BizwareMagic's Internet Marketing Newsletter

Five Simple Ways To Quintuple Your Content's Traffic!

2012-02-06T16:14:00.000-08:00

Getting Traffic Without Google

Most of my content starts with an article - the title of
which I carefully design to match the targeted keywords on my
sites. Since the Panda Updates by Google, I have been mostly
submitting unique articles to other websites/directories on
the web. I also only place unique articles on my own sites.

Here's the problem, in the past, I could submit an article
with my re-print resource box at the bottom and easily build
up 100's of (keyworded anchor text backlinks) to my pages to
increase my rankings. Panda has just about killed this SEO
method because Google is no longer indexing all these links...
you're lucky if they index one of these links for your article.

Since the Panda Updates, Google has become much less effective
for SEO - they're simply getting it all wrong by indexing
and ranking more junk than anyone could ever imagine.

If Google is out of the picture - how does one get more
traffic to their high-quality content? Webmasters have to
be pro-active and work around Google by simply ignoring
them altogether.

Your online marketing and blood pressure will thank you!

Click this link to discover how I Quintuple my content's
traffic without Google:

How To Quintuple Your Content's Traffic

Bizwaremagic.com Is Celebrating Its 10th Year On The Web

2012-01-20T09:05:00.000-08:00

Can't believe it has been 10 years since I started my
main site - www.bizwaremagic.com. Time really flies when
you're having fun.

We even put a Press Release here:

Bizwaremagic - Free Marketing Tools

I also can't believe how much my site, dealing with all
aspects of running an online business - internet marketing,
marketing tools, list building, seo, rss, computers, affiliate
marketing, site design... are all topics which are covered.

The site has developed many different free guides which
the visitor can download. These resources will help webmasters
and site owners with the day-to-day running of an online
business or site. Marketing tools is another major topic which
is covered in great detail.

Bizwaremagic has also spawned numerous other closely related
sister sites. These sites go into closer examination of a specific
topic.... such as wwww.marketingtoolguide.com,
www.onlinefaxguide.com and www.laptopcomputerguide.org.

I am looking forward to the next 10 years of marketing online and
recently renewed the Bizwaremagic domain for another 5 years. Can't
wait to see what the next few years will bring... onward and upward.

Kind Regards,
+Titus Hoskins

www.bizwaremagic.com

Online Fax - Does Your Small Business Need It?

2011-12-14T05:20:00.000-08:00

There's almost no denying that every business or company needs a fax number in order to truly operate in the modern business world. However, there is some strong debate ongoing as to which method of faxing your business should use: conventional fax machine vs. online fax. While there are solid arguments which can be made for each route, does using an Internet or web based fax system rule the day?

One major benefit of using an online fax service is simply the low cost. Your business doesn't have to install a separate phone fax line and you don't have the expense of buying a fax machine. In addition, since we are talking about a web based "paperless" faxing, your business won't have the ongoing costs of buying all those inks, toners and papers. These cost savings can be significant, especially over the long term.

Continue Reading...

You can find this article located here: online fax or here:
online fax services.

How Many Domains/Sites Should You Have?

2011-12-10T08:35:00.000-08:00

The recent Google Panda Updates rang home the old
saying - never put all your eggs in the one basket.
In our case, if you just had the one site on the web
and Panda turned up its nose at your site - then you
would have suffered a great traffic loss, at least
in the short term.

But it you had numerous sites... the chances are great,
that at least a few of them were Panda friendly. Especially
if those sites or domain had your exact "keyword" for
the domain name, I found those kinds of sites are still
favored by the almighty and all important Google.

Why is this important?

Actually, it has long been known that ranking high
in Google, often meant buying the exact keyword domain
for your site. Obviously, these sites are super targeted
and relevant for the Google searcher - it should deliver
exactly what the searcher is looking for in their search.

Everyone comes away happy, especially the online marketer
who was savvy enough to purchase a lucrative keyword search
phrase and build a quality site around it.

Is this the future web?

One, where even long-tail (3 or 4 words) keywords, all have
their top level domain ranking in the top spot in Google.
Close study of Google's rankings, even Post-Panda, shows
this to be the case in many instances.

Could this mean a renewed interest in building "mini-sites"
instead of just a few "authority sites" for anyone who wants
to earn revenue for the web? More importantly, what could
all this mean for the online marketer - out to make a few bucks
for their sites.

Find out more on this issue here:

How Many Domains/Sites Should You Have?

Kind Regards,
+Titus Hoskins

marketing tools & free guides

Faxvideos.com - Newly Launched Online Fax Video Site

2011-12-08T11:31:00.000-08:00

Check-Out our latest site promoting our YouTube online fax
videos and channel Internetfaxguide.
This new site will display and promote all our fax videos
in the future.

Buying any time of web-based service can be risky and
nerve-racking, so any information which makes this decision
easier is always a good thing to have in your corner.
The more educated you become, the wiser buyer you will
be.

These videos are a vital part of our main website dealing
with online fax services.

You can view the new site here: online fax videos.

My Top 5 Performing Articles On EzineArticles.com

2011-11-25T07:57:00.000-08:00

Lately, there has been a lot of talk above
articles and article marketing on the web
after the Panda Updates. Some say the article
is dead as a marketing tool, others say articles
are still a vital part of your marketing strategy.

This is a subject where I have first-hand experience
and knowledge since writing articles has really allowed
me to earn a full-time living from the web. Believe me
I am not the best writer in the world and grammar has
always been a major chore to get right.

That's why I am always surprised when one of my
articles is featured on a major site or placed in
a popular ezine.

One of the first times I experienced the true power
of articles was when Addme.com presented one of my
articles and I received over 150 subscribers in a few
hours. Another time, Digg featured one of my articles,
and I received over 70,000 visitors to my site in
one day.

But the real power of article marketing has been
brought home to me with thousands and thousands of
targeted visitors and buyers which have come to
my sites via my articles. That traffic and those
sales have made article marketing a very profitable
endeavour for me over the last 6 or 7 years.

Anyway, I took a close look at my best performing
articles in EzineArticles, one of the top article
directories on the web. I go into some detail with
the stats (number of views, click thru rates...)
and how article marketing has changed since the
Panda Updates.

Panda has changed article marketing forever and
everyone will have to adjust their strategies
somewhat if they want their articles to still
be helpful.

If you're interested and if you're currently doing
article marketing or planning on using it in the
future... my articles and stats could be of some
benefit to you. I talk about my successes and some
big mistakes I made which you should avoid at all
costs...

You can find my 5 Top Performing articles here:

Top 5 Ezine Articles

Kind Regards,
+Titus Hoskins

www.bizwaremagic.com

Can Apple's Siri Defeat Google?

2011-11-18T17:55:00.000-08:00

This week's post deals with Apple's new
Siri technology which uses the spoken word
to answer your questions.

Some search engine experts are saying that
this new language search will kill SEO as
we know it and change everything.

There is even an interesting article in Forbes
saying that Siri is a Google Killer!

While I wouldn't go that far, this new Apple
Siri does pose some very interesting questions
for the future of search and the web in general.

One thing is for sure, Google won't go gentle
into that good night or go down without a fight.
And they have the resources to back up that
fight and then some.

However, probably the only company at present,
besides Microsoft, which has around the equal
resources is Apple and Apple is coming on
strong even after Steve Jobs.

Let's face it-

Apple showed us how to use the Walkman.

Apple showed us how to use the Smart Phone.

Apple showed us how to use the Tablet.

Can Apple show us how to use a search engine?

This upcoming showdown, if there is one,
will definitely be something every webmaster
and online marketer should be aware of and
if you want to know why, simply go here:

Can Apple's Siri Defeat Google?

Are There Any Pay-As-You-Go Online Fax Services?

2011-11-15T07:04:00.000-08:00

One of the most common questions asked about Internet or online fax services usually goes something like this, "I only send a few faxes a month, can I get a Pay-As-You-Go fax service?" The simple answer is yes. There are several fax providers who will offer you a pay-as-you-go plan which can be a real money saver because you only pay for the faxes which you need.

For example, one of the plans from Popfax will only let you send faxes and you don't have a fax number, but you can pay for your faxes as they are needed. With other providers like Faxage, if you go with the lite fax plan, you pay a small monthly fee for a fax number and faxing is 5 cents per minute.

Keep in mind, some providers charge per fax and others charge per minute. What's the difference you ask? Well, it usually takes on average around 40 seconds to send a fax but if it's a large fax or has numerous pages, it might take several minutes to send your fax. Some providers charge 5 cents a minute so you can do the math. Other providers charge you per fax which can be equal to the same amount depending on the provider.

The same thing applies to overage rates, most fax providers will give you around 300 to 500 (incoming and outgoing) faxes per month, with the average monthly cost being around $8 to $10. But if you should go over that monthly limit, any extra faxes will usually cost you around 5 to 10 cents per fax. Some providers will charge per fax and others will charge per minute.

The reason these costs are just estimates is because each online fax provider or company will have slightly different fax plans and rates. So it does pay to do some quick comparison shopping before you sign on the dotted line. If you go with a monthly plan, this will be an ongoing business expense and you can save a lot of money by doing a little homework now.

Online fax services are relatively inexpensive so it might be worth your while to check into acquiring a monthly plan instead of a pay-as-you-go plan. Depending on the number of faxes you send, a monthly plan may work out to be even cheaper. The great part is most providers will offer you a 30 Day Trial so you can check out their services and also see if your fax requirements justifies going with a monthly plan. Also most if not all providers offer local or toll-free fax numbers with your account. Your faxes are sent as an email attachment, mostly in a Pdf or Tiff file.

On the other end, there are corporate fax plans which can be especially tailored or designed to exactly meet your company's needs. These plans can be quickly scaled up or down depending on your requirements. In a changing economy this flexibility can be a great money saver, as you only pay for the fax lines that your company needs.

Regardless of which fax plan or fax provider you choose, as mentioned before, it would probably be smart to shop around before you buy. Even with pay-as-you-go services there will be different rates and you must check out the quality of any service you're considering using, regardless of the price. No good getting a great price, if the quality of the service provider is inferior and causes more problems than it's worth. Choose wisely.

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For more information on Internet Fax Services use this handy online fax Comparison Guide to get your own: online fax services. Or if you want more detailed information on Internet Fax try here: Are There Any Pay-As-You-Go Online Fax Services?

My Top 5 EzineArticles Articles And How They Have Performed

2011-11-11T11:15:00.000-08:00

With all the discussion that Google Panda Updates in 2011 have
killed article marketing, especially viral non-unique articles and
article directories, I took a closer look at my own article marketing
strategies and numbers. Not surprisingly, many of my most popular
articles have stopped performing simply because Google is no longer
ranking them in places like Ezinearticles and the other major
directories.

Believe I submitted my first article to Ezinearticles in 2005 and
at that time I was writer/member #1561, now there are over 400,000+
writers on that site.

Now, I have not written a lot of articles - around 400 - spread out
over 5 or 6 years.

At one point I did receive a lot of targeted traffic from EzineArticles,
but not since the Panda Updates... other writers/marketers have
had better luck even after the updates, so sometimes it's important
to remember not to draw general conclusions from your own data.
Again, it may also be a matter of whether or not those articles
are "unique" to EzineArticles.

Lately, my articles have not been delivering traffic and I do believe
the PageRank passed along from that site is now very minimal. Not to
say that this won't change in the future, mainly because Chris Knight
who runs Ezinearticles, have put into place many quality changes since
the Panda Updates. He explains thess changes in an interview here:
EzineArticles Reacts To The Panda Update

Over the years, my Top Performing Articles have been:

1. How To Choose The Best Student Laptop?

Which has 129,652 views and 35,783 - this article also has one of my most
highest click thru rates at around 27%.

2. How To Find The Best Laptop Deals?

This article had 72,007 views and 8,263 click-thrus with a 11.5% click rate.

3. How To Choose The Best Gaming Laptop

Which has 54,234 view and 7,541 click-thrus with a 13.9% conversion.

4. Are Any Free Online Faxing Services Really Free?

This article has 53,060 views and 4,817 click-thrus with a 9.1% click rate.

5. New Laptop Technology You Need To Know (Before Buying Your Next Laptop)

Lastly, this one has 29,113 views and 1,343 with a 4.6% click rate.
Please note, this was not a successful article because as soon as
it was written - it was out of date! Laptop technology is changing
so fast, an article like this one becomes dated very fast. This is
a fact I learned early and I quickly changed how I wrote my articles to
give them a longer life-span with information that can be used -
even if it's read 5 or 10 years from when it was written.

In real actual return, my most successful article on the Ezinearticles
site was none of the above... and it was an article that only received
13,000 views BUT it had a click thru rate of almost 50%. That is of all
the people who read the article, 47% clicked through to my site. That
rarely happens with any kind of links or articles.

The name of that article was:

Using Internet Fax Comparison Charts To Find The Best Fax Service

As for overalls stats/numbers with my Ezinearticles account:

Total Articles: 409

Total views: 653,934

Total URL Clicks: 87,759

Average Click Rate: 13.4%

Articles Published: 6,330

Summary - I use article marketing to "pre-sell" my promoted
products and companies since I mostly do affiliate marketing
through the major affiliate networks like Commission Junction,
LinkShare, Shareasale, Clinkbank, Google... and many more.
Ezinearticles at one time was a major, major, major factor in
my overall traffic and promotions. Sadly, this has changed
dramatically over the last year mainly due to the Google Panda
Updates which has seen articles from directories featured less
often in their SERPs. At least this has been my experience with
my articles. Going forward, I am finding myself submitting more
and more "unique" articles to major sites and even to Ezinearticles.
Finally, while I wish it wasn't so, I believe article marketing
has passed its golden days. It is still effective, but less so.

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My name is Titus Hoskins and I am a full-time online marketer who
has numerous websites. You can find this post located here:
My Top 5 EzineArticles Articles And How They Have Performed.

Online Fax Can Modernize Your Workplace Communications

2011-11-07T08:44:00.000-08:00

Even in these troubling economic times, it does pay to modernize all your workplace communications and networks. This is especially true for all your faxing requirements. Companies must bring their faxing systems up to date and into the modern era if they want to truly compete in today's marketplace. Here are several reasons why companies must modernize their communications - both with employees and their clients.

As you probably already noticed, computers now handle much of the work associated with running all aspects of your business. The same applies to your faxing, you must connect your faxing to your computers in order to have a truly integrated communication system. Online fax is one solution many companies are opting for simply because it's cheaper, paperless and much more convenient than traditional faxing.

What is online fax?

Simply put, online faxing is using your current email program, your computer and your web connection to send/receive all your faxes. You or your company simply sign up to an online fax service provider and they will handle all your faxing for you, in return for a small monthly fee or charge. You can get your own local or toll-free fax number. Many providers will also let you "port" your current fax number over to their services, for a small transfer fee. This can definitely be worth the price if you don't what to lose clients or have a disruption in your business communications.

Why use online fax?

Mainly because the whole world and the modern workplace/workforce has become extremely mobile. We want instant messages or instant communication, regardless of where we're located. This both applies to our personal lives as well as with our business dealings - in the era of smart phones, netbooks and ipads - being constantly connected with loved ones, friends and workmates is taken for granted. Online fax simply takes or makes all your faxing portable since it is web based and not strictly confined to the office fax machine.

With online fax, any mobile device that's connected to the web can be your virtual fax machine. You can send and receive your messages at anytime, anywhere. This will truly have a modernizing effect on your company or business. All your workers and/or clients are reachable around the clock, regardless of where they're located. Keep in mind, since online or Internet fax is available at any time of the day, it also means your business is open around the clock. This can make any business much more competitive in these trying economic times.

How is using online fax more modern?

Besides connecting your faxing to computers, there are several reasons why online fax is more modern than traditional faxing. First, you have to realize that this new modern way of faxing is much more secure. You can use SSL encryption to send your messages which is a much more secure method. Plus, only you have access to your faxes, via your email account, no one else can see your messages. Second, you can more easily store and retrieve your faxes since they can be filed/stored on your computer. This means no more lost or misplaced faxes, they are at your fingertips, ready for easy retrieval.

In addition, you must realize that these web based services are completely scalable should you need to quickly adjust your number of fax lines or accounts. This scalability will definitely save your company money and make the whole system much more modern. Lastly, with online faxing, you can easily import your client lists and use fax broadcasting to simultaneously send a fax to countless recipients at once. Again, this will save you both time and money.

As you can plainly see by the reasons stated above, using or going with an online fax service will make all your workplace communications much more modern. It will connect all those communications seamlessly with your computer and the Internet; making all your faxing extremely portable and accessible, regardless of where you or your employees are located. It truly is a step forward in the right direction. Are you using online fax? It's your call?

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For more information on Internet Fax Services go here: Online Fax Can Modernize Your Workplace Communications. Or here: Online Fax Services.

More Reactions To The Latest Google Panda 2.5.2 Update

2011-10-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

Last week, on Oct. 14th, I noticed a big down-swing in my
traffic numbers coming from Google search. I immediately
checked my keywords and most of them were down... not a good
thing and not a good sign.

I have been marketing online for 10 years, and have weathered
countless Google Updates... actually none of them really
affected my Google traffic in any big way. On the first run
through of Panda, some of my keyword rankings dipped a bit
but nothing too alarming or drastic.

Besides, my numbers jumped back up a month or so later, but
last week's down-grade was not expected and rather surprising
-like a sledgehammer to the skull - it was a real wake-up call.

But I am not alone, other webmasters have been reacting
to this latest Panda roar: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-panda-252-level-14182.html and http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4374667.htm

While I didn't panic, I did become very concerned mainly because
most of major competitors kept their rankings. I don't mind it
when we ALL jump around on that first page... but when it's only your
site that seems to be affected - then it is really time to worry
and act.

What am I doing wrong? Why did my site get hit? What triggered
the latest penalties?

Now I have numerous websites and only a few were affected by
these latest Google adjustments... and since these Panda changes
have to do mainly with "Site Quality" - I had to take a hard
look at my content and how it is presented.

Here Are Some Of Things I Checked And Did:

1. Checked my site in Google Webmaster Tools and found there
were no problem/issues with my sites.

2. Checked to see if my site had any Spyware/Malware issues
but it had none: http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

3. Used Free Xenu Software to check all interior links on my site
to see if there were all working. Fixed a few broken links.

4. Used the same software to check and fix any broken external
links. Boy - did I get a surprise here. I had a lot of broken
links... which I fixed in a hurry! Can't believe how many websites
or businesses are going under and no longer exist.

5. Checked the number of outbound links I had and eliminated
a lot of them, especially too many affiliate links on one page.

6. Checked again for duplicate content and did find a few affiliate
pages from an affiliate marketer that weren't original so I quickly
deleted those pages. In the distant past, I used to put all my
own articles on this main site and also submitted them to the article
directories. This could be an issue, but I don't want to erase all
my own original content - even though it is not unique. I now
only submit different or unique articles to the directories.

7. Checked my backlinks and found some article directories have
gone a bit paranoid. Buzze.com has even deleted all of its articles,
even the unique ones. Now you can still submit an article to
Buzzle but you can't have a link out - not even in your profile.
Haven't these guys ever hear of the "nofollow" tag. Take about
being Google Whipped!

And I also wrote another article on the whole experience, I tried
to keep my sense of humor and perspective on this matter because some
of my keywords have already gone back up a few spaces but I am still
hurting.

Anyway, you can find the article here:

My Reactions To Panda 2.5.2 Update

Onward and Upward,
Titus
http://www.bizwaremagic.com/

Your Competitor's Most Powerful SEO Strategies

2011-10-05T04:48:00.000-07:00

As a full-time online marketer, you have to keep a close
eye on what your competitors are doing. It is a simple matter
of survival.

Especially what SEO strategies and tactics your competitors
are using to "outrank" you in the search engines, mainly
Google. These tactics can range anywhere from solid strictly
"WhiteHat" methods to down right dirty "BlackHat" techniques
that will leave your mind spinning.

From what I can observe in some very competitive and some very
lucrative niche markets... one of the most effective SEO
methods is simply building a "cluster" or "group" of sites
all related to your theme or subject area.

Linking all these sites together will usually get you, not
one, not two, not three... but four or more sites in the
top 10 on that all important first page of Google.
Even Post Panda and all its aftershocks have not lowered
these sites in the rankings, but increased them.

And the key lies in the fact that these sites have good,
high quality content and probably deserve to be in the
top ten. However, they are all owned by the same person
or company... there's probably nothing wrong with this
savvy marketing technique if you don't mind someone
hogging the spotlight or rather taking all the sales.

Don't just build one site, build fifty or a hundred.

Outrank your competitors by pure volume.

But that's just one of the SEO tactics your competitors
may be using to knock you off the first page. Click this
link to discover many more... you might not like what you
see.

Your Competitor's Most Powerful SEO Strategies

Helping People Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
+Titus Hoskins

8 Best Places For Building Authoritative One-Way Links

2011-09-23T04:29:00.000-07:00

For any online webmaster or marketer, two things will consume
most of your time: rankings and traffic. Usually, these two
objectives will go hand-in-hand, the higher your rankings the
more traffic you will receive. However, as you probably already
know, getting higher rankings and traffic can be somewhat
difficult.

One of the best ways to achieve both, is to build one-way
links from existing authoritative sites on the web.

Now, let's be honest, building quality one-way links will take
some effort and time on your part. However, this can be done
much quicker if you know exactly where to look for those
authoritative sites or places which will let you create
links back to your site.

Here are some good places or sources for Authoritative One-Way
link building:

1. Press Releases

Press releases have become what article marketing was just
a few years ago... excellent way to get quality one-way links
back to your site. You can use both free and paid press releases
to get your message out. Many marketers have had success with
PRweb, but it can be somewhat costly but highly worth it. A well
written press release will usually get picked up and displayed
on numerous niche-related sites, boosting both your traffic
and rankings.

2. Wikipedia Type Sites

Such places as Wikipedia and Google Knol are also excellent
sources of quality one-way links. These can also give you those
all important in-content links, as well as links in the resource
section of the article. Everything will be theme focused, so your
links will carry more PageRank juice in the eyes of Google.

3. Powerful .edu and .gov Link

Mainly because they are seen as non-commercial and coming from
prestige sites or institutions, .edu and .gov links are some of
the most effective and powerful one-way backlinks you can receive.
Try to go out of your way to build these types of links for your
site. For example, if you went to a college or university, try
getting links from any Alumni pages. If your college has a
newsletter section, try to get links there.

4. How To Sites

Yes, we know, Google with its Panda Update and countless
follow-up changes to its algorithm, have hit these kinds of
sites hard. But the quality ones are still great places to
build one-way links. Often if you write a great how-to guide
in your niche and place it on these sites, you will get an
instant page one Google listing. For starters, try sites like
eHow and Squidoo.

5. DoFollow Social Sites and Profiles

If you haven't noticed, the web has gone social. Some of the
best places for authoritative one-way links are in these social
networking/bookmarking sites and profiles, especially if you
build up your followers and subscribers. Facebook, Twitter,
MySpace, Google+... will all give you opportunities to build
your one-way links.

6. Memberships and Testimonials

You must always be pro-active when it comes to link building,
so go out of your way to get links from any memberships you may
belong to. Also, giving testimonials for your favorite site
or product can be another excellent way to get authoritative
links as these links are usually displayed on the main/index
page of a site.

7. Embedded Videos/Slideshows/Software

Many webmasters have had great success by using embedded
software, videos, awards, slideshows... to create one-way links
back to their sites. For example, just look at how Slideshare.net
builds its backlinks. You can try something similar or use that
program to share your content and build your own links.

8. Site And Blog Commenting

While many sites are cracking down or making all their links
NoFollow... commenting on blog and sites is still an effective
way to get those backlinks. Many online marketers create Google
Alerts for their targeted keywords and when any related links
are indexed in Google, they get an email. They then thoroughly
check out those links to see if it is worth their while to make
a comment.

There you have it, some of the best places to help you build
your all important authoritative one-way links. Many marketers
simply take a few minutes of each day to build these types of
links back to their sites. Over time these links will increase
and you will receive more traffic and higher rankings as a
direct result of these powerful one-way links.

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The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous
websites. For the latest web marketing tools try: marketing tools
If you liked the SEO tips above, why not try the Free 7 Day
Traffic course here: internet marketing course
Copyright Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely
distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Online Fax - Can I Still Use My Current Fax Number?

2011-09-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

One of the most common questions asked about online fax concerns the keeping of your current or old fax number. The reasons for this concern are quite obvious, individuals and companies don't want to lose contact with hundreds of clients, nor do they want to lose the marketing value of a fax number which has been in circulation for years and placed on countless business cards and communications.

Businesses simply want to know if they can "port" their current fax number over to this new more modern way of faxing?

Yes!

In most cases and with most online faxing services, you can "port" or use your old fax number. But you have to check with the provider you're considering if this can be actually done? Also, in many cases you will have to pay an extra fee to port your old number over to their services, but this is a small price to pay, considering all the lost business you could incur if you go with a new number.

Remember, Internet or email faxing is simply using your computer, your current email account and your web connection to do all your faxing. Simply consider it as the computer or "email" version of faxing since your faxes are sent as email attachments, usually as a Tif or Pdf file. You can still send a message to a traditional fax machine, your online provider acts as an intermediary to handle all transactions.

Online fax services are relatively cheap, especially when you consider you don't have to buy a fax machine or maintain a dedicated fax phone line since everything is done online. You also don't have the ongoing expense of buying all those inks, toners and papers since this is paperless faxing. Monthly rates can go for as low as $3 or $4 if your faxing is very minimum. However, the average cost is around $8 to $10 per month and there are corporate faxing plans if you should need a custom rate.

Many individuals and companies are switching over to online fax and taking their old fax numbers along with them to these new services. Besides the cheaper rates, the main reasons for this change are many. Online fax is completely portable and available anywhere and at any time. Your business is open around the clock - 24/7, 365 days of the year. This can make a big difference especially if your company depends upon faxing to bring in new sales and/or to stay in contact with clients.

Plus, online fax is simply much more convenient to use than traditional faxing. No more paper jams, no more messy inks and no more missed faxes because of a busy signal. It is as easy as sending an email since receiving, checking and sending your faxes can all be done through your computer and your email system. What more can you ask for?

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Does Google Bowling Really Work?

2011-09-06T06:41:00.000-07:00

Google Bowling is one of those nasty BlackHat techniques everyone
wishes didn't work but there is mounting evidence that it actually
does work - especially for sites which don't, as yet, have a solid
linking history or high page rank.

Google Bowling is building/buying countless spammy links for your
main competing sites in order to "undermine" their rankings in Google.

While there is an ongoing argument of whether or not this can
actually be done, a few webmasters have tested this technique
by building spammy links to one of their own test sites and
checking the results. And it does actually lower the Google
Rankings... when those spammy links are removed, the rankings
go back up.

http://www.neilshearing.com/2011/08/26/google-bowling-update-all-sites-at-risk/

Google, in the past, have stated that inbound links doesn't affect
your rankings... mainly because a webmaster has no real control over
this and anyone can place "low quality" links to your site, even those
from link farms. Google has also been fighting "link buying" for years
and try to penalize sites which buy links.

Obviously, this is a very complex complicated issue that must give
Google a lot of headaches... finding those links is no problem but
figuring out who is actually buying them or building them is a whole
different story.

This has all led some unscrupulous marketers to sabotage their
competition by buying/building those kinds of links and directing
these links to interior high ranking pages of their competition.
Even if Google discovers what's going on, these marketers can still
gain months of traffic and sales from their competitors.

Now, after the Panda Update, when site quality is all important, these
spammy links could prove even more troublesome for the honest webmaster.

Is someone lowering your rankings in Google?

Find out more here:

http://www.bizwaremagic.com/weblog/2011/09/02/google-bowling-the-not-so-nice-side-of-seo

Free Keyword Tools

2011-08-17T04:12:00.000-07:00

Free Keyword Tools

It doesn't take long for anyone marketing on the web to
realize "keywords" are essential for your success. They
are the backbones of all your efforts. The foundation upon
which all else is built.

Assuming of course, you're going the SEO or SEM route.

Getting targeted traffic from the search engines can make
or break any online business, so you have to rank high for
your keywords in the search engines, especially Google, which
will deliver the majority of your traffic.

If you're into Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine
Marketing, then you definitely have to do your keyword homework.
You have to first find the right profitable keywords and then
build quality content in order to rank high for these keywords.

Some marketers even base everything they do on achieving
high rankings for their targeted keyword phrases. All roads
lead to that almighty keyword which brings in the sales.

Free Keyword Tools

Obviously, because keywords are so important to any online
marketing strategy, there are countless keyword tools which
you can use to help you. Here's a post I did on my main site,
where I listed 5 Free Keyword Tools which you may find helpful.

Keep in mind, these tools are just starting points, most
successful online marketers learn everything they can about
SEM. This entails religiously studying your own website traffic
logs to find those golden phrases which bring in the leads
and sales.

Anyway, here's that link:

5 Free Keyword Tools

Online Fax - 5 Things You Should Know About Online Faxing

2011-08-03T05:00:00.000-07:00

For businesses operating today, having a good reliable fax service is a must. Regardless of what type of business you have, using an eco-friendly and cost-effective faxing system is the only way to proceed. That's where Internet or online fax services/providers enter the picture. There are many benefits to using this new more modern way of faxing... here's one of my articles which explains 5 of these reasons or benefits.

Online Fax - 5 Things You Should Know About Online Faxing

You may know it by many names: online fax, email fax, internet fax, web fax or even computer fax... but regardless of what you call it, online fax is the wave of the future. There are many reasons why this new more modern way of faxing has become very popular with both individuals and companies around the globe, most of which are listed below for your convenience. So here are a few things you should know about online faxing.

1. It is Completely Paperless. Online fax is a digital, computerized form of sending your faxes so it is completely paperless, unless you want to print out a hard copy version of your message. This new eco-friendly way of faxing will save valuable resources, while saving you or your company from the expenses of buying all those inks, toners and papers. Your faxes are sent as email attachments, usually in a tif or pdf file, but there are many other types of formats that can be used.

2. It is Completely Portable. Since internet fax is web based, you can access it anywhere on the planet, as long as you're connected to the web. Any portable device such as a cell phone, pda, netbook, laptop... can be used as your fax machine. Once you sign up to receive this service, you're given an online account where you can view and send your faxes. Keep in mind, you can also use your email program to send/receive your faxes. Many providers also have a desktop application which you can download to handle all your faxing needs.

3. It is Cost Effective. Using an online fax service can be much cheaper than using the old traditional fax machine. Monthly rates can be as low as $3 or $4, but the average cost is around $8 to $10 per month. This is still much lower than running a fax machine, connected to a dedicated fax phone line, not to mention the ongoing costs of all those inks, papers and toners. With email fax you have none of those expenses and you will save money, especially over the long haul.

4. It is Very Secure. Despite what some people might think, online fax is more secure than regular faxing for several reasons. You can use encryption to send and receive your faxes, which makes then very secure. Plus, only the person with the right username and password can view your faxes, this keeps them away from any prying eyes, unlike traditional faxes in an office setting where anyone can view them. Plus, you can even store your faxes on your computer in encrypted form if security is an issue with you or your company.

5. It is Very Competitive. This is something which many individuals and companies also don't realize, using online fax will make your business more competitive. How? First, you have to remember, going with an online fax provider, means your business is reachable around the clock, 365 days of the year. No more waiting for office or business hours to retrieve that important fax... all your faxes are at your fingertips at all times. If you have salesmen or agents in the field or traveling on business, they are all reachable, regardless of where they're located. All this can make your company or business more competitive, especially if you depend on faxes for promotions or to bring in new sales or clients.

Finally, in addition to the five things listed above, you also have to remember internet fax is extremely easy to use. Actually, it is as easy as sending an email and we all know how easy that is for everyone to do. A simple and convenient way to receive and send all your messages. Many would also suggest that online fax is simply a smarter way to fax, but we will leave that final judgement up to you.

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List Building With Google+

2011-07-14T06:51:00.000-07:00

List building is a topic I have been following for years and it's
something I have been doing for just as long. I build lists in numerious niche markets to stay in contact with my visitors and to promote my affiliate products.

Google+ was a real eye-turner for me, mainly because I could quickly
see the great potential Google's latest social networking program can
have for list building. Especially the "Circles" feature, which lets you
sort your contacts into different groups.

Also, you have many ways to contact your subscribers with both text
and video. This will come in handy, especially if you build small groups
relating to certain topics or tasks. For example, if you run an affiliate
program, you can sort all your A list promoters in one section and do have a "Huddle" or contact them in "Hangouts".

One of the major difficulties with list building is not the ACTUAL
building, but developing meaningful relationships with your contacts
or subscribers once you have them on your list. Google+ could play a
major role in overcoming this problem and help with establishing
those relationships.

Anyway, I was so excited about this new program, I wrote an article
explaining how you can build your list with Google+.

You can find it here: List Building with Google+

Or if you want to find out more about list building just click the link.

Google+

How To Start A Web Business On A Really Small Budget

2011-07-05T09:16:00.000-07:00

Starting an online web business is not that difficult, especially if you go the affiliate marketing route and promote another company's products or services. Actually, the most lucrative online business to create is where you have your own products and services since you will receive the majority of the profits. However, in the beginning, many people simply are not at this stage and will have to depend upon promoting affiliate products or earn revenue through selling advertising placed on their site or sites.

There are countless ways to start an online business but regardless of what topic you wish to tackle or which products you want to promote, your overall objective is to get targeted traffic or customers to your site. Therefore, everything you do and create, should be geared towards "keywords", which are the phrases surfers type into search engines to find what they're looking for on the web. This is assuming you're primarily going the "search engine" route in your online marketing.

First, you will need to find a whole list of keyword phrases people are using to find the products you're going to promote or sell. You will need to know how many searches are made each month for these phrases and what the competition will be like, so you will have some idea of what you're up against. Google's External Keyword tool or site is a good starting point and will supply you with most of the information you need to get started. Some marketers simply type their "keyword" with quotations into Google and it will give you the exact number of pages which contains this phrase or keyword.

Second, once you have done some keyword research, you're ready to buy a domain to start your online business or site. Try to get a short domain with the best overall keyword which sums up your topic or products, placed at the beginning of your domain name. Placing your most prominent keyword in your domain will go a long way in achieving high rankings for your site since all your backlinks and URLs will have this keyword phrase. You can purchase a domain and hosting really cheap through places like Yahoo Small business, GoDaddy or Bluehost - usually around $5 to $10 a month.

Third, if designing a site is difficult for you or just too costly, one route to take is to use a free blogging software platform like Wordpress to create your site. They have plenty of templates you can use but try to make your site look different and unique. Regardless, Wordpress is very SEO friendly and will be "keyworded" properly so you won't have to spend much time worrying about this whole SEO aspect of web marketing which many beginners find difficult. Just remember, the majority of your search engine traffic will come from Google so you must optimize your site for them. Google has about 200 ranking signals or factors which they use to rank your site or content. Don't become too bogged down with these factors, but Seomoz.org consulted with 132 SEO experts to find these factors and if you want to learn more go here: http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

Fourth, once you have your domain and site/hosting all setup, you're ready to create some high quality content which your visitors will find helpful. Remember, Google is all about providing valuable relevant content to its users, so you have to fulfil this demand by creating useful informative content for your visitors. Keep this content strictly keyworded to the topic or products you're promoting. Try to keep all of your content unique and make sure you have it or your site completely tied into all the major social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, MySpace, Linkedin... and so on. Make sure you make it easy to subscribe to your newsletter or all of your social bookmarking sites like the ones mentioned above. Drawing repeat visitors and customers back to your site should be your main goal.

Fifth, your hardest battle will be getting targeted traffic to your site or business. If you're on a budget, one of the easiest ways is to create simple viral articles and videos to draw people onto your site. Do blog posts on related sites and forums, with keyworded anchor text links back to your site. Anchor text refers to the underlined part of a link - make sure your keywords are in this part of the link. If you don't have a ton of money to spend on marketing, just find the major competitors in your field, do a search in Yahoo by typing in this command in the search box:

link:www.competitorsite.com

Yahoo will give you a whole list of your competitor's links, starting with the most important first. Try to build/get the same links going back to your site or content.

Lastly, one of the biggest mistakes that beginners often make is creating a website or business that places too much emphasis on what YOU want, rather than what YOUR VISITOR wants. You must place yourself in your visitor's shoes and create your site and business from their perspective so place your main benefit or benefits your visitor will receive from using your site at the very top of the page. Display this benefit(s) in a bold headline so that any visitor can instantly see it within seconds of arriving at your site. In this regards, one of the biggest obstacles will be trust - how do you instantly build trust with your visitors? Displaying any type of Trust Seals or even credit card logos will help build that trust. Using or giving your full contact or company information upfront is also very vital. If you're selling a product or service make sure your have a telephone and/or fax number where visitors can reach you. Obtaining an online fax number is inexpensive and cheap; so too is getting a virtual PBX system to make all your communications run smoothly.

These are the most important steps to building an online site or business. They can be done cheaply and starting out, your expenses should run around $10 to $20 a month... about the cost of a pizza or a movie. Almost anyone can afford those prices and start an online site or business - why not you?

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The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites. For the latest web marketing tools try: how to build a business site. For more information on Internet Fax Services use this handy online fax Comparison Guide: online fax services. Copyright Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Use An Online Fax Service To Build Online Trust

2011-06-28T04:03:00.000-07:00

Perhaps, one of the biggest obstacles, for many websites and online businesses has to be trust or rather the difficulty of building trust with your online visitors or customers. The whole history of the Internet has been littered with horror stories of rip-offs, scams and hacking issues; which leave most web users with a very cynical view of any person or company doing business on the web. This scenario is especially true, if that company or individual, doesn't have a well established brand with a solid reputation and known background.

This whole issue of trust does affect your sales and bottom line. If your visitor doesn't trust you or your company, they will simply hit that back button. Customer gone, customer lost.

How to solve this issue of trust?

Many companies and websites solve this problem by placing "trust seals or banners" on their sites such as those from the BBB or Better Business Bureau. This will quickly help build trust and dispel many misgivings of dealing with an unknown website or company. Another very effective way to instantly build trust, is to place your contact Telephone or Fax number front and center, so that visitors and customers know immediately how to reach you or your company.

Placing your business address and contact information in a very prominent place on your site will go a long way in building legitimacy and confidence in the mind of any potential client or customer. In many cases, it is something most savvy consumers do automatically when dealing with a new company, especially one that may only exist online or on the web.

The Online Fax Service or Number Solution?

Many companies are going with an online fax service or number to help build that trust. This number will appear and look like any other fax number - only difference being this is a fax number which is handled through an online fax provider. In actual fact, it is much the same as using any kind of fax number, except in this situation you use your current email program and your web connection to send and receive all your faxes. You can still send or receive faxes from a conventional fax machine, your online provider simply handles all transactions on your behalf for a small monthly fee or charge.

Signing up to an online fax service or provider is relatively simple and can be done within minutes. Keep in mind, most online providers will offer a 30 Day Free Trial, so you can check out the quality of their service before you buy. Once you sign-up, you're given a local or toll-free fax number which you can use - some services will even let you "port" or "keep" your current fax number, but there is usually a small fee involved. Regardless, once you have your fax number, you're in business.

This fax number is connected to an email address or addresses and whenever you get a fax, you receive an email telling you and you can read the fax directly as an attachment or you can log in to your online fax account or interface to check it. Remember, your faxes can also be stored online and you can send your faxes from this location as well. And since everything is web based, it means all your faxes are available anywhere, anytime.

Plus, since this is paperless faxing, it is much cheaper than conventional faxing. You don't have to buy all those inks, toners, papers, or even a fax machine for that matter. But perhaps, the biggest savings will come from not having to keep a fax machine running 24/7 and not having to install a separate fax phone line.

Now, you have your own company fax number, which you can place on your business cards and on your online website. Potential clients and customers will quickly see your contact information and this can go a long way in building that all important trust with your online visitors. Just a small issue but one that can greatly affect the success of your business. Are you using an online fax number or service? It's your call.

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List Building Does The Trick

2011-06-21T03:57:00.000-07:00

List Building Does The Trick
Titus Hoskins

If you're trying to build any kind of business, on the web or in the real world, you will soon discover how important list building will be to your success. Growing and nurturing a large list of repeat customers and subscribers is the key to more traffic and sales. Building a long lasting relationship with all your followers and supporters can be a true recipe for success.

We are all probably sick of hearing the expression: "The money is in the List", but that doesn't make it any less true. If you have a business, you must put simple steps in place to actively build your list. And we do mean simple, for example, if you operate a retail store, it could simply mean taking the names of anyone who buys a product from you. If you have a website or online business, it could simply mean placing a sign-up form on your site and/or getting the contact information of the customers who buy from you.

Even taking these simple steps of building your contact list can prove very beneficial for your business. Having a list of potential prospects is important, mainly because it means you have a list of targeted customers to promote your latest products or offers to now and in the future. This will increase your conversion rates over the long haul.

However, don't make this fatal mistake, just building or gathering a list of prospects is not enough, you must actively build an ongoing relationship with these customers and/or potential customers. Offering free gifts, advice and information on your products or services. Following up with calendars, greeting cards, birthday wishes... can help establish a relationship.

Many online businesses offer a free newsletter to their subscribers which can be another effective way of staying in contact with your customers and clients. Just make this weekly or monthly, but remember to keep it regular/constant and also keep all communications on topic. The main goal here is to find those special customers who are really interested in your products or subject area.

Of course, these days, one of the best ways to find those devoted customers is to use the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube... to help build your list of contacts. All these sites or programs have built-in list building systems such as Facebook's Fan Pages and the YouTube's Friend section - as well as other contact building features. So don't ignore this excellent way of building your list.

In addition, don't forget that "word of mouth" can be a great way of spreading your message and building your list. So using a simple "Recommend to a Friend" form on your site can also prove very beneficial. So too does creating a viral "buzz" about your business online in such sites as Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, YouTube... and all the other sites. The Internet is a powerful medium, simply use it to help build your list.

Just remember, the next time you're looking for ways to get more customers and make more sales, don't forget list building. It can be a very effective way of promoting your business, bringing targeted customers through the door and goes a long way towards sealing the deal or making that final sale. You will soon discover there is a lot of truth in those old sayings. The money really is in your list.

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SEO Strategy - How To Simplify The Whole SEO Process

2011-06-16T06:10:00.000-07:00

If you're a full-time online marketer and webmaster, you may get the feeling (in my case a stubborn opinion) that because SEO has become such a big industry, it has to be "complicated up" rather than "dumbed down" for the receiving audience. In other words, it is in the best interest of SEO firms and services, to make SEO seem like a much more complex process than it actually is in practice.

This applies doubly true for when it comes to ranking high in Google. Many SEO firms go into all kinds of "linking structures", "site metrics", "keyword correlations", "onpage factors"... in explaining how to achieve those top Google spots for lucrative keywords. Granted, the Google Algorithm has over 200 ranking signals or factors, which they use to rank pages. And this mathematical formula is constantly being redefined or altered by major changes, such as the recent Panda Update, which left many webmasters reeling.

But...

While Google's ranking Algorithm and system might be the most complex creature on the planet, ranking high in Google is a very simple process. So simple anyone can do it and achieve first page listings in Google. It's not rocket science and it's not complex by any stretch of the imagination. However, it does take some work on the part of the webmaster to actively promote his or her site. In other words, if you just create a perfect site and place it on the web and do nothing else - chances are extremely high you won't get those top rankings in Google, at least not for the highly competitive lucrative keyword phrases.

This is where SEO (Search Engine Optimization) enters the picture and takes over. You must get certain factors/signals right if you want your site to truly compete in major search engine keyword battles. But most of these things or factors are not difficult or hard to understand, you just need to have them in place if you want top listings in the search engines.

Here are some things you can do to simplify the whole SEO process:

1. Try to create a short domain with your targeted keyword in the domain name, go with a .com domain if you can get it and if you have to use a multi-worded domain, try to get your keyword at the beginning.

2. Create an "easy to navigate" unique content rich site which is optimized for the search engines, but directed solidly at solving your visitor's needs. If you're on a budget, one of the easiest ways to do this is to use the free Wordpress software/platform to create a keyword optimized site. Make sure this site is totally intertwined with all the latest social networking programs such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin, YouTube... make sure you have profiles/accounts in all of these platforms to compliment your main site.

3. Link to main interior pages from your home or index page. These interior pages should have your targeted keywords in the "Title", "URL", "Meta Tags", "H1 Headings", "First Paragraph", "Last Paragraph" and use keyword variations throughout the content. Place a few in bold print and italics. Don't be afraid to create large pages and link out to other authority sites in your niche. Don't worry about keyword density unless it goes over 4%... this should not happen if you write naturally for your visitor and not for the search engines.

4. Build quality one-way links by creating articles, press releases, blog posts, videos, viral reports... and submit these to the major places on the web such as free article directories (my favorites are still ezinearticles, goarticles, buzzle, ideamarketers, isnare and article alley). The real trick here is to consistently produce fresh content, which steadily builds your backlinks month after month, year after year, decade after decade!

5. Do whatever you can do to enrich your visitor's experience. Add valuable free content, free ebooks or ecourses, offer comprehensive guide or guides to your visitors. Connect all this free content to your autoresponder opt-in list or newsletter and build repeat targeted traffic to your site. In addition, make it extremely easy for these visitors to bookmark/follow your content in all the social media sites: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Google +1, and so on.

6. Rinse and Repeat. One of the little known tactics about achieving top rankings in the search engines, especially Google, is to create not one site but two or more sites in your niche market. (If you're on a budget or time is short, try creating two pages on the your domain related to the same targeted keyword.) Instead of trying to rank for one site in Google, create two complimentary sites on the same related keywords, and you will find it much easier to get to the top spots. Interlink these sites and you can even promote them together, just make sure they each have unique content and adds more detail and/or information for the visitor.

Over the years, I have come to believe strongly, achieving high rankings is not some complex process but just a matter of persistence. Consistently promoting your content by building quality backlinks will get you to the top and keep you there. But the whole trick is persistence, keeping at it, day after day... building those links back to your content. I also believe it is the number of backlinks which is the key and this has been proven to me many times over the years. Many SEO experts will now argue that links have taken a back seat to other factors such as site authority and structure, but I am not convinced this has happened. At least not yet, but data from the 160+ million Google Chrome users and the new Google +1 Button, may eventually lower the importance of backlinks and PageRank.

However, at the present time, if I stop promoting a page or competitive keyword, it usually drops from the first page of Google. To get it back on the first page, all I have to do is promote it with a few articles, blog posts, press releases, videos... and it jumps back into the top spots, even Post Panda. For years, I had a webpage for "list building" in Google on the first page, then I stopped promoting it with keyword related articles, posts, content... it dropped to the third page of Google. Changing none of the ranking factors mentioned above, I was quickly able to get that page and ranking back to the #5 spot by simply creating some current backlinks to the content. I mention all this because many times, SEO firms and experts will try to complicate things with convoluted explanations and complex processes. While in actual fact, achieving high rankings can be simplified down to nothing more than persistence and adding a few quality backlinks.

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The author is a full time online affiliate marketer who operates numerous niche sites, as well as two sites on Internet Marketing. If you want to discover more about this topic simply download some Free Marketing Courses. You can find the author's page here: Titus Hoskins . © Copyright This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Does Your Site Need An SEO Checkup?

2011-06-03T05:59:00.000-07:00

The Google Panda Update did change the way Google
ranks pages and sites. Some major important sites have
lost their rankings and they don't seem to be getting those
traffic numbers back from Google.

Now more than ever, it is important that you get
all your site's SEO issues fixed or done properly.

While the number of quality one-way links you have flowing
back to your site will be the most vital ranking factor,
you must get all your other SEO things right with your
site or you could lose ranking points, especially in
Google.

So here's more information on this topic, complete with
a link where you can quickly do an SEO Checkup on your
site:

Does Your Site Need An SEO Checkup

Helping People Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

P.S. These are the Actual web marketing tools which
I use daily to earn a full-time online living:

http://goo.gl/0CBr

Keyword Maintenance - How To Keep Your Keywords On the First Page Of Google

2011-05-26T03:59:00.000-07:00

If you're a webmaster and/or do any kind of Internet marketing,
you will soon learn that obtaining first page rankings in Google
for your targeted search phrases will be the key to your success.
However, getting those top Google rankings is only half the battle,
in order to win the war, you must maintain those top rankings for
months, years... even decades.

I, like many other webmasters, have discovered it is the slow and
steady building of quality one-way links back to your content,
which mainly detemines whether or not, you get to keep those top
rankings in Google. You must consistently build links to your top
ranked content.

Thankfully, this is much easier than one would expect, even if you
do all the work yourself. I use around 5 or 6 techniques or programs
to consistently build links and keep my content fresh in the eyes
of the search engines.

I have made a long blog post explaining these programs and what
I do to maintain my keyword rankings. These methods are probably
already known to you but there may be a few that you're
missing. You can find these techniques here:

Keyword Maintenance - Keeping Your Keywords On The First Page Of Google.

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

P.S. These are the Actual web marketing tools which
I use daily to earn a full-time online living:

http://goo.gl/0CBr

5 Major Benefits Of List Building

2011-04-26T07:27:00.000-07:00

List building has long been a solid marketing strategy but it is only since the introduction of computers and the Internet, that we have really seen its true effectiveness and power. With the advent of computers and the web, we can now use total automation to build your list 24/7, 365 days of the year. And it doesn't stop there, you can not only grow your list, but you can make follow-up emails to your subscribers and prospects - all on autopilot via an autoresponder.

Plus, the web gives us many more opportunities to build your list with social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace... which makes building your list of contacts much more easier than it was in the past. You also have the opportunity for much more cooperative list building, with websites acting in collaboration with each other to grow their lists.

However, for those who have not build a large responsive list and seen its effectiveness, maybe it would be helpful to list the major benefits. So with this idea in mind, here are 5 major benefits of list building:

1. More Sales - If you build your list of potential customers, you will make more sales. Mainly because once someone joins your list, you can continue to market to these prospects for months, even years into the future. Many marketers also place those customers who have bought from them before, on a special list since chances are great they will make more purchases.

2. More Repeat Customers - This leads us to our second advantage, you will get more repeat buyers, especially if you treat your list with respect and courtesy. These repeat customers can be the backbone of any business, producing sales time and again. Obviously, having these repeat customers on your list will make a big difference to your bottom line.

3. More Traffic - When someone visits your site or store, they are there for a few minutes and then they are gone - usually for good. But if they join your list or give you their contact information, you can do follow-up marketing, drawing these people back countless times. This will give you more traffic to your site or return customers to your store or business.

4. More Targeted Marketing - Obviously when someone joins your list, it is a real indication that they are interested in your products or services. In other words, your marketing will be much more targeted when you use a list. These prospects want more information from you and have shown an interest in purchasing what you have to offer. Targeting your marketing to the right demographic and customer, will also significantly benefit your bottom line.

5. More Cooperation & Teamwork - Often, if you think of your list more as a community than just prospects or numbers, you can build good relationships with your subscribers. This can create a sense of teamwork and cooperation where all parties benefit in the long run. You can also gain valuable information from your list in the form of feedback and surveys. Your list can also be a great source for finding new products and testing your web content to discover which performs the best.

As you can see from the advantages and benefits noted above, list building can be a great marketing strategy for anyone with a site or business. Automatically grow your list of contacts and customers and you will reap the rewards. You will also discover the true meaning behind the popular saying, "The money is in the list."

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Google Page Speed Tester - Improve Your Site and Rankings

2011-04-10T06:22:00.000-07:00

Over the years, I have found it is best to give Google what
Google wants. This is one simple SEO rule that will never change!

The Panda (Content Farm) Update hit many sites which depend
upon article marketing really hard. Traffic from article sites
are down... this is/was extremely targeted traffic flowing first
from Google, thru the article directories and then to your site.

A lot of that traffic is no longer flowing... many sites like
Ezinearticles have done a major overhaul of their homepage
and many other pages on their site.

One thing Google is speaking out about is Site Speed/Load times...
the faster the better because then Google users and searchers have
a much better experience if your page loads fast. Giving quality
results is Google's modus operandi.

Besides having a fast loading page is in your best interest,
regardless of Google or your Google rankings.

So here is the Google Page Speed Tester.

If you want to find out more about this issue and how you can
fix some of these speed problems, go here:

Google Page Speed Tester - Use to Improve Your Site.

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

P.S. These are the Actual web marketing tools which
I use daily to earn a full-time online living:

http://goo.gl/0CBr

Bizwaremagic.com Gets a Minor Facelift

2011-03-23T09:14:00.000-07:00

Due to recent changes within Google and its latest Panda Algorithm
update dealing with "content farms" and low quality content,
Bizwaremagic.com has made some minor changes to reflect current
SEO waters.

One of these changes is to cut down on the number of links (mostly internal)
which appears on the Index or home page... Google recommends around a 100
per page but I usually go a little higher than that due to the nature of
the site. Resources, articles, software, downloads... all demanding some
attention from the visitor.

Perhaps, an even bigger change has to do with articles on the site, in
the past not all the articles were unique to the site. In other words,
Bizwaremagic articles which appeared on the site were also submitted to
articles directories on the web and elsewhere.

Going forward, only unique articles and content will be placed on
Bizwaremagic.com... any other articles and content will be written
separately for these directories and related partnering sites.

Google gets what Google wants... although some very savvy SEO experts
believe you shouldn't always follow Google's guidelines to the "T"
because you site will be "TOO" over optimized and not natural.

In the end, it all comes down to quality content that visitors
want and need. If they can only find that information or quality
content on your site... the search engines can't ignore you.

Your site and rankings will be driven from this core source and
the search engines will just have to follow the visitors which
are attracted to your quality content. One follows the other... at
least in a perfect world.

Bizwaremagic.com has always reflected this goal and has been
giving visitors what they want since 2002!

Onwards and upwards... the newer site:

http://www.bizwaremagic.com/

Traffic Dashboard Review

2011-03-15T06:54:00.000-07:00

Veteran online marketer Marlon Sanders has just released his latest
Dashboard product which is called: Traffic Dashboard.

As I usually do, I bought this product not only to use it but also
to have it for review purposes. And I must say up-front, I am a
long time affiliate of Sanders and promote his marketing products
on two of my main sites dealing with Internet Marketing.

This aside, I believe I can still give an objective review of this
product, since I am a full time marketer and many of the points and
information given in this product I have already used and know
from my own experiences that these techniques do indeed work.

At least when it comes to two of the main modules dealing with
article marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)... I have
been using those two areas to get traffic to my sites for years.

In addition, a few of the other modules dealing with email marketing
and social media - I have had lots of experience with too. Especially,
when it comes to list building and Youtube videos.

One word of caution, many times when someone buys an info product,
they expect all they have to do is click one button or
put one miracle technique into practice and everything flows...
this just doesn't happen or at least in over 10 years of marketing
online, I haven't found it.

In other words, even if you buy this Traffic Dashboard, you have
to do some work (write articles, fix your webpages, do press releases...)
if you want to succeed at getting traffic.

Marlon does give you an excellent "point & click" program which
will give you step-by-step information to get all this done and
the traffic flowing.

He gives you over 15 different ways/sources to get traffic. These
are proven methods which have been tested and used. Along with a lot
of helpful tips to increase your traffic numbers.

Anyway, if you want to go directly to the product click here:

Traffic Dashboard

Or if you want to check out my full review go here:

Traffic Dashboard Review

Let's Hope This Panda Roars

2011-03-08T12:21:00.000-08:00

Well, at least Google's latest Panda Algorithm Update has
many webmasters and site owners calling foul. They believe
their sites have been adversely affected by Google's latest
try at cutting down on low quality sites and content farms.
As of yet, few of my sites have been affected, so I am keeping
my fingers crossed, but I take a much more relaxed view of
these Google Updates, even the major ones which come with
a name.

Last year's Mayday update hit me hard in the "long tail" but
I am still operating. Most times it's just a matter of
adjusting your SEO and the way you create your content.
If Google wants more high quality unique content on your
site - just shut up and put it there. What Google wants,
Google will generally get it - so why beat around the bush
and whine.

Now, what has upset many webmasters and some of them rightly so...
CNN just reported that Google's Algorithm change has affected
around 1 Billion in revenue or sales... if you're on the losing
end of that equation, maybe you have a right to protest. See some
sites which have been negatively affected here at
WebProNews: Foner Books and Suite101.

Like me, if you have experienced countless Google Updates,
you will realize Google usually does some fine tuning after
the hatchet falls. Traffic in most cases will come back if you
just wait awhile. I am hoping this is the case here too.

We all like to believe we produce superior content... but we
all have to take a close look to make sure it is indeed superior
to most of the stuff out there. This update will make webmasters
think twice before putting low quality content on their site...
if Google will penalize your site for it.

However, what really has me worried - will Google apply the same
"game over" call on your site like they do in their Adwords program.
In that program, once your site is judged as low quality... it's the
end - no amount of whining, fussing or begging will get your site
listed again. Go away, we don't want your business.

It's this kind of attitude that has many webmasters upset this time.
Google is the only game in town, if Google doesn't want you in their
game, it's the end of the road for many good hard working webmasters.
Or at least they will have to find other ways of getting quality
traffic to their site.

However, it's the search engine traffic from Google that's most
prized and appreciated, not to mention, the most valuable. Cleaning
up their index is a good idea for Google and everyone concerned.
Getting rid of spammy sites with little or no unique content is
also a good idea. Making only high quality content available to
web users has to be applauded and cheered.

I just hope Google can get it right. I just hope this Panda roars
and only the cream rises to the top.

More information on this topic:

Google's Latest "Content Farm" Update - Here We Go Again

Titus Hoskins
www.bizwaremagic.com

To Increase Your Rankings Just Use This Free SEO Analyzer Tool

2011-02-19T05:51:00.000-08:00

If you're an experienced webmaster or marketer, you will
already know, getting lots of quality one-way keyword
related backlinks is the "key" to getting top rankings.
However, having all your SEO factors on your website or page,
does make a slight difference, especially in close keyword
battles.

Making sure you have the right SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
techniques on your site, is definitely worth checking out. You
have to get this right, if you want your site or page to perform
the best that it can perform in the search engines.

While I personally think many of these SEO factors is somewhat
"over-rated", there's no harm in making sure your page or site
is up to the right standards. Besides, checking all these SEO stuff
will get you thinking about your content and how you can improve
it.

Never a bad idea.

For some reason, I really like the tool listed here on this page:

Free SEO Analyzer Tool

It will do a quick analysis of your URL and tell you how to improve
it. Simple things or ways you can put into place the proper SEO
techniques.

I also like all the videos from Google's spokesperson Matt Cutts...
if you want advice on all this stuff, you might as well get it from
horse's mouth. I have found following Cutts' advice is usually "spot-on"
if you want your site to do well in Google.

However, there are some other other things you should keep in mind
with fixing all your SEO stuff... especially if you're into online
marketing like me. Getting the right SEO is just for starters, there
are other things you must get right, if you wish to earn revenue from
your content or site.

I present these other factors in my blog on my main site here:

Increase Your Rankings w Free SEO Analyser Tool

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com

P.S. These are the Actual web marketing tools which
I use daily to earn a full-time online living:

http://goo.gl/0CBr

How To Monetize Your Web Content

2011-02-09T04:09:00.000-08:00

If you have a website, you have probably considered how
you could make money from it? How to monetize your web
content?

Even if you're not into web marketing and just want to
earn some revenue to pay for your hosting and traffic costs.
Simply slapping a few Google Adsense ads on your content
will probably satisfy most of these webmasters since they
are extremely simple to use and Google does pay on time.

However, that's just for starters, they are countless ways to
earn revenue or ways to montize your content as long as you
have quality traffic. Most of these are just as simple but
they pay much more of the precentage back to you.

As a full time marketer, this is a question I have considered
and tested for years. My findings are very simple and these
companies do paid their commissions. Again, just some simple
programs to use to monetize your web content.

You can find my whole list here:

how to monetize your web content

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus
http://www.bizwaremagic.com

Online Fax - 5 Ways It Can Make Your Company More Efficient

2011-02-03T09:03:00.000-08:00

Online Fax - 5 Ways It Can Make Your Company More Efficient

Onlinefaxguide.com has just released another online fax video
entitled "5 Ways Online Fax Can Make Your Company More Efficient"
on YouTube.

This short video explains how using an online fax service can
make any company or business run more efficiently. It goes into
detail why using Internet or Online Fax is such a smart business
move for these companies.

If you're running a small business or you're just an individual
who needs a fax service - you should watch this video to see if
an online fax solution is right for you or your business.

You can find the video here:
5 Ways Online Fax Can Make Your Company More Efficient

If you want more comprehensive information on online fax try
this site: online fax

Are Google's Listings Becoming Too Corporate or Not?

2011-01-26T06:46:00.000-08:00

Sometimes drawing conclusions from your own narrow perspective
is a recipe for disaster - you jump to the wrong conclusion. The same
goes from drawing conclusions from your own list of targeted keyword
phrases which you have been following for 5 or 6 years.

A little while back we saw the introduction of big brand names for
some popular searches in Google SERPs. Now this could be a reflection
of Google making an attempt to include these corporate sites in their
listings... or it could also reflect that these big corporate companies
have smartened up in regards to the power of SEO and Keyword
Positioning.

Obviously, if these big companies spend more revenues on building
their web presence, this will be reflected in higher rankings in the
search engines. So while it is very easy to point the finger at Google
and say they have sold out... these big companies are also big Adwords
buyers. In fact, it could just be these corporations using the right SEO
tactics and reaping the rewards.

However, when it comes to local searches, Google does seem to be
favoring local companies in their listings regardless of SEO.
Obviously, this is to supply the searcher with the right answer and
a better searching experience. If you're looking for the closest
pizza place, no amount of SEO can change that location!

These corporate local listings have to take first place if you
want to give that searcher the best experience. There's little
room for argument except that sometimes a surfer may be searching
for user's reviews and comments, rather than the actual location.

Then there is the whole idea that Google Offers will be Google's
next big cashcow and they're gearing up by offering more
local results. Someone has to take on Groupon before they
become another major competitor like Facebook.

Anyway, to find out more of my opinions on this issue try here:

Are Google's Listings Too Corporate?

Titus Hoskins
www.bizwaremagic.com

List Building & Autoresponders

2011-01-08T06:43:00.000-08:00

Without a doubt, one of the most important online marketing
tools has to be the autoresponder. This program or service,
automatically gathers contact information and email addresses
to build your lists. It also sends sheduled email messages
to those who have subscribed to your lists.

Autoresponders automate your whole marketing system and makes
handling thousands, even ten of thousands of subscribers, a
breeze. They're working 24/7 to bring in spropects to your
maketing funnels... and in the process supplying your sites
with targeted traffic and repeat visitors. The kind you want.

We have all heard the expression "The money is in the List"
but I have a feeling, not many webmasters or marketers have
truly experienced the power of list building. Unless you're using
autoresponders on a regular basis or working online full-time,
it's hard to judge how very effective lists really are to your
success.

You simply must have an autoresponder if you're marketing online,
even a free service will do in a pinch. But in the link below
I have laid out some reasons why you should go with a professional
autoresponder service...

5 Reasons Why You Should Use An Autoresponder

or if you want to learn about building your list, click here:

list building

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

Only Google Can Do It This Good

2011-01-01T12:01:00.000-08:00

For online marketers like myself, Google is extremely important
to our success. Mainly because getting and maintaining those top
rankings in Google for lucrative keyword phrases is vital to
everything you do. It can make or break your online endeavors.

Google gave every webmaster and marketer a very bumpy ride in
2010 with the implementation of Google Cafiene and then quickly
following it up with the release of Instant Search and Instant
Previews. Plus, countless tweaking of their search engine listings
throughout the year.

However, for those of us who love this marketing stuff, Google
has also made it a very interesting year, to say the least. I
can't imagine an online world without Google, Facebook just
doesn't do it for me. But Facebook is turning into Google's
only competition, forget Bing, MSN, Yahoo... or any other
search engine for that matter.

Google isn't going anywhere, but in the back of my mind, some
long forgotten history lessons are resurfacing. Empires, no
matter how great or invincible they may seem at the time,
come and go, like the flow of the tide or seasons. Those
pesky lessons are constantly telling me nothing is forever,
not even Google.

As ridiculous as that notion seems at the moment, it is
something webmasters and marketers should keep in the back
of their minds, or maybe not. In my humble opinion, as long
as Google keeps morphing and adapting new features it could
have a thousand year reign as king of online search.

And a major part of Google's success, comes not from online
search, but from Google's influence in the real world. It has
given us countless programs which directly affect our daily
routine, from Gmail to Chrome OS to Google maps. It is those
programs which will keep Google in the world's eye for many,
many years to come.

It could be argued, no other company in history, has permeated
our lives as much as Google has done. It's influence is growing
and getting stronger. A major part of that influence comes from
all the programs Google has given to the community and all their
contributions to charities over the years.

The same goes for this year, in 2010, Google has donated 20
million to various charities. This is only a small token compared
to all the revenues Google has generated over the year, but it
is more than the thought that counts when you consider the recipients
of these gifts.

To find out who has received these gifts you can view the
video here:

http://www.google.com/landing/thankyou/2010/

Titus Hoskins
www.bizwaremagic.com

Should You Use URL Shorteners?

2010-12-03T09:44:00.000-08:00

Last week I had a terrible experience with an online shortener - Goo.gl,
which is run by Google. The links were down for several vital days during
the whole Black Friday silliness.

It's now up again and my Goo.gl links are working again, but I have switched
back to bit.ly which I have been using for months. Just can't trust Goo.gl
anymore.

This whole incident really reminded me of how little control you have
over these short links. While they are great for sharing links and getting
your links around the web, they do have some drawbacks.

Should you use them?

There are some benefits but there are also some pitfalls to using
a shortening service... find out what they are here:

http://www.bizwaremagic.com/weblog/2010/12/03/should-you-use-url-shorteners/

or

http://bit.ly/hPnbUG/

How To Find Those Jaw-Dropping Black Friday Laptop Deals

2010-11-22T06:19:00.000-08:00

In these uncertain times, everyone is looking for a bargain and a way to save money. That's why the special sales and discounts offered during Black Friday and Cyber Monday can be very significant for bargain hunters. The days surrounding the Thanksgiving Holiday does present an excellent opportunity to save on tech items such as laptops and netbooks or the latest "must have" gadget of the moment.

However, these same bargain hunters probably know all those special holiday sales and low prices usually come with a catch. As a recent report by CNN pointed out, you have to be aware that there may be limited quantities of the items on sale. Plus, you have to be aware of derivatives... items which don't exactly have all the features you would expect in the gadget you're buying.

In other words, no matter if you're shopping online or in the real world, you have to be careful and closely examine the item you're purchasing. The merchant is probably counting on a "buying frenzy" and customers rush to buy the item before someone else grabs it. When supplies are limited, many customers do rush to buy the item and suffer the consequences later.

The same thing can happen online, even though you can avoid the large crowds and shop from the comfort of your home, you still have to act quickly because in most cases the items on sale will be limited in number. So how do you find those special Black Friday laptop deals and special discounts?

Here are a few shopping tips which may help you with your holiday shopping:

1. Do your homework. Before the Thanksgiving Holiday, scout out some special merchants and sites which offer discount links, bookmark these sites so you can easily find them on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

2. Join subscription notification lists. If any of the sites feature the laptops or products you're considering buying, opt-in to their notification list so that these sites will email you when a special sale comes online. For example, Amazon offers such a feature and it can be a great money and time saver.

3. Use the search engines to your advantage. Another great aid is using a search engine such as Google to find those special sales. However, you must qualify your search with keyword qualifiers such as "black friday online coupons", "cyber monday online discounts"... attached to the specific keyword of the laptop model you're looking for on the web.

4. Comparison shop to get the best price. Although time will be a factor on these special deals since the number of items will usually be limited, you should still do some comparison shopping to make sure you get the lowest price possible for your laptop.

5. Check the seller's reputation before buying. Regardless of how low the price, you must check out the merchant or seller, make sure they have a well established reputation with quality service and a good return policy, in case you should have trouble with your purchased item.

Lastly, if you're buying a laptop on Black Friday or on Cyber Monday, double check the laptop's features and specs to make sure you're getting exactly what you're looking for in your machine. Don't be blinded by the low price, if your laptop can't do what you want it to do, then it really isn't a money saver no matter how much you get discounted off the purchase price. If you're worried about using a credit card, try using an online payment system like PayPal and keep your personal details private.

Happy Shopping!

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For a whole range of Laptop Deals and Discount Coupons - Visit This Link: cheap laptops . If you want a handy notebook buying guide go here: laptop buying guide Titus Hoskins Copyright 2010. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Some Simple Marketing Tips For Black Friday & Cyber Monday

2010-11-20T13:21:00.000-08:00

Besides updating your web pages with all the latest Coupons,
Discounts and Deals - there are a few other marketing strategies
which might prove helpful, regardless of whether you're promoting
your own products or those of affiliates.

With Bizwaremagic.com, there is a handy corporate business gifts
section which proves very popular, especially at this time of
the year. Targeting the "gift niche markets" is one marketing
strategy which proves very effective.

To find how effective and more on this topic try this
link:

Some Simple Marketing Tips for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Getting Your Site's SEO Right

2010-10-30T04:59:00.000-07:00

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Gee, once you have been online for years and you're making a steady
income, you foolishly convince yourself you know all there is to
know about SEO. I have made that mistake in the past and in some
regards, I am still making that same mistake today.

You can never know too much about SEO.

And I am constantly learning new SEO things as the web changes.
Google Instant is a perfect example of how things can change overnight
on here. While it didn't change SEO per se, it does change how
people use Google and how the results are shown. Searchers don't
get the chance to type in their long-tail keyword phrases because
they are constantly and instantly being bombarded by suggested links...
so much so that getting those top positions for shorter root keywords
has gotten more important and this has increased everyone's competition
because those popular shorter keywords have always been the most
competitive.

Which all means, your job as webmaster and online marketer has
become much more difficult. At least that is my opinion, one which
is reflected in my own stats. It also brings home the importance of
getting all your SEO ducks lined up in a row. You simply must have
your site and your content perfectly optimized for the search engines,
especially Google.

With this in mind I have written another one of my longer articles
on SEO. You can find it below, along with some helpful links which
will aid you in checking out and fixing your own site's SEO.

Find the article here:

Getting Your Site's SEO Right

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com

P.S. These are the Actual web marketing tools which
I use daily to earn a full-time online living:

http://goo.gl/0CBr

The Actual Internet Marketing Tools Which I USE

2010-10-24T10:32:00.000-07:00

I was totally surprised at how few online marketing tools
I actually used in the operation of my online sites and marketing.
For some reason, I thought there would be more, but you really
only need a few essential marketing tools to run an online
business.

It doesn't matter if you're selling your own products or selling
affiliate product; you only need a few simple tools.

Perhaps the major one being your website, which will be the center
of all your online activities. Although a some online marketers
don't even use a web site and rely on their affiliate networks
to supply all that is needed to earn a living from the web.

However, it is much easier with a site or two, especially if you're
into affiliate marketing. It is much easier to promote your affiliate
links with a site but considering how many free blog programs there
are... you can easily go that route.

I sat down and listed all the marketing tools I use to earn an
online living... it's a very small list and you can find it here:

Internet Marketing Tools I Use

5 Things I Wish I Knew About Internet Marketing (Before I Became a Full-Time Marketer)

2010-10-16T05:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I made in the low 4 figures from my online marketing.

Those days are rare but they do happen once in awhile, but most days
I only make a faction of that amount. That's the great thing about
online marketing - you put all these sites and links on the web and
everything keeps building.

Work done years ago could just now be paying off in the form of higher
rankings in the search engines. That article you wrote two years ago
could just now be getting traffic and sending you potential customers.

When I read an article in SiteReference about site building
and 5 things that author wished they had known before they built
their first site. It started me thinking, what would be the 5 things
which I know now but didn't know then... and the difference that
knowledge would have made.

Hindsight is priceless, if only we could go back and start over again.
What things would we have done right the first time around? As for myself,
I wasted years before I really knew what I was doing... we all don't
suddenly wake up and turn into an Internet marketer. Not like becoming
a vampire, one bite and you're there!

It took me years of "trial and error" before I discovered what worked
and what didn't. I am still learning and the web is constantly changing.
Right now, Google Instant is flipping a lot of online marketing techniques
upside down and even throwing a few of them out the window... you can
always count on Google to make life interesting.

Anyway, I have written another one of my long article/pieces on those 5 Things
about Internet Marketing which I wish I knew when I was just starting out.
And like that poet on the road, it has made all the difference in the world.

Find the it here:

5 Things I Wish I Knew About Internet Marketing (Before I Started All This Foolishness)

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com/

Advanced SEO Tactics - How To Combat Keyword Site Stuffing By A Major Competitor

2010-10-05T04:36:00.000-07:00

If you're an online marketer, sooner or later this scary scenario will happen
to you: "Suddenly, out of nowhere, a major competitor has 3 or 4 sites popping
onto the first page of Google for your niche market. These sites are all
keyworded and optimized for the phrases you're targeting and you're getting
bulldozed off the first page."

Ouch!

This competitor by stringing four or more sites together, can virtually dominate
your niche market for all the lucrative keywords... some of these competitors
string 100s of sites together to completely wipe out the competition.

What to do about this serious problem?

Well, the above scenario has happened and is happening to me in several of my
most valuable niche markets. It makes your job as an "honest" and "ethnical"
online marketer all the more harder - although there is probably nothing wrong
with creating 4 or 5 sites in a niche market. We are talking about completely
unique content sites which are not spammy or done by software.

Major companies can afford to hire writers, seo experts, webmasters... to line
up a solid organic campaign which can totally blow the small time marketer off
the first page. Completely.

Anyway, I have written a rather long list of my marketing tactics to combat
such an attack.... you can find my tactics here:

Advanced SEO Tactics - How To Combat "Keyword Site Stuffing" By A Major Competitor

Is Google Instant the New Coke?

2010-09-17T16:24:00.000-07:00

No, but...

After a week of Google Instant - some things are becoming
much more clearer in regards to online marketing. Google's
real time search may just be more of a game changer than I
first thought, especially with regards to organic results
and how they are displayed.

Valuable real estate is now being given to the Google Drop-down
menu and its Adwords paid listings... moving some organic results
further down and out of the fold. This can have poor results
in regard to the amount of traffic coming from Google.

Another major concern is the worry that Google is basing these
suggested keywords and listings NOT on rankings, but on its
compiled data of users' histories and activities. If more
emphasis is placed on this compiled data rather SEO and rankings
- will it mean the death of SEO as we now know it?

Maybe not, but Google Instant has all the hallmarks of changing
online marketing and SEO. Google could simply dictate what
listings should be suggested and shown to web searchers, taking
control from marketers and webmasters who play by all the SEO rules.

Within the last year, Google has made so many changes, it is
hard to still recognize the old Google. Whether all this "New
Google" is for the best - still remains to be seen. Let's hope
for their sake, Google takes a breather or at least keeps
"Classic Google" on the sidelines so that everyone can go back
to some peace and quiet when doing their searches.

After all, this new Coke may just be too hard to swallow
for some folks.

To find out more of my findings on Google Instant go here:

Google Instant

Google Instant - Changing Online Search To Warp Speed

2010-09-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

Google's new Instant Search is really something to behold
and it is faster than you can type. At first, it kinda freaks
you out somewhat, it is that fast.

See what a little competition can produce!

Maybe it has nothing to do with the introduction of Bing and its
upcoming union with Yahoo, but chances are pretty high this is
one of Google's responses to this new competition. Google has
made so many, many, many changes over the last 6 to 8 months - it
is a much more impoved search engine.

This latest addition of Instant Search really raises the bar
on online search to a much higher level. One other search engines
will have to rise to if they want to compete with Google.

Anyway, I have written more on this new Instant Search on my
main site and what it may mean for online marketers and webmasters.

Read more here:

Google Instant Search - Faster Than The Speed Of Type

List Building Tips For The Affiliate Marketer

2010-08-10T06:07:00.000-07:00

If you're into affiliate marketing you will probably already know how important list building is to your overall success. However, I sometimes get the feeling from close examination of my competitor's sites that list building takes a back seat in their site layout and design. One also gets the general feeling that list building is not as important as it once was, especially in the early days of online marketing before the advent of so many social media/networking sites.

Granted for the ordinary webmaster, in the age of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, building your own personal autoresponder lists have taken a backseat to these social networking sites which obviously builds your subscriber list for you. But these are third-party sites controlling your subscribers and while they more or less eliminates the whole notion of unwanted spam, they do present issues regarding the use of these lists.

Coming from the old school of marketing, I realized the importance of my lists from the start. I also realized the most difficult part of building a list was not getting the subscribers, but connecting in some way with them and building trusting relationships with lists in the tens of thousands is not an easy thing to accomplish.

List building in regards to affiliate marketing is of special interest to me since I am a full-time affiliate marketer and anything which makes my job easier I will try. Like most affiliate marketers, I have created niche sites dealing with the products and services which I promote. One major component of these sites is the list building element. On almost all my sites I try to capture my visitor's contact information to give follow-up information which lets me market to these subscribers in a very subtle way.

The important thing here is to offer free ebooks, guides or e-courses in order to capture this contact information before these customers are sent along to the merchant's site. This is the "old squeeze page" which many online marketers use in order to build their own list of potential prospects for their offers.

This must be a "win-win" situation for everyone involved so I like connecting these lists to special sales, coupons and deals which are offered by the merchants. These customers can get $100's off the price of the products featured so that they end up with a good deal and you end up with a sale.

All this couldn't be possible if you didn't build your list of targeted clients or customers looking for the products you're promoting. List building in this area has proven very effective for my affiliate marketing, so effective I try to put my subscriber form or box on all my webpages. So if you're an affiliate marketer who is sending your visitors directly to your merchant's site, think again, and see if building or capturing your visitor's contact information is worth your while? If done properly, this can be an excellent way of increasing your sales and commissions.

Another form of list building which I believe too many affiliate marketers take for granted is the powerful little "cookie". For those not in the business, a cookie is simply a piece of code which identifies your referrals as belonging to you or your affiliate ID, if a sale is made immediately or for any time in the future you will get credit for the sale because you referred the customer or client.

Now, the trick here is to pick affiliate products and programs which have a 90 Day Cookie or more; if a sale is made in those 90 days you get credit for the sale. The longer the length the better, there are even some products and companies which give life-time cookies.

Why is this so important you ask?

Well, if you have a popular site you can quickly build up a long list of potential customers cookied with your affiliate IDs. The larger the list, the more sales you will make. Affiliate marketing is a numbers game, the more numbers you have, the easier it is to succeed. I have found this so profitable that I try to "cookie" all the lists I build in the process mentioned above, so that all these potential customers have my affiliate IDs attached.

So it doesn't take a genius to realize, used in combination, this can be an extremely profitable form of list building which every affiliate marketer should be doing if they haven't already figured out this simple marketing strategy. Build your lists, cookie your lists, and then sit back and reap the rewards.

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If you want to find out more about list building, why try this handy eCourse: list building . Or it you want to find out more about affiliate marketing try here: internet marketing Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

What is LinkBait?

2010-08-02T05:14:00.000-07:00

Whatever it is - Google likes it, at least according to
Matt Cutts who even did a special YouTube video on the
topic. However, understanding exactly what LinkBait is and
how it works is a little more tricky.

What linkbaiting really boils down to is producing content so great
that other web masters will want to link to it. This can be an handy piece
of software, an outstanding article or a helpful SEO tool.

Actually any page on your web site can be used as linkbait. Create
outstanding content and other web masters will link to it automatically,
giving you those all important one-way links. This is free traffic which
comes to your site without you having to do nothing.

This "word of mouth" advertising is some of the best kind of promotion
you can get because it is totally organic and natural. People are voting
for your content by giving you links and traffic.

The effective use of "linkbait" can be a great way to market your
site or products online. And knowing a few little tricks can make
all your content more linkbait worthy!

Find out more here:

What is LinkBait?

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

www.bizwaremagic.com

The Yahoo Bing Transition Has Begun

2010-07-24T03:32:00.000-07:00

Everyone knew the Bing/Yahoo union was coming and it has now
begun in limited "test-runs" with Yahoo displaying some Bing
results. But will this new combined search engine give Google
some much needed competition?

I don't think so... but I have been wrong before.

Regardless, if the numbers increase, you will have to adjust
your site or sites to take advantage of this new Bing/Yahoo
creature. Optimizing your content for Bing should be high on
your list.

In my latest blog post below I talk about this upcoming marriage
and supply some useful tips/links which could help you cope with
these new changes.

Bing Yahoo Transition

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

Is Google Really Developing a Facebook Killer?

2010-07-12T07:46:00.000-07:00

No less than CNN is reporting the rumors that Google
does indeed have a social networking site in the works
which could give Facebook some competition. This new
social site/program is supposed to be called GoogleMe or
Google Me.

Only Google knows the truth.

However, creating such a site would be a smart move on
Google's part since they do need to compete with Facebook,
mainly because Facebook is turning into a real search engine,
one that could possibly give Google a run for all those
lucrative search dollars. Ridiculous you say - not really,
especially when you consider Facebook's recent move towards
"Open Graph Search" and its use of the "Like" button and box.

Unless the surfing public changes overnight, Bing/Yahoo
is not going to give Google any real search competition,
but Facebook with its massive number of users and rating
system could present a true contender.

We also might see a complete change in how that surfing
public sees online search. Google and the other search
engines are quickly becoming one big "joke" in regards to
organic search with big companies buying and selling
their way into the top 10 spots and the search engines are
helpless to stop it.

Link buying and selling has made organic search a joke
and more and more web users are catching on to this fact.
Once this becomes common knowledge, search engines
will be appropriately viewed as corporate billboards
rather than anything of true relevance or importance
- even the mighty Google could fall.

That's why Facebook and its actual ratings/rankings by actual
consumers/customers are becoming much more important. While
even this kind of search equation is open to abuse, a
search engine based on such "user-based" results will beat
Google's SERPs any day.

More about Google's Facebook Killer

Once web users realize the true value of such rankings and
search engine, then Google will have some real competition at last.

Of course, Google is not standing still, for those of us who
make a full time living from search engine marketing will
tell you, Google is placing more emphasis on "user-generated"
content and ratings. They have placed more emphasis on
the "truer" ranking systems on the web, those coming from social
networking sites like Twitter, Digg, Del.icio.us, YouTube, MySpace and
even Facebook.

How many Tweets does a post get? How many Diggs does your
content gather? How many comments does your YouTube video
have? How many Thumbs Up? How many times is a web page bookmarked
in Del.icio.us and recommended to friends.

Granted even these social bookmarking sites can be manipulated,
but it is just a little harder to do than simple link buying
or employing simple SEO tactics/services to get your site to the top
spot.

Which brings us back to the question at hand, is Google developing
a social networking site like Facebook? If you count all the programs/sites
which Google presently offers up: Google Wave, Google Voice, iGoogle,
Google Accounts, Google Buzz, Gmail, Google Profiles... one could
even argue does Google really need another social networking program?

Even considering all of these current offerings, but is it just me, or is
there no real center to all these Google products? Google needs
one site which connects all of its programs/products at your fingertips,
maybe iGoogle should already fill the spot, but it doesn't take
in everything or have that crucial social networking element.

Google should have a social network site like Facebook, where
you can easily connect with family, colleagues and friends, but
this site should have a sidebar which lists all your Google's
programs/sites which you use. Make this site your "one-stop-center"
for all things Google.

Give Google and all its countless programs a concrete solid focus
or center. One click and everything that Google has to offer is
displayed on ONE page. More importantly, all Google's products need
to be consolidated and connected - Google Voice, Wave, Buzz, Maps,
Mail, Profiles, Search... all need to be functional in one simple
social networking platform.

Then make or develop a user-based ranking/rating system within this
newly formed social networking site and you will be able to
compete with Facebook when it comes to true democratic search.
Such a site, if it does materialize, could give Google's Search Engine,
and search in general, a much needed dose of honesty. Then again,
if wishes were horses, beggars would ride and Google would no
longer be a one trick pony.

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All opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author who has been following Google since it was a mere BackRub. He is also a full time search engine marketer who operates numerous niche sites, as well as two sites on Internet Marketing, where you can get valuable marketing tips for free: internet marketing tools or try here internet marketing Titus Hoskins Copyright 2010. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

What Do You Know About SEO?

2010-06-21T06:41:00.000-07:00

Online Fax Guide Gets Major Update And New Look

2010-06-16T05:13:00.000-07:00

June 16, 2010. OnlineFaxGuide.com, a handy Internet fax services comparison site, recently got a major update and a new fresher look. This well established online fax site offers numerous ways potential users of Internet fax can get vital information they need to choose the right fax provider for themselves or their company. It comes complete with informative videos, a convenient comparison chart of the different online fax providers and plans, plus a very comprehensive PDF Fax Guide which visitors can download for free.

Recently, this popular online fax site received a major update with a new fresher look and a faster web host with a dedicated IP address. It is also expanding its coverage with more articles and features on the whole subject of web faxing. It has also added two new fax companies - Nextiva Fax and PopFax to its site, providing more choices for visitors.

"Online fax is constantly changing as new providers come online and established fax service companies offer new features," states Titus Hoskins, a former teacher who now runs the site. "For instance, RingCentral has just increased the amount of free faxes users get each month from 300 to 500, while still keeping the same monthly rate."

Providing potential users of online fax with helpful comparisons and informative reviews is the main goal of OnlineFaxGuice.com and this latest update is further proof of this fact. In addition, helpful content is regularly added to the site to keep visitors updated and informed on this relatively new way of faxing. Since this is usually a long-term business expense, doing a little homework now can pay big dividends down the road, especially if your company or business depends heavily upon faxing to bring in sales or for contacting clients.

Online fax is completely portable, more convenient and a lot less expensive than the traditional fax machine in the office. Plus, since all your faxing is done through your computer and your email system, you don't have the cost of an extra fax phone line. Nor do you have the ongoing expenses of buying papers, inks and toners or even fax machine maintenance for that matter. All this makes online fax a great money saver for individuals and companies in these uncertain economic times.

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For more information on Internet Fax Services use this handy online Comparison Guide: online fax Or if you want more detailed information on Internet Faxing try here: internet fax services. Titus Hoskins Copyright. This Press Release may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

Can Google Become The Next Facebook?

2010-06-03T04:27:00.000-07:00

Everyone has an opinion on Google, here's mine. Most people would admit Google is the most important entity on the web, but Facebook is beating Google in a lot of areas and my main question is this: Can Google Become The Next Facebook?

Can Google Become The Next Facebook?

Is it just me but didn't Google recently put everything on its main homepage except for Google Buzz? What's up with that? For heaven's sake, they even put the PacMan game in their logo for two days running... you would think some of the brightest minds on the planet would have figured out by now if Google truly wants to compete on the new memeyouyou web, they simply have to fully integrate all their programs into one homepage or at least place Buzz right there along side the Gmail button.

Google Buzz has all the ingredients to finally make Google your one-stop center on the web. It can be THE place for sharing not just your conversations but photos, videos, and everything else. Will it live up to its full potential and become a true Facebook killer?

The main reason Facebook is such a threat to Google is not because of the massive amount of users it has, but the amount of time those users stay on Facebook. If you just look at the Alexa comparison alone, Facebook users spend over 30 minutes on the site, which is triple the time users stay on Google. Facebook also beats Google in the bounce rate and page views per user. Could all the recent changes to their SERPs be, not only Google's answer to the upcoming Bing/Yahoo marriage, but a strong way of presenting a real challenge to Facebook's overwhelming stats.

Web users are lazy and they want a one-stop solution to meet all their needs. They want to connect with friends and family, they want to broadcast to the world, they want to search for something to buy, they want to be entertained... iGoogle should be that solution/center but I don't believe it quite passes the test because there is still no Google Buzz?

The main problem with Google is that it has no well-defined center which users could call their own. Perhaps I am reading this wrong, but have Google users fully bonded with iGoogle? Putting the privacy issues aside, I don't think they have embraced it in the same way web users have embraced their Facebook. What is missing are all the elements that are present in Google Buzz, but again we seem to have two disjointed programs rather than one solid rallying point.

For many web users, Facebook is the starting point of their web day... in many cases, it is probably the only place they go on the web religiously each day. Why? Because all their friends/family are on there and they don't want to miss out on any news or gossip. Not checking your Facebook page has become the ultimate faux pas of this new social media etiquette.

No one is going defeat or compete with Facebook you say?

Not so fast! Even empires come and go, a web site is even more fickle, especially if something more convenient comes along. Does anyone remember MySpace
which is still a very popular site but no longer has the numbers it once had. Facebook or even Google could suffer the same faith if something better comes along.

Google's main business is online search. It is its bread and butter which may have blinded those in charge from seeing the bigger picture. The bigger payday.

Google owns so many popular sites within the top 20 including YouTube and Blogger... if only they could better connect all their interests into one SuperSite or one SuperDevice for those thinking within the box. Online search can still be the main course but you need to corral all of these different users into one starting point or center with a couple of Billion users logging in each morning to start their web day. Just imagine the ad revenue potential that would generate for the big G.

Impossible you say, but not really, all the ingredients are there to form this SuperSite but it needs one big bang to get it going, to create a center of the web universe which will be Google.

Whenever I think about Google, I am reminded of a class 5 Hurricane with all these popular sites and programs swirling around it like mad, but there is no eye to this hurricane, at least not yet. Google needs a solid center to draw everything into focus and get everyone at the same starting point. Whether it is the Google search page, Google Buzz, Google Profiles, Gmail or iGoogle... but it all needs to be pulled together if Google wants to truly compete with Facebook for all the marbles.

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All opinions expressed in this piece are solely those of the author who has been following Google since it was a mere BackRub. He is also a full time search engine marketer who operates numerous niche sites, as well as two sites on Internet Marketing, where you can get valuable marketing tips for free: internet marketing tools or try here free marketing courses Titus Hoskins Copyright 2010. This article may be freely distributed if this resource box stays attached.

How To Rank Higher In Google's New Search Engines

2010-05-29T16:32:00.000-07:00

Recent changes to Google makes it seem like Google is one longer
one search engine but a combination of 6 or 7 search engines
all rolled into one. Your SEO efforts should now be geared to
ranking high in these new search engines as well as the traditional
organic search.

As an online marketer, April and May have been some of my hardest
months of marketing online. This was mainly due to the recent changes
within Google. Google Caffeine, changes to the whole SERPs interface
and how search results are now displayed.

It seems like a whole new Google. Especially with the new landing page
interface with the left side column and all those new search functions.
Not to mention the Wonder Wheel!

In most cases, with Google you have to wait until all the changes
fall into place. In my niches there were some changes - sites coming
out of nowhere to land on the first page, but for the most part,
things are returning to mornal.

However, there seems to be a switch to presenting more fluid or
passing results such as forum postings, discussions, Twitter and FaceBook
updates... so some thing have definitely changed.

Whether Google users will go to these deeper extra search results still
remains to be seen, but getting to the first page of Google has become
much easier in a lot of ways.

I have written another one of my longer article on this New Google
and some things you can do to keep your rankings or increase them.
Still very early days yet, but here are some of my findings:

How To Rank Higher In Google's New Search Engines

Helping You Succeed Online Since 2002!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

Keyword SEO Backlinks Checker

2010-05-22T05:57:00.000-07:00

Changing A Webhost Can Affect Your Rankings In Google

2010-05-12T08:33:00.000-07:00

Over the weekend, because I was having a lot of problems with
one of my web hosts, I simply had to change where the site
was hosted. Now, I usually wait till the last minute to change
webhosts because it's usually a lot of work and you can run
into unexpected problems.

This time around, the transfer went very smoothly, and my site
was only down for less than a day. I was feeling quite proud
of myself until...

...while checking my keywords today in Google I received
a total shock. My site had dispeared from the rankings.

Completely Gone!

Hopefully, this is just a temporary problem and the rankings
and site will again be listed in Google. They are still running
my PPC - so that's probably a good sign.

This has never happened to me before - I have changed hosts for
many websites in the past and my rankings in Google have never
been affected. One site back in 2007 was down for over a
week but the rankings still stayed in Google.

Hopefully this is only a temporary problem and once the site
is spidered again - it will be listed.

It is still in Yahoo and Bing, but Google has sent the majority
of my traffic so this is major set-back for this site.

Just points out to me, how crucial those top Google rankings
are for that site or any stie for that matter. Must get them back
as soon as possible.

Although I can't remember ever having a site disappear like that
so quickly. Often it is a matter of waiting to see what happens...

Site in question

Goolge Gives More Search Data To Webmasters

2010-04-28T15:11:00.000-07:00

How to Get Free Automatic Traffic From Google

2010-04-14T15:27:00.000-07:00

It sometimes surprises the heck out of me, the number of free
tools and resources Google makes available to webmasters and
online marketers like myself. There seems to be no end to the stuff
Google dishes out on a regular basis...

In my opinion some of the most helpful tools which Google
supplies have to do with keywords. Finding valuable keywords
which you can use to promote and market your site is the "key"
to online success - no pun intended.

Recently, I sent a very detailed newsletter to my weekly list,
talking about several of Google's keyword tools and how I use
them in the running of my 9 or 10 sites. This is only my experience
at marketing on the web and since I am and have been a full-time
marketer for over 5 years now - I must be doing something right.

But I want to make it perfectly clear - getting free automatic
traffic from Google has not come easy for me. I have put in many
10-15 hour days working at this web stuff. It takes a lot of
patience and a lot of persistence. I have never found that magic
bullet all the so-called gurus are always talking about... if there
ever was one I haven't found it.

Creating quality traffic that others will seek out and use is really
my one and only marketing tip. You have to create quality content
or its game over before you even get started. You have to create
something of value which the search engines can supply to their
customers.

Create that quality traffic and Google will come acalling sooner
or later.

Now, of course, there are certain ways to optimize all this quality
content so the search engines don't miss it. There are also many
ways to put your quality content in the best light possible, so it
rises to the top of the search engines.

For me, my marketing strategies always involve all the search engines,
but mostly Google. Over the years, I have worked out systems and methods
of online marketing that places my content on the first page of
Google. Again, no magic bullet, just plain hard work at getting
my content out there and noticed.

But it all starts with keywords...

If you want to find out some of the marketing techniques which
I use to get all that free quality automatic traffic from Google,
I have posted a rather long and detailed article on one of my
sites here:

How To Get Free Automatic Traffic From Google

But be warned, it does require a lot of hard work on your part, so
you will know up-front what's involved.

Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com
www.marketingtoolguide.com

Using The Google Search-Based Tool

2010-04-03T05:45:00.000-07:00

After Backlinks Your Most Important SEO Factor Is?

2010-03-31T04:29:00.000-07:00

I don't believe even Google would argue BACKLINKS is the most important ranking factor, but what comes next? After you have quality backlinks related to the theme of your site or blog in place - what's the next most important ranking factor you should have set-up?

Some SEO experts will dispute this point and say there are whole combinations of ranking factors you must get right to land on the first page in Google and stay there. They could be right, for Google is on record as saying there are over 200 ranking factors!

However, if you want to find the next important (what I believe to be the next important) ranking factor go here:

After Backlinks Your Most Important SEO Factor Is?

I discuss this factor and some other curious HTML techniques which have proven beneficial in getting high ranking for my web pages.

Simple Way To Build Backlinks via Google Alerts

2010-03-20T09:20:00.000-07:00

One of the simplest ways to build good qulaity backlinks is
to use Google Alerts. Every webmaster knows the key to
higher rankings are those all important one-way links
from blogs and sites thematically related to yours.

Some time ago, savvy webmasters realized one way to get
your site or blog into the whole Google INDEXING system
was to use Google Alerts. You simply create keyword alerts
and Google will email you whenever new links related to
your keywords appear anywhere on the web.

Once you get these new keyworded related links - you simply
visit the sites to see if you can get a backlink. Many times
these are blogs where you can leave your own comments with
a handy link back to your site.

Anyway, if you want to discover more about using Google Alerts
to build your links go here:

Simple Way To Build Backlinks via Google Alerts

Is List Building Still Relevant On Today's Web?

2010-02-26T08:56:00.000-08:00

What is Google Buzz & Should Online Marketers Use It?

2010-02-23T03:40:00.000-08:00

Google Buzz was introduced by Google very recently. Buzz is
a social media/connecting program which Google describes as:

"Start conversations about the things you find interesting.
Share updates, photos, videos and more with your friends."

Now Google didn't get to be the number one site on the web
by ignoring popular trends. They know Twitter, FaceBook...
are getting enormous amounts of traffic. Google simply wants
in on all this action. Like you would.

But will people actually use Google Buzz over programs like
Twitter or FaceBook? Many won't, but if you tag the "Google"
name onto anything, it will get a lot of users.

Google Buzz will be no different.

Actually, from a marketing perspective, using Google Buzz
is a no-brainer. You can easily tie it into your Google Profile
and you Gmail account. Quickly get your posts and tweets into
the Google index.

Google Buzz is just another way of promoting your site or products
on the web. Online marketers and webmasters would be foolish NOT
to use this free program or application coming from Google.

Find out more on it here:

All About Google Buzz

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

2010-02-10T11:59:00.000-08:00

It is sometimes very surprising to discover how much information Google gives out about how it indexes and ranks pages on the web. Of course, they don't give us the complete story for obvious reasons - but they do give webmasters tons of information on how to optimize their web pages for Google.

Perhaps, one of the best sources of information is Google's pdf download called "Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide". It does contain some valuable information, especially for the beginning webmaster or site builder - what to do and what NOT to do - if you want to rank high in Google for your chosen keywords.

Here' my post on this whole issue if you're interested in finding out more about what Google is saying...

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Should Apple Develop Its Own Search Engine?

2010-02-01T10:15:00.000-08:00

Apple, with the recent introduction of the iPad Tablet, has taken firm aim at capturing the mobile computing marketplace. But are they leaving money on the table by not developing their search engine? This suggestion is not as far-fetched as it might seem at first, mainly because Apple does have the resources to create or buy a search engine of its own. If Apple wants total control of its marketing funnels, then a developing a search engine would be the way to proceed.

The obvious fly in the ointment - Google!

How can Apple ever compete with Google in online search? One obvious reply, they don't have to. By placing their newly created search engine as default on all their computers and mobile devices, Apple could reap enormous returns just in this area alone. Besides, Apple could actually come up with a search engine that could compete with Google on the web - stranger things have happened.

Anyway, if you want to find out more about this interesting issue - click here:

Should Apple Develop Its Own Search Engine?

Is Article Marketing Still Effective In 2010?

2010-01-16T09:18:00.000-08:00

Make Your Home Business Mobile With Online Fax

2010-01-05T05:34:00.000-08:00

Many home business owners are switching over to Internet or online fax for countless reasons. Chief among those reasons is the fact that using online fax makes your home business completely mobile. Since online faxing is simply using your email system and your Internet access to send and receive all your faxes... you can do business anywhere.

This freedom of mobility or portibility is one of the main reasons online fax has become so popular, especially with small businesses. Add to this, you don't have to buy inks, toners or papers each month and you can quickly see why web faxing has really caught on with business owners. Plus, there is no need to purchase a fax machine or an extra fax phone line, so start-up costs are much lower.

Besides, online fax services are relatively cheap with the average monthly cost running at around $10, but there are much cheaper quality services you can buy so it pays to shop around.

If you want to find out more about how to make your home business more mobile - click the link below:

Make Your Home Business Mobile With Online Fax

Top Internet Marketing Tactics For 2009

2010-01-02T09:17:00.000-08:00

My Internet Marketing Strategies For 2010

2009-12-14T12:24:00.000-08:00

As a full-time online affiliate marketer I have a feeling 2010 is going to be one of those "Watershed Moments" in marketing on the web. There are several key factors currently in place or which will come into play early in the next year that could possibly change the whole ballgame.

First, we have the new FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Guidelines regarding Testimonials and Endorsements which came into effect on Dec. 1st of this
month. These new rules could have many long lasting ramifications for Internet marketers, regardless of what you're promoting on the web. Changes
that every online marketer should be aware of and be paying some attention to.

Second, we have the countless new changes within Google that's stirring up the pot, like never before. Real Time Search and Google Caffeine are just
two new things online marketers must also be paying attention to in their marketing. Google Caffeine, which is a major overhaul of Google's search engine could cause major fall-out for online marketers.

Anyway, if you want to find out more about these new changes and my own strategies for coping with them, just click this link:
My Internet Marketing Strategies For 2010

Are Search Engines Becoming Irrelevant?

2009-12-08T08:07:00.000-08:00

Gearing Up For Black Friday & Cyber Monday - Some Marketing Strategies

2009-11-21T06:04:00.000-08:00

The weekend and days after the Thanksgiving Holiday are
some of the best marketing days of the whole year. They
are also the best shopping days which every online marketer
should take full advantage of, if they want to bring up
their sales for the year.

For four or five years now, Black Friday and Cyber Monday
have always been my best marketing days on the web. Like most
affiliate marketers, I make special plans and run special
marketing campaigns during this time. Usually, conversion
rates increase significantly leading up to Christmas, so
spending more revenue on advertising just makes good
business sense.

There are certain things and tactics I use that may be of some
interest to others marketing on the web. Just a few marketing
tips on the things I do to increase my overall sales. I have
found you can't just want for things to happen, you have to
make things happen.

In other words, you have to be proactive and take steps to
make sure your sites and promoted affiliate products are
front and center during this holiday season. Make sure you
don't miss out on all the increased shopping and spending
which takes place on those days.

Anyway, if you're interested in finding out what my marketing
tactics are for Black Friday & Cyber Monday? Click this
link:

Internet Marketing Blog

Will New FTC Guidelines Affect Your Online Business?

2009-11-13T15:19:00.000-08:00

New Federal Trade Commission Guidelines regarding endorsements and
testimonials are coming onstream on 12/1/09. Are you ready for
them and what exactly will all this mean for your online marketing
and sites?

Depending on how these new guidelines and rules are enforced, your
business could be in the wrong and you don't even know it. Will
these new changes put your whole online marketing into jeopardy? Or is
this just much ado about nothing?

Well, many Internet Marketers are taking note and paying attention
to these potential "Game Changers" and preparing or adjusting
their sites ahead of time. Are you doing the same?

Can you afford to ignore these new rules and changes?

Click this link to find out more about this whole issue
and what it may mean for online marketers and site owners.
Also check out a possible solution in the form of a
FTC Toolkit - online marketers have an answer for everything.

Click Here: FTC Toolkit

Google Caffeine - Are You Ready For It?

2009-11-07T05:05:00.000-08:00

Google Caffeine caused a big stir last summer ('09)
when it was first announced. This is the codename
given to Google's next-generation search infrastructure
going forward.

But what doesn this mean for your site and for your
rankings?

Might mean major changes if your rankings are different
from Google's current index. Even a few place changes
on the first page results can result in big losses or gains,
as any professional online marketer can tell you.

Google has simply become that powerful when it comes to
online search. At the moment it is the only major
player, despite what you keep hearing about Bing, Yahoo...
Google is still the search engine that will return
the majority of your quality traffic.

Therefore, you really need to find out how Google Caffeine
will affect your site and online marketing. I have just
posted some information on Google's next search engine
here:

Google Caffeine

Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com

TweetGlide - How The Big Guys Market Online

2009-10-30T11:12:00.000-07:00

Does Google PageRank Count Anymore?

2009-10-24T06:41:00.000-07:00

Google has long since down-played the importance of PageRank
and has now removed it from Webmaster Tools. So is PageRank
still important and should you still bother with it? Find out
by reading this article...

Does Google PageRank Count Anymore?

PageRank is one of those things every webmaster notices and
wonders about... especially those webmasters who are fighting
some fierce keyword battles in very competitive niche markets.

Does having a high PR number really push your page to the
top for very competitive keywords in Google's index?

Guess the big question is this: if PageRank is only one of
200 ranking factors - how important is it in Google's whole
ranking system? Does that one factor make a difference to
your rankings?

Of course, the main reason Google is down-playing PR is because
of rampant link selling on the web. In the past, sites with
high PR7 or PR8 could earn big bucks by selling links. Google
has since lowered the PR on sites that were selling links -
how they can prove this is beyond me, but by lowering or
down-playing PageRank, Google has stopped a lot of obvious
link selling on the web.

Link selling and buying is Google's main business.

It is the backing to all their successes and anyone corrupting
their ranking system had to be dealt with, if Google wanted to
keep their rankings honest. A true reflection of what surfers
want to find when they click that link in Google search.

Can't blame Google for wanting to keep profits flowing and
their search index honest.

However, will Google totally get rid of PageRank? Why
don't they?

Many experts argue PageRank is simply too much a part of
Google's brand, they can't get rid of it. Google must keep it...
actually they should keep it and not show it at all. Mainly
because if they kept this little monster secret in the first place,
it could have saved them a lot of headaches.

But all this is pure speculation on my part - what webmasters
do when they have too much time on their hands. But the
whole PageRank issue still raises more concerns, even
while Google is down-playing it.

Find out why you should still be concerned with PageRank
here:

Does Google PageRank Count Anymore?

Should You Use Google Adsense On Your Web Pages?

2009-10-17T05:15:00.000-07:00

This week I received an email from Marlon Sanders,
which brought back the whole issue of whether or not
you should use Google Adsense on your web pages?
Sanders refers to a very popular thread going
on at the WarriorForum presented by a guy known
as "XFactor". We don't make this stuff up folks.
Honest!

Anyway, this very interesting and informative discussion
on Adsense got me thinking about Adsense and should
I really be using it on my web pages? Be informed
that I am a long time Adsense user and I really have
no plans of stopping.

However, this whole Warrior thread has me stirred up,
(takes a lot to stir me up these days!) and I had to
further discuss this tricky issue with my own newsletter
subscribers.

For me, Adsense serves a very good purpose and it is
not all about making money from Google, there are much
more profitable ways to do that. But using Adsense on
your own site or web pages is a judgment call on your
part - should you use Adsense or not?

If you're interested in finding out more and my own
opinions on this XFactor guy... click the link below:

Should You Use Google Adsense On Your Web Pages?

7 Proven Internet Marketing Strategies To Increase Your Sales

2009-10-13T05:15:00.000-07:00

I am constantly amazed by the number of people I meet on the web who have absolutely no marketing strategy whatsoever behind their site or online marketing.

I am even more amazed by the number of people who believe all they have to do is buy a domain, slap a few HTML pages together and place them on a web host somewhere. Then they expect everything else to just happen because their site or business is on the web!

It very rarely happens that way.

Creating an online business takes some planning and strategy if you want your site or business to succeed. You must have a plan of action, but most of all, you must have some fundamental marketing strategies behind your online site.

Now, I am speaking from experience here, because I also stumbled around on the web for 2 or 3 years like the people I described above. I foolishly thought just because I had a web site, I could do business on the web.

Well, not very much happened. I received very little traffic and very few sales. My site was going nowhere fast.

Fortunately, the theme I chose for my first site was Internet Marketing! I spent those first years studying all the online marketing material and information I could get my hands on. I gradually learned what to do and what not to do when it came to marketing online.

Mostly, I stumbled across some great Internet marketers like Marlon Sanders, Neil Shearing, Ken Evoy... true pioneers of online marketing. By studying those first class marketers and their marketing techniques I learned how it was all done.

Over time, I learned how to become very analytical with my sites and marketing. I started to create marketing strategies and put them into practice with my sites. This was all new to me because I have a background in education rather than marketing.

Now, I would like to share with you some of these marketing strategies and practices - just things I do and things I put into place which enable me to receive a modest but very comfortable online income.

So here are some things you can try:

1. Know Your Market Or Audience

First and foremost, you must know your market. Know who you will be targeting with your marketing? Know who will be buying your products or the affiliate products that you're promoting on the web?

I keep my eyes open for hot trends or products which everyone is buying. You can use programs like Google Trends to see which products are becoming hot. For example, in electronics, which products are on everyone's wish list? Is it laptops, PCs or netbooks? Are people buying smart phones, PDAs, Blu-ray Players or E-readers?

Just find out what products are hot? Find what products are being searched for in the search engines... do a check to see how many searches are made each month for your chosen product? Use WordTracker, or a free online site such as Seobook.com to see what products people are searching for on the web.

If there is a large demand/audience/market for your product or subject area, then you have a better chance of succeeding online. It is a simple marketing strategy that many first time marketers ignore - please don't. So choose your products to match the demand that is out there for them.

2. Buying Mindset

One of the key elements to selling stuff online is finding people at the exact moment they are ready to buy. What some marketers refer to as a "Buying Mindset". You find people who have their minds set on buying something when they reach your site.

This is much easier than you think!

A simple way I found to do this is to create sites which target keywords related to buying... such as gifts, coupons, bargains, deals and so on. For example, a site on wedding gifts will obviously attract customers who are interested in buying wedding gifts.

To give you a concrete example from my own site, I have a section on "Corporate Business Gifts" which offers special deals/coupons on corporate business gifts... someone searching for that phrase is more likely to purchase a gift. Just simple reasoning, but it works wonders for selling stuff online.

In the Info-Product market, many Gurus create a "Buying Mindset" by offering special bonuses and discounts if someone buys from their links. Another simple way to boost your sales.

3. Target Special Holidays

Along the same lines, I like targeting times when people feel obligated to buy. Using special holidays like Christmas, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day... in your marketing can be very effective.

There are occasions such as anniversaries, birthdays, weddings, graduations... when people feel they must buy something for a loved one or special friend. Targeting those occasions with your marketing can be extremely effective... people are looking for a birthday gift, a graduation gift or a wedding gift - you simply help them find what they're looking for.

On one of my sites, I target the "Back To School" market which has proven very lucrative since I market high-ticket affiliate items such as laptops, PCs and netbooks.

4. Place All Your Emphasis On Supplying Information

The majority of people searching on the web are looking for information - first and foremost - even those who are ready to buy. They want information on the subject or product they're searching for on the web. It should be your marketing strategy to give them this information.

All of my sites are based on supplying information to my visitors.

If you give solid information they will be pleased and take note of your site and a few will buy the products you recommend, but the information must come first.

Even popular selling sites like Amazon give loads of consumer information and feedback while selling their products on the web. Consumers want information on the products they're buying. Supply this information and you will sell more products.

5. Target Long Tail Keyword Phrases In Your SEO

If you're selling stuff on the web, it is extremely important that you have a SEO marketing strategy. You must use the search engines to bring in those quality visitors and potential customers to your site. You must rank high in the search engines for your chosen keywords.

I have found SEO is not easy but it is also not that hard to do. In order to rank high you must be persistent, have a six month or yearly plan... work at it over time, even years to build up your rankings. Most webmasters won't have the patience or resources to stick to a long-term strategy for months, even years before they start ranking for popular, well-searched for keywords.

However, there's another quicker and faster way to get quality traffic from the search engines. Instead of targeting highly competitive popular keywords, you target longer keyword phrases that have little competition. For example, someone searching for a particular brand and model is more likely to buy then someone searching for a general topic. Someone searching for "cars" compared to someone searching for "2007 Ford Mustang Shelby GT" - the last phrase will have very few searches but it can produce more targeted buyers.

6. Build Lists of Interested Buyers

One of my most effective marketing strategies is building simple lists of people who want to receive further information on the subject or product they're considering buying. The web is a very temporary process since most people spend less than a few seconds on most sites. So it is important that
you try and get them to opt-in to your mailing list, join your Twitter account or FaceBook group... and so on.

You must build lists of people who are interested in finding out more about your subject or product. This way you will have repeat visitors to your site and you will get the opportunity to sell to them again and again. If you build a trusting relationship with these contacts, they will respect your opinions and suggestions.

List building can have a very positive effect on your sales numbers so it is one marketing strategy you should definitely try if you're not already using lists.

7. Sell Things You Can ONLY Buy Online

This marketing strategy is so simple - it's almost laughable. But I quickly found selling stuff that can only be bought online do much better than selling stuff that can be bought at your local Walmart. If buyers can only find it online, then you will have a much better chance of selling it to them.

Therefore, marketing unique products or specialty items, which are only available online can prove very lucrative. This is a very simple marketing strategy but also a very effective one. Just try it.

There are no doubt, countless other marketing strategies you can use. But using some or all of the ones listed above will help increase your online sales. Again, just try them and see for yourself.

The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous websites. If you want to find out more marketing strategies and selling on the
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Online Fax - An Essential Service For Your Home Business

2009-10-07T05:27:00.000-07:00

More and more people are turning to home businesses as a means
of weathering these tough economic times. One vital element of
any home business should be an online fax service. There are several
reasons why online faxing is smart move for any small business owner.

I have just written a short informative article explaining those
reasons and why every business should be at least considering
Internet Fax. This is a simple form of "cloud computing" that
many businesses, big and small, are now using to handle all
their faxing needs.

Online fax is probably the wave of the future, it will be the
way all faxing is done in years to come. The old fax machine is
not dead but it's on life support!

If you have a home business or is thinking of starting one, click
this link to discover why you should have an online fax service...

Online Fax - An Essential Service For Your Home Business

The Tricky Issue Of Duplicate Content And What Google Says About It

2009-09-25T08:33:00.000-07:00

Being a full-time online means you have to keep a close watch on how
Google is ranking pages on the web... one very serious concern is the
whole issue of duplicate content. More importantly, how does having
duplicate content on your site affect your keyword rankings in Google
and the other search engines.

Now, recently it seems that Google is much more open about just how
it ranks content. I say "seems" because with Google there are years
and years of mistrust when it comes to how they treat content and webmasters.
Google's whole "do as I say" attitude leaves a bitter taste in most
webmasters's mouths. Many have had more than enough of this attitude
coming from Google and ignore what Google and their pundits say.

I have long learned you have to rise above your own personal feelings
or beliefs with it comes to running an online business. Never let your
emotions affect your business. Go with the flow and keep your mouth
shut if you like taking those trips to the bank. But Google has been
very kind to me on the whole, they have driven me nuts more times than
I can count, but overall I am very grateful and pleased with my dealings
with Google so I try to do everything I can to please them.

Regardless, whether you love or hate Google, there's no denying they
are King of online search and you must play by their rules or leave
a lot of online revenue on the table.

Now as for the whole issue of Duplicate Content, Google offers up
some much needed advice on the subject. I have gathered some information
and videos coming directly from Google and placed it in the link
below. This is information coming from Matt Cutts and Greg Grothaus on the subject of duplicate content. If you're worried or just want to find out more on this subject go here:

The Tricky Issue Of Duplicate Content & What Google Says About It

Back To Work - How To Boost Your Traffic & Sales

2009-09-08T05:14:00.000-07:00

This is probably the saddest time of any year - September!

Getting back to work after a long hot enjoyable summer in
the sun is a real downer. No matter who you are. Still takes
some getting used to really working hard again.

Well, lets not get too carried away.

Work for me these days is getting out of bed, grabbing a
cup of hot tea and booting up my trusty Toshiba laptop to
check my overnight sales and traffic. I am still selling
$1000's of affiliate products from my different websites
that I run... things have slowed down because of the
bad economy in the States but everything is still very
manageable.

Christmas is just around the corner and that has always
been my most lucrative time selling anything on the web.
Even in bad times, Santa still has to put in an appearance,
he's the greatest cash generator ever invented.

But that's a little ways off yet - right now, I am boosting
up my traffic numbers and sales by going back to work.
There are countless things I do to boost those traffic
numbers and I have listed them in my latest blog post
here:

How To Boost Your Traffic & Sales

Hope you will find them helpful. They work for me and
my sites - they should also work for yours.

Kind Regards,
Titus

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How to Find Profitable Niche Markets/Sites

2009-08-17T10:26:00.000-07:00

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Perhaps one of the hardest tasks in actually earning a living
from the web is finding good niche markets/products that will
return a profit. It's not that hard to do, but you do have to
do a lot of research unless you want to waste all your time
and money promoting a product or site that's just not viable.

Been there, done that.

Around 10 years ago, when I first started exploring how to make
an income from the web - I wasted two or three years promoting
one "get-rich-quick" scheme after another. You have probably seen
these opportunities which promises immediate riches by sponsoring
and selling a miracle product. You get your own branded template
site and you spend your time recruiting new prospects into selling
the same miracle product you're selling, these recruits are placed
under you in some kind of silly matrix... please stay away
from such foolishness.

And be extremely careful of what products you promote or market on
the web. Unless you already have your OWN products; choosing the
right products and services to promote and market will make all
the difference to your bottom line. So you have to choose wisely.

But how do you find profitable niches?

First, keep you eyes and ears open, what are the popular products
your friends and colleagues are all buying? What are the hot
products? What products are people buying online right now?

Take for example - Netbooks!

They have only been around for a couple of years, introduced by
Asustek in the fall of 2007 and now all the major laptop makers
Dell, HP, MSI, Lenovo... are all making netbooks.

Why?

Because netbooks are hot products and it can be a very lucrative
market even for affiliate marketers like myself. Now I have gone
and broken one of the unwritten rules of online marketing. Never
tell anyone what products you're promoting and which ones are
bringing in the revenue because it just creates competition and
thousands of people will start selling the same products.

However, I love competition. Some of the keywords I target have
over a 100 million pages competing for the same keywords. Getting
on that first page of results in Google keeps you on your game.
It keeps you on your SEO toes!

Besides it doesn't take a genius to realize the best netbooks are selling like hotcakes right now.

But the real trick is to find niche markets/keywords that have
little competition and then it is much easier to get your site and
keywords ranked high in all the search engines. Do some serious
keyword research in a niche market before you start building a
site around it.

Many obscure products and niche markets are still virtually
untouched. You have to find these and develop an authority site
on them. But how do you find these profitable niches?

Again, keep your eyes open, what do you buy online? What would
you find comfortable selling online? It's best to pick something
you already have an interest in - take your favorite hobby and
find products to sell or promote. Whether it be handy gardening
tools, wine making kits, cooking utensils and the list goes on.

There are many places to find niche products - try newspapers,
magazines, even your TV... what's being sold in the advertisements?
In other words, what products are companies spending their
advertising money on?

This is also one of the most important keys I use for finding
profitable niche products online. What are individuals spending
their advertising dollars on - month after month? If people are
consistently spending money on advertising (even Pay Per Click)
more than likely this is a profitable niche.

Then I check out their sites - if it's mostly affiliate products
they're promoting and selling - then I know this is probably a
viable niche market.

Next I thoroughly research the keyword competition related to
this market. I personally use Keyword Elite but there are
many keyword research programs and software on the market.
If the competition is not too stiff, then this would be the
major factor whether or not I enter this niche.

Another consideration, I thoroughly check out the top sites
which are ranked in Google for this niche. How well are they
designed? Are they unique? How old are they? How many backlinks
do they have? Can I do better? Can I compete?

Next, you have to be careful when checking out the affiliate
commissions you can earn from promoting any niche market?
Are these products featured in Amazon? Are they offered thru
Commission Junction or the other major affiliate networks?

Is there a possibility of getting an exclusive private affiliate
deal with the maker of the products or services? Don't laugh,
this is one of the keys to earning the huge incomes on the web.
Many companies, especially small start-ups will give you lucrative
deals if you promote their products, some will even give you
residual income for the life of the client you have referred.

Don't leave this area unexplored because it can be the key to
finding really lucrative profitable niche markets on the web. Many
times once you or your site has a dominant presence in a niche
market (your site is ranked high for all the important keywords)
companies will approach you to sell their products. Keep these
private deals on the table and you might be surprised at the
response you get.

Besides the affiliate route, a more profitable way to proceed
is to sell the products yourself thru a "drop ship" company or
service. Or you can buy the resell rights to a product and sell
it yourself on your site. I personally stay away from "actually"
selling stuff on the web because that usually brings in a whole
lot of other issues such as customer support, refunds, etc.
I like affiliate marketing because all the buying and selling
are done for me. All I have to do is supply the traffic and
potential customers to my affiliate links and let them do the rest.

Regardless, you have to pick a niche market that will return
enough of a profit to make it worth your while. I made this mistake
once by creating a site on How To Clean LCD Screens - the
site was somewhat successful, I did and do sell a couple of these
LCD cleaning kits a day but unfortunately I only get less than a
dollar for each one I sell thru my Amazon affiliate links.

http://www.cleanlcds.com/

The product price is simply not high enough to give me a good
return. I believe my major reason for designing the site
was to also sell a big ticket item like Big Screen LCD TVs
but I didn't sell many of these mainly because I believe
few people buy such a big item without actually seeing
the picture quality of the TV in person before buying it.

You really do have to find products people like buying online.

One simple way to do this is to only promote products that
are ONLY sold online, therefore people simply have to buy them
on the web. Another solution is to promote products which have
exclusive online coupons and deals for their affiliates. You would
be surprised how many major companies like Dell, HP, Lenovo...
offer these special online deals. Customers will seek out these
deals and buy online - hopefully from your affiliate links.

Finding popular products can be done, here are a couple of free
sites I like to use to help me find those niche products.

Google Trends

Google Trends

This site will show you which products are popular and getting
a lot of search traffic compared to others. It will also show
you how much news/buzz a certain product is receiving... all
important points to consider when choosing a product to promote.

Perhaps one of the best sites for finding profitable niche
products is from Microsoft:

Detecting Online Commercial Intention

http://adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/

Which tells you the Probability someone will buy when using
certain keywords or even a site. This is a good way to check
to see if your keywords have commercial value - will people
buy it? Use this tool consistently, and it will help you
find your profitable keywords and niche markets.

Now if you're are a complete novice at online marketing, then
you will need extra help at finding your own profitable niche
markets. One solution I always recommend is SBI. It is more
expensive than other hosting services but you get a tons of
marketing tools and programs along with your site building
system.

One of these is the whole "BrainstormIt" system which will
guide you step-by-step to finding a profitable niche market to
build your site around. I have not found any system more
comprehensive than this one - again, it's more expensive
but well worth the money.

Site Build It with BrainstormIt

Anyway hope this discussion has given you some help in finding
your own profitable niche products to promote on the web.
Find the right ones, and you will never look back!

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

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Learn How Using SPNbabble Can Help Web Professionals Save Time

2009-08-05T05:14:00.000-07:00

SiteProNews Launches SPNbabble, a Micro-Blog for Web Professionals
Copyright © 2009 Titus Hoskins

SiteProNews, a well established website geared towards webmasters,
has recently introduced a new micro-blogging service called SPNbabble.

Describing itself as "Micro-Blogging For Web Professionals" - SPNbabble.com lets you share your ideas with friends and colleagues. It also incorporates such popular services as Twitter and Facebook. To find out more about this interesting new platform, Bizwaremagic.com did an interview with Mel Strocen, CEO of the Jayde Online Network, which runs numerous websites, including SiteProNews and SPNbabble.

1. Lets cut to the chase, why should anyone use your micro-blogging program, SPNbabble?

The main reason, and the reason we created SPNBabble, is that it
provides social media marketers with a means to post to multiple
micro-blogging sites simultaneously. Currently, SPNbabble members
can configure their accounts so that a post on SPNbabble will also
appear on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Plurk, Tumblr and 5 other
micro-blogging sites. If time is a factor in your marketing endeavors,
then using SPNbabble is a no-brainer.

2. Not everyone is familiar with micro-blogging, could you go
into more detail and fully explain how your program works or
functions?

Well, anyone who uses Twitter will find SPNbabble very similar
in features and functionality. For those unfamiliar with micro-blogging,
it's basically a concise form of blogging. Most micro-blogging
sites, including SPNbabble, restrict blog posts to 140 characters.
It takes some practice to get your message across in shortened form,
but for busy web professionals less is more.

Micro-blogging is ideal for getting short snippets of useful information
out to a potential audience of millions of micro-bloggers. Short blog
posts can be about news, articles, products, services, programs, links
to interesting sites, what you happen to be doing at that moment,
or about almost anything else you care to share with others.

3. Can you elaborate on the SPNbabble Community Toolbar and how it works?

The SPNBabble toolbar was created using the Conduit.com custom
toolbar creation service. Conduit allows site owners to create
their own branded toolbars in minutes. We selected from some of
the standard components that Conduit offers, but component
choices literally number in the thousands.

The toolbar is available for the Internet Explorer, Firefox and
Safari web browsers and can be downloaded in seconds from

http://spnbabble.ourtoolbar.com/

In addition to common toolbar features like search, weather, radio,
pop-up blocking and a drop down link menu, the SPNBabble toolbar
also offers more unique features like online chat between
SPNbabble members, a RSS feed reader for SPNbabble posts, a
Twitter post reader, an email notifier that supports virtually all
webmail providers and most POP3 providers, and a Message Box
that enables us to send messages to members in real time to which
they can respond.

4. How much does it cost to use SPNbabble?

There is no cost. SPNBabble is FREE to use.

5. Seems like everyone has gone Twitter mad, can you give your
views on Twitter and how it is connected with your new program?
How is it different from using Twitter?

Twitter is an acquired taste. Either you immediately grasp its
value or you find it to be a total waste of time. For many
people, the latter view is based on their personal tastes and
preferences. They see no real benefit in reading about what
other Twitter users had for breakfast, where they are going or
what they are doing.

The trick, of course, is to follow the message posts of people
with whom you have something in common. Finding those people
on Twitter isn't that easy or intuitive, but there are Twitter
related services that can help you find people whose message
posts you might find interesting. I personally like Mr Tweet
(http://mrtweet.com), but there are a number of other similar
services that assist in pinpointing Twitter members with similar
interests.

Like Twitter, SPNbabble allows members to follow each other's
message posts, invite their friends, add custom promotional
backgrounds, direct message other members, search message
posts and setup groups devoted to specific interests.

Unlike Twitter, SPNbabble caters more specifically to business
professionals versus the general public, although no one is
prevented from using the service.

6. What types of Data or RSS feeds does your program support?
Do you have a Wordpress Plug-in?

SPNBabble supports RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom data feeds. If
you use a RSS feed enabled browser or one of the many available
RSS feed readers, you can browse and read message posts in the
SPNBabble public timeline without actually visiting the site.

SPNBabble also offers a Wordpress blog plug-in. Details can be
found at the Wordpress Plugin Directory:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/spnbabble/

In brief, the plugin, once installed on a Wordpress based blog, allows
a blogger to select the blog posts he/she wants converted to
micro-blog notices and automatically added to SPNbabble and
the other micro-blog services SPNBabble supports.

7. Spam is an ever constant problem for every site on the web,
but blogging sites with comments are especially vulnerable, what
measures have you put into place for SPNbabble or is this a
non-issue?

Spam notices are definitely an area of concern, for SPNbabble
and other micro-blog sites.

The question is how does one define spam on a micro-blogging
service. In our case, we define spam as notices that are
inappropriate (adult, inflammatory, illegal, etc.) or repetitive
and identical. We are looking at ways of automating the spam
monitoring process, but currently notices are manually scanned
and removed as necessary. In extreme cases of abuse, members
are banned and all of their message posts removed.

8. In a slightly different vein, not everyone reading this will
be aware that you're the CEO of the Jayde Network, which has
many popular sites such as SiteProNews, GoArticles, ExactSeek...
Plus, you also co-founded the iEntry network, which also runs
some very popular sites on the web. How do you see SPNbabble
fitting into these comprehensive online networks?

My connection with iEntry ended 8 years ago. iEntry has thrown
its own hat into the micro-blogging ring with Twellow.com, a
comprehensive directory of Twitter users broken down into
hundreds of categories, and has been successful in popularizing
Twellow very quickly.

We chose to go in a different direction and provide our
core audience - webmasters and site owners - the
means to market and communicate across multiple
social media sites. It's a service that I personally
find useful as a marketer and entrepreneur and one that I
believe will strike a chord with other web professionals as
the micro-blogging phenomenon continues to grow.

Obviously, we plan to promote the service across all of our
websites and we are also approaching other companies in the
social media arena to form mutually beneficial partnerships.

9. What are your goals and objectives for SPNbabble? Where
would you like to see it in a few years?

My main goal for SPNBabble is to make it a one-stop destination
for anyone interested in effectively utilizing the social media
bandwagon for meaningful and profitable communication.

Specifically, I would like to improve, and add to, SPNbabble's
feature set. That might entail tying into additional micro-blogging
sites, providing additional search functions, adding a directory of
categorized users, notice ranking and/or voting, etc. I'd also like
to see SPNbabble eventually added to desktop social media
applications like TweetDeck, Twhirl, Twitteroo, Bitter, and others.

...

For more information and to join SPNbabble Click Here:

SPNbabble.com

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Ouch Google That Hurts!

2009-07-20T03:37:00.000-07:00

Just posted this article on my site about recent changes within
Google which affecting my keyword rankings. Something has shifted.
Article marketing seems to be on the way out - social bookmarking
sites seems to be in.

We will probably have to wait until the dust settles until we
find out for sure what is going on, but here are my own
finding and observations on these changes within Google.

I have always taken SEO tactics and techniques with a large grain
of salt. Which is probably the wrong approach since those tactics
have made it possible for me to enjoy working full-time on the web.

However, recent changes within Google has me deeply concerned
about the effectiveness of many of those old SEO tactics which
I have been using for years. On here, you must quickly adjust
or go the way of the Do-Do bird!

So here are some of my latest findings on some changes within
Google and how they (MAY) affect your keyword rankings. Hope
these findings will be of some help to your own online marketing...

Ouch Google That Hurts! (How Recent Changes Within
Google May Affect Your Rankings)

How To Automate Your Internet Marketing

2009-07-11T07:53:00.000-07:00

BWMagic's Internet Marketing News!

.......
Contents:

o How To Automate Your Online Business

.......

Being a former teacher, the summer months are really
my holidays. I simply do less in the summer since
I have family members visiting or the weather is simply
too nice to spend on the computer all day.

But that doesn't mean I don't earn a daily income from
the web, even while I am on vacation. This is mainly
due to the fact that I have automated every aspect
of running my online business/sites. I have programs
in place which run my sites and marketing while I am
taking it easy.

Computers, the web and online marketing are ideal
for automation. Setting everything up does require
some work, but once you have all your ducks lined up,
everything runs smoothly on its own.

Here's an article where I explain how to automate
your online sites or business. Hope it is of some
help to you.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Feature Article
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

How To Automate Your Internet Marketing

Automation makes running any online business a total breeze.
More importantly, only by automating your whole online
business will you achieve the freedom and lifestyle that
makes Internet Marketing so attractive to millions
of people worldwide.

The Internet is tailor made for automation. It can retrieve,
process and transmit data at a lightning speed. It can keep
track of billions of pieces of information on a single server.
In reality, the whole system is one giant automated machine
run by countless servers and an ever decreasing number of wires
as the web goes wireless.

And then there is the computer - your main business automation
tool. The computer is the perfect automation tool. It can handle
incoming data, process files, and dispense information all
within the blink of an eye. Computers are the real workhorses
of our modern age -- they do most of the work for us. They are
so important, running any competitive online or off-line
business now without a computer would be hard to imagine,
not to mention foolhardy.

Combine these two key elements with automated marketing
software and running any business on automation will indeed
seem like a total breeze. It all comes down to numbers, with
the Internet and computers, you can handle, sell and process a
million units as easy as you can handle ten units.

Computers and the web make these large numbers possible.
They make marketing online not only viable but also very
lucrative. Whole automated marketing systems can be put
into place, bringing in revenue automatically. Virtual auto
income machines can be created.

Let's look closely at some examples and discover what you need
in order to put these automated marketing systems to work for
you.

Let's say you have a digital information product that you wish
to sell online. Your automated marketing system will probably
start with the acquisition of a domain name www.widgets-info.com
and construction of an online website where customers
can purchase and download your product.

Designing your own site and sales letter will take some work
and you must know what you're doing or all the automation in
the world will be pointless because if your online site doesn't
convert traffic into sales, it's game over. Your site or online
business MUST convert your visitors into paying customers.

Many marketers hire or get someone else to design their profit
generating sites for them. You may have to pay highly for a good
professional quality site and high quality sales copy but it is
the key to the success of your whole marketing operation.

A well optimized website will pull in free targeted traffic from
the different search engines automatically. A high quality sales
letter or copy will then convert this traffic into sales and income
automatically. To increase sales many marketers buy their traffic
from Pay-Per-Click advertising such as those services offered by
Google Adwords or Yahoo's Overture.

Once you have targeted traffic hitting your website... all
your marketing procedures can be automated. In most cases,
with simple software programs that will run your online business
on auto-pilot.

Most professional marketers capture the contact information
of their visitors. They follow up with the grand daddy of all
automated systems -- the autoresponder. Studies have consistently
shown, it usually takes from 6 to 7 follow-up emails before a
customer buys your product. The autoresponder is one automated
tool you must use with your online business.

Many marketers offer ecourses or free newsletters as a way of
automatically keeping in touch with customers or potential
customers. An autoresponder can draw visitors back to your
site and marketing page again and again, to hear your sales
pitch. It is the vital element in your automated marketing
system.

Automation of your whole checkout system can be done with
programs like ClickBank, PayPal or 1ShoppingCart... these
automated checkout systems will take your customers through
the checkout process and can deliver digital products or
software downloads immediately.

Here Are Some Automation Tips:

* Use autoresponders for follow-ups and building contact lists

* Use automated checkout systems like ClickBank or 1ShoppingCart

* Use simple online videos to explain complex tasks or products

* Use Google Sitemaps to automatically index and update your pages

* Use organic SEO tactics like keyword rich articles to get traffic

* Use RSS feeds to automatically syndicate your content and articles

* Use RSS feeds to automatically build content and webpages

* Use datafeeds to automatically update your products or content

* Use audio testimonials to warm up visitors (the net is a cold place)

* Use a well defined Frequently Asked Questions page or pages

* Use Paypal or a similar system for paying your online business bills

(hosting, advertising, promotions) and for receiving payments/commissions

- this way you can be away from your business for long periods

of time and everything will still run smoothly, on auto-pilot

Once all these elements have been put into place: your
targeted traffic, your website with sales page and checkout
cart, your autoresponders with follow-up messages, your delivery of
purchased products, and a payment system to pay your bills/receive
your commissions or payments... you will have constructed
an automated system that will deliver sales and income 24/7/365.
There are countless websites and businesses on the web doing
exactly that - automatically running and earning money for
their owners.

Another popular online business model uses affiliate programs
and advertising such as Google Adsense as their main sources
of income, instead of offering products for sale.

These automated marketing systems are set up in the same way.
Only no actually selling is done on the site... these sites
pre-sell by giving away valuable information, product reviews,
or comparison shopping tips to their visitors. Then and only
then are potential customers sent to affiliate sites to make
their purchases. With the affiliate (site owner) getting a
percentage of the selling price for having referred the customer
or client. Some great third party affiliate programs are Commission
Junction, LinkShare, Shareasale, and Amazon.

This automated affiliate/advertising website business offers the
most freedom and the least headaches. It is an ideal automated
business system that if done right can be extremely lucrative for
those who put these automated marketing systems into place.

It can be pure perfection where automation meets the Internet,
computers and the marketing process. It can be a marvel to behold
and a complete joy to experience in action. For those savvy
marketers who have perfected this system it spells only one
thing - freedom. And a whole lot of it!

...
The author is a full-time online marketer who has numerous niche
websites, including two sites on Internet Marketing. For the latest
and most effective web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools
If you're trying to start a web business and don't know where to begin,
why not try these excellent free training manuals and videos:
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Copyright Titus Hoskins. This article may be freely distributed
if this resource box stays attached.

...

Kind Regards,
Titus

http://www.bizwaremagic.com

What do you do when Google doesn't do what you want them to do?

2009-06-19T05:36:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard of the DoDo Bird?

Well, all kidding aside, if you're not listed in Google for
your chosen keywords - you will probably become extinct, at
least online!

Google is King of online search, it's pretty unlikely anyone
or any search engine will dethrone it any time soon. Bing may
have a chance at stealing some search traffic away but a full
blown overthrow of Google is highly exaggerated and highly unlikely.

For now and for the immediate future, Google is still King of
the jungle.

So it is extremely important that you can get Google to do what
you want them to do in regards to listing your site and keywords
in their index. Higher to the top of the first page, the better
you will do.

Create great content and optimize your site for it in Google and
usually everything else falls into place. However, sometimes
Google can get a bit testy - what's a search engine without a
few problems? What's life without a few problems?

Extremely pleasant!

Over the years I have pretty much figured out enough about
Google search in order to get my major keywords listed on
the first page in their results. Sometimes in the top spot
but mostly in the top 5 listings.

Now we are not talking about very competitive keywords that
get 1000's of searches each day. Usually keyword phrases that
get from 10 to 100 daily searches - believe me, all this quality
traffic adds up very quickly.

For the most part, Google has been very stable, that is: my
keywords have remained on the first page for years. Of course,
I am constantly creating new links with article marketing,
unique content on my sites, ebooks, videos, software downloads...
all providing link bait so that webmasters naturally link
to my content because they believe their visitors will benefit
by visiting my sites.

However, recently all is not well in Google Land, for some
puzzling reason or reasons - two of my most popular keywords
have been bouncing like they're attached to a bungee cord.
Popping in and out of Google's first page results. One week
they're on the first page, next week they're down to around
#50.

At first, this didn't worry me... Google was probably doing
another one of their endless updates to their Algorithm (whole
set of rules and math stuff they use to rank pages/keywords)
and things usually settle back to normal in a few days or so.

Not this time, those competitive keywords have been erractic
for months - and this after being very stable for over 3 or 4
years. This has totally unsettled me to say the least.

What do you do when Google doesn't do what you want them to do?

I have been trying to figure out what's going on with these
bouncing keywords? I have some possible reasons why these keywords
are bouncing but with Google it is extremely hard to pin-point
what exactly is happening... guess if we knew all of Google's
secrets we would all be sitting pretty high in the rankings.

Anyway, I have placed my whole investigation and findings in
an article that may or may not be of help to you. Again, until
I firmly pin-point my mistake and discover exactly what's happening,
this keyword ranking issue in Google is still open.

I even went so far as to contact Matt Cutts in his blog about
it but, of course, I knew I wouldn't get an answer. And this was
rather foolish of me, but I thought Google's recent openness with
webmasters would give me some information of what's going on
in my case. It also shows my sense of frustration with those
bouncing keywords and I will try anything to solve the problem.

Anyway, here's the keyword situation in more detail and what
I (believe) to be causing this erratic bouncing of my keywords
in Google.

SEO Mistake

Regards,
Titus
http://www.bizwaremagic.com/

Can Microsoft's Bing Beat Google?

2009-06-06T04:48:00.000-07:00

As a full-time online marketer I keep my eyes peeled to anything
new that hits the web. Especially if it has anything to do with
getting quality web traffic. My online income depends mainly on
getting that quality traffic from the different search engines but
mainly from Google which presently has control of roughly 70% of
the web's search traffic.

Now when any new search engine comes along, I have to
take a very close look at it to see if it will give Google
any serious competition. Most of these new search engines
won't have a chance in hell of competing with Google - excuse
my language but I think I needed to get this point across
strongly to you.

However, the new search engine from Microsoft called Bing
could possibly give Google some serious competition.
The chances are still unlikely because of Google's strong
standing, but Bing should be watched closely to see if
it cuts into Google's search numbers.

Anyway, this is another one of those wordy research pieces
looking at this issue... besides if you have a site you
should already be optimizing it for Bing. Never know this
search engine could take off, especially when you consider
Microsoft can throw a lot of money at promoting/advertising
it.

I am already seeing some traffic from Bing in my different
sites' log stats so they have my attention. They should also
have your attention...

Anyway here is the article:

Can Microsoft's Bing Beat Google In The Search Engine Wars?

New Search Engines - Do We Have A Google Killer?

2009-05-19T05:52:00.000-07:00

Likely not, but the new crop of search engines does present
some very intriguing alternatives to Google. Not that
Google has anything to really worry about since its
share of global search is constantly rising and it now has
over 72% of the all-important U.S. search market.

But can Google remain static and still keep those
search numbers rising... no. It has to adapt and
change with the times. Google is doing exactly that;
we are now seeing this recently with the new "show options"
button at the top of Google SERPs.

Still, can any of the new search engines give Google some
real competition? Can any of these new kids on the block
turn out to be a true Google killer?

One thing history has shown us, everything and everyone
has its day and then fades into history. If you think
Google is any different, you're dead wrong. Google's time
in the spotlight will also pass and we will have another
new search engine that we will also swear will last forever.

The real question remains, is there a potential Google Killer
in the current offerings of search engines debuting on the web...
can any of them truly take on the mighty Google.

Click here to find out: New Search Engines - Do We Have A Google Killer?

Why Twitter Is Becoming So Important

2009-05-10T12:34:00.000-07:00

o Why Twitter Is Becoming So Important

Twitter is becoming increasingly important for
anyone marketing on the web. As a list building
tool it simply can't be beat. It is attracting
millions of users and growing quickly - ranked
50th in terms of traffic by Alexa.

Twitter is posed to become such a major force - you
just can't ignore it.

How did such a simple glorified "text message" thingie
get to be so big, so fast.

And the fun haven't even started yet!

Recently, WebProNews reported Twitter will now be
searchable and the content in the links in your messages
will be indexed and ranked. They will have an algorithmic
ranking system much like the one Google has to rank it's
index.

"According to CNET, Twitter's new VP of Operations Santosh
Jayaram says that Twitter Search, which currently searches
only the text of Twitter posts, will soon crawl links included
in tweets, and index content from those pages."

This is major news because we could potentially see a
True Rival for Google. Search engines can start
from anywhere and a souped-up communication tool is a good
a place as any. Besides, isn't online search only a way
of passing along what you heard through the grapevine -
basically sums it up.

The only real puzzle regarding Twitter is why haven't Google
snapped it up already. Some one is definitely sleeping on the job.
Maybe it's just the recession or other popular takeovers like
YouTube are proving too hard to monetize... doubt that very much
because YT has now become virtually obliterated with Adsense ads...
it's even hard to watch the videos anymore.

Can't imagine what a Google owned Twitter would look like.
Each tweet could come with a text ad? A ballot box? A vote?

Of course, this is all pure speculation, but stranger things
have happened on the web. Google buying Twitter would be a
slight yarn.

Guess, the real question should be: if not Google, than who?

Or maybe Twitter will grow armor, hang tough and expand into
a truly online democratic search engine. Then take on Google
in a few years...

But for right now, Twitter has become important in its own
right... find out more about Twitter here:

Twitter's Importance Is Growing

Or:

Kind Regards,
Titus
www.bizwaremagic.com

Should You Use Videos In Your Online Marketing?

2009-05-02T06:06:00.000-07:00

Videos are everywhere on the web. It's no wonder that
marketers have taken advantage of this growing trend in
using videos to get their message across.

But the question remains - should you use videos in your
own online marketing or promotions?

Most savvy marketers would say it would be "foolish" for
any webmaster or marketer NOT to use videos in their
promotions. Videos are the perfect tools for communicating
your message quickly and easily to your audience. It works
much better than just a static webpage or content.

Videos can bring life to any content or message.

Despite all this, I have myself been rather slow in taking
advantage of videos in my own online marketing. Once you
get set in your ways - it is some times hard to change what
you're doing... especially if you have become successful
at doing it. The old static websites are more my style.

However, I have seen the light and I am now starting to use
videos or other sites using my content have put them into
videos such as the one below from www.site-reference.com

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

8 SEO Techniques Every Webmaster Should Know

I must admit, videos are just as effective, if not more effective
than article marketing. It brings in a whole new audience of people
who simply don't have the time to read an article. Put your article
into a short video and you will get more viewers.

Videos are just another way of getting your message out there.
And it is very effective, especially for word-of-mouth advertising...

Just ask Susan Boyle?

Overnight, your content could be spread all over the web and beyond.
It's a marketing tool every webmaster and marketer should be
using. End of story.

Google now lists about 28,700,000 pages for "Susan Boyle"!

Make that one more page...

For more on video marketing, try here:

Video Marketing

Cheers,

Titus
http://www.bizwaremagic.com

How to find Profitable Keywords?

2009-04-17T05:12:00.000-07:00

Profitable keywords are the building blocks of your online marketing.
Mainly because finding and using the right keywords will be essential
to your online success and will largely determine the viability of your
online business.

Keywords are ground zero. They are essential to your online success.
You must get your keywords right or it's game over before you even
get started. Mainly because keywords are the most important element
of your online marketing.

It can't be emphasized enough, especially to beginning online webmasters
or marketers, choosing the right profitable keywords will largely determine
whether or not you succeed with your online endeavors. You simply must
get this element right or your marketing will be in big trouble.

Want to find out more... try here: How To Find Profitable Keywords

Creating Simple Online Marketing Systems That Work

2009-04-03T05:15:00.000-07:00

How Much Traffic Do You Need To Succeed Online?

2009-03-27T05:14:00.000-07:00

How much SEO do you need?

2009-03-13T06:19:00.000-07:00

Do You Know The 5 Pillars Of Google Search?

2009-03-06T05:46:00.000-08:00

Is Affiliate Marketing Right For You?

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2009-02-20T04:36:00.000-08:00

Grab These Two Powerful Marketing Tools For Free

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4 Quick Ways To Build More One-Way Quality Links

2009-02-06T05:49:00.000-08:00

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BWMagic's Internet Marketing News!

Read This Newsletter Online:
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Contents:

o 4 Quick Ways To Build More One-Way Quality Links

o Marketing People I Respect

o Ockham's Razor Income System

.......

This week I would like to give you my most effective
one-way link building techniques - these are the methods
that have worked for me. Like I said before, we can
only discuss our own marketing experiences - what has
worked for us.

From over 10 years of marketing online, there are
some simple link building techniques that have
not changed and are still effective. No doubt you
may have heard of many of these link building methods
before... but I would like to share some of my findings
with you.

1. Article Marketing

This is still one of the most effective ways to build
good one-way links to your sites. I know this is "old school"
but it still works. At least for now, there are rumors Google
is cracking down on article links but for now links in
your article resource boxes are still very effective.

From my own experience, article marketing is my most
effective technique at building links. My sites and my
online marketing were going nowhere until I started writing
articles. Now I do aggressive article marketing using all
the major online article directories...

The top 5 ones I use are:

www.ezinearticles.com
www.goarticles.com
www.isnare.com
www.ideamarketers.com
www.artilceallery.com

Now just look at my stats from ezinearticles alone and you
will know why I use them.

Account Statistics

Article(s) Views: 416,293
Profile Views: 2,441
Articles Published: 4,746
URL Clicks: 48,767
Emailed: 115
Live Articles: 203

I have roughly 200 articles which have been viewed
over 400,000 times which has sent around 50,000
visitors to my sites. Plus, I have around 5,000
places where my are articles published. And this
is only for one online article directory - I have my
articles in hundreds of them. It all adds up to a lot
of links and traffic. For a good popular viral article
I can get 2,000 to 3,000 links spread across the web.

Whether you're just a webmaster or into online marketing
you must realize all this stuff is just a "numbers" game. The
more content you have out there, the more links you have on
the web - the more traffic and visitors you get coming
to your site or sites. It's not rocket science, it's simple
math. The more links you have, the higher probability
someone will click them and come to your site.

The same goes for high rankings in the search engines,
the more good quality links you have, the higher your
rankings. Article marketing will give you highly targeted
keyword links to your web pages.

I use my major keywords in the title of my article and
I also place it in the "anchor text" (clickable underlined
words of a link) in my resource boxes. Article marketing
is something anyone can and should do to build your links.

Since I have long learned I have to re-invest some
of my earnings back into my marketing. I have the "paid
service" from ezinearticles which get my articles thru
their system very quickly. You can use their free system,
it's the same system but you just have to wait a little
longer to get your articles posted. Paid service gives
me more control.

I also use SubmitYourArtilce which will automatically
submit my articles for me to many different article
directories. I use this to same time but you can
hand-submit your own articles.

One last point about article marketing - you're not just
using articles to build links, you're also using articles
to "pre-sell" yourself, your site and your product. It's a
very effective way of funneling interested visitors/buyers
to your site. Many of my sales are already made before
visitors reach my site.

2. AddThis Bookmark

As I have mentioned before, I am not really into the
"social media" sites. It's not my thing. Don't have
time and I am way too old for all that foolish "chit-chat"
that goes on in these sites!

However, it would be a BIG mistake not to use these
social media sites for your link building.

Sites like MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Digg,
Linkedin... and thousands of others are very important
for link building. They are becoming even more important
as Google moves away from articles and focuses on these
"real interactions" taking place on these sites.

Couple of years ago, I added the free AddThis Bookmark
to all my sites. This is a simple code which lets your
visitors bookmark your site or content in any or all of
the major social media sites.

What's actually happens is that your visitors are
building your links for you. I have gotten hundreds
of links from these sites just by placing this
simple bookmark on my sites. Truth be told, I truly
laughed at this idea at first - sure visitors to my
sites would automatically bookmark and build links for
me? No way that would happen?

Wrong again!

For it really works so if you want this simple way of
building links just use the Addthis.com bookmark to your
site or pages.

3. Google Alerts Link Building

This method of building good quality one-way links
does take a little more work but it is extremely
effective, especially for getting high rankings in
Google.

Now I have described this link-building method to
you before but to briefly explain how it works:

You sign-up for Google Alerts for your major
keywords that you're promoting. Google will send
you email alerts whenever a new page/site/link is
created containing your keywords. You then go to
those newly created pages and make a comment and
to add your link.

Many of these new pages will be on blogs so you
can easily add your comment and link. The trick
is to add valuable comments which the site moderator
will approve because it adds to his/her site's value/standing.
Many will also approve your link because your link is
related to their site and this is just good SEO practice.

Now all your links won't be accepted but you can
easily add 2 or 3 links in a day with very little
time spent on this. Great way to build links, hope
you can give it a try.

More on the technique here:

Google Alerts Link Building

4. Press Releases

I am just starting this method of link building
so my experiences are very limited. But what I have
seen so far tells me this is a very effective
way to build links. It's not cheap - I use PRWeb
and I believe it's $200 for a release. You can
get a cheaper price at around $80 but you don't
get the full benefits at this lower price.

Press releases are very effective because you
can embed your links with your "anchor text"
into the body of your press release. Other
sites pick up your release and place it on their
site with your keywords/links embedded. This
seems more like natural link-building which the
search engines loves especially Google.

With articles you can only place your links at
the end. As Google cracks down on article link
building (as many experts believe they will)
then using something like press releases will
become much more important.

Again, depending on your own marketing budget,
press release can be a very effective way of
building links. I have noticed sites going from
a PR0 to PR4 in less than 6 months using this
method - and also getting top 5 rankings in
Google by the same process.

Keep in mind, sites/companies displaying
press releases are usually already highly
ranked in Google so some of their PR juice
is passed on to your site.

Press Releases That Work

o Marketing People I Respect

When you're just learning how to "market online"
you do need all the help you can get. From the
get-go, I have been extra critical of the marketers
I choose to follow, maybe it's the old teacher in
me coming out but I know quality information when
I see, hear or view it.

Over the years, there have been special Internet
Marketers whom I have really come to learn to respect.
These are marketer who have proven their worth to me
- a 100 fold. They have given me solid advice which
I have greatly appreciated.

Who are these marketers you ask?

I can count them on one hand. They are:

Marlon Sanders
Ken Evoy
Neil Shearing
Joel Comm
Brad Callen

And probably in that order. And yes the cynics will
also point out, these are also the marketers/products
that I promote and sell on all my sites.

So true, but I can't promote someone or some
product that I don't believe in... the above
marketers are really the ones who I have learned
from and respect. So yes I sell their products...

But what you have to realize, 95% of my online
income doesn't come from selling their info-products
or any info-products for that matter. Most of my
income comes from selling physical goods and business
related services - NOT marketing info-products.

The competition is much less and I find it much easier
to sell a $2000 laptop than a $2000 info-product. And
I have in recent years been taking the easy route -
mainly because in the back of mind I always feel more
comfortable selling "physical things" rather than
information. Old teacher in me again. Knowledge should
be given away, not sold.

However, that doesn't mean these info-products don't
have value or aren't worth the money. In most cases, they
certainly are. But only in the hands of someone who
can use them. Many times beginning marketers buy products
which are way beyond their marketing skill level or ability.
They never use the information or are at a stage where the
information is of no use to them.

Truth be told, there's probably hasn't been an info-product
I have bought that I haven't earned my money back - many
times over. For me, buying info-products is just a way of
re-investing some of your money back into your marketing.

Early on when I first started, I did buy and waste money
on products that I couldn't fully use because I wasn't at
a level where I could use them. Sometimes you have to wait
for your marketing experience to catch up with some of these
info-products.

Anyway, several of the marketers above have new products
or offerings which you might like to examine.

Or you might not.

I am really trying to cut down on any hype here - these
products are there, if you're interested in them, you can
check them out.

Brad Callen

First, Brad Callen has a Free product called PPC WebSpy
which lets you spy on your competitors to see which keywords
they're bidding on in Google Adwords. This is important
if you're into the competitive world of bidding on Adwords
in Google. This tool will give you the first 100 keywords
that a site is bidding on in Adwords.

The program is helpful but I found it had a few bugs
which Brad will gradually work out as more and more
people use this system. Plus, Google also keeps changing
it's coding so there has to be adjustments made to the
software in order for it to work as it should.

Like Brad's Keyword and SEO Elite software... which can't
be beat for founding what keywords you should be targeting
with your site, this one's a keeper!

Even if you're not into PPC marketing, having this tool,
which is a simple Firefox plug-in, will give you some
ideas for what profitable keywords you should be using.

Get PPC WebSpy Free

Marlon Sanders

Marlon has new product out called "Ockham's Razor
Income System" which I must admit I had to google
"Ockham's Razor" to find who and what the heck Marlon
was referencing to here.

And basically, he's referencing to a 14th-century English
logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham.
Or more exactly, Marlon is referencing Ockham's Razor
which is a principle that the explanation of any
phenomenon or thing should make the fewest assumptions
as possible. More or less, in today's jargon:
"cut the bull and give it to us in a nutshell!"

Find and take the simple way to solving any problem.
Cut away all the stuff that doesn't direct you to
the solution.

Well Marlon has basically taken all his marketing
tactics/knowledge and placed it in this info-product
to show how he turned:

Ordinary Info Products Into $150,000 Cash Cows - 29 Times!

Marlon products have been very popular and I have
been selling them on my main site for over 4 or 5
years. These are info-products I feel very "comfortable"
selling because they take a very practical "point and
click" solution to many of the problems someone marketing
on the web would face. I also have many of his products
and have learned so much from him and them.

Anyway if you're interested in finding out how a
"master" marketer goes about selling his products:

Ockham's Razor Income System

Have a great weekend and take care!

Kind Regards,

Titus

P.S. I have placed links to some of my sites,
blogs and social networks altogether here:

http://www.titushoskins.com

Includes Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, LiveJournal,
SiteProNews Blog... and others. In case you
really want to get to know me!

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o Quick Ways To Build Instant Credibility Online

o Social Media Credibility & Importance

o Blogging To Build Credibility & Profits

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Since my last few emails/newsletters were on the topic
of building profitable web pages, I would like to talk
about what I believe is the most important factor to your
online success: establishing credibility in the mind of
your visitor.

Regardless of what you're promoting or selling, regardless
of what type of website or business you're pursuing on the
web - your site and you must be seen as credible in the
eyes of your visitors. They must believe you are someone
who "knows their stuff" and is worth their time.

Instantly establishing this credibility is vital to your
site's success, especially online where people are still
very distrustful of what they see and read. And if you're
selling something that "distrust meter" takes a giant leap.

So here are some quick ways to instantly build trust
with your site's visitors - remember you only have a few
nanoseconds to accomplish this difficult feat.

So try these:

1. Credibility Pre-header. Many marketers and webmasters
try to get or place a credibility pre-header above their
content, especially if you're selling a product. "America's
#1 Affiliate Marketer according to Time Magazine, reveals
all his secrets..."

Or something along those lines, but keep in mind, this
pre-header must have a neutral third party blurb or statement
which can be backed up. Quoting respected important sources
such as major magazines, news programs, well known organizations
or even other important web sites will instantly help establish
credibility in the eyes of the viewer.

That's why on a lot of sites you see such things as "As seen
on Oprah" "As seen On Cnn" or even the old stand-by "As seen
on TV" will add credibility to what follows... just use the
same idea on your own site. While you may not be able to
boast those kinds of claims... you can usually come up with
some important (well known websites) which feature your work
or content. I like using sites like "Featured on Ezinearticles.com",
"Featured on Buzzle.com" "Featured on SiteProNews" while those
places don't have the power of a Dr. Phil or Oprah... they do
establish some instant credibility in the "eyes" of your visitor.

2. Picture and Bio. Have your picture and bio at the top of
the page so that readers can instantly see who you are. Give
your major accomplishments and successes - you must prove that
you're worth their time. Many savvy marketers use a two-columned
page format where one side is used to establish credibility...
where you place your picture, your bio, any awards your site
has won and tons and tons of testimonials from your visitors
or site users.

Use this whole side column all the way down your page to establish
your credibility. As readers are read your content or sales letter,
they can glance over to see what you're saying is backed up by
other people.

3. Testimonials. As mentioned above, you should have testimonials
on your page and plenty of them. These will give credibility to
what you're saying. You should also place a few of these testimonials
in your main sales letter as well - use the credibility of the
person giving the recommendation to your best advantage.

Many big-name online marketers (Gurus) do have enormous credibility
in the "eyes" of those reading the content. These testimonials
can go a long way in establishing your credibility as well. Use
as many as you can possibly get. Don't forget that also adding
recommendations from the BBB (Better Business Bureaus) and placing
securely buttons/logos does also help in establishing your
site's credibility.

4. Use Videos. You have probably noticed many people are now
using videos on their sites and content. Videos are an excellent
way to immediately establish contact and credibility with your
viewers... you are indeed a "real person" and not just some written
words floating in cyberspace. Of course, the more personality
and likeability you can bring to these videos will help further
establish your credibility.

Many marketers and webmasters also use videos for their testimonials,
anyone can make up a fake testimonial and place it on a web page
but actually seeing and hearing 10 or 15 videos of customers
talking about your product or content will definitely give you
credibility.

5. Professional Graphics and Design. We have all seen the
cheap-looking template site that immediately says "template"
in the mind of the viewer. Now the actual content on this
site may be great but web surfers are becoming increasingly
web-savvy and will know a cheaply designed site when they
see it and immediately hit the back button. Ouch!

Your site must appear professional in the "eyes" of the
beholder. Using professional graphics and design will help
you establish immediate credibility for your site. In that
split second you have to capture your visitor's attention,
you want to make that first impression a good one. You want
them to say "This one's a Keeper!"

6. Use Social Media Sites. Visitors want to know you're
a real person or company, so establishing profiles in all
the social media sites such as Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace,
YouTube, Linkedin... gives credibility to who's speaking.
They can check you out and see what everyone is saying about
you. They can discover who your contacts are and what kind
of reputation you have built up.

These social sites can have enormous influence in building
a solid relationship with your visitors. It can definitely
help establish your credibility - so use them.

7. Content And Writing. Of course, the proof is in the pudding,
your content must be compelling and convincing. It must show
you know what you're talking about and that you're worth
reading. All the flash and window dressing will be worthless
if you don't have quality content on your site.

It is this quality content that will ultimately establish
your credibility in the minds of your visitors. All the
other factors are important but "what you say and how
you say it" will be main determining factor in how much
credibility and trust you earn from your site's visitors.
Choose your words carefully.

8. Pre-built Credibility. One last point on establishing
online credibility has to be discussed. I believe many
webmasters don't understand the importance of building
credibility BEFORE your visitor even gets to your site.
Your marketing strategy doesn't just start at your site,
it must include building your brand and reputation outside
of it.

One obvious example, getting top rankings in Google for
your major keywords does give your site a lot of credibility.
Or top rankings in any search engine for that matter, but
especially in Google, I have found getting top rankings gives
credibility to your web pages. People respect Google, they
have come to respect the search results.

Another more important way to "pre-build" or "pre-sell"
yourself or your site's content is to write simple
articles that are distributed all over the web. Visitors
coming to your site from these articles, already are
familiar with you and your information. You have already
gained some credibility in their eyes and may just be
worth checking out.

o Social Media Credibility & Importance

As I mentioned above, social media sites such as
Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook, Linkedin... are becoming
very important to the whole issue of doing business
online or running a website. You must get involved
personally or create company profiles in all these
sites... they are great promotion and marketing tools.

Don't lose out on all this free marketing.

Twitter, I believe is the one that's holds the most
potential. It's fairly new but its uses are steadily
growing. I must admit, I am not an expert on Twitter,
and the whole social media stuff leaves me a bit
cold. It is not my thing. I like building websites,
doing SEO and writing articles. I never was very
good at "chit-chat" and always liked going it alone
- former artist in me shining through, I guess.

However, these sites are very important. You must
start using them - to build credibility if nothing
else.

Here's a Twitter Report that will help get you
started and introduce you to the possibilities of
using Twitter:

Twitter Hints

o Blogging To Build Credibility & Profits

On almost all my sites I have a blog. I use
blogs to build credibility by making direct
contact with my visitors. It's a quick way of
introducing yourself and explaining what you
or your site is all about.

I use the free WordPress blogging software
but I also use Blogger.com which is owned
by Google.

I also use Blogs for building links and SEO
for my sites.

- They are very good for getting quick traffics and links.

- They put your site in the "whole mix" of the Internet.

- They get your content out there.

Blogs and blogging can be very profitable,
especially if you're like me and into affiliate
marketing. It's a simple way of earning a few
extra commissions.

If you want to find out more about blogging,
here's a product from Clickbank that very
good and not too expensive. There's also
a free report you can get.

Blogger's Paycheck

Kind Regards,

Titus

P.S. I have placed links to some of my sites,
blogs and social networks altogether here:

http://www.titushoskins.com

Includes Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, LiveJournal,
SiteProNews Blog... and others. In case you
really want to get to know me!