Well, I have been on my journey to realizing one of the biggest passions in my life….starting a fitness studio. I’m doing this together with my two younger sisters, who incidentally have the same passion. We started classes on April the 1st. It’s class based, that means we don’t use equipments or weights.

We do however, use elastic bands in replace of weights…we have yoga classes, MMA(mixed martial arts), cardio fitness, body tone, step aerobics etc. You can find out more at www.u-fitness.net if you like.

Anyway “I’ll be back soon…” I have been and will still check on the comments and reply them so keep them coming ok.

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Let’s get started with the 7 effective ways you can use to create backlinks to your home legitimate business website;

1. Article writing and distribution is one of the most effective ways to generating backlinks. All you need to do is write articles on your market niche and post them to online article directories. You can go for free distribution with good article directories like Ezinearticles or Articlebase. You can also opt for the paid distribution services if you have the budget. This of course will take a lot of work load off your shoulders and they are very effective.

2. Posting on other people’s blogs is a fast and valuable way of creating backlinks to your online home legitimate business website. Again, look for blogs of similar themes, this way you can be sure of getting targeted traffic to your website. Post only on blogs that allow you to include your url. You can even write the text link you want linking back to you in the “Your Name” column of the comment form.

3. Do social bookmarking. Write articles or blogs and post them to social directories. Known as social bookmarking, this is an effective way to creating backlinks. You can submit to as many social directories as you like. There are paid services to do this. If you’re on a budget, a good free service you can use is OnlyWire. They distribute your blog posts or articles out to 20 social directories.

4. Participate in forums and create signature files that link back to your home legitimate business website. Your signature file can contain the keywords or keyword phrases that your website is optimized for. Search engines love this.

5. The next time you are requested to write a testimonial to help out on a product launch, do it. This can give you good traffic and backlinks as well. Hey, if the sales letter does not generate traffic at least you have a link back to your legitimate business site.

6. Exchanging links with other site owners of the similar niche. This will give your site better quality links as opposed to traffic. Search engines love this and can help boost your ranking up the search engines ranking.

7. Paying for the links. This include Google Adwords, pay per click services and buying advertising spaces in other people’s websites or blogs. These are some of the paid services you can subscribe to if you have the budget. They can provide you almost instant traffic for a price.

Above are some of the tactics you can definitely use to boost traffic and backlinks to your online home legitimate business website. Choose the one’s you are most comfortable with, put them to work and they will work for you.

Steven Fu, the author tests and recommends top online home legitimate business. He invites you to visit his website to get an idea of how you can start your own home legitimate business and create info products of your own at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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Here’s a little info about the Chinese lunar New Year;

Chinese New Year is celebrated as the symbol of spring’s celebration. In fact in China the Chinese New Year is still called the Spring festival. It is celebrated after the fall harvest and before the spring planting season. The date of the Chinese New Year is always changing and is dependant on the Chinese calendar. Emperor Huangdi in the year 2637 B.C.E invented the Chinese calendar.

…and this year it’s the year of the Ox.

So, again wishing everybody a Happy Chinese New Year! And welcome the year of the Ox with prosperity and happiness. May this year bring you the health, happiness and wealth that you wish for. Anyway, have fun and get lots of “Ang Paus”!!!

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1. Focus on creating information products that solve problems for your customers. You can ensure your success if you create quality products that give people answers to questions they have. By focusing on their problems you make your product more valuable and likely to sell.

2. Pay attention to the niche you are developing products in. Knowing the trends going on around you can help you create products that are in greater demand.

You can get a good idea on this by visiting Clickbank.com marketplace. You will find some of the most popular products in the various categories available there.
Another way to get good ideas is by visiting your local bookstrores and look at what some of the top selling books are. This should give you ideas on developing an info product of your own.

3. Create a marketing plan for promoting your info products online. Many people are good at product creation but fall down on the marketing side. To make the kind of money you deserve you must have a broad reaching advertising and marketing campaign for your products.

4. Consider various ways to package your info product. For example many people choose to just concentrate on creating ebooks and selling them online. However you can complement that by creating CD sets which are not very expensive to manufacture.

By so doing you can increase the profitability of your info product business by offering these to your customers. There are many resources available to you online to help you quickly do this.

One idea that makes a lot of sense is promoting your products at Clickbank.com. You could also use the affiliate program script provided by them to recruit affiliates to market your products for you. This is like having your own team of salesman selling on your behalf world wide.

These are some of the proven and effective ways you should seriously consider when creating your own info products. Let’s get it on.

Steven Fu, the author tests and recommends top legitimate home online business. He invites you to visit his website to get an idea of how you can start your own online business and create info products of your own at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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Here are five tips you can use to guide you in that direction.

1. What’s in it for me?
Have your customers in mind. Ask the above question as you are creating your product or writing content for your home online business website. This is human nature. If it’s they get more from you, chances are high that they will buy from you. Always put yourself in your customer’s shoes. What would interest you to buy most when you visit other people’s website. Take those ideas, improve them where you can and implement them.

2. Make it easy for your customers to pay.
Offer multiple payment gateways. Paypal is a must as it is widely used and accepted by online shoppers. They process payments fast and accept major credit cards too. The idea here is to make it easy for your customers to pay you. If they need to spend too much it is very likely that they would just click away.

3. Look around for what are the hot selling products.
Do you watch tv? If you do, good. Keep an eye on what are the advertisements that appear the most the next time you turn on your tv set. Why? Those are the current hot items. If they compliment with the theme of your legitimate home online business, then put it in there. The other good source to get product ideas is to pay a visit to your local bookstore. Go to the bestsellers corner and whoa la! That’s your answer right there.

4. Offer free quality products.
This is one of the most effective ways of driving traffic to your website. People love free stuff. Offer a quality free product and people will love you. Now, the twist here is to include links back to your home online business website and grant giveaway rights to it. This is also called viral marketing. Very powerful stuff.

5. The final tip to increasing traffic to your legitimate home online business is to pick one or two marketing tactics and master them. Use too may and you will just confuse yourself. You’ll be spending too much time learning the tactics rather than actually marketing your website.  My advice is always to start with two. After you have mastered them then move on to others.

There you have it. The five traffic pulling tactics that work every time. Work them and they will work for you!

Steven Fu, the author tests and recommends top legitimate home online business. He invites you to visit his home online business website to get an idea of how you can start an online business of your own at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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1. Make an outline for your ebook before you begin writing. This can be in a point form for you to organize exactly what you want to write about. It’s like your road map to writing the e-book which you can follow as you develop your content. You can always use pdf files to create your ebooks. OpenOffice.org word processor let’s you do that for free.

2. Write about things that interest you. This is a good way to get started as an e-book writer because this will keep you interested when doing your research, and the quality of your content will be better as well.

Here’s a tip. Write on areas you are already an expert in. This can be related to your job or your hobby. Your readers will appreciate your e-book more when you write from a position of experience and passion.

3. Pay attention to the length of your ebook. Today, niche marketing is extremely popular and this should be a clue to you on the type of ebooks you write. By targeting your book to a specific theme you will be able to provide better content and focus on one thing. You also stand a better chance of the book being read from start to finish as opposed to writing a longer one. Plus you can write more of them!

4. When you write sit down and avoid distractions. If you plan on creating a higher number of e-books it will be important you are productive when cranking them out. The best way to do this is to write in blocks of time such as two hours in the morning and two hours at night. You can go longer, but try and avoid burnout which will affect the quality of the words you are writing.

5. If you want an easier way of creating e-books, you can always pay somebody to do it for you. Outsourcing can be a good alternative if you have the budget. Folks at Elance will do it for you for a fee. You can even outsource other things like proofreading and graphic design.

These are the 5 success tips to e-book writing. Use them as you guide and will be able to churn out a quality e-book that people will enjoy.

Steven Fu, the author is an writes e-books him self. Check out his FREE “Plug-in Passive Income Toolkit” and to have a better idea of how and what e-books you can create. http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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The fact of the matter is, the internet changes ever so rapidly. As an internet marketer it is critical that you keep your fingers on it’s pulse so to speak. You need to know what are the latest marketing strategies that pull in traffic and tap in to them. I’m not saying that you implement all the strategies out there. You just need to know the once that work, adhere to them and drop those that don’t.

Below are some of  the strategies you can use to boost traffic to your online home legitimate business.

1. The current trend seems to be heading towards social media. Today people use various social networks like Facebook and Twitter to; “hang out”, share experiences and network. You are certainly missing a lot if you are not implementing these to your marketing strategy.

2. The other traffic puller is You Tube. Are you using You Tube? Video marketing has been proven to be one of the fastest and most effective traffic generation methods to date. Look, this is easy to do. You can create simple videos about your home legitimate business online using Window’s Movie Maker. Insert a link back to your website in the video and upload it to You Tube. You can even create video blogs to make your blog  more interesting. Talking about blogs, do you even have one?

3. Blogs, Wordpress blogs to be exact is a great tool for pulling in organic search traffic. That’s free traffic from search engines when people perform searches with them. If you have done your homework on  keyword research, your post can be on the first page of search engines within 24 hours. I have personally done it in 2 minutes and in Google.

4. The final thing I would like to mention here is to plan your work. As the saying goes, people don’t plan to fail but they fail to plan. How true these words are. You have got to have a road map to how you are to achieve your success with your online home legitimate business. This can be identifying what your daily chores will be to promote your online home business. If you find this hard to do, then at least decide what you are going to do tomorrow before the end of today.

Above are some of the proven traffic generation tactics you can use to boost your online business.

Steven Fu, the author tests and recommends top online home legitimate business. He invites you to visit his home legitimate business website to get an idea of how you can start an online business of your own at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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And what a transformation it has been. Our house is and has always been in a “properly maintained” condition, even then, with the new paint work the it has that glow again. A sense of good “Feng Shui” lingers all over.  A feeling of a new beginning. A feeling of gearing up to face 2009 anew. You now what I mean? The same is true for your online home legitimate business.

Then it struck me to blog about house keeping of your online home legitimate business. Ask yourself, when was the last time you backed up your computer, or the folders you use to keep important information about your online home business. Stuff like your back up files for your website or your blog. Information on products you are affiliated to and their support contact information. Graphics you use for your website or blogs and so on.

Here’s one. What is the condition of your computer’s desktop page? Chances are you have files or folders pasted all over it your wallpaper is hardly visible.  It’s time to delete off unwanted or unused items from your computer as well. For one you get to free up your hard disc space and most importantly, it’s just so much more soothing to the eyes. You can find even find that important folder for tomorrow’s meeting so much easier.

Well, what are you waiting for? Lets get started with the house keeping already.

Steven Fu, the author tests and recommends proven online legitimate home business opportunities. He invites you to visit his legitimate home business website to find out more about what you can do to make money online at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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My last recorded Alexa ranking was 1,697,511 on the 20th Dec 2008 and my Legitimate Home Business blog ranking today, 10th Jan 2009 is 1,405,129. That’s 292, 382 positions up the rank to be exact in about 20 days.

That’s taking into consideration that I have been busy with the recent X’mas and the New Year holidays and blogging was put on hold for a couple of days, naturally. But then I started blogging again the whole of this week but nothing happened until…

I created a few Squidoo lenses with the relevant keywords pointing back to my website and blog yesterday and whoa la! I wake up with an improved ranking today. Could this be a coincidence? Its possible. The only way to find out is to create more squidoo lenses and wait for the result.

I know you can get good search engine ranking using good keywords to create Squidoo lenses and directing backlinks to them, but boosting up Alexa ranking. That’s new to me, but a good surprise nevertheless. I will continue with squidoo and see if that surprises me again. I should highlight it here that I have  also launched a article marketing campaign for my Legitimate Home Business blog about 2 weeks ago. That helped too I’m sure.

Until my next update then.

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In this posting I will reveal to you some of the most important tips to a traffic generating article writing.

Writing an article is very similar to creating a good content for your website. The basic SEO tactics applies here too. Firstly you would need to do keyword research. Now, if you have been following my postings you know I have always stressed on the importance of keyword research over and over again. This is one of the reasons why. You can also write articles on them.

There are many good and free keyword research tools like Seobook and Google to help you identify good keywords for your article marketing campaign.

After you have found your keywords, sprinkle them into your article. Keep in mind to maintain keyword density of less than 3%. The keyword or keyword phrase must appear in the title, first paragraph, middle and conclusion of the article. This is my rule of thumb and it has worked well for my article writing. Also, keep the word count to more than 400 but less than 450 words.

The next thing you need to master is writing good titles for your articles. In mastering I really mean good enough to be dangerous. Here is a good way to learn. Pay Ezinearticles a visit and take note on the titles of articles that catch your attention. Look at how they are written and the words they use. You’ll get a good idea from there. You can even create a swipe file of tiles that you like for use in the future. What ever works for you.

Once your article is ready, submit it to good article directories. Ezinearticles, Articlebase, Goarticles, Buzzle, Articlesfactory and Isnare are some of the quality article directories that will do justice to your article writing efforts. Post it to your wordpress blog if you have one. If you don’t, make one. It’s free and you will not regret it. It’s powerful. I have gotten my some of my postings indexed and listed in the first page of Google in 2 minutes. Not kidding.

If you have the budget SubmitYourArticle is a good service to use. Their state of the art technology takes your article marketing efforts to the next level.

Lastly, write from your heart. Try writing something from your experience if you can. Feel free to share your mistakes and your victory. I have read literatures that advices you from sharing too much. There are truth in that I must say. But I always believe this, ”give and you shall receive”. Whether it’s good or bad. So, give with a sincere heart and you shall receive the same. Always.

There you have it. Tips guaranteed to improve your article marketing efforts. What are you waiting for. Start writing articles now.

Steven Fu, the author runs his online business promotions mainly through article marketing and SEO. He invites you to visit his website at; http://www.PluginPassiveIncome.com

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