Backlinks – are Articles and Ezines a Help or Waste of Time?

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Backlinks – are Articles and Ezines a Help or Waste of Time?

Well the answer to that question is both Yes & no. A few years back it would have been a clear-cut Yes, but these days with the way algorithms work, especially with Google, it now checks titles, content and bio’s for duplicate content. If it discovers any, only the earliest one will be listed, and if that happens to be a Pagerank of ‘1′, then all your hard work is pretty useless to you.

Even worse is that since around February 2007 Google concluded that sites less than Pagerank ‘4′ are worth much less than they used to be, even with related content.

So what does this mean to those of us who publish articles, is it a waste of time? Well no, you see while Google is the No.1 search engine, we still have plenty of others that are not so strict with backlinking, and most people seem to completely forget about them. Even so, you need to work harder these days to get the most out of your articles.

So how do I do that I hear you ask? Well inaugural of all most folk these days use program to do the job for them, you can find plenty of reviews by searching for them, I will not go into any detail on any particular pc’s in this article.

What you need in your computers is firstly, it can log into the sites, publish your article, logout and move onto the next one. But that is not all you need these days, you usually need another piece of pc’s that will rewrite the articles for you, not the rubbish that moves paragraphs around, or publishes keyword twaddle, the program required is the ones that adapt synonyms so that the article still makes sense and flows the way you wrote it in the earliest place.

If you then run off say 50-100 different copies, this is usually enough for submission.

The submission computer software should allow you to include *.txt files with a list of titles on it relating to your article, and another *.txt files with a list of bio’s. During submission the computers should randomly pick an article, a title, and a bio, so every time it submits, you are getting a very good mixture. So some will get through the search engine looks at.

It is also a good idea to search for your proposed titles on the web in phrase form, if any come up, dump them. You only need 5-10 different titles and bio’s.

If you run a number of websites, including different addresses in the bio will do you an even bigger favour, and give you a more random spread of bio’s, try and keep the article related in some way to the sites you are pointing to though.

Alway use http//xxxxxxxx in the bio as well as href, with a keyword link, to make sure at least one link is live, as not all scripts work the same.

Never put the same article with changed synonyms on the same article submission website, it is usually picked up and deleted, and you are not only wasting the time of the reviewer, but annoying them, and if it happens more than once they may cancel your account, and delete all your entries.

In order to ensure you can have as innumerable Backlinks as possible, you also need to write a few articles pointing to the same site(s), as Google is clever enough now to pick up ‘near enough’ duplicates, so various of your articles is usually dropped, while most other engines will probably list them.

And finally, when submitting your articles, do it with sites ranked 6-10 initial, and then wait a week, so that they are indexed first. Then submit it to all the other article sites. This makes sure the originals indexed are on good Pagerank sites, and are earliest in the list if Google drops most of the others for being near duplicates.

5 Ways Online Marketers Waste Time

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5 Ways Online Marketers Waste Time

Here’s a challenge for you: For the next week document what you do online and how much time you spend doing it. The outcome may surprise you. The fact is that many online marketers fritter away more time online than they spend working on their businesses.

It’s tempting. It’s time consuming. It’s like tossing money to the wind.

If you’re not as productive as you’d like to be, take a step back and get very honest about how you’re spending and/or wasting your time. Let’s talk about some major time wasters and how you can stop stalling and start doing more:

* Checking e-mail. Many of us spend far too much time getting distracted by mail. Do you find that you go back and forth between “real” work and e-mail? If so, carve out a specific time each day to read and respond to important messages. Unsubscribe to junk e-mail so you won’t have to wade through it. If all else fails, log-out of your account to avoid the lure.

* Browsing websites. This is a real temptation for many of us. If you must do research, you can always delegate someone else to do the legwork for you and narrow down the search so you can focus on making money. Then you can spend your time doing more productive tasks.

* Doing something you’re not good at. How many of us have said something like this: “If I can just learn web design, I can save tons of money by doing it myself.” Right? WRONG. One of the biggest mistakes that online marketers make is trying to do it all. The time you’re wasting stumbling through a project is time that you could be using for making money doing something you actually know how to do. Delegate the work or hire someone to do it. The longer you halt your progress with uneventful work, the longer it will take to earn some serious cash.

* Instant Messaging. Yes, it’s quick, convenient, and at the tip of your fingers, but it’s also the biggest waste of your time…and addictive. Here’s where you may have to break your addiction and just pick up the phone. You can get straight to the point without lag time, and then you can get back to the business at hand.

* Online shopping. I know. I know. You can justify online shopping because you’ve just run out of staples. However, how many of us actually jump online, buy what we need, and get back to work five minutes later? This is another task you can delegate to someone else or schedule for a specific time each week. It’s too easy to get pulled into the virtual shopping aisles, start shopping for other occasions, and neglect work for awhile.

With so many temptations on the Internet, it’s no wonder that many CEOs spend an average of only 38-48 minutes a day doing productive work. The Internet-although the greatest source of the online marketer’s income-can also be the biggest detriment to earning money. Use it wisely, and your business will flourish. Use it foolishly, and your online business will flounder.

Buying Twitter Followers is a waste of money

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Buying Twitter Followers is a waste of money

Buying Twitter Followers is a waste of money
-by Al Ferretti and Skeeter Hansen

You may have noticed people advertising something like or similar to, “How to get thousands of followers in a certain amount of time.” Simply said, buying followers is a waste of money. This is because the followers you will receive are mostly non-targeted. This means that the people following you have little or no interest in what you are tweeting about on Twitter.

Focus on quality over quantity. If you are using Twitter for business, it’s important that you have targeted followers. For example, if you are a wellness expert, you would want to target people who have an interest in health and wellness. It would be a waste of your money to get bunch of followers who express no interest in health and wellness.

When you buy twitter followers, you are mainly buying followers generated randomly by bots that are typically non-targeted. Non targeted followers typically will not build a relationship with you nor will they purchase your product or service. Even if you have millions of followers that are non targeted.

To capture targeted followers try using Twitter’s search to find people who are interested in what you have to offer. For example, type in the hashtag (#) followed by health or wellness. Example #health or #wellness
You’ll discover a bunch of people who are talking or “tweeting” about health or wellness. Additionally, Twellow.com is a helpful 3rd party twitter tool that enables you to find and follow people in your niche.

If people have the same or similar interest as you, they will most likely follow you, especially if you following them. Save your money and follow targeted people, you’ll be glad that you did.

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Don’t Waste Your Money Getting a Website ..

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Copyright (c) 2009 Ivana Katz

Some time ago a distressed client (let’s call him Charlie) called me “I’ve distributed over 20,000 flyers about my business and nobody has bought anything from the website”. My first question to him was “did you check the spelling of your website address on the flyer?”. His response “I didn’t put my website address on the flyer – should I have?” … I didn’t know how to respond.

Shortly after, I got another call from Charlie … but more on that later.

Let’s face it, some people are just not ready to have a website. It seems that many first time entrepreneurs’ idea of starting a business is getting a website. And that’s it! They have no intentions of doing any marketing and if they do have a marketing plan it consists of telling their friends about it and possibly distributing a few brochures in the neighbourhood. Some people go as far as planning to advertise their business/website in the local newspaper. More often than not, they expect that as soon as they have a website, the money will start rolling in. They believe a magic internet fairy will appear and announce the arrival of their website to the world.

The truth is, it doesn’t work that way. With millions of websites popping up on the internet every month, you are competing against a lot of businesses … not only locally, but globally. So please please, before you think about getting a website, decide how you are going to promote it.

If you are about to declare bankrupt in your business and thinking of putting your last few dollars into getting a website designed, hoping that it will bring you instant cash, don’t do it! A website will not solve your problems unless you are willing to put in some money (and it doesn’t have to be much) or time to promote it.

When I meet potential clients my first two questions are:

“Why do you want a website?” and “How are you going to promote it?”

Depending on their answer I guide them to the best solution. On a few occasions, I’ve had to tell them they were not ready to get their business on the internet.

In fact one client, who was desperate to make money from her website told me that she didn’t have time for marketing, because she needed to start earning money quickly.

On the other hand there have been lots of very successful entrepreneurs who have made their website work for them.

Lisa Pearse-Sargeant of Paper Scissors Rock Kids Group says “For the first six months of starting Paper Scissors Rock Kids due to a limited start-up budget we only had a basic web page in a newsletter format. This was until we had a better understanding of the business and direction it would take. Through a combined gathering of information at trade shows and print advertising, we felt ready to invest time and money in a proper website. Now our website has proven to be a cost effective way to showcase our product instead of printing costly catalogues. I believe for my business I need to have a crossover marketing approach ie. target trade & public through a mix of web & print advertising, store presentation/merchandising and trade exhibitions”

Josslyn Harrower of Snugzeez, found she desperately needed a website to showcase her products. “My business had been up and running for 3 months and most of my orders were from word of mouth. An international sleep expert ‘Tizzie Hall’ was personally recommending my sleep comforters to her clients, and they kept asking to see what the products looked like and what variety was available. My products were not available in stores so the only option was to have a website. It wasn’t long before I was being approached by other websites to link their site to mine. This has definitely helped with marketing my products. I receive more hits on my site from Tizzie Hall’s website and a few others than advertising in magazines or newspapers. Winning ‘Best Product’ at Sydney Kidz Expo last year certainly helped to boost my site’s exposure.”

If you decide to have a website, it is extremely important you take the time to plan it and work out how it will fit in with the rest of your business. The website needs to be functional, rather than just “pretty”. It needs to provide your visitors the information THEY need.

The last time I heard from Charlie, our conversation went something like this:

Charlie: “Ivana, can you please send an email to everybody telling them about my website”.

Me: “Yes of course … just send me your mailing list”

Charlie: “What do you mean mailing list? I don’t have one. I thought you just press a button!”

So please, before you pick up the phone and speak to a website designer, think about how you will market your website.

3 Ways To Waste Money With Pay-Per-Click

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A successful Pay-Per-Click campaign is an Internet marketer’s dream. I know people who swear by Pay Per Click and others who have horror stories to tell, like the marketer who was charged more than $7600 on his credit card for his Pay-Per-Click marketing … and he didn’t make a single sale! I’m not going to tell you his name because I don’t want to embarrass him, but it was a colossal disaster.

That’s why a lot of marketers are scared. They’ve heard the stories about high click-through rates with very low conversions. Pay-Per-Click works if you know what you’re doing. You must have copy that attracts your target market, but you need more than that.

If you want to waste money with Pay-Per-Click, here are three ways to do it. Here’s what not to do if you want to have a high return on investment.

1. Using the Priceline strategy to bid on key terms. “Mamby Pamby.” If you take the advice of William Shatner, you should bid as low as you need to go to secure a hot deal through Priceline. If you think you’re going to get more for less with Pay-Per-Click, you might as well open your wallet and toss your money to strangers. Pay-Per-Click operates like an auction, and if you can’t secure one of the top three spots, you’re wasting your time and money. Bid high to keep your search terms high in the listings. In this case, you get what you pay for.

2. Directing visitors to your home page. Bad idea. When someone clicks on your ad, you’ve got to take them to a page that has minimal distractions, and for most websites the home page covers too much territory. Your website is a valuable piece of virtual real estate, and you want to walk your visitors through the path of least resistance.

3. Hiding your keywords in a busy landing page. When a visitor lands on your page, the search terms should be visible at first glance. Less is definitely more here. If the buyer is shopping for hammers, he should be directed straight to the hammers not the paint brushes. If he has to search for what he’s looking for, he’s going to go somewhere else. Save the upsell and cross-sell for when he’s checking out.

Understandably, Pay-Per-Click makes a lot of marketers nervous, but that’s because they don’t understand how it works. Like any marketing method you’ve got to test to see what works best for you. To review, here are three key factors to consider when you use Pay-Per-Click:

1. Bid high for your search terms to get the best position

2. Direct visitors to exactly what they want

3. Make the search terms highly visible on your landing page

The truth is that Pay-Per-Click is a powerful marketing tool if you do your homework and do it right. Don’t let the horror stories scare you. Mamby Pamby. You get what you pay for.