I am going to keep this pretty simple, this video may be from Sept ‘08 but the message remains true and clear!
Enjoy 
This bloke took his family’s wine business to 60m a year using online video!
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You see, to some people the thought of searching for “no win no fee accident claims” might get you some results like forums discussing options, or legal services that provide checklists etc… Maybe you searched for “education student loan consolidation” and hoped you would find some solutions to your student load needs.
Well the fact is, searches like these make business open their digital wallets my friends!
If you searched for “no win no fee accident claims” and clicked the number 1 ad, you just cost that company a little over $50!
Yes, you read that right!
So my point I am trying to make here is, are you spending money on ppc? Are you making sure you are giving the searcher what they want?
You may not be spending $50 a click, but you are spending money so do it wisely!
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This Tutorial is Part of Atomic Blogging ( A Step By Step Guide to Blogging )
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What you see above are the number of Spam messages I get so far on my blog! It’s HUGE! Aren’t they annoying? To avoid and prevent all this spam you must use Akismet – A Free Plugin to avoid spam for your blog.
Before I start, Akismet is a free open source spam program online to help fight spam for wordpress owners.
Just follow the following steps to get started to prevent Spam on your blog.
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Do you want to do a Google rank check? Google’s page rank is a complex and patented algorithm. Google considers over half a billion variables when determining your rank on their search results.
To know what all of these variables are is near impossible, in fact not even the person who oversees the code is 100% certain. So, anyone claiming to be an authority in Google rank check should be viewed with caution.
Still, there are certain things we do know about how this page rank thing works.
Google flat out claims that pages which they believe are important, get a higher page rank than others do. Pages with higher rank will tend to appear higher in the search results, though you will still see page rank 5 pages, occasionally ranking higher than page rank 7 pages for a specific search… weird huh!
Google also sees the links on a page acting kinda like a “vote” for other pages. So, should a highly ranked page link to your site, then you get more “kudos” out of it than when an affiliate/friend/webmaster with no page rank links back to your site.
A lot of the experts agree that backlinks from the .gov and .edu sites have higher link kudos than other top level domains simply because they are restricted to not for profit organisations.
Tip: A way you can get .edu links is to take out some online ads on college newspaper site!
Basically though, any links from PR 2 or higher sites will help your page rank. One way to get links is to post comments on websites, or blogs, with a decent page rank. O.hh, you should make sure that Google “follows” the links on the page first. Some webmasters (basta#&s) set their sites up so that you won’t get any link kudos from your posts. You can do this by downloading free software on the internet.
Other ideas for increasing page rank include:
· Join forums and post a link back to your website in your signature. Every time you make a post, you’ll get link juice (keep to forum rules re signatures).
· Submit your site to directories. Each directory which lists you will give you more of a chance of being listed higher in Google’s search results.
· Add an ezine to your site. Not only will this allow you to keep up with the people who visit your site, but you can also post information about your ezine to ezine directories.
· Publish articles on the article sites. You can drive traffic to your sites this way. But, high PR article sites also give you link juice.
· Create a sitemap on your website. This lets Google know how to index your page.
· Link to other pages within your web site. Putting links to the internal pages within the web site allows you to increase your link juice.
· Continue building pages within your site. Every page you create and link back to your home page increases the strength of your home page’s PR.
To do a Google rank check, you can install the Google toolbar to your Firefox browser. The tool is at http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html -This will give you the page rank of every page you visit.
If you want the Internet Explorer version, I do not know, try downloading Firefox 
A Google rank check will allow you to know how your site is faring compared to similar sites.
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A lot of product owners wonder whether or not they should be paying an affiliate to promote their product. While generally, I believe the answer is yes, there are some exceptions to when you want to pay an affiliate.
Let’s face it, you can only get so many people to visit your website on your own. I mean, your pay per click resources are limited and you can only write so many articles and create so many back links before your time, and energy, are exhausted. So, if you have an army of affiliates promoting your product, you simply will be able to make more sales. If your affiliates aren’t “poaching” off the sales you would make yourself, paying affiliates to market your product is a real no brainer.
If you were selling pizzas, each additional pizza would cost you money to produce. But digital products are different. It costs you almost the same amount of money to produce one product as it does to produce a million. Therefore, why wouldn’t you want to pick up low hanging fruit by paying affiliates to promote your product?
Let us remember, once you get a customer, you can sell to them for life. If you have structured your product line correctly, you can pay an affiliate 75 percent of the original purchase price, but continue to market to that customer for the rest of their life without paying the affiliate any additional money (there are some affliate networks that offer ‘lifetime’ cookies, that is another post).
Affiliate marketers are very good at their area of specialization or they wash out quickly. Some are experts at pay per click and know how to deliver traffic to your site that converts. Others put in the time to write articles that pre-sell customers on your product before they ever land on your page. Video marketing, forum marketing, and classified ads are other specialities of affiliate marketers.
So, are there times when it doesn’t make sense to pay affiliate marketers? Yes, there are.
If you are only going to sell 100 of a single item and you have 1,000 responsive people on your personal email list, you will probably not want to pay affiliates. When you can sell out the subscription yourself, there is no need to split the proceeds, follow me?
Another time when you may want to consider not using affiliates is when you want to control exactly how your product is marketed. When you open the product up to affiliate marketers, you will lose control of the advertising process. Marketers could spam safe lists or classified sites and give your product a bad name.
Most product owners, however, find that the benefits outweigh the down sides of paying affiliates.
Clickbank is the most popular way to set up an affiliate program for digital products. PayDotCom tried to give Clickbank a run for its money, but hasn’t taken off as well as the promoters hoped. You can also set up a script to run an affiliate program.
If you are after some names, leave a comment now.
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