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	<description>Internet marketing and promotion.  Can I achieve 100k visits in the first year?!</description>
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		<title>Get Your Site Noticed with Guaranteed Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryan Hollis</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way that you can get your website seen by thousands more people than who can see it now is with guaranteed links. With guaranteed links you can build traffic and build it fast. There are a lot of different reasons that you will need to get a one way link service of guaranteed links, and the reasons will all lead to your website's overall success.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Bryan Hollis</div>
<p>The best way that you can get your website seen by thousands more people than who can see it now is with guaranteed links. With guaranteed links you can build traffic and build it fast. There are a lot of different reasons that you will need to get a one way link service of guaranteed links, and the reasons will all lead to your website&#8217;s overall success.</p>
<p>You will want to have guaranteed links service because major search engines such as Google and Yahoo are going to pick and choose the backlinks on your website that they think are relevant. If you get guaranteed links from a service, your permanent links will always show up in all search engines because the guaranteed links come from directories and are always recognized, no matter what.</p>
<p>If you want to make a serious effort to make your website a success, you will want to use guaranteed links. You can also use free directory submissions, but there is a clear difference in the systems. The different between free directory submissions and guaranteed links is that submitting to free directories may give you permanent links in return, but guarantees links promise you those returns that you want. You will get guaranteed links from up to 500 directories all across the internet.</p>
<p>Watch for services that only put your links on their own directories. While this is still getting you exposure, it is not getting you the most you can get. With a service that provides guaranteed links to free directories, there will be much more exposure for your website. Make sure that you know where you are getting your guaranteed links.  Company owned directories are good as long as the C class ip range is wide enough.</p>
<p>If you put your time and money is getting guaranteed links for your website, you will be able to avoid getting tricked by all of those SEO games that get you high pages ranks, but only on a temporary link. A good guaranteed links services will provide you with permanent link generation that links to directories that offer many different kinds of websites.</p>
<p>Up to 500 web directories are at your disposal with guaranteed links. These can all be used in order to get the most exposure for your website. With prices being very low per guaranteed link, you can choose how many links you want to put out and when. The service you work with should be able to provide you with a report that tells you how your guaranteed links are working for you.</p>
<p>Guaranteed links are a way to get high quality links onto various websites throughout the internet. This will open up your website to new areas of traffic and may be able to get you&#8217;re a new niche market for your products or services.</p>
<p>If you want to build your guaranteed links slowly, you can do that. You can choose how many guaranteed links that you want to buy, and when. This way, you can build your business on your own time. This is the best way to get what you want out of guaranteed links.</p>
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<div class="marlinks">Relevant links from high PR web directories should be a foundation of any genuine <a href="http://www.keywordarticles.com">link building</a> campaign. You can build affordable guaranteed links from quality directories built slowly to ensure seo optimization.</div>
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		<title>Six Online Marketing Factors Your Mama Forgot To Tell You About</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stanfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were to talk with a search engine marketing consultant, they would have certain tips to give you. There are many websites these days which do have a website which is optimized for search engine marketing. This is important because if you do not have a website which is optimized and shows up in search engine results, you cannot get traffic to your website without having to buy it and this gets expensive.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Terry Stanfield</div>
<p>If you were to talk with a search engine marketing consultant, they would have certain tips to give you. There are many websites these days which do have a website which is optimized for search engine marketing. This is important because if you do not have a website which is optimized and shows up in search engine results, you cannot get traffic to your website without having to buy it and this gets expensive.</p>
<p>If you are concerned about how your website shows up in websites, you may inquire about search engine marketing services. These services will usually focus their attention upon three main areas: incoming links, your content, and your keywords. These are factors which are important for the search engines and will result in your website being placed higher in results if you focus on these factors. This article will talk more about this.</p>
<p>The first of the six factors a search engine marketing services company will examine is competitive analysis. This is done to see how your website stacks up against the competition along with which companies are in the top ten results and why they are there.</p>
<p>The second factor to look into is keyword research to see which keywords are actually used by your prospective audience and how competitive these keywords are. Without proper keywords, your website is not visible to your niche audience searching for what you have to offer.</p>
<p>A search engine marketing consultant will use page optimization to see which keywords are emphasized on various pages. This will ensure that your set of keywords is used properly throughout your website so that you show up for all keywords you are targeting.</p>
<p>Search engine marketing services companies place great emphasis on site usability. Without a site that is easy to get around, your audience will become disenchanted and exit your site quickly which is not good for your business.</p>
<p>Off page optimization such as link building is the next area which will be focused on by search engine marketing services companies. Link building is important because this is a factor in search engine rankings.</p>
<p>You can also think about using paid search engine marketing such as Adwords. This is an option some search engine marketing consultants will recommend because you can get your website in front of your audience faster than organic search engine marketing optimization efforts.</p>
<p>Can you not see the importance of these tips if you were a search engine marketing consultant? There are certain steps that must be done to develop a highly successful website and this website covers many of those steps. Be sure to use these to maximize your website&#8217;s chances for success.</p>
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		<title>Google: The One Big Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russell R. Collins</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Designing and building a website can be a thankless task. You spend hours of your time planning, designing and creating the whole site, carefully assembling it into a work of digital art. Having lovingly pored over every word and put heart and soul into a decent navigation system and a well thought out layout, you eagerly publish your site and hold your breath for the torrent of visitors. It is somewhat disappointing, therefore, to find that days can go by without a single hit. You know that it can take a while for the search engines to identify and crawl your site, but as the days crawl by it can become very disheartening.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Russell R. Collins</div>
<p>Designing and building a website can be a thankless task. You spend hours of your time planning, designing and creating the whole site, carefully assembling it into a work of digital art. Having lovingly pored over every word and put heart and soul into a decent navigation system and a well thought out layout, you eagerly publish your site and hold your breath for the torrent of visitors. It is somewhat disappointing, therefore, to find that days can go by without a single hit. You know that it can take a while for the search engines to identify and crawl your site, but as the days crawl by it can become very disheartening.</p>
<p>After a while, of course, people do start to stumble across your site, and maybe you get one or two orders. This could encourage you, and you start to wonder how many you might come to expect over the next few days or weeks. With regret you start to accept that making your first million by Christmas seems somewhat unlikely. You may start to wonder why, since at least some people have started to find you, you don&#8217;t have more people coming. But thinking about it seriously, what have you actually done yourself to ensure that your site attracts visitors? It&#8217;s all very well having a site that is so good that people want to stay and buy, but they need to know it exists first.</p>
<p>One thing that you may have done is to browse through the internet and find information on how to promote your site, or tips on &#8216;optimizing&#8217; it. You are almost certainly aware of the fact that to be successful on the internet you really need the search engines on your side. Having your site listed by Google, MSN and Yahoo for example is going to make a big difference to your site. But, what will make a far bigger difference is the overall rank of your website.</p>
<p>When someone carries out a keyword search for, say &#8216;empty egg timer&#8217; and you just happen to sell these handy devices (useful for those who don&#8217;t have to worry about how long anything takes) then you will need your website to be right at the top of the list, so that people will find you easily, and come looking to buy from you. On Google alone, a keyword search for &#8216;empty egg timer&#8217; generates nearly half a million websites! That means that there are approximately 50,000 pages of results. Incredibly, only 3% of people ever look beyond the first page of results, which means that 499,990 websites will be missed, and only 10 sites seen by 97% of visitors! You can see just how important it is to make sure you&#8217;re on that first page, and preferably at the very top of the list. If your website is on page 2, it might as well be on page 49,999, since almost no one will ever find it.</p>
<p>Possibly you might have heard of tips or companies that can rocket your website skywards and make sure your site is listed right near the top. Perhaps you&#8217;ve tried a few of these tips, and wondered why your site didn&#8217;t suddenly become the hottest place on the net? Maybe you even forked out a small fortune on a company that promised you the world and delivered you maybe a few places higher, rocketing you all the way from 164,378th place to 153,735th? Yes, 10,000 places higher, but the only difference is that number. Remember, unless you&#8217;re on the first page of results, it makes almost no difference where you are, so even if they had rocketed you to 1000th place, it still isn&#8217;t go to make much difference to your business. The thing is, that there is no single way of achieving this, and any company that takes your money on the premise that there is, is one to avoid. There are a whole range of factors, many of which are easily achievable yourself in a few hours, or even minutes. The other thing to remember is that this progress in rank doesn&#8217;t happen overnight. For many reasons, search engines don&#8217;t respond to changes immediately, and it can takes many months to achieve a high rank.</p>
<p>Some of the factors which will influence how well your site is ranked include keywords. Search engines scan the documents that make up your website, and catalogue the keywords which occur within it. This helps them to judge the relevance of your site compared to others and to keyword searches. It used to be relatively easy to reach the top of the search results simply by inserting hundreds of keywords all over your site. This now no longer has the effect it did, and there are many other factors which have much more influence. How many people link to your site is a big factor - obviously the more people linking to you, the more popular your site, and the more credibility is gains in the eyes of the search engines, and so your site will rise up the ranks.</p>
<p>I have actually come across a website which is able to analyze your website against these, and the myriad of other factors which affect the ranking of your site. I was surprised to come across it because it actually offers its service free of charge. All you do is enter your web address and contact details, and they carry out a whole range of tests to assess how well your site does for certain keyword searches, and what you could do yourself to improve it. Of course, they offer their services as far as making these improvements is concerned, but this is optional, and if you&#8217;re happy doing the work yourself, it&#8217;s a really handy service that will save you a lot of time, and a very great deal of money.</p>
<p>It can often be quite obscure little changes that you wouldn&#8217;t think of - such as the position of the text on the page, the number of menu links and outside links you have, the length of your sentences and so on. Knowing what you can do to help get your website noticed is a massive step toward getting up towards that golden first page. I have a number of websites, and I can&#8217;t say I have always tried every single bit of advice, but even by applying a few which suit me, I have noticed that my sites are climbing higher. Don&#8217;t forget, no one ever gets overnight top rank placement, and your eventual position will depend largely on the number of keyword competitors you have, but I&#8217;d certainly recommend getting your site checked out, after all, it&#8217;s free!</p>
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<div class="marlinks">No site traffic? Buried on page 10? If you want to be found by Google and the rest of the search engines, you must have an <a href="http://www.cheekygreenmonkey.com">optimised website</a>. Find out how easy it is to have a <a href="http://www.cheekygreenmonkey.com">free evaluation</a> and make your website profitable now.</div>
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		<title>AJN1.COM Now More Popular Than The Forestry Commission Of GB!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJN</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I&#8217;m back from my holiday and ready to get back to business!  I notice that my Alexa rank has risen up again past the 150,000 mark!  Which is great news.
This site is now up to 143,556 as of the 21st of July 2008&#8230; Let&#8217;s hope it keeps rising and rising for the rest of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I&#8217;m back from my holiday and ready to get back to business!  I notice that my <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/ajn1.com">Alexa rank has risen up again past the 150,000 mark</a>!  Which is great news.</p>
<p><strong>This site is now up to 143,556 as of the 21st of July 2008</strong>&#8230; Let&#8217;s hope it keeps rising and rising for the rest of the year as well.</p>
<p>It only hit me quite how good this ranking is when I went and visited the Forestry Commission of Great Britain&#8217;s website which is ranked at 145,107.</p>
<p><em>Note: not everybody likes alexa as they don&#8217;t believe it is a reliable ranking method.  Having said that, it&#8217;s still one of the best and only methods on the net at the moment.</em></p>
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		<title>Special Deal Of The Day Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJN</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not have noticed my special deal of the day offers on the right hand column of the site. I would like to explain what it is and what it is for.
I discovered the deal of the day offers at deal dot com. The offer is specially selected and then reviewed before [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may or may not have noticed my special deal of the day offers on the right hand column of the site. I would like to explain what it is and what it is for.</p>
<p>I discovered the deal of the day offers at <a href="http://www.dealdotcom.com/invite/20093/">deal dot com</a>. The offer is specially selected and then reviewed before going live to the public for quality.  There is never a bad product offered for on ajn1.com</p>
<p><em>Whats so special about them?</em></p>
<p>This deal is special because it is available for <strong>only 24 hours</strong> until the deal expires.  If you like the product you need to buy it asap because when it&#8217;s gone it&#8217;s gone.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t like the deal but like the idea of advertising it on your own website you can get a widget from <a href="http://www.maxblogpress.com/mdw/go.php?cb=adamnan&amp;did=20093">maxblogpress</a>.</p>
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		<title>Scouting Your Target Niche For Information Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl Pruitt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you begin selling information products on the Internet, you want to make sure you're targeting a niche that will be profitable for you in the short and long-term.  A niche just means your target audience.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Carl Pruitt</div>
<p>Before you begin selling information products on the Internet, you want to make sure you&#8217;re targeting a niche that will be profitable for you in the short and long-term.  A niche just means your target audience.</p>
<p>You will discover that some niches are much more profitable than others. You will have to examine your audience to make they are willing AND able to spend money in order to solve their problems.</p>
<p>For example, golf is a very expensive sport. Typically golfers have money to burn if they believe you can help them improve their score or beat out their friends (competition) on the links.</p>
<p>On the other side, a target market of single moms on a budget may not be willing to let go of $67 for your eBook on how to get organized. Sometimes, though, it depends on which of their problems you are trying to solve. They would like to get organized, but they need more money. Targeting this exact same niche of single moms, you might find that many are willing to pay $47 for your eBook showing them how to make more money working from home.</p>
<p>A good place to start exploring your target markets is with online groups and forums. You can find many at iVillage, Yahoo, Google or Boardtracker and determine which groups have the most interest. Men&#8217;s pages such as AskMen might give you some insight into the information needs of this group that might be provided at a profit.</p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t just looking for any broad group of people to cater to. You need to find those groups who have a lot of problems and are looking for easy solutions. In the beginning, you may want to build a series of products that all focus on one niche. This allows you to benefit from your own increased knowledge, as well as potential repeat customers.</p>
<p>In some cases, you will locate one large niche market but then realize you need to develop your product line toward a more targeted, narrow section of that niche. For example, parents have many problems you could potentially address. Raising smart kids, dealing with discipline, saving money and preventing drug use might be some.</p>
<p>But you can then narrow that niche to moms or dads and dig deeper by focusing on parents of multiples or parents raising kids with physical ailments.  Just remember that an information product is not really a product at all - it&#8217;s a solution, so it needs to be marketed as something that will improve lives</p>
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		<title>Keyword Research - SEO Management Step One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Stanfield</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO &amp; Optimization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[keyword research]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword research is a discipline embraced and used in SEO management by experts to allow them to determine which search terms people are searching on in the search engines. At its simplest level, this research is about studying the phrases that work for your audience and it is a real art.  It is one of the most effective ways to identify niche markets that others have failed to recognize. Keyword research is very important so that the content of the pages are more attractive as much for the users as for the robots. Keyword research is not an exact science and shouldn't be discussed like it is.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Terry Stanfield</div>
<p>Keyword research is a discipline embraced and used in SEO management by experts to allow them to determine which search terms people are searching on in the search engines. At its simplest level, this research is about studying the phrases that work for your audience and it is a real art.  It is one of the most effective ways to identify niche markets that others have failed to recognize. Keyword research is very important so that the content of the pages are more attractive as much for the users as for the robots. Keyword research is not an exact science and shouldn&#8217;t be discussed like it is.</p>
<p>I like to focus on finding long tailed keyword phrases that have a significant number of monthly searches for that exact term with 5,000 to 300,000 competing websites. Long tailed keywords, are multi-word keyword phrases. Most folks searching with a one or two keyword are just &#8220;browsing&#8221;. Most people who use long tail keywords know what they want. Remember, you want to focus each page on 2-3 keyword phrase.</p>
<p>There are many free keyword research tools online. Most SEO software tools include these tools as well. Google, Yahoo and other search engines have free tools also. You want a tool that will give you the number of daily or monthly searches and competing web pages. There are even sites like &#8220;spyFu.com&#8221; that will let you see which terms your competitors are using.</p>
<p>How many keywords you have in an article is known as keyword density. Your keyword density should be anywhere from 3% to 7%. For example, if you were to write a 100 word article you would need to write the keyword in 7 times to achieve a 7% keyword density. For a 500-word article you would need to use your keyword 15 times to get a 5% density. I use a tool called &#8220;Content Composer&#8221; that does a fantastic job of keeping me on track.</p>
<p>Keyword research can be defined as choosing the words, which describe your product or service as, seen from the viewpoint of your target market is the most important step in the SEO Management process.</p>
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<div class="marlinks">Before you do anything go to Terry Stanfield&#8217;s site for information on <a href="http://www.clickadvant.com">Search Engine Marketing</a> and related info about <a href="http://www.clickadvant.com/seo_management.htm"> SEO Management </a>.</div>
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		<title>Removing Grey Barred Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJN</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently downloaded the google toolbar as it was recommended to me.  Looking at my site it seems that a lot of older pages have been slapped by google for being naughty!  I&#8217;m not quite sure what I have done exactly and looking at other bloggers pages they seem to have the same thing done [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently downloaded the google toolbar as it was recommended to me.  Looking at my site it seems that a lot of older pages have been slapped by google for being naughty!  I&#8217;m not quite sure what I have done exactly and looking at other bloggers pages they seem to have the same thing done to them.  I am talking about page rank.  Everybody knows that it&#8217;s not totally important these days but it definitely still pays a part in where you end up in the search engine rankings.  Although <a href="http://ajn1.com">ajn1.com</a> has not been banned from google completely (grey barred), the older pages seem to have been penalized.</p>
<p>I watched a short SEO video recently which said that you may well be punished for linking to bad websites.  I have just spent the last hour or so searching this site to make sure I am NOT linking to any bad sites..  What I actually found was a minefield of links to bad sites!  (Although I noticed that even facebook was grey barred which I thought was strange.)</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m just being paranoid about this but I&#8217;ve now removed every single link on <a href="http://ajn1.com">ajn1.com</a> which directs to a &#8216;bad site&#8217;.  Again I&#8217;m not sure how google works out that these websites have done something naughty as it&#8217;s quite a big secret.</p>
<p>Anyway&#8230; I better not bad mouth master google for fear of being punished further.  The main point is that I have now tried to make the site as google friendly as possible.</p>
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		<title>4 Ways to Boost Your Profits By Building A Huge Email List</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hatcher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Internet marketers do not realize the importance of building a huge opt-in mailing list.  They figure it is good enough to be making affiliate sales from their website.  If you fail to build an opt-in mailing list, you will lose a large percentage of potential customers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Daniel Hatcher</div>
<p>Most Internet marketers do not realize the importance of building a huge opt-in mailing list.  They figure it is good enough to be making affiliate sales from their website.  If you fail to build an opt-in mailing list, you will lose a large percentage of potential customers.</p>
<p>Having a list allows you to keep in touch with your site&#8217;s visitors and slowly build a relationship with them.  If done properly, you can then convert a high percentage of otherwise lukewarm prospects into paying customers.  So exactly what does it take to build a great opt-in list quickly and easily?  Here are some useful tactics:</p>
<p>*	Offer an incentive, when possible, for people to leave their email address.  This is one of the best ways to get people to sign into your list.  I like to offer a special report or free Internet marketing training.  For optimum results, it is essential to give them something for signing into your list.  This tip alone can easily double the number of sign-ups you have.</p>
<p>I see so many people trying to build list with no offering of any kind for opting in.  This is a big mistake.  Incentives are to easy to create. It just doesn&#8217;t make sense not to offer one.  Anything with a high perceived value that you offer free will help boost opt-ins by 100% or more.  I&#8217;ve tried many ways of list building and I can assure you that offering incentives will give you a far superior result.</p>
<p>*	Include a privacy policy.  One of the main reasons people do not opt-in is because they are afraid they will be spammed.  This has been a major problem on the Internet for years.  Everyone abhors spam.  If a prospect has any reason to suspect that you will sell their email address to others they will simply not sign in.  Give them a guarantee that you will not share their email address with anyone whatsoever.  This will end the worries of people who are concerned about that.  After I added one I saw over a 60% increase in the number of sign-ups I was receiving.  It&#8217;s amazing that a simple thing like this can make that much difference.</p>
<p>*	Create many tightly targeted lists.  Few people understand the power of a targeted list.  By offering different lists on one site you dramatically increase the chance for people opting into your list.  One of the lists could be for periodic updates, another could include a tips letter that your market would find helpful, while another could be for a newsletter.  No matter what they choose, you get their email address.</p>
<p>Think about things that your market might be most interested in and offer that information on that topic or, at a minimum, access to it on your site.  If you do not provided several options that person would have signed up for nothing.  Two or three options are plenty.</p>
<p>*	Make all your lists double opt-in.  Double opt-in allows people to first sign up on your site, and then activate their subscription via a confirmation email.  There are plenty of good reasons to have the double opt-in format.  Number one, it will take away any chance of being labeled a spammer and secondly, you can show proof that people actually did request your emails.</p>
<p>An added benefit to you is that the double opt-in method will result in a list that is significantly higher quality than a singe opt-in list.  If these people are interested in your offer enough to verify with the confirmation email, they tend to be much more serious and interested in what you have to offer.</p>
<p>By putting the tips mentioned here into use you would be able to build a large, high quality list in a short amount of time.  I have used all of these methods and they work very well. I am confident that they will work for you as well.</p>
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		<title>Turnkey Website Work From Home On The Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Roberts</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To make money online you have to have the resources and tools you need. The resources can be free such as internet marketing forums and the tools can be what you have gained in your lifetime that is knowledge on a subject.  So it is not that difficult to to make money online when you have the correct tools and know where to get started.  Most people can make a living online but you need to be dedicated and think of it as more than a hobby and treat it like a business.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="marbyline" style="italic;">by Pete Roberts</div>
<p>To make money online you have to have the resources and tools you need. The resources can be free such as internet marketing forums and the tools can be what you have gained in your lifetime that is knowledge on a subject.  So it is not that difficult to to make money online when you have the correct tools and know where to get started.  Most people can make a living online but you need to be dedicated and think of it as more than a hobby and treat it like a business.</p>
<p>To find products to sell online for say a turnkey website you need to either have a physical product you can sell or a product you can sell for another person.  When you sell a product for another person or what is called a merchant on the Internet this is called affiliate marketing.  You are the affiliate or what is referred to a publisher and you get paid a percentage or a commission for advertising that product.  The beauty of this all is the merchant takes care of the shipping and handling and returns.  All you worry about is advertising the affiliate product and following the merchants terms of service and cashing the checks as they roll in.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is a great concept and any real e commerce site online usually has an affiliate program.  You can find just about any product to sell or promote online as an affiliate marketer an you will discover that you have tens of thousands of product available to sell as a publisher.  Usually as an affiliate marketer you will not need to deal with shipping and handling, emails or returns all you need to worry about it cashing you commission checks.  You have no cash tied up in storing inventory.  You may have learned a lesson during you last multi level marketing work from home business opportunity and still sit on a pile of vitamins or water filter or some other product in you garage or closet.  This is why affiliate marketing is one of the best kept secrets and one that MLM gurus would not want you to know about.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing is not as easy as just pasting ads all over a blog or web site.  it takes some work and research to generate sales and commissions.  Creative people know that making money online can be done with a free blog and a combination of article marketing.  Article marketing with content rich articles can draw traffic to a free blog or website.</p>
<p>Many people are discovering that even with limited resources or capital they can make money on the Internet.  When you work at home success can be achieved when you network with like minded people who have similar goals and you can often find such people in internet marketing forums and online chat groups.</p>
<p>With few barriers to entry with affiliate marketing it is no wonder that many are making the transition to make money online because the income may be unlimited and based on your abilities and creativity.  With skills to write good content articles and a few tools to make a basic website in a few hours it makes it attractive to give affiliate marketing a try.</p>
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