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Home Based Business: Network Marketing • Published: April 12, 2011
I remember back in the nineties hearing about people involved in the Excel Communications business building these enormous monthly checks. People said it was because they had such a great product, and while they did have an outstanding product, that was not really why people were able to get their residual incomes to such astounding levels. Excel is, of course gone now as their product (long distance phone service) was made obsolete by VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) and the resulting free long distance service we enjoy today. We can still look at their pay plan though and learn by it what it was that was different about how Excel members were compensated.
Blog Commenting For Backlinks - Automate Your Search Efforts
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: November 10, 2010
Commenting on blogs posts to get backlinks is hardly a new idea, and is a part of most people's backlink strategy. Let's face it though. Commenting on blogs gets time consuming, and most people would rather be spending the time on Facebook!
Backlink Relevance - Does It Matter Where Your Backlink Is Posted?
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: October 18, 2010
There is a lot of information out there about posting backlinks across the internet in order to gain high search engine rankings for high traffic keywords. A lot of it is not very accurate. Many will tell you that backlinks posted on sites not related to your niche do you no good as Google doesn't give as much weight to non-relevant backlinks. Is this true?
Why Your Backlinks Are Not Doing You Any Good
Internet and Businesses Online: Link Popularity • Published: March 23, 2010
You have posted literally hundreds of backlinks just like everybody says you should with articles, in blog posts and on web 2.0 communities. You chose your keywords wisely, with an eye for both traffic volume and how much competition there is. And yet you are still not getting onto that coveted first page on Google. Why not?
Weight Loss and Coffee - Can it Work?
Health and Fitness: Weight Loss • Published: January 28, 2010
There is no lack of information available on the subject of weight loss. You can find something that will tell you that almost anything will help you to lose weight. There are articles both pro and con on the effectiveness of each and every weight loss method available in the marketplace.
Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam - The Real Lyrics
Arts and Entertainment: Music • Published: January 11, 2010
Yellow Ledbetter is probably Pearl Jam's most easily identifiable song. And yet most people have little or no idea what the song's lyrics are saying at all. The song has undeniable emotional impact, so it would seem like the lyrics would be of primary importance. Not the case here though.
Membership Websites Mean Residual Income - Choosing Membership Site Software
Internet and Businesses Online: Web Development • Published: September 29, 2009
You can find all sorts of great reasons for setting up a membership website. Residual income is probably the one at the top of everybody's list. So why is it that so few people actually take the plunge and launch their own membership site. The main reason has to be finding the right membership site software to build the site around.
The Four Agreements - Toltec Wisdom Applicable in the Now
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: September 26, 2009
I just read "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz and immediately read it a second time. It's just that good. And frankly that short. Having immersed myself in Tolle, Troward and a host of "New Thought" authors recently this was refreshingly accessible in a much more immediate sense.
Google's Front Page Doesn't Guarantee Huge Traffic
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: July 21, 2009
Webmasters that have struggled in their SEO efforts are frequently surprised when they finally do get their websites to the top of Google's front page and find that they still aren't getting significant amounts of traffic. That isn't to say there isn't traffic to be had for those that can tame the Google beast, it just means that it isn't a foregone conclusion that when you hit the top three spots on Google for your keywords your site will be inundated with targeted traffic.
Keyword Rich Domain Names and PPC Marketing
Internet and Businesses Online: Domain Names • Published: July 1, 2009
The benefits of Keyword Rich Domain Names is obvious from several different standpoints. A domain name that tells you what the underlying site is about will do better with offline marketing efforts for obvious reasons. The benefits from an SEO standpoint are there, but somewhat limited to the keywords contained in the domain itself. The importance of the domain in PPC (PayPerClick) Marketing campaigns is becoming more clear every day.
Email Marketing - Your Emails Must Tell a Story
Internet and Businesses Online: Email Marketing • Published: June 25, 2009
Making your income from marketing online means spending a lot of time testing and measuring, refining and retesting and then starting the process over again. The other day I was doing this with my email marketing campaigns, and I was struck by something... I had run an email campaign promoting a product that was really quite good but had never sold all that well. It had really frustrated me, and in spite of myself I kept tweaking my efforts to try and get it to sell. Well, I was pleasantly surprised to find that my email marketing campaign for this product had finally yielded a pretty respectable return!
Making the Law of Attraction Work For Your Benefit
Self Improvement: Attraction • Published: June 24, 2009
The Law of Attraction is undoubtedly one of the most powerful natural phenomenon in the Universe. With the runaway success of the movie and book The Secret, it has become one of the most highly studied natural laws as well. And yet it is also still one of the most misunderstood.
Google's Front Page - Don't Be Over Awed
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: June 24, 2009
I was doing a little research for an article or two on my favorite Internet Marketing Tool (Google) the other day when I noticed something rather encouraging to my own self image as an internet marketer and copywriter. The articles I was researching were on SEO techniques and the keyword phrases I ran searches for returned some pretty large numbers of sites returned. And yet after I read every one of the results from the front page of one very competitive phrase, I only came across 3 valid ideas/techniques/instructions...
Setting the SEO Record Straight About High PR Backlinks
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: June 22, 2009
With the escalating costs of PayPerClick Marketing, many people are turning back to SEO to supply them with traffic from the organic search engine results. At first the SEO arena seems to be so arcane and technical that they have little hope of achieving any significant results, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
How to Budget For Internet Marketing Tools Services and Products
Internet and Businesses Online: Internet Marketing • Published: June 20, 2009
Several years ago my father went into the retail shoe business by purchasing an existing shop from a man that had lost a ton of money gambling. He was very fortunate to know one of the best CPA's in the region. While he was setting up the company and accounts for his new venture, this genius of accounting sat my father down and shared a secret with him.
Law of Attraction Manifestation Techniques Require Awareness
Self Improvement: Attraction • Published: June 19, 2009
People ask why I have held off writing directly about the Law of Attraction. I've done so because of the prevalence of information on the subject that makes the LOA sound like a Cosmic ATM! Visit any forum on this subject and you are bound to find threads by people looking for help manifesting new cars, luxury homes and stacks of cash. And this by people who have no interest in the more basic forms of manifesting that deal with day to day issues of peace and harmony within their lives.
High PR Backlinks - SEO Magic
Internet and Businesses Online: SEO • Published: June 19, 2009
Only recently have I really enjoyed the kind of SEO success that you read about. The kind where people start writing ebooks feverishly in order to cash in before the next Google slap. The kind where you start having visions of being able to retire to an island somewhere. The fact of the matter is that the secret to amazing SEO success is no big secret at all. High PR Backlinks work every time.
The Power of Now Helps Provide the Peace That Passes All Understanding
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: June 18, 2009
People that have read my work before are familiar with my statement that "The longer I live the more often the answer to my questions is Balance!" So I was quite ready to accept the idea that an out of balance ego was sure to be a source of trouble. Just as it would be detrimental for someone to abdicate all thought of self as without a balanced amount we would lack food, sleep and shelter.
Living Life in the Now - What is Good and What is Evil?
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: June 18, 2009
If you read books, watch movies or television you know that many people think that we are in the middle of a universal struggle between Good and Evil. You see it in the news, in politics, in discussions about religion, in the wars being waged across the globe, and on the streets of our cities, in the business world. Just about everywhere. It is so pervasive that it makes people more than a little obsessive about their belief systems. It causes people to get so entrenched in dogma and their own rigid and frequently narrow viewpoints, that the actuality of life in this universe gets missed in the hysteria.
The Power of Now - Awareness and Acceptance Go Hand in Hand
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: June 18, 2009
A large part of what I try to help people to achieve is centered around Awareness. Awareness of and presence in The Now. Living a life of presence in this moment, not looking forward or backward. Eschewing all of the folderol that accrues when we live our lives to be happy/content/relaxed "As Soon As..."
Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing
Internet and Businesses Online: Video Marketing • Published: June 12, 2009
Article Marketing remains the best form of Traffic Generation available online. Publishing articles creates backlinks for the search engines. Your articles will also create traffic directly from the article directories, blogs and websites where your articles are posted. That doesn't mean there is nothing new in the Article Marketing arena! I've recently posted information on my own Article Marketing process, and the services that I use. There are a new products though that add another dimension to your Article Marketing efforts via Video Marketing...
Turnkey Websites & Website Templates - A Comparison
Internet and Businesses Online: Web Design • Published: June 11, 2009
Website Templates and Turnkey Websites are both quite useful as you build your Virtual Real Estate empire. Just be sure you know what you are getting and what you can do with whatever package you decide to purchase.
Email Marketing - Why Most of Your Emails Never Even Get Opened
Internet and Businesses Online: Email Marketing • Published: June 10, 2009
If you read anything about email marketing in forums these days you will probably come across a lot of people that are under the impression that marketing your products and services through any of the forms of email marketing has lost all effectiveness. Less than 2% of many emails are ever even opened.