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Breaking the Myth about Page Rank (PR)

by: Christopher Smith

The most difficult challenge most web designers face is getting traffic to your site. There are plenty of companies who promise to send traffic your way. Sadly, most of this traffic is not qualified. Yes, your hit counter will move higher, however, if its not qualified, you may find you have unhappy visitors to your site. Unhappy visitors will not click on your ads or purchase your products.

Once you have optimized your site, consider submitting it to every search engine. If you want to get spidered quicker in Google, have a web page with a PR of 4 or higher point to your site. Your site will be spidered within a couple of days!

One myth I would like to bust is that PR is a measure of a web site. Its not. I receive countless emails offering a reciprocal link with their PR5 or PR6 site. Unless my link is appearing on the main page, or a page that has PR6, I am not getting a share of PR6. Most likely, my link will appear on a page that has a PR2!

Page rank is Google's ranking of that specific page's relevance. Just because the main page has a PR of 4, does not make every page on the site a PR4. Beware of sites who claim that they will exchange links with you and its to your benefit since they have a PR5 or PR6. Where is your link appearing? If its on a page that has a PR of 4 or 5 or 6, great!

Reciprocal linking, if done properly, will ensure that your keywords are at the top of the search engine. If you have a popular keyword, youll need to have more back links. Pick your link partners properly, and ensure that they are linking to your keyword.

For example: if your site is www.joesdinner.com, consider sending out requests to relevant higher ranking pages to start with, followed by lower ranking pages and ask web designers to link back in a manner so that your url is a hyperlink for your keyword, not your site url or site name.

Presuming their keyword is "best dining in new york", having links pointing to your site with an anchor tag incorporating your keywords will improve your search engine rankings dramatically.

Once you have established a collection of sites pointing to your site using your keywords, you will start receiving reciprocal link exchanges from other sites. This is where you can start to be particular.

If you want to maintain an effective PR and attract better sites for linking, follow these tips:

a) Is it indexed?
While their site may be indexed, the page where they are placing your link, is it at least indexed by google? If you type in allinurl:www.sitename.com/links/right_here.html and there are no results, consider declining their offer. If the page your link appears on has not been indexed, there is no benefit whatsoever to you. If your pages have PR, they may consider placing your link on another page. If the page your link appears on is indexed, but does not have PR, consider accepting their offer. While the page today may not have PR, it will in time.

b) How many neighbors?
The value of the page rank is shared with each of the links on that page. If you are splitting that PR with several other sites, your share of PR will be small, which doesnt help you. Reconsider accepting any link exchanges if your site is 1 of more than 30 - 40 sites that will appear on that page, unless its a very high PR. Further, if there are too many links on that page, Google may consider the page to be part of a link farm, which may end up penalizing your site.

c) Is it relevant?
Google is big on relevancy. Ensure your links pages are relevant. If you operate a site about golf, having links from cooking sites will not help you establish your page rank. It may cost you more than you get in return.

How to Find Good PR sites:

a) Do a search for them by typing in your keyword and start asking for reciprocal link exchanges. Take a look at their PR and go from there. Remember, its the number of sites that backlink to you that matters, not strictly the PR of the page. I would rather have 50 pages that have a PR1 pointing to my site, than to have 5 sites that have a PR5. Of course, if you can get 50 pages that have a PR5 pointing to your site, you are laughing!

b) Take a look at your existing link partners and check out their links pages. Its clear the people appearing on those links pages are interested in reciprocating.

c) Purchase software that will help find quality link partners.

It is important to attract higher PR sites when you are on a reciprocal link campaign. However, its not the most important thing when it comes to search engine rankings. Its the backlinks that point back at you that are key. The more of those, the better off you will be for your keyword.

Remember: every page starts off as a PR0. Just because its new doesnt mean it wont get a higher PR once google gets around to assessing a score. If the page your site appears on is indexed, and its a relevant site of quality, consider exchanging links. You'll grow a large list of link partners in a short period of time, and increase your search engine rankings in the process.

About the author:
Christopher Smith has been helping people make money through Google Adsense by providing them with the Top Paying Adsense Keywords for his visitors to Adsense Heaven. http://www.adsenseheaven.com

I Hate Writing Articles - Isn't There An Easier Way?!

Owning, running and maintaining an internet based business or a site needs articles. Plain and simple, every who has a site knows this. Even those who don’t have sites but are frequent internet users knows this as well. Articles quench the thirst for information and knowledge of the people. Plus, the articles provides many other benefits for the site.

The benefits that articles provide are putting a site high in the ranking in search results of keywords and keyword phrases that pertains or are relevant to his or her site. They also provide attraction to website visitors when they are appreciated and is linked to your site from another site or newsletter. Articles provide for the increase of the confidence and trust levels of customers to your site and company.

Many articles are also beneficial to both company and its traffic. When the readers like the articles, they would tell more of their friends, family and peers and recommend your site to them, providing for a larger volume of traffic. You get bigger sales if your traffic trusts and believes in you. Your product or services would be much easier to sell when they know you know what you are doing and talking about.

So ok, we have established that articles are very important to a site and to business. Articles are crucial and to keep ahead in the game, a site must have an article, it is imperative. There is one dilemma though, not many people like writing articles.

Many website owners would rather spend their time on something else, and unless you’re a big time company, you don’t have the necessary resources to use on a pool of article writers. Plagiarism or copying of other articles is frowned upon and could easily get you into trouble, worst case scenario; a hefty fine and jail time.

So what are the other options?

Well, for starters if you hate writing articles and you can’t afford to hire people to write for you then don’t. Get free articles. The first place to look at for free articles is the public domain. Here you won’t have problems with copyright infringement and the following penalties and fines if you get caught for plagiarism.

Public domain articles are articles freely given to the public for public use. You can do whatever you want with it. You can place it on your site, name it as yours, put it in a newsletter its you decision. Always remember though that you will have to choose articles that is very relevant to your site.

The downside to public domain articles is that since it is free for everybody, many of your competitors may have access to them as well. Since every site needs to be original and unique even though you have the same niche, this could be a predicament. You may also have to edit them a bit to place more keywords and keyword phrases to make them better.

Another way to get free articles is to allow other sites which has the same subject or topic as yours to submit articles to your site. This would be only to augment your existing content or else all your articles would be leading to other sites since these articles would have resource boxes with them that could link or direct the readers to their site. That’s why it is important to have your own articles; you cold use them to link your site to other sites as well.

But, to truly feel the impact of what a good article to you, go for original ones. There are many article writers who do part time and freelance article writing jobs that charges only minimal fees. You can get good articles that have all the keywords and keyword phrases you need and people are looking for.

The investment you made for these articles would be worthwhile because you could use them for all the benefits you could offer. You hold copyrights to them and you will be able to use them anyway you want. As your articles help you in building your business and your site, you will have more articles to write and maybe then you wont be having second thoughts about articles.

3 Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back.
With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.

There are already many tools that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.

Let us take a look first at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:

1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them.
In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimization efforts.

But there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them.

You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You can achieve this by producing better contents.

2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.

You may know already that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same articles?

Mention keywords at strategic places. Just be sure not to overdo them. Some are even using anchor texts which is also an effective method. But it is important to know that majority of the directories are not able to support this.
Remember that is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits.

But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site.

Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.

3. Publishing content that does not help your readers.
Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all that is you wanted is links back to your site. And any visitors it can generate are fine.

Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oftentimes, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting.
You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight.

Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf.

In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased links back but on a very basic level. Or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra time making quality contents.

It will be your choice. You may not be aware of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same level of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow group of people.

Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you know what kinds of articles to write and to submit.

Newbie Tips Newsletter: The Shining Star Issue

Build Your Business On Your Terms And Brand Yourself For Success.

O.K. guys, you're about to embark on an amazing yet possibly frightening adventure. What I want to do is help you get started with your new home business on the right track. I want to keep you moving straight toward your goals and away from the money hungry gurus who are trying to show you an "easy system."

Please, don't get me wrong. I am not at all bitter about the Internet home based business industry at all. It's what I do for a living full-time and I love it.

What I am upset about, and have always been, are the hordes of scammers out there making the whole thing look bad. There really are great opportunities out there and people are making great incomes running home based business' on the Internet. It makes me sad that people who could've done very well end up getting discouraged and give up because they were promised something and it didn't deliver.

I just want my readers to have enough knowledge to be able to defend themselves against the too good to be true get rich quick scams out there. I must admit that some of them are very convincing which is scary.

Your goal is to start a legitimate home based business that will make you money without stealing your integrity, right? Well, lets get started and get you on the right track from the beginning.

The first thing I want to do is give you the low down on what is really involved. Every single day I'm online and I see a new "system" for sale, I cringe. Please, be careful with these. They are extremely convincing when they tell you that all you have to do is plug them in and the money will start rolling in.

This is complete crap.

What they don't tell you in the sales letter is that in order for these "plug-in" systems to work for you, you must do a lot of tedious stuff every single day. While they may give you a "free money making website" with built in products, how are you going to get sign-ups and make sales if no one sees your site?

So, alas you've got to sit around and figure out how to get traffic to a website that has no personality and is exactly the same as hundreds of others who sighned up for the same thing. Even if you've got creative control, this isn't very "plug and play" now is it?

The daily chores include:

• Surfing Traffic Exchanges For Credits.
• Going to forums and talking about how easy you've got it when you know it's not working.
• Spending hours and hours researching different topics so that you can write articles that might bring some meaningful traffic.
• Posting blogs about how you don't have to do any work.

The list goes on and on.

Some of these systems teach some very good marketing techniques that actually work, but not for blatant affiliate links. Besides, your doing all of this work promoting something that's supposed to be "hands free money making." Doesn't sound like a lot of fun does it?

Here's what I think.

If you're going to go to all of this trouble anyway, why not go the whole way and build your business your way?

Instead of marketing someone else's system, build your own website and only include products and opportunities that deliver what they claim. There are plenty of good products out there that actually teach or do what they claim.

I'm speaking about the home based business niche in my experience, but I'm sure that this holds true in other niches as well. So, when I talk about information products, that's what I mean. Plus, even if you're planning on going into another niche, you'll still need to educate yourself about basic online marketing principles.

You're not going to find an easy way out, so why not have fun with it and brand yourself?

That's how affiliate marketers who are making the big money do it. They don't promote their affiliate links directly. They position themselves as experts and then lead others to their affiliate products and income opportunities as recommendations.

That's how you really stand out among the masses of sales pages on the internet. Offer your assistance and people will really appreciate it and follow your lead.

How To Be A Shining Star...

• Help people get what they need and the money will come.
• Be honest.
• Don't "sell" people, no one likes to be sold.
• Follow up with stellar customer service, even if you're not selling your own product.
• If you're sponsoring people into a multi-tiered type program, show them the way. Those type of programs are worthless if the next tier has no clue what to do.

The last one reminds me of another point I want to make. Some of those programs that are supposed to be free to join and all you have to do is get people to sign up under you are quite misleading. You may only be able to make money if you have a certain sales volume which means that you can recruit free people till you're blue in the face and you won't make money until someone "upgrades" or buys a product (if the program even has a product other than the upgrade itself), so be sure to read the fine print before you go wasting your life on something that will give you minimal returns.

In my affiliate webmaster's course, I show my subscribers how they can build a professional website for their affiliate recommendations. The key is to focus on what that product has taught you or enabled you to achieve. I teach them to position themselves as authorities on the particular problem that the product can solve. This is done by showcasing the skills they've obtained by using the product themselves (if it's an information product, but there are other things you can sell online as well).

Just be smart about it, don't sell junk to people. Keep your customers happy so they come back. You want your efforts to keep making you money again and again. Just stick with products or opportunities that live up to the claims.

Here are some good ones that you can start with because you'll want to educate yourself in these areas for your own business start up.

• Marketing courses.
• Webdesign courses.
• Software.
• Communication.
• Personal Growth.

All of these are things that you can benefit from owning and then promote by example.

I mentioned multi-level marketing earlier, where you profit from signing others up in your business as well as product sales. This is another great way to get into Internet Marketing because if you've signed up with a good company and the person who signed you up is willing to train you (this is the way it's supposed to be done), you'll be able to make a great living. Just make sure that training is available and that the company is established and has a great product that people are going to want.

The way it's supposed to work is that when you sign up, your sponsor shows you exactly what to do and then you show your sign ups and so on. So, make sure that you keep the duplication going by taking an interest in those who sign up in your business. Get them excited and confident to go out there and keep it growing.

If you do that, you're business will continue to pay you a residual income long after all of the hard work in the beginning is done.

Either way, direct sales or network marketing/ MLM business models, it's about people. It's the people who are going to be buying from you so focus on them. Build strong relationships and really stand out and you won't go wrong.

Newbie Tips now on the blog.

The Newbie Tips Come To Blogger

Just a quick little story about this blog...

I am a very busy home business entrepreneur. Not only do I have my network marketing business, but I maintain 2 websites that are aimed at helping people who wanted to get started with an Internet home based business. The reason I keep these 2 sites up is because I have a mission. You can read more about that mission at my successful start blog.

Anyway, I haven't really been keeping up with my blogs like I'd like to because I have so much going on, but I've decided that I'm going to publish some of my newbie tips newsletters here on the blog.

The reason for the format changes that I've been making is the research I've been doing on Web 2.0. I absolutely adore the idea of such a user friendly Internet. So, I would like to pass on to my subscribers how to build not just a website, but a whole Internet empire for themselves.

In order to do that I need to practice what I preach and get over here and post all the time.

I'm not one of those marketers who pre-programs the autoresponder with a bunch of outdated tips. I like to really keep up on what's happening and what works and pass it on. I was recently in the process of reformatting the newsletter, some of it into video format. I had a very unfortunate computer meltdown and lost everything. I couldn't even use a browser, it was bad.

But, I'm back online and computer's fine. I even got some new stuff and made it better. So I'm back at my mission to save at least a few newbies from death by guru. I want to give people hope for their home business start up before they try the very promising "systems" out there and get discourages when nothing happens.

So, this is part of the new changes that are being made to the dynamic of Lets Start Earning and The Newbie Business Center. I'm not going to post everything on here because that wouldn't be fair to my subscribers. But, if you like the stuff you see on the blog, you can subscribe here. But I think that this will prove to be a great strategy and a good model for my readers to follow.

I'm now going to add a second part to my webmaster's course which will teach the Web 2.0 business building model. I can't wait to see what they think about it.

I keep mentioning Web 2.0 so I think that I should mention that I also am putting some parts of my newsletters on video as well. I think that some people like to read and some would rather watch a video to get the information so I'm going to do a bit of both. Plus, with video I can be a real person rather than just another website.

That is the core of what I teach my readers.

• Market Yourself.
• Stand Out.
• Be Creative.
• Be Visionary.

Don't ever think that an idea is silly or won't work. If you think it feels right, go for it. Do you think that I wasn't scared when I decided to put myself out there for the world to see? I was terrified. Some people are going to think I'm full of hot air and some people will have similar views and share my vision. All that matters is that I went out and did it and I am achieving what I had hoped to achieve. That's what I want my readers to do...

Go For It With All Your Heart!

Did Anyone Read Bend The Web?

In my last post, I talked about the awesome report I read called "Bend The Web." Did anyone read it yet? How awesome is the idea of a "business alliance" where we all look out for each other.

There are so many different kinds of start up business opportunities online today that I think it's great for legitimate home business entrepreneurs who are actually making money and in a genuine income business to link to each other so that anyone who needs help to start a business won't have a hard time finding the opportunity that's exactly right for their specific situation.

I found some other WAHMs in a forum who understood the idea after I asked them if I could put their business links in a special WAHM section of my website.

I hope that this becomes the new trend in small business online. maybe then newbie marketers would have a fighting chance before becoming frustrated and giving up.

It took me a very long time to find the perfect business for me and I'm so happy now, but I wish I could've had help with business start up from the beginning. That is why I'm on a crusade with my Lets Start Earning and The Newbie Business Center websites.

Thanks to Network Marketing, I am able to live the dream of working from home, hopefully the "bend the web" philosophy will help others find their perfect business opportunities as well.

Sheree, The Newbie Advocate

Bending The Web

A while ago I downloaded this book called "Bend The Web." and it sat on my computer for some time while I went about with my network marketing plan.

Well, not so much as plan as it was just doing the same old thing all other network marketers do. Which is:

• Finding prospects.
• Interviewing prospects.
• Finding customers.
• Etcetera etcetera.

This is all fine and dandy if you want to succeed in network marketing, I suppose but I kept thinking that there must be a better way.

Here I was with a great product that anyone could use and a great opportunity for people who want to start their own business on the Internet and I was chasing after people with my offer.

This is not the way it is supposed to be, I thought.

People should be coming to me because they want what I have to offer.

So tonight I was cleaning up my desktop and I came across :"Bend The Web" again. Something told me that this was going to be a good one so I decided to print it out and take a break from my computer and read it.

Well, it was the best free download I'd ever come across because it explained to me how to accomplish what I knew deep down inside I could be doing.

I am a very social person by nature which makes Network Marketing a perfect industry for me. "Bend The Web" is about people in a niche getting together and promoting each other which then results in better search engine rankings for all of us. It is the best idea I've heard in a long time.

I want to know if any other affiliates marketers out there have read this book. If not, you should go download it at www.bendingtheweb.com .

These are some forward thinkers if I ever saw any.

My dream is for all the affiliate marketers who have a great product to come and bend the web with me. We're really all in this together no matter what you've been told. Maybe you think that we're all in competition together but there's a big enough pie out there for each of us who are genuinely serious about building their network marketing business to each have a nice slice of that pie.

Network marketing works when we work together. My network marketing company is full of great people who help each other out. We all have our strengths and weaknesses so we rely on each other to make it work.

Anyone who knows me, knows how much of a perfectionist I am.

I have 2 websites out there now that I keep changing because I get new ideas all of the time. Tonight I was talking to the very first person who joined my list. He joined me back when I started out as a plug in profit site and has been with me ever since.

He's stuck in there through 3 autoresponders and I don't know how many different website designs. now, he's ready to join me in my network marketing business. He understands the value of the company and the product itself and has been through the time wasting trials of joining free programs that have no value and no commitment just as i have.

I want to quote Richard Kall now who is a famous Network Marketer he says "There will be people who will dissappoint you, and people who will surprise you. Don't let that throw you. You are the most important person in your group. As long as you believe in the products and the company, then put your blinders on and go for it."

I have read some blogs saying that VM direct is a scam but guess what I think. I think that it's the best network marketing company I've ever seen so far. It's got all of the ingredients that are neccessary to succeed.

1. A great product.
2. Great people behinnd the company.
3. Training.
4. A lucrative compensation plan that is attainable to even the least experienced Internet marketers.
5. Support in every way.

You see, I actually use the product that I'm promoting every single day. I am able to talk to my best friend in Florida like I was sitting right there with her. I'm able to talk to my family members no matter where they are and I'm able to use the streaming video studio to promote my business.

How many network marketers out there who are marketing on the Internet have ever wished that they could've been talking to someone face to face instead of through text? Well, I can and it makes all the difference.

Anyway, I seem to have gone off on a tangent and gotten off the subject of "Bending The Web." Just do me a favor, anyone who is serious about building your network marketing business, go read the book "Bend The Web."

After you read it, you'll understand what I mean when I say that there is a better way to succeed in Network Marketing or any other type of Internet based business.

Sheree, The Newbie Advocate.

The Future Of Digital Technology

Just a little news update.

Well, actually it's a big news update if you're an affiliate marketer who wants to "take it up a few notches."

I have just seen the future in digital technology and I got in as fast as I could.

Now, I don't usually do that kind of thing, but they gave me an opportunity I couldn't resist or refuse.

I'm not going to get into it right this second, but tomorrow, I want you to look for me again.

You see, I'm looking for serious home based affiliate marketers and/ or any kind of network marketers who want to get in on something very powerful. I don't want to give anything away just yet because I'm preparing a presentation for you tonight so I can show you instead of tell you.

This is not only for affiliate marketers, but also people who use email, have web cams, love to chat via their computer, enjoy social networking (i.e. MySpace), have relatives who live scattered around the country or around the globe, or even anyone who likes to take pictures and share them digitally.

You don't even have to be a techie to use this innovative service.

OK, no more hints, just stay tuned.

On The Lookout For The Best Online Opportunities

I've been revamping my website, which has turned out great despite some technical difficulties along the way. They never told me it was going to be easy.

If anyone tells you that you can make money online by doing nothing, run the other way. especially if you have to pay to make mooney for doing nothing.

There are proven systems out there that work, but you have to be able to follow direction.

Yesterday, on a conference call with my mentor program, I heard something that really stood out.

"Don't try to reinvent the wheel."

That really stood out for me. I've noticed that all of the really successful Internet Marketers work as a kind of team. They exchange ideas, they promote each others products, and they all use similar tactics in their online marketing endeavors.

It really is that simple.

Once you stop looking for a quick fix and start following a legitimate money making system from start to finish, you will make money online.

That is a fact that you cannot ignore.

All of the systems I promote on my website are simple to duplicate and they work. I've taken something of value from each one, but they all mesh.

I'm doing it, so can you.

Sheree "The Newbie Advocate"

The 2nd Tier Affiliate Program

You’ve been waiting for a long time and finally its here- an affiliate program that will blow all the others out of the water!

The already popular TheSecondTier affiliate training center has undergone a complete information and visual makeover.

As an affiliate you’ll get more tools and they’ll be more powerful than ever. This translates directly into cha-ching! Here are just a few things that make this affiliate program the most effective affiliate program out there:

• Huge commissions on both first AND second tier sales!!! • Product tools for all types of affiliates.
• Full training center with access hours of video and audio training.
• Live affiliate manager blog where you can get your affiliate questions answered.
• Weekly live training calls (every Monday morning!!!)

Russell Brunson's unique philosophy that affiliates should be provided not only with powerful tools but the knowledge to use them has pushed

TheSecondTier to the top of competing programs. Russell has taken affiliate training to a whole new level. He understands that he can have hundreds of affiliates that don’t know what they are doing and get decent sales OR he can give them the knowledge and tools they need to create explosive amounts of money AND share with them a very generous portion of the profits from each sale they generate!

Here are just a few of the things that you'll learn inside of TheSecondTier:

• How to choose the right product for you to promote - One of the biggest mistakes that almost all affiliates make when they first start out, is that they try to promote too many things at once. This video will show you exactly how to choose the right one or two products that will make you the most money.
• How to set up an "Affiliate Squeeze" page - Less then 2% of all affiliates use this powerful technique, but after you implement it into your affiliate promotions, you will see your commissions grow exponentially.

• How to drive targeted traffic to your "Affiliate Squeeze" pages for FREE - Once you learn this simple (and free) concept on how to drive traffic to your "Affiliate Squeeze" pages, you will be able to start literally writing your own paychecks.

• How to build an huge targeted opt-in mailing list - You will learn how easy it is to build an opt-in list, and use that to exponentially increase your affiliate commissions EVERY week!
• How to strategically place "Affiliate Land Mines" and watch your profits EXPLODE! - Follow this one simple strategy and you will start getting checks in the mail every month!

• How to dominate your Pay Per Click ad campaigns - It's very powerful if you learn how to do it right. This video will walk you through the process to get high converting PPC ads! • How to use teleseminars to close ten times the clients in 1/2 the time - One of the secrets to selling a lot of products as an affiliate quickly is doing teleseminars. I was nervous when I did my first few, but now I can't stop because every time I do one, my affiliate checks from that day are anywhere from $2,000 - $15,000 (and it's a lot easier then you'd think).

• How to broker JV deals and make a fortune on your 2nd tier - Many of our affiliates earn thousands of dollars each month from the efforts of others. These videos will show you exactly how they find super affiliates to add to their second tier. • How to protect your commissions from thieves while increasing your conversions - One of the number one concerns that affiliates have are people stealing their commissions. You will learn the techniques that will protect your links and also guarantee that even the worst thieves will gladly give you their commissions instead of keeping it for themselves.

• and a whole lot more....

Russell does not discriminate against less experienced affiliates. In fact, he’s already taken countless numbers of people from knowing 0 to being listed among his top affiliates. It is so effective that some people actually pay to sell products for him!

The products Russell puts out are of top quality and always in demand. In fact, people call his office months before products are ready just begging to know when they can get their hands on them.

Combine this with all the promotional and training tools Russell provides and you’re already half way to making serious affiliate commissions. The other half will be done when you take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

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Make Sense of Google AdSense – and Make Money!

As a successful web publisher looking to get to the next level, you are probably thinking about trying a number of different approaches to increasing revenue – especially your passive revenue, the money that just “shows up” from time to time while you focus on other things. You may be considering various forms of internet advertising. And you should.

Internet advertising has exceeded all expectations. The technology keeps advancing, and the popularity and ubiquity of the medium is incredible. Most companies can benefit from the Internet because it allows the chance to reach a global audience at never-before-possible speeds, with many kinds of filters to make sure the right audience sees the right message, and costs that are often surprisingly low. But many businesses make money online in ways that have very little to do with their own actual business, but with systems that connect various companies and offerings together.

You may be wondering how to make money easily with online advertising, and you have come to the right place!

The secret is that taking ads is a much more profitable strategy then placing ads for most websites. And the best way to make money with this right now is “hiding in plain sight” from the world’s most popular search engine company.

While there are many ways to approach online advertising, it makes sense the best would be offered by the ultimate search engine company, the company that is setting out to organize all of humanity’s vast amounts of information – Google. This method is Google Ad Words, and it’s sister program, Google AdSense. With Ad Words, Google makes a lot of money. With AdSense, web publishers – that’s you! – can reach a lot of people and make a lot of money too!

In this report, we’re going to focus in on how to make sense of, and a lot of money with, Google’s AdSense program.

Want to make five or ten or twenty thousand dollars a month automatically and be paid by one of the biggest Internet companies in the world?

We’ll describe what AdSense is, how it works, how to get started, how to maximize the program, and where to go from here! Ready?

First let’s examine what AdSense is and how it works.

What is Google AdSense?

Google AdSense is an ad-serving program that places ads that “make sense” – specifically, that make sense based on relevant content, and assumptions about who might be interested in that content. AdSense is an application of the broader concept of Contextual Marketing. Contextual Marketing is just what it sounds like. On a website about custom cars, you might have an ad for fancy wheels or car care kits. On a website about off-roading, you might have an ad for durable truck tires or spotlight rigs. A hockey site might advertise hockey sticks…and a tennis site, tennis shoes. Contextual Marketing just means aligning the ad serving with the context/nature of the website and its audience, the same way like items are grouped in a store. And the “context” can be cut much finer than website level, it can be page level, article level, and so on, so the ads always match the material they are appearing near, and thus, appeal to the interest of the reader/buyer at any given moment.

So what’s in it for you – the website publisher/owner? That’s easy. Every time a visitor to your site clicks one of these ads, you make money. The better the ads are targeted, the more clicks you get, the more money you make. AdSense displays easy-to-read, text-based, relevant ads that don’t overshadow the content of your website or annoy visitors. Actually, you have seen hundreds of these ads yourself, as you’ll realize in a moment.

Today there are probably only a few places in your website that can directly make you money, if any. The magic of Google AdSense is this: It allows you to earn money through every page of your website. On top of that, with algorithms used to align ad content with page content Google automatically selects and displays ads for your website that are likely to generate the highest revenue for you.

AdSense is an application of AdWords beyond Google.com

Making “sense” of AdSense means understanding that it is really an offshoot of the older Google model, AdWords. But they are not the same thing.

Google AdWords

If you have ever searched on Google, you have seen AdWords.

Google AdWords are the small text ads that are displayed on the side of the search results in Google. These ads are contextual of course – in this case the context is the search terms you entered. The ads will be served based on what you’re looking for. So, if you do a search on “printing services” you will get ads for printing services along with your search results!

How does this generate money for Google and the advertisers?

Google AdWords works on a model known as pay-per-click. When someone clicks on an AdWords ad, the advertiser of that ad has to pay Google a certain amount. It’s easy to track and fully automated.

We say “certain amount” because that amount is different all the time and is subject to market forces – in this case, bidding. Something has to determine the placement of those ads, and what determines it is how much the advertiser offers to pay per click. When you submit this kind of ad to Google, you submit it with a bid – which is compared to other bids for similar keywords. It’s an auction style process.

The position of the AdWords ads is based on the bidding amount of keywords of an ad. Obviously, the higher the bid, the higher the position the bid buys you. For instance, if the highest bid for the keywords “Internet marketing” is 80 cents per click, you can get top position by bidding 90 cents. Then every time someone clicks on your ad, Google would charge you 90 cents, and you would retain the top position until someone else bids more for the same search word placement.

Google AdSense, as stated earlier, is an extension of Google AdWords. It takes the AdWords concept and moves it off of Google’s search page and onto thousands of other web pages. The ads that are displayed on the websites are Google AdWords ads.

It’s good for the advertiser, who gets more and broader displays, for Google, who charge more for this program, for you, who will make money from the clickthroughs on your pages, and also for the consumer, who will see cool ads for stuff they are probably interested in!

So how exactly are you making money from all this? You earn a share of the pay-per-click amount, every time a visitor clicks on the ad. So you just need to get ads on your site…

Next Post: How To Get Ads on Your Website
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The Newbie Helpsite For Your Business At Home

I just wanted to write a quick note to let my readers know what's up. My website was a mess for a while, but I fixed it. I was sick for over a week! But, that's the beuty of working from my own home, I don't have to call off.

I really added a lot of new content for you guys. There are some new articles and a bunch of new free tools to use for your home business.

Oh, and I also got a web cam and I'm dying to use it. I think it will really bring me closer to my readers. I can talk to you like you're sitting right here.

I stayed up for 2 days working on my website, so enjoy. Make sure you read the "News Flash" at the top of the home page

There are a bunch of surprises for all you home business moms and dads and everyone else.

I just think there's enough for everyone and we should help each other out. That's why I became "The Newbie Advocate" for your business at home.

There's a lot of good stuff for affiliate marketers on The Newbie Helpsite

The next thing I have going on is another site. It's going to be geared more toward the next stages of internet marketing beyond affiliate marketing and basic website construction.

The new site is being done by Dreamweaver (I'm going to make some tutorials for you) and we'll look at resale rights, branding your own website, making a name for yourself in the world of home based business, etc.

Oh, I added my Skype and ICQ numbers to my contact page if any home business newbies want to contact me that way.

I look forward to hearing from my readers and getting some feedback on the new site.

Have a prosperous weekend everyone.

Sheree

Michael Rasmussen's "Email Promos Exposed" Video Series: How to Write Killer Email Promos That Get Results!

Have you ever been faced with the task of having
to write an email promotion to your list, and
then realized that you didn't know what to say or
how to say it?

Michael Rasmussen's new video course "Email
Promos Exposed" promises to solve that problem
for you by walking you through the actual process
of creating killer email promos step-by-step.

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If you're in a hurry, just go ahead visit this
URL to get instant free access to these videos:

http://www.emailpromosexposed.com/?thankyou-page=63985
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I decided to see if Michael's videos live up to
their promise by trying them out myself. Here's
what I found:

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Overall Quality
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The first thing I noticed when I opened up the
first video was the stunning production quality.
He used Camtasia Studio for the production, which
is now the industry standard for creating
high-quality screen capture video products. The
audio is near studio quality, and the graphics
are very professional. These videos were made by
someone who KNOWS what he's doing. Well done!

I also liked how Michael divided the videos up by
section, and then again by sub-section. For
example, one video is all about the subject line,
and then there are different parts of that video
that each cover a certain area of crafting a
killer subject line.

Now let's move onto...

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THE ACTUAL VIDEOS
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Here's a brief summary of each video. Obviously
it's impossible to list every single thing here,
but I want you to get a feel for what each one
covered, and how well it covered it.

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If you're in a hurry, just go ahead visit this
URL to get instant free access to these videos:

http://www.emailpromosexposed.com/?thankyou-page=63985
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VIDEO 1 - INTRODUCTION

This video served as an introduction to the whole
course. You get to see a picture of Michael in
his every day life, and he establishes his
credibility right up front by talking about some
of his massive successes online. He even provides
proof of credibility by displaying two checks in
the amount of $50,000 and $25,000 which prove
that, when it comes to the subject of making
money with email promos, he knows his stuff.

This is a good lesson for anyone to get. Whenever
you're teaching people how to do something, it's
good to establish your credibility up front, so
that there's no doubt about whether or not you're
qualified to talk about the subject. Most product
developers either skip or minimize this step.

VIDEO 2 - BEFORE YOU WRITE THE PROMO

This video talks about some things that no other
marketer has bothered to mention. You'll learn
things like:

* The mindset you need in order to write a killer
promo

* The different tools you need before you get
started

* How to keep your emails laser-focused

* How to create an outline that practically
writes the email for you.

This was a fantastic video, and did a good job of
kicking things off.

VIDEO 3 - THE SUBJECT LINE

I liked this video, because it talked about one
of MY biggest weaknesses when it comes to writing
email promos... the subject line. The subject
line is a confusing topic, because nobody's 100%
sure what the best tactics are.

Michael breaks it down, and reveals:

* The biggest secret for writing a subject line
that makes people insanely curious.

* Techniques for personalizing the subject line.

* Mistakes to avoid when using personalization.

I was surprised to find that I was making some of
the mistakes that Michael mentioned in this
video, but now I know better.

VIDEO 4 - THE OPENING

This is where a lot of people slack off when
writing their emails. Michael talks about how
important it is to create an opening that is
conversational, and then reveals techniques and
examples on how to do that.

He also reveals:

* How to get people to keep reading your email
once they've opened it.

* How to make your opening interesting.

* Mistakes to avoid when creating your first few
paragraphs.

VIDEO 5 - THE BODY COPY

This is one of the "meatiest" portions of the
course, because it reveals techniques that are
not widely discussed on the forums, blogs, and in
most eBooks. He talks about the importance of
keeping your body copy tight and relevant, and
then reveals how you can do that. You'll also
learn:

* How to write powerful bullets that make people
curious and want to find out more.

* Simple formatting tricks for making your body
copy easy to read.

* The secret of "bucket brigade copy" and how to
use it in your email promos to force people to
keep reading.

VIDEO 6 - THE CALL TO ACTION

This is where a lot of people wimp out in their
email promos. They start out strong, but when it
comes time to ask the reader to click the link
and take action, they don't know what to say.
Michael talks about some of his favorite
techniques for making that happen, and also
reveals:

* The "magic question" to ask yourself that will
make your close much more powerful.

* The secret of the "unanswered question" and why
handling this is a surefire way to get people to
act right away.

* The structure of a powerful close.

* Mistakes people make when creating their close.

VIDEO 7 - CREATING AN EFFECTIVE P.S.

Some people say that the P.S. is one of the most
important parts of the email, because it is often
the one thing that gets people to click the link
at the end. In this video, Michael talks about:

* Why you should including a P.S. at the end of
your email.

* The 4 different kinds of P.S.'s you can use
(this section was a real eye-opener for me).

VIDEO 8 - COMMON MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE

I loved this video, because it showed me some
mistakes that I was making that I wasn't even
aware of. Unless you're a seasoned pro, you're
probably guilty of some of the things that
Michael talks about in this video as well, and
that's why it's so valuable. I've shaved years
off my learning curve, because now I can avoid
some of the costly mistakes that I was bound to
make in the learning process.

VIDEO 9 - HOW TO CREATE FOLLOW-UP EMAIL PROMOTIONS

This video alone is going to make me a lot of
money. Why? Because I used to only send out one
email promo for each affiliate promotion I was
doing. Michael showed me in this video how
important it is to send a follow-up promotion,
and he showed me exactly how to do it. He covered
things like:

* The psychology of follow-up email promo's.

* The 2 main types of follow-up promos that make
the most money.

* How to overcome readers' objections in your
follow up emails.

* The 2 most common mistakes people make when
writing follow-ups and how to avoid them.

VIDEO 10 - HOW TO WRITE BACK END EMAIL PROMOTIONS

Every marketing guru out there says that the REAL
money is on the back end. I'd have to agree with
them, but the problem is... most people have no
idea how to set up a back end system that makes
money. This video will teach you how to set up an
automated back end that's loaded with killer
promos that make you lots of cash on autopilot.
He reveals things like:

* The big difference between regular and back end
email promos.

* How to prepare a back end promotion sequence.

* Common mistakes people make when creating back
end email promos.

VIDEO 11 - CREATING AFFILIATE EMAIL PROMOTIONS

This could be the most important video of the
entire package for a lot of people, because most
people email their list to promote other people's
products as an affiliate. Let's face it, if you
only have 3 products, can you really afford to
only email your list 3 times a year? They'll get
bored hearing about the same old products over
and over again. This video sheds some light on
how to create killer affiliate promos. Michael
reveals things like:

* The two main types of affiliate promos.

* What makes affiliate promos different than
regular promos (and why ignoring this huge secret
could cost you big money).

* Michael's favorite tactics for creating
affiliate promos that no one else is doing.

* 3 different ways to add scarcity to your
affiliate promos (this is the most important
section of the video, so make sure you watch it
over and over again).

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CONCLUSION
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As you can see, Email Promos Exposed really packs
a lot of punch! Most of the courses out there
offer only watered down, weak content. Not this
one! These videos are going on my "A-list" for a
long time.

I've already watched them twice, and plan on
reviewing them every couple months to make sure
that I have the principals, techniques and
tactics burned into my mind.

If email marketing is an important part of your
business (and in my opinion, it's the most
important part of ANY online business), then you
owe it to yourself to check out Michael's
exciting new videos, Email Promos Exposed.

Here's the URL where you can get instant free access
to the videos right now.

Get Your Email Promo Videos Now

Sincerely,
Sheree

Everything Is Ok

Well, I got the links page fixed. It was coming up with a template that I had previously used for my site. It was weird. It turned out that I had to clean up my host account files. I had all sorts of old files in there and it was cluttering everything and making it hard for me to update.

So, there's another "Newbie Internet Marketer Tip":

Try To Stay As Organized As Possible! It wil make evrything go a lot faster for you than it has for me.

I have 2 crates full of printouts (newsletters, ebooks that I've purchased, etc., etc.,) and the best way I've found to deal with this mess is this:

I have each ebook or guide or newsletter in a different file folder. Whatever topics I'm working on at the moment (say, projects for the week) I have in one of those smaller accordian file folders. That way I can carry it around and it's not as bulky.

That brings me to something else. I also ALWAYS carry around a small notebook wherever I go. When you really start getting excited about your home based business, you will constantly be coming up with ideas.

Remember, everything mentioned on my site is something I've actually downloaded AND read throughout, not just skim, cover to cover. You have to soak up as much useful information as possible. I can help people avoid scams because I've already tested different authors methods and I know who is true and who is just trying to get your money.

So, whenever there is a new book on my site, there will most likely be a review article to go along with it. The reason Newbie Cash Machine and Autopilot Profit are reviewed in the same article is because I was reading them both simultaniously while I was going through the 30 days to success plan with Plug In Profit. Meanwhile, I was too excited about ideas I was coming up with for my own site, it only stayed a PIP site only as long as it took for me to figure out how to use some website building software. Which, believe me, at the pace I was trying to go at, I nearly lost my mind.

You don't have to work around the clock like that. I just wanted to be able to give something back since I had already tried so many different things. I was just happy I finally had a real plan for making money working from my home that I wanted to share with other Moms who want to stay at home with their kids too.

Also, I really had to speed it all up because I was told by my doctor that I couldn't do the type of work I was doing before for at least 6 months. So, I was running scared. Luckily, I found a solution.

Contact me if you need help, seriously. I know how frustrating it can be. I still have days when I'm ready to rip out all of my hair, but since I have the right tools, I'm always able to find the answers and get through any glitch I run into.

The next project I'm working on (beside reviewing more of the work from home realted ebooks I already have) is to put up some inexpensive, but helpful ebooks on either Ebay or The Newbie Helpsite itself. I haven't decided which yet. So, look for some good deals coming up.

Don't forget, you can already download a HUGE information packed ebook called "Dotcomology" from the home page. This one will keep you busy for a while if you need some material. But I wouldn't call it a "get your internet business started right now" type of ebook. For that, you can look on the "getting Started" page and go from there.

Have Fun With Your Home Based Business (I know I do),

Sheree aka "The Newbie Advocate"

P.S. The Links Button

The "links" button isn't functioning properly. So, if you go to my site, don't press it until I let you know when it's fixed. My website building/publishing software is still running on "publish" for that page for some reason. maybe a bug in the software. maybe I'll just upload it to my hosting account.

Now I just have to get you to see it

I re did my website again after thoroughly researching SEO. I also made a vow to help those "newbies in need" so that there is one place where they can go to get fast help.

I'm still trying to get myself known, so you can count on me for helping you with any kind of problem that the "Big Guys" assume everyone already understands.

Remember everyone out there who is struggling to get your home business out of the glitch phase, I really mean it when I say "There are no dumb questions when it involves something that may change your future forever."

I also put up a contact page so that anyone can e mail me, write me, or even call me on my cell phone if you have any questions you want to ask me. I welcome all feedback on my site as well.

Let me know if it's hard to get around my site, because I want it to be easy, that's the whole point of having a site that is tailor made to help new home business entrepreneurs.

See you soon!

Sheree

My Website Is Finally Finished!

I've been working on a new website for affiliate marketers. It has taken me YEARS to figure affiliate marketing out. I have finally gotten the right tools to do it right so now, da dada da... presenting The Newbie Helpsite. This is where I wish I could've gone to get information on how to start a real business at my home. There are just too many things out there to know where to start!
My mission is to document my journey as a "Newbie" in the world of on line business opportunity. My goal is to provide my readers with helpful product reviews and tips for getting started. In other words, I want to provide the guidance that I wish I'd had a few years ago when I began to seriously consider starting a home based business.

So, if you're stuck, check it out. If you like what you see, remember that all of the products and programs described on my site are tools that I use personally to run my online business.

Stop making the 'gurus' rich and take a piece of the pie for yourself. Why shouldn't the regular folks get in on it too?

To Your Success,

Sheree D. Motiska aka The Newbie Advocate www.LetsStartEarning.com