They discuss why a good niche in PPC is not necessarily a good niche for article marketing (and vice versa).

After today’s video, you’ll never have to guess whether a niche is any good for article marketing.

The video is absolutely free and there is no registration to watch it.

AffSphere is an article directory that pays you for submitting articles.

AffSphere is a relatively new article directory, that has made it to the list of top article directories.

But what makes it stand out is that AffSphere allows you to earn 8 different ways for your articles! All you have to do is what you already do, submit your great content to the directory (that’s it).

AffSphere is a service of Affiliate Classroom, Inc., and on August 12th they are going to release a report that reveals exactly how they earn over 6 figures a year just from article marketing.

Learn more and watch videos about this new article directory at the AffSphere blog.

Most Interesting Gainers

• One of the most popular article directories, goarticles.com is back from pagerank 3 to well-deserved pagerank 6.
• Several directories reached pagerank 5:
  • ArticlesFactory.com
  • FreeSticky.com
  • ArticleInsider.com
  • TheAllINeed.com
  • ArticlesBase.com

Most Noticeable Loosers

• ArticleWorld.net and IdeaMarketers.com slid down from PR5 to PR3.
• The following article directories lost one point each and now have pagerank 4:
  • Certificate.net/wwio
  • ArticleManiac.com
  • Marketing-Seek.com

Article marketing continues to be one of the most effective ways to reach expert level in your niche. With the list of the Top 50 Article Directories by Traffic, Pagerank you can concentrate your efforts and save your time by submitting articles to the most valuable directories only.

Checkout By Amazon

Checkout By Amazon is a complete checkout solution. It lets web site visitors sign in to web sites using an Amazon Account login and buy items using the familiar Amazon’s 1-Click® button. Checkout By Amazon service provides tools for businesses to manage shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including refunds, cancellations, and chargebacks..

Amazon Simple Pay

Amazon Simple Pay is a service that allows consumers to use their Amazon account information to pay for purchases on other web sites. It is for those merchants who don’t need sophisticated checkout and order management capabilities, but who would like to incorporate Amazon’s customer login system to sell products.

Amazon Simple Pay differs from Checkout by Amazon in that Checkout by Amazon provides additional capabilities to support real-time shipping and tax calculation, promotions, and order management-tasks including order cancellations, order reports and shipment tracking. If you don’t need Amazon’s end-to-end checkout pipeline and order management capabilities, but still want to enable your customers to use their payment information already on file at Amazon.com, use Amazon Simple Pay.

Amazon also offers the Amazon Flexible Payment Service, a developer-oriented money-transfer API, which is currently in limited beta testing mode.

Checkout By Amazon competes with PayPal and Google Checkout. The Amazon service costs 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for transactions of $10 or more. Transactions less than $10 cost 5% + $0.05 per transaction.

Google Checkout costs 2% + $0.20 per transaction. PayPal charges on a sliding scale, starting at 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction for monthly sales up to $3,000.

The key differences between Checkout by Amazon, Amazon Simple Pay, and Amazon’s Flexible Payment Service are summarized in this comparison chart.

In this 6-week blueprint report Patrick Chan shares his experience on how to start your own online niche business today:

• How to find the idea for your niche business
• The method that you can use to develop your first info-product without the risk of creating a non-profitable one
• The ‘trick’ of creating passive income on the internet — easier than you think!
• What you should be doing in between or after the 6 weeks…

Enter your first name and e-mail address for instant download on this page: Niche Marketing Riches In 6 Weeks Or Less free report

Questions like:

• how to find profitable niches in the market
• how to make money with a blog
• how to select a price for your product
• when starting, what would be the most effective way to drive traffic
• how to select a mentor to learn from
• how to keep track of business’ progress?
• and many more…

The list participating marketers includes:

• John Reese
• Stephen Pierce
• Yanik Silver
• Mike Filsaime
• Willie Crawford
• Armand Morin
• Frank Kern
• Eric Graham
• Donna Fox
• Brett McFall
• Clayton Makepeace
• Craig Perrine
• Dave Bernstein
• Frank Deardurff
• Heather Seitz
• Jeanette Cates
• Jeff Walker
• Jim Edwards
• Joel Comm
• John Carlton
• Ray Edwards
• Ryan Deiss
• Stu McLaren
• Tom Hua

To attend the call, all Sylvie asks is that you pledge to make a donation to her favorite Breast Cancer charity.

This teleseminar will be delivered in the next 30 days. Each marketer will take 5-10 minutes to answer one of these questions.

In the article, How to Fail at Online Business - Neglect Niche Marketing, he explains why franchise businesses and MLM schemes fail on the Internet due to (1) competition and (2) fewer geographical market limitations.

According to Dr. Wilson, the answer is in researching and clearly defining a market niche with sufficient demand but without overwhelming competition. Nichification is the key.

Read the article on the Web Marketing Today website: How to Fail at Online Business - Neglect Niche Marketing

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Now, when you use the Keyword Tool to search for relevant keywords to include in your keyword list, you’ll be able to see the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network. These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords’ monthly and average search volumes than previously provided by the tool.

How does this affect your niche market research?

• Now you can get more accurate information about a niche size right from the most popular search engine in the world.
• Save on services like Wordtracker.
• This can help you better plan your Adwords budget.

Go try it out now, enter a keyword and you’ll see Google’s approximate search volume.

Read more on the Inside Adwords blog.

Chris Knight of EzineArticles.com published the Pain Avoidance article template that can help you speed up the creation of your next set of quality original articles by addressing this time-proven principle:

Pain problem solving can become a new angle in your article marketing, or you could “re-package” your old articles with this new template.

In his blog post, Chris provides The Pain Avoidance Template simple four-step layout and tells why this article template idea works.

The Pain Avoidance article template