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Vernee Apollo X 4G Phablet

Wed, 13 Dec 2017 16:17:00 +0000

Hi readers,
Just gone and got myself a Vernee Apollo X 4G Phablet and what a good looking beast of a phone it is, I got this one during a black friday sale by gearbest for just 124 Euros

The Main Features are:
Android 6.0
2.3GHz CPU - Helio X20 ( MTK6797 )
4GB RAM
64GB ROM
13.0MP Rear Camera
Fingerprint Scanner
Display: 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 Pixel Corning Gorilla Glass 3
Camera: 5.0MP front camera SAMSUNG 13.0MP back camera SONY
Dual SIM
Bluetooth: 4.0

Here the coolicool break for the phone:

Elephone P7000 review

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:57:00 +0000

ELEPHONE P7000 Reviews

Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:56:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND12fOgFGdA

Elephone P7000

Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:36:00 +0000

I have just per-order a P7000 from Elephone.
Shipping starts around the 20th of May, so I hope to have mine by the end of May, early June. Once I have it I will, I'll do a review.

Here the details: http://www.elephone.hk

Jiayu S3 the 4G Moster

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:54:00 +0000

The Jiayu S3, a very cheap 4g phone.

If your are looking for a cheap 4G phone this might just be the one for you. Not only does this thing look great,the specs are top dollar for the price.

Highlights

5.5inch IPS OGS capacitive screen, 1920x1080 pixels
CPU:MTK6752 Octa Core, 1.7GHz GPU:Mali-T760
Android 4.4 OS
2GB RAM + 16GB ROM
Dual SIM card dual standby, micro sim slot
Dual Cameras, 5.0MP front camera, 13.0MP back camera with flashlight and auto focus
Support FDD LTE/4G/3G/GPS/Wifi/Bluetooth/Miracast/OTG/NFC
Networking:2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, 3GWCDMA 900/1900/2100MHz, 4G: FDD LTE: 800/1800/2600MHz

I have seen this phone on sale online for around €180 and less. If you would like to read more about it, check out thier English homepage:
http://www.ejiayu.com/en/

It goes without saying this this is another top Chinese Smart phone!

OnePlus One, Best phone?

Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:54:00 +0000

This is without a doubt the best phone you can buy at the price of just €269 for the small 16 GB version or €299 for the Huge 64 GB version. The only thing I can say that's missing with this phone, is the fact that it doesn't support an external memory card.
That being said, if you get yourself the 64 GB version which just cost €30 more, you won't need any extra memory IMHO.
Up until now you have always had to wait for an invitation to buy one , you would gain an invite by taken part in the community forum and competitions and other stuff like that. Or you could receive an invite from someone else who had already bought one, if you where lucky enough to know such a person ;).

However that's all over, well as good as, now every Tuesday for 24 hours you can buy One without an invite. Here: https://oneplus.net/home

Let tell you a little about the actual phone, here just a few of the specs and the are GOOD: below I have added the link to there YouTube page and a video.

5.5 inch IPS screen, 1920 * 1080 pixels Display
Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 Quad Core 2.5GHz
3GB RAM (LP DDR3, 1866MHz) + 64GB ROM
13MP rear camera + 5MP front camera
11S CyanogenMod based on Android 4.4 System
Supports 4G, WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth, Multi Language, Play Store, OTG, NFC, etc.
Acceleration Sensor, Electronic Compass, Gravity Sensor, Infrared Distance Sensor, Infrared Gesture Recognition, Ambient Light Sensor, Gyroscope and so on...

Here the YouTube site from OnePlus One

https://www.youtube.com/user/oneplusmobile

OnePlus One - Never Settle

Top of the class in its price range!

ASUS ZENFONE 6

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:04:00 +0000

Another Great looking smart phone from Asus.
The Asus Zenfone 6 is great value for the Price. only down side is that the phone has such thin sides that when pressure is applied it distorts the screen.
Apart from that all its all good new really, here are the technical details and highlights

Price is around € 230.
It has a very large 6.0 Inch IPS Screen
Resolution of 1280*800 Pixel
A Intel Atom Z2580 2.0GHz Dual Core (Nice)

It supports 3G Network: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 & WCDMA 850/2100 MHz
2 GB RAM
16 GB ROM (Internal Memory)
13MP Back Camera + 2MP Front Camera
Android 4.4 System

Here the a short video showning us the main Bench marks, including Antutu

China Cell Phone ELEPHONE P5000

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:32:00 +0000

The battery Monster of the China Smart phones, the ELEPHONE P5000.

Elephone are not a well know brand for sure, but the certainly have some interesting phones. This baby as a 5350 mAh battery. They clam that it will run for 4 days before needing a recharge.

I don't know about you, but I think the phone looks just like a the new Samsung. The phone comes it at around 220 Euro, can't be bad if you check the Specs:

TK6592 1.7GHz Octa Core
5350mAh Battery
5.0 Inch Screen, 1920*1080 Pixels
MTK6592 1.7GHz Octa Core
Support 2G & 3G Network
2GB RAM + 16GB ROM
16 MP Back Camera + 8 MP Front Camera
Android 4.4 System
Front Camera 8 MP
Rear Camera 16 MP
Multi-point Touch

At the moment I am stuck between getting this phone and the one below, the THL T200. The Battery is actually the weak spot of the THL T200.

Anyway you make up your own mind, here is the link to the P5000 : http://www.elephone.hk/P5000.html

China Cell phone THL T200

Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:07:00 +0000

This is a very interesting phone. I have been looking at buying myself a new phone and although I would love to get the Elephone P1000, it may still be quite some time before it actually hits the market. I have been waiting for a Oneplus One invite for Months...NO luck :(

But the the THL T200 seems to be a great alternate.
Here the highlights -
It has a 6 inch IPS Screen with a 1920x1080 pixel display :)
CPU: MTK6592 1.7GHz Octa core
It has 3G network, unfortunatly, no 4G.
2 GB RAM + 32GB ROM
13MP back camera + 8MP front camera
Android 4.2 System

And best of all is the price, it comes in at around 240 Euros plus P&P.

Watch this space, if I buy it I will do a full review!

China Cellphone Elephone P1000, Snapdragon

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:12:00 +0000

I can't but wonder when this phone is finally going to go on sale, but I for one will be ordering myself one straight away. Going by the Specs its a very nice phone at a FANTASIC price.

Here are the Technical Highlights:

6 Zoll Bildschirm, 2560×1440 Pixel Full HD Display
CPU is a Snapdragon 801 2.5 GHz Quad Core, what more do you need
3 GB RAM + 32 GB ROM
Bands: GSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900/2100 & FDD-LTE 1800/2100/2600 TDD-LTE 1900/2300/2500/2600 MHz, 3G & 4G Networks
13MP Hauptkamera + 5MP Frontkamera

The newest Android 4.4 System

Priced around 300 Euros..plus Package and posting of course..

Chinese Smart phones

Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:15:00 +0000

There are loads of new Cell phones coming out of China and at great prices, or as a German might say 'a Handy'. I for one Love that terminology because lets be honest, they are very handy to have. Any way I wanted to tell you about the phone I purchased for my wife, the Doogee dagger dg550.
Its a massive 5'5 inch phone and a great improvement of her old Sony Xperia Tipo, which was an OK low end phone, just a bit on the small size.
She really likes the phone even though I thought it might be a bit to big for her, but that's not the case and she uses even uses it watching TV in the kitchen, not just facebook or even calling friends and family :)

Here are the Basic Specifications of the DG550:

Display 5.5-inch IPS OGS 720p HD (1280 x 720)
Processor 1.7GHz MTK6592 Octa Core
RAM 1GB Storage 16GB,
microSD card slot, up to 32GB (I heard that 64 GB works too)
Camera 13 Megapixel Rear Camera and 3 Megapixel Front-Facing Camera
Battery 2600 mAh
Connectivity GPS, microUSB 2.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth Networks 3G/WCDMA: 850/2100 MHz Software Android 4.2 with Google Play
Dimensions 153 x 76 x 9 mm 180 grams
Colors Black or White
SIM slots 1x Normal SIM, 1x Micro SIM

For the price of around 150 Euros it an absolute bargain
The only down side, it took 3 weeks to arrive after order because I ordered it from Amazon, you could of course order via Coolicool

5 Blogging Suggestions for Internet Newbies

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:35:00 +0000

Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment on an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet Marketing tool.

1. Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging. No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entices your readers to also try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise.

2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where advertising saturates our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid internet advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand products use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product.

3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to internet businesses that are just starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your serious growing business.

4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site.

5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is. But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging:

-By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site.

-By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer.

-By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview.

-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one.

-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site.

Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool.

Paid 4 Surveys

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:29:00 +0000

Taking Online Surveys is another great way to earn cash, Just of late I was looking around for sites with any good offers, when I found WePay4Surveys and wanted to let you all know about!

Not only do the have some great offers on their hands they also have a number of tools that help you get through any qiven survey quicker, meaning of course you earn more coin!

Get paid to take online surveys - $5 to $75 per survey!
Get paid to participate in focus groups $50 to $150 per hour!
Get paid to try new products - keep the products and get paid....like this one alot!
Get paid to preview movie trailers - $4 to $25 per hour! WoW

Anyway...didn't want to keep it for myself and why should I so here's the Link

Increase Your Productivity and Profits with Less Work

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:46:00 +0000

Have you had trouble getting started in online marketing? Are your websites profitable yet? Many beginning internet marketers quickly become frustrated and quit because they do not realize instant profits.

Well, here are two little pieces of advice that seem very simple on the outside but can have a large impact on your business. In fact by following them you can increase your productivity and profits. By the way they were both traps that I feel into myself and that is why I am aware of them.

First, let me ask you a question. Do you ever find yourself checking your website statistic more then once a day? Many internet marketers get in the habit of checking two, three, five even ten times a day. It is easy to fool yourself that somehow this is helping! However if you weigh a rock on the scale ten times a day and expect a different result you would be considered crazy. Well, checking your website stats can be much the same. Just because you added a few new links or a new article to your website does not mean your traffic will raise all of a sudden. In fact checking it too many times a day is counter productive. You will not change the traffic at all by checking it constantly. Instead spend the time working on your websites and adding content like articles, or exchange links.

The second trap that to watch out for is bouncing among to many projects. You can probably relate. You get an email newsletter from an internet marketing guru that says this new software is the best thing since sliced bread or it touts some new affiliate program and what do you do? Well, if you are like many other people doing business on the internet you jump on the bandwagon and hope for the quick windfall of profits. The problem is that by jumping from one project to the next means nothing is ever finished and nothing ever becomes profitable. So what should you do? Pick one or two projects and stick with them. Do not change course on a whim but stay with the good projects at least three to six months. If after six months the project has not become profitable then you might want to regroup and change strategies.

These two techniques alone, while very simple, can significantly improve productivity and in turn your profits online. Hope you find them useful!

Approach to test and track your Google AdSense earnings.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Adsense is something with which some website owners have had smashing success, others very little. Website owners who have done well with Adsense and are seeing good revenues are those who have become adept at tracking the performance of their campaign and use this information to fine tune their campaigns to increase click through rates. Can visit www.adsense-income-exposed.com Tracking and testing is what Adsense is meant for and should be used to maximize your advertising campaign's potential.

The first step here is to track clicks to determine how your ads are performing for you. The Adsense tracker (it's free!) lets you get detailed information about the clicks your ad has received. This information displays in your stats as soon as the necessary javascript has been placed on your site. You should keep an eye on your statistics and evaluate how each is doing for you on each page. Some pages will no doubt do better than others - try to figure out what the common element is to your highest performing pages.

The content, graphics and keywords are all factors in the performance of your webpages. Use these winning elements and track your stats to find out if these changes have worked for you. Adsense offers advertisers a lot of options for their ads. Nearly everything about the ad can be changed, including size, shape and color, which can also increase your click through rate. If you are still not doing well after making changes here, it may be time to back to the drawing board and make all new ads. The ads which will do the best for the web are ads which mesh well with the rest of the page, e.g. the content.

Make your ads fit in with the look of your site; you can test these designs with Adsense by watching your statistics. Go to www.instant-adsense-dollars.com Search engine optimization is another element which Adsense tracking and testing can help with. Your keywords and their ranking matter. Competition is also something to watch out for - if there are a lot of competitors out there using the same keywords then these popular keywords may not be the best investment for you in terms of traffic.

Using niche keywords may be a better idea; these are keywords which are popular, yet not used by everyone out there. These words also are more tightly focused on a market which helps you stand out from the competition and attract customers who are more likely to make a purchase. You can also see higher profits from Adsense by using niche keywords than with more popular keywords.

You can find free tools, as well as paid services which can help you find niche keywords which will work for your site. Whichever way you choose your words to begin with, use Adsense to watch your statistics for views and clicks to see which bring in the most results for your site. Tracking your statistics is the key to success with Adsense.

How To Increase Your Web Site Traffic Starting Now

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:09:00 +0000

Online Home Business, Internet Marketing, Article Marketing, Profit, and Residual Income. These words all come down to another most important word: Traffic.

Every article out there about making your web site or product successful has to do with the fundamental importance of generating web site traffic.

We all are definitely aware, that when it comes down to it, web site traffic is essential for a successful online business.

Once you have a great product to sell and everything is set up for success, it's time to generate web site traffic.

If you have a web site and you are not getting the traffic you are supposed to have, it's time to generate some web site traffic.

You need to be determined to make it in this very competitive business.

Increasing your web site traffic is crucial after your product is launched and everything is set up to go.

Start right now and go step-by-step from launching a product, setting up your web site and optimize your web site for traffic.

Apply the ideas below to increase your web site traffic by starting right now and you will be well on your way to a successful and profitable online business.

1) Generate traffic with search engine advertising

Google Adwords and Yahoo Overture are very popular advertising systems that generate optimal traffic. The drawback is, that it can become very expensive.

Still it can be money well spent if you have it. Adwords and Overture are the top traffic generating tools available on the Internet today.

Learn about it and use it wisely so you may not have to spend a lot of money.

2) Use Link Exchange

By exchanging links with other sites, each of you will benefit from the efforts of enhancing the traffic of your web sites.

If you put a link from another site on your web site, you could also provide each other with the traffic each web site generates.

These efforts can double your benefits. The more links you exchange with other sites the more web site traffic can be generated.

3) Article Marketing

Article marketing helps you spread the word about your product or online business without any money.

This is an absolutely powerful marketing method to generate web site traffic.

Start to submit articles to article directories for free traffic and profits. It is the most profitable Internet marketing strategy of all, and it will generate loads of traffic over time.

Submit at least four articles per month. By submitting to article directories, your articles will be published in other people's blogs, websites and email newsletters as well as ezines for free.

If you think you can't write, hire a ghostwriter. But by all means, start submitting articles for article marketing.

With each submission you have a resource box where you can promote your product and web site for maximum exposure, which will generate huge web site traffic and profits.

4) Forums

Forums are another fantastic way to promote your web site by adding some useful ideas to the discussions. At the end of each comment you can add a signature line to promote your product.

Add comments in forums of your product market and earn credibility by showing your expertise.

The more forums you join, the more targeted traffic you will generate.

You will build trust and people will start to notice that you can provide what they need, which in return will quickly turn out to be very profitable for you.

5) Blogs

Starting your own blog and add quality articles with sought after information can bring you tremendous traffic as well.

6) Search Engines

Use search engine optimized keywords or keyword phrases to generate web site traffic

Search engines are looking for keywords that they can show in their results pages. By using search engine friendly keywords and phrases for your website your ranking can be high in search engine results.

You can write your own keyword content or hire someone to do it for you. There are good and inexpensive services to choose from.

7) Publish your own newsletters

By having your own newsletter, people will appreciate your expertise and become loyal readers.

This will generate loyal traffic to your web site and again generate traffic by recommendation.

Keep your subscribers interested by maintaining their curiosity and it will generate huge traffic and build you a high-targeted email list as well.

You can see, that generating traffic isn't that hard. It only asks for some effort and if you stay focused and put in the effort necessary, web site traffic will come to your site and huge profits will follow.

Why is Blogging so popular?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:03:00 +0000

The Popularity of Blogging is growing day by day. More and more people are starting their own blogs - be it a personal or professional blog. Why blogging is so popular? What is there in blogging that drives so many people crazy? Let us take a look at some probable reasons.

1. Blogging is easy to start and maintain. On the Internet, you can choose from a variety of choices to use with and input into your blog sites. Blogging software and blogging services are already available. Even those who do not know how to blog can start blogging by just following the instructions posted on blog sites.

2. Blogs are very very interactive. Upon posting, your articles are immediately posted and ready for viewing. These blogs do not have the number of words needed and the moderation found in articles or forums. They also cannot be deleted without notice. There is freedom in blogs that you cannot find anywhere else. Posts are accepted whatever the topic or content is.

3. Freedom to express your feelings. Where else can you get personal points being pointed out and elaborated? Only in blogs. You can words and sayings not usually written on any other sources. If you want to express yourself in something that many people can read, then do blogging.

4. Blogs are search engine friendly. Search engines love blogs because of their regularly updated content. It loves reading and ranking them on their pages. This is because of the continuous update that bloggers are doing with their blogs. It is a fact that search engines are always on the lookout for fresh and new contents and blogs are the solution they have been looking for.

5. You can learn a lot from blogs. A lot of blogs are both educational and informative. Usually a simple search makes up a lot of choices to choose from. Many opinions about different topics are also being posted as commentaries. This gives the readers a look at the different points of view that people have.

6. Blogs are cost-effective. The absence of lists to maintain eliminates server costs to be incurred. The blogging services and software available are also priced reasonably so you are getting good value for your money. If you do a quick computation, you will notice that the expenses you get to pay every month will just be minimal.

7. Blogging is fun and for everyone. Blogs have in them entertainment aspects that is unsurpassed by any other. You get to read people agreeing and opposing to the same topic on their posts. These discussions can turn very emotional too. With blogs, you will never get bored!

So, got the point?. Why don't you start your own blog?

How to Choose Internet Based Affiliate Marketing Programs

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:10:00 +0000

Everyday millions of people worldwide use Internet which creates an enormous possibility for merchants to sell their products or services online. However, this phenomenon not only benefits merchants. Internet based affiliate marketing also provides great opportunities for individuals as well. As an affiliate, you do not need to have your own products or services. Your job is to refer people to the merchant's business site for them to buy the products.

To be a successful affiliate marketer simply visit a site like Clickbank which is a good affiliate program, and apply excellent marketing techniques to promote the products. You might wonder why you need a good program instead of the best one. That is because there is no such 'best affiliate program' as it can be a success for one person and a failure for the other. There is certainly good affiliate marketing program you can start. You decide how to make it the best.

With the thousands of affiliate marketing opportunities online, you need information in order to make the right decision. It will be helpful if you are already focusing your search to a specific interest. If you have a website, you should aim towards programs that suitable with your needs, wants and resources. Affiliate forums are good place to get tips and suggestions from experience affiliate marketers. However, consider the pros and cons of their ideas wisely before deciding to join any programs.

Affiliate marketing program networks also a good place to look for choices. Merchants advertise their affiliate programs to interested affiliates who sign up in the network free. You can also compare different sales records, performances, benefits, products and services by visiting third party affiliate program networks.

When considering your option, you should consider the quality of the products or services. Your main task as an affiliate is promoting the products so customers would buy them. You will not make any commission if the customers did not convince about the products. Therefore, it is important that the products you are promoting have market value.

Merchant's business history is also valuable to consider. It includes previous and present sales data, their affiliate marketing systems and their partner's experiences with them. It is true that success of the program depends on you. However, the sales records show the product's reliability, market availability and the merchant's reputation as well. Your purpose of joining the program is to earn. For more result login to www.success-affiliate-marketing.com therefore, look carefully into the company's compensation plan to ensure that they compensate your efforts fairly.

Internet based affiliate marketing is a partnership. You should make sure that the merchant, who essentially is your partner, is able to support you as you help him promote his product or service. It is even better if they provide you with training on how to market the products effectively. Compare various programs by writing down advantages and disadvantages of each program. Before making any commitment with any program, it is wise to take time gathering all the information you need. Keep in mind that an informed choice is the best one.

What is Site engine Optimizing with the help of great keywords

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:14:00 +0000

You have created a brand new, hot looking website that without a doubt will be placed ahead of your competitors in the search engines. Surely with all the work, time, and effort you expended creating your site, it will be up there in the ranks! Then you find out that you don't even have a page rank, and you can't find your site by doing a search. One of the reasons may be that you have not optimized your site using keywords. You wonder why and how this could be when you thought you used the best keywords possible, but what you thought was best were actually the most competitive keywords. In this case, no matter how great your site, you would never get ahead of your competitors.

One way to get ahead is by doing your keyword research with a keyword research tool that tells you a term's popularity. This is a step that simply cannot be missed when trying to optimize your site. When searching for keywords, you do not want to use highly competitive terms. What I mean by this is that you don't want the word to come up with several million hits, even if this initially sounds like it would be a good term to use.

I want to start with the less popular terms until I have a good page rank, and then I can think about using the more competitive terms later on. Using our keyword tool, we would choose a less popular term, and then do a Google search to find out just how competitive that term is.
A little trick you can use to beat the competition is to notice what sites come up in your Google search for your particular, less popular keyword. If the site's URL contains a sub-page, and that page ranks well in Google, then you can get ahead of that site by using the same keyword, only in your domain, not on another page of your site as in the above example, "/example.htm". You also want to check that top-ranking site's page rank using the Google page rank toolbar. If the site achieved a top ranking in the search engines, but only has a page rank of 3 out of 10, then you know it will be fairly easy to get the same page rank, or better.

Next, you want to look at that top-ranking site's HTML code by clicking View/Source in your browser. Even if you don't know much about HTML, it pays to learn a little bit, and it is not as hard as it looks. If you compare an actual web page to the source code for that page, you will start to see patterns that make sense to you. Start by studying your own source code, and then the source code of other sites will look familiar to you. The things to watch out for when looking at other people's source code is to notice whether or not they use H1, header tags. Some sites do not, and if you're top-ranking site does not use a header tag, then you can one-up them by using a header tag on your site containing the right keywords, and make sure the keywords appear at both the start and end of your copy. Also notice if the site uses a title tag with the keywords within the title tag. If they do use title tags, they will be ranked higher in the search engines for that keyword. If they don't use title tags, then you should use title tags to get ahead. If the other site has bolder, italicized, or underlined keywords, they will rank higher. If not, you could get ahead by doing that on your site. You want to check to see if they use certain images on their site based on keywords. If they don't, you should be using images and call the file the name of the specific keyword you want to use.

It's a good idea to get into the habit of doing keyword research and creating a keyword file that you can add to on a regular basis. This file should consist of popular, but less searched keywords that can outrank your competitors. The bigger the list, the better off you are. This will help you get traffic to your site using keywords that your competitors have not thought of using yet then you find out that you don't even have a page rank, and you can't find your site by doing a search. One of the reasons may be that you have not optimized your site using keywords

Do You Know what exactly Affiliate Marketing is?

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:19:00 +0000

Have you been wondering what exactly affiliate marketing is? This useful report can give you an insight into everything you've ever wanted to know about making money with affiliate marketing.

Are you a webmaster who needs money to keep your website running? Or is your website the only mode for you to earn income? Whichever you are, for as long as you are a webmaster or a web publisher and you need cash, affiliate marketing may work well for you. With affiliate marketing, you may get a lot of cash pouring into your bank account easily.

Well, simply because affiliate marketing is the easiest and perhaps the best way to earn profits online, unless otherwise you are a businessman and would rather sell your own products online than advertise other businessman's products on your site. But even online retailers can benefit from affiliate marketing programs, because affiliate marketing actually works for merchants as well as it works for the affiliates.

Affiliate marketing, purely said, is a bond or agreement made between two websites, with one site being the merchant's website and the other being the affiliate's site. In the relationship, the affiliate agrees to let the merchant advertise his products on the affiliate's site. The merchant, on the other hand, would agree to pay the affiliate in whatever method they have agreed into. This would generally mean easy income for the affiliate, as he would do nothing but place the retailer's ad on his site. This would also be very beneficial for the merchant, as getting affiliates to advertise their products would be a lot more inexpensive than hiring a marketing firm to promote their products.

There are a variety of methods on how the merchant would give back the affiliate for his services, and for the webmaster, these methods simply translates to the method by which he would earn easy cash. Among the more common methods of compensation are the pay-per-click method, the pay-per-lead method, and the pay-per-sale method. The pay-per-click method is the method most preferred by affiliates, for their site's visitor would only have to visit the advertiser's site for them to gain money. The other methods, on the other hand, are better preferred by merchants, as they would only have to pay off you if your guest becomes one of their registrants or if the visitor would actually buy their products.

Getting much revenue on affiliate marketing programs, however, does not depend so much on the compensation method is it does on the traffic generated by your site. A website that can catch the attention of more visitors would generally have the better chance of profiting in affiliate marketing programs.

On Holiday

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:44:00 +0000

Hi Guys,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm on holiday for a week and will start posting again next week!

I also wish to thank all my Entercard droppers....you guys rock!

Three Ways to Make Money Blogging...

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Of course, not every blogger is this lucky. It does take some skill, and some luck to make money from blogging. What it also takes is some knowledge of how exactly to generate income just by posting blogs. We will go over three specific methods of making money on your blog: Adsense, Pay per Lead, and Affiliate Links.

So how exactly do I make money on my blog?

You do it by working with another company that wants to use your blog as a form of advertising. It sounds like selling out, right? Not exactly. The advertising can be as in your face or subtle as you want. And it can still make you money, provided you have enough visitors to your blog.

What is Adsense?

Adsense is a program offered by Google. The program, if installed, will display ads provided by Google.

How do I get Adsense?

You'll need to go to Google.com, first. At the end of the screen is a link for Advertising Programs. Click on that. Then click on the link for Adsense. Scroll down on the page that comes up and click here to Apply! You then fill out the form with information about yourself.

After 12-48 hours, Google will notify you via email whether or not your site has been accepted. When you've been accepted, set up your ads by doing either of the following:

You can set up your AdSense ads by going to your profile, selecting
settings, template, add an element. Then select AdSense and login with your account info. Next, you'll configure your ads and save the template. That's it.

For the first few days, the ads displayed by Google will be Public Service Announcements. After the ads have been up a few days, though, the ads will switch to ads that are significant to your blog.

How does Adsense work?

Every time a visitor clicks an Adsense ad, you get a little bit of money (usually around 30-60 cents). The amount you get for each ad clicked depends on the number of unique visitors you receive on your blog. The more visitors, the more money that can be earned.

Google will then send a check or pay you through Paypal once you've made at least $100 from the ads.

It is important to remember that Google will punish you if you click your own ads, or if you ask visitors specifically to click ads. So don't do that!

Pay Per Click

Pay Per Click is basically just like AdSense, except you don't just work with Google you work with multiple companies. BidVertiser is one such company you can sign up with to do Pay Per Click advertising.

How do I get Pay Per Click

You sign up with a site like Bidvertiser and then follow their commands to set up the Pay per Click ads on your site.

Affiliate Links

Affiliate links are basically links which people pay you for. Companies will actually pay owners of admired blogs to post links on their blog. You can do as much Affiliate linking as you want.

How do Affiliate Links work?

Like the other two methods mentioned above, Affiliate links work by paying you money each time they are clicked. You get paid for each click per unique visitor.

How does Pay Per Click work?

It works by paying you money each time someone clicks an ad that you display. You won't get paid for several clicks from the same user in the same visitor, nor will you get paid for someone simply visiting your site. You only get paid for genuine clicks.

So now you have it, three genuine ways to make money from blogging. It is important to keep in mind that the amount of money you are able to make depends on how many visitors your blog draws. If you draw a lot, you'll make a lot.

The Story behind Adsense – Google Adsense

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:56:00 +0000

Adsense has become extremely prolific on the web. It is one of the great turning points of the Internet. First, there was the proliferation of domain names being speculated on. That phenomenon created web real estate and gave it value.

Then there was the Internet Stock Boom, where almost any company with a good idea for a website could get venture capital, do an Initial Public Offering of stock and become a millionaire. Such overnight success lured millions to start their own websites. That gave web real estate even more value.

Then came Amazon and their 750 million in sales every year. Jeff Bezos, the CEO swears someday that some of that will be actual profit. They may not make much profit, but they can generate more sales than anyone else. They are one of the most amazing stories in Internet history.

Ebay was the only Internet venture that made a profit from day one. The impact they have made on the web is tremendous. They created a whole new economy, not just a website and an auction. There are thousands of people making their living through Ebay and many of them don’t even have a website. Any history of the Internet has to include a lot about Ebay.

Let’s not leave out Yahoo who looked as if they were going to be the premiere search engine for everyone who wanted to find anything on the web. All you heard about was Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Regions, Yahoo Chat, Yahoo Groups, and on and on and on. They were on top of the world as search engines go. ( do you remeber "Do you Yahoo!")

The problem they had but didn’t know they had, was that all of their searches were powered by a database that did not belong to them. However, this database company agreed to never compete with them, so no problem, right?

That little database company was called Google. They had been there in the background all along, their spiders searching the web for all the new content out there, renting out their database to Yahoo and others, and promising they would never compete with them.

Well it was a promise they could not keep. They paid the price in court to Yahoo and moved into competition with their former partners and became a search engine themselves. What a lot of people failed to understand is that “Information is Power”.

Google’s database had become so large that no one else could search as many websites as they could. A search term typed into their new simply designed interface would produce more results than the same term typed into any other search engine or directory.

As a result, more people began to use Google as their preferred search engine than any other. People want the most results and the most relevant results and Google provided it.

Now, just like Yahoo, their Google Labs project began creating Google this and Google that. Google Images was one of the firsts and remains a great tool. Google’s News Alerts are beyond compare. Froogle really never took off. Gmail is a huge success and much better than similar services. The Google Toolbar is better than others. Now they have Google Chat even.

This article is not even long enough to tell you all the innovations that Google is offering out there. But none of Google’s programs have been the success that Adsense has been. Because of the money they make from Google Adwords and Adsense, their IPO on Wallstreet netted them more cash than they know what to do with.

Almost anytime you spend even thirty minutes searching the web, you see at least one website that has Adsense Ads on it. I have seen government websites that are utilizing Google Adsense. Blogs use it, Forums use it. It seems almost everyone has Google Adsense in one of their websites.

There are even websites that are built just for the purpose of participating in the Google Adsense program. No affiliate program, not even Amazon.com has had that kind of success signing up people to use their affiliate program. Even Commission Junction at cj.com, who has been around since George Washington had his own website, doesn’t have as many affiliates as Google Adsense has.

Personally, I have had a great experience working with Google Adsense. I think they are here to stay, which I can not say for many affiliate programs you can choose to promote. Go with the flow. Go take a look at Google Adsense if you haven’t already and make some money!

We hope we have added some useful information and ideas for you about Google and Adsense?

Feel free to Comment! (I say, Don’t believe the hype, there is so such thing as bad advertisement)

7 Secrets of super Adsense Earners

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:00:00 +0000

You have the "Super AdSense" earners, we have all heard of them... the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites.

Do not be mistaken though... these people are not building like your Mom and Pop's do. They have systems in place that create sites for them... people who build sites for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can.

Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success.

1. Starting today... treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

Begin tracking what you are doing that works... as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems... most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure.

2. Utilize the latest tools and software available.

The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are... but for the most part, they are regular non techie people.

They are smarter in one respect though... they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.

3. Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.

You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then... but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.

4. Choose broad niches and break it down.

Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there... break it down into as many sub niches as possible.

Using Computers as the example... you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme... choose another main theme and repeat the process.

5. KISS

Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends... the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple... dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars... they are distractions.

6. What is the purpose of your web site?

Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale... links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products... let it do that.

Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that "Tell"... not "Sell."

7. Be consistent.

This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.

Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured... you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant... the larger the harvest.

To sum it up... utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building... treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.

Great Affiliate Programs - 1

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:00:00 +0000

One of the great online money making Affilate programs I know is called Chitika. They have great looking ads and a very fair refferal program.
To make good money with their Graphical Ads you can simply ad the Chitika unit above or below your posts where they are in good view and the is nothing against running them if you are already using Google ads.

Program Details

1.You'll earn 10% of what your referrals earn - the more friends you refer, the more you make!

2. You're eligible to earn commissions for each referral for 15 months following each referral's approval date
Chitika will pay you 30 days following the end of the month that your commissions are earned provided that your total revenue has exceeded $10 (for PayPal) and $50 (for check where PayPal is not available)

3. You will be paid based upon audited revenue.

4. You will find your Referral reports in the "Reports" section when you log into your account

Test out the new Premium ad units over at Chitika