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		<title>Is WordPress.com Affiliate Marketer Friendly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Carl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge is potential power. The goal of my website is to provide knowledge that assists readers in making money online and learn from other people's costly mistakes. I recently had some business dealing with Wordpress.com. I have decided to write about my dealings with Wordpress.com. Hoping that all readers will learn from my situation. This information should allow you to save both time and frustration.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><div style='font-style:italic;' class='bloggingtoolsbyline'>by Bruce Carl</div>
<p>Knowledge is potential power. The goal of my website is to provide knowledge that assists readers in making money online and learn from other people&#8217;s costly mistakes. I recently had some business dealing with WordPress.com. I have decided to write about my dealings with WordPress.com. Hoping that all readers will learn from my situation. This information should allow you to save both time and frustration.</p>
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<p>I began blogging with three blogs hosted by WordPress.com. I have used many blogging platforms and found WordPress to offer a large number of features, while being user friendly. One of my first blogs was Bruce&#8217;s Money Rants. While Bruce&#8217;s Money Rants is still available, it currently is in its second incarnation. My first <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blog">blog</a> was squelched by WordPress.com. </p>
<p>WordPress.com was attractive because of its builders. The gentleman who created the WordPress platform also created WordPress.com (WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org, n.d.). There were several features that prompted me choose WordPress.com. </p>
<p>1. I already had experience with the WordPress software</p>
<p>2. Stated that they had over 70 templates available</p>
<p>3. I could add widgets and plug-ins</p>
<p>4. Ease in tracking site visitors</p>
<p>5. Having an address of &#8220;xxxx.wordpress.com&#8221;</p>
<p>At first, I was enjoying WordPress.com. I created &#8220;emergencymgmt.wordpress.com&#8221;, &#8220;lifeofreedom.wordpress.com&#8221;, and &#8220;brucesmoneyrants.wordpress.com&#8221;. My main blog was on money making. My plan was to develop the other two later. My first surprise came when I chose a template. I had about 12 templates available. You had to pay to access the 70 templates. Next, I found out you cannot upload external templates.</p>
<p>I also was limited in the widgets available. WordPress.com does not allow external widgets to be uploaded. They do offer some widgets. Users also are not allowed to add java script to their widgets. Java script is required to monetize your blog through <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/3953/3-ways-to-get-traffic-while-youre-waiting-in-googles-sandbox/" target="_self" title="Google">Google</a> Adsense or Amazon.com. </p>
<p>I was able to insert HTML into widgets. This allowed me to place small banner ads in the blog&#8217;s sidebars. Not as lucrative as Google Adsense or Amazon may be but it was something. This type of advertising does require you to manually change the code to show a different ad. I was not completely turned off. WordPress after all is a great blogging platform. </p>
<p>I reached a point where I was happy with my blog&#8217;s look. It was not perfect but was the best I could reach without paying WordPress.com extra money. I was not trying to get something for free. I was more than happy to pay for WordPress.com&#8217;s extra services. I just wanted the blog to be self sustaining. I began posting links in different blog directories and posting everyday. Within a week, I was seeing some results. My WordPress.com blog had a high day of 12 unique visitors and was already indexed in Google.com. I was pretty pleased.</p>
<p>I began focusing on writing posts to assist readers in making money online. I wrote about making money blogs and resources that I found useful (i.e. ZacJohnson.com and e-books). I also wrote about products, courses, etc. that had helped me learn about <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="internet marketing">internet marketing</a>. </p>
<p>My next move was to register with blog directories. I searched the web and came across a listing of 50 web directories. Each directory required you to register to submit your site. I spend two days registering the site. </p>
<p>Doomsday soon came. I signed up with a internet marketing course called Blogging for Dollars. In my view, this course offered some very useful tips. I believed readers would find it helpful. I wrote a review post about my experience and posted it. </p>
<p>I woke up Thursday morning and checked my blog&#8217;s stats. The blog was gone. My screen now stated that &#8220;This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service&#8221;. I was still able to sign in to my account and view my emergencymgmgt.wordpress.com blog. I also could still view stats for my World&#8217;s Dumbest Criminals blog that was not hosted with WordPress.com but used their statistics widget.</p>
<p>I did not write anything bad. Every time I quoted someone else, I stated the author, site I quoted, and linked to the source. I reviewed WordPress.com&#8217;s Terms of Service. Of course, WordPress.com&#8217;s Terms of Service is a couple of pages long. I was looking for restrictions that could be relevant to the posts I had made. Here are the ones I found:</p>
<p>1. &#8220;the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party&#8221;</p>
<p>2. &#8220;you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms&#8221;</p>
<p>3. &#8220;the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing)&#8221;</p>
<p>4. &#8220;your blog is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your blogs URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own&#8221;</p>
<p>There was the culprit. I had included affiliate links in my reviews. So I could tell people about products, whether or not I had used the product, as long as I was not an affiliate. It did not matter that I had bought the product, offered proof of the purchase, and had found it useful.</p>
<p>It is important to hear both sides of any story. WordPress.com has the right to run their site and business however they see fit. I sent a note to their tech support. All I was asking for was an explanation, nothing more. Again, it is their business. But, it would be good business to offer customers an explanation. Patiently, I watched for a return email. </p>
<p>I went to my World&#8217;s Dumbest Criminals blog to check my statistics. The WordPress.com statistics widget now showed &#8220;account suspended&#8221;. I went back to WordPress.com and attempted to login. I could not even login now. I guess this was the answer to my support e-mail. Do not answer my e-mail just shut off the account.</p>
<p>I am not writing this article out of revenge or spite. My goal is to allow other budding affiliate marketers the chance to learn from my story. WordPress is a great blogging platform. Affiliate marketers only need to be careful when trying to make money. It appears that WordPress.com wants to provide a great blogging platform&#8230;as long as you are not trying to make money.</p>
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<div class='bloggingtoolslinks'>Find out how to <a href="http://www.brucesmoneyrants.com/2009/07/how-to-create-quality-content-and-explode-your-website-traffic/">make money blogging</a> for less than $2. Visit <a href="http://www.myadhdsite.com/BloggingForDollars.html">blogging for dollars</a> to learn the tools necessary to explode your income. You can get a unique content version of this article from the Uber <a href='http://www.uberarticles.com/home.php?id=1142313&amp;p=11706'>Article Directory</a>.</div>
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		<title>Free Article Content &#8211; Can You Really Benefit From It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite a few people work with free article content which they get from articles directories. Publishing these on their web sites helps to increase the numbers of their visitors, hence a rise in revenue. It is quite a significant point for someone who has just started in affiliate marketing, but has not got sufficient financial funding yet... ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Quite a few people work with free article content which they get from articles directories. Publishing these on their web sites helps to increase the numbers of their visitors, hence a rise in revenue. It is quite a significant point for someone who has just started in <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="affiliate marketing">affiliate marketing</a>, but has not got sufficient financial funding yet. In order to start making money, first they have to build some niche websites to attract visitors.</p>
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<p>Even if this may look like the only choice for you if you are on a tight budget, it is definitely not a method to create a successful website and an adequate income. There are actually some reasons why this could be harmful to your business attempts:</p>
<p><strong>Search Engines. </strong>If your site has in fact published the exact duplicated content which other sites are showing as well, the search engines will penalize you for this. Your search engine ranking will not improve if a variety of websites have identical content.</p>
<p>You need a good search engine ranking in order to pull visitors to your site so that they have an opportunity to click on your affiliate links. Without enough traffic to your site, there won&#8217;t be any income for you. Therefore, it should be paramount having the right search engine optimization for your site.</p>
<p><strong>Increasing Your Click Rate.</strong> Despite all the hard work and effort one has to invest to achieve a top search engine result, it is only half way down yet. You have to persuade your visitors to click on your affiliate links as well. Can you imagine, if they are confronted with the identical free article content they recognize from various sites, they won&#8217;t be attracted to click on your links. Because nearly all people like to buy something that is endorsed by either someone they trust, or who is an expert on the topic.</p>
<p>If your site is only showing copied content from other sites, no one will see you as the expert you claim to be and as a result, they won&#8217;t trust your product endorsements. This will decrease your click through rate.</p>
<p><strong>Author Bylines.</strong> If you use free content, usually you have to  position the authors byline beneath the article. It could be a problem since nearly all author bylines contain links. If a reader reaches the end of a genuinely interesting article, it is very likely that they then click the author&#8217;s byline instead of one of your affiliate links. This is the only motive why they offer free article content in the first place. The purpose is to get their names and links publicized. Running your business this way may not result in a successful outcome.</p>
<p>These three points together will strongly affect your income purely for the reason that you use free article content from article directories. It may be the only alternative for a few, but if you can afford to buy your personal unique content, definitely go for it. However, if you are on a tight budget, it might be wise to write your own articles and once your financial situation has improved, make use of a professional service.</p>
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		<title>Tips For A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tread carefully and resolve to take all precautionary measures as you are joining the race as an entrepreneur. You might have read about products such as Google Shadow that will automate your affiliate business. Affiliate marketing businesses do take the risk away but you still need to conduct this venture as you would  with any...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/752/tips-for-a-successful-affiliate-marketing-business/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Tread carefully and resolve to take all precautionary measures as you are joining the race as an entrepreneur. You might have read about products such as <a href="http://googleshadow.limitedbonusoffer.com">Google Shadow</a> that will automate your affiliate business.</p>
<p><a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="Affiliate marketing">Affiliate marketing</a> businesses do take the risk away but you still need to conduct this venture as you would  with any other business. If this is the only means of income for you, try to put in your best effort so as to make it a success. In this article we will look at ways to get your business going and make it successful. By following the advice in this article your <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/5311/a-clear-blueprint-to-avoid-failure-with-affiliate-marketing/" target="_self" title="affiliate marketing">affiliate marketing</a> business will get off to a great start and will stay that way. One program that has taken the market by storm is <a href="http://profitlance.limitedbonusoffer.com">profit lance</a> &#8211; it was targeted at beginners who just started their <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/4665/affiliate-marketing-3-tips-to-keep-up-with-your-niche-market/" target="_self" title="affiliate marketing">affiliate marketing</a> business.</p>
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<p>The first golden rule of any business is to identify the demand. With affiliate marketing programs you’ll likely be given a range of products to sell. Check that these items are in demand. Steer clear of fashionable things. An item that is popular and sells quickly today can soon change into an unwanted item tomorrow. You need a product that will never go out of demand. That way your long term sales objectives will be met.</p>
<p>Next, do not put all of your eggs into one basket. Offering a variety of choices is never a bad advice. Many affiliate marketing programs offer a selection and it is best to go with these. Basing your business on one product may work in the short term. However, someone will eventually come along with something better or cheaper.</p>
<p>Next, you have to distinguish your company and demonstrate how your products and/or services are superior. What do you offer that sets you apart from other businesses? You should always use tact when talking about your competition. Discourtesy would only be disadvantageous to your business reputation. Instead, reinforce anything positive there about your product.</p>
<p>Later on, remember to insure your private enterprise. It may be smooth sailing for sometime but things can turn ugly all out of a sudden. Sometimes, people have accidents. Have you thought about what you are going to do if or when one of your products injures someone? Today, people can be sued for just about anything. Make sure you are insured in case the worst happens.</p>
<p>Fifth, always strive to provide your clients with the best and fastest service. But sooner or later you will hit a technical problem and at that point you must let your customers know what&#8217;s going on. Things happen, that are beyond your control. Most customers are very forgiving if they are made aware of this.</p>
<p>Keeping your customers in the dark could result in loosing them for good. Finally, keep your customers happy. The happier they are, the more likely they are to come back. Offer your customers incentives such as savings on their next purchase. It may cost you more, but only in the short term. Keeping your customers happy will result in them referring you to others. <a title="Google Shadow" href="http://felgi.djkshadow.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank">Affiliate marketing businesses</a> are easier, because they minimize risk. Everything else is like any other business. You need to work very hard to keep your customers happy. You need to set yourself apart from others and protect yourself against the worst. By following the advice in this article you will be giving your business the best possible chance for success. Read our <a href="http://googleshadow.limitedbonusoffer.com">google shadow review</a> to get an idea on how this software works. This will help you to achieve results much faster.</p>
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		<title>Niche Blueprint Critiqued &#8211; A Heir To Commission Blue Print</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 12, 2009 is the day when the highly anticipated niche blueprint system will be coming out on the market being the follow-up product to commission blueprint from Tim as well as Steve. The program will reveal to us all how the authors are able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars just by setting...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/725/niche-blueprint-critiqued-a-heir-to-commission-blue-print/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>January 12, 2009 is the day when the highly anticipated niche blueprint system will be coming out on the market being the follow-up product to commission blueprint from Tim as well as Steve. The program will reveal to us all how the authors are able to make hundreds of thousands of dollars just by setting up small niche web E-commerce shopping sites. Over an eight week period from launch date <a title="Commission Blueprint" href="http://felgi.comblue.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">commission blueprint</a> sold over a staggering 15,000 units! This course was so excellent that everyone in the IM community was talking about it.</p>
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<p>it&#8217;s no secret that Commission blueprint has made a large number of success stories and as a result the interest for the <a href="http://www.nicheblueprintinfo.com/category/niche-blueprint">new niche blueprint</a> launch progresses each and every day.</p>
<p>The core elements of the main part of the program consist of 23 videos and 26 manuals put together from the experience of both Tim and Steven, the main authors, and additional input from Ecommerce experts David and Michael Hermansen. If the quality of this upcoming product is anywhere near as positive as commission blueprint, I dare say this time next year there will be a fair amount of people with their own successful web e commerce businesses on the net.</p>
<p>There is no selling of e-books, software programs or promoting affiliate products, although you could if you want to. So in the type of niches that the program teaches you to target there is hardly any competition the majority of the time. Taking into account what I have seen until now, I would say this course removes all of the major obstacles faced by anyone starting out with web E-commerce.</p>
<p>From what I can see this product is close to remove all major problems for someone trying to get started in web E-commerce. When it comes to <a href="http://www.nicheblueprintinfo.com/">the nicheblueprint</a> at the moment I would have to say that I have yet to see anything which could even come slightly close to this course.</p>
<p>You know, someone is successful when they are featured on the New York Times and Fox News and that&#8217;s exactly, what has happened with Tim and Steve as well. Even better is the fact that most of the success has come from very uncompetitive niches like for instance &#8220;train horns&#8221;. Another thing that I like about these two is the fact that they show rigorous proof of their income unlike many other marketers who will simply tell you what they have made. In the course they will even show you an example of a really simple website that anybody could have made (at least with their new platform) and that was incredibly  sold for $173,000 not so long ago. I predict that their upcoming niche blueprint program is going to sell just as great or better than their previous <a title="Commission Blueprint" href="http://felgi.comblue.hop.clickbank.net" target="_blank">commission blueprint</a> program and that as a result many, many more newbies to the Internet will be very successful in and beyond the coming year.</p>
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		<title>How To Display Adsense On WordPress With Adsense Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While WordPress itself is a robust and complete blogging system, to really maximize the software and make money from Google Adsense you&#8217;ll need to install and use a couple of Adsense &#8220;plugins&#8221;. Most of the plugins can be found by doing a search on Google, and installation is simple and straightforward. All you need to...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/610/how-to-display-adsense-on-wordpress-with-adsense-plugins/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
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<p>While WordPress itself is a robust and complete blogging system, to really maximize the software and make money from <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/3953/3-ways-to-get-traffic-while-youre-waiting-in-googles-sandbox/" target="_self" title="Google">Google</a> <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target="_self" title="Adsense">Adsense</a> you&#8217;ll need to install and use a couple of Adsense &#8220;plugins&#8221;.</p>
<p>Most of the plugins can be found by doing a search on Google, and installation is simple and straightforward. All you need to do is upload the plugin to your web host using an FTP, and activate the plugin inside your WordPress administration area.</p>
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<p>1) Adsense Deluxe WordPress Plugin</p>
<p>The first and most important is a plugin called &#8220;Adsense Deluxe&#8221;. While this plugin will help you to display Adsense ads on your <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blog">blog</a>, it also serves other purposes. You can use this plugin to insert Javascript, PHP and almost any other type of code into your blog posts.</p>
<p>The Adsense Deluxe plugin will allow you to insert Adsense ads into your blog posts by including a simple code like this:</p>
<p>You can create multiple ad formats in the plugin&#8217;s settings page, and you can always change these later without having to modify the individual blog posts. This makes it easy to test different ad formats over time, and also to replace your Adsense codes with other ads if the need arises.</p>
<p>2) Adsense Injection WordPress Plugin</p>
<p>Unlike the Adsense Deluxe plugin, the &#8220;Adsense Injection&#8221; plugin will insert Adsense codes automatically into every blog post, including older posts.</p>
<p>This is great if your blog already has a lot of existing content, and you don&#8217;t want to insert codes manually into all of them. As the name suggests, when you use Adsense Injection you &#8220;inject&#8221; your Adsense codes automatically and randomly into all previous and future blog posts.</p>
<p>Thus, you will not have to worry about what&#8217;s called &#8220;ad blindness&#8221; as your Adsense blocks will appear in different positions within your content. You can also randomize different ad formats and different alignments to make sure that no two pages have the exact Adsense codes on them.</p>
<p>Unlike the Adsense Deluxe plugin however, the Adsense Injection plugin cannot display other Javascript ads or PHP codes.</p>
<p>3) Adsense Beautifier WordPress Plugin</p>
<p>The Adsense Beautifier plugin just makes your ads prettier. By adding an image on top or next to your Adsense codes automatically, the plugin can help you to achieve a higher CTR (click-through) and ultimately higher Adsense earnings.</p>
<p>The images are generic so you can use them with any type of content. You can also create and upload your own images to be used with the Adsense Beautifier plugin. If you do this however, make sure you check with the Adsense support team as you don&#8217;t want to violate any of their terms of service.</p>
<p> Gobala Krishnan<br />http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/how-to-display-adsense-on-wordpress-with-adsense-plugins-88862.html</p>
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		<title>Do You Fail To Make Money Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many projects have you been trying? Do you know why they all failed or at least why most of them failed? Ask yourself this question: How many traffic did I get for all of my projects? How much time did it take to set up and test run it? If each of your projects...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/447/do-you-failed-to-make-money-online/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>How many projects have you been trying? Do you know why they all failed or at least why most of them failed? Ask yourself this question: How many traffic did I get for all of my projects? How much time did it take to set up and test run it?</p>
<p>If each of your projects is below 500 visitors daily, don&#8217;t expect much from it&#8230;! Did you try to get a lot of traffic but did not know how? It doesn&#8217;t matter what kind of traffic method you are using to get visitors. Either you are putting not enough time and effort into it for testing or you have done a very bad</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ultimate-iwealth.com/search-marketing/think-you-already-know-how-to-do-keyword-research-think-again">keyword research</a>!</p>
<p>Keyword research is the most important major component for the success of all projects! If you failed to get traffic, you definitely failed in your keyword research&#8230;! Keyword research will tell you what your market wants, and only with proper <a href="http://www.ultimate-iwealth.com/search-marketing/think-you-already-know-how-to-do-keyword-research-think-again">keyword research</a> you can identify your traffic and revenue source.</p>
<p>One of the proper ways to do keyword research is participating in various forums of your niche. See what the questions are, what the keywords are they use and what the answers are. The results can be used as emails for your opt-in, or use those keywords to get more keywords and related theme keywords!</p>
<p>Do you know what a keyword modifier is? For example, if your keyword is registry cleaner and the keywords from the forums might be:</p>
<p>1. free registry cleaner<br />
2. regclean discount<br />
3. regcleaner coupon<br />
4. what is the best registry cleaner<br />
5. registry cleaner reviews</p>
<p>The seed keyword in this example is &#8220;registry cleaner&#8221;, &#8220;regclean&#8221; and &#8220;regcleaner&#8221;. The modifier is &#8220;discount&#8221;, &#8220;coupon&#8221;, what is the best&#8221;, &#8220;reviews&#8221; and &#8220;free&#8221;. You can combine all seed keywords with the modifier to create:</p>
<p>1. free regclean<br />
2. free regcleaner<br />
3. free registyr cleaner<br />
4. regclean reviews<br />
5. regcleaner reviews<br />
6. regclean discount<br />
7. regcleaner discount<br />
8. regclean coupon<br />
9. regcleaner coupon<br />
10. and many more&#8230;</p>
<p>There is no limit to find the seed and modifier keywords. You should try to get as many as possible, because these will create your traffic, your sales and your successful business online&#8230; To all your success!</p>
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		<title>The Low Hanging Fruit of SEO That Most Expert Ignore!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website or you rely heavily on SEO to deliver traffic to your site, you must read this article. SEO will take a long time to build and sustain before you see massive results&#8230; But everybody is missing this strategy that will deliver always great results...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/441/the-low-hanging-fruit-of-seo-that-most-expert-ignored/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>If you are doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your website or you rely heavily on <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="SEO">SEO</a> to deliver traffic to your site, you must read this article. <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/5254/seo-is-not-a-one-shot-event/" target="_self" title="SEO">SEO</a> will take a long time to build and sustain before you see massive results&#8230; But everybody is missing this strategy that will deliver always great results in the shortest time possible!</p>
<p>We call it the low hanging fruit <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/6118/seo-a-beginners-perspective/" target="_self" title="SEO">SEO</a> &#8211; long tail keyword strategy.</p>
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<p>When you do keyword research, you will identify the major keywords in your market. Normally these keywords are highly competitive, and many SEO experts will start to optimize your whole site for the main</p>
<p>keywords, hoping to get <a href="http://www.ultimate-iwealth.com/search-marketing/how-to-build-massive-traffic-from-search-engine">a lot search engine traffic</a> which always fails. It is a stupid strategy!</p>
<p>You should try to find the long tail keywords related to your market and easily tap into search engine traffic with the least competition, and because long tail keywords are targeted, you can convert your visitors to sales easier. Here is why:</p>
<p>Reason #1 &#8211; The search engine will show the long tail keyword search with the general (major keywords) result if the Search Engine failes to find the web page that is optimized for the long tail keyword result. However, if your web page is optimized for those long tail keywords, the search engine will prefer them as they are more targeted for the searchers!</p>
<p>Reason #2 &#8211; Less competition long tail keyword will be easier to rank higher. You can easily use web 2.0 ranking power to easily rank on page #1 for any long tail keywords, and with minimum back links effort you can out rank any competitor easily!</p>
<p>Reason #3 &#8211; Long tail keywords will deliver results faster! If you are targeting the correct sets of long tail keywords, you can easily tap into the search engine traffic within the least time.</p>
<p>The best way to research long tail keywords is through forum and community sites like Yahoo Answer. You can find many related long tail keywords for your niche, and many searchers will actually use them , and yet they are still ignored by many SEO experts!</p>
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		<title>WordPress Plugins Add An Expert Feel To Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author: Stuart Russell Have you heard of WordPress? It is a web page and blogging tool available to website owners free of charge. Not only that, but there are a large number of add-on modules, called plugins, which enhance the way WordPress works, and adds a number of popular options that many websites have come...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/142/wordpress-plugins-add-an-expert-feel-to-your-website/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p style="text-align: justify;">Author: Stuart Russell</p>
<p><strong>Have you heard of WordPress? </strong>It is a web page and <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blogging">blogging</a> tool available to website owners free of charge. Not only that, but there are a large number of add-on modules, called plugins, which enhance the way WordPress works, and adds a number of popular options that many websites have come to rely on.</p>
<p>The <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="SEO">SEO</a> all-in-One Pack is probably the most popular plugin for WordPress. It offers even the most inexperienced amateurs the ability to create data that is supplied directly to search engines, and that is a utility that gets a website or <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blog">blog</a> spot noticed. <em>If you haven&#8217;t installed this plugin, you really ought to consider doing so, it is that good.</em></p>
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<p>If you want your blog spot to get discovered quickly, it might be a great idea to use a WordPress plugin such as Bookmarkify. On the surface, it is a simple addition which adds only one thing to your blog posts: the ability for reader to recommend the post to others via popular social media bookmark sites, such as <em>Technorati and StumbleUpon.<br /></em><br /><strong>Have you ever seen a blog site that used a tag cloud? </strong>That&#8217;s usually a list of keywords located in the sidebar, and lists the keywords used for each post, as well as those used for the entire website, with special emphasis on the keywords that are used the most often. At first, this utility may not seem very useful, but your readers will find it a fantastic to follow up on items of interest.</p>
<p><strong>Admin Meta Links</strong> is an excellent plugin designed to help site editors and administrators edit and verify posts and web pages alike. Simply click the link on the sidebar, and you can instantly go from viewing mode to edit mode, making it possible to quickly proofread and test new items added to your website.</p>
<p>Keeping your blog spot up to date can be a time consuming process, but you can make it much easier and faster by using plugins. There are several dozen plugins available, ranging from behind the scenes utilities to on-page additions that encourage user interaction. <em>Choose only the plugins you want to use, and customize your WordPress site to be just like you- totally unique.<br /></em><br />There&#8217;re not many doubts, after all, that plugins for your WordPress site can be extremely useful. Whether you are trying to maximize your exposure, or just simplify repetitive tasks, there is probably a WordPress plugin designed with your needs in mind.</p>
<p>However, don&#8217;t take my word for it. Visit this website that specializes in reviews of WordPress plugins, and you&#8217;ll quickly understand how important these small utilities can be. They make running your WordPress site easier than it has ever been, and provide you with greater control over the things that matter most to you.</p>
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		<title>Using Blogs to Turn Your Web Site into a Traffic Powerhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you use the Internet regularly, you are sure to have heard about blogs. Many people use blogs to write about personal topics, feelings, and opinions. However, did you know that blogs are also used as a business marketing tool? The interactivity of blogs along with the ease of creation and maintenance makes them an...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/136/using-blogs-to-turn-your-web-site-into-a-traffic-powerhouse/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>If you use the Internet regularly, you are sure to have heard about blogs. Many people use blogs to write about personal topics, feelings, and opinions. However, did you know that blogs are also used as a business marketing tool? The interactivity of blogs along with the ease of creation and maintenance makes them an attractive option for online marketing purposes. Developing a regular readership of your <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blog">blog</a> can help you to achieve several goals. You can build solid customer relationships, inform people about your products and services, and generate links for search engine optimization purposes. Take a look at the many ways that having a blog can benefit your business, and you&#8217;ll find ways to use blogs almost immediately in your marketing efforts.</p>
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<p><strong>Setting Up a Blog</strong></p>
<p>Setting up a blog can be pretty simple if you have the patience and time to learn how to use one. You can choose to design your own blog format on your existing site, or you can use a blog from Word press or www.blogger.com. Your marketing goals will help you to decide which type of blog to use. Blogs from www.blogger.com are free, but since they&#8217;re not a direct component of your web site, you may have to optimize them differently than you would then if you had a blog integrated into your site. If you choose to use your own design and have it be a direct component of your site, you have more control over design and function, and you may also be able to market your blog more easily.</p>
<p><strong>Profiting from Blogs</strong></p>
<p>Blogs help you to be profitable because they allow you to market your products and services without using overt sales messages that may cause prospects to stop visiting your site. Instead, you use blogs to communicate information and subtly promote your own products and services while you help others. This creates goodwill for you and your business. There are many opportunities for using blogs to turn a profit. Learning about each of them can help you decide which ones are right for your business.</p>
<p><strong>Blog Articles<br /></strong><br />Blog articles are a great marketing tool because they allow you to showcase your expertise in your chosen field. You can publish articles on almost any topic related to your business and continue to provide information to your prospects and customers. Blog articles can also be optimized for the search engines by using specific keywords that help people find your web site. If you pick the right keywords, you can start seeing improved traffic results in as little as a few months. You can also integrate your blog with your viral marketing efforts by encouraging people to share your articles with other people.</p>
<p><strong>Keyword-Optimized Blog Postings</strong></p>
<p>One of the great things about blog postings is that they can be as short as 75-100 words and still help you accomplish your Internet marketing goals. When you keyword-optimize your blogs, you are using specific keywords to help people find you when they do searches for information. The more specific your keywords are, the better your chances of being found by your target market. Another positive aspect of short blog postings is that they make it easier to maintain your blog from day to day. Instead of having to write 500 or 1000 words every day, you can take as little as a few minutes to dash off a 75 or 100-word paragraph that gives information or lets people know about new products and services.</p>
<p><strong>Linking with Blogs</strong></p>
<p>One-way links are one of the best search engine optimization tools available. One-way links are links that are placed on other web sites that point people to your web site. When you post articles and other items of interest, people may like them enough to post the link on their web sites. The more one-way links you can generate with your blog, the better your chances of improving your search engine rankings and driving more traffic to your web site.</p>
<p><strong><a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="Affiliate Marketing">Affiliate Marketing</a> with Blogs<br /></strong><br />You can also participate in affiliate marketing by using your blog. When you sign up to be a member of an affiliate program, you&#8217;ll want to do as much as you can to promote those products and services and generate commissions. Having a blog makes it easy for you to promote the products and services of other companies. You can write a short post about a new service or write reviews of helpful products and services and include your affiliate links. When people visit your blog and become interested in the products and services discussed in your postings, they may become interested enough to click on your affiliate links and make a purchase. As long as the products and services are appropriate for your target market, you can use a number of affiliate links so that you can make money in several different ways.</p>
<p><strong>Creating a Buzz with Blogs</strong></p>
<p>Blogs are part of a technique called buzz marketing. Buzz marketing is when you create a &#8220;buzz&#8221; about your company and turn prospects into loyal customers. Creating a buzz is simply putting your message in front of your target market and getting them excited about your products and services. There are several ways to create a positive buzz about your business using your blog. If you post interesting items, you&#8217;ll generate interest in your blog and encourage people to link to your web site and share your blog with friends. Buzz marketing can also be accomplished by using your blog to promote products and services. The tone of your blog can make or break your buzz marketing efforts. Straightforward information and boring posts will probably turn people away from your site. If you make posts that convey your excitement, enthusiasm, and passion for your products and services, you&#8217;ll start to create the same passion and enthusiasm among your prospects. Using this technique can help turn your blog from just another web page into a dynamite marketing tool that keeps visitors coming back time and time again.<br /><strong><br />Google AdSense with Blogs</strong></p>
<p>Google AdSense can also be used with blogs to earn extra money. Google AdSense is a simple and free way to earn income while you are also promoting your products and services with your blog. You can sign up with Google for free and go through a web site review. No obscenity or adult material is allowed in the AdSense program, but most other web sites will qualify. Once you have been approved, you keep posting to your blog. The AdSense program will give you advertisements based on the keywords used in your postings. If you write a post about recipes, you may get ads about cookbooks, restaurants, or food distributors. You can choose where the ads go on your page so your blog maintains its unique look. When people click on the links provided with the ads, you&#8217;ll earn a small commission. You can earn even more extra money by putting a Google search box on your blog. When people use this search box, targeted ads will appear in their results. You will get a commission from each ad they click.</p>
<p><strong>Blog ads</strong></p>
<p>Blog ads is a service that was created to put advertisements on blogs. Advertisers develop their own advertisements, choose blogs to target, and select the amount of time, they want their ads to appear. Bloggers can accept or refuse to put the ads on their blogs. The Blog ads service gets a percentage of your commission earnings, since they host the ads and act as the intermediary between advertisers and bloggers. The more people visit your blog, the better your chances of earning money with this program.<br /><strong><br />AdBrite</strong></p>
<p>AdBrite is similar to Blog ads as the company acts as an intermediary between bloggers and advertisers. With this program, you can place banners, text ads, and vertical ads on your blog. As the <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blogger">blogger</a>, you choose what advertising opportunities are made available to your visitors. Businesses can visit your blog and purchase advertising directly from a link on your page. AdBrite manages the payment process and the relationship between advertisers and bloggers. Like Blog ads, the company keeps a percentage of the money you earn for the work they do at moderating the advertising relationship.</p>
<p><strong>Selling Customized Products</strong></p>
<p>To further create a buzz and improve your brand identity, you can sell merchandise from your blog that is customized with your logo or color scheme. When you have a loyal following of readers, your chances of being able to sell this type of merchandise improve greatly. You don&#8217;t need to go out and have items printed only to sit in your office unused. You can use one of many companies to print products on demand, as your customers order them. This eliminates the need for inventory and reduces your chances of wasting money on products that don&#8217;t sell. You can find some of these companies by doing a search on your favorite search engine.</p>
<p>Whatever methods you choose, blogs can be a great way for you to develop your brand and create a community of loyal customers.</p>
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		<title>Making Money With Adsense Is Easy Thanks To WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been contemplating about how to make money on the internet? I am going to give you a powerful one, two, combination that involves Google and Word press. Making money with Adsense and Word press is a quick and easy way for you to get started making money today. If you can type you...</p><p><strong><a class="more-link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/126/making-money-with-adsense-is-easy-thanks-to-wordpress/">Read the rest of this entry</a></strong></p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Have you been contemplating about how to make money on the internet? I am going to give you a powerful one, two, combination that involves <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/3953/3-ways-to-get-traffic-while-youre-waiting-in-googles-sandbox/" target="_self" title="Google">Google</a> and Word press. Making money with <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target="_self" title="Adsense">Adsense</a> and Word press is a quick and easy way for you to get started making money today. If you can type you can build web pages in a matter of minutes.</p>
<p>Word press is a blogging system that is very easy to use for building web pages and managing all of your content. You simply do this by logging into your account and posting your thoughts. If you can talk you can build web pages with Word Press. Just write like you talk. With a little research on what people are searching for online,&nbsp; you can write articles that provide excellent information people are looking for.</p>
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<p>By adding Google Adsense to your Word Press <a class="ld_link" href="http://www.bloggingtoolsdirect.com/" target=" " title="blog">blog</a> you can have advertising on every page that can make you a commission when someone clicks on a Google ad. Google Adsense is so smart that they match the advertisers to what you are writing about so it is relevant to your reader. It is only natural for someone reading your article to click on an ad that catches their attention. I have found no easier way in making money on the Internet than with Google Adsense, but there are a couple of tricks involved.</p>
<p>By correctly posting keywords in your title and in your article search engines will spider your site and give you credit for writing valuable content. Give the search engines what they want by optimizing your posts, and you will be rewarded with search engine traffic back to the page that WordPress just created for you.</p>
<p>Word press also &#8216;pings&#8217; many services for you through pingomatic each time you create a new post. This alerts the search engines to the fact that you have created new content and tells them to send the search engine spiders out to index your site. RSS feeds and site maps can also be generated automatically.</p>
<p>WordPress comes with many different plug ins that allow you to customize your blog the way you want. The key is to write new articles often and create a lot of content.By doing this making money with Adsense is easily done, and you can spend more time writing quality articles for new web pages to be built by WordPress.</p>
<p>There is no simpler way to get started than blogging with Word press and adding in Google Adsense. Over time you are building up web pages and content that bring you in a steady income for years to come. The key is to invest the time now and get started using this powerful team.</p>
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