Bizwaremagic.com Turns 12

Bizwaremagic.com Turns 12

Can't hardly believe the Bizwaremagic site has been online
for 12 years. Where have all the years gone?

It started as a simple business marketing site dealing
mainly with software and list building. The site has
now broadened its scope to include many aspects of
running a business both online and off. These cover
such diverse subjects such as laptop computers, RSS,
virtual PBX phone systems and corporate business gifts.

It also presents helpful reviews of marketing products,
as well as laptops and computers reviews. These are
presented on the site and in the online marketing blog.

The site also features original articles by yours truly :-).
These Bizwaremagic articles have appeared on such sites
as Webpronews, PromotionWorld, Sitepronews, American Chronicle
and many more.

At the very core of Bizwaremagic are its Free Guides.
These cover Internet Marketing, RSS, Laptop Computers
and Internet Fax. Visitors can download these helpful
guides from the site itself or from the numerous sister
sites such as Marketingtoolguide.com, Internetfaxguide.org
and Laptopcomputerguide.org

The site also recently started a Facebook Fan Page which
now has over 1000 likes and growing. Bizwaremagic also
runs a YouTube and a Twitter feed.

To learn more about our site try this News Release on Prweb:
here or visit the site here: www.bizwaremagic.com

Does Google Believe Your Links Are Real?

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Does Google Believe Your Links Are Real?




Without a doubt, where Google is concerned, the last
year and half, has seen more disruption for webmasters
than the last 10 years combined. The Panda Updates have
taken well-established sites and completely wiped out
their valuable search engine traffic coming from Google.

Google seems to be moving more towards brand/corporate
sites in free organic search, even for general topic
keywords where a comparison or review site would seem
like a much better fit or relevant match for the search
query. These corporate sites are now displacing the
more "affiliate focused" sites at an alarming rate.

One just has to wonder:

Does Google Really Care About Relevancy Anymore?

Some are even suggesting Google is rewarding its
corporate Adwords clients with free organic traffic
- if true, this practice could be a very smart business
move on Google's part. The more revenue these clients
make, the more they will spend on advertising.

Simple greed dictates this will probably be the case.

However, a more likely scenario is that Google has
come down hard on those sites and webmasters who
have "SEOed" their sites to get the top rankings. The
whole Panda Fallout could just be re-arranging or
de-ranking these affiliate based sites because of too
much link building and too much optimization.

These sites have to be replaced with other sites...
why not have the corporate brand name sites take these
top spots - regardless of relevancy.

Anyway, I have a placed a whole article on this
subject on my site here:


Does Google Believe Your Links Are Natural?

Kind Regards,
+Titus Hoskins


www.bizwaremagic.com





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5 SEO Benefits Of Using A WordPress Blog


Sometimes we take all this SEO stuff for granted,
especially if you have been marketing online for over
10 years. However, the search engines, especially Google
has a "not-so-nice-way" of reminding us that we must
get all our SEO ducks lined up or we are in for
a few shocks, ie. The Panda Updates.

Now I have always used WordPress blogs on my most
of my sites. They are a great way of keeping your
site fresh and current. Posting or adding content
is a breeze and can be done with "zero knowledge"
of HTML coding. Anyone can do it.

Besides the constant flow of spam (if you don't
turn off comments and trackbacks), there really
are no major drawbacks to using WP.

However, there are some major SEO benefits which
everyone should be aware of, especially if they
want their keywords to rank in the search engines.
In a recent blog post on my WordPress blog, I go
over 5 of these major benefits in some detail.

You can find the post here:

5 SEO Benefits Of Using WordPress Blogs






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www.bizwaremagic.com





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10 Ways To Make Your Site More Visible On The Web

There is one very important exception to the article
below...

If you have been reading my emails, you will know at
the end of last year, I created two sites to see if
having the "exact keywords" in your domain name will
get you on the first page of Google. The whole
"authority vs mini-site" question?

How do these mini-sites get to page one?

This is mainly due to the ranking power of having
the exact "domain name" for your targeted keywords.
This factor alone means your site will usually make
the first page of Google.

Now, these are low competition keywords with around
5,000 to 20,000 clicks a month for the exact keywords.
I did a lot of checking and for medium to high competition
- having the exact keyword phrase WON'T "automatically"
get you to the first page.

However, it does give you a good head start or a great
advantage when you do start to promote your site and
build links. Which makes it all the more important to
do your keyword research and get the right keywords
in your domain from the get-go.

With this exception in mind I have written another
article on how to make your site more visible on
the web.

It points out 10 ways to get better traffic and rankings
for your site. It's rather long and detailed so I have
placed it online here:



10 Ways To Make Your Site More Visible On The Web

How Many Domains/Sites Should You Have?

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


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My Top 5 EzineArticles Articles And How They Have Performed

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.

Does Google Bowling Really Work?

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

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

How To Start A Web Business On A Really Small Budget

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.

SEO Strategy - How To Simplify The Whole SEO Process

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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Does Your Site Need An SEO Checkup?

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



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

http://goo.gl/0CBr

Google Page Speed Tester - Improve Your Site and Rankings

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

Let's Hope This Panda Roars

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

To Increase Your Rankings Just Use This Free SEO Analyzer Tool

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

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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

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 monetize your content as long as you
have quality traffic. Most of these are just as simple but
they pay much more of the percentage 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

Only Google Can Do It This Good

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

Should You Use URL Shorteners?

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/

The Actual Internet Marketing Tools Which I USE

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)

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

What is LinkBait?

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?


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Kind Regards,
Titus


www.bizwaremagic.com