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Blog Marketing For Money
(category: Blogging, Word count: 558)
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Blog marketing is something that most everyone is doing that owns a blog. You are going to find that many of them are blogging for money, and many are not. The numbers really vary and depend on what you are looking at. If you are wanting a home business that consists of blog marketing, then you would be blogging for money. However, if you just have a blog that you use to write your thoughts and journal more or less, you are probably not blogging for money. Everyone blogs for a different reason.
Blog marketing to make money means that you are simply blogging for a profit. If you are going to make an amount of money that will add up to become anything, you need to be persistent, and consistent. To do so there are some things as well as techniques and tools that you must know and know how to use. Keep reading for more.
While good content is something that you will need for your blog to make money, you also want to ensure that it is original content as well. You can market a blog with something that is copied and that you do not own the rights. Plagiarism will get you in trouble with Google as well as the person that originally wrote the content. Be sure that all of your posts are ones that only you own the rights too. This is a great thing to know and do when you are marketing your blog to make money. Content is the key to successful marketing lately.
Tracking is another part of blog marketing for money that is so very important. You want to be able to track your visitors and clickers to know where they are coming from. You want to be able to tell what keywords they searched on to find your blog and where they did their searching. Doing so will help take out all of the guess work when it comes to blog marketing and making money while blogging. You will want to know what keywords are working, and which are not. So that you will know which keywords to use more of and which ones to drop.
Another thing that is important when you are blog marketing for money is to find other sites and blogs that are in the same market as yours, but not in direct competition with you to exchange links with. This will help you out a lot as well, especially if you can get some good exchanges with high authority sites. The higher the page rank of your link exchange, the better for your blog. Google and the other search engines will recognize your link exchanges, and the more the better in this case.
Blog marketing for money can be done. You just simply have to know what works and what does not. It is truly a trial and error basis. If you think you might know of a new way to market your blog the most effectively, try it! You just never know if it will work for you until you do. Then if you find something that works and works well, consider making it in to an ebook and marketing that as well. You will have the know how, it is just a matter of using it.
Techniques And Methods For Researching Keywords
(category: Seo, Word count: 1110)
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If you have read anything about Search Engine Optimisation then you will already know some of the basic steps to take and what to alter but what is often not covered is the most important thing; keywords. In this article you will learn what keywords are, what keyword phrases are, how to find them, how to understand what they can do for your website and how to analyse them.
What are Keywords?
In simple terms Keywords are words and phrases that people type into search engines to find products or services that similar to yours. As an example I will use Google, these keywords and phrases are stored in Google's database and they make an assessment about the webpage and what it is about. Google highlight particular terms and expressions that paint the picture of what your web page is about - ideally these would be your keywords for this page. Then when someone searches in Google on these terms your website shows in the results. In the end how well placed in the search results is as a direct result of many different factors, but I shall not cover many of these in this article, only the actual researching of keywords.
Why do I need keywords?
You may have heard a lot about keywords and how important they are to the SEO process well to sum it all up they are the lifeblood of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Without the right keywords you could alter all of the correct elements (title, description, alt tags, meta tags, H1's etc etc) on your website but have little or no impact on how your website places in the search engine results pages (SERP's). It is essential to alter all of the right elements on your website with correct keywords. This is what SEO is all about, the marriage between the correct search word terms (keywords) and your web pages.
You might have read some SEO references or you may just think that keywords are being over-rated and are not as essential to SEO as the experts make them out to be. You may even think that you know all of the words and phrases that people search on to find products or services like the ones that you offer, I can assure you that you do not, and that you do not need to research keywords. Many people try and optimise their websites by making up their own keywords from what they "think" are the right keywords but 99.99% of the time these efforts will fail - how can you know what are the most searched on keywords in the World for a particular topic without some research?
By now you should be getting the idea that Keywords ARE every bit as important as they've been made out to be, and that bad selection or research on keywords will leave you with an incorrectly search optimised website that may actually cause it to drop in rankings.
How Do I Select Keywords?
Selecting the correct keywords for your website is fairly complicated but I shall break it up into smaller more manageable chunks so as not to confuse you. There is a bit of a process to researching keywords correctly.
We must look at our website as a whole. What is the overall theme of the website? What are our main products or services? How many pages? Then we break up the website into web pages. We optimise a whole website by search optimising all of it's individual web pages. It is important that we understand the overall theme of the website but look at its individual web page content in more detail so as to optimise for it effectively. Write down the main terms to describe your website and its products or services.
To do the following few tasks I like to have two browser windows and a spreadsheet open. Some of the following websites may require a login, but they are well known and reputable websites.
We should now identify the web page we are going to be optimising keywords for and write down the main terms that are relevant to this web page. If you are just starting out then I suggest you do some of your interior web pages before you do your front page as you get used to the process of optimising this will make your life easier. So choose one of your main product pages to start with.
1. Open "overture inventory" website in your browser window. Using your written notes, type in your product or service and press the submit button. Now copy these results over to the spreadsheet program and label as Overture.
2. Open "WordTracker" in your browser window and using either the free trial account or a normal account, login to the system. Using the WordTracker wizard tool now type in the same product or service you typed in the last step. Highlight and copy over the WordTracker results to the spreadsheet and label as WordTracker.
3. Open "Google Adwords" in your browser window. Login and navigate to tools->keyword tool and then type in the same product/service we entered in the last two steps. Be sure to check the "Use Synonyms" checkbox. Once done copy all of the resulting words over to selected keywords and click on the "estimate search traffic" button. Now copy all of the results to the spreadsheet.
4. Now, looking at the spreadsheet you have generated there should be three collums of information, Overture, WordTracker and Adwords. In this step we want to remove all items that are totally unrelated or irrelevant, so go ahead and delete them.
5. Now, sort the three lists by search volume descending. Looking from the top down on each of the three lists we are going to bold the highest searched on and most relevant phrases. From each of the lists, now copy the bold items to a fourth space in the spreadsheet, these will form our more complete list of the top phrases and keywords.
We have now formed a complete and relevant list of keywords and phrases to use on our individual web page. We should repeat all of the above steps to identify keywords relevant and take note of these.
Using the keywords you have now identified you can now begin the process of integrating these keywords into your web pages and website as a whole. There are many articles out there that detail how and what elements to optimise on your pages. Trying searching in Google for "Introduction to SEO Strategies and Techniques" and follow the most basic onpage SEO techniques.
Replace Your Lost Income With Income Protection Insurance
(category: Wealth-Building, Word count: 314)
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There is no longer such a thing as a 'job for life' and while no one likes to imagine the worst happening it can and it does and if you haven't taken steps towards planning for what would happen if you were to lose your income, then you could be in great financial difficulty if you cannot afford to pay your essential monthly outgoings. Income protection insurance, however could give you great peace of mind not to mention security by replacing your income should you become out of work, providing it's suitable for your circumstances.
An income payment protection insurance plan will give you a tax free sum of money each and every month once you have been out of work usually for 30 days or more. It will then continue to cover your lost income up to a set amount for up to 12 months if it is needed and some providers pay for up to 24 months.
Income protection insurance is an invaluable safety net on which you can fall and can make find another job and get back to work. While it can be valuable protection the product isn't suitable for all circumstances and this isn't always made clear at the time of taking out the policy. Exclusions that could mean you wouldn't be eligible to claim include being in part time employment, being retired, and self-employed or suffering from a pre-existing medical condition at the time of taking out the cover.
You should always check the small print for any exclusions along with the key facts regarding an income protection insurance policy and you can get these facts from a standalone provider if you are not sure. A specialist in payment protection can always give you advice along with giving you the cheapest premiums for your income protection insurance policy.
Conflicted
(category: Writing, Word count: 106)
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I had no idea that my work on a motion picture would cause a high-profile death penalty case to end up with the California Supreme Court. Jesse James Hollywood had been gone for nearly three years by the time I became involved. He had totally disappeared. Vanished into thin air. And he seemed so completely removed from the writing project I was about to begin.
The FBI and other federal and local law enforcement authorities trails had all but dried up. That's why the prosecutor assigned to the case, Santa Barbara County Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen, who had also prosecuted Hollywood's four co-defendants
Acid Reflux Disease In Infants
(category: Disease-Illness, Word count: 474)
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The lower end of the esophagus is protected by a valve called the Lower Esophageal sphincter (LES). This valve opens to allow food from the esophagus into the stomach and then closes up to protect the esophagus from the acid content of the stomach. Several conditions can compromise this valve, allowing gastric content into the esophagus. As in adults, infants also suffer from heartburn on occasions. This is mainly attributed to the fact that infants consume essentially liquid and soft foods, which tend to be rich in diary proteins. The most unfortunate part of infant acid reflux disease is that, unlike in adults, it is very difficult to determine if an infant has developed chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease. An infant is most unlikely to be able to complain of heartburn or any symptoms of the disease.
Acid reflux in infants is always as a result of a lot of factors, however, most of the causative factors tend to be aggravated by the fact that infants, spend a great deal of their days lying on their back or in a supine position and consume mostly liquid food. The tendency for liquid food to cause regurgitation, when combined with the pressure lying in a supine position exerts on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) constitutes a greater risk of reflux acid incidence in infants. The incidence, however, could also be attributed to some other factors like, the anatomy of the infant's stomach, improper or incomplete development of the lower esophageal sphincter during fetal growth, poor diet, overweight, food allergies and a host of other factors.
Because infants, unlike adults, cannot complain of symptoms or explain how they feel, it is always very difficult to know when an infant is suffering from acid reflux. The best bet is to consult a pediatrician. Nevertheless, there are signs and clues that you may look out for in your infant that could suggest the presence of the disease. Some of these clues are:
- Sleeping problems
- Coughing
- Weight loss
- Lack of appetite
- Spitting up frequently
- Apnea
- Unusual irritability
- Chest pain
- Sore throat
- Bad breath
- Crying
Acid reflux disease can also cause respiratory problems including pneumonia, strictures and ulcerations on the esophageal wall, and malnourishment. Although, these signs don't always mean your infant is suffering from acid reflux disease, but they constitute a good enough reason to go see your pediatrician.
Of course, there are a few things you could do to help your child avoid acid reflux. Simple things like changing the child's food, keeping him/her upright for some time, especially after eating, keeping a eye on the child for any sign of chest pain or heartburn and a host of others. This extra attention could be all your child really needs.
How Landforms Affect Temperature
(category: Weddings, Word count: 404)
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The global weather is to a large extent the result of the sun's effect, along with the atmosphere and the rotation of the earth. The earth on which this weather moves on has its own effect on the weather. The different features of the land and the sea exert quite a commendable influence on the local and the global weather systems of the earth.
Huge water bodies absorb and release the heat in a slow process. On the other hand the land mass is quicker in its heating and cooling. This causes a large difference in the temperature of night and day on land and around the sea. The minimum and maximum temperatures are also recorded faraway from the coastal areas.
Since during the day heating of the land mass causes greater convection of air, clouds are formed quicker over the land. Such distinctive features play significant roles even in the production of different kinds of wind, from the sea breezes to the monsoon winds.
A friction between the weather system and the land mass can also cause quite a change in the earth's weather. This is seen when hurricanes cause landfall and make a move onshore. Generally, when a storm is intercepted by a mountain or a terrain or buildings, its rotation meets with an obstruction, in turn slowing it down and robbing its severity.
Mountain ranges also exert an influence on the earth's weather. As a low pressure trough approaches a mountain chain it moves upward and spread. With this the rotational speed of the wind decreases and loses much of its strength.
Rain shadow effects are also caused by colossal mountains. When an air current moves towards a mountain and is obstructed, it moves up and there it condenses and comes down as rain. As a result feet of high mountains are generally areas with heavy rainfall record.
The precipitation falls on the windward side or the peaks. If the air reaches the leeward side of the mountain then they tend to lose their strength and sink and even dry up. As a result the leeward side receives very scanty or no rainfall and comes to be called a rain shadow region. The eastern side of the Rockies and the central plain land in the US are some rain shadow areas. A rain shadow zone with prolonged bout of no-rainfall can effect into the formation of deserts.
Tips For A Successful Open House
(category: Real-Estate, Word count: 628)
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You're having the jitters. Your open house is tomorrow. And first impressions count!
Help your Tampa Bay Florida real estate agent make it a smashing open house. Help him clinch that sale. The rule of thumb is to prepare well in advance, and not 24 hours before. Twenty-four hours will not be sufficient time for the nitty-gritty that will make or break a public showing. You remember how it was during school. If we crammed, we most likely failed the exam the next day. But when we studied weeks in advance, we felt we knew the subject matter by heart. The same principle applies to open houses. The harder and longer you prepare, the better the results will be. It may even put a few extra thousand dollars in your pocket!
The fact that your house is located in Tampa Bay or in Pinellas County is already half the battle won, because these locations have a lot to offer people looking for a place to live in Florida. Think of the commercial and cultural diversity and other attractions that Tampa Bay and Pinellas County are famous for.
Make a Lasting First Impression - most real estate agents agree: a clean house is the # 1 priority. The word "clean", however, does not only mean a house that has been tidied up a few hours earlier, a walkway that was swept and hosed over, or windows that were cleared of dust and dirt. "Clean" means a lot more than that.
Studies have shown that dwellings painted in neutral colors convey a more pleasant and warmer welcome to visitors; they are able to visualize better about how their own personal effects can blend with the colors. Imagine having a wall that's painted fire engine red or bedrooms that look more like an artist's mural because too many psychedelic colors are flooding the eye. Re-painting your house may become a must, but do it a few weeks before, that way the fumes don't linger.
The clutter, please - if you don't want your potential buyers to trip just as they're entering the house, eliminate unnecessary furniture and house accessories to allow for more breathing room. If visitors can't move about freely because there are obstructions along the way, chances are they're likely to go somewhere else.
Buyers will want to see the size of the closets, so eliminate the clutter. Leave the clothes and shoes neatly hung, but remove your grandmother's old sewing machine. Remember, closets that look like storage rooms are unattractive. Don't make your guests feel that there are real skeletons in the closet!
Be considerate - while dogs and other pets are adorable creatures, they have no place in an open house. One or two of your buyers might not be animal lovers or are allergic to animal hair. Some buyers also know of the damage and dirt these creatures leave on their tracks, so keep them out of the house (leave them with your mother-in-law if she agrees to baby sit them) until the open house is over.
Speaking of your mother-in-law who loves to cook exotic dishes that spew out strange smells, postpone the cooking until the prospective buyers have left. She'll need to be out of the house and so do you. Leave your real estate agent to do what he does best. Potential buyers feel more comfortable when you are not there initially - they are not ready to meet you yet!
And oh yes, how about some nice, delicate flowers that don't give off a strong smell? This simple gesture will do wonders to liven up your home. Choose different pastel colors to serve as a contrast to the neutral background.
Improve Your Sales With Auto Responder Improvements
(category: Ezine-Marketing, Word count: 208)
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Improve your marketing and sales with some auto responder Improvements. Try some of these:
1. Publish free reports to send via your auto responder. The reports should be related to your business or web site & contain info, ads and links to your sites. People love getting freebies.
2. Collect vital customer satisfaction information by publishing a survey to send via auto responder to those who sign up on your site in exchange for a free eBook, software or trial period at your membership site. This type of information will help you understand their needs, likes & dislikes better.
3. Instead of answering each customer question that is e-mailed to you, publish "Frequently Ask Questions" and make them available via auto responder to those who sign up. To save time and support headaches.
4. Instead of publishing all of your customer testimonials or endorsements on your website, publish only a few there. And set up an auto responder form that invites visitors to receive a complete list via your. Give them a power-packed list; it's more effective to include all of them.
Mix and match. Change your auto responder strategy to change your auto responder results!
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Combine Travel And Golf On Your Next Holiday
(category: Vacations, Word count: 519)
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The United States is renowned for its golf courses, and you can take advantage of this on your next vacation. Why not explore one of the best American courses when you take a holiday? If you are enthusiastic about the sport, then a golfing vacation is right for you. America is replete with deluxe golf courses for you to enjoy.
Many resort towns across the United States offer all-inclusive golf holiday packages for those who want to combine their favorite sport and their holiday. Places like Orlando, Las Vegas, Hilton Head, Phoenix, and Myrtle Beach cater to the golf tourist. Expect to be soiled by beautifully-manicured greens and luxurious hotels overlooking the courses. If you are unfamiliar with these resorts, here is a little more information about each.
Orlando, Florida is most famous for Disney World and Universal Studios, but the city doesn't neglect grown-up amusement. There is a plethora of golf courses to choose from. You can have your own fun in the sun while the kids ride the roller coasters. You can golf in Florida at any time of year because of its warm climate. Florida is a great place to escape to in the winter, when your own golf course in covered in snow. Not only Orlando, but Miami, Pensacola, and Naples offer fabulous golf opportunities.
Las Vegas is not only known for its crap tables and slot machines, but also its golf courses overlooking gorgeous mountain vistas. You can golf within the city or outside, but either way you know you will be challenged by complex sandstone bunkers and dry heat. Las Vegas is a great place to improve your games, both golf and blackjack.
Hilton Head, South Carolina is one of two South Carolina resort towns well-known for their golf game. Hilton Head is small, but it boasts over twenty golf courses, as well as its sandy beaches. If you are done golfing and swimming, then visit one of the fascinating historic sites around Hilton Head, like the Palmetto Dunes Plantation or Pinckney Island National Wildlife Preserve.
Phoenix, Arizona is a hot climate made for golf. There are over one hundred courses in Phoenix where you can not only enjoy a great eighteen holes, but you can also absorb the spectacular local landscapes. Not only can you play golf, but you can also visit the many Native American historical sites and museums in the area and gain appreciation for America's native history. Choose a hotel or bed and breakfast that offers a desert view. Be sure to ask about the Phoenix concert series and local places to visit.
Myrtle Beach is an ever-popular resort town for golfers and beach-goers alike. In addition to its miles of magnificent beaches, Myrtle Beach also plays hosts to over one hundred golf courses. The mild South Carolina climate allows you to golf there year-round. Wear your sunscreen and be prepared to party at night - Myrtle Beach has a booming nightlife.
Travel and golf always make a great combination. Improve your game and enjoy some down-time on your next holiday.
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