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Copyright © 2009 Titus Hoskins

Next year may just prove to be one of the most challenging times for pursuing online or Internet marketing on the web. It may just be a watershed moment for many marketers struggling to keep abreast of all the different factors which have come into play in recent months. Most of these changes will stem from two main sources for potential upheaval: the first being the New FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Guidelines regarding Testimonials and Endorsements and the second being “ALL” the recent changes within Google.

Actually, we already have the new FTC Guidelines which came into effect on Dec. 1st of 2009, but how these new rules are enforced will play out in the coming year as test-cases are brought to court. Basically, these new rules call for absolute disclosure and full transparency regarding Testimonials and Endorsements when a product or service is being offered for sale. Any business (monetary) relationship between the endorser and the company must be made known to the potential buyer. Obviously for those in online or affiliate marketing this could have a great impact if these new rules are strictly enforced. Just imagine all the website owners and bloggers who slap a few banners or affiliate links on their sites to cover hosting or operating costs… will they now have to disclose all these business arrangements?

For professional affiliate marketers and the companies/products they’re promoting, these new guidelines could cause potential headaches and/or legal ramifications since a general blanket disclaimer on their sites will no longer be suffice. To help solve this problem, many of the major companies are now placing an “affiliate” tag on all their banners and making it obvious a business relationship exists with its affiliates. In addition, many online marketers are placing additional disclaimers, affiliate seals and in other ways making it known certain links are indeed affiliate links and a relationship does exist with the product and/or services being promoted.

With these new guidelines, another big issue is email marketing, one of the major marketing techniques of most online marketers. Will a full disclosure be necessary for every email sales pitch? Savvy web marketers know the key to increased sales is in the “follow-up” and the “cookie-ing” of potential buyers; how will the new Guidelines affect this very effective marketing practice? How all these new rules or guidelines play out will make next year a very interesting one for marketing on the web.

Despite this, perhaps the greatest cause for upheaval in the coming year will be Google. There are countless reasons why Google will be a major game changer in 2010 for online marketing. Ever since Bing and more recently the potential Bing/Yahoo competition, Google has gone into complete overdrive, implementing new changes and debuting new programs like there was no tomorrow.

First, we have Google Caffeine which Google is introducing (full force) early in the new year. Google Caffeine, which is a major overhaul of its search engine, will no doubt cause many a marketer some sleepless nights as the total fall-out becomes evident. Other Google updates in the past (Florida Update comes readily to mind) have wrecked havoc on many top ranking sites, but this time Google is doing things a little different and have even given webmasters a beta version of the new search engine. Still, rightly or wrongly, many online marketers are bracing themselves for the full impact of Caffeine, will it mean smooth sailing or a stomach sickening roller-coaster ride for marketers and webmasters?

Second, we have the introduction of “Real Time” search which will be featured in Google’s SERPs. This will make the social media sites like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace… much more important. Again, the implications for online marketers could be enormous since many can now reach the first page through a different route. Will it also mean more “Real Time” spam? But more importantly, will it mean a greater marketing opportunity for the online marketer who exploits it?

Third, we are seeing Google moving more and more towards “Visual Search” with the introduction of Google Goggles for mobile phones. Just take a picture and you get the Google results instantly – no typing, just point and click. Just envision countless clueless teenagers or more importantly helpless shoppers suddenly being empowered with knowledge and wisdom. Could do more for education since the invention of the printed word and the info-commercial combined. Talk about scary! But will the implications for web marketing be just as revolutionary and enlightening?

Fourth, Google has made it known through its spokesperson Matt Cutts, that site-loading times will be a ranking factor in the new improved Google. Also, proper and correct page coding will also be more important if you want your site to be at full advantage. Broken links will be a big “No-No”, while linking out to important related sites a big plus. All this is only logical, Google’s main product is and has always been its search results, anything which improves those results and provides a more pleasing experience for the Google user should be front and center. Obviously, one way for Google to stay on top, is to provide the best search results to its users.

Fifth<, in order to please the end-user, Google is also moving more towards "Personalized Search" which will make SEO and ranking in the top spot for your chosen keywords a total nightmare for many professional SEOs and online marketers. If everyone can choose their own top results, isn't SEO more or less, a lame duck? Again, the ramifications of personalized search will further play out in 2010, but will professional marketers like what they see?

Finally, while no one would argue Google is King of the Hill when it comes to online search, will all these new changes strengthen or weaken Google’s grip? Will the combined Bing/Yahoo be able to give this giant some much needed competition? Or will Google’s main competition come from an unlikely source, such as big name multi-national corporations who are moving their operations online. Can these big-name keyworded domains start directly pulling in the majority of the web’s traffic, making all search engines secondary? As people become more web savvy, will they go directly to what they’re looking for on the web, bypassing the search engines altogether – including the mighty Google? Such a scenario could have greater consequences for the affiliate marketer since a direct line to a company’s site or product will obviously mean less sales for the online marketer, who really works in coordination with the search engines, either through organic search or PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising in these same search engines.

Overall, the new FTC Guidelines and recent changes to Google, will make next year one of the most interesting times to be pitching anything online. Throw into this the full effect what a combined Bing/Yahoo might bring to the table, and you have the recipe for a tumultuous white knuckle ride, until the dust finally settles and marketers make adjustments like they always do. Until then, hold on because things will probably get a little hectic for many web marketers before we see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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The author is a full time online affiliate marketer. His livelihood is derived from & depended upon search engine marketing & daily monitoring of targeted keywords, mainly within Google. He runs numerous sites, including: Internet Marketing & Internet Marketing Tools Titus Hoskins 2009. This article may be freely distributed with box.

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Copyright © 2009 Riley West

Affiliate marketers need to have certain things. I consider it important to have a web page where you can put your offers and content.

Then you can just get down to driving traffic to your site, making sales, and earning money.

Still, the beginning affiliate marketer and perhaps even some intermediates, would like it to be low priced and more straightforward than the typical setup.

Take as an example the mass of web pages called Squidoo.

It’s really just another website except for it’s size and variety of content. It’s VERY well known at Google.

Last I heard there were about 900,000 individual pages on this huge website and those pages are called “lenses” by the “Squids.”

Here are 5 good reasons to use Squidoo as an affiliate marketer.

The first reason is your cost for the hosting space. It’s zero.

The second reason is the cost of registering a domain name. It’s zero too!

Squidoo loks good because it’s practically effortless, AND it’s very low cost, especially when compared to the typical cost of hosting and domain at about $100 to $130 per year.

That doesn’t sound like much, and it isn’t if your site is making money or if you just have plenty of it. But for affiliates who are just starting and a lot of intermediates too, it’s just perfect.

The third reason, and one of big importance to affiliates, is that it is relatively easy to get indexed by Google for your lens. Really it’s a web page. But Google seems to like them.

If you pick your domain name with a keyword relevant to your sites content, that you can easily rank for, and you put it at the beginning of your domain name, you will be started off really well.

Doing a good job optimizing your page (lens) for your relevant keyword, is the best way to get your site to come up on the search results page in Google. Google page one for almost ANY keyword will result in some kind of traffic.

The fourth reason to go with Squidoo is that you are not alone. There is lots of assistance.

This would have really helped me when I was getting started because it seemed like, for me, everything new wasn’t just new…it seemed wierd…alien even. I didn’t “get it.”

Squdoo helps you in a dozen ways and you can see for yourself by just going there and looking around.

In addition, there is a forum where you can go and ask questions and get answers. Maybe later you can even answer some questions.

The fifth reason to use these pages (lenses) is because they work!

By work I mean that you can make them look like a great web page. You can also get them to have a good bit of traffic. And you can engage in direct sales right there.

If you’d like a landing page, this is it!

And that’s not all. You will learn a lot!

Many of the stumbling blocks a typical newcomer or even intermediate affiliate marketer will run into are completely eliminated by this alternative. The first reason that comes to mind is the FREE domain name and hosting.

Go there, join up and start your first lens. Start fooling around with it. Learn how to do a few of the things you need to get a halfway decent site up. There’s going to be plenty of assistance if you get stuck.

In a week to two weeks you could have an affiliate site up, indexed, and getting traffic.

Watch out because IF you do this, the next thing that will happen is that you will get a sale. A sale that didn’t cost you anything but your time and effort.

Only now you’ll know how to repeat it and increase your income.

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Riley West has been spreading the idea of Simplified Affiliate Marketing for a couple of years. The formula is Webpage + Offer + Traffic = Sales. See this explained simply at Targeted Traffic and, while you are there, don’t miss out on the demonstration of a sure-fire, simplified affiliate marketing plan at One Week Marketing.

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Blog your Way to a Huge MLM Business

If you truly want to put a boost in your MLM business, this is not the time to be shy or humble. Let the world know about your business and give them an inside look at all your success! However, don’t be afraid to show off your failures as well because they will trust you more.

The blog is one of the best marketing tools available today for an MLM business. Why? Well, it’s safe to say that the people who stop by want to learn a little more about you. If you a potential prospect come to your blog, they want to be able to identify with you and have someone to look to as a role model. All you have to do is share some tips, and helpful information to start drawing others into the business. If anything you’ll be able to get them into the subscribers list.

So if you haven’t created a blog, now is the time to get started. However, before you jump on reeling off your whole life story I’ve got a few suggestions for you. Just a few things that can help you share with your readers and get their attention:

*Your journey to success story.

*Advice on what not to do. Share stories about the mistakes you made. Then tell them how to avoid it.

*Ten reasons why your company can wipe the floor with all the others.

*Give out tips for on how to build a strong foundation.

*Teach them how to set goals.

*Share stories about other successful people. They don’t have to be your downline or upline, but just people who have succeeded at accomplishing their goals.

If you’re still feeling a little hesitant about building your own blog, here are a few reasons why you should:

*It’s also important to understand how easy it is, which means anyone can start a blog. *How you can increase traffic.

*How to automate blog posts. You can write 1 a day or several and post them throughout the week.

*Google loves blogs!

*Ways to get backlinks to your blog.

*Be able to be bring more visibility and brand yourself.

*Ways to monetize your blog to bring in additional streams of income.

*How to sell products through your blog.

*Understanding that the individuals will subscribe to your newsletters and attract a huge gathering.

*The more you post constantly, the more your reader base will increase.

*Your faithful readers can post comments and interact with you. This lets them feel like they’re learning and can get help from the expert.

*In the end they will look up to you!

Hopefully by now I’ve convinced you to start a blog. What it comes down to is you can bring about all kinds of traffic to your MLM website by utilizing one. Before long you will notice that recruits and sales will be coming in thanks to this little innovation.

Don’t be afraid to share this type of information with the public. The more you are willing to give, the easier it will be for them to do the same. It’s a great way to build a strong foundation and continue your success in Network Marketing.

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Javier Salces is an experienced network marketer and list building expert. To discover what the Top MLMers are doing online to build a five or six figure a month business from the comfort of home visit MLMTacticsBlog.com

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10 Tips For Using Keywords In Your Article Submissions

So, you’ve heard that keywords are an important part of article marketing, but you’re just not sure how to go about using your keyword information in your articles.

Here are some essential tips about keywords for you:

1) Research your keywords. Use a keyword research tool such as WordTracker to find the most appropriate keywords for your site.

2) Your list should be about 20-30 words long.

3) Some of your keywords will be shorter (2 words), while others will be longer (3-5 words long).

4) These longer keyword terms are called “long tail keywords”. Long tail keywords are not as in demand as the shorter keyword phrases, but as a consequence they are easier to rank for (because there is less competition). It’s a good idea to have some long tail keywords in your keyword list.

5) After developing your list, take each keyword and focus an article on it. Focusing an article on a keyword does not mean that you pepper the article with that term. It means that you write an article on the topic of that keyword. You should write naturally–your article should not sound like you’re trying to manipulate that term into it.

6) If possible, find a way to work the keyword into your article title (of course in a way that makes sense).

7) You can use the keyword in your article body and also in your resource box. Again, the idea is not to overload your article with the keyword, but rather to write in a natural sounding way.

Do not overload your article with the keyword. Some publishers use keyword density tools to see if a keyword has been used too much. The keyword density limits vary by publisher, but a good percentage of keyword density for an article is 2%.

9) Go all the way through your keyword list, writing an article around each term. Don’t try to put all of your keywords in one article. Remember, article marketing is a long term marketing tool, and you have many articles to write during the lifetime of your website. Take one article and focus on one keyword term. Go through your list, then repeat, writing new articles for each keyword term.

10) Your keyword list should be updated regularly, as this type of information changes.

It’s that simple–if you learn to write articles for your keyword terms in this manner, you’ll be working towards dominating your niche in Google and the other search engines. Also, the more content you have out there for your keywords, the more likely your articles will show up in searches.

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Steve Shaw is an article marketing expert, and founder of the popular article submission service, SubmitYOURArticle.com, used by thousands of business owners. Discover how to use the power of article marketing to reach thousands of potential prospects for your website – download a powerful free report on successful article marketing from http://www.submityourarticle.com/report

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Copyright © 2009 John Khu

Of late, it is getting increasingly harder to choose and buy a top-level domain name. It is also very difficult to find a top-level name that relates directly to the theme and subject of your web site. People who are looking forward to buy a top-level name work hard to find a suitable name often with tremendous difficulty. If you are a seller of products or services through your internet portals, then you must try had to purchase a .com or .biz top-level domain name. In fact, such domains will lend immense credibility and authenticity to your business. Top-level domains can also act as very strong advertizing tools for your business.

The top level is always the extension of a particular domain name. .com is the most famous top-level domain name in the world. Top-level domain extension indicates the type of online activities you are carrying right now. These domain name extensions are there for special purposes. A .com domain indicates that you are in some form of business while .net signifies that you are dealing with a network of different services. An .org is always special to non-profits while .biz always signifies that you are dealing with some business services.

For commercial business purposes, you will need to buy .com domain because most web surfers have the habit of adding.com extension at the end of their keywords. Make sure that you buy the .com name extension first before buying other extensions. Otherwise, someone else may pick up your .com name. In this way, .com name extensions are always so invaluable.

Almost all search engines will check your domain names before allowing someone to search your name. You must ensure that the site content and the domain name extension are in complete resonance with each other so that search engines can easily index your web site. Major search engines like Google and Yahoo always respect and value top-level domain names. It is possible to check the availability of a top-level name by trying the plural version of the names. However, domain owners are very intelligent and smart because they will always make sure that they register plural forms of their main domain name.

Top-level domains are possible when you add numbers to the domains. Experts recommend adding numbers to choose and register some top-level domain names. Adding numbers to the main body text of the domains may help you register some top-level domain names. Some people use substitutions of the letters to some original letters of the domain name. For example, you can substitute the word four with 4.

Top-level domain names are in excessive demand while people will go any lengths to register such names. If you fail to get these names, you can always choose and buy an expired domain. Expired domain market could be a very good source of very good top-level domain names. However, get ready to pay very high price for a very good top-level expired domain name.

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John Khu, an author and a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web site called http://www.expireddomainsecret.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets. “This article may be freely reprinted or distributed in its entirety in any e-zine, newsletter, blog or website as long as the resource box remain intact.”

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If you are in business the most important thing you’ll want to do is get traffic to your site. To do this without spending anything on advertising is the ‘holy grail’ of internet marketing. Leanne Griffiths review’s one such program.

By now, you’ve probably heard all about it – I mean, it’s all over the forums, and the Alexa ranking for this site is insane right now.

It is important you compare products and prices becuase you can get ripped off there are many scams out there that do not deliver what they promise.

The Affiliate Code claims to show you step by step via video tutorial how to generate free web traffic. But does it deliver what it promises? I put it to the test and let me tell you I was surprised at the outcome. Let me tell you why.

There are other programs out there that will help you with getting web traffic (either buying web traffic or SEO optimization)which I have purchased and tested but let me say I am no technical wizard by any means and I had to ask for a refund for many due the complexity of the programs and the lack of support or help. (I will refrain from sharing them here as it is not appropriate as this was my own personal experience but I would be happy to talk to anyone directly. Some of the better products out there are 7 Figure Marketing School and Triaffiliates. These also work and are inexpesive ways or getting your business listed organically in google.

So I purchased Michael Jones’s Affiliate Code to report back to my clients on the effectiveness of the program. The program costs between $57-$77 USD (it does have and exit pop up which discounts the price. FYI – The discount you get is $20 which makes this product good value for money.

Now I have to say I was skeptical, I’ve been around and spent a lot of money (some good investments some not so good) on programs like this. For me the best thing about the program is he actually takes you step by step through the training of HOW TO actually generate free traffic to your website.

He tells you WHAT to do, show you HOW to do it and then shows you a live example of implementing this method from start to finish. So for me that was great and it was actually very interesting and he kept me engaged with a little humor thrown in too. (I like talking to people and presenting and writing but start talking about meta tags, back links, SER, SEO and my eyes start glazing over!)

The training is excellent and motivates you to implement it and I did try this technique on one of my websites (I really need help with sales at the time!)

In about 24 hours I had double the amount traffic going my site www.7figmarkschool.com and in 48 hours I had tripled my sales from the same time the week before.

BUT there is a downside folks. My website actually crashed (well my server did) and it took me a day to fix so I lost sales during that period and I am not too happy with that. I did send feedback that they should put a warning on the training video that you must check with your website sever people to ensure it can handle the traffic surge. Talk to your server/website people that within days and weeks you could have massive traffic to the site and ensure the server can handle that. The other benefit of using this program is to generate organic listings for your website. You do not appear in the sponsor ads section which many people who are searching for something ignore anyway.

My tips for ensuring you get the most out of this program:

1. Take your time and DON’T SKIP any of the training – you may think you know but even I learnt a lot going over topics that I thought I know all there was to know. So become a student and learn and take notes during the tutorial.

2. Use the tools he gives you – you can download an excel file which is completely formatted with calculations and analytics that will save you hours and hours of work. Don’t reinvent the wheel!

3. If you don’t’ understand something you can email Michael (the support is fantastic) and he will respond.

4. Try it on your website and ensure you action this. Most importantly is you need to know how it all works so you can show someone else to do this if you decide to outsource and he shows you how to get others to do this to.

In conclusion using Michael Jones’s Affiliate Code will generate free web traffic to your website and it will get you on the front page of Google and Yahoo but you MUST follow my advice above or it will become just another bit of software gathering dust in your office draw!

I hope you’ve found this review helpful and if you have any further questions you can contact me directly

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Leanne is a presenter, mentor and coach and is an experienced network marketer. Her background is executive level with both major airlines in Australia and works for various charities and on boards http://www.leannegriffiths.com
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When the “Internet” became a household word, people who wanted to be present on the Internet were concerned about the expense and effort of building a website. Whether fun or money was the goal, in order to be listed on the Net, having a website was the only option in those times. Amateur ones were less costly, but were not terribly appealing to the visitor. The blog was invented to be a “working man’s website” whereby you could leave your footprints on the World Wide Web minus the need to have a full-fledged website. From one mans blog to the other the blog spot became a great method for folks to get together on the World Wide Web. It was free even though it was a little drab; but change was coming.

Before long the modest blog spot offered the ability of posting photographs, change of fonts, and all the other stuff that normally came with websites. Very soon web enthusiast had the ability to have their own blogs to talk about various issues and sometimes to generate revenue. Compared to a website, a blog was less difficult to start – and very soon blogs began to spring up everywhere you look and on every topic you can think of.

Anyone can start blogging. This includes YOU – whether or not you have any Internet expertise. You can begin doing it as a hobby.

Pick a blog that appeals to you and begin leaving comments. This will teach you how to use the commands and the basics of blogging. As your skill level improves, start your own blog and I guarantee that you will find a world of entertainment. Also you can use it to supplement your income if that interests you.

You will be more likely to succeed if you’re blogging on a topic of interest to you. Prior to setting up the blog,make certain you pick a topic you love. One man’s diversion for example, can make blogging a fun and rewarding endeavor.

You can initially talk about some personal experiences. As you progress, you can begin networking, making some friends, start adding additional types of content, and hold some exhibits through your blog spot. There are lots of other people who would love to forge friendships with those who share their passions and blogging provides the perfect way to do so. You will learn a great deal and achieve immense enjoyment in the process.

Once you feel ready, you can begin earning some income by monetizing your blog. At this point there will be several admirers who will broaden your associations.

The simplest way is to include Google Adsense on your blog, thereby automating the monetization. If you’d like to go a bit beyond you can begin promoting products with your blog. The blog spot that you created for entertainment could wind up earning you a real good sum of money by the end of the day.

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Jim Eastman writes about lots of different subject matters. To get you very own blog spot just search for “free blog” and you can create a blot like http://www.blogspotone.com/

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Did you know that social marketing in different forms can be very effective way to create customers to your online home based business? However, you need to be determined, patient, and willing to learn which the best ways to get most out of this excellent promotion method are. In this article I will give you six ideas to use social marketing and build steady stream of traffic to your online business.

1. Start a blog of your and host it yourself. Even if you choose to join Blogger.com, which is owned by Google, you should host it yourself. You want to be in control in every possible ways with your online business.

If you use a free blogging platform you lose control. That is why it is not wise to use free platforms.

2. After setting up a blog, you should bookmark every blog posts you make to several different social directories such as Digg, Stumbleupon, Technorati, and so on. A good way to do this is to use OnlyWire.com and bookmark to multiple directories with one click.

Social directories are a great way to drive traffic to your blog and can be good search engine bait.

3. Join a couple of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. This is an excellent way to create contacts and make your business known.

You can update your Facebook page and make Twitter micro blog posts through Onlywire.com as well. One thing you want to avoid is posting useless information. You can have a lot of fun doing social networking but you can also build your home based online business if you use this tool correctly.

4. Add videos to your blog by getting relevant video code from YouTube. You can do that just simply embedding the code straight to your post and give something interesting information to your visitors that way. You can also shoot your own videos which your visitors will find interesting as well.

5. You can do your blog more interactive if you let people to make comments. Actually it is recommended that you ask people to make comments about your blog posts. This is a great way for you to interact with them and to get them coming back to your blog to post additional comments.

6. Offer some kind of contests to your visitors and create excitement on your blog. Give away a prize or something worthwhile a person would want to participate in the contest for.

This is six ways to use social marketing to build your home based online business. Social marketing is a powerful form of building quality traffic.

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Pasi Kaarakainen makes regular posts to his online business blog about internet marketing and ways to make money online. If you have considered of starting a home based online business visit his site today and find the best ideas and opportunities to do that.

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Very few people explore the potential of optimizing their eBay Store despite the fact that over 50% of online shoppers research their purchase through search engines. Here are some tips that could put your eBay store into the rankings that matter.

Add Metatags: Even though the human eye won’t read Metatags the search engines will and you will need to look into configuring your Store and Listings through Html and the “Manage My Store Area”.

Pick your keywords carefully: The best way to pick keywords is to put yourself in the shoes of your customers and decide what words they would enter if they were looking for your product.

To help you find useful keywords it would be worth using http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ to find popular search terms used on the Internet in general and then look at http://pulse.ebay.com to see what is popular on eBay.

Now use these words in your titles, item descriptions and even your store URL and eBay ID if you can. It also worth bearing in mind that search engines will attach the most importance to words in titles and also ones in bold.

Custom Pages in your Store These are pages within your store that you can create and enter unique content to show promotions, showcase an item or give details about your business.

The About Me Page Another underutilized page that sellers neglect but really it is essential for all sellers to have as it’s another place to put keywords, a link to your store, a newsletter subscription box and even promote affiliate links. Get some great free About Me templates from here: http://www.shipscript.com/workshop/ME_templates.htm

Reviews and Guides Writing eBay guides and reviews are another great way of getting links from eBay and outside of the site and using your chosen keywords will potentially attract more visitors to your listings and stores. eBay recommends using “search tags” on these pages to show what topics and content are revealed in your content and to make your content visible to the search engines.

Here are some tips on picking a good topic for your guide (whatever you do, don’t forget to include a link to your listing or store!)

Browse the most popular guides at eBay by looking here: http://reviews.ebay.com, you are likely to see that the most popular topics are how to avoid being scammed, how to protect your eBay account, selling tips.

Keep up to date with eBay Happenings (this newsletter is a great start!) and write about Hot Topics and Items.

Try to pick a topic you can relate one of your listings or your store to.

If you sell a book, ebook, DVD or album, why not write a review on it and link it to your listing

Get as Many Links as you Can Try to create as many links to your eBay store as you can, ask your friends, acquaintances, subscribers and everyone you can think of! Try to find online directories like http://www.listmystore.com to enter your store onto. Make sure you link to your store within eBay as well – on your guides, listings and About Me page. (The more page links, the higher the Google PR rating and the higher the search engine ranking!)

Featured Items Nearly all featured auctions from eBay show up in the top 5 – 10 listings on Google. So pick your keywords carefully and pay about $20 to get a featured listing for your auction. As a potentially great traffic generator it’s worth the risk. If you have an ebook that answers a desperate need and good keywords you could get loads of traffic for it this way.

These are some good ways to getting your eBay Store onto the Search Engines. Ebay also provides a basic section for optimizing your eBay store for search engines here: http://www.pages.ebay.com/education/SEO-introduction/index.html

I hope to be seeing you in the high search engine ranks soon.

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Nicolas Baron is a highly successful Entrepreneur and Personal Achievement proponent who has just taught you about one of the best free eBay resource around. Claim your FREE eBay Traffic Xplosion eBook to learn the techniques behind Traffic Generation by exploiting eBay! Do it today and be ready for that Traffic Xplosion BIG BANG! http://www.ebay-traffic-xplosion.com/free

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Currently, I run some Google ppc adwords campaigns for customers of mine and they do well enough at it to stay with it.

But I just love FREE TRAFFIC for my sites. But not just any old traffic. I need traffic coming to my sales pages that are interested in buying what I am offering. Targeted traffic as it is often called.

And I love the concept of free traffic and especially free, quality traffic. When I make a sale my profit (commission) is 96 to 98% all mine. I don’t have to send out a check for the traffic as in Adwords.

Let’s take a look at my three most important, and best, ways of getting good traffic to come to my sites.

They are article marketing and keyword ranking for my site that are BOTH accomplished every time I write an article. There is NO article you can lose money or position on. They ONLY improve you.

I use my article to establish rapport and to get the reader to feel inclined to click my links at the bottom of the page in what’s known as a resource box.

But get this…this is killer.

I have a list of keywords that I picked especially for their ease in ranking for. I am currently on Google Page One for several of my keywords and they send me steady traffic. Page one on Google causes traffic! But that’s not all.

Every time I make the links in my resource box I make them like this….Find out more about “free targeted traffic” (where the quote marks frame my link words – anchor text) and that is automatically registered by Google as a one way link to my site that is named “free targeted traffic.”

Now my site moves up on the page for that exact keyword. After you do this for a while you are on page one for a bunch of them and you have targeted traffic coming to your offer! And not as a result of the article being a good traffic supplier but as a result of Google seeing your new one way link and it’s anchor text name.

That’s it folks it’s a twofer big time. Two streams of traffic for one small effort.

I have a couple of ’secrets” here. Secrets are something you don’t know..yet.

Here it is. I have a method for finding the keywords that will get me well ranked in the shortest possible time.

Here’s the other “secret.”. I submit my articles to a mass submission outfit that gets my article out to thousands of publishers. Get it. MASS submission.

Massive traffic. Massive amounts of one way anchor text links and I’m starting to MASS up some money.

Remember this on your quest for a way to make money online. This one thing.

Money = Offer + Traffic… or… Offer + Traffic = Money. It is expressed in some other ways, too. Most people would agree that it’s the traffic that is hardest to get. But it’s not hard after you have been at what I am doing for the last few months. This is getting big.

This is the only actually simple method of making money online that I know of. And you can do it too.

Get Started and Never Give Up!

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