERPs – What Should You Do?</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 11:41 pm</span></strong><br />If you&#8217;ve noticed a recent drop in your search engine rankings you may or may not have a cause for alarm. It&#8217;s important to understand that frequent fluctuations in the search engine results occurs. You&#8217;ll rise and fall like the tide. However, large drops that are sudden could be caused by a number of things [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/16/ways-build-links/" target="_blank">Different Ways You Can Build Links</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 6:31 am</span></strong><br />New webmasters get caught up sometimes in the different methods of link building and lose site of the big picture. Perhaps the most common form of link building is directory submissions. Talk to anyone who has done a fair amount of link building and they will almost always recommend link building through directory submissions (really [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/16/links-quality-quantity/" target="_blank">Your Links – High Quality Vs. High Quantity</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 11:15 pm</span></strong><br />It seems the big push among search engine optimziation folks right now is to sell you on the idea that high quality links are better than high quantity. It depends. What&#8217;s really important is the aggregate portfolio you build. That is, the highest quantity of high quality links that you can find. Let me try to [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/15/seo-exist/" target="_blank">Will SEO As We Know It Exist In 2035?</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 6:00 am</span></strong><br />Search engine optimization has been pretty steady for the past 10 years. But that&#8217;s no guarantee that things will remain the same. And the way that things change online, you could see major developments appear almost overnight that usher in sweeping changes in the way that webmasters approach SEO for their websites. Or, things just [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/15/technorati-facelift/" target="_blank">Technorati Gets A Facelift</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 1:21 am</span></strong><br />OK, this one was prophesied some months ago. I forget the prophets name. And, no, it wasn&#8217;t Nostradamus. But it was foretold that Technorati would get a facelift. Actually, I think it was reported that plans were underway. And now the day has arrived. I think this is good news, actually. It&#8217;s good for a number of [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/14/video-usage/" target="_blank">Online Video Usage Up By 25%</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 7:09 am</span></strong><br />Nielsen reports that online video viewing is up by 25% per viewer. That&#8217;s great. This is a great opportunity for search engine marketers. You don&#8217;t even have to be a traditional Internet marketer to see this opportunity. But if you do see it and you plan to do any video marketing in the near future, you [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/14/increase-twitter-spam/" target="_blank">Will We See An Increase In Twitter Spam Reports?</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 1:52 am</span></strong><br />WebProNews paints a rosy picture of a new spam reporting tool on Twitter. I&#8217;m not so optimistic, however. Previously, all you had to do to report spam was to follow the @spam account and send a message to them about a particular Twitter profile to notify them of spam. A small discomfort, but it seemed to [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/13/backlinks-on-page/" target="_blank">Backlinks Or On-Page SEO – Which Team Wins?</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 9:05 am</span></strong><br />If you read many SEO blogs, you&#8217;ll inevitably hear someone say that the most important aspect of a search engine optimization campaign is building backlinks. If that is true then why are people still chanting, &#8220;Content is king.&#8221; Can both be true? It doesn&#8217;t seem possible, does it? If content is king then that implies that [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/13/email-marketing/" target="_blank">Email Marketing Can Help Your SEO Efforts</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 1:59 am</span></strong><br />Is there a way for email marketing to boost your SEO? Actually, there is. First, if you publish a periodic email newsletter, and you should, and distribute it by e-mail then publish the archives of your newsletter on your website then any links you have in that newsletter pointing back to other pages on your site [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/12/seo-industry-growing/" target="_blank">Why The SEO Industry Is Growing</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 6:57 am</span></strong><br />Every day there seems to be a greater number of people competing for search engine optimization business. The question that begs to be asked is, Why? Why are there so many people trying to break into the SEO business? It is likely they&#8217;ve heard that it&#8217;s a lucrative field. But there are plenty of other lucrative [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2009/03/seo-copy-writing-for-online-success.html" target="_blank">SEO Copy Writing for Online Success</a> <span class="date">20 Mar 2009, 4:15 am</span></strong><br />Find SEO Copy Writing on our new home&#8230;. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-write-landing-page-that-converts.html" target="_blank">How to Write a Landing Page that Converts</a> <span class="date">8 Jul 2008, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />We have moved&#8230;. Find this SEO post here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/03/form-spamming-for-seo-clients-what-way.html" target="_blank">Spamming for SEO Clients - What a Way to Make a Living</a> <span class="date">18 Mar 2008, 6:27 pm</span></strong><br />OK, so if you have a web site you are most likely party to scumbags that will call you, email you, and yes&#8230; even spam your blogs and forms with their promises of top ranking and top marketing skills. So I am generally pretty crabby about the spamming part, but when a company spams a one of my customers with NO company url, company name, and a GMail address I get pretty torqued up.This customer, is actually my best friend, and she is not so Internet savvy&#8230; So her email spills in to my box with the zillion others, so that I can call her with anything important. Like I said, she is my best fr. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/03/top-5-ways-to-screw-up-online-store.html" target="_blank">Top 5 Ways to Screw Up an Online Store</a> <span class="date">9 Mar 2008, 11:20 am</span></strong><br />Find this great post and more at our new home&#8230;.. SEOCOG.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/02/january-2008-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">January 2008 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">26 Feb 2008, 9:06 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings January 2008 search engine market US share data report is out and we have the data and historical analysis ready for you. Buckle up!In January there are some interesting results for the search game in the US. You might even be a bit surprised, or relieved even. We track these results here at the Cog SEO Blog every month and provide a historical bit of data along with the raw statistics to help you better understand the search market here in the US. You can find past US Search Market Share results in the left menu for review.Might as well start at the top.. Google continu. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/01/december-2007-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">December 2007 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">29 Jan 2008, 1:50 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings December 2007 search market share data report has been released, and you are going to be a bit surprised at the results. We post this search market data every month, and have been doing so since April 2007. This data can have some very interesting trends and twists. If you would like to view the past results we have posted, just use the &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221; link in the left menu for all of the reports.Most people will be interested to know that Google lost some ground. I guess I am a bit surprised as well. After coming on strong in November with a 2.2% growth over Oct. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-me-value-of-authority-site.html" target="_blank">Google me the Value of an Authority Site</a> <span class="date">11 Jan 2008, 5:29 am</span></strong><br />Find Google me the Value of an Authority Site at our new home. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/november-2007-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">November 2007 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">28 Dec 2007, 4:13 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings November 2007 search market share data report was released yesterday. We post this search market data every month, and have been doing so since April 2007. This can be very valuable data for your SEO campaign strategy. If you would like to view the past results we have blogged, just use the &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221; link in the left menu.Chart legend: An estimated 4.3 billion search queries were conducted using Google Search in the US, representing 57.7 percent of all search queries conducted in November 2007. Click to enlarge data image.Google is still coming on strong wi. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-me-supplemental-index.html" target="_blank">Google Me the Supplemental Index?</a> <span class="date">20 Dec 2007, 5:07 am</span></strong><br />Find this post &#8212; Google Me the Supplemental Index? &#8212; at our new home! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-10-us-search-providers-october-2007.html" target="_blank">Top 10 US Search Providers - October 2007</a> <span class="date">4 Dec 2007, 7:53 pm</span></strong><br />It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;. Nielsen Netratings has released the top 10 US search providers for October, 2007. We have been posting these market data releases since the April, 2007 report. In the left hand menu you can click &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221;, and view all of our past market share posts.There are some interesting developments in October&#8217;s market share report. Honestly speaking, I lost a bet as well! Another SEO and I disagreed about Yahoo Search and it&#8217;s ability to reclaim it&#8217;s once strong brand loyalty. So, what about Yahoo? I suspected that they would begin to initialize the road to regain. [&hellip;]</li>
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New business opportunity - make a fortune as exclusive partner program participant! 11 Apr 2009, 12:06 amNew business opportunity - Integrate with Click2Sell and make a fortune as exclusive partner program participant and family member!You have a program or custom made script which&#8230;
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<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/31074/" target="_blank">New business opportunity - make a fortune as exclusive partner program participant!</a> <span class="date">11 Apr 2009, 12:06 am</span></strong><br />New business opportunity - Integrate with Click2Sell and make a fortune as exclusive partner program participant and family member!You have a program or custom made script which&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/30855/" target="_blank">How to manage merchant accounts on Click2Sell</a> <span class="date">28 Mar 2009, 3:39 am</span></strong><br />When I say &#8220;merchant accounts&#8221;, I mean accounts at PayPal, Moneybookers, Worldpay, Authorize.net and Google Checkout. The same regular ones that you use to receive money online&#8230;.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/30583/" target="_blank">Customizing Click2Sell Checkout Page</a> <span class="date">6 Mar 2009, 1:25 pm</span></strong><br />In this post about checkout page customization there will be two main parts and a tiny third one which is worth to be mentioned. Let’s see the first one. Modifying text in the&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/30264/" target="_blank">Revolutionary way to increase affiliate sales making product reviews</a> <span class="date">31 Jan 2009, 2:52 am</span></strong><br />Did you know that there is a new wave of marketing called social decision marketing? Basically this involves a way of influencing the customer mindset so that they are compelled&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/29004/" target="_blank">How to get your Paypal API credentials</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2008, 4:15 am</span></strong><br />Many online merchants and affiliates use Paypal Premier or Business accounts to send and receive payments for their goods and services. Some affiliate program networks (like&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/28587/" target="_blank">Click2Sell has developed API for a better merchants&#8217; business</a> <span class="date">10 Sep 2008, 1:01 pm</span></strong><br />Yes! It&#8217;s absolute true&#8230; Some of the most active and best performing Click2Sell.EU members (merchants and affiliates) were asking for a feature that would &#8220;pass&#8221; a&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.wealthcreationaffiliate.com.au/wealth-creation-affiliate/more-affiliate-website-marketing-traditions/" target="_blank">More Affiliate Website Marketing Traditions</a> <span class="date">3 Sep 2008, 4:50 pm</span></strong><br />Care to talk a bit more about using inexpensive traditional marketing avenues to bring traffic to your wealth creation affiliate website? Today let&#8217;s talk about flyers and brochures. Marketing Flyers And Brochures—The Good Stuff Brochures and flyers are a great way to market an affiliate website. They have all the best elements of a successful [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.wealthcreationaffiliate.com.au/wealth-creation-affiliate/ready-to-launch/" target="_blank">Ready To Launch</a> <span class="date">27 Aug 2008, 3:26 pm</span></strong><br />Goals and planning have been a big topic, as they almost always are this time of year. But let&#8217;s take a minute to talk about the downside of planning for your wealth creation affiliate program—the side that gives you an excuse to procrastinate and keep putting off affiliate success! Can You Be Too Prepared? Has this [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.wealthcreationaffiliate.com.au/wealth-creation/whats-your-role-as-wealth-creation-affiliate/" target="_blank">What’s Your Role As Wealth Creation Affiliate?</a> <span class="date">20 Aug 2008, 4:14 pm</span></strong><br />I wonder from time to time if we&#8217;ve been clear about what your role as a wealth creation affiliate is. Well, it&#8217;s a varied role that is part marketing, part business partner, and part entrepreneur. All in all, your primary job-focus, though, comes down to one thing: pre-selling. Where Your Affiliate Efforts Fit It You [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.wealthcreationaffiliate.com.au/wealth-creation-affiliate/do-i-repeat-myself/" target="_blank">Do I Repeat Myself?</a> <span class="date">13 Aug 2008, 6:12 pm</span></strong><br />Do I repeat myself on this wealth creation affiliate blog? I hope that I do&#8211;at least for the important stuff—because in affiliate marketing, repetition is a good thing. And you should be doing it too! A Message Worth Repeating The message we are spreading through our wealth creation affiliate program is worth repeating—get the financial [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.wealthcreationaffiliate.com.au/affiliate-websites/more-affiliate-website-marketing-tools-your-website/" target="_blank">More Affiliate Website Marketing Tools: Your Website</a> <span class="date">5 Aug 2008, 2:52 pm</span></strong><br />Maybe you already have a website for personal or business use, and maybe you don&#8217;t. With an outside website, you increase the visibility of your dedicated wealth creation affiliate website even more. Using Your Website For Affiliate Promotion An outside website can very easily be used to market your wealth creation affiliate website. In short [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/27742/" target="_blank">How to Sell Digital Products using Google Checkout</a> <span class="date">8 Jul 2008, 12:39 pm</span></strong><br />The demand for digital products has increased tremendously in the past few years and is thereby easily made available at online stores as well. However, security and payment&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/27366/" target="_blank">Direct Affiliate Linking into Product’s Checkout Page</a> <span class="date">7 Jun 2008, 10:44 am</span></strong><br />Recently we had been working heavily on new Click2Sell system version which included many tweaks, fixes and some new features. In this post I will speak about one new feature&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/26800/" target="_blank">Click2Sell has widened it&#8217;s payment processing options for merchants with Moneybookers</a> <span class="date">6 Apr 2008, 8:14 am</span></strong><br />Click2Sell.EU affiliate network is proud to announce that finally they have just tested Moneybookers payment processor system integration with Click2Sell. On March 27&#8230;</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://regimantas.bravejournal.com/entry/26628/" target="_blank">Find Out All Google Adwords Keywords that Bring You Sales Easily</a> <span class="date">11 Mar 2008, 2:37 am</span></strong><br />The trends in internet marketing has been shifting but one method still remains to be the most effective form of online advertising – pay-per-click or PPC marketing. PPC&#8230;</li>
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Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4 21 Oct 2009, 8:06 amToday&#8217;s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story: I discovered the power of online community on the very first [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/DSeofdeME_0/" target="_blank">Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 8:06 am</span></strong><br />Today&#8217;s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story: I discovered the power of online community on the very first day that I went online (I think it was in 1996). Up until [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/kanye-west-latest-hoax-topic-online-as-amber-rose-tries-to-trend-longliveyeezy/" target="_blank">Kanye West latest hoax topic online as Amber Rose tries to trend #LongLiveYeezy</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 7:32 am</span></strong><br />I am sure by now most of you will have noticed that Kanye West is making the headlines again, and it&#8217;s not even of his own doing. Earlier today, &#8220;RIP Kanye West&#8221; became the top trending topic on Twitter and the most searched for item on Google in the US, after a hoax tweet suggested that [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/21/the-art-of-the-social-landing-page/" target="_blank">The Art of the Social Landing Page</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 6:52 am</span></strong><br />Instead of simply sending a visitor to the homepage of their site from a social site, a great idea is to tailor a landing page that speaks directly to the user of that social site. This is a great way to reinforce the relationship and further promote the brand and the various ways to continue to follow them. Let&#8217;s check out some great examples of landing pages that companies are creating to receive some of their social media site traffic.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/wordpress-com-goes-mobile/" target="_blank">WordPress.com Goes Mobile</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 3:09 am</span></strong><br />Blog host WordPress.com have added mobile themes to their list of features. The excellent WPtouch is used for iPhone and iPod touch visitors on your blog, whereas WordPress Mobile Edition will be used for other mobile devices. More in the announcement post. Possibly Related PostsWordPress.com Partners with PicAppNokia gets excited about lifecasting with Ovi and FacebookWordPress [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-a-hardening-release/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.8.5: A Hardening Release</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 3:05 am</span></strong><br />Hardening release? Really? Anyway, version 2.8.5 of popular blogging platform WordPress is available and it features code cleanup and addresses some potential issues. You should upgrade as always, either from within your WordPress install, or by downloading from wordpress.org. In other WordPress news, the team is pimping the exploit scanner plugin which sounds like a good idea [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/pingdom-adds-twitter-support-web-hosts-beware/" target="_blank">Pingdom Adds Twitter Support, Web Hosts Beware</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 2:34 am</span></strong><br />Uptime monitoring service Pingdom now supports alerts via Twitter, which means that you could get tweets when your site goes down. This is great since it offers realtime public information about downtime, and puts more pressure on the web hosts. After all, if you&#8217;re an open customer of Host X, then tweets about your site [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/around-the-world-in-365-days-with-coke-and-3-lucky-bloggers/" target="_blank">Around the World in 365 Days with Coke and 3 Lucky “Bloggers”</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 12:15 am</span></strong><br />Coca-Cola is engaging into a huge marketing campaign for its &#8220;Open Happiness&#8221; product branding. Dubbed Expedition 206, this campaign will send 3 bloggers on a trip around the world in 365 days for free. In exchange, these lucky 3 bloggers will use various social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, and YouTube videos to share [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/move-over-google-analytics-the-wordpress-iphone-stats-app-has-arrived/" target="_blank">Move Over Google Analytics, The WordPress iPhone Stats App Has Arrived!</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 4:20 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to keeping up with the latest traffic stats for your WordPress blog, iPhone lovers had very few options outside of a host of Google Analytics—until now. Menial (who is located in the UK) has developed an iPhone app called “Statistics For WordPress” that lets users of both flavors (self hosted and WP.com fans) [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/20/blogging-or-social-networking-which-is-better/" target="_blank">Blogging or Social Networking: Which is Better?</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 10:20 am</span></strong><br />When I spoke about Facebook marketing strategies at SMX East, someone asked the panel of speakers this question: &#8220;If you had to do only one to help your business, would you start a blog or focus on social networking?&#8221; The answer, I feel, is not necessarily a black or white issue. Obviously, if you can handle running a blog and social networking, the easy answer is &#8220;both,&#8221; but there are situations where one is more suitable than the other.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/EURtnSeggdY/" target="_blank">5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />In this post David Wright and Sean Platt from direct response copywriters share some suggestions on indicators of when your blog might be on the road to success. Starting a blog was one of the most exciting things we have ever done. Building a loyal audience, gathering intelligent subscribers with insightful comments, and making plans for [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. 5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/thoora-launches-real-time-news-discovery-service/" target="_blank">Thoora launches real-time news discovery service</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:56 am</span></strong><br />There are plenty of news discovery services online, but over the weekend Thoora announced the public launch of its own service which is supposed to &#8220;tear down silos between social and traditional media&#8221;. The free service, which has been in private beta for about a month, delivers its perspective on breaking news based on Twitter, over [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/flogs-com-releases-iphone-and-facebook-digital-calendar-apps/" target="_blank">Flogs.com releases iPhone and Facebook digital calendar apps</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:23 am</span></strong><br />The online calendar service Flogs.com has announced the launch of its free iPhone and Facebook applications which make it easier to sync calendars on these platforms. Although you could already sync an iCal calendar on your iPhone, the app adds a range of functionality including the ability to search for local events based on GPS location [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/blogging-bytes-october-20-2009/" target="_blank">Blogging Bytes: October 20, 2009</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:18 am</span></strong><br />Save the Turtles &#8211; A 24-hour blogathon is scheduled for Sunday to help raise funds for the newly-established Turtle Conservation Centre in Setiu, Malaysia. A new blog post about freshwater and marine turtles will be written every hour. If you have a question on the matter, here&#8217;s your chance to get answers from [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/cia-invests-in-in-q-tel-to-monitor-blog-posts/" target="_blank">CIA Invests in In-Q-Tel to Monitor Blog Posts</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 4:34 am</span></strong><br />I&#8217;m a bit hesitant to cover this news  item because of its sensitivity. But then I realized I&#8217;m not from the U.S. so I guess the CIA won&#8217;t be running after me in case I miss out some minor points of the news. Still, I&#8217;d be cautious and just mention the facts. What am I talking [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-to-get-your-fan-page-found-in-facebook-search/" target="_blank">How to Get Your Fan Page Found in Facebook Search</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 3:01 pm</span></strong><br />Last week I wrote an article over at Search Engine Land that addressed a number of concerns that I have heard from users who have Pages that are not showing up in Facebook Search. The article breaks down how exactly you can get your page to show up in the search with 8 different tips and tricks. Here is a highlevel overview of them</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/Ih1IFUOW5eE/" target="_blank">Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 8:35 am</span></strong><br />One of the challenges that bloggers face is what to do when others want to use your blog for their own gain by either taking your content or spamming your comments section. The more I talk to bloggers about how they deal with these issues the more I realize how many different approaches there are [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/EHGe6AD8Om0/" target="_blank">How to Use Apture</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 8:17 am</span></strong><br />By Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen. Do you want to create posts that sparkle, dance, enthral, touch the heart, and inform? Do you want your blog to stand out, and subscribers to scramble in at the door? Then I suggest you check out what the New York Times, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How to Use Apture</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/tzGxYVcjntM/" target="_blank">The Holy Grail to Writing Great Content - Rhetoric</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 8:24 am</span></strong><br />A Guest Post by Patrick Riddel from Must Know Investing. Darren has debunked the myth that great content markets itself. There are countless blogs that produce quality content that don&#8217;t get read. Why is that? Because no one knows about them. He followed up with a post on 9 things you can do so that your next [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. The Holy Grail to Writing Great Content - Rhetoric</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/16/how-to-get-your-thumbnails-to-show-on-social-sites/" target="_blank">How to Get Your Thumbnails to Show on Social Sites</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 11:58 am</span></strong><br />Here is the scenario: You create some great content. The content gets submitted by someone other than yourself to one of the many social sites. The thumbnail that is picked to correspond with the piece is totally irrelevant to the content and is damaging the content&#8217;s momentum to move forward. How do you fix this?</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/_c5LXbjRYqY/" target="_blank">Learn From My Mistake - Don’t Leave Money on the Table!</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />Have you ever found that you&#8217;ve been leaving money on the table? It&#8217;s a frustrating feeling and one that many of us can relate to. I discovered that I&#8217;ve been doing it for the last few months - here&#8217;s my story. I run Chitika Premium ad units on some parts of my blogs - particularly at [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Learn From My Mistake - Don&#8217;t Leave Money on the Table!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/15/why-companies-shouldnt-block-social-media-in-the-workplace/" target="_blank">Why Companies Shouldn’t Block Social Media in the Workplace</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 11:41 am</span></strong><br />Last week DigitalMediaWire published an article stating that the majority of U.S. companies ban social media sites at work. The stats break down thusly:</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/ns-B_h9FLHk/" target="_blank">Usefulness - Principles of Successful Blogging #3</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 6:02 am</span></strong><br />Today we continue my series in principles of successful blogging by looking at something that is at the heart of my own philosophy of blogging (and business) - usefulness. I&#8217;ve said it many times on ProBlogger but if your blog is not solving a problem or fulfilling a need or desire among your readers then you&#8217;re [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Usefulness - Principles of Successful Blogging #3</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/14/interview-with-chris-goward-from-widerfunnel/" target="_blank">Interview with Chris Goward from WiderFunnel</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 11:10 am</span></strong><br />Recently I interviewed Chris Goward, a conversion rate expert who has a company called WiderFunnel. I first met Chris at IMC Stockholm and saw him run a fantastic workshop about conversion and landing page testing. When I was up in Canada a couple weeks ago to speak at IMC Vancouver, we met and he agreed to do an interview for the 10e20 blog. I hope you enjoy getting to know Chris a bit and learning the ins and outs of conversion optimization!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/0hH3pJNg4As/" target="_blank">The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 6:02 am</span></strong><br />Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed? You might not have known it at the time - but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down. I had one of those course changing moments early in my blogging. [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/eQaecPEMZF0/" target="_blank">How 12 Experts Make Money Through Their Blogs (And How You Can Learn Their Secrets)</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 6:22 am</span></strong><br />A guest post by Jade Craven Update - The offer in this post has been extended to Monday due to some server issues that Dave had. I review a lot of information products. Rarely, does one impress me as much as More Buyers Mastermind. Rather than provide a pitch, I thought I&#8217;d explain why I believe so [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How 12 Experts Make Money Through Their Blogs (And How You Can Learn Their Secrets)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/oTluun6-RF4/" target="_blank">Win Dinner with ProBlogger and Special Guests at Blog World Expo 2009</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 7:03 am</span></strong><br />OK - this is a competition that is only for those attending Blog World Expo (please don&#8217;t comment below if you&#8217;re not attending). I know that excludes most readers but I hope we can include everyone a little by posting some pictures of the event. The prize is a free dinner with me and some of [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Win Dinner with ProBlogger and Special Guests at Blog World Expo 2009</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/TUb-jrrZ0-A/" target="_blank">Win a Weekend Pass to Blog World Expo Worth $495</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 4:09 am</span></strong><br />Today I&#8217;m running two competitions here on ProBlogger - both centre around the Blog World and New Media Expo happening in Las Vegas next week. The first (in this post) gives one lucky blogger an opportunity to get a last minute pass to attend - the other (which I&#8217;ll post about in a few hours) [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Win a Weekend Pass to Blog World Expo Worth $495</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/8NHnSXv45Qg/" target="_blank">How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)</a> <span class="date">11 Oct 2009, 7:40 am</span></strong><br />The gang over at Carsonified has released the following video this week by Kevin Rose talking about taking a web app from 1 to 1 million users. While the video talks more about web applications and not specifically about blogging - some of the principles that Kevin talks about I think are applicable to blogging. Taking your [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/GgBgRdmuXHA/" target="_blank">What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools?</a> <span class="date">10 Oct 2009, 8:10 am</span></strong><br />It&#8217;s time for a little discussion - lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there&#8217;s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I&#8217;m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it&#8217;d be a good question to open up to the wider community - [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools?</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/09/good-content-and-great-networking-at-elite-retreat-and-smx-east/" target="_blank">Good Content and Great Networking at Elite Retreat and SMX East</a> <span class="date">9 Oct 2009, 12:44 pm</span></strong><br />The last couple weeks have been pretty busy in 10e20 Land, as we&#8217;ve been hopping from conference to conference (and Chris still has another one lined up for next week &#8212; WebCAM in Bend, Oregon). Now that there&#8217;s a bit of a lull for most of us, I wanted to wrap up some final thoughts about the Elite Retreat and SMX East and give proper kudos to the folks involved with both events.</li>
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Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4 21 Oct 2009, 8:06 amToday&#8217;s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story: I discovered the power of online community on the very first [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/DSeofdeME_0/" target="_blank">Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 8:06 am</span></strong><br />Today&#8217;s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story: I discovered the power of online community on the very first day that I went online (I think it was in 1996). Up until [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Community - Principles of Successful Blogging #4</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/kanye-west-latest-hoax-topic-online-as-amber-rose-tries-to-trend-longliveyeezy/" target="_blank">Kanye West latest hoax topic online as Amber Rose tries to trend #LongLiveYeezy</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 7:32 am</span></strong><br />I am sure by now most of you will have noticed that Kanye West is making the headlines again, and it&#8217;s not even of his own doing. Earlier today, &#8220;RIP Kanye West&#8221; became the top trending topic on Twitter and the most searched for item on Google in the US, after a hoax tweet suggested that [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/21/the-art-of-the-social-landing-page/" target="_blank">The Art of the Social Landing Page</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 6:52 am</span></strong><br />Instead of simply sending a visitor to the homepage of their site from a social site, a great idea is to tailor a landing page that speaks directly to the user of that social site. This is a great way to reinforce the relationship and further promote the brand and the various ways to continue to follow them. Let&#8217;s check out some great examples of landing pages that companies are creating to receive some of their social media site traffic.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/wordpress-com-goes-mobile/" target="_blank">WordPress.com Goes Mobile</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 3:09 am</span></strong><br />Blog host WordPress.com have added mobile themes to their list of features. The excellent WPtouch is used for iPhone and iPod touch visitors on your blog, whereas WordPress Mobile Edition will be used for other mobile devices. More in the announcement post. Possibly Related PostsWordPress.com Partners with PicAppNokia gets excited about lifecasting with Ovi and FacebookWordPress [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/wordpress-2-8-5-a-hardening-release/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.8.5: A Hardening Release</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 3:05 am</span></strong><br />Hardening release? Really? Anyway, version 2.8.5 of popular blogging platform WordPress is available and it features code cleanup and addresses some potential issues. You should upgrade as always, either from within your WordPress install, or by downloading from wordpress.org. In other WordPress news, the team is pimping the exploit scanner plugin which sounds like a good idea [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/pingdom-adds-twitter-support-web-hosts-beware/" target="_blank">Pingdom Adds Twitter Support, Web Hosts Beware</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 2:34 am</span></strong><br />Uptime monitoring service Pingdom now supports alerts via Twitter, which means that you could get tweets when your site goes down. This is great since it offers realtime public information about downtime, and puts more pressure on the web hosts. After all, if you&#8217;re an open customer of Host X, then tweets about your site [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/21/around-the-world-in-365-days-with-coke-and-3-lucky-bloggers/" target="_blank">Around the World in 365 Days with Coke and 3 Lucky “Bloggers”</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 12:15 am</span></strong><br />Coca-Cola is engaging into a huge marketing campaign for its &#8220;Open Happiness&#8221; product branding. Dubbed Expedition 206, this campaign will send 3 bloggers on a trip around the world in 365 days for free. In exchange, these lucky 3 bloggers will use various social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, and YouTube videos to share [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/move-over-google-analytics-the-wordpress-iphone-stats-app-has-arrived/" target="_blank">Move Over Google Analytics, The WordPress iPhone Stats App Has Arrived!</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 4:20 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to keeping up with the latest traffic stats for your WordPress blog, iPhone lovers had very few options outside of a host of Google Analytics—until now. Menial (who is located in the UK) has developed an iPhone app called “Statistics For WordPress” that lets users of both flavors (self hosted and WP.com fans) [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/20/blogging-or-social-networking-which-is-better/" target="_blank">Blogging or Social Networking: Which is Better?</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 10:20 am</span></strong><br />When I spoke about Facebook marketing strategies at SMX East, someone asked the panel of speakers this question: &#8220;If you had to do only one to help your business, would you start a blog or focus on social networking?&#8221; The answer, I feel, is not necessarily a black or white issue. Obviously, if you can handle running a blog and social networking, the easy answer is &#8220;both,&#8221; but there are situations where one is more suitable than the other.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/EURtnSeggdY/" target="_blank">5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />In this post David Wright and Sean Platt from direct response copywriters share some suggestions on indicators of when your blog might be on the road to success. Starting a blog was one of the most exciting things we have ever done. Building a loyal audience, gathering intelligent subscribers with insightful comments, and making plans for [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. 5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/thoora-launches-real-time-news-discovery-service/" target="_blank">Thoora launches real-time news discovery service</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:56 am</span></strong><br />There are plenty of news discovery services online, but over the weekend Thoora announced the public launch of its own service which is supposed to &#8220;tear down silos between social and traditional media&#8221;. The free service, which has been in private beta for about a month, delivers its perspective on breaking news based on Twitter, over [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/flogs-com-releases-iphone-and-facebook-digital-calendar-apps/" target="_blank">Flogs.com releases iPhone and Facebook digital calendar apps</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:23 am</span></strong><br />The online calendar service Flogs.com has announced the launch of its free iPhone and Facebook applications which make it easier to sync calendars on these platforms. Although you could already sync an iCal calendar on your iPhone, the app adds a range of functionality including the ability to search for local events based on GPS location [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/blogging-bytes-october-20-2009/" target="_blank">Blogging Bytes: October 20, 2009</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 7:18 am</span></strong><br />Save the Turtles &#8211; A 24-hour blogathon is scheduled for Sunday to help raise funds for the newly-established Turtle Conservation Centre in Setiu, Malaysia. A new blog post about freshwater and marine turtles will be written every hour. If you have a question on the matter, here&#8217;s your chance to get answers from [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/2009/10/20/cia-invests-in-in-q-tel-to-monitor-blog-posts/" target="_blank">CIA Invests in In-Q-Tel to Monitor Blog Posts</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 4:34 am</span></strong><br />I&#8217;m a bit hesitant to cover this news  item because of its sensitivity. But then I realized I&#8217;m not from the U.S. so I guess the CIA won&#8217;t be running after me in case I miss out some minor points of the news. Still, I&#8217;d be cautious and just mention the facts. What am I talking [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/19/how-to-get-your-fan-page-found-in-facebook-search/" target="_blank">How to Get Your Fan Page Found in Facebook Search</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 3:01 pm</span></strong><br />Last week I wrote an article over at Search Engine Land that addressed a number of concerns that I have heard from users who have Pages that are not showing up in Facebook Search. The article breaks down how exactly you can get your page to show up in the search with 8 different tips and tricks. Here is a highlevel overview of them</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/Ih1IFUOW5eE/" target="_blank">Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 8:35 am</span></strong><br />One of the challenges that bloggers face is what to do when others want to use your blog for their own gain by either taking your content or spamming your comments section. The more I talk to bloggers about how they deal with these issues the more I realize how many different approaches there are [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/EHGe6AD8Om0/" target="_blank">How to Use Apture</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 8:17 am</span></strong><br />By Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen. Do you want to create posts that sparkle, dance, enthral, touch the heart, and inform? Do you want your blog to stand out, and subscribers to scramble in at the door? Then I suggest you check out what the New York Times, Reuters, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How to Use Apture</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/tzGxYVcjntM/" target="_blank">The Holy Grail to Writing Great Content - Rhetoric</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 8:24 am</span></strong><br />A Guest Post by Patrick Riddel from Must Know Investing. Darren has debunked the myth that great content markets itself. There are countless blogs that produce quality content that don&#8217;t get read. Why is that? Because no one knows about them. He followed up with a post on 9 things you can do so that your next [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. The Holy Grail to Writing Great Content - Rhetoric</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/16/how-to-get-your-thumbnails-to-show-on-social-sites/" target="_blank">How to Get Your Thumbnails to Show on Social Sites</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 11:58 am</span></strong><br />Here is the scenario: You create some great content. The content gets submitted by someone other than yourself to one of the many social sites. The thumbnail that is picked to correspond with the piece is totally irrelevant to the content and is damaging the content&#8217;s momentum to move forward. How do you fix this?</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/_c5LXbjRYqY/" target="_blank">Learn From My Mistake - Don’t Leave Money on the Table!</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />Have you ever found that you&#8217;ve been leaving money on the table? It&#8217;s a frustrating feeling and one that many of us can relate to. I discovered that I&#8217;ve been doing it for the last few months - here&#8217;s my story. I run Chitika Premium ad units on some parts of my blogs - particularly at [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Learn From My Mistake - Don&#8217;t Leave Money on the Table!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/15/why-companies-shouldnt-block-social-media-in-the-workplace/" target="_blank">Why Companies Shouldn’t Block Social Media in the Workplace</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 11:41 am</span></strong><br />Last week DigitalMediaWire published an article stating that the majority of U.S. companies ban social media sites at work. The stats break down thusly:</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/ns-B_h9FLHk/" target="_blank">Usefulness - Principles of Successful Blogging #3</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 6:02 am</span></strong><br />Today we continue my series in principles of successful blogging by looking at something that is at the heart of my own philosophy of blogging (and business) - usefulness. I&#8217;ve said it many times on ProBlogger but if your blog is not solving a problem or fulfilling a need or desire among your readers then you&#8217;re [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Usefulness - Principles of Successful Blogging #3</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/14/interview-with-chris-goward-from-widerfunnel/" target="_blank">Interview with Chris Goward from WiderFunnel</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 11:10 am</span></strong><br />Recently I interviewed Chris Goward, a conversion rate expert who has a company called WiderFunnel. I first met Chris at IMC Stockholm and saw him run a fantastic workshop about conversion and landing page testing. When I was up in Canada a couple weeks ago to speak at IMC Vancouver, we met and he agreed to do an interview for the 10e20 blog. I hope you enjoy getting to know Chris a bit and learning the ins and outs of conversion optimization!</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/0hH3pJNg4As/" target="_blank">The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 6:02 am</span></strong><br />Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed? You might not have known it at the time - but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down. I had one of those course changing moments early in my blogging. [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/eQaecPEMZF0/" target="_blank">How 12 Experts Make Money Through Their Blogs (And How You Can Learn Their Secrets)</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 6:22 am</span></strong><br />A guest post by Jade Craven Update - The offer in this post has been extended to Monday due to some server issues that Dave had. I review a lot of information products. Rarely, does one impress me as much as More Buyers Mastermind. Rather than provide a pitch, I thought I&#8217;d explain why I believe so [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How 12 Experts Make Money Through Their Blogs (And How You Can Learn Their Secrets)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/oTluun6-RF4/" target="_blank">Win Dinner with ProBlogger and Special Guests at Blog World Expo 2009</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 7:03 am</span></strong><br />OK - this is a competition that is only for those attending Blog World Expo (please don&#8217;t comment below if you&#8217;re not attending). I know that excludes most readers but I hope we can include everyone a little by posting some pictures of the event. The prize is a free dinner with me and some of [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Win Dinner with ProBlogger and Special Guests at Blog World Expo 2009</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/TUb-jrrZ0-A/" target="_blank">Win a Weekend Pass to Blog World Expo Worth $495</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 4:09 am</span></strong><br />Today I&#8217;m running two competitions here on ProBlogger - both centre around the Blog World and New Media Expo happening in Las Vegas next week. The first (in this post) gives one lucky blogger an opportunity to get a last minute pass to attend - the other (which I&#8217;ll post about in a few hours) [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Win a Weekend Pass to Blog World Expo Worth $495</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/8NHnSXv45Qg/" target="_blank">How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)</a> <span class="date">11 Oct 2009, 7:40 am</span></strong><br />The gang over at Carsonified has released the following video this week by Kevin Rose talking about taking a web app from 1 to 1 million users. While the video talks more about web applications and not specifically about blogging - some of the principles that Kevin talks about I think are applicable to blogging. Taking your [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProbloggerHelpingBloggersEarnMoney/~3/GgBgRdmuXHA/" target="_blank">What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools?</a> <span class="date">10 Oct 2009, 8:10 am</span></strong><br />It&#8217;s time for a little discussion - lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there&#8217;s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I&#8217;m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it&#8217;d be a good question to open up to the wider community - [&#8230;]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. What are Your Favorite 10 Blogging Tools?</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/10/09/good-content-and-great-networking-at-elite-retreat-and-smx-east/" target="_blank">Good Content and Great Networking at Elite Retreat and SMX East</a> <span class="date">9 Oct 2009, 12:44 pm</span></strong><br />The last couple weeks have been pretty busy in 10e20 Land, as we&#8217;ve been hopping from conference to conference (and Chris still has another one lined up for next week &#8212; WebCAM in Bend, Oregon). Now that there&#8217;s a bit of a lull for most of us, I wanted to wrap up some final thoughts about the Elite Retreat and SMX East and give proper kudos to the folks involved with both events.</li>
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How Bing Is Revolutionizing Search With Twitter 22 Oct 2009, 1:53 amWe&#8217;ve discussed before the importance of Twitter for search. Bing is ranking tweets and is in discussions with Facebook to incorporate its social media content in search results. No doubt that Google will follow this act. But the interesting thing about how Bing is [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/22/how-bing-is-revolutionizing-search-with-twitter/" target="_blank">How Bing Is Revolutionizing Search With Twitter</a> <span class="date">22 Oct 2009, 1:53 am</span></strong><br />We&#8217;ve discussed before the importance of Twitter for search. Bing is ranking tweets and is in discussions with Facebook to incorporate its social media content in search results. No doubt that Google will follow this act. But the interesting thing about how Bing is ranking tweets is that your Twitter followers can be a ranking [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/21/google-analytics-features/" target="_blank">Google Analytics Adds New Features</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 5:37 am</span></strong><br />If you use Google Analytics, which is perhaps the best free analytics tool online, then you should know that the Google team behind it has added new features. These features are designed to help power users make the most of the analytics tool and to make the tool more flexible. I think Google succeeds on [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/21/yahoo-online-life/" target="_blank">Is Yahoo! The Center Of Your Online Life?</a> <span class="date">21 Oct 2009, 1:46 am</span></strong><br />When Yahoo! brokered a deal with Microsoft to let the corporate monolith handle the former&#8217;s search functions, both companies were criticized all over the Web. Of course, there were the kudos as well. Some people thought the deal didn&#8217;t go far enough while others thought it went too far. But the bottom line, for Yahoo! [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/20/keyword-research-ongoing/" target="_blank">Is Keyword Research An Ongoing Activity?</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 10:52 am</span></strong><br />Is keyword research a one-time event or an ongoing concern? You might think it&#8217;s something you do today and forget about once your site is built, but it&#8217;s not. I&#8217;ll tell you why. What&#8217;s popular today may not be popular next year. Searchers could be hot on to a particular search phrase one day and move [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/20/plan-viral-marketing/" target="_blank">Plan Your Viral Marketing Campaign Carefully</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 2:15 am</span></strong><br />You&#8217;ve likely heard about viral marketing. That&#8217;s where you tell a couple of people about something and they tell a couple of friends who also tell a couple of friends and the message is carried on ad infinitum with each level of messaging spread further and wider than before. It&#8217;s about like network marketing with [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/19/base64-code/" target="_blank">Is Base64 Code Bad For You?</a> <span class="date">19 Oct 2009, 9:05 am</span></strong><br />Base64 code derives its name from the fact that it uses only 64 characters. MIME-based (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), Base64 uses only A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and the &#8220;+&#8221; and &#8220;/&#8221; symbols. That&#8217;s 64 characters, hence the name. In and of itself, Base64 is not bad. It has its practical uses. One of its widest applications is [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/19/online-reputation-management/" target="_blank">What Is Online Reputation Management?</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 10:07 pm</span></strong><br />Online reputation is more than monitoring to see who mentions your name. It&#8217;s really a combination of three things: Traditional marketing Public relations Search engine optimization Where these three online disciplines intersect has come to be called reputation management. Let&#8217;s dissect what that means. Here is a very helpful video that I found about online reputation management: In a traditional marketing [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/18/link-buying-important/" target="_blank">Link Buying – An Important Thing To Know</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 5:16 am</span></strong><br />Gab Goldenberg has an interesting post on 101 ways to buy text links. Understand that I don&#8217;t endorse any of these methods. It is your decision as to whether or not to purchase text links. You know how Google treats those links. Of course, what Google doesn&#8217;t know wont hurt you. But will you take a [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/18/hackers-people/" target="_blank">Are Hackers Friendly People?</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 10:46 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to getting hacked, you might think that the guys who did that to you are real bad people. Not necessarily. It could be your pharmacist or the good looking guy next door. You know, the one who took you to dinner last weekend at the five star restaurant? You didn&#8217;t know he [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/17/duplicate-content-deal/" target="_blank">Why Is Duplicate Content No Big Deal?</a> <span class="date">17 Oct 2009, 5:23 am</span></strong><br />Duplicate content &#8220;issues&#8221; still get a lot of airplay, except they aren&#8217;t really issues. For one thing, you can have two pages on your website with exactly the same content and your site won&#8217;t be penalized. That&#8217;s a common misconception. (unless of course your content is a standard reseller or partner content, ecommerce websites [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/17/drop-in-serps/" target="_blank">Drop In SERPs – What Should You Do?</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 11:41 pm</span></strong><br />If you&#8217;ve noticed a recent drop in your search engine rankings you may or may not have a cause for alarm. It&#8217;s important to understand that frequent fluctuations in the search engine results occurs. You&#8217;ll rise and fall like the tide. However, large drops that are sudden could be caused by a number of things [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/16/ways-build-links/" target="_blank">Different Ways You Can Build Links</a> <span class="date">16 Oct 2009, 6:31 am</span></strong><br />New webmasters get caught up sometimes in the different methods of link building and lose site of the big picture. Perhaps the most common form of link building is directory submissions. Talk to anyone who has done a fair amount of link building and they will almost always recommend link building through directory submissions (really [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/16/links-quality-quantity/" target="_blank">Your Links – High Quality Vs. High Quantity</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 11:15 pm</span></strong><br />It seems the big push among search engine optimziation folks right now is to sell you on the idea that high quality links are better than high quantity. It depends. What&#8217;s really important is the aggregate portfolio you build. That is, the highest quantity of high quality links that you can find. Let me try to [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/15/seo-exist/" target="_blank">Will SEO As We Know It Exist In 2035?</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 6:00 am</span></strong><br />Search engine optimization has been pretty steady for the past 10 years. But that&#8217;s no guarantee that things will remain the same. And the way that things change online, you could see major developments appear almost overnight that usher in sweeping changes in the way that webmasters approach SEO for their websites. Or, things just [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/15/technorati-facelift/" target="_blank">Technorati Gets A Facelift</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 1:21 am</span></strong><br />OK, this one was prophesied some months ago. I forget the prophets name. And, no, it wasn&#8217;t Nostradamus. But it was foretold that Technorati would get a facelift. Actually, I think it was reported that plans were underway. And now the day has arrived. I think this is good news, actually. It&#8217;s good for a number of [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/14/video-usage/" target="_blank">Online Video Usage Up By 25%</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 7:09 am</span></strong><br />Nielsen reports that online video viewing is up by 25% per viewer. That&#8217;s great. This is a great opportunity for search engine marketers. You don&#8217;t even have to be a traditional Internet marketer to see this opportunity. But if you do see it and you plan to do any video marketing in the near future, you [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/14/increase-twitter-spam/" target="_blank">Will We See An Increase In Twitter Spam Reports?</a> <span class="date">14 Oct 2009, 1:52 am</span></strong><br />WebProNews paints a rosy picture of a new spam reporting tool on Twitter. I&#8217;m not so optimistic, however. Previously, all you had to do to report spam was to follow the @spam account and send a message to them about a particular Twitter profile to notify them of spam. A small discomfort, but it seemed to [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/13/backlinks-on-page/" target="_blank">Backlinks Or On-Page SEO – Which Team Wins?</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 9:05 am</span></strong><br />If you read many SEO blogs, you&#8217;ll inevitably hear someone say that the most important aspect of a search engine optimization campaign is building backlinks. If that is true then why are people still chanting, &#8220;Content is king.&#8221; Can both be true? It doesn&#8217;t seem possible, does it? If content is king then that implies that [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/13/email-marketing/" target="_blank">Email Marketing Can Help Your SEO Efforts</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 1:59 am</span></strong><br />Is there a way for email marketing to boost your SEO? Actually, there is. First, if you publish a periodic email newsletter, and you should, and distribute it by e-mail then publish the archives of your newsletter on your website then any links you have in that newsletter pointing back to other pages on your site [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/10/12/seo-industry-growing/" target="_blank">Why The SEO Industry Is Growing</a> <span class="date">12 Oct 2009, 6:57 am</span></strong><br />Every day there seems to be a greater number of people competing for search engine optimization business. The question that begs to be asked is, Why? Why are there so many people trying to break into the SEO business? It is likely they&#8217;ve heard that it&#8217;s a lucrative field. But there are plenty of other lucrative [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2009/03/seo-copy-writing-for-online-success.html" target="_blank">SEO Copy Writing for Online Success</a> <span class="date">20 Mar 2009, 4:15 am</span></strong><br />Find SEO Copy Writing on our new home&#8230;. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-write-landing-page-that-converts.html" target="_blank">How to Write a Landing Page that Converts</a> <span class="date">8 Jul 2008, 8:08 am</span></strong><br />We have moved&#8230;. Find this SEO post here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/03/form-spamming-for-seo-clients-what-way.html" target="_blank">Spamming for SEO Clients - What a Way to Make a Living</a> <span class="date">18 Mar 2008, 6:27 pm</span></strong><br />OK, so if you have a web site you are most likely party to scumbags that will call you, email you, and yes&#8230; even spam your blogs and forms with their promises of top ranking and top marketing skills. So I am generally pretty crabby about the spamming part, but when a company spams a one of my customers with NO company url, company name, and a GMail address I get pretty torqued up.This customer, is actually my best friend, and she is not so Internet savvy&#8230; So her email spills in to my box with the zillion others, so that I can call her with anything important. Like I said, she is my best fr. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/03/top-5-ways-to-screw-up-online-store.html" target="_blank">Top 5 Ways to Screw Up an Online Store</a> <span class="date">9 Mar 2008, 11:20 am</span></strong><br />Find this great post and more at our new home&#8230;.. SEOCOG.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/02/january-2008-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">January 2008 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">26 Feb 2008, 9:06 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings January 2008 search engine market US share data report is out and we have the data and historical analysis ready for you. Buckle up!In January there are some interesting results for the search game in the US. You might even be a bit surprised, or relieved even. We track these results here at the Cog SEO Blog every month and provide a historical bit of data along with the raw statistics to help you better understand the search market here in the US. You can find past US Search Market Share results in the left menu for review.Might as well start at the top.. Google continu. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/01/december-2007-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">December 2007 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">29 Jan 2008, 1:50 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings December 2007 search market share data report has been released, and you are going to be a bit surprised at the results. We post this search market data every month, and have been doing so since April 2007. This data can have some very interesting trends and twists. If you would like to view the past results we have posted, just use the &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221; link in the left menu for all of the reports.Most people will be interested to know that Google lost some ground. I guess I am a bit surprised as well. After coming on strong in November with a 2.2% growth over Oct. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-me-value-of-authority-site.html" target="_blank">Google me the Value of an Authority Site</a> <span class="date">11 Jan 2008, 5:29 am</span></strong><br />Find Google me the Value of an Authority Site at our new home. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/november-2007-top-10-us-market-share.html" target="_blank">November 2007 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines</a> <span class="date">28 Dec 2007, 4:13 am</span></strong><br />The Nielsen Netratings November 2007 search market share data report was released yesterday. We post this search market data every month, and have been doing so since April 2007. This can be very valuable data for your SEO campaign strategy. If you would like to view the past results we have blogged, just use the &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221; link in the left menu.Chart legend: An estimated 4.3 billion search queries were conducted using Google Search in the US, representing 57.7 percent of all search queries conducted in November 2007. Click to enlarge data image.Google is still coming on strong wi. [&hellip;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-me-supplemental-index.html" target="_blank">Google Me the Supplemental Index?</a> <span class="date">20 Dec 2007, 5:07 am</span></strong><br />Find this post &#8212; Google Me the Supplemental Index? &#8212; at our new home! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://seocog.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-10-us-search-providers-october-2007.html" target="_blank">Top 10 US Search Providers - October 2007</a> <span class="date">4 Dec 2007, 7:53 pm</span></strong><br />It&#8217;s that time again&#8230;. Nielsen Netratings has released the top 10 US search providers for October, 2007. We have been posting these market data releases since the April, 2007 report. In the left hand menu you can click &#8220;US Search Market Data&#8221;, and view all of our past market share posts.There are some interesting developments in October&#8217;s market share report. Honestly speaking, I lost a bet as well! Another SEO and I disagreed about Yahoo Search and it&#8217;s ability to reclaim it&#8217;s once strong brand loyalty. So, what about Yahoo? I suspected that they would begin to initialize the road to regain. [&hellip;]</li>
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<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/the-only-good-lead-is-your-own-lead/" target="_blank">The only good lead is your own lead</a> <span class="date">20 Oct 2009, 1:01 pm</span></strong><br />I often hear the question, &#8220;Should I pay for leads for my business?&#8221; Let me ask you this. Have you ever handed over your best email address to someone and said, &#8220;Here you go. Please sell this to a marketer or ten. I love to get email from people that I don&#8217;t know who are trying [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/growing-your-affiliate-marketing-business/" target="_blank">Growing Your Affiliate Marketing Business</a> <span class="date">18 Oct 2009, 1:44 am</span></strong><br />Affiliate marketing is a very popular business on the internet that involves a partnership between a merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate advertises or promotes the merchant&#8217;s products and services until a customer makes a purchase. Affiliates usually work on sales commission. Affiliate marketing has also been recognized as the best way for merchants [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/using-plr-for-traffic/" target="_blank">Using PLR for traffic</a> <span class="date">15 Oct 2009, 9:50 pm</span></strong><br />PLR stands for &#8220;Private Label Rights.&#8221; Private label rights products are products that you can claim as your own. For example, PLR articles are articles written by someone who is willing to give up the right to claim authorship. It&#8217;s like getting your own ghostwritten articles. You slap your own name on those babies and [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/keyword-research-a-brief-introduction/" target="_blank">Keyword Research: A Brief Introduction</a> <span class="date">13 Oct 2009, 9:44 pm</span></strong><br />On the internet, keywords are terms or words that relate to particular topics. Keyword research will involve various aspects, such as finding sales oriented keywords or driving maximum qualified users to increase their online sales. Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign. You have to be very careful when selecting [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/how-to-spot-work-at-home-scams/" target="_blank">How to Spot Work-at-Home Scams</a> <span class="date">10 Oct 2009, 6:43 pm</span></strong><br />Work-at-home opportunities abound, unfortunately many of them are scams and traps to take money and time from honest people. There are legitimate work-at-home opportunities out there for you to find. You just need a little common sense and some due diligence research. Keep in mind that there are no real ways to get rich quick. Never [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/3-ways-to-track-the-response-to-your-internet-advertising/" target="_blank">3 Ways to Track the Response to Your Internet Advertising</a> <span class="date">8 Oct 2009, 5:05 pm</span></strong><br />Each time you make a change in your marketing strategy, you need to evaluate the results of the change to determine whether or not it generated a greater profit for you. Tracking your results is important because it helps you determine what is working and what is not working. Evaluating the response of your Internet marketing [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/appeal-to-your-target-audience-when-marketing-online/" target="_blank">Appeal To Your Target Audience When Marketing Online</a> <span class="date">6 Oct 2009, 5:28 pm</span></strong><br />The Internet reaches a worldwide audience and is available 24 hours a day. For this reason, potential customers are turning to the Internet for a variety of reasons including researching products and services and making purchases. As more and more consumers turn to the Internet, it is important for businesses to establish an online presence. [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/3-ways-to-research-internet-marketing-techniques/" target="_blank">3 ways to research internet marketing techniques</a> <span class="date">3 Oct 2009, 7:05 pm</span></strong><br />Even if you didn&#8217;t like school, you can easily figure out how to do internet marketing. You don&#8217;t have to go back to the classroom. You can learn all about internet marketing on your own terms. This article will review 3 simple ways to learn more about internet marketing. Online research Rev up the old computer, jump [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/small-business-blog-marketing-the-what-and-how/" target="_blank">Small Business Blog Marketing: The What and How</a> <span class="date">30 Sep 2009, 6:19 pm</span></strong><br />People buy from people they know, or at least from people that they think that they know. The internet provides you access to the entire world if you know how to get their attention. One easy way to attract attention on the internet is with a blog. Blogs are like online journals. You write periodic [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.soaring4traffic.com/blog/6-ways-to-keep-visitors-coming-back-to-your-website/" target="_blank">6 Ways to Keep Visitors Coming Back to Your Website</a> <span class="date">28 Sep 2009, 5:29 pm</span></strong><br />You want to drive traffic to your web site, but you want visitors to come back, too. How do you keep your traffic coming back for more? Let me suggest a few ways that you can use to encourage return visits. Post information-rich articles on your site People search the internet for information. Your prospective clients want [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/09/25/professional-link-building-tools/" target="_blank">Professional Link Building Tools</a> <span class="date">25 Sep 2009, 10:58 am</span></strong><br />Professional Link Building Tools This question comes up quite a bit. People want to know what I personally use to build links. And the answer is complex. I use a lot of tools, methods, and resources to do it… There’s no one tool I use that can do everything I need done [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/03/30/how-to-increase-search-engine-traffic/" target="_blank">How To Increase Search Engine Traffic</a> <span class="date">30 Mar 2009, 10:22 am</span></strong><br />Let’s face it. Search engine traffic is valuable. If it wasn’t, Google wouldn’t be making billions of dollars and Microsoft wouldn’t be spending a fortune on building a quality search engine. It’s high quality targeted traffic that converts into buyers. However, getting your share of search engine traffic isn’t always the easiest [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2009/03/30/why-you-don%E2%80%99t-need-submit-to-search-engine-programs-or-services/" target="_blank">Why You Don’t Need Submit to Search Engine Programs or Services</a> <span class="date">30 Mar 2009, 9:39 am</span></strong><br />A quick search of the results in Google will show more than 8 pages of companies advertising their services or programs to submit your website to the search engines. The prices varied wildly, but the fact of the matter is that any site submitter or company offering search engine submissions is just taking your [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/08/09/linkvana-case-study-my-results-over-6-months/" target="_blank">Linkvana Case Study - My Results Over 6 Months</a> <span class="date">9 Aug 2008, 10:15 am</span></strong><br />Okay, so nobody ever said I was good about putting up blog posts on a regular basis, but this is ridiculous. I haven&#8217;t posted anything here since February. Sorry &#8217;bout that. Anyway, I&#8217;ve had a few people email me and how Linksvana is working for me? I have a solid six months [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/10/how-to-easily-get-free-traffic-to-your-website/" target="_blank">How To Easily Get Free Traffic To Your Website</a> <span class="date">10 Feb 2008, 4:01 pm</span></strong><br />I see posts in forums just about everyday from somebody new wondering how they can get free traffic to their website or how they can get high search engine rankings. They want to know all the magical little “secrets” to getting tons of traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. I [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/04/linkvana-review/" target="_blank">Linkvana Review – An honest review of the Linkvana one way link system</a> <span class="date">4 Feb 2008, 12:52 pm</span></strong><br />If you’re wondering if the Linkvana one way link building system is a worthwhile investment, then this review if for you. When it comes to link building systems, I’ll be honest, there’s a lot of junk out there. And when it comes to link building a lot of people take the attitude [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/02/01/white-hat-search-engine-optimization-just-makes-sense/" target="_blank">White Hat Search Engine Optimization Just Makes Sense</a> <span class="date">1 Feb 2008, 3:48 pm</span></strong><br />In an online world where everyone is trying to make money quickly and where everyone wants everything right now without having to work for it, it’s easy to see the appeal of blackhat search engine optimization. With the relative ease of use (if you have the right tools and knowledge), and the speed at [&#8230;]</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://ultimatetrafficblueprint.com/blog/2008/01/30/what-language-do-your-content-writers-speak/" target="_blank">What Language Do Your Content Writers Speak?</a> <span class="date">30 Jan 2008, 2:36 pm</span></strong><br />When it comes to hiring someone to create content for your website, it’s important to know what language your writers speak. First, you’ll want to consider what language is their FIRST language. If it’s not English, and they haven’t spent the last 10 years living in an English speaking country, then they probably [&#8230;]</li>
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		<title>A Great Way To Make Money With eBay</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you hear"eBay" and "money" in the same sentence you probably think of becoming an eBay seller.

You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin.

There is, however, another way to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace.]]></description>
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<p>This &#8220;other way&#8221; opportunity is based on the eBay affiliate program<br />
    and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only<br />
    possible but also super easy. This tool is called &#8220;<a href="http://rjohnsen.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Build<br />
    A Niche Store</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>Now if you don’t know – an affiliate program enables you as an<br />
    individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange<br />
    for a commission on all sales that you refer.</p>
<p>You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet<br />
    browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites<br />
    and marketing methods.</p>
<p>If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to<br />
    promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange<br />
    for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each<br />
    sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.</p>
<p><a href="http://affiliates.ebay.com" target="_blank">You can have a read about the eBay.com<br />
    affiliate program here</a></p>
<p>What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s<br />
    revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.</p>
<p>Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world,<br />
    you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this<br />
    marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and<br />
    yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping<br />
    or process refunds.</p>
<p>You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy<br />
    and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote<br />
    those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace,<br />
    funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.</p>
<p>Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real<br />
    estate…</p>
<p>If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.</p>
<p>At this point you might be thinking - well this sounds interesting but in<br />
    reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay&#8217;s<br />
    top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right –<br />
    8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!</p>
<p>Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay<br />
    affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development<br />
    of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business<br />
    opportunity.</p>
<p>The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called &#8220;<a href="http://rjohnsen.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Build<br />
    A Niche Store</a>&#8221; and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate<br />
    websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through<br />
    which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay. </p>
<p>Here are a couple of examples, one targeting Race Cars and the other Golf<br />
    Equipment:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.getaracecar.com" target="_blank">Race Car eBay Affiliate Website</a><br />
    <a href="http://www.thebiggolfstore.com" target="_blank">Golf eBay Affiliate Website</a></p>
<p>As you can see, these are professional looking websites that contain all<br />
    of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store<br />
    format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.</p>
<p>These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale<br />
    and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built<br />
    in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content<br />
    to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.</p>
<p>Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how<br />
    the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website<br />
    targeted to the niche market of your choice.</p>
<p>Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation<br />
    for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use<br />
    the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn<br />
    mean more eBay affiliate commissions.</p>
<p>It really is a brilliant concept and I’ve been hearing great things<br />
    about the guys behind the project and the member forum which you get lifetime<br />
    access to when you purchase the product.</p>
<p>Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk<br />
    even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate<br />
    website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside<br />
    your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access,<br />
    comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED<br />
    domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as<br />
    you want for the small one time fee.</p>
<p>Think about how many niches eBay caters to!</p>
<p>How big could your eBay affiliate business be?!</p>
<p>This product gets my full recommendation – check it out today…</p>
<p><a href="http://rjohnsen.nichestore.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">Click<br />
    Here To Read More About Build A Niche Store</a></p>
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		<title>Anchor Text - Backlinks And The Magic Potion</title>
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<p>What is an anchor text? An anchor text is a word or phrase that acts as a link. You know, the blue highlighted words that you can click on. Usually an anchor text provides a link to useful information related to the content of the article. However, if you understand how search engines view an anchor text you can use them to your advantage.</p>
<p>An anchor text tells a search engine what a page is about. When a search engine sees an anchor text it assumes that the text is related to the page content. For example: if you write an article about growing tomatoes but you have &#8220;cow manure&#8221; as an anchor text, the search engines will think that your article is about cow manure. But if you have the words &#8220;growing tomatoes&#8221; as an anchor text then the search engines will assume your article is about growing tomatoes.</p>
<p>Savvy website or blog owners will write articles to distribute among the different article directories and thus secure lots of backlinks to their site, but not just any backlink. Thats not good enough.You want super backlinks and for that you&#8217;ll need to make wise use of anchor texts. Say, in the resource box of your article you will definitely want to use an anchor text to link back to your site. If your site is named &#8220;Growing Tomatoes&#8221; then don&#8217;t use &#8220;click here&#8221; as an anchor text! Use the name of your site. Although lining your articles with anchor texts leading back to your website is usually discouraged in writing circles it is OK to do it when the link (to your site) actually does provide relevant information directly related to the article.</p>
<p>For those of you wondering what a backlink is it&#8217;s just an incoming link to your site. So say I visit your site and I like it and I post a link from my site to your site then you&#8217;ll have a backlink from me. Backlinks from sites that are relevant to your site and are in your niche are more valuable than a link from a site that is in a totally different niche. That&#8217;s why writing articles as an expert in your niche is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your site.</p>
<p>If you are writing articles about growing tomatoes and it gets published, it&#8217;ll be published in the gardening section of whatever sites publish it, and the visitors coming to your site will naturally be interested in your niche. Targeted visitors.</p>
<p>Lets not confuse backlinks with reciprocal links. Reciprocal links are created when you trade links with a site. For instance if you and I put each others links on our sites then those are reciprocal links and they are less valuable in the eyes of the search engines. Article advertising creates backlinks and thats why everyone is so actively involved in it. It works wonders!</p>
<p>You can actually keep track of how many backlinks you have with  http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com. Simply type your url in the search bar and click explore. When your results are displayed click &#8220;inlinks&#8221;. You&#8217;ll see a display featuring all links coming into your site. As the number of backlinks increases your site ranking will increase too, especially on Google.</p>
<p>ome last tidbits here&#8230;your anchor text should be a keyword for your site, not necessarily  the name of your site (but thats usually a good idea) but a keyword. And on top of that if you enter your anchor text with the <xmp><a href=" tag" </xmp> the search engines will like it better than if your just use the handy link button. If you include the same keyword in the title of your article and also lace the content with it then you have the ingredients of the magic potion.</p>
<p>Christopher Lees is a full time freelance writer and internet marketer. Read more interesting articles on how to start making money online at his newest website&#8230;<br />
<a target="_new" href="http://startmakingmoneyonline.terapad.com">Go to startmakingmoneyonline.terapad.com</a></p>
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