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Eight Reasons Why You Must Add Audio To Your Website
Did you know that Internet users remember only 20% of what they read while remembering an amazing 70% of what they hear? By Tracey Meagher

7 Ways to Increase Web Site Visitors and Boost Sales
Have you spent a lot of money on advertising with the expectation that you would get many sales from the 1000s of web site visitors that read your ad? By Herman Drost

If You Build It, They Will Come...
...No they won't. On the web, building a web site is not enough. If there are no links to the site anywhere, no-one is going to visit it. By Adrian Kennelly

Your Website on My Forehead
People are so focused on promoting their websites on the web nowadays that many are overlooking the original marketing medium—the offline world! By Jon Castle

Competing with the Big Names
If you have ever been in an industry with long established, big name companies then you know it is hard to beat them in the search engine rankings. By Derek Croote

The Godfather Of Internet Marketing Passes Away
The news of Corey Rudl's death on Thursday 2nd June 2005 came at me like a bolt out of the blue. By Michael Cheney

Domain Names - What You Need To Know
Countless times people have come to me saying: "Michael, I've had this great idea! I've bought up loads of domain names that all include words relevant to my product and now they all point to my main website.".. By Michael Cheney

How To Improve Your Site By Just Browsing
A lot of us get so caught up in running our own businesses and websites that we forget to take the time out to actually browse the web any more! By Michael Cheney

Google's AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?
A large part of Google's multi-billion dollar annual turnover comes from its nifty AdSense advertising program. By Michael Cheney

The Longest Link Request in History?
I got an email today out of the blue from someone wanting to exchange links with one of my websites.. By Michael Cheney

What a Billionaire Balloonist Taught Me About Internet Marketing
Billionaire Richard Branson, the entrepreneur behind the Virgin brand, is one of the world's most successful and adventurous businessmen. By Michael Cheney

Is Blogging For You? Take This Quick Test
There's a new craze sweeping the world. It's called 'blogging' and a new blog is being created every few seconds. But what is it all about and should you join in? By Michael Cheney

8 Tips for Choosing a Domain Name.
If you're just starting out on the Internet, choosing a domain name is one of the first major decisions you will have to make. I won't say that choosing a name for your site will determine the overall success or failure of your online business. By David Cooper

5 Tips For the Perfect Domain Name.
What is a domain name? A domain name is the location of your website on the Internet. Your domain name will be what you become known by online so it's important to get it right. By Niall Roche

The Perils and Pitfalls of Pay-per-click Advertising.
In this age of speed dialing, T1 lines and other forms of high-tech instant gratification, many webmasters find themselves tempted to engage in pay-per-click advertising. By Cari Haus

Why You Should Use (Not Abuse) Forums to Increase Your Traffic.
There are dozens of reasons why you should look up the forums that are related to your market and post to them often. Here are 3 to get you started. By Tinu AbayomiPaul

How do I drive traffic to a brand new website?.
Every single day, more and more people upload brand new websites to the Internet. I don't have any figures but there must be hundreds of thousands of new pages being added daily (if not considerably more!) By Richard Grady

The Viability of Blogging to a Niche Market.
Niche marketing is an old and very successful marketing strategy whereby a company focuses on marketing and selling to a clearly defined segment of potential consumers. By Mal Keenan

Creating the right ‘Viral Reputation’.
Unless you are brand new to business, or have been under a rock for quite some time - one key marketing technique (which isn’t new) - is called ‘Viral’. By Gary Durkin

Making Money from Parked Domains.
Let me tell you a true story. A friend of my who likes to collect domain names was describing a few that he had acquired. While he has a wide range of domains in various categories, these particular domains were all related to web hosting. By Derek Vaughan

BLOGS! What They Are... And WHY They're Becoming A POWER TOOL For Internet Marketers.
BLOGS! What a crazy name for the "NEWEST" Internet marketing trend to hit the Internet. By Cory Threlfall

The Advantage and Consequences of New Economy Marketing.
Some of the research that has been done today gives us a lot of information on the values of today's society. What I'm referring to is a lifestyle in which there is more to do in generally less time in which to accomplish it. There's more to spend money on so there's less disposable income. By Abe Cherian

Building An Online Business Is Like Starting A Garden, You First MUST Plant Your Seeds.
I know what your thinking, "what the heck does starting a garden and planting seeds have to do with building an online business?" By Cory Threlfall

Why You’re Not Blogging - And Why You Should Start Today.
Those of you who aren't ready to wade into the Blog pool are taking your time for several reasons, according to my informal interviews with people before and after they blog. Others start blogging and then abandon their projects too soon, unaware of the benefits. By Tinu AbayomiPaul

Why You're Missing Out on Hundreds of Visitors If You Aren't Doing This..
Your tip today starts with my own shocking secret - I used to *HATE* listening to audio online. I'd still rather pay to download a transcript. I'm just a print-oriented person. By Tinu AbayomiPaul

Business Blogging - 5 Tips to Help You Barrel Through Writer’s Block.
It’s inevitable. Everyone hits the wall. Whether you’ve been blogging ten weeks, ten minutes, or ten months, eventually you’ll find yourself with absolutely nothing to say. By Tinu AbayomiPaul

Treble your Adsense Income in 60 Minutes.
Google's Adsense is one of the most powerful weapons in website publisher's arsenal. It enables you to monetize your sites easily and if used properly can generate a very healthy income. By Kenny Hemphill

Is Your Site Hungry For Traffic?.
For the past few years, I’ve been stashed away in my secret lab working on underground strategies for driving hordes of targeted to traffic to my sites. By Keith Baxter

6 Steps To Adsense Domination.
When you make your living online, you realize the need for multiple streams of income. By Keith Baxter

Free Traffic Programs and How to Use Them.
I try to use as many free traffic programs as I can to increase traffic to my web sites. But does this traffic actually make sales for me? Probably not directly but indirectly they can. By Tom Worsley

The Power of Reverse Advertising.
How many times have you heard that posting on FFA sites are a complete waste of time? By Steve Tanner

RSS is Not Only for Blogs.
Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering content from your blog, although blogs are what made RSS so popular. By Rok Hrastnik

Sneaky Web Design Tricks That Automatically Boost Readership & Drive-Up Conversion Rate!.
Do you have powerful, irresistible, conversion-oriented sales copy that's waiting to be uploaded simply because you don't have someone to "design" your site? By Dan Lok

Creating Your Own Blogging Empire!.
One of the goals of most marketers today is to create a consistent monthly income which requires little or no effort on their part. This was usually accomplished through residual income programs like mlm’s or network marketing programs. By Paul Sanford

RSS: The Amazing Profit Potential.
All marketers are the e-mail delivery problem, hoping that just somehow our messages are going to reach our customers and subscribers this time ... and then hoping that they're going to open them, instead of mistaking them for spam. By Rok Hrastnik

Twenty Ways To Profits Online.
1. Offer to write exclusive articles (that means you only submit them to one place) for high traffic web sites in exchange for a link back to your site. By Paul Jesse

The RIGHT Way To WRITE Articles.
As a follow up to my previous article on the WRONG way to write articles (see link at the end), this article shows you the RIGHT way to write articles. By Steve Shaw

5 Top Tips For Attracting Targeted Traffic.
One of the most common needs of online business owners is traffic. Without traffic, your web site barely exists, and is unlikely to make any profit whatsoever. With traffic, you stand a much greater chance of success - but not just any traffic. By Steve Shaw

Creating Content: The Easy Way.
There is little doubt that quality content has a number of real benefits for your web site, not least increasing levels of repeat visitors, and valuable revenue streams such as advertising and the sale of products or services related to the content you provide. By Steve Shaw

Top 10 Ways To Irritate Your Visitors.
Let's face it. It is really hard to come up with new ways to fully irritate visitors to your site. By David Bell

Article Writing: Breaking Writer's Block.
It is amazing to see how much we all still dread writing; even a simple letter or memo! When we start talking about an Essay or an Article for publication, it gets much worse. As human beings, we are prone to self doubt, the good news however is; that there is a cure for that. By Robert Kempster

Pizzazz Prevents Piracy of your Articles.
Writing articles for the web is an effective way to bring more traffic to your site. You write the article, you include a link in the author's info box, you submit it to article distributors and it gets reproduced with a link back to your site. By Darby Higgs

Five Ways to Profit from Using Video Online.
The newest media wave to hit the online shore is video. Individual emails abound with links to "the funniest video ever," or blurry clips of new babies or birthday parties. By Liz Micik

5 Ways How You Can Boost Your Google AdSense Earnings.
Google AdSense is a great way for webmasters to monetize their websites. While many webmasters are struggling hard to earn $3 - $10 per day, some 'genius' webmasters have already enjoyed $30, $100, and even $300 a day from AdSense ads on their websites. By Mohd Fairuz

The Worst Internet Marketing Strategy Ever?.
Many people are downright frustrated. By Jason Potash

"FEED ME!" When Prospects Become Parasites!.
When you hear the word "leech", most often you think about squiggly, squirmy, slimy little bloodsuckers that don't really offer you very much in return for using your body as a twisted sort of beer-tap. By David Badurina

Marketing Lessons from a Rabid Chipmunk.
A relative of mine is a mail-carrier for the United States Post Office. Like any place of employment, there are all sorts of colorful characters working there. They're all very good people - friendly and enjoyable to chat with. By David Badurina

Captive Marketing - What Will They Think of Next?.
Every once in awhile a light bulb goes off in someone's head and a new marketing concept is born. One of the more recent "opportunistic" marketing methods is marketing to you when you have no choice. By David Badurina

Viral Marketing has Left the Building.
Viral Marketing - as a forward-thinking "buzzword" - is missing. Gone are the days of catchy buzz-marketing that you could just let loose upon the world and watch take off. By David Badurina

Common Ways People Waste Their Marketing Dollars! (1 of 2).
1. Why paying to get your web site automatically submitted to ten zillion search engines doesn't pay off. By Blair Ballard

Brief History of Blogs.
Summary: A quick look at where blogs came from, where they are and where they're going. By Andy Wibbels

What the Heck is a Blog?.
Summary: The big deal about blogs and why your business can use one. By Andy Wibbels

6 Good Reasons For Writing An eBook.
Electronic books also known as ebooks for short are one of the hottest properties on the Internet. The benefits of writing an ebook are enormous. By Jean Lam

The Road to Damascus - Linking Strategies to Skyrocket to the Top of Google.
If you don’t know already, one of the key success factors to getting loads of free Google traffic to your website is increasing page rank. So just how do you increase your page rank? Well, it’s all in the linking. By Greg Furey

The No #1 Reason Why People “Getting Started” In Internet Marketing Are Getting It Wrong.
It’s tragic. By Jo Han Mok

10 Article Writing Quirks.
Much has been touted about the effectiveness of article writing in the promotion of their business. While everyone raves about its benefits I’ll look into a few quirks. By Nicholas Dixon

Yardstyle Marketing.
It is just crazy. Every time I open my mouth to talk about Internet marketing, it is like I am speaking a foreign language to my audience. My local audience that is. By Nicholas Dixon

Online Trade Winds.
A few bends ago on the online marketing road, I registered and got paid hosting for a website I have been marketing for years. Now some people may say that is minor step, but for someone who lives on a rock in the Caribbean Sea that is a privilege. By Nicholas Dixon

7 Things You Must Do If You Want To Increase Your Traffic.
Gary Halbert once said that the ONLY advantage he wanted when it came to selling burgers was not a better sauce, or better grade of beef, but a STARVING CROWD. By Jo Han Mok

What Internet Marketers Can Learn From Obvious Adams.
A very long time ago, 1916 to be exact, The Saturday Evening Post began publishing a column about a young man named “Obvious Adams”. Adams was a fictional caricature of a would-be advertising man who was so simple, and so guileless, in his thinking that he was brilliant in spite of himself. By Jo Han Mok

How to Get 50 High PR One Way Links Each Month.
It's easy. So easy it's almost criminal. But I can get one-way high PR links whenever I want. By John Gergye

Are You SURE Your Link Partners Still Link to You?.
It’s a fact. While most link partners are scrupulously honest a few are little more than link scam artists. They’ll take a link from you to them. Put up your link back. But then when you’re not looking take yours down. By John Gergye

How To Fire Up Your Link Popularity.
When I first started out in Internet marketing, reciprocal linking was one of the techniques that I was required to master. By Nicholas Dixon

How to Negotiate Rates with a Freelance Copywriting Consultant.
Lots of people who seek out my copywriting services are concerned about money. Rightfully so. I’m a small business owner too, and I know what it is to have that do-it-yourself mindset. By Dina Giolitto

Ten Simple Tips To Create A Money Magnet Web Site!.
Staying awake at night wondering how to pump up your sagging Internet sales? By Valerie Millls

The Secret to Making Money Online.....Patience!.
I'm going to let you in on a little secret... By Brandy Latshaw

How and Why to Build a Linking Strategy for your Web Site.
Why would you want a linking strategy for your site? The most important reason is to drive traffic to your site, which in turn would increase visitors that would either purchase from you, make your web site more popular, or reach a larger audience to inform for your cause. By Michael Rock

How I reached #1 in Yahoo!.
By accident, no all that reading and studying statistics finally paid off. I started out by reading articles from people with opposing views and trying to figure out who was wrong and who was right. By Michael Rock

How to reach #1 in Yahoo! Part 2.
KEI - Keyword Effectiveness Index. The value of a keyword or keyword phrase that helps a web site reach the #1 position in search engines by comparing how often the keyword or keyword phrase is used and comparing it to how many web sites are using that keyword or keyword phrase to market their site. By Michael Rock

Article Publishing is a Key Component of Internet Marketing.
Frequently when I am communicating with other webmasters and I bring up the subject of writing articles, I often get a response like "I'd rather have a root canal, I just can't write", or "my spelling is horrible and my grammar is not much better". By Kirk Bannerman

An Overview Of Pay Per Click Search Engine Fundamentals.
Forbes magazine has reported that pay per click ad sales are expected to increase to at least $8 billion by 2008. By Kirk Bannerman

Go With Quality Over Quantity And Your Business Will Prosper.
In the early days of developing my home business, I went for the numbers instead of focusing on targeting prospects. It took me a while to appreciate the importance of targeting (quality) instead of just going for the big numbers (quantity). By Kirk Bannerman

It's Not Brain Surgery, It's Just An Online Home Based Business.
Back when I first started my online home business I didn't have a clue concerning how to go about it. I had never done any Internet marketing, and didn't know anything about websites or search engines or any of that other online business stuff...in short, I was a complete rookie. By Kirk Bannerman

We Are Right In The Middle Of A Pay Per Click Baby Boom.
No, this baby boom will certainly not swamp the Social Security system (sort of a bad joke for those that live in the United States, but many other countries...most notably Japan... By Kirk Bannerman

You Really Can Make Money With Your Words.
Sometimes when I am communicating with other webmasters and I bring up the subject of writing articles, I often get a response like "I'd rather have a root canal, I just can't write", or "my spelling is horrible and my grammar is not much better". By Kirk Bannerman

Internet Marketing Guide.
If you are considering launching a website for your business or entering the lucrative world of e-commerce by starting an online business, there are a few things you need to keep in mind in order to assure your web site’s success. By Jack Elmy

Soaring With the Direct Marketing Eagles.
Many years ago, there was a popular humorous say that went something like, "It's hard to soar with the eagles when you hang out with the turkeys." The message of course was that your accomplishments are limited by those that you spend most of your time with. By Willie Crawford

How to Profit from Knowing the Most Expensive Keywords.
By knowing the most expensive keywords on the internet, you can create websites and web pages based on these keywords. On these sites and pages, you can serve expensive ads and/or promote affiliate offers that reap high bounties when clicked or completed. By Dave Lavinsky

Internet Marketers: How To Solve Any Problem In Three Minutes Flat.
Being an Internet entrepreneur running your own business comes with a whole list of problems: How do I get my sales page to convert? How do I get traffic to my site? How do I optimize my site for the search engines? How do I convince joint venture partners to work with me? By Rick Miller

It Ain't Going To Happen!.
Are YOU still trying to succeed online without an AutoResponder and Mailing List Manager? It's NOT going to happen! By Robert Teske

Are You WASTING Valuable Web Real Estate?.
I sat at the lunch table, turning every shade of red the mind could conjure up. I had to do something, and do it fast. By Jason Tarasi

Internal Linking – An Introduction.
The web as they call it is a mesh of links. The wired world is now being counted for what it is. A Network. The more your pages are wired or integrated into the overall web linking architecture, the better it is from search engine ranking point of view. Google specially thrives on crawling on links. By Vikas Malhotra

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