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The vast majority of Internet sites are fully signed up members of the online affiliate program industry. It is a huge business based around an extremely simple premise, the simplicity is optimised by the continued success of the websites that have taken up the affiliate challenge. Wherever advertising appears on a site on the Internet it is almost exclusively part of an affiliate program. The affiliates are rewarded by sites for bringing in new customers or generating extra sales, with either a one-off payment or a percentage scheme. Many of today’s booming online industry owe a great deal to the success of their affiliates. Online shops, auctions and gaming sites have all utilised the affiliate programs to maximise individual sites visibility and to generate extra revenue.

Online gaming and more particularly the poker industry have been one of the largest benefactors of the affiliate program. Like so many of the online industries, poker sites have utilised the program to maximise their reach and to optimise their clientele. The affiliate programs work with sites commissioning other sites to host advertising. The poker site does not need to pay their affiliate until a new customer is generated by the affiliate, a player that is identified by a unique URL. By marking out individual players and where they have emanated from, the affiliate program site or the poker room can track the progress and the earnings of individuals. Being able to monitor the progress of an individual customer is a particularly relevant to the poker affiliate program due to the way in which it is run.

In a poker affiliate scheme an affiliate has the opportunity to earn a percentage of the money generated for every player that they encourage to join. Unlike so many of the other affiliate programs, this share of a players money is not limited to a single purchase or a few months, it is for the entire lifetime of that player. It is through this that the poker affiliate market has become so popular with a number of sites, both new and established. By earning a cut of a poker sites revenue the affiliates can earn significant amounts of money spread over any amount of time. This ingenuity and increased reward system has not only lead to a huge rise in the affiliate markets income and membership quota, but also in the revenue of the poker sites that they represent. Affiliates are aware that the more players they attract the more money they make, so it is in all of their best interests to attract as many as possible. With such a huge spread of affiliate sites, this mass-marketing program has enabled the poker sites to reap the rewards and become market leaders or great pretenders.

You’ve seen the ads and websites, right? Make $10,000 a day from home. Never work again! Guaranteed Income for Life! Of course you believed every word of it right?

If you did, you are not alone. Everyday countless internet marketing ‘newbies’ plop down good cash to purchase the Master Reseller Rights or Private Label Rights to some product. Unfortunately, most of that money was wasted, and very few people will actually recoup the money they spent.

Simply put, Master Reseller Rights or Private Label Rights Offers provide you a product, such as a series of eBooks or a software product. More importantly they also give you the right to re-label and or resell those products to others, including the resell rights. You buy Product A with Master Reseller Rights. Your then resell (get it?) the same product to someone else, also giving them reseller rights. They in turn resell the product and on and on….

So are Reseller Offers fake or even bad? The answer is a resounding ‘it depends.’ The ‘depends’ in this case is how the Resell product is used by the buyer. A buyer who purchases Resell products for the right reason can actually make money. A buyer who purchases the product to get rich overnight will almost certainly not get rich overnight, or at any time.

How do you make money with Master Reseller and Private Label products? It takes work and planning.

There are a number of approaches to using Mast Reseller and Private Label Rights products. Those approaches may be limited by the license for the products you bought. Make sure you know what is allowed for each product. For instance, can you give the product away? Can you break it into parts for reuse? Can you resell the product with your name as the author? Are you getting an editable version of the text? Look for products that allow you full flexibility to not only resell but also reuse the products.

Also, you may be limited by how others are using the product. Can the product easily be found at other sites? Is it being sold for a price you can bear to match? How long has the product been available?

Once you’ve made a purchase, you now likely have a sizeable amount of content or a software product. On the internet today, content really is a commodity. To get high search engine rankings and traffic you have to have content that people want to view. Using this content is how you can turn your investment into a profit. Consider these ways to use the content you now have:

•Use the content on your own existing or new site(s). There are Reseller products for almost every niche. Use the content to build out your website and offer visits a reason to come back. For best results, consider ‘editing’ the content to make it unique and relevant to your site.

•Use the content to drive traffic to your new or existing site. Assuming your license permits it, use parts of the content as articles, forum or blog postings. Again, make sure you edit the content enough to make it your own. Search engines, and web users, know when they’re looking at duplicated content.

•Actually resell the products. The key here is that you have to make an additional investment of time and or money to sell the product. This involves the same marketing strategies you’d use to sell anything on the internet (or anywhere). Create a site, likely using the sample site included with your purchase and then get traffic to it. Consider the standard SEO methods for getting traffic, but also consider paid advertising like pay-per-click. Remember, this is a ‘business’ you are trying to start. Few businesses start or run for free.

•Finally, consider giving the content away. This may sound illogical, but if you have other products or services you are selling, ‘free’ content may be just the thing to get visitors to your new or existing sites.

The bottom line is that Reseller and Private Label products are like anything else. If you expect them to work miracles you are going to be disappointed. But, if you consider them as part of a larger time and money investment, they can be valuable tools to your internet marketing experience.

Aubrey Jones is President and founder of Riverbank Consulting, Inc. Through Webs 4 Small Business he is able to bring SEO and other internet services to Small Business owners. He has been in the technology and internet industry for over 10 years building and managing large commercial internet services.

Internet marketing really is doable! Let me go on to explain that statement.

I have searched for years to find a business I could run from home where no one was looking over my shoulder and all of the decisions were made by me. Corporate America was just not for me. I needed to have a career in a field where I could be a relatively free spirit. Internet marketing has shown me that I can be in total control of my own life.

One of the most important things that you’ll need to succeed at Internet marketing is a mentor.

You’ll need to find a mentor who is able to show you:

• How to build an Internet business from scratch

• How to build a web site

• How to register a domain name

• How to get your web site hosted

• How to advertise

• How to generate traffic to your web site to make money

• The latest trends

• Action plans, blueprints and strategies

• How to develop a mindset for wealth

• Everything it takes to build your business right

Here are a few of the perks of Internet marketing:

• You can create products on your computer, virtually free and sell them for huge profits.

• You can have a business running and making money in one day.

• Once your business is up and running, you can work a couple of hours a day or less

and still make money 24 hours a day.

• No expensive wardrobe. Sweatpants or shorts and a T-shirt will do just fine.

• Save a lot of money on gas.

• You can live anywhere you want as long as you can connect to the Internet.

• Internet marketing is easy to learn.

• Start up costs are extremely low.

• Free or low-cost training on the Internet 24 hours a day, as opposed to going to a

college or technical school.

• Internet marketing can be done on your schedule

• You can make A LOT of money

I am assuming you already have a computer, because you are reading this article. That’s the biggest cost and is also tax deductible. A couple of hundred dollars for advertising, and you will be well on your way to being financially free.

I finally found the right business and the right mentor after years of searching through all the scams and incomplete, hyped up courses. I have learned more in one week with my mentor, than I have in all the years of trying to start a business online by myself. The scary part of this is that it was FREE!

Stop wasting your valuable time, and connect with someone who can teach you what you really need to know about Internet marketing. Do the research! This is working for me, I know it can work for you!

Wishing you all the greatest success,

Sue Edwards

Advertising space on the web has typically been sold by the banner and by the click. Now, thanks to a hot new concept called pixel marketing, it’s being sold by the pixel. That’s right. Just when you thought there was nothing left to sell, the web has profitably parceled into blocks of pixels that advertisers are snapping up to promote their brands.

Here’s how pixel marketing works. Pages are made up of pixel grids, typically of one million pixels which generally sell from 50 cents to $1 each. An advertiser who buys blocks of these pixels can design an image which will be displayed on them, and will link visitors to a corresponding website.

The idea for pixel marketing is credited to Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from Wiltshire, England, who developed The MillionDollarHomepage.com to raise funds for his university education. Tew launched the site on August 26, 2005. Within three days of the launch, with no marketing budget, Tew sold his first 20 x 20 pixel block. Motivated, he put out a press release. Two weeks later, he had made enough money to pay for his first year at university. He has now made more than half a million dollars.

In his Million Dollar Blog from August 26, Tew wrote, “I thought, this could be something crazy enough to work! Because I think people like crazy/quirky ideas. If this captures people’s imaginations and people check out the site, then the pixels on the homepage will have value &ndash and people will buy them … The way I see it though: I’ve got nothing to lose by trying. And I’m sure it’ll be fun.”

It turned out to be fun and very profitable. In no time, pixel marketing began catching on like wildfire.

“Watch out, it could be the next most prominent event since Google Adsense,” writes UK marketing consultant Julie Vernon in her article “What is Pixel Promotion All About?”

But could pixel marketing pose a serious threat to Google Adsense? It’s still too early to predict the growth of this intriguing new form of marketing.

“Driving this new medium is the notion that pay per click costs too much,” writes George Hubka in his article “What is Pixel Advertising?” “If you had 10 clicks a day at 10 cents each, in one year it would cost you $365! Take that out 5 years and you are talking about over $1800! The reality is that often clicks cost a lot more than 10 cents each, which translates to a whole lot more money. People have been reported paying more than $50 a click.”

Not only are pixel ads cheaper than banners and Adsense, many site owners have sworn to keep their sites live for several years so advertisers get long-range results and pay less for it.

Right now, it’s fascinating to watch this new type of marketing vehicle in its infancy. What will pixel marketing ultimately become when it grows up? It’s anyone’s guess but it should be fun to watch it grow.

OK, You have entered into JV’s with many marketers for your new smashing product. And you are expectantly gazing at the emails for those welcome order notifications to roll in!

But to your disappointment, the JV sales are nowhere near your expectations. Sounds familiar?

Yes! It’s true that only 5% of your affiliates does some sales for you. But how can you make these 5% to give their best shot to your product?

Here is my experience as a JV partner where I went out of my way to zealously promote other’s product with a vigor and sizzle that left me surprised at the end of it!

Why did I promote someone else’s product when I myself don’t find the time to set up sales pages for the 100′s of resale rights products that I own?

I am a JV partner with many online marketers like John Delavera, Carlos Garcia, Anik Singal, Rob Benwell, Paul Kleinmenulman, James Jackson …and many others.

…And there are three things that made me work for all of them!

#1: The Willingness To Give A Review Copy

This is a deadly JV strategy! When you receive a great products for free, something, somewhere inside you prompts you to give back something to the JV proponent.

And you end up committing yourself to the product and what you are expected to do as a JV partner.

#2: Quality Products That’s A Pleasure To Promote

To be frank, the products that I got were real sizzlers! I had no hesitation in promoting any of the products from my JV proponents for the simple reason they were all excellent.

And incidentally, the refunds on all these products were virtually nil — speaks volumes about the quality.

#3: High Commissions Offered

The minimum commission offered was 50% — some as high as 60%!

Enough to motivate you to work upon a product and release the creative juices hiding inside you to go all out! Does something struck in your brain about these three points? Hope it does.

In a nut shell: Before you dart out your JV proposals, remember these simple things and you have built a sales team that will go all out to sell your product.

Good luck to your future JV’s!

Article directories (also known as article archives) are searchable on-line databases of articles contributed by multiple authors. The goal of an article directory is to collect articles on certain topics and offer them to publishers to place on their website, in their e-zine or in print. Each article directory has unique guidelines for both authors and publishers. The benefits of submitting your articles to directories are numerous and include:

1. Most directories give you a separate page for each article and some publish your photograph along with your articles. This allows an author to promote their articles without needing a website of their own.

2. Directories are a magnet for publishers. Most publishers are looking for specific articles on a specific topic and they are more likely to find such articles in a directory rather than in an individual e-zine that offers reprintable articles.

3. Many directories allow you to edit your articles and change your by-line as many times as you want.

4. Some directories offer a news feed that automatically adds your new articles to dozens of websites.

5. Article directories may have a good search engine page rank that that makes them ideal for providing a one-way link to your website.

There are hundreds of article directories on the internet. I am constantly searching the internet for new directories to add to my list but I have found that I receive the most benefits from older directories. Over time I have discovered a few directories that I absolutely love that I visit for submission and for research. A few of these are:

Alumbo! Magazine – This on-line magazine doubles as an articles directory and offers a free membership that allows you to submit articles in some very interesting categories such as ecology & environment, love relationships, paranormal & divination in addition to the normal business and career topics. Alumbo permits you to choose more than one topic for your article and often suggests additional topic pages where your article would be a good fit.

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Article Alley – Allows you to register as an author for free and submits your articles across a network of sites. Allows for update of author profile, editorial access to your articles and a unique web page listing all your articles.

.ArticleAlley.com

BPubs.com – Although this is a business site only it does accept articles in a wide variety of business subcategories. Google(tm) visits often because it knows that BPubs.com adds fresh content from many authors every day.

.BPubs.com

Constant Content – This is a unique article directory that allows you to sell or give away your content. You must register prior to submitting your articles in many different formats – all of which are editable at any time.

.Constant-Content.com

EzineArticles – Owned and operated by one of my favorite article submission experts, Christopher Knight. This directory offers more submission topics than other directories and much of the enhancements done to the site are based on author and publisher feedback. When I submit an article to this directory I receive more attention and traffic than I do from any other submission site on my list.

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IdeaMarketers – You absolutely must register for a free author’s account at Idea Marketers. Topics covered include business, holiday, lifestyles/self-help, technology, Christian, home/family/parenting and marketing. You are provided with a professional looking author’s profile that includes your by-line and your picture after completion of a lengthy form.

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Establish yourself as an expert in your topic area and take advantage of the many benefits of adding your content to every established and credible article directory. You are guaranteed to be delighted with the response you will receive from publishers who find your articles in the directories they frequent.

(c) 2006, Davis Virtual Assistance. Reprints welcome providing the article and byline are published intact with all links made live. This article may not be sold individually or as a part of a database.

I am a journalist for various publications in upstate New York, as well as the New England area. I recently had a chance to interview the fine team of professionals whose flagship product is entitled “Get Google Ads Free.”

In April of 2007 “Get Google Ads Free” was launched, and the effect was nothing less than equal to “the shot heard around the world!” Within just weeks people everywhere were talking about it, and other top-notch online marketers were scurrying to sell it as an Affiliate for the company.

But here’s a little insight that 99.9% of everyone the world over

doesn’t know:

The Product’s greatest endorser is none other than Google itself!

That’s right. As shocking as it may seem, Google has NO problem with the course that reveals how anyone can get ads on their search engine for Free!

Now, at this point I know you must be curious as to how such a thing is possible, as Google makes its money from the sale of both AdWords (PPCs) and AdSense (where webmasters allow Google to show their ads on their pages).

One might think that any information that revealed how an advertiser could get their AdWords pay-per-clicks free would be damaging to Google, and therefore Google would not want anyone finding out about it, right?

WRONG! It seems that the secret system developed by the retired native New York doctor contains an interesting “twist” that while allowing advertisers to eliminate their AdWords costs, it does not reduce a single dollar in AdWords revenue for Google.

In fact, just the opposite!

I cannot give away the secret here because that’s why it’s for sale in the first place.

But I can tell you that with the application of what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free” that:

- Google loses NO money

- Google actually can make even more M0NEY!

- Advertisers gain an instant almost unfair advantage over anyone

not knowing what’s inside “Get Google Ads Free!”

- Advertisers can now afford to outbid their competition!

- Advertisers are not at risk any longer as their advertising

budgets no longer matter!

Wow! And this is just the beginning!

Now, where’s the definitive PROOF that Google endorses the amazing system shown in “Get Google Ads Free?”

I asked this question to company spokesperson and Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Mr Todd Coutrin, to which he responded:

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We started our launch like we always do with any product online, using Google AdWords to offer our Product.

We used keywords that contained the word ‘free’ so we anticipated the usual HOLD these keywords usually cause any campaign using them to experience.

But when our campaign was paused by Google for a tad more time than what we regularly anticipated, then we got concerned.

I actually placed a call directly to Google at 1-866-2-GOOGLE and spoke at length with a customer services rep who said she’d check into what was happening.

She returned my call 16 hours later and informed me that due to the specific nature of the Product in question (i.e., the ebook “Get Google Ads Free!”) their team at Google secured the product, read it all the way trough, and then realizing it would NOT hurt their revenue but actually increase it, they immediately un-paused and resumed our ads”

—

Amazing! They actually got what amounts to a Signed Certificate of APPROVAL from Google itself!

Therefore, anyone who questions the truth or legality concerning “Get Google Ads Free!” need not fret at all.

Yet, the usual “naysayers” seemed to ignore the obvious fact that if Google had a problem with “Get Google Ads Free!” then we all wouldn’t be seeing all the PPC ads at Google each time we type in the keywords and phrases:

- free ads

- free advertising

- “Get Google Ads Free”

- free ppc

- free adwords

And so forth!

Yet, there are many very stubborn, even foolish, among us …

The Crybaby Syndrome

To be fair, I must also inform you of those who seem to be out to get the company for sharing their amazing secret with the world.

In what seems nothing more than a ploy to get attention, a UK online firm operated by two “wanna-be” law students have a Blog that talks the usual trash about the Product.

The Blog’s owner, Rob Scott, talks a big game by claiming the secret system to be nothing short of a scam! He even recklessly throws around the potentially libelous phrase “.con (Oops, I meant .com)” as an attempt at childish humor in order to bash the firm’s name.

What’s shocking is that this individual is actually a student of law (at least that’s what he claims) so one would think that he should perhaps check out the facts before proceeding with such careless remarks.

After all, he admits severally that he “never even ordered the ebook” so how could he truly know one way or the other if it was a valid system – not to mention it is assumed he’s at least reasonably intelligent since (according to him) he got into law school, that he would be able to see for himself the firm’s Affiliates’ ads all over Google, and therefore reason that Google itself is perhaps the firm’s chief supporter.

But stubbornness abounds, I suppose.

Ironically Rob says that the only reason he attacks the firm is because “it’s a no brainer that this must be a scam,” and he got “tired of seeing all those little AdSense ads on his page that people kept clicking on” (which by the way only stood to make him lots of M0NEY!) — yet he accepts donations on his site as a poor, struggling law student in need of paying for his education, and rather than legitimately earn an income from AdSense with an APPROVED Product.

Sadly, Rob actually censors most of his Blog so that others who wish to post POSITIVES concerning “Get Google Ads Free!” can’t even do so. (But what would you expect from a “wanna-be” lawyer?)

He even posts what appears to be an actual response by the firm’s lawyer, but which is perhaps nothing more than his own posts disguised and designed to make himself look better (as anyone can see that the dialogue appears “manufactured” instead of genuine).

What some people will do to project themselves as “Savior to the rest of us” and “The People’s Advocate.” How ridiculous indeed.

Despite the “crybaby” from across the pond, Rob Snot (Oops! I must have meant Rob Scott!) has failed miserably to put even a dent in the firm’s sales!

Plus, traffic is on the rise shooting up from an average of 14,000 visitors daily to now well above 20,000 visitors daily (an increase of 42% in daily traffic alone! — Keep up the good work, Rob!!)

Anyway, don’t be dissuaded in your decision to build your online business by eliminating your Google AdWords costs, as the course “Get Google Ads Free!” not only reveals precisely how you can do this, but it goes 10 steps further by giving you all kinds of other amazing strategies I can’t even begin to allude to here.

Plus, the e-Course comes with countless resources that go far beyond the usual variety of instantly-clickable extra values!

Lastly never forget that even though quite elderly now, Dr Jon Cohen has even set new records finishing ahead of himself by now

having:

- Grossed over $400 Million in revenues!!

- and SAVED over $100 Million in Google advertising costs!!

- attained a personal wealth above $80 million

…all due to his own system!

*NOTE: Rob Scott is broke and demands donations! (Ha!)

Talk about putting your money where your mouth is!!

Putting up a business would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need a capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the Internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic without spending tons of money.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to produce more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent? Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and WOW! them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.

Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.

Generally, Internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

Getting indexed in Yahoo has become very difficult in the last few months. The indexing robot, Yahoo!Slurp, has become erratic. For some sites, the robot will view all pages, but only add a few to the Yahoo database. For other sites, sub-domain listings actually start disappearing! So, what’s the secret to getting indexed?

Pleasing Yahoo!Slurp

The secret to getting indexed in Yahoo involves constant updates to your site. The updates, however, have to be done on both the site and through Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds. Here’s how you go about getting indexed.

The first step is to start a blog for your site. You can build a blog on your site or use a free service. I prefer blogger.com because it is easy to use, but you can use whatever you like. Once you have your blog up, you should make entries that correspond and link to content on your site. For example, I will post this article on my blog, Moshing Search Engines, and link it to the article page on MarketingTitan.com.

To supercharge the impact of the blog, you should also link to a site map on your site. If you don’t have a site map, make one in HTML. The Yahoo robot will definitely follow it and index the pages. Don’t rely on the xml site map strategy Google is promoting.

Once you have the blog up with content posted, you must turn the blog into a real simple syndication feed. Again, you can use your own system. I prefer to use a free service because I really don’t have the time to waste on such things.

Feedburner.com seems to work find and is simple to use. Opening an account with Feedburner is so easy, I am not even going to explain it. At the end of the process, feedburner will kick out the link for your RSS feed. Here’s where the magic begins.

If you have a yahoo email account, you need to access you’re My Yahoo page. If you don’t have an account, get one! Once you are on the My Yahoo page, do the following:

1. Click the “add content” link in the upper left hand under the search box.

2. When the new page opens, click the “Add RSS by URL” link on the right of the “Find Content” search box in the upper section of the page.

3. Enter the exact link provided by Feedburner and click “add.” Do NOT add the url for your blog.

4. Click the “My Yahoo” tab at the top of the page and refresh the page.

At this point, you should see your feed at the bottom of the page. If you don’t, be patient. Yahoo is sometimes slow, so just try it again in an hour or so. When the feed is added, you should see the name of your blog and the title of each post under it. Yahoo can take up to a day to add new posts, so don’t panic if they don’t show up immediately.

Once you’ve completed the above, Yahoo will follow the links in the blog and index the pages on your site. If one of the links goes to a site map, you are in business. As an added bonus, Google will do the same thing. Let’s look at an example.

We are currently building NomadJournalTrips.com, which has been up for about a month. Roughly 10 to 20 pages are being added each day. Nomad Rick’s Ramblings is the blog for the site and the feed is included on four “My Yahoo” pages for various email accounts. Yahoo has indexed 95 pages and is about four days behind the page additions. Google has indexed 151 pages and is adding to the index every day. The blog and RSS feed are solely responsible for getting these pages indexed this quickly.

Depending on the size of your site, the process can take a few days or a couple of weeks. Every time you add new content, slap it into your blog with links. In no time, you will be taming Yahoo!Slurp.

When most people begin any kind of business they seem to have a lot of expectations. They think the money will come rolling the moment they place their adds, get a webpage, or spend on advertising and a promotion campaign, etc. If you have a business you pretty much can tell that that is not necessarily the case. However, this particular article I am going to dedicate it to Internet business. I figure, you are online reading this article right now, maybe you may want to learn a little bit more about how to sell your products or services online.

By the way, don’t think because you are a construction worker for example, that the internet could not be of use to you. You get a little creative and you’ll be surprise with the ideas that can come about that could help you generate income online. But let’s continue with the article shall we?

I am not going to deny the fact that a lot of profit can be generated in short periods of time. It has happened in the past and will keep happening in the future. There is an old saying, “There’s nothing more powerful than an idea who’s time has come!”

In other words, you can have a very lucrative idea, but the market is not ready for it, therefore you may end up loosing your investment just to find out months later that that very same idea becomes a huge success for someone else. Basically, being at the right place at the right time certainly helps. And you will ALWAYS be at the right place and the right time if you listen to your heart. To the guiding Spirit within.

Then off course, there is the other side of the coin. Having a great idea, being at the right place at the right time, but not being able to capitalize on it. Well, this is what this article is going to address. We are going to explore the reasons why people buy! And I am going to dissect each topic briefly so you can have a much deeper understanding as to how all of the following pieces of the puzzle fit together.

First, I am going to address the importance of the word VALUE. When you have something to offer where there is an open market for it, and more than likely there is a demand for your product, your efforts revolve around advertising. If what you are advertising is being offered by other businesses, then you have what is called competition. That being the case, you have to be able to create an urgency for people to buy from you, otherwise you could loose your potential customers to your competition, not because their’s are necessarily better. But because of the fact that not everyone buys on the first visit. Sometimes customers need a little bit of time before they make a decision. So if you already exposed them to what you have to offer and later on they see the same product on someone else’s site, they may be ready at that moment to purchase. They may end up ordering from someone else that product or service which you took the time to educate them on the first place.

Since internet surfers are what it’s called impulse buyers, you got to be prepared so that when a potential customer visits your site, she/he is ready to make the decision at that moment!

If you are advertising a video tape that teaches people how to market products online, you need to figure out ways to increase the “VALUE” of what you have to offer. You need to answer questions such as;

* Why is your video better than the rest?

* What is in your video that you feel would make someone say, “I want this!”

* What are they gaining from ordering?

Since the beginning of time, marketing is all about figuring out ways to sell people on the idea that if they acquire whatever is you have to offer, they will “gain” something from it. If you have been subscribed to few newsletters and have read marketing articles, they summarize what I have just said in one word. BENEFITS. If from the very beginning you can point out what is it that your visitors will gain from your product or services, you increase dramatically the value of your product.

This is not the only way to add value to your product. But this is the best way to establish rapport and generate interest. So you must always begin by letting them know how your product or service is going to make them feel, or improve their life, or help them win, etc.

Once you have been able to add value to your product or service, honesty, integrity and credibility play a very important role. Maybe right at the moment of purchase, depending on how much your asking price is, they may wonder, “how do I know this person knows what she’s talking about?”

So how do you add integrity? If you are an expert on something, can you tell me about your experience? Do you walk your talk? Does your site reflects what you talk about? For example, don’t go telling me how using frames and JAVA language can work against search engine placements and how bad they are for me, meanwhile, your site uses both, JAVA and frames. To me it means one of two things, you don’t know what you are talking about and therefore just passing along what others have told you, or there is something you know that you are not telling me.

Does that mean that if you do not have a great resume people wont buy from you? Absolutely NOT! Your resume could be your website. Here is what I mean, if someone visits your site and you don’t have a degree as a nutritionist, but your site is filled with very convincing articles and valuable information that shows that you know what you are talking about, that is enough to add credibility.

Let me take it one step further, if you create a very powerful sales letter, you can have your visitor so engaged in the information that she/he wont even bother to figure who you are, or what you do. However, to pull that off, you must offer a product that has great value, and if possible, a money back guaranteed!

All you need to do is to come from a place of honesty and service, and as long as you can show credible ways in which your product will benefit your market, you should be able to sell your product(s) and/or service(s) online.

So you have something of value and you have been able to gain credibility. What can you do to add more substance to your product or service?

Let’s say you are giving a speech and want to quote an article regarding your subject matter which you have written on a piece of paper, if you hold the paper and read the words from it, it holds more credibility than if you were merely saying the words. Why that is? I don’t know. But that is just one of those interesting mysteries we come across every once in awhile.

So by having someone saying something positive about your product or service, it helps add credibility which in turn helps also increase the value of what you are offering.

What we have done so far is, we have strategically created leverage. We have given a solid foundation as to why people not only should, but must obtain whatever it is you are offering. Assuming that you are placing all these strategies in the RIGHT ORDER, positive results should be way within your reach.

So what makes people buy is:

* Value-Benefits (What am I gaining from this.)

* Value-Honesty (How do I know this is true.)

* Value-Endorsements (What others have to say about this.)

Notice that I used the word “value” along with every example because value is what people consider before obtaining anything. Benefits, honesty and integrity as well as endorsements, even when each play a role in itself, they all have once thing in common. They “add value” to your product.