Monday, November 17, 2008
 If you have a website but have no clue about SEO, I'd like to recommend search engine optimization specialist Suzanne Morrison's ebook, 3 Steps To Search Engine SuccessWhat is SEO?Suzanne explains: "SEO is the process of choosing the best keywords for your website, optimizing the pages on your website for your chosen keywords and then increasing your search engine ranking by building high quality links back to your website." A lot of folks are under the impression that SEO is a complex, highly technical task because many of the manuals on SEO are hundreds of pages long and many a search engine optimization specialist would not hesitate to charge thousands of dollars to optimize your website. Suzanne Morrison's brand new 3 Steps to Search Engine Success guide proves that you don't have to be a techie or a marketing whiz to get your website to the top of the search engines. This clearly written, easy-to-follow SEO guide explains everything you need to know to get your website moving up the search engine rankings - in plain English! The guide comes in PDF format and at just over 50 pages long you won't find yourself getting lost in lots of tiny detail and technical jargon. Suzanne explains how to get your website onto the first page of Google. The first chapter explains exactly what SEO is and how it works. It then goes on to cover keyword research - how to find good keywords from your website using free keyword research tools and how to decide which keywords are the best ones for your website. Next, you get a step by step guide on how to optimize your website for the search engines. You will see exactly where you need to put your keywords on the page to get a good ranking. Finally, the third step of the 3 Steps to Search Engine Success eBook explains how to easily get good backlinks to your website and includes a few methods that most webmasters don't even know about! As well as covering the three main steps of SEO, the book tells you how you can easily monitor your progress, check your visitor stats and compare yourself against your competitors. There is also a good section describing all the things that you should AVOID if you want to get a good search engine rank. Knowing exactly what to avoid doing in SEO is important as you don't want to end up with your website being banned from the search engines, so it is good to see a whole section dedicated to these pitfalls! Overall, the book is straightforward and easy to read and understand, yet still manages to cover everything that a search engine optimization specialist would do for you. There are screenshots and examples throughout the ebook, which make it easier to follow than the majority of SEO guides on the market - and cheaper too!  Click the link to find out more about how to turn yourself into a search engine optimization specialist in three easy steps! ==> 3 Steps to Search Engine Success <== David Hurley Labels: search engine optimization specialist, what is seo
 
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
If you're planning to start a new business you will need to take steps to write a business plan.
Many successful business owners will tell you that having a written business plan is one of the keys to their present success. Creating a business plan helps you to focus on your goals and your available resources. In so doing, it forces you to contemplate possible obstacles to your business and prepares you to find solutions that will help you to overcome them.
If you are looking for a business start-up loan, the first thing your bank manager will want to know is whether you have a business plan.
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Going through the steps to write a business plan with detailed financial projections will provide you with a resource to monitor whether your business is growing properly. You can measure your success by how closely to the plan your business has actually performed. If you have never written a business plan before you may worry that is is too difficult a proposition for you to manage on your own. However, there are some excellent resources on the Internet to help you with a business plan's layout to encourage you to try your own hand at it. Teneric Business Plans offers some industry-specific business plans that will assist you in creating a detailed plan to suit your specific needs. Once you have taken the necessary steps to write your business plan, don't file it away in your desk or on your computer. Keep it handy so that it can serve as your daily guide and silent business partner to keep you on track for business success. Make it a priority to have this crucial road map for your business. Supplementary article: How To Plan For Success, by John Colanzi Labels: steps to write a business plan
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Every experienced Internet marketer knows how important it is to find profitable niche markets. Unfortunately, a lot of what Internet marketing gurus teach about finding niches is very simplistic. It goes something like this: - Choose something that interests you or that you have experience in.
- Plug the main keyword into a keyword research tool.
- Check how many searches it generates. If it's about 30,000 per month, it's a good niche. Anything less than that is not a good niche. If it is way above 30,000 searches, there is probably too much competition in this niche market.
That's it! Based on those three steps, you are supposed to find a niche. So, what's wrong with this advice? Actually, nothing - except that it does not go far enough... I just published information about the extra steps you need to take on my main website. Click the link and scroll down to the second panel, titled "How Do The Internet Marketing Gurus Find Their Niches?"
 Labels: internet marketing guru, niche marketing, profitable niche markets
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The professional GetResponse.com autoresponder and email follow-up service has just got better for Joomla users. GetResponse has brought out a new Joomla extension, which allows their clients to integrate a GetResponse subscription form into their Joomla sites in one easy process. If you are a Joomla user looking for an autoresonder service, it might now be worth your while to try out a free subscription with GetResponse.com. The GetResponse extension enables Joomla users to define a heading, pre-text, post-text, form fields and button descriptions on your websites. Tracking codes can also be incorporated for each campaign you run. Another great benefit of GetResponse's Joomla extension is that site visitors will not be taken off your site and redirected to another page for confirmation purposes. Instead, a confirmation pop-up will appear. After confirming their subscription, visitors will be able to continue browsing on the original page. The pop-up feature also adds immediacy to the confirmation process so the number of confirmations is likely to be higher. The GetResponse.com autoresponder and email follow-up service uses some of the fastest and most reliable email servers available. Just take a look at what you get with GetResponse! - Personalization of emails - Unlimited follow-ups - Complete import and export features - Send a broadcast email to your entire list all in one shot - Attach files to any or all of your autoresponses - Track your leads and responses - Your choice of 19 different domains names to send from - Send HTML-enhanced messages - Your own "confirmation" screen - Selective broadcasting - Block unwanted email addresses - Bounce-back management - Full activity reports via email - Free, unlimited technical support - Plus the new extension for Joomla users! To find out more about GetResponse, click here. Joomla is a free open source content management system. See http://www.joomla.org for more info. David Hurley P. S. Did you know that you can take out a FREE subscription to GetResponse? To get your free subscription, CLICK THIS LINK and scroll down the landing page until you come to a link that looks like this: ->Sign up for free
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Last month I set up a "high quality, low cost, limited membership PLR article club" and tested it in the PipsPowerGroup forum.
Every single article is focused on the "work from home on the Internet," "Internet marketing," or "success education/motivation/mentality" niches.
This month I have gone public with my service, placing classified ads on various forums and traffic exchanges.
So what does my service offer Internet marketers?
Here's an overview:
Article marketing is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build targeted traffic to your website, but for a lot of people,
- writing articles is a pain in the neck...
- writing articles takes up hours of your time...
- getting others to write articles for you can be costly and...
- quality isn't guaranteed...
- PLR articles are often poorly written with shoddy "article spinning" software...
- PLR packs often include a bunch of articles on irrelevant niches...
- There are no membership limits so the articles may have been used 1,000s of times already...
My service allows you to save yourself the time and effort of writing your own articles.
It is also cheaper than having articles individually written for you, yet membership is limited and the articles are freshly written (either by me or by expert writers that I trust). That means the articles you receive will not have been posted thousands of times already on the Internet.
Also, I proofread and edit every article before posting it to the site.
A lot of cheap PLR services, and even some article writing services do NOT proofread their articles, and many of the articles have been written in a very shoddy style. In many cases the articles writers do not even have a perfect grasp of the English language!
Another problem with PLR packs is that you almost always get a bunch of unusable articles on irrelevant topics.
My service will save you time, effort, money and offers you peace of mind about the quality of the service...
My service delivers:
- Low Cost Articles
- High Quality Articles (Written by Internet marketing experts.)
- Well Written Articles (Written by educated, literate, native English speakers.)
- Fresh Articles (Written from scratch every month.)
- Limited Membership (100 members only, so articles will not be over-used.)
- Time Limited Articles (Articles are removed from the members' site at the end of the month to limit their availability.)
- Every Article Focused On "The Work From Home On The Internet" Niche... (No irrelevant articles.)
+ Free Monthly Bonuses! (This is an "unadvertised bonus" so I shall keep mum about it!!)
My aim is to deliver far more in quality and service than you would expect for the $10 per month subscription fee.
David Hurley Labels: plr articles
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Time to blog about Squidoo again! What is Squidoo.com? Squidoo is an ever-expanding website that consists of a network of pages built by its members who are called "lensmasters". Squidoo is free and on Squidoo it easy for anyone to set up a single page (aka "lens") on virtually any topic of interest. Squidoo was launched in October 2005 by Seth Godin, author of the far-sighted 1999 bestseller, Permission Marketing. Squidoo is all about showing your enthusiasm for your topic by supplying links to detailed info on other websites. Squidoo is totally cool about including business and affiliate marketing links, so a lot of Internet marketers use it to talk about their products. Question is, how can you, as an affiliate marketer, make money on Squidoo? Check my review of Squidoo Basics to get a few hints... Labels: make money on Squidoo, squidoo, Squidoo Basics, Squidoo.com
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Clickbank is free to join and lists a huge and ever-expanding range of ebooks and other affiliate products and resources. Many of the Clickbank merchants offer high commission rates.
I've just been reading a report by Cynthia Minnaar on one of her Squidoo lenses about a guy called Justin Harrison who is a leading authority on making a ton of money by promoting Clickbank products.
Here's an extract from Cyn's report:
"Justin Harrison, a respected member of the internet marketing community, and consultant some of the biggest names in the industry has just released one of the best Clickbank strategy guides I have ever seen.
"In fact this breakthrough strategy guide reveals a dozen strategies that most ClickBank vendors and affiliates have never even heard of, let alone used.
"Cover to cover this guide is jam packed with real workable advice and strategies that has consistently generated more than $120,000.00 per month in ClickBank sales for Justin and his partner."
The cool thing is that Justin is updating and improving the book right now. I guess when he's ready he will start charging for it, but right now you can get the present edition free of charge. There is a download link on Cyn's lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/Clickbank_Success_Report
David HurleyP. S. If you want to market Clickbank products but don't want to write the sales materials, CLICK HERE! Labels: Clickbank sales strategy, Justin Harrison, sell clickbank products
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Here are 10 tips to help you improve your work at home Internet business and establish a better online profile for your website... 1. If you are promoting affiliate marketing programs you will need to think about adding unique content to your web site. Do not simply use the standard affiliate pages, but "pre-sell" your affiliate products via unique content on your site before you direct your visitors to your affiliate sales page.
2. Following on from the previous point, aim to fill your website with as much useful and relevant content as possible. Search engines love unique content, and so will your visitors! Keep your content simple. Do not clutter your site with flash and graphics that slow down download times. Don't be afraid of white space! People want information but they don't want to be overwhelmed.
3. Don't hide behind your website. Put your name and contact details on every page of your site, and include a photo on the front page at least. Making yourself available to your clients and responding to their enquiries is a vital part of the online trust-building process.
4. Try to keep your website design simple and professional, with clear navigation routes and a consistent style from page to page. 5. Make it easy for your visitors to purchase your products. The easier you make it, the more orders you will generate. Give clear instructions and add reassurances. Offer a solid 100% refund guarantee and put it in a prominent place near your "Buy Now" button 6. Make the effort to set up and display your Privacy Policy, About Us and Legal Notices pages. Join an online trust and verification service such as HonestE Online and display their logo on every page of your site. 7. Set up a Site Map to help visitors and major search engines navigate your site. 8. Seek out quality sites that are related to your product, but not direct competitors, and seek to exchange links with them. One good way to do this is to write and publish articles on article directories, complete with a link at the foot of each article that points back to your site. 9. Submit your site site directories, especially highly rated ones such as DMOZ. 10. Keep your front page up to date with fresh content. Also, regularly add a new page that focuses on a single keyword or keyword phrase, and then write an article around the keyword phrase and submit it to various article directories, pointing it back to that specific page on your site. David Hurley Labels: affiliate marketing programs, work at home internet business
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Let's look at how we can exploit manual traffic exchanges to build our lists. Most people who sign up to a manual traffic exchange are attracted by the free membership offer. They don't really get how traffic exchanges work. They promote their affiliate programme sales pages, and start clicking away. After a while a lot of these people give up because after hours of clicking they achieved ZERO. No sign ups, no enquiries, and certainly no sales! Yet, there are others who do well with traffic exchanges. For these people, traffic exchanges are an integral part of their sales and recruiting strategy. So what is their secret? Now, I am no "guru", but I did begin to get better results when I pulled my affiliate pages from Trafficswarm and replaced them with squeeze pages that offered a freebie to encourage people to sign up to my newsletter, just as the PIPS Power Group mentors advise! Another key to traffic exchange success is building up a massive number of credits. Clicking away on a free membership account will NEVER achieve great results. It sucks from every point of view, and is actually a false economy (i.e. a waste of time). You need to be generating hundreds of clicks per day, and clicking every ten or twenty seconds for ONE or TWO credits is not going to get you there unless you have lots of free time and not much of a life...
With the traffic exchange that I prefer to use, Trafficswarm, as soon as you upgrade you get an extra 2,500 credits per month, 200 credits for new member referrals (free members get 100), a 10% bonus on purchased credits, a minimum of 3 credits on the first 20 clicks per day plus several other click bonuses, including credits when your downline click on certain links. (Upgraded members also earn commission through five levels, but that is not the point of this post.)
So, in order to generate enough credits, you also need to concentrate on building a downline of users who will generate credits for you.
One method I recommend is to start promoting your main traffic exchange on several other exchanges. Anybody who already surfs on one traffic exchange is a possible recruit for other traffic exchanges...
When it comes to marketing your business, set up different squeeze pages for each campaign, and add some kind of tracking code so that you can monitor your results.
If you run a split test can gradually improve results by tweaking your squeeze page copy and retesting one squeeze page against another that offers the same product or service. The one that converts most traffic into subscriptions is the winner!
Always pull the loser and modify it then have it re-enter the fray... it might lose again, or become a new winner - in which case you now pull the previous winner and tweak it until it wins again... and so on... and so on...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Strong Future International is one of the best free-to-join businesses available on the Internet today. SFI limited keeps on getting better, thanks to the innovative leadership of founder Gery Carson. In short, doing Internet business with SFI is both rewarding and satisfying. When you sign up you will be guided by a comprehensive 8-part training course. Steps 1-7 are basic set up steps that can be completed quite easily. Step 8 includes a lot of options and progress reports plus suggestions for further action. I am not sure that you ever "complete" it. Not all the lights on my report are green and I have been active in SFI for 18 months now! Don't worry too much about crossing every single thing off the training list. You really need to concentrate on building traffic and converting the traffic to sales and affiliates. If you do that and stick to it, you will succeed over time with SFI marketing. Here are some quick SFI marketing tips to help you promote SFI on the Internet. Selling products and promoting SFI offline is a great idea too, but as I live in Japan, it is not something that I personally do with SFI. GET YOUR OWN WEBSITEIf you are serious about promoting SFI online, I recommend that you get your own website. A lot of the most successful SFI affiliates use Stone Evans' Plug-In Profit Site. Stone Evans is SFI's top Leadership Builder and he got to that position simply by promoting JUST THIS PAGE. START A BLOG!If you have not done so yet, it would be a good idea to start a free blog at Blogger.com to promote your SFI business. Not sure what to write about? Here are some suggestions: - write about your experience in setting it up an online business...
- write about the progress you are making...
- write about the frustrations you encounter (and how you solve them)...
- write about the products and benefits of SFI... There are many to choose from...
- write about any business books, articles, ebooks you have read...
- write about other people's blogs, businesses, websites...
When you write your blog, don't be anonymous!
Effective marketing involves branding yourself as a personality who is an expert in your field. Talking about frustrations and how you overcame them is a powerful way of doing that, so next time you feel like taking a sledgehammer to your computer... just blog about it and turn the frustration into a benefit for your business. The two great things about blogger.com blogs is that they are free, and Google loves them (because Google owns Blogger!) so you really can improve your search engine rankings by posting every day. FREE GOOD QUALITY ARTICLESAs you are one of my SFI affiliates and you upgrade to EA, you get free membership of my PLR article membership club - access to 10 x "well written, good quality articles on home business" per month. Just copy them, modify them to make them original, or cut them up as you wish, and use them on your blog to supplement your own writing.
Remember, to promote your business you need to get writing. Blogging and article marketing are two of the most effective ways of getting your message out - and they are two of the cheapest methods too!
So, click the banner and come and join me in making money on the Internet!
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