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Article marketing is one of the best ways to make money online. Imagine, you don’t have to spend money on advertising cost and you do not need to learn technical skills to popularize your website, position yourself as an expert on your chosen niche, generate more sales leads, and augment your revenue. All you have to do is write and market your articles online to create quality inbound links for your website and build trusting relationship with your potential clients.

Here are the 7 ultimate ways to improve your article marketing:

1. Do not advertise on your articles. When people search for articles online, they are expecting to get information that can either help them better understand their situation or get solution to their pressing issues. That is why, they can easily get annoyed if they are presented with sales letter-like articles that contain little valuable information and lots of sales pitches. When this happen, you will easily lose the trust and business of your potential clients. That is why, it is of outmost importance that you keep your articles informative, content-rich, and useful, when you do so, you are increasing your chances of converting your readers to potential clients.

2. Keyword analysis. Each of your articles must be written around one keyword or popular search phrase so they can be easily found online. But what happens if your chosen search terms are very competitive? I suggest you move to the next search phrase which is less competitive to increase the chances of your articles showing up on top 10 search results.

3. Keep your articles short. Strive not to bore your readers with lengthy articles and make it a habit to limit their word count to 500. As you might already know, people online have limited attention span and they prefer short articles that offer the information they need upfront.

4. Multiply the number of your articles. Strive to increase the number of your output to obtain more quality inbound links for your website. You can either extend your writing hours or pick topics that are quicker to write. You can also hire ghostwriters who can provide you quality and well-written articles for $5-$12 each depending on your topic and required word count.

5. Create a compelling author’s bio. If you want to easily build rapport with your potential clients, you need to find ways on how they can know more about you on a personal level. Create an author’s bio on every article submission sites where you normally post your articles to. Make it interesting and personal by communicating your hobbies, interest, personal stories, and experiences. You can also post your most friendly-looking picture to give your readers an idea on how you look like.

6. Make your articles search engine-friendly. Download a free, reliable keyword suggestion tool online that can help you identify the most common searched keyword and key phrases within your target niche. Sprinkle these words and phrases all throughout your content to make your articles highly searchable online.

7. Content. To increase the chances of your articles being read, picked up, and republished by webmasters and other online users, you must strive to make them content-rich, useful, informative, direct to the point, well-written, and highly relevant to the needs and demands of your potential readers.

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Without help from a recognized expert, mastering any Web 2.0 platform can take time and a lot of trial and error. The same is true for Squidoo, a social marketing/blogging service created in 2005 by marketing genius Seth Godin.

To help you skip ahead along your learning curve, let me share the #1 secret to success with Squidoo.

Make Your Lens Useful
If I were writing a college thesis on Squidoo, I would say, “Squidoo was created within the premise that collaboration in a free market exchange of ideas will generate great content.”

In other words: the cream will rise to the top. However, in order for your ideas on Squidoo to gain that larger audience you are seeking, you have to make your lens useful.

To do this, you must determine what it is your customers will appreciate you sharing with them. What is it that you know that they should want to know? Once you answer this question, give your audience the good stuff - don’t hold back.

Next, you must convey your information in a friendly, readable way. Create your lens (your unique page on Squidoo) with short blocks of information. This is accomplished with multiple Text/Write modules. Use the titles of each module as your subheadings to break up longer articles of information.

According to Godin, your job as a lensmaster is to filter the overwhelming amount of information online into one easy to find resource (hence the term “lens”). So another piece of making your lens useful is to direct visitors to the best information that already exists online.

Use Pre-Built Modules To Make Your Lens Useful
To accomplish this, you can use several pre-built modules. The best of these are the Link List, RSS, and YouTube modules. The Link module makes it easy for you to link to the other websites and provide a short description for each site (for long term results, use the Link Plexo instead so your readers can add to this list).

The RSS module gives you the power to bring other people’s blog articles into your lens. The module is made in such away that the first 25 words or so are automatically imported to your lens every day.

The YouTube module makes it easy for you to put the best videos on your topic into your lens. Not only does this provide your readers with more relevant information, it also makes your lens more fun to read. And don’t worry - you don’t have to be the creator of the videos to include them in your lens (but it does help!).

Create How To Lessons With Your Lenses
Another way to make your lens useful is to present your information as “how-to” lessons within your topic. This helps you and your audience in a number of ways.

First, it directs you to write content in a logical way. You may be stumped with what to write about when you start working on a lens. But if you approach your lens as a set of how-to steps, your ideas will come faster. And with the Reorder modules tool, it’s easy to rearrange the steps if you get them out of order initially.

Having a step-by-step guide for your lens also gives your readers the action steps they need to become better in your area of expertise. As they accomplish their own goals of knowledge/skills, they know you were partially responsible. So they will “favorite” your lens, book mark it with Digg, Del.icio.us, or Stumble Upon, rate your lens 4 or 5 stars, perhaps even join your fan club.

In other words, the more useful your lens is, the more your readers will show their appreciation for what you are giving them.

That may seem like an obvious statement. And it is. But it’s important to highlight it because with social marketing, also known as new media marketing, your reputation carries much more weight in your success.

Finally, the more useful your lens, the more likely you can get attention by people in high positions.

You could win a coveted Lens of the Day award by Squidoo. Or perhaps get picked up in a media publication. One of my own lenses was highlighted in the New York Times in early 2006, and the long term effects of that are still being felt in 2008.

So if you want to gain the fame and/or fortune you desire from your favorite pieces of knowledge, be sure to create lenses on Squidoo that are useful - indeed, make them the best single source of information on your topic available anywhere on the internet.

Bob Jenkins is an internet marketing teacher, who specializes in Web 2.0 marketing strategies for business. He is the creator of Squidoo Secrets, a comprehensive audio and video training system to teach you Squidoo fast.

If you are like me and you make a decent portion of your monthly income from Google’s Adsense program, then you want to make sure that you are making as much money as possible with every single click. The funny thing is, many Adsense publishers are leaving alot of moey on the table because their account is suffering from something called a smartpricing penalty.

So what is smartpricing, and why does it exist in this pay-per-click system in the first place? In order to understand what smartpricing is and why it exists, think back why a search engine would offer sponsored links in the first place. If you have a popular search engine and thousands of people search for the term ‘investing’ every single day, if your business is offering investment advice then people searching for that term would be very interested in what you are offering.

That is the purpose of the Adwords program in the first place: to connect people’s websites to interested visitors. However, this can be done with more than just links next to search listings. There are probably many different investment websites out there, and when they sign up for the Adsense program then the sponsored links appear on those sites and blogs (called the content network) as well as next to relevant search listings. But when a visitor clicks on a link from a related website as opposed to doing a search directly in Google, is that visitor going to perform as well for the advertiser (i.e. be likely to take action, whether it is buying or signing up as a lead)? Probably not, and this is where smartpricing comes in.

The purpose of smartpricing for Adsense is to identify websites and blogs that are not of the highest quality, because traffic and clicks coming from these sites tends to be much lower performing for advertisers. When a website (possibly yours) is targeted to be smartpriced, you will see a marked reduction in your Adsense earnings as Google has decided to charge their advertisers less for the clicks that come from your site.

Is it possible to prevent smartpricing? Yes it is, and I will show you how. Let me say though that I am not affiliated with Google and I do not know the exact ways on which the smartpricing algorithm works. I am speaking from my own experience, but I do know that my methods are effective at preventing smartpricing because it is typical for me to see clicks that pay out 1 dollar or more and that simply cannot happen if you are subject to this penalty.

Methods to Avoid the Smartpricing Penalty

Just as with search engine optimization, there are two main categories that you need to focus on in order to prevent smartpricing: on-site and off-site. The on-site factors are much easier to control and have the largest impact, so focus on these aspects first and then move on to off-site factors.

Here is a list of the things that you will want to include on your site: a clear privacy policy, a ‘contact’ or ‘contact us’ link, a ‘bookmark us’ link, terms of use, and depending on the nature of your site you may also want to include an informational disclaimer. It would probably be the best to include this information in a small bar that is at the bottom of each page. It will really make you site stand out and look professional in the eyes of the Google media bot.

Another on-site factor that you will not want to ignore is a consistent page layout as well as a coherent internal linking structure. When you link to pages within your own site, make sure you are consistent in the way that you structure the links, and focus on making it as easy as possibe for somebody to navigate through your site. In terms of off-site factors, this is a little bit more out of your control but it is pretty simple. Basically you will just want to make sure that most of your links come from legitimate and relevant sites, and you will not want to participate in any programs like traffic exchanges of paid-to-surf programs.

http://www.GoogleAdsenseDecoded.com

See the Adsense Decoded step-by-step video tutorials to learn how to maximize your earnings, improve CTR, and prevent the smartpricing penalty.

People who are starting their journey to establish their own online business, usually commit fatal mistakes that will result in the usual disappointments that we often see in this marketplace.

In this article we will list the usual mistakes committed by new entrants into the online business marketplace hoping that we will be able to help them avoid such mistakes from the very beginning.

Mistake No. 1: New entrants, or as the market calls them “newbies,” usually start with excessive energy and the first thing they do is to search for online opportunities. This is the first huge mistake.

Mistake No. 2: A huge percentage of the opportunities that will come out of the search conducted in Mistake No. 1 are affiliate opportunities. A newbie would become more excited here after reading the hyped up sales letters that he/she is getting. Eventually the newbie will do the inevitable and take out the credit card to join one of those opportunities that promise income in no time. Even if the idea was legit and in many cases it will be, the prospect still does not know anything about online business, let alone affiliate marketing.

Mistake No. 3: After few days the newbie will discover that the opportunity that he/she joined is not making any money, so now its time to quit and search for something else. The newbie does not know that the problem is not really in the affiliate opportunity. Actually the newbie most probably still does not know that he/she is involved in affiliate marketing. After few trials with different affiliate opportunities the newbie realizes that this online business thing is crap and waste of time and money.

The above three mistakes can very easily be joined into one. The huge mistake that is conducted here is getting into online business head first without knowing anything about it.

The first step in anything in life is learning. Before thinking of establishing an online business, a newbie needs to know the following:

1- What is online business and its different models?
2- What is online marketing and how does it differ from one model to another?
3- What are the different tools of online marketing?

These three questions are not easy to answer and online gurus have written a lost of e-books and articles trying to answer one or more of those questions. A newbie needs to search and read as much as possible about the above three issues so that he/she can create a personal opinion and then a decision.

The main resources a newbie should concentrate on to gather such information are the free Resources. Don’t go on buying e-books at the beginning, there is a lot of free information on the net. After you have exhausted this aspect you will have better knowledge to be able to decide which material to buy and which to avoid.

What are those free resources?:

1- Articles Directories
2- Blogs
3- Forums

After getting the appropriate knowledge a newbie is able to do take the following decisions consciously:

1- Which online business model he/she going to adopt.
2- Which marketing strategy and tools he/she is going to use.

This means if the newbie is going to search for affiliate opportunities, he/she is going to do it consciously knowing exactly what to look for.

In this article we have followed the steps approach, which means get the knowledge first and then have the business. We admit that there is another approach which is learning by doing. This means getting involved in a business and then applying what you learn to that business. This is a good approach only if you know which online business model you want to adopt.

Affiliate opportunities have started creating training resources and courses to enable their affiliates do a better job marketing their products and services.

The problem that I find here is that only a few affiliate opportunities have constructed a structured training that would train affiliates with zero background on the ins and outs of affiliate marketing. The majority have opted on collecting e-books and other resources and put them in one place for their members to read.

Rami Doleh has dedicated all available resources to put people on the right track and help them establish their affiliate business. For More Information and to find how to contact Rami for any questions visit Affiliate Opportunities

If you market a product and/or service on the internet, email marketing is an absolute must. The internet opens up a whole new world when it comes to marketing techniques and business success. Originally, many businesses were simply sending out postal mailings and spending thousands upon thousands of dollars annually. Now that the internet is available, there are several methods that can be used to advertise goods and services. In addition to the variety in advertising techniques that are available, these techniques are cost effective and can bring in success like a business has never known before. Email marketing is quickly becoming one of the most popular strategies for success when it comes to online marketing.

When creating emails for your marketing campaign endeavors, it is important that you develop a catchy headline for your subject. It is important to immediately catch the attention of your audience. If you fail to do this with the subject line, your information is bound to end up in the email trash system - never to be read. Trillions of emails are deleted on an annual basis, and you sure do not want yours to be one of those numbers! You should develop a headline that implements the use of around five words that will immediately encourage your audience to open up the message and read it.

When creating emails for your online marketing campaign, it is important to keep a little bit of a personal touch to it. People like personal. While being professional is important when it comes to representing your business, it is important to remember that being personal can occur in conjunction with that professionalism. Instead of writing out your email in such a way that it generally addresses millions of people, you want to write it like you are directing it towards one person. By doing so, you are much more likely to appeal to that individual. Remember, writing for a million and gaining at least one new customer makes your email marketing efforts successful!

It is important for you to remember that millions of people squeeze in just enough time each day to quickly check their inboxes. This is why it is important to make certain that your emails are short and get to the point quickly. If you write on and on, you are likely to lose the attention of your audience. However, if you are right to the point, you will quickly find that the recipients are more receptive to the message that you are trying to deliver. In addition to being quick and to the point, you should also include directions on the actions that are required by the reader. Many times, unsuccessful marketing campaigns are those that do not direct the audience in a specific manner.

Finally, it is essential to ensure that you include a link to the website that you are trying to promote. Leaving this very important component out of your email will result in your losing all kinds of business. Once you do this, let it be for about one to two days. It is then important that you follow up with a personal note to the recipient. Potential customers will love the personal touch!

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