tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:23:01 +0000Tips on niche selection, generating traffic and optimizing your online efforts to generate a salehttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (ami)Blogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-8230387084630204916Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:00 +00002009-12-19T11:44:01.922-08:00Search Engine OptimizationFor many of us, Youtube has been a gold mine for getting videos for our websites and blogs.And Youtube has been very helpful by providing an embed codeAll you have to do is grab the embed code of the relevant Youtube video and paste it in the relevant area of your sites or blogs html code and Hey presto, you have video on your siteProblem is it causes problems with your website's validationWhat http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-validate-embedded-you-tube.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-8332544520966241567Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:07:00 +00002009-12-07T13:37:07.397-08:00Search Engine OptimizationSo to continue with or backlinks theme I thought I would go over how to get do follow backlinks to your siteNow this method I cannot take credit for. But it certainly does work.Before I go into the details of how you can find websites with do follow attribute on their outgoing links, lets take some time to review the more commonly used methodsArticle DirectoriesStill a very good method of http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/12/unique-method-of-getting-do-follow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-249234618982067977Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:22:00 +00002009-12-06T20:30:40.366-08:00Search Engine OptimizationSpecifically searching for sites that allow do follow links is something that I am little uneasy about talking about, certainly sharing tips about how to find do follow sites is something that I tend to do with a bit of concern.Simply because of the share number of people who just spam these sitesBut amongst us are ethical bloggers and webmasters and this post on finding do follow sites is for http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/12/banish-no-follow-links-find-do-follow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-404014329857073405Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:21:00 +00002009-12-06T07:38:25.534-08:00Social networking/BookmarkingSo I am certain that you have seen several posts extolling the virtues of social networking. And you are probably thinking'Oh No! Not another post on how to use social networking sites'Well I am not going to do that, i.e. point out all those obvious and rehashed tips that every other blog master has publishedInstead I want to share with you a pleasant and profitable experience I recently hadFirsthttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/12/social-networking-does-work.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-3030812304370683023Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:41:00 +00002009-12-01T13:03:53.486-08:00Affiliate MarketingAs niche marketers or affiliate marketers, we have all heard about the new FTC regulations and have seen all the doom and gloom emails about how they can affect our businessFor those of you who are totally unaware, the Federal trade commission has revised it's guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials.So how does this affect us as affiliate marketersDisclosure: As an affiliate marketer, http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/12/about-new-ftc-regulations-and-affiliate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-5047217970591410137Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:38:00 +00002009-11-28T13:54:34.547-08:00AdsenseRegarding adsense and niche websites, the majority of us niche marketers know the basicsYou add content that is keyword rich and niche focused.Get the keywords on your pages right, put them in those oh-so crucial spots in your content and you'll get ads relevant to your contentBut sometimes this can be so unpredictable.While browsing today I came across a blog on niche marketing. The content was http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/11/adsense-can-be-so-unpredictable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-4950504699050928029Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:17:00 +00002009-11-16T12:22:45.443-08:00Email MarketingSo instead of getting really irritated when I get a bunch of emails with these headlines, I thought I'd put it out there and see what you guys thinkSo here are some of the email headlines that really get my goatThank you, here's your downloadNot a problem if I had signed up for the download. I suppose the sender hopes that we are not keeping track of what we sign up for. Usually contains a http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/11/email-headlines-that-really-bug-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-4996707917514005302Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:37:00 +00002009-11-14T15:39:59.081-08:00Affiliate MarketingWhen I first went into affiliate marketing, I had difficulty getting my head round the concept of not having any products in my warehouse and still making money. Money for nothing?Because that's what affiliate marketing is. You tell people about a product you like. They go and buy that product, mention to the vendors that you suggested it and presto! the merchants pay you a commission. And it's http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/11/affiliate-marketing-money-for-nothing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-4611939711426400036Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:02:00 +00002009-11-04T12:36:04.051-08:00Affiliate MarketingHigh ticket affiliate products were a no-go area for me when I was a newbie affiliate marketer. I, like a lot of other affiliate marketing beginners, thought they would just be too difficult to promote and therefore stayed with the low cost products.It's easier to get someone to spend $7 than $1500 right?Wrong or so I found out.High ticket vs Low ticket affiliate product refundsImagine you were http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/11/high-ticket-affiliate-products-versus.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-591719057371031900Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:13:00 +00002009-11-01T11:17:58.975-08:00Search Engine OptimizationEvery single affiliate marketing guru will tell you keyword research is crucial...And it is but is keyword research over-rated and over-loved?Keyword research is supposed to help you discover those keywords in your niche that have a lot of demand and a under supplied to. You optimize posts for those keywords and monetize your pages and 'hey presto' you are laughing all the way to the bank.The http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/11/keyword-research-over-rated-and-over.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-8202052011565645188Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:49:00 +00002009-10-24T08:50:56.691-07:00Affiliate MarketingA lot of newbies find out about affiliate marketing and run out and build their own affiliate marketing site. And the most popular niche among newbies is... make money onlineAnd you can understand the excitement they feel on finding this wonderful new business and the challenge of affiliate marketing. Heaven knows I was really excited when I got into affiliate marketing.And the make money online http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/10/about-make-money-online-niche.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-6063358232985720408Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:52:00 +00002009-10-15T10:56:13.370-07:00Search Engine OptimizationSo which is more important to a niche marketing webmaster. Page rank or search engine results page positionEvery so often in the forums people post about losing page rank, or how to get a higher PR or why their PR is still zero or 1And my standard answer is 'How is the site doing in the SERPs?'You see page rank is important. After all it is the measure of how important or relevant your website ishttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/10/page-rank-versus-serps-position.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-1635554761392399892Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:00 +00002009-10-04T05:44:34.486-07:00Search Engine OptimizationAny webmaster wanting traffic is involved in getting do follow backlinks to their sites. At least they should be.And do follow backlinks are crucial if you want to rank well in the search engine results pages for your niche termsSo we go commenting on other people's blogs and seeking out forums to participate in especially targeting those with do follow attributeBut something has been niggling athttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-dwindling-obsession-with-do-follow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-121844180359607391Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:08:00 +00002009-09-27T09:28:05.816-07:00BloggingEveryone is banging on about the quality of blog posts.And I'll confess, I have done my fair bit of this also.There really is no doubt that the quality of your website content, be it blog post or website content is crucial.That really goes without saying.But there is quantity as well and a lot of people are leaving this one outQuantity mattersQuantity matters to your search engine http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-niche-marketing-quantity-matters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-8375389337283530946Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:02:00 +00002009-09-21T06:19:54.770-07:00AdsenseAdsense and making a significant income online are a pipe dream. At least that's what I thought when I first started on this internet marketing or niche marketing business pathLike a lot of my niche marketing colleagues, it was a good adsense day when I made $2 in that day'WOW' Not really the fast track to financial freedom :(And like a lot of people out there still seem to believe, if what we http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-big-adsense-awakening.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-706382832469869282Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:19:00 +00002009-09-19T09:28:39.281-07:00BloggingSo what does one do when the idea you are trying to get across just will not fit into 450 words.There are a few optionsBreak it upYou can break up your posts into a series. You'll notice on this blog there are a few posts that are actually one topic broken into a few posts. If you do this you have two options in formatting a title for each postNumerical. This is when all the posts in the series http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/what-to-do-with-long-blog-posts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-4228721563963710874Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:47:00 +00002009-09-18T14:15:22.955-07:00BloggingSo what is the ideal length of a blog post?I see this question asked time and again in the forums.The simple answer is ideally 250 to 450 words....Because...ReadershipToday's Internet user has so many options that he or she is impatient to get on to the next thing. The next website, or blog. Check email. Hang out on Facebook. Or is it twitter? So when they land on your blog and there is a lengthyhttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/ideal-length-of-blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-1052193951122903251Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:41:00 +00002009-09-12T12:56:57.758-07:00Search Engine OptimizationPosting comments on blogs can help generate traffic to your website or blog directly or indirectly if done properly.By direct traffic I mean a reader of your comment clicks on your link and goes to your website or blogBy indirect traffic we are talking about the SEO benefit of the backlinks to your site or blog in your blog comment if the link is 'do follow'.We all know this. It's blog commentinghttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-to-post-useful-blog-comments-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-5916894926943403037Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:23:00 +00002009-09-03T00:29:06.236-07:00Social networking/BookmarkingOne of the major advantages of Digg was the do follow attribute on links there. You submit your story, you get a back linkJust read on the digg blog that digg has decided to put the no follow attribute on some of the links on the siteThese includeLinks in commentSubmit that do not meet a certain threshold in popularityLinks in user profilesObviously the question now is, what are they using as a http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/09/digg-now-using-no-follow-selectively.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-2116379070807961012Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:50:00 +00002009-08-30T17:01:46.196-07:00Social networking/BookmarkingSo now the shout system is gone, how can you get the most out of Digg for website exposure and traffic In the past, when you submitted a story to Digg and wanted your friends to Digg to see it, all you needed to do was send a shout. Your friends got an email notification and..instant traffic. It really was as easy as that. And if they liked your story then they in turn Dugg it and, if it's reallyhttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/digg-how-to-get-most-out-of-your-diggs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-8424223160617181412Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:31:00 +00002009-08-29T05:30:09.153-07:00Search Engine OptimizationYou are going to learn an easy method of creating an XML sitemap for your website and how to submit it to Google for indexingSitemap GeneratorFirst you need to generate the sitemap. A free sitemap generator I recommend is http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/It's a free service and will generate a sitemap for any website with less than 500 pages in secondsType in the URL of the homepage of the website youhttp://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-create-sitemap-for-google.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-7931212079058070986Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:05:00 +00002009-08-22T04:31:15.476-07:00Search Engine OptimizationSo you have added unique and useful posts to your blog or website frequently. And have worked tirelessly to get those backlinks to your blog.And finally one day, you find your site at the coveted number one position for your chosen keyword or bunch of keywords in the search engines. YippeeBut what next?The thing with search engine optimization is it is unfortunately a continual process. You have http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/number-one-position-in-google-search.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-7547633277551316044Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:48:00 +00002009-08-17T07:19:39.944-07:00Search Engine OptimizationBacklinks are crucial to search engine optimization and majority of niche marketers are busy trying to get as many backlinks as possible.But we know that the pattern with which our links increase is one of the factors that the search engines, mainly Google, monitor to determine sites that are artificially inflating their search engine positionThe dates that links appear can also be used to http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-many-backlinks-are-safe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-5795415428914564996Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:42:00 +00002009-08-13T13:01:03.455-07:00Increase website trafficMost affiliate marketers have heard of traffic exchanges. They are websites where you first submit your site's URL and then you have to view other peoples' sites to earn credits. The more credits you earn the more often your site will be shown to other people who are... surfing for creditAny mildly intelligent person will have read the above statement and thought...hmmmLet me clarifyTraffic http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/traffic-exchanges-useful-or-not-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3880706493923233049.post-6860873087215243670Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:04:00 +00002009-08-02T13:22:36.085-07:00AdsenseThe position of your adsense units could significantly affect your click through rate.I honestly thought this was Adsense 101, you know the basic basics of Adsense. So why is it that when browsing the net you come across web pages with the Adsense at the end of the page?Lets quickly run through how to determine the best position for Adsense on your website or blogFor this I am assuming that http://niche-traffic-sale.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-money-with-adsense-adsense.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (ami)5