Wednesday, May 30, 2007

How To Get Indexed On Google Faster And Get More Backlinks!

How to get indexed on google within days, by submiting your site to social bookmark sites. Read more to discover how to get lots of backlinks, more traffic and generate revenue with your sites..

Social Bookmarking:
Submit your new website URL to the top social bookmarking sites first, before submitting to Search Engines, your pages will be indexed within days not months! Add 'tags' to your bookmarks so surfers can find your link when they search. Submit pages on a regular basis to stay at the top of site lists, creating more traffic.

Top Social Bookmarking Sites:

* StumbleUpon

* de.licio.us

* Furl

* Technorati

* soc.ialize.us

Search Engines:
Optimise keywords in your meta titles, discriptions, keywords, anchor text, header tags, image alt text. Use keyword generators to create the best keywords possible. Like Good Keywords v.2, Google Sandbox Keyword Tool. Write articles with keywords throughout your content. Make the articles informative and interesting. Submit your URL to link directories, article sites, social bookmarking sites, and other links back to your site, to increase your page rank.

Top Search Engines:

* google.com

* yahoo.com

* msn.com

* search.com

* altavista.com

Link Directories:
Link Directories are an important part of gaining quality links back to your site. A directory is organised into categories and subcategories. Human editors review each directory submission and evaluate the site's quality and relevance. Success only comes when you submit a high quality site to the proper category. Because the directory submission process is so specific to each particular directory, your website must be submitted manually.

Top Link Directories:

* Yahoo

* DMOZ

* SoMuch

* AbiLogic

* Pegasus

Monday, May 28, 2007

Internet Paid Surveys Interesting Newsflash

Internet paid survets are nothing new really. Doing internet paid surveys online during your free time is really an easy way to bring some extra cash home or for your personal needs. Doing surveys is not boring all the time. Internet paid surveys can be interesting. This is perhaps why many people including the young and active are using them to make some cash for holidays and a simple getaway or to buy their latest toy.

Do you know what internet paid surveys are?

Internet paid surveys are forms that once completed pay you. The difference between this and conventional surveys, they are paperless and are done online through e-Forms. Each time you complete a survey, you get paid by the internet survey company which are usually market survey companies hired by consumer companies interested in gathering some information about their market and customers. Depending on how many questions there are in the survey, they would pay you more than $50 at times. Good paying surveys usually centre on expensive products like cars, insurance, etc.

Internet paid surveys are not "Get Rich Quick Schemes" or scams as people would have thought it to be. Recently, there has been some bad press as a result of unrealistic income claims by unscrupulous folks. Some are proclaiming huge earnings in the range of thousands for a few hours of work a week. This is absolutely absurd! Though internet paid surveys is a good passive income source, it is unlikely that anyone can make so much for so little effort. But with a few hours a week, earning a few hundred to a thousand dollars is achievable.

There are always concerns that there are no enough surveys for everyone. It is hardly a possibility. As long as there are products in the market, surveys are required to understand the market. Old ways of conducting market research on the streets are outdated and slow. Internet paid surveys are popular among market research companies and the number of surveys available is expected to increase and not drop. Anyone considering paid surveys as an income stream need not worry too much. The possibility of running out of internet paid surveys hardly exists.

Once the internet paid surveys are published, they will be there for a few days. But very often, it becomes unavailable within a day. Reason is they only require limited number of participants. Act as soon as you can. Fastest fingers get the deal. Be on alert for incoming notification emails.

Other than the normal paid surveys, you may be exposed to other kinds of surveys like focus groups, mystery shopper, etc. Why not play and work at the same time?

It is pretty easy to bring home hundreds of dollars. But to earn a substantial income sufficient to replace your day job, you need to do more by participating in more surveys and of course spend more hours at that. The flexibility is there for you to work around your time but the key is to be a registered member with as many companies offering internet paid surveys.

Drop by at my survey blog and get hold of a list of reputable survey companies that pay well for internet paid surveys.

Friday, May 25, 2007

Use this Free Automated Tool to Achieve High Page Rank

One of the fastest ways to get you page indexed is to have Back links from High Page Rank Web Sites. All of the Search Engines use Back Links and page rank of the Back Linked site as a determination of how your page is listed on the Search Engines. If you want a High Search Engine Ranking with Google, Yahoo, or any of the other Search Engines one sure way to get that is with Back Links from High Page Ranked Web Sites.

Their are Millions of Blogs on the Internet. My 15 year old neighbor has a 2 or Myspace Blogs. But many of these Blogs are written by experts and have huge readerships and High Page Ranking, What you need to do is find Blogs with High Page Rankings and get Back Links from them.

You can do it the hard way by going to a Blog Search engine and typing in a Keyword and finding all the Blogs with your Keyword and then go to each blog individually and add a comment with your back link. The problem with this method is you will be spending lot's of Time placing comments on Blogs that have a very low Page Rank.

The easy way of course is to use an Automated tool that finds all the Blog Entries for your targeted Keywords and then tells you the page Rank of each blog and even sorts them with High Page Rank Blogs First. It then loads 10 Blogs at a Time into it's own browser with most of the information filled in. You simply make a meaningful comment for each of the 10 Blogs and submit. When you are done you press a button and 10 more Blogs are Loaded into the Browser.

In less time then it takes to watch American Idol you have 100 or more back links from High Page Rank Web Sites for your Set of Targeted Keywords. Repeat this 4 or 5 times Weekly and in a Months Time you have over 2,000 Back Links.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2007

How to use Email Marketing in Your Online Business Part I

If you know how to use email marketing in your online business then you have a very powerful marketing tool at your disposal. There are many ways in which emails can be used, both to promote or sell a product, and to provide information to prospective customers.

Without going too far into the subject of email lists, it is important to most types of online businesses to build up a list of names and email addresses of people who have demonstrated an interest in your product. In fact, if you have more than one product to offer, you can have a separate list for each. The way that you build this list is another subject, though the most frequently used methods involve directing prospects to a page on your web site called a squeeze page that is designed purely for that purpose.

You will not be able to use email campaigns effectively unless you have an autoresponder. That is a program that sends emails to database lists of email addresses on certain triggers. The trigger can be a purchase, when the autoresponder will send a receipt for the payment, a thank you letter and, if the product is electronically deliverable such as an ebook, will also deliver the product. The trigger can also be a request for information, in which case the autoresponder can send either the requested information or a note that the matter is in hand and a reply will be forthcoming within 24 hours.

Autoresponders can also handle database management, adding details to an email list or moving addresses from 'prospect' to 'customers' after a purchase. Their most important use, however, is in sending mass emailings to a whole list, or subsections of a list, on predetermined dates. An ecourse, for example, can be programmed to be sent every second day for the duration of the course.

Monday, May 21, 2007

How To Gain Credibility In An Intangible Industry

Google, Yahoo!, YouTube and eBay are a few big name industries with one thing in common: you can't touch them. These are companies most of us rely and depend on to do everyday things. But those of use who regularly use them probably never stop and think that our day to day activities rely on impalpable businesses. The Google's and Yahoo's have amassed huge fortunes by creating programs and networks for all walks of life, but the real question is how do they garner such a huge following if no one can touch their products?

It all boils down to credibility.

I work for a small Atlanta search engine marketing (SEM) firm and we encounter the same trust issues common to intangible business. Most things in the SEM world can't be touched; they are definitely seen, but without an internet connection, or a connection at all to the customers of our clients, whom we indirectly target, no one can get a physical grasp on what we do.

So, how do we make ourselves a credible and reliable source for business and information in the digital world?

Here are some tried and true tactics for gaining credibility:

1) Establish yourself as an expert


Write articles that display your expertise in a certain area of interest; this may be for blogs, online articles or press releases. Once you have the article, submit it to reputable sites. Anyone can publish an article nowadays, the key is submitting a quality article to sites that review articles before publishing them (see number 4).

2) Get testimonials from current and past clients


What better way to showcase your current and past successes than getting client testimonials. Once you have a few testimonials from satisfied clients, be sure to strategically place them on your website, blog or use them as article "power" quotes. The more good things people have to say about your business, the less reason consumers will have to doubt your motives.

3) Get quoted


This is something every business man or woman dreams of; they have said something so earth shattering that it gets quoted in major media. This will come once expertise is established, but being quoted in something like Forbes, Newsweek or any other magazine relevant to your industry, will give your credibility a huge boost.

4) This relates to number one but, contribute articles to websites like Adotas, TalentZoo, Buzzle or Helium.


These sites allow you to become your own author and editor, but they publish the content based on how well you write and your knowledge of the subject. They won't take just any old article off the street. Sites like these open new avenues for credibility. The articles written for these sites must be original, currently unpublished material.

5) Contribute material to industry forums


You can not only gain new knowledge by posting topics for discussion in forums, but by providing helpful advice, you are proving your worth to that forum and also showing that you know what you're talking about.

6) The Press is your friend


These are the men and women with whom your credibility rides, so treat them kindly. Research their articles, what they write and how they write it before submitting anything for syndication. That you know how the reporter writes will not only impress them, but may give them more of a reason to help you. Nothing makes a reporter angrier than a pushy marketer who submits an article about their toy making company when the reporter covers a home and garden beat.

Credibility is an essential building block to a good and successful business. It could be said that having credibility provides incentive to buy. Consumers possess more confidence in an intangible product if the company behind it is trustworthy. When potential clients have trust in your business you may see great profit.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

The Myths and Facts about High Risk Merchant Account

Have you thought about opening up a high risk merchant account but you aren't sure what is myth and what is fact? There is a lot of misinformation out there about these accounts, but despite all of the assumptions that are made by some, these accounts are just what many businesses need. If you think that you would like to open an online merchant account you will find that there are many perks to them.

One of the most common myths about high risk merchant accounts is that they are only used for illegal transactions. This simply is not true. Some of the most common uses for these accounts are adult entertainment sites and really business ecommerce websites. These accounts often provide the service that is needed for these really busy sites and can handle a lot of cash in short periods of time. These are legit businesses and there is absolutely nothing illegal about the way that they are set up or the business that they do. An online merchant account can be as legit as having a bank account, though there are some instances where people use the accounts for less than legitimate means, but that can be said about just about any type of account.

One of the other myths about online credit card services is that they are completely safe. While great strides have been made to make an online credit card processing service fool proof, they aren't quite there yet. There are hackers out there right now that may be attempting to intercept your information as well as the information of your clients. When you pay for an online credit card processing service you need to request that all of the information being sent from one individual to the other is encrypted. Having your information encrypted will do away with the risks of identity theft and fraud.

Another myth is that an online merchant account is only for the wealthy. While this may have been a fact in the past, it is no longer a fact. You can pay for an online credit card processing service for a relatively affordable price. Not only will this allow you to accept payments online, it will also allow for you to make more money because more and more consumers only want to do business with those that they can pay online.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Common SEO Mistakes

Search engine optimization has become the focus of many people who have online businesses and for good reason. If you can be noticed and ranked well by search engines, you will be more visible to current and future customers. Optimization is something that so many web publishers are pursuing but in the course of trying to be noticed many are making some huge mistakes. These mistakes can easily be avoided, and many have found these mistakes to be hampering their success by trial and error.

The most common SEO mistakes is to have bad titles for your pages. The reason is titles are the very first thing that the search engine spiders will see when they look at your website. A title should give the spider as well as the visitor a clear idea of what the website is all about. If you can focus your titles, you will then find that your page rank will soar and you will likely have many more customers come your way as a result. A focused site is always a good thing and this includes something that seems as insignificant as a title!

Another common SEO mistake is to have bad content on your website. A couple years ago, web publishers thought that you simply had to have keyword rich content, but today it is known that it is not that easy. You need to have more than the typical how to or vague and useless content on your website if you want to really be optimized for the search engines. You can have keyword rich articles, but be sure that they are informative as this will allow for you to be seen by the search engine spiders but also keep visitors on your site once they click and enter your page!

Linking is anther common mistake that web publishers face. Links are important because the more incoming links a page receives, the more important the search engines view the web page. But, the links have to be good incoming and outgoing links. If you have poor incoming links or there is poor internal linking all of your hard work to obtain links will be in vain. Web publishers have to find a balance and only involve themselves with good links.

These are some of the most common problems that web publishers make when they attempt to optimize their websites for the search engines. SEO is not easy, but if a web publisher avoids these very common mistakes he or she has a leg up on the competition. Remember, optimization is not something that happens over night. Those that rush tend to do more harm than good to their page ranking so take your time a do a good job if you want to succeed.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Internet Home Business Ideas - Search Engine Optimization

If you have just started an internet home business opportunity with a duplicate (look-a-like) website, then it is the first task to do is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is what internet home business owners use to get their websites to rank high with the major search engines in order to get traffic from them and boost sales. Because more than 90% of the traffic will come directly from the major search engines Google, Yahoo or MSN search results, effective SEO is of vital importance for every online home business owners.

When an internet user searches information online, the search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant, fresh and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. The search engines use sophisticated algorithms by which they find quickly relevant websites for certain keyword or -phrase. It is therefore absolutely important to update your website regularly and adding new materials will help you get noticed by the search engines.

There are many SEO techniques, when used effectively that will improve the ranking of your website in the search engines results. These methods are divided into on-page and off-page optimalization.

On-page Optimalization:

- Once you have decided on the keywords or phrases for your website, try to describe the webpage around these keywords that will provide the visitors interesting and well-written information. Ideally, it is best to optimize one web page for two related keywords and two sub-keywords. The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some search with those words. You should spread the keywords strategically through the webpage, but include the most important keyword in the first sentence of the first and the last sentence in the last paragraph and in the headings.

- Another important aspect, which is mostly ignored when you have a duplicate website, is to optimize your web page with the keywords in the meta tags. The meta tags are part of the invisible html source code on your webpage that give information to the search engines, so that they can index your internet home business website properly. The title and the description meta tag will show up in the search engine results, so it is important not to make these tags as 'attractive' as possible, but also descriptive as possible what you internet home business has to offer. In the keywords meta tag, you could include related keywords, but not use the same keyword more than twice, since this will be regarded by the search engines as keyword stuffing and your site could be penalized or banned for this.

- Since it is difficult to put many keywords on one webpage, an easy way to develop much more content on your website is writing articles and post them on a sub-directory for articles. For the search engines, content is king and the best ways to have more keywords or phrases on your site is to have more articles on your site.

Off-page optimalization: These SEO techniques are focused on getting links from other websites back to your site. The most effective methods to get backlinks is to write and publish articles in article directories or e-zines, by including anchor text (clickable text) containing the keywords that link back to your site. Other ways to get links is to submit your site to other directories or reciprocal linking with other related websites. Also posting on newsgroups and forums that allow you to have a signature attached to your posting (with your URL or domain name in it) will help to get links back to your site.

After you have optimized your site using these techniques, it will take some time before your site will show up on the first page of the search engines. But don't forget to update your site frequently by adding more information whether on the webpage itself or adding more articles in the articles directory. By keeping these SEO methods in mind and applying them consistently you will be able to developing your site's popularity and high ranking by the search engines, and boost your sales and increase your internet home business.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Electronic Check Conversion

What Kinds of Electronic Check Conversion Exist?

There are two major types of electronic check conversion - electronic check conversion and electronic check conversion with check guarantee. Before jumping into the key difference though, it's helpful to spend some time explaining electronic check conversion in general.

Electronic Check Conversion Explained Using Credit Cards

The best way to explain electronic check conversion (and even electronic check conversion with check guarantee) is to point to credit cards. Years ago, instead of swiping credit cards into an electronic reader, merchants had to physically place them into a metal contraption, along with a two-piece carbon form. A heavy roller created an imprint of the credit card. After signing the form, one copy stayed with the store and the other went to the purchaser.

But in the last twenty years shoppers and stores forego using extra paper since everything is stored electronically thanks to the electronic reader. With electronic check conversion an amount is entered and the check is scanned, much like credit cards today. When the transaction is complete the check is given back to the customer since everything is stored electronically. As with current credit card transactions, the business no longer needs to have an 'extra paper trail'.

Electronic Check Conversion Benefits

Electronic check conversion electronically records the transaction thanks to the check reader attached to the credit card terminal. Also like credit cards electronic check conversion or electronic check conversion with check guarantee, will decline a check if there is a problem with the account.

This helps reduce fraud. Any check a merchant gets is electronically verified against a database of closed accounts or accounts with risky histories. Although the businesses cannot see specifically what the problem might be, it will red flag any negative marks in the last 90 days and declines the check. This could be anything from a closed account to bouncing checks.

If the check passes the negative database, it is then converted to an electronic debit and the funds are deposited into the merchant's bank account. This happens if the check writer has sufficient funds in his checking account at the time the check is 'written'.

Electronic check conversion, however, doesn't automatically cover a check in the event that something is wrong with the account in the here and now. So that's where electronic check conversion with check guarantee comes into play.

Electronic Check Conversion with Check Guarantee

Electronic check conversion with check guarantee offers more protection to merchants. Businesses that have electronic check conversion with check guarantee don't have to worry because they still will get paid. Many companies offer both forms - electronic check conversion and electronic check conversion with check guarantee. However, they usually recommend electronic check conversion with check guarantee because this service offers more protection to merchants.

As with electronic check conversion, the check is approved at the time of the transaction. But more importantly, the store is guaranteed funding within 48 hours, even if the check is returned for non-sufficient funds. The same cannot be said for basic electronic check conversion.

Is Electronic Check Conversion With Check Guarantee Right For You?

Every business can benefit from electronic check conversion with check guarantee. The cost of electronic check conversion with guarantee is very similar to the cost of accepting credit cards. However, the discount rate for this feature usually costs less then the discount rate for credit card acceptance.

For a company to decide if electronic check conversion with check guarantee is right for them, they should consider how often they accept checks that become NSF, or become bad for other reasons, such as closed accounts, etc. Not only will electronic check conversion with check guarantee save businesses financial loss because of bad transactions, it also provides them peace of mind that they will receive payment for products or services sold.

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