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0 - RSS Explained
A lot of fuss has been made over RSS and the vast benefits it can bring to webmasters on both ends of the RSS syndication. However, a lot of webmasters have absolutely no idea how to create an RSS feed or how they can incorporate an RSS feed on their web
Keywords:RSS,rss feed,what is rss

1 - How to fake Google PageRank numbers
Recently, a new technique of faking the PageRank number of a web site has become popular. For example, a rather dubious adult web site managed to get a PageRank of 10.
Keywords:pagerank, google,PR,cheating

2 - 10 Fiery Techniques To Jumpstart Your Sales
10 Fiery Techniques To Jumpstart Your Sales
Keywords:sales,tips

3 - Tips For Colocation Services - Your own Server
One option for connecting your server to the Internet is known as colocation. Many companies offer colocation services. When you use a dedicated server, the web host owns the server. When you choose colocation, however, you own the server and retain compl
Keywords:colocation, co-location,web hosting, server

4 - Are you making these Deadly SEO Mistakes?
Before you go and link to every website that is willing to exchange links, it would be a good idea to know where not to link to. Sometimes it can mean not linking to your own sites.
Keywords:link exchange,links,reciprocal

5 - How A Tree Can Help You Grow Your Business
A tree is a natural example of a perfect business. It energises us with fresh oxygen while recycling our waste air. It absorbs energy directly from the sun while we still have to digest food. It aligns with the forces of nature. Imagine your business is l
Keywords:business, ideas,success

6 - 10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site
10 Cool Ways To Attract People To Your Web Site
Keywords:visitors, tips

7 - 20 Easy Ways To Get People To Link To Your Web Site
It is easy to get link exchange partners when you have a website that is getting alot of traffic and has a high page rank with Google. What proves to be a little harder is getting a quality link partner to link with your site when you have little or no pa
Keywords:Links,Link Popularity,link exchange,PR

8 - Are you paying too much for pay per click advertising?
The cost for pay per click advertising is on the rise. According to Jupiter Research, the average click price will jump from US$0.29 in 2003 to US$0.26 in 2004 and US$0.47 in 2009. And that's only the price for an average keyword. The price for the top sp
Keywords:pay per click,ppc,advertsing

9 - Things to do when you feel like quitting your online business
There are many business skills that need to be learned during your online business venture, but there is one that needs to be mastered. That skill is the ability to not give up, despite many failures along the way.
Keywords:fail,tips,business

10 - Selling online? Get ready to meet these guys (and girls!)...
If you are thinking about starting an online business, I need to warn you about some of the people that you are going to 'meet'. Once you have a website or any form of online presence, these people will seek you out - I guarantee it!
Keywords:customers

11 - 10 Ways To Indirectly Get To The Top Of Search
There are millions of web sites trying to get listed in the top 20 spots of the major search engines. That amounts to a lot of competition! I say if you can't get listed at the top, indirectly get to the top.
Keywords:tips,ranking,search engines

12 - Price of Success (consumer psychology)
We're all adults, and most of us probably like to think that we're fairly well-informed when it comes to basic life wisdom. We're familiar with the benefits of a bird in the hand over two in the bush, we know the risks of putting all our eggs in one baske
Keywords:psychology,consumer,sales

13 - Why Great Companies Survey: Martian Logic!
If an alien civilization from Mars was planning a friendly takeover of our planet they would seek to make sure they understood our way of life and our way of thought.
Keywords:survey,research

14 - 16 Golden rules of Master Copywriting.
You could spend thousands of dollars on advertisement and have extremely low or no results in sales because of your poor planed copy. You shouldn't be amazed by the fact that huge corporations all over the world do that mistake and waste millions of dolla
Keywords:Catch Lines,head lines,content,writing

15 - Interactive Sales Letter Skyrockets Conversions with 2 Simple Questions
There are many tactics and techniques that go into converting visitors into buyers. However, this article will prove to you why creating an interactive" sales letter will be the most critical weapon in your modern marketing arsenal to accomplish this.
Keywords:sales,sales letter,conversion,ratio

16 - Domain names: Get Serious About Your Web Business
So much has been said about this subject in the past but I feel I must reiterate the importance of getting your own domain name if you are to be taken seriously in the home business world.
Keywords:domain name

17 - What Happened? Troubleshooting Poor Response from Ad Campaigns

Keywords:fail,advertsing,campaign,sales

18 - Automate, Automate, Automate
The key to running a successful and efficient online business is to automate as much of your work as possible:
Keywords:automate, maintenance,autoresponders,scripts

19 - The Top 10 The Top Ten Signs That Your Marketing Message Needs a Facelift
Is your marketing plan dull, flat, and downright boring? Is it lacking the zest and appeal which can penetrate the consciousness of your buyers? If so, you may be driving away folks who could easily buy your products or services.
Keywords:marketing,fail,success,marketing message

20 - TOP 8 ways to make your business a success
If you are in business or thinking about going into it, you need to use some strategies so that your business goes in the right direction. Here are 8 unique strategies that you can use to make your business a success.
Keywords:business, ideas,success

21 - How to maximize your profits with Forums.
Forums are one of the most effective free internet marketing strategies if done correctly. Many people participate in online forums for different reasons. Especially in internet marketing forums, they use it for getting advice and answers to their questio
Keywords:forums,marketing,internet marketing

22 - Have You Sold Your Internal Customers?
You can make the sale. You know your core message. You know your target market inside out, right? If you have even one employee than you've got another sales job to do. Everyone in your organization must also be sold on the dream you have. Everyone who an
Keywords:employees,marketing,coaching,training

23 - 13 Ways To Destroy Your Website
Every day, thousands of websites are finding unique ways to turn away visitors and potential customers. Although many webmasters know about the obvious "turn-offs", there are many little details that "tick-off" visitors and make them leave.
Keywords:web design,mistakes,tips

24 - How I Write Articles For Profit
Most Internet marketers worth their salt know how effective articles can be to generate promotion for their web sites. The major problem for many is simply writing the article.
Keywords:articles,writing,promotion,money

25 - Google Page Rank - important or just another number?
Google Page Rank (or PR as it is often referred to as) is simply an indication of the number of websites that link to a specific website. It also attempts to indicate the quality of those links. PR ranges from 0 to 10 (with 10 being the 'best' PR and 0
Keywords:google,pagerank,pr

26 - 5 Lesser-Known Online Business Ideas
5 Lesser-Known Online Business Ideas
Keywords:business, ideas

27 - How To Effectively Use Offline Advertising To Build Your Online Business
First of all let me say that having spent the past 20 years working closely with small businesses I know exactly what works when it comes to offline advertising.
Keywords:offline,advertising

28 - Advertising DOs and DONTs
From early on in my online career I realised that the fastest way to internet riches was to find a marketing concept that brought me profits and plough as much as I could into that resource, thus building my business and capital as I went.
Keywords:mistakes,marketing,advertising

29 - Google's new web page spider
Many webmasters have noticed that there are now two different Google spiders that index their web pages. At least one of them is performing a complete site scan:
Keywords:google,googlebot,spider

30 - 10 Benefits Of Submitting Your Articles To Ezines
Benefits Of Submitting Your Articles To Ezines
Keywords:Ezine Advertsing,newsletter,articles,writing,publishing

31 - About To Start An Online Business? Read This First.
I recently received an interesting question from a visitor to one of my web sites: "If there is any advice that you wish you would have gotten before you started a business online, what would it be?". Rather than write an extensive email on this subject,
Keywords:start business,home based business,online business

32 - Your Alexa rating - is it really that important?
Alexa is a company owned by the Amazon group and it aims to rank every single website on the Internet in terms of how much traffic it is receiving.
Keywords:alexa,alexa rank,alexa rating,pagerank

33 - Does Your Website Make The Grade?
If you aren't making money after sending any quantity of visitors at all to your website then you may be making simple mistakes that ARE costing you money and affiliate signups.
Keywords:mistakes,marketing

34 - Trial and Error + Persistence = Successful Marketing
A few honest and successful Internet business owners will attest to the fact that they have made countless marketing mistakes. Many of them will admit that they didn't get it exactly right on the first try.
Keywords:advertising,marketing,learning

35 - What Do The Olympics Have To Do With Marketing?
Millions of people around the world tuned into the Games of the XXVII Olympiad for the extraordinary displays of physical strength and prowess offered by the world's greatest athletes. They weren't disappointed.
Keywords:marketing,strategy,promotion,tips

36 - Ordinary product + Added value = Increased Profits!
Everyone that wants to get started buying and selling (either online or offline) is trying to find that 'bargain buy' - something whose wholesale price is 50% less than the standard retail price. It is possible to find such products but they are rare and
Keywords:sales,advertising,bonus,bonuses,free

37 - Guaranteed Ways to Build Up Your Ezine List
Here are tips gleaned from roughly 5 years spent building up an ezine list.
Keywords:ezine,newsletter

38 - Getting A Solid Internet Marketing Foundation
As we look at building our online businesses, many of us acknowledge, early-on, that we don't know it all. Those who don't, are almost certain to fail because they often attempt to apply techniques that simply don't work online - to their online business
Keywords:online business,own business,success

39 - Making Informed Keyword Choices
Marketers stake much of their livelihood on keywords, whether for proper search engine optimization or targeted pay-per-click advertising. One challenge faced by inexperienced marketers involves knowing which phrases to target out of hundreds of combinati
Keywords:keywords,pay per click,pay-per-click

40 - Before Publishing a Newsletter, Ask These Questions
In the current world of marketing - especially online marketing - there's a lot of talk about the magic of newsletters. If you listen to the gurus, it sounds like every business should be sending a newsletter, whether printed or electronic, to its custome
Keywords:newsletter,subscribers,promotion,ezine

41 - Why All Your Marketing Efforts Have Come To Nothing
How often have you responded to email from those in your downlines asking for advice on how best to run their online businesses and finding it increasingly frustrating that things JUST aren't working out as planned?
Keywords:marketing,fail,success,strategy,promotion,tips

42 - 10 Sizzling Ways To Ignite Your Profits
How to increase sales and visitors to your web site
Keywords:sales,increase sales,tips

43 - Profiting from Terrible Keyword Supply and Demand Ratios
One of the recent fads is to search for keywords and niches based on an R/S Ratio. The 'R' is the number of websites found with that keyword as reported by a search engine search (the supply), and the 'S' is the number of searches on that keyword (the de
Keywords:keywords,niche,ratio

44 - How To Turn Yellow Pages To Gold
It's that time of year again for many of you isn't it. You know, the Yellow Pages ad reps are knocking at your door. Read this article and may actually be able to get real benefit from your Yellow Pages ad.
Keywords:yellow pages,sales,advertising,tips

45 - What is an Acceptable Response. (Customer Service)
What is an Acceptable Response? Many online marketers work odd hours, with no beginning of the day and no real end. How does this impact support and customer service inquiries? Some small businesses are afraid to reply to customer queries off-hours, fearf
Keywords:response,customer service,service

46 - 10 'Psychological Triggers' To Get Your Prospects To Click
Are banner ads dead? Well, contrary to popular belief, banner ads are NOT dead, and can produce a significant amount of traffic, IF you know how to make them work.
Keywords:sales,visitor/sales,ratio

47 - How Your Competitors Can Help You
Internet marketing is as a competitive home-based business as you can find. There are literally thousands and thousands of people all over the world trying to make a 'buck' marketing their home-based businesses.
Keywords:marketing,competition

48 - 6 Ways To Keep Your Online Customers
6 Ways To Keep Your Online Customers: Be Nice, Impress Your Customer, Teach Your Employees, Easy And Free Communication, Friendly Web Site, Stay In Touch
Keywords:customers,sales

49 - Understanding Google AdWords
Google AdWords - Unlike many search engines Google, to its credit, clearly denotes search listings that are paid placement. In fact, Google AdWords appear in a separate section down the left side of the screen.
Keywords:google,adwords

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