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		<title>Buying Links Is The Shortcut To Google Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying links is a controversial topic among webmasters and web designers. So do you buy links to increase the position of your website on Google or not? Or another way of putting might be, do paid links help your rankings? If so, what are the risks? Is it possible to increase a websites rankings by [...]]]></description>
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<p>Buying links is a controversial topic among webmasters and web designers. So do you buy links to increase the position of your website on <a class="zem_slink" title="Google" rel="homepage" href="http://google.com">Google</a> or not? Or another way of putting might be, do paid links help your rankings? If so, what are the risks? Is it possible to increase a websites rankings by &#8220;buying&#8221; links? OK, to answer the pressing question first; yes you can buy links that point to your website and yes, backlinks are perhaps the most important factor that influences the position of your website in Google&#8217;s search results. And yes, if you buy backlinks they can get high rankings for your website on Google in no time at all&#8230;.</p>
<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s another question though that you should hear the answer to and you may not like it! You probably realized that I&#8217;m building up to a &#8220;But&#8221; and if you&#8217;ll excuse the obvious and ugly pun&#8230; it&#8217;s a &#8220;big BUT!&#8221;&#8230; <em>(spelled with one &#8220;t&#8221; people! Tsk, tsk, clean your minds!)</em> So if buying links sends your website to high ranking heaven, why shouldn&#8217;t you use it for your website? Simply put, buying links is against Google&#8217;s terms of service, and let&#8217;s not kid ourselves, Google owns the lion share of online searches so lets get this right. An besides, if what I&#8217;ve been reading recently is right about <a title="Search Engine Bing.com" href="http://bing.com" target="_blank">Bing.com</a> and their SEO parameters, they don&#8217;t even take links into account; so back to Google. Here&#8217;s what Google&#8217;s anti-spam engineer <a class="zem_slink" title="Matt Cutts" rel="blog" href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/">Matt Cutts</a> recently said, &#8220;Buying or selling links that pass Page Rank is in violation of Google&#8217;s <a class="zem_slink" title="Webmaster Guidelines" rel="homepage" href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=35769">webmaster guidelines</a> and can negatively impact a site&#8217;s ranking in search results.&#8221; He went on to say that Google has been working on new algorithms and tools that WILL detect paid links!</p></blockquote>
<p>Also, Google has a report form for paid links and if one of your competitors finds a paid link that points to your website he or she might be inclined to report it to Google, <em>(Let&#8217;s be honest, it would be in their own interest even if it&#8217;s a selfish and mean thing to do!) </em>We need to bite the ugly truth here people; Google is actively searching for paid links and it&#8217;s highly likely that pretty soon they&#8217;ll be able to detect all paid links! Some of the detractors of this argument will say that their sites are shooting up the page ranks so why should they be bothered or concerned and yes, it&#8217;s possible that you can get away with it for some time; but don&#8217;t kid yourself; your website WILL be penalized as soon as Google finds out that you tried to force the system. So buying links may leads to quick results but they&#8217;ll leave you with bigger penalties and a headache that could kill an elephant!</p>
<p>Using ethical SEO methods take longer to achieve high search engine rankings, BUT, <em>(and this is a nice but!)</em>, your rankings will grow steadily AND in the long run you&#8217;ll get a much higher and sustainable page ranking in the search engines. Let me spell it out people&#8230; &#8220;Ethical SEO methods, used with integrity, pay off in the long run!&#8221; If you want all your hard work to backfire on you go ahead and use spammy SEO methods to increase your rankings on Google. It will KILL your page rankings and take forever to recover from but hey, you got that quick buck right? <em>(Yep, that&#8217;s sarcasm!)</em> However, if you want an online business that&#8217;s sustainable and progressively increasing in income or social traffic,<em> (whatever is important to you)</em>, then there are better ways to get inbound links and to &#8220;SEO&#8221; your site!</p>
<p>As I wrote earlier, the links to your website are one of the most important factors that influences the position of your website in Google&#8217;s search results. For that reason, it&#8217;s very important to get as many good backlinks as possible to your website. The quality of the backlinks are more important than the quantity. You can get links from related websites, links from blogs, links from social bookmark websites, links from Internet directories, relevant forums and of course from article submission websites such <a class="zem_slink" title="Ezine Articles" rel="homepage" href="http://www.ezinearticles.com">EzineArticles</a>.com Yes it requires a little effort but that&#8217;s part of building a business and dear reader we need to realize that taking unethical shortcuts, such as buying backlinks, is a sure fired shortcut to internet oblivion!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard about AdSense Exchange Services? If you have then you may have been tempted to try them to boost your Adsense sales. DON&#8217;T DO IT!! How do they work? Well the readers digest version is &#8220;You click on my AdSense ads, and I click yours!&#8221; (Obviously with the intent of earning more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Have you ever heard about AdSense Exchange Services? If you have then you may have been tempted to try them to boost your Adsense sales. <strong>DON&#8217;T DO IT!!</strong> How do they work? Well the readers digest version is &#8220;You click on my AdSense ads, and I click yours!&#8221; <em>(Obviously with the intent of earning more revenue!)</em></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not even going to mention any company names here, that&#8217;s how much contempt I hold them in! And why? Because it&#8217;s illegal! How strongly can I word this. If you want your Adsense  account to be shut down FOREVER, then go right ahead and try these exchange services &#8230;</p>
<div id="attachment_251" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://adsense.blogspot.com/"><img class="size-full wp-image-251  " title="Google Adsense" src="http://www.methodstosucceed.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/google-adsense-logo1.jpg" alt="Using Google Adsense honestly" width="300" height="123"></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Using Google Adsense honestly</p></div>
<p>Google is not daft! You surely don&#8217;t think that a company with their resources hasn&#8217;t found a way to track these types of services? Have a go, get some clicks, smile as you see the earnings leap then weep when a few days later an e-mail comes from the AdSense team to say that your AdSense account has been closed for fraudulent clicks.</p>
<p>And don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s limited to Google either! Other networks, such as PPC RevenuePilot, are on the ball too! They may not close the account, instead they&#8217;ll slash your earning per click to mere cents if anything even if it just <em>looks</em> suspicious!</p>
<p>So to wrap up &#8230; there are no short cuts, <em>(only ones that have a legal team knocking on your door!) </em>So apply yourself. Make small adjustments in your Adsense ads, test &amp; retest. See what others in the field are doing and emulate them &#8230; in other words &#8230; do it right, get it right and earn! Don&#8217;t be naive; think long term, NOT short term!</p>
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		<title>Make money with Adsense</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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Its very important for a rapid adoption of AdSense that its very easy for publishers to get Ads on your site as soon as possible. The integration of AdSense on your site takes just a few minutes, and you can be on your way with one or more well integrated AdSense ads.
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<p>Its very important for a rapid adoption of AdSense that its very easy for publishers to get Ads on your site as soon as possible. The integration of AdSense on your site takes just a few minutes, and you can be on your way with one or more well integrated AdSense ads.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first thing we need to do is to navigate Google Adsense.  Log in to apply for an account and password, <em>(assuming you dont have one)</em>. There follows a description of the page <a class="zem_slink" title="AdSense" rel="homepage" href="http://www.google.com/adsense">Google AdSense</a> Terms you must agree to continue.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Next page is a one that shows you about the details of how your AdSense account and the best way to go about generating your advertising. At the top of the page also links to the configuration where you can enter the code that must be inserted on your site that generate the AdSense banners.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can use AdSense for text (ads) and a with a search box or instructions. Finally, a &#8220;My Account&#8221; tab that allows you to set details for that account, payments and Tax Information. To add a text ad on your site, return to the &#8216;AdSense Setup&#8217; in the tab-click &#8220;AdSense for Content&#8221; link. Make sure you have cookies enabled.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You can make a choice between ads and link blocks. The former contains, or text and images in connection with a determined for each location, the master with a detailed description, the latter only links to specific types.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Of course, it&#8217;s a bit difficult to know which type you should use, so you should experiment with both for a time to decide. The next step is the choice of form and color adding. Basically you can use any color you want and Google offers some of its. This is an important stage. Dont discount it thinking colour isnt important!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a graphic designer I see the importance of colur everyday in marketing and I cant emphahsis it enough! Whats important at a basic level is that you match the coloures as much as possible to two or three of the most dominant colurs on your website site or even if you want to get really particular, on each page if theyre so diverse. <em>(The way to do this is to create a new ad for each page and colur accordingly with each ad generated)</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">However, their limited ad-format has a selection of one ounces formats. It&#8217;s an &#8220;Ad Formats&#8221; link which has to a page that allows you to everyone, including those in action, so you can decide that fits into a better place. Sometimes more intrusive die, no work best, but this can vary from place to place.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After the adjustment, you can click on &#8220;Go&#8221; at the bottom of the page. The fact that now with a section entitled &#8220;AdSense for Content. You can click on a portion of the text and shows that the JavaScript required to implement AdSense. This automatically selects the text in the Box.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Then you can also insert adjacent pages. If the dynamic pages to this Template code in your view is the end of every secure page on your site. Some Advertisers do not choose to AdSense on every page, and this is understandable. An example is a Company that is AdSense, may also be conditions that inevitably the legal means that is probably unsuitable.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What&#8217;s then left for you to do is to access your site. Google AdSense crawlers will soon visit your website, was that the ads that his ideas for your site Content. And there&#8217;s all done. For a simple page this should be a matter of Minutes and thatsthe choice of AdSense users. Although it is quick, its mass appeal works. Its incredibly popular and the choice of advertisers and publishers alike! Now  Go get your slice of the pie!</p>
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		<title>RSS Feeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello lovely reader! A few of you have asked me about RSS feeds and I was going to give you a terrribly long winded explanation but then I thought, &#8220;Mmmm? Someone&#8217;s bound to have made a video about this!&#8221; And sure enough after a quick rummage around &#8220;the cloud&#8221; I came across this &#8230; I [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hello lovely reader! A few of you have asked me about RSS feeds and I was going to give you a terrribly long winded explanation but then I thought, &#8220;Mmmm? Someone&#8217;s bound to have made a video about this!&#8221; And sure enough after a quick rummage around &#8220;the cloud&#8221; I came across this &#8230; I do hope it helps but do feel free to ask any questions or better still &#8230; leave your comments &#8230; Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Web 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 15:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0 Even the name just sounds like a another excuse for a sales pitch! As you know I've been researching all sorts of ideas, blogs, sites, products etc. I've been trying to cut through all the dross to help you and me to find legitimate ways to establish &#038; build an online business that's relatively easy to monetize and maintain. So back to Web 2.0! I suppose I should attempt to define it before I go on.]]></description>
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<p>Web 2.0 Even the name just sounds like a another excuse for a sales pitch! As you know I&#8217;ve been researching all sorts of ideas, blogs, sites, products etc. I&#8217;ve been trying to cut through all the dross to help you and me to find legitimate ways to establish &amp; build an online business that&#8217;s relatively easy to monetize and maintain. So back to Web 2.0! I suppose I should attempt to define it before I go on.</p>
<p>Web 2.0 refers to what was perceived as a second generation of web design &amp; development. It&#8217;s components include, but are not exclusive to:</p>
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<li><strong>Communication</strong></li>
<li><strong>Information sharing </strong></li>
<li><strong>Defining Information</strong></li>
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<p>This has lead to the evolution of web-based communities, such as facebook &amp; MySpace, hosted services and even web applications. Can you remember a web without youtube, Google or any of the many other new Kings of the new web frontiers?</p>
<p>Darcy DiNucci  coined the term <em>&#8220;Web 2.0&#8243;</em>  in 1999. In her article &#8220;Fragmented Future,&#8221; she wrote <em>&#8220;The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. &#8230; The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text and graphics but as a transport mechanism, the ether through which interactivity happens. It will [...] appear on your computer screen, [...] on your TV set [...] your car dashboard [...] your cell phone [...] hand-held game machines [...] and maybe even your microwave.&#8221; </em>When you think of it that was almost a prophetic insight into where the web was going as all of these areas have come to pass!</p>
<p>Most people in the know  associate the term &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243; with Tim O&#8217;Reilly due to the O&#8217;Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. According to Tim O&#8217;Reilly: <em>&#8220;Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as a platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.&#8221;</em> It has to be said that these guys are pretty much <em>Ipso facto</em> in defining 2.0 so I&#8217;ll put a link at the end of my article to their website that gives a very comprehensive explanation.</p>
<p>But before you disappear off there &#8230; have a look at <em><a title="Web Images" href="http://www.onlinemarketingideas.com/members/go.php?r=3238&amp;i=l4" target="_blank"><strong>this</strong></a></em> first. I&#8217;ve been encouraged by you dear reader to expand the look of the site a little so I&#8217;ve been out scurrying around the far corners of the web, <em>(maybe I should say furthest reaches as I can&#8217;t imagine corners in a &#8220;cloud!&#8221;) </em> <img src='http://www.methodstosucceed.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  And I&#8217;ve come across this great  <em><strong><a title="Web Images" href="http://www.onlinemarketingideas.com/members/go.php?r=3238&amp;i=l4" target="_blank">site</a></strong></em> that&#8217;s selling a very large collection of 2.0 savvy Icons, Graphics, Opt-in Templates, Squeeze Page Templates, Video Templates, Website Templates, Buttons etc and all for a ridiculously low price! You&#8217;ll see some of them appear on my site over the next few weeks, but head on over <strong><em><a title="Web Images" href="http://www.onlinemarketingideas.com/members/go.php?r=3238&amp;i=l4" target="_blank">there</a> </em></strong>yourself and get it while it&#8217;s still available! And yes &#8230; I do get a affiliate commission from it but you can too when you buy it for yourself!</p>
<p>Let me know what you think &#8230; thanks for all your kind comments too! Please keep them coming! Here&#8217;s that link to the O&#8217;Reilly <em><strong><a title="O'Reilly" href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html" target="_blank">article</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>Linkbaiting &#8211; Fishing For Visitors Not Fish!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linkbait has nothing to do with fishing, (well at least nothing to do
with our scaly, water-bound friends) but lots to do with bringing people
to your website using subjects of interest, emotional or psychological
triggers and knowledge to satisfy the info hungry!]]></description>
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<p>Linkbait has nothing to do with fishing, <em>(well at least nothing to do<br />
with our scaly, water-bound friends)</em> but lots to do with bringing people<br />
to your website using subjects of interest, emotional or psychological<br />
triggers and knowledge to satisfy the info hungry!</p>
<p>So linkbait essentially is content that is specifically written to<br />
either educate, entertain or inflame your readership or &#8220;prospective&#8221;<br />
readers. These articles create what&#8217;s commonly referred to a net &#8220;Buzz&#8221;,<br />
and this &#8220;Buzz&#8221; spreads virally from site to site and take the form of<br />
links and comments that others make about what is written on your site.<br />
These in turn are used by search engine algorithms to rank a website.<br />
Get a high rank, you&#8217;ll get a higher listing, then you&#8217;ll get more<br />
traffic to your site. More traffic = more buzz = more visitors. Linkbait<br />
creation is &#8220;Nitro Marketing” your campaign!</p>
<p>If you have a specific keyword phrase, search engine optimized, linkbait<br />
can be specific, relevant, authoritative content in a niche market.<br />
Obviously content causes heavy discussion and sometimes a good argument<br />
on a niche subject. Either way, linkbait articles attract more people to<br />
your website.</p>
<p>Ok, so your content is supposed to generate links from other websites,<br />
yeah?. That&#8217;s the aim. So, you&#8217;ll want people to love or loath your<br />
article/post/rant enough to write about it on their website and post a<br />
follow-up a link back to your site and page of where that content is.<br />
Obviously there&#8217;s more to it but basically this is the beginnings of<br />
viral marketing. The idea is that your visitors don&#8217;t just read your<br />
material, but that they or the webmasters who find you are either riled<br />
up enough to rant about your post or article on their website or love it<br />
enough so that they quote loads of it! This can become a never-ending<br />
source of links back to your site.</p>
<p>So what happen with backlinks or one-way links from other sites? Well,<br />
the search engines keep a count of how many sites link back to your<br />
website giving you some &#8220;love&#8221; and higher listings in their search<br />
engines! An as I&#8217;ve already said this = more traffic to your website!<br />
And we love traffic don&#8217;t we? I&#8217;ve seen his form of viral marketing used<br />
successfully by many but I think many people are missing out on this<br />
easy method to boost their natural search engine listings. <em>(Natural;<br />
meaning you don&#8217;t pay for it!) </em>So let’s look at some variances on the<br />
theme here:</p>
<p><strong>Controversy:</strong> As I&#8217;ve already spoken about it let&#8217;s start here. Rant and<br />
rave on something in a constructive but polar fashion and people will<br />
love to stop by and dispute your view. There are those who advocate<br />
being just plain negative about something or someone but I disagree with<br />
this strategy VERY strongly. For one thing you could potentially end up<br />
in a libellous situation and for another thing I think that there is<br />
enough &#8220;bitchy&#8221; talk out there. It&#8217;s unprofessional and I believe that<br />
you&#8217;ll stand out from the crowd if you can offer a constructive<br />
opposition to something or someone&#8217;s point of view! Besides, who trusts<br />
someone that you know will back-stab you the minute you&#8217;re not looking!</p>
<p>So a good, constructive and controversial argument will always yield a<br />
ton of attention. Writing something that&#8217;s not popular opinion gets and<br />
keeps readers who want to air their views on your views but remember if<br />
you have started out with cruel lies they&#8217;ll just come back and bite<br />
you!. It&#8217;s fair to say though that this kind of approach can draw a lot<br />
of attention but consider your circumstances. Will this &#8220;type&#8221; of<br />
attention fit what you&#8217;re trying to communicate?</p>
<p><strong>Informational:</strong> <em>(My current chosen format!)</em> If you provide information<br />
that educates and informs your readership, they will always come back<br />
and refer to it, especially if you&#8217;re writing about a niche area! In<br />
fact, writing consistently in an informational manner in one or more<br />
niche areas will gradually build your reputation as an expert in that<br />
field and that&#8217;s worth it&#8217;s weight in Gold! To get yourself started<br />
google your Niche area and start researching it. Read articles on the<br />
subject.</p>
<p>Draw some of your own conclusions, <em>(yes it requires effort!)</em>, and start<br />
writing about it even if it&#8217;s only a line or two initially! Save those<br />
few lines and watch as they grow into great articles the more you read<br />
and become informed yourself! This is the way I tend to write myself.<br />
I&#8217;ll leave a text editor open when I read articles and ask myself basic<br />
questions as I read. The usual prefaces are Who, What, Why and When? If<br />
something stands out in an article I&#8217;ll ask myself questions about it;<br />
for example, &#8220;How would that help me in my circumstances? What advantage<br />
does this give me over my competitors? Why does he do it that way? Isn&#8217;t<br />
there a more cost effective/quicker/slicker method?&#8221;, et cetera, et<br />
cetera.</p>
<p><strong>News:</strong> Keeping up with the breaking news on the web can build up quite a<br />
following by readers &amp; viewers who want to know, <em>(in a Readers Digest<br />
version)</em>, &#8220;What&#8217;s happening?&#8221; Don&#8217;t forget, this isn&#8217;t limited to<br />
traditional forms of journalism so no, you don&#8217;t need a degree in it to<br />
do it! Maybe you could specialise in one area, for example &#8211; in tech<br />
news.</p>
<p>There are Gazzillions, <em>(ok, maybe not that many but quite a few!)</em>, blog<br />
and websites out there commented like crazy in this area but for me I<br />
love Cali over at <a href="http://www.geekbrief.tv/ " target="_blank">geekbrief.tv</a> &#8230; Shiny happy tech news!<br />
I&#8217;m an avid follower and that&#8217;s a relationship built on Cali and her<br />
husband’s high standards in providing an excellently formatted show that<br />
brings me a condensed tech news bubble! So what area can you develop?<br />
Let me know, maybe I&#8217;ll end up following you!</p>
<p><strong>Resource:</strong> One of the best forms of linkbait is building a resource list.<br />
A good list will not only be indexed and listed, but will be passed by<br />
word of mouth and links on other sites. <em>(You&#8217;ll find resource lists on<br />
some of my other posts btw)</em> This helps to build your credibility<br />
particularly if you have a niche area! Creating a niche specific list is<br />
an invaluable resource for people and will win you loyal followers!</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s one great example of a resource type of linkbait.<br />
<a href="http://www.seopedia.org/" target="_blank">seopedia.org</a> It&#8217;s a blog filled with resources that draws a<br />
constant flow of visitors. It has so much going for it. It&#8217;s an<br />
excellent resource link site and really interesting too! Because of this<br />
people quote it, refer to it, use and love it.</p>
<p><strong>Humour:</strong> Funny stories, pictures or videos, cartoons and jokes are always<br />
win over hearts and minds but please avoid tacky, sordid or smutty stuff<br />
like the plaque! There&#8217;s enough filth on the net; stand out from the<br />
crowd and find, collate or create your own fun! People love to laugh,<br />
<em>(there&#8217;s enough reason to want to, if we ever needed a reason, in<br />
today’s economic melt down!)</em> Here&#8217;s a couple that I&#8217;ve visited:<br />
<a href="http://thejokes.co.uk/" target="_blank">thejokes.co.uk</a> and <a href="http://www.cleanjoke.com/" target="_blank">cleanjoke.com<br />
</a><br />
I know there are more categories, <em>(please feel to add and contribute!!)</em><br />
but even if you only remember one thing, remember this: &#8211; provide<br />
quality content that is useful, interesting and entertaining. And if you<br />
can stretch the old grey cells a little further remember this too:<br />
deliver it in a professional style and manner and target it to your<br />
audience as much as possible, making it as friendly for the search<br />
engines as possible, and folks will find you. Of course you&#8217;ll need to<br />
allow comments on your blog/site to allow traffic to begin to flow!</p>
<p>I hope you find this article interesting and informative. If you have<br />
any comments of your own or thoughts you&#8217;d like to add; PLEASE do so!</p>
<p>© Michael Montgomery 2009</p>
<p>Permission to republish &#8220;Linkbaiting &#8211; Fishing For Visitors Not Fish!&#8221; In ANY<br />
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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we are constantly developing. For example "Twitterference"
- the intrusion of twitter updates on your phone making it
hard to have a conversation on your phone.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>I came across this articel recently and wanted to share it with you. I&#8217;m in the process of deciding which book to buy on the subject. Any ideas or suggestions? And why?</p>
<p>thanks and enjoy!</p>
<p>Michael</p>
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<p><span style="color: #000080;">I personally have been Tweeting for a few months. But I<br />
use the phrase &#8220;tweeting for a few months&#8221; loosely. I<br />
haven&#8217;t been all that consistent with it, and I definitely<br />
didn&#8217;t have a strategy. I just thought it was kind of cool.</span></p>
<p>Recently I&#8217;ve started paying more attention to it for a few<br />
reasons; my mother-in-law was at a librarian conference<br />
recently and attended a session on Twitter. I got into a<br />
conversation with her about it, and then the next day I saw<br />
John Reese&#8217;s email about Twitter. It seems like there is a<br />
lot of twittering about Twitter going on. What is Twitter?</p>
<p>According to the Twitter FAQ, &#8220;Twitter is for staying in<br />
touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are<br />
or what you&#8217;re doing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wikipedia says, &#8220;Twitter is a free social networking and<br />
micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates<br />
via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website,<br />
or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now<br />
available&#8221;.</p>
<p>Basically Twitter asks the question, &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221;<br />
and allows you to send a short update (your tweets are<br />
limited to 140 characters) to your followers (family,<br />
friends, colleagues, customers, potential customers etc).</p>
<p>Twitter allows you to send and receive updates (also called<br />
tweets) via your browser, email, instant messaging clients<br />
and SMS (using your cell phone). No matter where you are,<br />
you can tweet!</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t been following Twitter since day 1, so I&#8217;m not<br />
going to comment on it&#8217;s evolution but I will speculate<br />
that as its popularity grows, as more and more marketers<br />
use it, 2 things are inevitable:</p>
<p>1. Rules on Twitter etiquette will continue to evolve as we<br />
learn what we like and dislike about it, and as we respond<br />
to the inevitable abuse of Twitter (don&#8217;t mean to sound<br />
negative but it happens with each exciting new opportunity<br />
- people end up abusing it).</p>
<p>2. More and more companies will jump on board and try to<br />
get in on the conversation.</p>
<p>Start Twittering, (or is it Tweeting?)</p>
<p>Remember, when you first join Twitter, it can feel like a<br />
lonely place. When you aren&#8217;t following anyone and no one<br />
is following you, you may find yourself asking &#8220;what is the<br />
point?&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard so many people say they just don&#8217;t get<br />
it. In fact, I&#8217;ve said that myself.</p>
<p>The key is to find the Tweets you want to follow so you can<br />
keep your finger on the pulse of your niche. The next key<br />
is to start building your followers. More on that in a<br />
minute.</p>
<p>How can Twitter help your business?</p>
<p>The more contact you have with a potential customer, the<br />
more likely you are to get their business. You can stay<br />
&#8220;top of mind&#8221; through Twitter. Let them know what&#8217;s new in<br />
your industry, in your company etc. You become a source of<br />
quick news flashes for them.</p>
<p>Here are just a few of the benefits of Twitter:</p>
<p>- It reminds people that you exist.</p>
<p>- It shows people you have something to say.</p>
<p>- It shows them that you are human.</p>
<p>- It allows you to mention new offers, sales and breaking<br />
news immediately.</p>
<p>- It allows you to form a more casual relationship.</p>
<p>- You can use Twitter to promote your social bookmarking<br />
submissions.</p>
<p>- You can ask for referrals, suggestions, feedback and<br />
help, and people will respond.</p>
<p>Twitter is also fun and is contributing to the new language<br />
we are constantly developing. For example &#8220;Twitterference&#8221;<br />
- the intrusion of twitter updates on your phone making it<br />
hard to have a conversation on your phone.</p>
<p>Finding Followers:</p>
<p>Start by reaching out to your friends, family, mailing list<br />
etc. You can also add your Twitter link to your email<br />
signature line; add links to your website and Blog. Mention<br />
your Twitter account in your newsletter.</p>
<p>Twitter Rules</p>
<p>One cardinal rule (that is in your best interest to<br />
follow): if you use Twitter as a pure sales tool, you will<br />
lose followers quickly. As with all forms of social media,<br />
it is about creating a conversation and sharing news &#8211; it&#8217;s<br />
not all about you shoving your sales message down their<br />
throats.</p>
<p>Tweets are limited to 140 characters. This is to allow them<br />
to be easily sent over mobile SMS systems.</p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t able to embed HTML with the exception of<br />
hyperlinks.  (But they are no-follow links, so they won&#8217;t<br />
help you in your SEO quest for backlinks)</p>
<p>Bonus: Twitter automatically uses the TinyURL service to<br />
shorten links.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t tweet too much, or too little. There is no magic<br />
number and it varies according to your audience. Some<br />
people say don&#8217;t update more than once per hour. Others<br />
say not more than once or twice a day. I tend to be in the<br />
once or twice a day camp. If there is breaking news and<br />
some days you just have to update more often then it&#8217;s OK.<br />
If your tweets are valuable information, people will be more<br />
tolerant of frequent updates.</p>
<p>On the other hand if you are too quiet, people have nothing<br />
to follow so make sure you find that balance and tweet just<br />
enough to keep people informed but not annoyed.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget that your profile shows a history of all your<br />
tweets, so if a new person comes along and sees that you<br />
don&#8217;t have many tweets they may decide you aren&#8217;t worthy of<br />
following. Also if your past tweets aren&#8217;t informative or<br />
interesting, you lose some potential followers.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll find that sometimes you get involved in personal<br />
conversation with someone. Try to avoid doing too much of<br />
this. Not everyone will be interested in your personal<br />
communications. If you do need to do this, put the @<br />
symbol in front of somebody&#8217;s name &#8211; this indicates that<br />
this message is for them.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind about personal conversation<br />
tweets &#8211; some people who are following you may not be<br />
following the person you are talking to. This means they<br />
get only one half of the conversation. One suggestion is<br />
to word your tweet so that spectators have an idea of what<br />
you are talking about. That way, they can feel more<br />
included in the conversation.</p>
<p>Trust and Twitter</p>
<p>With so much hype in marketing, people are really looking<br />
for a company that can trust. You can build trust with<br />
prospects by allowing them to get to know you, and by<br />
providing them with information. Twitter allows you to do<br />
just that.</p>
<p>A great tip: look at your own Tweet history &#8211; is the<br />
information valuable, does it build trust? Would you want<br />
to follow yourself?</p>
<p>Get tweeting!</p>
<p>It may take some trial and error, and you probably want to<br />
check out what others are tweeting about to get a feel for<br />
the style. But don&#8217;t spend too long lurking &#8211; check it out<br />
and then jump on in.<br />
===========================================================<br />
Jennifer Horowitz is the Director of Marketing and co-owner<br />
of http://www.EcomBuffet.com . Since 1998, her expertise in<br />
online marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has<br />
helped clients increase revenue and achieve their business<br />
goals. Jennifer has written a downloadable book on Search<br />
Engine Optimization and has been published in many SEO and<br />
marketing publications. Jennifer can be reached at<br />
Jennifer@ecombuffet.com<br />
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about putting together an ebook recently to give away and generate some interest possibly even use to help build my first list of people who may consider to be customers later on. I&#8217;ve read various articles, looked at what others have said and had some of my own thoughts about it and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about putting together an ebook recently to give away and generate some interest possibly even use to help build my first list of people who may consider to be customers later on. I&#8217;ve read various articles, looked at what others have said and had some of my own thoughts about it and here they are <strong>so far</strong> &#8230;.. I&#8217;m sure this list will grow &#8230;. but I thought you&#8217;d like a look and maybe you could add some yourself! <img src='http://www.methodstosucceed.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Thanks for looking!</p>
<p>1. What will be the title of your ebook and will it have a subtitle?</p>
<p>2. Will you be the only author or will there be other co-authors?</p>
<p>3. Will you publish a print version of your ebook?</p>
<p>4. How many pages will your ebook be?</p>
<p>5. Will your ebook contain graphics, pictures or charts?</p>
<p>6. Will your ebook include an appendix and index?</p>
<p>7. Will your ask other authors to contribute related articles to your ebook?</p>
<p>8. What file formats will your ebook be available in; text, pdf, exe, html, etc.?</p>
<p>9. Will your ebook be sold as a product or will your ebook be used as a promotional tool?</p>
<p>10. Who will be your ebook&#8217;s target audience?</p>
<p>11. What major benefit does your ebook give your target audience?</p>
<p>12. Will you offer your prospects a guarantee and testimonials to read?</p>
<p>13. Will you include a bibliography about yourself in the ebook?</p>
<p>14. What personal information will you include about yourself in the ebook?</p>
<p>15. What colors and graphic(s) will be included on the ebook cover?</p>
<p>16. Will you let your prospects read  free sample chapters or excerpts to entice them?</p>
<p>17. Will you turn the ebook into other info products like videos, audio books, teleclass, etc?</p>
<p>18. What type of payments will you accept for the ebook?</p>
<p>19. Will you allow others to give away your free promotional ebook?</p>
<p>20. Will you be selling the reprint rights to your ebook?</p>

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		<title>Getting Started &#8230; Now there&#8217;s the pain!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a "Newbie" .. Ok ... I confess! But that's one of the purposes of this Blog. To start from scratch and see where we go "together!" None of the mystery or mystic, as little hype as possible and as much learning and steady growth of knowledge, business and wealth as possible! Sound like an idea? Ok .. join with me and let's map our Methods of Success together! Here's an article I put together from some of my own ideas and the ideas of some seasoned marketers in order to give us some ideas/thoughts and maybe direction. If you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment and let everyone benefit. Thanks ... and "enjoy the ride!"]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;m a &#8220;Newbie&#8221; .. Ok &#8230; I confess! But that&#8217;s one of the purposes of this Blog. To start from scratch and see where we go &#8221;together!&#8221; None of the mystery or mystic, as little hype as possible and as much learning and steady growth of knowledge, business and wealth as possible! Sound like an idea? Ok .. join with me and let&#8217;s map our Methods of Success together! Here&#8217;s an article I put together from some of my own ideas and the ideas of some seasoned marketers in order to give us some ideas/thoughts and maybe direction. If you have any ideas feel free to leave a comment and let everyone benefit. Thanks &#8230; and &#8220;enjoy the ride!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>So You&#8217;re Stuck For Ideas Eh?</strong></p>
<p><strong>1. Find an Outdated Publication and Thoroughly Update it!</strong></p>
<p>You could find a older or outdated publication and simply update it with new up-to-date information. Your up-to-date research added to a good idea is more valuable than you think. In todays markets information and methods are fluid, organic .. forever changing and those who keep on top of the changes quickly become the experts!</p>
<p><strong>2. </strong><strong>Tutorial Web Site, (choose your topic!), that&#8217;s Subscription based.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">You could set up a paid membership web site where you have audio/video.screen capture recordings of lessons, demonstrations or interviews. You could add new ones every month. You could also give members access to live ones. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>3. Turn Your Tutorial Web Site Content into a Into Home Study Course<span style="font-weight: normal; ">. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">You&#8217;ve spent all that time and effort putting training online; how about packaging it into audio/video or ebooks/transcripts? </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>4. Turn You Publication Into A Sample</strong></span><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong>.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">Not ready to give away to much to early? How about taking an excerpt of your publication and use it to tempt people to buy the whole publication. It could be a free report, ebook, article etc. These types of publications could be made viral and spread all over the internet. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">5. <strong>Case Studies Subscription Web Site.</strong></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; "><strong></strong> You could set up a paid subscription web site where your offer case studies of how-to information. You would contact the people and ask if you could interview them in exchange for free publicity. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>6. Product Review Subscription Web Site.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">You could set up a paid membership web site where you review other business products and give your honest option about them. You would contact other businesses and ask them for their product for free to review in exchange for free publicity. You could also allow people to submit their products for review. (This is a great way of building trust into potential J.V partnerships!) </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; ">So there&#8217;s a few ideas to start the &#8220;wheels-a-spinning&#8221; What ideas have you got? Add them to the pot and lets all find the best &#8220;Methods To Succeed&#8221; together! I look forward to reading your thoughts &#8230; Michael</span></strong></p>
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