Jannies Web Services Blog - For A Growing Business!

NEW Must See SEO-Video For You!

2007-12-10T02:43:00.000+01:00

I've just finished watching a newly made SEO-video, about how to double the organic search engine traffic to a specific site and triple it's sales, in 30 days. How about doing that? For free too! It can be done through applying some SEO-knowledge...

This video is made by Stompernet and Andy Jenkins there. And he is using the results from one of his own sites, to show exactly how he did this. It is in fact a 3-step process.

1. Focus on your title tag and create a new page.
2. Link to at least 2 other pages on your site, from your new page.
3. Get at least 2 links from other sites or blogs directly to this page.

I know that my extremly short version of explaining this doesn't make much sense, but I did that on purpose, so you would get curious and click on the link below. Doing that, will take you to a nice, educational and free SEO-video. I think your owe it to yourself, to see it. - Enjoy!

~Jannie

VIDEO:

Double your web site traffic and triple your sales the SEO-way

Look At This Amazing, Free Advertising Tool!

2007-11-29T19:54:00.000+01:00

This new viral marketing tool works great for both affiliates and everyone else. It cloaks links, tracks conversion (if you upgrade) and does some really amazing viral marketing for you! It even promotes itself! - Yes, that is not me being dramatic, it's really true. But, take a look for yourself and see what it's all about.

~Jannie

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2007-11-25T19:17:00.000+01:00

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A Little Different Marketing Tip To Try Out

2007-11-16T20:41:00.000+01:00

When you started your home business you may have prepared yourself to a large amount of your profits on advertising. Only to discover that you got very little, or no response, for your money and efforts.

Now comes the time for Guerrilla Marketing, it can be done with an almost no budget. This is the time when you change your way of thinking and realize that you are going to have to try just about anything to get publicity. You have to make yourself known.

Guerrilla Marketing

Make sure to have a good offer....

Have you ever considered pay to view advertisement? Think like a guerrilla marketer now and your marketing campaigns could "be paid" for you! That's cheep alright. I know of a site where you could earn your advertising money and also advertise really cheap with them! Don't miss out on this one. It is easy and only takes about 2 minutes each day to use. Just make sure you have a good offer, when it's time for you to use your earnings, or some of them, for your advertising campaigns.

Guerrilla Marketing

Remember, your in business to make money. With Guerrilla Marketing it's all about having the guts to try anything.

Recap:

No budget advertising
Takes only about 2 minutes each day
Can even make you extra money!

Guerrilla Marketing

~Jannie

Your Business And The Search Engines

2007-11-02T13:01:00.000+01:00

Businesses that have found homes on the Internet, find it more difficult identifying their target market and even more defining the course of action, in order to best take advantage of the market trends, vis-à-vis the spending behavior of their markets. This phenomenon took place when the Internet became a hodge-podge of constant created websites and content pages, each to serve a particular purpose, or to target a particular market.

Without the limitations set by languages, geography, and even a huge overhead start-up capital, businesses are left to reach out almost blindly to a market and hope for a favorable response. Left boundless, some businesses tend to put behind the importance of finding a loyal niche market. This market, with its constant patronage, helps translate web traffic and hype into tangible profits.

This is where SEO comes in. SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process by which SEO providers enhance a website by beefing up the content pages, cleaning up its codes, and making it more consumer-centric, in order to gain a better standing in the listings yielded by search engines. This is especially important in an age where search engines are the most popular tools for users to swim through hundreds of Internet clutter in order to find the particular information, product or service they are looking for.

Search engines take on the task of sorting through Internet content in order to find something as close as possible to the keywords entered by the user in the search field of the search engine. In crawler search engines, for example, the search engine simulates the crawling movement as it moves through pages studying relationships and relevance to each other of links and pages available online.

On the basis of popularity among Internet users, quality of service, and relevance of keywords to website content, various website content are ranked according to how they match up to what was queried. Obviously, top-ranked websites usually generate more traffic than those found in the other pages, and as such, it is every company�??s goal to become top-ranked one day.

Making The Users Happy By Overdelivery...

Making sure that content is useful, written effectively, and relevant is an imperative first step. Often, various websites tend to claim information on a certain field or topic, only to find that they cannot deliver these promises to their customers. Instead, when the content is useful, relevant, and written in a manner most effective, users are benefited in that they find exactly what they are looking for, maybe even more. This will solicit greater patronage from users and clients.

Moreover, streamlining content by making sure that it is closely related to the keywords help keep the page relevant, and increases its chance of ranking higher in listings. In addition to this, steps also have to be made in order to make sure that the website is updated often, and that the links are all working properly. This measures the usability of a website, and if it doesn�??t do well in this category, it will likely not be ranked as high by search engines.

Why Ranking High In The Listings Matters

It matters because if the website is not ranked into the first couple of pages of the matches found by the search engine, chances are, customers who could be benefiting from its content and from whom the business could be generating profit are not getting to the page. This would deem the website completely useless; after all, what is the use of a published website in the Internet that is not viewed by visitors and web surfers?

Getting Repeat Visitors And Customers

Moreover, effective SEO that translates to better rankings actually defines the nature of traffic that gets generated by the website. With meaningful and useful content made available to the public, the website gains patronage from individuals who value satisfaction and service offered to them online.

Increased patronage from individuals who actually uses the information made available on the page, can translate to their continued accessing of the website, and can even translate to a higher probability that these people will trust the business enough to make frequent purchases of the product or service.

At the end of the day, what SEO stands for in the light of any business is the opportunity to stand out from the crowd. In an era where customers are offered a huge variety of options, only the ones that give a semblance of integrity through unbiased representation even from the very start when the information is listed in a search engine, and actually end up delivering what they promise, gain the benefit of maximizing the Internet�??s business potential.

Write For The Internet - Good SEO Copywriting

2007-10-19T14:54:00.000+02:00

Search engine optimization copywriting or SEO, is a method of writing viewable or easily scanned text on your web page which is very acceptable and readable for the internet user as well as targets certain or exact search terms, having the purpose of ranking high in search engines.

SEO Copywriting generally optimizes and enhances other on-page components for search terms being targeted, namely the title, the description and likewise keywords tags, alt text and headings.

Search engines require and look for authentic content pages, rather than additional pages which are designed solely for attaining high rankings; this then, is the concept of SEO copywriting. And for this reason, search engines may not likely consider SEO pages with undesirable copywriting content.

Simply put, your site�??s content must follow good marketing standards, having great interaction with your visitors because excellent SEO copywriting acknowledges the fact that humans make the purchasing decisions and not spiders.

It is recommended that your content comprises of about 250 words that are viewable per page, having a maximum of two targeted keywords or search terms located strategically inside the text as well as in other on-page components.

A good quality and informative copywriting content indeed is the very foundation for a website to be successful. A good content and excellent website setup will direct your visitors to what exactly they desire while collecting or inquiring for information in your website. A well developed and constructed content page really is important for powerful website content and can take a huge bound in your keyword ranking approach.

Always remember that internet surfers do not read all the time your content, but rather, their tendency is just to scan through the page, searching for prominent and attractive sentences and words. Meaning that for you to magnetize your visitors, you need to write not only convincing and captivating content, but also scannable.

When a prospect visits your site searching for a service or product, it can be due to fact that they find your information educational and helpful; thus it actually depends on the quality of your content and what type of information that you supply your visitors that determines whether they stay or leave your website. A content rich in keywords will leave an enduring impression for your SEO campaign.

Here are a few guidelines on writing good quality SEO content:

1. Understand and determine your key phrases before you begin writing. Returning and then editing an already existing copy so to reach higher keyword concentration can be a difficult task which often results in fragmented sentences, complicated statements and a copy that is stiff sounding. If you already know the key phrases, then you are able to construct a complete and flowing stream of ideas.

2. Know who your target audiences are. You need to determine your target clients before writing your content, so that you can address them properly. You can not write a good quality, informative and persuading content without knowing your visitors requirements, problems and needs.

Your content should offer a solution to their problems and you need to first identify that problem before you can determine a solution.

3. Incorporate your key phrases in the headlines. Almost all search engines believe that a headline is a significant part of your copy which means that the text that comprises the headlines bears additional effect.

When you make headlines, be certain to construct them so that they also carry the keyword that you have used in your content. Also take note of the HTML encryption for your title. When you make bold headlines and incorporating them in your tags, they will catch the search engine�??s attention.

4. Scatter or distribute properly your key phrases all throughout the body of your article. To do this effectively, focus on just a maximum of three primary keywords and let them naturally flow in your article.

There is what is called a 3 percent guideline which states that 3 percent of the words in your article must be keywords. You should take note however, that this is only a guideline; do not ruin a good article just so to achieve the three percent guideline by insisting on the keywords in sentences where it does not fit just so to achieve the 3 percent guideline.

Just remember that a literature form of writing is not what is required in SEO copywriting; it just makes a poor web content. SEO copywriting demands that you specifically need to write for the internet, something that is very much different from a literature or storybook style of writing.

There is more to web copywriting than merely writing well. Keep this in mind: Effective web copywriting and keywords search engine optimization mean the same thing.

~Jannie

Useful Off-Page SEO Activities

2007-10-17T17:46:00.000+02:00

Off-page SEO pertains to all the influencing factors that determine your website traffic levels and ranking which are not inside the website; they are principally links that comes in your website from other websites referred to as link popularity. Link popularity is a key factor utilized by the famous search engines in ranking websites.

In order for SEO, to be useful, it needs to provide valuable, authentic and educational website content as well as information at the same time maximizing �??Off-Page�?? factors in securing good ranking in search engine positions.

Almost all search engines put a great deal of significance in a website's �??link popularity�??. They utilize the amount of incoming and outgoing links to websites to establish the relevance of a website for specific keywords or key phrases. Take note that incoming links prove to be more significant compared to outgoing links.

Google, one of the top search engines, makes use of its �??Pager Rank�?? or �??PR�?? as their means in measuring the �??link popularly�?? of a certain website. When you installed the �??Google toolbar�??, you easily can view a web�??s PR. A PR of a website is read from 0 to ten, ten being the highest. When you see a grey �??PR�?? bar, it signifies that, that particular website have either not yet been indexed or was dropped or have been banned.

Acquiring quality links coming from good or reputable websites can be a difficult task. A reputable website only will agree to link to your website when you can offer them certain benefits.

Reciprocal linking and how to go about it:

Reciprocal linking in simple terms means exchanging links so to enhance link popularity. This often entails sending e-mail letters to certain webmasters of your choice that you find has complementary and relevant content.
Write a polite, personalized and good e-mail letter to the webmaster that you want to exchange links with. Here are some guidelines:

1. Download the Alexa http://www.alexa.com and Google toolbars. Google toolbar will permit you to view the PR (pagerank) of other websites, so that you are aware which sites have great traffic and link with them. The Alexa toolbar supplies you with estimates of the website's traffic, as well as the sites that are being linked to it.

2. Visit particular websites that you want to exchange links with, in order that you will know what that particular website is all about.

3. Send email letters to websites which you want to be linked with. In your letter, mention important things regarding your website and explain the benefits of having a link exchange, for both your sites as well as both your visitors.
Place a link to the website and inform the webmaster as to where he can find the link. Likewise, furnish the key phrase or keywords that you need to be linked.

4. Broadcast your willingness to exchange links in your website. You may use a reciprocal linking link, or "link to us" as well as a web-form for possible link partners, to enter their details.

Incoming 'one way linking' and how to go about it:

Incoming one way links are considered by webmasters to be the best kind of links, that one can have for one�??s website, but also one that is hard to acquire. They can increase link popularity and website PR. They point out to all search engines that your website is an expert on key phases or keyword employed to link to you. Here are some guidelines:

1. Construct an informative, good quality and educational website or unique, educational and authentic web page content. Great content is what webmaster look for so to refer you to their visitors by way of links going to your website.

2. Offer free tools and helpful service in your website.

3. Give something away for free at your website, such as quality e-books, downloadable trial software, gift or a useful program in exchange for links.

4. Arrange an award for winners to link to your website before they can claim their prizes. Make certain that your policy is clear to everyone.

5. Allot a budget so you can pay for niche directory listing. Present excellent and relevant articles with links directing to your web home page and give your consent to webmasters to display your articles in their sites.
Link popularity will not grow overnight

Allocate a time each week just for working on building links, so that it becomes a regular habit. Select one day each week as well as schedule the time. You need to oblige yourself on a regular basis and make your priority, or else you can not accomplish it.

Note that link building is a gradual and accumulating process. Over time all the links will start to add up, until such time that there will be hundreds and even thousands linking to you.

~Jannie

Top Traffic Secrets Webinar - REMINDER

2007-10-14T23:39:00.000+02:00

Today I just wanted to remind you of the upcoming webinar, on Thursday the 19th of October, so you don't miss it.

Recap: It is the joint venture broker Reed Floren, a celebrity in Internet marketing, that will host this LIVE webinar, on joint ventures.

So, click here to get on the webinar and learn about the no 1 secret, that only the top 1% of Internet marketers are utilizing, in their businesses.

~Jannie

Private Label Rights Profits With No Editing!

2007-10-13T20:09:00.000+02:00

NEWS: Todays news is about a site called Top Secret PLR. It is a membership site, that certainly takes private label rights to a whole new level...

Have you ever wanted a continuous flow of never-before-released private label rights products you can profit from instantly, with no editing or uploading? Well, now you can! Whether you're already earning big profits with private label rights, or don't even have a website yet, you can start earning profits with a new "instant custom promotion" technology.

You will get 2 hot, new and fresh PLR products every month, that you can resell instantly. Get the details here, but hurry -- only 250 membership spots available!

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~ Jannie

Traffic Tips Focused At Affiliate Marketing

2007-10-12T19:39:00.000+02:00

Seven ways to drive targeted traffic to your website or blog, today, especially when doing affiliate marketing:

The first step in driving traffic to one�??s website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it.
The second way in driving traffic to one�??s website is by contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to one�??s own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.
The third way is through writing one�??s own articles. This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer�??s very own website out of sheer interest.
The fourth way is through joint venture marketing. This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.
The fifth is through joining affiliate programs. Having affiliates to do the work means allowing them to bring tons of traffic to a website. Skyrocketing sales would be realized as a result, and both the affiliate and the website owner will benefit from the situation.
The sixth is by having a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.
The seventh is by knowing one�??s market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of one�??s website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his or her effort is worth it.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one�??s affiliate marketing career moving forward. It is always advantageous to plan one�??s moves in any business, that one might undertake. If one knows how to get people to see what he or she has to offer, then one is on the right track.

~Jannie

How About Building A MasterMindGroup?

2007-10-11T23:18:00.000+02:00

Eben Pagan, founder of the Get Altitude program, shares a money making exercise just hours after the first day of Altitude. I thought his idea of creating a master mind group was good and wanted to share it.

So, please take a moment and watch his video:

CLICK AT THE LINK HERE, TO MAKE A COMMENT ON EBEN PAGAN'S BLOG.

~ Jannie

Top Traffic Secrets Webinar - ALERT!

2007-10-11T15:18:00.000+02:00

Today I will alert you about an upcoming live webinar on Thursday the 19th of October, about joint ventures. This webinar should be interesting and valuable to you, if you really would like to know what the top 1% Internet marketers are doing, to get loads and loads of that kind of traffic, to their new products, that generates them their enourmous ROI, Returns On 'their' Investments. It's going live on Thursday the 19th of October, 2007 and Reed Floren is going to be hosting it.

Who is this Reed Floren guy and what makes him credible? Although he is young, only 21 years old, you are doing well in listening to him, because he has been marketing online since 1999 and worked together with many top Internet marketers, such as Russell Brunson and Todd Gross. (Click at the links on their names, to see what information you could find on this blog, on them.)

And now Reed Floren is working as a joint venture broker. What he is doing, is helping Internet marketing people, to connect with top Internet marketers, in order to do joint ventures together.

I will not make a long blogpost out of this, all I will say for the moment is, if you are serious about getting a lot of traffic, by doing successful joint ventures yourself, then click at this link:

#1 Traffic Secret webinar!

~ Jannie

PS. You deserve success too, don't you? Choose to invest in yourself and your business, by attending this webinar, at the 19th of October...

SEO-Tools That Make Wonders For You

2007-10-10T19:05:00.000+02:00

It is extremely important that the right keywords are selected by businesses for their advertisements, in order to maximize an online advertising service and gain profits. An advertising campaign can be deemed worthless, if the wrong keywords are selected to represent it.

In a nutshell, SEO are methods that aim to improve the position or rank of a web site in listings produced by search engines. The benefits of getting a higher placement in the listings, increases the chances that online visitors will view their pages and avail of the services offered by advertisers. It also gives visitors a feeling of security, because to them, a well-positioned ad, equals high credibility.

Keywords Of Broad Interest Or Highly Specific?

Sites have different goals when it comes to optimization. Some sites employ broad search optimization strategy, they are in search for all traffic that comes along the way. It can be useful for sites that are generates broad interest, such as a directory or a periodical. Other sites go for utilizing keywords that are highly specific, and radiate the probability of a sale. In most cases, going for specific and carefully chosen traffic can prove advantageous, because it gives sales leads with more quality.

The process of choosing the appropriate keywords for a particular advertiser is not a simple task. An advertiser has to accomplish several things to pull it off successfully. First, the advertiser has to be well acquainted with the machinations of its target market. A thorough research into the keywords used by the competitor should be carried out, and whatever result that it will produce should be analyzed in detail. Keyword selection tools will assist advertisers in determining the keywords that is most suitable for their businesses.

Static Or Dynamic?

Keywords selection can have many varieties, largely depending on the kind of web site that a client needs. These are the major types, static sites and dynamic states, where the former is more limited in terms of keyword numbers compared to the latter. If an advertiser is creating a brand new site, it is recommended to choose the initial number of keywords that will be needed, and afterwards, the architecture of the site can be prepared using the keyword selection criteria as a basis.

After coming up with the keyword list, the terms should be trimmed down up to the specific and necessary ones. In narrowing down the list, keep these factors in mind: Majority of the search engines do not bother doing word stemming, and that most visitors type keywords in lower case, and it is less difficult to gain a good rank for keyword phrases that are longer.

Here are some of the popular keyword selection tools available for advertisers:

1. Google AdWords Keyword Selection Tool

Google is the most successful search engine in the world, and it takes in more searches in the web than its competitors. This tool usually comes with the awards program of Google, and it shows the keywords that are actually utilized by users. Google AdWords provide users with the most sought-after queries, vast matches, and other keywords that the user may consider for usage.

2. Wordtracker

It is a database that people utilize as queries for searching terms. Aside from giving information on how often a term is utilized for web search, it will also inform users the number of competing sites that utilize the same term. The tool aids in finding combinations of keywords that is in any way related to the content of a web site. For more info, read this blogpost, please: Request From Diana.

3. Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool

A keyword selection tool that provides the number of searches in a month that proliferated within the Overture network. It provides the variations and phrase stems when a certain keyword is used. It also provides pay-per-click bids and a ROI Time CPM Calculator.

4. Keyword Destiny and Prominence Analysis

A keyword analysis tool which analyzes the words utilized on a web page by applying default settings or custom report options. It also reports on the number of times the word was used, and an analysis of a competitive URL. Other information provided includes word count, prominence values, the location of the significant keywords in the elements of the page, and density percentages.

Advertisers should choose the best tool that works for them. With various options available, it will not be too difficult to do so. Picking the right tool can make wonders for their business ventures.

~Jannie

Keywords Pre-Meditation & Marketing Studies

2007-10-09T13:38:00.000+02:00

Everyday, hundreds and millions of Internet users access the network in search of something they need or want. In the earlier days, users had a much easier time locating just exactly what they sought because very few online entities were in existence, and they offered very little services. Thus, it was easy to determine which sites actually contained what they needed.

Fast forward to the current period, and instead you find hundreds and millions of content varying in degree almost to the same extent as to the number of average users of the Internet per day. Businesses, institutions, and even individual users generate their own websites and content by using simple means, and as such, a searcher may end up having to choose from hundreds of choices in pursuit of materials related to what they are searching for.

Organic Searches Versus Crawler Searches

Search engines play a huge role in making the current scenario work. Major search engine service providers, like Google, create user interfaces that allow for their users to enter words, or keywords, relating to what they are searching for. Various methods are then employed in order to search for the content links. Either they employ purely organic searches, which lists matches to the keywords regardless of whether they are paid or not, or they utilize crawler search engines. Crawler search engines simulate the crawling movement when they travel through the codes of each website and deciphering relationships between links and pages.

A Customer-Orientated Approach

To maximize the potential of search engines in providing businesses their much-needed online traffic and hopefully translate traffic into sales, SEO or Search Engine Optimization method was created. SEO is centered in trying to provide a business with quality content and websites in order for it to help rise in the rankings in the query listings. Central to SEO is a customer-orientated approach, and is achieved mainly by providing well-written information in the website, as well as making sure that the content found in their websites are relevant to what the users are looking for.

Keywords And Content Should 'Go Together'

However, for SEO to work, there must be a clear and tangible relation between keywords and relevant content. After all, if the search engine finds great difficulty in tracing matches back to keywords provided by the users, chances are, the website will not be found by the target market.

SEO works with keywords at the very onset of the business. The business picks a variety of keywords to which their website will be related to in search engines. If the user enters in the search engine a keyword that matches the keywords related to the business�??s website, a high-ranking match is displayed among the listings.

Keyword selection and the effort that goes with it is only justified; after all, the nature of the keywords a business selects can make or break its campaign.

Start With A List Of, For Example, 50 Keywords...

In order to effectively match a business�??s keywords to those that will be entered by the users, selecting keywords must take into consideration the variety of keywords under the same topic that could be utilized when searching for it. For starters, making a list of around 50 keywords and selecting those that make greatest impact will help narrow down the keywords that should be bid for by the company when trying to get a spot in the listings.

Targeting A Particular Consumer Base...

In selecting keywords, it must also be taken into consideration the sort of response generated by certain keywords, alongside the people who would respond greatly to those words. By selecting keywords with the expressed intent of targeting a particular consumer base, the business creates a greater probability of visitors to the website being actual interested buyers instead of web window shoppers.

Moreover, selecting keywords that are closest in relevance to the content of the website better streamlines traffic into that which yields profits.

Popular keywords are those that users often enter into search engines and look for. These popular keywords and the subsequent websites, usually are recipients to huge amounts of traffic, and as such, are subject to higher rankings in listings.

How popular are 'Your' Keywords?

While popularity, relevance, and targeting are important, it must be balanced with the competitive demand for a particular keyword. Obviously, more businesses vying for the same word would create difficulties in acquiring that keyword for a business�??s use. Before selecting keywords, it is imperative that checks may be made in order to make sure that while the keywords are popular, relevant, and targeted, they are also not within the too competitive bracket, which will make it extremely difficult to acquire and rank.

Keyword selection is important in every SEO campaign. Only in pre-meditating keywords and studying market behavior in relation to these keywords can the benefits of this productive relationship be clearly seen.

~Jannie

A "Must Have" Online Business Resource!

2007-10-08T22:08:00.000+02:00

Today I want to give you a review of this new website that truly is a "must have" resource for anyone building an online business. This is not some site were it is "valued $147" people have actually paid $147 a year to be a member of this site. Trust me there's a big difference.

DO NOT sign up for an account on the home page unless you want to pay full price. I'll show you how to get your free account at the end of this review. But first, let me tell you why I absolutely believe you need to check this out.

Desk Top Bucks has been set up by Kevin Rohan - a very successful business and marketing consultant based in Chicago. Over the last 4 years Kevin has applied his real world marketing experience to the Internet and has created over multiple highly profitable websites in numerous niche markets that provide a very respectable income.

After achieving his own online success he wanted to help the average Joe cut through the excessive and confusing hype that currently saturates the Internet marketing industry. His aim was to provide members, with every detail of the exact steps he has personally used to create websites, that automatically generates him and others income, day after day. Kevin was sick of all the B.S. and really just wanted to create a site that he wished was out there, when he got started online.

A quick overview of what you'll get as a Desk Top Bucks member:

1) The "Internet Marketing Boot Camp" - is a series of 10 lessons filled with over 6 hours of audio and over 7 hours of original step-by-step video lessons over 30 days that train you in the fundamentals of building a profitable Internet business.

How to make an entire website from scratch
Setting up your website & hosting
Creating information products
Setting up an auto-responders
Adding & creating popups that work
Adding & creating graphics for your site
How to put testing and tracking in place
Automating your website so that it runs hands free
How to processing credit cards online
Setting up an your own affiliate program
All of this is covered and more in the Internet Marketing Boot Camp!

And that's just the start. Here's what you also get:

2) The "Movie Center" with over 12 hours of full motion video from some of the world's best Internet marketers like:

Alex Mandossian
Armand Morin
Perry Marshall
Declan Dunn
Ken Giddens

And more! Others paid thousands to attend the seminars in these videos - it's included in your membership.

3) A question center where members can ask Kevin anything about making it online.

4) A download center that contains special reports, recorded calls on list building and Internet marketing basics and a complete case study of the Desk Top Bucks website itself, detailing exactly how he put it together.

All of this, by the way, is original content by Kevin detailing his personal success strategies in detail. Members get to "look over his shoulder" as he shows the exact steps, tips, tricks and techniques he uses to build and generate profit from his own websites.

5) A marketing center that provides training on affiliate marketing including sample emails, squeeze page templates, videos, banners, ezine advertising and much more.

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New content is being added to the members' area constantly. For example, over the next few weeks Kevin is adding a conference call on affiliate marketing and a live case study on generating large amounts of web traffic with article marketing. The article marketing case study alone is going to last at least a year.

A GREAT One-Time-Offer Of The Upgrade Package!

Kevin has put together a membership upgrade package of software and tools that he has hand-picked to help you get your online businesses up and running as fast as possible.

This package includes a copy of Adtrackz, considered one of the most powerful testing and tracking software packages available, a membership site script, article submission & pop up ad creation software, survey software, fly in ad creator, web audio creator and more.

+ Kevin is also creating step-by-step video training to show you exactly how to use the key software in this package - very impressive! The upgrade package is offered to new members who join Desk Top Bucks for a one time $97 payment.

+ When you consider that Adtrackz alone can not be purchased anywhere else for less than $79 you'll understand what a great deal this is, let alone all the other great software and the video training.

Kevin has indicated that the package will be made available in the members' area soon, but it will be at least twice the price than when it is first offered to new members. If you're serious about jump starting your online business, I highly recommend you take him up the offer at $97 when you see it.

Regardless of whether you decide to upgrade your membership or not, you're going to absolutely enjoy the many, many hours of audio and video training available in the members area and the regular updates. Desk Top Bucks truly is a "must have" website membership.

As mentioned above, there is a way for you to get a free membership to Desk Top Bucks, normally $147 a year. To grab your account now and check it out for yourself, go here:

DeskTopBucks.com/Gift-Link

This is my gift to you for taking the time to read this review! Take and use it to benefit your online business.

~Jannie

Hiering FreeLancers When Your Business Grows

2007-10-07T19:21:00.000+02:00

When a lot of Internet marketers start out with their small home based businesses, they have totally no idea that their businesses could grow into "something huge". One-man eBay stores grow into full-fledged online shops, run by a team of dedicated salespersons, logistics and customer support personnel. At the end, you can never manage every little aspect of your business, when it grows to a certain extent, and that is when outsourcing comes in handy.

However, care must be taken to choose the right people to outsource your tasks and equal detail must be paid attention to to provide the best working environment for greatest productivity. The tasks you should outsource to people are those mundane and repetitive jobs like answering emails, keeping track of stocks and sales figures and so on. This ensures that while you hand some of your responsibilities to other people, they have the least chances of screwing up because the jobs they are handed are easy and straightforward. In contrast, never let others make decisions that will greatly affect your business if you do not want to risk losing your business overnight.

Where To Find FreeLancers

While you have to hire people on wages for some jobs, such as book keeping, other jobs can also be accomplished by outsourcing to freelancers. For examples, you can get ghostwriters to write good content for your website and you can get freelance designers to spice up your merchant site. You do not need to hire these people on a regular wage because once their job is done, they do not have much follow up work to do, for your business. A good resource for freelancers would be www.elance.com and www.rentacoder.com, where freelancers and buyers have transactions on a per job basis.

The Economy In Hiering...

When your business reaches a certain extent, you will start to find it hard to keep track of everything and this means time to outsource. Think of it this way: You may have to pay out a little money, to hire other people to do some of your daily tasks, but you earn more money from the increased productivity.

~Jannie

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Tested Traffic Generation Techniques

2007-10-06T17:15:00.000+02:00

You have created your own product, that has been proven to have great demand, you have a salesletter that has a sky-high conversion rate. But all that would be futile and you will earn nothing, if you don't have a single soul passing by your website, since you will have no one to sell to! You might be a total beginner and therefore do not have a massive mailing list to sell to, and your website is on the 103th page of the search engine results pages. Have faith though, becaurse you can change 'all that', with a pair of tried-and-tested traffic generation techniques.

First and foremost, let me make it clear to you that search engine optimization is not the only way, to gain massive amounts of traffic! You see, search engine result pages are in a sense just web pages �?? similar to regular websites around the web. It is only so lucrative to have your website listed on the top of search engine results, because many people use the search engines to search for information. Hence, loads of people see your site's link and you attract loads of traffic.

Other High-Traffic Websites...

The effect would have been exactly the same if your website is mentioned in a website with very high traffic. For example, imagine what would happen if your website was mentioned on the front page of Yahoo's website! Your website will receive so much visitors, that your bandwidth might go over the limit. So, the trick is to get other high-traffic websites, in your niche, to link to your website. To do this, you must give them very strong reasons to link to you �?? maybe it's this very thought-provoking article you've posted on your site, maybe it's the ingenious solution to this lifelong problem everyone has had for all their lives. In short, give people amazing reasons or value to earn a link from them.

Provide Useful Information...

Alternatively, you may link to a certain high-traffic website that's related to yours and ask for a link back. This technique is called reciprocal linking and is a very common technique for gaining links. However, before you even ask for the link, check your own website and ask yourself if you would be proud to recommend such a site to your readers, and whether it will provide useful information to your readers, in other words, make sure your website has its own value.

~Jannie

What Is Online Classified Advertising?

2007-10-05T15:49:00.000+02:00

Classified advertising is different from standard advertising in that it allows not only corporate entities or companies, but to individuals as well, to actually be able to reach out to an audience and solicit for business. It is much more affordable to have a classified advertisement in the next issue of newspapers, than have to produce a television commercial, for individuals.

Classified advertising, or classified ads, usually contains just a few lines of text containing details like the nature of a business and contact information. Different from other types of advertising, classified ads are essentially textual and do not contain any pictures.

With the invention of the Internet and World Wide Web, classified advertising, like many other printed media, has progressed online.

Just to compare two points between printed and online media:

Online classifieds ads, unlike conventional printed ones, do not have space constraint. Typically, online classified sites now provide a full-page, the size of your monitor screen, display of ads for a standard fee, compared to printed ads, which has costs directly proportional to the size of the ad.

Whereas printed classified ads, via newspapers, mainly, are only reachable to people who actually buy the newspapers, and more often than not, are only in a small region, online classified ads are available to the entire world; just as long there is an Internet connection, of course.

Popular sites like Craiglist and Ablewise provide very easy-to-use systems for posting classified ads. With massive traffic to their sites everyday, users are able to sell their products within days after posting their ads.

The above is a pressrelease from Ablewise, a site with free online Classifieds, since 1999.

Ablewise.com Free Classifieds:
- Post your free photo Ads in 10 Countries around the world!

Ablewise provides useful FREE AD POSTING TIPS, including:

How come other ads are attracting more visitors than my ad?

Is there a way to improve the sales and click-through-rate of my ad?

~ Jannie

NEW 'A-HA-Report', By Millionaire Marketer!

2007-10-04T19:50:00.000+02:00

Everybody knows that the most important asset for any Internet marketer is their list. No matter what autoresponder you use, if you don't have a list of qualified buyers, you're never going to make the big money.

But what if you woke up one morning and discovered that your pay-per-click campaign got shut down? Or that new spam laws prevented your emails from getting delivered? If you aren't keeping up with the changes in technology, then you could quickly be out of "luck".

Millionaire Internet marketer Russell Brunson realized this a long time ago and decided to do something about it. He implemented offline marketing into his marketing mix and has tripled his business every year since! He created a controversial report, called the "IM-Myth", where he explains how he did it.

You can read about it here: Online Marketing Tips

One of Russell's techniques brought in massive profits, that wouldn't have been possible online. It's extremely easy to do, yet hardly anyone's doing it, but be prepared for a huge "A-HA" moment.

~Jannie

PS. Ask the big offline information mailing houses like Agora, Bottom Line, and Boardroom where the big bucks are made. These guys make the Clickbank screenshots, of some of the Internet marketing gurus, look like peanuts.

Helping Prospects See Benefits And Take Action

2007-10-03T13:09:00.000+02:00

Not so long ago, when the computer was first mass-produced for selling to the public, a lot of industry experts predicted that nobody will want a box that does nothing besides handling data and hogging up the entire garage. They were obviously very wrong...

This little bit of history tells us, that no matter how good your product is, you cannot earn even a penny from it, if you have a lousy salesperson. Likewise, no matter how good your product is, you cannot sell even one copy of it, with a weak salesletter. Hence, it is vital to have a compelling salesletter, that will pull the prospect right into it and see clearly the benefits that are presented, against the very reasonable price you are charging.

Use A Strong HeadLine In A Good SalesLetter

A good salesletter will first catch the attention of the reader, by resonating with the reader's needs and desires. That's why you often see headlines such as �??Have you ever felt...?�?? or �??Does ... sound familiar?�??. They work, because they empathize with the reader's needs, problems or desires. The Internet is like a very busy freeway and everyone's in a rush. Only a strong headline like that, in big, bold letters will stop your target audience, dead in their tracks, to read through your salesletter.

Tell The Reader 'Your Own Story'...

Once you've obtained your reader's attention, you want to spend the first few paragraphs on telling your story �?? how you have gone through what your reader probably has, the agony of the whole experience, etc. Once you get your reader thinking �??he's one of us�??, you would be perceived as an understanding individual, offering a solution and not an anonymous marketer, looking to sell his, or her product.

Point Out How Your Product Will Help The Reader

Next, you have to elaborate on the benefits of the product you are selling. List them all on a piece of scrap paper, until you have quite a long list; then write your salesletter from there. In your salesletter, highlight the benefits in point form and elaborate on each benefit. Be sure to point out how your product helps the reader, instead of pointing out the features of the product. For example, instead of saying �??this gizmo cures headaches�??, say �??this gizmo can relieve your headaches�??. Make it relevant to the reader.

"Paint" A Picture Of How The Readers Life Will Change, If...

Then, write a paragraph or two on how the reader's life could be changed, if the problem he is facing can be totally solved with your product. It is important to use very descriptive words, so that the reader can fall into the imagination more easily.

Remember to Call For Action

Last of all, make a strong call for action! Your final objective is to make your readers buy your product, so it is important to make a final, strong call for action, be it �??click the Buy button�??, �??whip out your credit card�?? and so on. Do not make the mistake of forgetting such an important step, after coaxing your reader through the lengthy paragraphs.

Thank you for reading this entire blog post! If you think it is useful, please tell a friend about it.

~ Jannie

SEO Techniques For Do It YourSelf-ers

2007-10-02T15:59:00.000+02:00

With search engine optimization, some techniques are employed, so that a web site, or blog, will be listed on top of the list of results, when a user types in a keyword by going to Google, Yahoo, MSN, or other search engines.

Emerging on top of a search list, would lead more business your way. That is why search engine optimization, or SEO tactics are employed. Some companies employ the services of establishments, or individuals, who deal with search engine optimization.

This would involve the optimizing of a web site, or blog, for organic search and would mainly require an optimization of the keyword density of the particular site or blog, which in turn, would result in more traffic.

In effect, you will have an added clientele and this should lead more business your way. If you would like to have a hands-on experience with search engine optimization and you would not like to get a third-party SEO service provider, there are some techniques, which are easy to learn, so that you can do it yourself. Take a look at the following:

Develop your web site's or blog's content...

For most web sites, content is the key. When writing the content of your web pages, insert vital keywords which relate to the products and services that your company offers. Make it brief and concise, yet informative.

You might see that Internet users do not actually read a web site's content word-for-word. They just skim through the text and concentrate on the articles that they need and the data which they find interesting. A 600-word article may be too boring, or too long, for a user to read. Keep your facts up-to-date, so that users will visit your web site more often. Do not forget to include a lot of helpful links, articles and guides that users can forward to another user.

Make the overall design user friendly

In most cases, the rule the simpler, the better applies. Do not design your web site in an overly-complicated way, that users will find it too "frightening" to browse through. Adapt the design to your target market. If your target audience is of a younger age, make sure that the colors and designs are funky, youthful and attention-grabbing. For a more mature audience, you can use subdued colors and have a more elegant theme and overall web site design.

Vary the keywords for each individual web page

Think of every possible keywords, or phrases, that will apply to your products and services. Each user is different and may not necessarily use the keyword that you expect them to type in the search bar. Search engines offer tools, which will guide you through finding the correct keywords, for search engine optimization.

Check that hyper links are visible, accessible and informative

Providing users with hyperlinks or HTML links, which are useful and easy to find, is yet another way to optimize your web site.

Learn how to lead traffic to your site or blog

Seek the advise of experts on this field, if you do not know how to lead traffic to your site. Develop a plan and learn how to use the necessary tools, to pull traffic your way. Gather all the statistical data, that you can use to keep your web site on top of the search engines' list. Vary your web site's contents and keywords to adapt to the current trend.

If there is a particular word or phrase that you have not used, when searching for keywords, use it instead to lead more traffic your way. Be flexible enough to change the web site's contents and thereby fulfill the ever-changing needs, of the online users.

All in all, with the proper research, creativity and enough knowledge, you can definitely optimize your web site, or blog, and yield some very promising results, for your business.

~Jannie

Do People Want Your Product?

2007-10-01T16:19:00.000+02:00

Many marketers have created or acquired products that they thought would sell really well and in their enthusiasm, set up everything from sales letters to websites, to getting traffic to those sites. However, a lot of these marketers have forgotten the single most important factor, that will affect their product sales �?? the "sellability", of the product.

When you begin creating products, or buying rights to a certain product to sell, the most important factor you must take into account, is the demand of the product. Do people want your product? It is simply stupid to waste a month's time, preparing a product, setting up the website and the required sales techniques, only to find that people do not even flick an eyebrow at your product!

Ask In Forums, Ask In Surveys...

Your goal is to deliver the product to your customer and collect his or her money. In order to do this, you must make sure your customer wants to buy your product, in the first place. How do you find out if they want your product? Simple. Just ask! Ask in forums related to your niche. Hold a survey or public poll. The Internet is a flat playing field, and you have the power to reach just about anyone in the world who has an Internet connection.

Food Related Product = Go To Food Related Forum

Let's say you have this brilliant idea on creating a step-by-step instruction on how to cook Malaysian food. First, you must find out if anyone is interested (or even heard of) Malaysian food. To do this, go to a food-related forum and ask tactfully if anyone would be interested in learning Malaysian cuisine. Do not ask blatantly, whether anyone would like to buy an ebook with instructions on how to cook Malaysian food, or you might be in danger of being accused of spamming.

Give Out A Few Free Mini-Samples!

On the other hand, you can give out a few samples of your Malaysian recipes to test the waters �?? see how the forum members react to them. If they show enthusiasm for learning more, then you definitely have a market in this. If they show no interest, then it is time to look for a new idea to market. You save time in the long run, because you don't have to find out the low demand for your product the hard way.

If People "Say Yes"... Then Go Ahead!

If your idea is welcomed by the forum members you surveyed, you can go ahead and compile your extensive ebook, on cooking Malaysian food, because there is interest in the information you possess. Where there is interest, you can easily build up desire for your product, and with desire, plus good marketing, your purchases will arrive naturally!

~ Jannie

How To Get Repeat Customers

2007-09-30T20:58:00.000+02:00

Let me ask you a question: -Do you think it is easier to sell your product or services to a complete stranger, or to a person you been in contact with before; whether it's an email conversation, forum participation or even an existing customer relationship i.e. he or she has bought something from you?

Without doubt, it would be harder to sell to a total stranger, who does not know whether or not you are an honest seller, and whether or not he or she should trust your words and believe that your product or services will truly benefit him or her.

This is precisely why you should build up a customer base -- a group of people who trust you and will most likely buy a product that you offer to them. This will ensure that you have a recurring and consistent source of income. When you release a product or make an endorsement, you have a group of people always ready to hear what you have to say.

Several Sources For You To Tap Into...

There are several sources that you can tap into, to start building a customer base, with repeat customers. For example, you can participate in an online discussion forum and give people advice and help them for free. It won't be long before people start to recognise your name and stop and listen everytime you have something to say. You will become a valuable friend and teacher, and gain the trust of these people. Would you buy something your close friend recommends?

Build A Mailing List...

Another way to build a customer base is to build a mailing list. There are a gazillion methods to collect subscribers, but when it's boiled down to the very essence, it's all about proving value to the crowd and maybe also offering an incentive to make people become part of your mailing list.

A typical example would be a website choke-full of freely available, helpful and quality articles on a certain subject plus a "special report" that can be downloaded for free, provided you submits your email address. The rich content provides value, and the "special report" is the extra incentive.

Do Remember Your Existing Customers!

Yet another source for your customer base, which is often forgotten, is your existing customers. If you bought this product from this particular person and he or she answered patiently to your every question, would you buy from him or her again in the future? Definitely.

When a customer has given you his or her money, that's not the end of the affair, because by keeping in touch with him or her and developing a flourishing relationship with him, or her, you will have a lifetime source of income.

Imagine if 100, 1000 or even 10000 customers are waiting to grab your newest products, even before they are released! Hence, it's vital to build a customer base, because it simply saves a lot of time and effort.

~Jannie

No Money = No Internet Business, Or?

2007-09-29T14:34:00.000+02:00

I often meet new Internet marketers on various forums and they aspire to earn the big bucks like some of the well-known personas out there, such as Yanik Silver that is an Internet marketing expert, with numerous own products and Bryan Kumar. He is an Internet marketer and information publisher, with several own ebooks and web sites. Most of these new marketers have only the slightest ideas on where to start, and a lot of them are not willing or able to invest a startup capital in their online business.

However, it is almost impossible to start an Internet business without spending some money on basic infrastructure such as web hosting, domain names and so on. Hence, here is a rough guide on how to build an Internet business starting with $0.

A Real Challenge: Starting An Internet Business with $0!

First and most important, list out all your skills...

What skills do you have? You may have picked up these skills through daily life (for example languages), through your job (hands-on knowledge on a specific niche) or from your hobbies (for example fishing). It is most vital to list down skills or knowledge that you have and might be in demand elsewhere.

For example: You love fly-fishing and you do it every day after work.

You may then build your Internet business upon this: Writing an instructional guide on fly-fishing, teaching people how to do it, etc.

Best of all, you do not need to spend money to acquire this knowledge: You already have it.

Earn capital, using your existing skills or knowledge...

So, the very first option, if you have no money to start off your online business, is to earn some capital using your already existing skills or knowledge. You can give tuition to students on your dominant subject in college, you can teach stuff about your hobby to people who are interested, you can write guides on knowledge or skills you picked up through experience and cannot be found in theoretical books.

Or, obtain almost everything you need through bartering!

Okay, let's say if you just can't think of any skills or knowledge that people might be interested in. Then, it's most important that you locate a workable business model and focus on that alone.

You can obtain almost everything you need, through bartering:

web hosting
domain name
credit card processing

...to name a few, in exchange for your product (if you own one) or services like copywriting, ghostwriting and website designs. There is always some mundane job that people don't want to do, and you can do that for those people in exchange for things you need. You just need to ask for it!

And off course, getting back to this blog, for more tips!

...Now, last but not least:

You could sign up for my free 'Home Business Weekly' newsletter. Look to the upper, right side in this blog for the submission form! If you do so, you will get tips, articles and valuable bonuses...
And you could get yourself a totally free top level domain by posting quality posts to: DDBoard.
Do also take a look at this page: How To Make Some Extra Cash Now! and read about a free Internet business opportunity, where you could work together with a stable company with products/services in demand. You will also find starter information about how to do it. Free!

That is all for this time. And I wish you a really nice day!

~Jannie

Affiliate Tools, Part 3 of 3

2007-09-28T15:35:00.000+02:00

This is the last post in my serial about affiliate tools, this time. In the other two posts, you have been able to read about the advantages of having your own website and also the use of incentives. Today it is going to be a little reading for you, about the affiliate tool: link popularity. Yes, this is also a great and free tool, that will help your affiliate marketing prosper.

#3: Link Popularity

The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. The all-important web traffic is at the top of the list of the most important entities in the internet world. Attracting people to your site should be one of the first steps you should carry out. Link popularity is a factor that search engines look at, in order to determine search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an active reciprocal link campaign.

Use e-zines and free article sites

One of the best ways to do this �?? at no cost at all �?? is by submitting articles, with your web site's link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity will become. Make your articles original, relevant and useful, so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

Now you have read about three of the many tools that an affiliate marketer can use to maximize his or her earning potential. The possibilities are off course endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination. You can always explore other ideas and adapt other strategies, which you think might help you become a successful 'super' affiliate marketer.

~ Jannie