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Wordtracker - Review of Internet’s Finest Online Keyword Research Tool

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:45:02 +0000

In this day and age of internet marketing, it is important to research and identify your own set of niche keywords with less or no competition.

Wordtracker makes it possible for you to analyze and identify your own niche for new product ideas, search engine optimization and pay per click advertising and more.

One of the first and finest online keyword research tool provides 340 million keyword database including misspelled words and phrases.An easy three steps allows you to complete the process in less than 5 minutes and the best thing is that there is no guesswork involved.

The online tool allows you to research a particular keyword at a deeper level and analyze it using the KEI ( Keyword Efficiency Index) gauge. The range is between 0 to 400 + and divided into poor keyword, good keyword and excellent keyword.

In a free trial, you’re allowed to collect up to 30 keywords into the basket and analyze on one major search engine namely MSN. The full version allows you to research up to 250 keywords and analyze on all major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Teoma and others. Though it only allows you to analyze on 2 major search engines at a time.

Poor keyword indicates that the competition level is extremely high and saturated which implies almost impossible for you to achieve a high ranking in the major search engines.

Good keyword implies fewer competition for a particular keyword and therefore you can gain advantage on your niche market and achieve a higher ranking on major search engines.

Excellent keyword usually has a KEI worth more than 100 and implies that there is almost no competition and easier for you to achieve higher ranking in the major search engines.

Wordtracker allows you to print your actual results for the keywords that you’ve researched and analyzed. Also they will email your result to keep a record for future analysis.

The only drawback for Wordtracker is that they don’t take plural keywords into consideration whereas Overture, a free online keyword suggestion, takes into account for both plural and singular keywords.

Overall Wordtracker is essential for every internet marketers whether for beginners or experts to generate high quality traffic.

About the Author

Heikal Suhaili provide tips and hints on Adsense. For more information on wordtracker review, visit his blog at http://freetipsforadsense.blogspot.com

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Blogging With WordPress: 7 Quick and Easy Tips to Get Started With Your WordPress Blog Now!

Kevin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:45:03 +0000

You know you want to start a blog, but how does this whole blogging thing work? It’s not nearly as difficult as you might imagine. Here are 7 quick and easy tips to get you started.

1. Even if you don’t have your own domain and hosting account you can get a free WordPress blog at the WordPress site. See ‘References’ at the end of the article to access the WordPress site. It won’t be quite as professional as a WordPress blog hosted on your own site, but the point is – just do it. Don’t worry about hosting – it isn’t critical. When you arrive at the WordPress site just click on the big blue button that says, ‘Start Your WordPress Blog”.

2. Create a user name. This will become part of the name of your blog so put some real thought into this name. Make it relevant to the subject of your blog. Fill in your e- mail address (a primary address where you will receive your login instructions, password and other important information). Agree to the legal stuff and…

3. Click on ‘Gimme A Blog!’ Wordpress will do everything that is necessary to create your blog for you. You don’t have to do a thing except continue to the next page.

4. On the next page you will see your domain name. It will consist of yourblogname.wordpress.com. Take a few minutes to admire it! This might be your very first domain and your first home on the Web.

5. Now you must think about the title of your blog. This is as important as the name because it will appear in the header on every page of your blog. The search engines will know it’s the name and will decide on your ranking depending on how relevant the title is to your content. Choose well.

6. Sit back, have a cup of coffee, and wait for your activation e-mail. You will receive detailed instructions from the folks at WP on what to do next.

7. Start Blogging!

Answer these questions and you’ll be on your way to getting your own WordPress blog:

Do you have a domain? If not, what’s holding you back from getting a WordPress hosted blog?
What have you chosen as the name for your blog?
What title have you chosen for your WordPress blog?
Do you have a plan for implementing your first WordPress blog today?

References: WordPress Site - http://www.wordpress.com

For more tips and tricks on WordPress and blogging please visit http://www.wpguru.com. Get up to speed on WordPress quickly and easily.

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Facilitating Social Media Optimization (SMO) Bookmark or Subscribe With a Single Button

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:45:12 +0000

Interview with Dom Vonarburg of AddThis.com, Copyright ? October 10, 2006 by Mike Banks Valentine

Social Media Optimization (SMO) is the new buzzword when it comes to?getting links from sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, and Flickr. There is a lot of?talk on SEO blogs and in forums about this concept. What it means, essentially, is that web publishers want visitors to bookmark their content, subscribe to their blogs, news, product and podcast feeds.

A current search at Google for “Social Media Optimization” (as of this writing) has Lee Odden’s TopRankBlog post on SMO showing up number one for that search.

Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy Public Relations is being credited with coining the Social Media Optimization phrase and said in Rule #2 of his “Five Rules of Social Media Optimization” blog post in August, 2006

“Make tagging and bookmarking easy - Adding content features like quick buttons to “add to del.icio.us” are one way to make the process of tagging pages easier…”

Until recently, making “the process of tagging pages easier” has been rather cumbersome and tedious for publishers. Collecting code and “chiclets” (logos) from each service first to facilitate using social bookmark service links and feeds, then posting a mish-mash of those links near web content to encourage visitors to subscribe to feeds or bookmark that content through any of dozens of popular services.

But a new service at http://www.AddThis.com has been launched which appears to solve the complexity for publishers and reduces the “chiclet” clutter by providing a single button for bookmarks or a single button for RSS feeds, to allow bookmarks and feeds through any of the most popular services. ?? What follows is a Q&A with AddThis.com co-founder Dom Vonarburg

Q) Most interviews end by asking if there is anything else you’d like?to add, what specifically would you like people to know about AddThis?up front? ? A) AddThis.com is a brand new service that helps web surfers collect information online with a single click, and send it to their favorite bookmarking service, feed reader, wish list service, podcast service, etc. AddThis also helps web publishers promote their content (web pages, feeds, products, podcasts, etc) online by making it easier for their visitors to collect it, save it, and distribute it to social services. AddThis was launched in September at the DEMO conference, the launchpad for emerging technology.

Q) Do you see AddThis as a?potentially big player in the Social Media Optimization (SMO) phenomenon since you make it easier for? web publishers to get their sites bookmarked, and their podcasts and?blog feeds subscribed?

A) We started working on AddThis back in March 2006, even before the term SMO was first coined. The idea behind AddThis was, and still is, to completely eliminate all obstacles web publishers have in distributing their content to visitors and the social media services they might use. Our internal term for it was initially social SEO, but I like Social Media Optimization better.

We think AddThis will be a very important player in the SMO space, as it is the first service to provide a generic gateway for collecting and distributing many different types of content. AddThis acts as a bridge between the web publisher, the web user, and the social media services. ?

Q) You’ve added a new angle to the bookmarks game with the “Products”?button.? If it takes off, it seems like it would be great for ecommerce?sites, especially with the reporting attached. I haven’t seen this?anywhere else. What made you bring the product angle into an AddThis?Product Button? ? A) “Products” was the next logical step for us after bookmarks, feeds and podcasts. People want to collect and compare the products and services they find online, and ecommerce websites want to facilitate this process. By adding “Product” buttons to their pages, ecommerce websites are more likely to be included in their visitors’ final purchase decisions. The button also helps spread these products to other people through social bookmarking and social shopping websites (Kaboodle.com, Wists.com, ThisNext.com, etc).

Q) You are offering AddThis as a free service. Is there any plan to?move to a higher level plan to monetize it? I noted your participation?in the DEMO conference where companies seek venture capital and seed?funding. Were you seeking funding and were you successful?

A) Yes, the service is free and will continue to be free. Starting early next year, we will also provide a premium version of the service. I don’t want to say too much at this point, but the premium service will provide many interesting features for web publishers, one of which will be more advanced statistics. Our primary goal with DEMO was to boost the launch of AddThis. We also received the attention of several investors.

Q) Providing stats was an extra step that probably increased costs and?complexity for AddThis. What made you consider the reporting to?publishers as an important part of a free service?

A) The statistics was a fairly simple feature to add and we thought it added a lot of value to web publishers, especially for products. For example, with the statistics, web publishers can find out which products their visitors are most interested in, which ones receive less attention, etc.

Q) Is there any connection with ClickAbility.com? (”Email This” “Save?This” and “Print This”)

A) ClickAbility is different in that it provides its own system for saving information. AddThis does not impose any destination for the content collected.

Q) Was the AddThis.com domain already yours, or did you purchase from an existing?owner? It shows in domain records as being registered since?1998, but the WayBack Machine at Archive.org only shows a single page?with nothing on it from 2002. So little history available on the?domain. Has AddThis been in the works since 1998?

A) The domain was not ours; we purchased it from its previous owner in March 2006.

Q) Most bloggers providing RSS feeds to their users did their best to?get each of about a dozen of those “Chiclets” allowing subscriptions?through the most popular services posted in the margins of their blogs.?Many bloggers are now relying on the FeedBurner service and moving to a?single feed logo. How does the AddThis.com feed service compare to?FeedBurner? Do you see?FeedBurner as a competitor? ? A) FeedBurner’s primary business is feed hosting and management. Feeds are only one type of content supported by AddThis, we support and will support many more types. We think our generic approach to content collection and distribution is truly unique. So we don’t see FeedBurner as a direct competitor.

Q) Most big publishers and now thousands of smaller web site owners and?bloggers are beginning to post Del.icio.us and Furl and Reddit logos and links on?their pages in the hopes that site visitors will bookmark their pages?in the social bookmarks services. Some are choosing to add a few links?to some of the other bookmarking services, but few go beyond the top 5?social bookmarks site links. I see that AddThis Bookmark service offers?16 social bookmarks services. How did you decide ones which you would?include? Certain popularity levels?

A) We picked the most popular bookmarking services based on popularity and visibility in the search engines. We only stopped at 16 because of time constraints, but we will add many more of them in the future. By letting AddThis maintain the list of bookmark and feed buttons, web publisher can better focus on their content.

Q) Do you have any plans for a tie-in with Digg? As a news popularity?site, they have a different focus than the RSS feeds and Social?Bookmarks services, but many site publishers are including “Digg This”?links from their web pages as part of a “social media marketing” plan. Does your focus with AddThis stick to bloggers, product retailers,?bookmarks, and podcasts or will you consider expanding into the news?and other areas?

A) Social news is also a logical candidate for AddThis. We will also add other types of content based on user adoption.

Q) Is there anything else you’d like to Add(to)This?? ;-) ? A) We think AddThis will play a big role because it makes a lot of sense for both web users and web publishers. You can think of AddThis.com as the more social sister of AddMe.com, or its Web2.0 extension. Each service helps you achieve a different kind of visibility.

As a publisher, I had been updating WebSite101 to a new template and had been considering including Furl, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and Digg, but came across the AddThis Demo launch story and dropped Furl and Reddit from the mix in favor of the AddThis “Bookmark” link, since AddThis supports all of the bookmarking services with one button.

I’m keeping the Del.icio.us and Digg links for now, but I think once publishers begin to realize they can simplify bookmarks and if users understand that they can use any social bookmark service through AddThis, that you’ll see strong adoption of the service.

Good luck on wide adoption of AddThis by both the public and publishers Dom, I wish you the best of luck with your contribution to Social Media Optimization!

Mike, I want to thank you for this opportunity to answer these questions and describe our vision for AddThis.com; your questions?were right on target!

About the Author

Mike Banks Valentine operates SEOptimism, Offering SEO training of in-house content managers http://seoptimism.com/SEO_Staff_Training.htm as well as the Small Business Ecommerce Tutorial at http://WebSite101.com and blogs about SEO at http://RealitySEO.com where this article appears with live links to SMO stories, buttons, blog posts and examples.Mike Banks Valentine operates SEOptimism, Offering

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Real Blog Videos ease WordPress set-up

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:45:03 +0000

Real Blog Videos ease WordPress set-up

For a complete novice, setting up a blog can be a daunting task especially if your computer knowledge basically consists of being able to turn it on , surf the net and check email. There are programs out there that probably cater to the newbie but for a wannabe affiliate marketer the future is WordPress. WordPress is a state of the art, free blogging program that is aesthetically pleasing and programmed to do well with SEO. While researching their site, it became very clear that I would need to acquire much more information to be successful at setting up my blog. Luckily, rather than spending countless hours reading and trying to absorb WordPress lessons I found the answer to my prayers. There is a great series of videos by Jon Symons that are specifically aimed at the beginning blogger. All technical aspects are covered: from picking a domain name, registering it, web hosting set-up and step by step ways of getting WordPress loaded onto your domain. The videos were all done with Camtasia Studio so you basically watch and learn as Jon sets up a demo blog. There are 5 separate video lessons consisting of approximately 2 hours.

Lesson 1: Keywords-Before you Begin

Lesson 2: Register a Domain Name

Lesson 3: Sign up and configure a Hosting Account

Lesson 4: Install a WordPress blog and do the First Post

Lesson 5: Customize and configure your Blog

Bonus Video 1: Blogging Copy and Paste Tip

Bonus Video 2: How to install WordPress manually

Bonus Video 3: How to install WordPress on Dreamhost

All the videos are extremely informative for anyone new to blogging. If you have a blog and want to get independent hosting outside of Blogger.com, Typepad.com or WordPress.com that is also covered. The videos are not advanced and all information is explained in easy, understandable terms. Two different hosting companies are demonstrated and a savings coupon is also included if you want to use one of these hosts. Overall, the videos seem to be well thought out and an unbelievable bargain for only $15.

As a visual learner, I found these videos to be the perfect way to efficiently and effectively set up my first blog. I would’ve spent countless hours searching through web pages trying to digest all the information. Instead, for such a low price, I had all the information pointed out for me and am able to go back and re-watch anything I didn’t absorb the first time.

If you’re just starting out with WordPress I would definitely recommend these videos for the wealth of knowledge they contain. If you’re already familiar with website design and blogs they probably won’t contain much you don’t already know.

About the Author

To get started on your new blog today please visit: wordpress help View Ms. Mason’s blog at www.bestdentalanswers.com

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Combining Google Adwords And Clickbank Affiliate Program To Make Money

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:45:07 +0000

Our software sells to various types of traffic including make money, work from home, intenet bussiness, affiliate marketing, adwords, ppc, keywords, webmasters, ect. The main method that was revealed involved combining Google Adwords and the Clickbank affiliate program, to make money, online, everyday almost on autopilot.

The main method I have used to make money online from eBay is by running Google Adwords with my affiliate link. Realize that there is a learning cycle to the Google AdWords game and not everyone will make money right away. Google gets people to open an AdWords account but it only makes a sales and makes any money when someone clicks on an ad. If you find that this report will make and save you money, on your Google Adwords Campaigns, feel free to make a donation.

I think he was probably a little sleazy, but placing those tiny little AdWords ads can make you money on the web. And the more money they make selling their scams, the more they can pay to get pushed to the top of their adwords competitors. Bottomline, you spend money with adwords but make money with adsense.

Sadly though because so few people understand adwords fully most end up losing more money than they make! Beating Adwords gives you the tools necessary to actually make money online, it is not just a theory that sho… They read some e-book about how to make money with Google AdWords, and instantly think they’re ready to conquer the world. http://www.adwords-make-money.com/

About the Author

Amporn Saechin is The Combining Google Adwords And Clickbank Affiliate Program To Make Money - Quickly and Easily! http://www.adwords-make-money.com/

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WordPress: How To Make Your Blog Work For You

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:45:03 +0000

If your blog is business oriented, you must always consider SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

Yes - the ugly three word phrase. But these tips are easy - no coding needed. No scratching your head over php or html. It’s simply about choosing the theme layout that will help your SEO efforts. It’s easy but almost no one knows about it or thinks about it.

Do you know that Search Engines don’t always read every word on your page? That’s right - they don’t. The header tags and the upper left hand corner of the page might be all that is checked. What if your sidebar is in the upper left hand corner? The content in your sidebar doesn’t change frequently so the Search Engines will think there is nothing new and move on. One of the main advantages of a blog is that it is frequently updated so it is Search Engine friendly.

What’s a blogger to do? Simple - choose a two-column theme with the sidebar on the right!

What are ‘header tags’? Header tags are simply the title of the post. Behind the scenes, your theme encloses your title in header tags. That’s what makes the font bigger and makes it look like a title. Why is the title important? Search engines also look at what’s inside your header tags. Since each post creates a new page it’s easy for the search engines to locate the header tags. So - think about the title of every post. Make it keyword rich for the search engines but make it grab your reader too.

With a little thought and planning you can make your blog really work for you.

Cathy Perkins is an author and WordPress guru who lives in the beautiful foothills of North Carolina. Please visit the WordPressGuru site and sign up for the WordPress Guru newsletter at http://www.wordpressguru.com

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Facilitating Social Media Optimization (SMO) Bookmark or Subscribe With a Single Button

Kevin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:45:02 +0000