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Get paid complete offers.. Earn money

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:45:08 PDT

General Tips:Access you to complete offers and get paid.To maximize your profits and receive the highest possible approval percentage on your completed offers follow these steps.A)Use your main email account when signing up for GPT sites. You want them to be able to contact you when they're running a hot offer or important notices.B)Never use false information when filling out offers or surveys. This will get you banned from GPT sites.C)Offers can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few days to credit, so if one doesn't credit right away don't panic! Just keep checking back.D)All GPT Sites that I am aware of allow only ONE account per household. This does NOT mean one account per computer. GPT sites regularly check IP Addresses. If they find more than one account on a single IP Address both (or all) accounts will be deleted and you will lose all money earned. DO NOT sign into your account using anyone else's computer and DO NOT allow anyone else to sign into your account. Some sites will not mind if you simply check the status of your account from another computer but others do. Just stay on the safe side - only sign into your account from your own computer.E)Remember to check your inbox at each GPT Site. Site owners often post promo codes - these are codes that when entered give the first X number of people an extra dollar or extra points. Site owners also often post deals that are approving fast or high paying deals.Use either Internet Exlorer or Mozilla Firefox to complete your offers. (Preferably IE) DO NOT use AOL or Netscape. They generate a non-static/dynamic IP address. This may cause the system to show you as having multiple accounts, which is against the TOS at all GPT sites. This will result in your account being frozen and most likely completely deleted, in which case all your earnings will be forfeited.F)Also before dive in to signing up and starting offers, y should download RoboForm and CCleaner, which are extremely helpful tools in filling in repetitive information and cleaning your cookiesG)Contact me at gptsites-paid@hotmail.com OR power2money@yahoogroups.comif you have any questions you may be ask about any topic in gptsites i will be thier

Get paid complete offers used debit card

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:16:26 PST

General Tips: Access you to complete offers ,Important Note About Pre-Paids
Recently there has been quite a bit of debate about the use of Pre-Paid credit or debit cards. Many advertisers are STRONGLY recommending to the GPT site owners that they not allow their subscribers to use pre-paids, even to the point of not paying people that are using pre-paids. This has forced may site owners to mark people as cheaters and close their accounts if they use a pre-paid credit card. This problem has arisen as a result of many people using pre-paids irresponsibly. Often people use their pre-paid knowing that when the trial expires they can't be charged any fees, so they never bother to call and cancel their trial. If you do use pre-paids USE THEM RESPONSIBLY. Also, MANY gpt sites have now revised their TOS and will close your account if you use a pre-paid card. Don't risk losing your account. Make sure you read the TOS at EACH site you plan to use a pre-paid at before using it.
Although I have never personally had a problem using my credit card many people prefer using a prepaid Mastercard or Visa giftcard for any offer that requires a credit card. You can buy these at Wal-Mart, CVS, Longs, etc. But I have found the most convenient place to order one is online at Simon.com. I DO NOT recommend pre-paid credit cards as they often allow insufficient charge purchases. Unlike prepaid credit cards, prepaid gift cards can not be recharged so they need to be replaced after they've been used up. This is a very minor inconvenience when you consider the amount of earnings you can achieve using these cards and the fact that this all but eliminates any risk of being charged any unauthorized charges. Purchase a Simon Gift Account and have it delivered via postal mail within 7 days for $6 or purchase a virtual card which will be delivered via email within 24 hours for $2.

learn about gpt's before complete offers

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:58:17 PST

Before you start completing offers I highly suggest spending a little time getting set up. This might seem tedious but in the long run it will save you an enormous amount of time and frustration. There is a lot of information in these tutorials. Don't worry if it seems overwhelming at first. Just start out slow and before you know it you'll be a gpt expert!
Set up several junk email addresses. Freebie offers will result in a TON of junk email. You won't want these clogging up your personal email account. While filling out surveys and freebies you will want to change your email address often so that survey companies recognize you as a different user. (Don't worry, the administrators encourage this as it will help increase your approval rate). There are numerous survey companies that host many different surveys. You may fill out several surveys hosted by the same survey company. They won't necessarily recognize that you are filling out separate surveys and may think that you are cheating. For this reason it is important that you change email addresses often. Some people recommend that you change your email account for each and every offer that you complete. I don't believe that's necessary but you should make sure and change your email address when you are filling out surveys from the same company. The problem of course is that it can become extremely time consuming to open all those new email accounts. Here is the solution:
Open an email account at Gmail. Create an email account with the maximum number of characters (which is 30), by combining words and names until you reach the full 30 characters long. Gmail allows the use of periods in the address. Doing this keeps the address valid but makes it appear as a completely different email address.When completing offers place a period in your email address, moving the period when filling out each new offer. ie: If your email address is yourmail@gmail.com each of these addresses will appear to be a unique email address, however they will all be delivered to the same address at yourmail@gmail.com
you.rmail@gmail.com yo.urmail@gmail.com you.rmail@gmail.com
Once you have placed a period after each letter in the email address, add another one, like this:
y.o.urmail@gmail.com y.ou.rmail@gmail.com y.our.mail@gmail.com

Get paid to complete offers .gpt sites.

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:14:59 PST

On to GPT's. These sites are for people who have some extra time and want to make some easy money. All you have to do is sign up and complete very short surveys, trial offers, or shopping offers and earn plenty of extra cash! However if you are looking to make even more money and multiply your money making efforts ten fold, you need to start referring others to your sites.
I have listed below many trustworthy paying GPT's on the internet today. Please check them out and sign up for whichever ones look good to you. I have also included some basic information on each. Now by signing up for these sites, you will become my referral to the site and I will be more than happy to help let you know which offers credited easily for me, or just answer any questions you may have about each. Contact me at gptsites-paid@hotmail.com

Also before dive in to signing up and starting offers, y should download RoboForm and CCleaner, which are extremely helpful tools in filling in repetitive information and cleaning your cookies

Com Fi Calling Card Affiliate Programs

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:31:16 PDT

ComFi.com, Corp. is a leading Internet communication company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The business was established in 1996 with the goal of developing secure and efficient business models that would allow customers to get the best communication services available on the internet without spending significant amount of time searching for alternative products and to make purchases instantly and securely. Since its inception, the company has built several online malls and stores and developed several innovative online products. ComFi.com incorporates the most efficient and advanced technologies that the company has developed over the years.ComFi.com’s strategy is to offer the customers a high quality of services. ComFi is searching for the best possible long distance rates and offers in order to offer them to You, this is one of the main advantages of this company. The company has partnered with the premium telecommunication carriers and it chooses manufacturers based on the quality of their services, prices and customers’ feedback. Therefore, ComFi is very flexible and always strives to offer the best products available.ComFi.com uses the most secure online payment processing system VeriSign. These leader provides the secure environment for processing your transactions. Your credit card transactions are always safe and secure.ComFi makes the purchasing process very simple and allows customers to receive the telephone services instantly. Right after a transaction is processed, customers are able to receive PINs and instructions instantly on their screen and a copy is sent to their e-mail address. The whole process can take less than a minute.ComFi has developed advanced distribution and wholesale program. The wholesale process is very simplified and offers resellers an easy opportunity to order and to sell products. A separate web site eProfit.com is dedicated exclusively to distributors and their needs. The site is easy to use; it allows distributors to select any product fast and start earning the commissions from all their sales. The innovative reporting system keeps track of transactions and helps distributors to tune their strategy to increase sales.

Pingo Calling Card Affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:07:39 PDT

About Pingo Calling Card Affiliate Program Online.Who are Pingo's Customers?Our customers are a diverse bunch. Some use Pingo prepaid calling cards to save on long distance calling in the United States. Others use Pingo to save on international calling to countries all over the world or for easy calling access when they are traveling overseas. On average, mobile users with Pingo Prepaid Calling Cards save 90% or more on their international calls. When you promote Pingo prepaid calling card affiliate program, you can choose to promote the great savings we offer your customers for domestic calling or international calling or both! You know your customers best, and you know what type of savings will appeal to them. Remember to let your customers know that when they sign up for Pingo through the affiliate channel, they will receive $5 in free calls!You'll receive an $8 flat fee for each new customer purchase you generate. When you have more than 75 orders, you'll receive $10 per new purchase, and for more than 125 orders, $12 per purchase! But that's not all.You’ll keep on earning, even after the initial purchase. More than 90% of Pingo customers recharge their accounts, and we’ll pay you an additional $1 for every recharge during their first six months.About Pingo Prepaid Calling Card Affiliate ProgramPingo offers consumers high quality domestic and international long distance calling services on a prepaid basis. Pingo customers save on calls to and from both landline and mobile phones.Pingo accounts are sold exclusively over the Internet. Customers open their account using a credit card, and have the option of automatic or manual recharge once their initial purchase has been depleted. Once a customer signs up, they are generally thrilled with our low rates (such as 3 cents/minute to the UK, 2.8 cents/minute to China, 3.2 cents/minute within the US), our convenient features, such as PinPass dialing (no need to enter their PIN from registered phones), clean rates, toll-free access from 35 different countries, and on-line account management. Well over 90% of our customers recharge their accounts, and become devoted users of Pingo for their long distance calls, both within the US and for International calls. We also encourage signup and loyalty with a variety of bonuses and seasonal Pingo coupon code promotions, including a $5.00 bonus when they signup for more than $20 initially, and $5 in credit every time they refer a friend.http://www.freewebs.com/

Skype, Affiliate telecom Programs

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:50:57 PDT

Skype™ Offers Affiliate Program — Skype-Enabled Sites Increase Revenue, Open CommunicationsSkype today announced the launch of its affiliate program that will reward online communities, website publishers, bloggers and Skype enthusiasts with commissions of up to 10% for promoting Skype on their websites. Managed by Commission Junction, a ValueClick company and provider of advanced affiliate marketing solutions, Skype has already expanded its online presence to a growing network of websites, allowing affiliates to participate in Skype’s tremendous growth by receiving commissions resulting from Skype Store purchases made by visitor click-throughs.Skype has partnered with a select group of super affiliates, sites with millions of registered users, including: 192.com, aSmallWorld, Firstream, LunarStorm Sweden, LunarStorm United Kingdom, MyFamily.com, Passado, Spymac and SuperEva. Super affiliates integrate Skype into their online products and services, increasing value for their customers and maximizing their affiliate relationship with Skype.“With such considerable benefits for all parties, the Skype affiliate program has incredible growth potential and is already developing at a fantastic rate,” said Jonathan Forster, Commission Junction’s UK Country Manager. “Websites of all sizes are able to attract new clientele as well as sustain visitor loyalty by enhancing their customers' online experience with the Skype brand and value-added functionality.”As one of the largest affiliate networks in the world, Commission Junction acts as a trusted third party between advertisers and publishers - serving, tracking, reporting and paying on affiliate campaigns. Websites interested in signing up for the Skype affiliate program can join at no cost by visiting skype.com/partners/affiliate. About Skype™Skype is the Global P2P Telephony Company™ that is changing the telecommunications world by offering consumers FREE, superior-quality calling worldwide.
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MLM Network Marketing Success Secret

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:24:15 PST

Did I hear you say that these are not your products? These are somebody else's? Well, well, they say that there is a thin line dividing success and failure. And they also say that it's all in the mindset. I strongly believe in these statements. Together they mean that a subtle change in the thinking pattern can transform failure into success. Affiliate marketing or MLM network marketing has provided earning opportunity to scores of people. By all indications this form of market promotion is here to stay for a long time. When an affiliate tries to sell a product for some one else, why would or why should people believe him? What will project him as a person whom people can trust? Many of the affiliate programs give their affiliates web pages with affiliate links. These can be pages for sales, memberships, or simply for information. An affiliate can display these pages by various means. He remains in the background and hopes that these pre-made web pages will attract people to take a desirable action. While this approach works in many cases, much better options are available in MLM network marketing or affiliate marketing. What I am discussing further is for those who have decided to stay in network or affiliate marketing business for longer term and who wish to make a difference by their own efforts. How can an affiliate influence decisions of his prospective customers? By coming out of the background and offering his opinions, reviews or recommendations. He has various means of reaching out to the interested people – articles, own website, press release, advertisements, mailing to opt-in list - to name just a few. When the affiliate offers his views or recommendations to others and expects them to act on his call-to-action, it is imperative that he really knows about the product or service he is trying to promote. Just knowing about the product is not sufficient, he should be able to present his case with conviction, feeling and passion. This is where “owning” the product comes in. If the affiliate doesn’t like the product, he shouldn’t be selling it in the first place. However, if he has decided to promote and sell the product, he needs to know the product so well that he develops a feeling for it. He can consider buying and using the product himself so that he can narrate his first-hand experience. In any case he should try to sell only those products which he truly approves. It should be as if he “owns” the product with all its merits and demerits and is prepared to vouch for its credibility. He should project his views with true feelings and compassion as a result of his owning the product or accepting the product as his own. If he is less than sincere in his approach, it will somehow show thru and people will most likely not listen to him. True conviction can come only when he truly associates himself with what he is trying to sell. Even when he puts his heart and soul in his presentation, not many people will believe him in first instance. He will need to develop means (such as a mailing list) to communicate with interested people repeatedly, gradually building his case and persuading them to buy. All thru this process the sincerity and conviction of the affiliate should be clearly visible. This process has additional fallout which in my opinion is more important. The affiliate builds up his image as someone who is an expert in his field and can be trusted. This image will ensure his income in future. His credibility will be his most important asset. He will be able to build relationship with his long term customers. This is a gradual process, may take time but creates a solid foundation for future business. And it all started with his “owning” and endorsing the product in the first place. This is the real foundation for a successful MLM network marketing business.

Internet Network Marketing Success

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:01:27 PST

Internet based network marketing is a rewarding business for those who can do it right. However, Internet based network marketing can be as daunting to the beginner as to the more experienced in business, especially when considering the size and power of the Internet.

So Internet based network marketing is a potent recipe that can lead to your financial success. The secret to success in Internet based network marketing is a simple duplicable system that anyone can follow-- not just experienced networkers. This includes both online, offline and a combination of the two, for both part-time and full-time participants. PLUS a product you truly believe in. Armed with this combination, you are ready to take on the world.

However, thereâ€™s a downside to Internet based network marketing too, as with everything else! No sensible networker will ever advise you to rely 100% on the systems, and with very good reason. The systems assist you in every aspect of your business, but the power of network marketing only begins to multiply when you keep your downline growing too. This can only be done by building relationships with your team, no computer can do that!

Picking your core opportunity can be a very personal thing. You may have had previous experience in a particular industry for example, but eventually it will come down to one key decision - what you are selling or promoting. The secret here is to realize that every Internet based network marketing opportunity has three facets: Retailing, Customer Lead Marketing Plan, and Business Lead Marketing Plan.

Retailing is just focusing on selling a product to a customer to earn a commission. The Customer Lead Marketing Plan is a very powerful marketing plan since customers make the best distributors of products, because they have a personal story to tell. Although it is business builders that will make you the most money, every opportunity will have a marketing plan to follow up with your customers to convert them into business builders. The Business Lead Marketing Plan, on the other hand, is the same for every opportunity although not many people realize it! By learning basic network marketing techniques and perfecting them, it is then easy to share with your downline. This is the key to a successful network marketing business. You are in the people business; your core opportunity is just the vehicle.

So you see, Internet based network marketing is quite easy really, if you get the hang of it. This is your golden opportunity to build your own home business and be the master of your own destiny.

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Make Your Site Sticky

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:57:48 PST

Posted: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:24:56 -0600
Because of the very competitive nature of the internet, webmasters must spend more and more of their time promoting the websites they build and less time developing new designs and content. This becomes a problem because small sites don't have the time or resources to be both popular and have good content. Luckily there is a solution to this!

Imagine this: you only have to get a few new visitors every day but you still get lots of visits and every day the numbers increase. Although not quite possible, there is a way to do something very like this - make your site sticky. This basically means that people want to come back to your site again and again.

There are many ways to do this, some are more effective than others. The first way is relatively easy to do because all it involves doing is writing content. Then, instead of adding it whenever you finish it, plan some sort of schedule for the publishing of the information. Possibly add some once a week or once every two weeks. Don't try to set unrealistic goals, though because updating can become quite hectic when you are busy. Updating your site regularly (and telling people the fact) will encourage people to return regularly to see the new content.

Another way you can make your site sticky is by having a newsletter which you send out regularly. This will give you the chance to tell people about new sections on your site and (hopefully) when reading about them, they will visit. If you want to keep track of whether people follow links in your newsletter add a ? and some text after the URL. Normal HTML pages will ignore this but it will show up in your server logs.

The most popular use for the internet is e-mail. You can get benefit from this by offering free e-mail services on your site. If someone signs up and uses the e-mail address as their main e-mail they should visit several times a week (if not every day) and each visit will be quite long. This gives you the chance to grab their attention with adverts, text or just to gain more awareness about your site. Everyone.net will let you offer free e-mail to your visitors for free.

Finally, you could add some news to your website. Some companies (Vibrant Media) will allow you to add a newsfeed which will be updated throughout the day (just like the ones on the major portal sites). This will benefit you because it requires no extra work by you and you can have very relevant headlines to your site (Moreover allow you to choose from over 300 newsfeeds). They are completely free and can be customized to look the same as the rest of your site.

As you can see, you can save yourself a lot of work by making your site sticky and it's not even that hard to do. What are you waiting for?

AT&T Phone Cards - Setting the Standard

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:20:44 PST

AT&T Phone Cards - Setting the Standard

The AT&T Phone Card is generally considered the standard by which other phone cards are measured. It typically ranks at the top in consumer surveys in areas like call quality and reliability. It is a popular choice for international travelers who want high quality and reliability. The AT&T Phone Card also has access numbers in most countries, features one minute rounding and does not charge any added fees. However, this quality and reliability comes at a price. The AT&T phone card charges by far the highest rates from any location when compared to other high quality phone cards. It also does not offer any of the features like PIN-less dialing, auto-recharge or call history that come standard with many other premium phone cards. It is interesting to compare the AT&T phone card with another premium phone card like Continental. Calls from the AT&T phone card cost 6 times more from most locations and the call quality is not much different. The Continental card also offers PIN-less dialing, call history and auto-recharge at no extra cost. The AT&T phone card can be used from more locations but not many since the Continental Card can be used from over 60 countries. When purchasing a phone card it pays to shop around since there are much lower cost phone cards than the AT&T card that feature similar call quality and include a lot more features. For consumers who don't care about price the AT&T phone card is a safe choice but, for others, shopping can provide a big financial reward.

10-10 Dial Around

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:17:53 PST

10-10 Dial Around has been around forever. In the past it was a convenient method of by-passing the high cost monopoly phone company and make cheap long distance calls over a low cost network. It is still around but there are much cheaper methods of making domestic or international long distance calls today that are just as convenient. Prepaid long distance is a far cheaper option that offers the same convenience and more features than 10-10 dial around.

10-10 dial around is used by dialing an access number that starts with the numbers 10-10. The long distance call is than placed over a low cost network and the cost of the call is automatically billed to the phone used to make the call. We reviewed these plans and found that the per minute rates to make calls were very high (up to 20 cents per minute for domestic long distance) and the plans are loaded with hidden fees and taxes. Most 10-10 dial around plans charge a connection fee and/or have a minimum call length that is essentially the same as a connection fee. The only advantage of these plans is that the charge for a call is automatically billed to your phone. However, in most cases this is more a trick than an advantage. A caller will not see the charge for a call until they get their next phone bill and they may have placed several calls before they realize they have been ripped-off. In our view, 10-10 dial around should be avoided.

Many consumers use 10-10 dial around because they think it is the most convenient method of making low cost long distance phone calls from their home phone. They do not realize that prepaid long distance offers the same convenience, more features and much lower rates. A good prepaid long distance service can be used from multiple phones by dialing an access number and placing calls over a low cost network without dialing an account number or PIN code, just like 10-10 dial around . However, a good prepaid long distance plan will also include other features like on-line call history and speed dial at no additional cost. Rates can be as low as 1 or 2 cents per minute for domestic or international calls. Many service providers feature quality plans that have very low or no added fees or taxes. Another advantage of prepaid long distance is that you know the charge for each call and you cannot be charged more than you prepaid so you can easily control your long distance expenditures. Many prepaid products can be purchased for as little as $5 so a consumer can try a service without risking very much money. In contrast, one short call using 10-10 dial around can easily cost $5. We wonder how 10-10 dial around stays in business with all of the high quality prepaid calling products on the market today. Visit Phone Card Shop for a wide selection of prepaid products for making either domestic or international phone calls.

Phone Card Fees: Connection Fees

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:08:40 PST

Most people understand that they use phone cards by dialing an access number which by-passes their high cost carrier in order to make low cost domestic or international long distance calls. Phone card users also know that they will usually pay a higher rate than the per-minute rate advertised because of so called hidden fees and taxes. What a lot of people don't realize is that these hidden fees vary significantly between phone card suppliers, can take on different forms and, in some cases, they can be hard to spot when making a purchase and be just plain "tricky". We don't like these marketing practices and feel that hidden fees should be fully disclosed by phone card marketer's in an understandable manner so a consumer will truely understand what it will cost to make a call. Therefore, we try to uncover and explain these "tricks" when we find them so consumers can spot them when making a purchase. A case in point is a "connection fee".

As the name implies, a connection fee is a fee charged when a call is connected. Most phone card companies do not charge a connection fee these days but we found one major marketer (PennyTalk) that still charges a connection fee. When using these cards a caller will be charged a per-minute rate plus a connection fee for each call. PennyTalk advertises that international calls cost as little as 2 cents per minute but they also charge a $0.49 connection fee for each call and a 99 cent monthly service charge for each account. The connection fee may not sound very high but consider the following. If a 25 minute call is made from the USA to Germany the cost will be 50 cents (2 cents per minute) plus a 49 cent connection fee so the total cost will be 99 cents or almost 4 cents per minute. This is not cheap for a call from the USA to Germany these days. The same call made with a high quality phone card will cost between 2 and 2.5 cents per-minute (including all fees and taxes) and Tel3Advantage (prepaid long distance) only charges 2.5 to 3 cents per minute. So, in this case, the advertised 2 cent per-minute rate is one-half the actual charge and is deceptive. To be fair, PennyTalk includes a toll free access number at no additional charge but the other providers have a wide network of local access numbers that are also free.

Another problem with a connection fee is that it is charged for each call connected. It is fairly common for international calls to be disconnected during a long conversation and the connection fee will be charged everytime the number is redialed and connected. It will also be charged if the wrong number is dialed and connected or if the party being called is not available and the phone is answered. In other words, a seemingly small connection fee can add significant cost to the calls actually completed with a prepaid calling product. For this reason, we suggest consumers should not purchase a prepaid calling product that charges a connection fee.

International Calling carde

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:44:40 PST

A couple of years ago many people believed that VoIP was the answer to low cost phone service for average consumers. It was thought to be the ultimate solution combining low cost home phone service with cheap domestic and international long distance. For some it has worked as intended but for others it has not been the ultimate solution. VoIP is still plagued with issues such as reliability, call quality and VoIP blocking.

Are international rates really cheap with VoIP? We reviewed international rates offered by several VoIP service providers and found their rates to be competitive to some locations and extremely expensive to others when compared to high quality prepaid calling products such as phone cards. Take Vonage for example, their international rates to Europe and a few other destinations are competitive while rates to Russia (7 to 12 cents/minute), India (17 cents/minute), Brazil (8-9 cents/minute), Mexico (12 cents/minute), Australia (5 cents/minute) and other destinations are easy to beat. It seems that many people who use VoIP to make international calls care more about convenience than saving money.

Call quality has been another issue with VoIP. Some people have found that the call quality with their VoIP phone system is excellent while others found it so bad that they removed the service and went back to a traditional land line. We use a VoIP phone and have talked with many users about their experience with VoIP. We have found that VoIP call quality seems to vary with between ISP providers, locations called and other factors such as INTERNET traffic. On some days our call quality is crystal clear while on other days the quality is acceptable but not great. We still use VoIP but it is not our primary phone and we rarely use it for international calls.

VoIP phone service is also less reliable than traditional land lines and is not convenient for travelers. A VoIP phone will not work if the INTERNET connection is down and this happens often in some locations. Many companies have touted VoIP as a phone that travels but it is not very practical for most travelers. First, a high speed INTERNET connection is needed to make and receive calls and, secondly, a user would need to travel with a modem and a phone in order to use the service. International Phone Cards are a much more convenient option used by most travelers.

VoIP blocking is also becoming more common. This has happened in the USA where an ISP blocks calls made with a VoIP Phone from a third party or, in some cases, they just degrade call quality. However, the real problem is overseas where countries that still have monopoly, state controlled telephone companies are tired of losing revenue. Take Saudi Arabia for example, Saudi Telecom uses software from USA supplier Narus to block all VoIP calls. It has also been reported that Narus has supplied VoIP blocking technology to Shanghai Telecom Co. in China and others. VoIP blocking has become more common as VoIP Phone Service has become more popular. This trend will likely continue.

For some consumers VoIP is the ultimate phone solution but for most it is one of several solutions for reducing the cost of phone service. We think VoIP is a good option as a second phone if the user already has a high speed INTERNET connection and another, more reliable form of service.

Become an Affiliate and earn !

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:31:25 PST

Become an Affiliate and earn !
Promote Great Link Telecom's Hot line phone service and earn 25% commission for each account generated. There is no charge to become an affiliate all you have to be a Great link costumer. Become an affiliate.

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There are no costs at any time to be a Great Link affiliate. From the creating of the links to the sending of your monthly check, it's all handled by us, for free so you can focus your time and effort on driving sales.
Great Link has partnered with LinkShare (Network), a leading provider of affiliate program management to make your partnership with us quick and easy to launch. Great Link will provide you with the opportunity to link your site to www.Greatlinktel.com in numerous ways: through text links, banners, and product links. You get to select which style link works best for your site. All you need to do is place one or more of these links on your site and you are officially a GotVMail partner! LinkShare will provide unrestricted access to daily reporting to track the success of your program. Please apply to join our Affiliate partnership today by filling out our online application: Apply Now.

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Internet Profit University Announces New Affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:22:10 PST

Internet Profit University announces a breakthrough affiliate program paying up to $240 per year per referral. (http://internetprofituniversity.com/affiliate)
Most Internet affiliate programs offer their partners a small percentage of one sale. The most widely known online affiliate program is Amazon.com. Amazon starts its partners at 4 percent of initial referred sales. Subsequent sales pay nothing.
Similarly, NetFlix pays its affiliate partners $9 per referral, but nothing else no matter how long the referral remains a paying member of NetFlix.
According to Internet Profit University principal Brian Kindsvater, "If a company is serious about its affiliate program and attracting world class marketers, it needs to offer a lucrative partnership package that rewards instead of exploits the hard work of its affiliates."
Internet Profit University turns the typical affiliate payscale on its head by providing affiliates with most of the income from referred sales. $20 per member per month from a regular $27 membership fee.
Brian Kindsvater explains that this inverted income sharing arrangement works because Internet Profit University is fully automated to eliminate expenses incurred by many other companies.
The unprecedented affiliate payout compensates affiliates for their marketing costs.
Internet Profit University believes that in the future more online merchants will need to significantly increase their outsourced marketing payments to remain competitive and attract the best marketing partners.http://www.ip97.com

.existe maffiliate marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:14:42 PST

What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is a way of promoting your business online through 3rd parties known as affiliates. Affiliates are business owners who will promote your products and services on their websites generating sales for your business, the great benefit of this to you is that you only pay when someone makes a sale, therefore generating best return on a minimal initial marketing spend.

Affiliate Marketing has grown rapidly in the UK and is now generating huge amounts of sales for retailers and businesses that sell their goods and services online.
Areas of activity in affiliate marketing include retail, personal finance, gaming and gambling, travel, telecom, education, subscription sites, and other lead generation campaigns.

At Existem Affiliate Management we know that the success of affiliate marketing depends on building trust and understanding between the merchants, networks and affiliates to ensure the best possible results. We work personally with all parties and employ best practice to ensure we can deliver the services our clients need from total management to outsourced consultancy.

Affiliate Management and Program Management
Affiliate Marketing requires expert management that is not always available from existing staff due to time and skill constraints.
Specialist affiliate management companies such as ours will help you to generate more sales through effectively managing your program.

Demand from merchants looking to get enter affiliate marketing has grown hugely in the last 5 years. This has worsened the skills shortage and increased the “communication noise”, making it much harder to achieve the full potential of affiliate marketing.
This is where a dedicated specialist affiliate management company can help you.

Listing of Telecom Affiliate Programs

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:08:28 PST

If you have a website and want to feature some of the great services on this site on your own, check out the affiliate programs below. Discountlongdistancerates.com is an authorized marketing agent for the following companies which offer a variety of services that you can feature on your own site by signing up.

Cognigen Telecom Services

A telecommunications service that offers long distance, calling cards, cell phones, Internet access, VoIP, conference calling and more. To see what Cognigen can offer to affiliates, click here. We've utilized Cognigen since this site's inception and have found them to be a good company to work with that is always adding new products for us to offer consumers.

You get a free custom website with Cognigen and access to a ton of tools to help you sell services and also take care of customer service issues should they arise. You can also do the hands off approach and let them deal with customer service. Here at Discountlongdistancerates.com we like to make sure our customers are satisfied and continue to offer a personal touch to service. Cognigen is a multi-tier program and offers residual income on almost all services with some also featuring one time payouts.

Telebay Telecom

A telecommunications broker that features cell phones, VoIP, prepaid cell phones and more. We've worked with Telebay for several years now and have found them to be a good supplier for our visitors. They are always aiming to raise the bar and tend to come out with the new hot products before they even become popular. To get more information or sign up as a representative/affiliate for Telebay, click here. Telebay is a multi-tier program and offers residual income on almost all services with some also featuring one time payouts.

DishPronto for Dish Network

For Dish Network, we recommend DishPronto. We've tested a ton of affiliate programs for Dish Network and this program consistently delivers on having the best deals, pricing and customer service for our customers. Support is available when you need it and payments are always on time. DishPronto is a two tier program and offers one time payment for sales of Dish Network systems.

Rapid Satellite for DirecTV

For DirecTV, we recommend Rapid Satellite. Good reporting tools and a great selection of marketing materials are among their offerings. They provide great customer service and due to feedback we've received from customers, feel they offer the best program for DirecTV available. Rapid Satellite is a two tier program and offers one time payment for sales of DirecTV systems.

SpoofCard Affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:04:40 PST

SpoofCard, a provider of enhanced calling card services, has announced a partnership with Commission Junction, one of the largest global pay-for-performance marketing networks, to promote its new affiliate program. The new program offers webmasters trusted-third party tracking, real-time reporting and monthly commission checks. SpoofCard launched its affiliate program officially on August 27.

With SpoofCard’s affiliate program, webmasters can gain a share of the company’s revenues by working as its partner in promoting the company’s services. All they need to do is link their portal with the website of SpoofCard. The new affiliate program of SpoofCard, launched at Commission Junction, provides webmasters with a wide array of text, flash and static banner ads. In addition to this, affiliates are offered support by a dedicated affiliate management team that is prepared to work in tandem with the webmasters.

The affiliate program of SpoofCard is also unique because it is among the very few programs in the industry that offer commissions for recurring purchases. With this feature, affiliates can earn passive income as well when a new customer is acquired by the company.

SpoofCard's unique calling card provides users with the ability to change the number displayed on the Caller ID. Customers can record phone conversations as well as modify one’s voice to sound like the opposite sex. SpoofCard is available for individuals as well as businesses and business owners, who wish to have a specific number displayed on the Caller ID when they are calling from a different phone e.g. a private cell phone.

Affiliates can join the program for free. New affiliates will receive a free SpoofCard as well if they sign-up and actively promote the SpoofCard program.

For more information on SpoofCard's affiliate program at Commission Junction, or to sign up to promote SpoofCard on your website, blog, or newsletter, please visit: www.spoofcard.com/affiliate.php.

For more information on SpoofCard, please visit: www.spoofcard.com.

Internet Marketing / Affiliate Programs

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:58:08 PST

There are still many super affiliate marketers that are missing out on the lucrative telecom affiliate market. Some super affiliate marketers focus only on the large retail store affiliate programs because they believe that these big brands have a higher conversion rates. But these super affiliate marketers are missing out on what telecom affiliate programs have to offer with an impulse product that everybody needs. Not only is there a huge demand in the market, but these buyers tend to convert often, and quickly. Most of the better telecom merchants also give their affiliate a residual income, every time the customer renews their account. This results in a high payout, and provides telecom affiliate marketers a residual income reward that can be much larger than the single commission that they earn from major retailers..

Now that your understand why you should promote a telecom affiliate program, lets break down what to look for in the best International prepaid phone card affiliate program online.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #1

“I’ll Gladly Pay You Tomorrow, For a Hamburger Today”. Just because a phone card affiliate program is paying you a residual income doesn’t mean it’s the best International prepaid phone card affiliate program online. You need to be sure the telecom company really does give good value to the consumers. So you need to investigate the merchant’s retention rates to see just how often the customers renew. Take a look at the amount that the telecom merchant pays up front. If it is a high percentage of the typical signup amount, you know that they are confident that the consumer will be renewing. A strong initial payout will allow you to earn more affiliate commissions today so that you can be more aggressive with your internet marketing strategies. However you should find a company that provides you a fair tail end residual income as well as an extra bonus in bringing in quality customers to its International prepaid phone card affiliate program.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #2

Cheapest Price Doesn’t Always Come With a Solid Reputation: You maybe thinking you’re promoting the cheapest phone card rate, but are you really providing a quality product to your customers? Be sure that they are not being hit for extra hidden fees. Not only will that hurt your income, but it will also hurt your reputation with these customers on your phone card affiliate website. Your job is to help educate your visitors with phone card reviews that will guide your customers to making the right decision in picking a calling card plan that fits their needs. Add value by becoming a calling card affiliate expert and let them know which calling card product is the best for their needs.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #3

Picking the Best International Prepaid Phone Card Affiliate Program Online:

There are many factors you need to consider when joining a phone card affiliate program. Most importantly, you need to consider the reputation of the online calling card company. It should provide phone card affiliate marketing advice, optimized phone card copy, creative ethnic phone card niche marketing, ongoing calling card coupon codes and promotions, quality phone card calls, advanced virtual calling card interface, strong website conversion rates, international targeted landing pages in multiple languages, overall calling card rates without any hidden fees, local access for additional reduced calling card rates, pin-less speedy dialing and finally ongoing calling card affiliate promotions to reward you for your affiliate marketing efforts.

As you can see, there are many factors you need to consider to pick the International prepaid phone card affiliate program that will give you the best results and best reputation online. Overall, phone card affiliate programs do convert well and should offer you a lucrative commission structure. So not only are calling card affiliate program worth joining, but also worth positioning on your top traffic pages to take advantage of the lucrative impulse buys, and residual income.

There are still many super affiliate marketers that are missing out on the lucrative telecom affiliate market. Some super affiliate marketers focus only on the large retail store affiliate programs because they believe that these big brands have a higher conversion rates. But these super affiliate marketers are missing out on what telecom affiliate programs have to offer with an impulse product that everybody needs. Not only is there a huge demand in the market, but these buyers tend to convert often, and quickly. Most of the better telecom merchants also give their affiliate a residual income, every time the customer renews their account. This results in a high payout, and provides telecom affiliate marketers a residual income reward that can be much larger than the single commission that they earn from major retailers..

Now that your understand why you should promote a telecom affiliate program, lets break down what to look for in the best International prepaid phone card affiliate program online.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #1

“I’ll Gladly Pay You Tomorrow, For a Hamburger Today”. Just because a phone card affiliate program is paying you a residual income doesn’t mean it’s the best International prepaid phone card affiliate program online. You need to be sure the telecom company really does give good value to the consumers. So you need to investigate the merchant’s retention rates to see just how often the customers renew. Take a look at the amount that the telecom merchant pays up front. If it is a high percentage of the typical signup amount, you know that they are confident that the consumer will be renewing. A strong initial payout will allow you to earn more affiliate commissions today so that you can be more aggressive with your internet marketing strategies. However you should find a company that provides you a fair tail end residual income as well as an extra bonus in bringing in quality customers to its International prepaid phone card affiliate program.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #2

Cheapest Price Doesn’t Always Come With a Solid Reputation: You maybe thinking you’re promoting the cheapest phone card rate, but are you really providing a quality product to your customers? Be sure that they are not being hit for extra hidden fees. Not only will that hurt your income, but it will also hurt your reputation with these customers on your phone card affiliate website. Your job is to help educate your visitors with phone card reviews that will guide your customers to making the right decision in picking a calling card plan that fits their needs. Add value by becoming a calling card affiliate expert and let them know which calling card product is the best for their needs.

Calling Card Affiliate Program Tip #3

Picking the Best International Prepaid Phone Card Affiliate Program Online:

There are many factors you need to consider when joining a phone card affiliate program. Most importantly, you need to consider the reputation of the online calling card company. It should provide phone card affiliate marketing advice, optimized phone card copy, creative ethnic phone card niche marketing, ongoing calling card coupon codes and promotions, quality phone card calls, advanced virtual calling card interface, strong website conversion rates, international targeted landing pages in multiple languages, overall calling card rates without any hidden fees, local access for additional reduced calling card rates, pin-less speedy dialing and finally ongoing calling card affiliate promotions to reward you for your affiliate marketing efforts.

As you can see, there are many factors you need to consider to pick the International prepaid phone card affiliate program that will give you the best results and best reputation online. Overall, phone card affiliate programs do convert well and should offer you a lucrative commission structure. So not only are calling card affiliate program worth joining, but also worth positioning on your top traffic pages to take advantage of the lucrative impulse buys, and residual income.

BCN Telecom

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:55:34 PST

BCN Telecom utilizes the underlying carrier services of AT&T and Sprint. For over 15 years, hundreds of direct marketers, call centers and other national companies have used BCN’s services and enjoyed improvement to the functionality, management, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of their business telecommunications.

BCN’s stabilized rates are extremely competitive in all areas regardless of service type or network carrier. None of our arrangements require customer commitments to either length of term or volume of usage.

BCN Telecom provides customers with a single point of contact for multiple telecommunications resources. Additional consultative services are provided for all. Prime areas of expertise include sophisticated voice network applications (toll free call center solutions), Local and Long Distance services, IVR solutions, data networking, network maintenance, disaster recovery, and PBX-network integration applications.

Full-featured network services are available under BCN’s ATT and Sprint contract umbrellas. This includes both dedicated T-1 and switched access for long distance and toll free services. BCN’s arrangements provide far more than competitive rates without commitment. For example, both the ATT and Sprint programs include many free Advanced Toll Free Routing Features.

AsiaJam Affiliate Program

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:28:18 PST

Asia fast becoming the bastion of high end fashion. And with AsiaJam, Asian megastore carrying thelatest & trendiest Asian Fashion from Japan, Hong Kong and Korea. Choose styles from Japanese Streetwear to Sophisticated Urbanwear for teenage and young adult fashionista.

Here's the goodnews!!! You can actually earn 15% for each sale and 10% recurring FOR LIFE!

It's about time YOU took credit for leading big buys to these stores and AsiaJam is giving you the opportunity to be your own business owner through our affiliate program! Some of our customers have spent $500 per order and now, you can take home 15% of it - that's a whooping $45!

In addition to that, when a customer YOU referred keeps returning to shop at AsiaJam, you will earn a 10% commission everytime they buy!

It's an easy effort for an easy income. So come join our virtual AsiaJam Street Team and go WiLd! Everyone is invited!

http://programs.affiliatebot.com/AsiaJam

Who Visits My Site?

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:29:22 PST

Who Visits My Site? That is one of the most common questions webmasters ask and one which is very difficult to answer. There are many ways to find out how many people visit your site but getting information about them is more difficult.

There are two ways to find out more than just your visitor numbers. Some counters like Sitemeter will give you information on your visitors like:

Number of visitors and pageviews in any time period
Predicted numbers of visitors and pageviews
Domain name of visitors (their ISP)
Visitors' country
Amount of time visitors spend on site
Entry page - First page they saw on your site
Exit page - Last page they saw on your site
Referring page - The last page visitors were on before yours
Browser
IP Address

Sitemeter give you some code and you need to add it to your site. The code must be placed on each page to get the full information.

Another way to get information like this but also more about what pages your visitors look at, what files are downloaded and download speeds is by using the web server's log files.

A log file is a file which the server keeps which has all this and more information about your web site. It will record every single page, image and script request and will record information about the computer which makes the request, if it was successful and how much data was transferred. Some web hosts will allow you access to these files but many will not. If you want one you will need to see if any offer you 'Raw Logfiles'. Once you have the log file you need to download a program or script which will analyse the file and display the information on the screen. There are many of these which all do different things with the data so the best way to find one is to search for Log File Analysers. Some hosts, though, will automatically generate statistics from your logfiles online.

As you can see it is very difficult to find out who your visitors are and there is only one sure way of finding out. If you create a members only section on your website then you can have a questionare for people to fill in to get access to that section. This will annoy a lot of people though and they won't bother to sign up so even this way is not brilliant.

The best way to get as much information as possible without losing visitors is to get a good counter or analyse your server's log files so you will never really know who visits your site.
Who Visits My Site? That is one of the most common questions webmasters ask and one which is very difficult to answer. There are many ways to find out how many people visit your site but getting information about them is more difficult.

There are two ways to find out more than just your visitor numbers. Some counters like Sitemeter will give you information on your visitors like:

Number of visitors and pageviews in any time period
Predicted numbers of visitors and pageviews
Domain name of visitors (their ISP)
Visitors' country
Amount of time visitors spend on site
Entry page - First page they saw on your site
Exit page - Last page they saw on your site
Referring page - The last page visitors were on before yours
Browser
IP Address

Sitemeter give you some code and you need to add it to your site. The code must be placed on each page to get the full information.

Another way to get information like this but also more about what pages your visitors look at, what files are downloaded and download speeds is by using the web server's log files.

A log file is a file which the server keeps which has all this and more information about your web site. It will record every single page, image and script request and will record information about the computer which makes the request, if it was successful and how much data was transferred. Some web hosts will allow you access to these files but many will not. If you want one you will need to see if any offer you 'Raw Logfiles'. Once you have the log file you need to download a program or script which will analyse the file and display the information on the screen. There are many of these which all do different things with the data so the best way to find one is to search for Log File Analysers. Some hosts, though, will automatically generate statistics from your logfiles online.

As you can see it is very difficult to find out who your visitors are and there is only one sure way of finding out. If you create a members only section on your website then you can have a questionare for people to fill in to get access to that section. This will annoy a lot of people though and they won't bother to sign up so even this way is not brilliant.

The best way to get as much information as possible without losing visitors is to get a good counter or analyse your server's log files so you will never really know who visits your site.

Keeping Your Visitors Happy

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:26:33 PST

Every website, whatever it offers to its users, must do one thing and that is keep the visitors happy. After spending days promoting your new website you don't want your users to leave before looking at your content or buying anything from you. It is a complete waste. There are, though, many ways to increase the likelyhood that your visitors stay at your site and maybe even revisit it in the future.

One of the major things you can do to keep your visitors happy is to make it very easy to find what they want fast. Remember, for nearly every website on a topic, there are about 5 others who provide the same service. For example, if you can't find the book you want at Amazon you can try Barnes & Noble or BOL. There are many things you can do to make things easier for your users. One of these is to add a search engine to your site so that visitors can search for what they want. This is actually quite easy to do and you can get one for free from Atomz.

You should also make sure that there are no broken links on your site, all the pictures work and people can access all the pages they will want. If users get an error they are very unlikely to continue to try and use your site. You should also check your spelling and grammar as a lot of misspellings can make people think your site is unprofessional and not continue to use it.

One very important way of keeping your visitors happy is to provide them with several easy ways to contact you. This is especially important if your site sells something as people will often want more details on your system or products. Every site should give the users an e-mail address and an online form for users to contact them. If you are running a business site it is also good to include a 'real world' address and a telephone number.

Just giving your users a way to contact you isn't enough. You MUST respond to users e-mails. Even if it is just an accnowledgement of the receipt of an e-mail, you should reply within a week at the latest. If you can reply to all your e-mails within 24 hours you will be rewarded with user loyalty. This is because the speed you respond to your e-mail is a good indication of how professional a company is. Being quick will impress people. One company I once delt with usually replies to e-mails within 2 hours! If you can provide this sort of service your customers will be very happy.

As you can see, just getting people to visit your site is not enough. You need to keep them happy and deal with their comments and questions quickly and efficiently. Doing this will make your visitors loyal and encourage repeat visits and/or purchases.

Google

noreply@blogger.com (hamoraby99) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:23:36 PST

Just a few years ago no-one had heard of Google. We were all searching with Altavista, Excite and Inktomi (through Yahoo). Searching the web was a difficult process. Search engines were incaccurate, they had very small databases and it was difficult to know which results were actually relevant. The big search engines had turned away from searching and were concentrating on their huge portals, with news, horoscopes and TV listings. It was accepted that the difficulties in searching the web were something you had to put up with.

It was in December 1999 that Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page published their document 'The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine' that everything began to change. This document showed the workings of their new project, a search engine called Google, which at that time, held data on 26 million web pages. Over the 2 years since then, Google has changed the webbeyond recognition.

Finally, there is a search engine which is fast, powerful, accurate and has an enormous database. Today, Google holds over 2 billion pages in its index, the largest search engine ever. Results are accurate and, using Google's 'Page Rank' technology, and the masterful idea of showing a snippet of the site's text containing the search term instead of the META description, the user can easily see which ones are relevant. Google's huge cache of every page in its index has made 'Error 404 - Not Found' from listings a thing of the past and the total lack of large images on the site means it is one of the quickest sites to load on the web, even when showing 100 results per page. Now, Google offers web search, image search, directory search (based on the Open Directory), Directory Search (with the world's biggest Usenet archive) and catalogs search (mail order catalogs online).

This sucess has immense implications for webmasters. Google is now the search engine of choice for most of the web and it handles over 150 million queries a day. With that sort of popularity, a webmaster's first promotion task should be submitting to Google. Although it is highly likely that Google will pick up your site anyway on its next crawl, its always best to be safe. Getting into Google is simple, but getting a high ranking isn't. Traditional methods just don't work. Repeating your search term is useless, as is carefully planning out your META tags (Google doesn't use them). What you must pay attention to is Google's PageRank.

This is the method used to rank search results. Each page is given a PageRank based on this formula:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
Although this looks extremely confusing, in essence it means that your PageRank is based on the following:

The number of sites linking to yours
The PageRank of sites linking to yours

This means that a site with 500 links to it from other sites will get a much higher rank than one with 5. Also, if two sites, each with 100 links to them, but one of them has links from Yahoo, CNN, the BBC, Amazon and Microsoft, the one with the links from the more popular sites will get a higher ranking.

So the only way to guarantee a high ranking with Google is to exchange links with people, which is exactly what makes the web so powerful anyway. All Google is really doing is returning to the roots of the internet. Exchanging links is free (usually) and, now Google powers Yahoo's web results, it seems to be the best way to build up traffic. But is a good PageRank the only way to get a higher listing. It probably is, but here are a few other tips which may or may not work (they appear to have given quite good results in some cases but this may be coincidence).

Get a keyword filled domain name. If someone searches for 'free advice' and your site is www.freeadvice.com, you should get higher up the search results
Put keywords in your title. If your site has the title 'F
ree Advice' it should appear higher up the results for the above search
Get your site included in the Open Directory (www.dmoz.org). Google appears to rank these pages higher.

Getting a high ranking in Google is not the only way you can benefit from it, though. Take a look at the design. To many people, Google is the best designed site on the web now. Its fast loading and easy to read. You can also learn an important lesson: If you see something wrong with the internet and can provide a good fix, you are well on the way to success. Thirdly, take a look at the Google Zeitgeist. Even if it doesn't help your website, its an extremely interesting page, and you may just be able to change your site to take advantage of highly searched queries.

Google is a revolution. Its changed the way the web works, and its changed the way webmasters promote their sites forever. If you still don't take Google promotion seriously, you're making a big mistake, and if you're considering spending thousands on promoting your site, take a week or two to exchange links with other sites first. I guarantee you won't regret it.