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		<title>A Guide to Google Adwords</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracey Simpson asked: For substantially lower costperclickbrbrthis is find out more specifically as result this means competitor who has better quality scorebrbras you should understand what the long tail enables you for it is triggered an advertiser you will need to target your goal to target your adsbrbr1 every time your landing pagebrbr6 other. For [...]]]></description>
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<div><em><strong>Tracey Simpson</strong> asked: </em><br/><br/><br/><br/>For substantially lower costperclickbrbrthis is find out more specifically as result this means competitor who has better quality scorebrbras you should understand what the long tail enables you for it is triggered an advertiser you will need to target your goal to target your adsbrbr1 every time your landing pagebrbr6 other.<br />
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		<title>8 TOP Ways To Promote Your RSS/XML Feed For MAXIMUM Exposure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Threlfall asked: RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is the new technology on the block and is taking the Internet by storm as Internet marketers are hurrying to incorporate this new form of communication and technology into there existing online businesses to Maximize there exposure online with NEW and/or Existing customers.I recently received a post on my [...]]]></description>
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<div><em><strong>Cory Threlfall</strong> asked: </em><br/><br/><br/>RSS(Real Simple Syndication) is the new technology on the block and is taking the Internet by storm as Internet marketers are hurrying to incorporate this new form of communication and technology into there existing online businesses to Maximize there exposure online with NEW and/or Existing customers.<br/><br/>I recently received a post on my Blog from a fellow that inspired me to write this article since I found the nature of the topic important to ALL who are serious about getting the most out of there RSS feed and this new technology.<br/><br/>I&#8217;m pretty sure you can guess what he ask from reading the headline of this article.<br/><br/>Well&#8230; I did some research on what he had asked of me and came up with&#8230;<br/><br/>&#8220;8 TOP Ways To Promote Your RSS/XML Feed For MAXIMUM Exposure&#8221;<br/><br/>So, with that said, let&#8217;s dive into the first and MOST important step to Maximizing your RSS feed for the exposure it deserves.<br/><br/>Step #1. Build a dedicated webpage for your RSS feed.<br/><br/>This is probably the most important part of getting the most out of your RSS feed, is by building your own dedicated webpage for your RSS feed subscription.<br/><br/>The KEY here is to give your potential readers many options to adding Your RSS feed.<br/><br/>The best way for me to illustrate this to you is by clicking on the link below that leads to my dedicated RSS feed subscription page so you can see first hand what you need to do to get yours started.<br/><br/>Click here:http://www.internetwondersezine.com/rss_feed.html<br/><br/>Did you notice all the different options I give?<br/><br/>That&#8217;s what you need to do.<br/><br/>Now, for those of you who aren&#8217;t so web savvy, don&#8217;t worry, I have something for you that will auto-generate a RSS feed webpage for you within minutes if you already have a Blog or RSS feed.<br/><br/>The service I&#8217;m talking about is called FeedBurner.com &#8212; http://www.feedburner.com &#8212; and is a free service for you to sign up for.<br/><br/>Here&#8217;s what my webpage through FeedBurner.com looks like so you&#8217;ll have an idea of what yours will look like.<br/><br/>http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheInternetWondersBlog<br/><br/>Do you see all the options they give your potential readers to add your RSS feed to there RSS readers?<br/><br/>Once you&#8217;ve accomplished one of the two options above your all set to start promoting your RSS feed for MAXIMUM exposure.<br/><br/>Step #2. Add links to your RSS feed webpage on your website.<br/><br/>This is yet just another way to pull your visitors towards your RSS feed webpage by simply adding Text or Graphic links to your existing webpages.<br/><br/>Make sure you put them in Highly visible area&#8217;s where your visitors will see your links.<br/><br/>I would would put one at the top, middle and bottom of your website.<br/><br/>This really depends on what kind of website you have so you&#8217;ll have to use your own dicression.<br/><br/>Here&#8217;s what I have done on my website to give you an example.<br/><br/>Click here: http://www.internetwondersezine.com<br/><br/>Step #3. Add this HTML tag to your RSS feed webpage.<br/><br/>Here&#8217;s something you can add to all your websites webpages that will get the attention of Search Engines spiders to come on over and check out your RSS feed further.<br/><br/>Simple add the following HTML tag to the of your document:<br/><br/>link rel=&#8221;alternate&#8221; type=&#8221;application/rss+xml&#8221; title=&#8221;YOUR SITE TITLE RSS Feed&#8221; href=&#8221;URL TO RSS FILE&#8221;/<br/><br/>(note: add this to the end after the forward slash /)<br/><br/>Step #4. Some idea&#8217;s if you have your own newsletter.<br/><br/>If you have your own newsletter like I do, here&#8217;s a couple ways to get your visitors to visit your RSS feed webpage.<br/><br/>Add a link on your &#8220;Thank You&#8221; page that leads to your RSS feed webpage. Whether its a Text or Graphic link.<br/><br/>The key here is to get your RSS feed link in front of your readers as much as possible to get them to add your RSS feed to there readers.<br/><br/>The next one is, add a link inside your &#8220;Welcome&#8221; email that&#8217;s sent out to your New newsletter subscriber after they&#8217;ve subscribed.<br/><br/>This again, will give you another chance of getting them to add your RSS feed to there readers.<br/><br/>Step #5. Put together a &#8220;Signature File&#8221;.<br/><br/>Here&#8217;s another couple great ways to get your RSS feed webpage more exposure every time you send out an email or post to any online forums is by simply putting together a &#8220;Signature File&#8221;.<br/><br/>Now, every time you sent out an email to your list and/or business contact you can attached your &#8220;Signature File&#8221; at the end of every email you send.<br/><br/>The same goes for online forums, every time you make a post or answer someone else&#8217;s, your &#8220;Signature File&#8221; will be automatically attached.<br/><br/>Your &#8220;Signature File&#8221; doesn&#8217;t have to be a huge, a few enticing lines will do fine with your RSS feed URL.<br/><br/>Step #6. Submit your RSS feed to RSS Directories and SE&#8217;s.<br/><br/>Another great way to give your RSS feed more exposure is by submitting it or them to RSS Directories and Search Engines.<br/><br/>I&#8217;ve listed a few resources for you below to get you started with.<br/><br/> <br/><br/>Feed Sharkhttp://feedshark.brainbliss.com<br/><br/><br/><br/>Ping-O-Matichttp://pingomatic.com<br/><br/><br/><br/>RSS Top 55http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55<br/><br/><br/><br/>Step #7. Write an article, if you write articles.<br/><br/>This is a great way to get your RSS feed webpage in front of thousands of targeted readers absolutely FREE!<br/><br/>Simply write an article on a HOT topic within your niche, and at the end of your article add an enticing, attention grabbing &#8220;Resource Box&#8221; that points to your RSS feed webpage URL.<br/><br/>Step #8. Set-Up a PPC(Pay-Per-Click) campaign.<br/><br/>For the last step to getting your RSS feed webpage Maximum exposure is to set-up a PPC campaign.<br/><br/>By doing this you will be able to send HIGHLY targeted traffic to your RSS feed webpage that are hungry for the information you have to offer.<br/><br/>The only downside to doing the PPC tactic is that it will cost you.<br/><br/>And, this tactic solely depends on whether or not you chose to set-up an RSS feed webpage of your own.<br/><br/>Now, I&#8217;m sure there are many others ways out there that could draw in more visitors to your RSS feed, but, these ones I just outlined in this article are the Best ones in my mind and are the ones I use.<br/><br/>Well, this concludes the, &#8220;8 TOP Ways To Promote Your RSS/XML Feed For MAXIMUM Exposure&#8221;, so, the only thing I have left to say to you is&#8230; Get Started!<br/><br/><br/></div>
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		<title>Niche Keywords Research</title>
		<link>http://longlunchpdx.com/2009/11/20/niche-keywords-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[zmilliondollars asked: To success in the internet marketing, the research key strategy is one of the most significant strategies for your home based internet marketing business. With keywords people are searching for, you can build your website with a good ranking in search engines or you can maximize profits through pay per click online advertising. [...]]]></description>
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<p>To success in the internet marketing, the research key strategy is one of the most significant strategies for your home based internet marketing business. With keywords people are searching for, you can build your website with a good ranking in search engines or you can maximize profits through pay per click online advertising. There are many ways to boost your revenues from those niche keywords.</p>
<p>You will discover keyword search strategies to help you to discover the best keywords for your home based internet marketing business in this article. With those strategies, you can also discover a massive list of keywords and can use it everywhere in your home based internet marketing business.</p>
<p>Generally, the focus keywords are terms, words or phrase, which is related to particular topics, on the internet. The research keyword strategy will involve various aspects, such as discovering focus keywords for sales, driving quality traffic to your website or converting traffic into sale.</p>
<p>The research keyword strategy is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign and other marketing channels. It is important to pay attention to your research keyword strategy. It is obviously that it can be very tricky to choose your niche keywords for your home based internet marketing business or even website.</p>
<p>The selection of keywords should always be based on various aspects such as product names, services, brands, or other general terms. Another interesting point for your research keyword is the geographical. The internet is a global market. Your research keyword strategy should be specified into your market or region or small group of people. Many studies show that most of internet marketing entrepreneurs forget about the geographical research keyword terms.</p>
<p>The highest recommendation for your research keyword strategy is to do thorough market research analysis. With this sense, you will reach wider range of potential buyers through the best keywords. Also, you should study the competitors&#8217; keywords, which keywords are profitable and used by your competitors. With those competitors&#8217; keywords, you will know that what your competitors are using and marketing on the internet.</p>
<p>Next, you will learn step-by-step of how to research keyword effectively to discover the best keywords for your online business.</p>
<p>1. Brainstorm initially the focus keywords for your business by yourself. Obviously, you should come up with the set of initial keywords for your own business. With those initial keywords, you can derived and generate more niche keywords later. The highest recommendation for brainstorming is to list down all markets, topics, products and services, which you are going to offer to your customers. With those stuffs, you will come up with the initial set of keywords. Perhaps, you can use the free keyword search tools like Overture, Google Keywords and WordTracker (free-version) to get the keyword ideas or initial set of keywords.</p>
<p>2. Ask other people to generate more initial keywords. It is a great idea to ask other people like your family, friends or colleague to get more ideas about keywords in your business. This is pretty powerful strategy for generating ideas for your keywords. Let&#8217;s think about this way, if you allow 10 people to generate only 10 common keywords for your business, how much finally you will get the common general keywords for your business. That’s 100 keywords without your works! All you have to do is ask people particularly family and friends to help you generate a quick list of keywords.</p>
<p>3. Select the initial keywords for digging down further. When you have a full initial set of keywords, it is obvious that you have to select those keywords for digging down further. In this step, you must think about keywords people are using to search for products in your niche markets. You must ensure that you select keywords that clearly define your home based internet marketing business, products or services. There are some websites on the internet which get a lot of traffic through general keywords, although those websites can not generate any sales.</p>
<p>4. Refine your keyword research with the keyword research tools. There are many keyword search tools available to help you generate more keywords. The challenge here is to determine which keyword is the best to generate traffic. The highest recommends are: to focus on Keyword Index (KEI) value and competitors in search engines. With paid-version of WordTracker or Keyword Discovery, you should select the keywords with high KEI value and low competitors.</p>
<p>5. Dig down into your competitors&#8217; keywords. There is no doubt that it is an absolutely great idea to study and steal your competitors&#8217; keywords. There are a few powerful tools to help you to study those competitors&#8217; keywords in dept. With those keyword search tools, you will discover what keywords they are using for their earning and profits online.</p>
<p>6. Test your keywords through pay per click campaign. To success in the internet marketing business, you have to test everything you can such as keywords, website and strategies. The best keyword research strategy in this article is to test your keywords with pay per click campaigns. With those campaigns, you will know the traffic, conversion rate and bid price for your keywords. However, the awareness of this step is your keyword bidding price in those pay per click campaigns.</p>
<p>7. Use the high performance keywords for your home based internet marketing business. This step is a consequence of the previous step. You will discover high performance keywords with high conversion rate. When you get those high performance keywords, you must use them everywhere in your home based internet marketing business such as article, classified ads, blogging and email.</p>
<p>Final thoughts, there is a sequence of steps to do your keyword research effectively. With those steps, you will discover the best keywords for your business. Those best performance keywords will lead you to success in this internet marketing business.</p>
<p>Get full access to the best keywords researched over 2 million keywords by the expert team. This is another way for your shortcut to get the best keywords. You will discover hot niche markets and keywords from the most effective keyword research. You will save your time and minimize your mistake while you are researching your own keywords. Also, you will discover super-profitable markets and keywords from the best keywords provided to you every month!</p>
<p>Learn more about keyword research and keyword search tools to help you to generate a massive list of keywords in a minute. With those niche keywords, you will maximize your profits in PPC. You will discover great niche keywords with low competitors and high conversion rate, particularly for Adwords and Adsense. You will save your time and will not be headache about keyword research any more.</p>
<p>Read more articles, news, and up-to-date information about keyword research and related keyword issues at: http://www.zKeywordTool.com/blog</p>
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		<title>Advertising Using Blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Smith asked: Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature:  If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.  One of those ways is something that you do everyday, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Douglas Smith asked: <br/><br/><br/><strong>Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature:  </strong>If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of, and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.  One of those ways is something that you do everyday, and that you may not even consider as a way to share<br/><br/>your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature.  Chances are that you send out emails more timese that you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email’s signature. It’s always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have.  The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement in your signature for your blog is to make it short,<br/><br/>but eyecatching.  You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don’t want to scare them off.  Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising.  Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people abuot it and want to visit That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.<br/><br/><strong>Blogger Forums &#8211; A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog:  </strong>No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject.  It’s a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.  There are quite a few blogger forums that you can sign up for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries, where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog.  Another good place to go is to Blog Forum. Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog, Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.  If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure.  When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy.  Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you’ll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the<br/><br/><strong>Blogging Directories &#8211; Great Advertising Venues:  </strong>If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submited cover. Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there.  Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.  There are other blog directories on the Internet &#8211; these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make<br/><br/>new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily.  As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.<br/><br/><strong>Blogging Traffic &#8211; Give And Take:  </strong>Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else ’s blog.  Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common. When you find something that you find truly<br/><br/>interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.  One of the best known blogs available is LiveJournal.  A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search<br/><br/>for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.  Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well.  When you are commenting on someone’s post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.  After you have commented on the person’s post, then you can say something like, ‘I really like horseback riding too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ and<br/><br/>then use it to link back to your journal.  But be sure that you sound sincere when you are<br/><br/>commenting, and don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic.  If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.<br/><br/><strong>Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog:  </strong>Something that you will find, especially if you join something like LiveJournal or GreatestJournal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.  There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn’t a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.  The nice thing about communities is that there isn’t<br/><br/>any limit as to how many communities that you can join.  For example, say that you love blogging about books, horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.  As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps<br/><br/>they will check out your personal blog.  Something to remember is that you don’t want to write<br/><br/>a post tht is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.  Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post.  As with posting comments on someone else’s blog, you don’t want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won’t visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.<br/><br/><strong>Email Groups &#8211; Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising:  </strong>Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues.  They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.  There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject.  These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.  Most of the time when you join a group, you are<br/><br/>encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself.  This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don’t overdo it.  Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.  If your blog covers different subjects, you can<br/><br/>advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well. Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There’s nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.  When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that<br/><br/>they leave.  If they know that you appreciate the time that they<br/><br/>took, they are more likely to come back again.<br/><br/>The power of being seen is the up most importance and blogging is one the best ways you can make sure others know of you, don&#8217;t let it pass you by.www.theonlinenbiznetwork.com, www.marinisgifts.com, www.onlinenichenetwork.com<br/><br/> <br/><br/><br/><br/><a href='http://kansieo.com/members'>Caffeinated Content for WordPress</a></p>
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